Author's Notes: My 'anonymous' reviewer has told me what the fic's name is that resembles mine [it isn't an Inuyasha story…so I still am holding this modern slave idea unique to me in this section ^_^]. I checked and realized, wow, the first chapter is kind of like mine. She only has three chapters up though and after the first, it's different from mine. Don't worry. I really did get this idea off my head and I didn't copy it. It's going to be as twisted as Behind the Masquerade after a few more chapters.

And YES, I use song lyrics for my...song lyrics opening. ¬_¬

As You Wish

IV. A Rush to the Head

Love ain't like no fairy tale
It'll break your heart
'Cause it don't always have
A happy ending

Really, she couldn't be more bored. "Whooooo," she said monotonously as she swung around in the chair, eating a piece of Belgian chocolate. She made a face as she looked around the building, all the employees rushing in and out and trying to get their files done on time. She never wanted to work in a job like this. Her ideal job was where she worked in a place with maybe a few nice people and the place had to have a pleasant, warm atmosphere to it. Maybe she should pursue that psychiatrist dream of hers…

Yawning, she leaned back into the chair, plucking another piece of Belgian chocolate out of the box and munching on it delicately. Inuyasha had given it to her and told her to eat it while waiting for him. Did she honestly think she would listen to him…?

…She hated being his slave.

He had received an urgent call from his secretary at the company and was forced to rush to the corporation. He had forced her along with him, although she really had no idea why. She had been in the living room, being a lazy girl and watching T.V., a good two hours after she had pushed him into the pool [which she admits, she didn't feel guilty about] and then he barges in and commands her to follow him into his car. She had tried putting up a fight to avoid going anywhere with him ["I need to know what amoebas are!"] but he had used his power as her master to take her along.

Then when she had been stuffed into his silver BMW, which she noticed looked pretty stylish, and she wouldn't stop complaining, he had whipped out the…

Belgian chocolates…

Damn Miroku for telling him! She loved those things, but they were expensive. The hazelnut cream they had inside was to die for though. And that idiot had allured her with them! That sneaky…

"Whooooo," she repeated in the same dull voice, swinging in the chair again. It had been a good hour and she was slowly losing her sanity. Looking at the clock, she noticed it was five thirty in the afternoon. Her stomach was kind of empty now and she was sure the chocolate would give her aches later on if she didn't eat something good.

"Soooo hungryyyy," she drawled, staring up at the ceiling with her mouth open, looking much like a dead fish. Stupid Inuyasha… She reached for another piece of chocolate, but to her dismay, they were all gone. After eating them slowly for an hour, they were gone! "Noooooo," she muttered quietly, swinging in the chair and still staring up at the ceiling. Whoever said the life of the rich and famous would be all fun and games?

"Hello," someone said and Kagome instantly turned her head down to stare at the person who had spoken. Finally! Someone acknowledged the sad, little, bored girl in the corner. She opened her eyes wide though when she felt like she was staring into a mirror. She was even about to reach out and touch her sophisticated-looking self, who looked just as surprised, but then the 'image' started talking.

"Are you Kagome Higurashi?" she asked, and Kagome was about to say, 'Are you?' but decided against it.

"Yes…" she answered, narrowing her eyes a bit at the stranger. Had Souta stolen her DNA and made the government clone another Kagome or something…? She shook her head at the stupid thought.

"I'm Inuyasha's secretary. He asked me to tell you that he'll be done with everything in five more minutes. But, he said if you're still hungry, there's a candy vending machine down the hall," the woman said, a strict appearance on her face and gazing gray eyes that always maintained eye contact with Kagome.

Kagome was surprised. She had expected a more… cutesy girl… as Inuyasha's secretary, but then she guessed he needed someone stern to keep his mind on the job. "Oh thank you, but I don't have any money with me," Kagome said, remembering she had left her purse at home in Inuyasha's haste to bring her here. Why did he bring her here anyway? To decorate the company with her boredom? Or because he wanted her in case his shoe got dirty? Evil man.

"Why don't you ask Inuyasha for money…?" the secretary muttered darkly, and Kagome looked confused. What did this secretary mean?

"Why would I ask him for money?" Kagome inquired, tilting her head to the side.

"All of Inuyasha's girlfriends usually ask for money any chance they get," the secretary said, with what suspiciously sounded like a snort-like noise coming from her throat.

Kagome opened her eyes wide as she shuddered. Inuyasha's… "Girlfriend!?" she shrieked, as if those words burned her soul while she twitched a bit. Oh of all the disgusting things she could have said…there wasn't any worse.

