Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha.
It's up to fate
By natsumi no tsunami
Chap 3
"Speech"
'Thoughts'
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The moment she recognized the face, Kagome's body went into shock. Sure her expression was one of surprise but … her mind was in overdrive.
'Oh my god, oh my god, oh my god, oh my god. Hey his voice sounded more sensual than I remember, wait a sec. What the hell am I doing, I'm suppose to stay away from him, not feel like a lovesick female for this god-made perfection. Ohhh shut up! '
Feeling her mind turning against her in this situation, Kagome could only stare blankly at him with nothing to reply.
"Aren't you going to return my greeting?" Sesshoumaru asked mockingly.
Finally composing herself, Kagome thought of replying him with a witty remark only to be cut of by Kouta, whom she had forgotten about in midst of the surprise.
"Why do you look like me?" Kouta asked with a very curious look on his face. "And how come you know mom?"
As if suddenly realizing there was someone beside Kagome, Sesshoumaru turned towards the voice. He found the speaker to be a young boy with a very remarkable semblance to himself. Suppressing the surprised expression that wanted to form on his face he instead made a poker face.
"Kagome, just why is this little boy calling you his mother?" Sesshoumaru looked from the boy to Kagome and then return his gaze back to the little boy.
"Because I'm his mother or why else would he be calling me that," looking as calm as possible to match Sesshoumaru's expression, she told Kouta to go and follow the waiter to their table and she would join him briefly.
Wanting to study the boy a bit more, he was about to combat Kagome's instructions only to be interrupted by the young lady who was at the table with Sesshoumaru.
"Sesshoumaru is everything alright?" the young lady asked trying to gain Sesshoumaru's attention.
"Yes Rin, everything's fine. Rin I like you to meet an old acquaintance of mine. Rin this is Kagome and her son. Kagome this is Rin," Sesshoumaru said as he moved to the side so that the two females can greet each other properly.
"Hi, I'm Kagome Higurashi and this is my son Kouta," said Kagome, extending her hand towards Rin with a pleasant smile. "It's a pleasure to meet a friend of Sesshoumaru's."
"Oohh. I'm not a friend, I'm Rin Taishou," Rin smiled at Kagome, allowing her name to do the explaining. Rin reached out and shook hands with the hand offered by Kagome.
Time stood still for Kagome the moment Rin uttered her last name Taishou. When Rin reached up with her left hand to brush away the hair dropping towards her face, did Kagome finally understood why time stood still.
There on Rin's fourth finger was gold diamond ring sparkling cheekily at her as if mocking her of her past. Suddenly her face shifted into a slightly sorrowful expression before quickly into a happy smile before anyone noticed.
"A…a...ah. Mrs. Taishou, why didn't you tell me that you were Sesshoumaru's wife?" stuttered Kagome nervously looking everywhere but the face of Sesshoumaru and Rin.
"Wa--" Rin started, trying to correct Kagome's mistake only to be cut off.
"Rin dear, why don't you get the waiter to bring our bill as I escort Kagome back to her table," Sesshoumaru cut in.
"Yes, Sesshoumaru," Rin answered, quickly forgetting about the subject a foot. Rin lifted her hand and waved a waiter towards her as Sesshoumaru started to lead Kagome away.
Sesshoumaru had noticed her expression when Kagome assumed that Rin was his wife even though it wasn't true. Too bad, he wasn't going to spoil the fun. Ever since the time when Kouga made Ayame jealous on purpose to woo her back, Sesshoumaru concluded that a little dose jealousy was a very useful since the two now are happily married with a kid of their own. The thought kids reminded Sesshoumaru of the boy that called Kagome mother.
"Kagome is the boy my son?" Sesshoumaru asked directly as they walked towards the direction of where Kouta had gone.
Kagome froze mid step, Sesshoumaru besides her had also stopped walking.
"What is his name?" Sesshoumaru asked as he turned slightly to try look at Kagome's expression only to find them covered by her loose hair that now had become a curtain between the two.
