Order in the Court

Chapter two, new begginings

By the time she made it back to her mother's house, it was past midnight. She felt really odd being back in her new home. Not to mention the jet lag. She barely made it up the steps to her house until something collided with her. She looked down to see her brother attached to her leg. He might be sixteen, but he still acted like he did when he was ten.

"Souta! You've grown so much!"

"Mom! I haven't seen you in years! How's Grandpa?"

"Here I am, don't get your pants in a bunch." Everyone moved inside to the living room to talk. By about three, they all were just about to fall asleep, except Kagome. To her, it was the afternoon, and she felt like she could go running. By the time her family woke up, she was starting to fade. She was going to have to pull an all-nighter if she was going to adjust back to Japan time.

She decided to go to a cafe and start her job search. She sat down with a big cofee and plugged in her laptop. She searched all over until she found a position at one of the most prestigous law firms in Tokyo. Sure, it was just a secretary job, but it could lead to promotions. She called the number and set up an appointment for Tomorrow at 3 PM.

' Hmm I think I need to go shopping for a good interveiw outfit. I dont really have one,' she thought to herself, 'Plus its an excuse to go shopping.'

She set out for the nearest mall that she knew of. It looked about the same on the outside as it did the last time she saw it. People must've taken good care of it. The inside, however, was a totaly different story. The stores were completely different. She looked at the directory and only recognised a few of the store names. She started around the mall to look for a few good outfits. After a few hours of shopping, she had a bunch of new clothes and she stopped by the food court for some more cofee and some lunch.

Her thoughts drifted back to her friends. What became of the Shikon Jewel? It had fallen off of her as she was disappearing. She sipped her cofee and heard somone calling her name. She looked around but there was nobody there. ' That's odd,' she thought,' I must be tired from no sleep. But I could swear it sounds like... no, no, he's dead,' she thought sadly

She got up and got in her car to head for home. She decided to look around for an apartment for awhile. When it got dark, she headed for home. She ate dinner with her family and watched a little T.V. before falling asleep at about 8:30 PM.

She woke up, fully rested at 11 o' clock. She had lunch and got dressed for her interveiw. She still had an hour or so before the interveiw, and the office was only about 5 minutes away. She stopped at the local cafe again and figured that it wouldn't hurt to be early. She pulled in to the lot beside the huge, towering building. She walked into the lobby and gasped at its size. It was so huge and pretty. There was a front desk made of marble with two receptionists taking calls. she walked up to them and introduced herself. they directed her to the Human Resourses department, second floor, room number 207. She knocked ont he door and a lady answered the door. She was about 40, with wrinkles tat made her look even older. She looked nice, but she also looked like she was too stressed out. Kagome sat down across from the lady and the lady introduced herself as Sarah. Sarah started asking Kagome questions about her past jobs and education. Sarah seemed very impressed by her Harvard education. As Kagome walked out the door after about 30 minutes of questions, Sarah told her that they would call her tomorrow if she made it.

Kagome walked through the door and took a nap. She woke up just in time for dinner. Her family talked and got caught up on each other's lives. Kagome missed it. She really did. Her aunt in America that she stayed with was nice, but nothing could replace her family. She went apartment shopping again, and she found some really good ones that were less thatn a block from the office. ' Hold on Kagome! you're thinking too fast! get hired first, THEN start looking for apartments,' she berated herself.

She woke up at 8:30 to the sound of the phone. she picked it up and groggily answerd "Hello?"

"Hello, this is Sarah from the Tokyo Law Firm, I'm calling for Kagome Higurashi, Is this her?"

Kagome got excited, "Yes, yes it is."

"Well Ms. Higurashi, I'd just like to tell you that we at the Tokyo Law Firm would love it if you could work here, " Sarah stated.

"Wow! oh, Wow! thank you so much! I would love to! When do I start?"

"Monday, be here at 8,"

"Arigotou, Thank you very much, see you Monday,"

Kagome hung up the phone and did a little victory dance. Today was Friday, she only had two days until she would start her job. She had some serious shopping to do.