27 Dresses

Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha or the 27 Dresses storyline or Vogue or The YMCA programs.

Authors Note: This fic. was inspired by the movie 27 Dresses. But of course I'm going to give my own personal twists. This is for those that have ragged on me about the characters being OOC. Kag/Sesse will be OOC, along with other characters. If you don't understand why they are acting this way WATCH THE MOVIE!!! Thank You. :)

Last Time:Sango was also thinking about what had occurred and was doing the happy dance in her head. She had finally got Kagomes' mind away from Inuyasha and onto a strapping and sinfully handsome gentleman. Props to her.

When they arrived at Kagomes' apartment they said good-bye. Kagome went up to her apartment, got ready for bed, and went to sleep. She dreamed of Sesshomaru instead of Inuyasha.


When Kagome arrived at work the next day she found her desk swamped with messages. They were all from a Inutaisho Kata. He was writing an article on weddings. Apparently Kikyo had wanted him to do a peice on her and Inuyashas' wedding and since she was the Maid of Honor he wanted to speak with her.

Kagome really didn't want to talk about the wedding. In truth even though she realized she didn't love Inuyasha, it still hurt and she wasn't in the mood to discuss it. So she ignored the post-its, e-mails, the phone calls, and the appointments he would make through her assistant.

It went on for a few weeks when she finally decided to give him the interview he craved. When she called no-one answered and she tried a couple more times and still no answer. She continued for a couple more days and nothing, so she gave up.

Then came the day Kagome, Kikyo, and Inuyasha went to the bakery that Kikyo wanted to get her wedding cake from. Kagome finagled with the manager and he agreed to make Kikyo the cake. Just when she had finished with the manager Sesshomaru came through the door.

He introduced himself to Kikyo and Inuyasha. He was there to get some insight on the couple. He talked with them for a few minutes and when he was through he went to Kagome.

"I thought your name was Sesshomaru Taisho." she stated.

"It is. My psuedonym is Inutaisho Kata." he said.

"Oh. So you have been calling my office for weeks. Driving me nuts." she said.

"If you had answered the first time I wouldn't have had to keep calling now would I?" he asked.

"Suppose not. Now what do you want?" she asked.

"I want your insight on the bride and the groom." he said.

"Why?" she asked.

"You are the Maid of Honor. The brides' sister and from what you told me the grooms' left hand. You will give a great insight on them." he said.

"I don't know. I mean I know alot on them both and I don't want to be the cause for something that isn't supposed to get out, to get out." she said.

"Don't worry so much. I will be asking about how happy you are for them." he said.

"Alright, you can come to my place." she said.

After several minutes they made their way to Kagomes' apartment and went in. Kagome offered him some refreshments the moment they walked through the door. He politely declined and they set about doing the interveiw.

"Now you are the older sister of the bride and the grooms' left hand; what can you tell me about each of them?" he asked.

"Well lets see Inuyasha. For starters he is a gentleman. He is a wonderful friend, he is someone you can count on, he is really a very wonderful person." she said.

"Ok now the bride." he said.

"Kikyo, hmm. Well she is my little sister what more can I really say?" she said.

"Tell me about her in general." he said.

"Kikyo is a pretty good person. I mean she can be really selfish at times and not think of the consequences of her actions. She has always been that way but I guess that has something to do with her being the baby. She is a really caring person and all." she said.

"You don't sound convinced." he stated.

"Off the record, do you remember what I told you at the bar?" she asked.

He nodded and she continued.

"I guess I am still a little sore about what had happened." she said.

"Who wouldn't be? Just by watching your sister I could tell that you are the more honest, more appreciative, more trustworthy, and more beautiful of the two of you." he said.

"I guess so." Kagome said blushing.

"Now tell me about yourself. Have you ever been apart of a wedding party?" he asked.

"I have." she said simply.

"How many?" he asked.

"27. Every time I was a bridesmaid." she explained.

"27?! Are you serious?" he exclaimed.

"Yes. I have the dresses." she said.

"You have all 27 dresses? I have to see this." he said.

Before she could protest he was up and looking around her apartment. He went in search of the closet that held the dresses. She gave in and took him to the closet. She opened the closet for him and he began looking at them and laughed at them.

"What is so funny?" she asked.

"These dresses. They are ridiculous. Have you ever worn one that was pretty?" he said.

"They are not. Yes there are some that are pretty." she said.

"Like this one?" he asked sarcastically.

He had pulled from her closet a very poofy, blue, yellow, and pink dress. He looked at it very questioningly. Kagome shrugged her shoulders and explained that some were awkward and others were nice. That there were some that had no reason to them and others that were part of a theme.

He then suggested that she try them on. She did. She tried on all 27 dresses and he took pictures of them all. While he was taking the pictures he had a question that popped into his mind.

"Kagome have you always been the bridesmaid?" he asked.

"Yeah. In all these weddings I never was the Maid of Honor." she explained.

"Judging from all the dresses you have shown me thus far youare always the bridesmaid and never the bride." he said.

"Yeah it would seem that way." she said sadly.

He immediately noted the sadness in her tone and changed the subject.

"Another question. Why did you agree to be the bridesmaid if you were going to be put into such ugly dresses? Why do you keep them all?" he asked.

"They have only been worn once. I am not throwing them out and they're not ugly. Several dresses in here are very beautiful." she defended them.

"Yeah right. The one your wearing now is hideous. The bride must have been really insecure." he said.

"Insecure?" she asked.

"Well if she wasn't thinking that her bridesmaids would outshine her she wouldn't have put you in those garrish dresses." he said.

"Oh wow. You think very little of some women you know that?" she said.

"Not true. I just see that you are a beautiful woman and you were put in that tacky thing to drab down your looks." he said.

What he had said registered loud and clear. He had just said that he thought she was beautiful. No-one had ever called her beautiful. She had been called cute, pretty, adorable, little things like that but never beautiful. It had her blushing a few shades of red.

"You think I am beautiful?" she asked.

"Yes I do. Someone like you should go to a wedding wearing a wedding dress not an ugly bridesmaid dress." he said.

"Really?" she asked sitting next to him.

"Yeah." he said leaning towards her.

"Ma.. May.. Maybe we..." she began when she saw how close he was to her.

Just a few more centimeters and he would have been kissing her. Like a magnet they moved closer to each other, so very close, almost touching. At the last second they pulled away from one another.

"Maybe we should finish the interveiw." he said softly.

Kagome nodded. When they were finished he told her when it should come to the presses and then asked her to have a drink with him sometime. She agreed with his request and thanked him for doing the article for Kikyo. She also requested that her part with the bridesmaids dresses not be released. She knew that the tape-recorder was on the whole time.

When he left Kagome sat down to ponder what had just happened and why she felt the way she felt. She felt very different. She liked Sesshomaru and she noted that it was very different from the way she had liked Inuyasha. It felt very nice, warm, and for unknown reasons to her felt as if her heart was becoming fuller.

Something was different from the way she felt for Sesshomaru. It was fuller, more genuine, more loving. Kagome felt that if she saw him again that they would be seeing eachother all the time. 24/7. That is to say is was like she truly wanted to be with him and strange as it may seem to want, to spend the rest of her life with him; with someone she really didn't know.

Authors Note: This is ch. 4. I know that I said that it would be about 3-4 chapters but it seems that it maybe 7-8 chapters. Sorry about that.