Taste Of Love
Kagome ran away from her demanding family and found herself right in the arms of Takahashi Inuyasha. Caught up in his world, it's getting hard for her to leave, for she has had her first taste of love.
Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha. Rights are reserved fully to Rumiko Takahashi. This plot too isn't as original, so to those who have attempted before I have, they have full rights to this plot too. Anything else that is mentioned that isn't a figment of my imagination, I also disclaim.
Age Brackets: Kagome – 20, Sango – 22, Miroku – 25, Inuyasha – 26
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Explaining Like No Man Has Ever Done Before
Inuyasha told Kagome to go to the reception desk at the hotel as he went to park his car. Nodding, Kagome got out as she held Inuyasha's credit card in her hand. Apparently she was allowed to charge it for the best room. Inuyasha had already placed their name on the waiting list for any of the private suites.
Seeing Inuyasha roll into the underground parking, Kagome sighed as she headed inside the hotel, noting all of the people dressed in fancy clothing. Compared to them, she seemed like nothing. Heading straight to the reception desk, Kagome stood in line, behind a rather pudgy woman.
After quite some time, the lady left and Kagome proceeded to her turn. The receptionist smiled up at Kagome. "And how may I assist you today?"
"Takahashi." Kagome muttered uncertainly as the woman clicked on the computer and nodded, seeing that indeed Takahashi was on the waiting list for the room of their choice.
"Alright- well which room would you like?" The receptionist raised a brow as Kagome remembered what Inuyasha stated quickly in the car. Smiling professionally down at the woman, Kagome slowly gripped the counter as she began speaking.
"Private suite, floor thirty with indoor pool."
The receptionist raised a brow as she indeed clicked in the name of the suite. Wondering what on earth possessed Inuyasha to get such an expensive room, Kagome tensed as she felt an arm snake around her waist. Whipping her head to the side, Kagome visibly relaxed as she saw that it was merely her husband.
"And your relation to Takahashi?" The receptionist asked without even looking up.
"She's my wife. What's with the questions? She asked for a room so give it to her." Inuyasha snarled as the receptionist looked horrorstricken. Shakily, she reached for the keys and handed it to the newlyweds as Kagome swiped the credit card. The charge went through and Inuyasha nodded as he, with his hand still on his wife's waist, headed towards the elevator.
"Send our things up." He commanded as if he owned the place…
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"Private suite with indoor pool?" Kagome shrieked as they walked into their room. "Are you mentally unstable? We're only staying here for a few days before our flight back to Hong Kong. What is the point of wasting so much money?"
"What?" Inuyasha held his hands up in defense. "That was pocket change!"
"I don't care! You could've used it for something more useful! I wouldn't have cared if we stayed in a cheap motel- okay not cheap but moderately expensive, but you know what I mean!" Kagome growled as she fell onto a leather white sofa. Smirking, Inuyasha sat down beside her.
"For a high-class model, you definitely have middle-class taste."
"Moderately expensive motels aren't that bad." Kagome grumbled. "This place is too expensive for a three night stay."
"Damn," Inuyasha winked at Kagome, "you're gonna make a stingy wife."
"Shut up." Kagome murmured as she examined the room. Indeed it was an eleven-star rated room. Plush white carpets floored a nicely pale pink room while white leather sofas were dressed in front of a large, fifty-one inch plasma screen television. Near the other side of the room was an indoor pool.
"But this room is definitely worth its money." Kagome giggled. "I guess being your wife will have its upsides."
Inuyasha rolled his eyes. "You could've afforded this as Miko."
"Not as Higurashi Kagome." Kagome reminded him.
"True- but as Takahashi Kagome you can."
"Shut up." Kagome shot as she stood up and headed towards the bedroom.
Wait…
"YOU DIDN'T TELL ME THIS SUITE HAD ONLY ONE DAMN BED!"
Inuyasha grinned. "My summerhouse had more than one bed but you somehow ended up in mine!"
"SHUT UP TAKAHASHI!"
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Leaving his pissed off wife to cool down, Inuyasha went out for a bit to meet with some Japanese business partners of his. Sitting within a local café, the three business men sipped on some coffee as they, in casual attire, began discussing.
"We've heard from the loop that Onigumo is stating a case against you." Saitou Kenji, one of Inuyasha's closest partners, spoke up as he sipped on his coffee.
Frowning, Inuyasha leaned back. "Haven't heard that yet."
The other man, dressed in black pants and a white muscle shirt, bit into a croissant as he nodded. "Yeah I heard it too." Arai Takuma spoke. "Something about breaking and entering and kidnapping his fiancée and, lastly, possessing firearms."
Inuyasha could've laughed. "Since when the hell do I carry guns?"
Takuma shrugged. "Don't know but that's what I'm hearing."
"That bitch is going to get such a hard ass bankruptcy I swear to God his mother will kill herself." Inuyasha snarled as Kenji raised a brow.
