The next morning when she got to work she took and carried the banana cream pie into the firm first then came back to her vehicle and got the big platter of fudge and her lunch. She placed everything on the lunch table except her lunch then clocked in and walked to her desk to start her work.
Sango's stomach started growling as she worked but she fought herself not to go to the lunch room to get a few pieces of the fudge this early in the morning, but as she was placing the messages in their rightful boxes Sango lost the battle with her body as she headed down the hall and grabbed a few pieces of the fudge and walked up the hall to Kagome's desk.
"You just had to bring these delicious things here didn't you." Sango took a bite of the fudge. When the Silvermoon's came to work and walked through the main door they smelt something good lingering in the air. The smell got stronger as they walked down the hall to their office's. "If your wondering what smells so good there are some baked goods that Kagome made and brought. I don't know how the pie tastes, but the fudge is really good. I should know because I've had four already." Sango stated before going back to her desk to try and work and the Silvermoon's went to their offices.
As Kagome finished putting away the files she walked away from her desk and headed to the ladies bathroom. On the way back to her desk she too was overpowered by the urge to take a bite of her own baking. Taking a piece of the fudge and bringing it to her mouth she took a small bite. Seeing that it was indeed very good she got a paper towel and put five pieces on it and walked back to her desk.
Sitting at her desk she started typing up the things that were left in the basket. Picking up a page she saw a note. Reading it ad not totally understanding it she walked across the hall and knocked on the door.
"Sorry to bother you, but I have a question about this page you left on my desk." She walked over and stood by Sesshoumaru's chair and laid the page down in front of him and bent slightly at the waist. "As I was about ready to type this page I saw the note on the side here and I was wondering if you wanted those typed into the page or would you want me to type it up minus the notes and staple this one to the typed up page?"
"Do as you have spoken." Sesshomaru answered.
"Which one? Please Sesshoumaru would you just give me a straight answer. I don't want to type this page one way and you wanted it some other way."
"Then type it up minus the notes and when you are done bring both copies to me." He looked at her in a side glance before she stood up taking the page and walked around his desk and out to her desk.
"Kagome you have a phone call on line one." Was heard over the speaker phone.
"Hello." Kagome listened to the person on the phone as she typed. "What do you need Souta?" She listened some more. "Make your way over here and we will talk about it." She hung up the phone and went back to her typing. Forty-five minutes later Kagome and her brother walked down the hall to the lunch room and took a seat. "Now enlighten me as to why I've got to let you use my vehicle tonight?"
"You see there is this new movie out and I kinda told this girl I would take her to see it. I know you said to give you at least two days notice. It just slipped. I'm sorry sis. So could I please take and use it tonight?" Kagome sat there thinking it over rubbing her chin as she watched her brother.
"This will be the only time. The next time you tell someone that you will take them out to a movie without asking me to use my vehicle first, you will be walking to the movies. Remember also what is not allowed in the vehicle."
"Thank you sis." He stood up when his sister did. He grabbed a few pieces of the fudge before they left the lunch room.
"Since this is a short notice on using the vehicle then put a little more gas in the gas tank then you would normally."
"Will you have a way home after work?" He asked as he took the keys.
"Yes I will get home just fine."
"Thanks again sis." He gave her a hug before leaving. Instead of getting back to her typing she headed back down to the lunch room and looked around for any kind of plate and found a small stack of paper plates and a knife. When she found the items she cut herself a slice of pie.
"Are you not going to finish that page that's needs to be done?"
"The page will get done. I just need to take a break. Would you like to join me?" She asked. A second later Sesshoumaru walked over and took a seat. "Would you care to try a slice of this pie?" She took a paper plate and put a slice on the plate along with a fork and put it in front of him. He ate there and looked at it then at her.
"What? You afraid that I poisoned it?" Picking up the one she was going to eat from and switched with his and took her fork and put a piece in her mouth, chewed it and swallowed. "Now if it was poisoned do you think that I would of ate any of it?" She took another bite of hers and throw away her fork and plate after she was done and went back to her desk leaving Sesshoumaru with the slice of pie.
