6Inuyasha stared blankly at his cell phone. He had gotten as far as creating a new message for Kagome Higarashi, but words weren't coming. This was why Inuyasha had chosen science as his major.
It had been a week since Kagome's abrupt exit from Cyberteque, and he hadn't heard from her since. She probably doesn't want me messaging her, he thought. But he still couldn't exit out of the message.
Finally, he managed to type a feeble "Hey". He held his breath and pressed send. No going back now.
It took 3 hours and 27 minutes (not that he was counting) for her to respond. "Hey! How's it going? Sorry about the way I left the other week. I've been really stressed lately."
Inuyasha's heart was drumming in his ears. She asked him a question! "No worries," he typed back. "I was going to get some studying in tonight. Do you want to join me?"
"Wow! That's super sweet of you! Thanks Inuyasha!" She responded immediately.
"Great. I'm room 1411. Swing by around 8. My roommate will be joining us, if that's cool with you."
"The more the merrier!" Kagome texted back.
Inuyasha pumped his fist into the air. He did it! A successful interaction with a human female!
"Yo Kouga," Inuyasha said to his roommate. "You better be in the room tonight. I'm having a girl over to study for the class we're all in. I didn't want her to think I'm creepy for inviting her into my room so I told her you were joining."
Inuyasha's roommate snarled. "Do I get any say in this matter, dog breath?"
"Not unless you want a black eye," he responded.
Kouga sighed. "It's not like I had anything to do tonight anyway."
"Who're you texting?" Miroku waggled his eyebrows at Kagome over his coffee.
"The Cheater," she replied.
Sango, Miroku, and Kagome had all gathered at their favourite coffee shop close to campus to study. However, the three usually didn't get much studying done. Most of the time the conversation turned to what had happened at a crazy house party over the weekend, who'd gotten caught having sex in the common room, and who'd been dumb enough to make out with Miroku.
"Ah yes! Him! How did your little study date go last week?"
"It was fine," Kagome kept as straight a face as possible. She was too embarrassed to let on to her new friends that she was doing awfully in her classes. There was an unspoken academic competition the students had at her university that she didn't want to be a part of. Mostly because, if it were truly a competition, she'd definitely be losing.
"Do I see a little blush on your face, Kagome?" Sango teased lightly.
"You don't," she stated. "And it wasn't a date."
"Methinks the lady doth protest too much!" Miroku said melodramatically. Both he and Sango fell into laughter.
"Look you guys. That's enough teasing. There's nothing more to our relationship. I'm just going up to his room tonight to study with him and -"
"His ROOM?" Miroku practically squealed. "You never mentioned his ROOM!"
"Drop it!" Kagome cried, turning even darker red than she was earlier. "There's nothing going on! I swear! His roommate is joining us and everything!"
"Oh he has a roommate? Is it going to be a threesome then?" Miroku continued.
"Seriously, enough! I swear! I'll make you regret it!"
"I mean, I know Inuyasha has some killer biceps. But imagine what his roommate looks like? You think they go to the gym together!"
"Stop it or else!"
"Or what?" Miroku taunted.
"Or I'll bring up the fact that I saw you and Sango making out the other week!"
Both of them froze, as if they'd been caught in the act itself.
Kagome took a sip of her iced tea. "Exactly."