Disclaimer: Inuyasha was created by Rumiko Takahashi... But, who's to say she wont put him to auction some day...hm.
Notes: Well, I hope you enjoy this.. let me know what you think. n.n Bunny
(and to any1 who read OTE.. no need to fret, it shall be finished momentarily...heh heh)
Three Little Words - Chapter 1: Fate is Cruel
As the elevator moved up, she looked over at the other passengers. One was tall, about her age,
with long silver hair that came down about his waist, which was hard to divine from the baggy clothes he wore. He had an expression of contentment, with a slight scowl. But aside from that,
Kagome thought he looked fairly attractive. The other, was about her height with dark hair.
Unlike his friend, he had a strange smirk on his face, and kept glancing over toward her. This made Kagome nervous.
They were in between levels three and four, when the lights began to flicker. The elevator shook as it stopped abruptly. There was obviously a black-out from the storm, and she sunk into the corner of the elevator to sit it out. 'Damn storm! You're costing me my interview for the highest paying job available to me! Do the gods want me the work at McDonalds for the rest of my life!
Oh lord, I see it now... lying in my grave... tombstone reads: 'Do you want fries with that.
NOT. HAPPENING!...'
Kagome was interrupted from her thoughts of grief when she heard someone move over to her.
"Excuse me Miss," he took her hand from the elevator floor, "but, would you bare my child?"
Kagome pulled her hand away, she couldn't seem to find words of disgust that would fit her situation. A smack was heard from behind him, and she saw the figure clutch his head. "Leave her alone Lech."
"Come on Inuyasha! You don't have to watch. Just turn around or something." Another smack was heard. "Oy! And stop doing that..." He turned back to Kagome. "Now where were we?"
This time Kagome got in a smack her self... and a hefty kick to the stomach... and a knock on his head with her unnaturally heavy purse... but in the end, the lech squirmed to the other side of the elevator, not attempting to grope her again as he'd done somewhere in between getting knocked upside the head and jabbed in the ribs...
"Sorry about that... He's always a little 'off'..." This was 'Inuyasha's' voice... 'Wow, he sounds good too... NO KAGOME! You can't distract yourself like this, think 'interview'... Oh who am I kidding, I'm stuck in an elevator with a lech and the guy who saved me... well, sort of.'
She held out her hand through the dark seclusion. "I'm Higurashi Kagome." Somehow he found her hand and shook it.
"Inuyasha. Nice to meet you. Oh, and the lech is my buddy Miroku... don't mind him, he always does stuff like that." He pulled his hand away, and she heard him sit against the wall himself.
'I wonder why these two were in a building like this... They don't seem like the type to work at a corporation... or even want to work here.' She turned the light on her watch to see the time. It was already five minutes past her dead-line. 'Oh well... I guess I'll have to try again next year'
The company only offered positions to interns in college once a year... and she just missed her chance after waiting from all the others to try before her.
"So, why were you here?" Kagome asked. She didn't know much of anything about the two other passengers, and figured that small-talk would at least give them something to do until the power came back.
"Oh... um...I was supposed to meet with my dad here, but I seem to have been delayed if you haven't noticed... How about you?"
"Oh, just some interview, I'm probably too late anyway..."
"Feh. Stuff like this always seems to happen when you have something important to do... doesn't it?"
"Yeah." Kagome let out a sigh. "I guess it does..."
There was a awkward moment of silence, and all Kagome could think about was what he said.
'Things do always seem to happen when you have something else to do... or maybe it's just that you don't notice them when your not so preoccupied...' She turned the light of her watch on again, and looked at the digital numbers.
"What time is it?" Inuyasha asked, and Kagome glanced up at him (well where his voice came from anyway). His eyes. They were amber and stood out in the dark, reflecting off of the faint glow from her watch. She was mesmerized by the deep, amber colour. They were unlike anything she'd ever seen before. Normally she would have been afraid. I mean, some guy had glowing eyes like he was some kind of animal.. But for some reason they were... relaxing.
She snapped out of the daze as the light turned off, and his eyes were no longer visible. "What?"
"The time?"
