THE BULLY AND THE BOSS
A/n: You know what I hate? Slow computers. All this time, I was using a 'borrowed' Windows XP computer. But it's gone and I'm stuck with my crummy old one! I can't even watch my downloaded anime now because it's literally so slow. I hate it! But one good thing is that this piece of crap actually works...I'd go beserk without a computer. I need the computer like underweight people desperately need weight. I don't want any one of you to go through the pain I'm going through of a slow, crappy computer.
Chapter Four
Toxic Emotions
Silence fell among the room as Inuyasha came in and had a perplexing look on his face, with his eyebrows raised.
"Who is this guy?" He repeated.
Kagome looked at him, and then at Hojo. She shook her head as if it wasn't important, and stacked her paper files neatly. "What do you want, Inuyasha?"
Inuyasha, with the same uncanny expression on his face, looked at Hojo from head to toe. His face was screwed up like he knew Hojo was familiar, and he was trying to recognize him but couldn't.
"Inuyasha!" Kagome snapped, standing up abruptly. "What do you want? Your shift doesn't end for another..." She looked at the clock attached to the wall beside her. "...hour or so!"
"Yeah, I know, that's sorta what I wanted to talk to you about." Inuyasha took off the head of the costume and tossed it aside. Hojo made a noise in what sounded like something between a gasp and a 'huh?'.
"Hey, you're--" Hojo started. He looked at Inuyasha more observantly and whispered a quiet 'oh' before he looked away from him and at Kagome, with a "What's-going-on-here?" stare. Kagome suddenly felt dizziness, and accidentally lost balance and unintentionally sat down on her chair. Hojo or Inuyasha didn't seem to notice that she had lost her balance.
Inuyasha seemed obviously confused, and it was more obvious to know that he didn't recognize Hojo at all. He didn't even seem too concerned about who he was anymore, because he took a deep breath and asked, "I'm getting off my shift early. You better find someone else to replace me, or actually, you don't have to at all because you don't need an advertiser anyway. Your restaurant is already popular, and my singing and the costume is only driving people away."
Inuyasha's voice became impervious to Kagome's hearing, because she wasn't even looking up at him. She was organizing her papers into the drawers of her desk.
"Hojo, maybe you should leave. I'm kind of busy right now." Kagome said.
"Oh, alright, maybe I can come back tomorrow." Hojo answered with a hint of desperation.
"No, I'm busy tomorrow too. Hojo, please just go, I'm kind of feeling stressed--"
"What? Are you dizzy, do you need to go to the--"
"No! Hojo, please, just--"
When Inuyasha cleared his throat in annoyance, Kagome raised her head up and looked at him with an impatient look.
"What?!" She flared.
Kagome's tone didn't do much good but anger Inuyasha. He took off his gloves and tossed them aside beside the costume's head.
"I'm getting off early, nothing you could do about it. Don't bother arguing back because you know I'll win. It'll save both our breath, our time, and our--"
"You're not getting off early! What reason--?"
"Mind your own business," Inuyasha spoke in a dangerous, snarling tonality.
"You can't just come in here and demand things," Kagome talked back. She felt agitated enough at the fact that Hojo wouldn't leave her alone, but this was just making her day worse. "I'm your boss, and I am in a higher position than you are. Don't you dare think you can get your way here! I am sick and tired of you always thinking you can do whatever you want, regardless of the consequences the situation might have!"
Hojo was staggering, as if wondering what to do or say. He looked at the two of them in puzzlement.
"Don't sit there looking distracted and give me a lecture. I didn't come up here to be bitched at. You know that at first I said it nicely as I could, and you weren't even paying attention! You know, speaking of you and your 'negative qualities'--" Inuyasha made the bunny ears with his fingers as he spoke, "--you strutted around years back, thinking you were so cool and popular. You acted like you had everything under control, like it was you who was the leader of things, and you that would always be the idol whom other people would look up to. Well, guess what? You're not. People these days don't care for those kinds of suck-ups. Here is you, trying to act like a moderate business woman telling off her staff, bitching at them, and shrieking at her secretary 24/7--"
"I only did one thing out of all of the ones you listed. It's bitching at you, and you're the one that forces me to! It's you who struts around acting cool and popular, like you own every single place your foot steps on. You expect everyone to kiss and praise the filthiness you leave on the ground you walk on!" Kagome shouted, standing up. The dizziness returned again when she stood up, but she was feeling so angry that she decided to ignore it.
