InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Ten Fingers ❯ Chapter One: In For the Ride ( Chapter 1 )

AN: Okay! This story came to me when I was on my college trip visiting some universities south from where I live-I saw UCLA, USD, UCSD……It goes on and on.

I hope I can update it much more often than my other fic…But I had it all written up but then my computer got a virus so bad that every single file I saved got deleted…And I just haven't the heart to write it up yet. So, enjoy.

 

(Full) Summary:

Kagome is your `ideal' college applicant-Great grades and lots of extra curricular activities. However, all of this led her to very few friends, Sango and Kikyo, (A.K.A. to the people of their high school Sang-HO and Kinky) and an almost non-existent social life. With two months to graduation, she has to make her life in the town of Shikon, Japan ((Not a real place)) someplace in her heart before she goes off to college. Her friends suggest a small fling won't hurt her…Does Inuyasha, the unsuspected yet suspected badboy have it in him?

 

This disclaimer will only be put up once because it bears repeating. You know I don't own it.

Disclaimer: I do not own the manga Inuyasha. Nor do I own the television series Inuyasha. That means that I don't own the drawing Inuyasha or his friends…And the people who aren't his friends.

 

Title: Ten Fingers

Chapter One: In for the ride.

 

“Come on, let's play Ten Fingers,” exclaimed Kikyo. She was at Kagome's eighteenth birthday party, a small sleep over with her two best friends, Sango and Kikyo.

The party only consisted of those two guests because, in all actuality, those were the only friends Kagome managed to make all throughout high school. Sure, she met many people, but they were just acquaintances, not friends. Kagome managed, by luck of the draw, to snag Sango and Kikyo when she was young. Thankfully, they stuck with her, despite her crazy antics in trying to be the best that she could possibly be, both academically and personality-wise, in order to get into college.

 

It all started when Kagome was in elementary school. Her family was going through a crisis because her father got very ill, demanding constant attention and expensive medication. When her father passed away, he left his family emotional trauma, in addition to financial debt. Kagome was shocked into reality when her mother told her one day that if Kagome didn't excel in something to receive a scholarship, she would probably not be able to go to college. Ever since that day, Kagome has work as hard as she possibly could in academics since, from experience, Kagome was never any good at playing instruments or playing sports.

 

Kagome graduated junior high school with a 4.0 and kept up a high grade point average through high school. (5.0, due to the honor and AP classes she took) Albeit, there were some times when her G.P.A. would drop, she would somehow always manage to get it up when grades came out. In addition to that, Kagome took extra classes at the local community college. Kagome participated in the student body program from junior high all throughout high school. She was elected class president, organizing school dances and being active in her volunteer work, all of her years in high school. She even volunteered her whole summer away to do beach clean up/patrol. When it came down to extra curricular activities, Kagome topped them all by being a varsity runner on the girls cross country team, the only sport Kagome was decent at and running a fifty mile marathon for breast cancer. However, all of this work led Kagome to lack a life of interaction and fun with her fellow peers. Which leads us to her small eighteenth birthday party and the game called `ten fingers.'

 

“What is that game about,” Kagome asked Kikyo, thoroughly confused. She held up her fingers to eye level and looked at the questionably to further emphasis her point.

Sango laugh aloud at Kagome's gesture. “You know the difference between the Judeo-Christian view of law versus the Greco-Roman view of law, yet you don't know what Ten Fingers is about?” Sango and Kikyo giggled at Kagome's expense, then Sango explained to Kagome what the game was about. “It's a game in which someone says a statement that they have never done and, if anyone in the group has done it, they put one finger down” Sango showed her point by holding up ten fingers then dropping one.

 

“For example,” Kikyo interjected, “Let's say that I said that I've never sky dived If you have, which I highly doubt, you put one finger down,” Kikyo grinned at Kagome's glare.

 

“You get it now, Kagome?” Sango asked, giving Kagome a smile.

 

“Yeah, I've got the concept of it,” she said, smiling back.

 

“Good, because I go first,” Sango said, holding up ten fingers to signal she was about to go. “I've never slept with more than one man.” She looked at her two friends' fingers. One friend had all ten up, the other had nine. “Kikyo! You whore! No wonder you're called Kinky” Sango and Kagome chuckled at the nickname Kikyo got when she was caught winking at a teacher.

