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Chapter 3
Sango quickly followed suit, laughing until they quietly sat on the kitchen chairs, giggling every time they looked at each other. The moment finally passed and they smiled bright, happiness apparent on each of their faces for a flicker of a moment before Kagome sobered down and smile, her sadness showing through it. They both looked at her, appreciating that she had even shared the moment with them, and gave her understanding smiles, exchanging knowledge in an instant of a second.
"Now, how bout that dessert?" He announced brightly as they headed towards the shop downstairs, each absorbed in their own thoughts.
The words echoed in her mind as she ate gleefully, the smell of the dessert making everyone in the house, including a pissed Hanyou, come to the restaurant's kitchen and help themselves to the wonderful flan-cake. It had been three hours since they started to make the dessert and her mood had lightened considerably since the laughing fit they had had before. The cake glistened with sauce as Kagome reached for the last slice, only to be intercepted by none other than a smirking Youkai.
She pouted cutely, making Sesshomaru glance at her bemused while eating the cake, triumph clearly shown on his face. He was starting to loosen up around her and Kagome was glad for it, she hated when people felt shy around her because they didn't know how to approach her, thinking she was handicapped or something when they found out about her secrets.
Her pout turned into a slight smile as she got an idea. Reaching over the table counter where everyone was eating, she quickly took her fork and grabbed a huge portion of Sesshomaru's cake, making him arch one of those perfectly sculpted eyebrows and look at the stolen piece with mischief.
She was about to eat it when suddenly she felt a hand on her own, guiding her fork to her side and into someone's mouth. She looked incredulously to the intruder and found it to be Sesshomaru, a smile playing loosely on his lips as he chewed with vigor, making Kagome look at him with defeat.
"Whatever…" She mumbled as she gathered everyone's dishes and headed to the sink, washing the small plates quickly and disposing them into the dishwasher, wondering why people bother washing dishes if they were going to have a dishwasher do it anyway.
Sango glanced at Miroku with a look of surprise, Sesshomaru never loosened up with anyone, especially a guest. Miroku shrugged, not really interested and headed upstairs, hoping to get the last but of the scary movie marathon that had been going on all month.
"Hey Sango?" Kagome said meekly as she headed up the stairs with the rest of them, "Can I borrow your computer for a couple of hours? I need to brush up on my typing and computer skills."
"Sure, what's mine's yours." She said nonchalantly, knowing that Kagome was a whiz at computer skills and just wanted to be in top 'shape' for her 'interview' with Sesshomaru.
'So she's committed…' Sesshomaru thought as he passed the chatting girls, arching an eyebrow when Kagome looked his way quickly, as if a thought about him came to her mind.
"Thanks!" Kagome exclaimed, a bit more cheery than necessary, "Um… Where is it?"
She smiled, and rolled her eyes. "Over here." She said and led the excited Miko to a room next to the living room. She turned on the computer and put in her password, to prevent the men in her house from going on 'inappropriate' sites, and ironically, Kagome came to know it was 'friendship', the only word Sango knew the guys would never try.
-----------------------1 week later---------------------
"Oh…my…Gosh…" Kagome whispered deathly, her skin paling to an incredulous white and her bruises seeming to bring pain everywhere.
She brought a shaking hand to her mouth to cover her scream, but failed to note that demons were much more perceptible to hearing her muffled scream then the humans in the house were. She eyes held a terrifying blank look as she turned from the computer screen to see the two demons standing in the doorway, looking at her with concern.
Sesshomaru edged his way in, pushing his less concerned Inuyasha out of his way to look at the screen, which Kagome had apparently glued her eyes on. He looked at the message on the screen and reasoned why she was so scared, the message was from her ex-boyfriend;
Yah, Kagome
Look bitch, you think u can run away and disappear like that? You think you have anywhere to go? You have no home, no family, and no one loves you.
Where the fuck do you get at, thinking you can leave me here with all your chores and shit to do. Oh, when you get back here, just wait for it.
I'll kill you for the humility you've shown me, the whole gang's out to get you, we'll catch you sooner or later, you still owe them money, and now they have double the motive to bring you back, if not kill you. I don't care if you want to come home, but you must obey whoever is in charge, and your mother would be so disssapinted that you didn't respect her wishes for you to stay with me. Damn it, Kagome! Your acting childish, there's no reason you should have run away, I was only trying to keep you off the streets when you ran off blindly so just tell me where the FUCK you are?
-Come the hell home!
(A/n: I know I spelled 'disappointed' wrong! It's only to emphasize his lack of education, Kay?)
Sesshomaru glanced at the now terror-stricken Kagome and watched in silent amazement as her posture came back to normal, her heart rate slowed, her skin, though still a little on the pale side, had returned to its normal color, and her face contorted with anger, tears staining her blouse's sleeve as she angrily wiped them away.
She looked at him with seething eyes that made him almost cringe back and at the same time smile because the look reminded him of one of his own successful stares that rendered even the most poised of demons helpless.
"Fuck him to hell." She fumed as she was about to delete the message. She thought of a better idea and saved it, shaking her head in disgust. "No. I shouldn't say that."
"And pray tell may I ask why not?" Sesshomaru finally inquired, concern apparent in his eyes when she flinched at the sudden noise, suddenly noticing the company.
"Then he would get some pleasure before the torture he so deserves." Kagome replied through clenched teeth, an image of Naraku pinning her arms down came into her mind for a second and for a fleeting moment, she thought she would sell her soul just to kill him herself.
She shook her head once more at the thought. It was stupid to think of things that would give him more pleasure, knowing that Kagome was going to be tortured for the rest of eternity as he was.
Taking a deep breath, she stalked over to the door where Inuyasha was watching them, looked at him with contempt and closed the door in his face, reveling in the fact that the room was soundproof ever since Miroku complained that Sango's computer music was disturbing his cooking fung shuey. She turned, faced the smirking Youkai and leaned against the door, whimpering as she slid to the floor, cradling her knees in her arms.
"Why me?" She whispered through tightly clenched teeth, her nails biting into her skin painfully as she tried to calm herself down. She got up as her breath slowed a bit and started for the computer, intent on e-mailing Naraku back. What she was going to write, she had no idea...
"Kagome." Sesshomaru said forcefully, making her jump at the harshness of his voice, "What are you doing? You aren't going to give up and go back to him, if that's the only thing you think you can do. This Sesshomaru will never allow a human to torture a defenseless woman for sheer pleasure. It is dishonorable."
"Well thanks for trusting me," Her voice dripping with sarcasm, "And no, I'm not giving up, nor am I defenseless. I'm just gonna send him an e-mail saying something like: 'I'm fine and loving the moments without you.' I don't know, your rude, mean, and unloving, what would you say Sesshomaru-sama?"
Disregarding her comment, he walked over to the keyboard and typed what seemed to be a word and said he was done. A smirk appeared on her face, thinking he had given up, but quickly vanished when she realized he had typed the whole e-mail. She rolled her eyes when he smirked at her reaction and started to read.
Naraku,
If you think I'm coming to that rat hole of a 'home', then you've got another thing coming. I'm no slave, I can do whatever I want, whenever and totally without your permission, so don't think I wish to have you control me again. You think you've won by leaving me scared and making me believe I'm homeless, but you're so wrong I could laugh in your face and not even care because I have a new Home. I have friends who love me and I can't say the came thing for you.
And as for your ridiculous gang, tell them they better watch it because I have friends who won't hesitate to kill you and the whole gang, and believe me, they have more than the capability to. So why don't you just stop trying to threaten me and just realize that I'm never, and I mean never, coming back.
-Never
Sesshomaru watched as tears crept to the corners of Kagome's face as she read the part about killing the whole gang, knowing that the 'they' really meant him and quickly wiped her eyes with her sleeve. She smiled and the tears came back, rolling down the side of her face as she sent the message and turned to look at him.
"I-I don't know what to say..." She chocked out as she tried to hold her composure.
"There's nothing to say," He said indifferently, his eyes saying a whole different story. "I was just saying what I would say if I was in your position."
"Well... Thanks , anyway." She said and sniffed, making the smirk on Sesshomaru's face turn into a slight grin, but he left before she could see the whole thing.
O.O.O.O.O.O.O.O
"I wonder what's going on in there." Sango asked Miroku and Inuyasha as they finished the last movie in another movie marathon.
"Probably something stupid." Inuyasha said sulkily, mad that he had been thrown out of the obviously touchy conversation.
He watched as they came out, Sesshomaru quickly replacing his slight grin with an impassive mask, and Kagome smiling, though sadness was still apparent behind it.
He brightened when she sat next to him, after leaving Miroku with two red marks on his face when she attempted to sit beside him. Smiling, he lay back in the couch and watched the movie contentedly, not aware of Kikyo's glare at the fact that she couldn't sit next to him.
"Hey, you know its Friday." Kagome said, making everyone turn to her with questioning looks at the obvious statement. "Geez. Anyway, I was just thinking, isn't there some place to dance or something around here later? I mean it's only like 5 and we've done nothing but sit around, I wanna do something!"
Contemplating the suggestion, everyone shook their heads in agreement, Sango saying they should all meet downstairs at 8, leaving them plenty of time to get to a club where she knew the owner very well.
"Hey Kagome, come on, we gotta pick an outfit!" She said ecstatically, remembering the fun they had the night they had raided it the time before.
They approached the room, or The Arena, as Kagome had come to call it, and went through countless numbers of outfits, both of them running to the makeup area and getting the perfect matches.
Kagome's mood took at turn for the better as her mood lightened from the easy task. She felt almost like a princess as she went through one outfit to another, finally settling on something modest but hot at the same time.
Sango watched as her friend went from picking outfits with absolute confusion written on her face as to which she could try on, to knowing where each item was and which would go better when dancing this way and which shoes were best for the long night they were about to have. She laughed when Kagome kept repeating the phrase 'I just have to try this on!' and ran to the next area saying, 'No! I have to try this on!' and so on and so on.
"Ready?" Sango said as she gathered her finished outfit and walked to her bathroom where Miroku was taking a shower. She looked at Kagome mischievously, knowing he was taking to long of a shower, and flushed the toilet, walking out with Miroku in a towel, who was now red from the burning water.
"It's not funny." He said sulkily as she laughed at his pout. "She threw me out of the shower naked and didn't even let me have a chance to see her body!" He smirked when she stopped laughing and shook her head, rolling her eyes at his obvious perverted ness.
As Kagome walked upstairs, she noticed Sesshomaru had already taken a shower and had left her with an empty floor. She sighed happily and walked into the shower, turning the it on and grabbing her strawberry shampoo, noting that the red highlights she had put in last week were stating to fade.
She pondered how things could change so drastically in only a week. In the beginning, she had been sad, disoriented and scared. Now she was energetic and calm, though she still flinched when people touched her suddenly, she knew that she would probably never get out of that, and just dealt with it, glad that everyone else in the house had not treated her any different because of it.
She worried a bit about Sesshomaru's father, though, since she had gotten the job easily, surprising the Youkai with her skills. She had grown accustomed to his stoic way of being, and was extremely surprised at the difference between him and Inuyasha. While Sesshomaru may hold his composure and be extremely polite and appropriate, Inuyasha was like a time-bomb ready to explode, always wanting to get out early for the day and never really being polite unless he could get something out of it.
After she finished lathering up her body, she rinsed her hair out and put in her also strawberry conditioner, letting it stay in while she leaned against the edge of the tub and shaved her legs. She watched the razor glide across her skin effortlessly and remembered the time in her old 'home' when Naraku had to pry the razor from her hand when she tried to cut her wrists with it, thinking there was no escape. He had started tying her up from then on and washed with her for the rest of the time she stayed there.
Shaking the memory from her head, she focused on getting up, slipping slightly from the slippery bottom of the tub, and rinsed out some of the conditioner, leaving the rest to make her hair soft and luscious. She grabbed her towel from the rack and dried herself while putting on some lotion she had bought with Sango's help.
She smiled at the memory of the mall where she and Snago bought it and having to run away from the security guards when she 'accidentally' spilled a milkshake all over one of the guards who were yelling at some poor kids who were begging outside the storefront. They gave them some money and ran out the store, leaving the officer huffing as he ran out screaming.
Chuckling she grabbed one of Sango's many curling iron's and did her hair in a mass of curls cascading down her back. Smiling in approvement, she went to her makeup and applied everything but lip-gloss, knowing that when she put on her dress it would take it all off.
She finished and fixed up the bathroom, making it somewhat decent with all the crammed makeup and girl stuff crawling in it. She checked to see that everything was in order and headed downstairs, noticing that it was 15 minutes till 8. She walked to her room and dropped her dirty clothing on the floor, hoping no one got mad at her for being almost late.
She ran down the steps as fast as she could and when she thought she had almost made it to the bottom flight, she suddenly hit a brick wall. 'When did we put a wall there?' She thought as she fell unceremoniously into 'the wall's' legs, clinging onto them for dear life so as to not fall all the way down. 'And since when did walls have legs?' She thought dizzily and sat on the stairs with her feet in front of her.
Sesshomaru had been wondering where Kagome was for the past couple of minutes and was walking up the stairs when suddenly she seemed to fly at him with a 'doe in the headlights' look as she plummeted to his feet and looked up with surprise. She watched the floor and scratched her head in confusion as he looked at her with amusement. Her eyes widened as she realized the position she was in and quickly got up, adjusting her skirt lower and blushing tremendously.
"Sorry!" She muttered nervously as she rushed passed him, biting her lip embarrassedly.
She walked down the last stairs, wondering what the others thought of her outfit and almost went back upstairs to change when she met the surprised eyes of her friends. She looked at them meekly and brightened when Miroku, sensing her nervousness, said what he was thinking, "Wow! Kagome you look hot!" and the others joined in, complimenting her outfit.
She flinched when she felt a hand on her shoulder, but calmed when she saw it was just Sesshomaru, admiring her outfit with a raised eyebrow and smirk. She was wearing a silver halter top with violet stripes going down the sides of it. It was tight on her body, showing off her curves and was cut stylishly at the bottom of the shirt, making it hang loosely around her waist, allowing a nice look of her stomach without showing too much.
The shirt tied at the bottom and matched perfectly with the silver/black skirt she was wearing that reached almost to her knee. It slit at the sides, revealing a lilac under-covering that showed slightly and matched with the stripes on her shirt. Her silver high heels glittered in the bright light and her long legs were shown perfectly, the scars hidden behind makeup and time.
Loose bangles shook on her hand as she grabbed her lip-gloss from her black purse and applied it on her plump lips, her light-lilac colored eye-shadow making her eyes pop out even more. She had no blush, her skin already a rosy pink and her eyeliner made her eyes look even larger and brighter.
"So let's go!" She said as she grabbed Sango's arms and pushed them outside. They headed into Miroku's car and Sesshomaru took the men in one car and the girls went in the other, both not wishing to hear the conversations neither men nor women could stand hearing from each other.
Sango, Kagome and Kikyo all got into Sango's recently bought car and Kikyo decided to drive. They watched as Miroku, Sesshomaru and Inuyasha got in the car and led the way, the girl's knowing the directions better, but allowing the 'men' to have there macho way.
Kikyo then suddenly stopped, halting before a red light, and watched as the 'men' went ahead of them, gaining speed as they decided to race a car also filled with testosterone-crazed men. The cars raced to the next light and Sesshomaru smirked knowingly as they beat the other car easily, watching Miroku and Inuyasha high five each other and nod triumphantly to the music they were blasting.
Turning, Miroku's face drained to a pale white as he saw in slow motion Kikyo try to go through the red light. She had stopped but was in the middle of the lane, a truck coming directly in her path. The rest of them stared at the girl's car as it was hit by the oncoming 16 wheeler, tossing the car into the air and making it flip on its backside.
Sango screamed as she felt the breath from her lungs leave her and she gasped for air as she felt the world turn upside-down. She was thankfully wearing her seatbelt, but watched in horror as Kikyo unlatched hers, making Kagome hit her head on the car's top because Kikyo missed and hit her seatbelt instead. She was instantly knocked unconscious as the car hit the ground and her body tossed in the front as the car flipped over but landed upside-down again.
The car seemed to slowly blacken as Sango lost conscious herself, watching another car crash into the 16-wheeler and explode. She slightly felt movement as Kikyo looked at her bewildered and tugged on her shirt, also blacking out as her shock over took her and she slumped against Kagome's feet.
Oh yeah! Cliff Hanger! Hehe! I'lltell you what's gonna happen, the next chapter will be...
Man if you really thought I'd tell you after a cliff hanger! Haha!
Inuyasha: Man and I was really looking forward to it!
Kagome: (pouting) I wanted to know what was going to happen!
Sesshomaru: Whatever, just get on with the end of this chapter Hitori, then it'll be closer to the time that you'll give us the next chapter. You humans are so impatient.
Kagome: Am not!
Inuyasha: I'm no human!
Sesshomaru: Might as well be seeing as I wasn't talking to you.
Inuyasha: Hmph!
Hitori-no-kensi: Well... Okay, I guess the chapter's done! Hoped you liked it!
