Sleepless Night

Day 2 Part 2

Sesshomaru awoke from his bed, it was already 4:30 and he didn't want to get up yet. He was to meet Kagura in about an hour, so that they could go get some drinks. He peered from his window to thier window which had been set a glow for hours now. Rin was playing Kingdom Hearts 2 and he could her the squeals of amazement seep through the very walls. Sesshomaru looked then continued to gaze outside of the window, until his alarm clock went off. It was time for him to wash up for the outing later with Kagura. Its not that he wanted to take a bath yet, but the fact that his hair was running rampant.

His stomach growled, no point going out for a drink on an empty stomach. Sesshomaru opened a drawer beside him which concealeda stash of peanut butter flavored granola bars. During one of his cases in the past, they had offered them, and after that, he had taken a serious liking for them. He shoved halk the bar in his mouth, and started to chew, and he left tht room to get some milk. After his light snack, he took a shaower, scrubbing himself, and takingmost of the time to shampoo his hair properly. He put ona heavy trench coat, but inside was a blue polo shirt, andhe wore some black slacks. Sesshomaru felt invigorated and he turned on the t.v. for the remainder of the time, watching re-runs of Naruto.

(5:30)

Sesshomaru made great haste to her home, not knowing why he was in such a hurry despite the fact that they were his neighbors. He knoked on the door, fizing a bit of his hair, if it was dusted in the wind. The door opened and Rin let him inside, and brought him to the t.v. She was already about half-way through the game, he guessed.

"Looky Sesshomaru, there are lotsa heartless!" She started to play, but kept looking back up to Sesshomaru to ceck if he was still watching.

"Uh, where is Kagura?" Sesshomaru, kinda wanted to leave quickly, Rin had given him one hell of a spoiler.

"Oh, your earlier than I expected Sesshomaru." Kagura petruded from what looked like a piled up kitchen of plates, wearing a red long sleeve shirt and another long white skirt this time. Not that neat, but you put much emphasis on your clothing.

"What? You want me to come later then?"

"No, I guessed that this would happen so I got ready a little earlier."

"Are we gona get going then?"

"Okay Rin you know the rules, now say them again." Rin paused the game and stood up as if she were to compose a poem.

"When mommy is gone, the t.v. is mine. The kitchen with knives and the oven of heat, are not to be touched by these little hands and feet." She smiled and waited for an answer from Kogura.

"Yep thats a good girl, now you can stay up or you can go to sleep early without me."

"Okay." She bent back down and began to play again.

"Shall we make our leave." The two walked outside and the was all the way down."No car?"

"Of cousre not, we're gona be drinking! Don't tell me you drink and drive!"She paused for a minute, and started to laugh.

"Hahaha, your right, what in the world was I thinking?" This woman is crazy...

"Its only a 15 minute walk, and besides, its a good source of exercise." Sesshomaru took the lead and started walking ahead of her.

"Hey don't walk so far up, I thought that you're suppose to be my escort." ESCORT!

Sesshomaru pounced at the answer,"this is nothing of the sort, this is just two freinds going out to get something to drink." He calmed himself down, thinking only of his outburst.

"Alright, if thats how you want to think it." She giggled and slowed her pace, appaerntly she wasn't taking me seriously. The walk was rather brief, and the roads were busy like usual. They walked back into the same bar they had before, "Heaven" and as they walked in, the bartender greeted Sesshomaru.

"Hey Sesshomaru, kinda late today aren't you?"

"Nah, just had other stuff to do today Steve."Kagura took a seat on the counter, and Sesshomaru could only follow.

"How about we have a drinking contest?" Ha, she sure does know how to start a party.

"Are you sure thats okay?"

"Okay? I told you that I can take my alchohol, didn't I?" Kagura gave a bright smile that could only make Sesshomaru calm down, a bit that is.

"Hey Steve, we're gona have ourselves a little contest over here."

"Hahahahah, this is gona be a good one." Steve pulled out a bottle and poured it into a fine glass. "I'll bring another one when your bottle gets to half, its all half off for you guys so have fun. Oh yeah, we have a rule of only up to 20 drinks. Around the 15th drink, I'll bring something stronger. That one will be free."

Sesshomaru looked to Kagura and saw a strange glint in her eye, and her battle spirit seemed to rise with the competition. "How about we make things a bit more interesting Sesshomaru?" Sesshomaru's gut tightened. Why do I feel that I'm about to make a deal with the devil?

His answer calm out rather slowly. "What do you have on mind?"

"The winner can command the loser to do whatever he or she wants or at least something that remains in their power," Kagura smiled.Hmpf, with that I can tell her to leave me alone.

"Its a deal." Sesshomaru saw himslef winning already and looked around the bar, which was filled with people that he knew, rather well. Knowing them, they would swarm around the two of them when they reaced their 10th drink. Too bad, Sesshomaru thought to himself, she won't last for the 7th drink.

"Stop stalling and lets get started!" Kagura's voice was filled with vigor, and her attitude changed.

"Stalling? Stop stalling and just drink!"

(Drink 1)

Of course none of them were feeling the effects quite yet.

"Hahaha, don't expect me to yeild so easily Sesshomaru." She said with much lust and life.

"I really don't expect ya." Sesshomaru muttered.

(Drink 3)

No one is feeling affects yet...

"Hahaha your holding up fairly well."

"What were you expecting?" The two stared each other down, Sesshomaru could almost feel as if she was tearing into his soul... This isn't the same Kagura from the night before...

