Yo everyone! After two something months, my brain finally was able to think of something which gradually developed into this story! (Which actually was rewritten about five times, each time with a different plot) I'm still pretty wary of posting this cause I have a little self-esteem about my writings. And this is a bit of different style than my normal style of writing. Not that I really have a normal style of writing…my style all depends on what mood I'm in. Anyways this is just the first time I've actually shared my writing when it's in this style. Heh…that makes no sense or something. All I know is that I use the word "style" a lot XD
Note: Demons and half-demons coexist in this world with humans. Just cause I feel like making it like that!
Disclaimer – LAWYERS!! I missed you guyyyssss! You're working with me on 2 stories this time muahahaHAHah!! Although, the second story hasn't been posted up yet…or even finished actually. Too lazy to finish the first chapter…Oh, right, noooopeeee!
Happy readings!
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Under False Impressions
Chapter 1: Of Blind Dates and Silver Ties
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"Could you do me a favor Kagome?"
Grudgingly, Kagome looked up at the speaker, almost forgetting to replace her deep scowl with a pleasant smile—the keyword being here almost. How she wanted to rip her pretty little head off of her shoulders. But unfortunately, that wish would only forever remain in her imagination—taunting and helping her survive through the days at times.
"Yes Kikyo-san?" she asked, trying to sound as pleasant as possible. She had to after all: Kikyo being her boss after all. And Kagome could not afford to lose this job as well because she couldn't control her temper OR her mouth for that matter. Occasionally, her arms and legs as well – but ONLY when her boss was a flat out PERVERT – who seriously needed to go on a diet to lose some weight, wear deodorant, try some hair regrowth formula, and NEVER bend over and wiggle his ass when he was that overweight – thinking that doing a strip tease for her, in the well-hidden confines of his office, would be considered sexy. Ew. Needless to say, Kagome was scarred for her life and threw up for the rest of the week. Hell, even every time the…unpleasant, to use a more appropriate word, memory wandered into her head.
Kikyo, who had her eyes glued to a chart in front of her, said without looking up, "I'm supposed to attend a blind date later today set up for me."
Okay…and that is my problem HOW? She said sarcastically in her head, while different, more pleasing to the ear, words flowed from her mouth. "Oh really? That's…nice…"
"The problem is, I'm booked later on for surgeries."
Yeah, yeah no need to BRAG and stick it in my face that while you became a doctor, I could only become your lowly assistant and secretary! Well…plastic surgeon actually, so you're not a REAL doctor. "Oh dear, that is a problem," Kagome replied, resisting the urge to twitch.
Must keep the façade in place. Must keep the façade in place. MUST KEEP THE FAÇADE IN PLACE! CANNOT show her how much I HATE her GUTS.
"Yes, it is," said the other woman, flipping the page of the chart. "Which is why I'm requesting that you go in my place."
Kagome had half a mind—okay, hell, had an ENTIRE mind to yell "WHAT?!" at the top of her lungs. Instead, she calmed herself down and bit her lip to keep the string of filthy, inappropriate words from lunging out of her mouth.
She settled for a simple, but still slightly shocked, "Excuse me?"
"Because I am too busy later today to attend the blind date myself, I am requesting that you go in my place since we look…alike." The last part was added in with a hint of disgust that did not go unnoticed by the other raven haired woman. "And also, I am not fond of blind dates and would rather not go and waste my time."
Holding in all those colorful words once again, which made her rather proud of herself – being able to control her temper so far, Kagome said, "Oh well…can't you just cancel?" Instead of sending out me you UGLY, FAT—YEAH THAT'S RIGHT! I SAID UGLY AND FAT! You could use some plastic surgery too. Now where was I? Oh right, UGLY, FAT, PRISSY, BITCHY, STICK UP YOUR ASS woman!
"Unfortunately, no. If I could cancel, I wouldn't be here asking you to go in my place."
"Of course…"
Kagome could feel her hand twitch. What was it about this person that made her want to go into a blinding fit of rage, punching, kicking, slapping, and pulling on just about everything and everyone that happened to cross her path? Uh-oh, better go back to the breathing exercises she learned that helped calm her down.
Breathe in.
"I'll pay you for it, so don't worry about not getting paid."
Breathe out.
"I must ask you to be polite."
Breathe…in…
"Don't be late or say anything…uncharacteristic of me."
Breathe…out…
"Please don't act foolish."
BREATHE IN AND OUT DAMMIT!
"And also…make yourself…presentable please."
A mental image of strangling Kikyo came into her mind; her hands wrapped around the other's neck and wringing it.
"Here is all the information you need."
