Inuyasha

Chapter 7: Sealing the Deal

It was a plan of his, to have her be dependent on him, to go towards him for just about everything, and have himself be her only support. It is a game in a sense, but yet at the same time he was too tempted, to break her.

Naraku looked at her with a smile upon his lips as she refilled his glass of wine, humble at the moment from the look of things, but he could feel that cold hostility around of her that always put just about everyone around of her at arm's length or further.

"I knew that you would contact me," he arrogantly said to her with a smug smile upon his lips as Kagome glared at him.

"What are you looking to gain out of this,"

"Nothing really, just you," he said with a smile on his face as he leaned forward to put his face a little closer towards her despite the table that is between of them.

If fur can bristle, hers will be more than bristled and ruffled up.

"Please be serious, we want to seal this deal soon, and have the transaction confirm," Kagome brought the topic back to the main point.

"Patience," he drawled, taking a sip of his wine and swirling it, and taking another sip from it as he looked at Kagome from under his lashes, amused and entertained.

"Perhaps if you present me with a kiss I might speed up the process for you and even personally see to it," he added with a charming smile, sweetening the deal for her.

"Mr. Kagewaki," her voice soft and gentle, almost tantalizing even as she behaved all demure suddenly, placing her utensils down on the table and she dabbed at her lips, before looking up at him as she looks right into those reddish rust brown like eyes.

"Hm?" he voiced, curious and interested in what she has to say next as he leaned in a little closer, eyes half closed as though not really all that serious and they were there on some casual dinner or date night.

"Back to the matter of business, if not we're just wasting time and you…sir…"

"Oh? Is that a threat or a promise?" he asked a smiled in his voice as he looked at her with a certain seriousness.

She merely looked at him disregarding what he said as though she had never said what she did earlier.

"You look so adorable like that," he mused, reaching out to the wine that is chilling in the ice bucket, as he poured for her more drinks.

And again, Kagome did not say anything, in fact, she looks at him with the same usual annoyance that she would have when he has hit to the few bottom lines of her patience levels for him.

"I do think that a kiss is an awfully great bargain, just think, all you had to do is kiss me and I'll cater to your every wish," he added on taking a sip from his own glass of wine.

"You're right," she commented, placing her glass down on the table as she straightened herself up in the chair to look over the table at him. "But, how would I know that you would keep up on your end of the bargain," her voice suddenly turned to be sharper than that of a blade as she coldly looked at him from across the table, all poised and proper.

Naraku let out a mock-exaggerated sigh as he looked at her as though helpless in how she perceived him to be that low. True he might do that with just about everyone, but maybe not her, he does not know why, but just placed it as him having plans for her later, just that it is not now.

Taking his time as he reached over for his phone, and swiping to unlock with the few codes that he had placed on it, Naraku looked at Kagome with a harmless smile on his face. "I'm a man of my words, there really is no need for you to worry your pretty little head about it," he pacified.

"On the contrary, I find that to not be the case with how your reputation precedes you," she commented dryly, her expression showing that she is not amused or in the least bit entertained by him at all.

"With you, I'll do no such thing," he very so casually promised her.

"Make the call," she demanded

"Yes, yes, my Queen," he joked, fingers already dialling a number as she scrutinized him.

"Have it prepared, I'll come by later," he ordered over the phone, his eyes never leaving Kagome, and neither did she.

"There, are you pleased now?" he asked her with a smile, swiping the phone shut as he set the phone back down beside of his glass of wine.

"It will not be until later that we're clear, but before that, let's make good of the deal," he told her with a smile of a smirk upon his lips. "The kiss my dear, as per our agreement,"

She was silent, her emotions inside churning as she looked at him hard as though she could burn a hole through him with just her look.

"Or should I be taking it myself?" he asked her with another smug smile.

Gritting her teeth, Kagome gave him a hard look but could see nothing but laughter in his eyes as he waited expectantly.

"Not until everything is safely done," Kagome told him in a cold hard voice that did not tolerate any argument.

A smile tugged at the corner of his lips but he did not say anything against it, as he watched Kagome picked up her phone to make a call, her eyes almost constantly on him, glancing only a few time down at her phone to see what she is dialling.

Just as she had too made the arrangement and put her phone down, "Very well, I will accept that kiss from you once you have your goods safely transported and housed," Naraku generously added which caused Kagome to look at him suspiciously.

If given the choice, she would not work with him, but circumstance has it that he is currently the one is able to help her with the 'deliveries'.

A/N:

Hello
It has been a long while since I've been here to update anything, but that is also because there's a lot of things going on in my personal life. I will try my best to reply and get out a chapter soon, so no guarantee on which stories I will update next. I want to still thank you guys for your continuous support in reading and reviewing, it gives me that slight push to write someone out to update these stories. I hope that you guys understand my lack of update to the stories, and hope that you enjoy this new update.