"I know you think that deep inside too. You want people to worship the ground you walk on out of the good things you try to do. You're nothing but a poser. You want people to think the best of you, and you try to make other people feel lower than you, like you are now, by telling me that you're my boss and I can't demand things. Citizens demand things through protest against the mayor, and protestings and strikes actually got them what they wanted. You're nothing but a low bitch yourself, so stop thinking that others are lower than you! You're pethatic; I hope more people realize it when the time comes." Inuyasha said.
He seemed breathless after the long conversation. He unclipped the front of his costume and let it drop on the floor. "I know you ordered this costume to make me feel pathetic and fucked up. You're not a very good person as you thought you were if you intended to make me feel like that."
Kagome felt something stab the inside of her as Inuyasha finished, as if something he said had stabbed the most sensitive part of her body and instead of blood oozing out, it was tears from her eyes. She tried to force them to stay inside, but she couldn't. They blinded her sight in blurriness as her arms were draped tightly over her stomach and looked down. She didn't want to cry like this in front of Inuyasha. She knew it would only satisfy his anger, but she couldn't help it. Kagome felt like she couldn't control the way she was feeling right now. She felt numb. That was all she felt.
At this reaction, Inuyasha was stunned. His eyes had widened with his lips slightly parted. He had expected Kagome to just feel like she couldn't say anything back, to sit down and not look at him in defeat. But this, he felt, was too much. There was a small spark inside him that felt odd and abnormal; he felt guilty. Flashbacks of Kagome bawling her eyes out as she walked home with him and his friends telling her off and spitting spitballs in her hair formed in his head. Here was 19-year-old Kagome Higurashi, a legal adult, sitting in her office in her business clothes; sobbing like a 13-year-old preteen girl.
"Kagome, should I--?" Hojo started.
"No! Just go, Hojo, please! Just leave me alone!" Kagome said, choking in her tears. She hid her face in her arms, and Inuyasha thought she was doing a pathetic attempt to hide her crying.
"But maybe I could--"
"Hojo! Just leave!"
"Kagome, no! I won't leave you when you're feeling distressed like this. Listen, I'll--"
"I can't take this anymore," Kagome sobbed softly. She sat down on her chair and buried her face in her arms. "Please, I'm begging you, leave. Go away..."
"Don't say that, you need someone here."
"I need to be alone!" Kagome raised her head up to reveal her puffy, teary eyes. Inuyasha had never in his life seen someone cry so much. He also was starting to feel irritated with Hojo. Who the hell did that when someone was practically pleading them on their knees to leave them alone? Obviously, this guy had no clue.
"Kagome, here, I can take you home if you want." Hojo offered.
Kagome sighed out deeply, and at first, Inuyasha thought she was actually going to accept. She leaned down and pressed a button on her business-looking telephone and spoke into the intercom, "Kagura, will you please come into my office?"
"Sure, ma'am, be right there." Kagura's static voice replied.
Kagome stood up straight and looked at the ceiling, trying to take control of her tears. She wiped them with her hands and Inuyasha wanted to mutter an apology at that moment, but found it quite hard to speak with Hojo standing beside her, with a clueless, dumb look.
"Kagome," Hojo spoke again. "Do you need anything?"
Kagome didn't speak. She remained in her standing position with her arms drooping over her stomach. Her head was facing the ceiling, but her eyes were closed.
"Ma'am?" Kagura said as she came in. "Did you--"
"Please, kindly escort this man out of my restaurant. Don't let him come back inside." Kagome ordered.
