Disclaimer; The original characters in the based story are not mine and the
characters that are originally in the series are not mine. Characters of
my own creation are added to the story; otherwise the characters belong to
the original author.
Well de Rouge an Inu-yasha X Moulin Rouge Tale
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PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING STATEMENT!!!
Reviewers, Readers, and Fans! Lend me your ears!
(Sudden, shower of ears fall on the author!)
...Eww! Okay I didn't mean literally!
Ugh! Okay, anyway, I'm taking this moment to tell you that I am fully aware of the events taking place in Fan Fiction and Lemon writers. On that note, due to the restriction of our rights and other people not taking such responsibility for their actions, I have decided to place my story on a back up file. I will not submit my writing to the Nazis that are pointing fingers at others work and possibly posting their own lemons with some deal. I have made my attempts to keep my lemon settings in this story at a safe rating. I'm a metaphoric writer; I don't always go into detail!
Now, in the event that "Well de Rouge" is removed from Fan Fiction, I will not make the multiple attempts to repost my story. Instead, I will simply take what they have handed to me, revise the story to accommodate the rules on the website and take it from there.
However, for those of you who like to read the original, here is the good news! MY FATHER MAKES WEBPAGES!!! With this information, I will place the original story in its entirety, uncut, on a site where mature audiences can access it. When I have this information available, I will post it on my Fan Fiction page for those to access the website and read "Well de Rouge" the way it was meant to be.
So, with that happy note, let's continue our story!
...Okay, um, you can come and pick up your ears now and glue them back on...Thank you!
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Chapter 14; Snitch
(This chapter is for all those authors who got their stories booted...and to their snitches!)
The days of summer seemed to go by quick, and the night the musical was to open was drawing near. Kagome had finished Inu-yasha's costume a few days after they had designed it together. She handed out all of the costumes to their owners and Shippo shined the new dance shoes that Sesshoumaru had generously ordered, but still expected to have the money that came in from tickets to pay most of the cost back.
Inu-yasha put on the red coat to see how it felt, and grinned as he inhaled Kagome's sweet scent imbedded in it. He made on circle to make the cape flap in the air as he stood before her on the stage while she locked up the chest containing all of the costumes. She smiled as she brushed a stray hair behind her ear. "Do you like it?"
Inu-yasha held the coat open for a moment and then straightened it out. "It smells like roses...and you!"
Kagome smiled and pinched a piece of the cloth. "I had to die it with rose petals and other red dies. I wanted the color to be rich and bright."
Inu-yasha lifted her chin and smiled softly. "Is it from our bed sheets?" he whispered
Kagome blushed, but smiled just the same as she tried to tame the same stray hair again behind her ear. Inu-yasha let a wide smile spread across his face as he twirled around to make the cloth flap in the air again. She giggled, "Oh, stop making me laugh! I feel so foolish!"
Inu-yasha came up to her with a disappointed look in his eyes. "But I like it when I make you laugh! You smile when you laugh, and I love your smile."
Kagome felt her lips curl into a goofy grin again, and Inu-yasha smiled as he watched her try to hide it behind her hand. He removed her hand with his and leaned in to let his face bask in her bright smile.
Not far away, Kikyo sat in a both with her back to the stage to look over her plans for the next week with Sesshoumaru. The dog demon sat rather casually as he talked over plans with Kikyo.
"You understand this came sort of sudden for us. Kagome had to take your place on stage," Sesshoumaru explained.
Kikyo nodded as she looked over her appointment with clients. "Yes, I understand! As long as she didn't mess around with any of my clients I'm not bothered by her presence."
Sesshoumaru held his tongue at that point, and decided it was best not to tell her about Kagome's incident with the drug. If it was a client, he would be in more trouble, but no one had complained. 'It was just a man wondering in looking for a good time. She just didn't know!'
Kikyo picked up her appointment book and closed it. "Sesshoumaru, Darling? How did you teach that girl how to dance so well, after all?"
The dog demon snorted, "I would have dumped her the first night. Inu-yasha taught her how to dance in three days." Sesshoumaru opened his daily paper and began to read as he picked up his pipe again.
