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CHAPTER IV: Second Thoughts
[[[[[2017]]]]]
Sango watched the students write down the notes on the board diligently, and she only guessed they didn't expect they would learn about the 'K' case personally by the same woman who helped with profile. She looked over at the professor, who she ignored the minute she got to the class because she wanted to show the kids she was serious and she smiled.
"Long time no see Sango."
"I could say the same to you Shippou, ever since you left the lab team 3 years ago, nothings been the same."
"Well, I've had my fair share of crime scenes and investigations, I figured it was time I taught the younger generation about it."
"I can't even imagine being stuck in a classroom instead of being out in the field."
"Well, with the technology we have nowadays, I'm afraid I just can't keep up. Well I could, but I figured I'd let new brains take a whack at it." They shared a laugh, "Its already been more than 5 years since the 'K' case, and I can still remember every detail."
"I know, these pictures don't even show half of what we saw."
"It's a cruel world."
"With 2 kinds of people, ones who get pushed aside, or ones that make room for themselves."
Sango smiled knowingly, "your either noticed or melted in the crowd."
[[[[[2011]]]]]
[[Dec. 21, 2011]]
Kagome gave her car to the valet who couldn't help but stare at her, obviously and walked towards the elevator. Her hair was clipped at the back in a half ponytail with her bangs perfectly shaping her face. She wore a black pencil skirt that stopped right below the knees and it accentuated her curves perfectly. She wore a white short sleeve turtleneck and classy leather black pumps. As she walked through the doors almost every single eye was on her and she couldn't help but mentally roll her eyes, why were men so typical? Have they never seen a girl before?
She ignored the stares and went over to the front desk and smiled, "Hello my name is Higurashi, Kagome and I am the newly hired front desk secretary." The woman looked at her confused, "I'm sorry, we were not hiring a front desk girl, we were hiring a secretary for Mr. Takashi InuYasha." She looked down at the paper, "oh I see, it looks like they made a mistake with a typo, but your name is here, I'll just need to see some ID then you can feel free to go up. He is at the top floor, 57, and I will buzz him in telling him that you are here." She replied politely.
Kagome showed her her ID and she smiled giving it back to her a moment later, "Thank you very much." The girl replied.
"Thank you, too."
"You're welcome, please don't hesitate to ask me or anyone who works here where everything thing is." Kagome nodded and watched her pick up the ringing phone and answer it with a polite "hello" then write something down. She turned to another elevator and pressed 57. She waited for the doors to close and as they did elevator music came on, "Oh how lovely," Kagome said sarcastically.
Kagome got out of the elevator after a moment and blinked rapidly, as it seemed most of the entire floor was his office. Kagome knocked on the glass door and she heard a "come in" ring from inside. Kagome entered and forced herself to bow in front of the man in front of her, "Hello my name is Higurashi Kagome and I will be your new secretary, I hope I will be able to fulfill your needs." She said forcing a happy animated smile on her face like she was the happiest person in the world, yet she couldn't help but think that line gave a sour taste in her mouth. She heard the wheels of the chair move and heard footsteps come closer to her and she opened her eyes. Kagome gasped and then covered her mouth.
He chuckled, his masculine voice vibrating through his ribcage, "that happens a lot." He smiled. Kagome looked at him and the picture she had seen did not do justice to his looks. Kagome had never really seen such beauty? Most of the men she's met were old and disgusting perverts, and granted there were a few decent looking ones, but his features were shocking to her, was it possible to look like that? She stared at him confused as to why she was shocked by his appearance, but then Kagome figured that behind this gorgeous face of his, is a man who thinks he can get whatever girl he wants and treat her however the hell he wants because he's gorgeous and filthy rich. "I am Takashi, InuYasha and I will be your boss until you decide to quit or get fired." He said jokingly. Kagome watched him carefully, he had stared straight into her eyes the entire time, and it made her feel quite uncomfortable; most men stared elsewhere so she wasn't used to eye contact with men. He walked over to his desk and grabbed a tray full of documents and folders, "I'm sorry to have to give you so much work on the first day, but I really need these organized and filed, you're desk in right there." He said pointing to the desk that was on the far right side of the room.
