Glitter

by thewobbler

InuKag. Just two friends who become something more as they navigate the city of blinding lights. A series of light drabbles. Rated M for language.

p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0.0pt; margin-bottom: 0.0pt;"strongspan style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"A/N: /span/strongspan style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"Just short, light little drabbles that have been running in my mind. Had these stored since last year and thought I'd put them out there./span/p
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p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0.0pt; margin-bottom: 0.0pt;"span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"XXX/span/p
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p id="docs-internal-guid-6bdcd075-7fff-70a5-76f8-e8b8ec718106" dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0.0pt; margin-bottom: 0.0pt;"span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"He's never been a fan of the flashing lights and screaming crowds, he thinks as he tries to not squint in front of the murderous volume of cameras and paparazzi. He never really understood the concept of /spanspan style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"publicity/spanspan style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;", never quite grasped why /spanspan style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"the public /spanspan style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"would be so interested in someone like him./span/p
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p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0.0pt; margin-bottom: 0.0pt;"span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"He wrote music, he sang songs. Occasionally, those songs would win awards and that fluffed up his ego. But it wasn't like he did it everyday. Why would people be interested in what he had for breakfast? He doubted his daily bowl of oatmeal factored into his success. It wasn't like he was going to write a song about it./span/p
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p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0.0pt; margin-bottom: 0.0pt;"span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"Well, he could. But it wouldn't be good. And it certainly wouldn't win any Grammy nods. /span/p
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p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0.0pt; margin-bottom: 0.0pt;"span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;""Your sweaty palm is going to make me cold later," Kagome grins up at him. His arm is around her, his palm laying innocently on her bare back, just above her waist. It's a typical red carpet pose–something his manager Miroku has drilled into him during the countless hours of /spanspan style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"press pose 101 /spanspan style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"sessions they've been having since his music debut all those years ago./span/p
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p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0.0pt; margin-bottom: 0.0pt;"span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"If anyone could distract him from the press hounds though, it's her. /span/p
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p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0.0pt; margin-bottom: 0.0pt;"span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"Grinning, he bends down a bit to whisper in her ear, making sure to hide his face from the cameras. "I'd be happy to place my sweaty palm somewhere else, /spanspan style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"wench/spanspan style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"."/span/p
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p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0.0pt; margin-bottom: 0.0pt;"span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"He feels her giggling and pulls himself back, wanting to see her brown eyes crinkling as she did so. Seeing that always made him feel warm, and right now, in front of cold-blooded headline hunters, he'd take all the warmth he could get. /span/p
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p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0.0pt; margin-bottom: 0.0pt;"span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"They were dressed to the nines, as was expected of them at red carpet premieres. It's Kagome's first leading role and there's understandably a /spanspan style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"fuckton /spanspan style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"of press work that needed to be done. He isn't sure how his presence there would be taken yet, but he doesn't want to tarnish her night so he told himself he'd be on his best behavior /spanspan style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"ever/spanspan style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"./span/p
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p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0.0pt; margin-bottom: 0.0pt;"span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"His best friend is /spanspan style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"glowing/spanspan style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;", and it isn't just because of the gold-sequined, backless gown she has on. Her tan skin almost looks like it's shimmering, and the contrast that her loose raven hair provided has a terrific effect overall. She kept her makeup as light and natural as possible, letting her face be framed by her thick fringe, and he could just imagine the conversation that must've transpired between her and her stylist who had a thing for heavy eyeshadows and deep-red lipsticks. /span/p
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p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0.0pt; margin-bottom: 0.0pt;"span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"When Sango, his stylist, asked if he had any preferences for tonight's look, all he said was that he didn't want to take any attention away from Kagome. So here he was, in a simple black and white Louis Vuitton tux, with his blindingly silver hair gathered in a tight braid. Still, it was obvious that she couldn't stop herself from adding a little sparkle by covering his ears with about seven different gold earrings, and shoving ring after golden ring onto his fingers. It doesn't feel over the top, which is nice, but he still felt like he was presentable enough to stand next to the star of the night./span/p
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p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0.0pt; margin-bottom: 0.0pt;"span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"Seriously though… how many pictures do they need to take?/span/p
