Roommates

*BANG BANG BANG*

“KAGOME!! GET OUT OF THE SHOWER!! I HAVE CLASS IN 30 MINUTES!!” An irate Kouga slammed his fist against the bathroom door. He could have just as eaisly broken the lock and walked in but he figured he’d give Kagome a chance, though the thought of her naked made it awfully tempting.

“IT’S YOUR OWN FAULT! I’M NOT THE ONE WHO SLEPT IN KOUGA!!” Kagome was not in the mood for his macho-male bullshit this morning; she had too much to do today. Her hair was a disaster after the wild house party her roommates threw Friday night that somehow managed to continue until Sunday afternoon when the alcohol had finally run out. She smelled like the floor of a bar when she had woken up on the couch that morning and had already washed it twice, still unsure as to whether the offending smell was gone yet or not. Her mind began drifting back to the parts of the weekend she remembered when she suddenly felt a hand on her shoulder.

“Who-“ She turned suddenly whipping her hair into her unwanted shower partner’s face

“It’s ju- SPLA” Kouga had gotten tired of waiting for the shower and had let himself in, he was about to insist they share so they could both make it on time when her waist length hair swung back, slapping him in the face and invading his open mouth.

“KOUGA!! GET OUT!! GET OUT!! GET OUT!! GET OUT!! GET OUT!!” She screamed swatting him with her loofah. She could tell he was disoriented and took this opportunity to pull back the curtin and shoved him out of the shower and onto the cold tile floor. He landed, confused on his ass, naked and wet.

“Kago-?” His words failed him as someone grabbed him from behind by the hair and preceded to drag him out of the bathroom.

“Thank you InuYasha” Kagome said curtly as he removed the dazed wolf demon from the bathroom.

“Inu…InuYas…INUYASHA!! Let me got mutt! I need to get a shower!” Kouga finally pieced together what had happened and jumped to his feet, facing a very red-faced dog-demon.

“Don’t even start you perv! How dare you walk in on her like that! After what we put her though this weekend Kagome is allowed to shower as long as she wants! Besides I already have dibs on it after her AIN’T THAT RIGHT!?!” InuYasha spat disgusted at his roommate.
Sango had taken over his bathroom, and it didn't seem like she was gonna be comming out anytime soon.

“THAT’S RIGHT!” Kagome yelled, glad someone had put a stop to the would-be shower thief.

“No way! I have class! I can’t go like this!” Kouga was worse for wear, his hair was matted and almost impossible to brush at the moment. He had somehow been talked into letting two freshmen girls braid his hair Saturday night, though they were too wasted to do a good job and the result was the rats nest perched on top of his head.

“We ALL need showers idiot! But you don’t see me or Miroku harassing Kagome! Why don’t you call on of those tarts who caused your problem and use their shower?” InuYasha sneered at the mess who was Kouga. There was no response from the wolf. “Or can’t you remember their names?” the last part was totally true and he knew it but he couldn’t really fault his friend. That morning InuYasha had woken up naked next to Sango who was also naked, unsure of how or why they were in such a state. For the life of him he couldn’t remember anything that had happened Sunday, or most of Saturday for that matter.

Kouga had heard enough. He turned on his heel and walked into his room slamming the door behind him.

‘Stupid wolf’ InuYasha smirked, happy in the fact that he could still get under Kougas skin so easily. His thoughts were cut short as the bathroom door flung open finally, letting a cloud of steam escape into the hall way.

“Ahhhhh!! I am FINALLY clean!” Kagome announced as she walked down the hall to her room wearing only a towel, and a very short one at that. InuYasha couldn’t help but let his eyes and his mind wander, completely unaware that Kagome has turned around and started talking to him.

“INUYASHA! Could you look at me so I can at least pretend you care!” Kagome had wrapped the towel tighter around her thin frame when she saw the way InuYasha was staring at her. “I’m not a piece of meat you know!” yelling as she slammed her door.

“keh, whatever” InuYasha mumbled walking into the bathroom. He stripped down to nothing and started the shower, testing the water with his hand. “Cold….figures” He stepped into the shower anyway, not wanting to smell himself any longer. ‘After watching her walk down that hall way I needed a cold shower anyway’ he told himself. Sighing into the water he began the painstaking process of detangling his hair, which was unruly on a normal day, let alone after a weekend of wild parting and god knows what else.

He had just began to rub Kagome’s Cherry Blossom shampoo into his scalp when he heard the door open and quickly shut, his demon hearing pick up the otherwise silent occurrence.

“Kouga if you think for one minute I’m letting you shower with me your nuts” InuYasha said without even bothering to stop what he was doing.

“I’ll let him know.” Kagome had returned to finish getting ready for the day, all her things were in the bathroom and she was still to hung-over to even think about trying to lug everything into her room. She opened the cupboard next to the shower in hopes her things would be where she left them Friday morning, thankfully they were. She grabbed the hair dryer and plugged it in.

