Chapter Eleven: Bar Chats
Souta awoke that morning to his mother cooking pancakes. 'Great that means he is here.'
"Morning Souta!"
"Morning Katashi."
"Souta! That's Mr Maki to you!" his mother scolded as she handed him a plate.
"Yasuo I don't mind him calling me by my name it is fine really." Katashi replied smiling warmly at Souta.
Souta regarded the man as he ate. He had dark brown hair which was well groomed and combed over, his eyes the same shade as his hair and he was of medium build. His face, much like his mothers had small wrinkles forming due to their ages. Souta imaged this guy must be in his forties like his mother, he sure looked it.
"I am going to send a parcel over to Kagome today, was there anything you wanted to add to it?" Souta asked nonchalantly.
Yasuo glanced at her son, her eyes narrowed in silent accusation for putting her on the spot.
"How is she doing over in Rio?" Katashi asked Yasuo as she sat down handing the man some tea.
"Uh just fine last I heard." She replied while she was fidgeting with the hem of her apron.
"Do you get to speak to her often?" he asked again before taking a sip of his tea. Souta glanced at his mother trying to gauge her emotions.
"Kagome and I aren't as close as we once were. I guess the distance took its toll. So we don't talk much anymore." She said quietly looking at her feet as if her shoes held some interesting feature.
Souta smiled ruefully, his mother was clever he would give her that much. Such a diplomatic answer and she hadn't bent the truth at all, she had just left out some vital pieces of information.
"Well I may be heading over her way soon if business goes well, maybe you guys would like to come with me to give Kagome a visit?"
"We will consider it for sure." Souta interjected before his mother could answer.
"But Souta dear who would watch the shrine?"
"I'm sure I could get Yuki, my sister to do so while we are away. She looks after our own shrine when my parents are away."
"Well as Souta said, we will consider your offer."
InuYasha woke early the next morning with a pounding headache and minus bottoms. 'What did I do last night?' It soon came flooding back, his brother and their argument, telling Kagome about he and Kikyo and then them having make up sex.
Looking around he noticed she must have left afterwards and he groaned, he could have done with one of her amazing coffee's right about now. Slipping on his red satin boxers and his black dickies shorts he strolled over to the washing basket to pull out a clean black singlet. It was meant to be one hell of a heat wave this boxing day and being hung over was going to suck that much more.
He then put on some socks he sniffed to check if they were clean before putting on his black high top chicks. He needed to go and see Kagome and double check that they were indeed okay.
When InuYasha reached Kagome's he found that she wasn't home, using the spare key he knew she kept in the guttering he checked the garage and sure enough her car was gone.
He went inside to wait for her when he picked up the smell of wet carpet so he went to investigate, That was when he saw the bathroom floor slightly flooded though it looked like a lot of the water had evaporated, her bathtub broken and there was a giant hole in the wall that water had got into her bedroom through wetting the carpet which was still damp and was starting to smell.
'What the hell had happened here?' He then locked up the house and garage, put the key back and rung Kagome on his cell to find out where she was and if she was okay.
Kagome was woken by her phone ringing, it was 10am and she had slept in longer than she normally would have. She must have been tired.
"Hello?"
"Did I wake you? Sorry I was just wondering where you are I came around to yours earlier and you weren't home. Are we still okay?"
"Oh it's you, no I'm not at home I had an accident in the bathroom and it is in need of repair so I'm staying in a hotel and yeah we are okay."
"Are you okay?"
"Yeah I'm fine, I have a lump on my head but that's about it."
"You know you could have stayed at my place."
"I know."
"I miss you already I woke up half expecting you to be there."
"I'm sorry you fell asleep and I wanted a shower and to get a change of clothes."
"Okay, well do you want to do something today?"
"Uh I was going to catch up with Sango, apparently Miroku got her an amazing Christmas gift so I said I would meet her and Ayame for a drink, she text me last night to organize it all."
"Oh well text me later if you want to catch up okay."
"Okay."
"I miss you."
"I miss you too."
The line went dead and Kagome rolled over in the very comfortable bed and sighed loudly. It was time to get up.
Dressing in some denim jean short shorts with the white pockets hanging down slightly, a white singlet top over top her white push up bra and her tan wedges she wore the night before she quickly put a brush through her hair.
Deciding to keep her hair down, she headed into her rooms bathroom and quickly brushed her teeth before heading down to the hotels bar to meet Sango and Ayame who said they would be there at half ten.
"Wow Sango that necklace is amazing!" Kagome gushed as she admired her friend's newest piece of jewellery. It was a small diamond in a boomerang shape on a silver chain, it suited Sango well as she had an obsession with boomerangs.
"And she didn't tell you the best part, he asked her out. They are official now!" smiled Ayame who was happy that at least one of them managed to get the guy they wanted. She was still not talking to Koga who really didn't seem to care in all honesty which hurt but she wasn't going to talk to him first she had mooned over him enough the ball was in his court now.