"Well you can't be Inuyasha's wife," the other woman replied curtly.

Okay, so there was worse.

"I'm his bargained personal maid who absolutely dislikes him and can't wait till the two weeks is over and I can get my butt back to finding a job," Kagome explained, nodding to herself at her straightforward plan. Just two weeks...

The secretary's eyes opened a bit in shock, but that was all that betrayed her emotions. "You actually hate him?" she questioned, lifting one eyebrow in disbelief.

Kagome actually snorted. "Enough to punch his jaws and push him into the pool." She wanted to chuckle at the mere thought of those two incidents.

The other woman was quiet for a while before reaching out a hand. "Ashida Kikyou, nice to meet you."

Kagome stared at the hand before taking it warily. "Nice to meet you too," she answered, offering a smile to the secretary.

Kikyou nodded after taking her hand back. "Maybe you'll finally be someone who could knock some sense into his head? His skull is thicker than diamonds."

Kagome giggled a bit. "I agree." She nodded in mock sympathy before adding onto the already thick layer of insults. "It's blown up to the size of a hot air balloon and his tenacious persistence is almost to the point of irritation."

Kikyou smiled slightly and was about to say something before she was interrupted.

"Are you both finished patronizing me behind my back?"

The two women looked at Inuyasha with the same deadpan look on their faces. "We could continue," Kagome muttered, already feeling other insults grow in her head.

He shot her a look as dry as hers. "If you keep disbehaving, I'm going to whip you when we get home," he answered nonchalantly, and almost all the employees stopped what they were doing to stare when they heard that.

Kagome could feel her face grow red as people thought she was just another 'girlfriend' of Inuyasha's. An interesting tic started in her left eye and she felt the familiar itch in her fingers. Oh how she hated him for embarrassing her! He was so impossible!

She only shot him a wicked smile. "I'll rather be thrown off this building…" she hissed, pointing a finger to an open window.

There was tension as the two glared hard at each other, the battle of the stubborn wills trying to force one to yield to the other. Kagome's lips were turned in a taut pout and she crossed her arms obstinately across her chest, while Inuyasha just looked calm but stubborn.



"Are you ready to go home?" he asked, smoothing down the suit he had been forced to wear and shooting her another deadpan look.

"Home? That's not my home! That's my prison, idiot!" Kagome yelled, almost looking like a disobedient child as she pouted more, a frown gracing her face. "I'm hungry though…" she muttered, totally off-topic as her stomach started grumbling before she remembered she was suppose to be arguing with him. "But I don't want to go home with you!"


He only rolled his eyes and took one quick step towards her, grabbing her around the waist in a swift motion and swinging her over his shoulders while she started screaming and pounding his back. The employees continued staring, wondering what to do or just ignore this and pretend they never saw it.

Inuyasha shot an exasperated gaze over his shoulders to Kikyou and said casually, "The files are done. Send it out before 6 pm, got it?"

She only nodded, still staring at Kagome who was having the blood rushed to her head and forcing her cheeks to flush a red crimson. Although, Kikyou wasn't sure whether it was because of the blood rushing to her head or the mortification of being seen by everyone in that kind of predicament. Poor girl couldn't kick either because she was wearing a white skirt.

"MY SHIRT, INUYASHA! MY SHIRT!" Kagome shrieked like a banshee as he started sauntering towards the door with her over his shoulders, causing her shirt to slip down and show her stomach and much more skin than she was used to. She nearly flushed purple at the glances the men were giving her when she managed to get a peek around the building.

Inuyasha only answered by pulling her shirt back up, covering her skin and making her breathe easier. But that didn't last for long as she started screaming at him again, pounding her fists on his lower back and trying to find a good place to bite.

Inuyasha turned around before he exited and glared furiously at his employees. "GET BACK TO WORK," he bellowed and everyone jumped, immediately taking their eyes off the couple and continuing on with their job.

She screamed, scratched and pounded all the way down the elevator and even into the parking lot, before she stopped from the result of all the blood rushing to her head. She felt faint and things were starting to spin…or maybe that was because she was being grabbed from his shoulders?

She suddenly found herself being held bridal style in Inuyasha's arms and she immediately started glaring at him, instantaneously bringing a hand to his face and slapping him hard across the cheek. "THAT'S FOR MAKING ME REVEAL MYSELF TO YOUR WHOLE COMPANY!" she screamed in fury, but he only seemed to ignore the red handprint on his face and walked towards his silver car with his eyes narrowed.