Kikyo turned her head to look at Kagome as she helped pin the red, shimmering dress she wore. She eyed the girl very closely before looking at Inu-yasha who was talking to Miroku in the far corner of the stage. She turned back to Sesshoumaru and picked up her things. "Well, at least Inu- yasha has made her convincing enough on stage. I just hope he hasn't grown too attached to her."
"Actually," Sesshoumaru started as he closed his newspaper momentarily, "I plan to keep her around for other things. We need a girl like her to make costumes and use her seeming skills every now and then. She wants to be discovered in the fashion industry, and a lot of those people come here for a good time. Perhaps she can have her work discovered here."
Kikyo smiled and nodded. "I would agree, and with her new skills in dancing and song, I'm sure she will make a perfect dance partner during Inu- yasha's numbers. That way, people won't think Inu-yasha and I have a thing for each other any longer."
Sesshoumaru chuckled. "We'll make her one of the dancing girls."
Kikyo laughed as she picked herself up to leave. She walked out of the hall and back to her quarters while nodding to her fellow ladies as she left.
Inu-yasha finished his conversation with Miroku and Sango handed Kagome the red dress back before going off to handle another task. Kagome opened her chest and took out a needle to make the small adjustment on the dress as Inu-yasha prowled up to her. She sat down and began to sew when she felt Inu-yasha creep up behind her. "You should be going that in the overlook booth, shouldn't you?" he said trying to give her a hint.
Kagome smiled and got up slowly and took the dress and her needle to head to the stairway. Inu-yasha watched her for a moment before slowly sneaking away to follow her. Kagome turned around and smiled as Inu-yasha made his way closer to her. She placed the dress down in the booth atop the center table and put her needle safely inside as Inu-yasha came up from behind to pin her to the center column and make sure they were on the side that hid them from the eyes on stage. Kagome laughed silently as Inu-yasha pinned her wrists to the column momentarily before stealing a kiss. Slowly, he wrapped his arms around her and pressed her between his body and the post. He continued to kiss her softly and let her hands wander into his silver mane.
However, during their moment of hidden pleasure, neither had noticed the prying eyes of one individual who was smoking a cigarette in the back of the hall cloaked in shadow. He snorted as smoke puffed out of his nostrils and he put out the flaming stick of tobacco. Kouga watched as Inu-yasha gave in to his heart's desire, and Kagome ran her fingers threw his silver locks. He smirked as he watched both perform their forbidden act before shaking his head and looking at the smoldering cigarette in his claws. "So, Inu-yasha, this is why you have not been home these past two nights and daily meals," he said to himself as he chuckled and dropped the butt on the floor. "You know what you are, Dog Boy. Creatures of the night know what is forbidden in our line of work, and to claim one such being as your own and give your services freely to them is one of those rules."
He turned his spying eye back to the balcony to watch Inu-yasha look into Kagome's eyes and whisper in her ear something sweet. Kouga scoffed, "You think this is all a game, until someone catches you cheating."
Kouga pulled himself away from the wall and followed the shadows of the balcony to hide himself from his find until. He snickered at the column as he looked above, knowing that he would get his chance to get Inu-yasha back for everything.
Sesshoumaru sat in his booth reading his paper casually as he lit his pipe to enjoy a good bit of smoke before the rehearsal started for the day. He was just getting interested in his story when Kouga pulled the page he was reading from him. "Good morning, Master Sesshoumaru!" he said innocently.
Sesshoumaru scowled rather annoyed by his presence during his morning reading time. "Kouga!"
The wolf demon looked over the paper for a good headline. "An other bank was robed I see."
Sesshoumaru snorted as a puff of smoke passed through his lips. "Yes! It happened in Spain just the other day."
Kouga nodded with a smirk curling around his face as he jumped down from the rise and into the chairs that now covered the dance floor. "People shouldn't take things so freely should they?"
"Nope!" the dog demon said trying to return to his reading.
Kouga continued dropping his hints. "Take our services for example. It's illegal for us to have any affairs with women and then give ourselves freely over to them."
Sesshoumaru rolled his eyes and got out of his chair to grab his paper from Kouga. The wolf demon pulled way. "I mean, we are forbidden to have such affairs, are we not?" he asked innocently as a smirk spread across his face.
Sesshoumaru raised an eyebrow. "Yes, you are forbidden. Love is a mere figment of the imagination, and it will only cause trouble in the end if one so as believes in it."
