InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Life Sucks ❯ Great Escapes ( Chapter 4 )

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Life Sucks
By: ShoukaMiko
Chapter 4: Great Escapes

Blanket Disclaimer for Life Sucks: I don't own Inuyasha , its characters, songs, or any other songs I put on here by other artists.


Kagome had barely had time to draw in a gasp. A little late she realized, as Inuyasha started running up the stairs to the roof, that it would probably do her some good to anchor herself to the hanyou a little better. So while Inuyasha paused to curse and kick in the locked metal door to the roof, she hiked herself up his back and wrapped her legs around his waist.

"What are you doing?" Inuyasha said a little desperately as he tried to look over his shoulder at her but thought better of it when he saw how close their faces would be. Kagome's struggle was doing terrible things to his heart rate not to mention the rest of his body.

"I'm trying not to fall off, I don't care how happy that would make you." Kagome said very glad that it was too dark to see the violent blush she knew she must have on her face. `So much for crushes on celebrities,' she thought even as she hoped Inuyasha wouldn't be able to feel her heart thumping on his back.

"Fine, just don't get those chicken legs of yours in the way or I'll drop you." He gulped faintly when he reached behind him to get a more secure handhold by gripping the back of her thighs. By this time both of them were avoiding looking at each other as their faces turned beet red.

"Hang on." Inuyasha tossed over his shoulder as he took two bounds, then leapt off the roof of the amphitheater. Kagome let out a sharp gasp but decided to try not to do more than that when she saw the mischievous smile crossing Inuyasha's face. They dropped down on the shadowed side of an SUV. Inuyasha peeked around the side of it.

"See. I told you there would be a bunch of people there. Some might even camp out until we leave tomorrow." Inuyasha looked at the group of people near the exit and in various cars around the parking lot. "Where's your car by the way?"

"It's over there in the street. Hojo didn't want to have to fight for a parking spot." Kagome said looking in the direction of the crowd.

"Yeah, that sounds about right." Inuyasha said under his breath as he rolled his eyes.

"Did you say something?"

"Yeah, hang on."

Inuyasha leapt from one shadow to another until they were safe on the other side of Hojo's parents' car away from the people.

Kagome slowly slid off his back trying not to think of how her fingers were lingering a little too long on the skin there.

Inuyasha struggled to ignore the goose bumps that were running up and down his body at the contact. Frustrated with himself, he let out a quiet huff and leaned up against the car, arms folded and bangs falling over his eyes.

Kagome looked at him confused for a second before she got up the nerve to say what was on her mind.

"Uuumm…Inu.. Yasha?"

"What do you want?"

Kagome cleared her throat and looked away. "Thanks for getting me out of there. I know you want to get back, so you can go if you want to. I can take care of myself."

"Keh," Inuyasha shifted his weight so that he was leaning on one shoulder now facing in Kagome's direction. "Yeah, right and risk you getting mugged or something. The others wouldn't let me hear the end of it. It's not exactly going to kill me to baby-sit you a while longer so I'll just stay here until your boyfriend comes back."

This time it was Kagome who took up Inuyasha's defiant stance. She hated it when guys thought she was just some weakling girl.

"I'll have you know that before my dad died, he was able to teach me quite a bit of Karate. So I don't need a guy…Any Guy… to take care of me. And for your information Hojo is not my boyfriend, we're out on a date. So there." With that last remark, she stomped to the side of the car, arms still crossed, and leaned huffily against it.

"I don't know if anyone's told you this, but you have to be one of the most stubborn, pigheaded girls in the world. There's more than just humans out there princess." Inuyasha said, making a wide sweeping gesture with his claws. "Or have you forgotten that there are demons in this world too, and it'll take a lot more than just karate if one of us wants to mess with you."

"One of us…?" Kagome blinked uncertainly, finally taking a closer look at the boy in front of her. " …What kind of demon are you anyway?" Kagome said distracted by Inuyasha's strange appearance.

Inuyasha shifted uncomfortably back to his former position, ears twitching a little nervously. "I'm a half demon okay! You have a problem with that??"

Kagome sighed, doing her best to be patient. "I mean what kind of demon are you? Because you kind of look like you might be a cat or dog demon or something."

