The air had gotten colder as the sun had moved across the red, orange, and yellow painted sky. Inuyasha took another look around where he stood and stared at his watch.

"Five thirty," he said. "She's not coming. I know it. Why did I ask her to come anyway? Why?"

Someone had tapped him on the shoulder. Turning around, he was surprised it was Kagome.

"Hey!" she said in a cheery. "Sorry I was late. I was having a hard time getting here. Also I was having trouble finding something to wear."

He examined her outfit with great interest. She wore pink boots that resembled tennis shoes somewhat, a blue jean skirt with pleats, and a pink shirt that were the same type of pink as the boots. "You look nice." Damn nice. You look hot. Too hot. . .

Kagome grinned. "Thanks." Sesshomaru is going to love this outfit.

He shook his head, snapping out of the trance he was in and held up two tickets. "I already bought them so we can go own ahead."

She nodded and the two proceed into the huge well-lit building.

A crowd of people gathered on the inside. Most of them were couples, young and old.

Inuyasha lead her down the hall and into a darkened room where the movie had already started.

Kagome pointed to two seats in the middle since the all the seats at the top were occupied by kissers.

"We missed about thirty minutes of the movie," he said, relaxing into his seat.

"Sorry about that," she said. "It's an good movie. You'll like it."

"You seen this before?" he asked. "So have I."

"You thought I didn't see this movie so you decided to let me see it. That's nice of you." She smiled over at him.

He couldn't help but blush looking at that girlie smile. "I guess we can go someone else if you want."

"No it's fine," she said. "I like watching Kikyo. She's a great actor."

"Did you know she used to go to our school?" asked Inuyasha.

"Yeah. She graduated not too long ago and was a honor student."

"She graduated with my brother. They were somewhat friends."

"They fought?" she asked.

"Fought? Hardly. Kikyo was too nice to talk back to anyone. That's what made my brother always tick. People used to make fun of Kikyo or talk bad things behind her back and she'd never do anything about it. She didn't care what people thought of her. So my brother decided to take a vow to make her get upset. He almost gave up because she just laughed at everything he said about her or she'd calmly tell him off without getting upset. One day I guess Kikyo wasn't in the mood for any bull and when Sesshomaru said something to her, she instantly blew up and said every cuss word that could have been said in the world. Everyone was surprised at her. From then on, she's been a regular person; saying everything that was on her mind and cussed everyone out now and then."

Kagome couldn't help but laugh at the story.

A few people in the audience made "shhh" noises that made her turn her laughing into giggling.

Inuyasha yawned. "This movie was good the first time. Now it has gotten boring."

"I know what you mean," she said, ceasing her laughs. "It's the same with every movie for me. Well...except this one movie I saw. Hell Inferno."

"That's the one with Naraku in right?"

"Yeah," she said. "It's a movie about this hot guy having some kind of special power to predict what will happen in the future. Unfortunately, he can only predict bad things happening to people. He started to go around trying to save all the people he foresaw getting killed or hurt."

Inuyasha nodded. "Then one day he got this prediction that someone, who was Naraku, was coming to kill him and he had to find a way to prevent that from that happening."

Kagome started to think about the movie and shook her head. "The way the people were killed was scary as hell..."

He laughed. "I thought it was cool."

"Whatever."

Instead of actually paying attention to the movie, the two were talking about past movies they'd seen. Much better than what they were watching.

The two had walked out of the movies, laughing at the long talk they had.

"I didn't think you were the humorous type," said Kagome. "You seem like an antisocial person when me and Kali met you."

"You two just caught me on a bad day," he said. "But don't think I'm mister sensitive or anything 'cause I'm not."

She smiled. "If you say so."

They were just about to walk outside of the theater when Kagome spotted Sesshomaru.

Oh my God! He's not supposed to be here for another thirty minutes!

She grabbed Inuyasha by the arm just before he reached for the door's handle.

"What's wrong?" He asked with a puzzled look.

"Nothing," she said. "I was going to tell you that I'm staying here for a little bit." She smiled. "I had a great time with you."

He blushed. "So did I. Well, um, I'll see you on Monday then."

She nodded and waved to him as he walked off. Thank God. That would have been bad if Sesshomaru saw us together. . .

She walked outside to greet him. "Hey!"

He turned to meet her and grinned. "Oh hey! Were you inside the whole time?"

