Now What?

The next morning was fresh, cloudy, breezy, and cool. Autumn sure was showing its true colors too. The leaves on the trees were a nice, yellow-orange, to red orange color. Most lay on the sidewalk, only to be swept away by the calm morning breeze. Due to last night’s situation, and something else, Kagome decided to take the bus to work.



‘I’ll just get a ride home this afternoon. Hmm... I wonder if I did the right thing though.’



She walked the ‘soon to get busy’ sidewalk to work. There was a small coffee shop about two blocks back. She had to stop by to get a ‘light hazelnut creamed coffee with whipped cream on top and sprinkled with chocolate powder’ for Inuyasha. It was his favorite. She felt bad for spraying him last night.



‘Maybe this will cheer him up today. If I know him, he’ll be brooding all day cuz’ of last night.’



Once she got to the building she walked to the elevator. It got to her floor, the doors opened, she clocked in, and went to her cubicle. She put her purse in the file cabinet, set the coffee on the counter next to the phone for a bit and thought of what to say to Inuyasha when she would give him the ‘apology’.



“Hmm....”



Her thoughts were broken to the sound of Sango’s voice chirping in.



“Well, someone’s here early!” she glanced at the coffee. “What happened?”



“What do you mean?”



“Well normally you drink cold coffee, that’s hot. By the smell of it, its for Inuyasha. What did you do?”



Kagome sighed, and told her friend everything about last night. Sango pressed her hands to her mouth and tried to stop laughing. Kagome glared at her and scoffed.



“It wasn’t that funny, okay?!”Sango released her mouth and brushed the few tears off her eyes.



“Sure it wasn’t! I can’t believe you did that! I wish I was there to see his face.”



“Yeah, yeah, never mind that. How’s Kohaku? Is he doing okay?”



“Yeah, he had a high fever all night. I barely had some sleep, but we hung in there. He was doing a lot better this morning. If anything, I told the sitter to call me.”



“I’m glad to hear he’s alright.”



The girls chattered for a while until Miroku joined in.



“Good morning ladies! Kagome, how are you doing this morning? Are you alright?”



“I’m fine. Why would you ask...” kagome thought for a bit, then it struck her.



“He told you didn’t he?! That big mouth! He’s worse than I am!”



Miroku and Sango laughed lightly. “He called me last night after work.”



“Then Miroku called me right after.” Kagome glared evilly at her so called best-friend.



“You mean you already KNEW?! Here I was, telling you something important, and you KNEW!? The BOTH of you?!”



Sango and Miroku put their hands up in defense and tried to reason with their angry friend.



“Kagome, he just told me what happend. I am his friend after all!”



“C’mon kagome, it was just a small prank. Miroku couldn’t hold the info in and just called me.”



Kagome turned around and put her hands on her hips.



“Yeah, uh huh! Some friends you are! I’m glad my embarrassment brings you laughter!”



Sango hugged her friend from behind and placed her chin on her shoulder.



“I’m sorry. But you have to admit, he must’ve looked pretty funny trying to wipe that stuff off .”



Kagome turned around and giggled. “Well...yeah, he kinda did.”



The three continued to laugh for a while until Inuyasha passed by. He invisibly glared at kagome.



“You know we pay people to work around here. If you wanna talk, you could always go outside those doors and talk.”



The three just stared at him go by and then stared at each other. Miroku was the first to speak.



“Well, it looks like he’ll be playing the character of our XO today.” Sango decided to add on.



“It’s a shame too, I mean c’mon, its Friday.”



That comment immediately brought kagome to remember what today was. It was Friday, THE Friday that her and Hojo were supposed to celebrate their two months together. She sunk on her rolling chair and replayed her phone conversation with him last night.



‘Today’s our anniversary! No wonder he got upset. How could I have. . . . .’



Sango looked at her troubled friends face. She leaned down and put her hand on her shoulder.



“Hey, are you okay?” Miroku turned around to see the two girls. He leaned down next to Sango.



“Inuyasha didn’t mean what he said Kagome. He’s just a little tempered right now. He’ll get ov-“



“I broke up with Hojo last night.”



Sango and Miroku jumped up and stared at each other, then at kagome. Kagome kept her eyes to the floor as she slouched on her chair. She didn’t want to see their disbelieving faces. Miroku cleared his throat and Sango leaned back down, and put her hands on Kagome’s knees.



“Oh Kagome, I’m sorry.”



“Are you alright Kagome?”



Kagome sighed, straightened herself in her seat, and smiled.



“Yeah, I think I am. He was a little upset last night, but that’s cuz’ today’s our anniversary.”



“You broke up with him before the day of your anniversary!?” Sango couldn’t believe it!



