Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha... only the plot!
Chapter 1: The Start of it All
Twenty-three-year-old Kagome Higurashi took quick strides along the hallway of the Suzuki Corporations. She had an important report to give to the leader of the whole group, Inutaisho. The Suzuki Corporation was a huge company that held branches in The United Kingdoms, United States (the headquarters of the Suzuki Corporation), Tokyo, Seoul, Hong Kong, Beijing, Shanghai, Singapore and many other countries. The Suzuki Corporation was an electronics company that not only dealt with laptops and palm pads, but also computer games and whatnot.
Kagome Higurashi was the manager in the inventory department and also an assistant to Inuyasha who was one of the sons of the late Inutaisho. Despite the fact that Kagome had to deal with a highly moronic spoiled brat, Inuyasha was actually quite intelligent, thus winning the right to be the CEO of this large corporation. The other son, Sesshoumaru, held an even higher position taking up vise president, only half a step ahead of Inuyasha. Inutaisho, the father who appeared to be only thirty years of age, was the ultra mega brain master of the whole group, thus making him the president and the god of the whole corporation. All three men had long silvery hair and strikingly gold eyes that flared and twinkled according to whichever mood they were in.
The headquarters of the corporation stood in the middle of the financial district as the tallest building, reaching up to two-hundred floors, Inutaisho's office being at the very peak of the office building. Kagome Higurashi cleared her throat when she approached Ayame, who was sitting outside the large double oak doors that led to Inutaisho's extremely grand and not to mention gargantuan office. This floor was heavily carpeted with plush royal red carpet that made no sound under Kagome's four-inch pumps that seemed to squish and sink into the carpet. Inutaisho had four secretaries, Ayame Susaki, Gome Chang, Minha Kim, and Jennifer Loop. Ayame stood up and smiled benignly at Kagome. "Why hello Ms. Higurashi, Mr. Suzuki is waiting for you." Kagome gave Ayame a curt, but friendly nod as the secretary pressed a button on her intercom to announce Kagome's entrance. "Mr. Suzuki, Ms. Higurashi is here."
"Ah… Ms. Higurashi, eh? Please let her through." Ayame smiled and quipped an affirmative reply before pressing a red button that sounded a buzz. As if on cue the great oak doors swung open and Kagome stepped into the office. Inutaisho's office was extremely large, considering the fact that it covered the entire 200th floor of the Suzuki Corporations Building. The floor was tiled with large slabs of marble tiles along with forest-green trimmings. Inutaisho's desk was directly across from the great double doors, which Kagome had just slipped in through. Behind the desk were large floor-to-ceiling windows that cast a magnificent view of New York City, Inutaisho's desk was large and broad with a high backed wheelie chair that was made from burnt Siena colored velvet. To the right was a huge collection of books in the built-in bookshelf that stretched across the whole wall. To the left was a door that led to the walk-in closet and a private bathroom complete with a shower, sink, and toilet. Along side the door near the window as a private bar complete with a set of stools and glasses. Along the same area were a recliner and a nightstand with a lamp on it. Directly in front of Inutaisho's desk, were two chairs made from the finest leather and three yards away from that was a set of couches that lined around a glass and redwood table.
Kagome stopped in front of Inutaisho's desk. Inutaisho himself was standing in front of his window marveling the view of Wall Street and beyond. "You called me, Sir?" Inutaisho turned around his long ponytail billowing about him as he turned his head.. He wore an immaculate suit of black and wore a silk red tie, with patterns Kagome could not make out.
"Yes I have, please take a seat." Inutaisho gestured to one of the two chairs in front of his desk. Kagome thanked him as she sat in the one to the left. Inutaisho had moved away from the window and set himself in his master chair. "You know you are the manager in the in inventory section of the Suzuki Corporations, am I correct?"
"Yes."
Inutaisho gave a slight nod before continuing, "I have been observing your progress in work, and am delighted to see that you have been working quite well… in fact, VERY well. Thus I have come to the conclusion of promoting you." Kagome nearly fell out of her seat in shock. "You shall be joining Inuyasha as co-CEO, and I trust you have brought the files that I have requested?"
Kagome nodded again, too shocked to speak. Nonetheless, she placed the black folder before a smiley Inutaisho. Inutaisho flicked through the pages skim reading its contents and nodding every now and then in approval. "That is all, and you need not to go to your old office to gather you things. I have asked Ayame to give special instructions to bring your things up the 197th floor. You may go now." Kagome bowed respectfully to the benign Inu youkai before walking out of the office barely able to breathe and keep herself steady from the growing excitement within her. Just as she reached the door, Inutaisho also added, so much without looking up from the folder he was holding up, "Oh and, you are no longer an assistant to Inuyasha. That should keep you out of the stress." Kagome thanked the President and the Chairman of the corporation as she left. She had just been promoted to a very high position after five years of hard, hard work. Kagome smiled to herself as Ayame received a bag of cinnamon rolls from the Cinnabon delivery boy. She smiled remembering that Inutaisho had a thing for sweets.
"So you have been promoted, that's good of you, I hope you enjoy being co-CEO, especially since your office has it's own shower and closet." Ayame told the woman who was fighting to keep herself from jumping with joy. Ayame gave Kagome another smile before she knocked on the great oak doors. Kagome pressed the down button on the elevator. The silver doors slid open to reveal a boy with long whitish-silver hair and two dog-ears that poked out from his head. He wore an iron-gray pin-strip suit with a forest green tie. "Ah… if it isn't the wonderfully AND newly promoted co-CEO of this company… out of all the other people in the company, why you?"
"Inuyasha…" Kagome half groaned at the arrogant boy, "I don't want to hear another word of complaint from you. You've given me enough headaches for the past three years."
"FEH! You, co-CEO…? I'd rather work with Sesshoumaru than you."
Kagome rolled her eyes as she brushed past the irritated Inuyasha who had stomped away towards his father. Kagome couldn't keep herself from smiling uncontrollably as she pressed 197 on the elevator. Her own office that covered the entire floor along with a private secretary, bathroom, and whatnot! Her life seemed to be on a roll after she had suffered so much from High School and College. The elevator resounded with a slight ting indicating that this was the floor to Kagome's new office. The doors slid open to show a huge foyer with a secretary's desk that was at the side. The floor, like Inutaisho's floor, was covered in plush red carpeting. The secretary was already there, sitting behind the desk waiting patiently for her. She was a bit shorter than Kagome and had ruby red eyes.
When she laid her eyes on Kagome, she immediately jumped up and introduced herself as Kagura Tomako. "It's nice to meet you." Kagome said. Kagura immediately sat down as Kagome pushed the doors open. The room was nearly identical as Inutaisho's office, only the windows were not floor to ceiling, and the floor was covered in forest green carpeting, which was where her desk was and the rest were of large black marble tiles with white diamonds as a pattern. The chair was black, comfortable, but not as wide as Inutaisho's chair, and the bookshelves were empty. The bar was smaller and unlike the smooth green marble counter on Inutaisho's bar, she had a charcoal-colored quartz counter, yet the place was still heavenly compared to Kagome's old office. Yes, her old office was still pretty spacious, but the floor was covered with ugly gray linoleum, and the desk was made from metal, not chocolate brown oak.
