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Under False Impressions
Chapter 4: Delivery
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A loud, and high annoying, ringing noise reached one of the downy koinu ears of a currently sleeping Inuyasha. A strangled growl erupted from his throat as the noise refused to die down and instead grew louder with each ring. His fist instantly slammed down somewhere on his nightstand effectively stopping the high-pitched rings and busting into hundreds of little cogs, hands, and pieces.
The victim: his twelfth alarm clock.
"Ahhhh!! What did you do?!" came an equally high-pitched scream of horror. The visible furry triangle (for his other ear was presently being crushed into the pillow) twitched lightly at the sound and a pillow soon followed the twitch. "Ow! Just what the hell do you think you're doing Inuyasha?!"
"Fffuudddobb." Kagome guessed he was going to for: "Shut up."
Letting out a loud sigh, the newly hired "personal assistant" tossed the pillow back onto the enormous bed. "Inuyasha, get up. It's six thirty already so wake up."
"Muwador." Which she figured it out to be: "Later."
Kagome walked over to his bedside and placed her hands on her hips. "Inuyasha. Wake up before I do something very unpleasant to you and put something very unpleasant in your morning coffee and breakfast."
When there came no response, she poked his head causing his ear to flick. Grinning in a manner that could only be described by the word "evil", Kagome disappeared from the room. Five minutes later, she came back in, dragging a bag with her.
"Hm, let's see……this should go here…I think I can put a few more here……some of them can fit there…alright, I don't think he'll wake up, so just put that there………okay! Done!" She stepped back to admire her "work." There Inuyasha laid, clad in nothing but his boxers, with a puppy stuffed animal cuddled in his arms and a thumb placed in between his lips. All around his bed and around his body, many more stuffed animals rested in bunches along with little clothes for the plushies.
She pulled out a camera and snapped a picture of the sleeping hanyou before taking the polaroid and sticking it in her pocket. Satisfied, she leaned closer, placing her lips near his ear and smiled sweetly. "Inuyasha, I swear, if you don't wake up this instant, I will personally see to it that the world gets to see a picture of you in nothing but your boxers, surrounded by stuffed animals, and sucking your thumb." Then just for good measure, she added, "And I'll send a copy to your brother while I'm at it."
Bleary amber eyes shot open as he tried to assess the situation he was in. Sleep in his boxers? Well……actually he always slept in his boxers so that one was no surprise. Suck his thumb? What the hell was she talking about? He had stopped that childish habit twenty years ago. And stuffed animals? Ha, he stopped playing and keeping those since fifteen years ago…wait a minute. Something wasn't right. He could feel a foreign object in his mouth and something incredibly soft in his arms. And all around him for that matter.
Kagome grinned as she watched Inuyasha slowly come to realization.
Wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a damn minute! What in the hell was his thumb doing in his mouth and why in the hell were there plushies all around him…? Oh hell no.
"WHAT THE HELL?!" he yelled, jumping up at least five feet into the air while pulling his thumb out from between his lips. "WHY THE FUCK ARE THERE STUFFED ANIMALS ON MY BED?!?!"
"Think of it as…a form of revenge," she remarked, sticking her tongue out at him. "Now get up and for god's sake, put on some clothes! What are you? A helpless pup?"
Inuyasha glared at her back as Kagome walked out, the picture sticking out. He blinked a few times before it became clear to him just what the contents of the photo were and the words she had spoken earlier.
"Oh what the fuck! Blackmail photo?!"
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"Ah good morning Inuya-chan!"
"And what the hell makes it so good?! There's nothing good about the morning! And stop calling me that! It's weird!" he growled out, feeling unusually touchy. Of course, it couldn't be helped considering Kagome had continuously taken out the photo just to laugh and annoy the hell out of him. And then had taped a copy of the picture onto his mirror!! And the front door! And the car window!! And on the damn steering wheel!!!
Manami smiled as she replied, "My, my, quite grouchy today aren't we? Is it that time of the month already Inuya-chan?"
His furry appendages twitched as he yelled, "I AM NOT A WOMAN! And I thought I told you to stop calling me 'Inuya-chan'! I'm your boss for crying out loud!"
"So? Besides, Inuya-chan is a lot cuter than Inuyasha-chan and well…you always get mad whenever I call you Inu-chan. I don't have much choice now do I?" she responded, grinning. Inuyasha groaned. Why? Why in god's name did he hire her?!
