At the Work Place...
Disclaimer: I do not own InuYasha or any other copyrighted material mentioned.
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Chapter 2... (Welcome to Hell, With Lots of Interruptions)
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Kagome's first day was--well, shall we say...--interesting.
When she walked into the large office floor off the elevator, the first thing she saw was a fashion-ridden wolf demon on his knees. "You are the most beautiful thing I've ever seen, and I work in the fashion industry, so that's saying something," he breathlessly said to the black haired girl.
"Excuse me?" she blinked, quite taken aback by the statement.
He grabbed her hand and kissed it tenderly. "I am Kouga, allow me to welcome you to the office of the infamous Dress-Up Demons, my lady." He stood up, bowing his head to her, and left.
The next thing that happened was more... expected. Though still some bit odd.
She met her boss, he seemed so cold and distant. He hardly even glanced at her, and here she was on her first day looking for some insight and advice on what to do. "Get to work, just clean what seems dirty," is all he instructed.
Kagome went out of his office and closed the door.
She heard arguing from nearby and wandered over to see who it was. It was an attractive young man with short, black hair and a pretty female with long, black hair. They shouted loud enough for the whole building to hear.
"I THOUGHT SESSHOUMARU TOLD YOU TO STOP!" screamed the apparently irritated female.
The male sighed, and shocked Kagome at how calm he was, "Again, my hand slipped."
"Slipped? SLIPPED?!" her eye twitched and she smacked the male with her fist.
"OW! Jeez, what was that for?" he held his head.
The female smirked and stated sarcastically, "My hand slipped." She whirled around and walked away, and Kagome could tell the male was checking her out as she left.
Kagome walked over to the black-haired man, he was working with something on the desk. "If you don't mind me asking, what was that all about?" she asked.
The man stood up and turned, holding a camera in his hands, "Oh we were-" he paused. He looked Kagome up and down, she was pretty but too... chunky--was that rude? ... "It was nothing," he finally decided to answer, figuring she was too curious and she would find out sooner or later anyway.
"Oh, sorry," Kagome turned to go.
"Hold on a sec," Miroku clicked something in the camera then looked up. "You're Kikyou's sister, Kagome, aren't you? The new maid?" He went back to adjusting his camera, waiting for an answer.
"Yes, I am," she glanced at her french maid outfit, thinking to herself sarcastically , 'How'd you guess that one?'
"Are you like your sister? Well, more like her than just looks," Miroku was scared he'd have another girl to fight off.
"If you mean am I insatiable and annoying, then no," Kagome smiled, her dislike for her sister was obvious.
"Well, okay. It was nice meeting you," he was about to end the conversation before he forgot to introduce himself. "By the way, I'm Miroku," he shook her hand, "and that little fox I was fighting with is Sango. We're pleased to have you," he smiled and left.
Kagome went over to the young assistant. "Excuse me, did the boss happen to specify what exactly he wanted cleaned first?" Kagome asked shyly.
Rin pushed her glasses up with her index finger and looked at the new maid. "I suggest not bothering him too much about it, incase you have already. And you might want to start with his office, if you want him to like you, you need to stroke his ego." Rin smiled sweetly, proud that she knew so much about her boss.
"Thank you," Kagome turned and went to clean Sesshoumaru's office.
She stopped when she saw her sister getting in late for work, "Kikyou."
Kikyou greeted her sister with a smirk, "Kagome, enjoying your first day?"
"If by 'enjoying' you mean 'haven't gotten anything done due to mass mayhem and confusion', then yes," Kagome retorted rather irritably.
"Mass mayhem?" Kikyou asked with a fake emotion, "Whatever do you mean?"
Kagome said nothing.
"Get used to it, little sister," Kikyou smiled and went to find Miroku.
Kagome went and knocked on Sesshoumaru's office door. After a moment she knocked again, "Hello?"
He opened the door, his hard features drowning in a sleepy cloud. He started yawning and held it back, "Yes?"
"Your assistant-" she started.
"Rin?" he asked, already recovering from his tired state.
"Yeah, I guess. She told me to clean your office," Kagome explained.
"I see," he smiled to himself, glad to see Rin was starting to show herself as a good assistant. "Well, come in," he turned and outstretched his arm to welcome her inside. Kagome felt awkward walking in there, she felt like she was invading his territory.
Kagome froze and blushed, "Uhhhh, I forgot my supplies in my car." She lowered her head.
Sesshoumaru stared at her for a minute, "So, go get them. Don't stand around here all day."
"Y-yes, sir," she scurried out of the office and to the elevator.
While waiting for the elevator she saw InuYasha. "InuYasha!" she called to him.
He glanced over at the sound of his name, saw Kagome, blushed, turned, and walked away as if he hadn't heard her.
"Hm," Kagome frowned. The elevator dinged and frightened her.
A demon walked off, clad in a black miniskirt and a baggy white shirt with the words "Dress-Up Demons' Bar n' Grill" across it. She had sinister red eyes and long black hair in a ponytail. Her voice was feminine but it had a vicious edge to it, "And you are?" She looked Kagome up and down, scowling.
"The new maid, Kagome," she cowered beneath the woman's glare.
