AN/ I hope I didn't confuse anyone with the author note at the end of the last chapter. This chapter should clear some stuff up.
Chapter: 14, here we go again
Disclaimer: I don't own you know what, and the 'Pink' brand
It didn't take too long for me to get dressed, and ready. I wore black shorts, and the shirt Kaede gave me at first. Now that I thought of Kaede, I realized how weird she was acting. Everything I said she dismissed. If I asked about yesterday, she'd ignore me and talk about what was going on today. I felt as if I was missing vital pieces of my mind, but for now I had to forget it. No one was in my new room now. I sat in a leather sofa waiting for Kaede to give my next instruction.
I started to drift asleep waiting. I was ridiculously exhausted. I couldn't even think straight, and my eyes seemed to always be playing tricks on me. I laid my head back on the leather sofa, and flinched at the pain on my shoulder. I grabbed my hand to feel the area, but it was smooth. I was confused again, for about the tenth time I decided to think of something else. 'Nice room' I thought to myself. I was trying to distract myself from the weird things that just kept happening to me. I was about to get up and walk around the living room. I still couldn't believe this whole room belonged to me; it was like a huge apartment. I got up from my seat to explore the back of the room when I heard the front door open.
"Hey…" Kaede said meeting my eyes. She seemed worried, and automatically I thought it had to do with the weird things happening to me. I was about to say something when I saw a tall heavily tattooed woman following her. She was very thin and had tattoos up and down her arms. Her hair was a greasy short black cut, but styled in a smooth ponytail. I watched her parade around the room with her little black tang top and too tight skinny jeans. She had a rectangular pink bag in her hand the color clashed with her dark assemble. She placed the bag on the small kitchen nook's counter. "Um… excuse me not in the kitchen." Kaede said to the woman from her spot in the middle of the living room. I was completely confused "We are running very late, sorry 'Pink' sent you a personal hair dresser and make up artist, but she came late…. So were late." Kaede said with total attitude. She sat down with a 'plop,' on the love seat near me.
"Don't worry about make up." I said confused. I didn't know anything about a makeup artist. did no one find it acceptable to tell me what was going on in my life. I already had eyeliner on, and my hair was in a perfectly organized sloppy ponytail. I learned at a young age that if you took the time to straighten your hair perfectly every morning (like me.) You might come off a bit desperate, so I make sure I straighten it perfectly then cunningly sort my hair up in a sloppy ponytail. "I'm ready to go now." I said looking down at her. She looked at me with obvious distaste. She had that 'um…No you're not you look like shit' face on. I sat down at her reaction and just closed my mouth all together.
"It really won't last that long." Kaede said as a rebuttal. I looked towards the fidgeting emo girl. She had her huge pink bag on her shoulder as she headed toward the living room. "Were going to give you a nice day look," Kaede said watching the girl approach me. "Her names Camilla by the way," I wanted to say 'hi Camilla,; but I thought against it. She looked to be at least in her mid twenties up close. She didn't say anything while processing what she'd do to my hair, but she didn't come off as shy. She seemed more as if she was above talking to us. I saw it safer to not interact with her.
She made her way behind me, the first thing I felt was my hair tie being pulled from my hair. 'Make sure to pull some hair up, we don't want all her hair down." Kaede warned the girl. I couldn't feel her reaction, but I felt the parting of my hair. I could see Kaede getting up from the corner of my eye. I wanted to ask her where she was going, but before I could she was already seated back in her seat. The whole awkward motion of half sitting and getting up was enough for me to question my own eye sight. I didn't say anything on the matter though, seeing as I would probably just be ignored again. I felt Camilla's hand leave my head completely then all of a sudden I felt dampness, I jerked my head forward.
"You don't want to do that." I said to the thin woman behind me. He face was a mixture of shock and annoyance. "My hairs naturally curly," I warned I thought that was obvious from the thickness, but apparently not.
"Kagome she's a professional let her work." Kaede said at my sudden reaction. I sat back down uneasily. I was starting to feel completely annoyed. It takes time to straighten hair. I wonder if she was aware of this. I felt the dampness again, some sort of gel. I was horrifically angry at this point but I didn't say anything.
I heard a hair dryer going on and I rolled my eyes as it passed through my hair. After a few minutes I felt something being added, and then all together she stopped. I was anxious to see the disaster
she did, but she was already beginning to do my makeup, I sighed heavily.
