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Notes: Well, here it is, sorry for the wait. Chapter 6 already. Wow. And yet.. it's still only the beginning. What have I gotten myself into? -sighs- Well, enjoy. And review dammit, review! I will love all you readers forever if only you leave two words of acknowledgment for me to know you are all there and watching my every move. -thinks for a moment- Well, not my EVERY move. That would be creepy and stalker-like. But all the same. Enjoy. n.n -Bunny
And a special thanx to snookyboo (aka AO) for helping me with a few decisions on this fic and getting my muse back to write the rest of this chapter. -smiles-
Three Little Words: Chapter 6 - Some Bright Idea
Her first day, overall, hadn't been as bad as it could have been. There was the initial shock that a guy she'd met in an elevator was now her boss, but after she got past that, it was just work.Actual work. Not some bullshit, smile at every other person and ask about fries kind of crap.
The twenty-two year old made her way to her bedroom and shrugged out of the work clothes she'd dressed in that morning, replacing them with a comfy cotton robe as she went back to the main room, plopped down on her second-hand sofa with the foam puffing out from the seams,
and clicked on her no-cable TV to relax.
Life was good.
wee wee wa zang da dum
Miroku had aimlessly wandered the city for about an hour before he made his way into a random coffee shop. He had been there all afternoon, drunken at least seven mocha-lattes, an espresso,
and two chai before getting so caffeine high the waiter cut him off.
Noticing a pretty young woman enter the coffee shop, a grin crept over Miroku's face as he decided to have some fun rather than just sit around. Putting on a charming smile, he stood form his table and made his way over to the girl who had settled herself at another table across the shop.
She looked up at him, slightly annoyed when he sat down at the other side of her table. "It seems such a shame for someone like yourself to have to come in and sit alone."
"I'm sorry, can I help you?"
"Fair maiden, if only you would have asked me first before stealing my breath away with your beauty."
She rolled her eyes, looking toward the bar area, signaling for a waiter to come over. "Well, you can take it back and leave me alone now."
The smirk formed on Miroku's lips again. "If you insist." With that, he rose up from his seat some and took her lips in his before she could stop him. After ending the quick kiss, he turned on heal and left the coffee shop with a full out grin on his face.
Sango just sat fuming at her seat as the waiter finally came to the table. '...That jerk!'
fu fu pudding pie bah
After he got home from his first day working, Inuyasha was surprised how beat he felt. But he was even more surprised at how clean his and Miroku's apartment was. Shrugging it off, the young Sirosenshi made his way over to the kitchen and popped an instant ramen into the microwave before heading into his room to change out of the clothes he'd nearly ruined with ink.
After emerging, more comfortable, his said room-mate walked in the door with a perverted grin on his face.
"Well, I guess I don't have to ask what you were up to today."
All he got in response was an innocent expression as if saying 'who, me?', and a can of Heineken tossed his way as Miroku dumped a bag of Funyons on the counter.
Did they know how to life the life of luxury or what?
shibbidy du lat tat ta
A few blocks over from the expensive apartment complex, Sessomarrou sat in his office idly after having dismissed Rin from following suit of his long hours. His father still had not responded to his 'suggestion', and the whole ordeal wasn't sitting well with him. Deciding to try and figure out what was wrong, he opened his lap-top and turned it on to check on the Tasoni account for the fifth time that day.
Still boring.
The Tasoni account was hardly worth anything to Sirosenshi-com, except that it had several wealthy distributers affiliated with the owner, Steven. And even Steven himself was quite boring.
The company had started with his great grandfather in 1976 Italy, and branched off into international trade with the second generation. But as soon as it was passed several more generations down, it appeared the Tasoni men weren't quite as smart as they should have been in their endeavors. Hell, to exchange power with Sirosenshi-Com would probably be the smartest move the company would have made in ages.
Strumming his fingers over the mahogany desk, Sesshomarrou sat back in his leather chair,
rubbing his temples to sooth the growing migraine he was getting. After a moment or so, he got up from his desk and left the office behind him the earliest he had since he'd signed on at the corporation.
