InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Meeting Place ❯ kag gets "kidnapped" ( Chapter 14 )

Yeah, some of my accomplices were over and now I have happy ideas. ^_^

They arrived not a minute before or after Miroku and Sango. This made Inuyasha sad and loud at the same time, since he had been speeding to beat the other mischief maker.

"Heard that Macaze busted you, Makahoto," Miroku commented.

"You have to call him Sugar now," Kagome commented, walking over to Sango. "Hey!" she said brightly, hugging her best friend. "Haven't seen you all day."

"Say it and die," Inuyasha growled at Miroku.

"That's okay, wittle Inukins. I won't mock your pet name."

"Honey Bunny, come on! Rin and Sess are going to beat us to all the good rides!" Sango called.

Inuyasha grinned like a dog that's cornered its prey. "Honey Bunny, eh?"

"Don't hurt yourself there, Sugar,"

"Aw, what a cute gay couple. Let's go Sango," Kagome gushed. Inuyasha and Miroku gaped at her as she took Sango's arm and they walked off towards the park. Practically tripping over each other to catch up, the boys made a hasty dash for their girl of choice.

Miroku immediately kissed Sango. "Just reaffirming my masculinity," he explained to the shocked dancer.

"Don't forget it again," Sango told him, grinning widely.

Kagome shot a sly look at Inuyasha and blew him a kiss. "It doesn't bother me if you're gay, Inuyasha. I still think you're interesting."

"Interesting?" he asked, catching her around the waist and pulling her to him. "Theoretically, if one is gay, does one act horny around the opposite sex?"

"Hypothetically speaking, no. But if one is Inuyasha, you never know." Kagome grinned and winked to show that she wasn't being serious. Before he could retaliate, she swiped the hat off his head and placed it on her own. "Don't want to sunburn. Didn't know we were coming here."

"Sexy," Inuyasha commented.

"Your hat's too big,"

"I have a big head," Inuyasha commented with a perverse grin. Kagome smacked his upper arm.

"TMI," she replied.

"Didn't know you leaned the other way, Babe."

"I don't," she said.

By now they were standing in line, and there were quite a couple of people that they knew hanging around. If Inuyasha had stopped to scan the crowds, he would have seen that in the next line over was his ex girlfriend, drooling all over Kouga. He would have been hurt to see her, but yet again Kagome would have been hurt to see Kouga as well. It was dumb luck that they never turned and looked around, so involved in flirting and teasing were they.

"You were pretty cozy with Sango," Inuyasha commented off-handedly.

"I've been friends with Sango for twelve years."

"Really? Just how old are you?"

She laughed and shook her head. "Same as you, baka."

They made it to the ticket window and both reached for wallets.

"I'm paying," Inuaysha told Kagome. "I was stupid today and I owe you."

"No, that's okay. I can pay."

"If you're not comfortable with it, then think of this as a date. I will pay."

She hesitated. "Are you asking me out? When we're already here?"

"You could look at it that way, yeah."

Kagome turned up her nose. "Do it the right way then."

"Are you this proper with every guy you meet?"

"Sometimes. I want a real question."

Inuyasha sighed. "Fine. Kagome, will you go to the carnival with me?"

"Sure!" she exclaimed with a huge smile. And then she paid for her own ticket. "I win," she told Inuyasha, sticking out her tongue.

"That's what you think, Mo."

"Don't deny the truth, Sugar. Let's go before we loose the others."

Sango grabbed Miroku's arm and dragged him over to a game booth.

"Oh no," he muttered.

"Look at how adorable those animals are!" she exclaimed, pointing up at a large fuzzy teddy bear.

Miroku wordlessly handed three dollars to the game attendant. "Hey," he muttered to the man under his breath. "If I give you a twenty, will you just give her the bear?"

"Sorry sir, but my job is at stake with the rules. You have to win it yourself,"

Miroku sighed and took the balls. The object of the game was to roll a ball down a little metal track hard enough that it touched the target but soft enough that it didn't come all the way back to him.

Miroku sucked at carnival games.

Ever since he was little and his caretaker, Mushin, had taken him to a carnival he had been cursed with anti-luck. Nothing he did had ever allowed him to win a carnival prize.

As he prepared to throw the ball and tried to judge the speed, Inuyasha walked up behind him. "You going to win the bear?" he asked curiously.

"Yeah," Miroku muttered, teeth clenched.

"You know how?" Inuyasha muttered back.

"No," Miroku replied.

"Sucks to be you, man." Inuyasha said. He gave the man behind the counter and single dollar. In return he got one ball. Without even a moment's hesitation he threw it down the track. Miroku's jaw dropped when it hit the target and stopped exactly on the marked line.

"Choose your prize," the man behind the counter said in a tired voice.

"Ooh, I want the white one with the red nose!" Kagome said, pointing. Inuyasha nodded, slipping an arm around her waist.

"One try," Miroku reflected. He was horrified.

"One try," Inuyasha replied triumphantly. Turning, he steered Kagome towards Sesshoumaru and Rin.

