A/N: Here it is! The new story that has been stuck in my head along with three other ideas that I would probably never get written down...oh well.Okay just so everyone should know...Broken Tears most likely wouldn't be touched for the rest of the year unless one of my very good friends come here and help me type chapter 5. I have plans for chapter 6! I think I should start panicking because I have no idea what this story is going to be about. I only have the plot, but I have no idea how I am going to write it. I am also trying out a new style so you HAVE to REVIEW and give me ideas. I'll try to bend to your needs but I won't be changing the plot anytime soon. Who knows,if this story works really well I JUST might be able to finish the whole thing. Oh and the last names of the characters, I had to make them up. I have no clue if they mean anything. Heck I'm not even sure if they're Japanese. Well...they sound jap, so ok whatever! Enjoy! Oh and some of the characters might be a little OOC, like Naraku and Onigumo...there not as...evil as you might have thought. And Miroku's not that perverted, just kind of a player...And al of the characters here work are around their early to mid twenties.
Disclaimer: I don't own Inuyasha.
Surreal Reality
Chapter 1: Expecting
They say to expect the unexpected.
Sango woke up to the hustling and bustling of Monday morning traffic right outside her bedroom door thanks to her family. She yawned and went to get ready for another day at work. Just as she was about to go inside the bathroom, a voice cried, "MINE!" A young boy around eleven popped up from around the corner of the narrow hallway and literally ran and slid into the bathroom. Sango stood in front of the closed door and blinked.
She yawned again and went to pick out an outfit. While on her way to her bedroom, she passed her aunt, who was busily cooking breakfast. Sango took a deep breath and smelled scrambled eggs. She saw her dad desperatly trying to fix the air conditioner. Her mom was setting the table and feeding the family cat at the same time. Her older sister, Kaguya, was busily typing away on her laptop. Another yawn and she stepped into her bedroom. Yep, another busy day in the Masuri household.
Sango rummaged through her clothes and decided on a black blouse and loose fitting pants. Sango went into the bathroom, which was finally free. After brushing her teeth and eating breakfast in the record of fifteen minutes, she grabbed her folder and her purse, said goodbye, and went out the door. "Hi Mrs.Higurashi." Sango waved to a women wtih black hair tied in a bun. The women smiled back. "Looking for Kagome, Sango?" "Yes Mrs. Higurashi." "Wait, she'll be out in a minute. The women walked into her apartment.
Minutes later, a young women with long black hair in a skirt and matching blouse came out with a small breifcase.
"Hey Sango." Kagome said.
"Hi Kagome." Sango replied. They walked into the elevator together and walked out of the building.
"Whose car today?" Sango asked.
"Mine I guess since you drove us Friday." Kagome walked into the parking lot of the apartment building. Sango followed her into a silver Lexus.
"I still don't know where you get your money for this when all I have is a Saturn!" Sango pretended to pout while Kagome gave a small smile and pulled out of the lot.
"First off, this car is my parent's money. Second, a Saturn isn't that bad."
"Yeah, if you work at McDonald's..." Sango replied. "And for all we know, what we do is anything BUT McDonald's. That reminds me, did you finish typing the proposal for G&G?"
"Oh my god, that thing took me forever! My weekend went by in a flash and all I did was sit in front of my computer and type. My fingers are so sore...And I'm still not done. I have to finish it at work. Onigumo's going to have a fit." Kagome said.
"No, not Onigumo, Kagura. She's not mean or anything, but she really cares for her work...and ours too."
"Yeah, I guess. She's really smart and all, but she needs to get out more! I think we should invite her to one of our many shopping sprees and get to know her a little better. I bet she can help us attract a lot of guys." Kagome gave Sango a sly glance.
"Oooh, naughty girl...but yes! She can be our guy magnet. Or maybe her boyfriend is really hot and we can just gawk at him."
"Does she even have a boyfriend? She's always staying overtime and doesn't seem like she has a sense of humor. You NEED a sense of humor to get a guy. Hmm, maybe she only dates nerds... " Kagome answered as she pulls into the parking lot of there company.
"Another day Sango, get ready to meet another one of Onigumo's girlfriends." Kagome got out of the car.
Sango, who was getting off at the same time said, "That guy is like, what, 30, 40? And he's STILL dating! Man, he never gives up." Sango takes her folder and closes the door.
"Hey Sango!" A male voice yelled from behind them. Sango litterally jumps and drops her folder in surprise.
"M-Miroku!" She kneels down to pick up her folder. "Hi!" She says with a smile on her face. Great way to let a guy see you first thing in the morning. She thought as Miroku walked over to her.
"Hey Miroku!" Kagome says. "Where's Inuyasha today? I thought you guys go to work together everyday." Kagome says as the three of them walk into the building.
