(A/N: Sorry for the long wait. I'm currently very busy with school work and I just finished this not long ago. I decided to at least give youpeople something rather than nothing so here's the forth chapter.)
Disclaimer: Well... I don't own anything.
Chapter 4:
Kurama had made it home as fast as possible without revealing to his fan club where he lived. He had luckily, for those few years, managed to hide where his house was from those hormone-crazed females. He had used his stealth skills from being a thief to get away from them and possibly lead them the opposite direction from his house. He knew he couldn't keep this up forever but hoped that it was long enough so that he was out of high school. Just thinking about what those girls would do if they found out earlier gave him the shivers.
He cut through the green forest-like park. There were many reasons he chose this route rather than the roads. This was actually a shorter route to his house and the fact that he would avoid his fan club made it all the better. Besides, he liked being with nature even though it was mostly influenced by the kitsune in him, it was better than directly inhaling the pollution from cars.
The park was pretty big, with plenty of thick trees but there was a clearing where there was a playground for little children right next to the street. But Kurama had quickly cut through that and headed into the safe coverings of the trees. Sometimes he had spent nights wondering through this part of the park aimlessly when Youko had wanted to come out.
After around aten minute walk, Kurama finally emerged from the trees and started down the little hill towards the sidewalk. He just had to follow this road for anotherfive minutes and he was home. His house was a nice two-story house with three moderate sized bedrooms.
"Mother, I'm home," Kurama called once he stepped through the door.
"Shuichi I'm in the kitchen," his mother yelled back. Kurama neatly placed his bag by the stairs and headed down the hall to the kitchen. His mother was stirring something in a pot that smelled deliciously like soup.
"What are we having for dinner?" asked Kurama.
"Oh we're having stir fry and some rice along with vegetable soup," she stirred it once more before setting the spatula down and made her way towards the coffee table and sitting down on the chair. "So how was school today?"
"It was fine. I've received an assignment from Yukitsu-sensei so I won't be home tomorrow." Kurama sat down across from his mother. He knew that his mother would be ecstatic about his job at a successful corporation.
"He's your business teacher, am I correct? So what did he assign you that would cause you to go out?" Shiori asked.
"Yes mother, Yukitsu-sensei is my business instructor and he had assigned the whole class to take up a job at various places and I was nominated by him to work at a prestigious company. He had recommended that I'd go check in with the company owner tomorrow."
"Oh I'm so proud of you! This is just what you need to start your career off. Where is this company you're working at?" Shiori's enthusiasm reminded Kurama of those giddy girls that surround him everyday. He just hoped that at the age those people who were qualified to work at the corporation, their hormones have died down drastically. If not, then he was just walking into another building that will inevitably start another fan club. It had happened before and he did what he could to stay well away from there.
"It's just downtown. Around a thirty minute walk. I'll leave you the address tomorrow when I go," Kurama rose from his chair, "If you'd excuse me mother, I'm going to work on my homework." At his mother's nod, Kurama made his way out of the kitchen to gather his belongings before heading up to his room.
Next Morning
Beep! Beep! Beep! Kurama groaned and pressed his alarm clock before sitting up. He yawned and proceeded to do his morning routines.
'Red, why are we waking up so early? Usually on weekends we would sleep in for another hour before waking up.' Youko's voiced out. He heard the fox yawning in the background before being alert again.
'I'd thought you'd listen in on what I've told mother yesterday or what had occurred in class,' Kurama's silky voiced replied.
'If you had forgotten, you told me not to bother you in class, so I took a nap instead. When I woke up again, you were already doing your homework,' Youko said huffily.
'Well since you don't know, we, or rather I have a business project. And I'm the lucky one assigned to a prominent company.' Kurama sighed. And again he had his worries about hormone-crazed females that seemed like super glue ever since the horrid age of thirteen. Kurama shivered and headed back to shower.
'Are you going to try to earn yourself another fan club?' the amusement at his avatar's predicament was most definitely there. And it made him laugh when he heard Kurama groan.
Sunset Shrine
Ring! Ring! Ring! Kagome grunted in her sleep and turned around. The light scurry of footsteps quickly ran up the stairs and stopped in front of her door. The knob turned and Kagome was greeted with the loud voice of her younger brother, Souta.
"KAGOME, PHONE CALL!" he then made a mad dash out of the door just as the pillow Kagome threw fell on the floor.
