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Author Note: Please review! Thank you to those of you who did review! Also, big thanks to Bonnafied who was urging me on about my job and guess what? I got it! I just need my work permit and I'll be a working gal who will bring in enough money to go shopping and buy whatever makes me smile! The best part? All my job requires me to do is milkshakes, register, ice cream, and sundaes! : D


A Love Like Blood

Chapter Eight

By: Ashley Shauf


"Shit, shit, shit." I mumbled as I spun around and observed myself in the large mirror. Kagome was on my bed with a tired look, hopeful that this might be the outfit. I sighed and began peeling off the skirt and shirt set. "I'm never going to find an outfit!"

"You've looked gorgeous in everything so far." Kagome pointed out.

"Not really. I look like hell. Maybe I could do something casual, like jeans and a tank top or something? Everything here is just to fancy yet exposing and I feel like I should save them back for something. Besides, I don't want him to think I'm a slut." I said without taking a breath.

"I already told you that Koga isn't going to take you out to eat at McDonalds… he's going to make it really classy." Kagome sighed.

"Actually there is a really classy McDonald's out there. It's like amazing looking, somewhere in the South. I want to say Texas but I really can't be positive." I said, getting off topic. It was a bad habit of mine, especially when I was nervous and rushing.

"What's that?" Kagome asked as she jabbed a finger at a piece of green-teal material that was strewn across my floor but – for the most part – lost underneath layers of other clothes. It was barely peeking out. I shrugged and she stood out and grabbed it, revealing the top.

My jaw dropped when I saw the gorgeous thing. I never even remembered picking it up when we went shopping and, evidently, Kagome didn't either. Without thinking, I spoke up. "That forest green-teal mixture is my exact eye color."

"Put it on!" Kagome urged.

"But what am I going to wear underneath of it?" I frowned.

"A really sexy pair of underwear!" Kagome giggled.

"Wait… this is a dress?" I asked stunned with wide eyes. Kagome nodded, obviously wondering what I possibly thought it could be. I shook my head to clear my thoughts of it being a shirt and slipped it over my head.

It sagged at slit that went to my belly button and exposed the diamond ring that glimmered there, and stopped high on my thighs. I bit my lip as I looked at all my exposed cleavage, and that fact that a red bra looked really stupid with the outfit.

"Good thing we went Victoria Secrets shopping!" Kagome announced as she threw a white bra and thong, both trimmed in silver, at me. "You are going to be the sexiest girl Koga will ever see! You'll have everybody's attention!"

"Unfortunately it won't be in a good way." I mumbled under my breath as I changed my bra and underwear. Kagome also handed me some sexy, high silver heels. Before I knew it there were several woman curling my hair in medium sized ringlets.

Once my hair was almost done a couple girls stopped and Kagome, with another girl, started on my makeup. I felt like some kind of movie star but I guess it was important for me to look amazing for my first real, formal, date with Koga. "Shouldn't I tell Koga I'm about ready so he can start getting ready?"

"No worries Ayame, now don't move your lips." Kagome ordered as she began applying shimmering lip gloss called 'Vanilla Frost' that tasted amazing (I couldn't help but lick my lips and she ended up applying it several times before I stopped). After a few minutes she finally stepped back and said, "I think you're finished…. Damn, you should be a model."

I had people tell me that every day when I had went to school so it really wasn't a big deal that I was hearing this from her. But, as I looked in the mirror, even I was shocked with how stunning I looked. With green-teal eyeliner trimming my eyes, sparkling white eye shadow, peach-beige blush, black inner eye trim, and thickening mascara I was bound to "knock 'em dead".

"I do look good… but I can't do this." I squealed in a nervous voice. If I took too long a step my whole ass was bound to pop out but, of course Kagome would point out that at least I'd have nice matching underwear. "Besides, it's a bit slutty."

