I am so so sorry you guys had to wait so long for an update. I work two jobs so I won't be able to go back to updating every week but I will do the best I can. Thank you guys so much so patiently waiting 3

Today Inuyasha was not feeling it. At all. It was Monday, it was raining & it was cold. That meant he had three very good reasons to call out but he decided to go to work anyway simpy because he couldn't find a good enough excuse for calling in. Plus he had to be at work at 9 & it was currently 8:45.

"Will you try to get off early?" Sesshomaru asked sleepily, running a hand over his face.

"'Sho would be nice if I could but corporate is coming today to replan our stores & check our inventory. I'm sure they'll be at our store all day since we're a superstore" Inuyasha responded.

The hanyou slipped into his socks & shoes before running a brush through his hair. If corporate wasn't coming today, if it wasn't fifteen minutes before his shift, if he wasn't a damn store manager he'd be cuddled up beside his favorite person in the world that was carrying his other favorite person in the world while watching Fresh Prince reruns & sipping on some tea or coffee…but duty called. They could always use the extra money & he needed to build a good relationship with his Halloween store so that when the season was over he'd have no problem going to their sister company to work full time. It was best not to call out…but that didn't mean he wasn't Googling calling out for work excuses.

"How you feel?" the half breed asked in hopes of distracting Sesshomaru from what he was doing.

"I am not retching nor feeling nauseous so I will not complain" the inuyoukai answered, "What are you doing?"

"Oh that's good, babe. I hear morning sickness usually lasts like three months at least so I'm glad you ain't goin' through that"

"Hn. You didn't answer my question"

"What question?"

Sesshomaru frowned, opening one eye. "It is too early to be playing dumb with me, Inuyasha"

"Oh. Oh yeah I was just…looking up the traffic report to see if there are any accidents on my route to work"

"That was a great excuse, however, you are lying"

"I am not!"

"Then why is your eyebrow twitching?"

"My eyebrow is twi-" Inuyasha reached up & sure enough his right eyebrow was doing the Harlem Shake, "Look it's twitchin' cause I'm tired as hell & I ain't exactly excited about driving in the cold rain on a Monday!"

"You always have gotten defensive when you are caught in your lies…"

"I ain't-! Bye Sessh" the hanyou said irritably, standing up rom his side of the bed.

"You must be looking at some strange category of porn for you to lie to me in such a way…or are you texting someone I would not approve of?"

Inuyasha didn't bother answering. He simply grabbed his car keys & left. The funny thing was he had every intention of telling Sesshomaru what exactly he was doing but when he gets shit like that thrown at him, being accused of some shit that doesn't make any sense…that just put him in such a foul mood.

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& unfortunately his day get not get better from there.

"Yes I know, this is like the third time I've been late in the past two weeks but I can't help this, Michelle!" Inuyasha fussed at his district manager as he crawled on the crowded interstate, "I ain't ask all these people to get out here all at the same time!"

He should know better than to only give himself ten minutes to get to work even though he only lived one exit away. He always got in the car with the hopes that no one would get into an accident & clog up traffic so that way he could get to work in about seven minutes…but of course today just had to be unnecessarily difficult.

"Aw c'mon! Move your ass, it's a simple fender bender!" Inuyasha shouted at the truck in front of him that rubber necking & slowing traffic down.

He probably braked every thirty to forty five seconds. By the time he got to work his calf muscle was tense & he couldn't get it to relax. Two of his coworkers were standing outside their cars, smoking & talking.

"Good morning with your late ass" one of them, Sango said. She was his most dependable worker but boy did she have an attitude he hated dealing with.

"I'm sure it was for a good reason, Sango, Inuyasha would never intentionally show up late to a job he loves" the other, Miroku said, smirking.

"Fuck both of you" Inuyasha snapped, whipping out his store keys.

Considering he had to open the store & he'd gotten here late he had to run around & turn on all the lights, grab the cash registers & turn on the animitronics before a customer pulled up, as well as boot the computers & clock in.

"So what's on the agenda, boss? Michelle says Antoine is getting fired because he told everyone there was not a to do list so absolutely nothing got done & we have to add that to our list today" Sango murmured as she clocked in.

Inuyasha sighed. "She should've fired him long ago when he wasn't doing shit while we set up. I know me & Kagome have complained about him enough for her to at least keep an eye on him"

"& not to mention he has only shown up to work on time once even though he is assistant manager" Miroku put in.