"What?" Hojo said in the tone that he misunderstood what she had just said.
"Um...alright, ma'am. Sir, if you could step out of the office, please?" Kagura said, motioning for Hojo to walk towards the door with her clipboard.
"But Kagome--"
"Sir!" Kagura yelled. "Please, step out of the office or I will have to call security."
Inuyasha snorted as if refraining himself from snickering. "This place has security? Man, what they do with the economy these days..." He muttered, shaking his head slightly. This was only an excuse for him to look at Kagome from the corner of his eye. Kagome was just looking at Kagura trying to convince Hojo to get out. Her tears seemed to be settling down.
Hojo was left with no choice. Without looking at Kagome, he followed Kagura out of the office, and the door was closed, leaving Inuyasha and Kagome alone in the room.
Inuyasha felt awkward. He wanted to leave, but his feet didn't seem like they wanted to move. Kagome put her head down and covered her face with her hand.
"You're excused from work," she muttered silently.
"What?" Inuyasha said.
"I said you're excused!" Kagome repeated sharply. She turned around and walked over to the large window behind her desk, and opened the window. She breathed in deeply and poked her head out of the window.
Without saying anything else, Inuyasha turned around and left. He closed the door behind him. He heard a sob coming from inside the room, which annoyed him.
'Damn woman,' Inuyasha thought. Okay, should he go back and say sorry? No, that sounded lame...maybe an 'I apologize'? No, that sounded even lamer...
'Although I still consider you my enemy, I take back what I said...yeah, that's good.' Inuyasha thought. He turned around and placed his hand on the doorknob, turning it slowly and poked his head inside the office. Strangely, Kagome wasn't in there.
"Hey, woman, you in here?" Inuyasha called, as he stepped inside the office. "Hellooo?" He said.
Inuyasha looked around and grumbled. Unless Kagome jumped out the window, he couldn't see how she got out. There was no other way to exit the office. When he looked around the desk, his eyes widened in shock when he saw Kagome's body lying on the floor.
"Hey, woman! Wake up, you shouldn't be sleeping on the job," Inuyasha said, but somehow he knew Kagome wasn't just sleeping. He was starting to panic. He didn't know what to do when someone was unconscious--something about breathing into them, but he sort of had a feeling that what he was thinking of wasn't supposed to be done for this type of thing.
Inuyasha looked at Kagome's complicated telephone and became confused with all the buttons. 'How the hell do you work this?' He thought furiously as he lifted up the phone and looked for that thing...that button that Kagome pressed earlier and spoke to Kagura through a speaker...
'Forget it,' he grumbled inside. He bent low and lifted up Kagome in his arms so that her head was resting on his arm. Inuyasha never carried people this way before, and it was really painful to carry people this way or Kagome was just way too heavy.
"Damn woman, fainting on me..." Inuyasha growled, as he struggled to open the door.
"Um, excuse me, but--who are you and what are you doing?"
The door burst open on its own and there stood a man in his late twenties, looking extremely frightened. Inuyasha blinked at him.
"Sir, please get out right now--or I'll have to call security, and leave Miss Higurashi! I'll call the police!" The man yelled.
"I'm not a kidnapper or a rapist, if you think I am. If I was, I'd go for better-looking targets than her, mind you. She fainted, and I work for her." Inuyasha said impatiently, hinting for this man to move. His arms were starting to get tired by Kagome's weight.
"What's going on here?" Kagura's preppy voice snapped. She had led Hojo out pretty quickly. She walked around the corner and was absolutely shocked. "Inuyasha--and Nanako! What are you doing?"
"I'm not doing anything!" The man, Nanako replied. "This man is trying to kidnap Miss Higurashi! Call the police! NOW!" He panicked.
"Nanako, this man works for Miss Higurashi, you idiot." Kagura scolded.
Inuyasha snickered quietly under his breath at the fact that Kagura called him a 'man'. He never did like to think he was like one of those old adults now...