"Ah…thank…you…" she grounded out, gritting her teeth.
Kikyo finally set down the chart and took a long gaze at Kagome, inspecting her. "You're done for the day. I would rather prefer it that you go prepare for the date later today instead of staying here and being idle. Leave." With that, the plastic surgeon left, taking her chart away with her.
It took everything inside of Kagome to not lunge at the other woman and beat her senselessly with the flower vase sitting conveniently next to her hands. What the hell was WRONG with her?! No, an easier question would be: What the hell was RIGHT with her?! A much shorter list, she imagined. "Thank you…Kikyo-san."
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She is, and will forever be, a complete and absolute bitch.
That sentence ran through Kagome's head for the umpteenth time as she squirmed uncomfortably in the chair. The man in front of her cocked his head and asked, "Are you alright Kikyo-san?"
"It's Kagome dammit!" was just about to roll off the tip of her tongue when Kagome remembered: she was supposed to be Kikyo for right now.
Damn, I bet she did this on purpose. Knowing that this was going to happen…THAT'S why she sent me…grr bitch.
"Oh yes, I'm fine. Thank you very much for asking," replied Kagome, trying her best to smile sweetly. It was awfully hard when the man in front of her continued to sweat, constantly wiping his brow and fanning himself—which only served to reveal his sweat soaked underarms, kept clearing his throat, and was rearranging his wig every so often. He was also on the rather…plump side and bared a strong resemblance to her strip tease boss. She gagged mentally.
"So Kikyo-san, what is it that you do for a living?"
Contemplating on whether to tell a pack of lies just to get back at Kikyo or actually behaving herself and not face consequences that were to follow if the first choice was carried out, Kagome…chose the former.
"Oh, I hunt for rich men to marry so that they'll leave me their money and property," she answered pleasantly. "I've already been married five times, but to no luck. All those old gramps decided to give their money to their children." The man was taken back slightly.
He stuttered, "O-o-oh...tha-tha-that's ve-very interest-ting...Then, what…are your hobbies?"
Grinning inwardly, she said with ease, "Well, I really love conning people into giving me their money, spending ALL my boyfriend's money to shop, dating more than one man, scamming my boyfriends and then screwing them over by taking all their things and money, you know. The works."
The man seemed even more nervous and sweat began pouring heavily down his face.
Kagome smiled sweetly as she said, "I was wondering Inuyasha-san, just how much money do you make in a month?"
"Kikyo-san, I-I-I'm very so-sorry, but I-I must be lea-leav-leaving now!" he squeaked, jumping to his feet and heading for the exit. "It was ni-nice me-meeting you!"
Once he was gone, Kagome burst into fits of laughter as she talked to herself. "Oh man! That was PRICELESS!! He ran for it like his life depended on it! Sucker! Serves him right! To think that he actually believed everything I told him though!"
"You're quite the joker."
Turning around, Kagome was greeted with the sight of a silver haired hanyou with glowing gold eyes. The evident smirk on his face told her that he knew everything that happened on her little blind date.
"And just who are you?" she asked, narrowing her eyes.
"Me? I'm Inuyasha."
All the blood drained from the raven haired woman's face as she slowly processed what had happened in her mind. That fat old man…sweating…being VERY rude…pretending to be a gold digger…scaring him off…laughing…Oh crud. Of all the things that could happen!
"You set me up?!" she screeched, because really, who wasn't going to after finding out that she had been tricked.
The real Inuyasha continued to smirk as he took the seat in front of her and said amusedly, "That would be correct."
Completely forgetting about acting polite or pretending to be Kikyo, Kagome yelled at him, vein popping. "WHAT?! What for!! What did you set me up for?! If you didn't want to go on this stupid blind date, then you should have just cancelled!! Then I wouldn't have had to waste my time in coming here when I could be working!! What the hell!! You just completely wasted forty-five minutes of my life and I want them back!"
"Then how about this, to make it up to you: we go on a date."
The urge to punch him did not go unnoticed by Kagome. "What? You think that that's going to make it up to me? Not to mention the fact that you tricked me the first time, how do I not know that you're trying to do it again?" she asked suspiciously.
"Feh. I didn't want to go to this dumb blind date in the first place, but I was being forced to. So, I asked, or rather paid some guy to pretend to be me while I watched from a distance to see if I liked the girl coming or not," he answered easily.
"What kind of tactic is that?" she spat out, glaring at him. "It's just RUDE and well……RUDE! You arrogant, two-faced idiot."
Standing up from her seat, she sent another glare his way before leaving the café in a huff, muttering something about punching the living shit out of him under her breath. Inuyasha merely sat there, watching her leave with a content smirk resting on his lips.
