Kagome Higurashi was a nerd. As much as people tried to defend her, she was a nerd. Unlike her cousin Kikyou, she didn't have guys falling over her, and she wasn't a slut. She was just the nerdy kissing-cousin.
InuYasha was a jock. Plain and simple. He was the star basketball player, kendo fighter, and baseball player. Over summer, he even took up Lifeguard Duty at his beach, which was known for the jocks to do.
Despite him dating Kikyou, InuYasha had never met Kagome, who Kikyou had to see every day for priestess duties. They both had "ancient miko powers" as their grandfather put it, and were training to be miko.
Then one summer, the two collided. Literally.
"Kagome!" Rin yelled, running onto the property and finding her best friend in a dead-stare against Kikyou. "Come on, we're going to the beach!"
Not giving up, Kagome tried to say she was busy. But then Kikyou dropped her gaze first and looked at Rin.
"May I join you?" she asked.
Rin Takara was a spaz. That was what her friends called her, and that was what she called herself. At the age of seventeen, she still acted like she was eight, and at times even looked younger.
Today, she was spazzing about the chance to see Sesshomaru Taisho as the life-guard duties at the tower. So, Rin shrugged and started hopping up and down around her friend. "Hurry or we'll miss him walking to the tower!"
"Rin, I have to study!" Kagome complained as her friend started to drag her towards the house. "Maybe you can bug Sango!"
Sango Taijiya was their jock best friend. The only reason the three became friends was because Sango lived next door to Kagome and their younger brothers were best friends. Both of whom were punk-rockers.
But without listening to Kagome, Rin grabbed a red bikini for Kagome and made her put it on. Then she found a bright red towel and flip-flops. Oddly, Kagome's favorite color was blue, but all of her clothes and accessories were red.
After a few minutes, Kagome came out in a red sting bikini halter-top and bottoms, with a cinnabar bracelet. Her nails were ruby red with spicy red sparkles, having been done with Rin and Sango just the day before to celebrate the month away from school. On her red sparkling toes, she also wore matching red flip-flops and a red anklet on her right foot.
"You know, if you weren't such a nerd you could be the hottest thing at school?" Rin asked as she inspected her friend. Then, she noticed a small silver blob on the corner of her breast. "What's that?"
Written in silver kanji, Kagome showed that the breast said "Demon Property," the company that made the suit.
"So, why did you let Kikyou come?" Kagome asked as they walked down the stairs, Rin in her white sarong tied completely over an equally white string bikini and Kagome with a red sarong just over her bottom. While one was pure red, Rin was pure white, which was her favorite color as well as Sesshomaru's.
"Because she'd bug us until we let her come. Anyways, we better hurry. Ayame and Sango are waiting for us," Rin replied, tugging her towards a Mazda RX-7 that Rin's parents bought her for her seventeenth birthday for not being there...again. They had gotten her a special license even so that she could ride it, all thanks to money.
Takara Inc. was one of Japan's most successful businesses. Sadly for Rin, that meant her parents weren't around much. Or ever, really. Which was fine for the four friends--Rin, Kagome, Ayame and Sango had plenty of fun together.
Ayame Ookami was their best friend, despite Rin and Kagome's parents not liking her. She was a jock of a girl, as well as a wolf-demon and daughter to the Takara's rivals. Still, the girl was fun and they made quick friends with her, while she lived next door to Kiyou.
Suddenly Kagome got a text on her iPhone from Kikyou, saying she didn't want to go to the beach with them anymore. Shrugging, Kagome put the phone away and got in the car.
The Higurashi were a funny family. Kagome's father was a brilliant areospace scientist, who owned a billion-dollar company in the field, working with the Americans and the Russian both, as well as other countries in space, and in the air. Because of the worldly associations, Kagome could speak several languages fluently. He also ran a chain of clubs.
Her mother was remarried to a dog-demon, who happened to be the owner and designer of Demon Property. Masahiko Kazuki was a bright man with a good personality that neither Kagome or her brother Souta had problems calling dad.
Only their grandfather had problems with Masahiko, saying that a demon would wreck them because demons were evil and...blah blah blah. Kagome tended to buzz the geezer out when he started insulting demons. He didn't really do much. He did, however, own a very successful and tasty chain of restaurants.
