A/N: Aww, finally. Another installation of Vegas is One Hell of a Town. I was wondering when Natalia C would release. Lol. Sorry for the wait please enjoy!
Chapter 2: Red Handed
Kagome was pissed off. She didn't get to fulfill her bridesmaid duties. She didn't get to plan a spankin' bachelorette party....literally if she had her way, the guests would be spanking the asses of sexy male strippers. She wanted to buy Kikyo tons of gag gifts like pink furry handcuffs and glow-in-the-dark pleasure beads. She wanted to break the bank and get her best friend those champagne flutes she had wanted since she was a kid.
Instead she was standing in the women's bathroom of Graceland Chapel. She wore a white tank top and gray sweatpants with 'Tokyo U' written down the left front leg; not a pretty maid of honor dress. Her hair was piled on top of her head in a messy ponytail. Her eyes weren't covered in glamorous MAC cosmetics but had dark circles and red-tinted pupils.
Kikyo had cheap makeup that she got from a 24 hour convenience store. Kikyo's lithe body could pull off anything except the cheap polyester ivory dress with lace running up to her neck and down her arms that she borrowed from the chapel. Oh yeah, this was the wedding her and Kikyo talked about since they were ten.
"Oh Kagome, this is it," Kikyo said happily, "I finally getting married."
"Yea," Kagome replied in a nonchalant tone.
"Oh Kagome, I hope you don't feel bad about me getting married before you. I know we always said we'd get married together. Don't worry, some day, you'll get your long romantic walks on the beach, your dinners by candlelight, and your picnics under your favorite oak tree."
Kagome gave a unceremonious snort. "Yea right, Kikyo. I haven't wanted any of those things since I was thirteen. The sand gets stuck in between your toes. You can't read the menu because the candlelight is too dim. And who the hell wants ants in their food. I'm fine with you getting married, Kikyo. The million dollar question is: Are you?"
"Yes, Kagome. I know I want to marry Inuyasha," Kikyo said without any hesitation on her flawless face.
"This answer wouldn't happened to be encouraged by those three little bottles of vodka from the minibar, would it?"
"No, Kagome. I know I want to marry Inuyasha with or without alcohol." Kikyo hiccuped and released a burp that smelled like vodka. "I just needed a little liquid courage to help me go down the aisle," she added.
"That wasn't a little," Kagome commented under her breath. She knew her best friend was lightweight when it came to alcohol. "But seriously, Kikyo, this doesn't sound like anything you have always talked about wanting for your wedding. Eloping in Vegas? You sure you are doing the right thing."
Kikyo gave her friend a little smile. Even after Kikyo found out that Inuyasha was stinking rich, Kikyo knew all those extravagant things she wanted for her dream wedding didn't mean anything if she didn't marry the man she loved. She knew the one for her was Inuyasha.
"Kagome, I did get one of the things I have always wanted," Kikyo answered cryptically.
"And what's that, Elvis marrying you?" Kagome joked.
Kikyo let out a hearty chuckle. "No, I'm marrying a man that my most creative dreams could never fathom!"
A huge smile appeared on Kagome's face. She really was happy for her besty now. Small tears crept to the corners of her eyes. The fact that this really was the most important day of Kikyo's life hit Kagome like a ton of bricks.
"You getting married today," Kagome said with a broken voice.
"I know." A single tear slid down Kikyo's face.
After drying their eyes, Kagome and Kikyo left the bathroom. They stood in front of the closed doors of chapel #34 waiting for the ceremony to start. Kagome would first walk in and stand in her spot. When Kagome could hear the traditional wedding song began to play, she winked at Kikyo telling her this was it.
When the doors opened, Kagome saw a dog demon. He had long silky hair that flowed down his back. His eyes were the color of honey. Yet it wasn't Inuyasha. Inuyasha was lying unconscious on one of the pews. This inuyoukai's countenance was cold, distant. He carried a sadistic smirk. Kagome had to gasp when she saw him.
"So you're the infamous Kikyo," he said as he looked past Kagome to Kikyo.
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"An eleven hour flight....hiccup....an four hour ride here and-and...hiccup...for what? All for it to be thwarted by Inuyasha's stupid brother!" Kikyo cried. Her eyes were red and puffy from tears that she had been shedding for an hour.
Kagome and Kikyo sat on plush bed in the Penthouse Suite at the Bellagio. Kagome understood Kikyo's pain but she found it hard to pay attention to her friend. She tried to keep awake as she laid on the bed and rested her head in the down feathers pillow. She was exhausted from trying not to gag from Kikyo and Inuyasha's loveydoveyness while they were on the plane and from trying to drown out the cheesy love songs that they played in the car on the way to Las Vegas.
"Oh Kagome, what are we going to do now?" Kikyo said with huff.
"I don't sounds like your pretty fucked to me," Kagome said sleepily.
"Kagome!" Suddenly, the duo heard a loud crash from outside their temporary bedroom.
"Sounds like Inuyasha awake," Kagome joked. Kagome was dragged out of bed by Kikyo, Kagome placed her head against the door and listened to what was happening in the living room.
"You bastard! Where the hell am I and where's Kikyo and Kagome?" Inuyasha shouted.