Playful voice replaced with a professional tone, she spoke, "More importantly, Inuyasha. Your…your brother called. Or rather his secretary did. He says that he wants some of documents delivered to him because, and I quote him, 'I do not wish to have the foul stench of both hanyou and human assaulting my senses.' So he's telling you to bring them to him or something along those lines."
Oh right, because out of all the people who had applied, she was the only one that actually wanted the job to earn money. Not to stare at his ass or try to seduce him into bed.
"Damn it that bastard. Who the hell does he think he is? Ordering me around like I'm some stupid assed servant of his like that stupid toad youkai."
"I think he's an imp boss."
Throwing his hands up in the air, he said, "Who cares! Imp, toad same thing! He's an annoying lil bastard. Always sucking up to my brother as though he was the greatest youkai alive!"
Despite knowing that what she was about to say would only get her a glare and handful of colorful words in return, Manami couldn't help but point out, "But he is the greatest youkai alive Inuyasha. You just don't wanna admit it because well…because he's your brother."
And indeed, a nasty glare was thrown in her direction along with a few words that would cause nearly any other listener's ears to bleed. "Oh stop being so stubborn Inuya-chan. It's only true."
"Shut up Manami before I cut your pay."
"Tsk, tsk, threatening your workers. I could form a union to protest this unjust treatment you know. But anyways, why isn't Kikyo with you?" she asked, looking around for the raven hair.
Inuyasha frowned, eyebrows wrinkled in confusion. "Kikyo? What are you talking about?—Oh, her. Her name's not Kikyo by the way. It's Kagome. She came out on the blind date because Kikyo asked her to go pretending to be her."
"WHAT?! That little—!!" Manami yelled, slamming a fist down on the desk which shook violently at the action. "And after all the trouble I went through for that stupid blind date too! Arrrgh! What an ungrateful bitch."
"It doesn't matter. Thanks to Kikyo that I got to meet Kagome," he replied, allowing the first grin of the day to grace his lips.
The neko youkai peered at her boss, analyzing the grin in her mind. "Inuya-chan…could it be that…you've fallen in love with this girl? I mean, it's obvious that you're taken with her but…just wondering…as a 'precaution'. Ya know, since I'm worried for you and all."
"Like you said, I am taken with her. She's rude, blunt, and highly aggravating. Nothing really special about her to be truthfully. But love? Keh, that's just stupid Manami. The day I fall in love with her, or anyone for that matter, is the day that my brother apologizes to me," answered Inuyasha, the grin replaced with his usual, cocky, smart-assed smirk. And they both knew that a day like that would never, not even in a million five hundred eighty-three thousand seven hundred twenty-one years, come.
He wanted to laugh really because those words just sounded so damn ridiculous. They just prompted laughter and screamed absurdity! It was preposterous! Ludicrous! (And now he had to stop because…he just couldn't think of any more words. Damn his limited vocabulary filled mind!) Falling in love for him was like saying world peace would be achieved within the next two days, two months, two years, two decades, two centuries! It would just never happen.
"Yes, yes I get it Inuya-chan. But you could have just made it easier for the both of us by just saying flat out, 'I will NEVER fall in love'," she pointed out, pouting slightly.
"But anyways, yeah she's at home. I think she's doing the laundry or some other annoying household chore that I've neglected to do over the—what? Six, seven years? Oh well, who cares. I guess I'll have her take those damn documents to Sesshomaru. Bastard."
It seemed impossible for Inuyasha to say his brother's name without adding some kind of rude and highly childish name-calling—most usually 'bastard.' Manami rolled her eyes as she let out a huff and proceeded to point out the errors in his plans. "I don't really think that's the smartest thing to do. You know how much Sesshomaru hates humans. I don't know why though…they're not THAT intolerable."
Inuyasha's face contorted into a thoughtful expression as he let the words dance around in his ears and finally enter his brain.
"Oh yeah…"
The neko demon wanted to bang her head against the desk at his stupidity…no, rather his head. Why harm her own head for her boss's stupidity?
Waving his hand in a dismissive fashion, he answered back, "It doesn't matter. He won't do anything to her." Although… Yesterday's memories flooded back into his mind; the heated argument between his half-brother and Kagome. Well, one-sided argument really. Kagome was the one doing all the screaming and yelling, enough for the both of them. Still…the thoughts continued to gnaw at his mind.
