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Chapter 17: Unwanted intentions part 2

He didn't want to be bothered, but he didn't want to be rude either. So he set down his newspaper and walked on over to the door. After opening it up, he wanted to slam the door closed. It was Kagome.

"Oh my gosh, InuYasha!" Kagome cried out, almost in tears again.

"What do you want?" InuYasha asked sternly, moments from shutting the door.

"I just wanted to say I'm sorry and try to clear up everything…" She said softly.

InuYasha grumbled to himself. "I don't want to hear it." He grabbed the door and almost slammed it shut. What stopped him was Kagome's plead.

"INUYASHA! Please listen to me!" Kagome started to sob.

Now InuYasha felt torn inside himself. He wanted to take Kagome in his arms and hold her close to his body, but the pain that was inflicted on him caused the other part of himself to want to slam the door. He didn't want to regret anything so he chose to let her in. "Come in…" InuYasha sighed, shutting the door behind Kagome. "So would you care to explain what happened?"

Kagome hung her head and sat herself down on his couch. "Ok…here's what happened. After Gigi left, Sesshomaru came over unannounced. I didn't want him around but he kept making moves and insisted that I was his 'fiancée'. He leaned in to kiss me, I tried to get away and of course failed as you have seen. It was all him. I wanted to tell you but you left in a mad hurry!"

InuYasha continued to look down at Kagome with his arms folded. 'Should I believe her? She DID try to tell me after I came into the apartment and she DID drive all this way to my house.' He thought to himself. InuYasha sat next to Kagome and placed his arm around her shoulders. "I was extremely hurt by that. But by what you have told me, I believe you and hurt a bit less."

Kagome sighed. "I'm really sorry InuYasha…"

"You're forgiven." InuYasha wrapped his other arm around Kagome and embraced her for a hug. 'What the hell am I doing? I shouldn't give up this easily!' He thought to himself.

Kagome placed her arms around InuYasha and hugged him as well. "Can I ask you something, InuYasha?"

"Um…sure…" He replied letting go.

"Tomorrow is my company's dinner banquet and I was wondering if you would like to escort me there."

InuYasha stared blankly at Kagome. "Uh…"

"Oh c'mon! It'll be fun! You get dressed up and everything."

"But I don't know anyone but you, I don't have a tux and you're not even working yet so why are you going anyway?"

"You know me and there's a place near here where you can rent one. I know I'm not working, but Kikyo invited me since I haven't been at work for a while. I am an important person at the company, I guess. By seeing what I have that's what I'm assuming."

InuYasha thought for a moment. "I guess so, you've convinced me."

For the first time in a while Kagome smiled. She felt so relieved that she wouldn't have to be paired up with Sesshomaru. "That's great! I'll meet you there; here's the address." Kagome handed InuYasha piece of paper with the address on it.

The next day Kagome was in her bathroom fixing her hair and make-up. Placing the final bobby-pin in, Kagome took a step back from the mirror to examine herself. She smiled and went over to the bed where her dress was laid out. It was a slim, one-shouldered dress with glitter everywhere and a slit coming up the right side. As soon as Kagome put her dress on she heard a voice coming from the other end of her bedroom. "That's a pretty dress, Kagome. I remember the day that we went and picked it out."

Kagome turned around and saw that it was only Kikyo. Kikyo was wearing a short, spaghetti strapped dress that only went down to her knees. Her was half up with big banana curls tumbling down.

"You look really pretty too Kikyo." Kagome said walking up to Kikyo.

"Thank you…We should get going, we don't want to keep your escort waiting." Kikyo turned around and left the room.

Kagome grabbed her matching red, strapped, high-heeled shoes and walked after Kikyo. "Ok…I agree…I asked Inu—" Kagome stopped when she saw Sesshomaru standing only feet away from herself. She looked over at Kikyo who was already preoccupied with her escort. "What ever happened to me choosing my escort?"

"Oh! I totally forgot, dear. Sesshomaru was already to be your escort, since you two are supposed to be married." Kikyo mentioned, opening the door to the outside hallway. Her and her escort left first while Sesshomaru slid his arm with Kagome's and started walking. Kagome sighed and just followed his lead. She knew InuYasha was going to not forgive her this time.

With his newly rented tuxedo and hair nicely combed back, InuYasha parked his rickety old car and started walking towards the Westin Hotel banquet center which the dinner what held. He looked around at all the other cars and felt like a total moron. Every car was either a sports car, foreign import or some big bulky SUV. InuYasha's car looked like an oversized turd next to them. He shrugged his shoulders and continued walking. Stopping in front of the building, InuYasha stood there and waited for Kagome to arrive. 'I wonder how pretty she'll look tonight.' He thought to himself while trying to ignore all the weird stares from unknown people.

After a few minutes of waiting, a limousine pulled up and the driver got out and walked around to open the door. InuYasha walked closer as a woman stepped out of the vehicle, followed by a man. It was Miroku and Sango.

"Hey buddy! Didn't expect to see you here!" Miroku said patting InuYasha on the back.

"Yeah, same goes for you!" InuYasha patted Miroku on the back as well. "You're looking really nice tonight Sango." InuYasha complimented.

"Thank you. Compared to everyone else, I feel a bit dressed down." Sango started to say. InuYasha looked around and did notice that a lot of the women wore sparkly, elegant gowns with huge diamond earrings and necklaces. Sango had on a simple navy blue halter dress that angled from her left mid thigh to her right calf. Despite all the other ladies, Sango looked the most gorgeous, so far. He still had to wait for Kagome. "This is the first time I've been to one of these. It's only for the top people in the business and I was promoted this past year to be one of the executive's secretary, which put me up pretty far and made me able to come here." Sango finished up.

"Ah…I see…yeah, Kagome invited me to be her escort so she told me to meet her here." InuYasha told his side of the story.

"Well aren't you the lucky one…looks like you're gonna get a lil sumthin' sumthin' tonight—" Miroku winked and nudged InuYasha with his elbow.

"MIROKU!" Sango yelled smacking him over the head. "Forgive him. Well, we should get inside. I hope to see you two in there!" Sango and Miroku waved and headed on in. InuYasha waved back and then directed his attention to the limos and cars driving up.

A limousine pulled up again and prayed it was finally Kagome. The driver of the limo walked up to the door and opened it up. InuYasha's heart was pounding waiting for who it was. He wanted to fall over when he saw it was a huge woman with fur and jewels everywhere. At least there was another limousine waiting behind this one. InuYasha waited patient as the first limo drove away, the second pulled up and the driver getting out to open the door. The limo driver opened the door to reveal a beautiful dark haired woman with a red dress on. It was Kagome. InuYasha quickly walked up to her but stopped in his tracks when he saw the second person get out behind Kagome.