Hi everyone!
The revisions are still goin going on!
I wanted to thank the few people who warned me my story was basically being copied on fanfiction. I have seen the story, Breaking His Code, and I was a little peeved when I read the first chapter, but I let it be since I have no idea what I would possibly do.
Disclaimer: Pegasus Rider does not own Inu Yasha, Starbucks, or Cinnibun.
Heart Hacking
Tuesday
Sesshoumaru frowned as he drummed his fingers on the table while sneaking a look at his wrist watch. It said 8:24. 'Where is he? He was supposed to be here twenty minutes ago!' Sesshoumaru thought with narrowed eyes. It was Tuesday morning and he was supposed to be having a quick meeting with his father in the conference room about the Imagination Unlimited contract.
Sesshoumaru was now six minutes behind in his schedule, and nothing irritated him more then being late, although Kagome came in an extremely close second. "That's it; I'm going to my office. He can call me there." He muttered to the empty room.
Sesshoumaru took the elevator up to his office, marched past the cubicles of his employees, who were furiously typing away one they spotted him, and walked down the hallway toward his office.
He stopped stone cold once he saw the strangest sight before him. Kagome, Tashio, Miroku (the chief programmer), and Shippo (the mail boy) were all sitting on the ground, huddled in a circle, holding playing cards.
Tashio was clutching his hand of cards as he suavely pushed his silver rimmed glasses further up his nose, his silver hair pooling over his back. Shippo was holding the cards in his small hands which made the cards look huge and oversized. Miroku was in a meditating position and his eyes were closed in deep concentration.
Kagome was flopped over on her stomach. Her black high heeled shoes were thrown off to the side, and Kagome kicked her legs around as she frowned while studying her cards. "Ah, Tashio… do you have any bluegills?"
Tashio gazed at her, his amber colored eyes glinting. "Go fish."
Sesshoumaru felt inclined to either drop dead, or strangle his father. The president of the company, an assistant, a programmer, and a mail boy were playing go fish… with actual fish cards. Sesshoumaru stood over Kagome and reached down to pluck her cards out of her hand.
He studied the back as the repentant group looked up at him. "The plucky fish game cards, really Kagome I thought you would have at least managed to find some sort of 'happy cat' or something," he dryly remarked as the said girl blushed.
"Hey I was winning!" she complained, poking his leg.
"How nice for you," he dryly said as he pushed open the glass doors and walked into office.
Kagome quickly leaned over and squawked. "Tashio you were cheating! I knew it! I knew it! You cheater you!"
"Well I wasn't the only one! A certain little mail runt was taking glances at your cards too you know! He may look cute but on the inside? Oh my, heavens no!" Tashio rolled his eyes to the sky as Kagome snatched his cards out of his hand before collecting the other players' cards.
Kagome packed up her deck as she sauntered into the office. "Good morning sunshine!" Kagome bellowed to Sesshoumaru as her card mates followed her into the room.
"Hello precious," Sesshoumaru sneered.
"Aw, now isn't that cute? They have pet names for each other!" Miroku declared as he eyed Kagome's backside.
"You, programmer. Leave before Kagome escorts you out," Sesshoumaru ordered.
"Now what do you mean by that?" Miroku innocently asked as his hand inched toward Kagome.
"MIROKU!" Kagome roared as his hand connected with her rear. She hauled him out of the room by his ear and threw him on to the floor. She glared at him for a solid minute, uttering dark promises to the trembling programmer before stalking back into the office.
"That," Sesshoumaru serenely said as he flipped open a binder.
Tashio nodded wisely as Shippo scratched his head in wonderment. "Gosh, I didn't know Kagome was so… strong," the small boy said in wonder. He looked up to see Sesshoumaru's gaze on him and cringed. "I'm going, I'm going!" he yelped at the sharp eyed CEO while scampering out.
Kagome seated herself at her desk and got to work. Tashio started to tip toe towards the exit but Sesshoumaru stopped him dead in his tracks. "Don't even think about it."
Tashio laughed nervously as he turned around to sheepishly face his son. "Whatever do you mean?"
Sesshoumaru gazed up at his father. "I believe that you missed our eight o'clock conference. So I'm assuming that means that you got the contract changed?"
"Correct," Tashio said with a serious golden gaze.
"You may go," Sesshoumaru graciously told the president.
"Hahah, thanks," Tashio said before zipping out of the office.
Sesshoumaru stifled the urge to roll his eyes and instead turned his attention to his binder when the phone rang. He glanced over at Kagome out of the corner of his eye, and watched her study the caller ID screen before answering the phone call.
