Chapter 10
Happy

I'm somewhat happy that I was invited to the party, but I'm scared at the same time.

Maybe I'm just scared because I don't know why I was invited in the first place.

I guess it would make sense to invite me since I'm living here anyway.

Kaede will probably be there.

Inuyasha and Rin will probably be coming back tomorrow to attend too.

Well I don't really have time to worry about who may or may not be there.

I have to find something to wear.

I'll go find Kaede now.

I went to her room but nobody answered when I knocked.

I figured she had woken up way before me, so I went downstairs but of course there was somebody at the door today.

Knock Knock

I opened the door and was relieved to see Sango.

"Hey Kagome."

"Hi Sango. What are you doing here."

"I just wanted to see you. We haven't spoken in a few days."

"Yeah I know I haven't seen you in a while, but I'm kind of busy right now."

I let her in and we walked toward the kitchen.

"Busy doing what?"

"I have to find something to wear for a party tomorrow, and then do my work of course."

"Oh really? What kind of party?"

"I don't know. I guess it's just a casual party in the backyard for family and family friends, and I guess some business partners."

I finished explaining as we got into the dining room.

Kaede was there and I guess she overheard us.

"You decided to go to the party?"

"Well I was invited so I guess I should go. I do need your help to find something decent to wear though."

"It would be my pleasure to help."

"Wait Kagome, who invited you?" Sango questioned. Of course she's suspicious.

"Mr. Taisho asked me if I wanted to go yesterday."

"Really, Sesshomaru Taisho asked you?"

"Yeah, but it's no big deal though. It just came up in the conversation and he said I could come."

"You had a conversation?!"

"I was surprised when I saw it yesterday too." Kaede just had to put her two cents in to make Sango even more unnecessarily excited about this.

"Hmm this is all going perfectly, even though I would have expected it to be Inuyasha instead, but good job Kagome."

"What the hell are you talking about!?"

By this time we were all sitting together at the dining room table, gossiping like we were still in high school.

"Just wait Kagome. In a few weeks you will no longer be broke, jobless, and single Kagome. By the end of the summer you're gonna have a ton of cash, a boyfriend, and maybe even a permanent job, because why would your boyfriend want you to stop working here. Of course then you're going to move in for good. Oh My God! You're gonna be living in a mansion. Go sell your apartment now and start moving your stuff out."

Kaede had the nerve to sit there nodding, like, like she actually AGREED!

"SANGO stop it! I know what you're trying to do, but it definitely isn't like that. Stop trying to play matchmaker with me."

"Oh, I'm not the matchmaker this time, you've already matched yourself. Just think, if it doesn't work out with Sesshomaru, there's always Inuyasha, he probably has a crush on you already, but I do like Sesshomaru better so don't do anything stupid. This is so perfect."

"SANGO!"

"Ugh you just have no faith in me. I can see the future with these kinds of things, and trust me your future with him is perfect."

"You're insane!"

"You just don't want to admit it, but if you hook up with him I'm gonna bug you until you admit how right I was."

"No way, you're not gonna be right. He's my boss."

"Yeah, yeah, excuses, excuses, but you like him, you just don't know it yet."

"I won't fall in love with him, ever!"

"You say that now but later you'll be calling me telling me you're head over heels."

"How about you two speak about this later so that we can go pick out you're dress."

Jaken hobbled into the room just as she said that. She must have sensed him coming. I'm happy the conversation ended so I don't have to talk about it anymore and so we didn't get caught.

Now I'll be debating this in my head for the next few days.

We waited until Jaken eyed us suspiciously, and then sat down to drink his coffee as we left.

He must have a key to the house since he let himself in.

Oh well I don't have to worry about him.

We went upstairs to my door and immediately Sango began rummaging through my closet.

She pulled out three dresses.

"Here are the top three choices. Put them on so we can decide."

I didn't want to but I went into my bathroom and started trying them on.

The first one was strapless, and it came down to my knees. It was lavender with white flowers around the middle.

"Next."

The second one was a sky blue halter dress the was slightly longer than my knees, with blue lace at the bottom.

"Hmm. Next."

The final one was white. It had a blue trim at the top and blue spaghetti straps. There were two huge sunflowers in the bottom right corner.

"That ones perfect! You have to wear it tomorrow."

"Umm is it ok for the party Kaede?"

"That should be fine. Just make sure your shoes match, and wear a little jewelry."

"Okay."

"I should go start setting up for it now."

"Oh, I'll help you, just let me change first."

"I'll help too, I have nothing better to do today anyway." I was hoping she wouldn't stay so that she wouldn't bother me anymore.

"Why don't you come to the party tomorrow too Sango?" Kaede suggested.

"What? I couldn't. Could I?"

"I'm sure Mr. Taisho wouldn't mind."

"Yay! Then I'll come." Oh no now she's going to watch me the whole time, and make me talk to him.

"You can bring a date too if you have one." Kaede giggled a little.

"Actually I do have a date. I'll bring Miroku." OH NO! I'm mentally shouting at myself to stop this madness but I know there is nothing I can do.

"You guys go ahead without me. I'll be right there after I change."

"Ok."

Then they were gone.

I know they're going to be outside making plans on how to get me and him together. Then Sango will call Miroku later to fill him in. I have to hurry before they can think of a way to make any significant damage.