"Can you stop insulting and hitting me for a moment?" he grumbled, nearing the car.

She made a scene as if she was thinking about the question before she answered promptly with a definite, "No."

"Why?"

She continued hitting his chest even as he neared the car. In order to get his key though, he effortlessly threw her over his shoulder again, before opening the passenger side of the car and stuffing her into the seat.

She decided to answer his question as she felt her behind meet something other than air. "I already told you why!" she yelled as he leaned over her to buckle her seatbelt. She felt more like a child than ever and she seriously wanted to pull his white hair as some strands started tickling her bare neck. "Get away from me!"

Kagome thought he would just pull his head out of the car and leave her alone in her rage, but he only moved his head and drew his face mere inches away from hers, staring deep into her azure gaze. Her breath hitched in her throat with his amber glance so close to hers and she felt goosebumps appear on her bare arm. "You need to shut up," he hissed dangerously, and she could feel his own breath on her lips.

She started seething inside. Why did her master have to be such an evil, conniving, trying to be seductive, bastard!?

"You first," she replied with as much threat lacing her voice as his did.

They continued glaring at each other again, irritated gold meeting furious sapphire, and with their faces mere inches away from her. They were so close, Kagome was secretly afraid he would hear the pounding of her heart. She didn't like the intimate distance between the two of them all of a sudden and wanted to pull back, but her head was against the seat. Damn these movie situations!

It continued like this for a few more moments, with Kagome feeling more goosebumps rise and her heart beat so fast, it was almost scary. She certainly didn't like being close to any man and this gap between her face and his was not even wide enough for a fist to separate them. It was a very nervous condition.

"You're afraid," he whispered in that tone of voice she hated so much, and she only narrowed her eyes in response.

"No, I'm not!"

He only sent her one more gaze before pulling away, not looking at her as he retracted his head out of the car and slammed the door shut.

Damn him and his demonic senses…she thought, as she lifted a hand up over her chest where her heart was---It was still beating like a madman. That tic started in her left eye again and she frowned. How could she have submitted herself to such a job over some oden and food? It wasn't fair! This had been a one-sided bargain, with all the profit going to Sango and Inuyasha!

She could feel the door opposite of hers open and the body clad in a casual business suit sit in the posh seat, his eyes refusing to make eye contact with her. A frown was on his face as he stuck the key into the ignition, causing the engine to flare alive. He buckled his own seatbelt and yet, he refused to look directly at her. She didn't really have a problem with that though as she stared out the window, watching him pull slowly out of the parking spot.

"You still can't compare to the model…" he muttered in a dark tone, driving leisurely out of the parking lot of the corporation.

Kagome narrowed her eyes as she continued staring out the window, watching other cars drive by. "Being anorexic wasn't one of my goals in life," she replied in an even tone.

"You don't want to look beautiful?"

"I'm beautiful as I am now."

There was a quiet silence, or maybe strained tension, between the two people in the car as Inuyasha kept his eye trained onto the road and Kagome continued gazing out the window at all the buildings and people. She hated him. Just because she wasn't the slimmest girl in the world didn't mean she wasn't a beautiful person inside. He was so superficial. ..

However…"That's good to know," he replied, and her posture stiffened. So she hadn't been expecting him to agree with her and had assumed he would say she was stupid for believing in the stuff about the beauty within. She still hated him for always comparing her to models though.

"Who wants to be that model anyway…" she mumbled menacingly. "If a wind blew too hard, she'll snap like a twig. You won't even remember her name in the end…"

"What makes you think I won't forget yours?"

She couldn't help but turn a lingering gaze to the man next to her, and saw that he was still staring at the road, his eyebrows scrunched together in a frown. She realized he was serious about the question.

A tiny smirk was on her lips as she intertwined her fingers delicately together on her lap, looking in front of her as the car covered the roads back to Inuyasha's home. "Let's just say, I'm not a girl you'll ever forget."

*~*~*

The two looked around slowly, making sure no one saw them in the corridor. There was always the usual maid or two that Inuyasha kept around to make sure the house was clean. The cast of fifty maids only came once a month and they thanked whoever was listening that they weren't here today. They also had to be careful of the butler, although if the butler found them, he'd probably be too dense to figure out their motive and maybe if he keeps asking, one of them could hit him over the head.

"Did Ayame cook dinner and dessert yet?" a feminine voice hissed, as they snuck into the empty kitchen.

"Yes. She just finished and she's taking a bathroom break. We have at the most, five minutes before she finishes taking her bathroom break and stretching…and then she'll return," a masculine voice replied as the two snuck to the fridge, opening it and looking at all the food inside.