"Uh Inuya-chan? ……Inuya-chan. ……Inuyasha……Boss? Inuyasha, you're starting to creep me out with that worried, thoughtful look. It makes it look at though you're thinking," called out Manami, staring at her currently spaced out employer.
"Wha? Huh? Yeah, whatever. Call Kagome for me and tell her to get those stupid documents to Sesshomaru, will you?" he remarked, stepping into his office with the most pensive expression Manami had ever seen on him.
She frowned at his uncharacteristic actions. Oh right, she had to call Kagome! Mulling could wait.
As soon as she had instructed what the young woman was to do, she instantly regretted it as the orders she had given were followed by yelling. Very loud and painful yelling.
"He wants me to WHAT?!"
The youkai on the other side of the phone winced. "Yup. Right now too."
Kagome groaned as she threw the duster onto the floor causing a white cloud of dust fly into the air. "You have GOT to be kidding me! He wants ME to go to deliver some stupid documents to his stupid, bastard of a brother?!" she screeched, falling down onto his bed.
Manami marveled at how alike the two were.
"That's what I said…A quick word to the wise, you may want to go deliver them now before Sesshomaru loses his temper or something. Not that it'll show, but he'll just glare at you a lot," she advised cheerfully.
Silence followed on both sides of the line before the raven haired woman let out an exasperated sigh and asked wearily, "Where exactly can I find him? And where are the documents?"
"The documents are already set out on Inuya-chan's desk and Sesshomaru…right now should be at his office! It's only about thirty minutes away from Inuya-chan's house."
Kagome let out another tired sigh and nodded despite knowing that she couldn't see the gesture. "Okay…but tell him that I'm going to poison his food later when he comes home."
"Will do!"
Hanging up, she stared out the window she had been window she had been dusting up until a few minutes ago. "Go meet that Sesshomaru bastard…huh. Damn you Inuyasha. I really am going to slip something into your food!"
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As Kagome stood at the front desk, listening to the directions being given to her, she had the strangest feeling of déjà vu haunting her senses. Oh right, she had already done this once when she was trying to be a good Samaritan and returning a certain idiotic hanyou's tie.
Getting into the empty elevator, she leaned against the cool glass material of the walls (the walls in this stupid elevator being mirrors), arms crossed. "What did I do to deserve this exactly? I'd much rather sit through another one of Naraku's long, creepy, and boring lectures than go deliver some pieces of paper to the most insufferable jerk in this world like a servant!" she ranted, watching the numbers slowly go up.
With a light 'ding' the elevator doors slid open granting her access into one of the most feared floors of the whole building. Not that she knew of course.
Fuming at Inuyasha's insensitivity and idiocy, she approached the desk once again of the assistant. Upon seeing the person—or rather youkai sitting behind the desk, all aggravation left her as she stared at the being, wondering just what the hell he was exactly. Some kind of a cross between a toad and an imp? Then a…tomp?
She stared at him, wondering if he was a toad, imp, or even possibly some sort of troll.
"What is your business here girl?" he cried, growing annoyed with her stares. He knew that she was probably wondering, just like everyone else that saw him!, whether he was a toad or an imp! How insulting!
"Ahh…that is……" Kagome continued to stare. For some reason, she just couldn't seem to take her eyes off of him as though continuously staring at him would help her come up with an answer. "I'm here………to see Sesshomaru……"
A beady eye twitched. "What is your business with Sesshomaru-sama?"
"Uh that is……I'm here to……deliver…documents," she finally managed distractedly.
Jaken, the assistant, let out a loud and annoyed huff as he answered rudely, "Just leave them here and I will ensure that Sesshomaru-sama receives them. And stop your staring woman!"
Unable to hold in her curiosity, she finally asked, ignoring his previous statements, "Hey, hey, are you a toad or an imp? Cause I just can't seem to figure it out no matter how much I look! I mean…you're head looks like a toad…but your body looks impish."
"I am a toad youkai human! Leave the documents and get out now!" he yelled, undoubtedly insulted.
"Oh…well anyways, I'm not leaving the documents with you. I was told to give them to Sesshomaru, not you," she answered indignantly, wondering if she had hit a soft spot with the whole 'toad or imp' question.