"Papa Fluffy's pizza palace, this is the manager Kagome speaking. What can I order for you?" Kagome asked with a cheery voice.
Sesshoumaru glared at the girl before quickly picking up the phone. "What do you want?" he growled.
"Sheesh! Did you wake up on the wrong side of the bed or what?" Inu Yasha barked from the other end of the line as Kagome hung up.
"I repeat, what do you want?" Sesshoumaru inquired, sounding more controlled.
"I was just calling you to tell you that I'm sending one of my men up with the new advertising plans."
"Fine," Sesshoumaru growled as he rubbed his head and tossed his master keys onto his desk, he was getting a migraine.
"Okay, see ya," Inu Yasha said before hanging up.
"Whatever," Sesshoumaru grumbled to himself.
The phone rang again and one again Kagome answered it. "Hello, Sesshoumaru's office, Kagome speaking," she paused a moment. "I'll be sure to tell him. Okay, bye." She hung up the phone before turning to her boss. "Hey Sesshoumaru, they need me down in the programming section for a few minutes. It won't take long, they just need me to hack into an employee's account because she's not here today and they need a file from her," she told him as she stood up and started to walk toward the door, but paused by his side. "Hey, are you okay? You don't look so well," she said with a tinge of concern as she patted Sesshoumaru on his shoulder, her other hand resting on his desk.
"I'm fine! Just go!" he barked.
"Gee! I'm going, I'm going! Don't get your hair in a knot!" she said as she hurried out of the room.
Sesshoumaru attempted to concentrate on his work with no such luck. After five minutes of staring at the same sentence he finally got up and went to the bathroom where he splashed his face with cold water. He felt much better and he was about to turn around and leave when suddenly the lights went out. He blinked and turned to see his gold eyes sticking out in the reflection of the mirror. Everything else was pitch black.
Sesshoumaru fumbled along the wall, searching blindly for a light switch before frowning in remembrance. His father had changed all the bathroom lights to being computer operated since Inu Yasha had once been locked into a bathroom where a culprit had removed the light switch, rendering the moronic half brother unable to turn on the lights. Wait… they were computer operated.
"Kagome," Sesshoumaru growled as he found the door and opened it. He glanced up and down the wall and sure enough, the panel (which was on the lower wall) was open, the door swinging. Sesshoumaru quickly glanced at the screen and pressed the 'On' button on the screen. He quickly checked back in the bathroom and sure enough the lights had turned back on. Sesshoumaru narrowed his eyes as he shut the panel door, which automatically locked itself. Very few people had that key, how on Earth had Kagome nabbed it?
Sesshoumaru shrugged it off; perhaps Inu Yasha had escaped Kikyo's clutches and was running loose around the building. You never could tell what that mentally challenged boy, or his conniving she-creature secretary, was up to.
Sesshoumaru walked back to his office and seated himself in his desk. He was just in the middle of a review from one of the new branches in Europe when suddenly the lights in his office and the hallway went out. Sesshoumaru growled in annoyance.
"Kagome!" he bellowed. "Cease this nonsense!"
There was no reply and the hall remained quiet. Sesshoumaru glared and stood up, tripped over his briefcase, and started to where he thought the office door was located.
Suddenly incredibly loud music thundered over the loudspeakers in his room.
"Who let the dogs out!"
Sesshoumaru roared as he covered his ears. "KAGOME!"
"Who let the dogs out?"
Sesshoumaru was now slumped over on the floor from the volume of the music and he army crawled toward the door when suddenly the music turned off and the lights returned to normal.
Sesshoumaru blinked in the unexpected light and slowly stood up before stalking out into the hallway to see the computer panel door for his office swinging. He scowled and closed the panel door. This was definitely Kagome's work, Inu Yasha was not that intelligent.
But how on earth did she get the keys? He walked back to his desk and glanced on it, looking for his master keys. They weren't there. Sesshoumaru paused.
"Hey, are you okay? You don't look so well," she said with a tinge of concern as she patted Sesshoumaru on his shoulder, her other hand resting on the desk.
"Then," Sesshoumaru said between clenched teeth. "She swiped the keys when I wasn't paying attention. "Oh well. She can't get into to much trouble. There are really only a few keys for the panels and a couple conference rooms, and of course my home, she has no way of finding directions to it, so there is no danger there. Hn, I think there is also a key for the supply room, oh, and for my car. My car!" Sesshoumaru rushed down to the parking garage and ran to his parking spot, looking for his black mustang…which was not there.
"KAGOME!"
Sesshoumaru returned to his desk once he calmed down and prepared to give his father the most scalding phone call of a life time. (That nonsensical fool had given him such a devious and incompetent assistant!) Fate had different plans however, and the phone rang right as Sesshoumaru picked it up to dial the number.
