Disclaimer: neither anime is mine, sue me if you like, but I have no money
Bunny ~ Thanks for the help and stuff! I appreciate it.
Kanashimi ~ yeah neither have I lol, that's why I decided to write it.
And the anime, if you haven't guessed, is: Spirited Away! or Sen to Chihiro no Kamakakushi If you haven't seen it, you really should, great movie from Studio Ghibli (you know, totoro, kiki, mononoke)
"Um, are you Kikkyo?" Kagome asked.
Kikkyo looked up and glared. "What do you want?" she asked coldly.
Kagome took a deep breath. "I want a job." she said. Kikkyo laughed. "No, I have enough slackers here. We serve hundreds of gods, I don't need more people to screw up." She picked up a quill pen and started writing. Kagome waited a moment before realizing that Kikkyo didn't intend to talk to her anymore. *No! I have to get this job!* she stepped a bit closer to Kikkyo. "Please let me work here! I'll do anything!"
Kikkyo glared at her again. "I said no. Maybe you'd like a more forceful no? You'd make a nice wolf, or maybe a cat." The large cat growled and walked over to her. Kikkyo laughed and reached over to scratch the cat's head. "You're right Kirara, she wouldn't make a good cat." She looked back at Kagome. "Well? Want to be a wolf?"
"No! I want to work here!" Kagome answered forcefully. Kikkyo pulled out a strip of paper and threw it at Kagome and it landed on her mouth. Kagome reached up to pull it off, well tried to. *I can't move!* she thought in terror. "That's better." Kikkyo said, returning to her writing. After what seemed like an eternity to Kagome, Kikkyo stopped writing and looked at her.
"You've managed to do quite well, you must have had help to get this far. Who helped you?" Kikkyo asked, she waved her hand and the paper over Kagome's mouth disappeared in a puff of smoke. Kagome coughed for a moment and then blurted. "Let me work here!" Kikkyo's face turned red, she stood up and slammed her hands on the table. "NO!" she screamed. The air in the room seemed to pick up on her rage. The fire flared up and the papers on her desk scattered.
Before Kagome could say anything, a high-pitched whine started coming from the room behind the curtain. "See what you've done?" Kikkyo said angrily, and rushed into the room, shoving aside the curtain. "There, there, baby, it's ok." Kagome could hear her saying. The cry sounded again and a blast of blue flame shot out from the room. The cat backed up warily, and the white haired girl got up and ran out of the room.
"Kikkyo! Let me work here!" Kagome yelled again. Kikkyo leaned back out of the door. "I said no! Now be quiet! You're upsetting him!" Another blast of the blue flame shot out, engulfing her. "Oh Shippo! Shh! Shh!" She cooed as the flames dissipated.
"I want to work here!" Kagome said yet again. This time Kikkyo gave in. "Fine! Sign that!" She gestured to a paper on her desk. Kagome moved forward and picked it up.
"I, (sign here) agree to work at Kikkyo's Shrine and Bathhouse until Kikkyo decides she no longer needs me or until I regain what is mine and choose to leave." It said.
Kagome picked up the pen and paused. * Regain what's mine. . . It must mean mom and Souta! * she thought and signed it. Kikkyo came out of the now quiet room. She made her way to the desk and snatched the paper from Kagome. "Kagome Higurashi, eh?" Kikkyo asked. Kagome nodded.
"Too long, from now on your name is, Mei." Kikkyo said. Kagome watched as her name shifted around until only the name Mei remained. "Understand?" Kikkyo asked sharply. Kagome nodded again. The door behind her opened and she turned to see Yasha standing there. "You sent for me Kikkyo?" He asked.
Kikkyo pointed at Kagome. (a/n who I will continue to call Kagome, but others will call her Mei) "She'll be working for me now. Get her a spot somewhere and make sure she doesn't cause trouble. And do it fast, we have business later." Kagome frowned a bit, she didn't like the way Kikkyo said "business". Yasha bowed to Kikkyo and turned to Kagome.