Unlike Inutaisho's office, she did not have her own private kitchen, and a balcony, and she did not have a separate computer desk. But she did have a smaller desk that served as an area for her own fax machine. On the desk and around it were boxes that contained her own possessions such as a silver picture frame that depicted her father who had passed away when she was six. She actually had a lot of things that she kept in store in her old office, such as mountains of books and what Inuyasha called junk. In fact, she had so many things, she didn't even have space in her old office, thus making it look smaller than it actually was. Sighing contently to herself, Kagome set herself to work by unpacking her books first. She had rolls and rolls of books that ranged from boring economics textbooks, to silly lovey-dovey romance books, and as Kagome got down to business, she shouted to no one in particular, "YES! I CAN DO IT!"
The doors of Inutaisho's office were thrown open by the hotheaded Inuyasha. He stomped across the marble floors and slammed his hands down on his father's desk. "OLD MAN! WHY DID YOU PROMOTE THAT WOMAN!" The burnt Siena chair swiveled around and Inutaisho himself was sitting in it munching on minute-donuts. "AND WHO SAID YOU COULD EAT THOSE!" Inutaisho gave a sheepish grin as he stood up and dusted the crumbs off his immaculate black suit. Just as he did that, the door was again thrown open by another young man with silver hair and golden eyes. His hair came down to the back of his knees and seemed to billow about him like a cloak. Ayame was hovering around him trying her best to keep the young man from entering, but immediately cringed when the young man shot her a condescending glare.
"Father, I demand to know the reasons why you have been dim-witted enough to promote a lowly HUMAN to become the co-CEO of this incorporation! Of course you have…"
Inutaisho put up one hand to silence his son "Sesshoumaru," he started solemnly, "Care to have a donut?" Sesshoumaru's face tightened as Inutaisho held out a box of donuts that he had been eating when Inuyasha had burst into the office. Sesshoumaru glared at his father and told him no. When his offer had been denied by his eldest son, Inutaisho offered some to his younger son, who glared equally as angrily at him as his eldest son. "I take that as a no." Inutaisho quipped, his cheery voice not wavering. The man shrugged and popped another donut in his mouth and munched happily.
"Father, I cannot understand why you would be eating DONUTS when you've just promoted a lowly HUMAN as a co-CEO!"
"Oh Sesshoumaru, don't be an ant in pants! Please take a seat, you too Inuyasha." Scowling, the two brothers slid into the chairs opposite of their father. Inutaisho pushed his chair back a little and put his feet up on top of the desk showing not the usual patent leather shoes from Prada, but a pair of fuzzy brown and white puppy slippers. Sesshoumaru's lips immediately tightened and Inuyasha stifled a snicker. "Now, just because Ms. Higurashi is human, doesn't mean that she has the full credit and talent to help us run a business. Besides, I assure you, we do have over thirty different bases in the world. With just the three of us, it shall prove to be hard to control. And," Inutaisho added quickly intervening Inuyasha, "I believe that you have been through the most toughest of the work, Inuyasha. Thus, I found it quite compatible for you to gain some help from Ms. Higurashi. As for you, Sesshoumaru, please refrain from screaming at the poor girl. Just because she is human, doesn't mean that she has the energy to keep up with the fast pace of our work."
"I OBJECT!" Inuyasha shouted, "I AM NOT… NO, I WILL NEVER WORK WITH THAT VILE WOMAN! I'VE HAD EVERYTHING UNDER CONTROL, EVERYTHING!"
"You, little brother, did not have everything in control, I would like to point out the fact that you fell asleep during the last conference yesterday. Of course your half-human blood could not keep up with the work you had to do."
"Yes, Inuyasha, Sesshoumaru is right… minus the half-human blood thingie," Inutaisho added hastily under Inuyasha's glower, "I hope to remind you that I have been keeping tabs on you, and as far as the reports go, the only thing you've been surviving on for the past three years were black coffees and no sleep. I will not stand to see you break down like you did the other day."
"B-b-but…"
"No buts, my dear son, and as for you, Sesshoumaru, please refrain from teasing your younger brother, it's not nice of you. It is most un-gentlemanly of you to do that." Both brothers snorted before glaring at each other then looking away. "Now, I shall enjoy my donuts as I read this wonderful report done by none other than Ms. Higurashi. You are both excused." Inuyasha opened his mouth to complain, but was cut off when Inutaisho's cell phone let out a shrill ring. "Suzuki. Ah… Tama! Did you get the files for me?" Inutaisho shooed his sons away with the wave of his hand. The two brothers scowled, knowing Inutaisho's stubbornness would get their negotiations nowhere. Just as Inuyasha was about to stomp away from the desk, the snapping of Inutaisho's fingers were heard, indicating that he wanted Inuyasha to stay a bit longer. Taking in a deep breath, Inuyasha turned to wait for his father but needed not to wait any longer when his father had whipped out his fountain pen to scribble a note on a post-it. Inutaisho ripped the post-it off and stuck it on a folder before wordlessly pushing it over to Inuyasha. Then, covering the mouthpiece of his cell phone, told Inuyasha that he was excused.
Scowling, Inuyasha stomped out of the room growling about having to work with his archenemy, the folder tucked neatly under one arm. Ayame stood up and smiled reassuringly at the boy who shot her a glare that clearly read, get the hell away from me before I bite your head off! Ayame nervously stepped away from the angry boy. Sesshomaru came up behind him at a slower, leisurely pace. It was not until the elevator doors slid shut when Inuyasha looked at the note on the folder. It read, Inuyasha, please organize this report for me, and make sure that you attend the nine-o'clock meeting for me. Also, do not forget to check up on Sango and Miroku's situation. Thanks, Dad. Letting out a huge sigh, Inuyasha got off the elevator to his office.
The moment he got off the elevator, his eyes landed on Kikyou, his secretary, who was furiously typing away on her computer. Inuyasha had about two secretaries, but Myiami was worse than Kikyou in that she rarely appeared. Inuyasha made a quick mental note to have her fired. "Kikyou!" He snapped irritably, "I shall ask you to switch some of my schedules to Ms. Higurashi's schedule." Kikyou jumped spilling her coffee over the desk and ruining half her paperwork. Inuyasha looked none too pleased to see that happen and added in cruelly, "I suggest you get your nerves checked some time, this is the tenth time this month you've done that. Be glad I didn't have you fired." Without waiting for her annoying coo, Inuyasha strode across his foyer and roughly pushed his doors open and slammed them shut behind him. Letting out a sigh of annoyance, Inuyasha tossed the folder on his desk and sat down.
His office was actually elaborately decorated for a man who worked so hard. The walls were painted maroon that went well with his royal red carpeting, which his desk stood on. The rest of the floors were covered in thick slabs of pinkish quartz. Even his redwood desk had a slightly reddish tone to it. Opposite to his desk near the door was a huge screen, as large as a cinema screen that was covered up with a movable bookshelf filled with the most boring books anyone had laid eyes on. Otherwise, his office was pretty much the same as Inutaisho's.
Inuyasha wasted no time in calling Kikyou in to transfer some of the schedules to Kagome. He reached over an irritably jabbed his intercom. "Kikyou, please come to my office with my schedules."
"Yes, Mr. Suzuki." She squeaked on the other end.
Before she could say anything else, Inuyasha clicked the intercom off and opened his folder looking at the contents in the folder. He turned to his computer and tapped in his password to rid himself of the boring black background screen saver with a stream of curse words falling vertically down the screen much like the matrix, and promptly continued to type up a report based on the lasted RPG computer game they had made. He had been typing for thirty minutes when he realized that Kikyou still had not come with his schedule book. Growling to himself, Inuyasha reached over to his intercom literally slamming his finger onto the button. "KIKYOU! WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING? COME IN WITH MY SCHEDULE BOOK, NOW! I CALLED YOU THRITY MINUTES AGO, SURELY IT WOULDN'T TAKE YOU THIRTY MINUTES TO FIND MY SCHEDULE BOOK UNLESS YOU LOST IT!"