 

“Hey! It's not completely my fault! He was hot! And, err, umm…My turn now!” Kikyo coughed loudly and went. “I've never gone streaking.” This time it was Sango who had her finger down. “What a slut, Sang-Hoe,” muttered Kikyo, calling Sango the nickname she was given when she was caught having sex with her boyfriend of eight years behind the bleachers. Sango just glared.

 

Kagome started to fiddle with the strand of hair that fell out of her bun. “Uhh, I haven't had my first kiss.” Almost immediately two fingers and two mouths dropped. Kagome blushed madly at her friend's responses and looked at her crossed legs.

 

“What!” the two girls exclaimed in unison.

 

“This is going to be an interesting night,” Kikyo cackled, rubbing her hands together.

 

Twenty minutes passed and Kikyo and Sango were each down to one finger remaining, while Kagome had nine. The finger that went down was when Sango said she had never broken a bone in her body-Kagome had broken her ankle during a cross country race. By the end of Kagome's turn, which she said she had never used a vibrator before, Kikyo and Sango were fresh out of fingers.

 

“Wow, Kagome. What have you done!?” exclaimed Sango. “You haven't been on any roller coasters, been to any amusement parks, dated any guys, let alone do anything with them. Hell, you haven't even been skinny dipping!” Kagome was about to protest but found no lie in Sango's remark.

 

“I've walked on the beach with a guy once,” Kagome said, twirling a piece her hair again. “He was even going to kiss me, but I sneezed on his face and by then the moment was ruined.”

 

Sango and Kikyo laughed, but their interest in their innocent Kagome was peaked.

 

“Do tell,” giggled Kikyo.

 

It was, uhh, last summer.”

 

“And who was it with?” Sango questioned

 

“I'm getting there! Geesh. It was with Hojou.”

 

“Oh my gad! Hojo!? Why!? Where was I!?” Sango exclaimed.

 

“And where was I!?” Kikyo yelled.

 

“Where were we!?”

 

Kagome put her head down and blushed. “At camp. You two were away at cross country camp.” A look of sudden recognition passed through Sango and Kikyo. “Yeah, and I had to stay home to finish up my art appreciation class and I had volunteered at the beach for clean up duty.” The two girls formed an `O' with their mouths. “Yes, well, Hojo was there for lifeguard duty. So I hung out with him whenever I had the chance, which was a lot considering that I had to be at the beach from six in the morning until three in the afternoon. Plus, he helped me condition my body from cross country since I couldn't go to camp with you guys.

 

“Oh, our poor Kagome. How horrible it must have been! You could do way better, you need way more excitement than what he could have offered. You need adventure, action, romance. Something to help you remember your time here before you go away to college.”

 

“In other words, you need to get laid,” Kikyo laughed.

 

“Shut up!” Kagome exclaimed.

 

“You know we're right, Kagome,” Sango rationalized. “Just think about it. You've been to accepted to all the colleges you've applied to and offered a full ride scholarship. You're going away; your dream will come true. Now it's time you had some real you time. You receive that diploma in two months that is ample time for you to-”

 

“Technically not,” Kagome interrupted, “you're handed a piece of paper that looks like your diploma that says to pick up your real diploma the next day at school.” Sango gave Kagome a look and Kagome chuckled.

 

“WHAT!?” Kikyo yelled. “You don't get it that day? I've been lied to? I've been under the false incantation that after the seventeenth of June, I will no longer have to take a “required” step into high school? Oh why cruel world!? Oh why!” Sango and Kagome stared at the now blubbering fool they've learned to dub their friend.

 

They decided to ignore her and continue on with the conversation, much to the dismay of Kagome.

 

“Like I was saying before I was interrupted. Two months is enough time for you to have a fling with some guy and move on. Go have fun; you don't have to sleep with him. Just go do everything you want to do before you have to crack down for college. A fling with a guy will seem like dust in the wind.”

 

Kagome bit her lip, which was a good sign for Sango and Kikyo, who got over her problem once she heard the word `fling,' because it meant that she was considering the offer.

 

“I accept.” Kagome said. “I mean, what have I got to lose?”

 

Sango and Kikyo giggled. At their response Kagome grew weary, just what could Kinky and Sang-Hoe do? Surely it couldn't be anything rash. And besides, if she were to have a fling, how would she meet the guy?