InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Decisions ❯ New Year's Kisses ( Chapter 5 )

Chapter 5: New Year's Kisses

Kagome sat down at the low slung table and collapsed onto the leather sofa with her other friends following suit. Sango crashed in on her left side and Ayame and Kikyo fell into the right side. They were all struck with the New Year's excitement and had seriously enjoyed partying.

“God I'm exhausted” Sango gasped fanning herself with her hand

“Mommy's shouldn't try and party as hard” Ayame was teasing “you're too old!”

“Ayame” Kikyo was bored “You're a year older than her”

Ayame cupped her hands to her heart like Kikyo had just stabbed her in it “You cut me deeply”

“That makes you sadder than me” Sango grinned “you're a year older and still playing the field!”

“You make me seem like an old hag!” Ayame was annoyed “I'm only twenty seven!”

“Guys are like boxes of chocolate” said Sango wisely “if you leave it too long there are only nutty ones left”

Ayame kicked her under the table with her pointed toed stilettos and Kagome winced as she kicked her instead.

“Kagome's single too” Ayame folded her arms “pick on her for a change!”

“She's two years younger than you” Kikyo pointed out sipping from her glass with an unreadable expression as was her style.

Ayame was mutinous; they always picked on her like this “You guys are mean”

“And you have the mentality of a seven year old” Kagome sniggered

“It's nearly eleven” Sango said glancing at her watch and then squinting as she tried to read the numbers under the strobe light “We should go to Souta's pub for the closed party he was offering, Miroku, Shippo and Inuyasha will probably end up killing each other if we don't get there soon”

“Let's go” Ayame held her clutch bag into the air like it was a sword or something and she was declaring battle. They shook their heads good-naturedly; too tired to take the piss out of her any more.

Sesshoumaru was annoyed. He had been dragged along to his companies New Year's party against his will by Jaken. He would never have agreed to go if he had known what was going to happen when he got there.

He had fled through the back door and was know walking through the streets bitterly cold and very annoyed. As he walked he tried to avoid the increasing number of drunken people who spilled out onto the streets.

He began to vaguely recognise the neighbourhood but he had no idea why. He looked around carefully and spotted it. The small pub that was his frequent haunt. He paused before walking up to it; what if the Kagome woman was inside?

He shook his head. He was the great Sesshoumaru he had no concerns over whether the wench would be there or not. He walked up to the door and attempted to push it open only to find that it was locked. But he could hear people laughing inside.

The door was tugged out of his way and he looked down to see Kagome who looked up at him like he was an unwelcome mirage.

“Are you stalking me?” she asked putting a hand on her hip and tilting her head to one side.

“Hn” wasn't that the other way around?

She shivered as the cold night air hit her revealed skin. The cold was so cold it burned. Her attire of a short leather skirt and a deep blue off the shoulder shirt was not built for temperatures such as these.

“Get inside!” she yelped grabbing the sleeve of his jacket and dragging him inside. He glowered down at the warm hand that was currently attached to his arm. It wasn't that it was unpleasant it was simply that no one ever touched him. Except Rin.

She sort of seemed to realise what she had done and smirked up at him “Don't worry I'm not contagious”

“Hn”

“Hey” Souta nodded at Sesshoumaru and handed him the same concoction that he had been plied with at Christmas.

“Hn” he said looking at the golden liquid

“I call it a Sesshoumaru” Souta smirked

Sesshoumaru raised an elegant eyebrow and surveyed the other people in the bar. He recognised one of Rin's teachers, there was a female wolf demon, a man who had a faint aura that reminded him of monks of old, a male Kitsune, Kikyo and his mutt of a brother. Inuyasha was crashed out on the sofa unconscious with his mouth open slightly; snoring.

Catching the direction he was looking in Kagome laughed “He has a low alcohol tolerance”

“Hn” Sesshoumaru was not surprised and he smirked as Inuyasha's leg twitched in his sleep like a dog.

“Well you already know Sango” Kagome made introductions though judging by the look on the Inu Yokai's features he could care less. “That's her husband Miroku, the wolf demoness is Ayame and the Kitsune is Shippo” she smiled at her friends in an `I'm sorry' kind of way “and this is Sesshoumaru”

“Hn”

“He's talkative” Ayame noted flippantly rolling her green eyes

“Turn it up!” Shippo yelled pointing at the TV “It's nearly midnight!”

