The Arrangement

The Arrangement


A.N. Okay, guys. One more chapter after this and it is done! No sequels. The way I end this will be the way it is going to be. I have too much others to do and if I add a sequel to this, it will just be dumb. And no, I don’t want anyone to write a sequel off of this. Sorry to be stingy, but that is the way I feel. So, enjoy! And remember to review! Happy New Year!


Disclaimer: I don’t own, nor do I make money. I just like to make Sesshoumaru walk around in a loin cloth and clean my house.

Trees blurred by quickly. On one side of the road, it appeared as if night still struggled to show its dominance over the world, but the other side housed the warring sunrise. Bright pinks blending with soft blues kissed the burning yellow disk rising to greet the land for a new day. The picture completed itself by darkly outlining the deep evergreens, making the sun act as if it were playing peek-a-boo with the forest. The whole scene was breathtaking…if one really felt like really admiring the lovely display.

Unfortunately, Kagome had no desire to do such.

She blankly started out the window of Inuyasha’s swiftly moving vehicle. Surrounding beauty lost to her as anger, hurt, and uselessness washed over her. In her determination to stop crying, Kagome angrily wiped at her damp eyes. ‘Damn him,’ she bitterly thought, ‘Damn them both!’ Kagome continued her mental swearing until she heard her name being softly called.

“Kagome,” Inuyasha wearily said. The stinging in his cheek had long disappeared, but a small red spot still remained. He glanced her direction, trying to gauge her reaction. Inuyasha sighed when he got none.

Deciding to just get it over with, he tried to reason with her. All she can do is just yell or….hit him. From past evidence, she already did that. “Kagome, will you talk to me?”

She closed her eyes in frustration. No, Kagome didn’t feel like talking, but it looked like she didn’t have much choice in the matter. Well, she could always open the door and make a jump for it. If she didn’t die at the neck breaking speed, the chances of getting badly hurt weren’t any worse than what was already emotionally experienced…..

Shaking her head at the morbid thoughts, Kagome shot him a searing look and replied, “Talk about what, Inuyasha?”

Inuyasha kept his eyes trained on the road. His grip on the steering wheel almost became painful as he prepared himself for the defense of his brother. Why he was going to do this, is beyond him, but Sesshoumaru actually acted happy around Kagome. In his very small book of ‘Nice Things About Sesshoumaru,’ a happy brother meant a happy Inuyasha. That, and the fact he somehow felt responsible about the whole mess. “Sesshoumaru.”

Kagome rolled her eyes. “What about Sesshoumaru? I don’t feel like talking about him.”

“You might not, but we’re going to anyway.” Inuyasha bit out.

When he got no response out of the drained girl, he continued on, “He loves you…”

“Yeah, right. And I’m the Virgin Mary.” Kagome mumbled while sinking down some in her seat and crossing her arms.

“Damn it, Kagome! Just shut up and let me finish!” When it looked like she would let him continue his piece, he spoke more softly. “Listen, Sesshoumaru is a lot of things. A perfect saint isn’t one of them, but the man does love you. Never have I seen him act the way he does around you. When you come over and stay, he is…like…nice and shit. Hell, Sesshoumaru is even easier to deal with at work.” Inuyasha glanced at her to make sure she was still listening to him, “God,…yes, he did have ulterior motives, okay! But he really does love you.”

Kagome felt tears in her eyes again and swore for being weak, ‘Damn female emotions.’ “Are you expecting me to take him back?” If that was Inuyasha’s plan, he has something else coming.

“Well,…no! I mean, yes!” Inuyasha rubbed his temple with one hand. It was too early in the morning for him. This time of day always left him verbally constipated.

Inuyasha spotted Rodgers Field up ahead and prepared to pull in the quiet parking lot. After entering , he spotted her car and pulled up beside it. Kagome grabbed up her bag and went to open the door, when Inuyasha grabbed her wrist.

“Hey,” he began, “Um…you don’t have to come in today. I’ll call you later, okay?”

Kagome snatched her arm away and got out of his car. Unlocking her own, she tossed the bag onto the passenger seat and got behind the wheel. The engine roared to life with the turn of a key and she quickly peeled out of the parking lot.

Inuyasha watched her leave in a rush. With a sigh, and a heavy heart, he headed back home to get ready for the day.


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When Kagome reached her loft, she went up stairs and straight to her bedroom. After another hour of quiet tears, she finally went to take a shower. Kagome felt like hell. She was sure she looked it too. After drying off, and pulling on some jeans and a baggy white sweater, she pulled her hair back in a ponytail and sat on the couch.

