InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Dance, Sing, Model 'Till Midnight ❯ Chapter 16 ( Chapter 15 )

Author: Dragon Rae

Beta Reader: Icewings

Note: I just want to say that this is still a Sesshoumaru and Kagome story NOT a Naraku and Kagome….though I have nothing against Naraku I just don't really care for Naraku/Kagome stories (Though I will read them, I don't write them, I'm a Sesshoumaru and Kagome fan.) So you don't have to worry about a thing Guardiun Angel 15, Naraku is supposed to be somewhat attracted to Kagome-chan. (If you notice she gets shivers when Naraku looks at her, or does something, but there not those kind of shivers she gets when Sesshoumaru looks at her ^.^v)

Another Note: After this chapter, I will be taking a break `cause of my other story I'm writing (West Mets East). Just wanted you to get a heads up.

Chapter 15

Rin showed Kagome her pink with a white bordered, bigger then a regular size room that had a princess four-poster bed in the corner and wispy rose-pink curtains draped three huge windows that took up an entire wall (picture the library windows in `Beauty and the Beast'). The ceiling was painted to look like puffy clouds in shades of gold, pink and white, and the floor was made up of bright, cream-wood boards that had large, cloud-shaped carpet so that Rin could jump from one to another; like she was jumping on clouds. There were stuffed animals and a tea-party set here and there that gave the entire room a homey look.

It was cute, Kagome thought as she walked down to her room with Sesshoumaru leading the way. She was really not looking forward to it knowing that she wasn't going to get any sleep at all because of the storm still raging outside. Her nose was starting to get blocked up and her throat hurt. On top of that, Inuyasha wanted to meet her in the basement at 11:30!

`Why me? Why?' She thought as she walked into Sesshoumaru's room, and passed him to go to her room. `I'll need to ask him where that door is in the hallway, all I saw was a large book-case where I thought the door would be.'

Kagome sneezed going into her room, went into the walk-in closet and looked at the nightgowns hanging next to each other. `What color am I in the mood for…hmmm…' She finally picked out a spaghetti-strap blue princess-cut nightgown that stopped above the knees.

She let her hair fall down her back in cascading waves before going into the bathroom to brush her teeth. She was glad that the thick walls in her room muffled the sound of the thunder. `Ugg, I look paler than usual.' She fought down a cough, `Ouch, never fight down coughs…they just make your stomach and throat hurt more.'

When she was finished, her looked at the illuminating numbers of the clock on the nightstand by the bed. '11:00…another half an hour to wait. Great.' Kagome looked around her room again, the sound of the rain pelting on the hard glass of the window, the eerie howl of the wind, and there were still no lights working in the house.

She was standing in the middle of a large dark room, so when lightning flashed it highlighted the deep shadows. `I wonder what Sesshoumaru's doing in his room…' almost running to the secret door she bolted inside and looked around. There was no Sesshoumaru in sight.

`Great, where could he have gone?' a crack of thunder echoed around the area so loud it rang in her ears. She jumped three feet and jumped into the black satin sheets of Sesshoumaru's bed and hid her head under the pillow.

`It smells like night time and sakura….with a hint of power and spice…yummy.' Kagome grinned at the stray thought. `Well it is…huh?' the bed moved and she felt something crawl up her calf.

She stiffened; she felt it move up and to her thighs and hip. Her heartbeat quickened and her skin started to feel cold. It crawled to the base of her back and start up her spine, leaving a wake of goose bumps. `I'm gonna faint.' She thought.

The crawling stopped at her neck and the sharp point brushed lazy patters at the base of her neck and then there was a cool breath on her cold skin.

"Boo."

Kagome screamed, grabbed the pillow, and repeatedly whacked Sesshoumaru over the head saying, "You evil, evil, evil, MEANY!" She stopped and realized that Sesshoumaru wasn't even fazed and looked on with a calm face.

Kagome dropped the pillow and looked at him in disbelief, mouth slightly open. "Why…how come, I mean…why did you do that?!" Kagome crossed her arms over her chest, her heart still pounding in her chest and instead of feeling cold; a rush of warmth filled her body.

"Do what?" Was all Sesshoumaru said, Kagome cracked, "This!" She pounced on him and they fell in a tangle of sheets and limbs onto the floor.

"Okay Mr. High and Mighty, I have you now under MY control." At the end part she clapped her hand against her chest, a small smacking sound echoed a bit.

"Ow!" Kagome rubbed the stinging spot, "So what are you going to do about it Mr. The world revolves around me? Hm? Hm? Hm?" Kagome grinned down at the Youkai she straddled, "That's what I thought!" She attempted to get off but found she couldn't.

`Huh?' she looked behind her; Sesshoumaru was holding her down by the back of her knees. "No fair!" Kagome wined.

"Alls' fair love and war Miss Conqueror." Sesshoumaru replied.