"Quite a threat, eh?"
"I have enough against Onigumo."
"Such as?"
"Aiko's father is a business partner, remember." Inuyasha smirked as Kenji laughed.
"Ah yes, the gang raping baboon as Aiko so kindly put it."
"It matches him perfectly though." Inuyasha shrugged as he finished off his coffee and crunched the Styrofoam cup. Kenji shrugged as Inuyasha stood up.
"Takahashi," Takuma spoke up, "may I say something?"
Inuyasha nodded.
"Not so long ago you were ah- how shall I put this… not so nice or lenient… but recently… well I do hope you catch my drift."
It was true. Once upon a time Inuyasha wouldn't even smile but now? He was laughing, smiling and cracking non sarcastic jokes. Inuyasha merely chuckled.
"Didn't you know Takuma?" Inuyasha took a few steps towards his car.
"I got married."
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Kagome dove into a large bowl of ice cream as her husband entered their hotel room. She glanced up at him before turning her full attention back to her bowl of ice cream. A large mountain of vanilla ice cream with chocolate sauce dripping down the sides. Already Kagome's mouth was watering.
Inuyasha shook his head at the child in his wife as Kagome shoved the spoon into the large mound and stuck it in her mouth. Within the blink of an eye she had another spoon in her mouth.
"You're gonna get brain freeze Mademoiselle."
"Un 'ar, Csha-nava…"
"The shit?" Inuyasha sat down beside her as Kagome swallowed the lump of ice cream in her mouth.
"I said, I don't care Casanova."
Clicking his tongue, Inuyasha took the spoon out of Kagome's hand and dipped it into the slowly melting pile of ice cream. Taking out a big scoop, he inserted it into his mouth before Kagome grabbed the spoon and continued chowing down.
"You're so weird." Inuyasha shook his head as Kagome shot him a dangerous look.
"You are too. Who on earth possessed you to marry me? And you better make sure nobody finds out!"
Inuyasha laughed nervously. Well he just told Kenji and Takuma…
"Naraku knows, he's gonna tell the world." Inuyasha patted his back for that awesome comeback.
"I don't care!" Kagome shrilled. "If you tell anybody I swear on all that is holy I will rip your balls off."
Inuyasha's hand instantly covered his man parts. "I love this baby!"
"I don't care!" Kagome put her bowl of ice cream down as she faced her dearly beloved husband.
"Now, EXPLAIN!"
Inuyasha winced. Yeah, he wasn't gonna get out of this one easily.
"Well… so I find out you're Miko and I was surprised but then I thought that well… I don't know what I thought but I decided to get you back and the only way to get you away from a marriage was by marrying you so I got Sango to make fake papers and I kinda flew down here to get you and here we are and I'm explaining this to you and honestly I need to breathe." Inuyasha stopped as he panted while Kagome raised an eyebrow.
"Well you certainly explained like no man has ever explained before but you didn't really explain anything, now did you?" Kagome crossed her arms as Inuyasha snorted.
"What the hell do you want to know?"
"Why marry me?"
Inuyasha sighed. "I figured, since your family is so high and mighty in the film industry, the only way to really get you out of an arrange marriage by a gang rapist is by already insinuating the fact that you're married. The fact that I'm so high up there within the business industry, Naraku and your father couldn't question me because of my power."
Kagome nodded. "Alright. Marriage certificates?"
"Your father, obviously, wanted proof and I anticipated that. So I made Sango fake papers."
Kagome nodded again.
"The fact that you know I'm Miko…"
"Didn't change anything. You hid the fact because you had to. I wasn't anybody to you when you met me so it wasn't something you wanted to share so openly."
A surge of unwanted pride shot through Kagome's heart. She was married to a genius. Well, married.
"You're dating Kikyo…"
"Broke up with her before flying down here heroically to save my wife."
Kagome raised a brow. "You were going to propose to her!"
"Well she was cheating on me with that salesman dude we saw when we went to prepare Ai's birthday."
"It's not like you're any better." Kagome snorted. "But I'm still mad at you marrying me!"
"That sounds so weird." Inuyasha muttered.
"And what, may I ask; do you get out of this entire episode?" Kagome was curious, why did he do it.
"A wife." Inuyasha winked at Kagome as she rolled her eyes and shoved his arm. He merely threw his head back and laughed as Kagome turned her head away from him.
Sighing, Kagome stared at the melting glob of ice cream, her thoughts already trailing off to her father. He was a powerful man and just how Inuyasha whisked Kagome away from Akira, Akira could take Kagome away from Inuyasha. That would mean serious harm… to both Inuyasha and Kagome.
And not to mention their unborn baby.
Hugging herself, Kagome wanted to cry. Just break down and sob away everything that was happening. Kagome's suppressed shudder didn't go unnoticed by Inuyasha. Scooting over closer, Inuyasha wrapped a comforting arm around Kagome.
"Hey, what's wrong?"