"Oh," Inuyasha began a little guiltily, he cleared his throat and ducked his head a little to hide his embarrassment. "I'm… a…uh…dog demon."

"I was just curious. That's all I wanted to know." Kagome squirmed a little uncomfortably under Inuyasha's penetrating gaze as she turned her attention to the moonlit sky.

Inuyasha stared at her, confusion showing in his amber eyes. Why hadn't she gone on about the fact that he was a half demon or for that matter only half a human? She hadn't asked him any awkward questions about his family or other stuff people usually want to know right away when he tells them that.

`She is different.'

"I finally caught up to you guys." Hojo frowned not liking the fact that the crude, half clothed, hanyou that had swept Kagome away, was still there, leaning casually against his car like he owned both Honda and hottie.

Both Kagome and Inuyasha jumped at the voice. Even with his superior hearing, Inuyasha had been too distracted hear Hojo's approach. He came out of his surprise faster than Kagome however.

"Look who finally decided to show up." Inuyasha sneered. With one last look back at Kagome he said, " They'll take care of the details tomorrow…but… damn, I know I'm going to regret saying this, but…" Inuyasha sighed, his eyes flicking down to the ground, then back up to meet Kagome's big brown eyes, " Welcome to the Sengoku Jidai." With that he turned, crouched, then called over his shoulder, " See ya around Homo," then sprang off into the darkness.

Hojo stood glaring into the darkness where the inuyoukai had vanished. Damn he hated that demon.

Kagome raised a hand to her mouth and cleared her throat, feeling a bit awkward about what had just happened. Then the importance of what happened finally hit her. The lead guitarist of her favorite band had just…well in his own crude and cynical way…invited her to be a part of it.

"YESSS!! Uh huh, Oh Yeah, I'm HOT, you KNOW it, You want it, I OWN it!" Kagome sang out at the top of her lungs, doing this bizarre looking victory dance that involved an overkill of hip and arm movement.

Hojo decided to give her time (not to mention space) to finish whatever she needed to do to get that absurd seizure thing out of her system. He thought he heard muffled laughter from somewhere but decided it was probably from the still waiting crowd by the amphitheatre.

He had turned to find the source of the laughter when he was caught off guard when Kagome tackled him into a hug and started jumping around him with more than a little enthusiasm, swinging him around with her as she did so.

" Can you believe it Hojo? It's like a dream come true! I'm going to be a member of my favorite band! I can't believe this is happening! Isn't it great??"

"It's wonderful Higurashi-chan! I guess you had a good time on our date then?" Hojo grinned; Kagome's smile was infectious.

"Are you kidding me?? This is the best date ever! You can call me Kagome you know." Kagome finally stopped bouncing around to catch her breath. "Hey Hojo, what time is it?"

"Almost 12:30" Hojo said as he squinted at his watch in the dark.

"Twelve-thirty in the morning??" Kagome squeaked. " My mother is going to kill me!!"

Hojo had barely managed to open the car door, when he was shoved inside. Kagome showed up in the passenger seat an instant later, slamming the door and yelling at him to step on it.

`Now this seems familiar,' he thought as he went racing for the shrine house.

Not too far behind them a black shadow went leaping and dashing from rooftop to rooftop, fast and inhumanly graceful.

******

Hojo walked Kagome up the steps to her house. His heart was beating twice the usual speed as he tried to work up the nerve to ask Kagome for one more thing tonight.

"Hojo?" Kagome broke into his thoughts.

"Huh?" Hojo couldn't keep his voice from cracking.

"Are you ok? You look a little pale?" Kagome asked narrowing her eyes in concern at her friend.

"Don't worry about me Higu… Kagome-chan. I'm f-fine, really." Hojo said fighting a losing battle with his nerves.

"Thank you Hojo for everything. I wouldn't have been up there singing tonight if you hadn't asked me to go on this date." Kagome said turning around to face Hojo when they reached the door. She heard a faint rustle in the bushes off to her right. Kagome was about to turn to investigate where the noise came from when Hojo started stuttering something.

"I'm sorry what were you saying?" Kagome asked deciding it was probably a squirrel or something.