“Well...it just slipped my mind! I was so caught up on having sprayed Inuyasha, that I forgot.”



“Well, did he take it alright? I mean, how did he react?” Miroku couldn’t believe it either.



“Like I said, he was a little upset but now I know why. Other than that, I just explained to him that it wasn’t working out and that I didn’t want to hold on to something that I didn’t feel comfortable with. He asked me if I was sure and if this was what I wanted.”



“And is it what you want kagome?” Miroku placed his hands in his pockets.



“Yes, it is. He was really nice and always looked after me. But, whenever we went out, he either always had to go cuz’ of the hospital, or our conversations, just had no meaning.”



“I think its great. Well, not great but, you know! Now you’re a bachelorette! Which means, you can scope other guys. Which today is Friday. Which you can drown your sorrows at tonight’s night club!”



Kagome and Miroku glanced at each other and then at Sango. They looked at her like she was crazy.



“Sango, don’t you think Kagome would like at least one day to herself?”



“No way! C’mon Kagome, you’re a big girl. Why waste a good Friday? Forgive and Forget, right?” Kagome giggled at Sango’s enthusiasm and looked at Miroku.



“It’s okay Miroku. I’m fine and okay with my break up. I think it was time anyway. Besides, I haven’t been out lately.”



Miroku shrugged his shoulders and went to his own ‘office’. Little later the girls departed and kagome grabbed the coffee to make her little ‘peace offering’.

Meanwhile, Inuyasha was sitting in his chair, in his office trying to get occupied. He was frustrated with the fact that kagome had probably told Sango about last night. And Miroku probably walked by, overheard, joined in, and now all three were laughing at him. It wasn’t a matter to be laughed at!



‘That stuff really stung dammit! Stupid bitch!’



As inuyasha growled to himself, he turned his chair around and faced the scenery outside. Just then, he heard his door open and close with a soft click. He heard light patted footsteps on his carpet.



“Trying to murder your Executive behind his back wouldn’t look great on your resume Ms. Higurashi.”



Kagome stopped dead in her tracks. She relaxed and continued to walk over to his desk. His office walls were dark maroon colored and he had black carpet. He held few frames on his walls, which were probably just school and business certificates. He had a black leather couch at the right side of the room, and a two sitter couch on the other side of the room. He had a black small leathered chair facing the front of his marbled desk. The office looked kind of plain, and the same was with his desk. To kagome’s view, his phone was to the mid-right, what looked like documents in the middle, a small reading lamp on the left lower corner, a little cube box like thing that held pens and pencils, and about two picture frames. His back of the chair was facing her, which meant he was looking outside his gigantic window to see the city. She stopped right in front of his desk, placed the coffee cup next to his phone and took a small step back. She took a silent deep breath, and exhaled slowly.



“I was kinda early today and thought you might want some coffee.”



His chair turned around so he can face kagome. Inuyasha looked at the cup, then at kagome. He did so for about, thirty seconds. Kagome kept quiet. She HATED when he did this. It was like he was inspecting what was given to him. Like he had to see what was wrong with it before he would reject it. Of course, for inuyasha, he knew she was getting agitated. He could see it in her eyes.



“What is it?” kagome sighed and shook her head.



“Its light hazel nut, with whipped cream, sprinkled with some chocolate powder on top.”



“Decaff?”



Kagome held in her anger. How the hell was she supposed to know?! She just asked for the damn coffee!! So she decided to play along.



“Yeah. Hope you li-“ Inuyasha crossed his arms on his chest and looked away.



“I switched to caffeinated. Don’t want it.”



Kagome’s mouth dropped and her eyes blinked a few times.



‘why you....miserable little BRAT!! How conceited can he get!?’



“Well sorry if it wasn’t to your liking Sir, but I just thought-“



“You thought you could kiss ass today and make up for last night! Admit it!”



“You’re such a JERK!! Here I am trying to be nice when-“



Inuyasha jumped out of his chair and pointed at kagome..



“AH HA! Now you know how I felt!” Kagome was in slight shock.



“Is this what this is about? You trying to get me to feel like you did?”



“Pay backs a BITCH! And I’m lovin’ it!” Inuyasha gloated.



Kagome inhaled deeply and cleared her throat. If he was going to play like this, then she’d might as well play his game.



“Fine. You win, whatever. But...”



she motioned to grab the coffee, only for her hand to be slapped away by Inuyasha’s.



“What do you think you’re doing?!”



“Since you don’t like your coffee, I might as well give it to someone who’ll appreciate my little gift. Hmm...maybe Koga will want it. I heard he likes decaff.”



Inuyahsa snatched the cup off the desk and held it firmly in his hand.



