Chapter 10
"Mikan hurry up! We are going to be late!" Sumire yells at me from the main door for the past five minutes.
"I'm coming!" I quickly grab my bag from the stool and run towards the main door to see Sumire tapping her foot impatiently. She is wearing a white dress shirt with a black blazer over it, a black pencil skirt that came to mid-thigh, white stocking with black boots. Beside her was Retzu and to his right, my mom was standing while holding Aoi to her hip.
"Sorry, I was having trouble with my shoes." I am wearing clothing very similar to Sumire; the only differences were that I am wearing flats and a white blazer over a white dressed shirt. I look over at Sumire and she just rolls her eyes at me, and heads out the door. I kiss my babies and my mom goodbye and follow Sumire in pursuit to the cab.
When we arrived at the Hyuuga Cooperation's Sumire paid the cab driver and it road off. The building is the same as I remembered, 'Hyuuga Cooperation's' written in big silver letters, a tall building with windows that were clean, shiny and spotless. I was brought out of my thoughts when Sumire nudged my shoulder.
"Come on. We are going to be late." I nod and we both go in and walk towards the receptionist.
"Hello, my name is Mikan Sakura and this here is Sumire Shoudia. We are Natsume Hyuuga's new ." I introduce us. The women look up to us, and scrunch up her nose.
"Did you have an appointment with him?" she asks us rudely. I thought receptionists were supposed to be nice and generous, clearly that is not the case here. Before I could reply Sumire beat me to it.
"No. We are working for him from today onwards. Phone him if you are in doubt." Sumire says to the lady in the same tone as she did with us. The women roles her eyes and calls him up.
"Sir, your two new are here. Shall I send them up." she says in a sickly sweet voice and hangs up.
"You are to go to the top floor straight." She says dismissing us. We walk towards the elevator and head up to the top floor.
"She was a such b*tch." Sumire says with anger. I sigh. "The next I see her, I am not holding back." I tell her to calm and when the doors open. We walk to the door that says Hyuuga's office. I knock and then hear deep voice say 'Come in'
We walk in and the office was huge. I swear you could fit two desks here would still have room for a third.
"Good morning Mr. Hyuuga." he looks up at us from his laptop. Then looks over at his wrist watch and checks the time.
"You both are five minutes late." He says coldly.
"Sorry about that sir, but your receptionist is quite rude which caused us to be five minutes late." Sumire replies monotone. I look to Sumire and back at Hyuuga and his eyes have been darkened. Oh no. Not a good move girl.
Hyuuga stands up from his big leather chair, walks around his desk and stands right in front of us.
"Ms. Shoudia I will only say this once so listen carefully. All my employees that work for me, respect me. All my employees that work for me, are always time. All my employees that work for me are never late and if they are; they're fired. So if I ever hear you being disrespectful to anyone of my employees or me, you will be fired and have no paycheck. I do not tolerate immaturity in my office or my building. Is that clear?" he says darkly and Sumire and I just nodded, to afraid to say anything.
"Good. Now Ms. Shoudia you will be working with my co- partner, Kokoroyomi. He is the head account of my firms and you will be assisting him in his office." She nodded left. I hope she knew the way. Mr. Hyuuga walks back to his chair and settles down.
"Now Ms. Hyuuga—
"It is Sakura Mr. Hyuuga." I interrupt him, correcting my name. he sighs
"Another thing. Never interrupt me when I am talking." He says coldly. I gulped and nodded. I stood in the same place.
"You will be working with me by being my P.A. Your job will be to organize files, make appointments, make charts, be part of meeting and others things."
"Yes sir."
He leans over his desk and opens the draw, and grabs some files. He places them on the desk in front of me. There were a lot of files at least nine to ten files and some are pretty thick.
"Here, I want these files upload into our system so it can be available to everyone in this company. Then I need you to book a meeting with Mr. Xiao, the CEO of an oil company in Tokyo at some point within two weeks and let me know the date as well."
"Yes sir, and when do you need this done by."
"Afternoon." He said and my opens were open. That was such a less time, and by the look of these files, I would at least need evening.
"Where is my office sir?"
"Across from mine." He says, and I walk out the door with the files in my hand and head to the office. Did not even have the decency to walk me to my office, bloody boss.
It has been a few hours and I have only done half my pile. I made the call to the oil company earlier since booked a meeting two weeks from now, and now have moved on to organizing the files. A deep sigh exhales through my mouth and I lean back in my chair. I look over to the clock and it is five minutes to twelve meaning that I have been working four hours straight non-stop. The phone rang in my office
"Hello"
"Update the files quickly on the system. We need them by twelve." Imai
"Yes Imai. Anything else" I reply back in a professional tone.
"No." then she hangs up. We still are not on talking terms, however we have crossed paths and given each other a glance but that's it.
Knock knock
"Come in." in walks Sumire mad. She was red and steam was coming out of her ears. Guessing working with Koko must have been interesting.
"What happened?" I tried to contain my laughter the best I could, which only caused her to get angrier.
"Ha ha, laugh it up. The employees here know nothing about personal space. They are either arrogant jerks like Koko and Hyuuga or b*tches like the front desk receptionist. The Barbie doll." She says arrogated. I laugh a little which pisses her off even more. I suggested we go out for lunch because it is lunchtime now and a good weather plus the wind is nice as well. Well enough for her mood to be better. We both leave my office and head down and out for lunch. There are some food courts around the building, and had an outdoor lunch.