Hojo gave a nervous gulp and then sucked in a deep breath to calm his nerves. `It's now or never, I have to do this or I'll never be able to live with myself.' "I-I'm g-g-glad you had a nice t-time Kagome. I w-w-was wondering… you know… if it's not too m-much to ask… that is…"

`Oh no you don't...'Golden eyes found a fat looking animal in the darkness. He let out an almost inaudible growl.

"REEEEOOOOOOOWWWRRRR!!!!"

Buyo, Kagome's overweight cat shot out of the bushes just as Hojo was leaning in to kiss her. Using Hojo's legs as a jumping off point he leapt for the safety of Kagome's arms.

"Buyo? What's gotten into you?" Kagome looked down at the trembling and struggling cat that threatened to pierce her arms. "I'm sorry Hojo. I better get Buyo inside he seems upset about something. Good night." Kagome said as she opened her door then disappeared behind it.

Hojo sighed then let his head drop down to his chest. "Goodnight Kagome." Hojo turned around and headed back for his car.

Moonlight glinted off of a pair of fangs that were part of a wicked grin that belonged to a strange dog-eared creature. The creature chuckled mischievously, amber eyes glinting with laughter.

"Mission accomplished."

The half demon was still smiling as it started sniffing the air for something. The smell he was looking for was coming from a second story window that was pouring out light. Next to the house was a tall tree that looked about the right height to be able to see into that room without being seen.

The silver haired demon crouched, leather pants creaking slightly as he launched himself into the tree. He cursed a little as some of the branches put deep scratches into exposed skin. Looking into the room he found what he was looking for. It was a girl's room with the walls painted a pale lavender with stuffed animals here and there and a large cat on the bed.

Inuyasha leapt to the windowsill and carefully took a look around to see if there was anyone else there.

The cat looked up, a bored expression in its eyes as Inuyasha quietly entered the room.

"No hard feelings, eh buddy?" The inuhanyou said as he used his long claws to scratch behind the fat kitty's ears. His partner in crime only purred and closed its eyes in delight.

Inuyasha raised his eyebrows at the room. The bedroom didn't look like it belonged to the black and red clad figure that he had seen before. The bed on his left had pink sheets and a ruffled pillow, while the desk (that was piled high with text books), had a pink rug underneath it.

The hanyou was satisfied that he didn't hear anyone for the moment, and decided to sit next to the cat on the girl's bed. He had followed the aggravating girl home, thinking she was too trusting of her feelings to anyone who seemed decent like that Hojo guy. For all she knew, he could have wanted to get more than just that kiss from her tonight if he hadn't given Kagome a little push. Just the thought made Inuyasha let loose a soft growl that got Buyo's tail to fluff out.

"Chill kitty." Inuyasha said as he got control of himself. `I'm only being protective because the band really needs her.' He said to himself. Then why was he still here? Oh, yeah.

Reminded of his mission Inuyasha started sniffing (literally) around the room more carefully. `Well no drugs or alcohol, that's a relief,' Inuyasha sighed. All the band needed was some kind of scandal right now that Kikyo had left. As Inuyasha thought the name of the former lead singer he froze. Was he also able to replace this new face as easily as his friends had for the person they had grown up with, had struggled with, the one he had come to care for?

Inuyasha shook his head vigorously; no one was taking anyone's place in anyone's memory. This was just business. Something to keep them afloat until Kikyo came to her senses, as he knew she eventually would.

With that thought he gave a definite nod to close the subject and went back to snooping. He was laughing at a picture of Kagome in a Halloween costume with cat ears when he heard the doorknob turning.

He had planned to leap backwards out of the window but forgot he had pulled Kagome's rolling desk chair out to see the desk drawers. His foot was starting to catch on the back of it, so he slammed his other foot down on the seat to keep the chair from crashing to the ground.

What resulted from that was a sloppy jump to the side, which landed him back first on the bed, sending his feet, flying over his head in a wild half summersault. Inuyasha had barely managed to land quietly and breathlessly on the other side of the bed when Kagome walked in the room.

"You nosy little leach!"

Inuyasha sighed trying to think of an explanation for being here before he tried to turn and face Kagome.

