InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ The Challenge ❯ Chapter 12

Hello my faithful readers! Ok… I'm REALLY sorry that this update took so bloody long… I have no idea what happened… I'm kind of scared actually… this has only happened once before and I swore on my life that it would never happen again… uh oh…. *dodges random flying weapons* HEY! Now that was uncalled for! Ok… who threw the shoe? Who throws a shoe? Honestly! You fight like a woman! LMAO! Sorry I was watching Austin Powers… lol so ON WITH THE STORY!

 

Disclaimer: I don't own Inuyasha… never have, never will… *pout*

 

The next day at exactly 9:00am the phone started ringing loudly. Four sleepy figures attempted to roll over but found their movement was restricted by something. They had all fallen asleep on the couch last night. Inuyasha raised his head from its position on Kagome's head.

“What the hell?” he asked, bewildered, staring down at Kagome who's head had just fallen into his lap.

“Hi!” she muttered sleepily as she raised her head.

“Who the hell would be calling this early?” Sango demanded as she lifted her head from Miroku's shoulder. Miroku groaned and rubbed his neck.

“Remind me to never sleep like that again! My neck is KILLING me!” Miroku complained as he got up to get the phone.

“What the hell do you want?” he demanded when he picked up the receiver.

“God damn it John!!! It's bloody EARLY!” he shouted

“What? But we just did a challenge a couple of days ago… hmmm reward eh?” Miroku pondered as he stroked his chin thoughtfully.

“10:30? Ok we'll be there!” he assured and exchanged goodbyes with John, and hung up. He stood with his hands on his hips in front of his three best friends.

“We got to get moving! We have a challenge to go to!” Miroku exclaimed as he grabbed one of Sango's hands and one of Kagome's, pulling them to their feet -much to their displeasure. Inuyasha groaned and stumbled to his feet with a bit of help from Kagome. They leaned on each other for support as they went to get ready for this challenge.

 

~*~ Down In The Lobby~*~

 

This time John was waiting for them in the lobby instead of the other way around.

“Morning kids! Kagome are you all right? Last time I saw you, you were a bit worse for wear…” John asked hinting at the faint bruises still on Kagome's face. Kagome sighed at the memory and touched one of the bruises lightly.

“I'm fine John, they'll go away soon enough…” Kagome assured the worried, yet still overly cheerful, host of their trip. When they arrived at the challenge everyone was putting on worn out lifejackets. A short guy who looked suspiciously like a toad waddled over to them with lifejackets held, haphazardly in his arms.

“I'm Jaken Green. You have to wear lifejackets for the first part of the challenge so put these godforsaken things on!” Jaken said as he thrust them into Kagome's arms. She dropped them because they were so awkward and she wasn't expecting to get attacked by lifejackets by a short guy. Jaken scoffed at her and scurried away mumbling about their rudeness. The group put on the `godforsaken things' as Jaken so affectionately named them, on and went to join the rest of the people in the challenge.

“Ok kids! Today's challenge is called the `Amazing Race' and basically all there is to it is that you have to be first to the finish line. There will be three parts of the race. The first will be by skidoo, then there will be a three-legged-race, and then finally you will be riding a two-person bicycle to the finish line. I must warn you know though. Whoever loses will be going home today, along with the rest of their team. So if you lose, even if the other half of your team gets first, you will all be going home. Got it?” John asked happily. Everyone gulped and nodded their heads.

“Excellent! Now go get on your skidoo with your partner, no matter who's in front!” John said as they all made their way to the skidoo's, and chose one. They all got on their skidoos, it was no surprise that all the guys were driving. After everyone was ready to go John pulled out a starting gun from his inside coat pocket.

“1…2…3…GO!!!!!!” John roared as he shot the gun straight in the air

They all zoomed away from the starting position, Kikyo and Kouga in the lead, Miroku and Sango in second, and Inuyasha and Kagome a close third. Behind them were Andrew and Jolene, Darrin and Seraphim, and finally in last there was Shippo and Rin.

“You'll never beat us dog breath!” Kouga shot back at Inuyasha. Kikyo glared menacingly at both Inuyasha and Kagome. Kagome just stuck out her tongue.

“Ya right wolf boy!!!!” Inuyasha threatened as he pulled up beside Miroku and Sango. He and Miroku exchanged a glance and nodded. Then they both sped up beside each other right behind Kouga and Kikyo, until the last second where they swerved around them. Causing Kagome to scream in Inuyasha's ear and Sango to tighten her grip on Miroku. Now Miroku and Sango were in the lead, with Inuyasha and Kagome close behind. Inuyasha was rubbing his ear in pain.