Jaken tried his best to glare at her as Sesshomaru would, but failed horribly. "Sesshomaru-sama has no time to deal and meet with a human woman like you! He is much too important and busy to be bothered by your presence!"
"So you're saying that he's too superior to meet with a human like me?" Kagome asked, rage rising within her again.
"That is precisely what I'm sa—"
The raven haired girl knocked his head with the bag carrying the documents and barged over to the doors leading into the said demon's office. Without even knocking (the action not even crossing her mind for a second), she threw open the doors and slammed them shut, unsuccessful in capturing the silver haired youkai's attention.
Already feeling aggravated with the fact that she had to meet him again and furious with the fact that he was too busy to bother with someone like her, his ignoring her only fueled her still growing rage.
"Hey you!! Stop ignoring me! You stupid, big-headed, cruel moron, pompous asshole, cold idiot, heartless bastard!!" she shouted, jerking her hand forward to point a very, 'I hate you and you're a complete asshole' finger at him, the bag hanging on her arm swaying with her movement. "I just came up sixty floors to come and give you these stupid pieces of paper and you have the nerve to ignore me and cast me aside because you're too busy and important to be bothered by someone like me!?"
Sesshomaru finished signing a few more documents before tilting his head upwards to stare at the noisy and rude intruder. His cold gaze turned on her as he set down the pen in a most gracefully manner.
"You are the one who chose to burst into my office in such a raucous manner without even being invited in. I have the right to finish what I was doing without regarding you whatsoever until I felt it was necessary. Oh, and do not throw your petty insults at me for words spoken by my assistant," he spoke tonelessly, face void of emotion.
Kagome flushed a bright red with embarrassment, becoming conscious of how true his words were. She had just hastily jumped to conclusions and then rudely barged into his office without any warning. If anything, she was the one being a rude idiot.
Swallowing her pride and shoving her previous anger down her throat, she forced out, "Ah…I-…sorry. I just thought that……sorry."
"On what business have you come? I believe earlier you had stated that you 'came up sixty floors to come and give me these stupid pieces of paper'," he quoted her, making Kagome's blush turn a deeper shade of red. Actually hearing the words being repeated from his mouth made her realize just how dumb she had sounded.
Stumbling over her first few words, Kagome stated loudly, "I-I-I'm here to-to d-d-deliver these documents you asked for."
She stared at him and he returned the favor with a glare. With the passing of a few of time's minutes, Sesshomaru finally spoke up, "How long do you plan on standing there, staring at me?"
Snapping out of her trance, she stepped forward, mentally berating herself for being caught staring. (Even though it was so painfully obvious.) Kagome handed over the bag of documents with a small frown and turned to leave. Just as she reached the door, she whirled back around and said with much difficulty, the words sticking on the roof of her mouth, "About yesterday…"
"If you have no more business with me, then leave."
The glare returned to her face once more as she snapped, "Fine you stupid, big-headed, cruel moron, pompous asshole, cold idiot, heartless bastard!" And slammed the wooden doors shut just as loudly as she had the first time she came in.
Sesshomaru watched a useless picture that Jaken had put up fall, crashing onto the floor and splintering into hundred of glass fragments. Outside, he could hear the raven haired girl muttering, "And to think that I was going to try and talk it out like a civilized person instead of yelling and threatening!! Arrgh that stupid, big-headed, cruel moron, pompous asshole, cold idiot, heartless bastard!! Idiotic, deranged weirdo!"
"Jaken. Come in here and clean the mess on my floor," he spoke through the speaker, before going back to complete his paperwork.
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"And you sent me to go deliver papers to him!! Why couldn't you just express mail it to him?! Or send it off as a gift to him?! Why make me go deliver it to him like he's some kind of supreme royalty?!" Kagome ranted, never letting up once since he had gotten back home.
Inuyasha could feel his white ears twitched and couldn't help but notice that they had done the most twitching in the past few days than they had in his whole entire life! "Kagome, please! Shut up already!! It's your job to do things like that for me! It's what I pay you to do!! Stop complaining already, will ya?" he finally commented, effectively stopped her rant.
However, he could now feel the silence press upon the two of them and an eerie aura of anger pushing itself against him. Poking him almost in a silent warning. Inuyasha was in the middle of wondering if he had said the wrong thing or said it the wrong way when he question was answered for him.
