Hello everyone! Sorry it took long to upload this chapter then when it did the first two, but my laptop got infected so I couldn't use it. Then, I finally got it fixed but the Microsoft Word wouldn't run so I couldn't use that, but I got I got it fixed and typed furiously to get this chapter done. So now I present to you chapter three of "A Chance of Fate"! Enjoy!
Disclaimer: I do NOT own any of the characters affiliated with Inuyasha. They all belong to the wonderful Rumiko Takahashi!
A Chance of Fate: Chapter 3
"Takahashi-sama, I can feel two demons in your office, are you sure they are safe?" Kagome was nervously standing in front of Sesshomaru's office and refused to move unless she was positive those to demonic auras were safe.
"Yes, I'm sure, Higurashi. Now move before I fire you." Sesshomaru was getting angry that such a small onna refused to move from his path because two demons were in his office. "Foolish onna. Does she think she can protect this Sesshomaru? I can strike her down right now, but then I would be short an assistant, and she is the most qualified assistant I've had yet."
Kagome moved out of the way and bowed apologetically to her boss. "Gomen nasai, Takahashi-sama. I do not mean to impose, but I would not like my boss to be injured in anyway." She watched as he gave no sign of a reply and opened the door for her boss. "Why am I even trying? He is a Taiyoukai and I am a mere priestess. I cannot protect him in hope of him remembering me at all." Kagome sighed and walked in after her boss the closing the door behind her. She was surprised to see how lavished his office had been. Tropical Mahogany made up his office walls while Cherry wood made up the floors. He had a glass coffee table in the center of the room with three black leather couches were posted around it. His desk was in the back, in front of a wall of floor-to-ceiling glass windows. A desk was adjacent to the main desk and had many file cabinets on the wall behind it.
Kagome put her attention back to the demonic auras she felt. She stood in shock at who the two demonic auras were; they were none other than InuTaisho Takahashi and Inuyasha Takahashi. "Of course, I'm so stupid! The stronger aura was Taisho-sama, the famous Daiyoukai, and his second son, the weaker aura for being half-demon, Inuyasha Takahashi. What if Taisho-sama remembers my mother!"
"Father, half-breed, why is it that you are in my office? Father you have work to do in your office and half-breed you have work you need to attend too." Sesshomaru was not pleased with the way his father and half-breed half-brother were in his office messing around. "Father may have started this company, but I worked hard to achieve it from him, and I let him stay here to work after mother died."
InuTaisho was leaning against Sesshomaru's desk when he walked in. "Now son, I know you run this business now, but you don't scare me! Who changed your diapers when you were a baby? Well your mother did… But I did as well! I came here to meet your new assistant! I here she's a pretty one and I dragged Inuyasha here so we can all welcome her to the Takahashi family! Now where is –Oh! Is that her sticking her head over your shoulder? Come out young one, we won't hurt you."
Kagome was looking over Sesshomaru's shoulder to get a good look of Taisho-sama and Inuyasha-sama; she didn't expect him to see her. But when he had seen her she had no choice but to come out of hiding to greet them. "Hello, my name is Kagome Higurashi and I will be working as Takahashi-sama's personal assistant. I know you well from magazines and TV." She bowed deeply to InuTaisho first saying, "InuTaisho Takahashi-sama, I look forward to working with you as the highest honor." She bowed next to Inuyasha, "Inuyasha Takahashi, even though hanyou, you over came all the harsh things said about you to get where you are today, and you have the cutest doggie ears!" Kagome stood back up straight and was confused as to why InuTaisho was staring at her with such a knowing expression.
Right when the young woman stepped in front of Sesshomaru he knew exactly who she was by name and looks. He was staring at her with complete surprise. "This girl is Harumi Higurashi's daughter. I remember her when she was just baby and she and Sesshomaru would have so much fun playing together. But then her father died a few years later with my beloved Sakura. It appears that Sesshomaru does not remember his first friend. Oh well." InuTaisho finally closed his mouth and walked up to Kagome. "Little Kagome-chan. Why how much you've grown." He enveloped her in a tight hug and all Kagome could do was awkwardly pat his back.
