Kagome awoke to Sango gently nudging her, and the smell of freshly made chocolate chip muffins. Kagome sat up almost instantly, chocolate chip muffins were her favorite, but the only time she had ever had one was on her tenth birthday, when her parents had snuck out and gotten one for her. Sango stumbled backwards a couple of feet, but caught her balance, (luckily).
"Congratulations!" She cheered.
"What? What'd I do?" Kagome asked.
"You survived your first day at work, silly!"
"Oh, okay. Well, that was very kind of you to think of me! How on earth did you manage to get these? I thought only royals were able to get these."
"Yeah, that's true, but I have a good friend who is the main chef for breakfast. I got up early, and asked him if he had a few extras." Sango said happily.
Kagome stood up, and walked over to the doorway of their hut, and looked out the screen door. She gazed past about twenty feet of road, paths, and other huts, and looked at the big clock in the center of all of the huts. It read; 5:01AM. Kagome gasped, she and Sango had gone to bed at about 1:45 when they were done talking, she guessed, and that meant Sango had gotten less than three hours of sleep! Seeing as how she had gotten up early to get the muffins. That couldn't be healthy, the not sleeping, the muffins were fine.
"Oh my God Sango, did you sleep at all last night?" Kagome asked, with a worried ring to her voice.
"Nope, I'm used to it though, I get tired if I sleep more than six hours, I'm not sure why though. Anyhow, enough about me, eat your muffin before it gets cold!"
Kagome did as she was told, and enjoyed every bite of the muffin. Sango also had a muffin; she seemed to like them almost as much as Kagome did. Kagome wondered how Sango had gotten the muffins back to their hut so quickly, but she shrugged it off, and considered it not to be that big of a deal.
"So Sango, what exactly do you do in a days work?"
"Work my ass off, simple as that." Sango laughed.
Kagome laughed as well. "Well, I kinda figured that, we all do, but what do you do?"
"Well, we train, and stuff, and we interrogate captives, and investigate, and stuff."
"You work with Shippo, don't you?" Kagome laughed.
"Yeah, how'd you know?"
"He took me to the hospital after dinner that one night."
"Oh, I gotcha. Hey look, I'm gonna take a quick shower, and then you can too, okay?" Sango asked.
"Yeah, sure." Kagome said. She had just realized that she hadn't had a shower since she had gotten here (which was three and a half days). She felt pretty disgusting, and she must smell as bad too!
Kagome waited patiently while Sango took a shower, and she was true to her word, she had taken a fairly quick shower. Kagome sprinted to the bathroom they shared, and grabbed some shampoo, conditioner, and two bars of soap. She quickly stripped all of her clothing off, and turned the nozzle on the side of the shower. Warm, (room temperature) water came out of the faucet, and it felt like she was washing all of her troubles away. (pun intended, even though I hate them!). Kagome washed and rinsed her hair about four times, quite literally, and then she lathered it with some conditioner, and rinsed that out. She fingered a few of her long scars trailing her body. There were so many of them, she felt kind of ugly with the trails of discolored lines covering her skin. After about twenty minutes of scouring every inch of her body with soap and shampoo, Sango interrupted.
"Kagome! Hurry up and save some for the fish!" Sango shouted.
Kagome sighed, and rinsed her body until she was sure each of the suds was off of her body, because she hated rinsing the rest off by having to go back into the shower. Kagome hopped out of the shower after she had turned off the water, and wrapped a towel around herself, and her hair.
"Oh, that felt so good, I feel so much better now!" Kagome chirped.
"Glad you think so, now dry off, and put this on, and get some underwear from the clothes line, I washed all of our stuff while you were out late working your job, so it's your turn if you ever get home earlier than me." Sango said, while throwing one of Kagome's dresses at her.
After Kagome had dressed herself, she and Sango walked to the bus stop. It was the exact same as yesterday, same people, same boring and meek greeting. Kagome waited impatiently for five minutes and then began to tap her foot. She wanted to get in and out of her job as quickly as possible.
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Inuyasha ran around his room frantically scattering his belongings around the floor, putting a few light stains on the carpet, and screwing his bathroom up as much as possible. He wanted that new maid to stay a little longer than she had last night. Her presence gave him comfort for some reason. He didn't know why, it just, did. He really wished he had his parents with him so he could ask for their advice. He missed them dearly, and he didn't know what had happened to them. Inuyasha pushed his childhood into the deep corners of his mind, as he heard a knock on the door, it must be the maid.
"Eh, excuse me milord?" A squeaky, high-pitched toad's voice echoed through the door.
"Yes Jaken, what is it this time?" Inuyasha asked impatiently.
"Sir, it is time for your swordsman class now." The imp said, not even going through the door.
"Jaken, you know I really couldn't care less for them, tell them I will not be attending today." He said bluntly.
"But milord!"
"Jaken…" Inuyasha said impatiently
"Yes, yes milord, right away sir."
Inuyasha really hated that annoying excuse for a demon. He didn't even know why he kept that guy around. Inuyasha gave a quick glance around the room, and made sure that you could barely see the floor. Then he walked out of the room, and hid in Kikyo's room, so he could walk in on Kagome cleaning. Inuyasha went over his plan in his mind. First, when he saw Kagome walk by, he would wait two or five minutes, and then walk in as if nothing were new. After that, he would just watch T.V. or play a video game of something, maybe he could ask her to watch with him or something. Inuyasha slapped himself mentally. Voice 1: 'No you idiot! Why do you even like her? She's just a worthless slave girl.' Voice two: 'I really couldn't care less on what we do to be honest.' And then finally Voice 3: 'You guys are crazy! Have you seen that girl's ass? She is one fine chick, even if she is a slave, no one said she couldn't be our mate, I mean, we are the lord of this place after all.' Inuyasha shook his head; that was a little too psychotic for him.
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Kagome boarded the bus quickly and quietly as everyone else did, and didn't talk, like everyone else. Kagome mentally slapped herself; she had meant to ask Sango about that! Well, hopefully she could get to go to lunch, and ask her. Even more so, maybe she could get done early, how bad a mess could one guy make in one night? As Kagome sat down, she remembered the old, wrinkled face in the mirror of the bus. Kaede. Kagome smiled, and then waved.
Kagome walked off of the bus, and into her building, with much patience, and luck, Kagome found the locker room. The second she walked through the door, she heard,
"Kagome please come to master Jaken's office, Kagome to Master Jaken's office, that is all, thank you!"
Kagome sighed and walked off to Jaken's office.
A/N: Well, what could Jaken have in store for Kagome? Well, you'll have to read my next update to find out! .