Disclaim: I do not own Inuyasha. All characters belong to Rumiko Takahashi.

So this is the second chapter that I promised. We're gonna meet some new and old faces again! So I've gone back and adjusted some of the previous chapters, making some minor changes. Also, some suggested that my paragraph structures were hard to follow, so if anyone has problems with the new layout please let me know! Enjoy the chapter and please R&R!


*Beep Beep Beep Beep*

Kagome quickly shot up from the bed and grabbed her phone to turn her alarm off. She saw that it read 3:00 AM. She rubbed her eyes and stretched with a yawn. When she fully opened her eyes and took in her surroundings, she gasped and hugged the covers to her much tighter. She did not recognize the room. Then the events of a few hours ago came to her and realized that she had to get ready quickly. She rummaged through her belongings and grabbed some clothes, towel, and toiletries and headed to the bathroom. She brushed her teeth and stepped into the shower.

Once she was done, she quickly got dressed. She did not know exactly how long the flight would last, so she decided to wear one of her comfortable slacks, a deep blue blouse, a pair of black flats, and a coat. Though she had never been on a plane, she heard that they could get cold and uncomfortable. She lightly did her make-up and saw that the time was 3:45. Seeing that she had a few more minutes, she tried setting the bed. She was interrupted by a few knocks at the door.

Continuing to set the bed, she told the person to come in. "Oh! Miss, you do not have to set the bed!" someone said. Kagome looked up to two young women at the door, rushing to either sides of the bed. Judging from their uniform, Kagome assumed that they were Mr. Taisho's maids.

"It's no problem," said Kagome, "I had a few minutes and I did mess it up".

The maids smiled but said "Guests should not make their own beds, Miss. Mr. Taisho would not be happy", while Kagome watched them quietly make her bed. She felt bad but she realized that she did not want to get them in trouble with their boss. Once they were done, one of the maids turned to Kagome and told her "Mr. Taisho sent us to inform you that he would be leaving directly at 4 and that we were to help you with your belongings".

Kagome looked at her watch and saw that it was 3:54. Her stomach started to grumble and she looked sheepishly at the two maids. Clearly she did not have time to eat anything so she would have to buy something at the airport. Her suitcases were at the door and the maids took one of the bags each while Kagome took her purse and quickly made sure that she had her passport. Even though she had never been out of the country, her father had had passports for all of them in the event that they were to ever travel out. 'Good thinking, Dad' she thought to herself as she took one last look at the luscious room and walked out, trailing after the two women.

Sesshomaru woke up to his alarm blaring in his ear. He saw the time to be 3 in the morning. He got up to do his morning routine and took a quick shower. He exited his bathroom and was dressed in one of his Armani suits. His clothes had been packed the night before by the maids and were sitting at the entrance of his room. Someone would bring them down in a few minutes. He walked past his bed that was barely messed since Sesshomaru did not move around much in his sleep. He knew his maids would come make his bed later.

He stepped out of his room and headed towards his daughter's room. He knew it was early but he had not had time yesterday to tell her that he was leaving. Luckily it was a Saturday, so she would be able to go right back to sleep. He peaked into her room and noticed all the covers were tossed around. Sesshomaru felt a tiny twitch of his lips, the closest he could muster to a smile. Somewhere beneath the hoard of blankets was his little daughter.

The sight reminded him of when Inuyasha was a child, he would always be wrapped in all of the bed sheets. Sesshomaru guessed it was something that his father probably had passed down. He slowly untangled the sheets to reveal his little girl, slightly snoring in her awkward position. The snoring reminded him of another lady a few doors down, but he let that thought slip away as he lightly shook his daughter.

"Rin," he said. She did not wake. He repeated her name a few more times until she finally opened her eyes. It was evident that sleep was still dancing around in her eyes as she looked onto the face of her father.

She saw that it still looked dark outside and yet her Daddy was wearing one of his business suits. That meant that he was going somewhere. "Daddy…where are you going?" she asked, sleepily rubbing her eyes.

"A matter has come up and I must leave for a few days, Rin" he said. His daughter looked sad and gave him her puppy dog eyes. He disliked making his daughter upset, but it was necessary for him to go. His resolve did not falter and Rin knew that her father was still going.

"Okay, Daddy. When will you be back?" she asked.

"In a few days' time. Sleep, Rin" he said. Rin hugged her father, gave him a kiss on the cheek, and went back to bed.

Sesshomaru quietly and gracefully slipped out of Rin's room and headed downstairs. When he reached the first floor, he called upon two of his maids to notify his secretary that they would be leaving sharply at 4. In the meantime, he called Inuyasha.

"Unnnh… Do you have any idea what fucking time it is" said Inuyasha in a gruff sleepy voice.

"Inuyasha, I am leaving for Paris. You are in charge until I return. Try not to destroy my company," he said coolly to his younger half-sibling.

"Fuck off, Sessh-"was all Sesshomaru heard before he disconnected the call. He looked up to see his maids returning with his secretary in tow. She looked decent for travel yet sophisticated. He nodded his approval.