"Hm, I see... I'm Kagura, I work on the bottom floor. I'm a bartender," she explained. "You ever need some alcohol, I'm the one to see." She smirked, winked, and pushed past Kagome.
"What a weirdo..." Kagome murmured as she stepped on the elevator.
"BOSS!" called Kagura as she hurried through the upper floor office.
"Wh-hat?" whined Sesshoumaru from his office where no one could hear him. Mumbling to himself as he got up and opened the door, "What is it?" He saw Kagura and felt dizzy. She always had something to complain about.
"Boss," her voice was suddenly sweet... Sesshoumaru was scared. "I just came to tell you what a wonderful job you're doing," she batted her eye lashes and giggled.
Sesshoumaru took a step back, "What do you want?"
Her serene features went sinister again, "A raise."
Sighing, Sesshoumaru smacked his forehead, "I've told you over and over-"
"The customers get drunk and start getting grabby, I can get twice as much as I do now working at a Hooters!" Kagura was yelling loud enough for the office to hear now.
Miroku yelled from the shoot he was doing, "WOO! HOOTERS!" There was a smacking sound and an "Owww" from Miroku and the photography room got quiet again.
"Anyway," Kagura tapped her foot, waiting for an answer.
"I guess... Wait, what about a bigger Christmas bonus?" he suggested.
"It's summer," she gave him a look that said 'What do you take me for, an idiot?!'.
"Okay, fine," he gave up. "Two more dollars an hour."
"Three," she negotiated.
"Two seventy-five," Sesshoumaru rolled his eyes, hoping this wouldn't take all day.
"Two fifty," Kagura wasn't a good negotiater, "and that's my final offer."
Sesshoumaru noticed Kagome was finally back, with a large bag in tow, "Fine."
"Good," Kagura spun around and went to return to work.
"What was that all about?" Kagome asked as she walked up to Sesshoumaru.
Sesshoumaru examined his new maid, this was the first time he really took a minute to look at her. She was pretty, and being so much like Kikyou--bar the seductive witch-like trait--she couldn't be all that bad. Sesshoumaru really wasn't going to mind having her around.
She was a good maid, too. His entire office was clean and smelled wonderful after 20 minutes.
Sesshoumaru had pretended to do work, but he couldn't take his golden eyes off the young lady. She was so elegant in what she did--clean? Sesshoumaru mentally punished himself several times for staring, it was just another female. Big deal... He blamed Kikyou.
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Kikyou waited outside of Miroku's photogaphy office until she head him say, "That's a wrap." She patiently stood there and counted three models--including Sango--exit the room. She knew Miroku would have to stay behind to adjust his precious cameras and prepare the film to be processed.
She went inside the office silently and closed the door with a click.
"Sango?" he turned around and glared when he found Kikyou standing there. "What do you want?"
"You," she purred, walking slowly toward him.
"Well, too bad," he rolled his eyes and turned away to finish up his work.
Kikyou walked up behind him and placed her hands on his shoulders, rubbing them skillfully.
Miroku turned around, pissed off now that she wouldn't leave. "Kikyou, look I'm not-" he was cut off as she gripped his wrists and pulled him against herself. She brushed her lips against his and kissed him.
"Mmmf!" Miroku struggled to pull away but she was so strong for a girl. She dug her nails into his wrists so he arched his back against her. He writhed and tried desperately to pull away but she had him pinned against his work table. She finally released his mouth and he gasped for breath, sputtering and making gagging noises.
"Oh, please, you loved it," she wouldn't give up! Again, she assaulted him. Her nimble fingers started unbuttoning his shirt.
"Kikyou! Leave me alo-Nrg," she hushed him up with another unwanted kiss.
The door opened and Sango came in, "I forgot my-..." She took in the scene slowly, filling with anger. "How... dare... you," each word stung as Miroku heard it.
Miroku shoved Kikyou away, "Sango, look it's not what it looks like," he tried to explain, but she wouldn't hear it.
"I can't believe you!" she left without allowing Miroku to explain himself.
Kikyou smirked, "Some girls can't handle the competition."
"Go away, Kikyou," Miroku growled, buttoning his shirt.
"Fine, but I'll be waiting when you want me," she smiled and left Miroku alone.
"How did that happen?" Miroku buried his face in his palm. "She has masculine strength," Miroku chuckled.
It was noon, so Miroku went to the lunchroom. He was hoping to have some alone time with Sango so he could talk to her, but he was starving due to the fact that he skipped breakfast.
He saw Kagome sitting alone biting her nails.
"Hey, you," he nodded to greet her.
"Hey," she stared at the ground.
"It's lunch time," he wasn't sure if she knew or not.
"I know... I, uh, forgot my lunch," she bit her lower lip, embarrassed at something that simple.
"The company bar and grill is downstairs..."
"I know, I don't have any money on me," she explained. She blushed as her stomach grumbled.
"I can give you two options then. I would offer to buy you lunch, just to get to know the 'new guy' but I don't carry much money on me. I can either give you a couple dollars and you can get something from one of the vending machines or you can go ask around the lunch area for food," he smiled at the starved girl.
"You'd do that?" she almost started crying at the kind gesture.
He laughed and handed her four dollar bills, "Here."
"Thank you, so much," she smiled.
"No problem," he turned to go.