"Here are my files and papers. I will see you tomorrow morning." Mr. Silvermoon said.
"Your not sick are you sir" Kagome asked.
"No nothing like that. For the rest of the day I have to be in court with a few of my clients. Don't let my son get to you." He walked up the hall and out of the building.
"Kagome are you ready for lunch?" Sango came up with her purse in hand before going to clock out.
"Not today Sango. I brought my lunch, but thanks for asking." Kagome stood up and walked with Sango and clocked out then got her lunch and sat at the table.
"Well see you after lunch." Sango headed up the hall and out the door. Sitting at the table Kagome took out her sandwich and laid it on the table then removed half of the sandwich and took a bite.
"Why do you choose to remain here to eat lunch?" Came a voice.
"Because I brought my lunch with me today and the other is because I let my brother take my vehicle. Besides, you're still here and have not gone to lunch. Do you have a big court coming up like your father and that's why you have not gone to lunch, but remained here?"
"No I have no big court case coming up. I just choose to stay here."
"But you have no lunch with you."
"I can get something later to eat." He walked over and got a paper plate and a fork then walked over and took a slice of the pie and started eating it as she got up and went over to the sink and looked for a glass or a cup to get some water. Looking in one cupboard after another she finally saw a package of plastic cups on the top shelf just out of her reach so she walked over to get a chair to stand on. Watching her bring the chair over and seeing what she was going to do he walked over and got the package and handed it to her.
"Thanks, but I could of gotten it." she said.
"That you could of done yes, but at a risk of falling as well. Then who would bring these good tasting deserts?" He said before finishing the last bite of his slice of pie.
"You like the desert."
"You saw me eat a slice did you not. Therefore it is worth eating." He went to walk out of the lunch room but stopped. "If at the end of the day you need a ride home let me know." Then he left.
After lunch Sango had come back and worked until 2:30 p.m. and Kagome had to take what things that needed to be typed and went up and worked at Sango's desk. When the time reached the point to clock out for the day she picked up the receiver and dialed.
"Could you send a taxi to this address?" Kagome gave the address then hung up.
"There was a offer of a ride free of charge given to you."
"Yes I know that you offered to take me home after work and I thank you for the thoughtful offer." She watched as a taxi pulled up. "Well see you in the morning." she smiled at Sesshoumaru before she walked out of the building.
The taxi arrived at the apartment just as Ayame was going up the steps. Kagome saw that her arms were full with groceries as Ayame turned to see what vehicle had pulled up. Kagome paid for the cab and got out and hurried over to Ayame and took a grocery bag.
"Why did you come home in a taxi? Where is your vehicle?" Ayame asked as both walked up to the apartment.
"My brother has it. There is this new movie out at the theater and he told this girl that he would take her to see it."
"Could you not of gotten a ride from Sango or even Mr. Silvermoon's eldest son?" Ayame followed Kagome into the apartment after she unlocked the door.
"Sango left at 2:30 p.m. and Sesshoumaru did offer to bring me home, but I chose to take a taxi." They walked over to the table and sat the groceries down so they could put them away.
"Tomorrow Kouga and probably a couple of others will be here for dinner so your going to have to cook enough for five people. So you have to double whatever you are going to make. I'll tell you tomorrow if one or two other people other than Kouga will be here for dinner."
"Before I go to bed I'll look for something that will feed 6-10 people and double it." Kagome told Ayame as she looked through the grocery bags to get another item to put away and found a bottle of saki/sake. "What are you planning with this?"
"Nothing. I got that to go with the other choices to drink."
Later on after dinner Kagome took a bath and soaked in a tub of hot water to relax. Due to being really relaxed Kagome went to bed without looking for what she was going to cook.
In the morning she got up a hour before the alarm clock. After getting dressed she went into the kitchen and looked through recipes to find something to cook for dinner. When she found one she went over and took the main ingredient and put the frozen ingredient in a bowl and put it in the refrigerator. She then looked at the clock to see there was enough time to make a quick fruit salad with yogurt then she was going to call a taxi.
