A/N: I'm sorry for the long delay; I'm having a hard time with school, life, and whatnot. I hope you all understand. Anyways here is the fourth chapter! I hope you like and I would really appreciate it if you review!
Disclaimer: *sighs* Inuyasha does not belong to me okay? Okay, on with the story.
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Chapter 4: Who's Hoho?
She stepped up to the door and stared down at herself before fixing her outfit. She couldn't help but feel self-conscious at the moment; after all she was about to see the man of her dreams in just a minute.
Her attraction towards him came when they first met, two years ago. Back then it was just attraction, but as time went by, she grew more and more fond of him to the point where she was secretly admiring him from afar. Now, it was a whole different story. She asked herself day after day, is it possible to love someone when you don't know a whole lot about him or her as a person? Unrequited love may be painful, but it was all that she could have, all that she could hope to have, when the one person she was in love with hardly knew of her existence. She would just have to settle for admiring him from afar.
Sighing she raised her fist to knock on the door gently.
"Come in." His voice was stern and calm, just like him.
She opened the door gently and walked inside at a leisurely pace. Her milky chocolate eyes looked up to see him sitting there consumed in his work.
"Sesshoumaru-sama." Her words were soft as she moved to stand right in front of him. "I have the files that you wanted."
"Good, may I see them?"
She handed him the papers and couldn't help but feel fuzzy when their hands made contact during that moment. She shook her head letting the feeling pass by knowing that she could never have him.
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He could see her walking towards him from the corner of his eyes. Her dark brown hair swayed back and forth as she slowly made her way to him. Her chocolate eyes filled with innocence looked up at him as though pleading with him to notice her.
He did notice her, everything about her. How her face would always light up when he was in the room. How soft her brown hair was, how her eyes would sparkle and dance with joy whenever she was happy, but most of all how beautiful she is as a person.
She didn't know it though. She didn't exactly have the highest self-esteem in the world, but to him she was still beautiful, inside and out. He could tell that she had a crush on him. With her body language, and how she was always nervous when she was around him, he couldn't help but think it was cute.
"Thank you." He said after she handed him the files.
Her cheeks suddenly were painted a light rosy color as she looked away shyly. He thought it amusing that she could blush at such a tiny situation such as this.
"Well, I guess that's all, I'm going back to work now Sesshoumaru-sama." She said before turning around and making her way to the door.
"Rin, wait." She turned around as his hasty words made their way to her ears.
"Um…good job on finishing the files early." He blurted out. Not being able to think of anything else to hold her back longer. It was true that he was calm and in control in any occasion. But if there was one thing that he couldn't do, it would definitely be asking a girl out.
"Thank you Sesshy-sama." After she realized her nickname for him had been revealed she blushed furiously and walked quickly out of the office mentally berating herself.
He blinked before his mind fully comprehended what she had just said. Wait a minute…did she just call him Sesshy?!
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Her eyebrows knitted into a slight frown as she typed away on the keyboard with skill. She couldn't believe she actually managed to wake up this morning after coming home at such a late hour last night. Taking her hands off the keyboard she lifted the hot cup of coffee to her lips and sipped at the burning liquid stored inside the cup. She winced as she finally realized how hot her coffee really was. Putting the cup down she settled for staring at her door while waiting for her coffee to cool off.
After what seemed like centuries of just staring, the door opened a crack and a white haired person stuck their head inside.
"Have you ever heard of knocking?" Kagome asked silently wondering what he wanted at such an early hour. Okay, so maybe it was one…in the afternoon but she still considered it early. A part of her was actually happy that she had company, typing out reports was getting boring anyways. However she would die before she told Inuyasha that.
He opened the door all the way and stepped inside the nicely decorated office.
"You can come in." Kagome said sarcastically as she looked at her boss. She rolled her eyes at him as he approached her.
"I just thought I'd check on you too see if you actually made it to work today, when I drove you home last night it was quite late."
That's right! Kagome knew she forgot something! She still needed to get revenge on Sango! "Wow, you're concerned, I'm honored." She retorted, for some reason she didn't feel too good.
"Geese, a little cynical this morning aren't we?" His eyebrow rose slightly as he looked at her.
"My coffee's still too hot to drink."
"Ah, that answers all my questions."
Throughout the whole week of them working together if their was one thing Inuyasha learned about Kagome it was her addiction towards coffee. Nothing could seem to lighten her mood better then coffee. One would think that she was addicted to some sort of drug or something.
"All righty then, please tell me, exactly what was your purpose for entering my office again?"
Inuyasha really didn't have a clue why he was in her office. He decided to settle with the first thing that came to his mind. "My boredom is driving me insane." 'Great intelligent Inuyasha, really intelligent.' He mentally scolded himself after the unthoughtful words flew out of his mouth quite randomly. The truth to the matter was he wanted to talk to her. She seemed like such an interesting character, not to mention the fact that he liked to make her mad.
"Oh great lord Inuyasha, I am honored to be your entertainment." She said, sarcasm dripping off each and every word.
"You should be."
Kagome's eye twitched non-stop. "If that's it, will you please leave my room, I have work to do, and all you are doing is distracting me."
"Wait, wait wait." He was panicking now, she wasn't just mad, she was ticked off!
