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The Dog and the Dog Walker
From the Crazy Mind of: Scarlett
Ch 2: Matchmaking Maddness
"You love me don't you Hank?"
Kagome giggled as she felt his went tongue begin to lick her face, "Ok ok, here," she watched as the young Yorkshire terrier gleamed in triumph as she handed him a doggie bone treat. "Now let's keep moving ok?"
Receiving an agreeing nod she began to continue her walk with Hank. The park was crowded today and everywhere kids were screaming and running everywhere, making Kagome thankful that she had chosen to become a dog walker rather than a babysitter. But as she continued to stroll down the sidewalk, cursing at the reckless bicycle riders and roller bladers, she couldn't help but feel a tinge of nausea at the couples making goo goo eyes at each other on benches, under trees, on the swings, everywhere.
'This is a "Recreational" park, not Woodstock' Kagome thought resentfully. Was there no safe place of refuge for the single and lonely? Was she forever doomed to be called an old maid? Why did there have to be some disgustingly sweet couple everywhere she went? 'They should have their own planet'
Yes that was it, put all those love birds on their own planet and leave the single people to live their own lives away from their sickening public displays of affection! She was perfectly happy single. Right? Yes…Yes she was, and she didn't need a man, she had a job, an apartment and great friends…crazy friends, but great. And sure her job wasn't glamorous, but than again she did get paid to take walks in the parks.
And with the invention of the pooper scooper, she couldn't be happier.
"Kagome!" a shrill scream pierced the air as Hank began to bark loudly at the woman approaching.
"Sango?" Kagome hushed Hank as she watched her friend dressed in a brown jogging suit come running up to her.
"I have the best news! You owe me, big time." Sango shot Kagome a 'you-better-believe-it-girl' nod as her face flushed in excitement, "I've just set you up on a perfect date!"
Kagome buried her face in her hands shaking her head, "This is what you interrupted me at work for?"
"You're a dog walker!"
Kagome shot Sango an unappreciative scowl, "For information my client here is very upset at your intrusion, aren't you Hank?" Hank nodded his head as he gave a Sango a rather angry bark.
Sango rolled her eyes; she'd always been more of a cat person, "Look, just here me out ok? I was walking down to that new restaurant downtown with Miroku and suddenly his face turns pale white. Then he mutters something about someone having pinched his behind, so I turn around, getting ready to kick some girl booty and as it turns out, it wasn't a she I was looking at, but a he…well actually more of a he/she. So anyway I'd never seen anything so hilarious in my life so I invited the he/she to lunch with us, and we started talking and low and behold you came up! So I told him that you needed a man, and he told me that he had a hot brother that had just moved to Tokyo and—"
Kagome shook her head violently holding up her hand, "Wait…let me get this strait, you set me up with the brother of a transvestite who happened to grope your boyfriend!"
Ok, she knew her love life wasn't exactly romance novel worthy, but she was not that desperate! She just had bad luck damnit!
"Well not exactly…he wasn't a transvestite, he prefers to be called a member of the female exterior and masculine preference " Sango continued her explanation, totally oblivious to Kagome's face which closely resembled a cat who had just got its tail stepped on, " Anyway, he showed me a picture, and let me tell you Kagome that guy is gorgeous!"
"And if he turns out to be some psycho killer? I hope you can sleep at night if my body ends up in pieces all over Tokyo!"
That was it. She was going to move to some deserted island. She'd survive, she did watch that American movie Castaway after all…it didn't look that hard.
"You're completely overreacting, plus psycho killers are never that cute! But anyway, it's too late to say no now, because I told him you'd go to dinner with him!"
"No way! My love life isn't that pathetic, I'm just in a dry spell," Kagome stated defensively. 'Great first it was bad luck and now it's a dry spell…I need to find a better excuse.'
"Well if you call the Sahara desert a dry spell…" Sango ignored her friend's offended gasp as she went in for the kill, "He's taking you out to Tetsussaiga Grill," she sang melodically, knowing how badly Kagome had been wanting to eat there. And since Kagome had been living off Pop-tarts and Cup-of-Noodle for the last month, Sango knew she wouldn't refuse. She'd go for her stomach and leave with a hot new boyfriend! Damn, she was good.
"Alright, but if anything happens, you're going to stop this 'find-desperate-Kagome-a-man' operation, OK?" Kagome jabbed her finger into Sango's chest as she tried to give an intimidating glare. But as Sango began smiling and pumping her fists in triumph, Kagome knew she hadn't been successful.
What were the chances that this guy would turn out to be the one? Lets see…according to her calculations, hell had a better chance of freezing over.
"So…Sesshoumaru, blonds, brunettes, or red heads?" Inu Taisho asked his son impishly.
Sesshoumaru growled at his father, who seemed to be engrossed in some magazine, "Father…"
"How would describe your dream girl? A) Sweet and Innocent, B) Sultry and Sexy or C) Intelligent and Sophisticated?"
"Cease your nonsense" Sesshoumaru began to clench his fists as his father ignored him completely.
"What about your perfect first date? Would it be A) Romantic walk in the park B) Some steamy time at your place…hehe, I like that one!...or C) A fun day at the amusement park?"
"Father…"
"Ok, Ok I'll make it simpler thongs or-"
Sesshoumaru leaped up with acute speed as he reached and snatched the magazine away from his mentally deranged father. Before tearing it into little pieces he made out he words 'Matchmaker's weekly: Finding a Humble Woman for A Big Headed Man'
Inu Taisho chuckled nervously, "Well I was just looking out for your interests son,"
"My interests have nothing to do with women" Sesshoumaru replied stoically, his face devoid of any emotion, even towards the man who had given him life, not to mention a multi-billion dollar company.
"So you are gay?" Inu Taisho began to sulk at the thought. 'Goodbye to grandchildren playing in the park! Hello National Organization for Gay Pride'
Sesshoumaru sent his father a loathing glare as he made his way towards the door. He had come to his father's office to talk to him about the new Shichiintai account, and now he would leave irritated and convinced that his father needed to be institutionalized. He had always respected his father in years past, but every since he had become determined to find Sesshoumaru a wife, he descended from powerful business man to babbling matchmaker.
Inu Taisho smiled, Sesshoumaru's response indicated that he was definitely not gay, "Well then great! I've set you up on a date with some Olympic skier, heard she has great legs!"
Sesshoumaru slammed the door as he made his way back to his office, employees hid in their cubicles waiting for him to enter the elevator. He decided that he needed to do something fast, perhaps he'd just pay the woman to act like his wife until his father signed the company over to him. He'd make sure that she'd stay in the guest house and go on with her own life, and he his. And when he had the company he would simply tell her to leave.
Yes, that sounded like a good plan.