"Yeah. It was too cold to stay out here."

"I don't blame you," he said. "With what you're wearing. You don't even have a jacket."

Kagome frowned. "You don't like my clothes?"

Sesshomaru blinked. "Of course. You look great. I never said I didn't like them."

"I know," she said. "I was just playing with you. So what are we going to see?"

"Well...there's been a slight change in plans. My boss at the bar where I work wants me over there tonight."

"Oh," she said, a bit of disappointment in her tone.

He placed his soft hands on her warm cheek. "I asked him if you could come while I work and he said yes. Even though you're under age, he'll let you in. However you're not allowed to drink or smoke in there."

"Okay," she said, putting on an innocent face. My mom would kill me if she knew what I was about to do.

Sesshomaru pulled up to a colorful building with numerous signs on the side. Hundreds of people were lined outside as five security guards walked up and down the isle.

Kagome examined all the people that were obviously older than her but didn't seem like it.

"Some if not most of the people out here are actually teens," Sesshomaru said to her as they walked to the back of the building. "They have these fake IDs and the guards let them go by even if they don't look anything like the people on the card."

"That's not good," she said. "I guess they don't care as long as they get paid."

"Bingo."

The sun had finally gone down and made the alleyway where they walked pitch black.

Kagome walked beside Sesshomaru as close as possible, afraid of what could pop out of the darkness as they continued deeper into the alley. He hooked one of his arms around and noticed when she seemed to relax onto him.

After what seemed like a long walk, they had made it to the door that had a purple florescent light attached to it. Sesshomaru opened the door and waited for Kagome to walk in. She slowly went inside as the warm air from inside hit her.

The room was dirty and empty. It reeked with vomit and beer.

"This way," he said.

She followed him into another room that was much cleaner than the one they were just in.

There were girls walking around in skimpy outfits, getting ready for whatever they were about to do. They reminded Kagome of the showgirls she often saw on TV.

One of the girls whistled at her while the others just waved.

"Sorry girls," said Sesshomaru, smiling. "This one's mine." He led her into one final room. The main room where everyone that were outside were coming inside.

The room was partly dark with a few flashing lights and had a girls dancing in small cages above them. Over on the huge stage were more girls dancing by men that were rocking to metal tunes on different music instruments.

"This place is full of girls," muttered Kagome.

"That's because most of the people that come here are men and the girls that come are lesbians," said Sesshomaru. "Sorry I didn't tell you before."

She shook her head. "It's fine. As long as none of them come over towards me, I'm okay."

He chuckled and waved to the person that approached them.

It was a young man about the same age as Sesshomaru. He had white, spiky hair with purplish gray eyes, and wore punk-like clothing.

"Sorry about calling you on your day off from here," the man said. He had loud voice. Either it was actually loud or it was because of the ear-bursting music that played that forced him to raise his voice.

"It's okay," he said. "Kagome didn't mind." He gently pulled her to his side.

The man grinned. "She's a cute one. You two make a nice couple."

Kagome blushed as Sesshomaru lowered his head to kiss her on the forehead.

"You'll just be working at the bar tonight," the man said. "One of my guys got sick and had to leave."

He nodded. "I bet he was having shots with the customers." He walked over to the bar as Kagome tagged along.

"Do you want me to help you?" she asked, watching him prepare drinks behind the long table.

"No I got it," he said with a grin. "I want you to enjoy yourself. Have a look around, but stay away from those men. None of them will just want to talk with you."

Kagome smiled and walked off. She made her way through the crowd of dancing people and headed over to the stage.

The men singing looked as if they were stoned. Their voices were extremely deep and dark-sounding. They were sweating and moving around the stage dopily. Even though the men looked horrible, their music wasn't bad...not bad at all. Kagome began to dance with everyone else as the men continued to scream. She was having fun already.

When they music stopped, everyone roared as if they were at a live concert.

"Alright," said one of the men on stage. He was an extremely tall man with long wet hair that went in every direction on his flushed face. The black and white makeup he wore was melting and he was panting hard. "It's that time of the night were we have our dance battle."

The audience cheered.

"We need three people from the crowd to participate," he said, pointing in random directions.

The noise of the crowd had gotten louder as hands flew up in the air.

The man had picked three girls; one of them was Kagome.