"Yes, yes, Mr…" He didn't hear the rest of Kikyou's sappy apologiesbecause he clicked the intercom off angrily. Kikyou was the worst secretary in the whole office...with an exception ofMyiami. The door opened slowly, as Kikyou crept into the room gripping onto Inuyasha's huge maroon-colored leather scheduler. She immediately stopped in front of Inuyasha who was typing away on his computer. With his demonic senses, Inuyasha sensed her long before she approached his desk.
"Kikyou, please read out my schedule for me." He said, now a bit calmer.
"Yes Mr. Suzuki. Erm… at eleven, you have a conference with Miroku in the conference room on the ninety-ninth floor with Sean Brenet. At twelve, you have a lunch meeting with Mr. Bolshisky at the Plaza hotel. 13:50 A short conference with your father, 13:55 a meeting with Sesshoumaru on the cellular phones…"
"Stop there. I want you to transfer my lunch meeting to Ms. Higurashi, and the conference with Sesshoumaru, we don't seem to get anywhere when we work together. Did you write that down?"
"Yes, Mr. Suzuki."
"Good, continue."
"As you wish, Mr. Suzuki," Kikyou cleared her throat, 14:30 you have a daily round with your father and Sesshoumaru to check the ware houses…"
"Pitch in Ms. Higurashi. I cannot stand her being lazy while the rest of the executive officers slave away." Inuyasha drawled lazily as Kikyou scrambled to scribble in notes.
"16:13 a confrontation of Ms. Sango Yuri on the new Inuyasha game that has is in the middle of being processed, 16:56 another Dinner meeting with Mr. Greene, 17:29 another dinner meeting with Mr. Travis from Gekho Limited, 18:59 Another dinner meeting with Mr. Al Trivioni. 19:34 an over-view on the Cellular phone progress, 20:09 the rubber duckie thing…"
"Pass the 17:29 dinner meeting to Ms. Higurashi and the over-view with the cellular phone progress."
"Yes sir." Kikyou said as she scribbled notes on her notepad. "Shall I continue?"
"What the hell do you think?"
"I'm sorry sir. At 21:14 you have another small conference with Sesshoumaru and your father, 22:45 a press conference, 23:34 another press conference, and at 00:56 you have paperwork to do. Finally, at 1:13 you have to sort out the paper work again."
"Really?" Inuysha cocked an eyebrow with sarcastic bemusement. "Pitch Ms. Wretch in with the conference with my father and that doofus, and give that damn 22:45 press conference to the same wretch. And I would like to spare myself from the early morning paperwork, so give the 1:13 paperwork to the wretch. That is all."
Kikyou nodded as she hurried to scribble down all that was necessary. She was about to leave, when Inuyasha barked at her that he was not finished. "Please,dotype up those damn contracts, I've given them to you a week ago and haven't heard about them since. You may go now." Kikyou paled slightly as she nodded nervously before she slipped out on her way back to her station outside Inuyasha's office. Suddenly a feeling of mistrust made Inuyasha narrow his eyes suspiciously athis retreatingSecretary and snapped at her retreating form, "Show me your notes. I will not stand to see you make another mistake." Trembling, Kikyou returned and handed the huge scheduler to Inuyasha, who yanked it out of her nervous clutcheswith his clawed hands.
His golden eyes were clouded withsarcasm and disbeliefas they moved from left to right while heskimmed throughthe contents. The eyes stopped, and he scowled, "Did I not ask you to pass the 17:29 dinner meeting at Le Fleurs to Ms. Higurashi? And since when did I tell you to give Ms. Higurashi the meeting with Miroku?" Scowling, Inuyasha pulled out his Mont Blanc fountain pen and furiously corrected Kikyou's mistakes before haughtily tossing it back at her. "Do your job correctly before I have you removed from Suzuki Corporation, and do not forget to fax the schedule to Kagura, Ms. Higurashi's secretary. That'll be all. Now get out before I throw you out!"
Clutching the maroon planner in her hands, Kikyou backed away apologizing in a half cooing way. Inuyasha shot her a glare, which promptly shut herup. The door shut with a silent click, and sighing to himself, Inuyasha turned back to his work and let out a furious scream when his screen-saver was back. He had wasted his precious time for working on that irritating woman! Inuyasha banged his head on the keyboard letting out a string of cusses. What he needed right now was a good vacation away from the dirt and the smog of New York City, away from this shabby office, away from Sesshoumaru and his condescending ways, and ESPECIALLY away from Kikyou and her annoying cooing. Blowing his white-silver bangs out of his face, Inuyasha regained his composure after thirty solid minutes of banging his head on the keyboard. He calmly lifted his wrist to look at the time and freaked when it read 10:58. Swearing profusedly, Inuyasha grabbed his laptop and his brief case and streaked out of his office to get to his eleven o'clock private conference with Miroku Houshi. Damn, damn, damn! Kikyou seems to be wasting my time every ten seconds! He thought angrily to himself as he burst out of his double oak door and pressed the down button of the elevator six times in a row. "COME ON…" He growled between grit teeth. A little PING announced that the elevator had arrived and Inuyasha dashed in. "Have a nice…" Kikyou started but was cut off by the sound of the elevator doors sliding shut. "Day."
The sound of Kagome's intercom ringing made her jump. She immediately peeled herself away from her books and pressed the red button. "Yes, what is it Kagura?"
"Ms. Higurashi, I have got your schedule from Kikyou upstairs. Shall I transfer them to your palm pad?"
"Yes please. Afterwards, bring it to me."
"Yes Ms. Higurashi." Kagome blew her bangs out of her face as she pushed the last of her books into the bookshelf, which were almost genuinely was the last of her things she needed to rearrange. Letting out a sigh of relief, Kagome moved to rearranging her photos on the dark mahogany hall table on the side. What fascinated her the most was the huge screen near the door. It was obviously like a television, but she didn't know the actual use of it. Inutaisho and all other executive workers probably had this thing. Kagome did not need to guess any longer because: "Ah… Kagome!" Kagome screamed as the large screen suddenly burst into life, with Inutaisho's HUGE face in the screen. So THIS was the purpose of these big cinema screens.
"Yes, Mr. Suzuki?"
"I trust you are happy with your new office?"
"Yes I am."
"Good. Now I have called on you to… darn! Myoko, stop eating my donuts, they're MINE! NO! MINE! BAG DOG! DOWN! DOWN! NO! GET THEM… GIVE THEM HERE! HEY! RELEASE YOUR JAWS FROM MY DONUTS! ARRRRRGH! NOOOOOOOOOOO!"
Kagome sweat-dropped as Inutaisho's face vanished from the screen and shower of minute donuts filled the screen. "Erm… Mr. Suzuki?"
"Right! Anyway, I loved that report you gave me on the robotic rubber duckies, but I'm afraid that I am going to have to take you out on that subject. I'm sure that Kagura would be coming in with your new schedule right about…" Inutaisho looked at his watch, "Now." Just as he said now, there was a knock on the door. "Well, good luck on your new project my dear, good bye!" The screen turned blank and was replaced with the emblem of the Suzuki Corporations symbol."
"Come in." The door opened and Kagura came in holding Kagome's palm pad. "Ah, so you've gotten me my palm pad. Have you copied all my schedule onto it."
"Yes I have Ms. Higurashi."
"Thank you." Kagome took the palm pad from Kagura and flicked through it with her electronic pen. She frowned at all the work given to her.
