Disclaimer: No I don't own Inuyasha!!!
For the person who asked, yes you are in fact reading too much into the story Kagome's writing. I just needed Inuyasha to say something about it and I had been thinking earlier about vampire hunters and how vampires are becoming cliche and decided I wanted a werewolf hunter! Really nothing more to it than that.
BTW: Yes i realize that there are now two Shippos. That is a complete accident, sorry!
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"This. Is. The best day. Of my entire life!" Kagome said unable to stop grining like a fool.
Inuyasha chuckled and put an arm around her shoulder.
"Midnight Hour written by Kagome Higurashi!" Inuyasha said smiling.
They had just left Shippo's business studio and Kagome had a fresh copy of their contract in her hand just as Inuyasha had one in his.
Just as Shippo could produce any movie he wanted, no director ever said no to Inuyasha. It was career suicide. He was the male lead in a movie that he was actually looking forward to.
"A month ago I could have never imagined this!" Kagome said holding up the papers to the light. She lowered them again and turned that mega-watt smile on him. "And it's all thanks to you."
Inuyasha smirked.
Kagome laughed to herself. It was a smile she knew well for her grandfather and brother had worn it before.
It was a pleased male smile that said you were stroking his ego and he was damn proud of himself because he knew he did good.
"Yeah, well forget it." Inuyasha said not releasing her. "Tomorrows our big date, are you ready?"
"I'm kind of nervous. I've never been to a charity event before." Kagome admitted happily.
"Well, expect to go to a lot more in the future." Inuyasha said.
"Why?" Kagome asked her eyes back on her pretty contract.
"Because I get invited to the damn things all the time and I need a date."
Kagome blinked in confusion.
"Wait a minute." She looked at him accusingly. "Inuyasha?"
"Yes?" He asked innocently. Too innocently. His eyes were dancing she noted.
"Are you...dating me?"
Inuyasha smiled wide. "Of course. I can call you my girl and everything."
"Inuyasha?"
"Ye-es?"
"You're arm is around me."
"I know." He had that smirk again.
"You're arm is around me!" Kagome tensed and waited for panic and anxiety and the need to get away from his to well up inside her....
...but it never came.
The day was still just as bright and her insides still whooped in happiness.
"I'm not afraid of you." She said in wonder stopping in the middle of the side-walk. "I'm not afraid of you."
Inuyasha's smirk got bigger. "Good to know."
She looked at him in wonder and laughed in disbelief. "I'm not afraid of you!" she threw her arms around him and was pleased to feel only the joy of being in his arms.
"So does this mean I can hold you more often now?" Inuyasha asked trailing a finger across her cheek.
"More often..." Kagome gasped as she ran through her memories of the last month and a half. She hadn't noticed but Inuyasha was always there. When she was scared, or happy, and even now he was bringing her her greatest accomplishment. All the times he would touch her or just sit or stand close to her and she never even noticed. He had even changed her wardrobe!
"You are so sneaky!" Kagome accused making him laugh. "You think you can just come in here and change everything in my life?" She was actually a little irritated over how well he played her.
"Kagome, I didn't change anything." Inuyasha promised with a smile. "I just showed you what was already there. You're still the same woman you were before, but now every one can see you and how amazing you are."
Kagome was silent. "Oh, Inuyasha, that was so beautiful."
"Yeah that mushy movie was a great idea, huh?" he said making her laugh. He could always make her laugh.
"Dammit!" Miroku cursed.
People said that if a murder wasn't solved in the first 48 hours it would probably never be solved and Miroku was a month and a half over due.
"Two murders in less than two months and we have nothing!" he cursed throwing the file on his desk.
"We have DNA." Shippo said looking at his own copy of the file.
"DNA that is not matched in anycomputer system and whose donner we have no clue of!" Miroku groaned.
"Yeah, the press is eating this up." Shippo said. "One more murder and I just know someone is going to cry 'serial killer'!"
"Don't bring that down on our heads." Miroku begged, rubbing his eyes.
"There is just no one left who has both motive and ability to kill these girls." Shippo said.
"Well, how do I look, Boyou?" Kagome asked turning in a circle for her cat.
He cleaned his paw thoughtlessly and Kagome smiled. "Thanks."
"I think you look great!" Sango said smiling.
