InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Himitsu ❯ Secret Rendezvous ( Chapter 17 )

Title: Secret Rendezvous
Author: aimee_blue
Prompt: horror (oneshot#41)
Genre: Humour/ Romance
Rating: T
Warning: None
Word count: 1,038
Summary: Continues from my `bury' drabble Secret Messages. Sesshoumaru is delighted when Kagome initiates contact, only to discover that someone else was lending a helping hand...

When Kagome had texted and told him to meet her for dinner he had been smug, thinking she'd fallen to his charms like every other woman inevitably did. He had been smug enough to believe that his charms had finally gotten to her.

But he had obviously been mistaken.

With horror stricken eyes the Daiyokai surveyed the mayhem before him. He'd seen battlefields and blood, he'd ripped out his brother's intestines on more than one occasion and he'd sown his own skin back together numerous times. But nothing he'd ever done compared to this.

It was a children's indoor play-area. Tackily decorated in bright colours that fried his retinas, gaudily draped in cartoon characters that leered at him, and it was suffused with climbing frames coated with special plastic so that the children couldn't hurt themselves.

The children themselves were positively terrifying, the ear piercing cacophony of noise, the stampeding of their feet as they chased each other around in circles; it was unnerving.

One collided into his leg quite violently but barely spared him a glance before jumping to its feet and running off again. It seemed they were made of rubber.

Proceeding past the play-area part of the `restaurant', he came upon a tightly packed cluster of tables filled with parents and their fractious offspring. All the parents seemed bedraggled and the children were positively twitchy.

He didn't dare to attempt to sniff Kagome out, his poor nose had already been assaulted by the scent of this god-awful place and, subsequently, he had stopped breathing through his nose.

Golden eyes met blue and he hurried to the table where he could see Kagome. Rin was sat there too, her tongue poking out of her lips in concentration as she battled on the game on the phone he had bought for her.

He sat down and leant on the table, regretting it instantly when his elbow encountered an unnamed sticky substance on the table.

“Why have you brought me to this place?” he demanded.

Kagome blinked at him. “It's Rin's favourite place and I didn't bring you here, why are you here?”

“You text messaged me,” he sneered, showing her the message on his phone.

“I don't even know your telephone number!” she protested and then her eyes narrowed in sudden realisation.

Peering at the two adults over the phone, Rin gulped as Kagome's shrewd stare met her own timid one.

“Rin.”

“I'm sorry!” Rin apologised instantly, biting her lip uncomfortably and scratching her leg just above the pink plaster cast, “I just thought you'd have fun!”

“You called me here?” Sesshoumaru asked the small girl.

She nodded and smiled broadly, revealing the gap between her two front teeth.

“Why?” he enquired, his voice was softer than normal, and he knew it but he found himself unable to conjure his customary aloofness with this child.

“Because Kagome-Obasan is happier when you're around, she yells a lot more too, but she's happier.”

Kagome closed her eyes at this little revelation. She loved Rin; really she did, but sometimes...

“Really, Kagome?” Sesshoumaru purred, glee evident in his tone.

Glowering at his arrogance she replied, “No.”

“Obstinate aren't we?”

“Bite me.”

“A tempting proposal, Kagome.”

“I hate you!”

Rin blinked as she turned her head back and forth to look at them in turn as they engaged in a bout of verbal tennis. Even though they seemed exasperated and annoyed she could tell they were both happy. Their eyes were alight and she smiled.

Sesshoumaru turned to the smiling child and picked her up suddenly, perching her on his hip whilst she squealed with happiness. He was very careful of her broken leg, making Kagome smile slightly.

Turning to Kagome, he said, “Let's leave, I am developing a migraine.”

She scrambled after the departing Taiyokai, hastily picking up Rin's crutches and her bag.

Long legs had already carried them halfway down the street and she had to jog to catch up with them.

“Where are we going?” she yelled.

“You'll see,” was Sesshoumaru's cryptic remark.

On the outskirts of the city, Sesshoumaru stopped so quickly she'd nearly ran into his back.

“What are we doing?” Kagome asked.

They had been silent for the entire trip, Kagome cursing Sesshoumaru and Sesshoumaru listening to Rin's tales of her school and her mother and aunt.

“Come here.” Sesshoumaru held a hand out to Kagome who glared hard at him.

“Why?”

Such an ornery woman. “Can't you just do as I say?”

“I do not follow orders mindlessly!”

“But you seem to argue mindlessly,” he sighed, “Kagome, just come here.”

Glowering even in her acquiescence, she shifted the crutches to under one arm and slipped her smaller hand into his clawed one.

The deadly smirk that grace his features then made her reconsider the action but before she could move to extricate herself from his grasp it was too late.

She was floating.

Floating on a fluffy cloud.

Sesshoumaru's fluffy cloud.

“Wow!” Rin gaped as they left the houses and building behind and came to float leisurely above everything.

“Kagome, you can put the crutches down, the cloud will support them,” Sesshoumaru instructed.

Kagome dropped the crutches, but not because he had ordered her to, she dropped the crutches so she could hold onto Sesshoumaru's arm with bone bending pressure.

Sesshoumaru almost winced at the pressure the tiny female was exerting on his poor defenceless bones.

“Kagome, are you frightened?”

“No,” she replied petulantly as she buried her face into his shoulder.

Sighing belligerently he wrapped the arm she was clinging onto around her waist and pressed her into his side securely. “Look, Kagome.”

Tentatively opening her eyes she gasped as she saw what Rin and Sesshoumaru had been observing.

The sun was just dipping below the horizon and it had cast the sky with vibrant shades of orange, gold and fuchsia.

Wind swirled around them caressing them and lifting Sesshoumaru's glorious hair into a whirling dance above them. Rin giggled as the tendrils tickled her and Kagome relaxed into his side as the strands seemed to stroke her cheeks reassuringly.

“It's beautiful,” Kagome whispered, talking nay louder seemed wrong in this moment of perfect tranquillity.

Sesshoumaru looked down at her.”Yes, beautiful.”