And her mother, Asuka, was an intelligent woman with a company of her own. In fact, it was a partnered company with the Takara and Ookami comapnies, as well as had another company with the Taijiya that floated well enough, though the Taijiya happened to have other companies as well.
Indeed, the Higurshi family was strange, considering Kagome and Souta were the only ones that stood to inherit all three parents' fortunes as well as their grandfather's, and just one was more than enough. Though Kagome tried very hard to study and do well at aerospace so she could be of help to her father's partner, the owner of another company in a different field than all her other parents.
Yasha Taisho, who had two sons that names always escaped Kagome.
InuYasha growled. When would his brother get here and take over already? Then he spotted his brother in his sports car. Awesome! Except, Sesshomaru didn't seem to be getting out of his car. Why was he being so lazy? InuYasha had some friends and a party on the beach he had to get to!
He stepped down from the Tower and started to walk over to his brother, yelling at him for being late.
At the same time, he bumped into a girl who fell to the ground. Helping her up, he was shocked to see her. It was like Kikyou, only prettier. While Kikyou had a very angular face, this girl's was soft and friendly. And she wore red!
While he and Kikyou had broken up almost two years ago, he still thought of her as his first love. That was, until she tried to purify him and cheated on him with another half-demon. That one stung.
Kagome looked up and caught sight of a beautiful silver-haired demon. His eyes were a perfect golden amber, and his ears were so cute! Almost like her stepfather's black ones, and she wanted to rub these even more.
"Sorry about that," InuYasha apologized, holding out a hand to help her up. he noticed the kanji on her breast and smirked. She could very well be.
"No, that was entirely my fault. I didn't pay attention," she replied, blushing. She played with her fingers, making InuYasha notice even more of his favorite color adorned the girl.
Now he was suspicious of foul-play. Maybe that was on purpose, and she was part of his fanclub. It wouldn't be a first.
Finally feeling capable of really apologizing, Kagome looked up and put out a hand to shake, smiling embarrassedly. "I'm Kagome."
"InuYasha," he told her, shaking hands. Something sparked between them in the touch, and neither seemed to let go. Staring in her eyes, InuYasha decided he'd pity her if she was a fan-girl. A good screw wasn't so bad.
"InuYasha, why isn't anyone at the Tower?" a deep voice asked, making Rin gasp. There was Sesshomaru, right there! He looked towards Kagome and Rin, and gave a very small grin. "Rin. I would've expected you here earlier. InuYasha, you can put her hand down now."
Letting go like the other was on fire, Kagome and InuYasha blushed and looked away. Kagome had never seen someone like him, or been so moved by a guy. She turned to Rin, still fighting off her blush.
"We should go see Sango and Ayame now." She turned to Sesshomaru. "Nice to see you, Sess! Sorry, but we can't talk!" Turning again to InuYasha she blushed as she started to leave. "Sorry again about that."
InuYasha just watched her walk off to meet two other girls already on the beach. He knew them--one of them was going out with his friend Kouga and the other was always being groped by his best friend Miroku. they were some of the richest girls in Japan. But who were the other two? The ones that knew his and his brother's favorite colors?
As he turned to Sesshomaru, he saw his brother's eyes followed the girl in white. She had longish brown hair, and a cute face. Her eyes were cinamon-hazel, and seemed playful enough. InuYasha was shocked he even saw her face. Her friend--Kagome--was so gorgeous to him.
"Yo! Sess, who were they and how do you know them?" InuYasha asked.
"The prettier one's Rin Takara," Sesshomaru told him, pointing to the lesser beauty of the two in InuYasha's mind. But wait--he liked a girl? "Her parents are business people that are close to Higurashi-san's ex-wife," he told him.
"You like a girl?" InuYasha asked, shocked. "Hold on, you like THAT girl? She goes to school with me--everyone calls her Spaz. If you even make a move on her, you can go to jail. She's like, seventeen or something. She's a junior, I think. You like Rin Takara?"
Sesshomaru sighed. No one knew he liked Rin, or that sometimes he even dreamed about her. Why did his half-brother have to know? "Possibly. Don't you have friends to see? It seems the monk is already visiting Rin's friend."