12:00: Lunch meeting with Mr. Bolshisky Le Fleur
13:55: Conference with Sesshoumaru Suzuki (cell phones)
14:30: Warehouse/ Factory check up w/ Inuyasha, Sesshoumaru, and Inutaisho
17:29: Another dinner meeting with Mr. Travis from Gekho Limited (Dinner place: The Ritz)
19:34: Over-view on the Cellular phone progress (meeting place: Inutaisho's private conference room)
21:14: Small conference in Mr. Inutaisho's office
22:45: Press conference Hyatt Hotel
1:13: Paperwork regarding cell phones and robotic dog.
NOTE FROM INUYASHA: "REST AS MUCH AS YOU CAN UNTIL NOON, BECAUSE YOU HAVE HELL OF A DAY AHEAD OF YOU. IF YOU SCREW UP IT WILL BE YOUR HEAD ON A SILVER PLATTER!
"ONE… ONE THIRTY IN THE MORNING?" Kagome screamed in disbelief. She was about to scream her head off but stopped herself. No, no, no… she had work to do. "Really?" Kagome sneered after reading the note at the bottom of her scheduler, "Oh yeah? We'll see who can work harder! MUWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH! TO WORK!" Kagome yelled pumping her fist in the air. Unfortunately, Kagura hadn't left yet, and she blinked at the crazy new CEO. Kagome laughed nervously and sent Kagura away. She rolled the sleeves of her blouse up and decided it was time to get on with her work. Since the financial district was pretty far from the Le Fleur, Kagome decided now was the time to get going. She pulled on her ink-black blazer and her coat along with her scarf and packed her brief case up. After arranging her address book, fountain pen, and a ballpoint pen in her coat, she grabbed her brief case and her laptop bag before she breezed out of her office with her keys.
"Kagura, I shall be at my twelve-o'clock lunch meeting with Mr. Bolshisky, if there are any calls for me, please direct them towards my cell phone."
"Of course Ms. Higurashi, will that be all?"
"Yes, that'll be all." With that, Kagome pressed the elevator button ready to go off to her lunch meeting. The doors slid open and much to her distaste, Inuyasha was slumped inside it with an irritated look on his face. "Inuyasha…" Kagome scowled, "I would like to ask youwhy you gave me the 1:13 morning paperwork."
"So? What's wrong with you staying up all night? You used to do that all the time before you became a CEO. Slacking off are we not?"
"Who said I was slacking off? It's just that I'm annoyed that you accidently-on-purposely dumped a lot of work on me!"
"FEH! Things are not as hard as they seem,and I hate it when you talk back to me like that!"
"HAHA! I'm at the same level with you so I can argue with you all I want! HAHAHAHAHAHA!"
"It's not funny." Inuyasha grumbled… "Dad… out of all the eligible workers,why did youhave to promote her? I'd rather watch Kikyou file her damn toenails in front of me during a conference than work with HER!"
"WHAT?" Kagome yelled at Inuyasha, "OH YEAH? I'd rather be cleaning out Buyo's kitty litter rather than work with you!"
"Really? Then why don't you ask dad to take you off the CEO position?" Kagome glared at her partner as she pressed B3. Although Inuyasha didn't use a very big vocabulary around her, Kagome knew he was beyond intelligent. In fact, all of Inutaisho's sons were beyond intelligent. They were almost inhuman… actually they WEREN'T human! They were all youkais, or at least half-youkai since Inuyasha was half human. Kagome grumbled to herself about annoying, spoiled youkai sons as she waited patiently for Inuyasha's floor to pop up. Quite unluckily, his floor was ninety-fifth floor, and they were at the 193rd floor.
To make matters worse, right in the 193rd floor, Sesshoumaru stepped in glaring at the two who stood as far as the could from each other. "Get out of my way whelp." He snapped coldly, literally shoving Inuyasha towards Kagome. Kagome shot daggers at Sesshoumaru who glared back at her. "I cannot believe that something as lowly and disgusting as you woulddare to glare at me. Remember that I have to power to get you removed from this entire corporation."
"Ah-ha! Is that so Mr. Fluffy-flea-bag?But alas, my poor, smelly, wet dog! You cannot do that since all the firing and hiring is done by none other than the great Mr. Inutaisho Suzuki… and only him alone! And he does not simply kick people out because they have been disrespectful to something as racist such as yourself!" Kagome shot back mimicking Sesshoumaru's way of speaking.
"Excuse me girl?" Sesshoumaru hissed, clearly annoyed as he jabbed fifty-nine on the elevator button. "How DARE you get the nerves to talk back to ME!" With that, he childishly kicked dust at Kagome's Dolce & Gabanna shoes.
"HEY! Do you have ANY idea how much those cost?" Kagome shouted making both Inuyasha and Sesshoumaru roll their eyes. Kagome angrily kicked dust back at the annoyed Sesshoumaru getting some dust on Inuyasha's shoes. Luckily, Inuyasha wasn't as picky as Sesshoumaru when it came to appearances. All he did was snort: "FEH" and averted his gaze so that he could stare out the glass elevator at the marvelous scene of New York City. "And if you think you're so high and mighty, then get out of here!" With that, Kagome pressed 130 on the elevator (the next stop) and when the elevator doors opened, pushed Sesshoumaru out of the elevator.
The rest of the trip in the elevator was silent as Inuyasha and Kagome didn't exchange another word. Inuyasha got off at his floor and Kagome waited for B3. When she did get to B3, she stormed out and towards her silver BMW. She jabbed the unlock button on her key and the sound of the car doors opening was heard. Kagome jerked the door open and savagely placed her brief case and her laptop bag into the passenger seat, tossing her coat on top of those. Without further ado, Kagome brought the car to life, and zoomed away in the scariest speed ever, leaving nothing but the sound of squealing tires behind.
Sesshoumaru was inclined to punch the elevator doors repetitively until he promptly broke it, but he was met with the shocked glazes of the workers who had been buzzing away inside their cubicles and the photocopying and Printing sections of their floor. They were all surprised to see that someone who was at a lower status thanSesshoumaru had actually forced him out of the elevator. Sesshoumaru shot a glare at the workers who immediately snapped back to their work. The office activity was actually quite different from other offices from large corporations such the Suzuki Corporation. Some of the office workers were in roller blades as they whizzed around the office with papers and such in their hands while othersused their wheelingchairs to getfrom place to place.Some people had taken to multitasking between feeding their pet dog, which they had dragged with them from their apartments and their office work.
This went as far as Inutaisho was in command. As long as they got their job done by the deadline, they were able to whatever they wanted. Sesshoumaru growled as two office-workers multitasked between editing their reports and playing a card game. Above them was a large, glass, floor-to-ceiling window that gave the Director of Inventory a good view on the workers from her office. In fact, the Director of Inventory was that Higurashi woman's best friend. She too held a great responsibility in the corporation, and like all other workers, multitasked, yet got her job done on time. "Have you all got staring problems so that you even ogle at your superiors like that or do you need to get your eyes checked?" Sesshoumaru asked coldly, his hard golden eyes surveying the scene before him, "Get back to work!" Immediately all the office workers looked away from the angry vice-president, second-in-command man and went back to their usual multitasking. The dainty ding of the elevator signaled that it was time for Sesshoumaru to check on those pesky, stubborn Bank managers. He rubbed his temples with his delicate clawed fingers dreading to meet such an awful group.
