Chapter two is up. yay!!
Chapter 2: Your heart isn't exactly breaking
Inuyasha searched the club for his best friend, but she was nowhere to be found. Finally, he came upon Miroku and Sango and asked them where she was.
Sango shook her head as Miroku replied, "She's out on the floor."
A snort came from Sango.
Inuyasha raised a brow, but went out on the dance floor. It wasn't hard to get through, since people were crowded around one couple. He tapped a guy on the shoulder.
"What's going on?" Inuyasha asked.
The guy smiled, "The singer's getting it on with some guy. They're going at it like no one's around."
Singer? No, it couldn't be.
Inuyasha pushed his way through the crowd, and there she was.
Kagome, bumping and grinding like there was no tomorrow. And she was with…
'My brother?!?!?!'
Kagome felt Sesshomaru's hands on her waist, pulling her even closer. She smirked.
"Trying to slow me down?" She whispered sexily.
He just growled into her ear.
She shook her head laughing. That's when she heard it.
"Kagome! Kagome!"
She opened her eyes, and there stood Inuyasha. As soon as she did so, the music ended. She pulled away from Sesshomaru as if he were the plague. Sesshomaru looked at his brother in a daze. He was still shocked from the intensity of Kagome's dancing.
"Oh my God." Inuyasha whispered.
"My God, too." Kagome muttered.
Sesshomaru then noticed his brother.
"Inuyasha."
Inuyasha shook his head, "Kagome, what in the hell were you doing?"
Sesshomaru rolled his eyes.
"Isn't it obvious? She was dancing with me."
Kagome turned her head and smiled at Sesshomaru.
Inuyasha was in shock.
"Inuyasha?" Kagome said sappy sweetly, "You're here with your wife. Go play with her. I was having fun for the first time in six months."
Sesshomaru twirled Kagome around so that she was facing him. He looped his arms around her waist and smiled.
'A smile from Sesshomaru?' Inuyasha thought, 'Something is definitely wrong here. I'll find out on Monday.'
Kagome sat her briefcase on her desk and sighed at the infinite amount of paperwork on her writing table.
"Ahh, shit. Mmmn, when are we gonna get over this rush?"
'Maybe you could call your boyfriend and ask.'
Okay, he is so not my boyfriend. All we did was dance.
'And THAT'S why you can't stop thinking of him.'
Hursh! Hursh your fucking bob!
'Ladies and gentlemen, The award for most retarded comeback goes to…'
"Kagome."
Kagome looked up to see Inuyasha poking his head out of his office sadly.
"Yeah, Inu?" She said sweetly.
"Can you come in here?"
"Yeah, of course."
Kagome entered the office and leaned on his desk, asking, "Nani?"
"Of all people, Kags. Out of the millions of guys who want you, you had to pick Sesshomaru?"
Kagome stood back up.
"Of the millions of guys? Inuyasha, the only guy I ever really wanted was you, and obviously, that ain't gonna happen." She turned around. "I'll probably never see him again anyways. I've been working here how long and I hadn't ever met him till-"
As she was speaking, she walked out of the office and saw a tall figure.
"Sesshomaru?!"
The demon nodded at her.
"Good morning, Kagome. Is Inuyasha in there?"
Kagome nodded absent-mindedly.
"Yeah."
Sesshomaru hadn't come out for three hours, and when he finally left, he said nothing to Kagome, which infuriated her.
Typical guy! Dirty dancing, then no call, no, "I had fun," no freaking shit!
But as soon as those words popped into her head, she saw a Post-It note on her computer in unfamiliar handwriting that said, "Sesshomaru. 342-345-8536"
She smiled softly and tucked it in her purse. As she heard a heavy sigh from Inuyasha's office, she rushed in worriedly.
"Inu-chan? Are you alright?" She asked, laying a hand comfortingly on his shoulder.
"Kags, my dad died."
A small gasp was all he heard.
"Gomen nasai." She whispered.
"It explains the case rush. I just don't know what we can do. Sesshomaru doesn't care if we have a merger, and well, if he doesn't back us, then we're screwed… We'll lose everything…"
Kagome's mouth dropped open.
"…Everything?"
"I didn't stutter."
"Omigod." Kagome threaded her hands through her hair.
"Yeah. Oh your God."
Kagome picked up the Post-It, wondering if she should call.
'Oh, get over it. Your nerves are nothing. You have to protect Inuyasha. You have to.'
Is that all I want from him? To protect my MARRIED ex?
'There are consolation prizes, Kags. Remember Friday?'
Shut it.
Kagome picked up her phone and dialed the number.
"Hai." Came the calm answer.
"Sesshomaru?" Kagome asked, praying it was him and not some personal assistant.
"Kagome." Came the response. "You want me to back him."
Kagome sighed, "Kind of. But I wanted…. Ahh, shit. Who knows what I want?"
She heard amusement in Sesshomaru's voice.
"Kagome, I'm going to back him. On one condition."
"What's that?"
"You have to transfer to my office. I want you in my building, as my secretary."
Kagome slammed her hand on the table, "But Sesshomaru! I'm Inuyasha's secretary!"
"He'd rather have a business than a secretary. Plus I'm sure you'd love not having to see his wife."
Kagome grimaced. "That was low."
She could've sworn she heard him shrug. "That's how I play."
She sighed, no idea how this was going to go.
"Deal."
As Kagome walked into Inuyasha's office the next morning, he rushed at her, smiling. Kagome tried to hold back the tears.
"Kags, I got a backer! Sesshomaru says he'll back me!"
As soon as Inuyasha saw the look on Kagome's face, he slowed down.
"And… you knew." Inuyasha turned, then looked back at her. " What was the deal?"
Kagome looked through the big glass window and said. "I'm transferring. I'm supposed to be at his office by three."