"Oh, wait. Where are the vending machines?" she asked nervously, feeing foolish.
"In the lunchroom," he looked at her strangely. "Didn't anyone tell you anything?"
"Not exactly," she laughed nervously.
"Follow me," he walked ahead and brought her to the lunch room.
Sango shot him a dirty look and Miroku drooped his head. He walked over to her.
"Hey," Kouga smiled at Kagome as she bought a bag of chips from the vending machine.
InuYasha saw this and growled. Kikyou noticed InuYasha and smiled, maybe she'd cheer him up later... She smiled at the thought.
Miroku was whispering to Sango near one of the corners of the room. They were arguing back and forth but their voices weren't audible to the rest of the room--other than InuYasha and Kouga with their demon ears, but they weren't paying attention.
Kikyou was trying desperately to listen in on the conversation but her attempts were useless. She gave up and "accidently" stuck her leg out infront of Kouga so he tripped and fell. A few people laughed and Kikyou acted like she was sorry. Kouga said it was okay, he looked at Kikyou with a raised eyebrow as she giggled.
Rin had went down to the bar and grill to eat with Kohaku, he had offered to buy her lunch and Rin agreed to it. She was shy and untalkative, though she enjoyed how Kohaku babbled on and on about his work and how he loves it so much. She was envious that he enjoyed his work, unlike herself--she didn't like being walked on by Sesshoumaru.
"Thank you for, uh," Rin began but stared at her plate as she poked her salad.
"No problem," Kohaku reached across the small table and tucked his finger under her chin, lifting her face to look at him. "Don't be so nervous, I won't bite," Kohaku laughed and winked at her, which seemed to make her blush ten times more.
Kohaku smiled and continued talking about his work.
Back in the lunchroom, InuYasha and Kouga were arguing about Kagome.
"I saw her first!" argued Kouga.
"Like Hell you did," InuYasha rolled his eyes irritably. "I've known her for several months!"
"But obviously you don't care enough for her because you haven't asked her out," stated Kouga, wrapping his arm around the embarrassed Kagome.
"Get your hands off her!" growled InuYasha, grasping Kagome's wrists and pulling her away from the wolf demon.
The bell rang for work to begin again. InuYasha snorted at Kouga and shot him a nasty glare before turning and leaving. Kouga gave Kagome a gentle smile and followed behind Kikyou.
Kagome disposed of her empty chip bag. "Oh, Miroku," she stopped at the doorway.
Miroku turned around to face her, "Huh?"
"Thanks again," Kagome left.
Sango pushed past him, still disgusted with what she caught him doing earlier.
Miroku grabbed her wrist, "Sango, please, don't do this to me."
"You did this to yourself," she pulled her wrist free and hurried away before Miroku could think up another lame excuse.
Sighing, Miroku exited the lunchroom without eating lunch.
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Sesshoumaru came out of his office with a plastic container of noodles. He was obviously finishing his lunch. Miroku stared hungrily at the taunting noodles, he needed something to eat, anything.
"Hey, uh," Miroku started but decided against it.
Sesshoumaru glanced around and finished his bite of food, "Where's Rin?"
"At lunch with Kohaku," Sango explained.
Sesshoumaru's face lost some of it's evil but no one took note of it. "Miroku, Rin has a model set up for you to shoot for casual wear tomorrow at 2." Sesshoumaru paused, trying to remember if there was any other important imformation. "Oh, yes. Starting in about a day or two, you all will have 50 percent discounts at the bar and grill," Sesshoumru nodded.
"It's about damn time," Kikyou laughed.
Sesshoumaru pretended not to hear the comment and continued, "What was up with the Todd's Town thing, Kikyou?"
"They said they're just doing it to promote business," she shrugged.
"Well, then, I guess it's fine," he shrugged, too. "When are we getting the tickets?"
"I can go get them after work today," Kikyou offered.
"That'll be much appreciated," he paused. "Has everyone met Kagome?" He held a hand out to her and a few people waved and mumbled "Welcome".
"I would like to comment on how clean the bathroom's were," Sango grinned.
Kagome laughed nervously, "Eh, what can I say? It's my job."
Sesshoumaru stared at Miroku, "You okay there?"
Miroku ceased chewing on his pencil and glanced up. He explained quickly, without taking a breath, "I found out something I shouldn't, and I shouldn't have told someone, because someone wanted to do something to blackmail me, and then someone else saw her in the process of forcing blackmail on me, and the someone else got mad and I had to spend my lunchtime explaining to the someone else that what she saw was merely someone trying to get blackmail on me." Miroku took a deep breath, "So, I'm starving." He started eating a photo.
"Lies, lies, lies," Sango mumbled under her breath.
"Uh huh..." Sesshoumaru blinked a few times and continued eating his noodles.
"Oh, oops," Miroku glanced at the picture he was eating, "InuYasha, here's your picture for the swim suit ad you were working on."
InuYasha inspected the picture. "Thanks," sarcasm was dripping from his words, "drool and bite marks are the best way to advertise, Miroku."
"I thought so!" Miroku smiled.
Sesshoumaru finished what was in his mouth, "Now, stop it. Miroku, I'm quite sure you have a backup copy?"
"Mmmf, ngh, o' coursh," he murmured as he stuffed his mouth with post- it notes.