"It's completely fine…" she lied, "you're my boss." The word 'my boss' left a bitter taste in her mouth but she smiled anyways then walked over to her desk adding a little more sway to her walk. She, however, didn't feel anyone staring at her and when she turned back she found him busy typing something sufficiently fast on the computer. Kagome began looking through the paperwork and inwardly sigh as she began organizing them. She took little glances at him and was flabbergasted that he hadn't check her out once! 'I mean seriously is he gay or what? If he was, Naraku's got the wrong girl, hell he's got the wrong gender!' she thought amusingly.
After about an hour or two later, Kagome had finished organizing and filing all the documents and folders and laid them down on the desk then sat quietly at her post. InuYasha who had noticed the shuffling of papers had vanished looked over at Kagome and looked at her shocked, "Finished already?" he asked quite surprised.
"Yes Mr. Takashi" Kagome replied obediently, she thought for a moment 'was this really worth 60 million yen?' she sighed, 'that's about 780,000 dollars. Obviously, the man had enough money to spare right? This is only for a while anyways, so I guess it's worth it.'
He scratched the back of his head, "Please call me InuYasha, Mr. Takashi reminds me of my old man." He jested.
"Very well InuYasha-sama."
"I guess that works. Do you mind checking to make sure the filing cabinets are all accurate? My last secretary wasn't very bright and not as efficient as you."
'Then why would you hire her?' Kagome thought.
"I know what your thinking, why would I hire her right? Well it was actually my mother's idea, she was the daughter of a long time friend my mother knew and she needed to make some money, unfortunately I had to fire her because nothing was really getting done."
Kagome nodded and then turned her back to file the paper work, 'that was creepy…' Kagome thought, she glanced at him, 'why won't you crack damn it?' she looked down at herself, I mean she had curves showing, did she have to show cleavage? 'Maybe tomorrow I'll come… just a little more sultry' Kagome opened the file cabinet and her eyes widened, 'just how inefficient was this girl? Why is there a fuckin Q in the A section? They aren't even close to looking a-like or close to each other on the alphabet! This is gonna be a while.' Before anyone really noticed it was already 9:16 at night.
"Wow this late already?" said InuYasha trying to make small conversation.
Kagome turned to him, then noticed the dark blue color that covered the sky, "Oh, yes… time flies when your having fun." Kagome replied, 'what the hell? Time flies when your having fun? How corny can you get Kagome?' she said to herself, she laughed nervously then went back to filing. She wasn't even halfway done, 'whoever that last secretary was, she was a complete ditz, or she was blind and couldn't see the letters' thought Kagome bitterly finding a B in the H section. InuYasha's fast typing on the keyboard stopped all of a sudden and Kagome turned to him as she watched him leaned back on his chair and pinch the bridge of his nose, he loosened his red silk tie and buttoned the top button, "I hope you don't mind."
"Not at all, please don't feel like you need to put on a front around me, pssh, I've had bosses who don't even ask!" Kagome said covering her mouth quickly regretting saying the last part.
"I see, well you can go when you feel like it, just tell me when you punch out so I know how much to pay you, plus you'll need something to do tomorrow as well just in case you finish whatever task I give you," he joked.
Kagome smiled, 'seriously is he gay? He seems too nice! And he still hasn't check me out at all today! Am I losing my figure or something? How am I suppose to make this guy fall in love with me if he won't even lust after first?' Kagome thought.
InuYasha watched his new secretary have an inner conflict with herself and was curious as to what was bugging her, 'she too, had that face when I first met her,' he thought back to the past. He sighed suddenly thinking about the contract he had to submit by tomorrow at 8. As his thoughts were filled with countless paperwork and business stuff, he did notice Kagome walk over to his desk and before he knew it he felt soft gentle yet strong hands begin to loosen the tense muscles on his shoulders.
"You look like you could use a break." Kagome whispered seductively. InuYasha's eyes widened and sat up pulling away from the magic hands that soothed his tense muscles and cleared his throat then smiled nervously.
