AN: Thank you all SO so much for the reviews ^_^ I'm glad that I have so many people already into this story and that you guys like my idea. Well here is chapter 4, I hope you all like it!


"Reina," Louie walked up to Kagome while she was talking to the DJ, "We've got some high rollers walking in."

"Oh really?" she grinned, waiting for more information on the people who could possibly make her night.

"Yep," the older man nodded, "a group of five guys. I took them up to the VIP area; they already got 4 bottles and paid cash."

"Ooh," Kagome said, "thank you." She flashed an award winning smile at the man.

"Go check it out," he told her, "I haven't told anyone else because they just got here. I'm going to send Roxy to them as well. You can grab a couple girls on your way up."

Kagome nodded to her manager and started to walk over to where she knew the men would be. She would find some other dancers to join her, but before that she wanted to see just what she was working with, and try to get first choice on which guy she wanted.

When she reached her destination, she saw only two of the four men sitting on the couches. She noticed that Roxy and her friend were already on her way over. She didn't want to just stand there like a fool and vulture, just waiting for the other men to get there. So Kagome hurried up to the man sitting closest to her and turned at the edge of the couch to drop herself gracefully onto his lap.

She put on her best smile as she turned her head to look at his face.

"Hi, I'm Rrr-" her mouth dropped open and then shut tightly.

Kagome froze as she stared at the man in front of her. They had only met a few times many years ago, but she'd never forget him. How could she not notice that it was him earlier? He had silver hair! She looked at his hair from behind as she walked up to him! It should have been a dead giveaway, but she was just so focused on making money that she must not have made the connection. Well, it was too late now.

"Sessho-" her words caught in her throat. This man. This man right here, she hadn't seen in person in years. Now here she was sitting in his lap, wearing lingerie. Her child's father. 'Oh god, he looks so much like Kenichi.' She hadn't seen Sesshomaru's face in such a long time; maybe in promotional fight posters but not in person. Such similar features to that of her child.

Their child.

Kagome wanted to throw up. She felt like she was about to have a full blown panic attack. She was not prepared to see him. Especially here of all places! No, she was not ready for this.

Sesshomaru was unnerved at her sudden tensing and the way she looked like she'd seen a ghost while staring at him.

'She seems so familiar.' He thought to himself. Maybe that was why she was acting so strangely. This was probably his most awkward strip club experience to date. He'd never had a dancer stop midsentence and just freeze up on him.

When he realized that she wasn't going to say anything, and that she seemed frozen in place on his lap, he decided to bring her back to reality.

He cleared his throat and Kagome visibly flinched.

"Have we met?" he asked smoothly.

"Have we…" impossible as it seemed, Kagome's eyes widened even more with his question. He couldn't even remember who she was, and she couldn't forget him if she tried.

Kagome's head dropped. She gave birth to a child that took after him in almost every way. He couldn't even remember if he'd ever met her or not. To him, she was nothing but another notch on his bed, now just another stripper. To her, he was the blueprint for the face she woke up to every morning that called her mom.

She couldn't do it anymore. This place was her work. If there's one thing she could say about working there for so long it was that she could be comfortable with the customers. And right now, she was feeling very uncomfortable.

"I'm sorry," she said, standing up, "you need to go."

"Excuse me?" Sesshomaru narrowed his eyes. Did this woman not know who he was?

She glared at him. Trying to look angry, anything other than looking hurt. "If you don't want to leave, I'll have someone escort you out."

"Really?" He smirked. Sesshomaru stood up, his height about a head taller than Kagome, even with her 7 inch heels. Nobody would be telling him what to do, and if some stripper figured she had the right to kick him out she could get lost. He was an untouchable MMA fighter, these 'bouncers' she had referred to could try to escort him anywhere. He'd make their day, getting their asses beat by a professional.

Before Kagome and Sesshomaru could continue their budding argument, someone walked up behind her and interrupted.

"Ka- Kagome?"

She didn't have to turn around to know who was talking to her. She knew that voice. Instead of moving, Kagome just stood there, in front of Sesshomaru, staring straight forward as if she could see right through him.

She was in shock. She didn't know what to do, say or how to react. This was too much, she couldn't handle it.

She felt Inuyasha's hand touch her shoulder and with that she bolted off.

It didn't matter to her that she was running away like a coward. What pride did she have left anyways? She was arguing with someone who didn't even know who she was. She was caught working at a strip club. High class or not, most people had their own stereotype of the women working there. Oh and not to mention the fact that she was in a fishnet dress with a thong and bikini top on. It couldn't get any worse.

'At least they didn't see me topless on stage.' She thought as she entered the dressing room.

Kagome made a beeline towards her locker. She was going home. She didn't care what time it was, she was done for the night. Once all of her clothes were on, Kagome slammed her locker shut and speed walked all the way through the club until she was at the entrance.

"Kari," she said to the door girl, "I need to be walked out." She was tempted to just leave but it was a safety precaution and she could lose her job for not being escorted to her car.

"Did you ask Louie if you could leave?"

