InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Ai Hanna ❯ Fasle Suspisions ( Chapter 3 )

[ Y - Young Adult: Not suitable for readers under 16 ]
I'm glad you liked the last chapter^^

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Chapter three.

The next day was the usual, Kagome went to work on time and found Kikyo there before her. Kagome stood at the counter waiting for customers to come in, there was a tap on her shoulder, Kagome turned around to find Kikyo, in a totally different outfit.

"Um..It's nice...looks expensive." she commented. And it WAS very expensive, it was a beautiful red dress that sparkled everytime she move. It was halfway up to her theighs and strapless. Kikyo twirled around throwing sprakles everywhere almost blinding Kagome.

"Well, not really...about 700 or more, I had it custom made!" she bragged, "is it really nice?"

"Yep, very uniqe..." Kagome smiled.

"Are you sure?...cause Inu Yasha's coming over this afternoon.."

"Yes...it's...wonderful.." Kagome said, *I could have guessed this was the occassion...* she thought dully.

"Okay, you're sure?....I can't wait!!" she squealed and went to the back.

Kagome rolled her eyes and sighed, then the bell rang. It was Sango again, this time....she had a companion with her. It was a tall handsome man -her boyfriend- Kagome guessed, he had black hair and dark blue eyes, with some piercings on his ears, and a little pony tail on the back. Yup, they looked like the perfect couple, "Hi Kagome!!" she waved vigorously.

"Hi!" Kaogme greeted and waved back, glad to see someone nice enter the store.

Sango and the man walked up to her, "Kagome, I'd like you to meet someone, this is Miroku Konogawa, my friend."

"Hello" he smiled, he took Kagome's hand and kissed it softly.

"Hey..." Kagome slightly blushed, so it wasn't her boyfriend afterall...

"Hey Sango!!" Kikyo shouted from behind Kagome, she ran over delicately and gave a...you can barely call it a hug.

"Just came over to see you, and I brought Miroku with me." she pointed to him.

"Hey Miroku! long time no see huh?"

"Yep, you too Kikyo." he smiled.

"So..." Kagome said, "What's up?"

"Nothing really, just thought it would be nice if everyone was together." Sango said, everyone stayed silent for a moment, they just stood looking at each other, until the bell rang. Kikyo made a high pitch squeal and ran over to Inu Yasha kissing him.

*Oh god....it's HIM....* Kagome thought.

Everyone went over to greet Inu Yasha at the doorway, Kagome stood where she was, she didn't want to talk to another piece of Kikyo.

"What's up man, haven't talked to ya in a while." Inu Yasha said to Miroku.

"Ah well, ya know...got all those clients waiting on my list." he responded.

"Yeah, I know what you mean..."

"Let's go sit down." Kikyo quickly said, and so they all sat down on the white couches in the center of the shop, Kikyo hung a 'Back in 1 hour' sign out on the door. Kagome watched to four talk and laughed, she felt so out of it. Then decided to go talk to them, "Um.." she hesitated, but everyone was still so involved in a conversation, "Excuse me?"

Then finally Sango noticed, and then everyone looked up at her, Kagome froze, she wanted to say something a while ago but completely forgot when she was put on the spot.

"Yeah?" Kikyo cocked an eyebrow.

"Umm..." Kagome paused, then quickly made up an excuse, "when are the correct shippings gonna arrive?"

"Oh..." Kikyo thought for a while, "I think they said tomorrow in the morning."

"Oh, okay..." Kagome replied, then thought of another thing, "Um, you guys want something to drink?"

"Nope" Inu Yasha said.

"ACTually." Kikyo said when Kagome was about to leave, "I'd like a bottle of water please?"

Inu Yasha sighed, "Kikyo, if your thirsty then you should go get it yourself."

"But she offered okay?"

"Forget it, I'll go get it for you." Inu Yasha lifted himself off the couch, "come on Kagome." she gestured her to come with him, Kagome gave a 'you-talking-to-me?' look, but followed anyway. He was in the employees room getting a water out of the mini fridge, "Kagome?"