"MIROKU!" The twenty-four-year-old Inuyasha barked at a man about the same age as Inuyasha. He had a small ponytail tied at the base of his neck and wore a white Armani suit. He was rubbing his cheek as he had just been slapped by Sango, another fellow worker of the Suzuki Corporation (the director of Inventory). Inuyasha took massive strides towards his comrade-slash-employee. Miroku straightened himself in the conference room. The ninety-ninth floor was the conference room floor. In fact, Floors 98, 99, 100, 101, and 102 were the conference room floors, the hundredth floor being the auditorium where speeches were made.
"Ah… Inuyasha! You're here! You're a bit off track, you know."
"I KNOW!" He barked angrily making Miroku's hair fly back from the impact at whichhe was screaming at.
"Whoa, cool it Inuyasha, no need to be all pissed you know… is it because a babe like Kagome is your co-worker?"
"SHUT UP! And since when did you think that that wretch was a babe? She stinks!"
"Sheesh Inuyasha, you really need to get into some Anger Management class. In fact, I was kind enough to find this lovely anger-management adfrom the world's most beautiful lady inFifth Avenue on my way to work!" Inuyasha growled and snatched the flyer out of Miroku's hand and promptly dropped it inside the trash. Sango rolled her eyes. "Aww… Inuyasha, do you have any idea how hard it was to find classes for anger management? I mean, they barely had room for anyone!" Miroku gave out a sigh, "What's with this world lately? Why are everyone getting so angry! We must all be bubbly and happy, mustn't we, my dear Sango?
SLAP! Sango had slapped his across the face and was glowering at him. "If perverts like you were pulverized from this world, then it would be a much brighter place!" Inuyasha rolled his eyes at the pair. Miroku was basically known the village pervert, Sango was a diligent worker with a fiery temper and was also Kagome's friend. Inuyasha sighed loudly as he watched Miroku make a grab for Sango's rear end only to be kicked in the face with one of her Chanel pumps. "Stay away from me pervert, why did Inutaisho have to keep someone like you here anyway?" Sango lowered her leg and straightened her black suit jacket. She then proceeded to pick out a thick manila folder filled with the necessary files. "Well, now that we've taken care of Mr. Pervert here, I think you can go on with our business."
"Since when did you become boss?" Inuyasha growled as a fat man waddled into the room followed by seventeen other office workers. Sango shrugged as she made her way to her spot at the conference table. Inuyasha scowled for the hundredth time that day.The brown-haired lady was certainly getting on his nerves. Nonetheless, Inuyasha took his seat smack in between Miroku and Sango while Ayame came around with a tray containing a bottle of water and Perier fresh from the refrigerator. Inuyasha straightened his tie and humphed as the rest of the conference members took their seats. The fat man immediately grabbed a remote control from a small table near the front of the conference room and switched the projector on. Immediately, the room darkened as the machine lowered itself from the ceiling and the projector slide inched down from the front of the room.
Meanwhile, the fat man had moved to the center of the room and was inserting his UBS stick into the back of the projector. Inuyasha stifled a yawn. It was the same fat man a month ago, and he was flat out boring. In the end, during the mind-numbing conference a month ago, Inuyasha and Miroku were playing a game of online battleship while Sango started to work on her other work. Half of the conference members had either fallen asleep or had chosen to take refuge in their cell phone games. The other half had enlightened themselves in flinging bic-pens caps at each other across the room while passing notes around. Of course there were also workaholics such as Ginta and Hakakku who furiously scribbled notes down in their pads. It was these types of peoplefrom whicheveryone else wouldquickly copynotes from to get their work done.
Inuyasha repeated to himself that he would focus on working, as the fat man scurried over to the front, tripping over a chair leg along the way. Miroku snickered as the fat man hastily straightened his suit and glared at the person who was apparently sitting on it. It happened to be Kouga, a wolf-youkai who was excellent at multitasking. Kouga had long black hair, which he had tied up into a ponytail and sky-blue eyes glinted hard whenever someone picked a fight with him. Inuyasha wasn't on the best of terms with Kouga, and they argued every time they met. "Got a problem?" Kouga snapped. The fat man had begun to visibly sweat and gave his hasty apologies. Inuyasha yawned again and drawled, "No need to apologize to Mr. Flea-Bag, just get on with your presentation."
The fat man obeyed and took up the switch that maneuvered the slides. By this time, the lights had gone off and some of the workers had already started to doodle. The fat man cleared his throat and started his presentation. "Good morning ladies and Gentlemen, I am Sean Brenet…"
"What the heck is this? Is this some circus or something? We all know your damn name from your fucking name tag!" Inuyasha barked critically from his spot. Sean flinched. "Hurry up! I haven't got all day!"
"Y-y-yes s-sir! As I was saying, I have found an excellent way to take over the toilet industry, and kick Toto out of the bathroom business. I have been conducting research on toilets and found that we can create computerized Vidae toilets. This includes warm toilet seats for the winter…"
Inuyasha yawned. Oh kami, was the man going to rant about computerized Vidae toilets… again? He had spoke about those last month! And the month before that! Several groans came from the co-workers as Sean blissfullydroned on and on about warm toilet seats. Suddenly, Inuyasha's Tachi-messenger flashed at the bottom of his laptop screen as Miroku sent him an instantmessage reading: "God! Does this guy have an obsession about toilet seats or something?" Inuysha sniggered.
INUYASHA: Obviously. Why did I have to waste my time sitting in this goddamn conference room listening to a fat-ass talk about warm toilet seats?
MIROKU: How long does this conference last?
INUYASHA: I should have forced that Kagome here… anyway, we're stuck here until lunch time.
Inuyasha watched Miroku cringe in horror. One hour with Sean Brenet was like getting one ofhis legs pulled.
MIROKU: Unfortunately, I am not sitting next to Sango to grope her rear-end. How depressing!
INUYASHA: Pervert. Well, to get your mind off of heated toilet seats and Sango's ass, lets play a game of… STARCRAAAAAFT!
MIROKU: YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAH! STARCRAFT! I'LL DEFINITELY KICK YOUR ASS THIS TIME!
INUYASHA: Fat chance Pervert.
And so Inuyasha and Miroku dwindled the time away trying to kill each other in Starcraft. Obviously Miroku was very poor at the game and was losing heavily to Inuyasha. "MUWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA! I AM INVINCIBLE—" Inuyasha immediately shut up when both his and Miroku's bases were destroyed and the GAME OVER flashed at them. "What the hell just happened?" Inuyasha shouted angrily, waking up half the conference members who had hastily grabbed their pens or their soundlessly ringing cell phones thinking that Inuyasha was furious at them. Sean literally jumped three feet in the air, which was quite possible sincehe was a rabbit-youkai. In the chatterbox below the game a message appeared:
SANGO You both suck at this game, I WIN!
Inuyasha and Miroku glared at the triumphant Inventory Director who had leaned back with a smug look on her face. Some people had just realized that they had put their spectacles on upside down and were fixing it while Sean trembled up front. Inuyasha flashed a glare at the poor man and barked for him to carry on. Once the lullaby of Seans voice started, Inuyasha mouthed to Sango: I will seriously kick your butt! And so… THE BATTLE WAS ON!
After losing three straight games from Sango, Inuyasha pushed his laptop away from him and sulked in his seat. Miroku had done the same as Sango put on a triumphant look. And so… Inuyasha had taken the time to doodle on his notepad, most of them being pictures of a Sesshoumaru Piñata with himself (Inuyasha) cracking it open to a shower of Ramun. It didn't take him long to finish the drawing before Miroku poked him and shoved a game of Hang Man in front of him. There wereten slots for the letters and clue below it that read: THING. Inuyasha smirked as he yanked the notepad out of his friend's grasp and scribbled "SANGO'S BUTT". Then he shoved the notepad back to Miroku. Miroku frowned and scribbled a note on it saying: HOW DID YOU KNOW? Inuyasha wrote that Miroku was predictable and didn't forget to add: MY TURN to the note.