"Whatever," Kagome fumed, "call Louie down here; right now."

Kari did as she was told and within a few of the longest minutes of Kagome's life, Louie walked into the foyer.

"Reina," he frowned taking in her appearance. Gone was her work outfit, it was replaced with a tank, yoga pants, and sandals. "What's going on?"

"I already tipped everyone out earlier." Kagome said. "I need to go home. Now."

"It's an emergency," she added, desperately.

Her manager studied her face for a moment. She had done a complete 360 since not even ten minutes past.

"Kagome!" Inuyasha was walking down the large spiral staircase as he called out to her. "Can you chill out for a second and talk to me?"

"You didn't want to talk to me last time I saw you Inuyasha," she sent a cold glare his way, "I have nothing more to say to you."

Then Kagome turned to her manager, ready to say 'fuck it' and just leave even if it cost her job.

"Alright," he said, watching her get ready to explode, "I'll walk you out."

She nodded and hurried out the door, leaving the older man rushing to follow her.

"Was he giving you problems? I can make him leave."

"It's fine, he didn't do anything!" She yelled back.

"You gonna tell me what all that was about then?" he asked her as she opened her car door.

"Nope!" She got in her car and closed the door. Seconds later she sped out of the parking lot.


The next afternoon.

The phone was ringing at the Higurashi household as Kagome's mother was washing dishes. Rita dried her hands on a towel as she reached over to answer.

"Hello?"

"Hi," nervous voice responded, "is Kagome there?"

"No she isn't…" she answered, a bit confused. It had been a few years since anyone had called asking for her daughter.

"Oh," the man sounded disappointed, "can you tell me when she will be home?"

"I'm sorry," her eyebrows furrowed, "but Kagome hasn't lived here for years. Who is this?"

She heard the man's breath hitch. "It's Inuyasha Taka-."

"Inuyasha." Rita's eyes narrowed. "Don't call this number again. You and your family have done enough to my family."

She ended the conversation by hanging up the phone.

The woman let out a deep breath. Her heart reaching out to her daughter. Kagome had been such a good girl growing up. She got good grades and even had a scholarship to a far away university. Rita was more then let down when Kagome had told her that she was pregnant not even a month before she should have left for college. How could Kagome have been so irresponsible? Rita could barely believe it when Kagome gave her the father's identity. Sesshomaru Takahashi. The older brother of Kagome's high school crush. Rita didn't even ask for the details on how that happened. She didn't want to know.

When she had offered to go with Kagome to tell the man about what he and her daughter had done, the women learned that the Takahashi family had bought another house in a different state to broaden the sons' MMA careers. They still owned the large house but it was just another one of their properties. There was no way to know when they would be there or not.

So then she had to go through the heartbreak of watching her daughter drop out of college before even starting, so that she could be a single mother.

The family struggled at first. Kagome worked at the family flower shop during the day. Unfortunately, they weren't making enough money for ends to meet. So Kagome took a second job as a waitress at a diner. Rita did not know when or how, but eventually Kagome became a stripper. She covered it up by lying; saying that she was at the diner when she was not.

To this day, Rita wouldn't be able to explain her feelings when she discovered Kagome's secret life. She narrowed it down to a mix between disgust, disappointment, betrayal, and anger. What Kagome had been doing was unacceptable. So she gave the girl an ultimatum. As long as Kagome was living in her mother's home, she was not allowed to dance. She needed to quit immediately.

Her plan had backfired on her though. That was the last day Mrs. Higurashi saw her daughter and grandson.


Inuyasha stared at his phone as the brief conversation he had with Kagome's mom replayed in his head over and over again. He was sitting in the living room of his parents' home.

"What did my family do?" he asked out loud to himself.

Did he really hurt Kagome's feelings that bad? He knew that she had a crush on him, and so he was naturally upset when Sesshomaru slept with her. 'Was she still mad at me? For being mad at her?'

The sound of the patio door opening brought him out of his thoughts. It was Sesshomaru. His feeling of jealousy and anger came back. He hadn't thought about what Sesshomaru did with Kagome for years.

"Hey asshole." He called out to his brother.

Sesshomaru narrowed his eyes. "Watch who you're talking to."

"I need your help." Inuyasha stood up as a plan formed in his head.

Sesshomaru rolled his eyes. "And what makes you think I'd do anything for you?" Typical Inuyasha, insult someone and then ask them for help.

"Because," Inuyasha pointed his thumb to his chest, "you owe me."

"I owe you?"

"Yeah. So we need to go." Inuyasha turned to leave the room.

"I'm not going anywhere."

Inuyasha realized that even though this was all probably Sesshomaru's fault, he wasn't going to help him unless he asked nicely. He didn't want to do it, he didn't want to say it, but he had to. There was something about the way Kagome reacted when she saw them. He'd never seen someone look at him that way. He needed to know what she was doing in a strip club. Sure he was there too, but it's a completely different thing to have a guy's night and to be a stripper. Kagome was such a good girl; she shouldn't have been in a place like that. He just had to get to the bottom of it. Something was just nagging at him to figure out why.