"Yeah?"

"I'm sorry."

"For what?"

"The way Kikyo's acting, I mean...sometimes she treats people like slaves, like she's the 'queen', she's so spoiled." he shook his head.

"It's okay, she IS, afterall my manager."

"Yeah, but this isn't your job." he corrected, "look, whatever it is, don't let her get to you okay?"

"Fine." Kagome shrugged casually, then watched him stare back at her, it was a good long moment before she spoke, "Inu Yasha?....do you trust Kikyo?"

"Depends, is this a trick question?"

"No, just wondering."

"To tell you the truth, I really don't know, we've been together for only a couple weeks now, nothing really special happens between us."

"Oh, well..."

"Well what?...what happened?...is there something I should know?"

"...*sigh*....It's none of my bussiness to get involved, sorry." Kagome was about to leave, Inu Yasha commanded her to stop, then tell him the truth, "well...." she scratched her head, " This probably isn't really any proof but....I heard talking on the phone the other day...with another guy, she said she would meet him in the evening...and I accidentaly overheard the last part of her conversation, and after that I came up to her and she was really tensed about me hearing the conversation, so I just said I just came in."

"Really?"

"Yeah...his name was, Ken?"

"Ken?"

"Yep."

Inu Yasha laughed, Kagome cocked an eyebrow, "Ken?...Ken's her lawyer, she has this case on a hit and run inccdent, she doesn't want anyone to know about it or it'll ruin her repuutation, and her boss might freak, she meets Ken every other week to discuss her case, she's be in a private court room. Ken...he's an old man, trust me, I seen him before."

"Oh..." Kagome supped her chin, "I see, now it all makes sense, not that I care."

"And that's exactly why I'm telling you this." he said.

"Okay...then...." Kagome headed for the door, "we should get back, wouldn't want to keep the 'queen' waiting."

By the time Kagome got back, Kikyo was was looking at her well manicured fingernails in boredom, Sango and Miroku were still talking, "Finally!"

Kagome was startled, Kikyo tapping her fingers on her arm impatiently, "Took you long enough, god I'm parched..."

"Here's your damn water ya big baby.." Inu Yasha said tossing it on the couch, Kikyo took it carefully. Inu Yasha looked up and sighed, Kagome had the same reaction he did.

"Kagome." Miroku called, "were having dinner tonight, you wanna come with us?"

Kagome smiled, it would be nice to have dinner with Sango and Miroku. But the thought of Kikyo and Inu Yasha joined in, Inu Yasha was Okay, but not Kikyo. And not to mention the cost, they're probably going to somewhere fancy and expensive considering how they're dressed today, "Umm....no thank you."

"Aw...why not Kagome?" Kikyo asked.

"Well...I have plans for tonight."

"Like what?" Kikyo asked again, it was getting annoying, Kagome felt like she was put in those lie detector machine tests.

"Um, well I have to clean up at my place, and I'm having dinner with a friend too." she said, it wasn't exactly a lie, wasn't the truth either. Kagome was planning to have a simple dinner with Kaede or some of her neighbors at the apartment.

"Oh, who are your friends?" Kikyo asked again.

"Kikyo." Inu Yasha said, "what's your problem?"

"what???" she retorted.

"Kikyo...leave her alone, she doesn't want ot eat with us then fine." Sango said.

"I was just curious."

"Well, um..I should go and clean up the dressing room stalls." Kagome stated, and left reliefed.

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Kagome went back 'home' and took a quick shower and changed. she took 2.00$ in change and went outside, downstairs near Kaede's room where the payphone was. She cancled her cell phone plan, didn't want Sesshomaru or Kouga to find her.

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"Hello?" the other end picked up, it was a man.

"Huh?...S-souta? is that you?"

"Kagome! I haven't talked to you in a while, We all miss you."

