For a week Rei wondered what she would do about the situation. How she despised that Inuyasha she would bury him for this. No one would ruin all of her hard work and her planning. Soon there was a knock at the door.
"Come in." she said.
There stood Kikyou followed by Ayame and Sango. Rei was busy spinning around in her chair and eating a lollipop. She looked like such a little kid right now and it was scary.
"Kikyou sit down how are you?"
"Rei we should talk. I have a problem with something that you have done."
At this Rei stopped spinning dropping her candy in the process. She focused her attention on to Sango and Ayame. She would talk to Kikyou alone without her friends standing there.
"Hey you two stooges get out."
"You can't talk to us like that." Ayame said bitterly.
Sango instead just swallowed her pride and dragged Ayame out into the hall. Kikyou would treat them to lunch later just to make up for Rei's behavior. Rei closed the door behind them and started to look out of the window. It was awhile before she spoke again.
"Kikyou what's the problem?"
"I always write my own lyrics. I wanted to know why you did what you did."
Rei began to walk around the room in circles. Then she pointed to the news article on the wall. Kikyou raised an eyebrow to her. Her behavior was very strange and it was actually starting to scare Kikyou a little. Yet she remained calm and kept her composure.
"This is why Kikyou. We have to keep you on top. Actually it's about time that you put out a new album. Maybe you should take a different approach. Maybe you will gain more fans that way."
Kikyou opened her mouth to say something but could form no words.
"Now why don't you go relax? Why don't you grab some lunch it's my treat."
Kikyou was handed some money and then she left Rei's office. Things were just too strange today. She decided to put it out of her mind for now. As she stepped out into the hallway she saw Inuyasha standing there.
"Inuyasha hello."
"Hey Kikyou I'm off for today and I was wondering if maybe you wanted to do something?"
How could she say no to him especially when he asked so nicely? She glanced over to see Sango and Ayame giving her the thumbs up. Clearly this was all set up by the two of them.
"Alright Inuyasha."
To her surprise he took her hand into his. A slight blush covered her cheeks but it quickly faded away. This had actually felt nice as they walked down the block he still hadn't let her hand go. Her mind had begun to wander soon and she hadn't heard Inuyasha.
"Hey Kikyou did you hear me?"
"No I'm sorry what did you say?"
"I was thinking that we could go grab some food."
She had felt a slight empty spot in her stomach and it was now turning into a full blown hunger pain. So she agreed and he took her to a nice sushi restaurant. They grabbed a table in the back away from all of the people. The last thing that she needed was some fans bothering her.
"Inuyasha thank you I really needed to get away."
""Yeah I figured that's why I took the day off."
She looked up at him. Inuyasha did not have to take the day off just for her. She had to admit it was a very sweet thing to do. No guy had ever done anything like this for her.
"Oh you didn't have to take off a whole day of work just for me."
"It was nothing I hardly work anyway. I mean pouring drinks anyone can do that."
Maybe so she thought to herself. There had to be something else that he had wanted to do though. Being a bartender didn't really seem to be his dream job. Kikyou felt that if there was something else that he wanted to do then he should pursue it.
"Inuyasha don't you have any other dreams? Isn't there something else that you would rather do instead?"
He thought for a moment about what she had asked. He couldn't really think of anything to say. Being a bartender had just come naturally to him. Besides what else was there for him to do?
"Well nah I can't think of anything else."
They left the restaurant hand in hand. She was now becoming used to this. They soon stopped at a newsstand where Kikyou spotted a newspaper. She happened to be on the cover which was talking about her upcoming worldwide tour. It was a tour that she had no idea about.
"I don't understand. Why haven't I been told about this?"
Inuyasha didn't want to say anything but he was starting to get a strange feeling. He was sure that all of this had something to do with Rei. She did seem very strange and obsessed with Kikyou's career. Kikyou started to think all over this over and came to the same conclusion. She would need to go have a chat with Rei. Inuyasha decided to come with her just in case.
"Kikyou I'm telling you that Rei is strange."
"I agree with you completely she has been acting strange lately."
They returned to Rei's office only to see that she was no longer there. It would be awhile before Kikyou would see her again. Rei would always leave to try and find more business deals. Even if she was weird Rei was always very determined and focused; it was the one positive thing about her.
"Kikyou you're way too tense. I know lets go back to Poison it's a good place to relax."
"Alright I could use some more time to relax."
He nodded and led the way back to the club. Inuyasha looked over when he had felt an arm placed around him. Kikyou had placed her arm around his closing the space between them. He didn't know why but this had felt nice to him. This was great just the two of them spending time together.
"Inuyasha I always feel so much better around you. I'm not sure really but I suppose I wanted to thank you."
With his other hand he placed it around her waist. This only brought the young woman closer to him. "Kikyou I enjoy spending my time with you. You don't have to thank me."
