InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ The Cafe In Manahatta ❯ Part Twenty Seven ( Chapter 27 )

Disclaimer: I love the only Inuyasha related thing I own. My cute little chibi inu key-chain which lives out its happy life on my iPod making fashion statements everywhere (Ha! Take that Parris Hilton! You want something hot? Then look at my iPod cuz it's so cute and knows how to accessorize.)

 

 

Part Twenty Seven

As I brushed my hair, I could not help but repeatedly wonder what the hell I had gotten myself into. I made the cake the second Kagome had left, and then spent the rest of the day wondering if I should back down or not. The damn cake…it was prodding me. It was telling me that I should go. The medication in my pocket told me that I should stay. I called Onigumo on what I had assumed to be his lunch hour, or maybe he was off for the day, and gave him a brief description of my situation. He thought that a brief interaction with people at a joyous occasion might not be a bad thing, and that I could come and see him on the second, in addition to my normal visit on the fifth. I was about to protest it when he then told me that I could pay him in cake and call it a social visit between to friends.


Even with his prodding, taking out the red dress and putting it on wasn't easy by any means.


If anything, I felt like I was going to break down at any moment.


I glanced over at the clock. Eleven. If I wanted to go, and be sheltered from the onslaught of people kissing, I would have to go now. The trip to Inuyasha's apartment building wasn't easy by any means, and I wasn't talking about the heals that I had stupidly chosen to wear.


No…each step I took in them just reminded me that I was going to see a couple deeply in love. Something that I had once had but that I never would have again because it was taken from me. Did I really want to put myself through that?


I arrived at his, what would eventually become their, apartment at about eleven thirty. It was easy enough to find, but mustering the want to go in there was still another thing. Still, I raised my hand up to the door frame and rang the little bell off to the side, absently thinking that Inuyasha was well off. It was in a very decent part of town, and he had an apartment on one of the highest floors in a very expensive building.


What had Kagome said about him in one of our never-ending conversations about the man?


Ah yes. He came from money and was a lawyer. Typical.


The door opened to reveal the smiling face of a man and my sister.


“Kikyo! You made it!”


She latched onto me and dragged me in while the man -who I assumed to be Inuyasha-closed the door, effectively blocking off my only escape hatch.


“I told you that I would stop off for a few moments…here,” I said, thrusting the cake into her arms. “It's chocolate.”


She giggled and dragged me into the kitchen, where I saw a woman looking for champagne glasses.


“Sango,” Kagome called out to the long, black haired woman, “we will need another glass. My sister came!”


“Oh, Christ! Another one? How many people did you invite Kagome? I think that this,” she waved a glass towards us, “was the last one.”


The man had followed us into the kitchen, and started to rub the woman's shoulders.


“Sango, darling, I'm sure that Inuyasha has more glasses, and if he doesn't, then you shouldn't worry about it. He is already out picking up our order. We can ask him to find some more glasses.”


“I wish that he would hurry up Miroku,” the woman, Sango apparently, replied. I had never seen either of them before in my life, so I assumed that they were Inuyasha's friends.


“Well,” I broke in, trying to destroy the tender moment, “I won't be here for long.”


“But Kikyo, you promised!”


“I said that I would stop by,” I corrected, silently thrilled by the fact that Inuyasha was out. The display that Miroku and Sango had just put on was pushing my limits already. I didn't even want to know how much more touchy feely things were going to get the second he walked through the front door.


“Who is she,” I heard Sango whisper to Miroku, and Kagome's eyes widened.


“Oh! I'm so out of it today! I completely forgot my manners! Kikyo, this is Sango,” she pointed towards the woman, “and this is her fiancé Miroku.” She finished pointing to the man behind the woman. I had assumed as much by now. “They went to school with Inuyasha. Guys, this is my older sister, Kikyo.”


Official hello's were made, and I stayed around for another twenty minutes, which were spent mostly by Kagome frantically calling Inuyasha to tell him to get back here, and me talking to Sango and Miroku. I had tried to distance myself from the sickeningly sweet pair, but I soon found their antics a little hard to distance myself from.


“Kagome, I need to get going while I still have a shot at getting home at a normal hour.”


She had just gotten through with another phone call to Inuyasha, and to say she seemed peeved was an understatement.


“No! You can't go yet! He is a block away!”


“I'm sorry Kagome…but unless you want me bunking on the couch while you to…I don't know…have wild monkey sex,” I thoroughly enjoyed the way her cheeks suddenly lit up from embarrassment as Miroku laughed his head off. She immediately started defending her honor to him, but I pushed forward and interrupted her “then I need to go. I swear that I will make it up to you sometime. This isn't really the atmosphere you wanted me to meet him in, is it.”


“No…but…yes…but̷ 0;you will come to meet him some other time, won't you?”


“I will.”


I inwardly cringed.


“Alright…good night Kikyo! And happy New Year!”


“Night Kaggie! Same to you! And enjoy your monkey sex!” I had to bolt to the door to survive her retaliation.


I sighed a sigh of relief, when I was in the lobby and on my way back to my place.


Inuyasha entered the building with cups and food moments later. I never saw him go in, and he never saw me come out.

 

 

 

 

A/n: Excuses excuses…not sure if you really want them or not, so I won't give. College hasn't started yet (I know, right?) so I thought that I would start this up again before it did in eight days. I am gonna try and do the once a day thing again, but I'm the Maid of Honor for MY sister's wedding, so things may get to be a little @_@, especially around the 18th. I was talking to someone the other day, and I came back to look at the story. It was a bit…um…wow when I saw how long it had been since I last updated. Whoa is to me, and whoa is to the Café.

 

I don't have any AR's. I'm sorry!!! Normally it would be easy for me to figure out where I left off, but with reviews more or less back to back since I updated the story each day, it is a bit hard to figure out the who what when where and why.

 

I'm just going to do an over all one:

 

 

AR

 

To: EVERYONE

Thank you so much to everyone who has reviewed the story! It means a lot to me! I can't say who WR is, of coarse, but some people are right, and others are close. I may have to reveal who he is soon simply because some people got it right, but we will see. I'm sorry if Kagome seems a bit bitchy and self absorbed right now, but she is a little consumed by Inuyasha. The deep down caring sister is still in her, and Kikyo was like this when she was with Joe/Bob. Also, keep in mind that Joe/Bob died a few YEARS ago, so weird behavior as of late on Kikyo's part is stranger then normal. Thank you if you are a new reviewer! Thank you if you are a returning reviewer! All of your reviews are special, and I wish I could pinpoint where to start exactly with replying! I hope you will keep reading!

 

~Lil6ter