To Trust the One You Love

Chapter 3:

Waiting and a Meeting

The two were sitting on a couple chairs in the corner of the room. Kagome was leaning against Sesshoumaru with her eyes closed. Sesshoumaru had his head leaning against the back wall with his arms crossed in front of his chest. Noticing Aiden walk in Sesshoumaru lightly nudged Kagome. Straightening up Kagome looked over at Aiden and watched him walk over to them and sit down. Aiden slouched down in his chair and told them where Nami was and of course Kagome being who she was, quickly left to go find her. Both men laughed, getting a kick out of her antics, the woman was such a worry wart.

Soon, a few hours later Kagome and Nami were still gone with Von and Tiara, most likely still doing testing. Aiden made a make shift bed by lying across a few chairs. Sesshoumaru on the other hand was still in the same spot with his arms folded across his chest, but now with his eyes closed. They were completely board and Aiden proved it by starting at the ceiling, counting all the dots. Just exactly how many tests were they going to do? He heaved a sigh and twisted around to look at Sesshoumaru then shook his head. How his father could hold still for so long was beyond him. It seemed like his father had never ending patients.

"Is there something you wanted Aiden?" Sesshoumaru opened an eye.

"How did you know I was looking at you?" Aiden asked.

"I'm like your mother, I know everything" Sesshoumaru answered closing his eye.

"When will Nami be done?" Aiden questioned.

Sesshoumaru opened both of his eyes and looked at Aiden, causing him to laugh.

"I thought you knew everything" Aiden said.

Sesshoumaru paused for a moment then spoke up "Kagome is back."

Just a second later Kagome walked through the door and Aiden laughed "You cheated."

"How did I cheat?" Sesshoumaru asked.

"You heard her coming" Aiden said.

"What's going on?" Kagome asked looking at the two.

"Dad said that he knew everything" Aiden looked over at Kagome.

"No, he doesn't" Kagome said as she walked over to a chair and sat down "I do."

"I don't believe any of you" Aiden finally sat up "Where's Nami anyways?"

"Sleeping" his mother smiled.

"Sleeping?" Aiden gave a confused look.

"Yep, sleeping" Kagome answered "Von is doing one of those sleeping things, you know, when they measure your sleeping patterns or something."

"Ok, how long is that supposed to take?" Aiden asked.

"Probably just an hour, Von and Tiara wants to see if she will have one of those dreams she always gets" Kagome leaned against Sesshoumaru.

"Then I'm taking another nap" Aiden laid back down across the chairs. Kagome laughed and Sesshoumaru shook his head. That boy was lazy. Sesshoumaru shifted and wrapped an arm around Kagome. They just had to wait, just a little longer then they could leave and go home. Hopefully when all the tests come back everything will show up just fine and normal.

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A woman with a dark blue hair and brown eyes stood up from behind her desk in a large office and straightened out her light blue work skirt and matching top. She collected a small packet of papers and started to walk out of her office when her phone rang, causing her to stop. Turning around to glare at her phone she sighed and walked back over to her desk and answered the annoying phone.

"Zumi's office, how may I help you?" she talked politely into the receiver.

Only moments later her polite, sweet voice turned into one of irritation and annoyance "What is it now Izuru?" she sighed and sat on the edge of her desk "I don't care if you couldn't follow them into the building." Closing her eyes she rubbed her temples "Then sit there and wait for them to come out… no, I don't care how long it takes." She gave a loud sigh then hung up, not being very gentle with the receiver then stood back up with the papers in hand.

With a glance around the office the woman finally walked out and gave a smile to a few of her co-workers. Coming to the break room she stopped to pour herself a cup of coffee then continued her way over to a door with a sign on it saying "President." Tapping the toe of her foot on the floor she knocked on the door.

A light buzz gave her the signal and she walked in, closing the door behind her. "I have the papers" she waved them slightly as she walked over to a man setting behind a large desk, leaning back in his chair with his feet propped up "Well, most of them anyways."

"Where are the rest of them?" the man asked.

"I'm still working on them Katon, give me a break" she set the papers on his desk. "I'm doing enough work for three people."

"Alright, just get them done as soon as you can" Katon said.

"I will, and Izuru just called a moment ago" Zumi said then took a sip of her coffee "He's waiting outside the building."

"He couldn't get in?" Katon asked.

"No, so I told him to wait" she sat down in a chair by his desk.