“Ouch! Did you HAVE to scream Kag?” Inuyasha asked. Kagome looked a little sheepish.

“Sorry…” she said quietly and he laughed. They made it to the three-legged-race before anyone else and all four of them hurried to the finish. When they were half way there they realised that Kouga and Kikyo were now neck in neck with them.

“Where did you come from?” Inuyasha said venomously to them. Kouga chuckled and kept up their fast pace to the finish. Kouga and Kikyo made it to the bikes first but since both of then didn't cycle very well, Inuyasha, Miroku, Sango, and Kagome got a chance to catch up while they figured the contraption out. The whole gang were good cyclists so they had an advantage on everybody else. Sango and Kagome gave each other high fives, from the front seat on the bikes. They had to fight for the seats but they won. They all cheered as they crossed the finish line first, followed by Andrew and Jolene, Kouga and Kikyo, Shippo and Rin, and finally by Darrin and Seraphim. Seraphim looked around at everybody and realised that she and Darrin were last.

“I'm sorry Seraphim, Darrin, Andrew, Jolene, but you are all eliminated.” John said as solemnly as he could considering the fact that he was `Mr. Happy-pants'

“Your flight home will be leaving at 6 o'clock and you can all say goodbye now!” John said with more of his usual cheeriness in is voice as he got into his limo. He leaned out of the window to shake each eliminated persons hand.

“It was a pleasure meeting you four have a safe flight!” John said cheerily as his limo zoomed away. Seraphim turned around to look at everyone, then she burst into tears and dove into Kagome's arms. Both girls cried over the fact that one was eliminated. Seraphim moved on to hug the next person in the circle, and Darrin approached Kagome to say goodbye. He intended only a handshake, because Inuyasha was glaring at him, but Kagome launched herself at him and gave him a huge hug. He was none the less shocked but hugged her back then moved on to the next person, Inuyasha, and shook his hand. The four eliminated teens went around in the circle, guys shaking hands with guys, and being attacked by hugs from the girls, girls hugging… well everybody. Then a limo pulled up to take them away. More tears were shed as the eliminated team climbed into the limo. As they drove away the stuck their hands out the window to wave goodbye. By the time they had left Sango was misty eyed as well, and both girls turned to their boyfriends for comfort. As they were walking to the limos Sango got distracted by paddleboats.

“OH! Let's go on them!!” Sango pleaded with Miroku as she tugged on his sleeve like a two year old. Miroku laughed a t her and went to go pay for the paddleboats. He came back moments later and they got in the paddleboats. Obviously Inuyasha and Kagome were on one and Sango and Miroku were on the other. Sango was ecstatic because this was her first time on paddleboats.

“Want to race to the pier Inuyasha?” Miroku challenged his friend, knowing that he wouldn't refuse. Inuyasha looked at Kagome for approval and she shrugged.

“I don't care but if I get tired I'm going to make you do it all by yourself!” Kagome warned him. He shrugged.

“I don't care! You're on monk!” Inuyasha shouted. They lined up their boats.

“1…” Miroku counted

“2…” Kagome counted

“3…” Sango counted

“GO!!” Inuyasha shouted and they were off, they were going slower than a turtle but they were off none the less.

“Ugh I don't like these things! If it weren't for the water we'd already be over there!” Kagome complained as she pumped her legs as fast as the water would let her. Inuyasha decided not to point out the fact that they wouldn't be moving if the water wasn't there.

“Would you just shut up and paddle woman? Honestly do you want to lose?” Inuyasha joked. Kagome stuck her tongue out at him.

“Do you want me to stop paddling? I can make you do all the work you know!” she threatened. He shook his head.

“Not if I do it first!” Inuyasha laughed and he took his feet off the pedals. Kagome's jaw dropped, then she realised how hard it was to paddle all by herself.

“HEY! No fair Inuyasha!! Help me! Come on! Oh now look at that Miroku and Sango are kicking our asses and it's all your fault!” Kagome whined as she strained to keep the paddleboat in motion.

“Fine! But only if you stop whining like that!” Inuyasha joked as he put his feet back on the pedals. But it was too late. Miroku and Sango were sitting at the pier waving at them.

“Hurry up you slow pokes!!” Sango shouted to them.

