Prologue

"Sir?" The receptionist rapped her knuckles lightly against the mahogany double doors. After waiting for the grunt of acknowledgment, she opened them to reveal a short man with a rather stocky build behind a large, official-looking desk that claimed the back half of the room. "Miss Vodale is here." With that, the woman retreated, closing the doors behind her.

"Welcome, Miss Vodale," the man greeted her politely, standing up from his dark velvet chair. "Please come and take a seat," he gestured towards the dark velvet loveseat in front of him.

Kagome made her way to the seat, taking note of her surroundings. The whole room was painted a deep red-purple colour and had numerous well-known paintings placed on the walls. On the far right side of the room, a dark wood bookcase took up all the wall space. Accessories and books were the main objects in the shelves of the bookcase. The large windows were on the left wall of the room and the drapes were drawn, allowing hardly any light to transpire.

"Thank you," she said, taking a spot on the loveseat.

The man inclined his head as a signal for 'You're welcome', and began to speak again. "I trust you want to look at some of the terms of the job so I had a copy printed off for you to look over." He scratched is balding head with one hand while spinning a sheet of paper on his desk to face Kagome with the other hand.

Taking a moment to scan the contents of the document, it became silent. Kagome looked up after reading through it lightly and nodded her head. "This should be fine."

Meanwhile, Sango was busy getting plane tickets online. "First class, first class... screw Kagome and saving money!" Sango murmured to herself as she bought the tickets. Buyo as mewling at the cabinet where the fish treats were located.

Sango turned towards Buyo, well past being mildly annoyed. Firstly, she hated cats. Next of all, she and Kagome lived as roommates, so she had to live with said hated cat. Lastly, Buyo was fat and sheds everywhere.

"Shushh." Sango put her index finger against her lips, sign language for 'Shut up'. Buyo tilted his head at you and twitched his left ear dumbly.

Rolling her eyes, Sango went back to the computer. Seeing the tickets had printed off in the printer, she snatched them up gleefully.

"Now I just have to wait for the confirmation..." Sango was an impatient person, so she decided to try and busy herself doing other things before she called Kagome to see if they got the job.

There are two ways to do a job: Legally and Illegally. Illegally is definitely more exciting, but legally is just easier. If you can do it the legal way, then good. If you have to do it the illegal way, then who cares? At least you tried to be good.

The man smiled. "Good, everything is set for you."

Kagome smiled back. "A pleasure doing business with you, Mr. Kodaine."

The man chucked, "On the contrary, the pleasure is all mine." Could he be any more cliché? "I'll be awaiting your call."

"I'll be awaiting my paycheck," Kagome replied boastfully.

Getting up to leave, Kagome put the sheet of paper into her purse.

On the way out of the building of accumulated offices, Kagome waved her goodbye to the receptionist lady at the front desk who had led her into Mr. Kodaine's office. The receptionist responded with a half-smile and a wave.

Kagome felt her phone vibrating in her pocket and answered swiftly, glancing briefly at the caller ID, flipping the phone open and pressing it against her ear in the same motion. "Hello?"

"Hey, Kagome. I have the tickets all printed and ready. What's it gonna be?"

Pushing the glass doors at the exit of the building, Kagome switched hands holding the phone. Once outside she adjusted where her purse sat on her shoulder.

"Kagome? How did the meeting go?"

Kagome saw a man her side of the busy street gesture for her to take one of the fliers he was handing out, but she declined with a small half-wave of her hand. Still smiling apologetically, Kagome returned her focus to the person talking on the other side of the phone.

"... Kagome?" The woman on the other side of the phone lengthened the vowels in Kagome's name, starting to sound irritated she wasn't getting an answer. Kagome rolled her eyes even though Sango couldn't see her facial expression. She'd heard Sango the first time she asked.

"We're in."

Hope you guys enjoyed this preview of what's to come! Next chapter will be up in a few days.

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P.S.: The next chapter will be longer... this is just the prologue so it had to be short. :)