"Good, we need to keep an eye on them for as long as we can and keep track of their every movement, what their schedule is, what the parents do on their free time and what the kids do on their free time." He leaned over and stole a sip of Zumi's coffee then continued "Same thing with their friends, we need to know everything about them, especially that one married couple."

Zumi snatched her coffee back "Right, we'll know more about them then they know about themselves."

"Exactly" Katon said.

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Everything was nice and peaceful in the waiting room of the doctor's office. Kagome and Sesshoumaru was a light conversation, waiting for that hour to go by so they could all go home. Aiden however was still asleep, laying across the chair of his make shift bed. Though the peaceful part was soon put to an end when Aiden yawned and stretched as he rolled over. With his bed only being so big Aiden rolled right off the chair and onto the floor with a loud thump. Kagome covered her mouth as she laughed while Sesshoumaru chuckled and shook his head as Aiden groaned and robbed the sore spot on his head.

"Our sun was defeated by a chair" Kagome laughed.

"Our son is lazy" Sesshoumaru said.

"I'm not lazy" Aiden mumbled.

"Maybe you should have come home on time" Kagome smirked.

"Alright, alright, I get it" Aiden yawned.

The small bashing period for poor Aiden quickly came to a halt when a sharp scream pierced through the office. Sesshoumaru was the first one up and running through the halls, followed by Aiden with Kagome right behind him. Sesshoumaru easily trailed Nami's scent and threw open the door of the room Nami was in without hesitation. Nami was sitting on a small bed, crying loudly as Tiara sat beside her, gently rubbing the girls back while Von took off the wires, monitoring everything about the child. The moment Sesshoumaru came through the door Nami threw up her arms as she continued to cry. Giving a small sigh of relief that Nami was alright Sesshoumaru moved over to the child and gently picked her up. Nami wrapped her arms around Sesshoumaru neck tightly and buried her head into his shoulder.

Kagome walked over to the two and lightly placed her hand on Nami's back and looked at Sesshoumaru "We should take her home."

"She's had enough for today" Sesshoumaru agreed.

Von walked over to the two "That was the last test for her, go ahead and take her home so she can rest."

"We'll let you know when all the results come back" Tiara spoke up.

"Alright, thank you" Kagome moved over and gave both her friends a hug then followed Sesshoumaru out the door.

Aiden gave a small wave of his hand as he left, following Kagome. Tiara sighed and looked at Von for a moment before the two began to clean everything up.

As the family of four walked out of the building Nami was still clinging to Sesshoumaru. Kagome was staying as close to Nami as possible while Aiden followed behind them.

"Aiden, you can drive my car home" Sesshoumaru said and shifted Nami to get the keys out of his pocket and handed them to Aiden.

"Alright" Aiden said as he took the keys "Where's your car?"

"Right over there" Sesshoumaru pointed to a silver convertible.

"Got it, I'll meet you guys at home" Aiden said then jogged his way over to his father's car. Once he started the car he turned the radio station to something he liked then pulled out. He watched his father drive out of the parking lot in Kagome's car with Kagome in the passengers' seat holding Nami. When they pulled out he started to leave as well, only to end up hitting his breaks as another car cut him off and speed down the street "Idiot" he frowned then finally pulled out and headed home.

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Kagome sat at her desk in the office reading over a few documents with a red pen in her hand, writing things down on the papers and crossing things out. Sesshoumaru sat at another desk across the room, focused on his computer screen, typing away. Missing one day of work and they miss everything. Paper work that was taking hours to complete made the day drag on like it would never end. Several companies hand wanted to merge with theirs and left stacks upon stacks of papers about their own companies and all sorts of benefits that will come from it if they merged. It was completely boring, all of the companies sucked. They were all low tech movie facilities that wanted their technology. But not just anyone could merge with Tashio corps, Kagome and Sesshoumaru saw to that. Their technology was top of the line and everyone wanted it.

Setting her pen and papers down Kagome sighed and folded her arms on the desk then buried her head in her arms. Sesshoumaru looked up from his computer and over at his wife. He watched Kagome sigh again then saved the data on his computer and stood up then walked over behind Kagome. When Sesshoumaru began to rub Kagome's shoulders she straightened up, closing her eyes and let her head hang down.

"Maybe I should have stayed with Nami today" Kagome said.

Sesshoumaru looked down at Kiri, still massaging her shoulders "Nami is fine, Aiden took her out to see a movie with Itaru then they are going to go over to Rin and Hideki's house once Rin is off work."

