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You Found Me
Chapter 2
There was so much to do, and this had severally set him back.
Sesshomaru flipped through the documents in front of him in disgust with their incompetence. There were grammatical issues galore; misspelled names of very important clients, run-ons…etc...
That girl he hired had better be good, or heads would roll…or rather, come very close to it.
Someone would pay basically.
Sesshomaru pushed the documents to the far side his desk as he finally began to feel the effects of not eating the last eight hours.
The lunch Kagura had packed for him had already gone cold, but either way the bland cooking of their personal chief made the food unbearable. Kagura insisted he cook with no seasoning; because to her flavor was calories. And calories were the devil.
If he had not loved her so much, he would have long ago left her behind with her blonde-like thoughts and tendencies behind.
She accepted him the way he was: cold, arrogant and selfish. She did not try to change him, and for that, he was eternally grateful. Kagura never complained of his long hours, or demand he give her the most attention. She was a good trophy wife to show off at company gatherings, and she knew when to open her mouth. Moreover, to top it all of, she came from money, and made her own, so he did not have to ever worry she was sticking around for his.
Sesshomaru picked through his tasteless rice, before he gave up. Now if only he could change his wife's eating habits..
Kagome decided to take the long way home. She enjoyed walking a normal pace down the busy streets and observing people as they scurried in their various directions of life. She enjoyed passing different food stands and allowing the smells to fill her nostrils.
'Maybe soon I can afford to take Rin out, and we can buy hot dogs!' She thought with a smile as she rounded the bend to her street.
Kagome felt like a weight was lifted off her chest with this new job. She would finally have enough money to not live check to check and maybe she and Rin could hive nicer things.
The moment Kagome walked into the apartment she knew something was wrong. A dark cloud hovered in the air, and Rin was nowhere to be seen. She could hear Tenesha, the babysitter, laughing at something. Silently, Kagome prayed she was with Rin.
"Tenesha", Kagome called, her face flushing as a thousand thoughts ran through her head. Call it whatever you want, but Kagome knew when her sister was going into crisis, and now was one of those times.
She felt a different type of weight pressing down on her chest, and as Tenesha walked out of the back bedroom by herself, she knew it was because Rin was in trouble.
"Oh hey Kag." Tenesha said with a smile, hercell phone dangling loosely in her hand. "I didn't hear you come in."
Kagome's brow wrinkled at being called out of her name. She hated nicknames. But of course, there were more important issues than addressing that at the moment.
"Tenesha, where is Rin?"
Tenesha's smile dropped as she looked around the living room and noticed the little girl was not there. She had left her there, she didn't think to check back in on her, because she'd been having a really interesting conversation with one of her college friends. "She was right here when I took the phone call."
Kagome felt the last strand of her patience snap for the day as her fury was released on the poor babysitter. Everything she had been holding in for the day, as well as her concern for her little sister was released as she yelled at the top of her lungs.
"I wasn't paying you to talk on your damn phone! I was paying you to watch Rin! I told you not to leave her! If something happened I'll make you pay!" Kagome was so close to Tenesha and yelling so loud, she barely heard the soft whimper coming from down the hall.
Pushing the useless girl out of the way, Kagome made her way to Rin's room, and clicked on the lights to illuminate the room.
"Rin sweetie?"
Kagome listened harder, before she realized the whimpering was coming from under the bed. She dropped down on her knees and peered under, to see Rin sucking her thumb with her eyes closed shut.
"Come out hunny, I'm home."
Rin did not open her eyes, or take her thumb out of her mouth. She simple nodded her head no.
"Rin, please come out. I'm sorry I wasn't here." Kagome waited for her sister to reply, and when she did not she continued talking. "I got the job, so now we'll have more money. And we can go to the toy store, and buy new dolls. Or we can go buy new shoes. And we can go out for ice-cream, or hot dogs, or anything you want."
When Rin didn't answer, Kagome released a sigh. She didn't want to have to do what her next step was, it pained her to even say it.
"Rin, am I going to have to call Dr. Miyatzu ."
Kagome watched as Rin finally began to crawl from under the bed, her eyes still pinched closed. "Rin doesn't like when you call Miroku. Rin doesn't like it at all."
Kagome wrapped her arms around her sister, smoothing the younger's unruly black mane against her head. "Yes, I know sweetie. But what did I tell you about speaking in third person."
"Rin cant help it. Rin doesn't like when she's alone. Rin gets so scared. Rin gets really scared." She mumbled as she buried her face into her sisters neck. Kagome's smell always soothed her. "Rin doesn't want you to work, Rin wants you to quite. Rin cant be alone."
Kagome sighed as she mindlessly combed through her sister's hair. "Rin, this is a good job. We'll have so much more."
Rin shook her head, causing Kagome to rip some of her hair out in the process. She did not seem to notice though. "Rin doesn't care. Rin wants you to quite. Rin wants you to quite or I'm going to go away again."
Kagome sighed again.
'I cant deal with this. What am I going to do?'
"Um?" Tenesha said, appearing in Rin's doorway and looking at the scene before her a little puzzled. "Are you going to pay me?"
Kagome narrowed her eyes, but pulled a twenty-dollar bill from her pocket and handed it over.
"You told me thirty five."
Kagome stood up, still holding Rin in her arms. "Yeah, then you had my sister under the bed for God knows how many hours. Now get out before I take it back."
Tenesha huffed loudly before turning on her heels. "Freaks!" She called over her shoulder, before slamming the front door shut.
When she was finally one, Rin looked up at Kagome and smiled. "Rin is glad she's gone."
Kagome sighed as she moved towards the kitchen to begin preparing them dinner. "Yeah, me too actually."