"Thank you, but I really don't have time for a break, I have to fin—" he couldn't finish his sentence due to the delicate finger that touched his lips.
"I'm sure taking a small break won't ruin all your hard work."
"Thank you for worrying about me, but I will take a break when I am finished with my project, I swear. You don't have to worry. " Kagome sucked in her lips, 'I'm not worried, I'm trying to seduce you dumbass! Ugh. This guy is TOTALLY GAY!' she yelled in her thoughts but smiled, "I'm sorry, you just looked so distressed. I will be going now," she said walking out the door, she bowed, "thank you for a great first day, I'll see you tomorrow then. Goodnight InuYasha-sama"
InuYasha sat back down and began writing something on a sticky note paper, when he suddenly stopped and began looking through his drawers to find a very small picture frame that held a picture of a beautiful woman about 20 or so, soft gray eyes and hair as black as night.
"Kikyo…" he whispered to the silent air. He still remembered the accident, the day that InuYasha lost his heart.
FLASHBACK:
It was a beautiful morning, a woman with straight hip length hair and soft gray eyes smiled at the man walking to her. She gasped when her straw hat flew away from her due to the ocean wind but laughed, however, as she began chasing the hat, the silver-haired man joined her in the pursuit of getting her hat back who joined her in her laughter. When they finally caught it they fell into the cold gentle ocean waves, "Well that was exciting wouldn't you say InuYasha?"
"I love you Kikyo." InuYasha blurted out. The woman gasped at the sudden confession but smiled nonetheless letting her head fall to his shoulders.
"I love you too," she muttered softly. InuYasha brought his hands on her chin and brought her face to his and kissed her passionately.
"It's early I know, but I know I don't want anyone else for the rest of my life." He said pulling out a red velvet box, she gasped and opened it to find a simple diamond ring, the white gold band elegantly decorated with smaller diamonds.
"It's beautiful InuYasha," she smiled, she thought for a moment then stared out into the wide ocean waters, "you know you could run away with me, forget about this business ordeal, don't you wanna travel the world? See amazing places and be free?"
InuYasha thought for a moment, "you know I would if I could Kikyo, but I love my family and being a business man… well it actually makes me happy. I mean it's stressful sometimes, but I actually like doing it. I just… can't runaway, it's always been my dream to take over my father's business. When Sesshoumaru ran a made his own company my father almost had a heart attack, I just can't do that to him."
"Who cares? It's your life. You can't be serious about wanting to be a business man for the rest of your life!" She said bluntly.
InuYasha smile faded, "I… guess you could be right…" he thought, the seed of doubt being planted into him, he gave her an Eskimo kiss, "I'll… run away with you."
"InuYasha you can't do this! Get back here!" yelled InuYasha's father InuTaisho.
"I'm leaving dad, you can't force me to stay here." He said dumping his suitcase and belongings in his Mustang's trunk.
"InuYasha, honey, please don't do this to your father, think about your family baby, I thought it was your dream to follow in your father's footsteps…" Izayoi, said after her son.
"Are you seriously leaving your family for some girl?" his brother asked him coldly. "I mean, at least when I left it was to prove I was could survive on my own!"
"She's not just some girl!" he yelled, "She's my fiancé and she made me open my eyes. I don't want to be stuck behind a desk!" he got in the car and drove off to pick up Kikyo.
"I'm so glad we're doing this."
"Me too. I love you."
"I love you too." they shared a small kiss and Kikyo's eyes widened, "InuYasha look out!" she yelled horrified," as the truck pushed them off the rode.
InuYasha woke up in a white room, his family staring at him, he looked over at his mother who cried, she held the diamond ring he had given Kikyo and his eyes became blurred as tears fell from his eyes." InuTaisho told everyone to leave the room so that his son could have a moment alone and so InuYasha sat in the hospital bed with only the heartbeat monitor, and his broken sobs to break the silence.
END FLASHBACK:
InuYasha stared hard at the picture and then put it back in its place, his guilt was unbearable. If he had just watched the rode…she would still be with him. He sighed and went back to work hoping to force his own mind to set those thoughts aside and focus on his project.