Sango raised an eyebrow and giggled as Miroku struggled with the sticky notes on his face.
Kouga lifted his altered version of the next month's dress suit, "See what I did?" He seemed proud of the changes he made.
There were a few "Oooo"'s and "Aaaah"'s as if the group were watching fireworks.
Kouga grinned, satisfied with his work. "Boss, should I put this in for it to get started?"
Sesshoumaru stopped, considering the question and finishing the last of his noodles, "Yeah, that'll be enough time to get the process started, give or take a week."
"Okay," Kouga stared at his work, commenting himself mentally on this beautiful product.
"Di' any-wen knof 'at em-alo's tay goo' (Did anyone know that envelopes taste good) ?" asked Miroku, who now had several envelopes in--as well as hanging out of--his mouth.
Sango had to try desperately not to crack up.
Kikyou raised an eyebrow and shook her head, "What a spaz."
Miroku coughed a few times, his eyes watering and his face turning red from lack of oxygen. He smacked himself on the chest and spit out the mess of envelopes. He gasped for breath, "Death by envelopes!" He stood up quickly, knocking his chair over behind him. "Stop mocking me!" he pointed an accusing finger at the slobber-covered, crumpled, chewed up envelopes.
"Hunger can drive a man insane," InuYasha chuckled. A few other people laughed and giggled.
"What?" Miroku looked up as if this was an every day occurance.
Sango's face was pink with restrained laughter.
Sesshoumaru was getting sick of this. "Can you all screw around some other time?" he asked, signaling they stop immediately.
Miroku picked up his chair and brushed the envelopes away before sitting back down casually.
Sesshoumaru stopped and looked around, "Anything else need to be said?"
"I would like to ask," Kagome spoke up, Sesshoumaru was surprised she was so bold, "would it be okay if I left my bag in the office? I'd hate to forget it," she explained.
"That wouldn't be a problem," Sesshoumaru agreed. "You can either keep it in the lunchroom or my office. Oh, and there's a company drylceaner down on the corner. If you want to have your clothes," he gestured to her maid's outfit, "profesionally washed, it's free for our company."
"Oh, that's nice of them," Kagome gushed.
"That dry cleaner sucks," Miroku complained.
"It only sucks," Kouga corrected, "because none of the girls will date you."
"Isn't that the qualifications?" Miroku grinned and laughed.
"Anyway," Sesshoumaru drummed his fingers on the table, "you can go there for free. Just tell them you work for us and they shouldn't give you any trouble. If they do, just call me, I'll handle it."
Kagome's eyes twinkled at the strength in his voice, it was a protective side she rarely saw in men--and one almost nobody ever saw in Sesshoumaru.
Sesshoumaru walked over and grabbed a stapler before Miroke made his lunch of staples, "Bad idea."
Miroku poked at Sesshoumaru's side, "Aw, looky, he's worried for my life." He talked in a 'cutesy-cutesy' voice to annoy his boss.
"I was worried for the stapler," Sesshoumaru retorted, petting the stapler jokingly.
Miroku made a pouty face.
Sesshoumaru set the stapler down on a desk and cleared his throat, "If we're done here," he paused, waiting for anyone to say something. "Then we're done here." He retreated to his office.
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Miroku raced to the lunchroom to get his lunch that he left there, but found Kikyou. "NO!" he screamed.
"That's not what I had planned on having you scream later tonight, Lover," she cooed.
"Get away," he growled. She was in the path between him and his food. She had to be stopped. "I'm starving... Don't make me hurt you," he hissed through clenched teeth.
"I can give you something to eat right here," she whimpered.
Miroku almost puked at her disturbing innuendo. He ran out of the lunchroom and quickly ran back, with a weapon in hand. "Say hello to my little friend," Miroku did a cheap immitation of Scarface. Holding the stapler threateningly between him and Kikyou, Miroku slowly walked toward his lunch bag. He grabbed the bag and hurried out of there, where he could eat in peace.
He went to sit at the discussion table and he saw the envelopes. "GAH!" he decided eating in his photo room would be best.
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Nothing interesting happened the rest of the day, as usual.
Sango got the entire office to randomly throw envelopes at Miroku, or place them on his office door with eerie messages in red writing. Sango enjoyed the spontaneous screeches from Miroku through out the rest of the day.
Eventually, after much begging, Miroku was able to persuade Sango to finally listen to him. He accidently slipped up about what he saw Sesshoumaru and Kikyou doing, so now one more person knew. Kikyou was going to be pissed when she found out.
Rin got yelled at because she missed work for an hour--though no one knew it, not even himself, Sesshoumaru was mad because he was jealous.
Kagome got complimented by the boss at what a marvelous job she was doing on vacuuming the carpets.
Miroku went home early, he was tired of the new office game that even Sesshoumaru and Kagome had joined in on, it was called "Envelope Torture".
Overall, Kagome enjoyed her first day.
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To be continued...
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A/N: I hope you liked it. Next chapter will be up as soon as I type it. It's most likely going to be the group at Todd's Town! Hehe, I'm going to have lots of fun with that one! If anyone has any suggestions/questions/comments, please feel more than welcome to email me at !!! The more reviews I get, the faster I'll update! n.n
Disclaimer: I do not own InuYasha or any other copyrighted material mentioned.