Inuyasha had taken her shopping for an appropriate dress and had assured her, dispite her many objections, that price wasn't a problem.
It was a gorgours floor length dress that shimmered and sparkled. The top was dark purple but it gradually faded to a light purple at the bottom. She really had no skills at doing her hair and make-up so she had asked Sango over for help.
She had pulled her hair up in an artfully messy bun on her heat with a jeweled clip setting of the black of her hair. Sango had agreed with Inuyasha in that she didn't need much make-up and had just put on some basics.
"Thanks. I'm really nervous." Kagome admitted tying the strap on high heels she had bought for just this occasion.
"Don't be. You'll be great!" she said slipping a silver and diamond necklace around her neck. "Tip of the day: dresses without sleeves mean you need a necklace."
Kagome nodded and didn't point out that this was the 17th tip of the day she had been given.
"Add a bracelet and...viola!!! You are complete." Sango smiled and turned Kagome to her mirror.
"Wow...I never new...." Kagome gasped looking in awe at her reflection. Her skin glowed and her eyes shimmered, there was no way she was the girl in that mirror.
The phone rang and Sango went to answer it as Kagome moved her head from side to side to watch the shine of her earrings against her face.
"Hey....Yeah, she's ready...." she laughed," Pretty damn good, if I say so myself....All right...She'll meet you there." Sango hung up and turned to Kagome. "Okay Cinderella, your prince charming awaits."
Kagome smiled like a giddy school girl and hugged her newest friend.
She wasn't sure why, but it seemed that a simple change of wardrobe was all it took to change everything. People noticed her now. Three guys had hit on her at work, all of them thinking she was a new girl, before Inuyasha had made it clear just who she belonged to.
Belonged was Inuyasha's word and Kagome had almost taken offense but since no one else started flirting with her, a situation she had no idea how to recognize much less deal with, she forgave him.
Sango, who had noticed Kagome before the change, was the one who became her friend. Kagome had come into work and Sango had taken one look at her, shrugged, then started talking about something else completely different. Kagome had thought it was a nice change and couldn't be more grateful to her.
"Okay, let's go. He's downstairs." Sango said grabbing her purse.
Kagome had invited Sango over when she had taken a look at the dress bag in her closet with the fabulous gown within and realized she had no idea what to do with herself. Sango had been all to happy to help and Kagome was even more grateful to her now.
Sango ran outside first and held open the door of her apartment building and said to Inuyasha, "Ladies and gentleman, may I present the new and improved Kagome Higurashi!"
Kagome walked out with her face red from her blush.
Inuyasha smirked then whistled. "Damn. Look at you."
He walked forward and caught her hands in his and kissed them. "Great job Sango. Kagome you look even more perfect than usual."
Sango beamed at the compliment and Kagome wrapped her arms around Inuyasha.
Inuyasha did something to a tux that should have been illegal. His shoulders were broad without padding and that killer smile he was so famous for made him look like the bad guy in a movie. It sent chills down her spine.
"Well, I'll be going now." Sango said looking at her watch.
"Later." Inuyasha said not taking his eyes off Kagome but Kagome hugged her again.
"Thanks, Sango."
"Anytime." Sango smiled and waved them off as they drove away.
"Sango is a genius." Inuyasha said again appraising her happily.
Kagome smiled again and looked around the great car he was in. She wasn't a car buff so she really had no idea what kind it was but the leather seats, computer with a thousand different touch screen buttons, and gentle purr of his engine were very impressive.
"So, what do you do at a charity ball?" she asked.
Inuyasha shrugged. "We spend a couple hours doing absolutely nothing, another hour or so looking at all the things for sale, then we spend hours trying to out-buy someone else paying up to 5 times what the object is actually worth."
"How fun." Kagome said dully.
Inuyasha chuckled. "Yeah, it sucks. I don't see why I can't just give the charity money and not waste a night of my life being bored out of my mind."
"That's nice." Kagome said looking at a vase.
Inuyasha shrugged.
"You could be more enthusiastic." Kagome said moving on down the isle where the things for sale were located.
"I'm bored." he groaned. "This sucks."
Kagome laughed because he had said that at least ten times tonight. "Well, what about this?" Kagome pointed to a pair of sapphire earrings.
"Shiny." he said dully.
