Disclaimer: I do not in any form own Kouga, (even though he is very, very, very sexy!)
She ran down the sidewalk, not really caring if it was raining, even though she had no umbrella, or raincoat she just kept running. Until she got to Yuka's house to change and get ready to go to the meeting she had been called to.
Sighing, she pulled her sopping, wet hair into a high ponytail. She stood in the doorway shivering, and then took off her shoes, and laid them neatly by the door and quietly went down to her room to change.
She quickly changed into black pants and a black shirt, grimacing as she caught how pale she was in the mirror over the dresser. She squeezed out her hair over the sink, and then flipped it back.
Walking out of her room she sighed again and grabbed her dress shoes from by the door, sliding her feet into them she walked for the door. Just as she was about to open it and leave, she heard an "Ahem!" turning to look,
She saw Yuka's mother was standing there, raincoat in her hand.
Sheepishly she took the coat from her, and went outside and began to walk in the direction of the lawyer's office, wondering for the hundredth time why she would be called to a lawyers office and why would it be Inuyasha's family lawyer that called.
"Maybe his father blames me for Inuyasha's death, and he's going to sue me…" she thought glumly as she walked.
She got to the building that the lawyer was supposed to have his office in, and walked in, She looked around the large elaborate lobby, not really paying any attention to were she was headed, causing her to bump into to someone hard enough to fall backwards and land in her butt. She looked up to see Sesshomaru who was dressed in a dark suit, which made his hair look even more silver than it really was.
He reached down, grabbing her by the arm and hauled her to her feet as if she weighed nothing. She blushed and tried to stammer out an apology but the elevator dinged at that second, and he led her into the elevator, by the elbow, and stood next to her silent as the elevator started ascending.
She fidgeted from foot to foot, in the silence, uneasy in the silence of the smooth moving elevator, unsure if she should ask Sesshomaru why she was called here. His mouth twitched just a bit at the corners, as he watched her reflection in the shiny door.
"You were called here for the reading of Inuyasha's will, Wench, nothing more." He said quietly.
"Why would I be here for that? I'm not in Inuyasha's will that I know of." She looked at him puzzled.
"Apparently your name is in it at some point or the lawyer would not have called you."
Just then the elevator dinged and the doors opened, signaling to them that this was their floor. She sighed again and followed Sesshomaru out into the hallway and into a room just to the left of the elevator.
Hesitating at the door of the lawyer's office, she summoned up her courage, and walked in. taking a seat near the door, she folded her hands in her lap to wait for this to be over with.
"This meeting was called to discuss the contents of Inuyasha Takisheda's will. I see that you have all arrived so we can begin." The mousy looking lawyer cleared his throat, and adjusted his glasses.
"Mr. Takisheda, changed his will sometime last year, making it into a video that we will be watching shortly."
He walked over to a large TV sitting in the corner of his office and popped the tape that was sitting by the VCR into it so that it would play.
As the image of Inuyasha came onto the screen, it took all of Kagome's will power not to break down right then and there. She watched as he smirked at the screen before speaking.
"Well if everyone is watching this, I'm assuming that I'm dead." He sighed before speaking again. "Well then here we go with the boring stuff then. Being of sound mind and body, I, Inuyasha Takisheda, leave my house, and my cars to my brother Sesshomaru, whom I'm sure can find, a good use for them. The contents of my house however I leave to Kagome, so that she can remember all the good times that we shared there."
At that, Kagome started crying just a bit, silent tears that ran swiftly down her cheeks.
"Kagome, now don't start crying on me, we did have good times together, right?"
She nodded even though she knew Inuyasha couldn't see her.
"There that's better. Now as I was saying, All of my assets, including the stock in which I own from dad's company, I'm leaving to Kagome, to make sure that there is nothing in the world that she will ever want or need."
The room was quiet enough that you could hear a pin drop, and on the screen Inuyasha smirked yet again, before he smiled and blew a kiss at the screen.
"Love ya Kagome."
The tape ended, making the screen go black as they all sat there in silence. The lawyer got up from his chair and handed each of them a manila folder, before sitting back behind his desk.
"In each of those folders is a written copy of the will, for all of you to look over."
Sesshomaru looked up at the man for a second before speaking. "You never did tell us just how much Miss Higurashi inherited from my brother."
The lawyer fidgeted in his seat for a second before answering. "the estimate has not been set as of yet, and your father is having another set of law experts go over the will, to do the estimating."
The corner of Sesshomaru's mouth twitched for a brief moment. "The correct way of putting it Mr. Almichi is that my father is trying to find a way to contest the will, isn't that right?"
"Well…that is to say…" Mr. Almichi paused before crumbling to the steely gaze of Sesshomaru. "Yes sir that is correct, your father is trying to contest the will."
Standing up, Sesshomaru moved toward the door. "Well then I must speak to my father as to why he is doing this." As he opened the door he paused and looked back at the man. "how much does she inherit if the will is solid with no loop holes?"
The lawyer looked nervous for a second and then answered. "About seven million, between the stocks and cash."
The end……Of this chapter anyway lolThanks to:
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