InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ The Reason ❯ Lots of Practice ( Chapter 6 )

A/N: I never thought I could actually write six chapters of a story before I got bored with it. So here's chapter 6, minna-san! (I found out what that is today).

Disclaimer: don't own Inuyasha. Or do I?

Last time:

They practiced their songs. Inuyasha was the lead guitarist, while Mina played second guitar. Kin was their bassist and Yasuo was their drummer. After a while, they finished all their songs and were now playing anything random. After a bit, Kagome came rushing down the stairs and shoved a hat onto Inuyasha's head.

"Oi, wench! What in the seven hells do you think you're doin'?" he yelled.

"Sorry, Inuyasha. But I forgot that there's gonna be a committee meeting today, and its my turn to host it," she explained.

"Damn you, bitch. My ears are seriously hurting!" he said.

"Sorry!" she said before rushing up the stairs.

"Ok, let's get back to practice." Mina said.

"Ok, first order of business today," Eri said, "is planning the next dance."

"You mean the homecoming?" Yuka said.

"No. That's only for the seniors to plan," Arimi said.

"What about the Halloween dance?" Kagome asked.

"Nope." Eri said.

"Why not?" Arimi said.

"Basketball game. The school doesn't want too many events in a week." Eri explained.

"Then what dance are we planning?!" Yuka said.

Eri patiently scanned the list, mumbling to herself some incoherent thoughts. After a moment or two of scanning the list, she said proudly, "The Valentine's day dance."

"What?" Kagome said. "But Valentine's day isn't for another six months! Its September for goodness sake!"

"Well, that's what they assigned us. So we have to live with it." Eri said.

"It at least gives us time to make the Valentine's day dance super good," Arimi said.

"And we get to make it nice and romantic," Yuka pointed out.

Eri, Arimi and Yuka sighed dreamily at the same time with stars in their eyes. Kagome sweatdropped. She was horrified at the thought of Eri, Arimi and Yuka planning something romantic. She shuddered at the thought. What they thought of romantic scared Kagome. So she decided to intervene before they do anything stupid. "But not too romantic, then it wouldn't be any fun. Besides, no one would come because no guy would wanna go."

"Oh I think not. I know of at least one guy who would go," Eri said.

Kagome sweatdropped again. She knew exactly where this was leading. "Hojo would go anywhere with you." Arimi said.

"Yeah. Which brings me to the question, why haven't you two gone out yet?" Yuka said.

"Well…" Kagome said, a slight blush gracing her cheeks.

"`Well'?" they said in unison.

"Umm…" she replied.

"Oh come on Kagome! You haven't been sick lately, you've been goin' to school regularly, what's stopping you?!" Eri yelled.

`Inuyasha, that's what. He'll tear poor Hojo apart.' "Um… Well," she said, the blush deepening.

"*Gasp* Don't tell me you've been going out with him and not telling us!" Yuka yelled.

"No, no! its nothing like that!" Kagome said.

"Then what's stopping you?" Arimi said.

Before she could answer, there was a knock on the door. A voice called, "Kagome?" It was her mother. `Thank Kami.'

She got up and opened the door. Indeed it was her mother who said to her, "Kagome, it's time for practice."

"*Gasp* Omigosh! I forgot!" Kagome said.

Her mother noticed her friends in the room. "Hello, girls." She said. "I didn't know you were here."

"Hi, Mrs. Higurashi," they said together.

"So should I tell Inuyasha you can't make it to practice?" her mother said.

"No, mama! I can't miss practice, you know that!" she replied.

"Well, whatever you decide." She said, leaving.

Kagome closed the door and sat back down on the floor with her friends.

"What was that all about?" Yuka asked.

"*sigh* I have kyudo and kendo practice." Kagome replied. Ever since she and her friends (being the shard hunting gang) moved here to her time, they had been teaching her how to fight. They practiced in the yard near the steps.

"You take kyudo and kendo?" Arimi exclaimed in surprise.

"Wow, that's so cool!" Eri said

"Yeah, but what about the meeting?" Kagome said.

"Screw the meeting. I wanna watch you practice." Yuka said.

"Yeah!" the other two agreed.

"So can we?" they asked.

Kagome sighed again. She couldn't believe that they actually wanted to watch her practice. "Okay, but I have to warn you. I'm not very good."

**************************************************************** ******** They stepped outside. Kagome was wearing her work clothes. Her quiver of arrows was strapped to her back, her practice sword at her side and her bow in one hand. When she stepped out into the yard, she saw Sango dressed similarly practicing with her practice sword. Inuyasha was once again dressed in his work clothes, hat still on his head, practicing with Sango. Miroku was at the side, practicing with his staff.

When Inuyasha caught sight, or caught scent, of Kagome, he stopped and yelled out, "Oi, Kagome! You're late!"

"I know that!" she yelled back.

She approached the group and said, "Sorry I'm late. I forgot we had practice and I told my friends that the dance committee meeting could be at our house."

"Keh!" Inuyasha replied.