"Thanks..but why are you at mom's place?"

"Oh, she went out to go grocery shopping since we're gonna have this 'family dinner' thing, she invited me, Cher, the kids, and cousin Yuri....but it would be so much better if you were here with us."

"*sigh*...I know...I wanna go back home too.I really want to taste mom's homade chicken pot pie..." Kagome's nose stung, then she sniffed, "Well, I was just calling cause I needed some cash."

"Oh, okay sure sis. Same address right?"

"Yeah, mail it to Kaede, don't want those bastards to know where I am."

"Right, of course...we miss you Kagome."

"Thanks..."

"We miss you auntie Kagome!!!" the voices of children cried in the background.

"I miss you too!!!" Kagome yelled through the phone.

"Whoa...my ears.." Souta commented.

"heh." Kagome sniffed again.

"Don't cry Kagome, when this all goes away, you'll be free to come back to us, and we'll live happly ever after."

"Oh god...sounds like the perfect little fairytale."

"Yeah...come back soon okay?"

"I hope I will... I gotta go now, tell mom that I'm...fine, and I love her and everyone there."

"I will."

"Okay...bye Souta." she hung up the phone slowly giving a sad sigh. Kaede just came out to take out her trash, the looked at Kagome.

"Kagome? why are you crying?....what's the matter dear?" she dropped the garbage and patted back.

"N-nothing...I just miss....my family."

"OH....there, there...why don't you come have dinner with me, Susan, and jon." she suggested.

"OKay.." Kagome sniffed once more, and followed the old landlady to the patio.

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The next day, Kagome actually felt good, the sun was up, and she felt very energized.Today she didn't have anywork so it was her day off...to do what? Nothing...what a day to waste away, it was a useless Sunday, for once Kagome wanted to go to work. Oh what the hell, I'll go outside for a nice walk. Well, the 'nice' walk wasn't so nice afterall. She walked around the apartments three times, sure...everything was bright and sunny, Kagome breathed in deeply and smiled. Then she decided to go visit the landlady, but when she arrived around the corner se saw MIB(no not the movie MIB, but Men literally in Black suits with sunglasses and everything). Kagome retreated behind the wall, easedropping their conversation. But how suspisious, those men looked way too fimilar.

"Ma'am, are you CERTAIN that you have not seen this young lady before?" one of them asked.

"Yes yes yes! I'm sure of it! as old as I look, I'm not that forgetful!" she shouted at them.

"Okay ma'am, sorry to bother you then." the second man said, then headed to the black Limo, "No sir, she's not here, we've checked everywhere." he talked through little earpiece and speaker, "I am sure......you want us the search the rooms?.....alright then, we will...we'll do whatever it takes to fins Kagome."

Kagome went wide-eyes and gasped just quiet enough so they couldn't hear, *OH MY GOD!!! he really is looking here!!! Holy shit! what am I gonna do!!* she screamed in her mind, then quickly, but quietly ran upstairs to her adpartment and took out everything piling them up in the middle of the room, "Oh my god! Oh MY god!!! what do I do with all this stuff?!" she looked everywhere, nowhere to hide. But the ceiling was one place unexpected...

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"What about this room? we haven't checked." Kagome heard them from outside, then heard the door kick open, the'r footsteps were silent since it was all carpet, it was very silent, Kagome hopped that her sweating didn't make any sound, "Hey, I found something."

Kaogme's mouth dropped, *No way!! I put away everything already!!*

"What the....a unicorn?...A kid must've lived here before...eh..nothing here but...well, nothing. Come on, let's go, she's not here." Kaome sighed, the sound of her squeaky Uni was thrown on the bed, and the door slammed.

"UGH!!!" Kagome groaned. Then kicked the panal open, all her things dropped on the floor, she jumped down from the ceiling, "Whew...good thing there was a attic, Kaede never told me about that..."


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Hope you liked it^^ heh, I feel allll better now...not sick! YAYz!