Disclaimer: I do not own or earn a profit from the characters created by Rumiko Takahashi.

Summary: Happy. That's what she was. That was what she stood for and presenting everyday for the entire world to see. It was what she sought out in so many people and created over a period in time that it became so close to her she could see the emotion so clearly as the sun. She was happy and he hated her for it.

Worlds Collide

"That stupid jerk! Who the hell does he think he is, the king of Japan?"

InuYasha chuckled, rubbing Kikyo's shoulder gently, "He was the King of the Western Lands for over 300 years actually." He didn't know what it was about Kikyo's little cousin but he found that he enjoyed getting her riled up; especially on the topic of his pain in the ass half-brother.

They had all arrived back at their house a little less than two hours ago and Kagome had yet to cease her rant on Sesshoumaru. InuYasha found it to be hilarious while Kikyo found it to be cute. Her little cousin had a crush.

"Kags the way you're going on about "that stupid jerk" sounds like you have a little crush on him" Kikyo spoke gently, but with a spark of mirth in her brown eyes. She knew what was coming next.

"WHAT? Kikyo have you been smoking?" At that InuYasha burst into laughter at the way Kagome's hands flailed about her body and the pout she made when she noticed that she wasn't being taken seriously, "Fine I won't talk about the Ice King anymore"

She smiled suddenly and clasped her hands together, "So what do we have on the agenda for today?"

Kikyo smirked and got up, ruffling her cousin's hair, "Well you, missy, have to go unpack all of your things and then the three of us are going to go out to dinner," She paused and moved her hands around creepily, "with the Ice King"

Kagome frowned, "Do I have to go?" She certainly hoped not. She did not wish to spend her first night back in the company of that jerk.

"No you don't have too" Kagome blew a sigh of relief and smiled brightly, "But it would be rude not to attend and I haven't seen you in three years!" Her frown was back in an instant. Her cousin was slowly becoming a part of her list. Kagome huffed and folded her arms across her chest, "Is he paying?"

InuYasha nodded, "Of course"

"Free food, I'm game!"

Kikyo smirked, "You "game" for anything free Kags. Now come on it's already 5:00 and you have a lot of unpacking to do"

Kagome smiled, "Let's get to it then"

She really missed Japan.

~2.5 hours later~

"You have too much shit"

Kikyo and Kagome both laughed at InuYasha's comment as they placed the last of her things in the closet on the hangers. She literally took up most of the guest room, which Kikyo told her to feel free to paint because of the plainness of it all. The entire room was white, decorated with black and silver linings amongst the edges and black horizontal vortex swirls in the center of the four walls. Kagome thought that it was okay but it really wasn't her style.

She was excited that InuYasha and Kikyo agreed to let her decorate it the way she wanted; it could be her ultimate project until she finds a job. Grinning to herself, she watched as InuYasha plopped down onto her bed exhausted and Kikyo roll her eyes at him, before jumping down next to him. They were such a cute couple and she couldn't be any happier for her favorite cousin. InuYasha seemed to complete her in so many ways that Kagome found it near impossible to imagine either of them without each other, and she just met him!

Was she crazy for thinking that? Or was she simply a hopeless romantic and even the slightest bit of romance she saw made her believe in a happily ever after? Probably the latter but she was a woman after all and she often thought about love and what it would be like to experience it. Okay, well maybe she had thought she had experienced it once upon a time, but that turned out to be a strong infatuation of the person she thought he could be, and not the person he actually was. She was actually pretty happy to be rid of him, he was a sick person and she dare not to think what would have happened if she stayed any longer.

"Kagome! Hey!" Hearing her name, she looked up to see both Kikyo and InuYasha in her face with a worried expression, "We've been calling you for the longest, did you spaz out on us?" Kagome blushed and pulled a loose strand behind her ear,

"Yeah I guess I did, sorry"

Kikyo smiled and InuYasha shook his head, "Well if your back to earth you might want to get dressed, we have to meet the Ice King in an hour and he wouldn't like it if we were late. That icicle will be shoved way up his ass then" He chuckled when Kagome laughed right out and Kikyo slapped his shoulder playfully before dragging him out of Kagome's room.

"45 minutes and then we're out you two"

Kagome saluted her cousin and laughed when InuYasha slapped her on the butt. Yes, those two were definitely the perfect match.

Sighing to herself, she walked over to her mahogany closet and pulled it open to decide what she was to wear. Even if it was the Ice King she was going to see she wanted to look at least half-way decent out in public, so she grabbed her favorite dress slipped into it, went to the bathroom and applied lip gloss, eye liner, and a tad bit of blush. She looked at her hair and debated whether or not she would put it up or not and thought that because of its length right now she would keep it up in a nice bun and leave a few strands in her face. Looking back at herself she smiled. She loved how curly her hair had gotten over the years or rather how wavy it had become, the texture made it possible to make any regular boring hairstyle into something amazing and she felt just like that.