"Oh, right." She turned the light back on and looked at the time. They'd already spent fifteen minutes in the elevator... if it was taking them this long to get electricity back, then she might not make it to work. "It's 2:15."
"Thanks."
"Hey Inu. Weren't you supposed to be at your dads office, like a half hour ago?" Miroku crawled over to his friend, and sat on the other side of him.
"Yeah... He's gonna kill me for this."
"So, why were you so late?" Kagome added in. She was getting curious, and besides, if she was going to be stuck with these two, she'd have to find out SOMETHING about them.
"Same reason as you... The storm."
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"Lets see...Ooh! I'm thinking of a number from one to a billion, but it isn't in the three thousands or five hundreds.. What is it?"
"..5,555,324.." Inuyasha's voice dripped with boredom as he let out a sigh and, for about the millionth time that hour, shifted to a more comfortable position on the elevator floor.
"Hey, how'd you know?" Miroku on the other hand, in Kagome's opinion, had a little too much energy for being one of three people stuck in an elevator with no light or food.
"It's the phone number you had customized on your cell. You know, "555-LECH"..feh."
"Oh yeah, I'd forgotten it spelled that out." Kagome could nearly hear the perverted grin on his face as if he were aiming to muse 'and don't forget it'.
But at that point, she could pretty much care less about what that hentai had to say. She had taken her heals off her aching feet, hiked up her skirt so she could sit cross-legged comfortably, and was now amusing herself by tapping tunes from 'Chicago' against the elevator wall. Small chat was over.. now they were all just plain bored.
"Ooh.. ok ok, I have a better one! What's big, and hard, and full of-"
"Kami! Miroku, just stop.. I DON'T need to hear that."
"Heh heh.. and what exactly, my friend, are you implying by that?.. I was merely describing your air-filled head.."
Kagome rolled her eyes, but stopped her tapping on the wall. It was beginning to get old and she didn't know how much longer she could go on in that hell-box. She began rummaging through her purse for a graham cracker or something when she felt a light tap on her leg. "Hey?"
"Hmn?"
"How long have we been in here?"
Kagome clicked the light on her watch on again and saw that it was almost 4:00. But her eyes traveled into the depths of the elevator again, just as they seemed to every other time he asked.
Maybe it was just because they'd been cooped up for what seemed like an eternity, or she just had a little too much to think about, but the guy who was questioning her seemed interesting. He was ignorant, rude, self-centered, and could be either a jerk or a priest if he wanted to. That's how she saw him anyway, but it always just could have been that their little island was a little too small, and they couldn't kick anyone off. Other than that, his friend was nice.. freaky.. but nice none the less.
"Nearly two hours now."
"Gah... that's all?" The exotic boy banged his head a little less than gently against the door of the elevator.
"Ooh.. how bout this?-" Kagome threw a random object from her purse in the direction of Miroku and apparently hit him. "..Ow..."
"I think.. that if we're stuck in here much longer, and we're about to starve.. we eat him first."
Inuyasha let out a little laugh. "Can I kill him now?"
"Heh heh.. I dun know bout you Inu.. but I wouldn't mind Lady Kagome here eating me... Just remember to suck out all the juices. He he he."
"You know what," Kagome shook her head and covered her face wither her hands, even though they couldn't see her anyway through the dark. "I think I'd rather starve now."
After a moment of Miroku's humming of the theme song to 'Speed Racer', Kagome heard Inuyasha stand up. "That's it!-"
Just then the elevator shook in beginning to move again and he lost his balance, coming down on the elevator floor as the lights flickered on and off. Thing was, he'd fallen right down on Kagome who was in a relatively embarrassing position with him to say the least. To top it all off, it stopped at the forth floor, and a small group of people just stood there as the doors opened,
revealing the site to some of the corporation's impatient employees.
Kagome didn't think her face could have been any redder as she got off of the floor after he moved away from her, and took her shoes with her in leaving the elevator to the nice lounge area with marble floors and plush furniture to sit on. It wasn't the floor with her would-be interview,
but after two hours had passed, she found it very unlikely that they'd give her the time of day with all the other people interested.
The big window showed a nice view of the street, and she sat down on the couch right in front of it, looking out at the people who all had places to go, rushing threw the rain. She couldn't go back to Mc.Donalds... thing was, there was nowhere else to go.