"Calm yourself, baby brother," Sesshomaru said with an dark glint, "Before I have to subdue you again."
"So that explains the huge knot in the back of my head." Inuyasha rubbed the back of his head to find a huge, throbbing knot.
"I'm surprised you don't remember. It was quite the thrashing. I must have given you short-term memory loss," Sesshomaru replied with a wicked chuckle.
"You didn't answer my questions. Where the fuck am I and where's my fiancée and her maid of honor?"
"Hmm, I have put you in my suite at the Bellagio and I locked the girls in one of the extra bedrooms; but you shouldn't worry about where everyone is. Instead, worry about what I'm going to do to you."
Inuyasha rolled his eyes which cost a hard back hand to the back of his already injured head. Sesshomaru made sure to use his hand with his class ring.
"I tire of cleaning up your mistakes, Inuyasha." Sesshomaru's eyes turned a light pink show his fury. "Thanks to you, I have fly 10 partners out here to have one meeting. Do you realize the cost that accumulates?"
"Why don't you just cancel the meeting till next week, you big asshole," Inuyasha spat. Wrong answer. Inuyasha felt his head quickly spin into a 90 degree angle from his brother punching him in the face. If any other person had been delivered that blow, their head would've snap off their spine.
"I can't, foolish hanyou. I'm too busy watching over you!" This time Inuyasha took a swift kick to the abdomen. Inuyasha finally decided to fight back. He picked up one of the expensively upholstered oak chairs and chucked it at Sesshomaru, who quickly dodged it and gave Inuyasha a sharp right uppercut.
"Was the onna's cunt that good that you're willing to fight for it," Sesshomaru sneered.
Inuyasha's eyes now had a pinkish tint to them. "Don't you talk about her that way, you bastard." Inuyasha ran to tackle Sesshomaru but landed flat on his face with his brother's foot on his neck.
"Honestly Inuyasha, what were you thinking marrying this girl?"
"I was thinking 'I love this woman and I want to spend the rest of my life with her.' That's what I was thinking," Inuyasha croaked.
Sesshomaru scoffed, "Love is for the weak: humans and lowly demons which surprisingly you are neither."
"Look, Sesshomaru, I'm not like you. I don't go from woman to woman anymore." Inuyasha remembered how he had girls fighting over him all the time in high school.
"Well, your idiotic love almost cost this family money and it's breaking your mother's heart."
Izayoi had been on bed rest since Inuyasha had ran way. She closed all the curtains in the house and laid in bed all day. She whined and moaned how she wanted her puppy to return home safe and sound and not married to some low budget bitch.
"Oooh! How..How, Yoko, could he do to me? To our family!"
"I'm not sure, Mrs. Tashio, but maybe he and that girl really do love each other," Yoko suggested.
Izaiyoi suspended her 'illness' for a moment, "Yoko, you are a very good servant-in fact, you're my most faithful one which is why you are here by my bedside while the rest are doing God knows what-but you, my dear, are not the brightest."
Yoko hid her face to hide her hurt by her boss's words.
"Well, then what do you believe made them run off and get married," Yoko asked.
"I'll tell you what," Izayoi said angrily, " it's that sleaze he's with. She's probably the one who suggested they elope. Wait till I get my hands on her. I'll make sure she'll regret ever taking a step into Inuyasha's life. She thought she could get away with it, didn't she? But she has another thing coming since Sesshomaru is handling this."
Yoko had a worried look on her face as she saw the manical look in Izayoi's brown eyes. All of sudden, Izayoi returned to having pale, and sickly countenance which made Yoko's face twisted even more in confusion.
"How is she feeling?" Yoko heard a deep voice behind her. She turned around to see Toga with a glass of scotch in his hand. Since Inuyasha's disappearance, Toga had went through three bottles of the world's finest liquor and was getting ready to start drinking his five hundred year old sake that he originally was saving for a special occasion.
"I..I..um.." Yoko was at a loss for words.
"I'm feeling the same, dear. Still heartbroken and worried," Izayoi whimpered.
"Love, I honestly don't know what's come over that boy," Toga said worriedly. With a sigh, he took another swig of his scotch.
"I'll tell you what the problem is. It's you, Toga. It's all your fault!" Izayoi scolded.
'Jeez, she blaming everybody today,' Yoko thought with a roll of her eyes.
"What! How is it my fault? I didn't tell the boy to elope!" Toga replied appalled.
"No, this started during the pregnancy...."
"Oh, Kami..."
"I told you we shouldn't had sex while I was pregnant with him. Now all those poundings I took has given brain damage," Izayoi theorized as if she was madman.
Yoko wanted so badly to run from the room or cover her ears but her body would no longer obey her brain's commands. It simply wanted to ball up into the fetal position and rock back and forth. Yoko suddenly felt a strong hand rest on her shoulder. She looked up to see Toga give her an amused look.
"Let's pray that Inuyasha returns soon before my wife officially goes insane," Toga teased. He walked to the door then stopped and turned around. "And if I remember correctly, my love, you quite enjoyed those 'poundings' yourself." Toga had a smug smirk as he finally exit.
"Ugh, the nerve of that man!" Izayoi huffed.
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