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p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0.0pt; margin-bottom: 0.0pt;"span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"She kisses his cheek and ruffles his hair with her free hand, pointedly ignoring the cameras as much as she could without seeming too standoff-ish. "It'll be over soon," she says amusedly, and he realizes that he actually said that last thought out loud. "You'd think after years of doing this you'd be a bit better at composing yourself."/span/p
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p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0.0pt; margin-bottom: 0.0pt;"span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;""Nah. That's Miroku's job." he winks. "If I start doing that myself, I'd be robbing him of his life's purpose."/span/p
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p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0.0pt; margin-bottom: 0.0pt;"span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"Kagome laughs at that, and he sighs quietly as some of the tension eases from his shoulders. /span/p
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p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0.0pt; margin-bottom: 0.0pt;"span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"Once again, he feels very thankful that they decided to attend the premiere together. The press would probably have a field day with this in the next few days, but he couldn't give a rat's ass about that right now. If anyone gets too pushy with brand new dating rumors, he's sure Miroku and Sesshomaru would handle that easily enough - Kagome was, after all, starring in the movie; and he practically wrote the entire soundtrack for the film. He even sang a couple songs himself. So it's not like he has no reason to be here. Him going with Kagome actually made sense too, seeing as the whole damn world knows how close they are. Everyone knows they practically grew up together./span/p
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p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0.0pt; margin-bottom: 0.0pt;"span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"There was something about this film in particular that made him feel things (because he /spanspan style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"refuses /spanspan style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"to say /spanspan style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"tugged on his heartstrings /spanspan style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"like a goddamn pansy-assed /spanspan style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"motherfucker/spanspan style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;", thank you very much). He didn't plan on getting involved. But after seeing the look on her face in one of the scenes she'd sneakily sent him… He'd seen dailies before–had seen dailies with /spanspan style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"Kagome /spanspan style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"in it before; but there was something different there that he just couldn't put his finger on./span/p
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p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0.0pt; margin-bottom: 0.0pt;"span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"Him trying to figure that out led to three sleepless nights of beats and textures which eventually led to him impulsively sending everything he worked on to Sesshomaru to give /spanspan style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"exclusively /spanspan style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"to the film's director, Bankotsu. He didn't even tell Kagome. There wouldn't have been any point in doing so if Bankotsu didn't like it. How was he to know that they'd actually use everything he sent? Those were just supposed to be /spanspan style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"options/spanspan style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"./span/p
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p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0.0pt; margin-bottom: 0.0pt;"span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"Still, her giddy expression when she found out and /spanspan style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"Facetimed /spanspan style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"him was worth it. /span/p
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p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0.0pt; margin-bottom: 0.0pt;"span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;""Inuyasha!" someone screams from the crowd. "Have you finally come to your senses? Are you and Kagome finally together?!"/span/p
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p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0.0pt; margin-bottom: 0.0pt;"span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;""Was the song about Kagome or Kikyou?!" another obnoxiously shrill voice screams from somewhere in the back./span/p
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p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0.0pt; margin-bottom: 0.0pt;"span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"What the fuck/spanspan style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"./span/p
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p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0.0pt; margin-bottom: 0.0pt;"span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"He feels Kagome's hand clench the belt loop on his back that she was playfully tugging on earlier, and he briefly thanks the heavens that he left his suit unbuttoned. It's a thing they usually did to mildly annoy their stylists, but now became a habit they did for comfort. He'd keep her tucked closely to his side, and she'd loop her arm around his waist, hiding it under whatever coat he was wearing. It was usually for Inuyasha's benefit, though he can see now that she stands just as much to gain from it as he did./span/p
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p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0.0pt; margin-bottom: 0.0pt;"span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"Stopping himself from rolling his eyes, he catches Sesshomaru's eye and silently asks if they can get the fuck out of there before he loses his temper. A brief nod from the stern publicist indicates that /spanspan style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"yes, /spanspan style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"they can move, and Inuyasha quickly jumps on the opportunity to lead them both into the theater, raising his arm to rest on her shoulders as he did so./span/p
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p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0.0pt; margin-bottom: 0.0pt;"span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;""Motherfucking leeches," he mutters darkly, the seemingly easygoing grin he forced onto his face earlier fading away as quickly as ever. /span/p
