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Messing Around
" Inuyasha are you ready yet?" asked a voice from down the hall.
The young hanyou growled replying, " Just a second Sess, don't get your knickers in a twist." Inuyasha stared at his reflection scrutinizing every inch of it. " I look like a prep," he complained while tying is hair back into a low ponytail. Scrunching his nose at the reflection he muttered, " Why me."
" I'm leaving in two seconds. If you're not down here by then I'll come up there and throw you out the window."
" Oh no," Inuyasha didn't doubt his words for a second. He raced out of his bedroom and into the hall, skidding to a stop in front of the stairs. In one bound he was one the ground floor in front of his brother.
" Okay I'm ready, lets go."
Sess looked Inuyasha over with a scrutinizing gaze; similar to the one Inuyasha was looking at himself with. " You shine up nicely little brother."
" Feh, whatever Sess. Lets just go before I vomit."
" Are you feeling ill?" No emotion was evident in his voice.
" Yes, just looking at myself makes me sick." Inuyasha grouched while folding his arms.
" Now you know how the rest of the world feels."
" Damn, I walked right into that one didn't I?" Sess nodded then opened the door and left the house. Inuyasha followed, moving his hands to his pockets.
' God I hate these dinners,' Inuyasha thought as he got into the passenger side seat of the black BMW.
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" Hey Kagome we're here," said Sango as she pulled up to Kagome's drive way. Kagome turned to her friend and gave her a hug.
" Thank you for bringing me out today Sango, I had heaps of fun."
" No problem. Any time, girl." Kagome opened the door of the Mercedes and jumped out with her shopping bag. With one last wave to her friend she made her way up to the front door.
Fumbling in her handbag she tried to find her keys. Finally placing her hand on the cold metal devices she pulled them out in triumph. Out of her excitement though, she had pulled the keys out too hard and they went flying to the ground about two meters away. Kagome sighed, " Well at least no one saw that."
She walked over to where her keys landed and picked them up. Then freezing in her tracks she spotted a black Limo pulled up in the front of her house.
' That must mean…' She rushed to the front door trying to grab the right key. Once she had found it she slid it into the keyhole and turned. When she heard the satisfying click of it unlocking she burst inside and looked around frantically.
" Kaede! Kaede!" she yelled running from room to room.
The maid bend around the corner of the doorway to reveal her face. " What is it child?" she asked.
" Where is she?"
" In the lounge room, child."
Kagome set off at a running pace to the lounge room. When coming closer to it she slowed down to a walk. Carefully she poked her head into the room. Inside she saw her brother talking animatedly to an older woman.
" Mum?" she questioned uncertainly. The woman turned to face Kagome and a big smile spread across her face.
" Kagome," she said as she held her arms out to her daughter. Kagome rushed into her embrace holding her tightly. ' I can't believe she's back,' thought Kagome still refusing to let go of her mother. Her mother smiled retracting from the embrace and holding her daughter at arms length.
" Oh my you've grown. You look so beautiful! Where did that little girl that I remember go?" Kagome blushed deeply at her mother's compliments.
" Hey sis, look what she brought me!" yelled Souta bouncing up and down on the couch. Kagome took a look at the object in his hand and stared at it strangely.
" What on earth is it?"
" It's a boomerang from Australia. If you throw it somewhere it comes back to you. Watch" he was just about to chuck the object when his mother stopped him.
" Maybe it isn't such a good idea to be doing that in the house." Souta nodded but you could see the disappointment in his face. Kagome smiled at her brother ruffling his short brown hair.
" How long are you back for?" asked Kagome turning her attention to her mother.
Her mother's expression dropped when she answered, " Only for two days. I have a meeting with my lawyer today. I invited him and his younger brother to have dinner with us. Some loony person is suing me for copyright. She thinks that I stole one of her characters."
" Oh, so you came back because you wanted to settle this law suit?" disappointment edged it's way into Kagome's features.
Her mother smiled a loving smile, " No I came back because I wanted to see how my babies where doing. Talking to you on the phone is one thing but being here is another. I've missed you and your brother so much."
Kagome forced a smile trying to keep the tears at bay, " Yeah we've missed you too mum."
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" Shit!" cursed Inuyasha.
" What is it?" asked Sess in a monotone voice.
" Look at me!"
" I'm driving Inuyasha"
" Just do it!"
Sess quickly turned his attention to his brother. " Shit," he murmured.
" Damn right! It's a new moon. How could I forget that?" Inuyasha looked at his appearance in the side view mirror. His silver locks were now replaced by black and the dog-ears that normally sat on the top of his head were now normal human ears.
