Hello again everyone! I want to thank everyone for reading the first chapter and for the reviews! I was able to get this chapter done fast and have already started on three so I hope to have it done in a few weeks. Enjoy! - EvaC
Chapter Two (2)
Usagi had no idea how breathe taking beautiful she really was as she walked into the room. She had no clue how the new guys in the room watched her with mouths hanging and eyes wide as she slowly made her way towards her father who was trying to act like he hadn't noticed the guys.
One of those men in particular sat up straighter wondering who the beautiful individual was while checking her out from head to toe thinking of all that he wouldn't mind doing to her in his bed.
Usagi bit both sides, inside of her mouth and walked slowly not liking the sound from the tiny heels of her shoes but didn't really have many steps to take since the room wasn't that big. She walked to the left since Kenji's desk was to the left side of the room and he was standing in front of his desk watching her.
Usagi never noticed how when Mamoru had done a double take when he had first spotted her, trying to remember if he had ever seen her so dressed up, looking so mature. He looked to her hair when her back was to him, never before realizing it was so long.
Something in his head tried to come forth but Mamoru ignored it while looking back to the notes he had taken trying to ignore the one he thought of as a pest who had just interrupted the meeting. He didn't realize that Kenji had Usagi enter at that moment since it was a good time to take a break. Kenji also wanted to see if the papers in the envelope were the ones he'd been waiting a few months for.
If Mamoru would have been more observant of Usagi at that moment, he would have noticed her discomfort and if he would have noticed that discomfort, it would have upset him knowing deep down he was concerned about her well-being.
Once standing by her father and facing only him, Usagi handed Kenji the envelope, which was still in perfect condition, with a shaky hand. The man took and opened it while the others in the room looked at him or gazed at Usagi. Kenji looked inside before smiling and placing the papers and envelope down on top of his desk. He then moved to stand behind his daughter and placed both hands on Usagi's shoulders making her turn to face the others sitting around the conference table.
Kenji knew he might as well get her introduced so the new guys wouldn't gossip or keep asking questions. He stole a glance at one of the men at the table remembering how when the first time he had seen Usagi, that man kept asking who she was.
Kenji had to pull him and the other young man who had started at the same time into his office when Usagi had visited once and had to introduce them. Kenji had been worried at first thinking the one young man had been interested in his little girl but soon relaxed when the two started acting like they were long lost siblings. He relaxed even more when the other man asked his little girl if she had any girlfriends they could be introduced too. It was soon after that introduction that Kenji got the idea to have Mamoru train those two guys.
Usagi looked up from the floor knowing that Kenji was about to introduce her to anyone who was new. She looked at the occupants around that table with a quick glance and noticed eleven men at the table and all eyes expect two where on her. She looked over to Kiki who gave a gentle smile which seemed to relax the younger female.
"For those of you who are new to my company and do not know, this is my daughter Usagi, my only child." Kenji said in his deep voice.
Those who knew Usagi all gave her a nod, the older men in the room gave a gentle paternal smile while two of the youngest ones gave huge grins, and one even giving a tiny wave as his boyish grin grew only losing it and his hand dropping fast after Kenji looked to him.
Usagi noticed Mamoru was looking down at some papers in front of him, once again making her feel like she was nothing significant. It wasn't the first time he acted like that towards her when she had been at the business Usagi knew.
"Only child? I thought Mamoru was his." Usagi looked over to the brown haired man who she had heard talking before as he looked from Mamoru over to another man Usagi did know before back to her and Kenji.
"Yes Tsukino-sama sir, the way you always speak about Mamoru and what the others say…. I just thought that also." One of the other strangers exclaimed.
"Mamoru doesn't have any family." An older man at the table was heard saying which made Mamoru's head straighten up as his eyes moved around looking at the other occupants around the table.
Usagi held her breath wondering if Mamoru would say anything. She let her held breath go when she heard her father chuckle as his hand went to her shoulder as he stepped to her right side pulling her to him a little closer in a half hug.