"Hello?" he asked, barely controlling the anger rolling in his voice.
"Hey, I was just wondering if my man got those advertisements to you yet," Inu Yasha questioned.
"No," Sesshoumaru said before solidly hanging up. He slumped over in his desk, this was definitely not his day.
The phone rang once more and Sesshoumaru glared at it, ready to throw it at the wall and watch it shatter into a thousand pieces. That would be greatly satisfying at the moment. However Sesshoumaru prided himself on his control, and Kagome would be sure to rub in his face for the rest of the week. So he merely scoffed and picked it up again. He would not be bested by some girl. "Sesshoumaru speaking," he said.
"You're Sesshoumaru? Well, sir, you better come down to the parking garage, we've got something you have to see," a strangely juvenile male voice said before hanging the phone up.
Sesshoumaru restrained the urge to moan. "What now?" he grouched as he stumbled out of the office and took the elevator to the garage. Strangely there was no one around. Sesshoumaru craned his neck and nearly screamed in girlish joy. His black Mercedes was back in its parking spot, looking as though it had never moved. "…Then where is Kagome?" he wondered before narrowing his eyes. He thought back to the phone call and growled. "A set up. That evil girl!" with this new revelation he raced back upstairs. He paused outside his office door and peered in. The demonic girl was no where in sight. With a shrug he went back to his desk and sat down and jumped up as the sound of a giant… something.
"KAGOME!" he roared in a way that was beginning to be very familiar with everyone on his floor as he picked up the whoopee cushion and threw it across the room.
"You rang?" Kagome asked as she entered the office, tucking her hair behind her ear.
"You! My car! The bathroom, the music!" Sesshoumaru howled; this girl was going to make him lose his mind.
"Sesshoumaru, you need help," Kagome carefully said as Sesshoumaru pounded his head on his desk. Kagome walked by his desk, pausing to watch him with a critical eye before she sat down at her own desk.
"You took my keys," Sesshoumaru calmly accused as he stared as his assistant.
Kagome snorted. "No I didn't! I was hacking that employee's account. Call up Miroku and ask him!" she challenged.
"My keys are no longer here," Sesshoumaru plainly, if not childishly, claimed.
"What are you talking about?" Kagome asked, her eyebrow cocked.
"My keys-,"
"Are right there," Kagome said, pointing to his desk with her finger.
Sesshoumaru gazed at the silver keys which were placed in the exact spot where he had left them. "She's good," he admitted as he watched her set up her laptop.
Sesshoumaru leaned back in his chair and finally got to work. Both he and Kagome diligently worked for about half an hour until a man barged into the office.
"Finally, I found you. You are a hard man to track down Sesshoumaru!" the stranger said as he swaggered up to him.
Sesshoumaru frowned. "Who are you?"
"Koga. I work with your brother. He wanted me to present these new advertising ideas to you," the man said as he raised his black eyebrows, his blue eyes blinking. He glanced over at Kagome and then stopped and stared. His eyes worked their way up and down what little of her figure that could be seen behind from behind the desk. She was still furiously typing away, and spoke without looking up at the intruder.
"Didn't your mother ever teach you not to stare?" she caustically asked.
In a flash Koga was kneeling beside Kagome. "You're beautiful," he stated. "You are going to be my woman," he decided.
Sesshoumaru's lips curled into a smirk as Kagome fell over in surprise. "That's right, Inu Yasha has a habit of working with people who are equally as moronic as himself. This shall be most entertaining." he triumphantly thought.
Kagome glared at Koga. "No I'm not!"
"We'll have to go out on a date soon!" Koga said as he snapped his fingers, he then quickly checked his watch. "Eck, but not now. I gotta run babe, see you later," he said as he tossed the advertisement plans onto Sesshoumaru's desk before exiting the office.
Kagome stared open mouthed at the swinging door. "I cannot believe him! What an idiot!" she yelled, turning bright red.
Sesshoumaru smirked, payback for this morning. "You know, I have always thought that Koga might be a good worker to have on this floor," he said with a smug smile as Kagome turned pale. "I'll have to contact Inu Yasha about that." He said before returning to his paperwork as Kagome started shivering.
Four hours later Kagome paced around the room. "Come on Sesshoumaru! I want to go eat!" she whined.
"I told you we cannot leave until I finish looking over this program," Sesshoumaru said; his eyes glued to the computer screen.