Kouga nodded as made a stern face to show his understanding. The dog demon jumped down to grab his paper once more, but Kouga continued. "Yet, in the event that say Kikyo were in love with a man, what would happen?"
Sesshoumaru narrowed his brow. "Enough, Kouga! What are you inquiring?"
The wolf shrugged his shoulders. "I'm merely curious, Master."
The dog demon snorted as he snatched his paper from the wolf's claws. "In the event of such an affair, be it Kikyo or Inu-yasha for that matter, the relationship would jeopardize the Well de Rouge, and all our jobs. That is if they have not been discovered."
Kouga smirked as he drew closer to his master. Sesshoumaru snarled, "Such a relationship would lead us all to ruin."
Kouga grinned evilly for a moment before wiping it off his face to mock his master a little more. "Then, the relationship should end quickly before it creates anymore damage, should it not?"
Sesshoumaru took hold of the wolf's shirt. "What mockery is this? What are you keeping from me?"
Kouga raised his hands. "I have nothing to hide, my master. However, such events have unfolded, and the signs have flown..." he trailed off a bit to peer up at the balcony where Inu-yasha was whispering sweet nothings in Kagome's ear as she picked up her needle to fix the dress, "...over our heads?"
Sesshoumaru caught the direction of his glace and followed it until his eyes came upon Inu-yasha and Kagome. He stood behind her with his arms around her waist and held her close as he pressed his lips to Kagome's ear and made her giggle.
The dog demon's eyes glowed red and his demonic features popped out slightly as he growled in Kouga's face. The features melted away as he regained control of his emotions. He pulled the wolf close to him making him yip. "You breathe a word of this to a single soul, and I will eat you alive. Understand?"
Kouga took a hard gulp and nodded quickly as sweat formed around his brow. The dog demon shoved him away and glared at the events that took place before his very eyes, in his hall. Why had he not seen it before?
(I know, I know! Damn you Kouga, and "Oh no's are being cried out now. Keep faith, it gets interesting now. Even though I hate doing this to Inu- yasha and Kagome.)
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The lunch break came sooner than everyone had expected it too. Kagome began packing her chest and handed the finished red dress to Sango before locking it. Inu-yasha finished talking over steps with Miroku and the other gigolos before making his way to Kagome to aid her with the chest. He grabbed hold of the chest, "Let's go, I'm starved!"
Kagome smiled. "I have some meats for sandwiches? I got that bread you like the other day while shopping for cloth." Inu-yasha beamed as he picked up her chest. He followed her as they made their way off stage.
Suddenly, Sesshoumaru's voice roared from the stage, "Inu-yasha!"
Both of them turned around to look for him among the ladies and gigolos. The dog demon appeared from the crowd with a glare in his eye. "In my office, now," he ordered as he turned away to head for the doors back stage.
Kagome came to Inu-yasha's side. "What's his problem?"
Inu-yasha narrowed his brow and shook his head just slightly as he put the chest down. "I don't know! Must have lost his pipe, or something."
Suddenly Kouga leaned out from the booth beside them. "Perhaps! Yet nothing really ever is lost when Sesshoumaru keeps a watchful eye out. Nothing gets by him...even such events outside of this place."
Inu-yasha and Kagome gave him a weird look for a moment. Inu-yasha doubled back from the stage, and hiss face turned red as he filled with anger. "You stinking snitch!"
Inu-yasha went for his throat, but Kagome grabbed his arm. "Inu-yasha, don't!"
Inu-yasha's eyes glowed red, and Kouga smirked. His voice hissed as he tried to speak through Inu-yasha's grip on his collar. "Yes, Inu-yasha! Listen to your little wench. Kill me, and everyone will know the secret you hide from them."
Inu-yasha growled, and Kouga sneered, "I wonder what Kikyo will say if the great, Half Karat Diamond suddenly went soft."
Inu-yasha pulled him closer. "You wouldn't dare!" he snarled.
"Inu-yasha!" Sesshoumaru called out again. Inu-yasha shoved the wolf back into the booth, and let him fall into its seat. "You'll pay for this, I swear it!"
He turned to Kagome as her eyes began to swell. "Go to your hotel, and stay there until I come for you. With any hope, none of this has reached Kikyo's ears."