"What's your name?" he asked. "Ka" she began, "I mean Mei. My name's Mei." She glanced at Kikkyo, hoping her slip hadn't been noticed. Kikkyo was writing and ignoring her again. Yasha nodded. "Come with me Mei." he said and strode out of the room. Kagome nearly had to run to keep up as he walked down the long hall. *I knew he was a fast runner, but couldn't he have a more leisurely walk? * she wondered.
After getting on the elevator and starting down, Kagome glanced at Yasha. He was staring straight ahead. "Yasha?" One of his dog-ears twitched in her direction. "Hn?" came a grunt. "Did I do ok, Yasha?" she asked.
He turned to her with a glare. "You will address me as Yasha-sama." he said sternly. "And don't bother me with trivial questions wench." He slammed the elevator to a stop and walked off. Kagome paused for a minute in confusion, before hurrying after him.
They were in a room with all sorts of people in it. Scattered around the room, some were sitting on cushions, others leaning were against the walls and many of them were eating. *It's some sort of lounge for the people who work here* Kagome realized.
Looking around Kagome saw quite an assortment of odd-looking people. There were several girls dressed like Sango had been. In one corner Kagome could see the weird fox-pelt guy, Manten, talking to a guy with a long black braid and the frog-guy she had seen on the bridge. Most of the people in the room looked human at first glance, then Kagome would see pointy ears or a tail. A huge fluffy tail, in the case of one guy; who was lying on a couch on one side of the room, with several of the girls fawning over him.
They all looked up at her when she entered, some of them held their noses. Kagome heard several of them whisper "human". Yasha stepped next to her. "This is Mei" he announced. "Her contract is signed, she works here now." The guy with a fluffy tail wrinkled his nose. "She smells horrible." Yasha rolled his eyes. "After 3 days she won't stink anymore." Kagome was hurt. *I know they can smell me, but Yasha thinks I stink?* The little frog guy ran up, waving his staff with heads on it at her. "Well she's not working with me!" Yasha looked down at him. "She'd beat the shit out of you Jaken." he said, drawing a round of laughs.
"I don't want her." said a very pretty guy, with stripes on his face. Yasha glanced over. "Feh, she's not your type." A scantily clad girl, sitting on what looked like hair, up in a corner laughed. "And that's not because she's human either Jakotsu." The pretty guy glared. "Shut up Yura." he said, sounding mad, but then he threw a longing glance to the fluffy tail guy along with a seductive wink.
"Sango c'mere." Yasha said, ignoring the banter. Hearing her groan, Kagome noticed Sango standing on one side of the room. She stepped forward. "You're not gonna lay her on me are you?" she said in annoyance. Yasha glared at her and then stomped away. "If she causes trouble I'm holding you responsible!" Sango called after him, then she turned to Kagome. "You! Come with me." she snapped. She turned abruptly and went out a door, Kagome scrambled to follow. *why is everyone so rude now? * she wondered.
As they headed down a hallway out of the door, Sango suddenly stopped and turned to her with a grin. "You did it! I was worried when I had to leave you, but Manten has this thing about human flesh giving him hair, so I had to distract him." Kagome sighed in relief. *she's nice after all* Sango laughed. "Sorry about that, I couldn't act like I saw you earlier. Or Kikkyo might have found out."
After another elevator trip down and a few turned corners, Kagome and Sango entered a room lined with rows of beds, a huge cabinet on one wall, and a door leading out to a balcony. Sango walked to the cabinet and opened it. "Alright, Mei. Let me find you something to wear so you can change out of." she paused and looked Kagome up and down. "That thing." Kagome looked down. She looked quite out of place in her modern school uniform when compared to all the old style clothing everyone was wearing.
Sango muttered to herself and pulled things out of the cabinet while Kagome watched. Suddenly a little boy and girl came racing into the room shouting and laughing. Sango turned around, "Kohaku! Rin! Get out of here, can't you see I'm busy!" Laughing the two kids ran out again. Sango grinned at Kagome. "My brother Kohaku and his friend Rin." she explained. (a/n that sounds familiar, aren't they in spirited away?)