"…"
"What is his name?" Sesshoumaru asked again, getting annoyed at how she was not answering the question he wanted answered.
"…..his name is Kouta," Kagome decided to answer after a long silent pause between the two.
"How old is he?"
"7."
"Did you know before you left?"
"Yes."
"Why didn't you tell me?" slowly but surely, Sesshoumaru's expression changed with each question. "Why didn't you tell me that you were pregnant with my child, I would've cared for you."
"It doesn't really matter anymore does it? You now have a wife to look after so you needn't bother with Kouta because I can look after him," Kagome answered tiredly. She felt so confused with the events that just have occurred in the past few minutes but to her it felt like hours. She's never felt jealousy like what jealousy she felt now. It made her want to explode at him and ask, no, demand answers from Sesshoumaru like, why did he marry? How could he marry? How could he accept another if he didn't accept her, the person whom Sesshoumaru had said was the most important person in his life?
"What do you mean it doesn't matter, Kouta is my son no matter how hard you try to deny it and I will be included in his life you hear? I need you to collect your thoughts before arranging with you how I can be involved in Kouta's life, so give me your home number," Sesshoumaru growled trying to keep his right brow from twitching in anger.
Obediently, Kagome opened her purse and too out her notebook and pen. Opening the note book she wrote her home number on a blank page and then ripped it out to hand to Sesshoumaru.
"I'll contact you sometime tonight," Sesshoumaru said as he took the piece of paper and slid it into the breast pocket of the shirt he wore underneath his tuxedo. Leaning down, he pecked Kagome lightly on the lips and turned to leave only to pause after three steps.
"I still care about you," with that said, Sesshoumaru resumed walking towards Rin, who was holding the bill and waiting for Seshoumaru to get back so that they could leave.
Touching her lips, Kagome savored the feeling of his lips when it mad contact with her in that quick peck.
'He's right.'
Kagome resumed her walk towards her son.
'It sure has been a while.'
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Sitting on a leather couch in his personal study of his country mansion he brought in America a while back, when he first heard the rumor that Kagome was in America. Sesshoumaru thought back to the time when he first Kagome and how they met.
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Flashback
"Yura, why haven't the representative from Kaze records arrived yet?" Sesshoumaru barked into the intercom that connected him to his sectary with an irritated face.
"Sir, the rep. from Kaze records called in. He said that because of a family emergency the vice president is coming instead." Yura replied as she leafed through the notes she had stuck on the perimeter of her computer monitor.
"Doesn't matter, cancel it. I hate it when people are late especially when they're the ones that want to do business with my company," Sesshoumaru informed Yura.
"Yes sir" Yura answered.
Sesshoumaru lifted his already packed briefcase from his desk and opened the door of his office only to find a young lady with silky black hair and chocolate brown eyes wearing a tailor cut, navy blue office suit with a knee length skirt blocking his way. Yura was behind her, trying to pull the girl away from the door of his office. Both sudden froze from their tug and war when they spotted a man blocking Kagome's way to the office.
"Mr. Taishou, I demand an explanation. Why did you cancel our appointment?" the young lady asked.
"And just who are you to demand something from me?" Sesshoumaru raised a sleek eyebrow at her.
"I'm Kagome Higurashi, the vice president of Kaze corp. I demand an appointment because I arrived by the time scheduled." Kagome demanded with an angry face.
Looking thoughtfully at her, he decided he might as well take the appointment since he wasn't in the mood to argue.
"Would you like to have dinner?" Sesshoumaru asked Kagome with a cool face.
"What?" Kagome questioned as she narrowed her eyes at the man in front of her. She suddenly baffled at the man's sudden out of the blue question. Yura stood besides Kagome with an astonished expression.
"Would you like to talk business over dinner since you're so insistent?" Sesshoumaru asked her again.
"Oh. Alright," Kagome's features softened at what the silver hair businessman meant.
"Follow me then." Sesshoumaru resumed his course walking towards the elevator.
