InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Decisions ❯ Almost ( Chapter 17 )

Chapter 17: Almost

Sasuke had convinced Kagome that if she was really as `fine' as she wanted them to believe she wouldn't mind going out on a date with someone. Not being one to back down from any challenge, ever, Kagome had reluctantly accepted. Deciding she would show Sasuke up a bit she let him arrange the date.

She had called in the aid of Hana to dress her appropriately and the girl had risen to the challenge quite spectacularly. She surveyed herself critically in the mirror and smiled it wasn't something she'd usually be comfortable in but she'd be damned if she didn't look good. The dress she had been ordered into was perfect. A cobalt blue crepe, bias cut, layered so that it was not indecent. There was a silver crescent moon clasp on the shoulder studded with intricate jewels of a slightly darker blue and she tried desperately to ignore the similarities between it and the markings on a certain Yokai she knew all too well. She looked ethereal and unmovable.

Ranmaru watched his mother and smirked, it was time for phase one, if Rin had managed her side of the plan that is. He silently bumped fists with Hana who was babysitting and they shared the smile of co-conspirators.

Rin was having problems, her Sesshoumaru-sama was going to the restaurant she had suggested, but he was taking another lady. She had asked him to go because the owner was a friend of her parents and they would like him to go. This was not a lie but it wasn't strictly the main reason she wanted to go. This Yura lady was slightly strange and Rin could already tell she'd have a sleepover and then leave like all the others. She was really not liking how this was turning out. She picked up the phone.

Ranmaru hung up the phone and glanced at Hana “This is not good” he told her

“Nope” she replied looking worried, the phone rang again, startling them and Hana picked up.

“Yes?”

It was Sasuke “I'm in the cafe across the street from the restaurant and the guy that just introduced himself as her date is so not Sesshoumaru” Sasuke looked the man up and down “Unless Sesshoumaru dyed his hair black and got a star tattoo on his forehead”

“Oh, for the love of all that is demonic” Hana sighed “Sesshoumaru is coming, but with some other woman too”

“Damn it” Sasuke said

“That backfired rather spectacularly” Hana commented

There was a pause “Or not” Sasuke mused “Jealousy can sometimes be a marvellous catalyst”

“Fine, come home then” she told him before hanging up and relaying the information to one curious kelpie demon

“That still doesn't explain who that guy is though” Ranmaru murmured

***

“I'm Bankotsu” the man who had met her at the restaurant introduced himself gallantly. She appraised him quickly, something akin to Hanyou the young male had long black hair he pulled into a plait and a curious demon star tattoo on his forehead, which was more of a reminder than she needed at the moment.

“I'm Kagome” she smiled as he pulled out her chair for her “I'm sorry about Sasuke coercing you into this”

The man stiffened for a moment and accidentally knocked his cutlery to the floor, which he bent to retrieve before smiling, slightly abashed. “I was not forced Kagome-san, I feel honoured to dine with you”

She smiled wondering why he seemed so discomforted “How do you know Sasuke?”

He swallowed hard before answering “My brother is an interior designer, and Sasuke used him”

“Ah, for the new apartment he and Hana bought in Kyoto?” she asked interested

“I think so” he said sighing slightly in relief, he exhaled again in relief as the waiter came and asked what kind of beverage they would like. He hoped she had stopped with the questions of this `Sasuke', he was not sure how much longer he could keep bluffing before he made a detrimental mistake. When Naraku had called to remind him of that withstanding favour his first reaction had been to reject anything that was offered, but this seemed rather simple for someone with a background in the mafia, all he had to do was wine and dine the girl. And then when the evening was complete get her into Naraku's town car, conscious or unconscious it didn't matter in the least.

“So, what do you do?” she asked when they had procured a bottle of the house white.

“I work for one of Japan's biggest conglomerates, Onigumo industries” he revealed and noticed her sharp intake of breath and the dark look at the mention “Are you troubled Kagome-san?”