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p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0.0pt; margin-bottom: 0.0pt;"span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"Kagome, whose fingers were still playing with his belt loop, gives it a playful tug and raises her brows. She never could settle for just one gesture. "You should've known this would happen though. Sesshomaru wouldn't have let you face the wolves without at least a bit of warning."/span/p
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p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0.0pt; margin-bottom: 0.0pt;"span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;""I mean yeah, but I didn't think they'd be /spanspan style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"that /spanspan style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"fucking /spanspan style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"tactless /spanspan style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"about it. It's disgusting." /span/p
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p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0.0pt; margin-bottom: 0.0pt;"span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;""They just want to get a reaction out of you." she explains slowly, as though he were a petulant child–which, in all honesty, he /spanspan style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"is/spanspan style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;". "Remember when you punched Kouga? I heard Us Weekly's revenue from that week's issue alone matched three months' worth of sales."/span/p
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p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0.0pt; margin-bottom: 0.0pt;"span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"He rolls his eyes. "He called you a whore."/span/p
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p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0.0pt; margin-bottom: 0.0pt;"span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;""And you broke his nose." /span/p
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p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0.0pt; margin-bottom: 0.0pt;"span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;""I don't know why people made such a big deal out of that. People break their noses every day."/span/p
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p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0.0pt; margin-bottom: 0.0pt;"span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"It was her turn to roll her eyes. "He's a model. You broke his nose in the middle of fashion week."/span/p
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p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0.0pt; margin-bottom: 0.0pt;"span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;""Are you telling me you're okay with being called a whore?" he asks, annoyed at having to remember that slimy dickbag's tone when he described Kagome a year ago. He should've done /spanspan style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"more /spanspan style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"than break his nose. He should've /spanspan style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"fucking /spanspan style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"cut his tongue out. It's not like he'd need his /spanspan style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"goddamn tongue /spanspan style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"to walk down the runway./span/p
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p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0.0pt; margin-bottom: 0.0pt;"span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;""I'm saying you have to pick your battles." Kagome shrugs. "It was sweet of you to defend my honor like that, but I've been called worse and I will probably be called even worse."/span/p
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p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0.0pt; margin-bottom: 0.0pt;"span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"He pauses then, putting a halt to their relatively quiet walk to their seats in the dimly lit theater. "Has anyone been hassling you? Why haven't you said anything?"/span/p
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p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0.0pt; margin-bottom: 0.0pt;"span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"Sighing, the brown-eyed actress pushes herself off of him and considers the way his brows are scrunched together in annoyance. For a brief moment, he thought he saw /spanspan style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"something /spanspan style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"in the way she looked at him. He couldn't recognize it, couldn't quite put his finger on it, but it was gone in a second, so he didn't think much of it. /span/p
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p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0.0pt; margin-bottom: 0.0pt;"span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"Kagome reaches for his hand and tugs him along. "Come on, my ever-loyal guard dog. Turn back into a puppy and try not to bite anyone."/span/p
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p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0.0pt; margin-bottom: 0.0pt;"span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;""Fuck you." he replies softly, not an inch of malice in his tone./span/p
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p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0.0pt; margin-bottom: 0.0pt;"span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"She chuckles as she leads him to their assigned seats in the middle of the theater, right by Bankotsu and her other co-stars. It was slow-going though because Kagome, being Kagome, just has to personally greet each and every member of the staff who are also in attendance. She knew he hated small talk and didn't expect him to participate any more than the casual handshake or nod. He was grateful for that, but he promised himself that he was going to make an effort today, so he pulls everything he can out of his ass and actually talks to the people they approach./span/p
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p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0.0pt; margin-bottom: 0.0pt;"span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"By the time they find their way to their seats and sit down, his awkwardly forced grin feels like it's now permanently frozen on his face. /span/p