" Oh well, they might not notice you have a human brother." He shrugged. " Who cares anyway, they'll probably just be happy that I'm a human and not bother asking you about me."
" Yes well I suppose there is nothing we can do about it now. Just don't tell them about your true nature. It's easier that way."
" Aye aye captain," responded Inuyasha as he slouched back into his seat. " So how long till we get there?"
" About ten minutes." Inuyasha sighed grabbing his MP3 player and stuffing the headphones in his ears.
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" Kagome you look absolutely darling." Kagome frowned looking at the dress she wore. It was a baby blue colour and came down to her knees. At the bottom it flared slightly. The top of it was a v-neck, which criss-crossed over. It was a gorgeous dress but Kagome thought it might have been a bit too dressed up for dinner with a lawyer and his brother.
" Mum are you sure it's not to dressed up?"
" Not at all darling. You'll fit right in, besides I want to make a good impression." Kagome sighed giving into her mother. The next moment Souta came into the room holding his head in the air.
" Can you help me with my tie?" He gestured towards the knotted mass under his chin. His mother gave a small laugh then tried to untangle the mess.
Kagome continued to look at herself in the mirror. She had to admit the dress did look nice on her. Her mother had styled her hair into a sleek bun with bits of hair falling out around her face. Even though she looked gorgeous right now something about it seemed wrong. It just wasn't her.
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"Okay we're here Inu. Remember to be polite and try not to get into any trouble," lectured his brother.
" Do I ever?" Inuyasha gave a charming smile. His brother just started at him impassively.
" If you mess this up you'll be out on the gutter."
'Empty threat,' thought Inuyasha but decided to be on his best behavior just in case.
He followed Sess up the driveway and up onto their front porch. ' Their house is almost as big as ours,' he thought. Looking up and down the house he decided it was pretty nice. He estimated around 50 rooms in total. Sess knocked crisply at the door and waited for an answer. In a matter of moments a young man opened the door, probably in his early twenties. He was wearing black pants, a white shirt and a black vest. ' Hmm butlers, impressive,' thought Inuyasha as he entered the house.
" Come right this way," the butler motioned with his hand the path they should take. Sess immediately followed his directions but Inuyasha dawdled for a while. He examined the architecture of the building noting the French moulds of angels in each corner of the roof. 'This house must have cost a fortune. It has enough artwork in here to become the next Louve.'
" Hey Sess, look at this," There was no answer. It was then that Inuyasha realized he had been left behind. "Oh crap."
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" Kagome they're here," yelled her mother from behind the door. Kagome looked up from where she was lying on her bed.
" Okay I'll be down in a second" Kagome moved off her bed and toward the bathroom. She took one last look at herself in the mirror and decided she was good to go. Slowly she walked out of her room and made her way down the hall towards the stairs. Once there she saw a strange boy looking around. ' Who's he?' she thought while staying still and deciding to watching him.
He looked lost.
She could tell he wasn't one of the butlers or servants because of the way he walked and dressed. He slouched slightly hands deep in his pockets.
He wore a suit with the sleeves pulled up to reveal a tattoo of a Japanese symbol on the lower half of the inside of his elbow. He also wore wrist cuffs and a metal ball chain necklace.
Deciding to just ask who he was Kagome made her way down the stairs. She was almost to the bottom when he finally noticed her. She opened her mouth to speak but froze when she saw his gorgeous face. She hadn't realized, while examining him, he was so attractive.
For the first time she was lost for words. He seemed to notice this then smirked. " See something you like?" he asked smoothly. This snapped Kagome back to reality.
" What did you say?" she asked a dangerous tone in her voice. He either didn't notice or chose to ignore it.
" Well it's just that you were ogling over me."
She flushed a bright red, " I was not ogling!"
He smirked tilting his head to the side. " Sure you weren't."
Kagome's anger built with each passing sentence to this cocky boy, " Who do you think you are to come into my house and accuse me of something I didn't do!"
" Oh this is your house. Hmm I should have guessed by the clothes. Could you tell me where the dinning room is?" Kagome started at the boy open mouthed. He had some nerve; first he comes into her house, then accused her of ogling him and then asks her a favor.
" Who are you?" she finally asked.
" Oh I'm Inu…. Umm I mean," he looked around frantically for a name. He spotted a sword mounted on the wall and said, " Blade. My name is Blade. I'm here with my brother. Who are you?"
" Aw so you're the lawyer's brother. I'm Kagome."
" Nice to meet you" he gave her a charming smile which made her blush a little. " So ah, could you help me find the way to the dinning room?"