“Shut up Sango! It's Kagome's fault we lost!” Inuyasha yelled back. Kagome glared at him.

“Hey! It was SO not my fault! If you had helped me then we would have won!!” Kagome shouted at him with an icy glare. Inuyasha put his hands up in surrender.

“Ok ok! It was my fault we lost… can you stop glaring now?” Inuyasha asked quietly. Kagome nodded and stopped glaring. Miroku was doing a little happy dance in his boat… causing the entire thing to shake and Sango to grip onto the sides for dear life.

“Miroku! Stop it!!!!” Sango screamed at him. He immediately stopped dancing and settled for singing instead.

“We won and you lost! We won and you lost!” he sang… off key… very loudly… Sango slapped him lightly.

“Would you shut up?” she demanded.

“What's wrong my dear? Why aren't you relishing in the fact that we won and they lost?” he sang the last part.

“I'm not `relishing' because I'm not a freak! And what kind of word is relish anyway? You have the weirdest vocabulary I have ever heard in my life!” Sango said.

“That hurts my dearest Sango. That really hurts.” Miroku said sadly as he put a hand over his heart, as if trying to protect it from her hurtful words.

“Good! Miroku… keep your hand on YOUR side of the boat… ” Sango said in a low tone as his arm wrapped around her shoulders, his hand was a bit too low for her liking. She glared at him, picked up his hand and put it on his side of the boat and turned away from him.

“Uh Sango? Are you having a PMS problem?” Miroku asked cautiously. Kagome squealed and attempted to hide behind Inuyasha. Inuyasha closed his eyes and waited for the screaming to start. There was no screaming. There was only a big splash. Inuyasha opened his eyes and burst out in uncontrollable laughter. Kagome decided she must be safe if Inuyasha was laughing and came out from her hiding place. She too burst out in laughter. Poor Miroku was treading water pleading with Sango to let him back in the boat.

“Please?” he pleaded. She only shook her head and turned away from him. While her back was turned Miroku climbed back into the boat, much to Inuyasha and Kagome's amusement. Sango didn't seem to care that he was back in; she stayed with her back turned to him. She allowed him to paddle the boat along as they trailed after Inuyasha and Kagome. Kagome pulled her knees up to her chin, letting Inuyasha paddle all by himself, and rested her head on her knees. She sighed and closed her eyes. Soon after, she was asleep. Inuyasha chuckled and kissed her forehead. Miroku watched this display with a grin on his face. He nudged Sango who turned to look at him angrily.

“Wh-“ she was stopped mid-word as Miroku's hand clamped over her mouth. She was obviously pissed off about this and glared. Miroku grinned at her and raised a finger to his lips to indicate `SHUT UP!' He let go of her face and motioned to Inuyasha and Kagome. Sango's angry glares softened as she looked at her best friends.

“Aww!” she whispered. She had clearly forgiven him because she started paddling along with him. She trailed her fingers in the water, watching the ripples in awe for no apparent reason. Miroku steered them over beside Inuyasha. He grabbed Inuyasha's shoulder to make him stop.

“What?” Inuyasha asked

“Do you want to go back to the room now? Since Kagome's asleep over there and our time's nearly up.” Miroku asked, as he slowly started moving again. Inuyasha nodded and they made their way to the shore. They pulled up and the guys jumped out, much to Sango's displeasure, to pull the boats all the way back onto shore.

“That wasn't necessary you know.” She said as she got out of the paddleboat.

“So?” Inuyasha asked as he picked up Kagome gently. She wrinkled her nose, at the sudden movement but stayed asleep. Sango giggled at her best friend and walked ahead with Miroku.

 

~*~Back In The Room~*~

 

Inuyasha gently placed Kagome down on her bed and pulled the blankets over her. He turned off the light and closed the door on his way out of the room. He flopped down on the couch in between Miroku and Sango.

“God do my legs ever hurt!” he complained as he propped his feet up on the coffee table.

“Oh shut up Inuyasha!” Sango joked as she poked him in the side, causing him to glare at her.

“Hey anyone up for a round of Mortal Combat?” Miroku asked out of the blue. Both Inuyasha and Sango turned to look at him with big grins on their faces.

“Hell Ya!” Inuyasha said as he grabbed a controller. Miroku took the other one and Sango became his cheerleader. Miroku sat on the floor in front of the couch and Sango sat behind him and crossed her arms on top of his head and used him as a pillow. Inuyasha laughed at him and proceeded in kicking his ass in Mortal Combat. Sango started cheering for Miroku, obviously forgetting that Kagome was asleep down the hall.

