Chapter 1
Kagome sighed and rolled her hands into her eyes. Years later, here she was working late nights and over time. She peered over at the clock at the wall and craned her neck. Luckily it was finally time to go home after doing a large data entry, and she stretched over the back of her chair and craned her neck. She rose from her seat, turned off her desk lamp, and began her trek home. She walked to the elevator, and didn't look back at the rather dark office behind her. Once again, her boss, Ryoichi, had asked her to stay late to put in more numbers due to the end of the year looming upon them.
She secretly thought he merely asked her to stay late to allow her to go into overtime due to her being a single parent of two rambunctious teenage girls. She smiled at the thought of Ryoichi being anything, but his rather stern demeanor. He was kind, but never smiled in the office. Though she knew he was capable of his. Because she had seen a side of him that no one else saw. He would visit her outside of work. And she knew with his busy schedule and running a fortune business, he was a man whose time was very important, down to the second.
And she thought of him as she trekked home. Every time he stopped by the shrine in order to make a donation, his smile always brought butterflies to her stomach. She truly admired him, but knew she could never be anything, but a worker in his eyes. She pressed the button for the lobby floor and entered the elevator without another thought. She sighed into the cold wall of the metal door. Luckily tomorrow was Saturday and the weekend. And her day to sleep in.
Her thoughts ran wild though. Ryoichi Koizumi. She smiled at his last name. It meant 'little spring'. It reminded her of the spring waters that had once ran near the shrine in the past. That spring which had always been so cool in the summer times, had always been so warm during the winter. She sighed and decided then she would enjoy a bath once she got home.
The doors opened and she eased out into the vast lobby. She eased outside into the cool night air and took in a deep breath of it. She looked up and saw the sun had just set and the skies above held only a bit of color left from the sun's rays. Another end, to another day.