Miroku shrugged as Inuyasha put in forty blank slots, not including the blanks, at the bottom, he added the word: PHRASE. It obviously was: SESSHOUMARU IS THE BIGGEST BASTARD IN THE WORLD. But Miroku didn't know and so began the game of Hang Man. Miroku, being almost as smart as Inuyasha himself, guessed all the vowels first. He wrote in A on the side, immediately gaining two letters. Then he wrote E, again earning four slots. After six guesses, he filled the blank out as: SESSHOMARU IS THE BIGGEST BASTARD IN THE WORLD. Inuyasha smirked as they started the game anew. And when they were bored with Hang Man, they reverted to games like connect five or tic-tac-toe, Inuyasha losing in more than half the games.
As the presentation ended, Inuyasha and Miroku had brought large packs of matches out from their brief cases. It was not that they smoked or anything, they carried these matches around to play little games to dwindle their time away on boring presentations such as Sean's. They had started to create a city of matches when a rubber band catapulted towards one of their towers shattering it. Inuyasha and Miroku immediately set daggers at Sango who get out a silent whoop of joy. She had her finger pointed towards another one of their towers a rubber band ready to slam into it. Sango smirked and tossed her head back in a fake and silent evil laughter. Then, as if in slow-mo, the rubber band neared Inuyasha and Miroku's precious towers of matches. Before he knew it, Inuyasha jumped in front of his towers shouting, heaven-forbid, OUT LOUD: "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"
Unfortunately for him, not only had his sudden movement given him a thwack on the nose from the rubber band, but he had also knocked down all his towers AND gained attention from the other workers as the lights slowly came on. Inuyasha blushed furiously as he grabbed his matches and shoved them into their respectful box. With that, he ran out of the conference room, humiliated.
Sesshoumaru growled while he awaited his packet from the small Kitsune that ran the recording industry for the advertisements. He had been waiting for the most important video that held the fully completed and edited video-clip of the latest ad for the electronic rubber duckies. Finally impatient with the tiny yet surprisingly intelligent Kitsune, Sesshoumaru decided to save his ten-hour tirade he would deliver tothe Kitsune for later convienient timesbecause he was called to his father's office. Sesshoumaru approached the foyer of his father's office and noticed that only Minha was there. "Is my father in?" He asked icily.
"Yes Mr. Suzuki. Please enter." With that, Minha informed his father on the telecom. "Sir, your son is here."
"Ah! Good!" Sesshoumaru heard his father's voice chip. "Let him through." Minha got up and opened the doors herself as Sesshoumaru coolly strode past her. But his father was nowhere to be seen. Sesshoumaru tripped over his feet in shock landing face-first into the ground. "MY BOY!" Inutaisho's voice seemed to magically float around the room until Sesshoumaru's senses told him that it came from his left. The sight had shocked him to his very bones.
There, standing before Inutaisho's giant-screen was the little squirt! He was holding the control for Playstation 3 as they played a game of Tomb Raider. The small Kitsune looked no older than six and was dancing around on his tiny fox-feet yelling that he was winning. The Kitsune's bushy foxtail swished from side to side as Inutaisho sighed in defeat. "SHIPPOU!" Sesshoumaru snapped, irritated beyond words. "What are you DOING here? I asked you to be down in my office with the video at 11:30 and you end up not showing up?" He hissed softly, freaking poor Shippou out. "Do you have any idea how humiliated I was SEARCHING for you, and you were here ALL ALONG playing TOMB RAIDER with my father?"
"No need to blow up my son! I simply asked him to stay! Andas for those videos, which you are so eager to see, I have askedGome take them downto your office." Sesshoumaru's eyes twitched slightly.
"Why have you called me father?"
"Ah… I called you for a simple favor."
Sesshoumaru stiffened. The favors that Inutaisho gave his sonswere not very pleasing to him, since it usually involved running down to cheap places such as Dunkin Donuts or Starbucks for a little something to eat or drink. "Y-yes?" He stuttered a little apprehensive about the ordeal.
"I wanted you to join us in a game of tomb raider!" Inutaisho shouted triumphantly. Sesshoumaru fell to the ground with a thud, one leg up in the air twitching ever so slightly. His father was, according to him, mad. Inutaisho believed in mixing leisure with his work and sometimes wore roller blades to the office to play a game oftag with some other office workers who had happened to wear roller blades themselves before he ascended to his office. Sometimes, Inutaisho would play Ping Pong on his desk using a bunch of simple outdated calendars as the net when one of the workers came in with an important file. Then, they would play a round or two of Ping Pong while discussing the business at the same time. This was what Shippou and Inutaisho were doing while Shippou whipped Inutaisho's ass in Tomb Raider.
"Father! I will not play such a silly game with that little kid!"
"Why not?" Inutaisho asked cheerily as he tossed a third panel at Sesshoumaru, who easily caught it. "As long as we're on the job, nothing can go wrong! Begin the game Shippou!" Shippou saluted stoutly and the game resumed. In the end, within five minutes flat, Shippou had busted both Inutaisho and Sesshoumaru's butts in Tomb Raider.
Kagome smoothed her hair and straightened her black Coco Chanel pencil skirt as she nimbly made her way back to her office. She had already sent Kagura home on her way back from her 22:45 press conference with CNN, BBC, MBN, and the other newscasters. The only thing she had left was the paperwork. Kagome opened the doors to her new office and immediately strode over to her large, black built-in file cabinets where she kept important paperwork. Deftly using her keys, she unlocked the cabinets and withdrew her needed files before retreating to her desk. Kagome was a diligent worker and hated leaving things to the last minute. Besides, if she got her work over and done with then she might have gotten a chance to go home at a little over 00:00, if she was lucky.
Without a moment's hesistation, Kagome took off her suit jacket and hung it up on her coat hanger along with her coat, hat, and scarf. Then she rolled up her pink-tinted Versace blouse sleeves before taking her computer off sleep-mode. Most of the people on her Tachi-Messenger list were offline, since they were either at home sleeping or out somewhere partying, since tonight was Friday. Kagome sighed. It turned out that even the late-workers and workaholics such as Ginta and Hakkaku had left early. Besides her, the only person left in the whole building was Inuyasha, and maybe even Sesshoumaru, who had the rumor of being a ruthless worker as well, working even on Saturdays and Sundays. Kagome shuddered before browsing through some of the documents. Suddenly she stopped before an article on computerized Vidae toilets that had warm seats for the winter.
She just stared at the file for a while before bursting out laughing until her stomach ached. "Heated Toilet seats? HAHAHAHAHAHA!" She slapped her palms down on her table laughing at the very prospect, but found it to be a good idea. She scanned the cover page of the packet to find the name of Sean Brenet. Hmm… I should call him to my office to elaborate on this toilet idea…what's this? Kagome stared at the date in shock. This poor man had been trying his best to get this idea into the hands of Inutaisho for three years! WOW! THIS MAN IS DRIVEN ON HEATED TOILET SEATS! Kagome thought to herself in bemused amazement. A man driven like this should be checked on. On Monday, she was going to get Kagura to find files of this Sean Brenet man. In the meantime, she started on a report that she would give to Inutaisho regarding heated toilet seats. With these heated toilet seats, they would definitely earn a profit, since there were no such thing as them yet.