He walked out to the limousine that was to drive them to the airport. His servants loaded the car with their belongings and at 4 o'clock sharp, both Sesshomaru and Kagome were in the car heading towards the airport.

Kagome had not said anything to her boss since descending to the first floor of his home. Of course, he looked impeccable as he always did in one of his suits. 'Does he freaking sleeping wearing suits' she thought.

It was still lightly dark out but she could see a little outside the window. She was still a little sleepy and started to drift off a little when she heard an embarrassing rumble coming from her stomach. She quickly faced the window and refused to look at her boss, who she was sure had heard the betraying noises of her hunger. She turned beat red and peaked a glance at the gorgeous man sitting across from her and saw him looking at her with a blank expression, if anything he looked annoyed.

This in turn annoyed Kagome, who was already cranky because she was sleep deprived and hungry. "What? I'm hungry!" she snapped at her boss. She gasped for snapping at him "Sorry Mr. Taisho. I'm not in one of the bests moods since I haven't eaten nor slept my normal hours".

Mr. Taisho said nothing, though she was sure that he was irked since she yelled at him. 'Oh great, now he's gonna fire me and we haven't even made it to the airport yet' she thought.

Mr. Taisho narrowed his eyes at her and said, "This trip is important, Ms. Higurashi. Try to keep your moods and actions in control. I will not stand for rude behavior, especially in public. I will not be so forgiving. Any and all your actions reflect on me, so try to keep a profession appearance and behavior".

Kagome was a little peeved to hear her reprimand her as if she was a little girl. "I will try to no embarrass your image, sir" she bit out. To this her boss said nothing and looked away. She was so relieved when they arrived at the airport. They grabbed their belongings and made their way into the inside.

After getting cleared through security and checking in, Mr. Taisho informed her that their flight would not leave for another hour and a half. Kagome looked to her watch to see that it was only 5 o'clock. Kagome looked at her ticket and saw that she was in economy. She knew that Mr. Taisho was in first class. 'Like Mr. Icicle could handle being around the 'lesser-folk'' she thought to herself. But she was a little glad that she was going to get some time away from him, she couldn't really control her mouth around him.

As she walked with her boss towards their gate, she saw him tense up and she did not know why. A few minutes later, she saw a few men walking towards them. It seemed that they knew Mr. Taisho. There were three men, two who looked almost exactly alike. Kagome surmised that they were body guards for the man in the middle. The man in the middle, although handsome in his own right, looked malicious. He had a smile on but Kagome could tell that it was face. Just everything about him screamed evilness. He had dark brown/black hair and reddish eyes. His hair seemed to be in a pony-tails, like Mr. Taisho's was right now. Clearly between the two men, her boss was much more handsome.

"Mr. Taisho! What a pleasant surprise it is to see you!" he said. The smile on his face did not meet his eyes, Kagome noticed. He stuck out his hand towards Mr. Taisho. Her boos said nothing and simply shook his hand in return, though the hand shake was one of the shortest she'd even seen. "And who might this lovely creature be?" said the man, looking over at Kagome with lust in his eyes.

Kagome tried to hide her disgust, thinking back to what her boss had said in the limo that her actions reflected on his image. Mr. Taisho continued looking at the man and said "This is my personal assistant, Ms. Kagome Higurashi".

"Hello," she said politely.

The man continued looking at her and then looked at Mr. Taisho expectantly. Mr. Taisho then looked to her and introduced the man. "Ms. Higurashi, this is Mr. Naraku Onigumo" he said. Mr. Onigumo smiled at her and stuck out his hand much like he had for her boss, however, when she went to shake it, she took her hand and kissed it, adding a little lick too. "Pleasure to meet you, Ms. Kagome" he said, trying to be silky. All it did was make Kagome a little sick.

Suddenly she felt a tug on her arm and her hand was pulled away from Mr. Onigumo's touch. She looked up to the face of her boss.

Sesshomaru knew that the second he saw Onigumo that there would be trouble. 'What is he doing here,' he thought to himself. Unfortunately, he noticed that they were heading in his direction. He wanted to get this over short and quick.

He had noticed that looks that Onigumo was sending Ms. Higurashi and it pleased him that she did not look the least bit interested. In fact, he could almost tell that she was not at all enjoying the experience. Then he had seen Onigumo kiss the back of her hand and he was extremely irritated, which elevated to angry when he saw the bastard lick her hand. Without thinking, he had yanked her hands out of his clutches and realized too late what he had done. He released her arm immediately and looked at Onigumo to see him wearing a smirk on his face.

Thinking quick he said, "We have a plane to catch," and with that he walked off, hearing his assistant walking behind him.

She eventually caught up to him and ask "What was that about? Who is he?"

"He owns a rival company, Kumo Enterprise. He is interested in merging out companies' he said. Seeing that she was his assistant, he thought it important to inform her on his relations to other companies.

