Disclaimer: Geez...do I really have to do this?
Last time: "If you can't silence yourself, I will." "I was hoping you would have stayed asleep the whole trip." "Kagome, if you do not silence yourself, I will do it for you." He died later that night, and the monk and huntress buried him under the God Tree the next day...I am sorry Kagome."
Chapter 16: Of Pups and Lust
"Kagome...time to get up." Kagome mumbled and buried herself deeper into her pillow. It had been four days since she and Sesshoumaru had gotten back to Tokyo. The miko had finally told her mother what had happened to Inuyasha, and Sesshoumaru didn't call her to work for the next couple days. Kagome was sure her mother had called GT and growled at Sesshoumaru until he gave her a couple days off.
"Kagome, time to get up." Kagome's mother said again, this time she had entered her daughter's room and was shaking the sleeping lump known as Kagome.
"Dun wanna." Kagome mumbled, turning over. Kagome's mother sighed and called Souta in to help her.
"Kagome...sand-crab." Souta said calmly, suddenly his sister jumped up.
"Where!" Kagome said, looking around. Souta started laughing and Kagome started growling, then the miko jumped out of bed and chased her little brother around, finally ending up in her kitchen.
"Why isn't Sesshoumaru here? Usually he's outside looking at his watch every two seconds." Kagome said during breakfast, digging into her eggs and drinking her orange juice.
"He called early this morning and said he would be unable to pick you up. He had to go to an early meeting." Kagome's mother said, putting more eggs on Souta's plate. "But don't worry, I'll drive you." Kagome nodded and continued wolfing eggs down.
"Well what do you know...Russia received some medical supplies from Tokyo and now Russia is talking about a huge peace talk." Kagome's grandfather said, looking at the paper. Kagome nearly choked on her orange juice, remembering the medical supplies GT had mistakenly sent to Russia.
"Kagome, what's the matter?" Souta asked.
"Nothing, I'm going to get dressed." Kagome said, rushing upstairs while trying to hold in her laughter.
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"Hurry Kagome, or you'll be late." Kagome's mother said, waiting for her daughter. Kagome was running down the shrine steps, trying not to trip at the same time.
"Mom...what am I going to be late for?" Kagome asked as she got in the car.
"You don't want to get into the habit of being late." Her mother replied. They finally arrived at GT headquarters and Kagome's mother dropped her off in the front of the building.
"I wonder how many meetings Sesshoumaru will have today?" Kagome asked herself, walking up the steps to the massive building in front of her.
"You are late." Someone said from behind her. Kagome twirled around to meet the person and was met by Sesshoumaru, who was smirking.
"Well, I might not have been late if-"
"Your excuses mean nothing to me." Sesshoumaru said, cutting the miko off and walking towards the elevator. Kagome followed and pressed the top level button once inside the elevator, then turned to Sesshoumaru.
"How was the meeting?" She asked while the elevator climbed higher and higher.
"Fairly boring." The Taiyoukai replied.
"Why didn't you just pick me up anyways?" Kagome asked, she wouldn't have minded...much.
"I didn't think you wanted a 5am wake up call." Sesshoumaru said, smirking. Kagome nodded, she wouldn't have liked being woken up that early. Today the Taiyoukai wore a simple red shirt with khaki pants, his hair had been tied back into a low ponytail. Kagome wore blue jeans and a blue shirt.
When they finally arrived at Sesshoumaru's office, the phone rang; Kagome went to answer it but the quicker Sesshoumaru beat her to it. After a couple seconds of listening to the person on the other line, Sesshoumaru frowned, and then growled.
"What is it?" Kagome asked when Sesshoumaru put the phone down.
"Another meeting." Sesshoumaru answered, "And you get to come with me."
"Why?" Kagome asked, she had gone to a couple meetings and found them really really really boring.
"If I have to suffer, so do you." Sesshoumaru said, walking out the door and down the hall towards the meeting rooms. Kagome followed behind, thinking of ways to keep herself entertained for the whole meeting.
"Here we are." Sesshoumaru said, sighing and opening the door. Kagome walked into the room. All the lights had been turned off, and there were no windows. The miko couldn't see anything in the pitch black room.
"Sesshoumaru, are you sure we're in the right room?" She asked, trying to get her eyes to adjust to the dark room.
"Positive." He answered softly; Kagome didn't like his tone of voice.
"Sesshou-" Before Kagome could finish, she was suddenly blinded by the lights being flipped on.
"SURPRISE!" Voices yelled, a second after her eyes got used to the sudden light, Kagome saw people jumping up from behind a large table. One of those people had fiery red hair and bright green eyes.
"Shippou!" Kagome cried out. The fox kit jumped over the table and ran towards Kagome, the miko and fox hugged, tears starting to come to Kagome's eyes.
"Hey there Kagome-chan!" Shippou said, his tail reappeared and was flicking happily behind the fox kit. Only, he wasn't a kit any more, Shippou had indeed grown. He now stood a hair higher than Kagome, and his tail wasn't the cute little puffball it once was, instead, it looked like a real fox's tail.
"Shippou-chan! I-" Kagome was about to say something, but was interrupted by the squealing of children.
"Dad! Dad! Dad!" Suddenly three little kids ran out from under the table and latched themselves onto Shippou's leg. The first thing Kagome noticed about them was they all had little puffball tails and green eyes.
"Chiko, Haruko, Kitamura." Shippou said, patting each of his children on the head.