"Come on…" I heard Kaede say behind me. I was so confused how could she possibly tell someone ahead of her to 'come on;' technically wasn't I ahead of her. We were now in the rehearsal building, and I still had no idea what hairstyle I was occupying. I knew it had to be something epic seeing as when we were making are way into the building. The paparazzi all but halted when seeing me, then the questions shifted to things about 'Pink' and how much they liked my style change. I sure hoped they weren't mocking me. We were already in the building, and running towards the rehearsal room. My stomach started to tighten like it usually did when I went to these rehearsals. I started towards the door when I realized down the hall was the bath room. I could look at myself to see how I looked. I started walking towards my right. "What are you doing?" I heard Kaede ask behind me. "You do understand what running late means Right?" She asked.
"I need to use the bathroom." I lied "Why don't you just go in and let people know I'm here." I said to her over my shoulder. I was already drifting towards the bathroom. She looked so unsure as if I was lying, I think she thought I was really planning on sneaking out. "Please Kaede I'll be out soon" I pleaded when she began to follow me. She stopped, and gave me an intense look before turning around.
"Okay," she warned "But you have five minutes or I'll come get you." I only nodded to her as a response. Why was she so protective, what did she think I was going to do? I opened the bathroom door rushing towards the mirrors. I only took one look at myself. My stomach clenched, and I silently screamed. I looked like a poodle. I wasn't joking my hair was in a long early spiraled half up half down do. It made me look like a tooth pick. My first notion was to comb it down, but I was too preoccupied by my makeup. I couldn't recognize myself. I had to admit I looked…. Well good. I leaned closer to the mirror, all my blemishes were gone. My dark blue eyes popped, and my skin was ridiculously clear. I was shocked; I didn't even think I could look anywhere close to this. I would have done something to the hair, but it set off the whole look.
I smiled it wasn't all that bad. The hair was a bit too spirally, but it wasn't outrageous. I decided I liked my look as I made myself out of the bathroom. I had a highten feeling of confidence which made my nervousness cease a bit. I walked towards the rehearsal room in a good mood. I was thinking about how quickly it took for her to do my makeup, and how little she used. I was starting to wonder if there was a way I could do it myself. I started to run over makeup ideas in my head when I ran into something. I was thrown back, and when I looked up to see what it was I hit. I saw a flash of silver, my first thought was. 'Why the hell did this keep happening to me?' I started to get up by myself when I felt hands helping me. I was knocked down by Inuyasha Takashi enough to know that this was unusual. I suddenly looked around for any cameras or media, but I only saw him.
"Where the fuck have you been?" He asked I took a good look at him, tring to check if it was Inuyasha and not an imposter. He was gorgeous as usual. He wore a light black T- shirt with a short sleeve black and red cardigan. It had at the bottom left a black shadow of a naked woman's shape posing provocatively on her knees. I was distracted by the characther for a split second before looking up at his face. He looked exhausted he had circles under his eyes, and his skin was a bit pale and worn. Despite this his eyes were more vibrant and even more golden then I remembered. "I've been looking for you everywhere." He said, and I couldn't believe what I was hearing. Was this a joke, I looked around for a camera again and saw nothing. We were all alone why was he acting like this?
I didn't know exactly what to say. He helped me up, and nothing he said sounded sarcastic. I decided to act nice as well. "I was late this morning." I said I sort of shrugged it off. He generally in the face seemed as if he was searching for something, and the thought of him actually looking for me sincerely made my heart begin to race. "What's going on, what did I miss?" I asked confused. It must have been something important for Inuyasha to actually personally come find me.
"Nothing, were just doing the same shit… just looking for you." He said, my heart went began beating triple time now. We weren't that close to each other, but my skin started heating up as if he was touching me. "How are you feeling?" He asked, and I knew something had to have happened. Inuyasha never cared about how I felt. I was way too confused, and for some reason the thought of him talking to me brought on a humongous migraine. I couldn't process anything at the moment, so without warning I began walking past him.
I had to get into the rehearsal room anyway, or Kaede would come out and get me herself, but for some reason I felt like my mind was trying to process something. I didn't know from when or what, but it was beginning to throb with undeveloped information. "Where are you going?" He asked from behind me."
I turned around to face him. "I have to get in there," I said signaling the room to my right. He walked towards me, and my heart began to quickly pace again. I had the sudden urge to rub my shoulders again as I faced him.