"Takahashi-sama, I do not understand what you are talking about. If you know me, I do not remember you." Kagome got out of the hug and went over back to Sesshomaru's side. "Takahashi-sama, what would you like me to do first?"
Sesshomaru gave no attention to Kagome and directed it at his standing father and Inuyasha who was sitting in his office chair. "First of all half-breed, get yourself out of my chair or I will maim you. Second of all, Father, you are going crazy and you do not know Higurashi-san." He watched as Inuyasha snorted and walked over to him.
Inuyasha walked over to the woman beside his brother with a wolfish grin. "Heh, so you're Sesshomaru's new assistant huh? Do you know what happened to his other twenty assistants?" Inuyasha's smirk grew when he felt the aura of the woman dimmer, scared. "They all quit because-"
"Inuyasha," Sesshomaru's voice dripped with venom. Inuyasha brought his attention back to his bastard of a brother. The look he was getting said it all clear and with a promise, 'Leave before I kill you." "Anything you wanted to say, half-breed, say it on your own time. Not when Higurashi-san has work to do."
Inuyasha snorted and turned his head away and began to walk out of his older half-brothers office. InuTaisho smiled at the long time bickering of his two sons. A small 'eep' was heard from the small onna standing beside Sesshomaru. InuTaisho looked curiously at her while Sesshomaru just stared at her with his emotionless mask. Kagome fidgeted nervously under the gazes of the powerful youkai's.
InuTaisho tried to relieve her of her nervousness by asking, "What is it young one? Do you have something to say?" He walked up to the girl and took her hand in his. "We will not harm you," he gave a look at his son, "well, I'm not sure about Sesshomaru, but I won't hurt you." He gave her a charming smile that ceased all of Kagome's worries, somewhat.
Kagome stopped her fidgeting and politely took her hand back from the Daiyoukai. "Well, you see Takahashi-sama's, I remembered my mama telling me of times I had with a family that was her boss, and before I came into work today she told me she used to be an assistant here. More specifically saying, she used to work for you, InuTaisho Takahashi-sama, and she would tell me I would play with a boy," she looked over at Sesshomaru who was glaring at her intensely, "even to be more specially saying, Sesshomaru-sama." When she was done talking her gaze shifted over the two demons she was in the presence of.
InuTaisho had a look of reminiscing and Sesshomaru had a cold look to his face. InuTaisho saw the doubt in his son's eyes and looked over at the woman where she was slightly shaking with more nervousness. He winked at her and watched as she stopped shaking a small tint of cherry colored her soft cheeks. "Oh ho! Sesshomaru! I cannot believe you don't remember your first friend! When Higurashi-chan worked here, she would bring Kagome over all the time to play with you. You even protected her of the workers you both didn't know in fear she would get hurt! You cared for her, a human onna. And we had planned for you to both be engaged at a respectable age!" He couldn't help but laugh out loud as his son turned flaming eyes on him and the little miko's face turned a deep tomato red. "Ha-ha! Just kidding! Welcome back to the Takahashi family dear! Just call me InuTaisho!" With that he walked out of his son's office and went walking along the hallway back to his office. "I bet that caused some old feelings and memories to resurface in Sesshomaru! Now for the hard part, waiting." As he walked along he whistled a tune showing his delight.
Sesshomaru turned his attention back toward his new assistant. "You will be working at that desk completing forms, arranging my appointments and etc." He pointed to a Red Oak desk adjacent to his Santos Mahogany desk. "Sit. You will start by organizing all appointments I have in this month and next. Simple enough task for a mere human such as you. Get to work." He went to sit in his desk and started shuffling through his paperwork. He noticed the slight scent of anger coming off the little onna. He looked up at her expectantly, "What is it now? Should you not be working?"
Kagome glared harshly at her boss. "That's the thing! Just because I'm working for you now doesn't mean you can boss me around! And I'm not some mere human. You can tell me what I need to do, but not what to do. Clear? Boy, I never thought you would grow to such a cold person…" She made a point to mutter the last part. She walked over to her new desk and began reading through the small post-its of appointments made and wrote them down in a journal that was left on her desk.
"Who does foolish girl think she is? She seems very…nice, but has the stubbornness as a little spit fire in her personality… It will be quite interesting to see how she is when riled up. Her cheeks turning an adorable pink- What, what? Snap out of it Sesshomaru. She is a weak human being, a miko, an enemy to our kind…" Sesshomaru's thought's rung threw his head.