She stretched and yawned before rubbing the sleep out of her eyes. Kagome reached over her nightstand and grabbed the phone.
"H-ello?" Yawn Kagome plopped down on her pillow with the phone pressed against her ear. The cool morning air hit her bare arms and she shivered before pulling her warm blanket higher.
"Okaa-san, you need to wake up soon. People are already here at work and you're still home," Kagome yawned again and looked at the clock. Seven thirty flashed on her clock.
"SHIT!" Kagome quickly hung up before jumping out of bed and hurrying to change her cloths. She had thankfully showered the night before. She quickly dressed into a sleeveless light blue turtleneck. On its front were some sparkles arranged into the pattern of a plant with some flowers blooming. She put on a short tight black skirt that went a few inches above her knees and had two slits at the side that went a few inches higher. She grabbed a silver chained belt and wrapped it loosely around her waist.
Going to her dressing mirror, Kagome quickly fixed her hair into a messy bun held by two metal chopsticks with hidden knives in them just for safety precautions. Kagome applied a small amount of eye liner, silver eye shadow and finally a bit of lip gloss. She then proceeded to find her black trench coat.
Kagome ran down the stairs and grabbed some food before quickly heading to the door where she left her purse, keys, wallet, phone etc. Kagome then slipped on a pair of an inch to two inch-high high heels.
"Bye mom, bye Souta, bye Gramps!" her voice rang through the house, and returned with some murmured 'bye's before Kagome shut the door behind her. She made it down the stairs of the shrine and went to the last place she parked her black convertible. Kagome quickly climbed in and sped down the street to Taisho corp. her temporary responsibility.
It took her roughly fifteen minutes to get there. Normally Kagome would have walked the short distance, but she was late and there was an important meeting later on in the day that she would have to attend in Sesshoumaru's place. She quickly parked her car before heading over to the elevator to head to the thirty-first floor, Sesshoumaru's and now temporarily her office. She looked down at her watch and confirmed that it was around eight-thirty and she had an hour and a half to prepare for the meeting.
Earlieron
Kurama was now standing in front of a very large building titled, Taisho corp. He wore a casual white button up shirt and a pair of loose black dress pants. In his hand were some papers Yukitsu-sensei had given him. Yukitsu-sensei had recommended him to bring them in case he needed some identification, and one of the papers was a formal letter of recommendation.
Kurama sighed and yet again looked up at the building. He could easily determine that this building had over twenty floors maybe even in the thirties. Much of the building was made of glass tinted black. It was fairly beautiful when you looked at it with the sun shining off every window.
'You just better hope your boss is a male,' Kurama could hear Youko snicker at the avatar's expense. Kurama sighed and pushed open the large glass doors. A few people were busy walking from place to place carrying items, papers and folders here and there. If it were anyone else, they would have been amazed at how everyone looked so much more superior and looked so important.
He glance around the room and spotted the reception's desk right by the elevators. He walked over to the desk to notice that the woman sitting there was taking in a phone call and looked a tad bit busy. Looking around again, Kurama decided to ask someone else for directions to the owner's office. His gaze landed on a auburn redhead with turquoise green eyes wearing a dark green dress shirt with a few of the buttons at the top unbuttoned and he was wearing a pair of loose black jeans.
If he wasn't giving orders to a department manager, Kurama would have thought that this person didn't work here and was lost. Just as the manager left to do his job, Kurama walked up to the redhead.
"Excuse me, would you happen to know if the head of this corporation is here at this moment?" asked Kurama. When he was close enough he could now make out that this guy wasn't actually very old and that he was probably around his human age.
"Oh, she should be here any minute now... How about I take you up to the office," he offered.
"That would be nice," Kurama replied politely, "my name is Minamino, Shuichi."
"Nice to meet you; I go by Tai, Shippo," the man now known as Shippo said. They walked into the elevator and Shippo pressed the thirty-first floor. "You can call me Shippo."
"Then you may call me Shuichi." Kurama saw him nod.
"So Shuichi, any special reason why you're here?" asked Shippo.
"Yukitsu-sensei had recommended me to work at this company, so I decided to look around."
"Oh! So you're that student. I was the one that received the call from Yukitsu. Hmm... I just hope you don't mind that our 'boss' may be a bit... abnormal... Just ignore her," Shippo chuckled and Kurama groaned.