"No Zoisite, Mamoru is my junior chief executive and answers only to me. I have finally decided that he will be your and Nephrites supervisor just like the other two which will be beneficial for all five of you. He is now in charge of our new junior division." Kenji said knowing that the five younger men were close in age thinking that it would be good for Mamoru the most to have coworkers who weren't so much older.
The older men in the room all nodded in agreement as they looked at each other then back to their boss.
Kenji glancing towards Mamoru who was looking at him then said, "I guess you could say he is the son I never had."
Usagi looked over to Mamoru who seemed to be beaming with pride even more when she noticed those two who had asked Kenji if he was his son, glimpsed at him. He was the youngest executive in the company and having four people now instead of two for him to supervise completely made him feel that Kenji trusted him even more since the four were older than him.
Usagi raised an eyebrow when Mamoru briefly made eye contact with her before looking back to the papers in front of him dismissing her with the look he had given again. She hated how he was doing that to her lately.
Usagi let it pass and looked to Kenji before doing a rapid glance around at the people in the room again noticing there was a total of eleven men around the table. Four of the men she had never seen before. She also noticed Kiki sitting in a chair right beside Kenji's desk.
Feeling like she was being watched close like never before, Usagi started to look around the table looking for who it could be but stopped when her father started to speak again.
"Know this everyone." Kenji started making sure all around the table was looking at him before he continued. "I would never exchange my daughter for another. Usagi… will be boss one day….. If and when I ever retire but I'm not that old yet so retirement won't be any time soon." Her father than said before laughing along with the older men while Usagi and the younger men along with Kiki smiled.
Usagi knew the truth that Kenji would retire when his wife told him to. She also knew that the older men were laughing thinking that she would never be the boss since she was female. Usagi wondered what the younger men and Mamoru thought about her being the boss one day.
She looked down then up at her father and made eye contact before Kenji gave her a playful wink then looked back at the others who had gotten silent.
"Mamoru introduce everyone to Usagi." Kenji then said before leaving Usagi's side to go back to his desk to sit down to chat softly with his secretary knowing that Mamoru knew that he wanted him to introduce only the new people.
Usagi held her hands together hanging down in front of her and watched as the four older men at the table who knew her started to look at some papers as they sat quietly reading and waiting. Only the four new men and the two guys Usagi knew, continued to watch her or Mamoru.
Mamoru gave Usagi another quick glance missing how she had relaxed when her eyes went to him. The glance he gave made Usagi feel like he didn't have the time of day to cater to her having seen the irritated look from his eyes before looking to his left to the man with the brown hair with his hazel eyes that sparkled as he checked Usagi out not in a uncomfortable way.
"Miss Tsukino-San this is Mister Moor-Kun, Nephrite Moor, age twenty-four, he will be helping Mister Jadeite Tome-Kun in marketing both in commercial and government. Mister Moor has been with us for three months." Usagi listened to Mamoru while wondering why everyone seemed to get to address him by his first name but her. Even those two had called him Mamoru.
She knew how her father was a laid back boss and didn't mind if everyone called each other by their first names if they wished too. She looked from Mamoru back to Nephrite who was grinning even more so Usagi shyly smiled back missing the slight discomfort in Mamoru's eyes that didn't go unnoticed by two of the men at the table who had noticed the double take.
"Next to him Miss Tsukino-San is Mister Langton-Kun, Zoisite Langton, age twenty-one, he has also been with us for three months and he and Nephrite just like Jadeite and Kunzite Zame-Kun, are both attending the same college and are in our work training program and like Kenji-sama said, I am their supervisor."
Mamoru paused to look at her to make sure Usagi was still paying attention to only him. Usagi looked at him wondering why he was putting San after her last name knowing he had never done that before.
Seeing that she was looking at only him, Mamoru nodded as he looked towards Zoisite missing when Usagi rolled her eyes at that last part of his little speech since she had just heard Kenji say that Mamoru was their supervisor.
Jadeite and Kunzite each noticed her rolling eyes and could tell that Mamoru was getting on her nerves which happened to them many times. They both knew how Mamoru would be over at her house many times and they wondered how the two acted there with one another.
