This is a crackish fic. I honestly didn't know where I was going with it, so I hope it's good. It's supposed to be fun and hopefully it makes you laugh.
Potential for the October prompt; Fear.
Plot: Kagome is a stripper….wait no that's not right.
.:o0o:.
The club was dark, with strobe lights going crazy in time with the beat of the song playing overhead. The air was thick, hazy. The crowd was wild and loud, specifically a group of women at a VIP table near the back of the club. The group of five women were all dressed in white, had veils and sashes that proclaimed them to be a bridal party. They were enjoying themselves thoroughly, already in a drunken stupor.
The bouncer at their booth shook his head, his long brown hair tied in a ponytail swished and he chuckled ruefully at the women. Icy blue eyes had been watching them all night, ensuring that no one wandered into their space and that the women themselves didn't become too boisterous as bridal parties tended to be.
In actuality, they were quite the opposite, these women were very respectful of the dancers, even in their drunken states. If anything, the drunker they got the more they attempted to befriend the dancers that rotated their tables. So far, the women had asked for skincare tips, hair product recommendations, beauty tips and techniques. The dancers themselves were more than happy to oblige, finding the high tipping women a welcome reprieve from the men groping them in every other part of the club.
The bouncer had thought he'd seen it all, but currently, as one of the brides had her head in a dancer's bosom, marveling at how soft her breasts were, he admitted that tonight topped his list of interesting nights.
Kagome Higurashi was drunk, it had been a long night of pub crawling and free drinks before the group had strutted happily into the night club. She patted herself on the back for a night well done. It was Sango's bachelorette weekend and by the looks of it the bride to be was having a wonderful night. The stripper she was slurring to was smiling at her indulgently and stroking her hair while Sango went on about bitter.
Bitter? Nah. Butter? Body butter? Yeah, maybe body butter. Probably.
Glancing at the other members of their group, she wistfully thought that they made a great sight. Everyone was in white outfits which went perfectly with the cheap veil headbands and 'bride' sashes. The store had been out of bridesmaid sashes and Kikyo thought it was a better idea that everyone's said bride. Kagome had to admit, it really made the night all the better.
Feeling a buzzing, the raven-haired woman jumped in surprise before reaching clumsily into her bra for cell. She had a message! Giggling, she swiped the screen, not for the first time this night she was thankful for whoever invented the feature that unlocked her screen with her face, it was all the better to drunk text with, my dear.
Stifling another giggle that still made its way out of her grinning lips, she brought up her chat with her longtime friend, Sesshoumaru.
'Where are you all now?' He texted. She was updating him on their night out, he was out with the guys for Miroku's bachelor party and Kagome was determined that the women were having a better time.
'We're nw att Scsndakos Scandalous.' Thank you autocorrect.
She dropped the phone in her lap as the dancers around the room rotated and they were introduced to a new girl, Sayuri. Their server, Suki, came with a tray of shots. Obviously remembering Kagura's initial order of 'shots at every rotation'. This was a dangerous drinking game; everyone knew the dancers rotated at every song. Their cute bouncer had no doubt seen more than a few scared faces and stepped in because Suki only seemed to pop up every five or so dancers. Thank God for cute bouncers.
With a cheer, the women knocked back their shots, sending the saccharine coconut rum to mix with whatever else they had been drinking.
Kagome's phone vibrated again, and she jumped. Snatching up the device, she caught Kagura's attention.
"Just who have you been texting all evening?" The russet eye's woman called, trying and failing to snatch the device in question. Her momentum landed her to lay in Kagome's lap. The cerulean eyed woman giggled.
"Sesshoum'ru." She said simply, her grin not leaving her face.
"Ooooh Sesshooomaru!" The other woman teased, moving her arms around dramatically. "Are you finally telling him how much you like him? Oh Sesshoumaru! Take me! Notice me!"
"Don't be silly!" Kagome hissed, glancing around to see if anyone else in their group noticed them.
"She's never going to admit it, she thinks it's better to be his awesome best friend." Kikyo slurred, rolling her eyes at what seemed to be an obviously regurgitated topic. "They talk all day and go everywhere with each other."
"People can be platonic best friends!" Kagome cried out, mortified that this was happening.
"Sure! But there's no part of you that wants to remain platonic. At least admit it to yourself." Kagura pointed out, glazed eyes serious.
"Gomeeee, don't let me get married without you telling him how you feel!" Sango called, she was dancing around their chairs, fresh singles in hand that Suki procured for her.
Kagome's phone vibrated again and Kagura snatched it up and unlocked the device with the code that she knew by heart. Kagome and her super easy passcodes.
"He said that we're sending a long ass voice note." The woman said, confused.
"Oh no! It's been recording us!" Kagome cried reaching for the phone. She hated that new feature that rolled in with the last update. She was always triggering the sensor and it would think she was trying to send an audio file. She caught it most of the time, but she still ended up sending people (namely Sesshoumaru) random audio of silence, jingling keys and her own muttering.