"Not for long…" Inuyasha said as he looked down at his phone & saw Michelle was calling him, "Yes, Michelle?"

"HR has given me the go-ahead to fire Antoine's sorry ass"

"Well praise baby Jesus"

"They sent you the paperwork to your email. Print that shit out & call him in so he can sign it & get out of my store"

"Yes ma'am"

She hung up without another word & Inuyasha set his phone on the counter beside him, smirking. "I'm getting the paperwork for Antoine's termination"

"Thank you, God" Sango said.

"Ah sucks for him, considering he just had that baby" Miroku commented.

"He should've been thinking about that baby every time he showed up for work instead of coming in an hour late & playing on his phone all day while dodging his responsibilities" Sango snapped & Miroku put his hands up in a surrendering gesture.

"I wasn't taking his side, love, only pointing out that it sucks"

"I know, I know. I wasn't snapping on you, I'm just a little wired"

"The warehouse is wearing you out?"

"Yeah…"

Inuyasha quickly looked away when Sango let herself be wrapped up in Miroku's arms, his hands longing for Sesshomaru. "Cut that lovely dovey shit out. I 'on't wanna see that"

"Says the guy who practically made out with his boo thang when said boo thang came in to have lunch with him" Sango taunted & Inuyasha scowled.

"That is not my boo thang! He is my boyfriend that I plan on m-…never mind…"

Sango gasped. "Oh my God you're going to purpose to him?!"

"Yeah one day! Jesus, calm your tits!"

"Oh my God, Inuyasha, I'm so happy! Have you gotten the ring yet?"

The hanyou gushed & dug the toe of his shoe in the floor. "Yeah…last week…"

The pretty human squealed, slapping her boyfriend on the arm. "Oh my God! Miroku, oh my God, you have to be the best man"

"Hey it's my weddi-" Inuyasha started

"I think red & silver would be a great color combination…" the dark haired male contemplated.

"Excuse-?"

"Nah Sesshomaru's favorite color is green, we'd have to incorporate that & red & green would look like a cheesy Christmas wedding"

"How did you know-"

"Siler & green then?"

"That sounds excellent, Miroku, you're a genius"

"Oh don't I know it sweetheart"

Inuyasha rolled his eyes unnecessarily slow. He didn't have time for the headache that was quickly approaching. With the computers finally up & ready to go, he clicked on the company email but found the to-do list hadn't arrived in his email yet.

'Guess Michelle either hasn't sent it yet cause she's still bitching or our server is being slow today…'

"Whatever" he murmured under his breath, "Alright I need you guys to do recovery, make sure nothing's on the floor, everything in its right place & neat. I'll be making the schedule until the truck gets here then I'll be merchandising which you will help me with"

"Yes sir" Miroku said with a two fingered salute.

"On it" Sango murmured.

Inuyasha sighed as he sat down & brought up the list of all the employees & their available times. Everyone but him & Antoine had this job as well as another one so it usually took him a minute to have it done. He greeted customers as they entered & rung them up if Miroku or Sango weren't around which made him make the schedule take even longer. Several times he had to stop because someone was returning items & only he could do it because he had the password to open the registers.

Two hours in, Michelle walked in, mad as hell. "Where the hell is the midget?"

"He's not supposed to be in until three, Michelle" Inuyasha said calmly even though he was aggravated.

"I told him to bring his ass up here at 11:30. Call him & tell him to bring his ass!"

The hanyou tilted his head back & closed his eyes, counting to ten. All he wanted to do was make the schedule, get this day over with, go home & go to sleep. He didn't even want to have sex & that was saying a lot.

When he picked up his phone he saw he had a text messege.

"Hey Inuyasha I just saw Michelle's text. Why she need me in so early, did someone call out?" ~Antoine.

"Just bring your ass" Inuyasha responded.

A few seconds later he got a response. "If this is about the missing money I had every intention of puttiing it back today since I got paid"

"What the-Michelle, come here!"

The stocky lesbian came out of their break room, her face slightly red. "What?"

Inuyasha showed her the response & counted to see how long it would take for the hot tempered district manager to lose her shit.

1.…2-

"What the absolute fuck?!"

"Thar she blows…." Inuyasha murmured.