"Move outta the way, she needs the friggin' hospital, and if you're gonna stand there and not let me through, I might as well just exit through that window and jump out of here," Inuyasha said, struggling now to just hold onto Kagome.
"Let me carry her--"
"Nanako, let Inuyasha. You can't even carry her clothes; you're a stick." Kagura said in a disgusted tone. Nanako stood aside without hesitating and when Inuyasha passed him, he thought Kagura had a point. This man, Nanako, didn't look like he surpassed 100 pounds at all. In fact, he looked so underweight that Inuyasha was able to see his jaw lines.
"What the hell happened?" Kagura asked in a deadly voice as she walked beside Inuyasha, stiffly holding onto her clipboard.
"I don't frickin' know!" Inuyasha spat. "I left her office, then I went back in and I found her fainted behind her desk!"
Kagura breathed out in a frustrated way, as she walked ahead of Inuyasha with her heels clicking on the hard floor. "I'm going to call the hospital," she said. "Just wait at the front doors." She took out her cell phone from her pocket and started dialing some numbers, and held it to her ear and went downstairs from Inuyasha's sight.
'Damn it, she's heavy!' Inuyasha thought, as he carefully stepped down the stairs, trying to look over Kagome in his arms at which steps he was at. He ignored the frowns and scowls he received from a few people, who had decided to lift their heads up and watch as Inuyasha carried the restaurant's manager outside.
"Alright you stupid woman...you did what you wanted...you made me look like a freak, so fucking snap out of it!" Inuyasha hissed, but Kagome's eyes remained closed. He sighed in impatience as he stood inside the glass entrance of the restaurant, and stared at her closed eyes. She was so much calmer and quieter when she was unconscious...her eyelashes were all separated and so perfect, and there was no trace of mascara. In fact, he couldn't see any hint of make-up on her face. He did have to admit, she was good-looking--but to his knowledge, he had never known or met women who looked beautiful without make-up.
Inuyasha shook his head and started to sputter and trip over words in his thoughts. Beautiful? Her? Kagome Higurashi, beautiful?
Before he continued with his thoughts, he heard the sound of a siren. When Inuyasha lifted up his head, a bright ambulance stopped right in front of the restaurant. Two men from the back of the ambulance came out with a stretcher.
"What are you waiting for? Hurry up!" Kagura shouted behind him, and startled him and made him jump.
"I'm going, calm your horses, lady..." Inuyasha grumbled, and exited the building.
"Hurry up, can you be any slower?!" Kagura said.
"Just fucking take her!" Inuyasha said, almost throwing her onto the stretcher. The two men looked at him with sour expressions on their faces, and then returned to their work. They buckled Kagome up tightly against the stretcher, lifted it up, and pulled it into the back of the ambulance.
"Sir, please get in the ambulance," one of the men addressed, who was about to close the back doors.
"What?" Inuyasha said, raising his eyebrows.
"What relationship do you have to the woman?" The man asked again.
"He's her boyfriend! He found her in her office, unconscious." Kagura answered quickly. She pushed him closer to the ambulance and shouted, "Now, go!"
"Hurry up and get in, sir, or are you not coming?" The man questioned.
"Hell, no!" Inuyasha exclaimed.
"He's in a bad mood today," Kagura said to the man. She came up behind Inuyasha and pinched his back as hard as she could, and although he did not wince, she knew he was hurting a bit. Scowling, Inuyasha got in the back of the ambulance and Kagura followed.
"Excuse me," the man interrupted. "What relation--"
"Secretary," she answered, and got in. She glared at the man and closed the doors shut, sighing in annoyance.
Inuyasha was feeling slightly irritated that he had to get involved in this, but he wasn't feeling like what Kagura was feeling. She acted as if someone fainting was an everyday-thing, and actually took it rather calmly for a pessimistic person like her.
The trip to the hospital was gruesome. Kagura was looking at her nails, and often looked up to throw Inuyasha a cold, callous look. The siren was hurting Inuyasha's ears. For half the trip to the hospital, Inuyasha watched the unconscious Kagome, tightly buckled up onto the stretcher. It was almost as if she was dead. Her skin was pale, and she didn't move an inch--only when the ambulance drove over a bumpy spot.
