InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Indecent proposal ❯ Getting to know each other ( Chapter 7 )

Chapter7: Getting to know each other

 

 

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Disclaimer: If I owned Inuyasha, the story would have ended so differently…

 

“Speaking”

`Thinking'

 

 

“Did you take a look at the bill? And you don't have any comments, or complaints?” Kagura asked for the third time. “Really?” she pressed on.

 

“I really do not care Kagura” Sesshomarou answered once more, but with a sigh, not looking away from the road.

 

“Did you really look at the bill? I mean just for some clothes….” She added trying to make him a little mad. The fact that he had seemed totally not affected by the monstrous bill had shocked and a little angered her. In other words her plan on buying anything and everything, even clothes that she would never wear was a complete failure.

 

“Is it the only topic we will discuss tonight? It is rather tiring…” he cut her midsentence.

 

“It depends, isn't `our first official date' over?” the wind sorceress asked stubbornly crossing her arms.

 

“Unless you want me to drive you home, I figured we could have dinner. You may even choose the restaurant”. For some reason, Sesshomarou felt like he would regret the second part of his sentence.

 

“Really, the control freak is letting me choose. Fine, in that case, I know this great place not far from my apartment. I've been going there since I was a kid. I even worked there as a teen…” Kagura trailed off lost in her memories.

 

“Good, give me the directions” Sesshomarou said not averting his gaze from the road.

 

 

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To Sesshomarou's horror they arrived at a place called “Mushin's burger temple”. Before he could ask anything, Kagura quickly said:

 

“Before you say `this Sesshomarou does not eat hamburgers' I'll have you know this place is not like a fast food where they serve crap, no here you have the best, mouth watering delicious burgers ever”. Not leaving him room to argue, she grabbed his arm and forcefully tugged him towards the entrance. Sesshomarou did not react as he was too taken a back by the sudden contact of their skin. He was glad to notice that Kagura's skin was warm and really soft, he also wondered if the rest of her skin was as soft as her milky arm. Mentally shaking his head to reed his mind of his slightly perverted thoughts, the dog demon let the `thankfully for him unaware of his thoughts wind demoness' drag him inside the `burger temple'.

 

The inside of the restaurant was actually nicer that Sesshomarou had anticipated. The entire place was in a green shade: from the walls to the tables. The only drawback was that the place was a little too crowded for his taste. He never liked being in a room with too many people, but it was to be expected, if the place was as popular as Kagura made it sound.

 

“Oh Kagura it's been too long!” a brown eyed and brown haired teenager said as soon as she and Sesshomarou stepped inside.

 

“Yo Souta! How you've been? And what is this Kagome told me about you having a girlfriend? And I thought you said you were going to marry me when you got older?!” the wind sorceress said with a faked wounded facial expression.

 

Kagome's little brother blushed a nice shade of red.

 

“No worries, I was just teasing you. What's her name? Is she pretty? Do you have a picture of her?” Kagura asked in one breath.

 

“Her name is Hitomi, and yes she is beautiful, I'll show you a picture later” He then leaned to whisper in her pointy ear “I think you're friend is getting irritated”. Of course the sentence did not escape Sesshomarou's acute hearing and he eyed the young human boy.

 

“Don't worry about him, he always looks irritated. I think he was born with this facial expression or something.” She told the young human with a dismissive hand gesture before turning around to smile brightly at the now scowling Sesshomarou. Kagura added “anyway, come by our place with your Hitomi, you know she has to pass the big sister challenges so we can assess if she's worthy of you, right?”

 

Souta blushed some more, then added “I'll show you guys to your table”.

 

 

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“I take it he is Kagome's brother?” Sesshomarou asked disdainfully taking the menu in his hand. He was at least really thankful that with Kagura's influence they were seated in a quiet booth at one end of the restaurant.

 

“Yep, he's kind of like my little brother too, we basically grew up together. And he did say he would marry me when we'd get older.” Kagura said with a smile and sparkling eyes. “Talking about family, how many siblings do you have?”