Kagome huffed, "Fine…but I still win."

Sesshoumaru arched an eyebrow at her.

"Why? Even though you didn't actually ask but arched your eyebrow instead, it's because I'm on top the world, Mr. I'm on top of the world." Kagome raised her chest into a `Haha I win' pose.

"So would that make you Mrs. I'm on top of the world?" Sesshoumaru tilted his head to the side and his mouth twitched upwards.

"Yes that would." Kagome smiled not getting what he was saying at all.

"Well aren't you a bit young to be married?"

Kagome deflated and had the look of `Huh?' clearly on her face. "What? NO!" Kagome burned red and crossed her arms over her chest glaring down at Sesshoumaru.

"Okay I'm going to get off now. I have to find my way to the basement to kick Inuyasha's sorry butt." Kagome looked down at Sesshoumaru and waited, "Are you going to let go now?"

"Yes, but first." Sesshoumaru tickled the back of Kagome's knee; Kagome squealed and rolled off Sesshoumaru's waist, "Maa! Why'd you do that!" Kagome asked, tugging at her leg that got tangling in the sheets.

Sesshoumaru shrugged and turned to his side watching Kagome glare at him and try to remove the offending sheet off her leg, "You knew I was ticklish there didn't you?" Kagome growled out.

Sesshoumaru raise an elegant eyebrow, a bored yet amused expression on his face.

"No, you haven't ever told anyone that you were ticklish back there."

Kagome fumed at the twitch at the side of his mouth. "Grrrr." She huffed.

"Grrrr, to you too." Sesshoumaru moved back an inch as Kagome tried to hit him in the chest.

"Oh, you are impossible!" Kagome growled out.

"I make an effort to perfect it every day." Sesshoumaru countered.

"And succeeding." Kagome glared and with one final tug the sheets unraveled from around her leg.

"There." Kagome got up and stretched, not noticing the gown go up a few inches showing more skin and catching the unwilling attention of the youkai in front of her.

"Okay I know how to get out of your room and down two halls, but other than that I don't know how to get to the main entrance." Kagome glanced at Sesshoumaru who was still leisuring (is that a word?) on the floor.

"Now there is no way I'm about to ask you…sooo, I better start walking." Kagome headed for the door, "Ja ne…Oh yeah, there is a large bookcase where I think the door to my room would be. If that isn't the door, could you show me later?" Kagome smiled at Sesshoumaru before disappearing around the post.

Sesshoumaru rolled his eyes to the ceiling then down again before getting up, fixing the sheets on the floor and walked to the door at a slow pace. `Now why do I like this girl?' he thought, following the scent of Kagome around the hallway. So far she was going the right way.

`Oh yeah….she's an intriguing enigma…nice legs to boot.' Sesshoumaru inwardly winced. `When did I become such a pervert?' An image of Kagome's well-toned thighs popped into his head. `Houshi-baka must be rubbing off on me…' He shook his head.

`Now this is where she missed the right turn to the main entrance…but then again it's a faster way to the basement.' He followed a hallway behind his quarry.

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`Now where do I go? This hallway doesn't look familiar….maybe I took a wrong turn. These hallways are darker then the rest even with the many candles here.' Kagome rested against the wall, catching her breath. She took another right turn that lead to a spiraling staircase ran along the wall.

`I wonder where this goes.' Kagome now less intent on finding the basement and was more curious of the house, and what was inside it.

There were three doors: one to the left, right and far right. Closing her eyes and pointing forward she spun around until she stopped. `Okay, right it is…maybe I shouldn't have spun so much: my stomach is mad at me.' Kagome peeked into the room that turned out to be a kitchen; the other door led to a hallway where the servants slept.

`Okay, not those.' She noticed a rectangular plate nailed into the last door on her left. `Basement…gee that helps a lot…' She opened the door and went down the stairs, Sesshoumaru following when Kagome opened the basement door.

"So…you showed up, and early too, heh? I thought you would have chickened out and stayed in bed" Inuyasha said smirking; Naraku was there leaning against the wall.

"Hi Naraku-kun." Kagome hopped over to Naraku fighting the feeling of nausea in her stomach, "Hey Wench, I `m talking here!" Inuyasha yelled a red tinge on his cheek when he saw what she was wearing.

"Che cosa desiderate?" Kagome grinned at Inuyasha's lost expression. `I don't speak French, stupid." Inuyasha snapped.

"I know, or else you would have known I was speaking in Italian." Kagome walked passed Inuyasha and stopped at another door. "What's through here?" Kagome asked.

"Why should I tell you, wench?" Inuyasha leaned on one leg and grinned at her. "Você não tem que." Kagome shrugged and walked in with Naraku leaving an irked Inuyasha behind.

Kagome could barely see by the light from the other room that she stood on a large metal platform where a pool table, air hockey, foosball, and a poker table sat surrounded by chairs. Her footsteps echoed in the dark area as she walked over to the railing.