"How many times do I have to tell you to stay out of my drawers Buyo??"

`What the…?' Inuyasha thought as he huddled down lower realizing he hadn't been discovered.

" If you're hungry just tell me, don't go sniffing around for my private stash. Look you left claw marks on the drawers again!"

Inuyasha looked down at his own claws. His brother had always scorned him for leaving claw marks on their parents' expensive furniture whenever he forgot to use things like handles and knobs. For once he wished he had listened to him.

"Oh, well. I love you more than any old dresser anyway."

Surprised at Kagome's reply at having her belongings rough handled, and at the sudden squeak of the mattress springs, Inuyasha dared to look over the corner of the bed. Kagome was in the same outfit she was in for the concert, minus the shoes, and was sitting on her feet on top of the bed petting her large cat.

`Damn it!' Inuyasha thought as he ducked beneath the corner of the bed again. `How am I going to get out of here without getting caught? Any second now she'll turn around and see me crouched here.' Inuyasha's ears twitched in agitation before he caught himself. ` These friggin ears are gonna get me caught.' He flattened his ears to his scalp trying to make himself as small as possible.

Kagome let out a huge yawn and stretched her arms into the air. "Bed time Buyo. Let's get ready to go to sleep okay?"

Kagome hopped out of bed, only to nearly collapse from misjudging where her heavy heeled shoes were and nearly twisting her ankle.

"Baka!" She hissed not really knowing whether she was directing that insult to herself, or the shoe which she had just sent flying to bounce off the wall under the window.

Inuyasha thought he would have laughed if he weren't panicking just now. Kagome was heading over to her armoire against the wall facing the foot of the bed. She opened a drawer and started sifting through the contents.

`Here's my chance.' Inuyasha leapt lightly to the other side of the bed while Kagome's back was turned. He was tiptoeing toward the window when…

"Here they are!" Kagome let out triumphantly. She held up a set of pajamas that consisted of a blue pair of shorts with Hello Kitty print all over it and a blue and white jersey shirt with a Hello Kitty head in the middle.

Inuyasha was trying his best to muffle a laugh when Kagome chose that moment to take her top off. Inuyasha could do nothing but gape and reach blindly for the window sill. He knew he was being worse than Miroku at the moment but he couldn't make himself turn away. Kagome oblivious to her audience kept going about her business. Inuyasha couldn't even get himself to blink when he saw his band's new lead singer in her bra and matching…thong?

Inuyasha gulped hard and continued to reach unseeingly toward the windowsill, his mouth hanging wide open and eyes as big as dinner plates. He managed to take a step backward, but was too distracted buy certain curves to notice when his foot slipped on Kagome's spurned shoe. Inuyasha swung his arms and legs around as silently as he could to try to regain his footing, but ended up bumping into the window sill and dumping himself out backwards and head first out of it. His fall seemed to be broken by every branch on the way down to the ground below where he landed with an impressive thump.

Upstairs Kagome turned around as she finished pulling up her shorts. She frowned thinking she heard something outside her window. She moved toward it and glanced out into her tree.

"Hmmm… must have been the wind." She shrugged and turned from the window. If she had bothered to look down she would have noticed a very much-flattened inuhanyou in a self made crater.

Inuyasha braced his hands on either side of his hanyou shaped crater and painfully hauled himself up.

`That's what I get for letting my hentai side take over.' Inuyasha sighed as he brushed dirt and grass off of himself. `Well at least things can't get much wor…'

Before he could finish the thought, the sprinkler system took that moment to turn on making the half demon cough and sputter.

Inuyasha sweat dropped as he picked himself up and walked out of the way of the jets of water that were using him for target practice. When he was pretty sure he was safe away from the shrine house, he got down on all fours and shook himself out like a dog. His hair was still really wet and sticking close to his head so that his now droopy ears stood out more than usual.

Inuyasha stood and started walking, in the process of fighting with his bangs for his eyesight when…







Inuyasha pushed himself up off his back swirly eyed and glared back at the fire hydrant that had attacked him. He groaned and let himself fall back to the cement of the sidewalk and grimaced as a sore spot on his head was aggravated.

"Damn my life sucks!!"