"Don't worry about them." He said, "You don't even have any lines today." He said walking slowly towards me. I didn't know exactly what he was going to do, but half my mind was saying 'I hope he kisses me.' While the other half yelled 'Kagome get real, he's probably going to attack you.' I was so torn, and on the other hand my brain was throbbing pleading with me to get away. To go inside, but of course I stayed. "We should just ditch." He said, I looked up at him he seemed so sincerely serious. I looked down quickly at my sandaled feet. I didn't usually wear sandals, but I was given these with the rest of my outfit. "We can go see a movie…" He said, and I looked up again. Was he asking me out on a date? He had a small smile on his already perfect face. "I have a movie out, we could watch it." He said, I could tell he was joking. I smiled back little did he know that he did have a movie out. I had already seen it with my mom before I came to Florida.
I shrugged he looked serious enough, but he was an amazing actor who's to say he wasn't pulling my leg. "I don't know if that's a good idea." I said "I mean last time we 'ditched' I was kicked out of my dad's house, and you drugged me." He gave me a shocked reaction as I finished talking. I smiled afterwards I didn't want to come off as mean, especially when he was trying so hard to be nice today for some odd reason.
"You live with me now… you won't get kicked out believe me." He said he looked so cute trying to persuade me. I didn't even understand his motives. All signs pointed to hell yes. My common sense was screaming at me to just turn, and go into the room. I wanted to listen to it, but it was Inuyasha Takashi. He wanted to go to the movies. One of my biggest dreams was to ask him about his work. If I watched one of his movies with him, then I was one step closer to making it reality.
"Um... maybe after rehearsal," I said trying to sound realistic. I was really freaking out. What happened yesterday, first I had a huge block of memory missing, and now Inuyasha Takashi wants to take me to the movies? I felt very compelled to know now. I had to know, I knew Inuyasha knew would he tell me if I asked.
"We're going to be in that studio all day. We're rehearsing the end of the movie." He said his voice was dragged out, as if to imply how boring it would be. I nodded, but I already had my hand on the door knob. I had to go I didn't need to disappoint my dad anymore then I've already done, but the idea of spending the day with him bought welcomed butter flies in the pit of my stomach.
"Let me just tell Kaede I'm leaving." I said smiling back at him. 'Okay I knew I was making the biggest mistake of my life, but who cared. It was Inuyasha Takashi and try as I may to hate him. I couldn't, I just couldn't. He almost killed me at a party, yet I was going with him again. What was wrong with me?
"Don't worry about her; she's not going to care." He reassured, and I only nodded before turning away from the door. He watched me move towards him before turning around. I couldn't believe I was doing this. A half of me was saying 'turn Kagome,' and the other half was so excited wanting to know what was going to happen. I didn't know what to take of my situation. Why he was acting so different towards me.
We walked towards the entrance, the two same humongous security guards stood on either side of the double doors untouched. I wondered if they stood there all day. They opened the doors for us, and automatically the sound of screaming and flashing cameras filled the room. I was no stranger to it now, so I glided past the door trying to keep my poise. We walked out into the California sun. It was fairly cool and windy today, yet warm and hot; the best weather. I ignored the mass of people. I was starting to wonder whether they stood there the whole time too. Inuyasha walked ahead of me I watched him slide a pair of sunglasses over his eyes. Wasn't he just the epitome of coolness? I watched him pull his keys out, and press the tracer button. The car beeped the whole action reminded me of another time I rode in his car. I sighed I still couldn't believe I was doing this again.
His car was different today. Instead of the red Lexus I was use to. he had a shiny black roomy sports car. It was gorgeous, I was actually anxious to see how it looked from the inside, and I knew nothing about cars. We made our way through the mass of people towards the middle of the parking lot. He pressed the unlock button on his keys, and I opened the passenger door with ease. The interior was beautiful like I expected. It was nice, wide, and a classy dark burgundy color for the seats. It smelled like a new car. I smiled as I sat in it. He quickly did the same. I was going to ask when did he get it? but he beat me to it.
"You like?" He asked smiling over at me. I could already feel my face heat up. I nodded rubbing my hands over the dashboard.
"Is it new?" I asked. he shook his head while putting his key in the ignition. The engine purred to life, and again the car's radio was on, but at the lowest possible volume.
"No just another car lying around unused in my garage." He looked at and over me at the back window to pull out. The paparazzi scattered like usual which lead me to believe that Inuyasha hadn't changed his attitude completely. We didn't say anything till he exited the parking lot completely. I sat quietly watching outside through my window. The tinted glass started to go down slowly, and the cool California breeze blew in. I sat forward so I wouldn't be facing the wind directly. "You look good today." I heard him say over the wind. He was raising his voice, and I was wondering why he would choose to talk after putting the window down.
I smiled inwardly. So he thought so too. Even with the poodle hair? "Thanks, its Pink" I said border line shouting. The car slowed down to a stop light, and everything got quiet again.