"Who knew that she would be such a feisty character. Makes this just all the more interesting," he commented, already devising a plan in that devious mind of his. His smirk growing with each thought.
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Chewing on the end of her pen, Kagome scowled at her computer monitor, recalling yesterday's events. Just thinking about it infuriated her! How could that moron be so low as to set her up and waste forty-five minutes of her precious time?! God! The nerve of that idiot! How she wanted to punch that cockily smirking face of his!
"Is there something wrong with your face?"
The voice snapped the chocolate eyed woman out of her furious rantings. "Huh? Wha—oh no!–Er nothing at all Kikyo-san! I was just thinking about…about…what to eat for dinner!" Oh, nice one.
"Hmm…" she hummed disapprovingly. "Anyways, how did the blind date yesterday go? I trust that there were no…mishaps on your part." Kikyo's eyes bore into her head, making Kagome very uncomfortable.
Hehe, maybe laser beams will shoot out of her eyes!—Muhah! LASER BEAMS!
Suppressing her laughter at the images of laser beams shooting out of Kikyo's eyes, she answered with slight difficulty, small quivers of laughter shaking her body "Of course Kik-Kikyo-san. It we-went…very…well."
Her face gracefully molded into an uncertain and very disbelieving frown. "I see," she replied, before leaving for her office to meet with another client. Once making sure that she was gone, Kagome broke out into laughter again—laser beam eyed Kikyo refusing to leave her imagination.
"Hello? Are you Kikyo-san?"
Snorting a few times while laughing, Kagome looked up to see a delivery man, a redheaded youkai, eyeing her as if she had grown another head without knowing. "No, I'm her secretary, how…may I…help you?"
"Ah, could you please give her this package?"
Taking the beautifully wrapped gift, she nodded and the man quickly left, not wanting to stick around any longer than it was required of him. Curiosity taking the best of her, Kagome lifted open the lid to reveal a pure silk, silver necktie underneath the tissue paper. She plucked the card from the gift and read it, chocolate brown eyes widening in surprise.
I'm a bit sorry that we didn't get to spend much time yesterday.
As my way of saying sorry, please accept this and give me a chance to apologize properly for wasting forty-five minutes of your life yesterday. ("That idiot…" she muttered, blushing slightly at the fact that she had said something so stupid.)
I have a very important meeting later today and am a bit improperly dressed. You see, I'm lacking a tie. Could you be so kind as to bring me the tie in this box to me by 7:00 tonight to both save me and allow me to apologize?
—Inuyasha
(A/N Inuyasha is a bit OOC, but there is a reason behind it! There's always a point behind it heheh It's all a part of the story basically. Anyways, continue on please!)
The address of his office was written on the back along with where to find him. "Huh…? Oh! That guy from the blind date! So THAT'S his play. He really is an arrogant idiot! If he thinks that I'm going to actually go down there to deliver him his tie, he's insane! ……Although I have to admit…this is a pretty damn smart plan…and rather…charming," said Kagome, staring at the card and then down at the tie contemplatively.
"No, no, no, no, no! I will NOT go!" she remarked, shaking her head and biting down on her pen. "It is stupid! Makes me become a delivery man! And it's……really, really charming…Ack no!! Stupid! Stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid! But then again……really well-thought out…brilliant plan…no, no, no, no, no!! Stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid! I'm not going and that's final!"
Thoughtful chocolate brown eyes wandered back down to the wrapped, tissue stuffed box holding the sleek silver tie.
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Groaning loudly, Kagome stared up at the large glassed building, cursing herself. "Why in the HELL did I fall for something so cheesy like that!? And lame too!!" she whined to herself, holding the box in one hand and the card in the other. "Now I'm REALLY motivated to punch him!! Cocky BASTARD!"
"Why did I come here?" she asked herself for the umpteenth, still continually cursing herself for falling for his stupid ploy—oh excuse me, "gift". "Well……since I'm here, might as well as go all the way and give him the damn tie, right? Yeah, that sounds reasonable. Alright, give him the tie so that he won't look stupid during his meeting and tell him that I'm not interested. And that I only came so that……he won't look stupid during his meeting! Yeah! Wait—I already said that…argh!!"
Slamming the box onto the front counter inside of the building, she asked, "Do you know…which floor this room is located on?" The card was held out in front of her to the lady behind the counter. Smiling, she nodded and replied, "Yes, it's the top floor. Once you exit the elevator, take a right, and then go straight ahead."
"Ah, thank you."