After working on her report regarding heated toilet seats, Kagome switched to the topic of cellular phones. In the meantime, she called Kagura's cell phone. All she got was the answering machine. "Kagura, this is Kagome Higurashi. I would like you to fetch me all files possible on the name of SEAN BRENET, S-E-A-N B-R-E-N-E-T. Pull out all those files and give them to me by the end of Monday. Also, prepare a conference in conference room 5 on floor 101,a week from today, I want to find out about this. Thanks." After hanging up, Kagome readjusted her glasses before resuming with her work.
It was about 23:40 when Kagome had finished her work when a loud crashing noise came from below her room. Kagome jumped scattering her paperwork all over the floor. Was there a spy or a Brigand in the floor below her? Kagome shuddered. She stood stock still clutching onto the papers she had gathered after she had dropped them. The noise came again: CRASH! BANG! TWANG! She was sure someone was downstairs. What was Inuyasha doing at this time? Didn't he hear it? Kagome swallowed hard as the noise ascended up the flight of stairs. Ever since the building had been deserted, it seemed that Kagome could even hear the conversation of the people walking along the streets a hundred and ninety-three floors below.
Suddenly Kagome's office door was thrown open and in stumbled two figures who were wearing bright yellow rain coats without any shoes and a yellow fishing hat over their silver hair. Their hairs were tied into ponytails and they held GUNS! Kagome froze in shock as the taller one flashed past her while the other one pulled the trigger…
"ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGH!" Kagome let out a blood-curdling scream when she realized that the bullet was only water. Kagome blinked at the figures and realized they were only Inuyasha and Sesshomaru.
"DIE UNDER MY OH SO POWERFUL WATER GUN!" Inuyasha shouted squirting more water at Sesshoumaru who dodged easily.
"Oh yeah? TAKE THAT!" Water squirted out from Sesshoumaru's water gun and hit Inuyasha square in the forehead, "How is that rubber duckie thing coming along?"
"Shitty! Kouga fucked up on the advertisements again… DARN! Oh yeah? Feel the wrath of my Tetsusaiga! How about the video that you ordered from Shippou?" With that, Inuyasha unsheathed a large sword and swung it at his brother splashing water everywhere and soaking the older one AND Kagome who was now furious.
"WHAT THE HELL DO YOU GUYS THINK YOU'RE DOING IN MY OFFICE? GET OUT NOW!"
"Woman, if you do not close your mouth I shall get you fired!" Sesshoumaru growled clearly upset that he had lost. He averted his attention to a now triumphant Inuyasha. "Well, Shippou never showed up, and I had to search for him, but father called me up for a discussion on the factories. Tell me, dear brother, I heard from Ginta that you ruined your conference with Sean Brenet by trying to protect your tower of matches."
"So? I heard that yesterday you fell out of your seat because you fell asleep in the middle of Kouga's presentation!"
"No I didn't."
"Yes you did… it was all over the office yeaterday evening."
"Did not."
"Did too."
"Did NOT."
"Did TOO."
"DID NOT!"
'DID TOO, TOO, TOO!"
"EXCUSE ME, there's another PERSON in here at the moment, and you've just ruined my files on the latest Inuyasha game!"
"Human, you will refrain from interrupting us in our private conference."
"CONFERENECE? THAT was a conference? I'll show you a REAL conference!" Kagome shouted as she rushed into her bathroom grabbing a pair of purple trainers from DKNY. When she emerged, she was wearing her trainers that had a belt around her waist holding tanks of green goo. In her hand she held a paintball gun. "THIS is a REAL conference!" She shouted hefting the paintball rifle to her shoulder and aiming at an unsuspecting Inuyasha. "TAKE THAT!" Kagome pulled the trigger and the paint got Inuyasha smack in the back of his head.
"OW! HEY! What's that game called?"
"Guerrilla Warfare!" With that, Kagome set the paintball gun at her feet.
"WHAT? I never heard of that!"
"Of course you didn't! Sango and I used to play it when we had our own little late-night conferences!"
"So THAT explains the paint smudges that mysteriously appeared on some mornings! Well, how do you play it?" Sesshoumaru asked curiously.
"Simple. We all take a stop watch and set the time to a thirty minutes, within the time allotted, each of the players find hiding places in the office, then, once thirty-minutes are up, we hunt each other down!"
"I thought you were a workaholic like Mr. Fatty-man and Ginta!" Inuyasha complained.
"Nope, not when it comes to late night working! At night, I multitask. Speaking of workaholics, I thought you two were workaholics!"
"I am NOT!" Inuyasha yelled hotly as Kagome went over to her closet to take out two more paintball rifles. She tossed each one to Inuyasha. Inuyasha got a red-colored paintball, while Sesshoumaru got a white colored one.
"If not, let's begin the game." Kagome said slyly as she slapped her palm pad to her hip so she could work while hunting Inuyasha and Sesshoumaru down. Inuyasha and Sesshoumaru took their paintballs and adjusted their time to 30 minutes. The three of them lined up at Kagome's office doors, "Ready, set, GO!" Kagome shot forward and down the stairs. Inuyasha and Sesshoumaru took the elevator. And so their game of paintball began. Kagome decided that the best place hide was in the cubicle-filled office floors. Once thirty minutes were up, Kagome raced around the building to search through every nook and canny for Inuyasha and Sesshoumaru.
The door of a multi-million apartment in the middle of one of the slaziest places in New York City was kicked open by a black high-heeled foot. Kagome sighed as she stumbled into her apartment carrying two bags of work: her laptop and her briefcase. (Thanks to her family's originl wealth combined with her own money she had earned for the past six years, she managed to pull off an expensive apartment) Her brown eyes scanned the dark room warily as she stumbled into the room trying to get her shoes off while simultaneously untangling herself from the evil vines of her shoulder straps that were attached to both her laptop and her bags. If she hadn't learned the lesson of taking an advantage of her car to overloading herself with bags, she certainly learned now. Geez, I swear that I'll only carry my laptop bag around! She thought bitterly to herself as she finally managed to drop her keys on the hall table and take her shoes off without dropping anything. She groaned as the key slid off the table and landed on the marble floor with a loud cling! She didn't want to wake her cat Buyo up, since he got very grumpy when "rudely" intervened from his fat cat slumber.
Kagome froze at the door listening intently for any signs of her fat cat stirring. Breathing a sigh of relief, Kagome congratulated herself for getting a lazy cat that rarely woke up even if there were bombs going off outside her apartment window. Sighing contently, Kagome lowered her computer bag on the floor gently and sniffed about her a look of disgust passing her face. Hopefully Kaede her home assistant slash maid didn't forget to clean up Buyo's kitty litter. It took her a while to figure out that the smell was coming from her since her shirt had dried. Many thanks to Inuyasha… she had wet her blouse and her skirt, thus ruining it and making it give off the worse stench she had ever smelled in her life: the smell of air-dried clothes in clumps. For a moment, Kagome thought about not taking a shower considering that the time was 2:30 in the morning, but the stench was too much, and so donning a white and pink striped towel that was draped over the hall table as usual, Kagome headed to her master bathroom where she would get herself cleaned once and for all.
The apartment was very tastefully decorated, yet not so overly embellished. The walls around her were white along with white and pinkish patterned marble floors. The atmosphere in Kagome's apartment gave off an ethnical modern feel. The entrance and the hall that lead the person from the door to the family room had the wall on the side removed and replaced with a tank that had a giant floor-to-ceiling fish tank filled with the world's most exotic and colorful fish. The floor of the family room itself was a mix of huge white slabs of marble and rosewood. A marble fireplace that was once in the center of the wall adjourning the entrance was removed and replaced with a huge flat-screen television from The Suzuki Corporation itself. Next to the television was a stack of red, blue, and gold Arabic cushions and on top of that was the control for the television.
