A.N. well I've started this chapter. And like the last one it'll probably be short again. I'm not sure yet, but since my writing and I aren't on the same page we'll just have to see how this works.

"Kagome you look amazing." "Kagome I love your dress."

Her head was spinning, everybody kept telling her the same things over and over again. Why couldn't they just leave her alone? She was about to run away when she felt a hand on her shoulder.

"You know you really shouldn't go running around like that," he said in her ear, "people might think you're trying to get attention from men who aren't your intended."

"Well I'm sorry Fluffy," she said with a grin as he steered her in the opposite direction of all the middle aged women, "I mean it is your fault I got this dress in the first place."

"Yes well, it's not so terrible, although…" he started, but stopped when he noticed she wasn't even paying attention. Then he noticed where her attention was. She was staring at the door, where his half-brother and Kikyo had just entered. He didn't think anything of them, but clearly Kagome was entranced.

"They look amazing," she said, noting the black tux InuYasha had paired with a blood red shirt, and the blood red strapless dress her cousin was wearing, "and I look like trash waiting in the street."

"Don't be ridiculous," she heard a annoyingly familiar voice, "you look stunning Kagome."

"Thanks Kouga," she said, smiling softly, "but I'll never compare to Kikyo. No matter how much I think I can, she's just always got the upper hand."

Then she cringed when she heard her cousin call her name.

"KAGOME!" Kikyo squealed at seeing her cousin, "YOU LOOK GORGEOUS!"

"No I don't," Kagome grunted as Kikyo wrestled her into a rib breaking hug, "but you look stunning cousin."

"Thank you," Kikyo said with a smile, "but really Kagome. You do look beautiful."

Kagome snorted, until she felt a pair of eyes on hers and saw InuYasha was staring at her.

"What?" she asked, looking down at herself, "do I have something on me?"

"No," he said with a smirk, "just surprised at how fancy you can clean up."

Kagome smiled, "right. I clean up as well as my old rabbit sitting in the parking lot."

"Why not get a new car then?" he asked her, not even noticing that his girlfriend had left them, and that Kouga left himself in a huff, "you know Sesshoumaru'd by you one if you asked."

"Yes well the ass already paid for this ridiculous dress," she said with disdain, while glaring in her fiancés direction, "he's definitely not paying for anything else."

InuYasha wasn't surprised to hear that Sesshoumaru had paid for the dress. What he was surprised about was that Kagome let him. When they were dating he used to have to hide her wallet from her so that she wouldn't try to pay for everything.

"So," he said with a smirk as they walked around, "when does our little show start?"

Kagome laughed, "it's really stupid isn't it?"

"Not really," InuYasha said, moving closer to her, "I'm always game when it comes to you."

Kagome grinned, backing up to put some space between them, "good. Because it'll be one hell of a show. I figure if we wait until everyone has spoken, and people have eaten and the dancing has started will be the perfect timing. It'll cause quite the disturbance. Oh and if your father starts being stupid again, Sango agreed you can camp out on our couch until you either go home or get a place of your own."

"Thanks," he said, "well lets go get some food huh? I starved myself today so I could eat tonight."

"You better have brought gum then," Kagome said, "because I'm not kissing you if your breath smells like sushi."

InuYasha laughed as he and Kagome made their way to the table where their friends and Kikyo sat. It came to a surprise to Kagome when she felt like slapping her cousin when InuYasha sat down next to her, pulling Kikyo into his embrace.

one hour later

"Kagome would you care to dance with me?" Mr. Takahashi asked his future daughter in law.

"Of course," Kagome said with a grin, standing up and taking the older mans hand.

As they made their way to the dance floor, Kagome spied Sesshoumaru dancing with his mother.

"So Kagome," Mr. Takahashi said as they started to dance, "I see you're still friends with InuYasha."

"Yup," Kagome said with a smirk as he twirled her, "he's my best friend… well my best guy friend."

"And that's all your guys are?" the older man asked, as they moved swiftly across the floor, clearing a path as they went.

"Of course," Kagome said, "he's seeing Kikyo. And I really don't mind that anymore, he's a good friend to me and as long as he's happy I don't hold any hard feelings towards him."

Mr. Takahashi nodded, dipping Kagome before twirling her again, "then you understand why I don't think it's right for you two to be so close?"

"No not really," Kagome said, "I'm friends with InuYasha. Nothing more, nothing less. We made choices, and I'm happy with the way things worked out. Even if that means that I'm engaged to his brother, it's not going to stop me from being his friend, or he mine."

"Right," the man said as the song ended, "well as long as you two are nothing more than friends. By the way Kagome, I need you to come down to the office this Monday. You've got to start training to take over."

Kagome nodded as he walked away. Stupid old man, she groaned to herself as she felt a hand on her waist.

"What?" she asked as Sesshoumaru pulled her to him for the next dance.

"It'd look weird for us to not dance tonight," he said, moving her across the floor as her father had, "besides. We need to speak."

"About?" she asked, allowing him to spin her away from him.

"Our plans," he said. In the past few days, since they had concocted the scheme, Sesshoumaru had been having doubts about sabotaging the engagement. He wouldn't admit it to her, so he would just try to change them to avoid Kagome kissing his brother.

"What's wrong with them?" Kagome asked, grasping his hand again, "I think they're your best idea yet."

"Because you're still in love with that half breed aren't you?" Sesshoumaru asked, dipping her violently.

"Hardly," Kagome said, "its just a good way to ruin things."

"So why not go another route?" Sesshoumaru asked, "there are other ways of sabotage."

"Why do you care all of a sudden?" Kagome asked, raising a eyebrow at him, "it's not like you should. You're the mastermind behind this whole situation. Why don't you go do something random and stupid. It's always my doing. And since this one is mine, I guess I'll do it if I want to. But next time don't expect me to be the main puppet, this might not even work."

Sesshoumaru just stood there and watched as Kagome fled the room. Then got angry when he saw InuYasha charge after her.

with Kagome

"Kags what's wrong?" InuYasha asked Kagome when she stopped, sitting on a bench just outside the doors to the ballroom.

"Your damn brother," she said angrily, pulling her hair from the updo she had it in so that it would cover her face, "he's acting like such a ass. He all of a sudden doesn't like the plan, and is wanting to change it. For no real reason, then he accuses me of still being in love with you."

InuYasha laughed, taking Kagome's hand, "Kagome don't worry about it. He's just a idiot, it's really not his fault. He was a defect I think… or maybe his mother dropped him on his head. Either way it's no big deal, don't listen to what he has to say."

Kagome smiled, leaning forward to hug InuYasha before kissing him on the cheek. She gasped slightly when she felt some kind of shock when her lips connected to his cheek, figuring it was just her imagination though Kagome brushed it off. Until InuYasha reached up and entwined his hand in her hair, pulling her closer to him.

"Um… InuYasha," Kagome started, his lips just a breath away from hers.

"Don't say anything," he said quietly, pressing his lips to hers.

in the bushes

"How can she let him kiss her?" a man in the shadows asked himself, "I thought she was betrothed to Sesshoumaru. Well now, this just won't work."

back with Kagome and InuYasha

Kagome was breath taken, literally. Her head was spinning as InuYasha snaked his hand around her waist, pulling her closer to him. She gasped slightly as his fangs gently grazed her bottom lip, begging for entrance which she granted.

"KAGOME! INUYASHA! WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON?" Kikyo screamed. She actually looked livid, but when Kagome looked at InuYasha's guilty face, she realized that it wasn't part of the plan. It was something else, she felt it, he felt it, and Kikyo saw it.