Hello again peoples, sorry to leave you with that mini cliff hanger last chapter, lol! Also sorry for this chapter being late, it was supposed to be up Friday or Saturday but I had to baby-sit and go to dinner and just bleh yeah but anyway thanks to the people who reviewed and to those of you who added the story to your alerts and favorites! Now onto Chapter Four of Take Me Away From Here.
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"You must be Kagome…We've been looking for you." said the man on the other side of the door. He was about Inuyasha's height, about 5'10''. His hair was jet black, shiny, and made you want to run your hands through it stopping just above his shoulders.
Kagome also noticed that he had two small gold hoop earrings in his left ear and one in his right. His eyes were such a dark, deep blue they almost looked purple. "My name is Miroku and this is Sango," he said gesturing to the woman next to him. She was absolutely gorgeous, about an inch or two taller than Kagome, roughly 5'7'' or 5'8'', her hair went to the middle of her back and was a pretty dark auburn. Her eyes dark brown and she had a lovely hourglass figure shaped body. "Hey," Kagome quietly said. She didn't know why these two were here. "Oh, excuse my manners. We're here to help you get ready for wherever Inuyasha is taking you today. We would tell you but he didn't give any specifics," Sango said.
Kagome then sighed inwardly; she was both excited but nervous. She was right, he was taking her somewhere. Now all there was left to ask was where? "You guys don't have to do this for me…you don't even know me or who I am really," Kagome said to them, finally opening the door wider so that they could come into the room. "Well that's the thing Miss Kagome, we're friends with Inuyasha, he's a great judge of character, any friend of his is a friend of ours," Miroku said with a smile. Even that simple sentence seemed charming. Kagome could tell, from her experience with men, that this guy had a lot of charisma and was a very smooth talker.
So he was either a real gentlemen, one that's hard to come by. Or he was a player. But either way he was still a charmer and he wasn't half bad looking either. "Oh…um okay. Thank you. Well lets get started then I guess," Kagome said. Miroku, Sango, and she then began talking about what to do first. After Kagome took her shower, Sango and she went through different hairstyles finding one that Kagome liked and Sango showed her how to fix her hair up and gave her some new makeup that was more for occasions like what she was about to experience.
Miroku took Kagome aside and taught her how to ballroom dance and tango, the basics anyway since neither of them knew what type of dancing she would most likely be doing. Kagome proved to be a fast learner in dancing. Kagome then suddenly stopped dancing and a look of worry came over her face, "Uh…Miroku we have a problem." Miroku looking puzzled asked, "What is it?" "If he's taking me dancing then there will be dinner. I don't know which fork is which and things like that," she said biting her lower lip.
Miroku chuckled softly and said, "Oh no problem. Sango and I will teach you." Miroku took Kagome by the hand and they headed to the dining room where Sango set up a plate set along with napkins and silverware. For about half and hour they showed her where each piece of silverware would be, reminded her to not slouch, how to lay the napkin on her lap, and what each knife, spoon, and fork went with if the meal called for it. "Okay, I definitely got the napkin, spoon, and knife things down. It's these damn forks that are confusing me." Kagome said picking up the smallest fork.
Miroku grabbed it and said, think of it like this: The shrimp fork is small right? Shrimp fork is the small fork. Dinner calls for the four pronged fork. And sometimes before four there is the three pronged fork for salad. The salad fork as you can see has three prongs and is set before the dinner fork. Okay?" He said trying to explain. Kagome nodded and smiled even though she knew there was no way that she was going to remember all of that, "Thanks for all your help you guys," she said as she gave them each a hug. Sango smiled back and took the plate and silverware back into the kitchen to put away.
Kagome then looked at Miroku and said, "You're a really nice guy. That's hard to come by you know." Miroku smirked a bit, "A lot of people say that. Sango says so too. I don't see it though." Kagome looked over in the kitchen at Sango and noticed that her left hand had a ring on it. She had had a feeling that these two were together, there was just too much chemistry between them and just the way they interacted with each other was almost a dead give away.
Later that evening, after Miroku and Sango had left, Kagome got out of the shower for the second time that day just to make sure that she was as fresh as she could be. She fixed her hair up the way that Sango had shown her. Kagome walked back into the bedroom to get her dress on and shoes and she heard the bedroom phone ring and hurried over to answer it.
"Never, never answer my phone," It was Inuyasha and he had an amused tone of voice so Kagome knew that he was only kidding with her. "Well then why are you callin' me?" She mused back. "Do you like the dress?" He asked. "Yes, I love it. Also thanks for sending the help. I really liked those two. And by the way where are you taking me?" Kagome asked, she needed to find out. "Well someone has to like them…You're welcome. I am taking you with me to the Elégante masion*. I have an important business meeting there and I am sending a limo for you so I am going to meet you there at six." Inuyasha said almost matter-of-factly. "You aren't picking me up?" Kagome responded in a teasing tone. "It's not a date. It's business." Inuyasha said back.
Kagome could almost see his smirk as he said that. She laughed softly, "See you there." With that she hung up and turned to finish getting herself ready, seeing as she had less than an hour and she heard the phone ring yet again, not even a minute later. Kagome picked up the phone again with a smile already expecting it to be Inuyasha. "I told you to never answer my phone," Inuyasha said with an even more amused tone than before. "Then stop callin' me." Kagome said back and hung up a second time with a smirk.
