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Inuyasha had never considered himself a desperate man. He wasn’t particularly needy in the attention department and, quite frankly, relationships are more of a mess than they’re worth. He had been single for a little over year since he and Kikyo had broken up and he really wasn’t looking for anything new. Hell, he hadn’t even had a hookup in six months.
College had a way of kicking your ass like that.
Now, Inuyasha and his best friend and roommate, Miroku Houshi, were at a party celebrating half of the semester being over. Everyone had taken their mid-terms and spring break was coming up. So, Miroku and their other roommate, Hachi, planned a party, inviting their friends, their friends friends, friends of those friends …
Jesus fucking christ, when did so many goddamn people get inside his house?
Inuyasha groaned as he stepped on yet another empty red solo cup that had been dumped into the floor. Honestly, what was the point of making rules for whenever they hosted parties if no one followed them? And - once again - how did so many damn people get inside his house? Inuyasha didn’t even like this many people. He blamed Miroku for being the social butterfly that he was.
“Hey, buddy!” a familiar voice called over the pounding music as an arm was wrapped around his shoulders. Speak of the devil - it was Miroku.
“Hey, man,” Inuyasha returned, not bothering to move the arm from around him.
“Oh, she’s around here, somewhere, ya know.” Miroku drunkly giggled then hiccuped. “You know what you should get?”
“No, silly!” Another hiccup. “Tinder!”
“Are you fucking insane? Why the hell would I do that?” the half-demon exclaimed, finally pulling away from Miroku’s one-armed hug.
“So you can meet chicks, man! Don’t ya wanna meet hot babes?”
“Miroku, everyone knows chicks on Tinder just wanna lick your toes or start planning your marriage by the next mornin’. I ain’t down for that shit, man,” Inuyasha protested while pouring himself another beer. How many deep was he now?
“Nah, you just gotta weed out the weirdos! Who knows, maybe you can met yer new soulmate!”
Inuyasha wrinkled his nose at the thought. Yeah, as if. That opportunity had passed already.
“Okay, maybe not that,” Miroku quickly backtracked, waving his hands like a bird. “But what if ya found a nice gal to hookup with? You need to relieve some tension - I am not looking forward to the day I walk into the room while ya beat -“
“Alright, alright, I get it!”
“Come on, Inuyasha, just download it for funsies. Pleeeaassseee?” The drunken human pleaded as he folded his hands into a fist and rested them under his chin.
Inuyasha knew as stubborn as Miroku was sober, he was five times as stubborn drunk. He also knew that he would have to hear about this for the rest of the night unless he relented.
The half-demon sighed. “Fine, let’s just do the damn thing. What’s it called again?”
Birds. Since when were birds so loud?
Inuyasha sat up in bed, grateful for the blinds he had put over his windows. His sheets were mostly kicked off of him, mostly a byproduct of his naturally hot body temperature and being drunk.
Turning to rifle through his bedside drawer, the hungover male grunted in displeasure when he couldn’t find what he was looking for. Dammit. He knew he should have gone to get more ibuprofen before the party started. Inuyasha threw the remaining covers off his body, leaving him clad in his black boxer briefs and nothing else. Hopefully he would be more successful in finding his sweatpants than he was ibuprofen.
After he found his pants, Inuyasha headed downstairs to make some coffee. Luckily it was Saturday and he didn’t have anywhere else to be for the rest of the day, but coffee would help breathe life back into his body again.
As the caffeinated beverage trickled into the pot, memories of last night came back into his mind the same way. He remembered downloading that stupid dating app Tinder. Eventually, it had turned into a drinking game between himself, Miroku, Sango, Hachi, and a few other people - every time Inuyasha got a match, they would take a shot. Which meant he was swiping on about any female that popped up.
Apparently, he had gotten a lot of matches. And - holy fuck - a lot of messages, too.
Curiosity overtook him, and Inuyasha began to scroll through the messages. A lot of them were the standard, “What’s up, sexy?” Or whatever other boring, unoriginal shit he received, which he clearly did not respond to. One of the matches - a demon woman named Yura - send him multiple messages about how she wanted to play with his silver hair in very … X-rated situations. Another wanted to do shit with his feet. Just reading over those messages sent a shiver down Inuyasha’s spine.
The sound of footsteps padding into the kitchen made a pair of golden eyes lift from phone. Sango immediately strode over to the coffeepot to pour herself a cup.
“Surprised you’re up already,” Inuyasha commented. He saw how much his best friend’s girlfriend had drank last night. Woman must have had a hell of a liver to sustain all that.
“I have to go to work a little while,” Sango explained, coming to sit across the table from him. “Figured I may as well get up so I can start to become human again. Miroku’s still passed out, though.”