Michelle shoved the phone back in Inuyasha's hands. "Tell him he better get here ASAP before I metaphorically cut his head off & rip him a new asshole!"

"Just hurry your ass up" Inuyasha responded to Antoine & sat down to finish making the schedule.

The sorry excuse for an assistant mananger didn't show up for another four hours. Inuyasha wasn't really stressing it because he knew how inconvenient the bus route could be. Michelle, however…

"Yo, what's up, man?" Antoine said, walking in with his shades on.

Inuyasha nodded once, only acknowledging him in the slightest while he helped a customer.

"Michelle here?"

"Antoine"

Both men looked up at the slightly built woman as she stepped out of the break room, her thin mouth set in a hard line & her light blue eyes angry.

"Hey Michelle, what's u-"

"Come here. Now"

"Oooh…he in trouble…" Sango mumbled under her breath. Inuyasha only smirked.

When Antoine stepped into the break room Michelle pointed at Inuyasha & Sango. "Write a complaint paper quickly"

"For what?" Antoine asked but Michelle simply ignored him.

"I bet five dollars Michelle's going to personally escort him out when she fires him" Sango asked too quietly for customers to hear.

"I sure hope so" Miroku put in.

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A police escort for Antoine, several grumpy customers, a pissed off district manager & twelve hours later, Inuyasha snatched his apron off & clocked out. It had been an extremely long day but at least he got the schedule done, got the new shipments merchandised, the back stockroom cleaned & organized & even raised three hundred dollars for a foundation for childrens' hospitals their store does every year.

"See ya, Yasha" Miroku said, waving & Inuyasha waved back before practically running out of the store before someone asked him to help with something.

"Go home…eat something…relax…then going to bed…" the half breed muttered to himself as he lit a cigarette & started his car. He knew he needed to quit smoking soon, especially once the baby came. With each pack he told himself it was going to be his last but he always had some bullshit thrown his way that made him want another.

'This will be my last pack. I promise'

He heaved a sigh that was somewhere between exhaustion & aggravasion as he inched forward on the highway again. He was so glad his Halloween store was only temporary & the season was ending soon cause this traffic drove him up the wall. Why did it seem like everyone have to be on this road at this time? Wasn't there any other way these people could take to their destination? But then he had to ask himself that & the answer was a no, otherwise he wouldn't here now, stuck in traffic.

"Jesus H. Christ!" Inuyasha shouted, leaning his head against his headrest.

But once he got off on his exit & he was on his last stretch home he relaxed a little. Home was waiting for him & with it, warm food, his pajamas, a cold one & a boyfriend who he hoped was not in a bitchy mood that was carrying their child.

Inuyasha pulled into the garage & painstakingly walked to the door that lead into the house. His back was hurting & he needed shoes with better support. He'd been meaning to get some sneakers for the past few months but with bills & utilities, there was always something that needed to be paid first.

"I'm home" Inuyasha muttered as he dropped his keys on the kitchen counter.

Sesshomaru, curled up on the couch & watching some sappy Lifetime movie, looked him up & down. "Welcome home"

"Thanks"

The half breed opened the fridge & took out a can of beer & had it popped open before the door closed. The alcoholic beverage was perfectly cold & drained all the tension from his body. He sighed & closed his eyes.

"So what were you doing on your phone before you left?" Sesshomaru asked quietly.

"Sesshomaru, do not start that shit" Inuyasha said in a stern voice, "I ain't in the mood"

"It was a simple question…"

"I said don't start, aight?! You act like I was cheating on you or some shit. Trust me, if I was, I wouldn't of bothered coming home & being bitched at!"

Sesshomaru's face was unreadable. Not like the "I don't want to show just how upset I am" kind of unreadable but that kind of unreadable that crossed someone's face who just realized something that hadn't noticed was right in front of them. "Come here"

Inuyasha put his beer down, frowning. "What?"

"Come. Here"

"What do you want?" the hanyou asked even though he walked over to his mate anyway.

When he got within reach the inuyoukai gently tugged on his hand & got him to sit down beside him then he laid the half breed's head against his chest, slowly stroking his hair. "Welcome home. Relax now" Sesshomaru whispered.

All of today's stress melted from Inuyasha & he pressed his nose to his mate's neck. Within seconds he was asleep & it was the best sleep he'd had in a long time.