“Calm down” Kikyo said coldly as was her nature “if you wake the Inu then you'll be wearing your drink”

Shippo looked down at her sheepishly and mimed zipping his mouth.

“It's his fault” Miroku said “he tried to out drink Kagome”

“Never been done” Souta said laughing

“It's not one of the attributes of me that I am proud of” Kagome rolled her eyes. Sesshoumaru looked across at the tiny female and wondered how she managed to drink his Hanyou brother under the table.

“Do you remember in collage when the guy tried to out drink you?” Sango reminisced

“And he ended up having his stomach pumped” Miroku chuckled

“And Kagome could still walk in a straight line” Ayame grinned “She even did a cartwheel”

“Yes we know already” Shippo rolled his eyes “Kagome is invincible”

“You guys should get a medal in exaggerations” Kagome sighed. He had only thrown up he hadn't needed his stomach pumped and she had never done a cartwheel she had just fallen over kind of circularly making it look as if she had done a cartwheel.

“Wake up mutt” Miroku said losing patience and kicking the cushion out from under the Hanyou's head

Inuyasha gave a huge snort and woke up with a start “Huh?”

“Very articulate” Sango said dryly

“Who woke me?” Inuyasha was pissed. He was far too pissed and sleepy to even notice his half brother.

“Him” Shippo and Miroku said in unison pointing to each other

Inuyasha looked from one to the other carefully before hitting Miroku around the head.

“Hey, how'd you know it was me” he said rubbing his overly abused head. He was Sango's punch bag of choice too.

“You smell like you're lying” he muttered closing his eyes and falling back to sleep instantly

Kikyo and Kagome rolled their eyes in synchronicity. He acted so much like a dog but hated to be called a mutt.

“Ten” said Shippo happily

“Nine” Sango chimed in and before Sesshoumaru could figure out what was happening they were all counting down to midnight.

“ZERO!” they all yelled as one and then started hugging and clapping and kissing.

Sesshoumaru glowered at them. He found this ritual of celebrating the New Year foolish, nothing had changed and nothing was new. He had no idea why they were so excited. But it was pretty amusing to watch them squealing, not that he allowed this emotion to grace his features.

Kagome finished hugging Ayame and jumped onto her little brother mussing his hair. She glanced over his shoulder at Sesshoumaru who was watching the proceedings with undisguised annoyance but she caught a glimmer off amusement in his gold eyes as they met her blue ones.

She released her brother and walked up to him.

“Happy New Year” she said and then before he could even comprehend what she was doing she got onto her tiptoes and kissed the Inu Yokai on his cheek.

He looked at her as her blue eyes glittered mischievously.

Oh yeah, that served the emotionally stunted Yokai right. For once when she looked at his handsome features he looked like he actually had no idea of how to respond. There was no expression of animosity and no cynicism. He almost looked innocent.

She twirled away from the Yokai and went over to hug Shippo tightly.

He watched her hug the Kitsune and blinked for the first time since she kissed him. His cheek where her lips had met his skin was tingling. What was this feeling?

What had this wench done to him? He felt his control slip and a small amount of red dusted his haughty cheek bones. He was embarrassed?

No, more than that; he was blushing?

He spun on his heel and nearly ran out of the door. He strode forcefully away from the pub as if he had an urgent purpose to see to, whereas his only mission was to get as far away from the woman as possible before she saw his embarrassment with her quick eyes and called him on it.

Was he attracted to this woman?

Kagome kissed Kikyo on both cheeks and looked back to where Sesshoumaru had been to find an empty void in his place.

`Oops' she thought to herself. Maybe she had offended the Yokai? After all he didn't really like humans at all. Maybe to him she smelt bad? She brushed her worries aside and decided to apologise next time she saw him.

Even if he was annoyed at her it had been worth it to see the look on his face. She traced a finger over her bottom lip and smiled. Interesting.

A/N: I do not own Inuyasha and I never will. I make no profit from this except in bucketfuls of happiness.