What Kagome needed right now, is someone neutral to talk too. A person who knows her well and not involved in the current mess invading her life at this moment. The best candidate for this? Sango. Kagome just knew she was gong to hear an earful for not telling her sooner. She reached over and picked the cordless phone up off the charger. ‘Where would she be at this time….’ Looking at the clock, Kagome decided Sango’s office phone. After a few rings, a chipper morning voice answered the phone.

“Sango Hunter. How may I help you?”

Kagome allowed a tiny grin, “Hey, Sango.”

“Hey, Kagome. What’s up?”

“Um…,” Kagome drew her legs up to her body and wrapped an arm around them, “I need to talk to you. Do you think, that, maybe you can take the day off and meet me at my home?”

Sango just arrived at the office no more than thirty minutes ago. Although she did have some work to do, it could wait until tomorrow. “Sure, Kagome. Let me tell Anne to forward all my calls to voicemail and I’ll be down there in a few minutes.”

Kagome knew she could count on Sango for help. She was always there in the past and will always be there in the future. “Thanks, Sango. This really means a lot to me.”

“No Prob! See you later!”

Kagome hung the phone up and waited. This conversation was going to be a long one. Perhaps coffee is in call for?


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Sango sat in a chair with a barrowed pair of sweat pants on. Kagome lent them to her so she could be comfortable. Holding a cup of coffee in her hand, Sango just stared wide eyed at her best friend as she went over (in little detail) what had gone on in her life the past month.

Sango just couldn’t get over the fact Kagome had this deep, hidden lifestyle. ‘No wonder she never said anything before.’ “Okay,” Sango sat the coffee on the nearby end table and leaned on one arm of the chair, “to sum it all up, you have fallen in love with him and he said he loves you too. So where is the problem?”

Now, here is were Kagome knew Sango was going to start breathing fire. “Sango, you know how Inuyasha has a brother no one knows about?” Kagome waited until she nodded and then continued, “Well,…my master is his brother.”

Sango had just taken a sip of coffee and unfortunately started choking on this bit of information. “W-what!?!”

“Its his brother, Sesshoumaru.” Kagome repeated.

“I know that! Did you know all this time?” Sango didn’t like the direction this was taking. From what it appeared, the Takashi brothers were taking Kagome on a very sick ride.

“Um…no.” Kagome winced when Sango started growling.

The said furious woman couldn’t believe Kagome had gotten into a situation like this. But, what made her even more furious was what Kagome told her next. After she had explained what happened this morning, Sango wanted to squeeze the life out of both men’s necks. Taking some calming breaths, Sango glanced at the time and decided to get them some lunch.

“I’m gong to get us something to eat. Stay here and I’ll be back with some food.” Sango started grabbing her keys and purse. “What do you want?”

Kagome, feeling better after talking about her problem, decided oriental food sounded good. “Get me some lemon chicken from the Iron Wok.”

“No problem.” With that, Sango left and went to her SUV. She climbed in and pulled out her cell phone. A good talking is needed with Inuyasha and Sesshoumaru.


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Inuyasha sat behind his desk. Work avoided him today. No matter how hard he tried, the thought of Kagome would reenter his mind. ‘Damn it!’ It wasn’t his problem…in a sense. Making him start, a cell phone made a shrill noise echo throughout the quiet room. He glanced at the offending thing, looking at the caller ID… and then paled.

Pressing the answer button, he brought the phone to his ear. “H-hello?”

“If it weren’t bad business, I would beat the FUCK OUT OF YOU!!” Came an angered scream.

“Shit, Sango! Stop screaming!” Inuyasha winced. A faint ring still made its presence known in his head.

“Inuyasha, I am truly ashamed of you. I actually started to think better of you. But now, I see you are nothing but a back stabbing son-of-a-bitch!” Sango seethed from the other line.

Fear snuck into his system. Kagome’s partner is down right scary. “Look, Sango, I swear to God! I didn’t mean for this to get out of hand. Hell! I’m not the fucking one you should really be getting pissed at!”

Sango’s fingers gripped tight on the steering wheel. “Oh? Are you telling me you had no prier knowledge of any of this?”


“I-I’m not saying that!” He stuttered back. “I’m not the one who fucked her. My bother did.”

“Oh, don’t worry about that.” Sango allowed an evil smirk to cross her pretty features. “He is next.”

Inuyasha felt a headache forming behind his right eye. “Look, for what it is worth, I am sorry.”

