A/n: Ok! VERY IMPORTANT! SEE! LOOK HERE! IN BOLD! MUST LOOKIE! The first part takes place in Sesshomaru's POV. I want to know how I did on that, because I'm really not sure if I want to do that again if I don't have the skill for writing in sesshou POV. OH! One last thing, Real time thoughts are presented in italics. Spiffy!
One last thing; the length of this chapter is somewhat exaggerated….I did shout-outs….so that's, like, ¾ of the whole thing x_x
Disclaimer: My computer is a cardboard box with a desktop drawn on it. With crayons. That I soon ate afterwards.
The Librarians Daughter
" God dammit Inuyasha!" I roared, pounding my fist on the expensive mahogany desk. A large crack sprouted from the center of my fist, snapping the table in half. Damn. I just wasted another good desk. " Do you know how many lies I had to feed that family just to get them to let you see her again?"
Inuyasha flinched, but I knew it wasn't because of my voice.
I let my anger boil for a minute before masking it. " You will go, and you will act like a civilized person. You will be polite and courteous, you will not fuck up this merger."
Inuyasha had gotten cold feet. Two years ago, when Kikyo's family had gotten wind that the love child of Japan's biggest company had proposed to their daughter, they sent her away.
It had been hard work to convince them that we would merge with them if they let Inuyasha marry Kikyo. For weeks, all of the headlines had been ' Shinimori corporation to merge with Tama industries.'
And now Inuyasha wanted to call it off.
No, I told myself silently while collecting myself. I would not let him mess up the biggest merger in history.
" Get out of my sights." I growled.
Stubbornly clutching to what little scraps of pride he had left, my brother marched angrily out of the room.
A crackly voice came over the tiny intercom that currently resided on the floor. " Your five o'clock is here, Sesshomaru-sama."
" Send them in. " I replied coolly.
[=]
My room was dusty, which probably meant that daddy hadn't been in here since I left. That hurt me a little, because now I knew how much I hurt him.
My room was still the same. My bed---though not as luxurious as the one I had left behind in Paris---was comfortable and warm, due to the shades that had stayed open during my time away.
My room was small, about the size of two SUVs parked side by side. My bed, which lay vertically across the north wall, was such a bright hot pink that it hurt my eyes. The desk, which was situated on the south wall, was painted the same color, save for the blend of purple that accompanied it. To my disbelief, even the TV was an annoying shade of pink. Even the frame around the single, wide arched window above my bed was pink!
Currently, I was snuggled into the inside of my hot pink comforter, still depressed. I had dusted off my old photo album (which I tended to do when I was depressed) and was looking at pictures of my family when father called me downstairs.
" Kagome!" My Dad called up to me. I've never heard my dad yell.
" I'm….coming…" I replied, though I said it so weakly and quietly I would be surprised if he heard it.
Quietly, I got out of bed and washed my tear-streaked face off in the adjoining bathroom. The bathroom too was dusty, also suggesting that my father hadn't had the heart to step into my room since the day I left. Slowly, I walked out of my room and down the stairs, already knowing who had come to see me.
Inuyasha.
He was sitting on my dad's plaid couch, holding the biggest bouquet of flowers I had ever seen. I wanted to swoon, but that would make me look stupid.
" Did you really mean what you said?" I asked softly from the foot of the stairs.
Inuyasha didn't reply at first. " No…" He coughed, obviously looking nervous. " I….uh…I, um, well, I got you these flowers." ….He was blushing.
I grinned ear to ear as I took the flowers from him. " Do you want to stay over for dinner?"
"I….I-I'd like that."
I could have sworn I saw that happy look in his eyes again. When I did a double take, it was gone.
" What's for dinner, dad?"
" Ramen!" He answered.
I nearly sweat dropped. My dad was a ramen maniac.
" But dad…I just got home today…can't I have oden instead?" I put on my biggest pair of puppy dog eyes.
" But Kagome….!!" My dad whined in a childish voice.
" Ugh…" Oh my god. I was stuck in a house where my dad was child. In the kitchen, I heard my dad conversing with Inuyasha about the many flavors of ramen. Great. Make that two pairs of children.
This isn't fair. I concluded silently, watching the two fight over which ramen would be cooked. I just got home---we should be having oden!
" Fine!" Inuyasha shouted in annoyance. " We'll have oriental!"
Instead of glaring at him like a good father would do for yelling, my father jumped up into the air holding the pack. " YEAH!"
I am so going to be sick.
[ After Dinner…]
" Good bye Inuyasha!" I called, waving my hand in the air politely.
Inuyasha and father had become good…..uh….'ramen' pals over dinner. Inuyasha, who was currently walking down the slim path towards the mansion, stopped for the last time to wave goodbye to the both of us.
As much as I hated ramen and as much as I hated to admit it, the dinner was overall good. When we weren't having friendly conversations we were sitting in a nice comfortable silence.
When we weren't doing either of the two, Inuyasha and daddy were fighting over which ramen brand was better.
I walked up the stairs lethargically and sat on my bed. I decided that I would finish up looking at the rest of the photo album. Without realizing what I did, I shut the book so hard; I could've sworn I heard something hit the floor with a muffled plunk below me.
It was cold and spindly. For a moment I panicked, thinking it was a spider. But when I felt that it had no legs…I was sure that it had to be a chain of some sort. I held it up to the window.
