He crushed her gently against the wall in the alley behind the club, continuing what they started inside.  Between aroused gasps, kisses were traded underneath the chilly, biting night air.  Inuyasha pushed his knees between the fork in Kagome's legs, sliding one hand up and then under her thigh as he pulled it against him.  Kagome writhed beneath her companion, shivering at his touch.  Inuyasha nipped at her neck in soft bites, first grazing skin with his fangs and then licking and sucking until he moved down to her cleavage.  "Mmm, Kagome," he exhaled.  His hot breath pricked at her skin.  "Tell me to stop... We should stop..."

Delicate fingers danced around buttons until Kagome had unbuttoned her shirt down to her waist.  A black lace bra peeked out from beneath the opening in her shirt, framing the cleavage it held into place.  Inuyasha groaned, cursing himself mentally for not resisting her.  His eyes tried to fixate on her heaving chest before his view was obscured.  A gentle hand pushed the back of his head until his lips were against her neck.  Following these unspoken instructions Inuyasha resumed his nipping and kissing, grunting low as he felt her body bucking against him.  With her legs she pressed into him harder when he pulled at her thigh a little more.  With short gasps she grinded ferverently into his leg, pawing at his chest with every kiss he brushed over her neck, and nuzzling into his hair.  "I don't want to go back to him," she sighed.  "Please, Inuyasha..."

He was snapped violently into reality with the mention of Hojo.  Pulling back, he cradled her face and kissed her tenderly before parting his lips from her body.  He eyed her sadly.  "I'm so sorry, Kagome, this is my fault.  This is as far as we need to go.  I've just made things worse."  Inyuasha shrugged her off of him, much to Kagome's protest.  She moved to pull at him once more, only to be answered with a light shove.  "Button your shirt, Hon.  Let's just go back to the hotel, okay?"  Turning, Inuyasha flipped open his cel phone to call for their limousine.

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The ride down the Vegas Strip started in akward silence until Inuyasha quietly cleared his throat and pulled out some gum.  He held out the pack to Kagome after taking a stick for himself.  "Want one?"

"Hm?"  Kagome feigned a distracted gaze out the window and raised an eyebrow when met with the gum.  Taking a piece, she thanked him quietly.  Her eyes roamed the area for a place to discard the wrapper and upon finding no such place, she dropped her hand heavily in her lap, the wrapper crumpled in the center of her palm.  Inuyasha noticed her dillemma and held his palm out.

"Gimme."

She started to move, but paused a second.  Maybe the alcohol was still potent, maybe she was mad about how their brief escapade in the alley ended.  For whatever reason she pulled her hand back, and bounced the wrapper off of Inuyasha's face.  Her manager blinked dumbly.

A giggle echoed in the limousine.  Inuyasha scowled and pretended to turn away before diving over her, pulling her hands together, pinning them over her head and tickling her merclessly.  "You little brat," he laughed, attacking her.

"Augh, AUGH, nooo!"  Kagome squealed.  Her foot kicked high into the air as she slipped down from the seat and onto the floor.  She kicked at Inuyasha, struggling to free an arm at the same time.  She grabbed wildly for his hair, playing dirty to get the upper hand, but didn't quite grasp it.  Before they could continue the car halted in front of the Bellagio, their hotel.

<<"Sir, Miss,">> coughed the driver.  <<"We've arrived...">>

The pair froze, Kagome being the first to recover.  She sat up quickly, straightening her skirt.  <<"Ah-heh, thank you very much.">>

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"The look on his face was great," Inuyasha chuckled as the pair entered the elevator.  Sliding his room key through the elevator's console to access one of the VIP floors, he pressed the button for theirs before they started their ascent.  The elevator stopped and Inuyasha put one hand softly against Kagome's back as he led her out of the elevator, escorting her to her room.  

Kagome opened the door to her suite and held it.  "Come in for a drink?"  Their eyes didn't meet until she asked again, more forcibly.  "Just a drink.  I'm not tired yet..."

His gaze locked with hers, and they stared at each other meaningfully for a few seconds.  "All right," he answered, walking past her to enter the room.  Kagome followed, locking the door behind them.  Without missing a beat she kicked her shoes off and headed towards the bar, loading two glasses with ice and Scotch.  Inuyasha sat on a couch, flipping on the television as Kagome seated herself next to him, handing him his drink.

