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Sorry for bad grammar. Review please. Oh I almost forget. There is a little mistake in the last chapter. The word Infestations should be Investments. Lol... no wondered why you all could laugh at it. Thanks for a reviewer who told me that he or she laughed at that comment. I'm sorry for my vocabulary....lol.... That was truly a mistake! ^-^
"You still haven't realize it?!Oh My.... That is one of the big three company in this country! That huge company is really great and big! They have infestations everywhere! They have oil—"
Should be:
"You still haven't realize it?!Oh My.... That is one of the big three company in this country! That huge company is really great and big! They have investments everywhere! They have oil—"
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The Cost You Pay
By The Eternal
Chapter 2
It was nice afternoon. The sun was almost set at the west. The color of sky was nice bright orange. It brought warm to the busy city. Winds whirled slowly, blew the long black hair.
Kagome looked up at the tall building.
Such a great one! No kidding.
Sounds of cars could be heard clearly behind her. The building location was really a strategist one. It was located on one of the business important business lane in this city. She sighed and stared again to the highest tower.
"Yup. That's it!" she said to herself. Maybe it could calm her heartbeat. "That's his office."
She climbed up the stair that direct to the building entrance. The glass door opened automatically for her. Kagome felt cold air stroke her warm skin.
It must be the air conditioner, she thought.
People walked here and there in formal clothes. They brought files, or papers, or speaking in their headset, or anything. They all were busy, even no one realize that she was there and watching them.
So cold..., she whimpered in her heart. Everything in there was so cold... no warmth, no smile, no laugh, nothing you can expected in there.
No warm smile that would greet you if you get in there. Not like in Inuyasha's office where everyone smiled and greeted you. No one spoke each other. They all lost in their own works and their own thought.
She scanned the area carefully. No wonder why this Seshoumaru became so success in his life. All of his workers worked professionally. They worked efficiently and used the times they have well.
She stepped to the Receptionist desk quietly. The receptionist, a lot younger girl than her maybe around 18 or something, seemed didn't put much attention to her present. She was busy typing something on the keyboard and always speaking on her headphone.
"Excuse me," she said. The receptionist still didn't aware of her present. "Miss, excuse me.."
The receptionist looked up at her. She smiled. But it was a fake smile. Kagome knew it.
"Can I help you, Miss?" she asked, trying to be polite.
"Uh-uh. Yeah," Kagome said nervously. She slipped her hair behind her ear. "May I see Mr. Seshoumaru Hamoto?"
The receptionist narrowed her eyes suspiciously. "Have you made a meeting assignment, Miss?"
Kagome slipped her hand nervously to back of her neck "I think... I haven't. But can you~"
"I'm sorry, Miss. But this is the rule."
"But I have to meet Mr. Hamoto. It is important. It is about his half brother"
"I'm really sorry, Miss. I can't. You don't have the~"
"Make me one then!" She said for the last.
"What? Excuse me?"
"You said that if someone wanted to meet him, they should make an appointment, then give me one!"
"No. We can't, Miss. We really can't. Mr.Hamoto is really busy and he doesn't have time to meet anybody. I'm so sorry," she said softly, with no regret in her eyes. Kagome sighed.
"Okay. I won't be persistent. But please give it a try," she pleaded. "Just one try."
The receptionist looked back at her. She sighed. "Okay, Miss. I'll try."
Kagome smiled sadly and half gracefully, half afraid too. The receptionist started to push the phone button.
"Hello, Emi. Yes it's me. A woman here wants to meet your boss. Meeting Assignment? I don't think so. Yes! Yes, of course I know the rule, Emi. Yeah. But she said it was about his brother. You know, right? Yes! The man who came here five years ago! Uh-huh. Ok." She pushed another button on the phone and looked at Kagome.
"Your identity card, please," the girl, asked. Kagome opened her bag and took the identity card. She handed her the card. She typed something at the computer then she printed something on the paper. "Please fill it." She handed a form paper to her.
"Uh-huh," the receptionist started to talk again to her headset. "He let her in? Now? Okay. I'll send her right now. Thank you." The Receptionist turned her chair and faced Kagome again. "Okay, Miss..." She looked at her form. "Kagome Higurashi, right?"
Kagome nodded.
"You may go now. It's easy to find his office. Just go to the highest floor."
Kagome smiled. "Thanks for your help."
"It is my job, Miss." She said it like it was usual for her if a woman wanted to meet her boss. Kagome sighed and turned her back.
She walked direct to the elevator. She crossed the wide and cold lobby quickly and get inside the elevator.
Would she make it? Or she wouldn't? Would he help his own brother?
Oh course he will! You will help Souta if he is in trouble!
"Yeah. I always help Souta," she said to herself.
Why you so sure about that, Kagome....? That cold voice heard again from somewhere inside her mind.
"Sure I am sure. They are brothers!" She was trying to fight back the cold voice.
Well, darling... it's all your choice.
"Shut up!"
But one thing I want to remind you...
"Just shut up!"
You would never now what it would cost you...
The sound of announcement in the lift, made her stopped her arguing with those voices. She took a long breath and released it slowly.
Here we go...
The Elevator's door opened. Kagome stepped out slowly, trying not to rethink her decision. She was so sure of her action before she stepped out from that lift and looked at a very big room in very cold and masculine design. It made the place so exclusive and the right place you searched for 'only business' things.
Kagome threw her glance around the room. It was so big and the things were there just black sofas with a coffee table right in the middle of the sofas. It looked like a waiting room. Just a few steps from there, a woman was sitting and typing at the computer. Her age was maybe a few years older than her. Maybe around thirty.
No plants, no painting, no nice window or curtain, there were nothing except tables, chairs plus sofas and nobody was there except the woman.