Adjacent to the wall with the television, were huge windows that opened up to a nice balcony on the outside. In the space that connected the hallway with the family room, there was a marble and quartz fountain embellished with flowers, water-spitting fishes, and mermaids holding jars. For the time being, the fountain had been shut off as Kagome sharply turned away from the hall that continued on to the guest bedrooms. She sauntered past the fountain and towards the kitchen made from oak-wood, quartz, and metal refrigerators. She wanted to get a drink of water before she shuffled up to the second floor of her apartment for a short but sweet warm shower.
After she had satisfied herself, Kagome made her way back towards the long halls filled with doors and hallway lights. Her bunny slippers made no noise as she shuffled towards the other end of the hallway. A moderately sized spiral staircase that led to the master bedroom loomed into sight. Excited that she would finally be able to smell and feel clean again, Kagome ran up the spiral staircase forgetting about the sleeping Buyo and her home assistant. She came up through a hole in the ground of her most favorite place in the whole apartment: her room. It was too dark to see anything and Kagome didn't even bother turning on a light as she nimbly made her way towards the door that led to the master bathroom. She only paused to turn on a weak sensor lamp that cast a faint orange glow in the room and to turn on the bathroom lights.
The bathroom had a huge mirror lined with two sinks and a cabinet beneath the counter that held medicine and along with other hygieneal items, which will not be mentioned. It also had a huge circular tub with a lot of knobs and button on it with a separate shower. The toilet, however, was nowhere to be seen since it was in a separate cubicle. Kagome got out of her smelly clothes and dropped them into a laundry hamper near the entrance of the bathroom. She took a quick shower and got into a pair of clean pink pajamas with cute piggy figures printed on them before happily jumping into her bed. Thank goodness tomorrow was Saturday! Then she would be able to sleep in and do all sorts of things that she wanted to do. Furthermore, she got to get away from the craziness that always seemed to be happening at work. Although it was great to play poker over the conference table when one of the presenters got boring, but sometimes Inutaisho and his crazy game of Tag on roller blades was sometimes too much.
Inuyasha tried to unlock the front door to his apartment, but found that it would not open. Not caring that there were probably some people trying to sleep, he began screaming obscenities whilst kicking the door with his foot. Stepping back and sucking in a deep breath to calm himself, Inuyasha calmly reinserted the key into the lock and let out a whoosh of relief as the door swung open to his VERY red apartment. The walls were covered in a deep-red color, and the carpeting was a maroon color. Despite all the red, Inuyasha's apartment was actually very, very modern. He also had a liking in plants and had a huge tree growing out the middle of the foyer, which he named the Goshinbaku. He loved the tree very much, and it had actually originated from his birthplace but he had it transferred to his apartment when he first moved into New York City. "MR. SUZUKI!" Cried a tiny voice.
Growling to himself, Inuyasha looked around the room for his tiny flea-demon servant: Myoga. He didn't see anything, so instead he FEH-ed and stomped about the apartment about stupid paintball games and how he would never play it again. "MYOGA! GIVE ME A GLASS OF WATER!" He shouted, not knowing where his useless servant was. Scowling in frustration, Inuyasha barged into the kitchen, which had red-tiles and a lot of red and black and white plates and porcelin. He roughly yanked the door of his gigantic stainless-steel refrigerator and out of sheer exhaustion, poured himself a glass of vinegar without knowing it. He hadn't put the cup to his lips yet, since he sulked around his apartment towards a mahogany table that had his telephone and answering machine. He sourly pressed the play button on it as he undid his tie and unbuttoned his collar. Just as Kikyou's voice came on his answering machine, Inuyasha lifted his glass to his lips and took a sip of the vinegar without realizing the sour taste in his mouth. "MY CUTIEEEEEEE!" Kikyou's voice screeched across the empty apartment. It was then when he realized that he had vinegar in his mouth, not water.
His eyes bulged as he spat the contents out of his mouth yelling: "shit!" The vinegar sprayed all over the room and fell onto the wooden floor of his modern family room. "MYOGA! Get someone to clean that!" He shouted rudely as Kikyou's voice continued to screech around him. He flattened his ears against his skull and scowled as Kikyou began talking about how much she loved him and how he would always be hers and no one else's." If only you could skip messages on a damn answering machine, Inuyasha would have immediately skipped her message and gone on to the next one. When Myoga STILL had not appeared, Inuyasha scowled and went to the kitchen to fetch a rag. If the damn old-fart wasn't going to clean his mess, let alone acknowledge him (besides yelling his name whenever he returned home), he might as well not bark the damn thing's name.
Sighing miserably to himself, Inuyasha mopped up the floor and tossed the rag away so that one of his servants would pick it up the next day. He should have gotten himself a better servant, why was it that he always got something stupid and useless as Myoga? All Myoga did was suck his blood out and call out him name, thus irritating him. He really needed a new servant. And since Myoga and Inutaisho were so close, he would flick the damn thing back at his dad and happily sit about with a better servant. Pushing the Myoga thoughts out of his mind, Inuyasha turned and stalked into the master bedroom where his walk-in closet awaited him.
Although his walk-in closet was FILLED with expensive Armani suits and designer brand clothing, he always wore his red haori and pants, not trainers or pajamas. In fact, he had an extensive collection of the same red outfit he always wore whenever he was home. He also went barefoot all the time, no socks, no slippers and loved to sleep up in the Goshinbaku instead of his huge King sized bed of white silk bed sheets and a fluffy, red goose feather quilt. But lately after an accident of falling out of the Goshinbaku one too many tines, Inuyasha had taken a habit of sleeping in his bed like any normal person… err… make that youkai. Anyway, Inuyasha kicked open his covers of his bed and flopped down on it snoring very loudly.
Meanwhile, Sesshoumaru had calmly opened his front door to reveal a room bathed in while and silver; all white and silver, nothing less, nothing more. The theme of his apartment was a modern look with cool-looking silver-colored stools that lined his white bar and the curtains were white as well. The man coldly stalked into his apartment passing his huge stereo system with killer speakers and tossed his snow-covered coat on the floor. Usually, Sesshoumaru was very neat and orderly, but since he had a submissive servant by the name of Jaken, he was able to drop his things onto the ground because he knew that Jaken would zip out from one of the many doors, stairs, and halls to retrieve his things.
Sure enough, a green toad-like thing shot out from the kitchen and immediately picked up the jacket in which Sesshoumaru had so carelessly dropped on the ground. Jaken was a misfit in Sesshoumaru's posh home, in fact, he stood out so bad from the surroundings since he was green (skin included) all around and the background was all white and silver (as just mentioned before). "Mr. Suzuki, how was your day?" The timid Jaken asked. Sesshoumaru chose to ignore his bulbous-eyed imp and calmly glided into his bedroom, which was also white. He got into his pajamas and slid into his equally as large and colorless bed before falling asleep immediately amongst the huge white blankets.
This chapter was long, and since some people don't know the "Army time schedule" or the "European Time schedule", I have added a chart below that should help you with the timing.
13:00-1:00 in the afternoon (AM)
14:00-2:00 AM
15:00-3:00 AM
16:00-4:00 AM
17:00- 5:00 AM
18:00-6:00 AM
19:00-7:00 AM
20:00-8:00 AM
21:00-9:00 AM
22:00-10:00AM
23:00- 11:00AM
00:00- Midnight.