"Shit!" InuYasha yelled, running towards Kouga and Miroku. If they dared touch Kagome, they'd die. Wait, why was he protective of a girl he just met?
"Hey!" Kouga greeted, hugging everyone. Miroku and he had been waiting for InuYasha, but got so fed up they went to find him. What they found were the four best friends that money brought together. "Ayame!" he cooed, giving her a kiss and plopping down next to her.
Kouga was also a wolf-demon, whose father was Masahiko's partner with Demon Property and his mother was the cover-model. He and Kagome came to grow up with each other, and came to see each other like siblings, as did Miroku and Kagome. They could talk about anything with each other and be comfortable with each other doing and wearing anything.
Most of the time. Sometimes Kouga would kick in to Overprotective Brother Mode, but Kagome didn't really mind. He, Miroku and Souta were the only "family" that was ever really around. And then of course, her sisters.
But Ayame, Sango, and Rin shouldn't really count. They were more like an extension of her body, another part to her.
"Kouga, go suck each other's lungs out elsewhere," Kagome told them, rolling her eyes with a smile when he started to leave with Ayame still stuck to his lips.
"The lovely Kagome," Miroku Houshi greeted, smiling.
His father was the author by the alias of Wind Tunnel. He wrote about Feudal Japan and sometimes erotica. He was a great guy though, and had been friends with both of Kagome's fathers for years. He grew to see Kagome as a sister, and even humored her when she needed a gay best friend. He loved her like a sister, if not a daughter, as he'd always helped her grow up.
"And Ravishing Rin. And of course the Succulent Sango. Will you--"
"No!" she replied, flipping him off.
Dressed head to toe in a purple bikini, purple shades, a purple bracelet, and a purple anklet, Sango too wore all of her crush's color. Miroku was obsessed with purple and Sango. With purple nails and violet contacts for the day, Kagome was surprised Sango and Miroku never dated. The were mad for each other!
"One day you'll say yes," Miroku swore, laying down between Sango and Kagome, purple towel to one side and red to the other. Too bad Ayame and her blue-ness had disappeared. It was always fun to look like they planned the meld of colors.
"So, how's college?" Kagome asked, relaxing next to Miroku and closing her eyes. He never tried with her. They were so close, he knew better. But nonetheless, she heard a giant smack from Miroku's side. "Shouldn't have tried. Asking Sango out would be easier. It'd save your manhood and dignity."
InuYasha jumped at the sight. There was the pervert, right between two girls. One being the one he met. So, he slapped him, only to hear Kagome speak to Miroku as if they were friends.
"I'll remember that one, Kagome," he muttered, rubbing his face as Sango laughed. For once, he did nothing. "Toudai is fine, but it'd be better with you there."
"Next year," she promised. "I'm graduating this year. I have one last year to get higher grades than Kikyou. Let's hope I can."
InuYasha froze. She knew Kikyou? Maybe she was a fan-girl!
"Nah. You've got it hands-down. You may be kissing cousins, but while your kissing the books, she's kissing some co--" Miroku started.
"Sango isn't the only one that'll castrate you," Kagome warned. "Don't say that about my family."
"But it's true. Loosen up, Kags. You hate her too and you're defending her?" Miroku complained.
So, the girl was related to Kikyou. No wonder why they looked so alike! InuYasha finally spoke up. "Monk, where'd you put my stuff? I have to go see my dad about something. What does, arranged proposals mean?" he asked.
Kagome jerked up. There was that demon-god--InuYasha. What was he doing here? How did he know Miroku? Then she remembered something she was supposed to do before Rin grabbed her. Her dad had called her for a meeting.
Whenever Takehiko Higurashi said jump, you'd better. He was a force that Kagome admired for its destructive properties. He truly was a "soldier prince."
Jumping up, Kagome whipped off a pair of red sunglasses and retied her sarong around her legs. Then she started to think as she stuffed her stuff into a red Demon Property beach bag.
Rin and Miroku watched their friend as she sped through packing up. Sango scrunched up her nose as she looked at the time on her cell phone. "Kags, you just got here. Why are you leaving already? You've been here half and hour."