The women played keep away with the phone for a moment, none of them knowing how to stop the recording and even send it but enjoying teasing their friend. Finally, Ayame felt pity on her and handed it over.
"You guys are so mean to me." She grumbled, tapping the screen to un-trigger the sensor that she had yet to find. The screen flickered for a moment, seemingly unable to decide if it was locked or unlocked. Before it unlocked into the open conversation, she was still tapping the screen and accidentally pressed the send icon which was WAY TOO CLOSE to the trash icon and sent the almost ten-minute recording to her friend.
"Oh no!" She whimpered, holding down parts of the screen to try and trigger selection menus, good thing it was a large file and would take time to upload. Happily finding the delete option, she glared almost going cross eyed when the phone asked her if she wanted to 'Delete for just her or for everyone.'
'What a stupid option, of course for everyone,' she thought, tapping the screen again. Her blue eyes widened 'Audio-TSK0125_ 4 was deleted for YOU.'
"You guys…." Kagome groaned.
"What happened?" Kikyo asked, fixing Kagome's veil.
"It sent and I tried to delete it and and and it only deleted for me! So, its sent to him!" Her fright was clear on her face and the other women immediately felt bad. They never meant for that to happen.
"Well, maybe he won't be able to hear us over the music." Kagura suggested and they all latched onto this, each believing with all their hearts that the secret was safe. Just then their beloved Suki came by with not one round but two rounds of shots. Without a doubt advised by their super cute bouncer that the mood had shifted.
"There's nothing that can be done for it now, so drink up and let's enjoy the rest of our night." Kikyo said, patting Kagome's cheek. Said girl nodded sulkily and knocked back her shots dutifully. Kagura commandeered her phone and the night went on.
A few shots later, Kagome was spilling her soul to their newest dancer, Kayla. The red headed woman was sympathetic to her fear of heartache.
"You really should tell him though, you'll always be thinking what if." the exotic dancer intoned, stroking Kagome's hair behind her ears. Their VIP area had been talked about all night by the dancers, to the point where the women stopped going through the pretense of wiping the pole down for a dance. They came and took a seat on the edge of the stage or in one of the chairs by the group, just enjoying the happy energy being exuded.
A manager had come over to try and reprimand one of the dancers for not... well dancing, but the fury of five drunken women who were enjoying themselves stopped him up short. He had no argument as the women were being tipped for their time, it didn't matter that they weren't dancing for it.
"That's what everybody says, but I'm afraid to change things. What if he doesn't like me back?" Kagome's fear was clear, who didn't know the sting of wondering if your crush felt the same.
"You're going to have to put yourself out there girlie. And if he doesn't well, take time for yourself before you decide to continue the friendship." Kayla was nice, very smart.
The women smiled at each other when the DJ called for the rotation. It was amazing what you can get done in a 3-minute stretch.
"Suki, my love!" Kagura greeted, collecting the shot glasses of what Kagome had been suspecting to be sparkling water. They were brought shots for the last seven rotations and they didn't taste very alcohol-y. The girls really were too drunk to notice however, and there was no reason to get them blindingly drunk. It was enough to keep a good buzz. One of their original dancers took their stage and the women cheered, they had restarted the rotation! They toasted to that and knocked back their drinks.
"Kagoommeeee, dance with meee!" Sango cried, pulling the woman up on stage with her. It was against the rules, but they'd gotten away with so much already, they were practically family at this point.
The two were giggling and dancing for a while before they heard the first call of "Sesshoumaru!" They whipped around to see Kagura pulling the tall man past their favourite cute bouncer. Kagome's eyes widened and her mouth went dry as she froze in fear.
"He's Sesshoumaru?" Chiyo, their current dancer whispered excitedly, urgently. Sango, Ayame and Kikyo nodded happily while Kagome helplessly watched him walk forward confusedly.
"Kagome, you haven't been answering your phone." Sesshoumaru greeted, standing in front of the stage, Sango pushed the unmoving girl forward while Chiyo got the attention of the closest dancers, pointing to the tall blonde-haired man animatedly.
"Kagura took it from me, she said I wasn't enjoying myself." Kagome lied; her tongue heavy. She looked at him cautiously, trying to tell if he heard the voice note and was interested, or mad. Or if he didn't get it at all. Kami please be this option.
She took his hand and he helped her jump down from the stage, she was keenly aware that the dancers and servers were glancing over at them and giggling, she hoped he didn't notice.
"So, we're having the better time if you can manage to leave your fun and find me." She joked, hoping her smile met her eyes and that she didn't have that dumb terrified look on her face.
"Yeah, you guys won, InuYasha went home and took Miroku with him. Hiten is somewhere around." He looked around, pausing when he saw more than a few eyes looking their way with large smiles. He noticed a similar look on his female friends' faces.
"Kags, why is everyone looking at us?"
"Uhm, I might have mentioned you to a dancer or two?" She said hesitatingly.