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Chapter 2... (Welcome to Hell, With Lots of Interruptions)
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Kagome's first day was--well, shall we say...--interesting.
When she walked into the large office floor off the elevator, the first thing she saw was a fashion-ridden wolf demon on his knees. "You are the most beautiful thing I've ever seen, and I work in the fashion industry, so that's saying something," he breathlessly said to the black haired girl.
"Excuse me?" she blinked, quite taken aback by the statement.
He grabbed her hand and kissed it tenderly. "I am Kouga, allow me to welcome you to the office of the infamous Dress-Up Demons, my lady." He stood up, bowing his head to her, and left.
The next thing that happened was more... expected. Though still some bit odd.
She met her boss, he seemed so cold and distant. He hardly even glanced at her, and here she was on her first day looking for some insight and advice on what to do. "Get to work, just clean what seems dirty," is all he instructed.
Kagome went out of his office and closed the door.
She heard arguing from nearby and wandered over to see who it was. It was an attractive young man with short, black hair and a pretty female with long, black hair. They shouted loud enough for the whole building to hear.
"I THOUGHT SESSHOUMARU TOLD YOU TO STOP!" screamed the apparently irritated female.
The male sighed, and shocked Kagome at how calm he was, "Again, my hand slipped."
"Slipped? SLIPPED?!" her eye twitched and she smacked the male with her fist.
"OW! Jeez, what was that for?" he held his head.
The female smirked and stated sarcastically, "My hand slipped." She whirled around and walked away, and Kagome could tell the male was checking her out as she left.
Kagome walked over to the black-haired man, he was working with something on the desk. "If you don't mind me asking, what was that all about?" she asked.
The man stood up and turned, holding a camera in his hands, "Oh we were-" he paused. He looked Kagome up and down, she was pretty but too... chunky--was that rude? ... "It was nothing," he finally decided to answer, figuring she was too curious and she would find out sooner or later anyway.
"Oh, sorry," Kagome turned to go.
"Hold on a sec," Miroku clicked something in the camera then looked up. "You're Kikyou's sister, Kagome, aren't you? The new maid?" He went back to adjusting his camera, waiting for an answer.
"Yes, I am," she glanced at her french maid outfit, thinking to herself sarcastically , 'How'd you guess that one?'
"Are you like your sister? Well, more like her than just looks," Miroku was scared he'd have another girl to fight off.
"If you mean am I insatiable and annoying, then no," Kagome smiled, her dislike for her sister was obvious.
"Well, okay. It was nice meeting you," he was about to end the conversation before he forgot to introduce himself. "By the way, I'm Miroku," he shook her hand, "and that little fox I was fighting with is Sango. We're pleased to have you," he smiled and left.
Kagome went over to the young assistant. "Excuse me, did the boss happen to specify what exactly he wanted cleaned first?" Kagome asked shyly.
Rin pushed her glasses up with her index finger and looked at the new maid. "I suggest not bothering him too much about it, incase you have already. And you might want to start with his office, if you want him to like you, you need to stroke his ego." Rin smiled sweetly, proud that she knew so much about her boss.
"Thank you," Kagome turned and went to clean Sesshoumaru's office.
She stopped when she saw her sister getting in late for work, "Kikyou."
Kikyou greeted her sister with a smirk, "Kagome, enjoying your first day?"
"If by 'enjoying' you mean 'haven't gotten anything done due to mass mayhem and confusion', then yes," Kagome retorted rather irritably.
"Mass mayhem?" Kikyou asked with a fake emotion, "Whatever do you mean?"
Kagome said nothing.
"Get used to it, little sister," Kikyou smiled and went to find Miroku.
Kagome went and knocked on Sesshoumaru's office door. After a moment she knocked again, "Hello?"
He opened the door, his hard features drowning in a sleepy cloud. He started yawning and held it back, "Yes?"
"Your assistant-" she started.
"Rin?" he asked, already recovering from his tired state.
"Yeah, I guess. She told me to clean your office," Kagome explained.
"I see," he smiled to himself, glad to see Rin was starting to show herself as a good assistant. "Well, come in," he turned and outstretched his arm to welcome her inside. Kagome felt awkward walking in there, she felt like she was invading his territory.
Kagome froze and blushed, "Uhhhh, I forgot my supplies in my car." She lowered her head.
Sesshoumaru stared at her for a minute, "So, go get them. Don't stand around here all day."
"Y-yes, sir," she scurried out of the office and to the elevator.
While waiting for the elevator she saw InuYasha. "InuYasha!" she called to him.
He glanced over at the sound of his name, saw Kagome, blushed, turned, and walked away as if he hadn't heard her.
"Hm," Kagome frowned. The elevator dinged and frightened her.
A demon walked off, clad in a black miniskirt and a baggy white shirt with the words "Dress-Up Demons' Bar n' Grill" across it. She had sinister red eyes and long black hair in a ponytail. Her voice was feminine but it had a vicious edge to it, "And you are?" She looked Kagome up and down, scowling.
"The new maid, Kagome," she cowered beneath the woman's glare.
