Chapter 6:
"Hey Sango could you pass me the milk?"
She turned back to the bowl in front of her. It had to be perfect precise and, delicious. "Why are we doing this again?" Her friend asked her from the behind while holding ingredients. Kagome chuckled, Sango never could cook anyways.
"Because I'm hungry and your hungry too." She replied continuing to beat the batter smooth. Well...it was creamy enough...The question was there enough vanilla? Kagome dipped her finger in for a taste. 'Not bad!' Miroku was invited to dinner tonight to join the two lonely girls at their newly refurnished apartment. While she was gone with Sesshoumaru yesterday Sango took the liberty of moving her stuff in.
Leaving her to clean up the mess. They didn't plan on anything fancy for tonight, but after one of Sango's pleas Kagome finally agreed to bake her cheesecake. "Plastic or Clay?" Sango hollered from the dining room.
"Neither, use the fine china." Kagome poured the batter into the pastry shell. 'Perfect!'
"Why? It's just mac and cheese."
She looked up at Sango standing with forks and spoons hand in hand. "Obviously Sango, you have picked up your habits from Miroku."
The opened oven set a wave of heat toward her, as she tried to place the pan toward the center. "How was your date with Sesshoumaru?" Sango inquired. Kagome had hoped to avoid that subject since last night. But it seemed it was unavoidable. "It was fine Sango." She said pushing her aside to reach up on the shelf for a spoon. Might as well just leave the subject as that.
"OH MY GOD!?!?!?! WHAT HAPPENED?!?!??!?!"
Kagome was jerked around to face her friend. She inwardly cursed the gods for her misfortune. She never was good at lying. "We had dinner, walked around the park, and I stayed over at his house." Kagome offered.
"God Kagome I already know that part! I want details! Sesshoumaru called me to say that you weren't going to make it home." Sango crawled closer to her. Kagome sighed. 'This is going to take forever'
"Fine Sango. Fine. Go into the living room and set it up like we use too. and I'll pop some corn. okay?" She looked up into her eyes.
Kagome moved toward the shelves in search of some microwave popcorn. Which wasn't hard. Setting the timer for about three minutes she stared at the rotation of the growing bag, accompanied by the popping sound.
The house seemed better like this. 'Somebody with me again.' The apartment came normal. Three bed roomed, two baths, and carpeted. But Sango being here made it seem even more homely than it really was. Of course it was Autumn, and probably going to rain soon, so the only thing they could do was stay inside.
Grabbing a orange bowl she poured the popcorn, letting off its steam and headed for the room for only of their girl talks. "Um...I smell popcorn!" She heard Sango say staring at the bowl. Kagome raised her eyebrow but let that one pass. She grabbed a handful laid down and set the bowl on her stomach. 'Old habit. Don't ask.' "So.....How'd it go?"
"Fine. We had dinner at the restaurant." More popcorn. She asked about the seating arrangement. "How'd u guys sit?" Placing a pillow on her face before anything would happen Kagome managed to mumble through the fabric.
"I sat on his lap."
She was slapped continuously with pillows sending the popcorn everywhere. "YOU SLUT!" Sango screamed. Obviously the girl thought too much about it. "Sango relax, It was a private place. okay? Sesshoumaru set up the table so that no one could see us." Kagome remembered the night at the restaurant when the candles where lit and how close their closeness was. "Still Kagome...." 'She's worried about another Naraku....'
Wrapping her arms around her friend she whispered, "Sango. Don't worry okay? Sesshoumaru's not like Naraku and I don't think he's going to take his place."
"Do you like him?" A smirk on her face. "Oh you are impossible!" Kagome yelled getting up to go get some more corn. No, make that chips. She was probably out of the pop. "Come on! Kagome! Do you like him or not?"
Why wouldn't she? The guy was nice, studious, caring, and everything she could want. No she didn't like. She couldn't like him. She didn't love Sesshoumaru. He cold, an ego-manic, and not mention better groomed than her! How was she suppose to feel? This was Inuyasha brother. The guy who never really mattered to her. Either way. All day she thought she about him.
All day she thought about how good she slept last night in his arms. 'I've been in his bed! and I haven't even kissed him yet!' She didn't love him. She couldn't and she wouldn't.
'But I do.'
She went to go pick up the ringing phone, "Hello?"
"What are you doing Christmas?" 'Probably just Hojo' She wasn't even going to deal with now. It wasn't even past Thanksgiving and this guy was asking her out. "Um...nothing I guess." The person on the line laugh. Well...It wasn't Hojo's laugh that's for sure...
'Damn who could it be?' No more games, "WHO THE HELL IS THIS?!?!" He laughed again. The most she could assume was that it was the guy. "You didn't pick up the last time I called Kag..."
She froze.
"What's up?" She tried to make conversation. "Nothing...I just called to ask you out...If your not busy...." He played coyly. She could feel the tears well up in her tear ducts. After all these years of just trying to let go he had to come back. He didn't know she knew, he didn't know the things that went inside of her. No, She couldn't do this again. "No, Sorry I don't want to see you again."
Kagome felt her heart break when he didn't utter a word. "Please Kagome...I have to see you again." The agony in his voice was seemed so unlike him. Kagome had to go! Maybe just to hear him again. Talk to him again. "Fine. Next week on 5th." She hung up before he could utter another word, and whispered to through her hands covering her sobs.
