Chapter 11
Kagome entered Naraku's office yawning and looking exhausted. She had not been getting much sleep at all lately thanks to Sesshoumaru. Her eyes felt like they could shut at any moment. Naraku seemed to be no where in sight so instead of booting up her computer she lay her head on her small desk to rest her eyes a bit.
"Higurashi!" Naraku's commanding yell beckoned her awake.
"I am really sorry," she apologized with a big yawn.
"Its time for you to clock out," Naraku told her as he sorted through a few papers.
Kagome's eyes widened, "I'm fired?"
"No," he said in a bored tone, "your shift is over. Its five in the evening."
"I slept for eight hours?" she gasped.
"There was nothing for you to do last night anyways, and I won't have someone who is mentally asleep handle my paperwork."
"I am so sorry."
Naraku just changed the subject, "how is it that you can't afford to make a down payment on a house, but yet you can afford a gorgeous ring like the one you're wearing?"
Kagome looked down at her hand and was surprised to see the ring Sesshoumaru gave her on her index finger, "oh that? I was just going to leave it in it's box, but my female instinct made me put it on and I forgot about it. Its an engagement ring, sort of, not really."
"Getting married Higurashi?"
"I don't know."
"Whose the lucky man?"
"He doesn't consider himself a lucky man. His name is Sesshoumaru Murashu."
"Obviously you were having wild dreams while using my office as a bedroom."
"I know it sounds unbelievable, but its true. Rin isn't my real daughter. I adopted her when she was a baby, but now her biological father, Sesshoumaru Murashu, wants her back. Rin isn't too happy with this and she wants us to live together. So Sesshoumaru wants me to live with him."
"Very well Higurashi I will try and believe you. So if you two close the deal I take it you will quit? Someone who is sharing Sesshoumaru's money will never need to work again."
Kagome shook her head, "Like I said I don't know if I will go through with this. And even if I do it will be more like Sesshoumaru and me are roommates and I will pay for everything that I need on my own."
"Well then it will be glad to know you aren't leaving my company anytime soon. Anyways about last night."
"Last night?"
"When I told you to come in and work, but instead I forced you into an awkward position."
"Oh that."
"Of course I won't take any pay away nor will I take any away from today. I got a few drinks in me before returning to the office."
"I understand Naraku. Lets just try and leave the past where it belongs."
"Very well Higurashi," he said, "good look with your situation."
"Thanks Naraku," Kagome thanked him as she left the office well rested for the first time in five years.
"Miss. Higurashi!" Kagome was shocked when she heard her voice called by more then one person once she emerged from the building.
Kagome looked around and figured out why. All around there were men carrying cameras and microphones and they were swarming in on her. She heard different questions from different directions. All questions involved the ring on her finger and Sesshoumaru Murashu.
"How is an urban city girl like you who works two jobs the fiancée of Sesshoumaru Murashu?" a woman demanded to know.
"When is the wedding?" another one wanted to know.
"I-I," Kagome started to really knowing what to say.
"Kagome!" a strong voice boomed above all of the reporters from the street.
Kagome looked forward and saw a limo pulling forward. It was Sesshoumaru who called her name. It was hard to recognize since he has used her first name. Sesshoumaru had addressed her with the window rolled down so she could clearly see him.
"Get in and don't talk to anyone!" he yelled to her as he opened up the car's door and scooted over.
Kagome not knowing what to do obeyed him and dived into the car shutting the door behind her to avoid the annoying media, "what the hell?"
Sesshoumaru pressed a button that made her tinted window go up before he told the driver to take off, "the press is able to find out things quicker then we could ever expect. You will get use it."
"I don't have to," Kagome snapped defensively, "I haven't even decided if I want to go through the marriage and now I am being attacked by reporters."
"The man at the jewelry shop has been known to never keep his mouth shut when it comes to wealthy people buying engagement rings," he tried explaining to her, "he probably told everyone to look out for that ring. I don't understand why you would wear the ring if you have such distaste in my idea."
"I just sort of forgot about it," she explained, "it was just so beautiful I couldn't help but put it on."
Kagome then took the ring off and put it on the car seat, "there you go."
"What are you doing?" he asked.
"Giving it back," she answered.