As she finished making the salad she carried it and her fork over to the phone. Just as she was going to dial the phone there came a knock at the door. Placing her salad by the phone she went to answer the door.
"Are you ready for work?"
"Yes I'm ready. I was about to call a taxi." Kagome said.
"Save your money. I'll drive us both to work. Get what you need. I will wait in my car." Kagome turned and went in and grabbed her purse and her fruit salad that she did not have time to eat then walked out of the apartment heading down to the car and got in.
"Do you mind if I finish my breakfast? If you do I can wait until I get to the firm."
"You may eat your breakfast."
"Thank you Sesshoumaru, for going out of your way to give me a ride. That was nice of you." She took a bite of the salad.
"There is no problem, but you are welcome." Sesshoumaru answered.
"Wow you excepted a thank you and you are actually being nice about it as well." She smiled at him as she said what she did. Halfway to the firm Kagome finished her fruit salad.
At the firm Kagome did her everyday duties of filing and typing but today there was a change that she did not catch in the typing. As the typing was done she walked up the hall and placed the documents in the boxes then walked over to Sango's desk.
"So where is your vehicle this morning Kagome?"
"My little brother has it still from last night. I'm supposed to get it back sometime this morning."
"Ya, I bet catching a taxi adds up after a while." Sango answered.
"I did not ride a taxi this morning. I got a ride..." Sango held up her hand as she reached for the phone.
"Thank you for calling 'Taisho & Son Attorneys At Law." Sango listened to the person on the phone. "Hey what's up? Which Silvermoon are you wanting?" She listened again. "Hold on and I'll put you through." Sango pressed the hold button then another. "Sesshoumaru you have a call on line one." She hung up her end of the phone then looked at Kagome. "Sorry about that. Now what were you talking about Kagome?"
"This morning I did not take a taxi. I got a ride from Sesshomaru."
"You got a ride from Sesshomaru!" Shock laced Sango's voice.
"Yep. He showed up at the apartment probably not wanting me to be late as always."
"Miss Higurashi when you finish wasting time and money by gossiping I request you in my office."
"I'll be there in just a moment." She watched Sesshoumaru walk back down the hall to his office.
"It seems to me that the tension between the both of you has gone way down to where your able to work around each other comfortably it seems." Sango looked from the retreating Sesshoumaru up to Kagome.
"It may seem that way. I should go see what he needs." Kagome walked down the hall and knocked on the door as she proceeded to walk into the office. "Did you need my help with something?"
"It appears to me that you did not read the instructions on how to do one of the papers that I had you do. This page was typed completely wrong. Come around my desk and I will show you the way that I need this page re-typed to look like."
As she walked around his desk he had gotten up to retrieve a book off the shelf then walked back over and laid it on his desk. Opening it up he flipped through the pages until he stopped. "This is the way that I need that one there to be typed out to look like." He took the page out and handed it to Kagome but as he did their hands touched. They both looked down at their hands then she looked back up.
"I'm sorry about that. I'll go and get that page done for you." Kagome moved her hand to the desk to pick up the incorrect page and the other and left the room. She sat at her desk for a bit. "Why did I get so skittish when our hand's touched? That was so weird that I did that. Oh well I need to get started re-typing this."
A hour later Kagome printed up the document and took that copy and the one that Sesshoumaru took out of the big black book for her to look at while typing.
"Here is the document. I hope that it is the way that you wanted it." She walked up to his desk and laid both the documents down in front of him. He picked the freshly typed document up and looked it over.
"This is typed well." He looked at her.
"Do you need anything else before I head for lunch?"
"No there is nothing needing to be done. Go and enjoy your lunch." she turned and walked out of his office and went to clock out for lunch. As she walked down the hall and made it to Sango's desk she saw Sango talking to Souta.
"Great timing Souta." Kagome walked over to her brother and held out her hand for the keys. "So do you need a ride back to mom's or where do you need to be dropped off at?" Both Souta and Kagome walked out the door.