The next morning, after waking up with Rin's foot in her back, Kagome got both of them dressed and headed down to her new job. She did not know how this was going to go over, but she just could not drop Rin off at preschool. She could not separate herself from her sister when she needed her most, and if it meant losing her job, then she could always go back to Wacdonalds.
Kagome walked into Taisho Corp with twenty minutes to spare, dragging Rin along by her hand. The youngster was currently being fascinated with everything, so not only was her backpack which held her coloring books, lunch and snacks, holding her up, but her curiosity was as well. She loved leaning back and trying to see all the way to the top of the buildings, even though Kagome told her to stop doing that or she was going to topple back.
"And where do you think you're going." The little green man said as he saw Kagome rushing to get the elevator. She had wanted to avoid him, or was at least hoping she wouldn't have to explain to him why she was walking around with a five year old attached to her.
"Running late gotta go!" Kagome rushed out as the elevator opened and she jumped straight into it. What she did not expect, was that Mr. Taisho himself would be on said elevator, and that he was holding a very hot cup of coffee in his hands. Luckily, when it spilt all of it landed on the floor, but after Sesshomaru looked up at her, he didn't look pleased.
"Good morning Mr. Taisho." Kagome said as cheerfully as she could. "I apologize for spilling your coffee; I can get you another one!"
He wiped imaginary dust from his fine black suit, and glared at her through thick grey eyes. "I can get it myself. I like it a certain way, and no one, including my wife, makes it the way I want. I'll just have to waste more time to go fetch it." He said as the doors slid closed and they made their way up.
The elevator was quite, until a tiny sneeze escaped Rin's lips. When Kagome said bless you, Sesshomaru looked down to see who she could have possibly been addressing.
"And what is that?" He asked with a slight sneer. "Ms. Higarushi, you are aware this isn't a babysitting or daycare service." There was enough ice in his voice to cool the sun.
"This is a Rin." Rin said pointing to her chest with a tiny smile. Sesshomaru's eyes narrowed even farther, if it were possible. "Rin came with sissy to work, because Rin didn't want to go to school alone."
Sesshomaru looked away from the strange child up at Kagome as the elevator doors opened. "Did you never teach her proper English?"
Kagome stepped from the elevator, still dragging Rin behind her. "She does that sometime. It's not often; she should stop in a few days."
"Whatever." Sesshomaru said as he began walking to his office. "You're desk is in the corner, I've left instructions there for you to do. If I catch you slacking, child or no child you will be replaced."
Kagome nodded in determination as she watched him walk away. 'For someone so incredibly handsome, he sure is a jerk'.
There was tons of work on the desk, but as she made her way through the items on his list, she noticed they were very simple task. She had finished over half of the list by lunch, and after her and Rin took a tiny break to enjoy peanut butter sandwiches and oatmeal raisin cookies, she began the task of finishing the rest of it.
"Rin is bored."
Kagome looked up from her computer at her little sister, who was idly swinging her legs and looking at the computer screen. Kagome didn't have to worry that Rin was reading over her shoulder though, the preschooler only knew basic spelling.
"Why don't you color?" Kagome asked, as she went back to typing her document.
Rin nodded and pulled every book she brought with her out of her book bag. After a few different pages, she noticed Kagome would stop looking up when she tried to show them to her.
'Well, Rin will just have to show them to someone else.' She thought as she climbed out of her seat and made her way to the office she saw the funny man head to earlier in the day.
Rin did not know why, but for some reason she really liked the strange man with the long silver ponytail. He had a mean looking face. But Rin didn't really think he was mean, Rin just thought he was like her. Sometimes, when her visions got scary and she felt really bad, she would still smile so no one asked her what was wrong. She would pretend she was happy until no one suspected a thing. And Rin knew that's how the funny man was. He looked mean, because maybe he was sad too.
But it was okay, Rin had colored him a picture.
She didn't bother to knock on the door, because Rin never knocked on doors. When she visited her grandma, or when she wanted something from Kagome, she would just walk in. So, it surprised her when the funny man looked mad when she came into the room.
He was holding the phone to his face, but the moment she walked into the office he placed it down.
"What are you doing in here?"
Rin smiled and took the surprise she had been hiding behind her back out. "Rin made this for you."
She held out her picture like a peace offering, but for some reason funny man didn't take it.
"And what am I supposed to do with that?" He asked harshly, as he looked at the small child with confusion on his handsome features.
"Rin made it so you'd know Rin and you are alike." Rin walked over to his desk and sat it on the edge. "Rin wanted you to know she knew."
Sesshomaru watched completely dumbfounded as the child sat in the chair across from him. What on earth was this girl talking about? And why had Kagome let her out of her sight?
He looked down at the picture, and felt something stir within him. The picture was of a rainbow, and under said rainbow was two stick fingers drawn in, on with long flowing silver hair and the other with puffy black hair.
"Rin knows you like it, even if you don't say so." She said with a smile as she observed his face.
"Rin has to go now, or Kagome will get mad."
Sesshomaru did not say anything as the girl left his office and shut the door loudly behind herself. He studied the picture for a while longer, and instead of throwing it away like he originally thought he would, he tucked it into the first drawer of his desk.
For the rest of the day, he could not quite figure out why though.
Sorry anyone is who possibly reading this. The chapter length will pick up. I work nine hours out of the day and I'm a full time student so I'm writing here and there. The chapter will get longer. Thank you for everyone who added the story to their alerts list, who favorites, and to my two reviewers. Originally, I intended to post once a week. However, if I can get five reviews from this chapter, i will post twice this week.
This chapter was meant to start building that relationship between Rin and Seshy, I hope you guys enjoyed it. Also, the chapter names are songs, so maybe you could put together a playlist the things I listen to when I write...But only if you want lol. Review please:)