"Inuyasha, you arrogant, idiotic, sex-crazed lunatic, manipulative jerk, rude ass, perverted bastard! The way you say it makes me feel like I'm sort of slave to you," she remarked, knowing that every word he had spoken was true.
Chuckling, he thought out loud, "I knew I should have shut you up with a kiss."
Kagome threw a pillow at him which he caught with ease. "If you had even tried to attempt that, I would have gone back to trying to kill you with a pillow without a second thought," she answered, throwing another pillow at his head. And after some thought, she added, "And ripped off your lips while I'm at it!"
"I think I'll take my chances," he spoke with a grin.
Before Kagome could fully interpret what he meant, the hanyou slinked over to her and slid their lips together in one of the lightest touches. The warm lips disappeared just as quickly as they had advanced, the brief brushing touch still lingering on her lips.
Just as Inuyasha began to think that she wouldn't react, the same smile that had appeared after he kissed her yesterday appeared in a flash. Before he could even blink, Kagome was on him, beating on him with a pillow (Coincidentally, the same one from the other day.) while screaming her usual obscenities into his ears.
"Arrogant!"
Fumph!
"Idiotic!"
Whump!
"Sex-crazed!"
Pow!
"Lunatic!"
Wham!
"Manipulative!!"
Plomp!
"JERK!"
Fwump!
"RUDE!"
Whamp!
"ASS!"
Fump!
"PERVERTED!"
Bam!
"BASTARD!!"
Fwamph!
"AHH GET OFF ME YOU CRAZY WOMAN!! And will you stop it with the pillow?! They actually HURT!" he protested, trying to dodge her and the murderous pillow. He could just see the headlines now: Takahashi Inuyasha Brought To His Untimely End By A Pillow!
Kagome slammed the pillow into his face while managing out in between the hits, "GOOD! It's SUPPOSED to you idiot! And stop making it a habit of kissing me for no apparent reason besides you wanting to!! I don't so stop it!!"
"I can't help it if it's fun to watch you get all angry and flustered!" he cried out, pulling the pillow out of her hand and throwing it once again to the other side of the room.
The comment caused her face to redden as she momentarily stopped her barrage of punches, which he all blocked. Unfortunately for Inuyasha, her face was red with anger more so than embarrassment.
"How old are you?! You act like a little ten year old kid harboring some kind of kindergarten crush! Or a love-stricken teenager! Constantly trying to rile me up with your stupid teasing! Grow UP!" And with the word 'up', she slapped his head.
Getting up from the floor, Kagome brushed herself off and headed towards the kitchen muttering, "I'm gonna fill his food with wasabi. Lots and lots of wasabi. Enough to knock him out. Hehehe then when he's passed out, I'll draw on his face with a permanent marker and then put a dress on him and take another picture."
Inuyasha was left on the floor to clutch his head and moan in pain; but a faint smirk resting on his lips showing his amusement. However the smirk disappeared completely when he head Kagome calling out from the kitchen, "I swear, if you kiss me one more time, I will send that picture of you sleeping in your boxers surrounded by stuffed animals with your thumb in your mouth to your brother instantly! And then post it up on the internet!!"
Inuyasha paled as he spluttered, "B-B-Blackmail!? Shit! I forgot about that!"
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"Sesshomaru-sama…"
"What is it Jaken?"
"Um…there is what appears to be a necklace on your floor, sir."
Sesshomaru looked up from the glowing screen of his laptop, the light coming off from it illuminating his face. Face showing no hint of curiosity, he repeated, "A necklace?"
The toad demon nodded vigorously, hurriedly walking over to the other's desk and holding up the glinting jewelry. "Yes, sir. I think it belongs to the human girl from earlier today. And if I'm not mistaken, I think it is a locket."
He sat there thinking for a few moments causing Jaken to shift around nervously. Golden eyes turning back down to his monitor, Sesshomaru resumed his typing as he spoke, a coldness slipping deep into his words, "Throw it away."
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Yeah, I know! Kinda a boring chapter! Not much happened in this one cause I'm still building up to the main plot…thingy. And Kikyo should reappear in the next chapter (unfortunately XD)
So yeah, I've been kinda busy with the whole 'CRAP! I got only one week left before school starts up again and I better start doing those stupid, pointless assignments which I've decided to procrastinate on…BADLY' .:shudders:. So, I might not be able get the next update out quickly! But I promise I'll try my besttt!
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