Her breath caught in her throat as the light came on over the sheerly massive room: she estimated that it was about the size of the superbowl stadium, stands and all.

Five huge metal platforms hung from the ceiling by steel cables and suspended a basketball court, a tennis court, work-out equipment, a baseball diamond with real grass (astro-turf) and a soccer field (more astro-turf). A single, bright light that was magnified by the domed glass bubbles they were roofed with lit all the platforms. Kagome wondered how you got from one place to another and then saw a network of stairs and bridges that connected them all. She noted that the bleachers on cables could be lowered from the ceiling.

On the ground were different raised levels for an ice rink, four swimming lanes, five bowling ally's, a batting cage, a cricket field…'Cricket?' Kagome thought, `Who plays such a refined game?' An image of Sesshoumaru playing Cricket made Kagome smiled. `Maybe…'

Over to the right was a fencing area, a kendo area, and, were those sword cases? `Sword is illegal, why do they have those in here?' Kagome thought and all the way in the corner was an archery course. `Wow…archery, I am so coming here again'. There was also a shooting range (which Kagome chose to overlook) and a rock-climb that spanned a hundred yards across one wall and reached halfway to the ceiling.

If she squinted she could see another door on the far side of the room, `I wonder what that leads to?' Kagome thought about that later as the door behind her opened and Inuyasha and (much to her surprise) Sesshoumaru came in. "Wat hier doet u?" Kagome asked.

"Ik volgde u." Sesshoumaru replied, Kagome fumed, "Pourquoi?" she crossed her arms over her chest. "Puisque." Sesshoumaru walked past Inuyasha to the pool table.

Kagome glared at his back.

"You speak Italian?" came Naraku's voice.

Kagome turned to him, "Si." Then she turned to Inuyasha. "So what do you want to do?"

Inuyasha's eyes shifted from Sesshoumaru, to Kagome, then to Naraku. "Why were you speaking gibberish?"

Kagome rolled her eyes and made small snorting sound.

"I'll repeat, What do you want to do?" Kagome tapped her foot on the ground. "Then I'll choose. One on one pool then in teams, and after that ping pong all 2 out of 3 three." Inuyasha set down the rules, Kagome nodded and walked over to the pool table.

"Move." Kagome demanded polity. Not waiting for Sesshoumaru to move, she sidestepped him, but Sesshoumaru move in front of her. "What are you doing now?" Kagome said agitated.

"You demanded for me to move." Sesshoumaru almost grinned at a huffy pink-faced Kagome.

"I shall stand by what I said before." Kagome moved past him. "You still are impossible."

"I perfect it every day." Sesshoumaru glanced over his shoulder seeing the annoyed expression on Kagome's face. "What ever." Kagome picked a nice long pool stick that was a light tan and had a cherry color at the bottom.

"Are you ready wench?" Inuyasha said after setting up the pool balls.

"Bring it on, mutt."

After ten minutes Inuyasha won the first round. "Haha, I won!" He smirked, his ego flying high.

"That's nice, thanks for the pathetic warm up though. Okay lets get this game started." Kagome smirked evilly at Inuyasha.

"Boom baby." Kagome whispered as she hit three solids in a row: which did make the sound `Boom'. She looked at the black 8 ball and frowned; it was a tricky shot but she could make it if…

Sitting on the edge and putting the pool stick behind her, she aimed the black ball between three of the striped balls, `Gee I've never done this before, how do they do it?' hitting the cue ball with a `snap' sound, the black ball went into to left corner pocket.

"I win…and that would be oh? Two games?" Kagome said while slowly and mockingly got off the edge of the table and put back the pool stick.

"She whooped you, mutt." Naraku grinned as Kagome appeared next to him holding a new pool stick. "Okay now we play doubles. I don't care who's on my team."

"There is no way I'm playing with Sesshoumaru no baka." That received a punch in the head by `Sesshoumaru no baka'. Inuyasha complained.

"Fine, Sesshoumaru can be on my team then and Naraku can be on yours." Kagome moved to Sesshoumaru.

"I'm not playing with a pretty-boy, little girl." Inuyasha yelled, which earned him two punches in the head: one from the `pretty-boy', and the other from the `little girl'.

"Don't you dare call me little girl, you unintelligent mutt." Kagome glared down at Inuyasha who was holding his head in his hands.

"Well I did dare, and I'll do it again too." Inuyasha knew he'd regret that but his ego wouldn't let him do otherwise.

"Your funeral." Kagome shrugged.

"You go first," Sesshoumaru said as Inuyasha got up from off the floor. Of course Kagome's team won, but it was a close game because Naraku was really good.

"Do we have to play ping-pong?" Kagome almost whined.

"Why? Not good at it?" Inuyasha snarled, his pride bruised and Band-Aided.