Miroku by now had come near. Kagome began to introduce her friends from Sengoku Jidai to her friends from her time. "Eri, Arimi, Yuka." She said, pointing to each one. "Miroku, Sango, Inuyasha." She said, again pointing to each one. They all exchanged greetings, Inuyasha with some reluctance.

"They wanted to watch practice," Kagome explained to her Sengoku Jidai friends.

"Keh! Whatever, just stay out of the way," Inuyasha said.

Miroku conked him on the head and said, "Please excuse him. What he means is, `Please stay out of the way, you may get hurt by a stray blow'." He didn't say his key phrase, out of fear Sango and Kagome would do something to him.

"Let's get started already," Sango said.

Kagome's friends moved out to one side while practice commenced. They began with some kendo sparring. Sango went against Kagome, and Inuyasha went against Miroku. Of course, Sango and Inuyasha won. Next, the sparred with staffs. Miroku won this one, and Kagome and Sango tied. Lastly, they did kyudo. this one, they didn't go against only one, they went against everyone. Of course, Kagome won.

While they were practicing, Eri, Arimi and Yuka were sitting off to the side, watching and gossiping at the same time.

"Oooo, I wonder if Inuyasha has a girlfriend," Eri said.

"With a guy like him, he probably does," Yuka said.

"I like Miroku better," Arimi said.

"He probably has a girlfriend, too." Yuka said.

"Well, actually neither of them do, as a matter of fact." Said a voice from behind.

All three girls jumped at the sound of the voice. They turned around and saw 3 people behind them. 2 of the guys, and 1 a girl.

"Wait, neither of them has a girlfriend?" Arimi and Eri asked hopefully.

"Nope." The girl said.

"Then we still have a chance!" Arimi and Eri rejoiced.

"Nope." One of the guys said, the one with red hair.

"Whadda ya mean `nope'?!" Arimi and Eri said, seething with anger vein popping from both heads. Yuka stood there and sweatdropped.

But none of the three didn't seem nervous at all. In fact they didn't have a problem. The guy with the yellow hair answered. "He means that neither of you have a chance with Inuyasha or Miroku."

"And what makes you so sure of that?!" both said, a few more veins popping. Yuka got another sweatdrop. Although the three still remained calm.

"You'll see, turn around." The girl said.

They both calmed down long enough to turn around. This time, the exercise was they fought against each other on teams. Their weapons, whatever they were, had some sort of coloring on them. No one had gotten hit, that was for sure, all of their clothes were clean. As they watched, they noticed that Inuyasha was protecting Kagome a lot. It soon came to that Kagome was about to get hit, but Inuyasha pushed her out of the way. Fortunately for Kagome, she wasn't hit, but Inuyasha was smeared with color. It probably meant that he lost because he didn't do anything else. But Kagome acted quickly and took her opportunity. Since Miroku and Sango were happy at Inuyasha's loss, they dropped their guard and Kagome shot them with arrows. They were both smeared in color as Kagome rejoiced.

Inuyasha was speaking to Kagome. Of course, Eri, Arimi and Yuka couldn't hear it, but they saw it. Inuyasha was looking down at Kagome with a concerned look, Kagome looked back at him with the same expression. The same was happening with Sango and Miroku. Except Miroku took the opportunity to grope Sango's ass. And soon a large SMACK was heard and a read handprint appeared on the boy's face.

"See how protective Inuyasha is of Kagome?" the boy with the red hair said.

"And how," the girl paused, as if searching for the right word. "open Miroku is with Sango?"

"And that's why you don't have a chance," the yellow haired one said.

"It could mean anything though!" Eri said.

"Yeah!" Arimi agreed.

"*sigh* Eri, Arimi." Yuka said gently. "Face the facts. Inuyasha and Kagome like each other, and Sango and Miroku too."

"Yup yup" the girl said.

"Exactly" the red haired boy said.

"See? She gets it!" the yellow haired one said.

Both Eri and Arimi sighed and a dejected look appeared on their faces. "*sigh* I guess you're right" they said sadly.

All of a sudden the two girls perked up. Eri said, "You know this can only mean one thing, girls."

"Yeah, it does," Arimi said and Yuka nodded.

"We have to get them together!" the 3 said in unison.

Now it was turn for the other three to sweatdrop.

"Uh-oh" the girl said.

"Oh boy," the yellow haired one said.

"This cannot be good," the red haired one said.

A/N: there it is! Six chapters! Oh yeah. A couple things. One: if you didn't already guess who the three people without names I used at the end are (which is pretty sad if you didn't) are Mina, Kina and Yasuo. Two: if you don't know who Eri, Arimi and Yuka are, go here: http://www.chibiexplosion.com/inuyasha/yasha_minor[a-j].html#tomodach i. (This site has a lot of great stuff, like episode summaries and great character profiles too.) three: I used a 2 japanese words that I just picked up from other fanfics and various sites. They mean:

Minna-san: everyone

Kami: God (or something along those lines)

That's about it! wait for my 7th chapter minna-san! And remember: review, review, review, review, review REVIEW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

-Boredomstrikes ^_^