“No way in HELL are you gonna give MY coffee to that idiot!” Kagome innocently spoke.



“But Inuyasha, you just said-“



“Yeah well, forget what I said okay! Besides I’m thirsty, I might as well drink this stuff you call coffee..”



Kagome smiled and turned around to walk out of his office. Inuyasha watched her.



“Hey, aren’t you supposed to buy shit like this to your boyfriend or something?”



Kagome stopped and glanced back. She shrugged her shoulders and smiled.



“Sure, if I had one to give them to.”



Inuyasha was shocked and flinched a little as he took in her words.



“See ya’ at lunch Inuyasha.” She opened the door, walked out, and closed the door.



Inuyasha sat back down on his chair, with coffee in hand.



‘Did she just say what she did? She doesn’t have a boyfriend anymore?’



Inuyasha grumbled at his thoughts and talked out loud.



“What do I care if she’s not with ‘HOBO’ anymore?!” He sipped his coffee carefully.



‘Damn good coffee though..’



The rest of the day went by as normal as could be. Lunch came around, they went to lunch. Sango slapped Miroku when he tried to grope her, while he pulled out her chair for her to sit. Or while he would occasionally 'drop' his napkin. Then back to work. Sango was complaining about all the rude costumers she got. Miroku was complaining how today every girl who would answer the phone while he telemarketed, refused to have his children. Koga was being more bothersome than usual. Which was probably because Ayame kept ‘bumping’ into him. Koharu would pop in every now and then to ask Kagome what a guy would prefer most, “a boy or a girl?” Of course she was probably overhearing Miroku and hoping that one day he would ask her again. She would occasionally here Inuyasha’s ranting about their boss, which quite frankly, never showed himself on the floor. Sesshomaru was always either in his office or on the eighth floor up in the conference room handling a meeting. Other than that, he made himself scarce around the company. Kagome ran her hand through her hair and just combed it with her fingers. She closed her eyes and relaxed as her hands massaged through out her scalp. Little did she know someone was watching her not to far away.



Inuyasha stared at her as she ran her hand through out her hair. She looked so calm, relaxed, serene, like nothing seemed to bother her. It was like she didn’t have a care in the world.



‘Why the hell is she so calm?’ then he thought about what she had said earlier that morning.



“Sure, if I had one to give them to.”



‘Was she trying to tell me openly that she was single? Is that supposed to be a some kind of green light for me to take or something?’



He pondered about it until he grumbled and walked over to her little office. He stopped when he came almost inside and just stood staring below at her. Kagome felt a slight breeze. She stopped combing her hair and looked to see who stopped by. She glanced up to find Inuyasha staring down at her. He looked....weird. Why was he staring at her?



“Yes?” Inuyasha came out of his little ‘trance’ and gave her an irritated look.



“Ya’ know, the beauty parlor’s just down about 4 blocks, why don’t you save your grooming for later?!”



Kagome opened her mouth to say something. But before she could, Inuyasha beat her to it.



“While deciding on that, make some copies of these. Here’s the email and send these documents to the Montgomery Account. Then after that, give this to John down in cubicle fifteen. If he doesn’t know what to do, show him.”



Saying that, he gave Kagome three folders with some kind of work papers in them. And right before he left, he smirked and left one final comment.



“And feel free to walk into ANY of the copy rooms, I won’t have any company today.”



Kagome’s face turned red instantly. His smirk tuned into a wide grin and he chuckled as he left.

She placed the folders on her lap and put her hands to her face. It was practically hot and probably red as an apple!



‘Did he just say company? Is that how he refers to them? Why did he tell me that for?! Why did he give me so much damn work?! At this rate, I won’t be done till everyone clocks out! ‘



She put the folders on her little counter and stood up.



‘Why did he have to tell me THAT FOR?! I don’t wanna know when he’s having sex or not!!’



Kagome felt a slight twist in her stomach when she thought that. Imagining Inuyasha having sex with some girl was enough for her to lose her appetite. Not to mention make her stomach twist and turn. But why is it that she always felt like this when she thought about him doing the ‘naughty’ with girls. It wasn’t like she liked him or anything. They’ve been friends and worked together for a year and half now. They all hung out together. Come to think of it, her and inuyasha were never really alone. That would be like leaving Miroku and Sango alone in a bedroom! Not that Inuyasha was like that with her or anything. Why would he want to be? And its not like she was like that either. Nope, they would probably argue their way out. That’s all they ever do most of the time anyway. A little voice in the back of her head spoke out to her.



‘Yeah, like sango always hits miroku when he gropes her, but she has a huge crush on him anyway.’