 

“Just one and you met him” Sesshomarou said not raising his eyes from the menu.

 

`Oh yeah silly me he's Inuyasha's older half brother' she thought.

 

“What about you?” Sesshomarou asked looking at her.

 

“Only a brother…and a sister” Kagura answered, with a grim expression on her face.

 

But before Sesshomarou could ask what was wrong with her, a black haired and red eyed young man who obviously was not their waiter made his way to their table, and Sesshomarou had to try his best not to roll his eyes.

 

`Can't those people see we're on a date?!' he thought exasperated.

 

“Well Kagura I'll be damned! Have you forgotten how a phone works?”

 

“Byakuya last time I checked a phone worked both ways. If you wanted to talk to me so badly you could have called me!” Kagura said before getting up and soundly kissing the young man on both cheeks.

 

The red eyed wind demon looked over Kagura's shoulder and glared at Sesshomarou before asking “who are you?”

 

“I could ask you the same.” He answered on a cold tone thinking `why is seeing her in another man's arms irritating me? Well, she is supposed to be my girlfriend and will bear my child so it is only natural.'

 

`Could it simply be that you like her, and don't want any competition?' Sesshomarou's inner demon remarked.

 

“You two enough, Sesshomarou this is my older brother Byakuya Kagewaki. Byakuya this is…”

 

“Her boyfriend Sesshomarou Tashio” he cut her. At his use of the word `boyfriend' Kagura flinched. She knew that it would not sit well with her protective older brother.

 

“Your boyfriend?! You have a boyfriend! How come I did not hear of this sooner? Since when do you hide things from me Kagura? Besides…”

 

“You were just about to leave right?” A female voice said approaching their table.

 

`Who ever said the more the merrier, seriously had a problem. Can't we have some privacy?!' Sesshomarou screamed in his head.

 

“Yura, honey you don't get it it's my baby sister we're talking about here” Byakuya said turning to face his wife.

 

“Yeah, well you can see she's busy. I'm sure that her and Sesshomarou have lots to talk about especially concerning a certain proposal” Yura than winked at a painfully blushing Kagura and grabbed her husband by the ponytail to drag him away.

 

“You told her” Sesshomarou said as the couple walked away. It was more an observation than anything.

 

“Well you did not say I could not tell anyone. Besides you should thank her, she's the reason I'm sitting right here with you tonight. Yura and Kagome are my best friends I don't hide anything from them”.

 

Before he could ask more on the subject, Souta came by to take their orders. As Sesshomarou opened his mouth to place his order, Kagura said

 

“We will have two `Wind witch' and two `Crimson Winds', make mine especially windy, his not he's driving”.

 

“You got it!” Sota said walking away.

 

“You ordered for this Sesshomarou?!” it was the first time anyone, especially a woman ever dared to do so.

 

“Last time you chose the place and ordered for me. And this time it's my turn” Kagura answered taking a sip of her water.

 

“Do I want to know what a 'Wind witch or a Crimson Wind' is?” he asked after a while.

 

“You'll see dog demon” she imitated him with a wicked smile.

 

 

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“Here's your order, hum for who was the `windy Crimson Wind'?” an old man said as he stepped to their table carrying a tray.

 

“Grandpa Mushin, it's so good to see you! And you know I like them windy.” Kagura said as the old man put the food on the table.

 

“Of course you do squirt” he answered.

 

“If you haven't notice I have really grown lately, so I don't think I still qualify for the squirt category” Kagura said with a small smile.

 

The old man than looked intently at Kagura's cleavage and said “Oh you sure did grow!”

 

Following Mushin's gaze, Sesshomarou growled and was ready to shred the old human to pieces. But Kagura who never needed help to defend herself, quickly stood up and gently slapped the older man's bald head with her fan saying with a defeated sigh “you will never change you perverted old geezer.”

