A/N: So after like…forever…this story is done! The future is wide open for Inuyasha, Kagome, Miroku, and Sango.
Suggested Listening: "Moments" by Westlife
Chapter 19: Epilogue
Kagome posed, her lips pouty as she straddled the elephant in her photo shoot, her haute couture gown trailing down the animal's flanks as her head dress flopped into her eyes, its massive purple flumes making her widly over-done make-up pop against the backdrop of jungle leaves and vibrant orchids.
"Beautiful, Kag, absolutely beautiful!" her photographer shouted, her agent giving her a beaming smile and thumbs-up.
The paparazzi had gone nuts when Kagome had returned from her "vacation" slimmer, fitter, and well rested, her hair glossier, her whole body shining for the camera. She had walked every runway from Milan to Paris, her feet stomping out a rhythm unmatched by her competitors.
She'd finally taken that movie part, and Hollywood had loved her. Her agent had gone mad at her success, and she felt like a porcelain doll touted from locale to locale, from Caribbean islands to Alaskan snow, her skin sunkissed.
Stepping out of her dressing room after the shoot, her tall, calf-high boots clicked on the concrete as she walked towards her car. She had refused to ride in a limousine since the fateful night of her kidnapping, and she turned towards her sensible Prius and climbed in, buckling up and backing out, driving to her new penthouse suite at a new high income apartment complex just outside of town.
Pulling into the parking lot, she passed the sign on the entrance, its slogan strewn across a twenty foot long banner in brilliant colors, "Beauty and the Beast Gardens, Sleep peacefully and tame your inner animal."
Laughing, she waved at the security guard, not even glancing twice at the massive assault rifle he carried instead of the normal rent-a-cop's gun. A valet opened her door and she walked through the massive marble corridors, waving at the consierge.
"Your husband is waiting for you upstairs, Kagome" a voice jabbered, and she smiled at Shippo, the bellhop.
"Could we get two steaks delivered from downstairs for dinner? An eight ounce sirloin for myself, medium-well, and you know how the master likes his steaks."
"So rare a good vet could bring it back to life?" Shippo quipped.
"Exactly"
Stepping into the elevator, Kagome watched the floors rise until she reached the very top, stepping out into her spacious ante-chamber to her living room, smiling as she walked into the kitchen, where a single red rose had fallen off of the counter. Leaning down to pick it up, she wasn't startled when she was grabbed from behind and pinned to the stove, a sharp nibble from not-so-human fangs tickling her neck.
"Inuyasha!" she yelped, the rose pricking her finger.
He suckled her thumb, his eyebrows wiggling mischievously as he pushed her back into the counter, lips connecting with her own before he swung her up in his arms.
"I'm glad I ordered dinner…" Kagome giggled.
"Me too, but I think…" he growled, "That I'm hungry for something else."
"You are such an animal…" she giggled, feeling his chest vibrate as he dumped her on the bed and peeled off her tank top.
"Mmm…and don't you forget it."
Ending A/N: So after I think (four) years (my first reviews were in 2003) I have finished Beast! This story lasted throughout high school and almost into my third year of college. But I finally finished it! I feel accomplished:-P
If i die tonight,
I'd go with no regrets,
If it's in your arms,
I know that i was blessed,
And if your eyes,
are the last thing that i see,
Then i know the beauty heaven holds for me,