Jadeite also wondered if the two were ever alone and if anything ever happened between the two. He gave a small grin before he glanced towards Mamoru thinking the answer was no. Mamoru just didn't have it in him while thinking the younger man would probably die a virgin, Jadeite felt a small humph bubbled up thinking to himself that Mamoru wouldn't even know what a female looked like under her clothes.
Usagi glanced to a smiling Zoisite noticing he had his long light golden hair, about the same shade as her friend Jadeites, pulled back in a low hanging ponytail.
Usagi suddenly thought that those four men who each had long bangs over their foreheads, she thought about how Jadeite was Zoisite age while Kunzite was twenty-three. She gave a half amused smile wondering what the older men in the company thought about the ones who had long hair.
Looking to Zoisite once more she gave a shy friendly smile and missed the uneasiness in Mamoru eyes, the two now more interested in their young supervisor and his expressions, didn't miss it. Both looking at each other to see if they had both seen what they thought they had seen.
Hearing Mamoru as he cleared his throat to get her attention, Usagi once more gave it to him knowing he would have tried to embarrass her if she hadn't.
"Zoisite will be working alongside Kunzite both training in the programming and software development, which is going to be part of our new division with IT which has to do with computers…. which are electronic devices that are thinking machines." Mamoru said smartly with a huge grin. He hadn't noticed his voice going a little higher in tone with that last part being happy with himself since he thought had had made her look foolish in front of the other guys.
He removed his glasses believing he had just told Usagi something she wouldn't have any idea what he meant.
'Take up our meeting time…. Dressed so… like….! And smiling… at them!' He thought to himself refusing to admit he may be jealous. All he knew at that moment was he was angry with her presence so near.
Looking down Mamoru missed Usagi having raised both eyebrows high as her eyes flew open and her mouth snapped shut as she looked straight at him while her chest started moving up and down faster as something inside her snapped.
Kunzite and Jadeite who had never heard Mamoru talk to anyone like he was a child, sat with mouths and eyes open wide. Nephrite and Zoisite stole a glance at each other also surprised by Mamoru who they had never heard him sound that way. He was always calm and soft spoken there in the work place. This was something new for all four of them.
Kenji looked to Mamoru as an amused smile started to form as he looked to see how his daughter was going to handle the young man knowing deep down it was only a matter of time that they butted heads yet again.
'Well Mamoru fireworks are about to start, let's see how you deal with her in public.' He thought leaning his chair back and waiting for the show to start.
Usagi had had enough! Really hating how Mamoru would talk down to her like she was stupid and couldn't add two and two together. Her livid eyes narrowed as her left eye started to twitch as both eyes stayed on him and only him.
"I know about the computer division and about the new Information Technology jobs, Ma. Mo. Ru!" She exclaimed stressing his name and not moving her eyes from his after his head whipped up and his eyes widened taken back that she had address him not only by his first name but on how she had pronounced it.
Suddenly ignoring everyone in the room as they were all now looking at Usagi as her right hand went to rest on her hip and remembering that night he wanted her to address him as only Senpai and the looks, like she was nothing that important, Usagi felt her heart beat increase as she and Mamoru locked onto each other's eyes and she continued.
"And Ma. Mo. Ru…One of my best friends at my school has a computer at her house and she's been teaching herself and US girls on how it runs having taken it apart and rebuilt it so it's not so big taking up so much room! Also Mamoru she is becoming an expert in programing! WE girls have even written and tested our own codes and software long programs, designing and transforming data with the codes writing those long programs in ITS assembly language which is often difficult, but WE girls are doing it so her processer is error prone and thereby Mamoru to help reduce programmer error in the long run!…. Which Mamoru, will allow her computer not to freeze so often… That means it won't stop…. Ma. Mo. Ru!" Usagi said the whole thing between clinched teeth feeling the need to show she wasn't just a pretty face.
By now both her hands were balled up hanging down her sides with eyes blazing on him while she thought about Ami knowing her friend would be able to give any of those men a run for their money with her smarts.