“No peeking, thanks to you this shower is like ice ‘And things get small when it cold’” He finished the though in his head, unsure if the sexual commentary would get him into trouble.

“As if, I saw enough naked InuYasha…..Kouga, Miroku, and Songo…this weekend. I think we went streaking Saturday but I’m not sure.” Kagome said applying mascara carefully to each eye. She had decided to wait on the hair drying, the high pitched squealing would no doubt bring her headache right back and so was trying to avoid it as long as possible.

“We did, but it was just the five of us, we ended up in the river, and from there you’d have to ask Miroku. I think he’s the only one who remembers the whole streaking incident.” InuYasha chuckled to himself thinking back to how ridiculous they all looked running drunk though the fields out back.

“HEY JERK! I’M LEAVING FOR CLASS NOW!! THAT SHOWER BETTER BE FREE WHEN I GET BACK!” Kouga yelled though the bathroom door, he had managed to get his hair to lay semi-flat under a ball cap for the time being.

“GET TO CLASS YOU SLACKER!” Kagome yelled back, mentally picturing Kougas face right now, one of shock and horror at the thought of InuYasha and Kagome, one of them naked, in the same room. She heard him walk away muttering something but didn’t care to think of what that wolf was thinking about the two of them.

(Background noise: Teacher giving a lecture.)

‘Why do I have to learn any of this crap?! I get that this class is required, but come on!’ InuYasha’s distaste of this class was never well hidden, but today it was quite obvious. He was slumped into his chair, barely keeping himself awake.

“Will you get over yourself?! If you keep this up I’m not helping you study for this final.” Kagome hissed in his ear.

“Feh, as if I care about some stupid class about American history.” InuYasha scoffed in response shifting his weight to his other arm.

“You will care when it’s the reason you can’t graduate with the rest of us.” Kagome teased, her pen still dancing across her paper taking notes on everything the Teacher was saying.

“Eh…fine.” InuYasha forced himself into a semi-sitting position and stared blankly at the bored, however his new position didn’t last very long. Soon enough he was slumped back over until the class ended.

Kagome and InuYasha walked slowly out into the hall only to immediately bump into Sango and Miroku. The two were tangled in a passionate kiss, against the history hall bulletin board. Their entanglement had caused a few notices to rip and fall to the ground at their feet. Mirokus hand was wandering dangerously close to Sangos bottom when their friends stumbled upon them.

“SANGO!” Both InuYasha and Kagome yelled at once. Sango immediately broke free from Mirokus grasp, her face turning 7 shades of red as she pushed her lover away.

“Oh! Hey guys! How was class? Think you’ll pass that final Wednesday?” Miroku said nervously putting a hand on the back of his head, cheeks flushing a light pink after being caught in such an unbecoming position for a monk.

“We will but the two of you might not, especially after missing this class. I guess you’ll expect me to share the ONLY set of notes any of us took?” Kagome looked furiously at each of her friends, exasperated that none of them took an interest in their studies. “You’re all lucky I’m so nice or you might all be stuck repeating this class over the summer!” Kagome shouted as she stormed off toward home.

“Wait up!” Sango yelled chasing her friend and linking arms. She was still a bit red from before but tried to pass it off as nothing, she was also hoping to avoid InuYasha, especially after the compromising position they were in that morning.

“So…I guess you two have finally gotten together? About time Sango, you two have only been dancing around this since, oh I don’t know, FRESHMAN YEAR!” Kagome spoke quickly; glad for once to talk to a girl instead of one of her pig-headed roommates. “Did this happen this weekend!?” She was shocked at the idea that Sango would do something like that while she was intoxicated.

“I’m not sure” Sango said, looking away from her friend, a slow blush creeping across her face. “I think Saturday night, after the *AHEM* River excursion, we ended up in his room…” Sango trailed off allowing her own mind to wander back to that night. She new EXACTLY what had happened, but was to modest to admit it, even to her best friend.

“SANGO!!!” Kagome noticed the small smirk on her friends face. “You remember just fine! I KNEW you never got that drunk!” She said mockingly pushing her friend away.

“Oh please! Like you got that wasted? I KNOW you remember Saturday! Hell you and InuYasha never even left his room, the only time I ever saw you or him was when one of you made a run to the kitchen for more alcohol.” Kagome had stopped walking at this point, jaw nearly to the floor, her face quickly turning multiple shades of red.

“I…We...Inu…Yasha” Kagome was stunned; she couldn’t believe what her friend had just revealed to her. Her mouth continued to open and close though no sound came out.

“Kagome? Hello? Are you trying to tell me you don’t remember Saturday? You don’t remember being carried back from the river by InuYasha after you slipped and fell on the pebbles? Kagome!” Sango was inches from her friends face, shaking her shoulders trying to get her to snap out of it. She had seen the boys fast approaching and didn’t want them to see her friend like – too late.

“Hey ladies InuYasha and I were thinking we could – Kagome?” Miroku was mid stride when he noticed that Kagome looked like she’d seen a ghost.