"Haha! It's a female! Good luck red. I think you'll need it. I'm just glad I don't have to cope with this," mumbled Youko.
'Great... This is just great... all I need is another crazy female around me. And this one I can't get away from because she's my boss!' Kurama growled in frustration and then ended off the conversation in his head.
"Don't worry; she's not that bad... just if you find her doing something out of the ordinary... well that's not too unusually." Ping The doors slid open to a very spacious and nicely tiled room.
"Well actually, Kagome's only taking the place as the boss for now. The real owner goes by the name Sesshoumaru Tai. I was adopted into the family, hence the name Tai," explained Shippo while they headed to the couches by a nicely carved wooden door.
"Would you happen to know when Sesshoumaru-sama may return?" he was mentally cheering and hoping it was soon, unless... this Sesshoumaru guy was gay... oh god... Kurama could just here the kitsune in his head laughing his ass off at his presumptions.
"Hmm... he's on a trip and the actual time he'd be back is unsure... But he didn't leave long ago so it might still be a while. Why don't we sit down inside, she'll be here soon, and I doubt she would mind as long as we don't mess up any documents," Shippo led Kurama to the nicely carved doors and opened them for Kurama to step through first.
'Who do you think he is to have such liberties to just walk into this room and not be worrying about the consequences?' thought Kurama.
The room was luxurious. There were a few leather couches in one corner along with a glass coffee table. By the large set of windows that overlooked Tokyo, was a large beautiful red wooden table and a black leather chair to go with it. Just by the table was a wooden case with glass doors that displayed the many trophies and certificates that the company had won. There was also a glass case by the door that held some of the oldest and most expensive wines in the world. The whole room was beautiful. A rich red coated the walls with white edges completely matched the furniture.
'Wooo...,' whistled Youko, 'Well this Sesshoumaru person has exquisite taste. Oh look at those paintings!' There were various paintings hanging off the walls of the office. One of them was right over one of the couches that portrayed a beautiful field of wild flowers and a young girl dancing in them in the moonlight. There were small glowing little fireflies surrounding the little girl.
The little girl within the picture was wearing a kimono and had a crown of yellow flowers within her hair. Her hair was a black colour and contrasted beautifully with the yellow flowers. Part of her hair was pulled into a small ponytail at a side of her head while the rest was left flowing in the wind. It was a magical painting that just seemed to come to life.
'That's odd...' said Youko gaining Kurama's attention.
'What's odd?' asked Kurama.
'Usually artists write their name on their piece. But this exquisite piece of work has no name at all. Whoever painted this had a lot of talent. Do you think...'
'NO, we're not stealing these paintings.'
'Why not? When was the last time you've stolen something? We're getting rusty.'
'I don't want Koenma sentencing us to a few more years of work.'
"Oh, so you've taken a liking to those paintings? Our temporary boss, Kagome painted them. She also painted a few more that are hanging around in this room. This painting was my personal favourite. The girl in the picture was supposedly a childhood friend of mine," said Shippo while plopping down on the couch opposite of the picture.
Just then two women walked into the room both talking and pointing to various parts of the folder they were holding. One of them was in their mid-twenties and the other one... Kurama was surprised to find was about his age or maybe even a year younger. The younger girl was pretty with her shirt complementing her beautiful blue eyes. Her skirt showed her long ivory legs and nicely shaped hips.
The other woman was wearing a black top and dress pants and wore glasses. Compared to the younger girl, she was pretty ordinary looking. She had doe brown eyes and had streaked her hair red. They were still talking about the document and still haven't noticed any of them.
"Shisu, have Bankon redo some of these proposals and give me a report about his department. And would you please give me some statistics about how our product is selling?" the younger woman asked while signing one of the documents and handing it back to Shisu.
"Yes Higurashi-dono, I'll get the statistics right away," said Shisu. She bowed and then left the room.
"Kagome, there's someone here to see you," said Shippo who quickly caught her attention. Her gaze swung around the room and landed on Kurama. Her blue eyes met his green and Kurama's breathe caught in his throat. She may have looked like an ordinary pretty Japanese girl, someone who'd normally not catch his eye, but her eyes told differently. She was... different; unique among others and definitely not ordinary.
(A/N: I'm a bit too lazy to answer reviews and stuff... but I thank everyone for reviewing and hope everyone enjoyed this chapter. I enjoy reading reviews so please review.)