Kagome narrowed her brow. "What would happen if she does?"
"Inu-yasha, now!" Kagome jumped at the sound of his roar.
Inu-yasha grabbed her shoulders. "I'll come to you later, I promise." Inu- yasha looked over his shoulder for a moment and then returned to her. "I love you!" he whispered and made his way after Sesshoumaru.
Kagome looked at Kouga as he got out of the booth and rubbed his throat. The wolf looked at her with a smirk. Kagome glared at him. "What make you think you can be so cruel to do such a thing?"
The wolf sneered and leaned in closer. "I just did you a favor, Missy! Inu-yasha is a gigolo if you have forgotten, and in the event that you have let me remind you. He sells his body to women for pleasure. What makes you think that he would hand himself over to you freely and vow never to have sex with another women again?"
Kagome took a hard gulp but held her ground. "Inu-yasha's work has nothing to do with what I feel for him, nor what he feels for me. He loves me!"
Kouga snorted, "That's what you think! For now you have nothing to worry about, but when the curtain falls, and the show is over, Inu-yasha will be a gigolo again, and you a poor seamstress. The dream is over as soon as you take the last bow."
Kouga turned his shoulder and walked away from her, as Miroku and Sango came up to her from behind. Sango placed her hand on Kagome's shoulder as tears formed in her eyes. "It's all my fault! I shouldn't have come here. Grandpa was right. I should have stayed home."
Sango tried to comfort her, but Kagome slipped out of her grasp as flew out the door. Sango crossed her arms as Miroku watched Kouga disappear behind the stage. "I don't like this, Sango. Our musical could suffer if we loose Kagome."
Sango leaned into his body for comfort. "Sesshoumaru will be mad, but I have faith. Inu-yasha has gotten us this far; he won't let Sesshoumaru cut Kagome out of the play...and out of his heart."
Miroku looked at her. "Do you think he truly loves her?"
Sango looked at the curtain and leaned her head against his shoulder. "It's written in his eyes when he looks at her. He's not acting when he dances with her. It's love...true love!"
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Okay, lets stop right there for today! (Sound of audience whining) Hey! Leave more reviews and I won't leave you hanging all the time, okay? Besides, I haven't left a good cliffy in a long time. Keep the faith; it only gets more suspenseful from here on.
See you next time! (Oh, I am so evil!)
Well de Rouge an Inu-yasha X Moulin Rouge Tale
~~~~
PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING STATEMENT!!!
Reviewers, Readers, and Fans! Lend me your ears!
(Sudden, shower of ears fall on the author!)
...Eww! Okay I didn't mean literally!
Ugh! Okay, anyway, I'm taking this moment to tell you that I am fully aware of the events taking place in Fan Fiction and Lemon writers. On that note, due to the restriction of our rights and other people not taking such responsibility for their actions, I have decided to place my story on a back up file. I will not submit my writing to the Nazis that are pointing fingers at others work and possibly posting their own lemons with some deal. I have made my attempts to keep my lemon settings in this story at a safe rating. I'm a metaphoric writer; I don't always go into detail!
Now, in the event that "Well de Rouge" is removed from Fan Fiction, I will not make the multiple attempts to repost my story. Instead, I will simply take what they have handed to me, revise the story to accommodate the rules on the website and take it from there.
However, for those of you who like to read the original, here is the good news! MY FATHER MAKES WEBPAGES!!! With this information, I will place the original story in its entirety, uncut, on a site where mature audiences can access it. When I have this information available, I will post it on my Fan Fiction page for those to access the website and read "Well de Rouge" the way it was meant to be.
So, with that happy note, let's continue our story!
...Okay, um, you can come and pick up your ears now and glue them back on...Thank you!
~~~~~~~~~~
Chapter 14; Snitch
(This chapter is for all those authors who got their stories booted...and to their snitches!)
The days of summer seemed to go by quick, and the night the musical was to open was drawing near. Kagome had finished Inu-yasha's costume a few days after they had designed it together. She handed out all of the costumes to their owners and Shippo shined the new dance shoes that Sesshoumaru had generously ordered, but still expected to have the money that came in from tickets to pay most of the cost back.