Inuyasha felt especially stupid when the ambulance stopped in front of the hospital doors, and the two same men opened the back doors and retrieved the stretcher. After they strolled it along inside the building, Kagura kept yelling at him to hurry up and to go faster. Along the way, he received cold looks from handicapped people who muttered to themselves about 'teenagers these days', and he was even told off by a nurse for being too disruptive.
The next thing was even more torture. Inuyasha was forced to wait in the large waiting room with Kagura, who kept acting every 5 seconds as if this whole thing was his fault. Elderly men and women walked past them to the exit, who had decided to wait somewhere else rather than just wait in the room and put up with their bickering.
Hours passed until a nurse came into the waiting room addressing Kagura and Inuyasha.
"I'm not her boyfriend," Inuyasha growled to the nurse, and Kagura threw him a dirty look. "I just work for her and I found her in her office unconscious. I don't know where her ditzy secretary came up with that."
"I'm sorry, nurse, he's just a bit cranky today--"
"Well, whatever relationship you have to the patient, you two are the ones who came with her, and I'm going to have to break the news to you..." The nurse looked at Kagura and looked down.
"Yes?" Kagura said, motioning with her hand for her to go on.
"Can I speak to you privately, please?" The nurse asked, giving Inuyasha an apologetic look as the two of them walked towards a corner.
Inuyasha watched them with the most impatient look he could manage. Kagura wasn't paying attention to him however; a shocked look spread across her face as she looked like she was about to burst into tears. The nurse kept muttering, "I know it's hard, I know it's hard" but he had no idea what the nurse was saying to her. Was Kagome going to die? Inuyasha felt guiltier--was he the cause of her death? Was she going to die because he had touched a nerve in her that caused her to go into some sort of depression and a coma...?
'Stop being retarded,' a voice said in his house. Inuyasha shook his head slightly. That other voice in his head was right--who the hell died from depression these days?
'So many teenagers,' another voice said. 'They commit suicide, you dolt. You sit and watch TV and watch those suicide commercials a hundred times a day and you can't even relate to reality...dumbass.'
Okay, now Inuyasha knew he was crazy. Two sides of him were arguing with each other.
"I can't believe it--that's horrible! If that happened to me, I'd just kill myself! Literally!" Kagura shrieked.
Inuyasha frowned. So Kagome wasn't gonna die--but something happened to her that women would rather die than having whatever happened to it...but whatever it was, it couldn't be that bad.
Ooookay. So here he was, sitting on a chair. Stuck in a hospital room, with Kagome sleeping on the bed. This day couldn't get any worse.
Kagura had decided to dump the job of watching after her to Inuyasha. She said she would call her family and go back to the restaurant after that, because if Kagome was conscious right now, she would want a decent person who was reliable to stay there to look after the restaurant. Inuyasha snorted when he listened as Kagura gloated about herself.
'Just great...a girl I used to bully became my boss like 2 or 3 days ago...then she bitches at me...then she faints...and I get stuck watching after her. What a great week this has been...' Inuyasha thought to himself. He buried his face in his hands and sighed.
Kagome stirred. Inuyasha jolted up as she slowly flickered her eyes open.
"What..." She moaned. Using her hands, she lifted her weight up to sit up on the bed. "What happened?" She mumbled, more to herself than to Inuyasha. He thought maybe perhaps Kagome didn't even know he was here.
"You fainted, and Kagura and I had to take you to the hospital," Inuyasha said.
Kagome indeed seemed startled to hear Inuyasha's voice. Her head whipped to the side as soon as she spoke, and she sighed in relief.
"Oh," she said. "It's just you."
She had touched a nerve.
"Just me?" Inuyasha exclaimed, and stood up. "JUST ME?! For the love of--honestly, you seriously want to make my life hell, don't you? Just because I bullied you, you want to get revenge! What do you want, an apology? I'm sorry! So stop making my life fucking hell!" He thundered, spreading his arms out wide.
Kagome blinked tiredly at him. "I don't even know what you're talking about," she yawned.
"You--you--" Inuyasha stuttered. "You become my boss and decide to torture me with a gay-ass jingle to sing, along with the most retarded costume I have ever seen in my life. You get yourself fainted, and I had to carry you until the ambulance came, and these people in your stupid restaurant were looking at me like some sort of freak! I had Kagura shouting down my back and--"
"Wait...you carried me out of my restaurant?" Kagome asked in disbelief, stopping at each word to stress the pronunciation.
"Well, yeah, it was either that or I had to carry you jumping out the window," Inuyasha said in an equally angry voice, rolling his eyes.
Kagome's face relaxed and a smile spread across her face. "That was nice of you," she thanked quietly, looking at him with her smile.
"What--I--Kagura forced me to! Do you know how loud that girl is?" Inuyasha said quickly, making up an excuse. Since when did Kagome act all hearty and nice with him? Did she forget what he had done before she fainted?
"What's going on here?" A male doctor entered the room with a clipboard in his hand. Inuyasha was too familiar with professional-looking people holding clipboards, as Kagura had one under her arm every day.
"Nothing," Kagome and Inuyasha both answered in unison.
"I heard shouting in here...Mr. Herik-Jikradi; I must ask of you to try to not stress out Miss. Higurashi...she's under a heavy layer of stress, as our test results showed. I'm sure the nurse told that other woman who accompanied you the news...of what caused you to faint today, Miss. Higurashi." The doctor said, fixing his large, oval-shaped glasses.
"Yes, I think so," Kagome answered.
The doctor sighed and turned to Inuyasha. "Sir, I'd have to ask you to step out of the room for just a moment, I have to tell Miss. Higurashi the news. You will be able to know later, but now is her time to know." He said.
Inuyasha rolled his eyes and shrugged. Without saying anything, he left the room and closed the door behind him. He leaned against the wall beside the door, and tried to make out the words the doctor was saying. He couldn't hear, but he could hear the doctor mumbling in a very serious voice.
"Sorry...what?!!"
Inuyasha jumped when he heard Kagome scream. He leaned his ear against the door, but he still couldn't hear. He could only hear Kagome's frantic shouts--
"No, you're lying! YOU'RE LYING!"
"Miss. Higurashi, please calm down--"
"Calm--calm down--would you calm down if you received news like that!?!"
"Strictly speaking, miss, that can't exactly happen to me because I'm--"
"You're lying, okay?! This is just the thing you expect from a crappy hospital!"
Feeling Inuyasha could bear it in no longer; he opened the door and stepped in. He was surprised to find Kagome out of her bed. Her face was almost red in tears, and the doctor was doing his best to try to calm her down.
Kagome stopped crying and shouting when Inuyasha came in, although she still looked at him with that miserable, teary face.
For the whole week, Inuyasha never found out what happened to Kagome. He continued to go back to work and no longer worked as an advertiser, or a service worker--Kagome allowed him to be the secretary assistant. Inuyasha made a comment ["Is she on crack or something?"] that made Kagura hit him on the back of his head.
Inuyasha undoubtly sucked at secretary work. He had no idea how to properly do things on the computer, or even work their 900-button telephone properly--so Kagura just made him his 'servant' by doing things like hanging her coat on the rack, cleaning up the room to make sure it was nice and tidy, etc. It was better than going outside and wearing a stupid costume and singing a stupid kids' commercial song. In the end, he ended up getting almost the exact payment that he got as an advertiser.
Kagome came back to work each and every morning looking tired and depressed. She locked herself in her office when she came in the morning, and quietly slipped out when it was time to go home without managing to see either Kagura or Inuyasha.
To be honest, Inuyasha actually liked it less when Kagome was around. This was what he originally just wanted to do--a simple job that he received a fair pay in, without having to go home with a headache that night. Not seeing Kagome made what he wanted at first actually happen, though it virtually seemed impossible during the first couple of days when he was hired.