Inuyasha snorted. “I told him to slow down last night. He has the tolerance of a teenage girl.”
She laughed. “He’ll be fine after he gets some sleep. I’d rather talk about you, though. Did you ever message her back?”
“You’re gonna have to be more specific. I have at least fifteen different matches on this horrific app.”
“Yeah, I know, you complained about that for the rest of the night. But there was only one girl you messaged back. Her name was Kagome, I think. The only other thing you talked about besides how stupid Tinder is, was how pretty you thought she was.”
As Sango talked, Inuyasha went back into his phone to scroll through the Tinder messages. Buried underneath the mass of new and unanswered messages in his inbox was a conversation with the name “Kagome Higurashi” above it. It seemed the last message that was sent was from him.
For some reason, the half-demon was … nervous to open up the messages. He had clicked on her profile to refresh his hungover brain just as to who he was talking to and this Kagome woman wasn’t just pretty - she was smoking hot. She had long, voluminous dark hair that framed her small, delicate face. Her large, blue eyes stared back at him happily as she smiled with friends in the photo. The girl in the photo was wildly out of his league, but he had matched with her so … that meant something, right?
He really hoped he didn’t make a complete asshole out of himself and send her a dick pic. He would genuinely shit himself and die twice.
Deciding to bite the bullet, he clicked on the conversation. He was immediately relieved - the last text he sent was an innocent good night text in response to her’s. Albeit, it had way too many heart eye emojis, and he called her “beautiful”, but overall he wasn’t shrinking in his chair yet.
“It was almost cute how you kept doting over her,” Sango commented. “You know, since you usually have the emotional capacity of a dead squirrel.”
“That’s oddly specific,” Inuyasha said flatly.
“But,” she continued, “it seemed to be going really well between you two. You even told her the story of how you got initiated into your business frat freshman year.”
Inuyasha’s head snapped up from his phone. “I did what?”
“You know, the story of how you stripped-“
No no no, fuck no. The disturbed half-demon locked his phone and threw it across the table, as if the device had burned him. He didn’t talk about that night for a reason, goddammit!
Inuyasha groaned, slamming his head down on the table. Which really didn’t help his hangover.
It was a goddamn tragedy. The messages they had sent obviously showed that they clicked, and she was super funny and clever, but that story made him look like a grade A Dumbass. There was nothing sexy about it at all. And that’s why no one knew about it except for those who had seen it … with the exception of Sango because Miroku told her absolutely everything.
His freshman year, his older brother, Sesshomaru, was the president of the business fraternity Inuyasha applied to join, as it was a Taisho family tradition. While hazing was officially against school policy, that didn’t stop it from happening on the downlow. Inuyasha knew going in that Sesshomaru was going to give him hell - as his older brother was Satan incarnate - but what Inuyasha had to do was worse than hell: he had to sneak into the business school building and take one of the diplomas out of the office of the most hated professor in the business department … while naked.
Yes, he returned the diploma in the morning because he wasn’t going down for breaking and entering.
Yes, Sesshomaru possessed pictures of Inuyasha running around naked because, like he said, he is Satan incarnate.
“It’s okay, Inuyasha!” Sango tried comforting him. “It’s a funny story, I’m sure she enjoyed it!”
She probably thinks I’m some sexual pervert weirdo who enjoys public nudity, Inuyasha mentally berated himself.
A beep from his phone alerted that he had a message. Lifting his head, the grumpy male leaned forward to retrieve his phone. Clicking the lock button to bring his screen to life, he read the alert: Message from Kagome Higurashi.
“She messaged me,” Inuyasha croaked.
“Open it, open it!” Sango encouraged excitedly.
Expecting the inevitable let down, he reluctantly let the touch pad read his fingerprint. He was expecting the typical, “It was cool talking to you! See you around”, message that usually meant, “You’re super weird but I don’t want to be rude so never speak to me again”.
This wasn’t his first rodeo.
However, that’s not what he received. Far from it, actually.
Good morning!, the message opened. Cool, normal opening, nothing to be alarmed about.
I hope this isn’t too forward, as I know we just started talking last night, but I wanted to tell you that I think you’re incredibly cute and I really enjoyed talking to you. What do you say we grab dinner tonight and we have a conversation in which you’re sober? I would love to hear more stories involving your brother!
“Well? What’s it say?” Sango pried, practically jumping up and down in her seat.
“She … wants to go on a date tonight,” Inuyasha said distractedly. She actually wanted a date with him?
“Really? She asked you out? I like this girl already,” Sango smiled.
As Sango kept rambling about how excited she was for him and how she was going to pick him out an outfit to wear (seriously, was he five?), Inuyasha simply smiled to himself as he replied to the message: