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Sweet Temptation
Rin floated in a corner of the pool, her back to the wall, Shippo floating before her, a genuine smile on his face. They'd been splashing around, but he had grabbed her, and then, when she failed to struggle and had looked at him in a way that made her feelings for him plain, he'd pulled her to this corner. Looking over his shoulder and seeing everyone was occupied with her sister, Rin leaned forward and pecked him on the mouth.
Wide-eyed, he'd looked at her, smiling, and, touching his own lips as if he couldn't believe what she'd just done, pulled her close by the back of her head and whispered, "Rin," to her lips before he pressed them against his own, keeping one eye open to make sure his Father didn't look their way.
S.T.
Kagome gratefully followed Sesshoumaru's pale back into the house. She was admiring the muscles that rippled when he moved when he turned and said, "Can you hand me the stuff from the fridge?"
Caught off guard, she swallowed and responded, "Sure."
Going to the cupboard, he got out eleven glasses and the blender.
"Alright, I'll need milk, ice, the mixed berries in the freezer, and some of that vanilla ice cream, too."
She brought all the things he'd asked for over, and shivered. That ice cream against her skin was freezing!
He smiled at her shudders; cold, was she?
Removing his towel, he tossed it to her, and she wrapped herself in it, smiling gratefully.
"Thanks."
While he wasn't looking, she held the towel to her nose. It smelled like Tide, but it smelt like him, too…sort of musky. She wondered if it was his aftershave.
While she was busy smelling his towel, Sesshoumaru remarked, "You must forgive my brothers their foolishness."
She looked up. "Foolishness?"
"Yes. They were being a bit…obvious…out there, weren't they?"
"Oh, that. Yeah, a bit. What's up with that?"
He turned to look at her briefly as he held the lid down on the blender and pressed Puree.
"It's really my fault," he admitted, giving her his full attention.
"I went to see a show last Saturday night. I must say, Kagome, that your routine is the best out of all the girls at that club. I thought you were very…graceful."
She blushed deeply. "So, you know about my other job, huh?"
He smiled. "Do not be ashamed. I was most impressed. You were very good."
She returned his smile.
"I regret to inform you though that I made an error today. Inuyasha was remarking about your leaving in a trench coat last weekend, and I let it slip about where you were going. I'm sorry."
She kept smiling. He was so sweet! Apologising like that!
"That's alright. It definitely explains all the attention," she said, looking out the window to see them all watching her and Sesshoumaru. Suddenly, a wicked idea crossed her mind.
Someone had turned on the radio outside, so no matter how close to the window they strained, no one could here what Kagome was saying to Sesshoumaru, and finally Kouga said, "Enough of this shit, I wanna know what's going on!"
His brothers following, he made it up to the glass doors when he saw something that shocked him enough to make his mouth fall open.
When Kagome had seen Kouga stand up, she'd said to Sesshoumaru, "I have an idea. Play along!" and she'd slowly put her hand behind his head, and brought her lips up to meet his own.
When she saw his brothers gawking outside the doors, she released him and winked. He smiled too, but made his face into one of shock when his brothers could see it. Picking up the blender and pouring out the smoothie into the glasses, she took half of them on a tray and slid back the door, saying, "Oh, boys! I didn't see you there! Here's your smoothies!"
Dumbly they took the glasses she offered, and watched her as she made her way back down the steps, offering her last glass to her sister, Kikyou.
They immediately turned on Sesshoumaru.
"Well?"
"How was she?"
"Is she a hot kisser?"
He only smiled and walked past them, to sit on the end of Kagome's lounger in Kouga's place.
Seeing that they had lost their opportunity with Kagome to Sesshoumaru, they slowly wandered back, Inuyasha to sit with Kikyou again, Miroku to wander over to Ayame, who sat drying her hair on the edge of the pool.
Rin and Shippo, having abandoned their kissing game for now, took turns going down the slide.
Sango, straddling the diving board, watched with no interest as Daichi finally pried the filter out of its hole and cried, "Eureka!"
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The next day at school, Kikyou slammed her locker shut. Ayame and Sango exchanged a look; their sister was angry, and they had a good idea why.
Kikyou sunk down to the floor, her back to her locker. She could feel the tears coming; good thing it was lunchtime.
Ayame, sensing an emotional breakdown, grabbed Kikyou's arm and said, "Come on. You need to let this all out."
Dragging her to the bathroom, they gathered around her in a corner and took turns hugging her as she cried out her sorrows.
Sniffling, she asked, "Why does everyone have to like her, huh? What's wrong with the rest of us that they can't notice us? I mean, Ayame, you looked great in your suit, and Sango, you always look great. It's me that's the cow! I'm so fat, and I hate it!"
Sango looked at Ayame. Their sister was hurting, and was saying things that weren't true.
"Kikyou, you're not fat," Sango said gently, rubbing Kikyou's back, to rid her of her hiccups.
"Oh no? Then why is her bathing suit too tight on me?"
"Because it's hers? If you had worn your own, you would have looked great, hun."
"But I want to look good in her suit! I want to look like her! I want to be able to pull off a stint at a strip club too! "
She began to howl, and her sisters pulled her down to sit on the floor, Sango grabbing a roll of toilet paper from the nearest stall so Kikyou could wipe her nose.
"But Kagome hates it there, remember? She said it was so demeaning, but the money was good. That's the only reason she does it, Kikyou; so we have money to buy clothes and junk."
Kikyou blew her nose, calming down a little. "I know. But why does she get to be the pretty one?"
Sango smiled, like their Mother used to when they were sad about something as little girls.
"Kikyou, you forget that she went through a lot to get where she is now. She used to have to wear headgear, for God's sake! At least your teeth are straight and you don't have to."
"And she had acne, too, I remember," Ayame added, nodding. "Had it for years, until she started the pill."
Kikyou sniffled, and smiled a little. Her sisters were the best!
"Thanks, you guys," she said, hugging them both, one arm each.
"Maybe you should tell Kagome about this," Sango said, looking her sisters in the eye.
"Why?"
"Well, maybe she can reassure Kikyou that she won't be like this forever; that her time will come, too. Then if she hears it from Kagome, she'll be alright."
"I dunno," Ayame hesitated, and Kikyou blinked back more tears. "What if Kags isn't home, or too tired?"
"That doesn't matter! When we tell her about Kikyou's concerns, she'll listen. She always does."
The sisters nodded, and Kikyou wiped her eyes again. Stuffing the roll of toilet paper in her bag, she left the bathroom with her sisters, heading down to the cafeteria where she ordered nothing to eat, but bought a bottle of water from the pop machine. No time like the present, right?
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Inuyasha sat down in math class, and opened his binder. He looked at his homework from last night; he still didn't understand what he was doing.
As he tried to check his work before class started, Kikyou took her seat next to his. Opening her own book, she said nonchalantly, "I had fun last night, Inuyasha."
He looked up when she said his name, and said, "That's good, Kikyou. Me too." but went straight back to work, as if she hadn't spoken. Kikyou's heart began to break. She'd enjoyed considerable attention from boys, up until it got out that her older sister was a stripper. Now, the only attention she got was boys asking if her sister would be home after school, and did she do private parties?
She was so sick of hearing about it that by the time school ended for the weekend she was ready to strangle her sister, something she'd never thought she'd want to do.
Walking home alone, for Sango had swim practice and Ayame her karate lesson, she kept her gaze to the ground as she slowly made her way home. She saw Inuyasha and Miroku, Kouga in the backseat, speed by, but they never stopped; they didn't even honk, or offer her a ride. Before, Inuyasha had followed her like a puppy; now, he didn't even remember that she existed.
Sometimes, she thought, life is a real bitch.
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Kagome came home at six, exhausted. Her sisters all sat around the table when she came in, and they all had a look of business to their faces. She felt an argument coming on.
"Alright, you guys," she said, dropped her jacket and purse on a chair by the kitchen door, "what's up? I doubt you're waiting for me to give me hugs."
Kikyou drew her gaze to the tabletop, and Ayame put a hand to her shoulder. Sango just kept staring, and Rin folded her hands on the table, saying not a word.
Kagome sighed. "This is about last night, isn't it?"
Sango jumped in here. "Yeah, as a matter of fact it is. You had quite the entourage, and none of us appreciated it, Kagome."
She trudged to the fridge and took out the milk. She should have seen this coming.
"Okay, what do you want me to say? I was plenty uncomfortable, I'll tell you that much. It was pretty awkward to have them all crowded in like they were, but I didn't do anything! I do know why they did it, though, Sesshoumaru told me."
"Yeah, they know about your weekend job, right?" Kikyou said, her eyes getting wet.
Kagome sighed again. "Yeah, they know."
Kikyou started to cry in earnest now, and Kagome came over to sit next to her, gently pushing Sango over to make room for herself.
"This is all about Inuyasha, isn't it?" she asked her, touching her shoulder.
"So what if it is?" she cried, ripping tissues from the box Ayame held out to her. "You took up all his attention, and none of us got any. How fair is that, Kagome? Before we know it, you'll have five boyfriends and we'll have none, 'cuz they sure seem to think you're the cat's meow!"
Rin was silent throughout Kikyou's whole outburst.
"Are you worried I'm going to steal the guy you like away from you?" Kagome asked, hurt.
"What if I am?"
"Oh, Kikyou, I'd never do that to you! You're my sister! You're all my sisters! It's my job now to put you all through school and give you everything that Mom and Dad would have given you. I have no time for men, and even if I did, I like Sesshoumaru! The others are all too young for me!"
Her sisters laughed, and Kikyou smiled. Kagome hugged her tight.
"I love you guys. I don't know how you could possibly think I was out to seduce the Taisho boys! You have to remember, they are boys, and they know that I'm a stripper. Of course they're going to be riled up, but that'll go away when the novelty wears off. They've probably already forgotten about it by now."
As she spoke, Inuyasha, Miroku, and Kouga sat underneath their window, listening to their conversation, and plotting ways to get into that strip club next Saturday night.
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Daichi strode into the bathroom, and ran the hot water. Opening the vanity, he pulled out his razor and a can of shaving cream.
A few minutes later Sesshoumaru joined him, the only son old enough to have anything to shave.
They stood next to each other in front of the mirror, chatting about work, when Sesshoumaru happened to look out the window.
There, across the driveway, in the Higurashi's bathroom, stood Kagome, watching them.
He waved, and she smiled, waving back. Daichi noticed none of this as he concentrated on the spot under his nose, on his upper lip.
"So, Sesshoumaru, I get the feeling you have quite the crush on Kagome, no?"
Sesshoumaru looked back at his Father, who winked at him in the mirror.
"Uhh…" was all he could say before Daichi interrupted him, saying, "It's alright, you don't have to tell me. I can tell just by looking at you, and how you look at her. I just hope this infatuation hasn't sprung up because of her job?"
He frowned. "If you must know, Father, I've always had a soft spot for her. I just…well, I just get really nervous around her now, and-"
His Father laughed, wiping his face with his towel. "I know son. I went through the same thing with your Mother."
Tossing his son the towel, he said, "You might want to shave the rest of that off before I'm forced to take a picture and show it at your wedding."
"Very funny, Dad," Sesshoumaru said sarcastically, and looked back toward Kagome, but she was gone.
He finished shaving in silence, his thoughts loud in his head.
S.T.
Well, well, well...Sesshoumaru and Kagome? Only time will tell! But I for one predict some steamy love scenes in the not too distant future! Muahahaha! Review, and I'll update. Maybe you'll get to satisfy your perverted little minds...or maybe not. It all depends on you guys! Make me proud to be an Inuyasha Fanfiction Author!!!