Heart in a Bouquet
Summary: AU Kagome run's a flower shop on the south side of town try to find her way. Sesshomaru is an aristocrat who needed roses for his brother's wedding. Sesshomaru becomes infatuated and Kagome intrigued.
Prologue: A Checkered Dress and a Wilting Rose
"Kagome! I need you to make a delivery!"
That's how it started. Those simple eight words that lead to so much more...
"Is this it?" Kagome looked up at the gates of what appeared to be a gigantic mansion, The Inu-Taishio Manor. Kagome's mouth opened as her eyes looked about the large home. It was huge! So Aristocratic! So…MAGESTIC! And there was Kagome standing in the middle of it all with a delivery card in her hand in a yellow and orange checkered dress that stood out like the sun in the sky.
She smiled. When she was younger she dreamed of places like this instead of the small flower shop her, mom, and Souta ran. She planned on finishing high school and going to college and getting away having her own life in the country in a huge estate. But things didn't go as wished.
Why? Her father died along with enough income to continue school. Granted her mother was educated but didn't have the resources nor money to keep Kagome in school. So here was Kagome at 22 delivering flowers, although the vibrant colors kept her company in her loneliness it was more she wanted.
"Miss!" Kagome was yanked out of her musings from the gate man. "Miss you might ant to knock." He said.
So she did.
"Where is that delivery! Sesshomaru you said you had it under control!" InuYasha was frantic. The day of is wedding and the flowers were missing, he ordered blue roses so that everything would stand out, yet hours from is wedding they weren't here.
Granted (I love that word now!) Sesshomaru hated the idiot of half brother he had but for once he agreed. The day of they should not be late. So he sighed with annoyance letting the expression wash over his usually emotionless face.
The opened catching the brothers' attention.
A girl, dressed in a baseball cap on and in crinkled looking checkered sun-dress. Her face lifted in what seemed to slow motion. "Kikyo…?" InuYasha whispered. But the voice that spoke wasn't cold and melancholy like Kikyo it was happy and a tune to it.
"Sorry for the late delivery we got lost." 'We?' There was just one girl. She step-sided a boy a young boy no older that six or seven with brown hair and a boa to tie it. After being scene the boy immediately clung to the girl's leg. "Kagome!" the flower delivery girl now identified as Kagome turned around. Her two companions, Miroku and Sango as their name tags said.
"Please excuse our lateness." Miroku said bowing politely Sango joining. "Please show us to the room." Sesshomaru merely nodded and walked further into the mansion the foursome and InuYasha following.
Somewhere in the van which held all of the blue roses in one at a forgotten wilting white rose.
How was it? Continue? Yes! No…?