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Trial And Error	By : MomoDesu Category: InuYasha > Het - Male/Female > InuYasha/Kagome Views: 4540 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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At ten that morning, Kagome stood at the entrance gate of the Ueno Zoo waiting for her date. Kikyo had called her at seven and woken her up, which was decidedly a good thing since Inuyasha had drooled in his sleep and she had a small pond of spit in between her breasts. He apologized profusely, but it was still the last way Kagome wanted to wake up in the morning.
Kikyo had told her to be there at ten sharp. Naraku was not a man that liked to be kept waiting, and was ordinarily very prompt be it business or pleasure.
So here she was, looking comfortable in a sun dress and wedges, and there was no Naraku. She was adjusting her floppy hat, which was being battered by the wind, when she sensed a strange presence behind her. She turned around and a handsome man stood smiling at her. His long dark hair was nearly down to his waist, but kept back in a tight braid. Even his eyes were a rather mesmerizing shade of maroon. "You must be Kagome," he said to her, his voice dark and rich, enough to make any woman melt.
Kagome smiled at him and nodded. "The one and only!"
Naraku offered her his arm. "Shall we go?"
She nodded. "That would be great."
He led her through the gates, completely bypassing the ticket area. "Naraku? We are supposed to get tickets."
"As one of the entomologists at Tokyo University, who just so happens to work with the zoo with their insect and reptile exhibit, I have access whenever I please." He smiled at her and tugged her to the over to the Japanese Crane area.
As if proving his point, one of the zoo employees passed by and nodded at them. "Good morning, Kumo-san. Pleasant weather we are having."
Naraku nodded in return. "Yes, excellent weather."
Kagome watched as the man walked away, then turned to the cranes. "We used to have these on the shrine," she commented offhandedly. There was a family of three cranes that lived on the shrine grounds, that she and Souta had named Mama-crane, Souta-crane, and Kagome-crane. They were a very rare sight indeed, as they are one of the rarest breeds of cranes in the world, but a pleasant sight as they are considered a symbol of longevity.
She was brought out of her thoughts by a loud sigh from Naraku. "These cranes remind me of Kikyo," he said, dreamily.
'Loud and curvy?' Kagome wanted to shoot back, but she held her tongue.
"They are just so graceful, just like she is." He sighed again. "Where would you like to go now?"
"What about the monkeys?" she suggested, all the while glancing at her map. "They aren't very far away."
He smiled. "I have always liked monkeys," he said in that rich voice that was beginning to make Kagome weak in the knees.
Still on his arm, Kagome allowed herself to be led to the monkey area. They were silent when they arrived, both content just watching the different types of monkeys play. They stopped when they reached the section with the baboons. Naraku pointed toward a troupe of Hamadryas baboons. "I have always liked the color of their coats."
Kagome smiled as she spotted a mother cuddling her baby. "Look at those two," she said, happily. Both mother and young looked extremely content, the baby ready to fall asleep.
"Would you mind if we went to the vivarium now?" He looked like he was antsy to get away from the monkey house.
"Okay," she agreed, and let him lead the way.
She had no idea that the vivarium was on the other side of the park completely, and Naraku refused to take the monorail from one side to the other. She looked longingly at the families that they passed; mothers wiping ice cream off of their children's faces in the food courts, fathers toting dozing toddlers, holding them tightly to their chests. Naraku, of course, paid no mind to her longing looks and sighs. Instead, he spoke softly about subjects ranging from his job to his admiration of Kikyo.
"Kikyo has never been as smart as I am, but she has always had looks to make up for it," he said. "Her voice isn't even that good, but the way she moves her body is absolutely mesmerizing."
Kagome tried to ignore that one. Didn't this man know it wasn't polite to speak of another woman in such a praising tone if you were on a date? At least if you were looking to go out again. At the rate he was going she was tempted to call Inu and have him come get her.
"Did Kikyo ever tell you that she used to have snakes?" he asked, offhandedly. "It's how we met, when she bought her first one in the pet store I worked at. We were both fifteen."
The moment they made it into the vivarium he made a b-line to the snakes. There were snakes of every shape, length, color, even temperament. Kagome stood in front of a tank with a Burmese python inside, looking rather irritable. She grimaced and stepped away, right into a handler that was holding a young albino Burmese python coiled around his arm. "Sorry," she apologized, bowing politely.
"No need," the handsome man said with a smile. "Just taking Butterscotch here out for a visit with the guests." He gently petted the snake that was trying to travel from his arm to Kagome. "Looks like she has taken a liking to you! Want to hold her?"