Kagome rolled her eyes and stalked around the room a bit more, her stomach rumbling in hunger. She stopped by his desk and knelt down. "Please Sesshoumaru? I'm so hungry!" she complained as she rubbed her stomach and leaned into him. She turned her head to gaze at the computer screen and cocked her head in curiosity as she studied the program.
Sesshoumaru shifted his eyes to watch her without gaining her attention; this was probably the closest they had ever been. Kagome was currently leaning on the arm of his chair, her waist touching his leg.
Kagome turned her interest back upon Sesshoumaru. "Anyway, so can we go now?" she begged.
"Fine," Sesshoumaru agreed.
"Hurray!" Kagome leaped up as she ran to her desk to snatch her coat. Sesshoumaru rose at a more controlled pace and Kagome bounced up and down impatiently by the door, a comical sight since she was wearing a skirt and high heels, as her boss slowly strolled toward her.
Kagome wrapped her two smaller arms around Sesshoumaru's long arm as she dragged him out of the office, happily chattering as they walked toward the elevator. "Hey, hey, do you think we can go to starbucks, or better yet Cinnibun?" she asked as they hurried toward the elevator.
"Why do you choose such common, fast food filled places to eat?" Sesshoumaru asked, arching a silver eyebrow.
Kagome pouted as they stepped into the elevator. "Because the food is good!" she retorted as she pulled on his arm for good measure.
"I see," Sesshoumaru said in a pacifying tone before they turned to face the door of the elevator which was slowly closing.
Before the door closed Sesshoumaru got a chance to see his stunned employees stare open mouthed at Kagome and Sesshoumaru. The latter was suddenly very aware that the chattery little female was still holding on to his arm, and even more surprising was the fact that he was allowing her to.
A sour look fluttered across Sesshoumaru's face before he squashed it and settled for the stoic pose. Kagome, not aware of the numerous heart attacks she had just caused, contentedly continued to talk on, prattling about nothing in particular.
They stepped out at the first floor and Kagome continued to talk, tugging on Sesshoumaru's arm if she thought he wasn't paying attention.
"Girl, I will not run away. Release my arm," Sesshoumaru ordered.
Kagome stuck her tongue out at him. "I don't think you'll run away, but it's such a good tool to annoy you with when you aren't listening," she said, demonstrating by pulling on his arm. Sesshoumaru frowned as he tried to disengage her arms around his.
"Where do you want to go Sesshoumaru? Kagome asked, suddenly casting him aside to skip a few paces ahead of him. She twirled around as they exited the building and Sesshoumaru cast an uneasy glance at her.
"Girl, do not make yourself sick," he warned.
Kagome stopped and rolled her eyes. "My name is Kagome! Not girl, Kagome! And Kagome votes for Cinnibun!" she announced.
"Very well Kagome who talks in third person. Where is the nearest Cinnibun?" Sesshoumaru asked.
Kagome's mouth dropped open. "You mean you don't know where the Cinnibun stores are?"
"What are you talking about?"
Kagome promptly died… well not really, but she did fall to the ground. "I have all thirty six locations of the Cinnibun stores memorized! Do you know where any are?" she asked as she hopped up and leaned in.
Sesshoumaru frowned. "No. I attempt to eat at respectable places."
"Are you calling Cinnibun unrespectful?" Kagome demanded while placing her hands on her hips.
Sesshoumaru gazed at his assistant. "I fail to see what this has to do of where we are going to eat."
Kagome sighed. "You really are hopeless. Come on, it's this way," Kagome started off, Sesshoumaru trailing after her.
Four minutes later they entered a small, clean, Cinnibun. "Yay!" Kagome shouted, rubbing her hands together in anticipation. "I'm getting a cinnamon roll!" she said as she pranced around the restaurant.
Five minutes later Kagome and Sesshoumaru were seated at a booth. Kagome was digging into her cappuccino and cinnamon roll with great gusto while Sesshoumaru nibbled at his and watched Kagome with something akin to amusement.
Kagome finished off her roll in record time and she smacked her lips while contentedly patting her stomach. "That was great! Thanks for the lunch break lord fluffy!"
Sesshoumaru raised his eyes to the heavens, begging them that she would knock off the cute pet names thing. "You're welcome girl," he said as he snapped a lid on his coffee before standing. "Shall we return to the building now?"
"Sure!" Kagome chirped as she slid out of the booth.
On their way back to the office Sesshoumaru checked his palm pilot as Kagome danced around him. "What's next?" she asked.
"A meeting with father, Inu Yasha, Miroku, and a few other managers," Sesshoumaru said as he slipped the device back into his pocket.
Kagome nodded as she threw open the door and hurried into the building. They reached their office five minutes later, getting strange stares from some of the workers who knew Sesshoumaru.
Sesshoumaru's eyes widened as Kagome shed her coat. It was 12:02. He was late for the meeting. Sesshoumaru snatched Kagome's wrist and they ran down the hallway, gaining even stranger looks now. Sesshoumaru never touched a girl in his own free will, he never ran down hallways either… What was the world coming to?
They barged into a conference room, and to Sesshoumaru's great relief the meeting had not yet started.
Sesshoumaru and Kagome settled down, sitting across from each other, at the end of the long table. Kagome pulled out a pad of paper and began doodling on it as Miroku explained the newest program the programming team was working on. The meeting seemed to stretch on for hours as Inu Yasha showed the new advertisements, and some big fat guy who was sweating a lot lectured everyone on the importance of washing their hands before working.
Kagome looked up from her horrible cartoon drawing of the fat guy, and turned her attention to her boss. Sesshoumaru was resting his head on one hand. His seat was reclined and his eyes were shut as if he was trying to drone out the large man.
Kagome dug in her bag a bit and pulled out a box of paperclips. She proceeded to create a paperclip chain and gazed around the room. The portly man had been talking for an hour now, and he just kept saying how important it was to wash your hands. Once in a while he would throw in a 'scary' story about what happened to someone when they didn't wash their hands, but he mostly just explained how to wash your hands. A very pointless lecture indeed.
Inu Yasha had fallen asleep and was snoring very loudly. Tashio and Miroku were currently battling it out in a tic-tac-toe game, and the other managers and workers were asleep, bored, or playing a game on their cell phone.
Kagome made a paperclip chain that was roughly as long as her arm before she grew bored and threw it down in a huff. She glanced over at Sesshoumaru and gave him a light kick under the table. He didn't respond. Kagome frowned and kicked him harder, still no response.
Kagome leaned as close to him as she could get while being across the table and listened. His breathing was heavy, deep, and a little raspy. Sesshoumaru was sleeping.
Kagome nearly shrieked out loud from the humor of it all. However she contained her excitement and instead looked around her with a mischievous grin. Her eyes fell on the paper clips and she carefully disassembled it and started flinging the paperclips at her employer through the use of her thumb and forefinger.
The first few missed him by a mile, but eventually Kagome improved on her aim and hit him square in the forehead. The icy businessman opened one golden eye and frowned at her before retaliating by solidly placing his feet on top of hers. He drifted back off to sleep as Kagome struggled to get his heavy shoes off of her.
She succeeded in pushing them off and returned her paperclips to their box. She dug in her bag until she found a cheap, plastic pen. She popped off the cap and lightly set it back on before bending the cap and pen back towards her. She let the cap go and the pen jerked forward, flinging the pen cap across the table, hitting Sesshoumaru in the nose.
Sesshoumaru opened both eyes this time and held the pen cap up with his free hand. He showed it to Kagome and then squeezed his hand, shattering the cap. Kagome stared opened mouthed at him as he dusted off his hand and returned to his nap.
Kagome returned her attention to the speaker to reassure herself that the same man was speaking. He was. Kagome grabbed her notepad and ripped off a piece of paper. She then scribbled a message on it before she folded it the way high school boys make a paper foot ball.
She held the football between her thumb and pointer finger as she aimed for Sesshoumaru. She flicked it with her other thumb and pointer finger, and it dove straight for Sesshoumaru who easily caught it in one hand, his eyes remaining closed.
He gave her a curious look before opening the 'note' and reading it. He gazed up and scowled at her. The note had said.
"Greetings Ice cheeks! This is yet another attempt to keep you awake, which is far more amusing to do then listening to this speaker."
He crumbled up the paper and tossed it into the trash can which was behind him before he slid further down in his soft leather chair. He closed his eyes again as he heard Kagome snatch up the notepad again and scribble a message before she loudly tapped the pad.
He opened his eyes to see her holding up the notepad. He squinted and read the sign which said. "When your cell phone rings TALK and get us out of here!"
She then tossed the notepad into her bag before her hands disappeared from sight, under the table. Once in a while her gaze would flicker to her lap, where she was dialing in Sesshoumaru's number on her cell phone.
She pressed send and immediately Sesshoumaru's phone rang. Sesshoumaru glanced apologetically around the room. "Sorry," he muttered as he answered his phone. "Sesshoumaru," he said as Kagome hung up. "Yes…" he continued, talking to the dead line so the group would think it was a person. "Really? That's not good," he frowned and rubbed his head as he gazed around the conference room. "Can't you take care of it? I'm in the middle of a meeting," he paused. "Are you really that incompetent? Oh never mind. I'm coming, just don't break anything," he growled.