"Hm, I see... I'm Kagura, I work on the bottom floor. I'm a bartender," she explained. "You ever need some alcohol, I'm the one to see." She smirked, winked, and pushed past Kagome.
"What a weirdo..." Kagome murmured as she stepped on the elevator.
"BOSS!" called Kagura as she hurried through the upper floor office.
"Wh-hat?" whined Sesshoumaru from his office where no one could hear him. Mumbling to himself as he got up and opened the door, "What is it?" He saw Kagura and felt dizzy. She always had something to complain about.
"Boss," her voice was suddenly sweet... Sesshoumaru was scared. "I just came to tell you what a wonderful job you're doing," she batted her eye lashes and giggled.
Sesshoumaru took a step back, "What do you want?"
Her serene features went sinister again, "A raise."
Sighing, Sesshoumaru smacked his forehead, "I've told you over and over-"
"The customers get drunk and start getting grabby, I can get twice as much as I do now working at a Hooters!" Kagura was yelling loud enough for the office to hear now.
Miroku yelled from the shoot he was doing, "WOO! HOOTERS!" There was a smacking sound and an "Owww" from Miroku and the photography room got quiet again.
"Anyway," Kagura tapped her foot, waiting for an answer.
"I guess... Wait, what about a bigger Christmas bonus?" he suggested.
"It's summer," she gave him a look that said 'What do you take me for, an idiot?!'.
"Okay, fine," he gave up. "Two more dollars an hour."
"Three," she negotiated.
"Two seventy-five," Sesshoumaru rolled his eyes, hoping this wouldn't take all day.
"Two fifty," Kagura wasn't a good negotiater, "and that's my final offer."
Sesshoumaru noticed Kagome was finally back, with a large bag in tow, "Fine."
"Good," Kagura spun around and went to return to work.
"What was that all about?" Kagome asked as she walked up to Sesshoumaru.
Sesshoumaru examined his new maid, this was the first time he really took a minute to look at her. She was pretty, and being so much like Kikyou--bar the seductive witch-like trait--she couldn't be all that bad. Sesshoumaru really wasn't going to mind having her around.
She was a good maid, too. His entire office was clean and smelled wonderful after 20 minutes.
Sesshoumaru had pretended to do work, but he couldn't take his golden eyes off the young lady. She was so elegant in what she did--clean? Sesshoumaru mentally punished himself several times for staring, it was just another female. Big deal... He blamed Kikyou.
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Kikyou waited outside of Miroku's photogaphy office until she head him say, "That's a wrap." She patiently stood there and counted three models--including Sango--exit the room. She knew Miroku would have to stay behind to adjust his precious cameras and prepare the film to be processed.
She went inside the office silently and closed the door with a click.
"Sango?" he turned around and glared when he found Kikyou standing there. "What do you want?"
"You," she purred, walking slowly toward him.
"Well, too bad," he rolled his eyes and turned away to finish up his work.
Kikyou walked up behind him and placed her hands on his shoulders, rubbing them skillfully.
Miroku turned around, pissed off now that she wouldn't leave. "Kikyou, look I'm not-" he was cut off as she gripped his wrists and pulled him against herself. She brushed her lips against his and kissed him.
"Mmmf!" Miroku struggled to pull away but she was so strong for a girl. She dug her nails into his wrists so he arched his back against her. He writhed and tried desperately to pull away but she had him pinned against his work table. She finally released his mouth and he gasped for breath, sputtering and making gagging noises.
"Oh, please, you loved it," she wouldn't give up! Again, she assaulted him. Her nimble fingers started unbuttoning his shirt.
"Kikyou! Leave me alo-Nrg," she hushed him up with another unwanted kiss.
The door opened and Sango came in, "I forgot my-..." She took in the scene slowly, filling with anger. "How... dare... you," each word stung as Miroku heard it.
Miroku shoved Kikyou away, "Sango, look it's not what it looks like," he tried to explain, but she wouldn't hear it.
"I can't believe you!" she left without allowing Miroku to explain himself.
Kikyou smirked, "Some girls can't handle the competition."
"Go away, Kikyou," Miroku growled, buttoning his shirt.
"Fine, but I'll be waiting when you want me," she smiled and left Miroku alone.
"How did that happen?" Miroku buried his face in his palm. "She has masculine strength," Miroku chuckled.
It was noon, so Miroku went to the lunchroom. He was hoping to have some alone time with Sango so he could talk to her, but he was starving due to the fact that he skipped breakfast.
He saw Kagome sitting alone biting her nails.
"Hey, you," he nodded to greet her.
"Hey," she stared at the ground.
"It's lunch time," he wasn't sure if she knew or not.
"I know... I, uh, forgot my lunch," she bit her lower lip, embarrassed at something that simple.
"The company bar and grill is downstairs..."
"I know, I don't have any money on me," she explained. She blushed as her stomach grumbled.
"I can give you two options then. I would offer to buy you lunch, just to get to know the 'new guy' but I don't carry much money on me. I can either give you a couple dollars and you can get something from one of the vending machines or you can go ask around the lunch area for food," he smiled at the starved girl.
"You'd do that?" she almost started crying at the kind gesture.
He laughed and handed her four dollar bills, "Here."
"Thank you, so much," she smiled.
"No problem," he turned to go.
