Chapter 2
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"Sesshoumaru!" Kagome greeted, waving her hand at him as she approached the light haired demon.
The person in question stopped to look at her.
Kagome smiled wider.
When she reached him they continued walking.
"Happy Birthday!" Kagome exclaimed with her hands in the air.
He raised a white eyebrow at her. "My birthday is tomorrow."
"I know," she giggled. "I just wanted to be the first one to say it."
She thought she saw the end of his mouth twitch as if he would smile, or at least smirk.
"Any plans for tomorrow?"
"Not to my knowledge. Birthdays are not celebrated often amongst demons. They are meant for young children and when a demon reaches the one hundred year mark of their life."
Kagome tried to imagine Sesshoumaru old and wrinkled but then remembered he would probably always look young...
"Well we should still do something. Have a party-"
"No."
"Invite lots people-"
"No."
"Have cake..."
"No."
"It was worth a shot," she mumbled playfully.
A birthday party would combine most of the things Sesshoumaru hates. Lots of noise, people, and sweets.
"Then what do you want to do?" she huffed. "We have to do something."
Silence.
"If you won't do it for yourself at lest entertain my human tradition."
Kagome waited patiently for a response upon seeing Sesshoumaru was actually contemplating an idea. By the time he spoke up they were on school campus.
"Dinner and a movie."
"Finally you decide-" Kagome's heart skipped a beat when she registered his response. She repeated it again and again.
"Kagome?"
She hadn't even realized she had stopped walking when he called her name with a curios golden stare.
"Something wrong?" he asked.
Kagome shook her head to snap out of it. "I think I ah, dropped my pen when we got here."
He raised an eyebrow.
"It's my favorite pen so I'm gonna go look for it. You can keep going without me." Before he could say another word she turned away and dashed for the entrance hiding behind the brick wall that served as a gate around the school. She waited a few minutes before peaking around again. Sesshoumaru had been surrounded by a gaggle of girls and a few male friends of his. They started to walk into the school and out of sight.
She relaxed against the wall. Why did she have react like that? He was probably thinking about how weird she was.
Forgot my favorite pen? Could I have thought of a stupider excuse? She thought.
But when she had heard his response her heart had just kicked into over drive. Dinner and a movie.
That was a date!
Well...no... They were celebrating his birthday as friends.
Friends. The word rang in her head.
He was humoring her. No doubt Sesshoumaru didn't even want to go.
Everything seemed so much harder with Kagome's growing feelings for her childhood friend. She had become very aware of how he had grown taller, grown stronger, and with that, even more handsome.
That's why tomorrow she would confess after giving him his gift at the end of the night.
Kagome started heading to the school's entrance as the bell rang.
There was only one hitch in her plan...
She had yet to find him a gift. And today, after school ended, would be her last chance.
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"Aki!" Kagome whined on the phone as she laid face down on her floor.
The floor was for failures. Beds were for winners.
"I can't believe you wasted three hours at the mall and couldn't find one thing," her friend Akino scorned in annoyance.
"There was nothing there that he would like though..." Kagome mumbled into the floor and phone.
"I highly doubt that. What are you going to do now?"
"Lay here on the floor in misery and failure."
"Wait, are you really on the floor? Nevermind, look I've gotta go. Cook him something, bake cookies, but do something. I'm not going to let you punk out of this confession because you don't have a gift."
"You're such a motivational speaker..."
Kagome could imagine Aki smiling on the other end. "Tough love goes a long ways. See you tomorrow."
"Bye," Kagome replied and pressed the 'end' button highlighted in red.
Unwilling to move, she stayed put and contemplated what to do.
"Kagome!" An older man's voice called from downstairs.
She sighed into the floor before standing up. "Keep that spot warm for me. I'll be back in few," she spoke to the Floor of Failure.
Walking downstairs and into the living room she found her grandfather and brother sitting down around a large cardboard box.
Kagome frowned. "Another box of "sacred" junk," she did air quotes with her fingers.
Her grandfather frowned. "This isn't junk! It's precious pieces of history!"
Kagome bent down and looked at the contents of the box. She pulled out a broken plate and gave her grandfather a "are-you-sure-you're-still-sane?" look.
He snatched it away from her. "A great monk once ate upon this plate and placed a prayer of good luck upon it."
"It's broken in half."
"Relics get broken when passed down the generations to careless people!" he defended and placed the plate back in the box gently. "Now do an old man a favor and take the box out to the storage-" he faked a cough. "The Sacred Relic Shed."
Kagome picked it up with a roll of her eyes.
"And don't take anything! It could be-"
"Cursed," Kagome finished. "I know, I know."
One of the downfalls of living on a shrine was having a senile grandfather who believed everything was cursed and carried around seals the monks and miko's used to use to ward off evil.
However, Kagome opened the shed's doors, she hated coming in here. Dark and musty. A heavy feeling of dread in the atmosphere. Made Kagome shiver.
Creepy.
Everything in here needed a good dusting for sure. Shelves upon shelves, boxes stacked on boxes, full of objects collected for generations. Kagome could appreciate the beauty in history but this was more like hoarding.
There was a clink as something fell onto the ground. Kagome turned around to see a crystal attached to a bronze chain in a necklace fashion.
Had it fallen off a shelve? Or out of the box without her knowing?
"Please don't be broken," she prayed putting down the box in a corner and coming back to inspect the necklace.
Picking it up to place in her palm the crystal was unscratched and in one piece. The crystal was in the shape of an elongated diamond.
What was that called again... Kagome studied it for a moment before the word popped into her head. A pendulum.
The crystal was very eye catching for it's small size, about two inches. The bronze chain needed to be shined a bit.
Not too extravagant but it would make a nice gift for somebody.
It suddenly hit Kagome.
This could be a gift for Sesshoumaru! For whatever reason this necklace seemed to be perfect for him. She could see it around his neck, occasionally bouncing off the hard chest of his.
Don't drool on yourself Kagome, she thought sarcastically as she recalled a trip to the beach with a shirtless Sesshoumaru.
She stood up and put the necklace in her pocket. She felt bad taking it but how could they miss anything so small in this giant shed?
Gramps probably doesn't even know it's in here. Heck it could have been put in here by accident.
With her conscious settled, she closed and locked the shed back up and headed inside the house.
Now she could happily bask and sleep in the Bed of Winners and Success.
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AN: Here we go :) The first real chapter. Enjoy!
Reviews are appreciated :)