He hung up his phone and slipped it into his suit coat before standing. "I am sorry, I must go. There is an emergency that requires my attention," he said as Kagome packed up her things. "I'll be taking my assistant with me," he smoothly said as he exited the room, Kagome hot on his heels.
They waited until the conference was a great deal behind them before they both broke into a terrified run. They sprinted the distance back to their office, Kagome keeping up fine with Sesshoumaru in spite of her heels, and burst into their room.
Kagome hooted as she tossed her things on to her desk. "Great going Sesshoumaru! I thought we were going to be stuck there forever!" she said, groaning at the memory.
Sesshoumaru smirked. "Yes, that was a rather good plan considering who it came from," he said as Kagome gave a loud humph. He pinned her down with a golden gaze. "But how did you find out my number?" he asked.
Kagome snorted. "Please! It was easy! You, being stupid, left your number written down in the glove compartment of your car this morning!" she laughed, and then quickly shut her mouth. "Shoot," she cursed.
"What did you just say?" Sesshoumaru asked as he slowly walked toward her.
Kagome quickly backed up, keeping a space between her and the tall man. "I-I-I mean last night!" she stumbled as she hit the wall of the office.
Sesshoumaru planted a hand on either side of her face as he leaned in. "You took my keys," he said with a dangerous smirk playing on his lips and in his eyes.
"You can't prove a thing," Kagome shot back before she slammed her heel into his foot, ducked under his arm, and ran out of the office. Sesshoumaru cringed in pain before quickly following her.
He ran down the empty hallway and halted when he came into the open section with all the cubicles and beeping computers. His golden eyes scanned the crowd as he looked for his blue eyed, black haired demon. He saw a swinging door and he ran to it and poked his head in. It was the staircase, and he could hear Kagome's loud heels echoing in the steep room. He ran down half of the stairs before jumping and paused when he heard the clicking disappear. She had exited one floor below him.
Sesshoumaru gave an animalistic smile as he stalked out of the staircase. Chasing down this girl was the most fun he had had in ages. His eyes flicked back and forth as he walked past the elevators, down a row of empty cubicles.
He was halfway through the room when he heard the sound of a box falling and Sesshoumaru whirled around to see Kagome flattening herself against the wall as a man with his arms full of boxes passed her. She spotted Sesshoumaru and she quickly darted into an open elevator and pressed the door close button repeatedly. Sesshoumaru was nearly upon her as the door slide shut and Kagome laughed diabolically as she slipped out of reach. Sesshoumaru cursed and stepped back to see what floor the girl was going to. Four numbers lit up, floors 78, 83, 89, and 97.
"Smart girl," he praised. There was no way for him to know which floor she had gotten off at. But he was willing to bet that she was getting off at 89 and walking up to 90 to get to Tashio's office, a safe haven.
Sesshoumaru sneered. His father was currently stuck in that meeting; no one would be there to protect Kagome.
When the other elevator opened up he went to the 90th floor and growled with impatience as the elevator carried him up. The door crept open and Sesshoumaru was out in an instant.
"Good afternoon," Kagura drawled to Sesshoumaru as he stalked past her. "Tashio's not in right now," she called after him. Sesshoumaru ignored her and pushed open the oak door to his father's office. He gazed around the room, his sharp eyes taking in everything. She was not hiding under the desk or behind the couch; he would have been able to see her from this angle. He frowned, where did that girl go?
He slowly walked away, nodding to Kagura before disappearing from view by the elevators.
Kagura craned her head to make sure he was gone before calling out. "You can come out now Kagome, he's gone."
Kagome exited Tashio's office while rubbing her nose. "He nearly broke my nose when he swung the door open," she complained.
"So that's where you hid, behind the door." Kagura said with a smile. "Either way, watch your back. I haven't seen Sesshoumaru so… amused in who knows how long! And an amused Sesshoumaru is not a good thing, in your case anyway. Usually it's just not a thing at all," she muttered under her breath.
"Thanks Kagura!" Kagome said as she walked toward the elevators. She pressed the down button and to her surprise it opened right away to reveal, gasp, Sesshoumaru!
Kagome gave a little shriek as Sesshoumaru grinned and stepped out of the elevator. "I knew you were hiding some where around here," he said with a chuckle as he closed in on her.
"Don't move!" Kagome ordered, holding onto a key.
"Why shouldn't I?" Sesshoumaru challenged.
Kagome licked her lips. "This is a copy of your car key, don't move, or else I'll toss it to Kagura who will lock it in her desk to make more copies later."
Sesshoumaru frowned, that explained where her joy ride had taken her to earlier this morning. But he had confidence he could move faster then Kagome, so he jumped toward her and she threw the key as hard as she could.