" Yeah I guess, I'm heading there anyway." She walked a head of him leading the way.
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' Man this girl looks scarily like Kikyou. I wonder if they're related. I just froze the second I spotted her. Lucky I realized my mistake before I did something stupid.' Inuyasha suddenly smirked to himself, ' She was checking me out though. Maybe this dinner won't be as bad as I thought. Look out here comes the minuteman.'
He watched Kagome as she walked in front of him and cocked his head to the side as he looked at her ass. 'Very nice, girl. Oh my god I'm becoming Miroku.' Suddenly Kagome whirled around. She looked straight at Inuyasha and saw where his eyes had been.
Inuyasha quickly snapped his eyes up to hers but it was too late.
" You pervert! Walk ahead of me so I know you won't be looking!"
" But I don't know where to go" he reasoned.
Se growled angrily, " I'll tell you."
" Fine" he sighed. ' Now for a little fun.' He started walking straight until she told him to turn. He smirked as he turned the wrong way.
" No that that way!" she yelled as she grabbed his arm dragging him the right way.
Smirking he said, " I knew you couldn't keep your hands off me." Kagome quickly let go and started mumbling something about stupid rich boys to herself. Inuyasha couldn't help but laugh.
" Relax Kagome, you need to go with the flow. You're way to tense."
" What would you know?" she grit out angrily.
" Surprisingly, little actually. But I do know you're tense. I can tell." She looked up at him disbelievingly. He smirked down at her tapping his head. How could such a big ego fit inside such a normal sized head? Kagome was sure it would explode at any moment.
" Okay we're here," Kagome, announce happy that they had finally reached their destination.
" Cool, so what's for diner?" He looked into the dinning room and gave a low whistle. " Wow some place you got here. Hey is that an Angelique?" He pointed to the painting he was referring to.
" Yeah," replied Kagome somewhat surprised. She was amazed at how natural this guy seemed. He didn't seem like the normal snobby preps she was used to. He was so relaxed and comfortable just being himself.
It was awkwardly refreshing. She wasn't used to people acting like him. Okay he was really cocky and annoying but at least he was himself.
" How did you get your hands on one of them?"
Kagome snapped out of her thoughts, " What?"
Inuyasha just gave her a deadpan look and sighed. " Hey if I'm boring you we could just go into the dining room and get it over with."
" Uh, sure."
Inuyasha stepped into the room walking over to where he saw his brother sitting. He gave a large charming smile to everyone in the room. Kagome couldn't help but roll her eyes.
Sess noticed this and a small smirk formed on his lips. ' I see this girls smarter than she seems'
" This is my brother," introduced Sess in a monotone voice.
" Blade. Pleased to meet you." Sess turned to his sibling giving him a dubious look. Inuyasha just shrugged and mouthed, ' play along'.
" Oh well it's nice to meet you Blade. That's an interesting name," said Mrs. Higurashi politely.
" Yes it is isn't it? I guess my parents liked it though because that's my name," he gave a sort of nervous laugh and quickly grabbed the glass of water. After gulping it down he excused himself for a moment.
' I have to get out of here, ' thought Inuyasha as he sought an escape. Looking around he tried to remember the way he had come. ' Aw shit, I'm lost again,'
Dragging his feet he wandered the house mindlessly trying to find any form of entertainment. A sudden thought entered his mind. Sess would be pissed he didn't come back. He thought about this for a good minute or two before he disregarded the thought. ' I'll deal with that bridge when I cross it.' He looked up to see where he was and if anything looked familiar to him.
Nope. He was lost.
He continued to walk around before coming to a familiar set of stairs. Looking from side to side he checked no one was looking then quickly bounded up them and into the second story. The second story was normally much more interesting than the first story.
Going from door to door Inuyasha checked each room for a television. When he saw a maid or a butler walk past he casually slipped his hands in his pockets and walked past trying to look as innocent as possible. He finally came across what appeared to be Kagome's room. It was painted a light pink and was huge! It was probably 3 times the size of his. " Rich bitch," he muttered as he left her room leaving no trace that he had been in there at all. The next room took his fancy a lot more.
" Jackpot baby," he said excitedly as he rushed to the couch in front of the television. He imagined the room belonged to Kagome's younger brother. Numerous technological toys lay scattered on the floor. Inuyasha almost fainted with pleasure as he spotted the PS 2 attached to the TV.
Using his feet, not wanting to get up from the couch, Inuyasha turned the PS 2 on and grabbed a controller next to him.