(Drink 9)

"Whats up Sesshoma?"

"Nothings wrong with me yet!" He could sense a little fatigue but it was hardly worth mentioning.

"Are you ready yet? I'm still feeling nothing hehehe."

(Drink 13) A few hours later. It seems that in between drinks, they started to talk to each other a lot.

Sesshomaru could take more. But something inside of him told him to quit like a gentleman. Ha there is no way I'm gona let her win. By this point the other bar members were surrounding them.

"Hey Sesshomaru, who is the chick?"

"Mind your own business Alastor."

"Cmon Sesshomaru, she doesn't look the least bit red yet." It was true, her face was still as calm and rather serious since the start of the little contest, and he was already wavering to the will of the drinks, but it was only slight.

"You okay Sesshomaru, it looks like you're gona fall asleep soon." Apparently these morons think I'm gona falter. Na uh.

"Don't worry Kagura, I've still got a lot of game inside of me. Hahahaha this is some of the most fun that I've had in quite a while you know that?"

"Oh really? I hope that things get far better than this then."

(Drink 15)

"Alright you two, since neither of you have given up yet, I'll pull ut something a little stronger." Steve pulled out a new bottle and Sesshomaru let out a small flinch.

"Oh crap, thats Red 13!" The crowd went silent. Red 13 was a horrific drink that usually ended all the drinks into a stalemate.

"You okay Sesshomaru? How about you girl are you fine?"

"The name is Kagura." She said her name loudly as if she wanted the others to remember it. It was unlikey since the small details such as that went through one ear and then out the other.

"Can we get on with this?" Sesshomaru looked hard at her face, noticing that it was faintly red.

(Drink 17)

Sesshomaru felt like crap. His stomach was filled with booze, and he was starting to succumb to the last 16 drinks. He looked down at his drink bitterly. Kagura was looking red to, but her condition still seemed better than his.

"Can we drink this one already and get to the next drink?"

"Sesshomaru, dude, you should back out of this gracefully, if you drink anymore..."

"Shut up, I'm doing just fine." He wasn't and he was trying to stop his eyes from closing, trying not to let the others notice his own weakness, which they already had.

"Dude, your a crying Joe when you have taken your fill."

"Crying Joe?" Kagura looked at him and grinned... Sesshomaru felt a lump develop in the pit of his stomach. What is she?

(Drink 19)

"My life is a mess! Look at me drinking here nearly every other day."

"Oh crap, we got a crying Joe."

"Seriously, that girl reduced Sesshomaru to this?"

"I think you should call it quitsy now Sesshamaaaru..." Kagura was now falling to his condition, but it seemed that she was just playing aroung, acting as if she was losing now also, just so that Sesshomaru would't go down so badly.

"Gimmeezzz that cups."

"Oh crap, this is it, this is really it!"

(Drink 20)

"Okay you two thats enough, all there is now is to see who will fall asleep first."

"You mean faint."

"Whatever." Sesshomaru was at the brink of his destruction. There was nearly no more spirit left in him and the only thing that kept him going, was from losing from a girl.

"How about we end this now Kagura." Sesshomaru was getting exetremely anxious.

"And how do you plan we do that?" She almost sounded bored.

"Arm wrestle." He started to losen his sleeves, but somebody disturbed him.

"Dude thats like taking advantage, you are like much stronger than her!"

"How about we stand up."

"Stand up?" That was one hell of a way to go... It was better than losing to a girl at arm wrestling, I guess. What am I thinking? I plan to win this thing, one way or another.

"Yeh first one to kneel down loses."

"Fine!" Sesshomaru got up and felt his legs tremble a bit as he got up. Kagura stood up quickly, only pretending that she was suffering also. Dammit, I think she played me like a fool. His legs started to give.

"I give up." Kagura knelt down. Huh whats going on? " I can't take anymore..."

She gave up... On purpose. Sesshomaru's spirit died out and he knelt down also.

"Hey you two, I'll drive you guys home..." Alastor said,one of Sesshomaru's good buddies, theone that helped get him home when he drank too much.

"Uh yeh, you can do that."

They dragged him to his car, and Kagura climbed in after, holding him a bit as he went inside.

(Later at home.)

"I can't beleive my life! I'm a lawyer, I never wanted to be a lawyer! Pah, I wanted to write."

"Write?" Kagura sounded suprised. She was no longer faking her condition now. Her face was fully red and the two of them were sitting on the sofa.

"Yeh I wanted to be a writer. but things were too hard for me, my old job wasn't paying enough for just rent, and my father threatened to stop paying for my dorm..."

"Wow you really are a crying Joe."

"Be quiet," Sesshomaru shot back.

"So I won did I not?" Her voice got all cheery and everything sounded all fuzzy.

"Yeh, yeh, whatever you want."

"Alright," she started to think to herself for a moment.

"Whatttzzz do youz wants?" Sesshomaru was starting to fall asleep.

"You and I... are going out from this day forth..."

"Heys... Thats not right..." Sesshomaru wanted to fight for his case, but he couldn't. "You gave up."

"Only so that YOU wouldn't look like a wuss out there."

"Agghhhhhhhh"

"So you gona stick with our agrement Mr. Lawyer?"

"You played me, you could hardly take any drinks the night before."

"No, I didn't lie, I said that I could take my liquor, did I not..."

"You..." He gave up... What a turn of events... I got played like a fool... Look at her, I'm in a worser state than she is.

Goodnight then dear Sesshomaru..." She kissed him for a long moment. Then, she fell asleep...