"Wow Sango I am so happy for you! How about you Ayame? Has Koga come to his senses?"
"Don't even go there." warned Sango seeing the dark expression cross the usually cheery Ayame's face. Kagome felt a weird tingling at the base of her spine and tried to shake the odd feeling off.
"You okay Kagome?" asked Sango her head tilted to one side.
"Yeah just felt a breeze that's all. Oh and speaking of couples, me and InuYasha made it official Christmas Eve."
"Really?" smiled Ayame knowing Koga would stop flirting with Kagome now that she was off the market not that many knew it but she and Koga were both demons, wolf demons to be exact and when a female had been claimed they were off the tables unless a challenge was made. It was better for Koga to stick to his own kind rather than mate with a human.
"Yeah, turns out he did sleep with Kikyo that night though. He admitted it to me which took guts, and we weren't together at the time so its fine and all."
"Hang on he slept with her and you still agreed to go out with him?" Sango almost shouted making the bar staff to look over to their table situated near the window overlooking the Copacabana beach.
"He told me last night about Kikyo, and really its fine."
"Hang on he didn't tell you before he asked you out?" Ayame deadpanned.
"No and he didn't ask me I asked him."
"Kagome be careful I don't want to see you hurt." Sango pleaded.
"Don't worry Sango its fine, I am happy, really."
Sesshomaru stood on his balcony with a whiskey in one hand and a cigar in the other. He thought back to the events that had occurred last night and almost smirked. Kagura had paid him a visit not long after Bankostu had left and try as she did, she could not get him aroused which was a first.
His mind was occupied with the information Bankostu had given him and how he was going to stop Naraku discovering Kagome and using her as a weapon against him. Kagura had then become frustrated as every trick she knew failed to get a rise out of him. Bored he then pushed her away and proceeded to tell her to get out, and she let her displeasure be known by slamming the door with a great gust of wind as she left.
It seemed it was time to up the ante in getting Kagome in his bed to ensure his safety. If she was with him then she wasn't with Naraku. That alone was reason enough to sleep with the human, to woo her and even adhere to some form of meagre commitment such as exclusively dating or whatever they called it.
Then once he had disposed of Naraku and ensured his safety he would leave the girl and find a more suitable mate or another conquest for that matter. Untrained she posed little to no threat to him so keeping her from Naraku was essential.
Sango and Ayame had left after they had lunch in the hotel and Kagome had decided to go back to the bar as she wasn't in the mood for seeing InuYasha after the reactions of her friends to her news.
Was she wrong to have been so blasé about his night with Kikyo? Or were her friends over thinking it all? She was so tangled in her thoughts she failed to see Sesshomaru sit in the barstool next to her.
"A whiskey please and another of what she ordered."
Kagome turned towards the voice she would know anywhere and found herself facing Sesshomaru who merely inclined his head his way of greeting to her.
"Ah thank you but I can get my own drinks." She murmured taking the drink from the barkeep whilst glancing at Sesshomaru who had placed some money on the counter.
"Think of it as a peace offering. We may have started on the wrong foot. What do you say shall we start again with a clean slate?"
Kagome eyed him warily before nodding at him. She had mixed feelings towards him, she hated how arrogant he was but then when he had held her up on the hell he had been kind and caring.
"Well then here is to new beginnings." Sesshomaru raised his glass before sculling back the contents. Once done he gestured for another one. Kagome raised her own glass taking a sip of her vodka and cranberry drink before setting it down again.
"So how was your Christmas?" Sesshomaru asked conversationally.
It made her slightly suspicious as to why he was being so approachable but if there was a chance she could get on better with the man she could do more work for, not to mention he was InuYasha's brother, then well she would take it.
"Not fantastic. How about yours?"
"Very much uneventful. Why was your Christmas terrible?" he asked twirling the alcohol around in his glass.
"I didn't say it was terrible but it did suck. My bathroom needs repairing so that's why I am living here until I can get it fixed."
"And that sucks why?"
"This place isn't home."
"I see."
"So InuYasha told me you were thinking of getting some work done on another of your cars."
"Yes, the Dodge is running better than when I brought it new, I have a Shelby Cobra the 2004 model that needs a lot of engine work."
"Nice, is she a V10?"
"Yes and a 6.4 litre engine."
"Have you got her up to her top speed 260mp/h?"
"Yes though there aren't a lot of straight roads here in Rio to reach such speeds safely."
"I know of one that leads inland, it's a nice drive I take my supra out there here pass me that napkin ill draw you a map."
Sesshomaru handed her the napkin and watched as she pulled a blue biro out of her purse and began scrawling directions in map form. When she had finished she handed the napkin to him with a bright smile.
"Thank you, maybe if you aren't busy tomorrow maybe you would like to come with me and give it a go?"
"One condition."
"Name it."
"I get to drive."
