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Summary: Kagome has finally gotten a Computer in her room. Something odd happens and she finds herself and Inuyasha literally immersed in the gaming world! What's a gamer to do? Play the games out of course!

A/N: Ack, haven't updated in ages. Got a bit lazy for writing but was finally prompted by a friend to continue. So Tadaa! Chapter 5 for my loverly pal! 

Black and White Demons attack!– Chapter 5

Saying that Inuyasha was not a happy hanyou is exactly like saying that Miroku sometimes gropes Sango's assets – it's an understatement.

"Come on you idiot cow! I just want to milk you!" Inuyasha growled as he flexed his claws threateningly. His yellow eyes were lit aflame with frustration and almost seem to glow. Inuyasha carefully crept towards the cow, but just as he was bending down, it began to chew on his hair. "Argh!" Inuyasha exclaimed, pulling his hair out of the cow's reach. "You stupid thing! Wait till I make steak out of you!" The evil thing simply scoffed at him before turning to face the other direction, flicking its tail in nonchalance.

The hanyou scowled and cursed before tossing the Milker to the ground angrily. He stomped to the fence and hopped on it, sulking as the demon refused to acknowledge his existence. It was so aggravating! Milking the cow was the last thing to do on the chores list and yet it wasn't cooperating with him!

That was exactly how Kagome found him an hour later, perched on the wooden barrier pouting while sending the easy-going bovine very dirty looks. Kagome sighed and placed her hands on her hips while her right foot tapped the dirt, making a nice even tempo.

"Okay, what went wrong now?" She said with a roll of her eyes.

Inuyasha seemed startled at her appearance; mind too wrought with images of beef stew and almost fell off the fence. Thankfully for him, he abruptly gained his balance and composure before turning his head to the side, pointedly ignoring her and her question.

Glancing at the milker on the ground, the disgruntled hanyou and the ignorant cow, the young girl managed to put two and two together. With a shake of her head, she walked up to him, shoved the packet of food into his hands and picked up the Milker he tossed onto the grass.

Slowly, she approached the cow as quietly as her feet could carry her. She made soothing sounds before placing her hand gently under its snout. The cow sniffed delicately at the human appendage and licked it. Turning triumphant eyes onto the sulking teen, she grinned at him before bending over to milk the 'demon'.

Inuyasha muttered a soft 'keh' under his breath while he pried open his container of food. Kagome placed the bottle of milk heavily onto the fence after which she lifted her own body to sit on it right beside Inuyasha.

"And that's how its done!" She finished in a smug tone.

"Evil things just listen to eviler things." Inuyasha mumbled unhappily as he inhaled the spaghetti. Unfortunately for him, though Kagome was human, her senses were unusually sharp.

"What did you say???" She screeched at him. Inuyasha winced at the high pitch of it and tried scrambling away from her to no avail. The petite girl lunged at him and pulled his soft doggy ears, twisting them as far as she dared to.

"Ow ow ow ow ow! Kagome Let go! Ow!" Inuyasha exclaimed, empty container falling to the ground as he tried to pull away from her hands.

"Not till you take it back!" She growled menacingly.

Inuyasha scoffed and folded his arms only to wince even more as her grip tightened.

"No you stu- Ow Ow ow! Okay fine! I take it back!" he grimaced as she finally removed her hands.

"Don't think that you can just get away with those kind of comments just because I can't make you 'sit' any more!" Kagome said warningly, referring to a time when a simple word could make him plummet face first into the soil. Instead, she made grabbing motions with her hands threateningly.

"Okay I get the picture! What I don't get is how you can mix with that evil thing!"

"Inuyasha, don't be a baby! That's just a cow!"

"Look at it! That thing is muttering under its breath! Must be some kind of spell…"

Kagome levelled him with a deadpan look.

"Inuyasha, I think normally, people would refer to that as 'chewing cud'."

"Feh!"