"Don't touch me." Kagome hissed coldly. "This is your entire fault."
"My fault?" Inuyasha spluttered. "How the hell is it my fault?"
"If you didn't exist I could've been in Sango and Miroku's house in Hong Kong now!"
"Lady, if I didn't exist you would've been happily living after with Naraku!"
"No I wouldn't have!"
"Says who?" Inuyasha demanded.
"Says me! I would be with Sango and Miroku now!"
"You'd be playing the happy bride in the Onigumo place while his buddies fucked you every night!"
Kagome shoved Inuyasha away from him. "You think I'd stay? I'd run away faster than you can say baboon."
"Just like how you did that first time?" Inuyasha raised a brow and knew that it struck a cord in Kagome. "And then they'd find you and force you to do whatever the hell they wanted. Tell me, did you want that?"
Kagome remained quiet.
"At least with me you know you can still have your damn self respect. I won't get my buddies to inject their useless shits into you." Inuyasha's tone remained strong as she shot him a deadly look.
"Self respect? Thank you for thinking of that the night you slept with me."
"Like you said no!"
"I did say no! I swear we went through this exact same conversation the morning of dammit!" Kagome was mad and she felt like kicking Inuyasha.
Crap. Emotional pregnancy…
Tears started streaking down Kagome's face as she pushed away Inuyasha, who seemed to have switched his personalities from the egotistical jerk to the caring husband.
Two faced asshole. Kagome thought as she hugged herself, shuddering.
"Why me?" She whispered. "Out of all of the people in the world, why the hell does it have to be me?"
Inuyasha sighed as he crouched down in front of Kagome, hoping to get a glimpse of her face. "Listen," he whispered, "those who suffer a lot early in their life get a lot of satisfaction later on. For what's happening to you now, expect no problems after you get married and have a couple kids."
Kagome looked at Inuyasha with puffy eyes.
Using the pad of his thumb, Inuyasha gently wiped away her tears.
"You're going to have a loving husband, cute little brats running around living in a huge house with lots of workers doing the work for you. You'll continue modeling as your husband will do something big, a rich guy I guess. You'll come home every day from work seeing that he fed the kids and has the table set for you and you'll live every day of your life thinking that nothing could get any more perfect. But you realize that indeed, every day of your life, things just keep on getting more perfect." Inuyasha whispered in a soft tone, comforting Kagome to the best of his ability.
Sniffling, Kagome slightly tilted her head to the side.
"You promise, Casanova?"
Chuckling, Inuyasha pulled Kagome into a hug. "I promise, Mademoiselle."
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The three days finish quite fast for the two. Inuyasha had gallantly offered to sleep on the couch and Kagome had readily agreed. She did not need to sleep with the father of her baby.
Now that sounded weird.
Shaking her head, Kagome held onto Inuyasha's arm as they left their suite, their bags in Inuyasha's hands. A company car from Kenji's company was sent to drive the two to the airport for their flight back to Hong Kong.
Nodding at the receptionist, Inuyasha and Kagome had left the hotel to find a black limousine parked in front with the driver holding the door open.
"What happened to your car?" Kagome whispered to Inuyasha who helped her sit inside.
"It was a partner's car."
Nodding, Kagome sat inside of the limousine as Inuyasha spoke with the driver about the time of their arrival at the airport. Nodding, the driver took their bags as Inuyasha sat inside of the limo beside Kagome.
"So we're going home and no notice from your dad yet." Inuyasha mused as he sat beside his wife.
"He's planning something. I know him." Kagome murmured. "I just hope Souta's alright."
"Oh he is," Inuyasha waved his hand, "I have undercover bodyguards set around your house. The chef is one of my men. He has his good eye on Souta."
Kagome's eyes widened. "SERIOUSLY?!"
Laughing, Inuyasha nodded. "Yeah. And the doorman. He was my old doorman but he had to quit due to personal problems. He wanted a job back when I was flying to Japan to get you and I told him that he can try to work for the Higurashi's… apparently I saw him as the doorman when I got there."
Giggling, Kagome nudged Inuyasha. "So I did marry a genius."
"Ever had doubts?"
"Loads of times, Casanova."
Laughing, Inuyasha crossed his right leg over his left as he rested his head back. Looking over at his figure, Kagome hid a small smile.
No doubt that their kid would look amazing. Their father, a breathtaking business man and their mother, a sexy model…
Yeah, looking good would be in their baby's genes.
I guess I do have to tell him about our baby. If I'm supposed to live with him for a few months, I can't use the excuse of getting fat… Kagome thought dryly. Slightly poking Inuyasha, he opened an eye and looked down at her.
"Hmm?"
"When we get to Hong Kong… We need to talk…"
Playfully, Inuyasha gasped. "Are you going to break up with me?"
Snorting, Kagome looked out the window.
"Nah," she replied after a long time, "I gotta first use the advantages of being Mrs. Inuyasha Takahashi…"
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