The Romantically Challenged
By: Sabriel B. Parthenopaeus
Summary: Love, easy for some and hard (or harder) for others. When it comes to winning someone's affection it can never be quite that simple or easily understood. For a demon trying to court a human is it next to impossible?
Prologue: The Attraction
Wednesday, December 31st 2008
New Years Eve
10:45 PM
"Ridiculous!"
It was his father and step-mother's annual New Year's Eve gala. Every year the held a different and festive theme for their party, this year it was a masquerade. Throughout the halls and ballroom of his ancestral home were adorned beautifully in black and silver. Everyone that had been invited was dressed to impress in various types of disguises. Out of the corner of his eye, he saw something that caught his attention. It was a human woman, dressed in a simple white strapless lace gown, like him, she wore no mask to hide herself beneath. From afar her gorgeous sapphire eyes sparkled in the light.
"Hn" he brushed off, turning his gaze way, he heard someone call out to the woman of his fancy, "Kagome!" he heard someone call out to her. It was none other than his father. He watched as his father embraced her into a tight hug. He almost wanted to challenge his father for the woman. "To challenged father for a human?" he questioned himself. He wondered what enticed him to the woman, after all, she was only a human and it was unbecoming of him to be beguiled by a mere mortal woman. By affiliation, blood or race it mattered not to him anymore.
"Absolutely astonishing,"he mused, that he could set aside his prejudice so quickly for one woman. To his dismay, it wasn't long before his father took notice of his son's attraction towards the human. With a devious grin, "Sesshomaru!" his father called out to him, the human of his affections at his side. "My son this is Kagome, your brother's sister-in-law. Kagome, this is my eldest son Sesshomaru. Now that you've been finally introduced, have a dance with Kagome," he smiled, departing from them without another word. Kagome looked rather nervous and somewhat embarrasses by the unwanted attention and gazes they were receiving from the other guests, but she held her composer.
He said nothing as he led her into an elegant waltz. Kagome had tried starting a small conversation with him, "I love this song, it's truly beautiful, don't you agree?" she asked him. He said nothing in return; it was not of demon customs to do so while one dances with another. The truth was that he loved the song, but rarely found a suitable dance partner who was admirable as she was. Assuming that he was ignoring her, she said nothing more. When the dance had ended and they began to part from one other.
Kagome smiled, "Thank you for the dance, Sesshomaru."
"You're welcome, Kagome" he nodded. It was there that he had decided that she would be his.
TBC