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I'm very sorry for not having written very much within the last week or so. I... really have no excuse except that I was huffing over the no CYOA fics rule and... I actually have a question. Does anyone know if song-fics are allowed anymore? I heard somewhere that they weren't. I'd been writing one before I heard that and was almost finished when I heard about it. I was very upset and sort of went on a silence strike. I'm sorry my faithful viewers! Forgive me.

Kagome looked up, startled by the new voice that seemed to come out of nowhere. What came to her eyes was probably one of the most attractive men that she'd ever encountered. He had long black hair that looked smooth and sleek as silk. His eyes were the picture of hot chocolate. He wore a wrinkled black t-shirt and khaki pants. A stack of thrown together papers rested in has hands. 'A bit untidy but gorgeous nonetheless.'

Kagome's cheeks blossomed into a rosy red. 'He's your boss, you moron!' her head screeched. She quickly walked over to him and extended her hand. "I'm Kagome Higurashi. You are Detective Jidai I presume?" she asked.

Inuyasha looked at the girl's hand for a moment and then back up at her. Was this girl crazy? He couldn't shake her hand if he wanted to with all these papers.

"Yeah. So?" He looked back down at her hand.

Kagome followed his gaze down to her hand and quickly pulled it away. "Sorry about that." She gave him her best smile. "I'm the new intern."

"Yeah, I pretty much figured that out already," Inuyasha said as he looked at her face. How fake could a smile get? Really fake apparently… Was she blushing? 'Like a cherry.' This was going to be a long year.

'Well, someone woke up on the wrong side of the bed this morning.' Kagome forced herself to keep up her smile. 'Must keep up the good impression.' "It's nice to meet you, Detective Jidai."

"Wish I could say the same," Inuyasha mumbled as he shifted the papers' weight from one arm to the other.

Kagome's eye twitched slightly. This guy was definitely getting on her nerves. She'd even put on her best smile for him and he'd just blown it off as nothing. 'Jerk.'

Kaede looked from the man to the woman and then back again. "Oh, my," she said to herself. "They certainly seem hell-bent on disliking one another… They've only just met." Sammy laughed quietly behind her. Kaede turned to him and smiled before returning her attention to the detective and his intern.

"Well, let's go to my office. No sense in having a lover's spat in the middle of my station," she said as she shooed the two down the hallway to her office.

"Lover's spat? What the hell is that supposed to mean?" Inuyasha snapped as he was pushed down the hall by the elderly chief of police, trying to keep the pile of papers in his hands from scattering all over the place.

Kagome blushed more deeply as she was urged more gently into the medium sized office. "L-Lover's spat?"

Sammy freed his laugh from behind his hand as the three disappeared from his sight.

Kaede moved to her desk and sat down in the brown leather cushion of the chair behind it. "Now," she said as she pulled herself closer to the oak desk, "I believe you have some paperwork for me, Inuyasha?"

"Yeah, but I should just burn it and make you do it all," Inuyasha grouched as he placed the papers on her desk, freeing his numbed arms from their workload.

"You do that and I'll make you write every single word that was so much as scorched," Kaede said as she picked up a paper and scanned over it to check that he'd filled it out properly.

Inuyasha grumbled incoherently.

"Care to say something, Detective Jidai?" Kaede asked as she looked up at him over the paper.

"No, Chief," he said as he shoved his hands deeply into the pockets of his pants. There was something about that woman that really made Inuyasha not want to test her half as much as he would anyone else.

Kaede replaced the paper back on its respective pile. "Very good. Miss Higurashi, it pleases me to welcome you to the force. You're a very smart girl and I'm sure we'll all benefit from your delightful presence. I would also like to welcome you to New York. I understand that you've just moved here andtrust that all has been well for you so far?"

"Of course. This is a beautiful place and very different from what I'm used to. I'm glad to be here," Kagome replied, the back of her mind returning to her earlier bout with Officer Collagen.

The other woman smiled at her. It was a relief that she hadn't yet been exposed to the darker side of a large city like New York. She would be neck deep in it soon enough.

"That's very good, Miss Higurashi. I hope you continue to feel that way. As you know you and Detective Jidai," Inuyasha, hearing his name, turned his attention back from the window behind the chief's desk and to her face, "will be working together. I hope that you get along."

She gave the man a sharp glance, one that warned him to stay on his best behavior.

"He is to treat you as a student as well as a partner. He will give me bi-weekly reports on what you have done, from helping with paperwork to getting clues on cases to catching the bad guys."

Inuyasha groaned inwardly. More paperwork… why did these people insist on killing him slowly? And when did he ask for a partner? What did it matter? He didn't ask for an intern either and look where he was now.

"… sure you'll do well together. Dismissed."

Inuyasha gave a mock salute before turning to the door. Kagome, seeing the detective do this immediately imitated, sending Kaede from anger to a silent laughter that she could barely control.

"Those two are going to make quite a pair," she chortled as she picked up the papers and continued to scan for any errors.

R and R meh loves! More to come soon!