Sesshoumaru ran and leaped, catching it in the air. He turned with a smirk to face Kagome, key in hand, when he noticed she had gotten on the elevator and had a prideful grin on her face. "Bye bye!" she waved as the doors closed.
He quickly gazed down at the key which was clearly labeled 'Spare, house.' "Blast, this is her spare apartment key!" he groaned. He had been fooled again.
Sesshoumaru watched the floor numbers of the elevator door and cursed. Every number from 71 and down was pressed. He quickly pressed the button for the other elevator, but the machine didn't come for several minutes. By that time Kagome's elevator was halfway through all of its stops.
"I bet she hit all of them and then got out at the 71st floor and called this elevator." He growled to himself. He could faintly smell Kagome in the contained space. The question was which floor had she gotten off at.
Kagome hurried down the white hallway and pounded on the door. "Shippo, it's Kagome, let me in!"
"Kagome?" the small kid asked, opening the door enough to poke his head out of the space. "Kagome!" he yipped with glee as his entire face lit up. "What are you doing here?" he asked as he opened the door so she could get in.
"Sesshoumaru found out about my little crusade from this morning," she dryly said.
Shippo's eyes widened. "That's not good," he gulped.
Kagome smiled. "Don't worry Shippo, I don't think he figured out that it was you who called him to the parking garage," she soothed the small boy. "But right now I need a place to hide," she explained as she glanced around the white mail room. Huge bins full of mail were stacked on the walls and carts that were placed in order according to the floor number were lined up by the bins. Shippo was in charge from floor 50-90's mail, so he had quite a few carts and bins.
"I know just the place!" Shippo said with a grin.
Sesshoumaru knocked on the doors of the mail room. The mail room that Shippo, the child Kagome had been playing cards with, was in charge of. "Yeah?" the small child asked as he opened the door.
"Let me in," Sesshoumaru simply ordered. Shippo gulped and stepped back, allowing the CEO entrance.
Sesshoumaru gazed up and down the room. "I believe you have a special package for me," he said as he walked toward the bin labeled 52, his floor.
Shippo gulped. "I do?" he nervously asked.
Sesshoumaru smiled. "You do," he said before he thrust his hand into the giant bin and pulled out Kagome's arm. He fished the girl out of the bin as she beat him in the chest with her fists. He picked her up and slung her over his shoulder, her waist resting on his shoulder, as if she were a bag of cat food.
"Put me down Sesshoumaru!" she ordered as she beat his back.
"No," he decidedly said.
"Sesshoumaru!" She howled as he stepped on to the elevator, keeping her on top of his shoulder. "Put me down! I won't run away!" she yelled.
"Indeed, and if you continue to pound me on my back much more I'll be sure that your skirt rides much higher so you can, what is the term…moon the entire office?" Sesshoumaru cattily threatened.
"WHAT?" Kagome yelped as she tried to rip herself off of his shoulder.
Sesshoumaru rolled his eyes. "Give it up Higurashi. You aren't going anywhere."
Kagome paused. "Well at least you've learned my last name," she contemplated. "I'll give you a gold star for that. BUT you revealed that you are essentially a pervert, so that puts you back at negative two,"
"In what way am I a pervert?" Sesshoumaru scoffed as the elevator doors dinged and opened.
"Hey you were the one who thought about my bare butt!" Kagome plainly said as he stepped into the 52nd floor. Sesshoumaru kept her slung over his shoulder, ignoring the looks his employees were giving him as they watched the icy Sesshoumaru carry a howling girl, his assistant to be exact, to his office, who had stated that he was talking about her butt. Bare no less.
"It wasn't I who wore a skirt today," Sesshoumaru argued.
"Yeah, you only do that on weekends," Kagome smart mouthed cheekily, winking at several stunned workers who were dropping their paperwork.
Sesshoumaru glanced to the side and reached out with his free hand.
SMACK!
"MIROKU COPIER!" Kagome howled.
"That was a warning to behave yourself," Sesshoumaru lectured as Kagome tried to pat her stinging rear.
As he walked down the hallway to his office Kagome had finally given up resisting and propped herself up on her elbows, scowling at the empty hallway.
They entered the office and Sesshoumaru set Kagome down, holding onto her waist so she couldn't get away.
"You, Higurashi, are going to pay the consequences for taking my keys," he told her with glimmering amber eyes.
Kagome sighed. "How did you figure out where I was?"
Sesshoumaru scoffed. "Please, I recalled seeing you play cards with the boy this morning. For some odd reason I remembered that he sounded awfully like the guy who called me down to the garage. Obviously he was in on your ploy."