"Here we are!" Sango announced pulling out red pants and a white shirt. Kagome looked at them. "Isn't that what Kikkyo wears?" Sango laughed. "Yeah, you can either wear what I'm wearing or this. But Kikkyo likes when the new girls wear these. Besides, its all I can find in your size." she waved her hand at the large cabinet. "If you want to look for something else, be my guest." Kagome looked at the huge mess of clothes in the cabinet for a moment, and then took the clothes from Sango.
"There you go." Sango said. "Now change into this nightshirt and get some sleep. We get up at 5." Kagome looked out another door and onto the balcony. "But it's nearly 3 now." Sango laughed. 'No, no. 5 pm, dusk." Kagome turned away from the door in surprise. "We sleep all day?" she asked. Sango nodded. "We eat at 5:30, and then get ready for customers until nightfall, when they come. Then we work until they all leave, usually by 2, but never later than sunrise. Then we sleep all day. So scoot."
Kagome headed off to change and stopped for a moment, remembering Yasha's attitude. "Sango?" she asked. "Are there 2 Yasha's?" Sango laughed again. "No! Thank the gods! He's trouble enough as it is. He's Kikkyo's lackey. Stay away from him he's trouble." she advised. Kagome was surprised. "Really?" Sango nodded. "He does anything Kikkyo asks, and I mean ANYTHING. So avoid him whenever you can, Mei." Having given her advice, she headed off to give Myouga his dinner.
Kagome stood alone by the bed someone had laid out for her, holding her new clothes. *Anything she asks?* she wondered sadly. *He was so nice to me.*
Kagome lay awake listening. All the other girls were coming in and going to bed. Soon all she could hear were soft snores. But she couldn't sleep, not in this strange place. And especially not on an old fashioned mat on the floor, she missed her mattress and raised bed. A shaft of light appeared on the wall as the balcony door slide open. Kagome closed her eyes and listened as someone softly slipped in, coming closer and closer. Suddenly she felt a light touch on her shoulder.
"Meet me at the bridge when the sun comes up." hissed a familiar voice in her ear. "I'll show you your mom and brother." The hand withdrew and she heard the person sneak out and the door slide closed. Opening her eyes and turning over, Kagome was just in time to see a shadow with dog-ears hop over the edge of the balcony.
Bunny ~ Thanks for the help and stuff! I appreciate it.
Kanashimi ~ yeah neither have I lol, that's why I decided to write it.
And the anime, if you haven't guessed, is: Spirited Away! or Sen to Chihiro no Kamakakushi If you haven't seen it, you really should, great movie from Studio Ghibli (you know, totoro, kiki, mononoke)
"Um, are you Kikkyo?" Kagome asked.
Kikkyo looked up and glared. "What do you want?" she asked coldly.
Kagome took a deep breath. "I want a job." she said. Kikkyo laughed. "No, I have enough slackers here. We serve hundreds of gods, I don't need more people to screw up." She picked up a quill pen and started writing. Kagome waited a moment before realizing that Kikkyo didn't intend to talk to her anymore. *No! I have to get this job!* she stepped a bit closer to Kikkyo. "Please let me work here! I'll do anything!"
Kikkyo glared at her again. "I said no. Maybe you'd like a more forceful no? You'd make a nice wolf, or maybe a cat." The large cat growled and walked over to her. Kikkyo laughed and reached over to scratch the cat's head. "You're right Kirara, she wouldn't make a good cat." She looked back at Kagome. "Well? Want to be a wolf?"
"No! I want to work here!" Kagome answered forcefully. Kikkyo pulled out a strip of paper and threw it at Kagome and it landed on her mouth. Kagome reached up to pull it off, well tried to. *I can't move!* she thought in terror. "That's better." Kikkyo said, returning to her writing. After what seemed like an eternity to Kagome, Kikkyo stopped writing and looked at her.
"You've managed to do quite well, you must have had help to get this far. Who helped you?" Kikkyo asked, she waved her hand and the paper over Kagome's mouth disappeared in a puff of smoke. Kagome coughed for a moment and then blurted. "Let me work here!" Kikkyo's face turned red, she stood up and slammed her hands on the table. "NO!" she screamed. The air in the room seemed to pick up on her rage. The fire flared up and the papers on her desk scattered.
