"You certainly look happy today, Kagura."
I happily smiled at the for once early Kagome. She grinned back uneasily. After all, I was normally depressed and suicidal in front of her. To Kagome, my cheerfulness meant that either I was drunk or high on some sort of mushroom.
Kagome just stared uneasily at me as I hung up my coat and set out the napkins and straws. I just smiled. Last night was the best night in my life since Naraku was arrested.
I flipped on the radio behind the counter for something to listen to before opening. There wasn't much. There was just news of a prison riot and something on an algae that's ruining some California lagoons. My mind wandered from prisoners to last night's date. I sighed, and drifted into my little dreamworld, where only Sesshomaru and me existed.
"Hello? Kagura? You alive?"
I snapped back to reality as Kagome snapped her fingers in my face. She was looking at me as if she wanted to ask something.
"What do you want, Kagome?"
Kagome immediately shifted so that she would be nose to nose with me. "I just wanted to know about yesterday. Is there something going on between you and that guy?"
"Why do you need to know?"
"I just want to know, that's all. Why are you being mean to me?"
I had almost forgotten how annoying Kagome could get when she wanted to know something. I had worked with for years, and had never figured out how to get her to leave me alone.
"I'm not being mean, I'm just retaining my privacy."
"But I want to know."
"Listen, you little brat." I snarled at her, trying a new approach. "What goes on at home with me is none of your business. My love and sex life is not going to be public knowledge."
"I STILL WANT TO KNOW!"
"YOU DON'T NEED TO!"
"LADIES! ENOUGH!"
Kagome and I ceased our screaming at each other as a ladle whipped in front of our faces. Koga withdrew his weapon and glared at us.
"The customers should be here any minute," he growled. "Stop your arguing and get back to work. If you two continue like this, I'm going to get in trouble too for not stopping it. So, stop it!"
The cook turned his back on us and walked out of sight. From the back, the faint, nervous voices of Hakkaku and Ginta could be heard.
"I thought you were going to wait until they started hitting each other, and then dump water on them, Koga."
"Yeah, I thought we were going to see a wet tee-shirt fight."
Kagome and I listened for a few more seconds, as dull smacks could be heard. Followed with an angry "Idiots, they could hear you."
Kagome and I turned around, still glaring death at each other. She seemed rather miffed that Koga had broken up the fight.
"Stop being such a bitch." She snarled in my direction.
"How about you stop being a slave to the media." I retorted.
Kagome, in all her ditzy, designer clothes glory, did not get the insult. She just stood there, shrugged, and then ran to the entrance. Her current boyfriend, Hojo, was just walking in. The pair hugged, greeted each other, and then proceeded to make out in the middle of the restaurant. Neither noticed the gagging motions I was making behind their backs. PDA was disgusting, no matter what.
"Kagome, this is where people take their families, not make them!" Kikyo's shouts sounded through her office door.
Hojo let go of Kagome and moved to his usual seat at the counter. Kagome stood in the middle of the room for a second, then moved to her post behind the counter, whining as she did so.
"How is it that Kikyo always catches me? It isn't fair." The brat whimpered.
"Kagome," I sighed in exasperation. "Have you ever been in Kikyo's office?"
"No, as a matter of fact, I haven't." Kagome shot back at me.
"Well, you should sometime." I tried as hard as I could to keep a straight face. Did she really think I was going to tell her about the security cameras in the diner?
A cold breeze blew through the door as Sesshomaru quietly walked in. He sat down at the counter across from me and smiled. I grinned back at him and asked for his order, trying to convince Kagome that nothing was going on. I guess I was doing a very bad job, since I saw Kagome grinning madly out of the corner of my eye.
"You seem nervous today Kagura." Sesshomaru said quietly. "Is there something you want to tell me?"
"No," I replied, "I'll just go get you that coffee."
I stepped back out of view, to get the coffee. Suddenly, I heard footsteps behind me. I turned around, and came face to face with a smug-looking Kagome. She giggled evilly when I looked at her.
"What?"
"I knew it! I knew there was something going on! Wait 'till I tell my friends!"
"You will not be telling any of your friends! In fact, I would still like to know why all this matters so much to you, and I don't want to hear "Just because," 'cause I'm sick of it!"
Kagome paused for a second. She didn't dare retort. She saw how pissed I was, and knew that I could easily merge her trachea with her neck vertebrae.
"Uh…" she paused. "I have a customer waiting. See 'ya!"
I just let her go. I had fought enough with her for one day. Any more, and I could be fired. Besides, defeating Kagome in an argument or other sort of fight a thousand times wouldn't prove anything about me.
A few minutes later, I was back out front with Sesshomaru's coffee. He smiled quietly as he took the mug. I couldn't help smiling back.
"Kagura, what was with that arguing back there?"
Sesshomaru stared at me with those deep amber eyes of his. It was like he was attempting to read my mind when I hesitated to answer his question.
"Oh, uh, nothing." I managed to stammer. "Nothing happened at all."
"Yeah. Right." Sesshomaru muttered. "Anyway, I have decided what we should do on our next date. I just have a question."
"Okay, shoot."
"What sort of movie do you like? Sci-fi, action, horror, romance?"
"Oh, I like sci-fi. Horror is good too. Just please, no kissy mushy romance movies, okay? I assume that we are going to the movies next?"
"You might be right. You never know."
Sesshomaru smiled. It was only just then that I truly noticed him smiling. He seemed like the type of person that wouldn't normally show emotion.
"So," I asked, shaking those thoughts from my mind. "Do you have a time yet?"
"How about Thursday? I could pick you up in front of your home this time."
"Sure thing." I gave him my address. He folded it up the piece of paper that I had written on and put it in his pocket. I watched him as he started on his coffee, trying to block out the giggling I heard to my right.
Sesshomaru finished, and set the money in front of me. Kagome and Hojo were busy flirting, so they didn't notice as Sesshomaru politely requested that I not go overboard with dressing up on Thursday and left.
I sighed, and just watched Hojo and Kagome proceed to make out in the middle of the place again with disgust. Hopefully, the relationship between Sesshomaru and myself would not sink to that disgusting level.