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"thoughts"

"normal speaking"

One thing that Kagome hated more than meetings was getting up early for said meetings. She had accidentally knocked over her alarm clock while trying to turn the damn thing off. Now she was fully awake and alert, so she decided to just get up and get ready instead of ignoring it and pressing the snooze button. She couldn't afford to be late today or everything would go downhill with the Taishos. Finally showering and dressing in her business attire she headed out the door and zoomed through L.A in her car.

Kagome looked up in front of her to one of the tallest buildings in the city, there it was, everything her father had worked for and yet she could lose it at anytime. Smiling to the security guard at the parking garage she waved at him.

"Good morning Jeff", she greated.

"Hello Ms. Higurashi.", Jeff replied as he pushed the button to let her in.

Kagome drove through and parked her car in her regular spot, deciding it was time to suck it up and not linger any longer in the car she got out and went up the elevator to the top floor.

"Good morning Ms. Higurashi. Your meeting will start in 20 minutes but the Taisho's have not arrived yet. Would you like anything to drink?", asked her personal secretary Yuna when she spotted Kagome walking into the office.

"No, Yuna its quite alright I can manage. Could you please hold all my calls until I'm done with the meeting?"

"Yes ma'am."

With that Kagome walked into her office, and looked out to the city sky line through the windows that took up a whole wall.

"Oh dad, what I wouldn't give to have you here right now. Mom and Souta stayed back home. I don't know if I can do this all by myself..", she muttered to herself as she put her head on her hands.

"I guess I need to make new friends huh.", she said to herself. With that decided she took out her phone and dialed Sango's number. The woman looked nice enough and she held herself together pretty good. The phone rang three times before Sango answered.

"Hello."

"Hi, Sango this is Kagome from Saturday night. I was wondering if maybe we could have lunch today? Say around 3 o' clock?"

"Oh yes! That would be fun. Where would you like to have lunch at?"

"Um how about at the restaurant in front of the Higurashi building?"

"Ok sounds good. I'll see you then."

"Great! Bye!"

"Bye!"

With that said Kagome hung up her cell phone and put it away. She was just getting done putter her phone back into her purse when Yuna spoke through the intercom and told her that the President and Vice President of Taisho Inc. had just arrived and were headed into the meeting room.

Quickly Kagome called her company's lawyer, Hojo, to meet her there. She was going to need back up and he was her most trustworthy employee. Plus he specialized in these kinds of things.

Rushing to the meeting room where Yuna told her that the Taisho brothers were waiting for her, she met up with Hojo right outside the door. He gave her a small smile while she took a deep breath to calm herself down and then opened the door. To her chagrin the first thing she heard was:

"YOU!?!", and to her surprise there was Inuyasha, with his finger pointed at her and his face disbelieving.

Great out of all the things his half brother always overlooked, this time it had to be the most important: Who was running Higurashi Corp. now that the founder and President had died. From what Sesshoumaru had heard Ken Higurashi didn't have a partner or Vice President so he had come to the conclusion that some naïve fool would be left running his biggest competitors company.

That meant an easy take over, his plan was to buy out the company and take all of its partnerships, leaving the company in ruins. Then Taisho Corp. would be at the top.

His plan was flawless, except now that he saw who was running it, it would be much more harder. He could tell this Kagome girl had an inner fire to her. She wouldn't go down with out a fight.

"Inuyasha sit down and be quiet.", ordered Seshoumaru. With that Inuyasha grunted in his direction and did as was said.

"Good evening.. Ms. Higurashi? I presume?"

"Yes, I'm Kagome Higurashi. Now lets get on with this and then we'll see if this is going to be a good evening or not.", she replied.

"Hn, yes we'll see. Well I didn't know that Ken Higurashi had a daughter and I certainly didn't know that it was she that the company would be left upon his death."

"Well his death wasn't something any of us were expecting. But I'm pretty sure you know that already. So lets get down to business and put away the conversation for later. What is it exactly you want with my company Mr. Taisho?"

"Here are the papers, take a look at them and tell me what you think." With that said he handed Kagome a stack of papers that he had taken out of his briefcase.

Looking them over Kagome was appalled, he couldn't be serious. They expected her to sell out her father's company to the company's enemy? Her rage finally exploded. She was seething and she would make sure they saw it.

Standing up and knocking her chair over, she put her hands on the table and let them have it.

"You expect me to sell you something that my father worked for all his life?!? He started this company with honor and integrity. You actually think I would give all of this up to some pompous ass who thinks he can buy anything with money? Well you sure as hell have another thing coming Taisho!", she spat out.

"You will watch your tone with me Higurashi! I can be your worst nightmare. Its either this or if it's a war you want, it's a war you'll get.", he rebutted while also standing up and looking her in the eyes.

He towered over a good feet and a half but that didn't stop her from letting him have it.

"Well then its war Taisho. I'm sure my father is writhing in anger in his grave at your actions", and with that she stormed out the room with Hojo following behind her and going into his office.

"Well holy crap that wasn't what I expected!", chuckled Inuyasha.

"Silence you idiot. This is all your fault. You should have looked into who was running the company."

"What the hell Sesshoumaru, don't get your damn underwear in a bunch just because your little so called plan didn't go as well. Hell who would have thought that, that hot little piece of ass was going to be running this place."

"Hn."

"You know now that I think of it she didn't ever mention her last name at the races. But now that I remember I did notice something, do you think Naraku might have recognized her? She does look a lot like Ken and by the way that he kept staring at her, it looked like he was trying to remember something.", Inuyasha explained as they walked out of the building.

"Naraku is an imbecile. If he does have something up his sleeve I doubt it'll come through for him. That company's is destined for ruins.", Sesshoumaru replied as they both got into their separate cars and headed to lunch.

He couldn't help but shake off the feeling that something wasn't right. No one had ever had the guts to stand up to him like that girl had just done. She actually had the courage to call him names. He was Sesshoumaru Taisho and yet that Kagome girl didn't a care in the world.

Inside something told him, Kagome Higurashi was going to be his downfall.

It wasn't until 3 o'clock that Kagome's anger had left her. To think that Sesshoumaru had actually intrigued her. She walked across the street to meet up with Sango for lunch as they had planned.

She easily spotted her waiting for her at nearby table and made her way over. Plopping down with a sigh greeted Sango and they both ordered their food.

"What's wrong? Not to be rude but you don't look so great." replied Sango after greeting her.

"Yea well let's just say that your dear friend's the Taisho's aren't the greatest bunch to do business with."

"Oh no. What did Sesshoumaru do this time?"

"Why do you suddenly assume it was Sesshoumaru?", lightly laughed Kagome.

"Because knowing Inuyasha, he doesn't really care about it, usually Sesshoumaru is the one that does all the deals and what not. Inuyasha is just there to sit and learn."

"Oh well yes. It as Sesshoumaru. I never thought he could be such a pompous ass. I mean who does he think he is to just try to take Higurashi Corp. from me? As if I would actually be a sell out"

"Wait. Did you just say Higurashi Corp.?"

"Well yea. After my father died someone had to run the company so of course it was going to be me.."

"So you're Kagome Higurashi??"

"Yes, why?"

"My father was best friend's with your father! I'm Sango Taijiya."

"No way! Dad always talked about him a lot. He did mention that he had a daughter. With that said both women kept on with their lunch and tried to get to know each other more.

But there was still something in Kagome's mind, and that was Sesshoumaru Taisho.

To be continued…..

A. N: Sorry I took so long, I was having trouble trying to see how to write this chapter.

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