"You...you have pups?" Kagome gasped.
"Of course I do." Shippou said proudly, and then he turned to his children. "This is Kagome-chan, she's a very good friend."
"Hi Kagome-chan!" The trio chirped at the same time, rushing to their father's friend's leg and latching on.
"And this is my mate." Shippou said proudly, Kagome looked at the vixen; she was beautiful for a fox youkai. Long red hair and a tail to match, she also had deep green eyes which went well with Shippou's lighter green shade of eyes.
"Nice to meet you." Kagome said, bowing. The vixen returned the bow and smiled.
"I am Kuro, and it is wonderful to finally meet you. Shippou had told me much of you." Kuro said, Kagome instantly took a liking to fox vixen, and the miko knew they would be friends.
"Sesshoumaru-sama! Sesshoumaru-sama! Sesshoumaru-sama!" Shippou's kits gathered around the Taiyoukai, who looked down at the trio of foxes with a bored expression on his face.
"Why is your tail gone Sesshoumaru-sama?" Kitamura asked.
"Why is hair a different color?" Haruko asked.
"And why are your eyes a different color?" Chiko asked. All three of the pups looked up at Sesshoumaru, who dropped the sealing spell. Instantly his tail reappeared, his eyes changed back to their golden color, as did his hair.
"Yay!" Chiko, Haruko and Kitamura cheered.
"I hope you did not forget the food fox." Sesshoumaru said to Shippou, who rolled his eyes and walked behind the table. Shippou then picked up several bags of food, and Kagome's mouth instantly watered.
"So this was your 'meeting'?" Kagome asked, looking from Sesshoumaru to Shippou. The fox nodded while opening a large box of doughnuts.
"Doughnuts!" Shippou's pups squealed, rushing towards the table and tackling their father. Haruko and the others grabbed the box of doughnuts and ran under the table, gladly eating the sugar coated food.
"They'll be on a major sugar buzz in a couple of minutes." Kuro said, smiling at her children.
"Just what GT needs." Sesshoumaru said, watching the fox kits wolf down the doughnuts. In a way, they reminded him of Rin when she was eating, scarfing whatever came her way and looked good.
"Well, thankfully, I brought another box." Shippou said, putting the other box of doughnuts on the table.
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Two hours later Shippou's pups slept on the floor, their sugar buzz worn off. Shippou, Kuro, Sesshoumaru and Kagome sat in a semi-circle and were talking. Kagome asked most of the questions while Shippou answered them, the miko asked about what he had done over the past five-hundred years and so on.
"Unlike the rest of you, I have work that needs to be done." Sesshoumaru said after the third hour of talking.
"And the pups have yet to have their lessons today." Kuro said.
"And I'm sure there are computers to fix." Shippou replied. Kuro herded the pups out of the room while saying good-bye to Shippou. Sesshoumaru gladly headed back to his office for some green tea while Kagome and Shippou said good-bye.
"Feel free to stop by my office, I'm on floor twenty." The fox said, Kagome nodded, she might drop by whenever Sesshoumaru was at a meeting and she had nothing to do.
"I'll do that." Kagome said, entering Sesshoumaru's office to try to get some math done.
"I have another meeting; I'll be back in about an hour." Sesshoumaru said, getting up after his game of chess.
"Okay." Kagome said, not looking up from her math book, she was resisting the urge to throw the hard-cover book out the window.
After Sesshoumaru had left, Kagome continued working on her self-assigned homework. After getting stuck on a problem she decided to take a well earned break. After grabbing some hot coffee, the miko decided to look at a couple books on Sesshoumaru's bookshelf.
"Ewww...doesn't he dust up here?" Kagome asked no one after finding a thin layer of dust on the shelf. She sighed and grabbed a dusting rag, the dust may not have bothered Sesshoumaru, but it would bother her.
After a couple minutes of dusting, Kagome noticed someone standing in the office doorway. It was a man, and he was looking at Kagome.
"Can I help you?" Kagome asked, and then she climbed down from the bookshelf.
"Oh...probably." The man said, taking a step into Sesshoumaru's office. The man shut the door and an odd feeling came over Kagome. Shivers ran up her spine and there was an odd feeling in the gut of her stomach. The man took another step towards Kagome and her body went into defense mode.
Then Kagome saw the lust in his eyes and her eyes widened. Suddenly the man grabbed her and knocked the miko to the floor, the man on top of the startled Kagome. Instinct kicked in when he grabbed her shoulders, she rose her knee up quickly. The man doubled over in pain from being hit in the groin. Kagome quickly got up and kicked the man in the kidneys, then she ran to the other side of the room.
The man painfully got up and advanced on Kagome again, only, the miko was ready this time. Having grabbed her coffee cup, Kagome flung the steaming hot liquid at the oncoming man, who growled in pain as the coffee hit him in the face. Grabbing the first thing her hand felt, Kagome whacked the man across the head with the object, watching the man fell to the ground, knocked out cold.
"Well...what do you know; math books are good for something." Kagome said, looking down at the math book she had slammed against the man's head.
Sesshoumaru walked into his office and his eyebrows raised a centimeter as he saw the sight before him.
A man was laying on the ground knocked out cold with what looked like coffee staining his clothes. A large bruise was forming on the man's face in the shape of a heavy book, and Kagome dusting his desk.
End Chapter
WD: Heh...I loved that last part...
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