Notes
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Chapter 2- First Note
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Dear Kagome,
sorry we're not home right now, but we had to leave quickly. We just won tickets to go to Hawaii! I'm sorry we couldn't bring you because we knew how much school meant to you! Not to mention we only got three tickets and you know grandpa, he only has a short time to live and well Souta, "he needs a life that does not include video-games what-so-ever!" as you explained many times. Well sweetie, I left some money in my room for you to spend it on whatever! I have to go now, the car to drive us to the airport is here! Love you!
-Loving you always and never will stop, don't forget us, your family
Kagome glared hatefully at the note left to her by her so-called mother, ignoring all the spelling and grammar mistakes.
"Oh yeah, we'll just leave Kagome here in a hell-hole called school where she can have fun!" Kagome said as sarcasm dripped from her words.
The house was quiet and the day was beautiful outside, so it only meant...
"Time to get a job Higurashi," Kagome said.
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"Hi, can I apply for a job here?" Kagome asked and jerked her thumb towards the sign that said 'Help Wanted'.
"No."
Kagome blinked. "What?
"I said no. You deaf woman?" the male behind the counter said.
Kagome's eyes flared with anger. "I did not mean that. I meant why can't I apply?"
"If I told you, you would slap me."
"Tell me! Why can't I apply!"
The male looked at her cooly and smirked. "'Cause you're ugly. You're going to scare away all my customers."
"Inuyasha, don't tell me you're scaring away all the customers!" a voice yelled from the back room.
"Look who's talking!" Kagome said and stuck out her tongue at the angry male. "So, can I apply for a job?"
"Yes you can, but not here," Inuyasha said and glared at the annoying girl.
The girl had bluish-black hair that went up to the middle of her small back. She had one mesmerizing blue eye and one hypnotizing brown eye. Her skin was slightly tanned and her small frame was toned. She wore basketball shorts that went a centimetre under her knees and a dark blue tight-fitting shirt. She had long, toned legs and a very curvy body.
"Hello! Can I apply?"
She may have one hell of a body, but she's annoying as hell. "No." She also have some funky eyes. "Are you wearing contacts?"
"No! They're natural-"
"Why would you want to work here out of all places?" a man walked out of the backroom and stood beside the glaring male.
"One: this was the first place that I saw the sign," Kagome pointed at the sign and continued, "And Iwas too lazy to keep finding another one. Two," Kagome held up two fingers and smiled. "I'm pretty good at handling weapons, preferably bows and arrows."
Inuyasha snorted. He stuck out his first finger. "One: This is a sword's store. We sell and fix swords. We do not have bows and arrows and we do not hire lazy-assed people," he stopped and stuck out two fingers, just like Kagome had. "And two: You're ugly."
Kagome clenched her fists and tried to calm down. "I can do swords too. My...uh father... taught me how to handle them and how to sharpen them."
The older male noticed the slught hesistation when she mentioned her father.
"Let's see what you can do. Inuyasha, go get a dull sword in the back and bring it here."
"What am I? Your damn fetch dog?" Inuyasha said and stormed off, not without glarting at Kagome and the other male.
"Don't mind him. I am Sesshomaru Tashio," Sesshomaru stuck out his hand and Kagome shook it firmly. "That was my idiotic brother, Inuyasha."
Kagome nodded and smiled. "My name is Kagome Higurashi."
Inuyasha came back, still glaring at Kagome who glared right back. He handed her a dull sword and Kagome took it and eyed the sword.
"Do you want me to get the power tools to sharpen the sword" Sesshomaru asked. Inuyasha rose an eyebrow and got his brother's drift and smirked.
"No, it'll damge the sword's temper and heat treatment, as the friction heats up the blade. If you do use a power tool, use a Makita wet grinder to fix up a badly chipped blade. The Makita wet grinder's wheels will slowly turn, and the water will keep the blade from overheating," Kagome said easily.
Sesshomaru and Inuaysha were amazed, but it looked like Kagome was not done yet. "If a sword's too sharp, it will lose its edge and you might even chip or break it if you use a very sharp blade to cut something."
Kagome looked up from the sword and stared at the Tashio brothers. "Can you get me a metal file, a whetstone, oil for the whetstone, a 3M 400 Grit Emery paper, some paper, to wipe stuff with y'know and a block of wood and some elbow grease please?"