Kagome winced at that last comment. A crush? Is that what this is leading to? No way, she just broke up with one of the nicest, sweetest, guy she’s known. It was too early to have a crush, especially if it was on Inuyasha! Besides, Kagome wasn’t into flings. She liked to be in relationships, while Mr. Playboy over hear likes to have one night stands. He wasn’t her type anyway.

She took the files and headed to make copies.



‘Besides, its not like he has the time or anything. He’s always partying, going out with this girl or that girl. Always here at work, or just doing some thing. He doesn’t have time for commitment. And I don’t think he would want to be tied down or anything. WAIT! Why am I thinking of this anyway?! I don’t like him like that! Nor do I think of him like that with me! He’s too much of a jerk to be in a serious relationship. Let alone to be in one. I don’t think he would last or be faithful to say the least. No, Inuyasha’s already used to his bachelor life. Why would he want to stop all of sudden and take a chance with me? Its not like I’m his type or anything. He only sees me as his friend.’



While she continued to walk she accidently bumped into Kaede.



“Whoops! Sorry Kaede! I wasn’t watching where I was going.”



Kaede was an elderly woman. She was a tad bit short, a little bit round (trying not be mean), always had long grey hair tied in a white ribbon cloth. And she had an eye patch over her left eye. She was Inuyasha’s and Sesshomaru’s secretary. Not to mention inuyasha’s house maid. She was one of the sweetest and kindest old women anyone could ever meet. She was always good to get advice from too, when asked. Too bad inuyasha always treats her like dirt. It seemed never to bother her though.



“Its alright child. Are you troubled?”



“No, why would you ask Kaede?”



“You seemed to be deep in thought. And to be in such a clouded mind, one would say that you were thinking about someone special.”



Kaede smiled at Kagome’s confused look and walked away. Kagome stood there for a while before she began to walk inside one of the copy rooms. She opened the flap on the copy machine and began to make her copies. While doing so, her mind drifted again.



‘Someone special? But I was thinking about Inuyasha when-oh boy. . . . NO! That’s impossible! Inuyasha’s one of the most incompatible guys I know! Sure he’s a little cute, but-‘

Then that little voice from the back of her mind interrupted her.



‘A little? You’ve got to be kidding me?! The guy is freakin’ hot! The minute he’d walk in all soaked and wet, you’d probably pounce at the poor guy. Wrap your legs around his waist, grip his hair back, and lick his neck till there’s no tomorrow!’



Kagome let the unnoticed breath out and took deep breaths. No way was her conscious getting the best of her! Uh, uh! It was her mind! She’ll decide what and WHO to fantasize about. Then she closed her eyes and a different image came to her mind.



Him grasping a tight hold of her hips, practically about to leave marks as he nipped and sucked violently on one of her breasts. Her gripping and scratching his back while her mouth not an inch away from his ear, gasping his name, as he wildly pumped his hard erection into her aching, hot sex, against the wall. Both of them, sweating and panting, the sound of the harsh thud against the wall, groaning as he pushed in deeper, and deeper into her, trying to go as deep as one can get to reach that one feeling of total completion.



Kagome’s eyes shot open as she was hunched over a bit and her hand leaning on the copy machine for support. She was panting lightly and found it a little hard to straighten up. Her legs felt wobbly like jello, and found that she was greatly aroused. With her free hand she touched her forehead. She was moist of sweat and quickly blew on her face to rid of it. She closed her eyes as she tried to think.



‘How in the hell did THAT happen?! Did I just have a fantasy of me and...inuyasha...oh god!’



Speaking of the devil, he was walking around, killing time, until he passed by one of the copy rooms and heard a gasp like sound. He slowly walked over, then he saw Kagome, she was hunched a little and leaning on the copy machine while she tried to keep her balance. He quickly went up to her, and grabbed her shoulders to hold her up.



“Kagome! Are you okay?!”



She was still panting lightly and didn’t even feel inuyasha. Her eyes remained closed as images of her and inuyasha kept trying to overtake her mind. They were more like flashes and very intimate ones at that! She couldn’t get them to stop! It was like, her mind wanted to see them, and judging by a faint pressure that was building up in her lower middle, it was NOT making it any better. She opened her eyes a little and saw blurry for a while.

He saw her open her eyes groggily, and she fell in his arms. He got a hold of her and tried to see what was wrong. But her head shot up, she pulled his face forward by the back of his neck, to the side of hers till they were cheek against cheek, and with her now rasping voice, whispered his name.



“Inuyasha . . .”



The way she said his name, sent shivers up his back as he hissed and closed his eyes. Inuyasha unnoticeably let out his breath, and gripped his hold on kagome. He inhaled a deep breath, and smelt her arousal.