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p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0.0pt; margin-bottom: 0.0pt;"span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;""What's gotten into you tonight?" Kagome asks amusedly, casually leaning her head against his shoulder as though they were two teenagers in the multiplex as opposed to the glamorously-dressed, multi-award winning artists they are./span/p
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p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0.0pt; margin-bottom: 0.0pt;"span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;""What?"/span/p
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p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0.0pt; margin-bottom: 0.0pt;"span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"She chuckles. "You actually talked to people who aren't on your payroll."/span/p
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p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0.0pt; margin-bottom: 0.0pt;"span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;""/spanspan style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"You're /spanspan style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"not on my payroll."/span/p
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p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0.0pt; margin-bottom: 0.0pt;"span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;""I've seen you naked so I don't count." Kagome points out. "You/spanspan style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"have /spanspan style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"to talk to me because you're scared I'll blackmail you."/span/p
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p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0.0pt; margin-bottom: 0.0pt;"span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;""Okay, can you stop saying that like it means something though? I was seven and you were a pervy fucking five-year-old when that happened. Plus you peed in the pool we were both in, so if anyone's got leverage here, it's /spanspan style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"me/spanspan style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"."/span/p
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p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0.0pt; margin-bottom: 0.0pt;"span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;""Mmhmm," she hums annoyingly. He hates that sound, and he hates it when she makes that sound. And she knows he hates it, which just makes it so much worse. "Is this part of a publicity strategy? Did Sesshomaru tell you to act more approachable?"/span/p
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p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0.0pt; margin-bottom: 0.0pt;"span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"He pushes her off of his shoulder petulantly. "I'm trying to be nice /spanspan style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"for you/spanspan style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;". Fuck you for not appreciating it."/span/p
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p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0.0pt; margin-bottom: 0.0pt;"span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"She turns and looks at him for a bit, her brows meeting in confusion. "What?"/span/p
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p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0.0pt; margin-bottom: 0.0pt;"span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;""It's your first big movie-"/span/p
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p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0.0pt; margin-bottom: 0.0pt;"span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;""I've been in several /spanspan style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"big /spanspan style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"movies", she interrupts, air-quoting the word 'big' as though they were local indies instead of multi-million blockbusters./span/p
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p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0.0pt; margin-bottom: 0.0pt;"span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"God, this woman/spanspan style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;". Pinching his nose, he continues, "It's the first movie you're leading in, and I'm /spanspan style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"trying /spanspan style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"to be /spanspan style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"supportive/spanspan style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"." he exhales. /spanspan style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"br /br /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0.0pt; margin-bottom: 0.0pt;"span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"Thankfully, the lights start to dim and Bankotsu moves to the front of the theater, just below the wide cinema screen. He delivers his opening remarks flawlessly, in Inuyasha's opinion, with just the right amount of charming humility and quiet pride at the two-year effort it took to bring the film to life./span/p
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p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0.0pt; margin-bottom: 0.0pt;"span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"Kagome stands when she's mentioned by name, and she waves bashfully at everyone around her. He'd clap his hands, but Kagome's grasping his right hand so tightly he could swear his rings would leave marks on his /spanspan style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"bones/spanspan style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"./span/p
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p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0.0pt; margin-bottom: 0.0pt;"span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;""It'll be fine," he whispers when she sits back down, leaning forward to kiss her cheek and push her head down to his shoulder. "You're always so nervous at these things but they always turn out great."/span/p
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p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0.0pt; margin-bottom: 0.0pt;"span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"She squeezes his hand and snuggles down. The lights dim completely as the screen lights up with the opening credits, and he chuckles to himself as he feels her shuffling to kick her heels under the seat so she could lift her feet onto the seat comfortably. Nothing really changes with this girl, regardless of how expensive her outfit is. The minute she escapes the wild eyes of the press, she reverts back to that awkward theater geek who loves to use him as a human pillow./span/p