Before Kagome could say anything, a high-pitched whine started coming from the room behind the curtain. "See what you've done?" Kikkyo said angrily, and rushed into the room, shoving aside the curtain. "There, there, baby, it's ok." Kagome could hear her saying. The cry sounded again and a blast of blue flame shot out from the room. The cat backed up warily, and the white haired girl got up and ran out of the room.
"Kikkyo! Let me work here!" Kagome yelled again. Kikkyo leaned back out of the door. "I said no! Now be quiet! You're upsetting him!" Another blast of the blue flame shot out, engulfing her. "Oh Shippo! Shh! Shh!" She cooed as the flames dissipated.
"I want to work here!" Kagome said yet again. This time Kikkyo gave in. "Fine! Sign that!" She gestured to a paper on her desk. Kagome moved forward and picked it up.
"I, (sign here) agree to work at Kikkyo's Shrine and Bathhouse until Kikkyo decides she no longer needs me or until I regain what is mine and choose to leave." It said.
Kagome picked up the pen and paused. * Regain what's mine. . . It must mean mom and Souta! * she thought and signed it. Kikkyo came out of the now quiet room. She made her way to the desk and snatched the paper from Kagome. "Kagome Higurashi, eh?" Kikkyo asked. Kagome nodded.
"Too long, from now on your name is, Mei." Kikkyo said. Kagome watched as her name shifted around until only the name Mei remained. "Understand?" Kikkyo asked sharply. Kagome nodded again. The door behind her opened and she turned to see Yasha standing there. "You sent for me Kikkyo?" He asked.
Kikkyo pointed at Kagome. (a/n who I will continue to call Kagome, but others will call her Mei) "She'll be working for me now. Get her a spot somewhere and make sure she doesn't cause trouble. And do it fast, we have business later." Kagome frowned a bit, she didn't like the way Kikkyo said "business". Yasha bowed to Kikkyo and turned to Kagome.
"What's your name?" he asked. "Ka" she began, "I mean Mei. My name's Mei." She glanced at Kikkyo, hoping her slip hadn't been noticed. Kikkyo was writing and ignoring her again. Yasha nodded. "Come with me Mei." he said and strode out of the room. Kagome nearly had to run to keep up as he walked down the long hall. *I knew he was a fast runner, but couldn't he have a more leisurely walk? * she wondered.
After getting on the elevator and starting down, Kagome glanced at Yasha. He was staring straight ahead. "Yasha?" One of his dog-ears twitched in her direction. "Hn?" came a grunt. "Did I do ok, Yasha?" she asked.
He turned to her with a glare. "You will address me as Yasha-sama." he said sternly. "And don't bother me with trivial questions wench." He slammed the elevator to a stop and walked off. Kagome paused for a minute in confusion, before hurrying after him.
They were in a room with all sorts of people in it. Scattered around the room, some were sitting on cushions, others leaning were against the walls and many of them were eating. *It's some sort of lounge for the people who work here* Kagome realized.
Looking around Kagome saw quite an assortment of odd-looking people. There were several girls dressed like Sango had been. In one corner Kagome could see the weird fox-pelt guy, Manten, talking to a guy with a long black braid and the frog-guy she had seen on the bridge. Most of the people in the room looked human at first glance, then Kagome would see pointy ears or a tail. A huge fluffy tail, in the case of one guy; who was lying on a couch on one side of the room, with several of the girls fawning over him.
They all looked up at her when she entered, some of them held their noses. Kagome heard several of them whisper "human". Yasha stepped next to her. "This is Mei" he announced. "Her contract is signed, she works here now." The guy with a fluffy tail wrinkled his nose. "She smells horrible." Yasha rolled his eyes. "After 3 days she won't stink anymore." Kagome was hurt. *I know they can smell me, but Yasha thinks I stink?* The little frog guy ran up, waving his staff with heads on it at her. "Well she's not working with me!" Yasha looked down at him. "She'd beat the shit out of you Jaken." he said, drawing a round of laughs.