"No, I'm tired." Kagome didn't want to argue.

"Feh, fine then go to bed; I don't care." Inuyasha muttered and huffed more.

Kagome grinned tiredly and walked over to a sulking Inuyasha, "Hey Inuyasha-kun?" Inuyasha glanced down at Kagome, she looked tired, her eyes where slightly glazed and she looked pale and a pink/red tinge covered her cheeks.

Inuyasha started to feel guilty, uncrossed his arms, and gave Kagome his full attention. "Yeah?"

His eyes widened as she hugged him.

"Oyasumi koinu-chan." (Koinu means puppy) She whispered, Inuyasha looking at Sesshoumaru and Naraku for help, only to receive blank looks.

"Ah…Oyasumi nasai." Inuyasha gently patted her on the back twice.

Kagome let go and went to Naraku and hugged him. "Oyasumi nasai Éclair." Naraku, looking relaxed, patted Kagome's head. "Hehe, that tickles." Kagome let go of Naraku and put her hand over her head smoothing out the strands. She turned to Sesshoumaru.

"Aisukuriimu-chan!" (Ice cream) Kagome pounced on Sesshoumaru, squeezed him, and then let go having to most brightest look on her face. "Do you have ice cream?" She asked excitedly.

"I thought you were tired." Inuyasha grinned next to her, looking up at Sesshoumaru's emotionless expression.

"Well, I get excited with anything that has to do with ice-cream, Ice cream is one of my favorite snacks." Kagome answered.

"What are your favorite snacks?" Naraku asked.

Kagome turned to him, "Oh…ummm Strawberries with either green tea ice cream or cookies and cream…with whipped cream and pocky on the side." Kagome was drooling inside. "Mmm, pocky…and koalas…." Inuyasha, Naraku, and Sesshoumaru stared at her.

"Wow, really?" Inuyasha looked at Sesshoumaru with a look of surprise. "That's so weird." Inuyasha looked back at the puzzled expression on Kagome's face.

"Doushite?" (why) Kagome tilted her head.

"Well…because Sesshoumaru likes pocky with Green tea ice cream."

"Oh really? What do you like?" Kagome asked Inuyasha.

"Ramen." Sesshoumaru said. Inuyasha turned red.

"Really?" Kagome giggled, "And you?" she looked over to Naraku.

"Dark chocolate ice cream and Koalas."

Kagome's eyes widened. "Small world…" Naraku grinned. `Good, no shivers this time.' she thought.

"Well now I want Ramen." Inuyasha licked his lips. "Come on and we will get your ice cream." Inuyasha led the way with a happy Kagome following behind. The room was silent after they left.

"I'll play you one game, winner gets Kagome." Naraku said facing the door.

"She is not a prize and I will not treat her like one." Sesshoumaru's icy voice pierced the silence.

"Then you may be worthy of my little sister." Naraku smirked.

"What?" Sesshoumaru said surprised but not showing it.

"I will not tell you now." Naraku tilted him head towards Sesshoumaru. "You are the only one that I will let her get near to. I will test Kurohikari-san later…and possibly your brother."

Sesshoumaru watched Naraku walk out of the room; he followed with question after question rolling around in his head.

`Then you may be worthy of my little sister.' Sesshoumaru repeated in his head, thinking of possible ways Naraku could he related to her. None came.

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Hehehehe….a little mystery some people will not like….anyway here are two of the translations…I think they are right.

Italian: What do you want?

Portuguese: You don't have to.

Dutch: "What are you doing here?" Kagome asked. "I followed you." Sesshoumaru replied.

French: "Why?" she crossed her arms over her chest, "Because." Sesshoumaru walked passed Inuyasha and to the pool table.

Italian: Si = Yes

Review Responses:

Kagemaiden: Thank you and thank my Beta-reader too Icewings is a marvelous editor. (THANK YOU ICEWINGS)

Sesshoumaru's goddess: yeah I liked it a lot also, Thought now I suppose this will be your favorite chapter.

Silverstargazer: And I will Update!

Guardiun Angel 15: What I said in the Note will be your responses. ^.^v

Sihera: Me too! Éclairs are good, but ice cream is my favorite. I'll keep the lobster's size in mind I'll tell my beta-reader, she the one that put that in or else I never would have thought about the lobsters.

Shorty40: Hey Shortly? Sup'? I thank you for liking my story and I hope you will enjoy Sess/Kag stories.

Blue fox demon: don't black mail me! Please...or else I'll have to black mail you (what! you think Kagome's the only one that does that?! )

Anna: I bet you'll like this chapter.

SuzumiTenshi: You like Naraku? I don't mind him, personally I like him…but I'm not really big on Naraku and Kagome pairings anymore…but I will read them. (gives S.T a Naraku plushy doll, here you go, now you can hug him. ^-^v)