"Dad called a meeting. It starts in ten minutes. He'll never take me seriously when I work for him if I'm late. Already I'm really pushing the clock to get there on time. I have to go!" she replied, rushing into her flip-flops and kissing everyone's cheek. "Rin, Sango, Miro. Tell Kouga and Aya I said bye!" she told them, rushing off.
"What was that?" InuYasha asked as he watched her start running with a red bag under her arm and a red iPhone attached to her ear. "Who was that?"
"Nerdy Kagome strikes again," Rin sighed, shaking her head. A motion that doesn't go unnoticed by a certain youkai lifeguard. "Takehiko ruined yet another day at the beach."
"Takehiko?" InuYasha asked.
"Her dad. Are you sure it wasn't Masahiko?" Sango said, returning glasses over her eyes. "Demon Property might need a meeting too."
"Kouga didn't move. He'd need to go to a Demon Property meeting too. Besides, Kags is trying to fill Takehiko's shoes, not the Correct Prince's. I'd love to see her in charge of DP when she's older," Rin answered.
"Where do you think the meeting is?" Miroku asked. "He can pick weird places."
Rin shrugged. "Can't be that weird at five. Probably some restaurant. Who wants to go see Sadao-jiichan later? I could go for some maki."
Now she felt like an idiot. After leaving the beach, she called her father about the meeting and found out it was in four hours. Nine at one of his clubs. Forever.
Now she couldn't go back and embarrass herself after running off like that. And they'd get a huge laugh out of that.
Instead, she picked out an outfit for the club. A pair of gray shorts with red pin-strips and pearls etched in the sides on the bottom. A matching mini blazer-vest, and a lacy, red camisole top underneath it.
Then she started to get ready and checked her emails, made a few calls to her mother's associates on Asuka's behalf, and even got some studying done for the placement tests she'd take again this year.
Finally, enough time passed for her to leave. She climbed into a blue Mitsubishi 2008 Eclipse Spyder her parents all bought her for her seventeenth birthday. It wasn't their only gift, but Kagome liked it the most because they all thought of it for her.
Finally, she reached the club and parked around back. Going in, she found her father and Yasha Taisho already there. And next to him were...
InuYasha changed into a red wife-beater and a nice red-silk dress-shirt, putting on black jeans that his mother would deem acceptable for business if she were alive still. Sesshomaru knocked on his door and together they went to Takehiko's club, Forever.
Finding Takehiko and his father there, they sat and ordered drinks.
"When's Higurashi-chan arriving?" Sesshomaru asked politely.
InuYasha had to snort. Him being polite to a late wench? Today was a day of wonders.
Suddenly he heard a girl's voice. Takehiko smiled. "Five minutes early. Something's up with her."
The hanyou looked up to see that girl--Kagome!
"Sorry, Otousan. I got caught up helping Okaasan with business. I lost track of the time. Gomenasai, Taisho-dono." She looked up at the "dono" and gasped. His company was Sesshomaru and that boy she bumped into. InuYasha!
"It's fine, Kagome-chan," Yasha replied, smiling. "You were early still. Now, let's get to business. First order, you look very nice tonight. How are your mother and Masahiko?"
"Thank you. They're doing fine," Kagome replied, sitting.
Was she trying to make his blood rush--she was wearing red again! InuYasha could see in Silver on the hem of her cropped vest the kanji for Demon Property. If she really kept it up, she would be.
"Now, I'm sure you three are wondering why you're here. We have an arranged proposal to go over," Takehiko started, looking from Kagome to InuYasha.
Kagome's eyes bulged out as InuYasha scrunched his brow. What did that even mean?
Why would he do that? "Does Okaasan and Otokooya-kun know about this? What if they have plans too?" Kagome asked, crossing her arms over her chest and looking mad. "This isn't fair...which one?"
"Oi, Wench. What does arranged proposal even mean?" InuYasha asked, making her madder.
"That one. Sorry, Kagome-chan. But Sess is...dating someone. We already checked with your mother...and your stepfather," Yasha replied, sighing at InuYasha's crudeness. Like his son, Yasha had dog-ears, pure white and adorably adorable.
"Wench, what does that mean? What's going on?" InuYasha complained, looking at Kagome's face. She looked like she just sat on a bomb.
"It means, you and I are getting married," Kagome replied, looking at InuYasha.
"Well, shit" was all he could say before hell broke loose.