Inu-yasha put on the red coat to see how it felt, and grinned as he inhaled Kagome's sweet scent imbedded in it. He made on circle to make the cape flap in the air as he stood before her on the stage while she locked up the chest containing all of the costumes. She smiled as she brushed a stray hair behind her ear. "Do you like it?"
Inu-yasha held the coat open for a moment and then straightened it out. "It smells like roses...and you!"
Kagome smiled and pinched a piece of the cloth. "I had to die it with rose petals and other red dies. I wanted the color to be rich and bright."
Inu-yasha lifted her chin and smiled softly. "Is it from our bed sheets?" he whispered
Kagome blushed, but smiled just the same as she tried to tame the same stray hair again behind her ear. Inu-yasha let a wide smile spread across his face as he twirled around to make the cloth flap in the air again. She giggled, "Oh, stop making me laugh! I feel so foolish!"
Inu-yasha came up to her with a disappointed look in his eyes. "But I like it when I make you laugh! You smile when you laugh, and I love your smile."
Kagome felt her lips curl into a goofy grin again, and Inu-yasha smiled as he watched her try to hide it behind her hand. He removed her hand with his and leaned in to let his face bask in her bright smile.
Not far away, Kikyo sat in a both with her back to the stage to look over her plans for the next week with Sesshoumaru. The dog demon sat rather casually as he talked over plans with Kikyo.
"You understand this came sort of sudden for us. Kagome had to take your place on stage," Sesshoumaru explained.
Kikyo nodded as she looked over her appointment with clients. "Yes, I understand! As long as she didn't mess around with any of my clients I'm not bothered by her presence."
Sesshoumaru held his tongue at that point, and decided it was best not to tell her about Kagome's incident with the drug. If it was a client, he would be in more trouble, but no one had complained. 'It was just a man wondering in looking for a good time. She just didn't know!'
Kikyo picked up her appointment book and closed it. "Sesshoumaru, Darling? How did you teach that girl how to dance so well, after all?"
The dog demon snorted, "I would have dumped her the first night. Inu-yasha taught her how to dance in three days." Sesshoumaru opened his daily paper and began to read as he picked up his pipe again.
Kikyo turned her head to look at Kagome as she helped pin the red, shimmering dress she wore. She eyed the girl very closely before looking at Inu-yasha who was talking to Miroku in the far corner of the stage. She turned back to Sesshoumaru and picked up her things. "Well, at least Inu- yasha has made her convincing enough on stage. I just hope he hasn't grown too attached to her."
"Actually," Sesshoumaru started as he closed his newspaper momentarily, "I plan to keep her around for other things. We need a girl like her to make costumes and use her seeming skills every now and then. She wants to be discovered in the fashion industry, and a lot of those people come here for a good time. Perhaps she can have her work discovered here."
Kikyo smiled and nodded. "I would agree, and with her new skills in dancing and song, I'm sure she will make a perfect dance partner during Inu- yasha's numbers. That way, people won't think Inu-yasha and I have a thing for each other any longer."
Sesshoumaru chuckled. "We'll make her one of the dancing girls."
Kikyo laughed as she picked herself up to leave. She walked out of the hall and back to her quarters while nodding to her fellow ladies as she left.
Inu-yasha finished his conversation with Miroku and Sango handed Kagome the red dress back before going off to handle another task. Kagome opened her chest and took out a needle to make the small adjustment on the dress as Inu-yasha prowled up to her. She sat down and began to sew when she felt Inu-yasha creep up behind her. "You should be going that in the overlook booth, shouldn't you?" he said trying to give her a hint.
Kagome smiled and got up slowly and took the dress and her needle to head to the stairway. Inu-yasha watched her for a moment before slowly sneaking away to follow her. Kagome turned around and smiled as Inu-yasha made his way closer to her. She placed the dress down in the booth atop the center table and put her needle safely inside as Inu-yasha came up from behind to pin her to the center column and make sure they were on the side that hid them from the eyes on stage. Kagome laughed silently as Inu-yasha pinned her wrists to the column momentarily before stealing a kiss. Slowly, he wrapped his arms around her and pressed her between his body and the post. He continued to kiss her softly and let her hands wander into his silver mane.