"I need a drink..."
Making his way down the four flights of stairs, he punched out at the front desk where Kagura was still collecting her things together from the day, and left through the revolving doors, B-
lining for a sports bar one block down with neon green lights blinking away.
Three margaritas, a beer, and a martini Bond style later, and all his worries had melted away.
snicker doodle da da wa
Tuesday morning came all too quickly, and the assembly of workers somehow made their way back to Sirosenshi-Com where they did whatever it was they did in cubicles and offices on the various floors of the building. That is, apparently except for the Manager of General Operations,
because by the time Kagome managed to work her way up to office number 328, the young Sirosenshi brother was nowhere to be found.
Fabulous. Just what she needed... again.
She sat down in her seat next to Hojou's desk and flipped through the morning memos that had been delivered only a few minutes before she had gotten there, and glanced up as the rococo secretary made his way over to the desk with a coffee cup in one hand, a muffin in the other, and a dazzling smile on his face.
All in all, Kagome really didn't want to know what was in his coffee cup that morning.
Hojou settled himself behind his desk and handed her a piece of the blueberry muffin absently,
thumbing threw and issue of Vouge himself. Nothing particularly stressful seemed to come to the task pile yet that morning so Kagome decided to take care of the things so they wouldn't overwhelm her later on.
It didn't take long to go through the few floors. Approving shipments of office supplies, checking in on the interns, and making a quick stop at the front desk to accept a fruit basket on Inuyasha's behalf were just about the most major things for her to do that morning.
Once she had finished, Kagome wandered her way up to the fifth floor. She waved at Rin who was typing something on her computer and had looked up, smiling energetically like usual. But Kagome decided to talk later, because she didn't want the open doughnut box on her desk to betray her after she'd been a good girl and had a frozen waffle that morning.
Making her way down the long hall, Kagome could have ran into the wall and not noticed as the scent of fresh coffee wafted over her. Thankfully she didn't, instead just made her way into the lounge as she reached it halfway.
Glancing up as she entered the silent room, Kagome was surprised to see Sesshomarrou leaning back casually against the counter again, cup in hand. She nodded in his direction, and he nodded back in acknowledgment as she approached the coffee pot, her hand hesitating at the handle as the businessman spoke.
"It's just like yesterdays. Filthy as ever. I really must find out who the insolent creature is who brews that coffee every morning."
"Figures.."
Letting out a defeated sigh, Kagome backed away from the coffee pot and turned to look at the other machines on the counters. She was just about to settle for a cup of tea when she felt a tap on her shoulder. Turning around, a steamy cup was placed in her hand by the elder Sirosenshi brother just before he tossed his empty cup into the trash and headed out of the lounge without another word.
It had only happened twice so far, but this act seemed to be becoming a strange habit.
Kagome shrugged off his attitude when she took a sip of the caramel-machiado he had handed her. It was another sip of heaven. But alas, she had to get back to the desk. If not to find out when Inuyasha finally decided to come in to work, but to keep up with what was going on along with Hojou.
Gossip was exhausting.
eek eel ma meal blah burp
Inuyasha had woken up Tuesday morning to the annoying sound of his alarmclock. Half asleep,
he attempted to turn the relentless thing off as his head began to ache from it's droning cries, to no avail. Getting a tad too irritated for the early hours, he ripped the digital clock out of the socket in the wall, and nearly screamed when it kept going off. Finally, through his sleepy stupor,
he managed to turn the damn clock off and silence it before he would have thrown it out of his window.
The young Siroshenshi would have normally rolled over and gone back to sleep, but a nagging voice in the back of his head begged to differ.
"UGH! FINE, I'm up!"
By 9:20 he was out the door decked out in black Gucci pants, and a red Versace silk shirt and tie combo with his Armani shoes and Rolex watch. Everything but a positive attitude. Sure Kagome's plan had worked the other day... but by getting respect, he had probably lost all hopes of getting on his employees' good sides. Hell, it would take something big around the office to do that.