Kagome sighed as she looked down at her cell phone-ringing non-stop. Their daily fight would just have to wait. Her eyebrows knitted into a light frown because she couldn't recognize the number displayed on her phone. After having a mental debate with herself she finally decided to pick up the call.
"Hello?"
"Kagome?"
"Yes?"
"This is Hojou."
"Oh my gosh! It's been such a long time, how are you Hojou?"
Inuyasha snarled. He was talking to her and what does she do? She decides to pick up the phone and talk to some guy named Hobo! Nobody ignores him like that! Wait a minute…a guy? All the more to make him mad!
"Kagome, I need your new ad designs!" He spoke loudly trying to get her attention.
Kagome sighed knowing fully well that she wasn't going to win this fight, he was after all her boss, and if she didn't listen to him she could very well get fired. And that was the last thing she wanted. "Hojou can you call me back sometime later, I'm at work right now." After hanging up the phone Kagome glared at Inuyasha.
Inuyasha moved back on instinct. If looks could kill, he would be six feet under by now.
"So…who was that?" He asked casually when his nerves returned to him.
"That, was none of your business." She smiled and held up a manila folder.
"Why are you giving me these files?"
She raised an eyebrow and looked at him like he was an alien from outer space. "You just told me a minute ago and I quote "Kagome, I need your new ad designs!." What do you have to say for yourself now?"
"Oh yeah!" He smiled sheepishly. "Must have slipped my mind." He said as he took the files from her. His cheeks turned slightly pink from the embarrassment.
Kagome couldn't help but giggle. No matter how hard she wanted to deny it, it was impossible; he just looked so cute when he blushed!
"Keh! What are you giggling about woman?"
"I never thought I'd see the day where the almighty Inuyasha would blush."
"I was not blushing! It's just a little hot in here that's all."
"Inuyasha, the air conditioning is on."
"So? Who's Hoho?"
"You're changing the subject and his name is Hojou not Hoho!"
"Who is he? I demand to know."
"Like I said, it's none of your business!"
"Yes it is! What if he's a client?"
Kagome sighed, was this guy ever going to give up? "He's my ex boyfriend."
Inuyasha looked down slightly ashamed. Then he looked up at her "What happened?" He asked. He couldn't help but be curious.
"Well, we dated back when I lived with my mother at our family shrine, when I moved to the city to get a job we decided that it was just too hard to maintain our relationship, so we decided it was best for the both of us if we broke up. We still remained friends though."
"Are…are you still in love with him?" Those words popped out of Inuyasha's mouth before he could stop them. For some reason he was slightly jealous of the man Kagome was in love with. She seemed like a great girl though her mood swings aren't exactly the best thing in the world. Whoever that Hoho was he was definitely lucky.
"Well, he was my first love, so I guess a part of me still does love him, but as time passed, I guess I got over him."
Inuyasha nodded, fully understanding what she meant. After all he had to go through the same things himself with Kikyou. He looked at Kagome through different eyes. He could see that she is a strong woman, getting over your first love is hard because no matter what, it seemed like a small part of them would always be with you, no matter how hard you try to escape it.
"Well, anyways, he said he's in town and that he would like it if we could meet up and have lunch." Kagome stopped remembering what Hojou said to her before they hung up. Hojou wasn't going to be there alone he was going with his girlfriend! "Oh no!" Kagome panicked. She didn't want to come alone, it would seem too…awkward.
"What? What's wrong?" Inuyasha asked as he looked over at the panicking girl who drank down her coffee hastily. "You look like your hyperventilating."
"I" She pondered for a moment before smiling. She could ask someone to pretend to be her boyfriend! She stared at Inuyasha in a way that made him want to run for his life. "Oh, Inuyaaaasha!"
"What…what do you want?"
"Well you see, Hojou wants me to join him for lunch and-"
"Absolutely not! You have work that needs to be finished so you can't go to lunch with that Hoho guy!"
Kagome shook her head and slapped her hand on her forehead. "Will you just listen to me and quit interrupting! For a moment there you sounded more like a jealous boyfriend then my boss! Anyways, like I was saying, Hojou wants me to join him and his girlfriend for lunch. I don't want to show up by myself because I'll feel awkward, and well…canyoucomewithmeandpretendtobemyboyfriend?" She gave him the best puppy dogface she could muster.
"Come again? I didn't quite hear the last part."
Kagome sighed. "Can you come with me and pretend to be my boyfriend? I don't want him to think that I'm still single because I haven't gotten over him yet."
Inuyasha seemed to be deep in thought.
"Inuyasha?"
"Fine, I'll come with you."
"Great! Now since you're going to be my boyfriend you're going to pay for my lunch right?"
"WHAT! THAT WASN'T WHAT I SIGNED UP FOR!"
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I'm very tempted to do what one of the reviewers told me to do, which was kill off Kikyou and make Naraku work at a pet shop, it's very tempting but…I can't because it will mess up the plot.
I wasn't quite in the best of moods so this isn't exactly the best chapter ever. Please forgive me, my life is kind of complicated right now.
More Miroku and Sango in the next chapter! Almost every chapter has Inuyasha and Kagome in it! And there might be some more Sess and Rin I know I'll have them in later chapters.
Please Review! I would really appreciate it.
