hello again!! I finally decided to continue with this fic, so it's no longer a one-shot.

I got (at least) another two chapters planed, so stay tuned!

I loved writing this, and I hope some other people likes it as much as I do.

and remember, english isn't my firt lenguage, so any mistake you see, that's the cause. (that and my crapy laptop, but let's don't go into that... I've got a lot to complain and it'd take ages.)

and thanks a lot to all the wonderful people who reviewed this!! You make my day, I promise.

Engagement: when it is over

By: Cyan Moon

Chapter 2: the party

"Inuyasha!" Kagome scanned the area for signs of her dog-eared fiancé. Fiancé. Her heart still fluttered at the title Inuyasha had given himself. not that she minded of course.

"whatcha want wench?" came his voice from the roof of Kaede's hut.

Kagome sighed. some things just wouldn't change, would they?

She turned around to face him. or look up to him, was more like it. "please come down, I need to talk to you. And stop calling me wench!"

"Why?" he asked stubbornly

"Why?, because it's despective and rude, and-"

"no, what I meant was, why would I go down?"

"I've alreadey told you, I gotta talk to you."

"mmm... I don't think so. You see, I like it up here, it's rather nice. Why don't you come up here?" he said while he stood up. He loved making her angry, especially when her eyebrow started to twitch, and she became flushed with anger. Just like it was happening at that moment. he had always thought she looked amazingly cute when she got angry.

This fascination of his had cost him quite a lot back-aches. They were still worth it, though.

"Come down." she stated quietly, giving him a menacing stare.

"No" he smirked. he was driving her to the edge, he knew it; but he couldn't help it.

"This is your last warning Inuyasha, I'll say the S-word if you don't come down in three... two-"

"You can't do that" he broke her off, "I'd make a hole into Kaede's hut. and you don't wanna make her go cold in the winter, do you?" the smirk didn't wipe off his face for a second.

He was right. And she hated him for that. 'Oh, he will pay, no matter what.' She thought darkly. Just wait till I got my hands on you...

He chuckled when her eyebrow twitched even more.

"Don't you dare laughing at me Inuyasha!" just a bit more... come on! Hopefully, he wouldn't realize what was she doing until it was too late.

He leaned even further in the edge of the roof, laughing harder. The way she had wrinkled her nose... he couldn't decide if it was hilarious or cute as hell.

both sounded good...

She suddenly smirked when she saw he had done exactly what she thought he would have, a dark glint entering her eyes.

He frowned. "What are you smirking at?" he was starting to get suspicious.

She grinned.

"Sit"

Inuyasha, who had been already half way out the roof; fell hard into the ground, face first, into Kaede's yard.

Kagome cringed a little when she saw how hard he had fallen, but she didn't put to much thought in it.

He groaned from the ground, and lifted himself up when the spell wore off, still with a dazed look in his eyes. He shook his head and anger entered his eyes. he turned around, ready to start yelling at Kagome.

"WHAT THE-" he was stopped dead on his tracks when he saw her smiling sweetly at him.

"Can we talk now?" she said with honey on her voice.

He just glared at her.

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"You almost broke my back just to tell me you're gonna go to your time?!" Inuyasha complained loudely.

"Your back is perfectly fine, you know that; and besides you usually make a bigger racket when I try to go home, this was nothing compared to you."

"I do not!" he said angrily

"Do too!"

"Do not!"

"Do too!"

"Yes, you can go"

"Do- what?" she asked confused.

"I said, yes, you can go take your testos, or whatever" wasn't he amazing? He was proud of himself. Maybe being nice wasn't so bad after all...

her eyes opened wide. "you're letting me go? just like that?"

"are you deaf bitch? yes, I said you could go."

Was he being... nice? 'whoa, the world is going crazy!'. She knew he could be nice, she didn't doubt it; but Inuyasha hardly ever was in a good mood when she ever said she needed to go home.

Her eyes narrowed with suspicion. "What's the catch?"

"Catch?, what catch? There is no catch!" he was tripping with the words, not even sure of what he was saying.

"I've learnt, Inuyasha, that with you, there's always a catch."

"I'm insulted!" he even managed to sound offended. The arguing was starting again, and his back still felt sore, - even though he would never admit it - se he used his last card. "Can't a guy do somethin' nice for his mate-to-be?!"

Mate-to-be... she melted with his words, her knees weak and grinning like an idiot.

She sat him again when he started to laugh at her face.

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A while later, they were walking toward the well, his hand still rubbing his back.