I got changed and quickly made my way to the backyard.

When I got there I saw small white tables that each seat four people, and have a white umbrella in the middle.

Sango was bringing out chairs while Kaede put up the umbrellas.

There was also a barbeque and a long table that was closer to the house. I imagined that that was where the food would be.

There was a pool farther back.

Sango stopped talking the moment I went over to them.

"What are you talking about?"

"Nothing."

"Hmmm."

"It's really nothing, don't worry."

I knew they had made plans, but whatever they thought of wasn't going to work.

I starting helping set up the tables.

I put tablecloths around them and Kaede put up an umbrella on every table that had a tablecloth. Sango put chairs at the tables after the umbrellas were up.

Then Kaede went to the long table and put all of the bowls and things that would be used for serving in there specific places.

I helped Sango set the tables.

The caterer would be there in the morning to start setting up the food before the party.

Sango helped us do other work in the house for the rest of the day.

When it started getting dark she left to talk to Miroku and find a dress to wear. I went outside with Kaede to check on the stuff we left outside. We will check once more in the morning before the caterer comes.

I went to bed, slightly worried about tomorrow. I just decided to go to sleep because it doesn't matter what she does, I'm not in love with him.

The next morning I got dressed in my usual clothes.

I'll change into the dress later.

When I thought about the dress I suddenly started wondering what Mr. Taisho would be wearing.

Well not that it matters, he's probably just wearing a plain white shirt like he usually does.

It's too hot to get dressed up anyway.

I cleared my thoughts as I went to the backyard.

Kaede was already there making sure everything was the way we left it.

"Good morning Kagome."

"Hi Kaede. You're always up so early."

"Do you think you could go inside to wait for the caterer to knock on the door. He should be here any minute."

"Oh, sure no problem."

I went inside and sat on the couch to wait.

After a while somebody came to the door.

Knock Knock Knock

I opened the door, but it wasn't a caterer, it was Sango and Miroku.

"Hey Kagome"

She pulled Miroku into the room.

She was wearing a plain strapless pink dress. Miroku, on the other hand wasn't wearing anything particularly special. Just a black t-shirt and jeans.

"Um Sango, why are you so early and why is Miroku wearing jeans?"

"We came early because we have to tell you about the plan, and Miroku's gonna be hiding most of the time anyway."

"Oh no, there is no plan and he is not hiding."

"Ugh just cooperate!"

Ding Dong

I relaxed as I heard the caterer ring the doorbell.

I opened the door and greeted him.

He had some carts with food.

"Miroku!"

He looked surprised but I'm frustrated so I don't care if I yell at him.

"Yes?"

"Come over here and help this guy."

"Okay I'll help."

I sat next to Sango as they moved the stuff to the back.

She began her explanation, which I reluctantly listened to.

"Ok so all you have to do when we get there is let me talk to him. I'm gonna confirm if he likes you."

"He doesn't."

"Then if I say he does like you, the plan goes into action. I signal Miroku and then you won't even know what happened before you're admitting that you have fallen in love and you're paying me twenty bucks."

"I will not fall…WAIT! When did I agree to pay you twenty bucks?"

"Well you wouldn't mind a little bet if you were so sure that it wasn't going to work."

I simply turned my head and went upstairs to change into my dress.

I knew she was following me but I don't care, I'll still ignore anything about the plan.

I was in the bathroom changing while she sat on the bed.

I was the first to speak.

"I wonder when everybody else gets here."

"I wonder when we'll see Sesshomaru."

"You know Sango, it's more polite to say Mr. Taisho."

Even though I told him to call me Kagome…

"Why? He's not my boss, and it's not like he's that old that I should respect him or anything."

"He is a very important person."

I tried lecturing her while brushing my hair.

"Think about it this way. If I met him outside somewhere, and I had no clue who he was, he would introduce himself as Sesshomaru Taisho. Now wouldn't it sound incredibly strange if I started calling him Mr. Taisho. I mean I could understand if he was like 40 or 50, but we're 22 and he's like 25."

"That's not the point."

"Then what is the point."

I stood there feeling incredibly stupid since I had just been arguing about, basically nothing for 10 minutes.

"Whatever, so how does the dress look?"

"Same as it did yesterday, I wonder if he'll like it."

"It doesn't matter Sango! Who cares if he likes it!"

I don't know why but I feel angry now.

"I care and you care, you just don't realize how much you care yet."

I forced myself to walk out of the room and quickly out to the backyard.

I stopped short just outside the door, causing Sango to walk into me.

She looked up and saw it too.

We both gasped.

Mr. Taisho was outside, but the problem is, the person he was talking to was Miroku.

I saw my job possibly being ruined, even though it seems difficult to make more damage than I made the other day, but if it's Miroku he could do it.

Then Sango saw her plan crumbling to pieces, but of course I couldn't be happy because of the situation.

Miroku is almost the biggest idiot in the world. This has to be stopped.

I walked over to them and tried a normal greeting even though I was nervous.

"Good Morning Mr. Taisho. This is my friend Miroku. Is he bothering you? Sorry!"

I didn't even wait for a response. I grabbed Miroku and we ran back towards Sango."

At first I was happy that I was invited but now these two might be a problem.

Hikari: Okay, I hoped you liked this. The next chapter will be up soon. Thank you all for reading.

BaiBai!