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A/N: Oh thank you everybody for all your reviews! I'm so flattered. Well, now that every well sort of, detailed out. Well, I'm really sorry that the last chapter and maybe this chapter too are short, but there wasn't really any time. Sorry! The next chapter would be a thrill! So here's the chapter...
(I know all of you are waiting for the part where they meet again but that will be in the next chapter alright. This chapter shows everyone! Ok, maybe not everyone.)
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Memories past
Chapter three:
Everyone
'Oh crap, oh crap, oh crap,' thought Kagome. 'I am so dead. Kagura said if I'm late again, she will so kill me!' Kagome rode her bike as fast as she can to work. She had almost forgot, she was at a wine tasting convention and completely lost track of time. As soon as she got there, Kagura was standing at the front entrance. She wasn't pleased.
"Oh hey Kagura," greeted Kagome. "I'm really sorry."
Kagura looked at her wristwatch and said, "Your one minute late."
"But, my watch says-," Kagura cut her off.
"I don't care what your watch says. Mine is always right, so you're a minute late and that means I have got to take out ten percent off your paycheque," sneered. "Now get to work."
Kagome was utterly mad. "Yes ma'am," she muttered and went into the kitchen.
This was one of the things she hated here. Kagura's lecturing. What if she's just one minute late, that's just sixty seconds isn't it? Kagome washed the last of her dishes, but then more came. 'Argh! Not exactly the job any girl wants isn't it?
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The sky has just stopped raining and it had became quiet. The office door creaked opened. Mother Kaede looked up to the person who opened her office door. She smiled as Kagome came into the room.
"Oh Kayoko," began Kaede. "Did you finish work?"
Kagome (Kayoko) smiled. "Yes mother Kaede," she replied and placed two boxes on her desk. "Here are some biscuits for the children, their really good."
"Oh Kayoko, it is not needed. You don't want the children to become all big and round," cooed Kaede. "Don't spoil them."
"Hey, they're lovable," she exclaimed and then she handed Kaede an envelope. "Here's this month's paycheck."
Kaede looked at the envelop and smiled. "Dear Kayoko, you do this every single month. All the children are so very lucky."
"Oh don't mention it," she replied. "This place is my home; of course I'd like to help."
"But dear, you work in day and night, sooner or later, you'll be so tired," exclaimed Kaede. "That won't do at all."
"Don't worry about it," assured Kagome with a smile. "But if you're really worried, then I promise you I'll be back by midnight. But now I'm pretty tired. Good night Kaede."
"But..." began Kaede but Kagome already left the office. 'That child, what a heart she has.'
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The next day was a beautiful day with the sun shining bright in the clear blue sky. The children in the orphanage were in class today, with their teacher playing wonderfully on the piano.
She elegantly pressed the keys with every note sounding quite impressive. A man in his mid-twenties walked into the room with flowers behind his back. The children saw the man and giggled faintly. The man shushed them and they all stood up and went out the door. Their teacher didn't even notice this act. When all of the children left the room, the man slowly crept up to the young teacher who was still playing. She then stopped playing and turned to see the children gone. She turned around see the man's presence. She smiled at the man.
"Oh, hey Miroku," she greeted. "What are you doing here?"
Miroku smiled. "Have you forgotten Sango? I said I would help you with the children didn't I?" he questioned and handed her the bouquet of flowers. He moved in to kiss her but she pulled back.
"The children are waiting for us," she said blushing and left the room.
Miroku sighed but smiled.
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Just not far from the orphanage, there stood a quite large Hotel Inn. A most 'familiar' man in his mid-twenties came out of the house and stood in the massive garden.
"Wow, it's pretty hot today," exclaimed the man. "Well, it's off to get to work now."
He got out his gardening tools and trimmed some of the bushes in the garden. He was the son of a rich man that owned a very, very outgoing Summer Hotel Inn. But that changed when the owner died of a very ill illness and left his fortune to his only child. The troubling thing was that the owner's son was only twelve at that time so he had to stay in an orphanage until he was eighteen. Now today, he was twenty-one and he was keeping good shape of his father's old Summer Hotel Inn.
"Oh hey, are you Mr. Kouga Daigo?" asked a mailman that just came.
The man turned around. "Yes, I'm Kouga Daigo. Is there something you want?"
"Uh yes, this package just came for you," exclaimed the mailman and handed Kouga the package. "Just sign here please."
Kouga grabbed the package and signed the shipping paper. "Thanks."
"Good day," said the mailman and left the grounds.
"Yeah, good day," he replied quietly and got his sunglasses out and placed them over his eyes.
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"Wheeh!" wailed a child. "I don't want a shot!"
"Oh come on dear, you don't want to be sick do you?" said Kaede. "It'll be just one poke, nothing more."
"NO!" the little boy cried. "It hurts!"
Sango kneeled down next to the little boy. "How would you know, Toru?" she answered thoughtfully. "You haven't even gotten it yet."
Toru sniffled a bit and then answered, "Because! It just does."
Sango shook her head. "If you do, then I'll give a lollipop alright," she assured.
"O...okay," he replied and shut his eyes tightly.
Miroku chuckled at the little kid and got out the 'painfully' shot. "Okay Toru, you're gonna count down to ten and then you'll it, alright."
The little boy nodded and stuck his arm out. "One...two...three..."
Little did he know Miroku already did give him the little pinch at the count of three. But Toru did not notice.
"...eight...nine...ten..." The little boy fluttered his eyes open. "Why aren't you giving me a shot?" he asked.
Miroku smiled. "I already did, you didn't even notice it."
The little boy just 'ohhed' and went inside the building with a grape-flavored lollipop in his hand.
"Well doctor, you sure did outdo yourself," cooed Sango. "How do you do it?"
Miroku grinned at her and simply said, "I'm not a doctor for nothing."
"Well, thank you very much to come in every month for a check up for the children," said Kaede thankfully. "The children are very lucky."
"No problem Kaede," he replied. "Just love to help."
Kaede chuckled and followed the children inside. Miroku placed all of his medicine in his medical case and turned to Sango.
"How about dinner?" he asked her.
Sango smiled and nodded. That's when Kagome came to the building's entrance with her bright pink bike. She notice Sango and Miroku in the corner and decided to greet them.
"Hey guys," she greeted. "What 'cha doing?"
"The children all got their shots today and we're packing up," Sango exclaimed. "Only Toru was a nuisance."
"Oh well, at least he got it right?" she questioned. "So I'll go inside now, catch 'cha both later, gotta find Kikyo." And with a last wave she disappeared into the building."
Sango smiled. Kagome and she had been best friends ever since they meet. She couldn't believe that Kagome would be flowing down by the orphanage's river. At least she didn't have any serious injuries. God bless her. Sango was cut off by her thoughts of a certain person hands were 'touching' her behind. She gritted her teeth and smacked Miroku into unconsciousness. She walked inside leaving a red faced, twitching Miroku, on the floor.
"See ya at dinner," she huffed.
A/N: Okay, okay, I know it's not 'that' long but surely the next chapter would be interesting because that's when they meet! Please read and review everyone and stay toon for the next chapter coming soon! Have a Happy New Year! Yeah, 2005!
...Eternalhappiness