“Hello!?!? Space cadet Kagome! Come in Kagome!” InuYasha had walked around the front of the stunned girl and began waving his hands in her face.

The sight of her assumed ‘lover’ brought Kagome right back to the present. Her mind had been locked up for the past few moments. ‘InuYasha…all day? His room? Was it real? Does this mean something? Does he know how I feel about him? Does he feel the same?’ Suddenly her thoughts were halted at the sight of her secret love. His silver hair falling lightly around his shoulders, the ears on top of his head swiveling around picking up all the noises in the area.

“*GASP* InuYasha! I…We! *EEP*” Kagome stuttered at first but then gave up completely and began running toward her house across campus.

“Hey! Whe- KAGOME!” InuYasha was stunned as Kagome shot passed him, unsure what could have done that to his friend. He took off after her, leaving Sango and Miroku to wander slowly back to the hose as Sango apparently clued Miroku in on what had just happened.

Kagome slammed the front door shut and continued running toward her room, though by then InuYasha had caught up to her, blocking her path to her room.

“What’s going on wench!?! Why did you freak out back there?!” InuYasha immediately regretted his harsh tone as Kagome burst into tears. He softened his tone and took a step toward the sobbing girl. “Oh, I didn’t mean. Kagome, please don’t cry.” He slowly wrapped his arms protectively around her, hoping to fend off whatever had broken his girl’s heart. ‘His girl?’ That though had crossed his mind before, but he never thought it when he was around her, in case his mind started to wander and he started looking at her like a piece of meat as he had done that morning. ‘Why on earth would I think that?’ at this point Kagome had calmed down some, enough so he hoped she could explain. “Can you tell me what’s wrong now?” InuYasha whispered in her ear.

“We…what? You don’t remember either?” Kagome said softy looking up into InuYasha’s golden eyes.

‘We? What did we do? What did I do!’ InuYasha’s hear skipped a beat as images of the two of them raced through his head. While most of them were enough to make his skin crawl and the hair on the back of his neck bristle, the very last one was of them tangled together in his bed, passionately kissing, naked bodies pressed together. He shook his head to fling that last image away, unsure of where his mind came up with that. He looked down into her ocean blue eyes searching for an answer.

“InuYasha, Sango said….we…spent Saturday…together” Kagome said. She started holding her breath in anticipation of what was to come.

“Well yea, well all spent Saturday together, drunk and sloppy.” InuYasha was so dense sometimes!

“No, we spent it alone…” Still no reaction “…in your room…apparently naked.” She winched at the last part, knowing that would be the switch that turned the light on.

“We? Naked…you…me? Saturday…naked” InuYasha couldn’t believe it, his eyes stared blankly ahead, his breathing slowed. Kagome tried to pull away but InuYasha just hugged her closer. ‘Kagome and I spent the night together! Does she regret it? Does she remember? Does she hate me? Does she hate herself? Is she glad it happened? Did I tell her I loved her? Does she love me?’ InuYasha couldn’t help but let his mind run free. This was going to change their relationship, for good or for bad, whether or not they liked it.

**FLASH BACK**

Kagome knew there was a party going on the moment she turned onto her street. She also knew who’s house it was being held at, hers. ‘Fantastic, we have finals next week and my roommates decide to throw the BIGGEST party of the semester. But, since it is only Friday I guess I could relax tonight and cram Saturday and Sunday.’ She pondered this as she opened the door.

The scene that met her eyes was that of chaos, there were people everywhere in her living/dining room. A live band was positioned in the corner across from the front door, the lead singer jumping onto every open surface he could see. Singing a song she couldn’t recognize. ‘The guys really went all out on this party.’ Kagome wandered into the Kitchen and gasped when she found every inch of the counter covered with bottles, cans, and two oddly place kegs. She didn’t even have to look to know the fridge was full as well the freezer.

“KAAAGOOOOOME!! INUYASHA AND KOOOUGA ARE LOOKIN’ FOR YOU!! I THINK THERE OUT BACK!!! WHOOOOOOOH!!” Mirkou shouted to her from the breakfast nook where he was surrounded by a horde of drunken girls, one of whom being Sango, who was currently in Mirokus lap and seemed to have her hands in a very inappropriate location. Kagome laughed it off and continued to move through the mass of drunk, sweaty bodies. Kagome could sense each demon within the house and hoped none were in her room, because they would soon regret that decision. Her miko side rarely tolerated demon misbehavior, except maybe Kouga and InuYasha. But that didn’t mean they never felt her wrath. She figured that’s why they asked her to live with them, she was the only girl they knew who could handle all the boys in that house.

She worked her way to the deck out back where she was met with more demons, less girls, but she chalked that up to the slight chill in the air and most of the girls were in little more then bikini’s. She easily found InuYasha and Kouga, sparing in the corner. Both obviously intoxicated. Most of their spectators we’re demons, though a few were Freshman girls, making eyes at one boy or the other.