Okay, here's the next chapter. This one's a lot longer than the others, but I figured all the parts I wrote about fit into one chapter well. So here it is!
Chapter V
"We pray for those who are sick, especially…"
The Takahashi family listened boredly to the Sunday Mass.
"So who's this…Kagome?" Inuyasha asked his father.
"I told you already. She's Sesshomaru's fiancée!" his father replied.
"Don't you think he would've announced it in the paper?"
"I always throw out that section."
Inuyasha looked skeptical, but he stayed silent.
"Did you get the Smith's old swords?" Mr. Takahashi asked Inuyasha.
"Yeah."
"What about the Andrews'?"
"Check."
"The Johnson's?"
"The Andrews took too long."
Mr. Takahashi sighed frustratedly. "Jesus, Inuyasha! You're running a business!"
"Don't swear in church!" Mrs. Takahashi reprimanded her husband.
"Dad, I need to tell you something," Inuyasha started.
"Tell him later," Mrs. Takahashi snapped.
Sango cut in. "Tell him now, Inuyasha. He can't kill you in church."
"Excuse me."
The family looked at the man in the pew behind them.
"You're disrupting the Mass!"
"Who made you the Pope?" Mr. Takahashi asked.
The family continued squabbling until the preacher ended prayer with an "Amen."
Meanwhile, Kagome sat at her kitchen table, preparing her cat's food and milk.
"Here, Buyo!"
When the cat in question didn't come, she took a chocolate chip cookie and dunked it in the cat's untouched milk. She reached down and brought Sesshomaru's briefcase onto the table. She saw his wallet, and she looked through the pictures. Most were of him in various outfits, but one was of a pretty young girl with short black hair.
Kagome bit her lip.
I hope she's not his fiancée…
Then a small can rolled out of his bag. Kagome picked it up, curious.
"Cat food. Hmm."
She picked up his keys, found his address on his suitcase tag, and walked out the door, cat food in hand.
When she arrived at the apartment, the doorman was arguing with another person, so she slipped past without them noticing.
As she walked into Sesshomaru's apartment, there was one thing that she noticed first—
"He's very…clean."
She headed to the kitchen, and she passed another picture of Sesshomaru in a tennis sweater. She dug through his drawers and found the can opener. She picked up the food and walked to the swinging door to find the cat. She pushed the door open.
"OWW!!"
The door hit someone behind the door hard and swung back.
"Oh my gosh!!"
Kagome slowly pushed it back to reveal Inuyasha holding his nose in pain.
"Nice job," he said.
"Oh! Here, I'll get you some ice."
She put down the cat food and opened the freezer. She grabbed a handful of ice and rushed back to Inuyasha. He held out his hands, but Kagome dropped some. She ducked down to pick the ice up and gave it to him.
"I'm sorry, I wasn't expecting anyone!"
He nodded. "How'd you get in, anyway?"
"Keys!" She jingled the keys in front of him.
"I guess you come here a lot…?"
"Uh, you know…feed the cat, clean up…" She trailed off.
Inuyasha's brow furrowed. "Sesshomaru doesn't have a cat."
Kagome froze.
Uh oh…
"Mroooow…"
Both of their heads turned. A fluffy gray cat came in to view. Kagome picked it up and looked at its name tag under the pretense of petting its neck.
"Fluffy…I bet you're hungry!"
What kind of name is Fluffy?
She walked over to the counter to set Fluffy with her food. Inuyasha followed, dumbfounded.
"He has a cat? Named Fluffy?"
"Weird name, huh? I don't know what made Sesshomaru name him that."
The phone started ringing.
"Are you gonna get that?" Inuyasha asked Kagome.
"Uh…no…The machine can get it."
He walked over to the phone and picked it up. Kagome bit her lip nervously.
"Hello?...oh…okay…" He looked surprised. "It's…for you…"
Kagome smiled and took the phone.
"Hello? Mmhmm…okay…bye."
She turned to Inuyasha's expectant face.
"It was the hospital. It's customary for friends and family to give blood, so they want everyone down there."
Inuyasha smiled and shrugged.
"Why don't we go together?"
They headed down to the parking garage. Kagome looked around.
"Uh…Why don't we…uh…take your truck?"
Inuyasha grinned again.
"No, I think we should take Sesshomaru's car. My truck's low on gas. You know where his car is, right?"
"Uh…yeah…of course I do…"
She held up Sesshomaru's beeper, pressed a button, and the car in front of them honked.
"There ya go!"
Inuyasha gave a slight nod of his head.
30 minutes later, they were recovering from giving blood. The nurse handed Kagome a cup of something.
"Drink this; it'll help with the wooziness." Then she went to get Inuyasha a cup.
Kagome drank it in one swallow.
"How long ago did you meet Sesshomaru?" Inuyasha asked.
"August 30th."
"Wow. Only about 4 months. That's fast."
Kagome got up leaving Inuyasha to recover alone. But he had a different idea.
"That's a fast engagement…" He got out of the bed and started to follow Kagome.
"Hey! You're not done yet!" the nurse yelled at him. But he kept walking.
Until he fell in a dead faint.
After recovering, Inuyasha followed Kagome to Sesshomaru's room.
As they entered, he asked, "What was Sesshomaru's favorite anime series?"
"Uh…Magic Knights Rayearth…?"
"HA!!"
Then Inuyasha saw his parents reproving looks.
"I mean…uh…who doesn't like M.K.R?"
"Well, I like Sailor Moon…" Kagome heard Miruku mutter.
SLAP
"Pervert…" Sango muttered.
"It was a simple statement, Sango. It was completely innocent."
Sango just raised an eyebrow.
Inuyasha turned back to Kagome.
"His favorite donut?"
"Krispy…Kreme…?"
"Baseball team?"
"California…"
"Angels or Dodgers?"
"What is this, an interrogation?" Mr. Takahashi asked. "Why are you asking all these questions?"
"Why don't you ask Kagome's boyfriend?"
"That is not funny!" Mrs. Takahashi said tearfully.
"Not that boyfriend," Inuyasha said, pointing to Sesshomaru. "Koga."
Kagome snorted in surprise. "Kouga Sato?!"
"Yes. He said you two were pretty intimate."
"He is delusional. He's been chasing after me and calling me 'his woman' ever since I moved here."
"He seemed very lucid and very sure of your relationship.
Inuyasha's grandma cut in.
"If you wanted to prove it, Kagome, you would."
Everyone went silent and stared at Kagome. She bet her lip. There was a long silence as she thought of something to say.
"He has one…testicle."
Everyone gasped.
"You're kidding," Inuyasha said.
Kagome shook her head. "He was umpiring in baseball, and the catcher had a pencil in his back pocket, and he stood up…It was two months ago."
Numerous sounds of disgust and pity filled the room.
"I'll look, I'm his mother," Mrs. Takahashi said reluctantly.
"EWW!! Mom!!" Sango exclaimed.
Ten minutes later, the Takahashi family and Miroku filed into the elevator, Inuyasha and Miroku trying to hide their smirks.
"Well," Miroku stared, "he has more room in his Jockeys."
More sounds of disgust came from the family and Miroku received a slap from Sango. The last sounds that Kagome heard from them as the elevator door closed was Inuyasha laughing like he would never stop.