Disclaimer: I don't own Inuyasha
It's up to fate
By natsumi no tsunami
Chapter 2
"Speech"
'Thoughts"
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Parking on the grounds of Aventis Prep in her BMW mini, Kagome thought back to the call that she received after Miroku's disturbing news.
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Flashback
"Ms. Higurashi there's a call waiting for you on line four from Mrs. Shinto, Kouta's nanny. Would you like me to put her through?" Kagura asked to Kagome.
"Yes please, thank you Kagura," Kagome replied back to her assistant over the phone. As she waited for the phone to come alive again she held a questioning expression, wondering why Kaede would be calling her at this time of the day.
"Hello, Higurashi speaking," Kagome said into phone incase Kagura mixed up the calls.
"Hello Kagome dear, it's me, Kaede. I'm sorry for bothering you but I'm calling to tell you that I'm in a car accident and I won't be able to pick Kouta up. Would you be a dear and pick him up while I stay hear to finish the police questioning?" Kaede's tired voice came over the phone. "Could you also send the butler to pick me up somewhere along 59th street between 6th avenue and Park Avenue? The car has been towed to the local mechanic?"
"Sure and I'll send Ginta down momentarily. Bye Kaede." Kagome quickly place the phone back into its cradle again and brought her suitcase from the ground onto her desk. Quickly going over what she paperwork she needed in her head, she mentally ticked each off as she placed them within her briefcase.
Shutting the brief case when everything was packed, she reached down to the ground next to her executive leather seat to grab her hand bag. Quickly checking that she had everything she needed, she rushed out of the room towards the elevator causing her flowing black hair to float behind her. Pressing the button repeatedly she narrowed her eyes when something was nagging at her mind. She frowned as she tried to sort through her memories at what was wrong.
Ding!
The sound of the elevator arriving reminded Kagome of what she'd forgotten. She rushed towards her sectary who was chatting with Kagura, Kagome's assistant.
"Kanna, could you also call my residence and ask for Ginta Takahiro. Tell him that he needs to pick Kaede up, who's currently somewhere along 59th Street between 6th Avenue and Park Avenue. You can leave once you finished." Kagome said looking at Kanna whose head was behind the computer screen.
"Yes miss," Kanna looked up towards Kagome with a blank face only to find her walking back towards the elevator.
"Good evening you two," said Kagome loudly as she stepped into the elevator.
"Good evening Ms. Higurashi!" both Kanna and Kagura bid Kagome good evening in sync.
End of Flashback
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Today's been a tiring day with the two phone calls. She hoped that fate wouldn't play any more suprises today or she'll be on edge from being put under pressure, something extremely bad especially with the news of Sesshoumaru moving to head his New York branch of Taisho Corp.
Breaking away from her thoughts, she stepped out as she saw children coming from the main entrance of the school large front doors. Tip-toeing in her high heels she managed to spots a head of silver among the mass of children pouring from the school.
"KOUTA!" Kagome shouted among the swarm of children, trying to make her voice produce a louder sound than the millions of decibels she was hearing right now from the rush of children
Upon hearing his mother's voice of the crowd of children, Kouta started to sqeeze through the children towards his mother. Finally getting out of the crowd, Kouta ran towards his mother to give her a hug.
"Mom, I'm so glad you came to pick me up toady instead of Kaede granny. Can't wait to show you the wishlist Mrs. Phelan made us write for Christmas," said Kouta excitedly, a happy smile suddenly blooming on his face.
Kagome found her studying her son as he told he what else had happened today. His flowing silver hair and molten amber reminded her so much of him, Sesshoumaru. Many a time she mistook her son for Sesshoumaru, then she would suddenly realize that this Sesshoumaru was shorter that her which seemed strange. Her son's smile reminded her of just how opposite Kouta's happy go lucky attitude what compared to Sesshoumaru's cool façade making it almost seemingly impossible to be related other than facial features. Drifting off, she thought about the current situation.
'Was I wrong not to tell him that he has a child? Would Sesshoumaru hate me for what I have done? Will Kouta start to hate me if I told him about this?'
"Mom! Mom! Are you listening to me?" Kouta looked up to find his mom gazing at him as if in a trance. "Mom! MOM!"
