Jackpot
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He glanced up at the quiet knock on his door, surprised he didn't hear or smell her. 'That must be the nervus fairy now,' he thought to himself. She knocked tentatively again. "Come in already!" He barked. Immediately as she came in Kagome launched into an apology.
"I'msorryIdidn'trealizeyouwerebusyyourassistantsecutarypersoncametobringmeupandsaidIshouldjustcomeinbutIcancomebackifyour'rebusy.. I'm sorry."
Patiently Inu waited until she'd run out of breath. It gave him a chance to see what a meal and a good nights' sleep had done for her. She looked a little less fragile, incredibly...nice, he decided, in black skinny jeans, a white t, flats, and an oversized, long black cardigan. No less nervous than before. He frowned at the realization.
"Sit."
She sat and tugged uncomfortably with the sleeves of her cardigan.
Clearing her throat nervously she whispered: "Maybe this is a..there w-was an m-mistake..?"
The chair dwarfed her and made him think of Yōsei's again, residing in Mt.Hōrai... Her tentative words floated to him, breaking him from his impromptu reverie. "What?"
"About m-me, the money. I realized..." Her words trailed off as her eyes became very wet and huge. Inu rubbed the back of his head uncomfortably and passed her his handkerchief. Kagome took a deep breath and rubbed her eyes with the cloth. "I realized that things like this don't just happen to people like me," she more or less mumbled with her eyes downcast.
"Oi! Listen here kid," Inu's sharp voice causing Kagome to look up from her pity party. "They..." His initial sharp reprimand of her hopelessness dying on his tongue. Instead, he leaned his hip against his desk and rubbed his chin thoughtfully.
"Listen, kid, you're 19 right?"
A bit of the pre-Sess-him-Kagome came rushing through her. She rolled her eyes and said "Actually I'm twenty-three. I'll be 24 in December." She looked down for a moment, surprised at a piece of her old personality resurfacing in her again. She thought Sess.. he had broken and erased the old Kagome...Then she noticed her clothes and cursed herself for forgetting her manners. "T-thank you for the c-clothes," her cheeks began to grow warm to her embarrassment.
Kagome ordered herself not to think of the underwear, but the color of her face begged to differ otherwise. "It w-was v-very kk-kind of you."
Completely oblivious to her internal meltdown and embarrassment, Inu nodded absently. "Everything fit alright?"
Kagome's color deepened. "H-hai!" She squeaked out. The bra she was wearing was a lovely emerald color with edgings of lace and precisely her size. She didn't want to speculate how he could've been so..accurate. "Perfectly," she whispered much to her chagrin.
Inu nodded again, silently congratulating himself on a job well done. There was a dusting of pale freckles over her pert little nose, he noted, like cinnamon. Her blue eyes had a bit of spark to them and she smelled of lavender... "Where are you from?"
She fidgeted a little before answering truthfully. "A little town, Sakura Stoops, in New York."
'A small town in the Big Apple?'...Inu frowned trying to picture it. The best he could come up with is
"What did you do in Sakura Stoops, New York?"
"I'm-I w-was an animal c-cruelty investigator and a part t-time Librarian."
'My guess was close enough', Inu thought. "An animal investigater...huh. Why'd you leave?"
"I ran away," she blurted out without thinking. His face was so friendly and he was looking at her like he was genuinely interested in what she had to say..his relaxed disposition had lulled her into blabbing on herself.
Inu pushed away from the desk, then sat on the arm of the chair beside hers so that their faces were close, their eyes leveled. He spoke gently, her disposition reminding him of cornered puppy. "What kind of trouble are you in Higurashi?"
Her eyes widened fearfully.