"Your clothes?" He asked turning towards me. His voice was leveled and normal now, and I nodded. I meant the makeup and hair style too, but I liked it better if he thought it was all natural. "Do you know when 'Pink' day is?" He asked. I was so confused what the fuck was 'Pink day.' He glanced at me when I didn't answer. He had a soft smile on his full lips. Was he mocking me? Was he applying that my clothes were too pink, or preppy? "You don't know what 'Pink day' is?" He asked I turned to face him as well. He had the most self-righteous smile on his lips at the moment. It was absolutely gorgeous. If it wasn't for the fact he had sunglasses on I would have stopped breathing. His face and hair were so blown. The wind had taken strings of silver strands out of its perfect ponytail, and sprawled them over his face giving him an air brush appearance."It's this day where everyone who's sign to 'Pink' or any division of the company wears lingerie in public for a full day." I looked forward so he wouldn't see my red face. Did I know nothing about anything? "It's not optional either," he added.
The red light turned green, and he began to speed forward. The wind picked up, and began blowing my curly hair every which ways. "I knew that." I said looking towards the window to hide my face. "I just didn't know it was called 'Pink Day'. I was obviously lying, but he didn't need to know that. I slowly as to not bring attention to myself pulled my hair tie out of my hair. There was no way with all this wind I was going to hold any type of up do.
"…Okay," He said after awhile as he kept driving. I was surprised he wasn't acting like a jerk, and calling me on my lie. He seemed as if he just wanted to change the subject. "What do you want to do?" he asked smiling. "Now we can either go home and watch a movie, or go the movie theater and watch something… your choice." I smiled he was being ridiculously nice, how cool.
'Okay what to do?' I asked myself. Of course I wanted to watch it alone with him, but I didn't want to come off as forward, and who's to say whether this was an exclusive date or not. "Any where you want to go is cool." I said he didn't respond he just kept driving. "Hey…" I said after awhile, I thought since he was being extra nice. I could express how I was feeling about my open window. He looked towards me "Is there any way you could close my window?" I asked.
"Okay we can probably run home "cause my wallets there." He said completely ignoring my question. He turned towards the road again. I could definitely tell he did that on purpose. I was wondering if it was all just an act.
"Can I ask another question?" I asked again, he this time decided to continue to look forward. I pressed down on the car door's button so the window would shut, and I could finally talk without having to shout over the wind. The window began going up for a while, and stopped half way. I defiantly could tell he locked the passenger controls. What was his deal? He was acting so fake. "Why are you being so nice?" I asked anyway not caring that he had something against the closing of windows. He turned smoothly into the trails that lead to the Takashi Villa. He began driving slowly causing the wind to slow and for my question to actually be audible.
"Are you implying that I'm mean?" He asked playing dumb. He knew he was an ass. I didnt have to imply shit. The car slowed down as we reached the gate. My hair took place with the slowing of the breeze causing it to lie over my face. I pulled it away from my eyes and nose annoyed. That's why I always had it straight and in a ponytail. I looked over at Inuyasha ready to tell him to stop playing stupid and tell me what was going on. I turned to face him, but was stopped short at the expression on his face. My heart stopped his nose was scrunched and flared as if he had stopped himself from breathing in something toxic. I reached over to grab a lock of my hair and smelled it. It smelled like citrus fruit. What was his problem?
"Are you okay?" I asked, he said nothing. He only froze himself in the same state. His chest did not rise or fall and my heart started to beat rapidly. This scene seemed so familiar. I couldn't put a finger on it, but wasn't I in this situation recently? I had to have been. I felt nervous, and jittery, like I was in obvious danger.
"Mr. Takashi." The boy at the gate said, I looked from Inuyasha's frozen body to the teenager. I was so happy to see him at this point.
"Inuyasha, he's calling you." I said I tapped his bicep softly, and he flinched. "Inuyasha, you're scaring me." I said I was ready to just get out and begin running. "Inu..." I began, but his face began to smooth over at this point. He turned away from me, pulling himself towards his opened window breathing deeply. He took off his sun glasses setting them down on his lap. I watched his hand massage his tempo, and eyes. "Are you okay?" I repeated reflexively laying a hand on his flexed bicep again. It twitched slowly, and I moved quickly away.
The gate boy made his way towards the car. "How are you doing Mr. Takashi?" He asked, he obviously just missed everything. I saw a nod come from him for his response. "I'm going to go ahead, and raise the gate…Is that okay?" The boy asked. Another nod and the boy left. I watched him walk away, and I looked back at Inuyasha.
I didn't say anything about what just happened; I just sat back, my heart racing. What the hell was going on?
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