She grunted when she saw him. "You're such a drama-queen, I'm sure it didn't hurt that much."

"oh, yes" he said with sarcasm in his voice "I'm definetlly over reacting; after all, who would complain about getting crashed into the floor, and almost breaking their noses constantly? just nutters like me, I guess..."

She rolled her eyes.

"So," he continued "what are we doing in your time?"

She turned around quickly "we?, wait, you're coming with me?"

"Well, of course wench, did you really think I'd let you go by yourself so damn easily?" he said, looking as it was the most natural thing in the world.

She sighed, knowing it was futile to argue. Once her hanyou had his mind on something, nothing would make him change his mind.

She groaned when she realized what would this mean.

a week before, she had gone to her time, to get supplies and ramen, - that last being the only reason Inuyasha had let her go in the first place - and she couldn't help but telling her mother about her recent engagement. she had been on a hurry, so her mother had made her promise she would tell her every detail the next time she came home.

And now, Kagome was dreading the moment her mother laid her eyes on her brand new son-in-law.

On second thought... it might be a good punishment for laughing at her.

they reached the well, and before she knew it, Inuyasha had grabbed her bridal style, and was already jumping down the well.

'now this is something I could get used to...' she thought absently while she snuggled in Inuyasha's haori.

she was still too dazed to notice what was she doing when they landed on the other side of the well, and while she climbed the staircase, she didn't even remember that Inuyasha could very much be peeking up her skirt in that moment.

Which he obviously was doing.

Kagome opened the door of the well house, and was greeted by a great amount of noise coming from her house. 'Is Souta in a heavy metal phase or what?'

She shrugged it off and resumed walking towards her house, Inuyasha walking quietly beside her. He got distracted by Buyo, who came to greet him happily. he had always been perplexed about that cat, liking him so much as he did, especially when you counted the fact that he never had treats for him, he only mistreated him, and of course the ever present rivalry of cats and dogs.

he had started to believe the cat was sort of a masochist. Or maybe he was just stupid.

she smiled when she saw him merrily making the cat 'dance'. She felt a little sorry for Buyo, but it might be a good exercise for him. The heavens knew the cat needed it. She slid the door open.

"CONGRATU-"

She closed the door shut quickly, after hearing Yuka, Ayumi and Eri, and their really enthusiastic yell. There was loud music, and a lot of balloons were thrown across the floor. They were throwing a party! And that could only mean one thing: her mother hadn't been able to hold her tongue.

She started to turn around to drag Inuyasha into the well, but apparently the scream had made him curious, - after all, curiosity killed the cat. er, dog - and her efforts to drag him away were rather futile.

"Hey, what was that?"

"er, nothing. Why don't we go look for more shards? Wouldn't you like that?" if there was anything that could make him change his mind were the shards. Or so she thought anyway.

He just looked at her like she had suddenly grown another head.

Ok, so maybe shards wouldn't make the trick.

"c'mon, I wanna see what's inside." suddenly, she was the one being dragged.

"Ok, ok." she sighed "just please cover your ears, they still haven't seen them, and I don't think you'd like them to be grabbed all night, would you?"

"Hell no!" he said as she handed him an old cap she had forgotten in her massive backpack. "You're the only one allowed to touch them."

A sly smile touched her lips. She would make him remember that.

She opened the door, and the same yell was heard again.

"CONGRATULATIONS!!"

In less than a second, both of them were breathless, due to the horde of girls who threw themselves to them. They all were squealing in joy, and apparently, too excited to be able to talk in a civilized way.

Kagome soon joined the squealing, even if she wasn't really sure of the reason of the happiness. She did have a hunch though.

As for Inuyasha, he was soon regretting not listening to Kagome before, and cursed himself for his curiosity and stubbornness. - Not that he would admit that either, of course.

Some time later, the girls had calmed enough to speak, and they told Kagome - since Inuyasha had fled a long time ago - that they indeed knew of her engagement. Thus the party.

"I can't believe you're engaged Kagome-chan!" said Yuka excitedly.

"I know! We knew you liked Inuyasha-kun a lot, but we never thought you'd marry him!" said Eri while she served a glass of sake to kagome.

Kagome's mother had gone out of town, but not before she had told the girls the date of Kagome's return - although she had said she'd be out of the hospital on that day. she wasn't grandpa's daughter for nothing, after all. - so they had planned a little party, full with the illegal drinks, of course; for what would be of a party without alcohol?

"Yeah, well, it was pretty sudden, I guess."