“No, I'm fine” she smiled a little wanly “I've just had some sour dealings with them in the past”

“Really?” he was interested, Naraku had not revealed anything as to why he wanted the woman and he was naturally curios as to why he needed to kidnap the poor woman.

“Yes” she was still looking faintly murderous “but that is not the conversation I really need to be having right now” she breathed in deeply and smiled again “So tell me about yourself, you said you had a brother?”

Curiosity not one bit sated he sighed and decided to simply engage in the conversation, after all she was a perfectly desirable woman.

***

Sesshoumaru walked into the restaurant the Rin had bizarrely decided he was going to with his usual air of `I own you all' exuding him in waves and one prattling woman on his arm.

He was unused to such a concept as a woman talking to him about her life, except of course the one woman who continued to plague his dreams intently, and was wondering if she actually thought she was going to have a relationship with her. He did not have relationships, he had Rin but she was under his protection and then there was whatever had happened between him and Kagome but this insufferable woman did not seem to realise she was there purely as a prelude to her main purpose, to warm his bed and vent his pent up rage.

It was simply not polite to just lay with the girl.

The waiter led them to a table and he tensed as the scent of summer rolled through his mind and clogged his senses. The power of that scent only intensified by absence. Kagome.

From his table at the back of the restaurant he could see every other table and it took him no preamble to find the woman. She was absolutely mesmerising, a Greek goddess in that dress. And then he bit back a possessive snarl because she was wearing it for him, for that insignificant being sat opposite her.

Yura was still chattering, laying her hand on his arm to both create a false feeling of intimacy and try and regain his attention. But he was lost to her, his attentions fixed firmly upon Kagome. His Kagome.

He watched as she stiffened and he knew she had felt him there and he smiled. She darted a nervous glance over her shoulder and when she caught sight of him her eyes narrowed and she glared at him viscously. Before turning back to her date as if nothing had happened.

He growled and the woman he was sharing a table with tensed slightly. Staring at Kagome's back reproachfully for a moment he turned his eyes back to the woman and pretended to pay attention to her whilst his other senses homed in on Kagome.

***

It had been exceptionally hard concentrating on her meal and Bankotsu whilst an irate Inu was sat in the corner of the restaurant listening to everything, his aura fluctuating wildly.

When Bankotsu suggested they leave she had jumped at the chance, uncaring as to how it would look to the man she was currently on a date with and they left the restaurant post haste.

Sesshoumaru frowned as the male stood to leave, his movement bringing with it a faint scent of something that was familiar and at the same time not. It took Sesshoumaru about three minutes, at which time they were making their way to the quiet backstreet car park, to identify the scent. It was chloroform.

So crude, he thought. Chloroform was a stupid way to knock someone out for it truly was not proficient in that purpose. But it was still widely used and he doubted that there was another more asinine reason behind having it.

He stood threw some bills on the table and flung himself from the restaurant only to be stopped abruptly by Yura who was now clinging to her arm. With a growl he tried to throw her off but as a demoness she wasn't exactly easy to dislodge.

“Won't you take this car?” Bankotsu asked opening the door of the town car for Kagome. She was about to get in and thank him for his offer when she paused, why would a middle manager at a Conglomerate have procured a town car? It made no sense.

She turned to him, suspicious now to see him advance on her with a cloth. The sweet cloying smell gave him away and she backed away from both him and the car.

“We can either do this the easy way or the hard way” he threatened

She flared her Miko powers in warning and he chuckled

“I may have been marked but I assure you I am not a demon, I cannot be purified” he advanced upon her again, certain of victory. Until she smashed her fist upwards into his nose revelling in the ripping sound as the cartilage tore.

He gasped and tried to stem the blood flow “Bitch” he growled backhanding her hard enough to send her tumbling down to the asphalt.

What came next was a huge shock to both the hired villain and the fallen Kagome. Bankotsu went flying through the air.

Sesshoumaru in his ethereal glory stood in front of Kagome snarling and snapping viscously, all reason gone, to leave nought but red in his eyes.

He advanced slowly on his victim as if taunting him before lifting the poor human from the ground by his neck and snarling out a vindictive chuckle at his helpless prey.