"Do you not remember Sesshomaru? Do you not remember her and you as children? She would comfort you when the school children did not talk to you because you were the only demon? And she was, and is, a miko! She is different. Do you not remember when you protect her from the unwanted suitor males she had? She attracts trouble and will attract trouble again, but for the sake of saving you." His demon was barking at him for be just as foolish as she was. Sesshomaru growled at his inner demon and pushed him back in the deepest part of his mind. He would gain dominance over this onna, whether she liked it or not. He would not care for a human. They are insufferable creatures, mundane.
"Takahashi-sama, are you alright?" Suddenly he felt a prickling sensation of miko power. "Takahashi-sama, snap out of it!" He felt a burning sensation. He came out of his thoughts and turned to glare at her.
"What is it now? Will you never stop pestering me? What is it then get back to work!" He growled out at her. She was trying his patience and he didn't like it. She would be the end of him soon and he would not allow that.
She returned and equally strong glare back at him; her cheeks starting to glow a soft red. "Well excuse me! I was starting to worry since your eyes were turning a blood red and you were staring off into space! I never knew how much you grew into a heartless prick!" She turned back to her job at hand and began furiously writing away in her journal. He huffed a few times and glanced at him in the corner of her eyes. "Will you stop staring at me now? I'll stop talking if you stop staring at me you pompous pervert."
Sesshomaru got up from his desk and walked in front of Kagome's desk. She looked up between thick lashes and gave a snort. "And you say I bother you?" She rose from her seat and glared at him. She stood a head short, even in 3 inch heels, and raised her chin defiantly at him. "You want a challenge, pretty boy?"
Sesshomaru narrowed his eyes dangerously at her, "You will submit to me, miko. I am your higher up; you will stand down, regardless if we were childhood friends. That was in the past and will not resurface again, I despise humans. They are worthless creatures." He growled low and warningly at her, as if to dare her to challenge him.
Kagome's aura flared in anger and she put a hand up and let an amount not to powerful, but powerful enough to harm the Taiyoukai, the smell of burnt fabric in the air. "You complete jerk! I was your only friend as a child! I will continue to work for you only because the rest of my family needs the money! Unlike you, I am not born into a rich family; I work to earn money, instead of just sitting on my butt getting paid for doing nothing. My family is in a crisis and I'm the only one working! I worry about you on my first day and this is how you treat me? I would give my life to protect you because you were a friend and I care about you!" Kagome was trying in an attempt to calm herself from her raging feelings. Her hair was bristled from the anger in her aura and her cheeks were a flaming pink while her eyes were shining like sapphires.
Sesshomaru stood emotionless at the girl in front of him. "She is a fool. I would strike her down and I can handle myself. But does she absolutely look pretty when she's riled up… Stop thinking that!" Sesshomaru pushed his unwanted emotions for her into a small can in the back of his mind. Then something caught him, "She gives her hard earned money to her family? What has happened to the family of the famous Higurashi Shrine? Father told me stories of the Higurashi family just above middle class but just below upper class." A new scent hit him and he focused back at her face.
"Gomen nasai, Takahashi-sama! I did not mean to be so rude!" Kagome blushed and bowed deeply in front of him. "But I will not submit to you." She smirked at him when he looked surprised. "I may be a human miko, but I will not give up so easily! Now if you'll excuse me, I have work to get back to and I think you do too!" She tapped him on the nose gently a few times before she sat down and began to write away in the small journal.
Sesshomaru stood there for a moment perplexed before shaking himself out of his thoughts and walked back over to his desk. "Foolish girl… She will cause nothing but problems and her loud mouth will be the end of her… But, it is exciting to have something new to play with who fights back, unlike all my other employees who are afraid… That half-breed and father get boring after a while. Let's see how long she lasts…"
Well now I'm off to start chapter four for you little fritters! :3 I wasn't to positive if you guys would like this chapter so I was hesitant to upload this chapter and trash it. :| I can't tell if Sesshy is OOC or not. Anyway, tell me what you guys think in the reveiws! Chow for Now! :D