The farm was filled with silence and both were too stubborn to break it. Finally, Kagome relented. "So we're done here right?" she said with a sigh, mentally cursing bull-headed half-demons.

Inuyasha nodded his head and unfolded his arms, happy that he had 'won' this round. "Lets go home then." He picked up the bottle of milk carefully and made his way to Bob, the owner of the farm to tell him that he had finished his chores. Kagome followed silently behind, empty container and lid in hand.

"Here." Inuyasha said gruffly as he placed the huge bottle of milk unceremoniously onto the dirt. "Hey man!" Bob said cheerfully as he handed the young half-demon his money. "Thanks for a job well done." The hanyou just shifted uncomfortably on the spot. "Thanks Sir, for giving Inuyasha here a job." Kagome smiled prettily.

"Just call me Bob, Miss! I don't think I'm that old yet!" Bob guffawed and the laughter shook his large frame. "Anyway, this young man here is a great worker. I have no qualms on him coming back to work again." He replied with a kind smile directed at the fidgeting teen, amber eyes shadowed and body tense. "Please come back anytime, my doors are always open." Bob placed his hand briefly on his shoulder.

Inuyasha nodded stiffly before shrugging the hand off and walking home at a hurried pace. "Thanks again, Bob." Kagome smilingly bowed before running off to keep up with him.

As soon as they were a fair distance from Bob's house, Inuyasha slowed down to a manageable walk. Kagome panted slightly to catch her breath as she looked questioningly at him.

"Inuyasha… Whats wrong?" she asked quietly, ready to back off if he didn't want to talk about it. She felt that he was acting a bit odd towards Bob just moments ago.

He grunted but other than that, didn't answer her. Kagome's eyes softened in realization.

"Its weird isn't it?" She said, continuing in the same quiet voice. His eyes shifted to glance at her from the corner of his eyes. "But, it's different here. People here don't see that you're a hanyou. To them, you're just Inuyasha. They think that you're just you, nothing more, nothing less." She said as she stared at her hands.

Just like I do.

The words settled between them, unspoken but still heard from the deep recesses of their soul. He didn't reply, but the smile that curled the edges of his mouth slightly upwards was a good enough answer for her.

The silence that followed her words was comfortable, and they made their way back to the house. They were exhausted, but it was the good kind of exhaustion. The fatigue that spoke of a day of good work weighed down upon them and all both of them wanted to do was lay on their beds and have a good night's sleep.

Neither expected to see the timid silhouette of a girl hovering around their doorstep. Inuyasha stepped forward protectively but to his chagrin, Kagome just brushed past him.

"Gina? What are you doing here?" she asked, her voice filled with surprise but with a tinge of happiness.

"Well…" Gina said nervously, eyeing the glaring hanyou with a tinge of fear. "Inuyasha! Stop that! Shes my friend don't scare her off!"

"Whatever, bitch!" Inuyasha grimaced as he loitered around the area, annoyed at Kagome's brush off but still wanting to hear what the conversation was about.

Kagome grinned at her new friend while gesturing to Inuyasha. "Ignore him, he's always like that." She ignored Inuyasha's affronted snort. "So, what did you come here for?"

Gina smiled tentatively, but with Kagome's coaxing she began to speak. "Well… I wanted to ask you for a favour. If it's not too much to ask that is…." she stammered out.

"Well, if it's within my means, I would try to help out." Kagome nodded, encouraging her to continue.

"I've always wanted to be a designer you see." Gina said with a blush, staring down at her feet docilely. "And I think I'm pretty good at sewing…" Kagome wasn't sure what this was leading to, but she nodded anyway.

The silver-haired girl rummaged into her pocket before bringing out a poster. She handed it to Kagome, urging the girl to read it.

Kagome blinked as she did.

"A designing contest?" she could see that Inuyasha's ears had perked up at her words even with his back facing them. He was pretending to cut grass but it wasn't really very convincing, as he had been cutting the same patch for the past 10 minutes.