"I know but since we got home from the doctors yesterday she's been acting weird" Kagome said in a sigh.

"Kagome" Sesshoumaru turned Kagome's chair around to face him and knelt down "Nami is only five; she doesn't understand everything that his happening to her, she's confused."

"I know…" Kagome looked down "I just worry about her."

"It's alright to worry" Sesshoumaru tilted her head to look at him "I remember how much you worried about Aiden, but your going to make yourself sick if you keep worrying like you are."

"I know…oh, speaking of Nami" Kagome brightened up "I have to call the school tomorrow and sign Nami up for her first year of school."

Sesshoumaru smiled "Perhaps she will get Rin as a teacher; she is one of the kindergarten teachers there."

Kagome nodded then looked at her watch "Our client should be here for her appointment soon."

"I don't know why we're giving them a second chance, the first person they sent to meet us never showed up and left you waiting at that restaurant by yourself" Sesshoumaru said.

"Because its' a good company and the Vice President called and apologized personally, she's coming down herself to meet with us." Kagome countered.

"I will not go easy on her" Sesshoumaru stood up.

"Do you ever go easy on a client?" Kagome smiled.

"You have a point there" Sesshoumaru said making Kagome laugh.

Sesshoumaru patted Kagome's shoulder then walked back to his desk and sat down. Kagome gave another sigh as she picked up the packet of papers and began to work on them again. When the phone rang about twenty minutes later Kagome jumped, startled causing Sesshoumaru to laugh. Kagome glared at Sesshoumaru for a moment the answered the phone.

"Kagome speaking" she held the receiver with her shoulder. "She's here now?" moving the phone to her hand she set her pen down "Alright, send her in" Kagome hung up the phone then straightened up her desk "She's here, so be nice."

Sesshoumaru looked up from his computer over at Kagome and started to say something but stopped when the door to their office opened. A woman walked in wearing a three piece pants suit and her dark blue hair pulled up in a bun. Kagome stood up from her desk and walked over to the woman and shook her hand.

"I'm Zumi Hamako, representing Okeda corps." The woman smiled.

"It's nice to meet you, I'm Kagome Tashio and this" she motioned over towards Sesshoumaru "Is my husband, Sesshoumaru Tashio."

Sesshoumaru stood up and moved over to stand beside Kagome "Nice to meet you" he gave a small nod.

"Nice to meet the both of you" Zumi said "I'm glad you were willing to have an interview for my company."

"Well, it's a good company and I think that any medical facility that wants to expand their technology should be given as second chance" Kagome smiled then looked at Sesshoumaru "Right honey?"

"Hai" Sesshoumaru said "Let's get the interview started."

"Of course" Zumi smiled then followed Kagome and Sesshoumaru over to Sesshoumaru's desk.

Kagome brought a chair over for Zumi and another one for herself. She set her chair down by Sesshoumaru then smiled at Zumi. Sesshoumaru sat up straight in his chair and began the process of the interview that seemed more like an interrogation that an interview to Kagome. Zumi answered all of the questions without hesitating once and even added some of her own information. Needless to say Kagome was impressed though Sesshoumaru was another story. He looked bored and completely unimpressed with Zumi, of course he did say that he wasn't going to be easy on her. Kagome was ready to sign the papers to merge companies but Sesshoumaru obviously wasn't. After about thirty minutes the so called interview came to an end and Sesshoumaru stood up.

"Either Kagome or I will get back to you on our decision" he said.

"Thank you" Zumi stood.

Kagome stood as well "We'll let you know as soon as possible."

"I appreciate that" Zumi leaned over the desk slightly and shook both Kagome and Sesshoumaru's hand.

Kagome walked Zumi to the door then turned to look at Sesshoumaru once the woman was gone "So, what do you think?" she walked back over to him and sat on the edge of the desk.

Sesshoumaru said nothing for a moment, typing on his computer then looked up at his wife "There is not much on her background."

Kagome leaned over and looked at the computer "Oh Sesshoumaru" she sighed "You didn't just look up her file again, how many times are you gonna look at that thing?"

"I do not think that there is enough here to trust her." Sesshoumaru said.

"Give her a two week trial; if you still don't like her then you can fire her." Kagome begged.

Sesshoumaru sighed and looked at Kagome. He was never going to win was he? "Very well."

"Thank you" Kagome smiled then kissed Sesshoumaru on the cheek and skipped back to her desk. After all these years, she still acted like a child sometimes.