"Thank you," he mumbled, fixating his gaze on the screen.  Kagome drank quickly again, gulping her beverage down, to Inuyasha's chagrin.  He pulled the glass easily from the girl's grasp before setting it on an end table.  "Kagome, I know you haven't had anything alcoholic in a while but this is kinda pushing it, don't you think?  You're still tipsy from the club."

She growled, throwing him off.  "Shut up, it doesn't matter."  With a strangely alluring arch of her back she climbed across Inuyasha's lap to reach for her drink but was stopped.  Inuyasha wrapped one arm around his companion's torso to hold her down.  Kagome struggled as Inuyasha tried to focus on the TV, finishing his own drink and then hers as he crushed her into his lap.

"We need you to be conscious for tomorrow's meetings, all right?  Stop and just to go bed, Kagome."  Without releasing his hold on her he jumped backwards over the couch to carry her to her bed.  Depositing her atop the mattress, Inuyasha spun around angrily and huffed, "Good NIGHT."

"You can't make me stay here."

An eyebrow arched and fangs glinted.  Inuyasha spun right back around as Kagome began to stand up only to be pushed back down onto the bed.  "Sleep.  NOW," he commanded.

"I'm not a fucking CHILD, Inuyasha!"  Kagome stood up quickly, ambushing Inuyasha with a pillow to the head this time.  Throwing it down to the floor she swung fists at him, but her wrists were caught easily.  Inuyasha dragged her back to the bed, trying to avoid her kicks as he pressed her against the mattress, restraining her.  Though she knew she couldn't compare to his youkai strength she struggled against him, arching into his body.  "What's the matter, Inu-chan," she growled, trying to hit him with any free appendage.  "You seemed a little too frustrated back at the club, you can't deny it.  You want me.  Your youkai blood is boiling right now, just begging you to take me--"

"Kagome, calm the FUCK down, you are beyond drunk!"

"What's the matter," she repeated with a touch of desperation in her voice.  Kagome freed a leg but was unable to do much in the way of attacking Inuyasha.  "Why am I not good enough for you?  Afraid I'm too prissy to get rough like this between the sheets?"

"...God damn it."  Inuyasha's grip on Kagome's wrists tightened as he pressed her into the mattress in frustration.  Releasing her, he got up off the bed and began to leave again.  "Do whatever the fuck you want, Miss Responsible Adult.  I don't fucking care."

"Maybe if you didn't feel the need to decide so many damned things for me I wouldn't be in this damned rut."  Kagome threw back.

"Wow, how UN-childish of you, Kagome," Inuyasha spat.  "Now you're blaming all of your problems on me.  Great, what a way to take account for your own decisions.  It's not like I forced you to hire me."  He looked back down at Kagome, now sitting on the bed with eyes that mirrored her pain inside.  His heart crumpled.  "Kagome.  Please, we've put so many years of work into your career."  His voice was much calmer now, pleading with her.  "If you weren't on such a high pedestal, it really wouldn't matter.  But the truth of the matter is that you are.  You're untouchable and that's part of your image.  In Japan you're a goddess among men and when they find out that you're with anyone less than Hojo it'll be more trouble than it already is."

"You will never be less than Hojo."

Inuyasha ignored her.  "This is bad timing.  How are you going to become an international star when--"

"--I know what it's like to be famous, already.  I can stop now."  Kagome stood and walked up behind Inuyasha, hugging him close.  "It's true, when I came to you I wanted it so badly... I wanted a better life, and I wanted to be loved by the world."  She nuzzled her face into the youkai's back.  "I realize now that while I love my fans... and when I loved Hojo I couldn't be close to them.  Not like with you.  You're always with me.  I belong with you..."

Inuyasha bit his lip, digging a fang in a little.  He wanted to accept what she said more than he realized.  Reveling in the feelings of her arms around him, he lost himself for a second before coming around again.  He knew there would be fans against something like this.  He knew there would be people who would go out of their way to hurt her feelings (and more) if she betrayed them.  He didn't want to let it happen.  "If you only think you belong with me out of convenience you had better think about what you define as love."

"Don't talk to me like that!  It's so much more.  How can you imply that my feelings are... are whimsical?  Do you know how long I've been trying to ignore this?"