"I don't want her." said a very pretty guy, with stripes on his face. Yasha glanced over. "Feh, she's not your type." A scantily clad girl, sitting on what looked like hair, up in a corner laughed. "And that's not because she's human either Jakotsu." The pretty guy glared. "Shut up Yura." he said, sounding mad, but then he threw a longing glance to the fluffy tail guy along with a seductive wink.
"Sango c'mere." Yasha said, ignoring the banter. Hearing her groan, Kagome noticed Sango standing on one side of the room. She stepped forward. "You're not gonna lay her on me are you?" she said in annoyance. Yasha glared at her and then stomped away. "If she causes trouble I'm holding you responsible!" Sango called after him, then she turned to Kagome. "You! Come with me." she snapped. She turned abruptly and went out a door, Kagome scrambled to follow. *why is everyone so rude now? * she wondered.
As they headed down a hallway out of the door, Sango suddenly stopped and turned to her with a grin. "You did it! I was worried when I had to leave you, but Manten has this thing about human flesh giving him hair, so I had to distract him." Kagome sighed in relief. *she's nice after all* Sango laughed. "Sorry about that, I couldn't act like I saw you earlier. Or Kikkyo might have found out."
After another elevator trip down and a few turned corners, Kagome and Sango entered a room lined with rows of beds, a huge cabinet on one wall, and a door leading out to a balcony. Sango walked to the cabinet and opened it. "Alright, Mei. Let me find you something to wear so you can change out of." she paused and looked Kagome up and down. "That thing." Kagome looked down. She looked quite out of place in her modern school uniform when compared to all the old style clothing everyone was wearing.
Sango muttered to herself and pulled things out of the cabinet while Kagome watched. Suddenly a little boy and girl came racing into the room shouting and laughing. Sango turned around, "Kohaku! Rin! Get out of here, can't you see I'm busy!" Laughing the two kids ran out again. Sango grinned at Kagome. "My brother Kohaku and his friend Rin." she explained. (a/n that sounds familiar, aren't they in spirited away?)
"Here we are!" Sango announced pulling out red pants and a white shirt. Kagome looked at them. "Isn't that what Kikkyo wears?" Sango laughed. "Yeah, you can either wear what I'm wearing or this. But Kikkyo likes when the new girls wear these. Besides, its all I can find in your size." she waved her hand at the large cabinet. "If you want to look for something else, be my guest." Kagome looked at the huge mess of clothes in the cabinet for a moment, and then took the clothes from Sango.
"There you go." Sango said. "Now change into this nightshirt and get some sleep. We get up at 5." Kagome looked out another door and onto the balcony. "But it's nearly 3 now." Sango laughed. 'No, no. 5 pm, dusk." Kagome turned away from the door in surprise. "We sleep all day?" she asked. Sango nodded. "We eat at 5:30, and then get ready for customers until nightfall, when they come. Then we work until they all leave, usually by 2, but never later than sunrise. Then we sleep all day. So scoot."
Kagome headed off to change and stopped for a moment, remembering Yasha's attitude. "Sango?" she asked. "Are there 2 Yasha's?" Sango laughed again. "No! Thank the gods! He's trouble enough as it is. He's Kikkyo's lackey. Stay away from him he's trouble." she advised. Kagome was surprised. "Really?" Sango nodded. "He does anything Kikkyo asks, and I mean ANYTHING. So avoid him whenever you can, Mei." Having given her advice, she headed off to give Myouga his dinner.
Kagome stood alone by the bed someone had laid out for her, holding her new clothes. *Anything she asks?* she wondered sadly. *He was so nice to me.*
Kagome lay awake listening. All the other girls were coming in and going to bed. Soon all she could hear were soft snores. But she couldn't sleep, not in this strange place. And especially not on an old fashioned mat on the floor, she missed her mattress and raised bed. A shaft of light appeared on the wall as the balcony door slide open. Kagome closed her eyes and listened as someone softly slipped in, coming closer and closer. Suddenly she felt a light touch on her shoulder.
"Meet me at the bridge when the sun comes up." hissed a familiar voice in her ear. "I'll show you your mom and brother." The hand withdrew and she heard the person sneak out and the door slide closed. Opening her eyes and turning over, Kagome was just in time to see a shadow with dog-ears hop over the edge of the balcony.