"Oh! Yes Kouta. Did you say something?" Kagome asked curiously as she broke away from her train of thought and looking at her son.
"Mom! Did you hear what I told you just before?" Kouta questioned. One look at his mother's guilty face told it all. Exasperatedly, Kouta said "Mom, you supposed to be interested in what I'm telling not day dream."
Feeling guilty for ignoring her son, Kagome decided to ask him whether he would like to have dinner at his faverourite restaurant.
"Kouta, I'm sorry. Here, why don't I take you to Fedler's for dinner to show you how sorry I am for ignoring you," Kagome said the smiled at her son while waiting for a reply from the now anxious boy.
"Yes! Yes! Yes!" cried Kouta as he jumped to hug his mother and place his face in the crook of her neck.
Looking up at his mother's face smiling, Kouta said "Mom, let's go already. I'm starving. Come on, hurry up." Letting go of his mother's waist, he took his mother by the hand and dragged her towards the car.
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Entering the restaurant Fedler's, a wave of delicious aroma hit her nose. Taking Kouta's hand and looking around for a waiter she spots flash of silver. Now scanning the room again, more carefully this time searching for the flash of silver, she was suddenly interrupted by the tugging of one of her hand. Looking down at her son, Kagome quirked an eyebrow to ask what he was tugging her for, she waved away that nagging feeling that told her that something was a miss.
"Mom, the waiter is waiting for instructions." whispered Kouta quietly as he nodded towards the direction of the waiter discreetly.
Turning her head towards the direction her son was nodding, she found her self looking a slicked hair, tuxedo dressed waiter who looked at her rather disapproving frown.
"Madam, do you have a reservation?" asked the waiter looked at them with an expression that screamed 'I better than you' at them.
"Yes, we have a reservation for Higurashi" Kagome answered deciding not to look at his rather ugly face along with such a rude expression.
"Hmmm" said the waiter as he checked his computer. Finding the name and walking away to a table for two he told them "Follow me please."
Following the waiter towards their table, Kagome was stopped by several familiar faces who were business associates. Pausing every now and then when exchanging greeting she suddenly felt queasy as if something about to happen. Bumping into her son made her look at him to discover his shocked expression.
"What's wrong Kouta?" Kagome questioned with concern written all over her face.
"Why does that man look like me?" Kouta asked as he stared a person in front of him with surprise.
Looking at the direction her son was staring at, she found herself looking at a man with waist length silky silver hair tied into a low ponytail having dinner with a beautiful lady. Turning her eyes towards her son again she was about to correct him that he was supposed to say he looked like the man not the man look like me only to be cut off by Kouta.
"His eyes look like mine too." exclaimed Kouta happily as he saw the man look towards him suddenly.
Curiously, Kagome turned again to look at the direction of the man to find herself face to face with piercing amber eyes staring right back at her with a killer glare. Reconizing these eyes and face, Kagome froze with an astonished expression on her face.
Glancing curiously at his mom's and the man's surprised expression, Kouta wondered who the man was.
Recovering first, the man opened his mouth with a cool expression now once again on his face.
"Good evening Kagome, it's been a while."
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TBC…..
Thanks everyone who read my story and especially my reviewers . I'm quite sad at the response I been given. There's been more than 100 hits and I only recieved feed back from 4 people. I would really appreciate it if readers take some time to review to help me improvemy story.
Keeper-of-mauve-paradise: Thank you for the boost of confidence. I actually wasn't really sure whether I should continue writing the story, but because of your boost of confidence I decided to more effort into writing and getting this chap out as soon as possible.
Ladyofthewest15: I'll try my best into writing longer chapters for everyone's enjoyment. Hope this one's also long enough. Thanks.
tigerjade: Thanks for the tip of trying to make things more descriptive. In this chapter I tried to incorporate expressions as they converse hopefully it's alright since I wasn't really sure whether or not they fit in.
Kagome21: My apologies for not explaining properly. To answer your question, yes, Kouta is the son of Sesshoumaru and Kagome. Your second question will be answered in a later chapter when I find an appropriate time to fit it in. Um... Kagome is the vice president of Kaze Records (AN: I changed the name cause I decided that Taishou corp. sounded better and using Kaze corp. sounded too repetitive.) Thanks for bringing up those question.
natsumi no tsunami