She was surprised that he had pointed at her when she didn't even raise her hand. Dancing was something she loved to do. Not being the shy type, she excitedly walked up on the stage with the other two girls. One of them looked as if they had too much to drink and could collapse at anytime. The other looked as somber as Kagome was. Maybe she might have some competition.

The three lined up next to each other, in front of the man. One by one, he asked them the same questions.

"What's your name?"

"Do you think you'll win?"

"What are you going to do with the money if you win?"

"Are you single?"

The first up was the drunken girl. The music had barely begun before she fell off the stage and the hyped crowd caught her. They surfed her across the room until she landed at one of the sofas in the far back room.

Next up was the girl that went by the name Taiga. As soon as the music started, she was moving. Her movement was excellent. Perfect to the techno music that was playing. She used the entire stage and the singing men to her advantage as if she were one of the dancers in a music video. When the music was over, she gave Kagome a smirk and a flip of her hair.

Bitch! Who does she think she is? I'll show her. . .

When Kagome's name was announced, Sesshomaru instantly looked up from were he was working and gaped. When did she enter the dance battle? He asked himself.

When the music begun, she quickly started. The song was different this time. It was faster than the others that had been played. Just what she liked to dance to. Her feet were in a blur as arms swung around in every direction she moved. She was great.

Even the crowd thought so. They never seen anyone danced the way she did. They jumped and hollered until the music was finally over.

Kagome grinned and stepped back, sticking her tongue out at the lady like a kid. The lady rolled her eyes as the two waited for the man to announce the winner based on how the audience reacted.

"And the winner for tonight is...Kagome!"

Everyone cheered as she jumped up and down screaming as if she had won one million dollars.

The man had given her five hundred in bills and two hundred to the second place winner, Taiga.

Kagome walked off the stage and was shocked at the crowd that had gathered around her.

"Where'd you learn to dance like that?" one person asked.

"You could go places with that type of talent," another person said.

"Can I have your phone number?" someone else asked.

Managing to slip through the crowd, Kagome started to make her way back to Sesshomaru. How proud of her was he going to be when he saw her walk up with five hundred bucks? She was almost there until someone stopped her. A tall and rather handsome man with long jet black hair and brown eyes. The browns were barely visible because of the redness that filled them. He had been smoking.

Kagome moved around the man, but was stopped by him once again.

"You are in my way," she said not looking up to meet those red eyes.

"I know," he said, in a calm voice. "Wanna talk?"

"No."

"Come on...I won't bite."

"Move."

"Do you think I'm going to hurt you?"

"I said move," she said, raising her voice.

He grabbed her by the arm. "Listen lady-"

"Let me go!" She struggled to release her arm from the strong man's grip but he was too powerful.

"I'm not going hurt you," he said, leaning his head down towards her neck.

She could feel his heavy breathing on her neck as awful smoke fumes released from his mouth. "You're hurting me now." Using the other hand, she punched him as hard as she could in the jaw. Her knuckles where throbbing.

"You bitch!" He raised his hand, preparing to strike her but was suddenly stopped when he felt a blow to his head and was knocked to the floor.

"You picked the wrong girl to mess with," Sesshomaru said, rubbing the hand he used to hit him. "Kagome are you okay?"

She nodded, sort of shocked at what he did. "Can you take me home?"

He hugged her, pulling her closer to him. "Of course."

Kagome walked up to the house with the little light outside. She turned around to met Sesshomaru's eyes. They seemed even more beautiful in the moonlight.

"Sorry about what happened tonight," he said. "I shouldn't have taken you there. Something worse could have happened to you."

Kagome felt bad that he was blaming the whole thing on his self when it was her doing also.

"I wanted to go," she said. "So it was my fault also. When we were there, I should have stayed with you the whole time. Instead I walked off where anyone could have taken me away without your knowing."

He smiled a bit. "I guess turned out to be a bad day huh?"

She shook her head. "No. I got five hundred dollars. That's a great day to me."

The two laughed.

Sesshomaru leaned to Kagome to kiss her cheek but was stopped by her hand that lead his lips to hers. His soft lips against her cherry flavored gloss.

She felt weak-kneed as they finally parted from each other suddenly.

"I'm off from both of my jobs tomorrow," he said. "We can go somewhere. Somewhere more casual."

She smiled. "I'd like that." She kissed him again and walked into her house, watching him until he was clear out of sight.

The kiss had sealed the deal. They were finally a couple.