Well, he did sound somewhat sincere, but still needed a good beating though. “Get me your brother, Inuyasha. He and I need to get….acquainted.

“Hold on,” he murmured. Okay, so the sadistic side of him looked forward to Sesshoumaru getting on ass chew of his life. But the smaller side did pity him. Sango’s wrath is nasty. With a wicked grin, Inuyasha forwarded his call to Sesshoumaru’s cell. Once his brother picked the line up, he made his presence known. “Hey Sessh. I have Sango Hunter on the line. She would like to have a few words with you.”

“Fine, Inuyasha.” Sesshoumaru murmured. He wasn’t in the mood to talk at this time. He felt bad and his manners weren’t the best as of right now. Sango is Kagome’s partner though, and he would show you respect by speaking with her.

“Here she is Sessh…Sango, say hello to Sesshoumaru Takashi.” Inuyasha introduced. He only stayed on the line long enough to hear one thing. And needless to say, it made his day seem much brighter.

“You sadistic, sick, sorry ass, using, MOTHER FUCKER!”

And Sesshoumaru thought Inuyasha had the mouth of a sailor. This was going to be a long conversation. “Hello to you as well, Ms. Hunter.”


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Sango stepped out of the elevator. Unlike Kagome, who used the stairs all the time, she wasn’t going to trudge up all those steps with food in her hands. She smirked as she thought about the conversation with Sesshoumaru.

Well, the first half was her swearing and yelling at him as he just calmly went ‘Uh-ha’ every time she took a breath. The man has impeccable amounts of patience.

After Sango vented her anger, she asked him to hell her his side of things. Yes, for Kagome’s sake, she ripped him a new asshole. The man really needed it, but she also wanted to hear what he had to say. Kagome mentioned Sesshoumaru confessing his love for her before she left. From what she learned about him, the man had a huge ego. To tell his feelings on such a softer level, would make him feel weak. But Sango wasn’t a total fool. She didn’t know whether to believe him or not. Not to mention, she gave the girl behind the counter at Iron Wok a good story to laugh about later. Before Sango hung up, she continued to use some more colorful words to express how she felt about him. Over all, the story matched up to Kagome’s. Except for one small detail.

Sango knows Kagome loves Sesshoumaru, but Sesshoumaru didn’t know Kagome loves him. The whole thing just screamed chaos that needed to be fixed.

Perhaps the emotionally retarded man just needed a push in the right direction. Kagome surly needed it too. So, she told him one thing that could be explained as Kagome’s weakness. Hopefully for Sesshoumaru, she will cool down and think things through. Her best friend always raged first, then thought about it later. The man screwed up, letting him wallow in self pity for awhile would do him good, but her friend needed some time to think about this stuff. She did want to see Kagome happy again. Sango could safely admit she had never seen Kagome so confident in her life as she did in the past few weeks.

Shaking her head, Sango just hoped he took her advice. To be honest, she wanted nothing to do with either of the Takashi brothers. Kagome can have that side of the business. Inuyasha, alone, caused her to want murder written on her agenda for the day.

“Kagome!” Sango called, entering the loft and not seeing her right off.

“I’m up here, Sango! I’ll be down in a minute!” Kagome called from her bedroom floor.

Sango padded over to the dinning room table and placed the plastic takeaway bag down. She carefully pulled the two containers out of the bag and then the tiny packets of soy sauce. Spotting two fortune cookies, she pulled them out and sat them down on the table next to the other things.

Kagome smelled the yummy food as soon as she stepped off of the stairs. She quickly closed the distance between them and peered at the food. Man! She is hungry.

“Here, Kagome,” Sango handed over the plastic wrapped cookie to her friend, “read your fortune.”

A grimace touched her face, but she took it anyway. “It’ll probably say I’m going to die.” Kagome broke it in half, then pulled out the small narrow piece of paper.

“Stop being morbid!” Sango admonished. “Besides, were all going to die.”

Kagome stuck her tongue out at her and held up the paper so she could read it aloud. “Sometimes love needs second chances…..what a stupid fortune!”

Sango shrugged. “I don’t think so. Its true, you know? Sometimes you have to give things second chances.”

“Open up yours, Sango.” Kagome suggested, trying to change the subject.

“Okay,” she opened hers up and pulled the paper out, “Love sometimes hurts…..hmmm. I think I got Miroku’s fortune.”

Kagome giggled and sat down to eat. She just wanted this day to be over. Hopefully, tomorrow would be better.”