"What time is it?" the girl whispered, as they began to take out all the cooked dinner from the fridge.

"It's 5:45. Inuyasha and Kagome will be back by 6 at the latest and dinner is always around six. Ayame won't have time to cook anything else and you know Inuyasha, he always likes a big dinner. In this way, Inuyasha will be forced to take Kagome out to eat!" The man saw the huge chocolate cake and licked his lips greedily, taking it carefully out and setting it on the counter as he helped the girl pile the dishes of food slowly on top of one another.

"Are you sure this will work, Miroku?" the girl sighed softly, holding the plates of food with both her hands as Miroku held the gigantic chocolate cake. They both started trotting out of the kitchen as quietly as possible.

"Of course, Sango. When have I ever failed in my plots?" he asked, as the two slowly crept across the antechamber and up the stairs to Miroku's room.

"Never," she replied dryly, wearily agreeing to Miroku's argument.

"Exactly. This time it'll be no different!"

Sango turned around after she finally forced her legs to climb up the long stairs, glaring at Miroku as her arm started to die on her from the weight of the dishes. "It could be different this time around! This time, you're playing with two of our best friends' relationship. It'll backfire, for sure."

"And the problem is…?" Miroku questioned innocently as they crept along on the carpet, hoping Hojo wouldn't meet them on the way.

"The problem is, you're trying to play God. And wherever you got the idea that you're God from is beyond my comprehension, but all the bad things will swing back around and hit you in the eye. Where's your morals!? I thought you were supposed to be a believer in Buddhism!" she hissed as he opened the door to his room, urging her into the enormous room that was at least twice as big as Kagome's.

"I am a believer in Buddhism, so like Siddhartha said, our whole life is an illusion. Thus, Inuyasha and Kagome's relationship is an illusion and I am not causing it…and you and I are an illusion and us getting into bed should be an illu---"

"Shut up!" Sango screamed after she put the dishes down, turning around and glaring hotly at Miroku. "Get your dirty mind out of the gutter and let's think about where to put all the food! Inuyasha will be able to smell it if we don't get rid of it…"

Miroku gently put the chocolate cake down on the table too, and scratched his head as he tried to think of a way to get rid of everything. Almost as if it had hit him like a mack truck, he put his fists in his palm in an 'I got it!' gesture and turned to look at Sango with twinkling eyes. "Let's play this one game I know! I use to play it with Inuyasha when we were small." He smiled innocently and Sango gawked, as if willing him to even dare and say something lecherous.

"How do you play…?" she asked cautiously, narrowing her eyes.

He was all too eager to demonstrate. Swiping a finger at the chocolate cake and wiping a small dab off of it, he reached over and traced the icing down Sango's cheek. Her eyes went wide as she felt the cold sugar run down her cheek, while her mouth was open in shock.

"What are you doing!?" she shrieked, dragging a hand up and wiping at the icing.

He only smirked as he went over to another table and picked up a deck of card. "We can play any game with cards and whoever wins gets to draw something on the loser's face just as I have demonstrated..." He seemed to be thinking about something… "And lick it off!"

Sango shot him a wry look. "I doubt you licked food off of Inuyasha's face."

Miroku looked dejected when he realized Sango had found out he had just added the last thing in a lame attempt. "Okay…just draw something on the loser's face and the loser can't wipe it off until they both give up."

She narrowed her eyes as a sly smile drawled itself onto her lips. "Alright…" she answered deviously as she seated herself in one of the seats around the table and looked expectedly up at Miroku. "I'll play."

He was a bit confused at her acceptance, but shrugged mentally to himself. As long as he got to draw things on her face…

Going over to the door to lock it, he went back to his seat across from her, still looking smug. After years of playing cards with Inuyasha, little did Sango know he was a champion at almost any card games. He gracefully suggested, "Cheat? Blackjack? Poker?" as he shuffled the cards like any pro casino dealer.

She looked indifferent as she replied, "Let's play blackjack," she said and he nodded, starting to deal out the cards. He still had on that little arrogant smirk as she received her cards and looked at them.

"Ready?" she whispered over her hand, a smirk as dangerous as his gracing her own face.

"Ready," he answered, confident he would win every single game. After all, he WAS the champion...

But then again, what goes around comes around. Little did he know, Sango was not the champion at almost any card game like he himself proclaimed to be...

She was the supreme master of all card games…

A/N: This story is full of delicious conspiracies…

And Kikyou isn't going to be evil. ^_^ Surprise! Well...maybe...