She approached the woman slowly, trying to calm her own heart.
"Excuse me," she greeted the woman. The woman shifted her gaze from the computer monitor to her. She eyed her from top of her head until down to her shoes. She was judging her. She knew it from her look.
Okay! Kagome knew it! She was nothing compared to the woman clothes. She almost looked like a poor when she stepped inside this building. Her ordinary work cloth was nothing compared to all of the clothes that almost all of the employees used here. They all used good, clean, and well-ironed suits. And how about her? Never ask about it, she just ironed it in 'The Flash' speed. She just took it from the laundry this morning then she had to go to her office.
"You must be Higurashi Kagome," the woman said coolly. Kagome smiled nervously.
"Yes."
"Please wait here for a minute," she told her. "Just sit down." Kagome nodded quickly and went to sit at the sofa. Kagome watched the woman took up her phone.
"Sir," the secretary spoke at the phone. "She is already here."
There was a silent.
"Now, Sir? Okay." She put the phone down. "Miss..."
Kagome was still looking at the door from her seat. She held her bag tighter.
"Miss," the secretary called her, more loudly.
"Oh yes?" Kagome stood up quickly.
"You may come in, now," The secretary said. Kagome stared at the door again, wondering what she would find behind it. "Miss...!"
"Uh. Oh yeah?"
"Mr.Hamoto is waiting for you now. He is not a patient one."
"Oh yeah, I'm sorry." The secretary stood up and led her to the main door. She knocked the door softly.
"Come in," heard a cool masculine voice from inside. The secretary opened the door softly.
"Sir, she is here now."
"Tell her to come in now."
Kagome clenched her teeth. She tightened her grip on her bag. She was so strained now. So much. She was holding her self not to trembling. Oh my god, she screamed in her head. She never expected that she would so strain. She even couldn't release her breath. She could feel her stomach tightened now.
"Miss, please come in." The secretary stepped aside and pleased her to come in. Kagome nodded. She took a deep breath then she walked in with all of her strengths. It wasn't the time to rethink her decision. It was too late. No way to stepped back now.
The room architecture was no different with the outside. Still black, cold, and masculine. If the room could scream, they would scream, "It Is Just For Business!!"
The room was wide enough for 20 people. There were big glass windows that almost covered the entire walls on that room, also a big table that was wide enough for a mini golf with a laptop and papers piled up on it. The carpet was so thick and soft. Outside there, the city spread out like a painting. So beautiful.
A man was standing there, behind the big chair. His hair was beautiful silver, tied up neatly but a few hairs still fell out from his neat tie and framed his beautiful face. Looked so sexy. From now on Kagome would never wondered again why women loved him.
He was so neat and clean. He was using a black suit, an expensive one, she believed, and his eyes stared at her coldly. Kagome had read in novels about cold eyes man. Now she knew what it's meant. The pair of golden eyes looked at her thoroughly and it's radiated coldness. He was tall and his body looked well built.
"Miss.....Kagome Higurashi....," he said her name so clearly. "Please sit down...." the he pointed at a black chair.
Kagome walked to the chair nervously. Her glanced never move even for a second from that man.
"Miss, what do you want to drink?" asked the secretary nicely. Now she acted nicely in front of her boss. Kagome shook her head.
"No, thank you," she replied her weakly. The secretary nodded and walked away to the door. The door closed slowly, she could heard it clearly because all voice in that room waas her own heartbeat. There was a long silent between them.
"Who are you to my half brother?" He asked coldly. His voice was so cold and his face was no emotion. His tone was so flat.
"I....~" She didn't know how to answered the question.
"His lover?" he asked suspiciously. "Or his newest fiancée?"
"No. I am not, Sir," She answered it quickly, before that Man Of Ice cut her sentence again. "I'm only his secretary. No more no less."
"So, what do you want to tell me?"
"It's...~ I...~ I don't know where to start..." Geez, it was so hard for her to speak out. Why?
"Just to the point, Miss Higurashi! I don't have much time," he snapped her. Kagome gulped. What should she say now? What?!
That's what I call your idiocy, Kagome...
"I just want to ask you to help Mr. Inuyasha, Sir. His company is going down now. He is going to be bankrupt. Please help him, Sir!" Kagome said it hurriedly, almost no break for a gasp.
The man looked at her with emotionless face and that made Kagome a little uncomfortable.
"Did he the one who tell you to ask me here?"
"No, Sir," She answered it quickly. "He doesn't know anything about this. This is my own decision."
"And what makes you think that I would help him?" He turned around his chair and sat down. "He is not my brother. He was just a half brother."
"But..~ Sir...~"
He raised his hand, signed that she should silent. He sighed. Then he looked at the girl, watching all of her moves, her face. Suddenly his eyes gaze changed into another. Kagome had a bad feeling about that look. A very bad feeling.
"Okay, I'll help him," he agreed. She was too shock until she couldn't sigh.
"What?!" she almost yelled in shock. She didn't think that it would be that easy. "That's it?"
"Yes, that's it," he replied. "Are you expecting another thing? You want me to help him now I'll help him."
"Really, Sir?"
"Yes," He answered. "But don't think it is free, Higurashi. Everything has it own cost."
Kagome sighed. She knew it would be like this. She knew it and she realized it from the first. But whatever it was, she would do it. For him, her boss that she loved him dearly. For all of her friends that worked there, for the future of the company, her sacrifice wouldn't be meaningless.
"What do you want in return, Sir?" she asked back politely.
"You."
End Of Chapter 2
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Bwahahahahaha. Am I evil? Lol. Is it cliffhanger? I don't think so... *sigh* well, review okay? Tell me you like it or not? If you do not like it... I will throw it away or dump it somewhere...
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Ja Ne