She slid her three inch heals back on her feet and fastened the small clasps, letting out a sigh. She could always try for a position at a department store? Perhaps.. but that wasn't in her career field,
and the scholarship she had at Tokyo U wasn't quite covering all the bases. She needed a real job.
Shrugging it off, she look one last look at the scene below her, then went back to the elevator doors and pressed the 'down' button, but instead disappeared through the door to the stairs after thinking about that for about five seconds, reconsidering.
Ding. Something about that small sound she heard right before the door shut behind her summed up everything. '..Okay, one more flight upward, it couldn't be worse than getting stuck with those two morons again...'
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"Sheeze Inu! My back is aching here.. can't we slow down?"
"Nope...you know my dad."
"We were stuck on an elevator!"
"Exactly.. we were already late, and he'll probably yell at me for being lazy and not taking the stairs.."
Miroku didn't say anything, but nodded his head in agreement. It was true. Everything Inuyasha did seemed to be some kind of a problem with Mr.Sirosenshi. It was probably just because he didn't exactly favor handing the business over to his older son, and wanted Inu to not make any fatal mistakes after he built the major corporation from the ground up.
The overpaid secretary outside of his father's office came into view as he continued walking quickly down the marble tiled hallway. "You're father has been waiting to see you-"
"Yeah, yeah, I've heard it all before. Just buzz me in Lady."
"Hmph." She didn't say anything about his rude remark, but pressed the button that unlocked the office door from the outside and Inuyasha continued inside, Miroku opting to stay in the hall with the 'lovely assistant'.
After the door was slammed behind him, Mr.Sirosenshi looked up from his desk of paperwork with a scowl on his face. "Oops." Inuyasha shrugged his shoulders at the loud bang and went over to his favorite leather chair in the office and sat down, putting up the reclining legs and taking a coke out of the ice box in the plush armrest.
"Oops?.. Oops?.. Inuyasha Ookami Sirosenshi, is that ALL you have to say after arriving in my presence nearly two and a half hours after the time which I made clear you were to come at?"
Inuyasha opened the coke, cringing as his middle name was used. He hated it. But other than that,
he sat back and shrugged.. knowing very well he was about to set himself up. "I got stuck on the elevator." 'And here it comes...' He rolled his eyes as he mouthed the words at the same moment his father slurred them.
"You should have taken the stairs!"
He smirked, "Of course." Usually agreeing with his short tempered father was what got him to stop yelling, even if sometimes it only got him in deeper trouble.
"Okay, enough time has been wasted here today. The whole reason I called you here was because I think you need to be more active in the company."
Inuyasha's eyes went wide, not quite expecting that, but he wasn't interested. "What if I don't want to?" He rose an eyebrow as his father smiled at him and got a glint in his eyes.
His father let out a relatively satisfied hum. "If you 'don't feel like it'.. Then I don't think I'll 'feel like' paying your tuition... or rent..." His eyes narrowed as he turned to face his son, moving around his oversized desk to snatch the Coke from his hands. "..and I do believe, that it would be a rather nasty surprise to find that your trust account can run dry."
Inuyasha swallowed the lump that formed in the back of his throat. "So, what exactly would I be doing around here.. I mean, if I decide to go along with it." He knew he was backed into a corner,
but it made him feel a little better thinking that he had an option to it all.
"Oh.. I was thing along the lines of overseeing the interns for a start. Though I think you should have to handle more than that if you'll be able to adjust to the corporate world... so since you know nothing about credentials that I'm aware of, I'll have an assistant be assigned to you. You can run the general operations floor. Not much goes on there.. but if you screw it up, it'll get to me before my company goes under." With that he gulped down the Coke himself and crushed the can in his hand.
Inuyasha gritted his teeth. The idea of not sailing so smoothly through his laid back lifestyle wasn't exactly appealing. He'd never really had to work, and knew his tuition was a lot.. not to mention all the stuff he knew his dad did to keep him from being expelled. "..Fine."