Gina gave an affirmative nod. "Yes, apparently, there's a contest in the city to design the Goddess's dress for the harvest festival. I've always wanted to join it but never really had the guts to, and perhaps this might be a way to save the town, after all, they can't destroy the town if the design wins…"

"Oh… I support you wholeheartedly! But what has his got to do with me? I'm warning you that I'm not very good at sewing…" Kagome said with a sheepish laugh.

Gina shook her head. "I can sew pretty well on my own, and I have Katie helping me with that already. What I need is a model. And I thought that you would be the perfect candidate." She finished with a shy grin.

"Me? A model?" Kagome said with her mouth hanging open, she was utterly flabbergasted.

"Well, I think that your pretty, and you have a really good figure too."

Kagome was honestly and truly shocked. Never in her 16 years of life had anyone actually said she was pretty. Sure, she had Hojo coming after her, but that didn't really verbalise anything about her being physically pleasing. Small warmth seemed to bubble up from within her and unconsciously she turned towards Inuyasha to see his reaction to Gina's words.

"Whats a model?" Inuyasha asked, his head cocked to the side. Kagome kept on giving him these sparkly, anticipatory looks and it was making him feel nervous. Like she was expecting him to say something, so he did.

"Kagome would have to stand still as I take her measurements, and she would wear the finished product on the stage. Everyone would judge her with those clothes on and…"

Suddenly, she was cut off when Inuyasha shouted, "No bloody, fucking way!"

Kagome's spirits plummeted, but it was soon replaced with anger.

"And why ever not?" She demanded furiously.

"We have a mission to complete! We have no time for you to prance upon some stupid stage for everyone to see!" he glared back at her, daring her to challenge his words.

"Well! I'm sure that it wouldn't take long! We could do them both at the same time!" Her blue eyes crackled with her anger.

Kagome never told anyone, but ever since she was young, it had been her secret wish to model on stage, but never dared to because she had stage fright. Now that she had been given the opportunity, she was definitely not giving it up!

"Did you think that you're actually good enough to win?" he regretted those desperate words the minute they came out of his mouth, but he was too prideful to take them back.

Kagome went silent, her head down as her bangs covered her eyes. Her body trembled with the force of her emotions. Suddenly, she raised her head; her eyes shimmering with unshed tears.

"I know that to you I'm probably not pretty enough. Yes! No one can live up to your expectations; no one can be as beautiful as Kikyo. Isn't that right?" She said softly, her voice cracking when she said the name of her seemingly perfect incarnation, Inuyasha's love.

"Agh! What is wrong with you? This has nothing to do with Kikyo. When I say no, it means NO!" Bringing Kikyo into the argument only made Inuyasha more defensive, and when that happened, he just got more bull-headed.

"Is it so wrong to want to feel pretty, even if just an illusion?" She snapped out the words before swivelling around to face Gina, who had stayed silent throughout the whole exchange.

"Gina, I'll be your model." Kagome said calmly, but her face betrayed her emotions. Anger, frustration, but above them all, the overwhelming hurt.

"O- kay… Please come to the Clove Villa tomorrow." Gina said quickly and ran off with a quick 'bye' to escape the tension.

Kagome swung open the door to their house, turning her head slightly, she looked at Inuyasha. His eyes were a blazing gold and his body still taut with emotions.

"Don't you dare come in." She gritted out, emotionally pained. She walked through the doorway and slammed the door shut behind her.

Inuyasha stared momentarily dumbfounded at the locked wooden door. When it finally hit him that he was locked out for the night, he scowled heavily before leaping up the nearest tree to settle down for the night, or for however long Kagome held on to her anger.

"Feh, Idiot wenches and their stupid self important contests!"

TBC

A/N: Er okies… The tension builds? Heh heh… I realize that the whole things kind of mood swingy. One moment its some happy happy thing, and the next its all doom and gloom. Ah well. Please tell me what you think of it, and I'll alter anything with constructive criticism to the following chapters.

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