Kagome who now had a split lip and a sore jaw pulled herself to shaky feet and ran at Sesshoumaru. Regardless of what this man may or may not have just tried to do to her she would not allow Sesshoumaru to become a killer.

She ran at him and began pummelling on his back with her small fists.

“Damn it Sesshoumaru you will stop this now!” she barked at him and then winced as the man was dropped to the floor without a further thought.

Sesshoumaru spun to face Kagome eyes still red and primal and yet she didn't feel the instinctive rise of her reiyouku, it seemed her powers trusted this demon. Or recognised the futility in fighting one of such power. Somehow her second reasoning wasn't as comforting to her.

Bankotsu took his chance and scrambled.

He backed her up until her back came into contact with the hood of the car. She swallowed hard as he continued to advance and nearly shrieked at his sudden movement before he grabbed her wrists and pinned them above her head, splaying her onto the hood. She wondered for a bizarre second what the hell was going on with the driver of the car she was lying on right now. But that thought was pushed firmly from her mind as his lips crashed down upon hers.

This kiss was unlike the others. This kiss was ruthless and dominating, crushing and possessive. He suckled her bleeding lip and at her gasp forced his tongue into her mouth and began to plunder ruthlessly. She moaned and he pressed her further back into the car and she began to reciprocate the kiss. She couldn't quite remember in that moment why exactly she had even been angry at him and when he moved down to kiss, lick and nip at her neck all coherent thought vanished.

She was jolted back to earth however when his free hand began to move over her body. She was suddenly overwhelmed by how wrong this was. She was still angry at him, some might call her fickle but she stuck to her ideals, and this was obviously breaking her principle of independence.

She shoved the Inu off of her and glared at him as she watched his eyes return to their usual gold.

“I hate you” she growled because no matter how much she had enjoyed that kiss it didn't count because he had forced her. She grabbed the hem of her skirt and ran from him.

Sesshoumaru watched her go with agonised eyes and fought the urge to whimper when he once again caught the scent of her tears. He had made her cry, again. He really needed to stop doing that.

He frowned as he realised there was a stunned human in the car he was stood in front of. He knocked on the window and it rolled down to reveal the old human male

“This Sesshoumaru suggests you leave whilst you still have the necessary limbs required to do so” he said not at all surprised when he was obeyed without preamble.

***

“Hello Ka-go-me” she shuddered at the voice on the other end of the phone, she so needed to get her number changed.

“I'm not in the mood” she muttered as she gazed out of the window at the passing traffic as her taxi took her home

“Too bad if I am Ka-go-me”

“Get to the point scumbag” she said tiredly

“My associate is at the hospital” Naraku sounded briefly annoyed “but then we have you and your Yokai friend to thank for that”

“So he was yours” she said growling lowly

“Yes but know this now Ka-go-me” he paused “I will have you reconsider. This is all your fault you know, if you hadn't whored yourself out to a certain Inu Yokai things could have been so much better”

The line went dead and she closed her eyes. Refusing to let the tears fall. There was so much, too much to deal with right now and it was drowning her.

“What next?”

A/N: I don't own Inuyasha. I've had some reviews about how Kagome won't be able to forgive Sesshoumaru for sleeping with other women, but to be honestSesshoumaru was angry and lonely when he was sleeping with the other women, plus he no longer had any ties to her. Of course Kagome won't just forgive and forget but she'll try because she loves him, even if it doesn't resolve itself for a long while it will eventually I promise. There are several things she won't abide by and some of them are people taking away her independence and one of the others is lying. I think that though Sesshoumaru was sleeping around she wouldn't be able to hold it against him considering that they weren't going out, even though she might have wanted to, as long as he will admit he has done it then she should be able to forgive him. Kagome is being childish and she can admit that perhaps she shouldn't hold a grudge over something like this but in the end her pride triumphed and she lashed out at Sesshoumaru. I've experienced a similar situation in my life which is kinda what this is modelled on.

So anyway I hope you guys stick with this! Thank you very much to everyone who reviews!