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Kagome exited the stairwell after going up one flight of stirs to the fifth floor. She had her folder of recommendations along with her application and revised portfolio. It didn't seem very impressive to her of the actual contents, but she'd heard a lot about needing to be prepared at interviews like this, and she hadn't wanted to chance it. Then again, if that was really true, she should have probably came an hour earlier and taken the stairs. 'Damn storm...'The waiting room was nearly empty as she approached the secretary's desk with a polite smile plastered on her face, one that the assistant returned with a little too much enthusiasm.
"Koniichiwa Miss, how may I help you?"
Letting out any nervousness she had, she placed the folder on the desk in front of her.
"Unfortunately, I was held up by the storm in an elevator, and was wondering if there was any chance at ALL, that my interview might still be possible."
The young woman at the desk just kept smiling up at Kagome like she had some kind of over-
cheeriness syndrom, and took the folder, opening it up to look at the contents, nodding her head as if she were seeing things she liked on the papers. "Okay, well, since it doesn't seem to be your fault that you were delayed for your interview, I'll have my employer take a look at your credentials, though unfortunately his schedule is very busy and you wont get to meet him in person. Okay?" A smile lit her face again as she set Kagome's file on top of a stack at the side of her desk by a doughnut box.
Kagome's face lit up that she might not have to die from minimum wage after all, and smiled more boldly back before tuning to head back to the stairwell. After all, there was no need to risk becoming prisoner to the storm again "Thank you." 'YES!'
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Mr.Sirosenshi strummed his fingers rhythmically on the desk, his nails clicking against the glass top. He was satisfied that his son had come to his senses and not refused his biding, but now it was more a matter of finding him an assistant whose head he wouldn't wind up ripping off. Or perhaps, he shouldn't have to worry about that at all. "Hmn.." He pushed a button on his phone and his assistant cheerily answered the line."Yes Mr.Sirosenshi, how can I help you?"
"Lily, please connect me to Sesshomarrou's line."
"Right away sir."
A brief moment of classical music playing in the background was heard before a couple droning rings and a click that showed his elder son had come onto the line. "What is it father?...Are you bored with golf and leisurely activities again?"
He rolled his eyes as he stopped the strumming on the desk, adjusting his tone to a more business-like manner rather than just a father. "No, unfortunately for you. I have called on more business type matters."
His sons voice was hollow, arrogant as it always was. "I'm listening." He was a prick.
"It appears your brother has finally come around, and will be more involved in the company from now on. He will be running the general operations floor."
"HALF-brother.. and are you sure he is fit for the operation-"
"Just find him an assistant." With that he disconnected the line with his son, not caring to continue on their little 'small talk' routine when it always would end the same way. Yelling. He popped an asprin into his mouth and took a sip of water to wash it down.. '..it's for the best..it's for the best..' Though somehow, even in repeating that over and over in his head, images of his company burning to the ground and his two son still fighting in the middle of it all seemed to surface.
Beep. "Lily.. please send in my masseuse."
"Right away sir." Click.
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Rin watched from her desk as Sesshomarrou came storming angrily from his office, stopping at her desk to take a doughnut from the box. She smiled up at him with her usual super-cheer but it was all too obvious he wasn't exactly in the best of moods.
He came around to the other side of the desk and began shuffling through the folders that had been on the corner of the desk for him from interviews. "These the interns?" He stopped flipping through them and set them back on the desk.
"Yes they are sir. Oh and-"
"Good. Who's this?" He didn't really wait for her to respond, just took the folder off the top and tossed it in her lap as she sat back from her computer. "Great, call her and tell her there's a position that just opened. Assistant of general operations." With that, he took his mug of coffee from off of the filing cabinet across the room and left to blow off some steam. He could have cared less as to who was the assistant to his half-brother. 'He'll screw up anyway.. anyone in that pile wont last a week...'
Rin just watched as her employer left, and placed the file in front of her. ::Higurashi Kagome:
She let out a sigh and dialed the girl's number, letting it ring before leaving a message on the machine.
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Okay, that's the first chappy! Whew.. wow, ok.. that was longer than I thought it'd be. Hope you liked it, if not shrugs.. But either way please review and tell me what you think. I'll try to update soon. Dewa ashita.()()
(n.n) Bunny