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" Your brother is taking a long time," commented Mrs. Higurashi delicately dabbing a napkin to her mouth.
" Yes. Now lets get down to business. The person who wants so sue you has no case. They can not prove that you stole their idea although you may have to pay a heavy fine…"
Kagome started to doze off as they got into the finer details of the case. ' Maybe Blade had the right idea,' she thought.
" Umm mother?" Kagome gently tapped her mother's arm to get her attention.
" Uh, yes Kagome," she spoke while still not turning to face her daughter.
" I'm going to go look for Blade." Kagome gracefully got up from her seat and started to walk towards the door.
Once out of their sight she let out a breath. ' Thank god I got out of there.' Looking around for something to do she realized it was useless. Final she just decided to go to her bed room and watch TV or go on the computer… she wasn't quite sure but she could figure it out when she got there. Climbing up the stairs lazily she passed the butler that had asked her out just this afternoon. She racked her brain for his name, Andy, Andrew or maybe Armageddon? It was useless she couldn't remember it. It made her feel bad that this guy had liked her and had the courage to ask her out yet she couldn't remember his name.
She decided on a friendly wave, which didn't require her to speak his name. She smiled and gave a small wave but he just turned and pretended not to notice her. Kagome frowned at this action. Had she done something wrong? Why didn't he want to acknowledge her? Okay yes she said no to his proposal but that didn't mean he had to be so immature about it. Kagome mulled over this all the way to her room.
She had just reached out to her doorknob when she heard noises coming from the room next to hers.
'But Souta is downstairs' she thought. Curious to find the source of the noise she opened the door a crack to peek inside. She was surprised to see Blade sitting on the couch in front of the TV smashing madly at the PS2 controller. He had removed the black jacket he had been wearing over his white shirt and had rolled the sleeves up fully to get more comfortable.
" I'll kill you, you stupid blue fuzzy thingy!" he said vigorously while mashing the buttons. He suddenly groaned holding his head in his hands. " Noo, I can't believe that stupid thing beat me." Kagome couldn't help but laugh. At this foreign noise Inuyasha spun around to face the door.
" Ah, I was just trying to find the bathroom," he blurted out looking like an animal caught in the headlights. Kagome couldn't help but laugh at the guilty expression etched on his face.
" Don't worry I won't say anything," she consoled while walking over to see what he had been playing. Picking up the cover she turned to him with a raised brow. " Spyro?"
" What? It's a good game," he defended. " So what are you doing here anyway? Aren't you supposed to be down at dinner?" he casually changed the subject. Kagome noticed but let it slide.
" I could say the same to you."
" Touché." An uncomfortable silence settled around the two. Finally Inuyasha picked himself off the couch and grabbed his jacket.
" Where are you going?" questioned Kagome watching the youth leave the room.
" Exploring, want to come? It won't be as exciting for you though because it is your house but hey you could still tag along."
Weighing her options Kagome decided to go with the strange guy she knew nothing about.
" So are there any interesting rooms worth checking out? Like yours maybe?" He gave her a boyish smirk but she was fast seeing through it.
" No not really." They walked silently side by side for a while until Kagome finally said, " Well actually there is one place which is really pretty."
" Lead the way."
Kagome smiled then turned on her heal. " It's this way." As they walked Inuyasha felt as if he should make some sort of small talk so asked,
" So what school do you go to?" She turned slightly to look at him before answering
" Shikon High. How about you?" Inuyasha gulped. This girl was going to the same school as him. Was this a good thing or a bad thing?
" Ah, currently undecided," he said vaguely. " So have you been going there long? I heard it's a pretty prodigious school."
" Yah I suppose it is." She paused, "I've been going there since I was in year three. It's all right but nothing special. Just the average school housing more snobby rich kids then any other school in Japan."
Inuyasha raised an eyebrow, " Are you sure you're not one of them?"
" What's that supposed to mean?!" she yelled obviously offended. Inuyasha held his hands up in defense.
" Nothing, nothing I wasn't implying anything… It's just that you strike me as a person who has more needs for material objects than anything else."
" How are you supposed to know that? We don't even know each other,"
" I know more than you think," he said with a sly smirk.
" Oh my god, have you been stalking me?! Get away from me you freak!" Kagome yelled half mockingly half serious. Inuyasha just gapped open mouthed at her.
" What? I haven't been stalking you! Why would I want to stalk someone like you? I would at least want to stalk someone who was hot."
" What so I'm not hot?" she asked stopping to look at him.
He gave her a cheeky grin, " Your words not mine."
"You'd fit in well at my school." This statement grabbed Inuyasha's attention.