"Come." Chiyo interrupted, tugging both their hands behind her. "You guys should talk."
Sesshoumaru looked over at Kagome sharply, but she shrugged helplessly. They passed more tables and Sesshoumaru noticed more strippers smiling and waving at them, Kagome was awkwardly motioning for people to cut it out. But it was too late, the situation was completely out of her control and Sesshoumaru was almost like a celebrity to all the women.
'Kill me now…' She thought morosely.
Chiyo led them to a set of rooms to the back, guarded by a large, serious bouncer. She was not leading them to the boom boom rooms. She was not paying for this!
The bouncer was unmoving without a ticket that showed they paid for the time, and Sesshoumaru looked ready to interrupt and say they were going to leave.
"Kyokotsu move! Kagome and Sesshoumaru need to talk!" Chiyo said forcefully, she looked ready to stamp her feet into the ground like a petulant child.
"Sesshoumaru! He's here?!" A voice called from behind the mountainous man, and a raven head popped up from the darkness. Chiyo pointed none too subtly behind her at the awkward couple, Kagome was still wishing the earth would eat her alive and save her from this situation.
'Any time now...' She thought.
"Jakotssuuu, I brought them here so they could talk in private." Chiyo pleaded.
"Get outta the way Kyokotsu, we can make an exception just this once." The man called Jakotsu intoned, pushing the larger man out of the way with surprising ease. He led them to a quiet room at the back of the hallway and ushered them in, closing the curtain with a wink. They could hear him and Chiyo giggle excitedly as they left them.
"Kagome, what is going on?" Sesshoumaru asked, completely bewildered. Kagome bit her lip in anxiety, wishing that the bar hadn't started watering down their drink. She'd rather be drunk off her face for this.
"Sessho, uhm. I don't know how to say this." She wrung her hands together. "Well, I wasn't planning to, but my phone recorded my confession and the girls ran away with it and it sent it to you and I couldn't get it to stop and so I cried to all the dancers and everyone's been treating me so nice and-" Her sentences ran into each other and her words just rushed out. She only stopped because he pressed a finger to her lips.
"Kagome, breathe and try again." He was holding her shoulders and she looked up at him biting her lip. He was so handsome, with his hazel eyes and light blonde hair. His strong jawline...
"I love you." She whispered, tensing after the words left her lips as if fearing a physical response. "I'm in love with you."
Her confession was met with silence and she didn't dare look at him.
'How about now?' She thought to the universe, still waiting for her one-way ticket to the earth's core. Her stomach dropped the longer he was quiet.
"Kagome." He said her name in that way she always loved, the tone he used when he was really happy. She still didn't look at him, unwilling to look too much into it.
"Kagome, look at me." He called, touched her chin, turning her head lightly. She opened her eyes, the fear and trepidation clear. "I love you too."
Her heart froze, did he just?
"You're so silly sometimes." He teased with a shake of his head and leaned in to kiss her. She kissed him back happily, throwing her arms around his neck.
'Nevermind, raincheck.' She thought to the universe, floating too high to want a sinkhole now.
He leaned back and took her in with a smirk, she knew she was still tipsy but this one was different from all his others.
"What's this about a recording now?" He asked, bringing her brain back to her rambling confession. She took a deep sigh; it wouldn't hurt to tell him she supposed. She repeated her story, slowly this time and he looked at her confused.
"I didn't get any voice note." He said, "I had been wondering why you disappeared. You were afraid you accidentally confessed to me?"
"Well if you didn't get it, then maybe I did delete it." her breath left her in a woosh when she realized that a misunderstanding led her to agitate herself into confessing her love.
Sesshoumaru shrugged, the night turned out great in his opinion. "C'mon, let's go before they think we're using this room for its intended use."
The two left the hallway hand in hand to feminine cheers and applause.
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"You okay in there Monk?" InuYasha called from the kitchen, his best friend Miroku had been praying to the porcelain gods for a little while now. The answering moan was pitiful.
"Keh, serves you right. You really should stop mixing your alcohol, you knew that last one would make you sick, you should have just chugged water like I did." He shook his head and reached for his phone, opening his last received messages, a text with the name of a strip club and an audio file from Kagome.
He pressed play again and heard the loud sound of club speakers peppered with some conversation that sounded distant; "Are you finally telling him how much you like him? Oh Sesshoumaru! -" Definitely Kagura
"She's never going to admit it, she thinks…" That sounded like Kikyo's voice
"People can be platonic best friends!" That was Kagome
"Sure! But there's no part of you that wants to remain platonic. At least admit it to yourself." And Kagura, right on the money as always. He stopped the recording with a smirk the poor drunk girl texted him instead of his brother, but it was all good because Sesshoumaru had been distracted the whole night and they were starting to feel tired anyway. He threw himself on the couch, ready to order some junk food and binge a tv show.
"Sesshoumaru better not say I've never done anything nice for him." He muttered.
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It's not horrific is it?
Much love!
-sora