However, during their moment of hidden pleasure, neither had noticed the prying eyes of one individual who was smoking a cigarette in the back of the hall cloaked in shadow. He snorted as smoke puffed out of his nostrils and he put out the flaming stick of tobacco. Kouga watched as Inu-yasha gave in to his heart's desire, and Kagome ran her fingers threw his silver locks. He smirked as he watched both perform their forbidden act before shaking his head and looking at the smoldering cigarette in his claws. "So, Inu-yasha, this is why you have not been home these past two nights and daily meals," he said to himself as he chuckled and dropped the butt on the floor. "You know what you are, Dog Boy. Creatures of the night know what is forbidden in our line of work, and to claim one such being as your own and give your services freely to them is one of those rules."
He turned his spying eye back to the balcony to watch Inu-yasha look into Kagome's eyes and whisper in her ear something sweet. Kouga scoffed, "You think this is all a game, until someone catches you cheating."
Kouga pulled himself away from the wall and followed the shadows of the balcony to hide himself from his find until. He snickered at the column as he looked above, knowing that he would get his chance to get Inu-yasha back for everything.
Sesshoumaru sat in his booth reading his paper casually as he lit his pipe to enjoy a good bit of smoke before the rehearsal started for the day. He was just getting interested in his story when Kouga pulled the page he was reading from him. "Good morning, Master Sesshoumaru!" he said innocently.
Sesshoumaru scowled rather annoyed by his presence during his morning reading time. "Kouga!"
The wolf demon looked over the paper for a good headline. "An other bank was robed I see."
Sesshoumaru snorted as a puff of smoke passed through his lips. "Yes! It happened in Spain just the other day."
Kouga nodded with a smirk curling around his face as he jumped down from the rise and into the chairs that now covered the dance floor. "People shouldn't take things so freely should they?"
"Nope!" the dog demon said trying to return to his reading.
Kouga continued dropping his hints. "Take our services for example. It's illegal for us to have any affairs with women and then give ourselves freely over to them."
Sesshoumaru rolled his eyes and got out of his chair to grab his paper from Kouga. The wolf demon pulled way. "I mean, we are forbidden to have such affairs, are we not?" he asked innocently as a smirk spread across his face.
Sesshoumaru raised an eyebrow. "Yes, you are forbidden. Love is a mere figment of the imagination, and it will only cause trouble in the end if one so as believes in it."
Kouga nodded as made a stern face to show his understanding. The dog demon jumped down to grab his paper once more, but Kouga continued. "Yet, in the event that say Kikyo were in love with a man, what would happen?"
Sesshoumaru narrowed his brow. "Enough, Kouga! What are you inquiring?"
The wolf shrugged his shoulders. "I'm merely curious, Master."
The dog demon snorted as he snatched his paper from the wolf's claws. "In the event of such an affair, be it Kikyo or Inu-yasha for that matter, the relationship would jeopardize the Well de Rouge, and all our jobs. That is if they have not been discovered."
Kouga smirked as he drew closer to his master. Sesshoumaru snarled, "Such a relationship would lead us all to ruin."
Kouga grinned evilly for a moment before wiping it off his face to mock his master a little more. "Then, the relationship should end quickly before it creates anymore damage, should it not?"
Sesshoumaru took hold of the wolf's shirt. "What mockery is this? What are you keeping from me?"
Kouga raised his hands. "I have nothing to hide, my master. However, such events have unfolded, and the signs have flown..." he trailed off a bit to peer up at the balcony where Inu-yasha was whispering sweet nothings in Kagome's ear as she picked up her needle to fix the dress, "...over our heads?"
Sesshoumaru caught the direction of his glace and followed it until his eyes came upon Inu-yasha and Kagome. He stood behind her with his arms around her waist and held her close as he pressed his lips to Kagome's ear and made her giggle.
The dog demon's eyes glowed red and his demonic features popped out slightly as he growled in Kouga's face. The features melted away as he regained control of his emotions. He pulled the wolf close to him making him yip. "You breathe a word of this to a single soul, and I will eat you alive. Understand?"
Kouga took a hard gulp and nodded quickly as sweat formed around his brow. The dog demon shoved him away and glared at the events that took place before his very eyes, in his hall. Why had he not seen it before?
(I know, I know! Damn you Kouga, and "Oh no's are being cried out now. Keep faith, it gets interesting now. Even though I hate doing this to Inu- yasha and Kagome.)