“KICK HIS ASS MIROKU!!!! What's wrong with your guy! Why won't he move? Inuyasha what did you do to him?” Sango shouted as the guys shot insults at each other. Back in her room Kagome rolled over and groaned in annoyance. She scrambled to her feet and trudged out the door, and into the living room. She cleared her throat and all three heads shot up and stared in surprise at Kagome.

“You look like hell girl.” Sango stated bluntly, pointing at Kagome's dishevelled clothes, frizzy hair, and smudged make-up. Kagome glared at her and turned around to go get presentable. As soon as she was out of ear shot Sango immediately started giggling. Inuyasha was pissed off at them all though, including himself, for waking her up.

“If I get yelled at because of this I'm going to kill you two!” Inuyasha threatened as Sango's giggling slowly stopped. Kagome came back into the room moments later, now wearing a red tank top that said `Too much attitude, too little time' and a pair of flannel pajama bottoms. She flopped down on the couch behind Inuyasha, and propped her legs up on his shoulders. He was obviously not very happy about being used as a footrest and shrugged her off. She pouted and decided lying down on the couch would be more fun than bugging her boyfriend. So she lay down on the couch, this time using Sango as a footrest. Sango, being Kagome's best friend of many years, was used to this and therefore let Kagome get away with it. Kagome sighed in contentment and stuck her tongue out at Inuyasha. She decided that she'd be Inuyasha's cheerleader despite the fact that he wouldn't let her use him as a footrest.

“Oh come ON Inuyasha! That was such a crappy shot! Honestly! If you fought like this against me you'd be dead in a heartbeat!” Kagome shouted at him as he and Miroku battled.

“Would you shut up woman? You're distracting me!” Inuyasha growled at her. She was rather taken by surprise by his little growl and promptly swatted him on the head for it. Inuyasha groans as his last bit of health is drained by a pathetic punch from Miroku.

“Kagome!” Inuyasha whined, “You made me lose!” he complained as he turned to face her. She tried her best to look completely innocent but it wasn't working at all. Inuyasha stood up, looming over her and grabbed her around the waist. She screamed in surprise and started punching his back when he flung her onto his shoulder. He walked over to the balcony and dropped her just outside the door. Then he dashed inside and before she even knew what had happened he had locked her out there. She went wide-eyed and her jaw dropped when she turned the knob but the door didn't open.

“INUYASHA!!” she screamed and she started to bang on the window-paned doors. Inuyasha just laughed at her and went back to the video game. Kagome was really pissed now. She screamed again and started wildly throwing punches at the door.

“INUYASHA!!! Open this door RIGHT NOW! I'm freezing my ass off out here!!!!” she screamed. Inuyasha raised an eyebrow. He forgot she was only wearing a spaghetti strap. He got up and slowly walked over to the door.

“Promise you won't slaughter me when I let you back in?” Inuyasha asked. Kagome glared at him, she was getting goose bumps and she didn't like it!

“INUYASHA! I'm freezing!!” She shouted her teeth started chattering. Inuyasha opened the door and pulled her inside. Immediately her teeth stopped chattering and she pounced on him. She tackled him to the ground and started throwing half-assed punches at his chest.

“That was SO mean!!!!” she screamed at him as more punches fell upon him.

“Ow! Kag! You do realise that that starts to hurt after a while don't you?” he asked, she nodded and grinned evilly.

“Of course!” she giggled as more punches came raining down on Inuyasha. He caught both her fists mid-punch and held her back as he tried to talk his way out of this `dangerous' situation.

“Ok… so it was kind of mean to lock you out on the balcony, but you have to admit I had a good reason!” he defended, Kagome scowled.

“What reason was that? The fact that I accidentally made you lose your silly game? Or the fact that I swatted you for growling at me?” Kagome shot back playfully. Inuyasha opened his mouth to speak but no words came out.

“Did I just lose again?” he asked weakly, she nodded triumphantly and got off of him. She hopped onto the couch and picked up a controller.

“Sango want to play?” she asked as she tossed the other controller to Sango, who caught it and plopped down beside her best friend.

 

 

Ok R&R as usual you know the drill I'll try and get the next update up here ASAP but I'm not promising any miracles! lol so until next time TTFN!!!