He took a deep breath before pursing his lips together.

"Please?"

"Really?" Sesshomaru smirked. "Is it that important?"

Inuyasha bit his lip from making the smart retort that was on the tip of his tongue.

"I was going to do some lifting." Sesshomaru sighed. "I suppose I could put it off for a little bit."

Inuyasha still fought himself, not liking being nice to his brother.

"Alright," the elder said, "let's go."

Inuyasha nodded his head and the brothers silently made their way into his car.

"So are you going to tell me where we are going?" Sesshomaru asked while staring out the window, looking bored.

"Back to The Jewel," he bit out.

Sesshomaru frowned. "Why are we going to a strip club in the middle of the day?"

"Do you remember that girl who was acting all crazy?"

Sesshomaru almost laughed at the memory of the woman's bizarre antics. "Trust me, I'd never forget her."

"Do you remember her from before last night?"

"Should I?"

"Yeah," Inuyasha's fingers squeezed the steering wheel, "she's the girl you fucked at my graduation party. Kagome? She was supposed to be my friend."

The car was silent besides the rock music on low.

Inuyasha continued. "Well I need to figure out how to get a hold of her."

"Okay," Sesshomaru said, uninterested, "I still don't see my part in all of this."

Inuyasha growled. "Because it's your fault we aren't friends anymore!"

Sesshomaru rolled his eyes. Seriously, Inuyasha was the only person who had the nerve to talk to him like that. He was half tempted to find out what was so important about the girl, but he couldn't have cared less.

The brothers made it to the strip club and Sesshomaru followed Inuyasha, wondering what his plan was.

As they walked inside the door girl looked up from her phone to greet them.

"Hello," she smiled, before her mouth dropped open when she recognized who was standing in front of her. "Oh my god, I know you!" She pointed to Sesshomaru. "You're Sesshomaru Takahashi, from TV."

Sesshomaru smirked. "That's me."

"I've seen a couple of your fights." The girl would have been drooling if she could have looked any more infatuated. She tilted her head and batted her lashes. "You're so great."

"Thank you." He flashed a sexy smile.

Inuyasha rolled his eyes. Well, at least his plan was working. He couldn't wait to become well known so that he could do this type of thing on his own.

"Listen," the younger man asked with his nicest tone of voice, "do you know Kagome, who works here?"

The girl was snapped out of her trance and turned her head to the man speaking to her.

"Kagome?"

"Black hair, blue eyes, about this tall." He held his hand up to where he remembered her height to be. "She was working last night. She's really nice," he added, hoping that was still true and that it would help.

"Ohh." The girls eyes lit up, "Reina?"

'Fuck,' Inuyasha thought, he didn't know her stage name.

Sesshomaru spoke up. "It did start with an R." He never was given her whole name since she stopped talking after the first syllable.

"Well," the girl turned to him with a smile, "that is the only girl with blue eyes whose name starts with an R."

Inuyasha made an appreciative face towards his brother. He was glad he asked him to come.

"Great." Inuyasha said. "Do you happen to know how I can contact her?"

"Oh," she frowned, "I'm sorry, I can't do that. It's against policy, I could lose my job."

Sesshomaru, being the awesome big brother that he was decided that if he was going to help his younger brother, this was the time.

"Listen," he stepped up to the counter, "it's important that we have her information. What's your name?"

"It's Kari."

"Kari," he flashed his smile, "that's a lovely name."

She blushed. "Thank you."

"Anyways, Kari," he let her name roll off his tongue, seductively, "what do I need to do for you to tell my brother what he wants to know."

He looked right into her eyes, as if he could hypnotize her. He could see the wheels turning in her head before she blushed again.

"Well," she said, giggling, "I do have her phone number."

He nodded, slowly. "It would mean so much to me if we could have it."

"Okay," Kari bit her bottom lip, trying to hide her grin. She was under his spell. "I'll give you her number."

He smirked.

"But it wouldn't be fair for me to give you a number and get nothing in return."

"I agree," his eyes smoldered, "maybe we could trade. Give my brother her number, and I'll give you mine."

Her smile widened. "Deal!" Kari picked her phone off of the counter and searched for the right number. "Here it is." She handed the device to Sesshomaru. He made sure to let his fingers run along her hand as he took the phone from her.

He showed the screen to Inuyasha, who typed the number into his own phone.

Once he was done, Sesshomaru added himself into her contact list. "Thank you." He said handing the phone back to her.

"No," she blushed, "thank you."

"I'll be busy for the rest of the day," he added, "but you'll call me tomorrow, right?"

She nodded, eagerly.

"Great." He said.

"Thanks, Kari." Inuyasha told her.

The brothers walked out of the club and hurried into the car.

Inuyasha glanced at the cell in his hand before looking at his older brother.

"Thanks man." He said honestly.

"No problem." Sesshomaru smirked. "It was entertaining."

"So," Inuyasha's lip turned upwards, "you didn't actually give her your number, did you?"

"Of course not." Sesshomaru looked out of the window to view the scenery they passed. "I gave her yours."


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