"I'm going to guess that you don't like the idea, judging from the way you interacted" she said, "You were a little rude".

"I do as I please," he said with a hard voice.

After walking towards their destination in silence, she asked another question. "Mr. Taisho, how come you do not have body guards?"

Sesshomaru looked at her and asked, "I can handle anything on my own. But why do you assume that I do not have body guards?" He saw her look around and then look at him expectantly. "Just because you cannot see something, Ms. Higurashi, does not mean that it is not there." She looked a bit scared, which made him smirk.

They arrived at their gate and had another 45 minutes of waiting before they were to board. He was content when she had not been upset about their flight tickets. The few assistants who had flown with him anywhere, always assumed they would be sitting first class with him. He made it a point to show that they were boss and worker, and with his recent reactions to being around this woman, he was glad that he would not be sitting next to her.

She put her things on the seats and informed him that she was going to get some food from one of the airport food places. When she asked whether he wanted anything, he decided on a black coffee. Although he did not like airport food, he felt like he needed something to keep his oncoming headache at bay. He watched her walk away, again with those swaying of the hips, as he sat down on one of the seats.

All of a sudden, he felt someone flop next to him. Sesshomaru looked to see that it was his bodyguard, Koga. He had only been working for him for a few years, after leaving the police force. "You are late" was all Sesshomaru said.

"Aren't you a box of sunshine in the morning," he chuckled, "I got held up in traffic".

Sesshomaru was used to Koga's way of speaking. He and Inuyasha would bicker all the time, and that was one of the reasons he put up with Koga's behavior, other than him being very good at his job. He annoyed his younger sibling and stayed efficient, so he did not say anything against his impulsive speech. "Anything happen?" he asked Sesshomaru.

"Onigumo is here," was all Sesshomaru said. Koga tensed up, he knew how his boss felt about the man. "He was … friendly with my secretary".

"Is that jealousy I here in there, Sesshomaru?" Koga teased.

"Do not address me as such in public. I am your employer and you should act your role" Sesshomaru said annoyed.

"Of course, your highness Mr. Taisho" Koga said, with mirth in his eyes.

"Hnn… I will ask you to keep an eye on my secretary. I do not want Onigumo making her uncomfortable" he said. Koga knew what he meant. Naraku had a history of being too friendly and rough with women.

"Alright, I'll ask one of my men to take my spot in first with you then," replied Koga. Sesshomaru gave a slight nod.

Sesshomaru saw that his secretary was returning, but could also see Onigumo's eyes on her from the seating area a few gates down. It would seem that he was taking a different flight to Paris. This greatly irked him. As she neared, he saw his secretary stop all of a sudden, while at the same time saw Koga had frozen too.

"Inspector Yoro" she said.

"Actually it's just Koga now, I left the force" Koga replied with a smile, "It's good to see you Ms. Higurashi".

Kagome looked over at her boss and saw him looking at them both out of the corner of his eye, not wanting to know how the two knew each other.

She did not want to bring up her past in front of her boss and promptly passed a cup of coffee to her boss. "Here you go Mr. Taisho, one black coffee," she said with a smile.

"You're Sessho- I mean Mr. Taisho's secretary?" he said, quickly correcting himself after seeing the seething gaze his boss gave him.

"Yes, I'm Mr. Taisho's personal assistant. How do you know him inspec-Koga?" she asked, catching herself.

"He is my bodyguard, Ms. Higurashi" Mr. Taisho cut in.

"Yup, I'm in charge of making sure that he doesn't get pulverized," smirked Koga.

"That would never happen," Mr. Taisho said coolly.

Kagome was happy that he was not pushing the subject about her past, and she pleaded through her eyes that Koga not bring up anything about her past. She took a seat across from the men and dug out her headphones and iPod from her purse. She had another 20 minutes to kill and listened to her music while eating a sandwich that she had purchased from the café. She was a little nervous about flying.

She looked between the two men and couldn't believe the difference between them. Koga was all relaxed and seemed to be listening to music of his own. To his left sat Mr. Taisho, all poised and almost ready to strike. He looked more of a body guard than Koga! As if Koga could tell what she was thinking as he looked at her, "Don't underestimate me, Higurashi. I'm always alert and ready to handle things" he said with a wink. Kagome blushed and looked out the window to see that the plane had arrived.

After 15 minutes, they were allowing first class to board. She saw her boss grab a few of his things and walk to the gate, but Koga remained seated. When she looked at him questioningly, he simply said "I'll be looking after you today, Kagome" finally happy that he could drop the formalities.

'Oh great,' Kagome thought. 'Just what I need. An ex-boyfriend on a trip to Paris.'


Whoa ex-boyfriend? what?! I didn't even see that coming... hahaha. Hope you liked the latest chapter I promise next time that we will be in Paris! Remember to leave any suggestions in your reviews and I love hearing from you guys! I'm hoping to pick up the pace in the next few chapters! Hopefully it won't take me so many months to do so! Now off to bed and life of MCAT studying D: Have a spooky Halloween!