At first glance, it was a very pretty place. The walls were mirrored and there was a shiny wooden desk in one corner. There were tall, leafy plants in big white vases all around the room.
The elevator that the trio was about to walk into was peach colored and had a marble texture. Inside the elevator, it was also mirrored.
"Inuyasha said he had to run a task before he can get to work and he might get here a little late today. What? You miss him, Kagome?" Miroku teased.
Kagome gives Miroku the evil eye and turns away. "As if. It's just that he borrowed a DVD from me and I want it back. That guy can really keep something for a long time without giving it back to you, don't you think?" Kagome said with a hint of nervousness.
Miroku gives her the "Yeah-right" look. The elevator gave a ding and the doors opened.
"Good morning Kirara" Miroku winks at her on his way pass the front desk. Kirara rolls her eyes and says, "Hi, Miroku." boredly. Above the desk was a white sign that said "KPF Inc."
They walk into a big office with glass walls which were showing off the view of Tokyo's skyscrapers in the morning. There were desks with computers on them. Each desk had its own personal touch, like a plant or a framed picture. There were three rooms, one for Onigumo, one for his Kikyo, and one for Kagura.
"Good morning everyone!" Miroku says, swinging his black breifcase and smiling.
"Good morning Miroku." A women with red hair answered. "Lovely day today ain't it?" She says as she walks pass him hurriedly with a piece of paper. She hands it over to a girl with long black hair.
"Here, Kikyo and make it quick. Remember, we need twelve copies. Go! Go! Go!" She says as she runs back to her table. Kikyo gets up with the paper and makes her way to the back of the office where the copy machines were located. Miroku, Sango, and Kagome walk over to their desks.
"Hey Ayame, what's the big hurry?" Miroku asks to the girl that handed Kikyo the piece of paper.
"You don't remember? You seriously don't remember? God Miroku where have you been? Hey, Koga! We need more computer paper." She yells at a guy with a long black ponytail who was busy typing away on his computer.
"Get it yourself!" He yells back. "Someone get Ayame more paper!" Koga continues to type.
A guy around his young twenties pops up from his cubical and hands Ayame a stack of brand new white paper.
"Here Ayame." He says, then ducks back behind the walls of his square and continues to do whatever he was doing.
"Thanks, Naraku!" Ayame zips past Miroku once again.
"Will someone PLEASE tell me what is going on!" Miroku yells.
"Pssst, Miroku!" Miroku follows the sound of that voice over the chaos of all the other sounds and finds out it came from Sango.
"What Sango?" Miroku whispers back to her.
"Today is the big day. The day that boss of G&G signs the twenty thousand dollar proposal. We can't fail 'cause even you know how much that is worth right!" Miroku's face changes from an expression of confusion to one of understanding.
"OH! I remember! Oh my god, I have so much to do! Naraku!" Miroku flies towards Naraku's cubicle.
"Yes Miroku?" A deep voice is heard from behind the walls.
"Did you have those dresses ordered yet?" Miroku asks with a tone of worry.
"Yes Miroku now stop bothering me.," Naraku's calm voice shot back. "Did you get those photos, Miroku?" Naraku asks.
"Oh hell what photos? Does anyone have the photos? The photos!"
"I have them." A hand shoots up in the air with a white photo album that said "Sunrise Photos" on it. Miroku breathes a sigh of relief. "Thanks Juromaru. Now who knows when G&G is coming?" No one answers him. "Hello!" Miroku yells again. "In half an hour so all of you better hurry." A stern female voice answers.
Miroku turns his head to a woman who just walked out of her office room. She was wearing loose black pants and a bright green tank top. Around her neck was a silky sequined pale green scarf. Her black hair was tied in a bun with one of those chinese chopsticks sticking out of the bun.
"H-Hey Kagura..." Miroku started nervously. "H-How ya doin' on a lovely day like today?"
"Fine, Miroku thank you. Okay, everyone get back to work." They watch as Kagura walks into Onigumo's office. Everyone gets back to what they were doing and the sound of typing fills the room once again.
Half an hour passes by in a flash with all the people in the KPF Inc. zipping from one wall to another, frantically trying to get everything in order.
With less than ten minutes left till G&G gets here, everyone is buzzing about trying to clean the mess they made. With a last sigh of relief because everything was ready and the office was clean, they sit in their chairs and wait for the big moment.
Onigumo greets Goshinki, the boss of G&G. Naraku, Kagura, Onigumo, his secretary Yura, Kikyo, and Goshinki walk into the conference room located in the back of the big office.
The rest of the KPF employees silently pray that this would work out, and then go back to their desks to work on their projects.
An hour or two later, the group walks out of the conference room laughing and talking about something. As the near the entrance, Onigumo shakes his hands and they say their farewells.
"So how was it?" Ayame asks eagerly. Everyone literally crowds around the five of them and asks with ecxitement.
"We did it!" Onigumo says with a big smile. The employees cheer and some of the boys whoop. "All thanks to you guys, we are twenty thousand dollars richer. My treat today!" Onigumo tells everyone. Everyone cheers once again.
At that moment, Inuyasha decides to walk in.
"Hey, what did I miss?" Inuyasha walks up to the group.
"Inuyasha!" Kagome skips/hops towards Inuyasha. "We did it! The G&G proposal! They signed it. Onigumo is treating us to lunch.
"Hey! That's great!"
"Inuyasha? Late again, I see." Yura walks up to Inuyasha and gives him a white envelope. "You get a morning letter...your third one this month. What kept you today?" Inuyasha takes the letter from Yura and chuckles nervously. "Parents wanted me to drive to them to the airport 'cause my...err...relative just got here from America. Sorry about the delay. Do I still get lunch?" He asks.
"Yeah! Sure! Why not? I mean you helped...with the proposal, too didn't you? Oh yeah, I forgot to thank you Kagome, for writing the proposal. It must've took you all weekend." Their boss said. Kagome blushed, knowing very well she finished it at the last minute.
"Get ready everyone, you too Inuyasha. Ten minutes to twelve. We have exactly one hour for lunch. Yura, you take the votes. You coming, Kagura?" Onigumo was back to his boss mode again.
"Um..yeah okay, I'll go."
Onigumo nods walks back to his office, probably to fix his hair and get his money. Yura was in charge now.
"Okay, where do you want to go? Quickly everyone! We need nominees." Once you put Yura in charge, you don't know what can happen. They decided on this restaurant that served barbecued food. It was only a couple of blocks away from KPF so it was fine. Plus, the boss was paying.
The rest of the day passed by in a blur since the morning exitement had died down. Everyone was quiet, doing their work. Tuesday was much the same. Inuyasha, once again, got another morning letter. If he kept this up, he would soon get fired. Wednesday, however, was a little bit more ecxiting...plus the fact that Naraku had come up with a new design.
It was Wednesday afternoon. Naraku was in Onigumo's room with Kagura, Kikyo, and Yura, which means no one would know what the rest of the crew was doing.
They were supposed to be doing their work, but they were actually hopping from one desk to another, chatting and sharing gossip.
The guys were eating cheese-cakes in which they stole from the girls and poking around Naraku's desk, hoping to find something to blackmail him with.
They looked just like a class who's teacher had to go out for a second, minus the fact that they were in an office with remnents of long forgotten paperwork littered here and there. Suddenly, like scared rats, everyone flew to their desks and pretended that they were doing their work all along once they hear the doorknob of Onigumo's office door opening. The aptmosphere of the office changed quickly from high school classroom to detention room.
Onigumo just looked at his workers weirdly and walked back to his office.
Kagura didn't give a care and walked into her room, giving everyone the cold stare as she passed by.
Kikyo smiled at everyone and sat at her desk.
Naraku was oblivious to what happened while he was gone, and walked over to his desk by a window. He eyed the guys suspiciously, noting his once neat desk littered with cake crumbs. He brushed it off calmly and sat down.
Yura was the only one who protested.
"Onigumo!" She called.
"Yes?" Onigumo's head popped out to the sound of his secretary's shrill voice.
"Your employees," she emphasized, "were playing when you weren't looking." The employees who were playing all turned there heads and looked at their boss innocently. The guys tried to hide their smirks and ended up with one of those phony smiles clowns have.
Naraku decided to speak up now and said, "Do we really care for people like them? Let them do whatever they want."
" For once, I agree with Naraku bec-OH MY GOD A SPIDER!" Inuyasha yelled, pointing to the floor where a tiny brown, furry thing was crawling all over the floor.
The whole female population, and their janitor (who just so happened to be walking by) jumped up onto the desks or lifted their legs off the ground. Inuyasha was chasing the spider all over the office.
Naraku started chasing after Inuyasha. "Inuyasha stop." He said. with the smallest hint of worry in his voice. Inuyasha turned around.
"Why...?" He said suspiciously. Naraku walked pass Inuyasha, not bothering to answer his question. He bent down and stuck his finger in front of the spider. Everyone stared in shock as he slowly got up, with the spider on his finger, and walked over to his desk. He opened a drawer and extracted a plastic container in which he put the spider in.
"Naraku?" Inuyasha said.
"Yes, Inuyasha?"
"What...did you just do? I was this close to killing it."
Naraku's eyes widened a bit when he heard Inuyasha say he was killing it. But he returned to his normal self and continued, "I have...let's just say...I collect them." Naraku explained in as little detail as possible. Eyes were on him, he could feel them going back and forth from him to Inuyasha. Then, they dropped and continued with their work. The world was spinning again. Everything was normal.
Yura gave a 'hmph' and walked back to her office, pulling one of Inuyasha's hair out on the way.
"OW!" Inuyasha cried as his hand flew up to his head. He started massaging his scalp.
"Whaddya do that for?" He yelled annoyingly. Yura gave another 'hmph' and walked into her room, a strand of silver hair curled around her finger.
"What a weird woman." Inuyasha said, returning back to his work.
Naraku
I remember the day a friend of mine gave me this tarantula. It was a brown furry creature the size of my palm. The thing I like most about it was that it had a red spot on its back shaped like a spider. The tarantula was one of the most beautiful things I've ever seen.
It was a year or two ago, but I still have the image of him giving it to me. That spider was what bought me to KPF Inc. But now that I'm here, I'm not very happy with my job. When I first got here, everyone was avoiding me like I could kill them. Technically, I can...but why put them out of their misery?
I also had no friends, unless you count Onigumo who's friends with everyone he sees.
Maybe it has to do with the fact that I'm weird and everyone tends to avoid me. Maybe I just have a thing for letting people suffer, and they tend to avoid me. I'll admit to a lot of things, like slamming the door on Miroku's hands. I was guilty for a second, but the pain on his face made me forget the guilt.
I won't, however, admit to breaking Inuyasha and Kikyo up. I helped them. It didn't look like their love was going to last anyways, so I...fast forwarded their relationship to the part where they dump each other. They can hate me now, but they'll regret that once they find out what I've done for them. So maybe I also kind of killed Koga's dog, but what's a guy to do when a dog comes running out of nowhere when your speeding down the street in you car?
So what if I also left Sango's brother out in the street alone when I was suppose to be babysitting him? She was lucky that she had someone to watch over her little brother. It wasn't my fault he wanted to play with his friends...outside...in the streets...alone...I didn't know he was lying. And I'm actually being honest here. I didn't know the boy had no friends. Atleast he didn't get kidnapped. I didn't know he just wanted to experience being outside by himself, and that it was his first time. So what if I'm a strange person? I like to call it...one of a kind.
Thursday, Sango and Kagome decided to put their plans to action. They were going to ask if Kagura wanted to go shopping with them on Saturday. To lighten Kagura's mood a little, they decided to see if she wanted to join the group for lunch. Now, the two of them were fighting over who should ask her...
"Come on, Sango, you go!" Kagome gave Sango a little nudge in the arm.
"That's okay, Kagome, I'll pass this time." She stepped back and pushed Kagome forward.
"But Sango! You're such a good friend can't you just go? It's not like she's gonna kill you." Kagome pushed her friend forward.
"Well if it's not that bad, why don't you go? You can be a good friend."
"Fine I'll go! I'm right after you Sango..." Kagome nudged Sango on.
Before they knew it, they were standing right in front of Kagura's door.
They looked at each other. Sango took a deep breath.
"If I die, remember me." She said to Kagome.
"Sure, why not just go." Kagome hurried Sango as Sango slowly brought her fist to the wooden door. She knocked three times. When she was going to knock the fourth time, a stern female voice was heard through the door, "Come in." It said.
Sango gave Kagome one last look before she opened the door slowly.
The room was brightly lit. There was a mahogony desk near the glass window. The blinds were pulled back to reveal bright morning sunlight and buildings. There was a tall palm tree like plant in one corner of the room and a mahogony bookshelf backed against another wall. An easel was propped on another corner with a blank piece of paper on it.
"Hi Kagura!" Kagome started cheerfully.
"Hi Kagome, Sango." She gave a nod of welcome. "Sit down." Kagura pointed to two black leather chairs in front of her desk.
The two frightened women sat down.
"Um...we just wanted to ask you...if you want to join us for lunch...you know, like a little get together with your co-workers." Sango asked, nervous at first but finishing with a friendly smile. "
Yeah we can go to that restaurant down the street and have Chinese or something." Kagome added, also in a smile.
"So, wanna?" She asks.
They stare at Kagura, waiting patiently for her response. And for the first time ever in Sango and Kagome's life, Kagura smiled.
A/N: I have officially made Naraku a freak in his little thought paragraph. Especially the last line. shiver I had to change that paragraph, like, 5 times. The first time it was too childish, the second it didn't fit with the story board, and the other times it just didnt' flow or match his persona. So yeah, I admit he's a freak...I mean who else streaks in front of his enemies? Man that dude scares me. I wanna meet him:)