The food was amazing, nothing like California food, not to say it was bad or anything but I realized how much I missed my country food. We were having sushi, and decided to add a little spice to change the taste up a bit. While I was eating, at the corner of my eye, I saw Ruka pass by. I quickly look back down at my food hoping he doesn't notice me.
Soon I hear "Mikan" why does my fate hate so much. I look up to Ruka.
"Hello."
"How are you? I am happy to see you back." He says with a smile.
"I can't say the same for you, and I was forced to come back on your boss's terms." I say blankly. His smile drops. Sumire just sits there and watches the show. Some best buddy she is.
"I guess you still haven't forgiven us" he says sadly.
"If you were married, and I find out that your wife was cheating on you. Went to your friends and informed all of them and to keep it hidden from you for months. How would you feel?" I asked him, with bitterness. He looks away from my eyes.
"I couldn't." he whispers. I was getting angry and got up from my chair and faced him.
"Couldn't or you wouldn't?" I say to him. he looks at me angry a little as well.
"No I couldn't!" I yells, but I didn't flinch because I mad now.
"What if I told you that your best friend a.k.a my ex-husband is what I thought it was, is still my husband today?" in the same level of voice. He looked at me with sympathy, and by this I knew what his answer was going to be.
"Yes." He says it in a whisper.
"Did my mother?" he shook his head no.
"Thought so." I gathered my food and threw it in the trash. "Let's go" I tell Sumire.
"Mikan." He calls me and I turn to face him. "I'm sorry."
"It's too late, alright." We walk away and head back to the office.
When we reached the floor we went our separate ways to our offices. When I entered my office and just had sat down the phone started to ring. Before I could even answer a voiced boomed through the receiver.
"Come to my office now." As soon as those words were done, it hung up. I knew it was Hyuuga, but I didn't know why he was so angry. I quickly grabbed my note pad and headed out to his office. I am not afraid of Ruka and I am afraid of Hyuuga. I knocked and an angry voice told me to come in. I opened the door and went in to see Mr. Hyuuga resting his head on his hand.
"S-Sir you called me h-here." My voice came out as a whisper near the end. I have never seen him this mad before. He looks up at me with, and angry eyes and over.
With each step he takes I take two steps back, and soon my back made connection with the wall. Hyuuga stood right in front of me and stood close, way, way too close. I could feel his mint breath in my face but his gaze never left mine. I tried moving to the right but he stopped me with his right hand. I did the same with left but again stopped me by his left hand and now I am caged.
"S-Sir—
"Where were you" he asked me in a low dangerous voice.
"I-I was out for lunch w-with Sumire" cursing myself my head for the stuttering. He was gazing me through me and into my soul that was what it felt like.
"Why" he boomed in a low voice.
"S-Sir it was l-lunch time."
"Next time you are to inform me if you are taking a step out of my building." I nodded and he excused me. I hurriedly went out of his office and into mine.
The files were done and imported into the system. Hyuuga asked for the files earlier but informed that it was nowhere near done due to the content. The main ones I updated to Imai could use them and submit, the rest took time. There was just so much information that needed to be typed up. He said he needed them now, but after proving and provoking him, got more time. Now it was FINALLY done! I got up and started to collect my things and tidy up my voice before going home. I heard my phone ring and I saw a message, it was from Sumire.
SS: Koko is dropping me off your house. C u home
MS: all rite, c u soon.
I gather my things and to Hyuuga's office, letting him know that I am leaving. Knocking, I heard him say 'Come in'. I walk in.
"Mr. Hyuuga I am leaving now. Just thought I let you know." I say to him. He looks at me getting up.
"I will drop you off. Let me just get my things." He says getting up. I told that it was fine but he stubbornly insisted. We both left the building together. We went to the parking lot and I saw his car, it was Chevrolet Suburban. We got in and I sat on the passenger seat. We put on our seat belts; Mr. Hyuuga started the car and rode off.
There was silence for the first little while; I just looked out my window as lights, cars and buildings passed by. My thoughts were interrupted when he spoke.
"Why did you move to California?" he asked, keeping his eyes on the road. I looked at him, thinking of my words carefully.
" I know that you were going to be able to find if I stayed anywhere in Japan, if not you definitely Imai would have. So I had to get way."
"How many relationships have you had?" Ha asks as he makes a left turn on the road.
"That is a personal question Mr. Hyuuga, so I am not answering that." we stop at a red light and looks at me with his angry face. I gulped. I looked away and answer him.
"How. Many Mikan?"
"N-Not many." I say. I know I am lying but I have to. I can't trust him or anyone other than my mom and Sumire. I see his eyes darken, meaning he is beyond angry. He continues to drive. Soon we arrive at my house, I thanked him for the ride and started to get out. Before I could open the door, he grabbed my wrist.
"Let go." I struggle to get my wrist out from his grip but no use.
"I know you are lying to me Mikan." He says, I was about to object but he beat me to it.
"Don't even deny it. You can't lie. I will find out soon now that you are back" he says seriously
"I have nothing to hide." I whisper. He smirks.
"Nine years gives a person a lot to hide." He grins evilly. I was about to say something but again cut off
" I am going to find out. Because now we are playing Hide and Seek." He says and let's go of my wrist. I quickly get out of his car, and head to my house.
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