Inuyasha gently held Kagome's hands for a second before unhooking them to break out of her embrace.  "Let's just give this a little time, okay?"  Inuyasha said softly.  "At least wait until we get back to Japan... wait until you can make a clean break with Hojo."  He continued towards the door, not looking back at her.  "Then when your fans can wrap their heads around it... maybe then we can try this again."

She sighed with resignation.  "As usual, Inuyasha, you're painfully sensible."   Kagome mumbled.  She glanced up at the familar sight of Inuyasha's back to her as he walked.  *Always one step behind him.*  She cursed mentally, desperately trying to enjoy his fleeting warmth as she watched him walk away.

*Don't leave it like this!* she wanted to scream.  This time she didn't want him to have the final word.  Kagome ran to intercept Inuyasha.  Jumping towards the door, she stood between him and the exit.

"No, wait," she pleaded.  Inuyasha sighed and moved to go around her, but she rest her hands gently on his shoulders.  "Please, Inuyasha.  Please don't go."

Inuyasha sighed once more as she leaned in to kiss him.  Softly, she pressed her lips to his cheek before releasing him.  Before he could respond Kagome smiled shyly at him and slid her hands up, suddenly pulling her shirt open.  Inuyasha gave her an exasperated look, but her gaze coaxed him to stay put.  "Kagome," he began.  His voice caught in his throat.  He couldn't handle much more of this.

"Fuck me.  Is that what you want to hear?  Let's erase all doubt about this right now, Inuyasha."

"It's more than making love to you, Kagome."

"I said I wanted you to fuck me.  Hard."

"Why are you--"

"Please," she pleaded.  "Can we please pretend, just for tonight..."  strands of her hair slid down across her breasts, clinging slightly as her chest heaved.  Her pleading eyes tugged at him from behind her midnight-colored bangs.

Inuyasha was visibly uncomfortable, but couldn't keep his eyes off of her.  Kagome stepped out of her skirt, and ran her hands up and down her body.  "Just for tonight, I'm the Higurashi Kagome who lived in that one-tatami apartment, and came to your agency as a nobody."  She shrugged out of her open shirt, moving closer to him.  Two soft hands grasped the back of his neck, brushing the skin and moving to weave fingers into his hair.  "Young, and completely impressionable."

As confident as she thought she sounded, Inuyasha knew better.  He could hear her heart pounding.  Despite this observation rational thought was melting away as Inuyasha ruefully began to give in to Kagome's gentle fingers on his scalp.

Her breathing was soft and quickened, each sound echoing in his ears.  To him, it was such an arousing sound: the idea that she could be making a much louder, heated version of it as he roughly, no, gently, no, no!  He needed to stop thinking like that.  He needed to stop thinking about how he could do both and everything in between... over and over.  Stop that.  All night and then some.  No!  She was a singer, her voice would sound so beautiful in the form of erotic sighs and pants, and oh, if she would just slide those fingers over to his ears and touch him like that over there...  Fuck.  I'm not perfect.

Inuyasha steeled himself.  His fingers touched Kagome's back, tracing her curves as they stared tenderly at each other.  His hands stopped over the hook of Kagome's bra, moving to unfasten it in a silent answer.  

Kagome's eyes brightened, leading Inuyasha to the foot of the bed.  "Wait.  Stand here."

Inuyasha smiled, entranced in the subtle sway of her hips as she moved.  He felt almost young and inexperienced again, trying to suppress his anticipation and nervousness.  

Kagome crawled onto the center of the bed, turning to face Inuyasha once more.  "Tonight, I am nobody but that timid-looking girl who knocked your coffee into the top drawer of your desk."  Her eyes sparkled as she beamed back at him.  

"I wanted to strangle you until I heard you sing for the first time, you know."

She giggled.  "I thought you were going to kill me for that."  Getting up on her knees, Kagome removed her bra, letting each breast fall slowly from the cups as she slid the lacy black fabric down one arm, finally letting it land softly in front of her.  Inuyasha ached to touch her, but her slow, languid movements distracted him into inaction.  Kagome sat carefully onto the bed, shifting herself back against the pillows and headboard, before finally sliding her panties down her leg and kicking them away in one graceful movement.  She could almost sense Inuyasha's blood boiling as she ran her hands along her skin once more before curling her index finger in one smooth gesture to come hither.  "All right," Kagome whispered.  "I'm in your hands now."

He crawled onto the bed to meet her, capturing her lips with as much intensity as he could express.  Pulling away briefly and breathlessly he gulped for air. "Do you trust me?"