-About an hour and a half later-
Inuyasha walked into Elégante maison and looked around for Kagome. He saw her sitting at one of the bars looking beautiful. When she turned around and looked at him is when it really hit how elegant and beautiful she looked. Inuyasha almost wanted to laugh, not at her of course, but at himself. For the first time he could almost say he got butterflies in his stomach. The kind a teenager would get on his first date with the most popular girl in school.
Kagome stood up and walked over to him, dusting a small piece of lint off of his suit, "You're late," she said with a small smirk and a raised eyebrow. "You're stunning," Inuyasha said, being the only thing he could say at that moment. Kagome's smirk turned into a full smile at the comment, "You're forgiven." Inuyasha then grabbed her hand and led her to their table where two other men were waiting.
One of them looked a bit like Inuyasha but even more serious and stolid. His hair was pulled back into a tight ponytail that went to about the middle of his back. The other man was a bit elderly looking, somewhere in his sixties or seventies, his hair was white, almost like Inuyasha's and the other man at the table, but he was starting to bald, and Kagome could tell that this guy was human not a demon. Inuyasha pulled Kagome's chair out for her next to the older gentleman and then took his seat between her and the other man.
Inuyasha and the men began talking about the older man's company and professionally having an argument about Inuyasha and his brother, who apparently the man that looked slightly like him, taking it over. At least that was what Kagome got out of it. She also figured out that Inuyasha's brother's name was Sesshomaru and the older gentleman's name was Tim Griffin. Kagome was mostly quiet and noticed that Sesshomaru kept glancing at her every so often.
Inuyasha then looked at the waiter that had come up to their table and ordered something that Kagome couldn't quite make out. He then turned to her and said, "Don't worry you'll love it." The waiter came back about twenty minutes later with what looked like a few pieces of a sort of lightly toasted bread with cucumbers and some sort of spread and olives covering it. Kagome leaned over to Inuyasha and asked, "Where's the salad?" Inuyasha looked back at her leaning in a bit and said back, "The salad comes at the end of the meal" Kagome mouthed a small, 'Oh,' and sat back upright in the chair, remembering not to slouch and she placed the napkin gently in her lap. Mr. Griffin chuckled and said to her, "I don't know about you young lady but I can never remember which fork goes with what."
Kagome gave a small smile back and watched as Mr. Griffin simply picked up one of the pieces of bread and but into it. Kagome followed suit. Soon after the waiters took their plates away they placed a plate of snails in front of each of them. Kagome's eyes widened a bit and looked at Inuyasha. "It's escargot. French for snails. Try it, it's a delicacy and it doesn't taste nearly as bad as you might think." Inuyasha said to her, giving a small reassuring smile before continuing his conversation with Sesshomaru and Tim. Meanwhile Kagome was trying to use the shell cracker on one of the snails that kept slipping and soon shot out of her hand and landed in the hand of a nearby waiter. Inuyasha, Sesshomaru, and Tim Griffin looked between the waiter and Kagome.
She gave a small smile and let out a small nervous and embarrassed laugh and said, "Hah…slippery little suckers." The waiter nodded once and gave a small smile and said, "Happens all the time." Sesshomaru looked back at Tim and said, "Look jut exactly what are you trying to say?" "Leave my company alone," Mr. Griffin said back. "I'm sorry we just can't do that," Inuyasha said before Sesshomaru did. Griffin then stood and said, "Well then you two had just better watch out for your companies. I will eat you alive." Inuyasha looked up at him from his seat and calmly said, "We look forward to it, sir."
Tim Griffin then looked at Kagome and said, "It was a pleasure meeting you, young lady." With that he walked away from the table and disappeared from their sights. Sesshomaru stood a few minutes later and excused himself from dinner. Inuyasha looked at Kagome who was taking a sip of wine, "Did you do all of his for me? All you had to do was get dressed." Inuyasha asked out of curiosity. Kagome licked her lips and said back, "Well I wanted to make you look good…" Inuyasha made a 'hmm' sound and stood holding his hand out to Kagome, "Dance with me?" Kagome took his hand and stood, nodding as she smiled.
Inuyasha led her out to the dance floor pulling her close to him, placing one hand on her lower back and grabbing her other hand in his, interlacing their fingers together. As they danced across the floor, Kagome felt as if she was floating on air. The music slowed and they did the same. Inuyasha moved both of his hands to her hips and Kagome had her arms around his neck. They were gently swaying and looking into each other's eyes and Kagome felt her heart rate quicken and before she knew it she leaned into Inuyasha more, tilted her head up and pressed her lips to his.
And I'll leave it there for now~. I promise that the next chapter will be up by this weekend it's already half done. I hope you guys liked this chapter and I hope that it wasn't too short. Review please 3 and again sorry to keep you guys waiting for this one. I love you all. Until next time~ ^_^
*Fictional Restaurant made for this story. Any likeness to an actual restaurant is completely coincidental. (French for Elegant Mansion. Lol I know lame but w/e. It sounds pretty. =P )