"Who cares? Every girl has to slut out every once in a while. There's no doubt about it that slutty clothes make us feel sexier and when we feel sexy we're confident and happy." Kagome argued against me. "And I send a maid to tell Koga you'd meet him downstairs… good luck!"

"Kagome!" I called after her as she giggled and ran out of my room. Everybody else had left, leaving me desperate for an escape. Maybe I should change my clothes or something? I could tell him I wasn't sick or that I fell off the balcony and broke my leg.

"Thinking of skipping out of your date?" Bankotsu raised an eyebrow, leaning against my doorframe with this ridiculous smirk. He was begging for me to spill his blood all over the floor and my knuckles, he really was. "The poor little hooker is afraid."

"You know what Bankotsu? You need to learn to just shut up and leave me alone. If you dare to take one more step towards me I will yell for Koga to come up here and kick your ass for harassing me. I'm sure he wouldn't want some creep in the princess's room."

"I'm sure he'd rather have me in your room rather than you in the woods hanging out with vampires. And, why shouldn't you be able to Ayame? They are you own kind, aren't they?" Bankotsu pushed. Then I snapped and make a dive for him but he caught be and flipped me so that I was between his body and the wall.

"Let me go!" I demanded while Bankotsu smirked down at me. I felt his fingers brush against my leg, sliding up to the hem of the dress. I closed my eyes and swallowed hard, not ready for what was about to happen. Then I screamed like hell, making Bankotsu vanish in the blink of an eye, and causing people to run as fast as they possibly could towards me.

"Are you okay?" Rin asked, since she was the first one in my room. Then she froze as she saw my appearance. "Damn, do you have to be so gorgeous?"

"I… sorry, I was seeing things. I'm sorry; I didn't mean to scare anybody." I apologize as I squeezed my way out the door, ignoring all the gawking eyes that shamelessly devoured my figure and used their imagination to undress me.

"Ayame!" Koga said as I felt strong arms wrap around me. The gesture was a little overwhelming at first but I finally hugged him back. Then he pulled away from me. "Are you okay? There weren't any vampires or anything, was there?"

"Just a really ugly looking bug-thing. It's all good now though, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to worry people; it was just my first reaction. But, now that that's all settled, are you ready to going? I feel like my stomach is going to eat me if I don't have food within the next two hours!"

"Then I won't hold us up by going on about how amazing you look." Koga smiled this sexy grin in my direction and I felt like I was doing to explode with the feeling that coursed through my veins. He was an evil, evil man for doing that to a girl.

I slacked behind him slightly as he turned on his heel. It wasn't because I didn't want to go, Koga just had an exceptionally nice ass. He looked rather incredible in his black dress pants, belt, shoes, and white dress shirt that you could see through slightly. Underneath was tanned skin, only flawed by scars, and delicious muscle. Where was he for my sweet sixteen party?

I loved the feeling I got as he opened the door for me and I sat down in the 1969 SS Camaro that I absolutely adored since the first time I laid my eyes upon it. Koga shut my door and went around to his side to get in (how gentlemanly of him). This was such a good start to a formal date that I didn't want to ruin it by asking "Do you think I'm inferior to you so much that I can't even open my own door?" so I managed to hold in it and stay quiet.

I noticed his eyes shoot down, lustfully, to all the leg I was exposing as his hand reached for the gearshift, his foot pressing down on the clutch. Stupid stick shift made me miss my supped up little 2002 WRX Subaru Impreza – and reminded me that it still needed a headlight fixed and the carbon fiber hood glossed over – and I now really wanted it back.

The ride took only fifteen minutes – and a whole lot of annoying Koga with my song choices, since I plugged my iPod in – before we arrived to a grand hotel. The aqua and purple neon lights made my eyes light up as the sky began to fade to dark. I was so out of it, just admiring the hotel, that I didn't notice Koga had already gotten out and was now holding my door open.