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p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0.0pt; margin-bottom: 0.0pt;"span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;""Comfortable?" he teases softly, putting his arm around her like he always does. Though this time he does so for practical reasons. The theater was freezing; and if /spanspan style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"he's /spanspan style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"cold, she's bound to be too./span/p
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p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0.0pt; margin-bottom: 0.0pt;"span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;""Shut up and watch the movie," she grunts back./span/p
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p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0.0pt; margin-bottom: 0.0pt;"span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"XXX/span/p
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p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0.0pt; margin-bottom: 0.0pt;"span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"The moment the end credits roll, she pulls away from him and starts slipping her feet into the strappy heels she was wearing. Some time into the movie, he felt her shivering despite having his arm around her, so he gave in and handed her his jacket. He didn't have the heart to take his eyes off the screen, so he did it wordlessly, leaving no room for conversation./span/p
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p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0.0pt; margin-bottom: 0.0pt;"span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"He probably should've taken that damn thing when he knew the movie was coming to a close, or he should've at least fucking /spanspan style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"composed /spanspan style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"himself before turning to look at her again. He knows he was still a little choked up from the ending when he reached for his jacket, but he didn't think a fucking tear would actually roll down his cheek./span/p
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p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0.0pt; margin-bottom: 0.0pt;"span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;""Oh my god," she whispers, her head bent to one side as she looks at him. "Are you crying?"/span/p
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p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0.0pt; margin-bottom: 0.0pt;"span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"Inuyasha clears his throat and scowls at her. "Can you just shut the fuck up?"/span/p
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p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0.0pt; margin-bottom: 0.0pt;"span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;""You're crying!" she leans forward gleefully./span/p
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p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0.0pt; margin-bottom: 0.0pt;"span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;""Because I'm not a robot!" he spits out./span/p
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p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0.0pt; margin-bottom: 0.0pt;"span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"She giggles and sits back, falling back into her seat with a light thump. "I don't think this has ever happened before."/span/p
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p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0.0pt; margin-bottom: 0.0pt;"span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;""Should I take that as a compliment?" a new voice joins in from the seat next to Kagome's./span/p
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p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0.0pt; margin-bottom: 0.0pt;"span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"Bankotsu was leaning over to get a glimpse of what was going on. The lights were still off and would probably stay off until the whole stream of credits roll by. Inuyasha can hear one of the songs he wrote for the movie playing against the end-credits, and if he were anyone else, or maybe if it was any other time, he'd be amused. But right now, all he could feel is /spanspan style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"mortified/spanspan style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"./span/p
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p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0.0pt; margin-bottom: 0.0pt;"span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"He hastily wipes the offending tear away and shifts into his press mode, piling on the charm and smiling winningly at the director. "Yeah, you should. Kagome's right, this doesn't happen often." He reaches out to shake Bankotsu's hand and introduces himself, "Inuyasha, by the way. Thanks for using the stuff I sent you."/span/p
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p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0.0pt; margin-bottom: 0.0pt;"span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;""I know who you are." Bankotsu says, the amused glimmer still clear in his eyes. "It's about time we met in person. Emails don't do you justice. And I should be thanking /spanspan style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"you/spanspan style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;". I was getting pretty stumped when your people got in touch with mine and everything was just perfect."/span/p
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p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0.0pt; margin-bottom: 0.0pt;"span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;""Glad you think so." he says sincerely, always pleased at getting positive feedback for projects that mean a lot to him. /span/p
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p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0.0pt; margin-bottom: 0.0pt;"span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"More words probably would've been said, but lights started filling the room as the credits finished. Knowing the drill at this point, Inuyasha happily sat back as he waited for Bankotsu to give his closing remarks./span/p
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p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0.0pt; margin-bottom: 0.0pt;"span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"He obviously wasn't the only one who was stunned by the film though, since people started clapping as soon as the director stood in front of them. Bankotsu hadn't even gotten a single word out when the applause started, which is an /spanspan style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"incredible/spanspan style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;" response from the crowd of critics. Inuyasha watches as he soaks up the praise, looking pretty surprised himself, but keeping his cool and bowing graciously as cheers filled the entire theater./span/p