Smoothing out her dress, and putting on her matching pumps, she smiled and headed out of her room to greet InuYasha and Kikyo who were waiting on the couch for her, or more like slob each other down, while they waited.

Kagome raised an eyebrow, not sure whether or not to interrupt or throw up, but decided to cough lightly to get their attention. Kikyo jumped back from InuYasha like he burned her and turned to look at her cousin with a blush.

"Oh sorry"

Kagome smiled and shook her head, "No problem are we ready?"

It was then that both InuYasha and Kikyo took in what their little cousin was wearing and gasped, "Fluffy might have a heart attack. Damn Kagome where'd you get that body"

Slapping her mate upside the head, Kikyo glared, "I hate to agree with this pervert but Inu's right Kagome you look amazing!"

Kagome blushed and bit her lip, "Thanks, so are we going to leave or what?" She didn't really think it was all that, but she appreciated their compliments.

"Yeah let's go, we have, like, 10 minutes to get there"

~With Sesshoumaru~

He didn't know why he expected this incompetent fool to be on time for a change. Over the past few decades he had only been on time one time and that was because he had told him a different reservation time than he had originally scheduled. He rolled his eyes and swirled his drink about in his hand, briefly glancing at his watch, it was 15 past the hour.

Letting his irritation leave his young half-brother, he thought back to the human wench his beast had the audacity to call mate. She was pretty he'd give her that but he had bedded and gazed upon countless demonesses that surpassed her in looks, so what made his beast say that about her? And the rage he felt when that human whelp kissed her hand angered him even more. He did not care what the wench did with other males or even about her person, his beast be damned.

Although she wasn't the best looking her scent, was simply delicious and mouth-watering. When he first inhaled he felt so much overwhelm him at once that it was obvious his beast would react to it; however, no matter how much his beast wanted that little onna he would not stoop as low as to mate a weak human. Never.

"So we're twenty minutes late that icicle ain't gonna do nothin'"

Great. What a fitting entrance for his loud mouth sibling, he supposed he shouldn't have expected any less. Looking towards the entrance he locked eyes with his brother who began moving his way to the table he was occupying with a smirk on his face. The half-breed was actually decently dressed with dark blue jeans and a red dress shirt, his hair-not nearly as perfect as his own-looked as if it had actually been combed. His mate wore a long red shirt with no sleeves that came down to her knees with black leggings underneath and red heels. Her hair was down and she wore make-up that made her face a little less than pale as it usually is and red lipstick.

"What's up Fluffy?"

Sesshoumaru at the nickname and stared hard at his half-brother, "I will not respond to such a ridiculous name."

"Hello Sesshoumaru-sama"

His mate spoke, he looked to her and nodded his head, "Good evening" and then looked back to his brother, "You would do well learn from your mate. At least she is respectable"

"Keh, whatever" InuYasha frowned, "Hey Kik where did Kagome go?"

Kikyo smirked, "Oh she just said she had to go to the ladies room really quick. She should be here in a second"

And that was when he smelt it-her- that scent and his beast rocked inside of its cage begging to be released.

"Mate…mine…" his beast growled in his head. He shook his head and tried to silence his beast's growling when the holder of the scent made herself known.

Once again, and to his displeasure, his breath caught in his throat and his eyes widened a bit. She looked absolutely breath-taking.

The dark blue dress hugged her form, making her curves stick out and fill the clothing in the best way imaginable and still leave something to the imagination. It was dark blue with one strap that showed her creamy skin, and slender neck. He cursed his body as heat pooled in his nether region of his body but his eyes stayed glued to the woman before him. Her beautiful raven hair was not down but up into an elegant bun that made her look more mature and sexy. His eyes traveled down to her long longs that were glistening and her black pumps that made her 5'5 stature to an easy 5'7. His beast rattled dangerously in his cage, yelling at him to let him out and claim the woman before him but he resisted. No matter how undeniably sexy this woman was he would not mate her.

Her blue-grey eyes flickered to him nervously, obviously she noticed his hungry stare and felt uncomfortable, and he could smell her scent change with the feeling of uneasiness and found that he liked it more when she was happy.

"Good evening Sesshoumaru-sama" She said barely above a whisper, but he heard it and his beast purred in delight. Instead of responding, like he knowingly would have he found himself nodding his head towards her, never once looking away from her.

"Quit starin' at her Fluffy ya' givin' her the creeps"

And just like that the trance was broken and his gaze turned into a glare as it rested on his half-brother.