Letting his thought's dissipate, Inuyasha entered the corporate building through the revolving doors, ready for another day of hell.
yeddo skeddi shee shee bam
At the top floor of the corporate building, Sirosenshi paced the length of his lavish office as he thought over every possible thing that could go wrong if he agreed to let Inuyasha in on the Tasoni account. And being perfectly honest with himself. He was drawing a blank. In the long run, no matter what Sesshomarrou may have planned, there were more positive notions to Inuyasha's involvement than anything else.
He finally made his way to his desk, and settled himself behind it, taking a deep breath before hitting the call button on his phone for his secretary.
"Yes, Mr.Sirosenshi, how may I help you?"
"Lily, please connect me to Sesshomarrou's line and have Alissa waiting for me when I'm done."
"Your masseuse, Sir?"
Sirosenshi took a sip of his Irish Coffee. "Yes Lily. That's the one."
"I'm connecting you now Sir, and she'll be waiting."
"Thank you Lily."
The music had been changed from classical to salsa, and Sirosenshi's nerves were on end when it cut off to be replaced with the droning rings of his son's extension. As Sesshomarrou picked up,
there was silence for a moment before he spoke.
"Father."
"Son."
"Have you made your decision in regards to my proposition yesterday? After all, I have to turn in the forms this morning to be faxed over to Tasoni for the preliminaries."
"Add his name on. And I don't want to hear you address me in such a manner again. You need not be reminded that this IS my company, not yours." Click. Sirosenshi disconnected the line and downed the rest of his Irish Coffee along with a happy pill as Lily buzzed Alissa into his office.
Sometimes his success wasn't worth having his older son in the office. The little sluggard.
dum da da dum de de doo dally da
Kagome returned to the desk, surprised to find Inuyasha thumbing through a stack of papers as Hojou worked on a card house with Sango and Tara. She moved around boss-man and took her usual seat next to Hojou's desk and sipped on her caramel-machiado, looking over at them as the three decks piled up higher and higher.
Just as Sango was about to put another card on the top of the unnaturally high card house, the phone rang on Hojou's desk, and the group of them jumped at the sudden noise, jostling the cards which collapsed on each other. Each of the three, glared at the others as if to blame them.
After several rings, Hojou finally found the phone through the mess and picked it up. "Hello, this is Sirosenshi-Com's sexiest secretary, what can I do for you big boy? And I can do ANYTHING you want." Hojou was grinning from ear to ear, and mouthed 'Mr.Fine-Ass' to Kagome and the girls, who all burst into a fit of giggles while Inuyasha just glanced over at them and shook his head.
There was a pause as Sesshomarrou said something to Hojou and his smile faltered as the secretary pouted. "Oh, you just want to talk to HIM." He held the phone out in Inuyasha's direction, rolling his eyes, and mouthing 'He'll come around one day', but then transferred the call to Inuyasha's line when he disappeared into his office.
Hojou let out a sigh after placing the phone back in it's cradle. "Can't blame a gal for trying."
They all burst into another fit of giggles again and Hojou joined them, laughing at his own boldness.
"I can't believe you just said that!"
jad a doo bop pop po ra
Inuyasha made his way into the office where he settled behind the applewood desk and pushed the speaker phone button. "Speak."
"Honestly, Inuyasha, must you always be so uncivilized?"
"Just what do you want Sesshomarrou? Get it out already or I'm hanging up."
"Well, half-brother, weather you hang up or not does not change the fact that you are to be involved in some business endeavors as of late."
"What are you talking about? Dad put me up as Manager of Operations, not some other shit."
"Indeed. But even our dear father seems to agree that it is in everyone's best interests for you to participate in the Tasoni account, since it appears you are next in line for the corporation's lead."
"Look Sessh, if you want the damn company, you can have it. I didn't even wanna work here."
The older brother let out a deep breath on the other end of the line. "If only it were that easy, it would be done. But for some reason, the man people around here call Sirosenshi is set against his company's success, and has instead favored your forthcoming. So, it is not by my choice alone that you are involved, but the one who holds your precious pay check in his pocket."