I will win the bear. Even if I spend all my money on this stupid game and take all night to do it. I will win the bear…

Kagome was having a great time riding the roller coasters with her friends, the teddy that Inu had won her hugged lovingly in one arm. She didn't really even realize it, but they had been holding hands and walking around in close contact practically for three hours. If she had been anyone else, she would have thought they looked like disgusting Freshmen, awkwardly holding hands while their friends were more at ease and making out.

More correctly put, the two of them walked around with Rin and Sess while Miroku continually chucked balls at the carnival game.

"Miroku, I honestly don't care about the bear," Sango said, exasperated. "It's okay, you don't have to win it."

"I will defeat you, carnival man," Miroku muttered, giving the worker a five. "Hit me,"

"Look, if you want the thing that badly, I can rig the track for you. Just give me five bucks, the bear is yours."

"I will defeat you!"

Kagome giggled as Miroku lost yet again. "C'mon Sango, we'll get some ice cream and watch."

"Have you done all the rides yet?" Sango asked sadly.

"No, we still have to ride the Twister,"

The dancer perked up. "Really?! It's the only `coaster I haven't been on before! It's the newest addition to the park. I was really hoping that I could ride it a couple of times before we left…"

"I'm sure the guys won't mind helping Miroku win while we ride the last coaster."

"I so mind!" Inuyasha exclaimed. "I wanna ride it too! Look, I'll drag Miroku with us and we'll come back and I'll show him how to win, okay? Don't leave me with the looser…!"

"Inuyasha," Kagome sighed. "Okay. Go get Miroku. We're going to go get in line."

He skipped off to drag Miroku away from the carnival game. Kagome was surprised at what a good time she had been having, considering that she was on a date with the one person in her school she had decided never to date. It only proved that first impressions were not to be trusted, since Inuyasha had proved to be just as intriguing as his 29X photo. I wonder if he's bipolar. That would explain the perpetual male-PMS-ing…(A/N: no offense to you happy-peppy bipolar peoples…^.~)

The coaster was the tallest in the park, with a seventy-five foot rise and countless spirals and upside down loops all seventy-five feet back down. It was fast and dangerous, with high centripetal pull and great risk to fragile people. You were strapped into your car so that your feet dangled above the ground.

Kagome was practically shaking with fear. She really didn't enjoy roller coasters, but didn't want to embarrass herself by telling her friends about her irrational fear of going down. So she went anyway. Placing her teddy bear on the other side of the track with the other backpacks and such that couldn't go on the ride, she settled in next to Inuyasha and let herself get strapped in.

"Keep all arms and legs within the edges of the car at all times. No excess screaming or kicking is permitted. Park customers are held fully liable for any injury or loss that they sustain if they do not follow the safety procedures."

That said, the cars kicked into gear and flew out of the sheltered entranceway.

Kagome had learned a long time ago that when you were going in loops, if you breathed on the up and held your breath on the down, the stomach flip-flopping wasn't so bad. Not really in a mood to make a mess of her earlier ice cream, she decided to put this into practice.

They had reached the top of the seventy-five foot rise. Kagome took a deep breath and held it, waiting for the ride to go down.

It didn't.

There was a painful squeal from the PA at the top of the drop. Why is there a PA system that reaches to the top of the coaster?

"We're sorry, but there have been some technical difficulties with the ride. We ask that any waiting in line leave and occupy themselves on one of our other attractions. Those currently waiting on the ride itself we ask to sit still and stay calm. Crew members will be out to help you down any moment. Do not panic."

Kagome realized that her feet were dangling seventy-five feet off the ground and she started to panic.

"Hey, calm," Inuyasha muttered, reaching over and grabbing her hand. "This entire ride is rigged up with all sorts of safety equipment. Enough to make me sick. Nothing's going to happen to you."

"Attention park customers currently riding the Twister. There has been a break in the tracks, we repeat, a break in the tracks. Do not move, any motion from the car could send it into the break. We repeat, do not move. Crew will be arriving shortly to help you off of the car and back onto park ground."

Kagome full-out panicked. "Oh god, we're going to die,"

"Hell no."

"What makes you so sure?! We're dangling seventy-five feet off the ground with nothing but safety harnesses keeping us here, and any motion could send us all plummeting seventy-five frickin feet!"

"Kagome's swearing, she must be really scared," Sango said from in front of her. "Hey, I know you don't like coasters Kag. This happens all the time with new rides. They get stuck, bugs get worked out. Nothing is going to happen to you."

"You don't like coasters?" Rin asked curiously from behind her. "Haven't you been on them all today?"

"I don't breathe," Kagome explained. "I like them just fine, but I can't stand dropping."

"She's afraid of coasters," Sango simplified.

"Prep," Rin added affectionately. "Oh, a cherry picker! I hope we all get to ride in it,"

"If we don't fall first," Kagome said cryptically.

"I could be winning that bear right now," Miroku muttered.

"While we have the time," Inuyasha replied, recalling his promise. "You just toss the ball at the target, so it doesn't touch the track on the way there. Impact sends it back on the track and it rolls to a stop."

"That easy?"

"Yeah,"

"I'm such a looser,"

"Yeah,"

and so even more of me gets put into this happy story. Guess what? I have the ending now! *dances* it's pretty far off still. No guesses as to how long this will be, sorry. `nyway, R&R please!