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The lunch break came sooner than everyone had expected it too. Kagome began packing her chest and handed the finished red dress to Sango before locking it. Inu-yasha finished talking over steps with Miroku and the other gigolos before making his way to Kagome to aid her with the chest. He grabbed hold of the chest, "Let's go, I'm starved!"
Kagome smiled. "I have some meats for sandwiches? I got that bread you like the other day while shopping for cloth." Inu-yasha beamed as he picked up her chest. He followed her as they made their way off stage.
Suddenly, Sesshoumaru's voice roared from the stage, "Inu-yasha!"
Both of them turned around to look for him among the ladies and gigolos. The dog demon appeared from the crowd with a glare in his eye. "In my office, now," he ordered as he turned away to head for the doors back stage.
Kagome came to Inu-yasha's side. "What's his problem?"
Inu-yasha narrowed his brow and shook his head just slightly as he put the chest down. "I don't know! Must have lost his pipe, or something."
Suddenly Kouga leaned out from the booth beside them. "Perhaps! Yet nothing really ever is lost when Sesshoumaru keeps a watchful eye out. Nothing gets by him...even such events outside of this place."
Inu-yasha and Kagome gave him a weird look for a moment. Inu-yasha doubled back from the stage, and hiss face turned red as he filled with anger. "You stinking snitch!"
Inu-yasha went for his throat, but Kagome grabbed his arm. "Inu-yasha, don't!"
Inu-yasha's eyes glowed red, and Kouga smirked. His voice hissed as he tried to speak through Inu-yasha's grip on his collar. "Yes, Inu-yasha! Listen to your little wench. Kill me, and everyone will know the secret you hide from them."
Inu-yasha growled, and Kouga sneered, "I wonder what Kikyo will say if the great, Half Karat Diamond suddenly went soft."
Inu-yasha pulled him closer. "You wouldn't dare!" he snarled.
"Inu-yasha!" Sesshoumaru called out again. Inu-yasha shoved the wolf back into the booth, and let him fall into its seat. "You'll pay for this, I swear it!"
He turned to Kagome as her eyes began to swell. "Go to your hotel, and stay there until I come for you. With any hope, none of this has reached Kikyo's ears."
Kagome narrowed her brow. "What would happen if she does?"
"Inu-yasha, now!" Kagome jumped at the sound of his roar.
Inu-yasha grabbed her shoulders. "I'll come to you later, I promise." Inu- yasha looked over his shoulder for a moment and then returned to her. "I love you!" he whispered and made his way after Sesshoumaru.
Kagome looked at Kouga as he got out of the booth and rubbed his throat. The wolf looked at her with a smirk. Kagome glared at him. "What make you think you can be so cruel to do such a thing?"
The wolf sneered and leaned in closer. "I just did you a favor, Missy! Inu-yasha is a gigolo if you have forgotten, and in the event that you have let me remind you. He sells his body to women for pleasure. What makes you think that he would hand himself over to you freely and vow never to have sex with another women again?"
Kagome took a hard gulp but held her ground. "Inu-yasha's work has nothing to do with what I feel for him, nor what he feels for me. He loves me!"
Kouga snorted, "That's what you think! For now you have nothing to worry about, but when the curtain falls, and the show is over, Inu-yasha will be a gigolo again, and you a poor seamstress. The dream is over as soon as you take the last bow."
Kouga turned his shoulder and walked away from her, as Miroku and Sango came up to her from behind. Sango placed her hand on Kagome's shoulder as tears formed in her eyes. "It's all my fault! I shouldn't have come here. Grandpa was right. I should have stayed home."
Sango tried to comfort her, but Kagome slipped out of her grasp as flew out the door. Sango crossed her arms as Miroku watched Kouga disappear behind the stage. "I don't like this, Sango. Our musical could suffer if we loose Kagome."
Sango leaned into his body for comfort. "Sesshoumaru will be mad, but I have faith. Inu-yasha has gotten us this far; he won't let Sesshoumaru cut Kagome out of the play...and out of his heart."
Miroku looked at her. "Do you think he truly loves her?"
Sango looked at the curtain and leaned her head against his shoulder. "It's written in his eyes when he looks at her. He's not acting when he dances with her. It's love...true love!"
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