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Thursday came and Sango told Kagome to have a carefree day. So, she did just that. First, she went to a spa. Why she never did this before was beyond her, but the experience made her feel like a million bucks. Next, she went to Miroku’s bar to visit everyone. She only saw Jamie and seated herself at the vacant bar. It was after lunch, so the place considerably died down.

“Hey, bondage girl! What’s up?” Jamie playfully greeted once she realized Kagome came alone.

Kagome softly smiled at the woman’s verbal antics. “Hey, Jamie.”

The bartender knew something was wrong. Kagome’s bright persona seemed so dim. Some questioning was in need. “Okay, Kagome. Tell a bartender your problems and maybe I can help.”

“It will take awhile. Are you sure you want to hear it?” Kagome questioned. She leaned over on the counter top, getting comfortable.

Jamie smirked. “Miroku isn’t here right now, I’m all done cleaning up, so fire away!”

One Long Island Iced tea for Kagome, and five cigarettes later for Jamie, and she finished telling about what happened to her in the last month. “Well, that is it.”

“Can I tell you something, Kagome?” Jamie asked, reaching for a glass to wipe off a finger print.

“I guess.” Kagome shrugged.

“Love is easy to say for some people. Therefore, others easily get hurt by it.” Jamie paused a moment, gathering her thoughts. “But, from what Kagura told me, a man like Sesshoumaru doesn’t say such things easily. Heck, just looking at him, I could tell he has a super stick shoved up his nice ass. Lets just say, that by some chance, he really does love you. Are you going to let that pass you by? Why don’t you give him a chance to prove it. It isn’t like he could really do anymore damage than what he already has done.”

Kagome remembered Sango saying something of that nature to her. She idly wondered if she talked to them or cooled down some. The woman did change her mind, some. When she left for food, Sango was spitting nails, but once back, even thought she really didn’t say anything more about it. She did hint that giving a second chance wouldn’t hurt.

Jamie shrugged when it looked like Kagome wasn’t going to respond. “Hey, all I’m saying is just really talk to each other. You know, get really acquainted.”

Looking down at her watch, Kagome realized it was getting late and bid Jamie a good evening. After she got home her cell phone began to ring. Seeing who it was, she let the voice mail get it. Kagome really didn’t feel like talking to Inuyasha right now.

Boredom finally reared its ugly head and she got on the internet, surfing for nothing in particular. Suddenly a knock alerted her someone was at the door. Kagome strolled to it and peered out the peephole. All that greeted her was deep red roses. ‘What the hell?’ She opened the door to see a young man holding a large flower arrangement.

“Um,” the kid readjusted his grip on the overwhelming bouquet, “are you Kagome Higurashi?”

“Yes, I am.” She replied, eyeing the large blooms.

“Well, these are for you.” He thrust his burden into her arms and turned to leave.

Kagome watched him disappear in the elevator. “Who sent you guys?” She asked the pretty roses.

Arms full, she kicked the door shut and sat the flowers down on the table. After turning the base a few times, Kagome spotted a small card sticking out. She picked up the piece of paper and read it.

*Kagome,

A rose is what you remind me of. Mysterious, beautiful, and fragile. Cross it and its thorns will remind you of its stronger side. I love you, my rose. Give me a chance to prove that to you.

Sesshoumaru*

Kagome smiled and felt tears come to her eyes. Suddenly feeling extremely pathetic, she admonished herself. “God, Kagome, your so easy.”

This is the third time something or something has mentioned ‘second chances.’ so, maybe that is what she should do. Give him a second chance.

First, payback was in call for. Kagome isn’t a vindictive creature by nature, but sometimes lessons needed to be learned. She also considered this to be a test of sorts. Her master is a very controlling and dominate creature. If he allowed her sexual freedom….

Kagome couldn’t help but smile seductively as thoughts of possible pleasurable conquests swam around her mind. She went to her computer and typed in his email address. Formulating a simple, but suggestive message, Kagome hit send. Now some shopping needed to be done. With an evil smile, she picked up her cell phone and dialed Sango’s number. After all, she might need someone to help out with carrying what she purchased.


A.N. Remember this chapter is mainly about Kagome. The next one is going to be about Sesshoumaru and then about them both. This chapter is short, but mostly just a filler. The last one will be the end. I just want to thank all of your reviews so far. I love each and everyone of them. Eventually, I will be letting someone beta this story and fix all the chapters so they will be better. I got two offers so far. I still need to hear from back from one of them.

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