"Ahhhh!" Kagome said, fully enlightened. "But how did I know which bin I would be in?"
Sesshoumaru smiled. "You two are predictable. You would figure that the last spot I would look in would be the mail bin for my floor!"
Kagome nodded. "I admit defeat, what is my punishment?" she mocked.
"I shall decide by the end of the day," Sesshoumaru announced as he released her and walked back over to his desk, intent on getting some work done in the hour that he had left.
Kagome and Sesshoumaru worked furiously to make up for the lost time and when their shift ended they both stood and stretched. Kagome cautiously made her way toward the door, hoping that Sesshoumaru had forgotten about her.
"Hold on Higurashi," he said, catching her wrist. "I have yet to announce your punishmen," he said with an evil smile.
Kagome paled; if he decided to have Koga work with her she would kill him!
Sesshoumaru smiled as he tugged on her wrist, pulling her out of the office. "I'll tell you on the drive home."
"I walk," Kagome said, sounding confused. "Although I wouldn't mind owning a car!" she dreamily sighed.
"Well today I am giving you a ride," he told her, still holding her wrist as they strolled past the workers who were by now well used to seeing their boss and this extremely strange woman in physical contact. (Although they were slightly relieved that the pair was not speaking about parts of their anatomy.)
Kagome grew more anxious as they rode the elevator down to the parking garage. She gulped as she climbed into the car, and it wasn't just because she was dreading Sesshoumaru's driving skills either.
"Out with it Sesshoumaru! You're killing me and you know it," Kagome said while turning to face him as Sesshoumaru pulled out of the parking lot at a surprisingly normal speed.
Sesshoumaru smirked. "Very well. You will be joining me Friday night for a cocktail party Tashio Inc is throwing."
Kagome looked greatly relieved and let out the breath of air she had been holding. A party wasn't so bad; it would actually be pretty fun!
"Don't look too happy," he told her. "This party is a very formal, very annoying, and very private. Kikyo will also be there."
Kagome's spirits wilted, Kikyo always knew how to ruin a good party with that screechy voice of hers. Furthermore Kagome was pretty sure that she didn't have anything suitable for the party. "Um, Sesshoumaru, I don't think I have anything that I could wear to this party of yours," she carefully phrased.
Sesshoumaru grinned. "You won't be getting out of this so easily Higurashi. I will take you to Father's tomorrow evening. I'm sure Sakura has something you can borrow," Sesshoumaru said as he pulled into the driveway for Kagome's apartment building.
"I see. Well thanks for the ride. Can I have my spare apartment key back now?" Kagome asked, holding out her hand.
"No," Sesshoumaru decidedly said.
"Come on! It's my only spare!"
"No."
"Meanie. Fine, it doesn't matter, you don't even know which apartment is mine!" she muttered as she hopped out of the car. "See you tomorrow Lord Sesshoumaru!" Kagome called out as she walked up the narrow sidewalk to the complex. She disappeared in the doors and Sesshoumaru shook his head and drove home.
Sesshoumaru entered his dark, cold, giant apartment while flipping through his mail, again only bills. Tokyo Times had a rather large article about a psychopath killer, and the price of gas, but besides that there was nothing of interest.
Sesshoumaru quickly logged on, nothing in his email either. He watched TV for sometime, receiving no phone calls, and was padding away to his bedroom when to his surprise he saw his answering machine was blinking. Perhaps some fool from work had tried contacting him while he was still in the office.
He pressed play, and to his surprise Kagome's joyful voice filled the room. "Greetings Lord Sesshoumaru the fluffy! Guess what! I'm driving around in your car! Muwahaha! A word to the wise Sesshoumaru, never leave contact information in your car. Yep, yep, because now I'm going to stalk you! BUWAHAH!" she laughed as Sesshoumaru himself snickered. "Well, yeah, that's all for now! See you tomorrow at work… or in a few minutes because I'm pulling into the parking garage. Mm, I hope you aren't to mad that I borrowed your car. Ha-ha…Please don't kill me. Well bye!"
Sesshoumaru smiled as he again shook his head. "That crazy girl," he said as he wandered off to bed with a small grin.
A/N: BWAH that took forever to edit! Again, I did some grammar corrections, spelling corrections, and I fixed some sentences so they sounded better. I added on about another half a page with a part that wasn't in the original manuscript. (The part when Sesshoumaru and Kagome are leaving the mail room.) And I fixed up this ending a tad better. I hope you guys enjoyed this revised edition! (As we get deeper into chapters a lot more will be added, and I'm completely redoing the last chapter!)
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