"Oh, wait. Where are the vending machines?" she asked nervously, feeing foolish.
"In the lunchroom," he looked at her strangely. "Didn't anyone tell you anything?"
"Not exactly," she laughed nervously.
"Follow me," he walked ahead and brought her to the lunch room.
Sango shot him a dirty look and Miroku drooped his head. He walked over to her.
"Hey," Kouga smiled at Kagome as she bought a bag of chips from the vending machine.
InuYasha saw this and growled. Kikyou noticed InuYasha and smiled, maybe she'd cheer him up later... She smiled at the thought.
Miroku was whispering to Sango near one of the corners of the room. They were arguing back and forth but their voices weren't audible to the rest of the room--other than InuYasha and Kouga with their demon ears, but they weren't paying attention.
Kikyou was trying desperately to listen in on the conversation but her attempts were useless. She gave up and "accidently" stuck her leg out infront of Kouga so he tripped and fell. A few people laughed and Kikyou acted like she was sorry. Kouga said it was okay, he looked at Kikyou with a raised eyebrow as she giggled.
Rin had went down to the bar and grill to eat with Kohaku, he had offered to buy her lunch and Rin agreed to it. She was shy and untalkative, though she enjoyed how Kohaku babbled on and on about his work and how he loves it so much. She was envious that he enjoyed his work, unlike herself--she didn't like being walked on by Sesshoumaru.
"Thank you for, uh," Rin began but stared at her plate as she poked her salad.
"No problem," Kohaku reached across the small table and tucked his finger under her chin, lifting her face to look at him. "Don't be so nervous, I won't bite," Kohaku laughed and winked at her, which seemed to make her blush ten times more.
Kohaku smiled and continued talking about his work.
Back in the lunchroom, InuYasha and Kouga were arguing about Kagome.
"I saw her first!" argued Kouga.
"Like Hell you did," InuYasha rolled his eyes irritably. "I've known her for several months!"
"But obviously you don't care enough for her because you haven't asked her out," stated Kouga, wrapping his arm around the embarrassed Kagome.
"Get your hands off her!" growled InuYasha, grasping Kagome's wrists and pulling her away from the wolf demon.
The bell rang for work to begin again. InuYasha snorted at Kouga and shot him a nasty glare before turning and leaving. Kouga gave Kagome a gentle smile and followed behind Kikyou.
Kagome disposed of her empty chip bag. "Oh, Miroku," she stopped at the doorway.
Miroku turned around to face her, "Huh?"
"Thanks again," Kagome left.
Sango pushed past him, still disgusted with what she caught him doing earlier.
Miroku grabbed her wrist, "Sango, please, don't do this to me."
"You did this to yourself," she pulled her wrist free and hurried away before Miroku could think up another lame excuse.
Sighing, Miroku exited the lunchroom without eating lunch.
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Sesshoumaru came out of his office with a plastic container of noodles. He was obviously finishing his lunch. Miroku stared hungrily at the taunting noodles, he needed something to eat, anything.
"Hey, uh," Miroku started but decided against it.
Sesshoumaru glanced around and finished his bite of food, "Where's Rin?"
"At lunch with Kohaku," Sango explained.
Sesshoumaru's face lost some of it's evil but no one took note of it. "Miroku, Rin has a model set up for you to shoot for casual wear tomorrow at 2." Sesshoumaru paused, trying to remember if there was any other important imformation. "Oh, yes. Starting in about a day or two, you all will have 50 percent discounts at the bar and grill," Sesshoumru nodded.
"It's about damn time," Kikyou laughed.
Sesshoumaru pretended not to hear the comment and continued, "What was up with the Todd's Town thing, Kikyou?"
"They said they're just doing it to promote business," she shrugged.
"Well, then, I guess it's fine," he shrugged, too. "When are we getting the tickets?"
"I can go get them after work today," Kikyou offered.
"That'll be much appreciated," he paused. "Has everyone met Kagome?" He held a hand out to her and a few people waved and mumbled "Welcome".
"I would like to comment on how clean the bathroom's were," Sango grinned.
Kagome laughed nervously, "Eh, what can I say? It's my job."
Sesshoumaru stared at Miroku, "You okay there?"
Miroku ceased chewing on his pencil and glanced up. He explained quickly, without taking a breath, "I found out something I shouldn't, and I shouldn't have told someone, because someone wanted to do something to blackmail me, and then someone else saw her in the process of forcing blackmail on me, and the someone else got mad and I had to spend my lunchtime explaining to the someone else that what she saw was merely someone trying to get blackmail on me." Miroku took a deep breath, "So, I'm starving." He started eating a photo.
"Lies, lies, lies," Sango mumbled under her breath.
"Uh huh..." Sesshoumaru blinked a few times and continued eating his noodles.
"Oh, oops," Miroku glanced at the picture he was eating, "InuYasha, here's your picture for the swim suit ad you were working on."
InuYasha inspected the picture. "Thanks," sarcasm was dripping from his words, "drool and bite marks are the best way to advertise, Miroku."
"I thought so!" Miroku smiled.
Sesshoumaru finished what was in his mouth, "Now, stop it. Miroku, I'm quite sure you have a backup copy?"
"Mmmf, ngh, o' coursh," he murmured as he stuffed his mouth with post- it notes.