I gasped. It was the locket Inuyasha had given me as a child! The locket itself was truly breathtaking, a single gossamer strand of gold clutching a small, oval locket with a star-shaped diamond embedded into the gold.
I didn't want to wreck it so as gently as I could I pried it open. I could remember the day Inuyasha gave it to me. He had come back from a business trip and blushing, he gave it to me. Of course, this was all before that girl arrived, I thought bitterly. Inside was a picture of Inuyasha at age sixteen.
For a moment I was touched that he would give me such an expensive gift.
Jerk! I thought Silently. What kind of guy gives you a locket with a picture of him glued inside. What an arrogant bas—
I stopped my train of thought there, thinking that it was nothing to rant about. I could easily paste a picture over his. But…would I have the heart to do it?
I set the locket down beside the flowers Inuyasha gave me on the bedside table bolted down next to my bed.
Sleep came to me easily that night.
[morning…]
" KAGOME!!"
No answer.
I knew it was Sango. I knew it was past twelve. I also knew that tomorrow would be the day of the party. I just didn't care.
" Fine." I heard Sango fume from somewhere above me. " Your dad told me how you wanted oden yesterday. I figured I could bring you some, but if you keep sleeping in…."
Oden! Sango brought oden! I was out of bed in milliseconds and tackling her to the ground.
" Sango!" I shouted. " I LOVE YOU!"
I admit I was over reacting, and I still feel ashamed that I did. But… hadn't had Oden in two years and…uhm….thirty-seven days! That's like going without chocolate, but worse!
" Nice to see you Kagome. I think I just broke my back." Sango shed as she tried to get up, but to no avail.
" Stop overreacting!" I said as I helped up Sango.
" Me?" She asked incredulously. " Overreacting?"
" Well, whatever! I'll get dressed and we can eat oden!" I felt Sango's glare burn into the back of my neck. " Uh, and go shopping."
Deciding that I didn't want to incur the wrath of the almighty Sango-sama, I got dressed as quickly as I could. True, I looked a bit on the frumpy side, but Sango helped me smooth out the wrinkles of the dress I was wearing.
The dress I was wearing wasn't all that pretty; plain even. It dipped low in the front, displaying a modest amount of cleavage, unlike some of the dresses I've seen in Paris. The dress was held up my two spaghetti strands and colored a deep navy. The best thing about the dress is that it flared out to below the knees, and the hem was embroidered with silver stars. Sango even helped me find a choker for the dress.
" You're going in that?" I asked, all dressed up for the day.
" Hey! I like my canvas overalls. They're durable, and plus they match with my favorite blue shirt." Sango twirled, showing off her outfit. I felt kind of happy too, because she was wearing the shoes I sent her from Paris.
" Well, anyways….Are we taking a cab?"
Sango sweat dropped. " A cab!? You mean you haven't even got your own car yet?"
I nodded.
" Well, I guess we'll just have to take mine."
" No way!" I cried, shocked. " You have your own car? How did you get the money to buy one?"
" I hit gold when I found a new job." Sango grinned. " No more McJobs for me! I'm a fashion designer now!"
Hardly believable, I thought. Sango couldn't even match colors on a chart.
" Oh…." I sighed. " Well, where's it parked?"
" Outside. It's all ready One o'clock, Kagome-chan."
I twinged in annoyance at the chan at the end of the name. Two years ago I wouldn't have minded it but now when I was a woman, it was just annoying. I wanted to tell her that I was grown up now, but I sealed my lips and followed her silently outside.
" This is it!" Sango said, pointing to the VW beetle that was parked in front of our countryside house.
" I like it….but this lime color is kind of weird."
Sango beamed anyways while opening the doors.
" It's small in here." I concluded. Duh.
" I wanted to get a small car because I really don't need a large one---really, the only person I tote around is either Kohaku or Grandma Kaede."
I was about to reply when she shoved something in my face.
" It's oden. Eat it on the way there, we've got time."
I opened the container and began to eat the oden with the spare chopsticks Sango had packed. Suddenly, It struck me. Sango just wanted to go to the mall…she didn't know I was going to the party.
" Sango!" I blurted out. " I gotta tell you something."
" Eeeew, Kagome-chan!" Sango cried as she looked at the dashboard. " You got oden pieces all over the dash board….and me!"
Mortified, I turned to the dashboard. Sure enough, there were oden pieces parked on the top of the dashboard. I wiped them up with a napkin.
" Sorry, Sango." I replied still in my mortified daze. " But Inuyasha invited me to the party tomorrow!"
Sango swerved off the road. " I—Inuyasha did that!?"
" Jesus Christ!" I cried as we hit the gravel. Sango swerved back onto the road. " Remind me never to tell anyone driving anything shocking news."
That was two times in two days that someone had swerved off the road. It was a good thing Sango and me were on a scenic road, or we'd have been nothing but mangled corpses right about now.
Sango was smiling. " You know what this means, Kagome-chan~!!"
My mouth dropped open in horror.
Shoe shopping. Dress shopping. Makeup shopping.
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As most of you can conclude (word of the day~!), this is a filler chapter. It's about….oh….seven and one fourth pages. Uh….that doesn't make sense. Anywayz!
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