The two just continued to scowl at the other and like the other night at dinner, both refusing to be the first one to look away which stunned the men who worked alongside Mamoru, his action at that moment a total shock to them.
Everyone noticed Mamoru's chest moving up and down fast as he was breathing heavy thru his nose while his widen eyes both twitching but staying only on Usagi's eyes looking like he was about to stand up as his fingers gripped his chair's arms as he sat on the chair's edge. One leg bent at the knee and the other straight out under his chair.
Jadeite and Kunzite who had been bored when Mamoru had first been speaking then got interested even more when they had seen his discomfort especially when Usagi had smiled at their two friends, stole a quick glance to each other both beaming. Each realizing that Usagi was the only female to get any type of a male human response from their young supervisor who they had nicknamed Mamo-robot-san amongst themselves.
She was the only female he had even spoken to longer than a moment and had looked directly full on at, any other female he wouldn't look at but for a brief second if he did at all, they observed.
And now…..now the look in Mamoru's eyes!
Nephrite and Zoisite, who didn't really know the history of Mamoru and Usagi, but both knew how Mamoru acted with other females, glanced to each other again before both looked and noticed Jadeite and Kunzite both sitting back and grinning like mice while the cat was away, both guys now really wanting that meeting to end so they could ask their friends what the hell was going on.
All four guys looked to Mamoru as one, seeming to them that at that very moment, Mamoru acted like he wanted to jump over the table and either give Usagi a thrashing or a deep passionate kiss right on the lips, they all thought at the same time. Two hopeful it was the second, one so it would confirm that Mamoru wasn't a robot.
The older men who each sat straight up on the edge of their seats hadn't seen Usagi and Mamoru react that way towards each other ever. Each glanced between the two before looking to their chief since they could feel the thick tension in the air between the two youngsters.
Usagi not wanting to have to address Mamoru by Mister Chiba or worse Senpai in front of everyone since she felt she was right, broke off their contest. She then looked around the hushed room noticing that all the men except her father were around the table while Kiki was sitting to the side making Usagi think that the men didn't think she was good enough to sit with them.
Usagi recalled when she noticed out of the corner of her eyes when the older men had rolled their eyes when she was talking about Ami. Usagi knew they were old fashion in their way of thinking and just didn't believe that women would be able to handle a job like them.
She looked back to Mister Langton who she noticed was smiling even more having remembered how he seemed to be the only man who had looked real interested when she had talked about Ami's accomplishments.
Usagi uncurled her fists and stretched her fingers as she silently released her breath and noticed both Jadeite and Kunzite were grinning and each winked at her as their eyes sparkled with excitement.
'Whenever I get to be the boss I'll change many things in this business and have women doing those older men's roles. Show them women's lib is going to work!' Usagi thought to herself as she looked down and thought about how Makoto and Ami had been telling her and the other two about the new women's liberation movement that was starting to get more popular in their area.
Ami's divorced mother, who was a doctor that specialized in women's health, had been the one who was getting her daughter and her friends interested in the movement. Even going so far as putting the five on birth control pills while telling them how it was their body and they had the right to decide if and when they wanted to have children.
The woman wanted her daughter and her friends to be able to complete their education, enter the work force and plan their own life and to have fun in between without having to worry about an unwanted pregnancy.
Usagi widened her eyes suddenly realizing at that moment that she now really wanted to go to college to learn everything she could regarding a business and how to run it.
After Usagi had looked away, Mamoru blinked and looked down trying to focus while trying to figure out what had just happened and why he was feeling funny. He felt like he wanted to do something to Usagi but just couldn't figure out what that something was.
Usagi looked up and made eye contact with Jadeite who was still grinning from ear to ear with a laugh in his Amber eyes which relaxed her even more. He really wasn't much older than her and he was always nice to her whenever she showed up at the establishment. She suddenly hoped she hadn't gotten him into trouble with Mamoru knowing Jadeite had to report to him.
To be continued….
Sorry this chapter is a little short but I had to stop somewhere. I hope to have the next chapter up soon. Take care everyone! EvaC
