Hulk and His Priestess

Chapter 14 Taking It To the Next Level.

Another six months had passed and things couldn't be going any better. Bruce and Kagome's relationship was going strong, Bruce was close to a breakthrough in his cancer research, Souta had accepted Bruce as a member of the family and was very happy for them. And Sesshomaru was so pleased with his work he gave him a raise and more funding for his research.

And now that everything had fallen into place, Bruce had decided that it was time to take his and Kagome's relationship to the next level, he was going to ask her to get an apartment with him. They had been living together since he had first arrived in Japan, but now that they were in a relationship, things were different. There was a level of intimacy that was missing from their relationship and that was something that Bruce wanted to fix.

Bruce decided to take up Sesshomaru's offer for him to live in one of the many apartment building that he owned throughout the city. He just needed to talk to Kagome about it. Now, all Bruce needed to do was come up with the best way to ask Kagome to move in with him. He thought that having a romantic dinner out would be the best way to ask her, but since he still wasn't that familiar with the city even after a year, he decided to ask Shippou for help.

Bruce gave Shippou a call and asked for his help, the Kitsune told Bruce to come on over to his apartment that Friday evening so that they could discuss it. After telling Kagome that he had a few errands to run, Bruce headed out to Shippou's apartment. He was about to knock on Shippou's door when the door opened and standing there was a grinning red-haired Kitsune.

"So, you're ready to take your relationship with my mother to the next level, huh," Shippou asked as he stepped aside allowing Bruce to enter the apartment.

"That's the plan, I want to ask Kagome to get an apartment together, but I want it to be special. I thought a romantic dinner for our six month anniversary would be the way to go, but I'm still not familiar with all of the restaurants in the city. That's where you come in," Bruce explains as he goes and sits down on Shippou's sofa.

Shippou closes the door, and walks over to the bar, he offers Bruce a drink, which he accepts, "I see what you mean, this date needs to be perfect, and I know just the restaurant you can take my mother to."

Shippou takes out his cell phone and dials the number to Le Chateau de Joel Robucho, he talks for a little while with the maitre d, setting up the reservations for Bruce and Kagome for that Saturday night. Once he was finished he hung up and turned to Bruce.

"Alright I made reservations for you and Kagome for tomorrow night at 7:00, I'll have a car pick you up to take you to the restaurant, and as my gift to you, I have already paid for everything in advance."

"Shippou you didn't have to do that, I could have easily paid for it," Bruce tells him.

"I know you could have, but I wanted to do my part to make this special. It's not every day that you ask my mother to move in with you."

Bruce finishes his drink then stands up, "Thank you, Shippou, I appreciate all your help."

"You're welcome, Bruce, I hope everything turns out alright," Shippou tells him and pats Bruce on the back.

Bruce smiles at Shippou and returns the pat, "I hope so too, Shippou, I'll see you at work on Monday and thanks again."

With that, Bruce leaves Shippou's apartment and heads back to the Higurashi shrine, but before he gets there, he stops off to buy something for dessert as a cover for being out. When he gets home Emiko and Kagome have dinner already on the table, to his surprise Souta is also home for the weekend. He comes in and kisses Kagome, then gives Emiko the dessert that he purchased. They all sit down and have a lovely dinner. After dinner, Bruce and Kagome go outside to look at the stars.