Kagome shivered, melting under his breath.  "I've always trusted you."  Kagome returned Inuyasha's kiss, sliding her hands around his neck. "...because I'm in love with you."

"Kagome," he breathed.

"Maybe I always have been."  She answered simply.

They shared another brief gaze, pressing their bodies together.  The back of Inuyasha's claws: the smooth, curved part ran up the side of Kagome's body as he breathed in her scent, their tongues mingling as teeth brushed lips lightly.  Kagome flicked the tips of Inuyasha's fangs with her tongue.  As they kissed again Kagome clutched Inuyasha's white t-shirt, pressing into him while he cradled her in his arms.  With each kiss Inuyasha pushed Kagome further onto her back as he slid across her body, slowly moving on top of her.  The kiss was broken briefly when Kagome pulled Inuyasha's shirt over his head.  When she sat up to kiss the bare skin on his chest, she was pushed back down.

"I thought you trusted me," chuckled Inuyasha.  "Just lay back for me, Baby."

"Already calling me pet names, I like this."  Kagome answered, complying.  "But I just wanted to give you-- oh.  Ooh..."  The sensation of a slick tongue running across her nipple caused her to throw her head back against the mattress.  Without being conscious of her actions a hand flew to the back of her lover's head, grasping his hair as she pressed him closer.  His tongue was rough against her sensitive peak, moving around it in maddening circles.

She groaned under her lover, grasping for his fly.  Her hands were pushed to the side and her waist was enclosed in his arms.  A few kisses were laid around her breasts until his tongue slid down along her torso.  Inuyasha's tongue stopped a little above the carefully trimmed delta of hair between Kagome's legs.  He brought his hands down to hold her hips, enjoying the tender skin under his fingertips.  Sliding them lower along her body, he grasped his lover's knees before pulling her legs apart and dipping his tongue between them.

Kagome inhaled sharply, raising her head to meet Inuyasha's eyes.  From underneath a smirk he brushed his lips across her slick skin eliciting another sharp breath. The singer threw her head back as she rolled her hips towards him, a gesture that begged for more.  She was obliged as the hanyou sucked mercilessly, swirling his tongue against her as she panted deeply from her throat.  Feeding off of her reaction Inuyasha plunged his tongue into her, closing his mouth over pink folds of skin.  He was rewarded with soft, falsetto moans that built with each of his movements.  Her voice was predictably beautiful this way, he thought to himself while enjoying her sweet taste.  What he had secretly fantasized about was transpiring, and he would savor this time with Kagome.  One hand slid up to grasp Kagome's breast, and a thumb ran over her nipple as he ate her.

Her voice crescendoed, throwing her head back again. It didn't take much time for Kagome to reach her peak, whimpering as her lover showed no mercy.  She gripped his face ferverently, pulling him up to give a heated kiss.  A blush crept across her face when she tasted herself, and as she pulled away she gave Inuyasha a sweet smile.  A tear formed in the corner of one eye, quickly kissed away before she realized.

"You taste exquisite," Inuyasha uttered in a low voice, "and I'll be damned if I let you get away without realizing the extent of what I mean."  There was something primal in his tone; Kagome's heart jumped at his sultry voice.  Something in his eyes began to glint red.

Kagome gulped.

"I absolutely love you."  He grit his teeth and entered her.  God, she was slick.  Tight.  Lilting foreward over the length of her body Inuyasha breathed raggedly into Kagome's ear, pumping into her at a steady pace.  "I... love you so fucking much..." he shuddered.  As she arched back, gripping his shoulders and pushing him deeper into her Inuyasha's hand rubbed firmly against her back, enjoying velvety skin against his palms.

Kagome was euphoric.  The sensation of being filled was dizzying.  Youkai were known to be big; Inuyasha was certainly no exception, and the way he moved inside of her drove her mad.  His hand on her back as he cradled her made her feel safe, beautiful, and most of all loved.  Inuyasha's confession, whispered softly into her ear echoed over and over in her mind as he pushed into her.  She grew lightheaded with every thrust into her pillowy flesh, clenching her muscles around him.  Inuyasha responded by thrusting harder and faster into her, frantically grinding, maddened by the sensations she was causing.  The heat between them built; Kagome's sighs elevated as she took him as she tried to muster some semblance of speech.  "Fuck," she ground out.  "