He took my hand as I carefully stepped out in the high, sexy shoes that only made me feel more like a slut. I didn't mind though. Like Kagome said: a girl needs to slut out every once in a while because it makes you happier, more energetic, and confident. I thought the college student who was parking cars was going to have a heart attack when he laid his eyes on me.

Koga noticed and possessively placed his large palm on the small of my back, throwing the keys at the boy and mumbling, "Koga Ookami. It's a clutch and take it easy."

In fact, everybody was staring at us as we walked in. There were whispers everywhere as people tried to figure out with movie stars or models we were. Koga walked up to a properly dressed lady behind a counter (who turned instantly red when he smiled at her) and mentioned that he had reservations under the name Koga Ookami.

She nodded, staring at the floor and mumbled something like follow-me-I-seat-you blurred together with one breath of air and two seconds of time. As soon as we sat down she said, exactly like her first sentence but with different words, thank-you-your-waiter-will-be-here-in-a-minute. At least this breath was grammatically correct, though.

"This place looks amazing." I sighed blissfully as I eyed everything around. It was so proper and beautiful. There wasn't a single flaw I could point out; there was nothing I didn't like.

"You do." Koga replied in this sexy but serious tone (when wasn't his voice sexy, though?) and I turned my eyes to see him and they automatically locked on those intense blue orbs, sparkling from the light of chandlers. I couldn't help but feel myself grow serious as my body leaned in towards him, and his body towards me.

"Hey I'm Chase, may I take your – A!" The boy interrupted himself (throwing our menus on the table) and both my eyes and Koga's eyes shot onto him, locking there instead. Chase Thompson was one of my best friends, and ex boyfriends, and he had this habit of calling me A.

"Chase, how are you?" I smiled sweetly. He was a cute boy with large brown puppy-dog eyes that seemed to take up half of what was exposed of his face and blonde hair that was longish and dipped in front of those eyes.

"I'm good! I miss you horribly, but I'm fine. Look I'm throwing a huge party this weekend, you should stop by. The whole gang misses you A. May I add that you look extremely sexy and it's killing me to know that we're not dating anymore?" He smiled brightly. That was just how Chase was, a shameless flirt.

"I miss them, too, and I could definitely use a good party. I haven't been to one in, like, forever! And, now that you're a big college boy you can have cooler parties." I teased, because Chase always had amazing parties. He was one of those rich kids who had parents that seemed to have abandoned the home.

"I didn't know you were a party girl." Koga spoke up, more to be noticed than anything. I could practically feel the jealousy radiating off of his body. I hadn't even thought twice about Koga being mad that I was ruining this perfect night he set up.

"A couldn't go a week without a party, which is good because she's always the life of one." Chase bragged flirtatiously towards me, not fazed by Koga the least bit. "Anyway Ayame I've tried getting a hold of you but you never answer."

"My phone's back home," I frowned, "it's sleeping in the Subaru. Speaking of home, what are you doing so far away from it?"

"Jobs are running low for me… I need to find a place that I haven't yet worked. I think I'm going to quit this one though because, well, I don't really need to work and it's not all that fun."

"You're a loser. Can we order now? I have a hot date." I smiled and motioned towards Koga. "I think this one's a keeper. He's nothing but muscle and hotness. Besides that he's got a great ass. Oh, and his face isn't bad I guess."

"And you think I took you on a date because of your face?" Koga raised an eyebrow.

"Yeah." I admitted. "That and my hot body and charming personality."

"Maybe… scratch the charming personality though." He smiled this gorgeous, crooked, boyish but wolfish grin and took me victim to his charm. His spell was cast and I had fallen to the curse. Especially when he placed his hand on my thigh and began rubbing slow, agonizing circles there. It wasn't anything too sexual but it was driving me crazy.

"So I'll take a root beer." I spoke up, my voice slightly squeaky at first. I could feel Koga's ego grow and I was slightly afraid it would smother me.

"And I'll have the same." Was his cool reply, making Chase leave.