Kagome continued moving them up the isle looking at the pieces of jewelry, art, and what she could only assume were expensive knick-knacks for sale.
Suddenly Inuyasha froze and Kagome looked up. "What is it?"
Then she saw.
Kikyo was on Naraku's arm in a dark red dress looking at a big purple and perfectly circular jewel.
Once she saw them she bit her lip and turned.
"Keh." Inuyasha huffed and looked, more like glared, at the closest item. A frog shaped door-stop made from stone with emerald eyes.
Kikyo, who had the good grace to be ashamed of herself, pulled on Naraku's arm and they continued on their way without looking at anything else.
When Kagome and Inuyasha reached the case they were looking at, Inuyasha very nearly growled.
Kagome looked at the jewel, which glinted and broke rainbows in the light though it was smooth, and turned her head. "It's very pretty." she said but moved Inuyasha on because he didn't look like he wanted to stay any longer.
"Sold! For 300,000 yen!" The auctioneer called as his pretty assistant wit her vacant smile came up and removed the frog door stop from the stage.
"Next up for bids is a gem donated by a local shrine. Said to be very old and magical, The Four Souls Jewel." the auctioneer called as his assistant put the necklace on stage. "We will start the bidding at 100,000."(A/N: It's not exact but in the translation from yen to dollars I heard it was basically just knocking off the last two zeros)
"150,000."
"200,000."
"215,000."
"300,000."
People immediately started, most of them, Kagome noticed, were old men with young girls on their arms staring at the necklace with greed obvious on their faces.
"400,000."
Inuyasha's face crumpled in displeasure as Naraku joined the bidding.
"450,000."
"500,000."
Inuyasha actually snarled, Kagome saw with amazement.
"500,000!" the auctioneer repeated. "Do I hear 550,000?"
"550,000!" Inuyasha called out making Kagome do a double take.
"600,000." Naraku said.
"650,000!"
"700,000."
"800,000!"
"900,000."
"1,000,000!" Inuyasha called making the crowd gasp collectively.
"W...We have 1,000,000 do I hear..."
"1,000,050." Naraku said glaring at Inuyasha.
Inuyasha stood up and called, "1,001,000!"
Naraku stood as well. "1,002,000."
Kagome dropped her face in her hands as the bidding went higher. "Men."
Finally Inuyasha yelled, "2,000,000!" and Naraku had no response.
"We have an astonishing 2,000,000 yen to Mr. Takahashi. Do I hear more?" the auctioneer waited and when no one spoke he said. "Going once. Twice. Sold for 2,000,000 yen!"
The assistant came and took away the necklace as both men sat back down.
"Was that really necessary?" Kagome asked as Inuyasha continued to glare at Naraku.
"Yes. Yes it was." he said looking very satisfied.
Kagome waited and walked around the large place they were in as Inuyasha picked up his item and paid for it.
The even had been held in a community building's empty floor where wedding receptions were normally held. The space was large and very fancy.
Kagome looked around for Inuyasha and decided to go to the bathroom.
There was a hallway off the room that held a staircase that went down into another hallway where the bathroom and storerooms were held.
Halfway down she heard a strange sound.
She stopped and listened.
Scuffling.
She turned around quickly as she heard a loud thump.
"Hello!" she called but the scuffling continued.
She walked over to one of the store room doors and listened.
Another thunk.
Cautiously, she opened the door.
At first she thought she had made a huge mistake because Kikyo was laying on the floor with her hair and make-up messed up with a man on top of her.
But when they both turned to her she saw the mans hand over her mouth with a knife in his other hand and that he was very, very familiar.
The black hooded man.
"Get off her!" Kagome yelled running in and jumping on his back.
He dropped his knife as she pulled him off Kikyo as as soon as Kikyo's was released she huddled into a corner with her eyes and mouth wide in terror.
Kagome gasped as the man slammed her against the wall.
Her head hit the solid wall and her grip loosed just enough for him to escape her and run out of the room.
Kagome dropped to the floor, breathing hard from the adrenaline pumping hard and fast through her viens.
Kikyo started crying and Kagome crawled over to her. "Are you okay?"
Kikyo hiccuped and threw her arms around Kagome's neck and began bawling at the top of her lungs.
"He...He was going to kill me!" she cried
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BTW: Yes i realize that there are now two Shippos. That is a complete accident, sorry!