Inuyasha went to the back room numbly, shock over-riding all his senses. "How'd she know all that?"
Once Inuyasha handed the said items to Kagome, she started sharpening the dull sword. Soon, a new sharp blade was placed in Sesshomaru's shocked hands.
"You're hired..." Inuyasha said.
Kagome squealed and jumped off the counter and pounced on the frozen male. "Thank youuu!"
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As Kagome arrived at her home, she noticed a note lying on the kitchen table. "Huh? That wasn't there before..."
Kagome picked up the folded note, but the hairs on the back of her neck stood up on end.
'Go to a neighbour's house.'
Kagome's eyes widened in alarm. Where did that voice come from? Kagome decided to go say hi to her neighbour, and she pocketed the note and left the house. While she locked the door, she convinced herself that she wasn't going because a voice in her head told her so. She ran towards her neighbour's house across the street and knocked repeatedly.
"What?!" a grouchy voice yelled from behind the door. "Go way! I do not want to buy any cookies!"
"Please Kaede! It's only me! Kagome!" Kagome said quickly, her eyes still shined fear and her voice trembled slightly.
"Kagome!" The door opened and revealed an elderly lady wearing a robe and fluffy slippers. Her long gray hair was placed in a ponytail at the nape of neck and she had one eyepatch on her right eye. "Come in child!"
Kagome quickly rushed inside the house and sat on the couch, her hand in her pocket, clutching the note. "Kaede..."
"Kagome? What has gotten ye so scared?" Kaede asked worriedly.
"Kaede...it's stupid really! I don't know why I'm so scared!" Kagome lied.
"Ye are a horrible liar child. This Kaede may have only one eye, but she can feel your fear," Kaede said as she sat across from Kagome. "Child, tell me what's wrong."
Kagome sighed and took out the crumpled and folded note from her pocket. Kaede closed her eyes and started to meditate. Kagome rose an eyebrow and she was about to unfold the crumpled note until Kaede's old hand stopped her.
"Do not open the letter child," Kaede demanded and grabbed the phone from its perch on the table, which stood in between them. She dialed a few numbers and placed the phone to her old ear. "Hello? I would like to report a murder. 16375 95A Ave on Hanah Street. This is Kaede Minato. Thank you, goodbye."
"Why did you call the police? There's a murder at my house? Kaede, you are not making any sense!" Kagome panicked and clutched the note in her hand tightly. "There's no murder in my home Kaede!"
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It's been 35 minutes of silence until there was a knock on kaede's door. Kaede answered it and was met with an officer standing on her doorstep.
"Are you Kaede Minato?" the officer asked.
"Yes."
"Do you know what happens when you call the police department as a prank? No one is in the house. No blood, no evidence of a murder. You could be fined for this Ms. Minato"
"No. You cannot fine me, since this is no prank. Kagome, open the note now."
Kagome sighed and opened the note with trembling hands. It read:
Michasu Kuchinao is dead for commiting adultery against her husband
"Sir! We found a dead body!" a voice echoed from Kagome's doorway just after Kagome finished reading the note. "It's a woman!"
Kagome dropped the note and gasped. The officer who was talking with Kaede walked towards the other officer and followed him in the house, with shock written all over his face.
"How...how..." Kagome muttered and she fell to the ground. "How did...Kaede? What happened? Kaede, I don't understand...a body, in my home."
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"Well, that was fun wasn't it? Killing that woman for what she's done to her husband for five years. She deserved it," a man laughed and crossed Michasu Kuchinao's name off the parchment of paper with her own blood.
There were two figures who bowed in front of their master. One remained stoic and emotionless, while the other glared hatefully at their masked master. The masked man always wore a mask to cover his identity.
The masked man grabbed a peice of paper and wrote another name in it, using Michasu Kuchinao's blood as ink. Once he was done, he smiled at the name and smiled even more when he saw the piles of jars that held the eyes of those he killed in previous years.
The masked man looked down at the paper and said, "She may not have betrayed anyone, but she did break a rule."
On the paper written in blood was Kaede Minato.
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That was the site where i got the sharpening the sword things from, i did not make it up...so what you think so far? Let's try to beat the how many reviews my other story "Runway Angel" received and try to get more than 18 reviews before i reach the seventh chapter k? k! Let's blow this popsicle stand!