The top floor? What the hell…I thought the top floor office was reserved for company presidents or something along those lines. Oh well, maybe he's the president's assistant. Heh...president's assistant. Now we have something in common.
The glossy metal doors opened shortly after a small "ding" noise sounded. Getting out of the elevator, Kagome stood there, confused as a few workers slipped past her. "Umm…what did that lady say now? Something about from the elevator…take…a…left? Or was it right? Hmm…since I'm right-handed, and he's probably right-handed as well, it's gonna be to the…right!"
Turning to her right, the raven haired woman continued walking straight ahead until she saw a front desk. "Ah! Excuse me," she called out, hurrying over to the desk.
The person, a neko youkai, looked up with a perky smile. "Yes? May I help you?"
"Ah well the thing is…I'm looking for someone named Inuyasha…do you know where I can find him?" asked Kagome, feeling stupid suddenly.
The blonde haired neko youkai replied in a cheery voice, "He's in his office! Are you here to meet him ma'am?"
I…suddenly feel very old…being called "ma'am".
"Oh, yes."
"Name?"
"Ka—Kikyo." Right. I'm supposed to be Kikyo. Alright Kagome, no slip ups!! Your name is Kikyo! For right now at least…ugh.
The smile never left her lips as she said, "Okay! Please hold on for a few minutes!" Pushing one of the numerous buttons on her phone, she yelled into her mouthpiece, "Inuyasha! There's someone here to see you!! Someone named Kikyo!! So you better be decent cause I'm sending her in whether you like it or not!"
Eh…decent? Kagome suddenly turned a bright red, catching on to her meaning. He does THAT in his OFFICE?! It's not like he's a hormonal teenager or something!!
Seeing her burning face, the secretary's smile widened as she clarified, "So if you have someone in there, better hide her!"
Oh, even better! She thought sarcastically. Now he's a sex-crazed, arrogant, idiotic lunatic! Wonderful!
"Manami!!" was the shouted reply from the door to which the person identified as "Manami" only giggled to. "Inuya's so funny," she giggled mostly to herself. Kagome wondered just how much longer she had until she was rendered insane and sent to a mental hospital.
"Ah, sorry, sorry! Tee-hee you can go in now."
Kagome wasn't so sure she wanted to go in any longer, but thanked her and headed for the door nonetheless out of courtesy. Okay…I'm just here to give him the damn tie, tell him to stop harassing me and to not send another stupid "gift" like this again to me. That's it. After that, I'm gonna leave. Yeah, that sounds good! But not before I call him an arrogant, idiotic, sex-crazed lunatic! Good!
Pushing open the door, she went right on in, mind too preoccupied with thoughts of what to call this man—er rather youkai —err make that hanyou.
"Hey. I see you got my little gift," he said, smirk still ever present on his lips.
What the hell! Was that damn smirk stapled to his face or something!? Calming herself down, for she was insanely close to ramming her fist into that thick head of his, Kagome handed him the box and said with a sarcastic smile, "Cute."
"As it was intended."
Glaring at him, she asked him, "Well?" He cocked his head ever so slightly, enjoying the annoyance radiating from her. "Well what?" he teased, pretending to be unaware of what she was speaking of.
"Don't you have a meeting to attend?" she asked, narrowing her eyes once again in suspicion. "That's why you asked me to bring this stupid tie to you?"
Inuyasha didn't reply as he took it out of the box and began tying the tie. (No pun intended.) "I do have a meeting to attend to, but it's not the type of meeting you think it is. But thanks for delivering the tie. I really did need it."
"Hmph. Next time, just air mail it to yourself," she replied sarcastically. "And what the hell do you mean 'not the type of meeting I think it is'?"
"I'm going to go meet someone," he answered, tightening the tie and making sure that it was wrinkle-free.
And not because she cared but to be polite, Kagome asked, "Who?" Not because she cared though! Never ever in a million years would she care to know! Smirking in a manner even more cocky than before, Inuyasha said simply, "You."
Oh god she was going to punch him.
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Hahah, so whaddya guys think? (Sorry for its shortness!)
For the most part, first chapter is a bit boring and mainly just an introduction and development. The only thing I actually liked about the first chapter was Kagome talking to herself a lot and making a lot of threats and such hehe! XD And I really loved the whole tie thing! Even though I usually hate my writing, I loved the tie part for some reason! Haha I'm such a weirdo with weirdo ideas—as you can see from the tie thingy.
For people who read my previous story, I promise that I will not be an angst bitch on this one XD I will try REEEAAALLLLY hard to keep the angstyness to a bare minimum (even though there will be some). Now I shall shut up and leave! .:waves:.