Kagome Higurashi, freshly graduated from university, was finishing unpacking her belongings in her new appartment.
It was the first appartment she got by herself, living before with her best friend Sango in the university dorms. Only a few boxes remained, since her brother Sota, her mom and Sango helped her unpack most of her stuff the previous day.
But still, she was determined to have everything setup by tomorrow, since Tuesday she started her new job as an historian at the new research faculty in Kyoto.
They were specialized in the study of the Nippon Sengoku Jidai era and Kagome had been accepted on the team responsible for the studies of the evolution of the yokai population starting from that era. Recent researches had concluded that their population decreased drastically in a span of 50 to 75 years in that era, and they now wanted to determinate how it happened and why.
Yokais still exist as of today, but they are a minority and are blended in the human population. Pure blood yokais were very rarely seen, having massively disappeared in the past 500 years. It was known that some humans were descendants of both yokai and human ancestors, but with the decrease of the yokais, each generation of hanyos (beings who were half human and half yokai in the beginning) were becoming more and more human, which meant that their yokai's blood was mostly undetectable in this present generation.
Kagome was unpacking a box of miscellaneous items with Sango, who came back today to help her.
"Come on, Kagome! We have to celebrate tonight! You didn't have time to do anything else than finishing your thesis, job and appartement hunting and then moving to your appartment in the past month!" said Sango, enthusiastically.
"Sango... I already told you I want to finish unpacking and also do the grocery and buy things I'm missing before I start to work. I only have tonight and tomorrow to do that!" answered the slightly irritated woman.
"We'll be done unpacking in about an hour! And you can go shopping tomorrow. Please it would be so nice to have a girl's night out! It's been forever... Please..." said the brown headed girl with kitty eyes like those of the puss in boots in the Shrek movies.
"I don't know Sango... I..."
"There's this bar not far from here that I've heard has only good reviews. I would like to try it out! But I can't go without my bestie!"
"But..."
"No buts Kagome. Unless it's nice butts belonging to single good looking men." Sango cut her off, smirking.
"Sango!"
"Kagome!"
"Arg fine!" gave up Kagome, throwing her hands in the air out of defeat.
"That's my girl!" shouted her friend, doing a little victory dance.
A few hours later, the two girls were dolled up and walking to the "Wolf's lair" bar.
"What a strange name for a bar." thought Kagome out loud, as they were crossing the road in the direction of the entrance.
"Maybe, but it's very well noted so..." answered her friend, shrugging. "Anyway, as long as they have good music, not too expansive drinks and a lot of people there, I'm sure we'll have fun!"
They waited a bit in line, than the bouncer let them in, not without a wink towards Kagome who rolled her eyes.
She was definately not going there to hook up, especially since she wasn't totally over her not so recent breakup with her ex boyfriend, Bankotsu. He had cheated on her on multiple occasions, and when she learned the truth, she dumped his sorry ass. She was still hurt. She had loved and trusted him for four years, but on his end it seems that he got bored with her after one year, since he cheated on her for the first time not long after their 1 year anniversary. She has no idea how many times he did that, only that it was going on for three years and that it had been with at least five different women.
Kagome shuddered at the thought that she unknowingly slept with someone so disgusting. Fortunately, he didn't give her any unwanted disease. It seems he was at least decent enough to use protection...
"Kagome. Kagome are you listening?" said Sango, snapping her fingers in front of her friend's eyes.
"Uh? What? I'm... I'm sorry I was not listening. You were saying?" answered the black haired girl, startled.
"Geez Kagome. Were you still thinking about that jerk? It's been five months that you threw the trashes out. You should keep your eyes open, the right one is probably out there, waiting for..."
Sango interrupted what she was saying, her eyes drawn to the other side of the bar, where a very cute guy was laughing with a group of people. He had short black hair and was wearing a deep purple shirt over black jeans. His ears were pierced, one ring on one side and two on the other.
"you..." continued the brown headed woman, staring at the man who turned around and noticing her gaze on him, winked at her.
"Oh oh... Sango I know that look. That's your hungry look. You're not going to..."
"Sorry girl! Mea culpa!" answered her friend, already walking towards the guy, drawn like a moth to a light source.