Sango raised an eyebrow and giggled as Miroku struggled with the sticky notes on his face.
Kouga lifted his altered version of the next month's dress suit, "See what I did?" He seemed proud of the changes he made.
There were a few "Oooo"'s and "Aaaah"'s as if the group were watching fireworks.
Kouga grinned, satisfied with his work. "Boss, should I put this in for it to get started?"
Sesshoumaru stopped, considering the question and finishing the last of his noodles, "Yeah, that'll be enough time to get the process started, give or take a week."
"Okay," Kouga stared at his work, commenting himself mentally on this beautiful product.
"Di' any-wen knof 'at em-alo's tay goo' (Did anyone know that envelopes taste good) ?" asked Miroku, who now had several envelopes in--as well as hanging out of--his mouth.
Sango had to try desperately not to crack up.
Kikyou raised an eyebrow and shook her head, "What a spaz."
Miroku coughed a few times, his eyes watering and his face turning red from lack of oxygen. He smacked himself on the chest and spit out the mess of envelopes. He gasped for breath, "Death by envelopes!" He stood up quickly, knocking his chair over behind him. "Stop mocking me!" he pointed an accusing finger at the slobber-covered, crumpled, chewed up envelopes.
"Hunger can drive a man insane," InuYasha chuckled. A few other people laughed and giggled.
"What?" Miroku looked up as if this was an every day occurance.
Sango's face was pink with restrained laughter.
Sesshoumaru was getting sick of this. "Can you all screw around some other time?" he asked, signaling they stop immediately.
Miroku picked up his chair and brushed the envelopes away before sitting back down casually.
Sesshoumaru stopped and looked around, "Anything else need to be said?"
"I would like to ask," Kagome spoke up, Sesshoumaru was surprised she was so bold, "would it be okay if I left my bag in the office? I'd hate to forget it," she explained.
"That wouldn't be a problem," Sesshoumaru agreed. "You can either keep it in the lunchroom or my office. Oh, and there's a company drylceaner down on the corner. If you want to have your clothes," he gestured to her maid's outfit, "profesionally washed, it's free for our company."
"Oh, that's nice of them," Kagome gushed.
"That dry cleaner sucks," Miroku complained.
"It only sucks," Kouga corrected, "because none of the girls will date you."
"Isn't that the qualifications?" Miroku grinned and laughed.
"Anyway," Sesshoumaru drummed his fingers on the table, "you can go there for free. Just tell them you work for us and they shouldn't give you any trouble. If they do, just call me, I'll handle it."
Kagome's eyes twinkled at the strength in his voice, it was a protective side she rarely saw in men--and one almost nobody ever saw in Sesshoumaru.
Sesshoumaru walked over and grabbed a stapler before Miroke made his lunch of staples, "Bad idea."
Miroku poked at Sesshoumaru's side, "Aw, looky, he's worried for my life." He talked in a 'cutesy-cutesy' voice to annoy his boss.
"I was worried for the stapler," Sesshoumaru retorted, petting the stapler jokingly.
Miroku made a pouty face.
Sesshoumaru set the stapler down on a desk and cleared his throat, "If we're done here," he paused, waiting for anyone to say something. "Then we're done here." He retreated to his office.
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Miroku raced to the lunchroom to get his lunch that he left there, but found Kikyou. "NO!" he screamed.
"That's not what I had planned on having you scream later tonight, Lover," she cooed.
"Get away," he growled. She was in the path between him and his food. She had to be stopped. "I'm starving... Don't make me hurt you," he hissed through clenched teeth.
"I can give you something to eat right here," she whimpered.
Miroku almost puked at her disturbing innuendo. He ran out of the lunchroom and quickly ran back, with a weapon in hand. "Say hello to my little friend," Miroku did a cheap immitation of Scarface. Holding the stapler threateningly between him and Kikyou, Miroku slowly walked toward his lunch bag. He grabbed the bag and hurried out of there, where he could eat in peace.
He went to sit at the discussion table and he saw the envelopes. "GAH!" he decided eating in his photo room would be best.
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Nothing interesting happened the rest of the day, as usual.
Sango got the entire office to randomly throw envelopes at Miroku, or place them on his office door with eerie messages in red writing. Sango enjoyed the spontaneous screeches from Miroku through out the rest of the day.
Eventually, after much begging, Miroku was able to persuade Sango to finally listen to him. He accidently slipped up about what he saw Sesshoumaru and Kikyou doing, so now one more person knew. Kikyou was going to be pissed when she found out.
Rin got yelled at because she missed work for an hour--though no one knew it, not even himself, Sesshoumaru was mad because he was jealous.
Kagome got complimented by the boss at what a marvelous job she was doing on vacuuming the carpets.
Miroku went home early, he was tired of the new office game that even Sesshoumaru and Kagome had joined in on, it was called "Envelope Torture".
Overall, Kagome enjoyed her first day.
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To be continued...
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A/N: I hope you liked it. Next chapter will be up as soon as I type it. It's most likely going to be the group at Todd's Town! Hehe, I'm going to have lots of fun with that one! If anyone has any suggestions/questions/comments, please feel more than welcome to email me at !!! The more reviews I get, the faster I'll update! n.n