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Aiden laughed as he walked down the street with Itaru and Nami sitting up on his shoulders. They had just finished watching a movie at the theaters and were now heading over to Rin's place for a late lunch and maybe to do something else if they thought of anything. Their whole plan to cheer Nami up was working; the little girl hasn't frowned once since they started their day out. First it was breakfast then a walk to the park to wait till the movie started. Nami was loving it, she always enjoyed riding on Aiden's shoulders when they went out, he always made it fun.

"How's the weather up there?" Aiden looked up at Nami slightly.

Nami giggled and patted Aiden's head "Good."

Itaru chuckled and looked at the two. It was great to go out with Aiden, especially when he brought Nami along with him. He always wanted a little sister but his parents never had another child.

"I wanna see sissy" Nami said.

"That's where we're heading" Aiden smiled.

"Is Hideki gonna be there too?" Nami leaned to the side.

Aiden leaned as well getting a small giggle from the child "I think he's at work, if hi is we'll visit them again when he's home."

"Ok" Nami chirped.

"So, when's your next race?" Itaru asked.

"Not this Saturday but next" Aiden answered "That reminds me, when do you want to come over to help me and dad re-build that bike?"

"Is this Saturday good for you? I don't work on the weekends any more" Itaru reached up to Nami and tickled her.

Nami giggled and squirmed, slipping back on Aiden's shoulder's causing him to stop and try to steady her. Though that didn't help much because Nami kept on squirming and giggling. Aiden lost his hold on Nami and she squealed as she slid off his shoulders, having no fear about hitting the ground below her. Aiden took in a sharp breath and went to turn around to catch Nami but Itaru beat him too it.

"Got her" Itaru smiled holding up the girl.

"Jeez, don't scare me like that" Aiden sighed.

"Relax, I wouldn't have let her get hurt" Itaru hoisted Nami onto his shoulders "Anyway, you didn't answer me, is Saturday good?"

"Yeah, just as long as you don't break my sister" Aiden looked over at Itaru.

"Of course I wouldn't" Itaru smirked "I might just drop her a couple times."

"No, don't drop me!" Nami squealed and giggled wrapping her arms around the top of Itaru's head.

"I wouldn't do that" Itaru laughed.

"The three continued on their way to Rin's house with Nami on Itaru's shoulders the rest of the way there. When they made it Rin was just pulling into the drive way. Nami smiled and wiggled around till Itaru took the girl off his shoulders and set her down. Once she was down Nami ran over to the drivers' side of the car, hopping up and down, waiting for Rin to get out. Rin smiled as she gathered some of her papers form the passengers seat beside her, she could see Nami out of the corner of her eye. The girl was too full of energy to stand still which reminded Rin a lot of herself when she was younger; too hyper for her own good. Making sure Nami was far enough away from the door or was at least paying attention so she wouldn't get hit when she opened the door and got out. The moment Rin stepped out of the car Nami smiled and wrapped her arms around Rin's legs in a hug.

"I'm happy to see you as well" Rin giggled.

"Bro bro took me to see a movie with Itaru" Nami smiled up at her sister.

"That's great" Rin smiled then looked over at Itaru and Aiden. "So, is the plan still to go out for a late lunch?"

"Yep, some where we can get coffee for us and something for Nami" Aiden said.

"I want a cookie!" Nami waved her had in the air.

"Well we can get both of those at any coffee place" Itaru looked at Rin, "Where too?"

"There's a coffee shop down the street that's pretty good and we can walk there, how about that?" Rin said as she headed over to the front door of her house, the three following behind her.

Rin unlocked the door and let the others in then set her things down "Just let me go change" she walked down a hall then up the stairs.

Aiden walked over to the couch and sat down while Nami pulled Itaru over a bird cage holding a cockatoo, Hideki's bird Taki. Nami loved to spend her time playing holding Taki whenever she came over. Hideki was always holding the bird and teaching it new works, smart bird too. When ever Hideki came home Taki would always say "Honey, I'm home" a phrase Hideki would use often. Though Rin didn't do much with the bird ever since it bit her and she had to get stitches. To her, it was a bird from hell and it wanted to kill her. Nami smiled and pet the bird though the cage as Itaru stood behind her. He wasn't very fond of birds but he was happy to watch Nami have her fun.

Rin walked down the stairs and came into the living room "Alright, ready."

"Then let's go" Aiden stood.