"If you don't mind I would like to have lunch with you then I can catch the bus back to the house." Souta said as he buckled the seat belt Since the shrine was a ways from the firm Kagome went to the closest restaurant and got something for the both of them and then drove to the shrine. "Are you going to come up to say hello to mom and grandpa?" Souta opened the door and got out as Kagome looked at her watch.
"I should get going, but I'll come up for a little bit." she turned off the engine and got out of the vehicle and both of them walked up the long flight of steps leading up to the family home as well as the shrine.
"Mom, I'm home and look who I had come up to say hello to you and grandpa." Souta went in and sat at the table and started eating his lunch that his sister had gotten for him.
"Kagome dear how have you been? It's great to see you. When are you going to come over to visit?" Her mother asked.
"I'll promise that I will come over tomorrow. It has been very busy lately. I'm sorry." They talked a bit more before Kagome looked at her watch to see what time it was. "I've got to go. If not I'll be late getting back from lunch." she hugged her mother then hurried out the door and down to her vehicle.
Several hours after lunch Kagome was glad to go home and get away from Sesshomaru who was being strangely kind. Driving into the parking area of the apartment she saw Kouga's vehicle.
"You look a bit happy today Kagome." Kouga voiced as she came through the door.
"Why should I not be happy?" Kagome walked to her room and sat her purse down and walked to her closet. Picking a outfit out she laid it down then walked out of her room. "I'm heading to take a shower so Kouga Stay away and out of the bathroom if you know what's good for you."
Getting out of the shower she went to her room and got dressed in a golden yellow T-shirt with dark blue capri pants and put her hair up into a pony tail and come walking out into the living room area and sat down talking with Kouga and Ayame.
"Shouldn't you be starting to get dinner going? It is already 5:30 p.m.. I'll set the table if you would like." Ayame mentioned.
"No I can do it. I just need to know how many places to set up." Kagome walked to the cupboard to get the plates.
"Well there will be a place for us three and another for the person that I called. So there should be four places at the table." Ayame and Kouga watched as Kagome sat four places at the table. Kagome went back into the kitchen and took the cookbook out and opened it to the page that she had marked. Looking at the book she went around the kitchen getting all the ingredients and sitting them on the counter then turned on the oven then looked for a big bowl.
After finding the bowl that she needed she placed it on the counter then went to the refrigerator and got the big package of hamburger and opened it and putting all the hamburger in the bowl. She then took a knife and started chopping up a big onion then put the chopped up onion in the meat. After which she took and put one cup of oats into the bowl instead of bread crumbs, next she opened a big can of tomato sauce and put the amount that it called for but doubled it. She mixed the rest of the other ingredients that she needed in.
In a medium bowl she mixed the that needed to be put on the top of the meat then spooned it over the meat. While preparing to stick her hands into the bowl to mix up the meat a knock sounded at the door.
"I'll get it Kagome." Ayame walked over and answered the door. "Greetings. Please come in and take a seat. Kagome is just starting to make dinner." Ayame moved aside to allow the person to come in. The person walked in and instead of taking a seat the person walked around looking at the small amount of artwork on the walls. Meanwhile Kagome was in the kitchen mixing the meat mixture with her hands until it was well mixed.
"Ayame could you come and get me a 13 x 9 inch baking pan please. I forgot to get it before I started mixing this stuff by hand."
"Sure." Ayame walked into the kitchen to get the baking pan for Kagome. Kouga and the other person walked over and looked into the kitchen to see what Kagome was making. They saw Kagome standing there mixing raw hamburger with her hands. "Here you are Kagome. Did you double it?" Kagome nodded as Ayame placed the baking pan down and watched as Kagome took handfuls of the raw meat mixture and put it into the baking pan and continuing that process until all the meat was in the pan then put ketchup on the top and spread it over the top.
"It's 5:45 now so in 45 minutes which will be 6:30 when this is down." Kagome turned to see the other person who would be joining them for dinner.
Author's Note
Who do you think it is that will be joining them? Could it be Hojo, InuTaisho, Bankotsu, Sesshoumaru, or Inuyasha? Find out in the next chapter."