"Totally! And were's the groom? I just saw him for a minute!"

"Inuyasha!" when he didn't answer she went to the kitchen, where she found him eyeing hungrily the ramen-filled cupboard. She just shook her head. "C'mon Inuyasha, everyone wants to see you."

"Do I have to?"

"Yes, after all, you were the one who wanted to stay."

He sighed. "Alright then."

She smiled. "That's my boy."

"I am not a dog!" he said as he glared at her.

She grabbed a spoon and threw it into the hall. "Fetch!"

She laughed her head off when he growled faintly and ran to fetch the spoon, in his all fours, and with his tongue dangling from his mouth.

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A few hours later, Kagome was ready to murder Eri in a really, really painful way.

After Inuyasha had stopped his little fetch game - and had yelled at Kagome for it - he had entered the living room, where the girls where still talking.

Immediately, the three of them had been interrogating him, with the excuse that they had to get to know her friends fiancé. Inuyasha had resisted at first, but after a few drinks, he started to open up to them, and now anyone could shut him up.

Eri had continued to serve him drinks, and Inuyasha seemed to like tequila a lot, so now he was as drunk as he could get.

Kagome had thought his demon side would have kept him from getting drunk, but apparently, she had been dead wrong.

Of course, it didn't help the fact that Eri kept on serving him sake - the tequila had run out for a while now -. Kagome cringed when Inuyasha fell hard from the table he had been standing on, where Yuka had been trying to teach him to dance the Macarena.

he just started to laugh uncontrollably.

She shook her head, and started to drag him away from the party - and the alcohol -. To prove he was really drunk, he didn't even resist that much.

She dragged him up to her room, hoping that he would just go to sleep and wouldn't puke on her floor.

She put him in her bed, - whit a lot of effort - and saw that his cap had slip off, and his wonderful cute ears were on the open. She remembered what he had said about her being the only one with access to his ears, and decided to take advantage of it.

She sat on the bed and started to stroke them gently, loving the feel of soft fur on her fingers. Her ministrations brought him back to the world of the living - sorta - and his eyes opened lazily.

She was concentrated on his ears, so she wasn't prepared to when his arms suddenly encircled her waist and pulled her to him. She gasped loudly, when she found her face mere inches of his.

"Hi" he said with a warm smile on his face.

"Uh, hi" she could feel his breath on her face, and it was making her really nervous. He reeked of sake.

"Have I ever told you," he said cocking his head to the side and inhaling deeply, as to drink her scent. "Just how beautiful I think you are?

She turned deep red when his hand began caressing her face, her eyes wide. you could tell he was drunk by the way he was talking, but still, this had been the most romantic thing Inuyasha had ever told her; so she was willing to let the drunkenness slip for this time.

She jerked away a little, and he sat up, to be eye level with her, one of his arms still snaked in her waist.

"not-t that I remember..." her voice was shaky, and he smirked at that.

"Maybe I should just show you then."

Her brain didn't have time to process the information when his lips came down into hers in a passionate kiss.

She remained frozen for a second, before winning against her morals of taking advantage of a drunken man. 'Morals be damned!' she thought absently as she kissed him back fervently, and put his arms around his neck.

She could have died of happiness right then. And so could have Inuyasha, the alcohol heightening his senses, the kiss making him forget about anything that wasn't her. Or her lips, in any case.

unfortunately for Kagome, - who had been already thinking of letting her guests forgotten - the kiss ended suddenly when Inuyasha passed out in her arms, leaving her hot, and aching for more. 'Damn'

She took her time to regain her breath. It had been nothing like she had thought her first kiss would be.

He had been drunk, he had had bad breath, and it hadn't been sweet nor tender or romantic.

Still, she couldn't help but feel elated.

Or to grin like a complete idiot, anyway.

She laid him down on her pillow, tenderly stroking his ears one more time. She got out of the room, closed the door quietly; and took a big breath.

"ERIIIII!!!!! YOU'RE SOOO DEAD!!!"

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Inuyasha slept in the house that night. Actually he slept straight for a day and a half, and Kagome had to keep rolling him all night long, since he snored like he had never done before.

When he finally woke up, he just screamed he was dying and that at least she could be with him in his final hours. She shut him up whit ramen, - spiked with a lot of aspirin - and as she gave the cup to him she just muttered a quiet "such a drama-queen..."

He refused to talk to her for two hours.

When Mrs. Higurashi finally returned two days later, Kagome still had a big silly grin on her face.