"You should go to this party with me. Chase throws amazing parties, you'd have a great time and I think you should relax a little more often. Even now you're rather tense." I pointed out. "All that stress is not good for you."

"What I got from that conversation was that you're quite the vixen. I didn't think you got around." Koga said, rather rudely, making my jaw drop.

"Excuse me? Just because I party doesn't mean I'm a whore! I loved hanging out and dancing with people and just because I did that doesn't mean I had sex with them, let alone kiss them! It's so harsh of you to make such a stereotypical connection." I spat.

"You're so cute." He laughed.

"I may be cute but I can fuck your day up." I said matter-of-factly, making him laugh more. I ignored him, did a large exaggeration of 'hmpph!', and stuck my nose up in the way, opposite of his direction. Which, you know, I'm sure really hurt his feelings.

"Ready to order gorgeous, and her hot date?" Chase's cheery voice was back again as he sat the desired drinks down in front of us. Older couples were staring, probably because we weren't jacking out the red wine but were, instead, settling for a nice soda.

"I want a medium-done steak and some shrimp scampi!" I stated boldly without even looking at the menu, not caring whether or not it stated that they even had that order.

"I was going to order the lobster but the steak and shrimp scampi sounds really good so I'd rather have that, if you don't mind."

"As you wish. It will probably take about twenty minutes because these people are pretty ridiculous with timing their food. Anyway I should probably get to my other tables but I'll be back to check on you guys and stuff, so no hanky-panky!" Chase smiled and was off again, taking the menus with him.

"He's seems like an interesting character." Koga pointed out.

"Chase he's… yeah… he's something." I giggled. "So have you ever been here before?"

"No ma'am but I've heard it was really nice and that the food was amazing. How about you? Has any of your million boyfriends, or even the billion guys who never got to be your boyfriend, ever taken you here?" Koga replied.

"Not until tonight." I smiled. "What do you like?"

"Uh… huh?" Koga asked, seeming to have been taken off guard.

"What do you like to do? I mean, you must have had a life before being a leader and there had to be things that you loved doing." I pointed out. It was a simple question, yet he had to really think.

"I liked snowboarding and surfing. I liked basically any sport I tried: soccer, football, baseball, wrestling, track, swimming… anything to keep me busy. I liked playing the guitar and drums and learning knew things and just listening to music. I like watching movies and taking pictures and, as stupid as this might sound to you, I like cooking." He answered.

"It doesn't sound stupid at all to me." I denied because, well, it didn't. Who didn't like cooking? It was fun, you could be creative, and it provided you with delicious food (well at least half of the time if you had some skill but not much).

"Well it doesn't matter because I haven't done any of that stuff in forever." Koga brushed off coolly. "I'm too busy for stupid stuff like that."

"If you like it Koga, then it's not stupid." I said, shaking my head. "And if you can't remember the last time you've done it than it's really been too long. You should teach me, how to snowboard and surf because I've never snowboarded in the legit way, and I've definitely never surfed but I imagine it'd be awesome."

"It's incredible." He agreed.

"Promise you'll teach me, some day?" I asked with large eyes.

Those amazing blue eyes connected with my green-teal ones for the multiple time that night and, for the however-many-time that night I felt like I was going to melt. We were both smiling but his eyes were serious.

"I promise."

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After an incredible dinner we headed back out and the boy there got Koga's car and drove it over but, instead of crawling inside, he grabbed out two backpacks and told the boy to re-park it. I gave him a confused look. "What are those?"

"Our clothes and stuff for tonight… don't you remember giving your clothes to Kagome to pack? I told her to tell you that we were staying at the hotel tonight to watch the movies and everything."

"Wait, we're spending the night here?" I questioned.

"Correct."

"Just the two of us?"

"Correct."

I was going to kill Kagome.


A/N: Hope you guys liked it! More to come but I'm expecting at least three reviews to unlock the next chapter!

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