Inuyasha's eyes widened. "WHAT?! A transfer? Why? What does he want from you?"
She sighed. "I don't know…"
"You can't really leave."
Kagome looked at him furiously, saying a line from one of her favorite songs. "It's not as if I mind that you're heart isn't exactly breaking."
Inuyasha looked at her. "What do you mean? My heart is breaking! You're-"
"Nothing more than your secretary. Or at least that's how it's supposed to be." Kagome started towards her office. "Inuyasha, you gave me up when you said 'I do.'"
Inuyasha looked after her, his heart actually breaking as she took each step.
"Kags, this isn't fair."
"Oh? And when was the last time you were fair to me?"
Inuyasha walked in front of the door, blocking her exit.
"Do you want to transfer out of here, Kagome? Do you hate me that much?"
Kagome looked up, tears in her eyes.
"Every day here, I can feel my control on my life slip away. If I stay here forever, you'll not only end up with my heart, but the rest of me as well. And what sucks is that you don't even want it. And I hate that. I hate it so damn much. Sesshomaru offered me a way out, as though he knew I needed it. I saved your ass with this deal. Can I use it to save my own now?"
Kagome sighed as the elevator "dinged," indicating that she was on the top floor, where the receptionist told her to go.
She stepped out, seeing a nasty toadish-looking demon sitting at a desk.
"Excuse me, but I'm looking for Sesshomaru Taisho-sama."
The toad looked up, glaring at her. "And what is it that a nasty ningen onna would want from Sesshomaru-sama?"
Kagome glared right back at him.
"I'm Sesshomaru-sama's new secretary."
"Which means, Jaken, that you now answer to Kagome as well." Came a voice.
Kagome sighed once again as she set eyes on Sesshomaru. He looked so damn much like Inuyasha.
Sesshomaru sensed her sadness. He approached her, tilting her chin up to look at him.
"What is wrong, girl? Are you that sad that you saved your lover's company?" He asked.
Kagome slapped his hand away. "Inuyasha was not my lover. He was my boss and my friend. Don't misinterpret those things."
Sesshomaru scoffed and turned towards his office.
"My mistake. I confused what you wanted with what's really happening around you."
She blocked the way to his office, just as Inuyasha had done to her hours ago.
"Sesshomaru." She growled, malice changing her face. "You have no idea what I want. Don't ever think that you do. You'll end up wrong."
He raised an eyebrow at her, slightly wondering where exactly this was going.
She looked up at him again, tears in her eyes.
"And how do you presume to know what I want, when I don't even know?"
He wiped her tear away with his claw.
'Can't you tell that it's written all over your face, Kagome?'
There was no denying his soft spot for the young girl, especially after Friday. She was intelligent, fierce spirited, and was a great dancer.
Sesshomaru drew his claw back and went into a large office, which she presumed was his.
"This is your office now." Sesshomaru said, walking past her. "Mine is just through these doors. If you need anything, tell me, and watch out for Jaken. He hates any ningen he sees."
Kagome looked around the huge office, which held a fountain, sofas, a vending machine, a new Dell desktop, and a new small Gateway convertible notebook/tablet.
"This is all mine?" She asked, amazed.
Sesshomaru glanced back at her. "I treat my employees well. Even if they are human."
He walked through another door, slamming it behind him. Kagome crossed her arms angrily and pouted.
"I'm sure you do."
Kagome was focused on writing an e-mail to Sango, when she heard a bang come from Sesshomaru's office. Then, that nasty little toad Jaken came in, a cell phone in hand.
He put in on her desk.
"Go, little human. Take this to Sesshomaru-sama, quickly." He scoffed and turned towards the door. "And try not to be so incompetent as to anger him with your damn antics."
Kagome stood up angrily and snapped, "Wow. Who would've thought something as disgusting and retarded as a toad would speak such big words. Do you even know what they mean, little toad man?!"
Jaken glared at her and slammed her door shut.
"Ha! Stupid frog." Kagome muttered as she approached Sesshomaru's office and knocked on the mahogany door.
Sesshomaru vowed to kill Jaken when he opened that door. His so called "loyal servant" always had a way of inadvertently rubbing Sesshomaru's screw ups in his face.
But Sesshomaru stopped when he opened the door to see his secretary's delicate face.
"What, girl?" He asked angrily.
She held out a cell phone boredly, "I was told to give you this."
He inwardly smiled, glancing at the broken cell lying in the corner of his office. Kagome followed his gaze.
"Holy shit! That's a three-thousand dollar cell phone!" She looked at him, "How did it break?"
He looked at her. "Like this."
He threw the new phone against the wall harshly, taking his anger out on it. She looked at him as if he was crazy.
"Why do you do that?"
"Throw phones?" He replied, "Because the people on the other end are usually inept buffoons."
"So that makes it alright?" She asked.
Sesshomaru raised an eyebrow. "I thought I made a deal for a secretary. Not a mother."
Kagome growled, "Well, I'm so sorry! I'm not even able to afford a one-hundred dollar phone, so forgive me if I hate seeing people waste them, just because their tempers are short-fused!"
Sesshomaru walked towards his desk in thought.
Which one of us is short-fused, again?
He turned back to Kagome and held out a file to her.
"Fax this over to Inuyasha. It's the last of the financing paperwork for his company. I'm sure you remember his fax number."
Kagome snatched the file from his hand.
"You don't have to rub it in, Sesshomaru. It just makes you seem like the ass you are."
In an instant, Sesshomaru had his claws around her neck. "Watch your tongue, human. Or shall I cut it out and put it on display to make it easier?"
He dropped her flat on her ass and went back to his desk.
"Go. Before I decide to throw you against the wall."
Kagome huffed and walked out of the office. The last thing Sesshomaru heard her mutter before she slammed the door, was "jerk."
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