Kagome walked over to her car and took one last look at the 57th floor, "What's up with that guy." She muttered then drove off. When she arrived at her penthouse her phone began to ring, she saw Onigumo Naraku written on the screen and pressed the talk button, "Hello?" she said walking over to the couch.
"How did it go?"
"I honestly think you have the wrong person for this job," she said turning on the TV then looking through the guide, "I think this guy is gay."
There was a dark chuckle over the phone and Kagome shuddered, "Trust me, he isn't gay. I wouldn't have sent you if he was."
"Well I tried seducing him tonight, and I got no response, either he's gay or he's mentally unstable."
"Call when you have better news." He said frankly.
'You're the one who called me in the first place! Stupid, bossy, unintelligent, thinks they're so smart, bastard men!' she ranted in her mind, "Alright, ciao." Kagome quickly hung up and groaned as she felt her stomach grumble loudly. She forgot she hadn't shopped for food yet. Kagome grabbed her purse and changed into a pair of white and gold Juicy Couture tracksuit. She slipped on a pair of matching white and gold Nike sneakers then grabbed the keys, made sure the credit cards were in her purse then made her way down to her car and drove to the 24 hour Hansu store, which was like a Target, but more expensive, why you ask, because they were popular and a super super market with everything in it from foods to house furniture.
If there was anything she loved more than lazying around and getting justice, it was food. As Kagome grabbed all the necessities food, toilet paper and such, etc., she decided to get some new sheets and plates and what not. By the time she was finished she had two workers helping her push 4 carts. The cashier looked at her like she was crazy but Kagome just smiled and waited patiently for the girl to ring up the register. Once everything was paid off and SOMEHOW loaded everything into the car Kagome threw a sweet 'thank you' to the workers that helped her and went on her merry way. When she arrived at the apartment building she asked the workers from there to help her too and some men that were living there decided to help too; supposedly it wasn't right for a lady to carry such heavy things, but Kagome knew it was so they could follow her to her penthouse and gawk at her as she walked in front of them. 'Pigs' she thoughts.
Kagome stood at the doorway thanking everyone who helped and almost rolled her eyes when a man maybe about 5'9 or 5'10, light blue eyes and long black hair that was tied in a ponytail stopped to talk to her, "Nice place you got here."
Kagome smiled, "thank you very much."
"So are you single?"
Kagome looked at him pretending to be disappointed, "I'm sorry, but I'm interested in someone else." She winked trying to amuse herself.
"Well if you lose interest I'm free," he winked back.
"And your name?"
"Amimoto Kouga."
"Amimoto as in Amimoto Hotels?"
"Yes that's the one."
Kagome nodded and smiled, she waved good-bye then shut the door not wanting to really talk to him anymore when his eyes began to wonder over her body. "Like I said, pigs." She said walking over to the kitchen and putting everything in its proper place. She headed over to the bedroom and changed the sheets to green emerald silk sheets. The pillows were white silk covers with a sakura tree silhouette designed on them. She also added some ornaments and things to make the place a little more 'Kagome.' She had bought a huge kanji painting of Justice, which now hangs on her wall and another kanji painting Courage under it. Kagome looked at the time and decided she needed rest so she'd have energy trying to seduce InuYasha tomorrow. If she couldn't make him fall in love with her by her body she didn't know what would. As she laid in bed listening to the ticking of her newly bought clock, Kagome's heart skipped a beat and she looked at the digital calendar she plastered on her wall. "December 21st." she whispered. 'That's right. Only 3 more days until Sasaki, Michio dies.' Kagome sat on her bed when an image of InuYasha popped in her head. She shook her head, "What's wrong with me? Why'd I think of him right now?" she whispered. 'One more job to do and I'll be free from my list. So why do am I getting the feeling of doubt in my mind?'
The phone vibrated wildly on the nightstand and she crawled over to reach it.
"Not having second thoughts are you Kagome?"
So the reason why Kagome doesn't know how to make InuYasha fall in love with her is because she's never loved a man. She hates their guts so she thinks all men are scumbags and cold hearted evil devils. But as the story progresses you'll see how love slips into her stainless steal armor.
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