Kikyo coughed a bit and smiled before taking Kagome's arm and squeezing into the booth with her, placing Kagome right next to the Ice King she claimed to dislike. It was as obvious as the sun that Kagome thought that Sesshoumaru was sexy, hell you would have to be blind not to the think so and she found it cute that her little cousin had a crush on him, even if she didn't know it yet.

She watched as Kagome blushed as she looked at Sesshoumaru and smiled despite herself. Those two were going to be very entertaining, indeed.

There was an awkward silence the followed the four occupants and it made Kagome bite her lip. No matter how sexy he looked right now, she still was very wary of him. His perfection seemed to come easy to him and good looks were no problem. She was actually shocked to see that he had worn a dark blue dress shirt-identical to her dress- with a black tie and black slacks. They looked like they were on a double date by the color coordination and she didn't know whether to be flattered or nervous.

"So Sesshoumaru, what exactly do you do?" She questioned. The only thing she knew about him was that he was InuYasha's half-brother, he had an icicle up his ass, and that he used to be the king of the Western Lands a long time ago.

Sesshoumaru stared at her like she had grown a second head. Did she not know just exactly who he was? Or was she simply trying to play dumb and start up a conversation?

He watched as she fidgeted under his gaze and bit her lip, an innocent gesture he knew, but the heat had returned to his body at the sensual way she looked at him. The little vixen probably knew what she was doing; she was after all not a virgin. He could smell that she had been with a male once before and he growled low in his throat at the thought of someone other than himself touching her.

"Dammit Sesshoumaru cut it out your scaring her!" InuYasha scared watching as his older brother's lip pulled back into a snarl and his breath become labored. If he hadn't known any better he would say that he was having inner turmoil with his beast but Sesshoumaru wouldn't be infatuation with a human would he?

Sesshoumaru looked to Kagome and smelled her fear and instantly calmed himself. He shook his head and cursed himself for almost losing his control again. She was making him lose the battle with his beast and it angered him. So instead of answering her question he turned to his brother,

"Half-breed, how is your financial department doing after the recent scandal?"

InuYasha looked at Kagome noticing her forlorn expression and then at Sesshoumaru, "I believe she asked ya a question asshole" He wouldn't just let Sesshoumaru try to ignore his new little cousin especially after how civil she was being.

"It is beneath me to speak to a lowly human wench"

At that Kagome lost it.

"How many times do I have to tell you I am not a wench!? My name is Kagome Ka-Go-Me! Or are you too stupid to remember such a simple three syllable word?" What the hell was his problem with her? She didn't do anything to offend him and yet he treated her like crap!

"This Sesshoumaru does not care for trivial things as much as he does not care about human wenches and their names"

Kagome was silently fuming at the obvious dismissal of her peson, yet her heart ached a bit in her chest at the same time. Why did he hate her so much?

Kikyo seeing her cousin upset, immediately jumped to defend, "Sesshoumaru your behavior towards her is uncalled for. She has been nothing but polite to you since her arrival!" Maybe she was wrong about that match made in heaven. He was every bit of an ass as InuYasha claimed him to be.

Sesshoumaru glanced at Kikyo before looking back towards Kagome. He honestly did not care for her or her feelings and he would prove it. He would not become his father, "She has also shown me what a whore looks like in a matter of hours. It is not in This Sesshoumaru's best interest to associate himself with a common whore; maybe it would have been best if she had stayed in America and left Japan free of her presence. I know it would make me feel a lot better"

Kagome felt her heart ache even more in her chest as she heard his words. Did he really think that she should've never come back? Did her presence disgust him so much that he refused to even speak to her? She felt the burning in her eyes and a lone tear trail down her cheek.

She stood up and glared at him with all she had before she picked up her water and threw it directly on him, "Fine you dick, you won't have to bare my existence any longer" She spoke the words low and deadly and abruptly left the restaurant with Kikyo hot on her heels.

InuYasha glared at his brother before shaking his head, "Did you have to do that to her? God Sesshoumaru she's just a kid! She was even being nice to your punk ass and you returned the favor with that bull shit? We are all equal and the sooner you learn that the better. Stay away from Kagome or I will kill you!"

"You dare challenge me over some whore?" Sesshoumaru snarled. He did nothing wrong! He simply told that human wench that he did not wish to speak to her. She was beneath him no matter what his half-breed brother said.

"No I challenge you over my little cousin you prick" InuYasha shook his head and raced out to find Kagome and his mate.

Sesshoumaru sat there, with his hair and shirt partially wet. His eyes were narrowed and his beast howled angrily at the treatment of the girl, but he didn't care. He didn't want her or even like her. Now that she was gone everything would go back to normal.

Or so he thought.

~Read~

So whadaya think? Isn't Sesshoumaru an ass? Anyway sorry it took a while I'm almost done with school and I have to write this huge paper but the next update wil be Sunday!

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