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p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0.0pt; margin-bottom: 0.0pt;"span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"Kagome sighs gratefully and joins in the applause, but when she was called to stand beside Bankotsu and the film's producer, the whole theater goes nuts. A fucking standing ovation./span/p
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p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0.0pt; margin-bottom: 0.0pt;"span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"Warmth bubbles in his chest as he joins the crowd, his eyes solidly on Kagome's so he can watch every minute expression on her face as she breathes in the moment. The typical nervousness was there, but it was compounded by sheer joy and a little bit of pride. It was beautiful to watch. /spanspan style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"She /spanspan style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"was beautiful to watch. And all of this was well-deserved. /span/p
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p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0.0pt; margin-bottom: 0.0pt;"span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"Once again he feels the same regret he's been feeling for the last few weeks. He wishes he could've been there for her more during the grueling film shoot, wishes that he didn't throw so much time away on his doomed and short-lived relationship with Kikyou; wishes that he'd paid more attention when his friend needed him most. But that was behind them now. Kagome put it behind them both when she told him everything was okay, and that what counts is that he's here now./span/p
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p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0.0pt; margin-bottom: 0.0pt;"span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"How he deserved the unyielding loyalty of this beautiful, generous, loving woman, he will never understand. But she's right. He's here now, and he won't ever take that for granted again./span/p
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p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0.0pt; margin-bottom: 0.0pt;"span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"Kagome finds her way back to him as soon as the crowd dies down and they've all said their thanks. Smiling widely, he welcomes her with open arms and a huge bear hug that makes those in their immediate vicinity /spanspan style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"aww/spanspan style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;". He ignores them though, choosing instead to hold Kagome's face between his hands so he could place a resounding kiss on her forehead. /span/p
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p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0.0pt; margin-bottom: 0.0pt;"span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;""I don't think I've ever been more proud of you." he says sincerely./span/p
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p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0.0pt; margin-bottom: 0.0pt;"span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"She looks up at him, her eyes sparkling and her lips tugged up in a brilliant, contagious smile. "Not even when I kicked Sesshomaru's balls in high school?"/span/p
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p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0.0pt; margin-bottom: 0.0pt;"span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"Kagome's smile grows larger, if that's even possible, and she pushes herself into him, holding him impossibly tight. He could feel her trembling as he returned her embrace, unable to stop himself from kissing the top of her head again and again./span/p
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p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0.0pt; margin-bottom: 0.0pt;"span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"The moment seemed too much. The ruckus around them was so surreal that he felt like he might just float away into nothingness. And if he was feeling all of these things, he has no doubt that the raven-haired woman in his arms was slowly feeling overwhelmed too./span/p
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p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0.0pt; margin-bottom: 0.0pt;"span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"He pries her off gently, noting the shimmer in her eyes as he gestures around them. "Your audience awaits, my lady."/span/p
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p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0.0pt; margin-bottom: 0.0pt;"span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"She chuckles but takes her cue from him, intertwining their fingers as she turns away and looks for the nearest exit. Every step they take, they're accosted by someone wishing to offer their congratulations to not just Kagome, but to Inuyasha as well for the soulful music he wrote to score the movie. He expresses his gratitude but directs most of the praise to his best friend if only to keep seeing the blush on her face every time someone says she should be expecting awards to come her way soon./span/p
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p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0.0pt; margin-bottom: 0.0pt;"span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"It isn't until much, much later that they both get a chance to talk to each other again, after they've traded their fashionable evening wear in for unfashionable pajamas. Their skin's been rubbed raw of the premiere's glamor and they're lounging on his patio, waiting for the sun to rise and for the energy of the night to fully fade away./span/p
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p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0.0pt; margin-bottom: 0.0pt;"span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;""Did you ever think we'd end up here?" she asks him softly. She's staring out into the horizon, just like he is, as she takes slow sips of the red wine he brought out./span/p
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p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0.0pt; margin-bottom: 0.0pt;"span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"Inuyasha shrugs. "Not really, no. Though Sesshomaru thinks we're both stupid for thinking about that."/span/p
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p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0.0pt; margin-bottom: 0.0pt;"span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"She sighs and he turns to look at her. The funny feeling in his stomach is back, but he's too tired to give much of a shit right now. He watches her smile and lift her glass towards him, offering a quick toast. "To Sesshomaru then?"/span/p
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