"So you want nothing to do with my idea?"
"I didn't say that."
"Then why give back the ring? Every news channel and magazine already knows your name?"
"I guess you're right, but then people I know as friends and employees will see it and ask who is marrying me, and then I have to tell them and they think I am a liar."
"I see so you are in a difficult situation."
"It seems that way."
Sesshoumaru just picked up the ring and dropped it back on her lap, "its yours no matter what choice to come up with. Marry me, wear it, pawn it off, I don't care. I bought it for you and I have no use for it."
"Thanks then I guess," Kagome said nervously since she had never received such an expensive gift, "but this probaly cost you a fortune."
"Well that's good since I have more then a fortune," he told her, "now, I try and have no one say anything to the press at all so you and Rin are both staying with me tonight."
"Why?"
"Isn't it obvious? My home has security and the reporters know better then to step one foot on it's property, but you're the one they want the story from so if you were to stay in your apartment they would probaly try and brake in just for a story."
"I see. Are we picking up Rin?"
"She is already at my home."
Kagome turned to look at him just to see he was relaxing in his seat quite easily in his suite, "I would appreciate it if you didn't take my daughter without my permission like that."
"My daughter," he corrected quickly as though it was a reflex, "and it stays that way until we really find out who gets her."
"So I can either marry you and be with her all the time, or wait for the judge to make her decision and maybe loose her," Kagome said to herself.
"Those are your options," was the only comfort he could offer, "what really do you have to loose? It won't be like we are really married seeing as how we can try and avoid each other as much as possible and I have already told you about all the other advantages you could have."
Kagome repeated what he said in her mind. She had nothing to loose. That was true. So why did she feel uncomfortable about this plan? Maybe it was because her pride would let her have nothing to do with Sesshoumaru, or it could have been that before Rin came along she wished to go to the alter with the perfect man, not someone she didn't love. She had nothing to loose though. As long as Rin was with her she could only gain.
"Well," she started, "I wouldn't feel right about taking advantage of those benefits so I plan to keep working and make my own money."
"You don't have too. If you do that you still wouldn't be able to hardly see Rin."
"Well I could quit my day job and just work one. If my boss at the catering business retires then I become the owner. Owning a business would make me much more money then Naraku pays me."
"So you will marry me then?"
It took awhile for Kagome to come up with the answer, "I-I guess."
"Yes or no," he asked harshly as though she had just committed some horrible act and demanded a straight answer.
"Yes," Kagome whispered, "I will do it for Rin."
"Very well," was Sesshoumaru's only reply, "I shall call off the custody battle and arrange the marriage. I need to leave on a trip to China soon so I will have to take care of all this tomorrow."
"You mean?"
"Yes, tomorrow we are going to legally become man and wife."
(End of Chapter 11)
AN: Well there another chapter for you. I am still trying to go as fast as possible and do homework at the same time. I still have a picture to color. Yes I am in 10th grade and I have to color! But that's okay because my english teacher makes us pass around a stuffed dinosaur when we do DOL, which is why there still might be a lot of mistakes in my writing because I am getting an Indiana Education which is the same as no education at all. Anyone from Indiana USA out there?
Yuki Asao: I am thinking about it.
dog-demon-emiko: Well like Sesshoumaru said nothing bad happens to Kagome because she is hardly at home. She is mostly there in the daytime to sleep and no one will attack in the daylight. And as far as Sesshoumaru goes I think he wrote that song for Gwen Stefani. The one that goes: If I was a rich girl I would have all the money in the world if I was a wealthy girl.
Me: Nope won't happen, there won't be that much Rin in the story now. She was just the tool I used to get Kagome and Sesshoumaru together. It will be all about them now.
Akiraton: I see, so you are a private school freak?
Wolfye Productions: Actually Sesshoumaru is just saying she can buy whatever she wants thinking that will make her marry him. He did allow Kaguya to use the money when she lived with him, but Kaguya took advantage of it when she already had millions of dollars.
Sheenachi: I asked Sesshoumaru and he said he wears whitey tighties.
MikoMimi: No, the goal is to avoid each other but still live in the same house. As for Rin she has never had a father so she doesn't know what parents are souppose to do.