" What makes you say that?" he asked curious.
" You're a rude, arrogant, rich, pig!" Inuyasha was a bit taken back by her sudden outburst but chuckled nonetheless.
" What makes you think I'm rich?" The question took Kagome by surprise. She started to doubt whether he was rich or not then realized. ' No he's just trying to screw with my head.'
" Well your brother is a lawyer and you have an Armani suit with Gucci shoes."
Inuyasha smiled, " That just means my brother is rich. It has nothing to do with me." Inuyasha started to continue walking. " Sure, right now he's my guardian but as soon as I turn 18 I'm outta there."
" Where will you go?"
Putting his hands behind his head he thought for a moment before answering, " Anywhere and everywhere. Where ever the wind takes me and all that stuff."
" Don't you have any plans for the future?" she asked shocked.
" Nope. I just live every second like it's my last."
Kagome looked down at her hands, " I could never do that. I have too many plans, too many goals I have to reach. When I'm older I want to be a pediatrician."
" I used to want to be a doctor."
" Well, what do you want to be now?"
" Seventeen. So are we getting any closer to where you were taking me or will we have to stop for food and water?"
Kagome looked around her. ' Oh shit'. " Umm, I walked past it."
He smirked shaking his head, " Oh yah, I can see you getting into medical school."
" Shut up!" Kagome huffed and abruptly turned around. Inuyasha watched her with interest. She seemed flushed and uncomfortable. He smirked glad to see he was having an effect on her. Their conversation had come to halt after Kagome had missed the door so Inuyasha took this silence to examine the girl more carefully.
She was quite pretty though not gorgeous. She had beautiful eyes, so warm, comforting yet also sad. Scanning her body he had to admit it was pretty nice. She had curves in all the right places.
Overall she looked… ordinary, but in a good way. She didn't stand out but had a sort of classic beauty to her. Her manner was quite reserved and it reflected in how she carried herself. ' I'll just have to change that, then.' He thought.
" Okay we're here," Kagome stated all of a sudden snapping Inuyasha out of his thoughts.
" Huh, what? Oh yeah," he stated somewhat dumbly. Putting on a boyish grin he gave an elaborate bow, "After you my lady." Kagome rolled her eyes at his antics but entered the room anyway. Okay at first she'd fallen for his boyish good looks and charming demeanor but it wasn't long till she saw through those cheap smiles. They might have worked on some ditzy valley girl but he would have to do better if he wanted to impress her.
After Kagome entered the room she pulled Inuyasha in after her, then quickly locked the door behind him.
" Hmm couldn't wait to get me alone I see," said Inuyasha in a suggestive tone. Kagome slapped his arm half-heartedly at his lame joke.
" Come on, before they find us."
" Oh a quickie is it?" Kagome rolled her eyes at yet another one of his lame jokes.
" You know those jokes aren't as funny as you think they are." He gave a light chuckle.
" Who say's I think they're funny? I could just be saying them to make you think of me in a sexual way." He said it in such a casual manner that took Kagome by surprise. She blushed a beetroot colour, she just thanked god it was dark.
" Ah so what's so special about this room anyway? I can barley see anything in here."
" It's not the room that's special," Kagome replied in a secretive voice. This caught Inuyasha's interest and made him wonder what she meant.
" Come on," Kagome groped around in the darkness for his hand. It wasn't until she heard Inuyasha say, " Hey watch where you put your hands" did she realize her mistake of groping around in the darkness.
" Oh my god, sorry I didn't realize it was your umm… I was just trying to find your hand and umm… I'm really sorry." Inuyasha smirked at her embarrassment.
" Don't worry about it. I get it all the time." Still he grabbed her hand in his just to make sure no more cough accidents occurred.
Once she felt his hand securely in hers she lead him through the room and to the balcony. " Okay close your eyes," she ordered.
" What? Why?"
" Just do it," her tone made him close his eyes immediately. Now that his vision was fully impaired he held Kagome's hand that much tighter. The action sent a jolt of electricity up Kagome's arm. ' What the hell was that?' She ignored the feeling for the moment and lead Inuyasha outside.
" Okay open your eyes," she said once he placed Inuyasha on the balcony. Opening his eyes he started in awe.
Okay that's it for another chappy... they finally met.. anywaz if i don't get more reviews i'll probably dump this story... sorry but i'm getting a bit bored with it and not may people seem to be interested in it.. i don't want people to review because i said that tho... i just want people who think this story is good to review.. i need some perspective of how people react to it.. again don't review for the sake of it.. if you like the story then show support... okay well i might update.. maybe not..