 

“Ouch, fine I'm leaving. Enjoy your meal” He said smiling and heading back for the kitchen.

 

“Who was that?” Sesshomarou asked looking at his food with apprehension.

 

“Mushin, the owner of the place and one of the biggest pervert ever. No wonder it's Miroku's father. Miroku used to hang out here and so did Kagome Yura and I, and that's how we met him.” She said taking a nice sip of her windy Crimson Wind that really was just a strawberry daiquiri.

 

“I see, I take it you met my brother through him”.

 

“No, actually Inuyasha is Kagome's mother's banker. He helped a lot with the shrine' financial problems, and since then my dear friend has been madly in love with him. By the way do you know if he has a girlfriend?”

 

Not really liking the fact that they were discussing his half brother, but wanting to humor Kagura, Sesshomarou answered “He has been dating Kikyou on and off for years. But since he has been visiting my house more than usual and really more than necessary I guess they have broken up”.

 

“Really, so he's single…” Kagura said with bright eyes and a mischievous smile.

 

Meaning to take a sip of his drink Sesshomarou stopped dead in his tracks and asked on a deathly serious tone “wind witch do you really think this Sesshomarou will drink this?”

 

Kagura than looked up to realize, that his non alcoholic strawberry daiquiri was served with a nice dollop of whip cream and a strawberry on the side. She could not help but laugh whole heartedly. Glancing at her, Sesshomarou quickly switched their drinks.

 

Kagura meant to protest, but simply shook her head and smiled.

 

 

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Sesshomarou had to admit that the burger was not that bad. He even actually enjoyed it, but that he would never tell Kagura. Overall their dinner had been very entertaining.

 

As they walked towards the car, Kagura said to Sesshomarou “You haven't said a word since you finished eating, Don't tell me you're still sulking because I paid? Well, I chose the place so it's only natural”.

 

Still not getting an answer from the inu youkai, she let out a frustrated sigh and asked “were the `Wind witch' and the `Crimson wind' that bad?”

 

“Who gave those dishes such ridiculous names?” Sesshomarou finally said. He was not really sulking, but merely surprised that Kagura had insisted to pay for their dinner. He figured that just like any women he usually went out with she would try to take advantage of the situation, after she did not hold back with the shopping spree…

 

“Well, I named them. I told you before I used to work here. Of course they are special orders and don't really have the same name on the menu, but I used to eat that all the time. Well, my `Crimson Winds' were not windy aka alcoholic at the time. Okay not most of the time, but on a few occasions…” Kagura said laughing softly.

 

“Ridiculous names, this Sesshomarou will surely not let you choose the name of the child”.

 

As soon as she heard these words, reality came crashing down. Kagura's smile evaporated as she remembered that they were just supposed to pretend. She had been having so much fun that she actually forgot about her plan.

 

`What's wrong with me? I must not forget it's all an act. He needs to pretend I'm his girlfriend so that he won't be accused of fathering a child out of no where in case I accept his stupid proposal. And I'm only taking advantage of him. I must not forget that, even if I had a great time, it's all pretense, just pretense.' Having established that Kagura then said:

 

“Could you take me home, I'm really tired”.

 

Sesshomarou did not really understand her sudden change of mood, but none the less did as she requested. As he drove her home, none of them spoke a word. And as she stepped out of the car Kagura mumbled a quick goodbye and goodnight.

 

Sesshomarou started the car and went home asking himself `what's wrong with her?! All of a sudden she just became cold. Was it something I did, or maybe something I said?' Even his inner demon could not answer the question and stayed quiet.

 

 

 

 

A/N: In the next chapter Kagura tries to reason with Sesshy, wonder who will win?...

It will be named Life's lemons.

Instead of the usual Wednesday posting, the next chapter will be out on Thursday (blame my political science professor for giving us a huge exam!).

 

But in the meantime, why don't you go check out the new one-shot I posted in my collection Stories of wind and crescent moon.