It was another casual morning, Kagura bossing Inuyasha all the time as every other day...
"Inuyasha, get me the newspaper," She said, as she furiously typed on the keyboard and watched the screen through her spectacles.
Inuyasha moaned and picked up the stack of newspaper, and threw it onto Kagura's desk. "Here," he muttered.
Kagura unglued her eyes from the screen and looked through the paper. "Junk, junk, crap, trash, junk..." She mumbled, as she sorted through the papers. Then, suddenly without warning, she gasped.
"Oh--my--God." She said, lifting up a flyer. "Omigod, omigod, omigod--win a trip to Canada to meet Kikyou personally--"
"Who the hell--oh, Kikyou! You mean Kikyou Shikon, that woman who makes it seem like she really has no life, even with a bunch of cash by her side?" Inuyasha asked, opening the curtains and letting the sunlight in.
"Maybe to you, but she is a model of intelligence to us females. She writes amazing poetry, and she's been through so many experiences that she doesn't mind sharing with the public. Kikyou Shikon...she is the most astonishing female role model there are for young female children and teens...how I'd love to meet her..." Kagura sighed, eyeing the flyer.
"Then, why don't you enter?" Inuyasha said as if it was the most obvious thing to do.
"No, I'd rather not. Do you know how many hearts and souls Kikyou touch with her poetry and songs? Everyone would kill to just be able to have an actual photo of her. I'd rather not clash other peoples' chances of winning." Kagura answered, placing the flyer on her desk.
"What good motives," Inuyasha spoke sarcastically, and opened the window.
"Yes, it's what Kikyou inspires." Kagura said, and smiled.
With that, she went back to typing on her keyboard and eyeing the screen very carefully.
Inuyasha thought he had weird obsessions...who honestly these days would kill to have an actual photo of a poet and a singer who barely showed any of their skin in music videos? Actually, he never once watched a music video on the music channel that he watched--they dumped her music on the Women's Spiritual channel. It was rather lame, in his opinion.
"I know," Kagura said. "I'll enter Miss. Higurashi in this."
"What? But wouldn't you rather--"
"Yes, but Miss has been in a bad mood these days...and I can understand why." Kagura said, suddenly becoming murky in her own tone. "I know the chances of winning are very low, but it doesn't hurt to try. Besides, I don't even think she's gonna win. And if she's not gonna win; I'm not going to because we have the same chances."
"What if she does win?" Inuyasha asked, thinking Kagura was doing something majorly stupid.
"Then she has a lifetime debt to me," Kagura said, with a grin forming across her face. She picked up the flyer and her casual grin turned into a sly one. "Let's see...the site is www.kikyousikon.com [it's not a real site, by the way...you can try it if you want, though =P]...here it is. Contest rules...contest enter page...oh shoot, I have to fill out a whole information page...but that's okay..." Kagura mumbled to herself, typing onto the keyboard.
"Yeah, watch them announce the winner next week and it turns out to be Kagome," Inuyasha scoffed, shaking his head.
"Let's see. 'Kikyou Shikon is currently touring in Canada, and if you win, you will be taken to the city of Toronto where her next concert is scheduled. You will get front row seats and will be allowed to go backstage after the concert. Each of you will receive a $1000 shopping spree gift certificate at any chosen mall in Toronto.' Wait...'each' of you?" Kagura said confused. She scrolled back up and replied, "Ohh..."
"What?" Inuyasha said.
"The winner gets to bring one friend," Kagura spoke. "That's good, if Miss Higurashi wins, she can take me as a favor of entering her."
"She won't win, trust me."
"Yeah?" Kagura smirked. "Well, you never know."
But behind the determined tone, was hidden doubt.
A/n: Blegh! I think I rushed the scenes in this chapter too fast. But all in all...I basically just wrapped up the boring part of the story in one chapter...I think you'll know what happens in the next chapter, but you sort of won't know... ;)