The Heat to My Flame by LadyKatsumi

Chapter One

Sesshoumaru Takaherashi smirked lightly to himself as he read the Yamamoto family proposal.

His adopted daughter was coloring quietly off to his left. His knee length silver hair was pulled back in a high ponytail and his golden eyes were focused. Humming in agreement, he made a few quick notes on a scratch piece of paper. Rin glanced up at him.

"Sesshoumaru-otousan?" she quereried excitedly.

"Hai, Rin-chan?" he asked back, his eyes softening as she smiled brightly at him.

"May I have some new crayons? There's a new pack." she asked.

"Hai, Rin-chan. Sukari-neechan will take you."

"HAI! HAI!" Rin giggled.

Sukari Takaherahi grumbled quietly as she waited at the light for traffic. Her ebony and silver streaked hair

was an astounding contrast to her youthful face. Her pale green eyes were annoyed as she switched CDs in her player.

Music blared out of the speakers and matched her mood perfectly. The driver next to her shot her an angry look to which Kari bared her teeth. The guy rolled his window down and proceeded to yell at her. Turning the radio off briefly, Kari chewed him out in quiet tones and very harsh words, then she politely smiled and told him to go fuck himself.

(A/N: My kind of woman. They chew you out and you have no apparent clue as to what just happened.)

Turning the radio back on, she flicked him off and drove through the now green light. Her lap began to vibrate and glancing briefly at the number. Turning the music down, she answered.

"Moshi-Moshi, Sukari speaking."

"Moshi-Moshi, Sukari-neechan." a young and excited voice piped up before a deeper baritone replaced it.

"Sukari,could you take Rin-chan to purchase some new crayons? I have a meeting in a few moments."

"Hai,Sesshoumaru-anikisan.The new 108 pack right?"

"I'm not going to ask how you know, but hai. Those."

"I have to make a pit-stop but I'm on my way."

"Very well."

Kagome Higurashi glared angrily at the ebony haired man before her. Bankostu Miyabe had to be the most egotistical pig to walk her earth.

"Miyabe-san, I have no intention of sleeping with you. Even for a raise." she growled angrily, her mignight blue eyes flashing.

"You are even more beautiful when you are angry. It's appealing." Miyabe purred.

"Well, it's the last you'll ever see of it because, I Quit. Sexist Pig." Kagome grumbled as she grabbed her purse and a spare box, and picked up her pictures and possesions off her desk. Miyabe brushed up against her and Kagome stiffened.

"I'll pay you handsomely." he mummered seductively.

Kagome quickly pulled her chopstick in her hair out and jabbed it roughly into her former boss's leg. The startled yelp that followed stunned her briefly as she proceeded to kick him in the same spot as his wound. As her bright blue jacket pocket began to vibrate, she stopped to answer it.

"Moshi-Moshi, Kagome speaking."

"Kagome, it's me." the voice of her childhood friend, Sukari Takaherashi floated over the line.

"Sukari-chan, Konnichiwa!"

"Konnichiwa, Kagome-chan. I'm outside your building."

"Hai, I'm packing up my desk. My asshole of a boss, hit on me and offered to pay me to sleep with him."

"Hai(snort)Kagome-chan.(snicker) Did you kick his ass?(snort)"

"(giggle)Hai.(snort/snicker) I'll be out in a minute(laugh)"

"Hai."

Sukari glanced over at Kagome as she navigated her way downtown. Her friend was circling ads in the paper for a new job. Kagome's waist length hair was neatly secured in a braid, while Sukari's own was pulled back in a sophistacated twist.

"Where are we going?" Kagome asked, glancing up.

"My brother wants me to do him a favor."

"Oh. Inuyasha's deperate again?"

"Hnn."

Quickly hopping out of the car, Sukari bounced into the building. Kagome pulled out her phone and called an ad for a personal assistant. Frowning briefly, she spoke to the supervisor, and hung up. Sukari exited the building and a little girl bounced out behind her.

"Rin-chan, this is Higurashi Kagome. She's a friend of Sukari-neechan."

"Konnichiwa, Higurashi-san." Rin said politely, as she buckled up in the backseat.

Replacing the cd in the cd player, Sukari glanced back at Rin before she smiled softly. Soon soft romantic music floated quietly out of the speakers with all three females singing along.

Seshoumaru rubbed his eyes tiredly in the backseat of the taxi Inuyasha had insisted he take instead of driving. Glancing around, he paid the driver and exited the cab at his front door. Pushing open the door, he followed the sounds of Sukari and Rin's excited voices to the living room. Sukari sat contentedly on an overstuffed lounge chair reading what looked like manga, while Rin was happily coloring on the floor. Inuyasha and another human woman were avidly battling it out over a fight on the XBOX360.

"I got you, wench. You might as well give-HEY!!! THAT'S CHEATING!!!" Inuyasha bellowed as the human woman's character mercilessly pummelled his into the ground.

"If you were more interested in what went on around you, instead of being all in my characters breast area, then you could win." the woman grinned widely.

"I was not all in her breast area. She's got her breast area all in my face."

"Yeah, yeah, Inuyasha" he heard Sukari laugh.

"What's going on here?" he asked.

Rin glanced up as she heard her Sesshoumaru-otousan speak. Sukari spared him a brief glance from her book before she returned to it. The woman however seemed shocked. Turning startled eyes to Sukari, she looked confused.

"That's my oldest aniki, Sesshoumaru. I forgot you two havent been introduced."

"Konnichi-wa, Takaherashi-san. It's nice to meet you. I'm Higurashi Kagome."

"Konnichi-wa, Higurashi-san. You as well."

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A/N: Wow, they meet!!! Next time, you guys will be able to figure out why Sukari and Kagome were laughing about her jerk of a boss hitting on her. You'll also figure out why Sesshoumaru and Kagome have never met until now.

Sesshoumaru: This Sesshoumaru is finding this rather entertaining.(turns to watch Kagome painfully subdue Inuyasha)

Kagome: I'll chop off your ears the next time you insult me, you baka!!!!

LK: Later guys.