End Flashback
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Shaking his thoughts away, Sesshoumaru looked at his white gold Cartier watch. Seeing that it was nearly 9 pm, 4 hours since the restaurant incident, he decided it was time to call her. Taking the piece of paper that held the all so important number from the pocket of his shirt delicately, he turned the cordless handset on. Carefully, he dialed the number written on the sheet. 9 – 3 – 7 – 7 – 1 – 9 – 8 – 6. He placed the phone next to his right ear waiting for someone on the other side to pick up.
"BitterSweet café, may I help you?" a perky, female voice answered over the phone.
Eyebrows' suddenly frowned at finding that the number Kagome gave him wasn't her home number. He hanged up and leaned onto the back of his seat, wandering how the hell he was going to contact her now. Then he remembered that she worked for Miroku Houshi, a business associate of his. Deciding to call his business associate, he thought of a way to make Miroku squirm so that he would eventually give in and give him the home number of Kagome's. He remembered one time when Kagome had told him that Miroku's weakest point was when people complimented him about his happy family or blackmailing him. Nodding the head in his mind, he agreed that blackmailing was good since complimenting someone was just something Sesshoumaru just doesn't do. He dug deeper in his mind, trying to remember what Kagome had once told him.
'The only way of blackmailing Miroku is to threaten him that you will tell his wife Sango of all the perverted things his done. He'll crack under a second if you get him good. You see his wife hates when Miroku becomes perverted so she often gives him a beating or ignore him if she finds out that Miroku has been miss behaving.' Sesshoumaru suddenly remembered.
Silently Sesshoumaru walked towards his desk and sat down in front of his computer. Typing in the name Miroku Houshi in the search column of his private database, the computer quickly uploaded the information and contact details of Miroku. Connecting his phone again, he dialed Miroku's private number.
"Miroku, who is it?" a man's voice came over the phone.
"Miroku, this is Sesshoumaru Taishou. I'm calling to ask you whether your wife would like to hear a certain little mishap that my sectary told me that happened when you paid a little visit to my office last time."
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TBC….
Hey everyone. It was so hard to write this chapter because I couldn't decide whether to let the person Sesshoumaru or Inuyasha, but obviously Sesshoumaru won. This and my last update were up quickly due to the fact I haven't received any homework and of all the reviews I've received. They inspired me to write more and faster. Getting reviews made me feel all bubbly and gets the urge to finish the chapter I was working on so that I thank guys for reviewing. If anyone has spare time to be a beta reader for my story could you contact me because my current beta is busy so I'll be grateful for anyone help. Thanks.P.S. You could check the amount of progress I make with the story in my bio. I usually update my profile everyday as long as I'm not busy.
Thanks to those who reviewed and read my story.
Ladyofthewest15: Thanks to your encouragement, I wrote an even longer chap this time. Thanks for telling me to write longer chapters for you guys to enjoy. P.
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val: Thanks for liking my story. Are there really story with similar plotlines like this. Gasp. I wrote this story because I thought that it was different from the story online currently. Anyways. About the twists and turns, I'll be sure to include lots of those because I love it when other authors write that too keep you on the edge of the seat. I hope you like that scene when Kagome thought that Rin is Sesshoumaru's wife. I don't really use any schedule with updating my fic but I usually upload once I finished writing and checking a chapter through.
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Kagome21: Yeah, it sure was funny to have them bump into each other. It was your review that made me make the ultimate decision whether to let the person be Inuyasha or Seshoumaru. About the waiter thing, it happened to me when my mum took me to this Italian restaurant and the receptionist called a waiter who had similar features as mentioned in the story. He was so rude when he can to collect our orders. I concluded that someone shove a stick up where the sun never shines. lol. Anyway, the cloths that Kagome wore are her business suit and Kouta wearing his school uniform. The waiter wasn't rude because of their cloths. He was one of those snobby people who think they're better than everybody. Love your question because they show that you're really interested in the story that you want to know every detail plus I know I don't include all the details that I should in the story.
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