"I hate you Naraku."
He couldn't help but reminisce on her. Her eyes that shone through the dark. He remembered the curve of her lashes on her cheek, the way her hair felt as he ran his fingers threw the strands to brush them form her face.
So he would miss her.
Next week he'd go back to school. Away from her. "Let's go Rin."
Yes, They were at the fall festival. Rin had insisted on going despite his best efforts to steer her into another way of amusement. The girl words were, "I hate museums." Her face was smeared with cotton candy and smile seemed stuck to her face. "Do you miss Kagome Sesshoumaru?" He looked down. Best just go continue walking. "Why do you ask that Rin?" She took another bite the pink fluff she was holding in her hand.
"Because she's thinking of you." Rin stated obviously.
He couldn't help but become curious. She was only a kid knowing nothing of the heart, his feelings, and despite everything he tried to conceal to her she found out.
"Pray tell how do you know Rin?"
She ran ahead of him to the tree and tried to climb it. Yelling down from the tops, "I don't! It's the truth." 'How I wish it was true.' She was going to fall if she wasn't careful. Did she remember where she slept last night? In the morning he'd taken Kagome home while Rin and Inu-mama at their breakfast. Inuyasha was passed out in his room.
Sesshoumaru had found him on the porch. 'Passed out...intoxicated...probably right after the trying to leave.' He remembered how Kagome was getting out of the car.
'She kissed me'
Sesshoumaru lifted her hands up to touch the tender spot here her lips grazed his cheek. It went by so fast he wasn't even sure it happened if it weren't for... 'Rin.' The girl reminded him in such a way of Kagome. Well, At least the way Kagome was. Does he truly miss her? God he missed her eyes the way it penetrated his own, into what he felt was through him.
It was wonderful! He felt scared, curious, and he longed for more. 'She's opened up already.' Yes, everyone could tell. When she bid her farewells to his step-mother, she looked questionly and asked Kagome, "What has my son done to you now?"
"Come on Rin. Let's go home." He called and walked back nonchalantly. They'd been there for about four hours.
"But Sesshoumaru!" She pouted from up high. "No Rin...You know how you are when you don't get your nap."
"I'm not a child!" She cried.
"Then why are you crying?" He turned to look at her reaction. She giggled. "Okay you win." The girl was really easy to please. On the way home Rin had asked to stop go get some food. Which he tried to deny her, but her face was to painful to deny the child of her nourishment 'It was fast food.' Sesshoumaru tried to convince himself, knowing when he got home Inu-mama would have his head for ruining the girls appetite.
Sesshoumaru figured he was only in town for a while...why not treat his sister to her pleasure?
You think if she stared at him anymore he was cringle and go hide in a corner. Placing a cool facade on he played the game, with his mother. No. He wasn't playing he was winning, he was going to get to walk away without any having to say anything. "Sesshoumaru...Look at me, Sesshoumaru..." He stared back up at his mother. 'DAMN!'
"I AM looking at you mother." She clapped her hands with glee. "You talked! I win!"
Sesshoumaru snorted, but inwardly groaned and ran a hand through his hair, "What is it you wished, Inu-mama?" She wanted something. There wasn't a time when they had their staring challenges without her wanting to find some information from him.
Mostly it was about Inuyasha or Rin, but other than Inuyasha neither of them had done something wrong. Inu-mama got up and went to get out some of the cookies she'd made this morning, still warming in the oven.
'Dear god! She's bringing out the cookies...'
"Do you realize that I'm not a child anymore? I'm a grown man who will not be seduced by sweets!" Sesshoumaru snapped.
She smiled. "Of course Sesshoumaru, I just thought if you'd like some. But if not." She set the plate infront of him. 'I'm not gonna last.'
He cursed his obession with sweets. He smelt the baking dough in the oven filled with chocolate morsleys melting away in it's sugary brown self, in the shower but was too proud to ask her from one. Sesshoumaru watched as she took one and tore in in half, the chocolate spilling on her fingers. "What did you do to Kagome?"
'I believe she's prying into my private life.'
"She's happier now Sesshoumaru. You can tell when she first walked from your bedroom door." She raised her eyebrow after that last part.
"Do not tell me you think I would do anything inapproiate in this household."
She blew that off, "Of course not Sesshoumaru! I'm just trying to remind you that don't play with her. I've seen how you handle girls." She pushed the plate to him. They stared at each other for a while longer. "Do not worry in my affair madame." He said getting up for a glass of milk.
"Do you understand what kind of girl she is Sesshoumaru? Has Inuyasha not told you anything about her?" she cried to his back. What didn't he know? Kagome was always the girl next door who was steered off the wrong track. The feelings he had for her where probably just a passing phase. "Inuyasha has nothing to say about her." He replied coldly, sitting back down in his chair.
"Do you love her?"
No, Sesshoumaru doesn't love her. This Sesshoumaru needs to think of other things. "No."
"Then let her go. Or at least tell her how you feel." She said getting up. "You're gonna lose her if you wait too long." He smiled. How is that she knew him so well it was creepy. Maybe it was time to acctually go steady with Kagome. He'd leave in a week, he'd miss her and that way she'd know how he felt after he left.
He savored the sweet taste of the cookie in his mouth and wander what it was like to be kissed by Kagome. How would it taste?
'Sweet like candy'
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