Inuyasha snorted. Things just got brighter and brighter. "What do I have to do?"
Sesshomarrou practically sneered across the phone. "Well, I suggest, for one, that you do your homework, and research the Tasoni Company we are aiming to merge with. You'll be aiming the preliminary pitch at tomorrow's meeting."
"What about all my other work?"
"Why don't you let your assistant take care of all of it. She should be qualified after all." Click.
Yeah, that's exactly what he was gonna do.. right up there with catching fuzzy slippers raining from the sky on camera.
He could never take care of the pitch himself. He was barely understanding his position as it was,
and now his fucking half brother expected him to do this Tasoni account bullshit and the other stuff. Not only that, but he'd gotten his father to go along with it.
Aint that a bitch?
Kagome opened the door and entered his office just then, carrying a small stack of paperwork he had to fill out for Marketing. She noticed something was wrong as she approached the desk and kind of urged him to say something.
"If you have an answer to this one, then I'll kiss Hojou's ass."
root toot al ta boo bum
Sesshomarrou sat back form his mahogany desk in contentment. Things were going rather smoothly, and he was pleased with his fathers decision. Just as he was about to continue on with his work, the phone on his desk let off a ring. On the third tone, he answered, his voice very hollow as he didn't bother to hide his annoyance.
"Yes?"
There was a pause on the other end of the line as the person prepared to say something. "I just wanted to thank you, personally, Sirosenshi, for your little bit of advice."
"Indeed. Well, now that you have, I have other things I must attend to." He was just about to disconnect the line when the other person spoke again.
"But don't you want to know who this is? What it is you've done for your company."
Deciding he didn't want to play games, the businessman spat out his last comment before disconnecting. "I know who I am, and I do know, whoever you are, what I have done to get here." Click.
He was just about to turn on his laptop when the phone rang again, and he answer only to be 'graced' by the same voice that was familiar, though he couldn't place it (and didn't care to).
"Oh, Sirosenshi, but I really don't think you know."
"Then by all means..elaborate."
The malicious grin could practically be heard form the other end of the line as the man went silent for a moment. "Why don't you ask Steven Tasoni... Wait, or better yet, ask your fool of a father." He let out a small laugh of mockery and waited for Sesshomarrou to say something.
"Who is this?"
"I am merely a businessman, like yourself. Except, might I add, I have the advantage." Click.
A droning dial-tone sounded form the phone as Sesshomarrou sat at his desk, wondering what exactly all of that had meant. But after his father barged into his office with a sour look on his face, and a paper in his hand printed from the Tasoni statistics, he understood, and the voice clicked in his head.
It was Yutaka Naraku of Miasma-Corp, their largest competitor. And apparently he'd gained interest in Steven Tasoni's company overnight.
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k-chan - I may not be your pet, but I wouldn't be so sure about the insane part. Thanks for the compliment and welcome to my group of readers! -crowd cheers- yes you lucky peoples you.
Pobbin - -lets out a sigh- Seeing as you mentioned my mass of updates, I regretfully say that I usually only type so much like that when my muse is around and hitting me continuously. I say,
"regretfully", because it seems to have run off on me, and even chapter five was more forced than anything particularly inspiring on my part. So, while I may have spoiled you readers a little bit,
you might want to grasp that it wont be updated quite so often when my muse is gone, or once school starts back up and gets in my way...that or the bitch I call writers block -mumbles-
tyedyequeen - "Welcome," to you as well, and I hope you figured by now that the 'words' in bold are more for separation of scenes. Generally, I would use little stars, but for some reason, it wont let me, so I tried to fill the spot with something else that wouldn't be too confusing. If you want maybe I could start listing off things like current events, fun facts, or show-tune titles... discuss the weather. Heh heh, or I could just stick with the jibber jabber of meaningless things.
Well, hope you all liked this chapter, even though I can't really tell and it could be a load of crap.
But it's one of those points in between things where it's transitional... and not as funny. It'll come together pouts as reads leave
Please review - Bunny