Kagome's eyes widened a bit. She wasn't very fond of snakes.
"She won't bite, I promise," he said, sounding completely genuine.
"Well..." Kagome trailed off, but held out her arm to accept the snake. Her skin began to crawl when she felt the snake move over her arm, slowly starting to twist around her wrist, it's tongue flicking out repeatedly as it scented her.
"See," said the man, who Kagome identified as Shin from his name tag.
Looking down at the creature now fully on her arm, Kagome smiled. This wasn't such a bad creature, even though in less than a year it would be seven feet long. She reached over with her other hand and began to gently stroke the snake, as she had seen the handler do. "You are a good little snake, aren't you?" she cooed.
Shin just grinned as he watched the pretty woman talking and caressing what he considered the only other woman in his life.
"Make a new friend?"
Kagome's head shot up when she heard Naraku's voice. "My date had abandoned me, so I found myself a new one!" She held out her arm to Shin, who began to uncoil the snake. "Thank you," she said to him, after Butterscotch was firmly coiled around the handler's arm once more.
He just nodded and walked away.
"Such a beautiful golden color," Naraku commented. "Much like the golden flecks in Kikyo's eyes..." he drifted off dreamily.
"That's it!" Kagome screeched, causing several families to look up from the different exhibits. "Kikyo, Kikyo, Kikyo," she whined, similar to everyone's favorite Brady Bunch catch phrase. "If it makes you feel any better, she and Inuyasha broke up last night so she's free for the taking!" She put her hands on her hips and tapped her foot, expecting an apology and hopefully maybe an offer of lunch.
Instead, Naraku's face brightened up into a blinding smile. "Free, you say?"
"Yes, free. On the market. Single. Unattached. Free!" She threw her hands up in the air and turned her back to him. The nerve of that man!
When she turned around again to face him, Naraku was gone.
'That bastard abandoned me at the zoo!' Her face curled into a grimace. What a jerk!
She reached into her bag and pulled out her cell phone. Hopefully Inuyasha wasn't busy.
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Kagome waited quietly at the curb, munching on a yakitori that was actually quite rubbery and not very appetizing. Soon enough Inuyasha's little Platz rolled up to the curb, the window rolled down. "Need a ride, little lady?"
She smiled at her savior and jumped into the car. "The little twit left me there!" she seethed. "After he spent the entire 'date' talking about Kikyo and his job."
Inuyasha laughed. "I thought that an educated man would be...how did you put it last night? Stimulating?" He waggled his eyebrows and flicked his tongue at her.
"Oh, shut up," she said, smacking him on the arm.
He checked traffic around him and pulled away from the curb. "Want to grab something with more substance than your fake chicken on a stick?"
"Oh yeah."
"Great! I've got a friend who just opened a ramen shop!"
Kagome put her head in the hand that wasn't gripping the yakitori. Of course Inuyasha would want ramen. She really wanted some of mama's oden. That always made everything better.
Neither of them spoke again until their bowls of ramen were in front of them.
"I talked to Kikyo this morning," he said quietly.
'Great. He's in for another world of pain.' "Yeah?" she said, in an attempt to sound interested.
"Yeah." He took a slurpy bite of the warm noodles. "We agreed to be friends."
"Friends? Usually ex's staying friends doesn't work out very well." She played around with her noodles with her chopsticks, stirring them back and forth.
Inuyasha snorted. "I'm willing to be friends for the sake of the band."
"Is that the only reason?" she asked. In the back of her mind she knew he still loved Kikyo. One wasn't with someone that long and didn't have some sort of feeling for them. Those feelings of love just couldn't be turned off like a light switch.
He nodded resolutely. "Yes. That's the only reason."
Their meal was finished in silence.
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A/N: No super long notes this time, guys. Everything is pretty self explanatory.
The Ueno Zoo is located in downtown Tokyo. There is information available if you google it. You can even find a map of the zoo and it's exhibits.
I had planned on Naraku being more of a jerk to her, especially as far as the fawning over Kikyo goes, but I feel that he would be a quiet plotter rather than a straight out ass. Poor Kagome is going to go through enough in this story.
Thanks to those that left reviews. Favoriting is nice, but a little note to say 'hey, I enjoy this' does mean a lot, and keeps me motivated.
Next chapter is another break chapter. Of course it wouldn't be complete if Kagome wasn't set up on another date!
See you next week!
-MD
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