"...leave me alone..." Geez that girl! Convincing me to come here and than dumping me as soon as she sees an interesting guy. I know she's been on a dry spell for a while but, come on... thought Kagome, frowning.
Sighing, she decided to at least have a drink before heading back home. She walked to the bar counter and sat on one of the high stools, turning her body slightly to stare at Sango from afar, still frowning.
"Hey, something's wrong?" asked a masculine voice.
Kagome looked in the direction of the voice, and saw a golden pair of eyes watching her.
"Hum, no, nothing's wrong. Just bored."
"Alright. Can I serve you anything to drink?" asked the man behind the counter.
Without thinking, she asked "Yeah. Do you happen to have a drink named "my friend abandoned me to hook up"?"
The bartender snorted slightly and gave her a crooked smile. "No, but it should definitely exists. Happens to the best of us."
"Then, what would you suggest me to get?" Kagome answered, smiling at the man in front of her.
"We have a special on bloody maries, half the regular price for tonight. Since you looked like you wanted to murder someone a moment ago, I'd say it's the right drink for you." said the bartender, smirking.
Kagome chuckled. "Yeah, you're right, I might want to murder my friend later. She abandoned me to flirt with a guy, over there." She pointed in the direction of Sango.
The bartender leaned a bit on the counter to look where she was pointing. He got a whiff of the girl's scent and swallowed. Holy shit, she smells so damn good! he thought.
"The one with the guy in a purple shirt?" the man asked, now looking at the woman in front of him.
"Yep."
"Hm. I know the guy. It's my friend Miroku. That guy's a real womanizer. But he's nice so you don't have to worry about your friend hooking up with a weirdo."
"Well, that's good. For her anyway."
"So, bloody Mary?" he asked.
"Bloody Mary." confirmed Kagome.
He then turned around to gather the ingredients he needed. She watched him while he skillfully prepared her drink. She was a bit surprised by his hair color, a kind of silvery white cascading out of the knitted beanie hat he was wearing.
He put her drink on the counter in front of her, his crooked smile revealing a fang. Oh my god, unusual eyes and hair color, fangs, this guy has either a strange sense of fashion, or he has yokai blood. Kagome thought, unwillingly staring. I can't believe it! I never saw someone who's hanyo's descendance is this apparent.
"Everything's alright?" asked the young man, smirking.
"Hum oh yes, thank you for the drink. Here's my credit card." she answered, slightly startled and face palming internally to have been staring at him.
He gave her her card back, with the receipt that she signed.
"If you need anything else, Kagome, just let me know". he said while taking back the receipt.
She shot a surprised look at him. "How did you..."
He pointed a finger to her credit card. Of course he saw your name on it, dumbass. She noticed that his finger was ending with a claw like nail.
He took a step back, heading to serve another customer.
Kagome snapped out of her thoughts. "Wait! What's your name?" she called out.
He turned his gaze in her direction and answered "Inuyasha." before giving her a two finger salute and heading to the customer at the other end of the counter.
Kagome sipped on her drink, watching Inuyasha preparing another bloody Mary for a man standing in front of the counter. She was really intrigued by him. Her historian side was squealing at the sight of him. Yeah, her historian side. Nothing else.
After finishing her glass, she turned to Inuyasha and mouthed a silent "Thank you" before heading to the entrance. She turned around just to check on Sango, and saw her passionately kissing this Miroku guy. Well, it seems she won't be coming back to my place tonight. She thought while walking back home.
It was nice outside. It was only a 10 min walk to her place, and the breeze that made her wavy black locks dance was refreshing.
As she arrived home, her cellphone vibrated. She'd receive a text from Sango.
Sango-chan: [Hey girl, I'm sorry (just a bit) I won't go back to your place 2night. I'm heading to his appartment! ]
Me: [I knew it!! Just don't forget to use protection ]
Sango-chan: [Don't worry, mom.]
Kagome plugged in her charger and put her phone on her night stand, before face planting on her bed in a dramatic way. She fell asleep soon after, wondering about how much yokai blood Inuyasha has... definately not thinking about how handsome he is.