Disclaimer:
ME: "I do not ooooown Inuyasha…"
INUYASHA: SHUT UP!
ME: Make me!
INUYASHA: cracks knuckles
ME: eep!
Chapter 3: Vengeance shall be Mine
Kagome quickly made her way up to Inutaisho's office. She wondered why he had called her so urgently. Maybe he was sending her to Hong Kong to check up on the business that went on there. When she came into Inutaisho's office, she found the usualcheery chairman sitting at his desk for the first time ever, and Sesshoumaru was standing in front of him.
Upon seeing Kagome, Inutaisho stood up and spread his arms out. "Kagome! Please, please, take a seat! Sesshoumaru, how long are you going to stand like that? Take a seat!" Sesshoumaru had turned around to see Kagome rushing up to Inutaisho. Oh no… what if he's sending me on a business trip with Sesshoumaru? EEEP! No way! Kagome thought trying to push out all the horrifying thoughts of being stuck with a boring, expressionless vice-president. Forcing a bright smile, Kagome thanked Inutaisho before taking a seat; Sesshoumaru followed suit, only he didn't say anything.
"Now, the reason why I asked you two to see me was to," the sounds of strange clicking noises inside Inutaisho's mouth betrayed any idea that he wasn't eating any candy, "See me is because I want to put you two on a mission Seoul. We have a very important meeting with KTF on a small joint venture of MP3 playing cell phones…"
"WAIT!" Kagome shouted shooting up in her seat, "Why don't you send Inuyasha with Sesshoumaru over instead?" Sesshoumaru rolled his eyes at her comment.
"Kagome, you do understand how much the two of them would fight in the faces of the executive officers in KTF, do you not? There is nothing more humiliating than my own two sons bickering over nonsense things such as "halflings" or "halfwits" in public... and I assureyou it happens a lot.Anyway, when observing you, I found that you are just the right one to go with Sesshoumaru seeing that you are very, how should I put it, tolerant of my son's vanity." Sesshoumaru scoffed at his father. "Now, please take a seat. This is a very important task, so I should recommend you work together as a team to get this done. Your business trip is in approximately a month, so you have plenty of time to conduct any researches on this project. And I am taking both of you off all other projects that you have onyour handsin our company. That will be all. You are excused, Ms. Higurashi. Sesshoumaru, please stay a little longer."
Kagome stood up and bowed to Inutaisho before shakily leaving his office. Me? Working with Sesshoumaru? Sesshoumaru? Of all the people, WHY Sesshoumaru? A sudden knot tightened in her stomach when she remembered all the times she shoved Sesshoumaru out of the elevator when he had gotten into a huge dispute with Inuyasha in the elevator. Oh god, now she had to work with Sesshoumaru? Kagome was horrified.
"Sesshoumaru, don't you think Kagome would make the perfect date for Dan's birthday party?" Inutaisho asked calmly as he happily relished a huge slurp from Jamba Juice.
"Excuse me?"
"You heard me, son. Would you like me to repeat myself?"
"Father, I hardly find that Kagome woman attractive, much less her mouth," Sesshoumaru sneered, almost too much, "And may I also remind you that she has forced me out of the elevator more than onetoo many times."
"And you didn't murder her for it like you would have done if anyone below your status did that to you? Did you?"
"Of course I… I…" Sesshoumaru trailed off. Of all of the days, why was he suddenly stuttering? He had never stuttered before in his life, ever! "I…"
"And you couldn't possibly have fired her…" Inutaisho put on a false pensive look, "After all, it is I who does all the firing and hiring, but you COULD have complained to me, which is something you didn't do… not until now… well, I wouldn't really call that complaining, since you're only justifying why you find Kagome distasteful!"
"I simply forgot, father."
"Hah! You forget?" Inutaisho burst out laughing spilling some jelly from his donut on his tie. "Woops…" He proceeded to wipe the jelly off his tie but succeeded in getting it all over his fingers. The great chairman sighed at the sticky substances on his fingers before continuing:"Anyway, Sesshoumaru, you do not forget, you never forget. I am glad that neither of my sons forget anything! Are you sure you don't…" Inutaisho shook his finger as hard as he could to get the goop off his hands.
"That's enough father."
"Yes, but you sure you don't, you know, like her do you?" Inutaisho decided that the best way to get rid of the jelly on his fingers was to lick it off, which is exactly what he did. Sesshoumaru put on a disgusted look. "Well of course you do like her, otherwise I'm sure you would have done everything in your evil hands to get rid of poor Ms. Higurashi."
Sesshoumaru nearly laughed out loud. The very idea of him liking a mere human such as this Higurashi woman was laughable. But something at the back of his mind asked him: Why? Why didn't you take any measures to force this woman out of Suzuki Corporations when you had every opportunity to do so? Sesshoumaru couldn't believe it, did he really? A human? Preposterous! He, Sesshoumaru, never fell in love with even demonesses, so naturally, he never even looked in the direction of a mere human!
"Well, Sesshoumaru, since it is true that somehow deep down inside the icy depths of your heart, you have a small little corner reserved for Kagome, and I don't think I need to give you any advice as to what to do today." Inutaisho, in his excitement squeezed his donut slightly making the jelly spill all over his lap. "DARN!"
"Pardon? What are you talking about father?"
"Oh, please spare me of telling you the obvious. You know exactly what to do and I will not say anything else. Now please leave, I will be inspecting Miroku." With a wave of his hand, Inutaisho shooed Sesshoumaru away as he stuffed the donut into his mouth. He had managed totransfer the jelly from his lap to his fingers and was licking them off.Sesshoumaru bowed to his father before turning to leave. "Wait, but there is one thing I must tell you. When you ask Kagome 'the question' please try to refrain from sounding or acting condescending." Sesshoumaru paused in the position he was standing in.
"That will be all Sesshoumaru."
"Father..." Sesshoumaru said cringing at his father's jelly mess, "I suggest you use a napkin for that, it's disgusting!"
"Thank you for caring for me so much, son! Goodbye!" Inutaisho waved his son away once more.
Bowing one last time to his father, Sesshoumaru stepped out of Inutaisho's study just as Miroku stepped out of the elevator. As he stepped into the elevator, Sesshoumaru wondered what Inutaisho was talking about regarding "The Question". Shrugging it off his shoulders, Sesshoumaru stepped out of the elevator on his floor. But suddenly, he felt his feet magically shift direction making him turn around and glide smoothly back towards the elevator. Before he knew it, he had pressed the down button on the elevator and when he entered the elevator, he told the Elevator Operator in a flawless voice, "Floor 197 please…"
Inuyasha was sitting on the table of an unused conference room with his laptop sitting on his lap. Around him were stacks and stacks of papers and documents based on one of the biggest contracts that the Suzuki Corporation was ever involved in. The reason why Inuyasha was not in his office was because he was sick and tired of Kikyou breathing down the back of his neck. Kikyou may have been nice to everyone, but there were two thing about her that really ticked him off, well, three things really. First off, the annoying high-pitched voice of hers made his eyes water in pain. Kikyou's voice was worse than that of a banshee. In fact, Inuyasha was sure that if a banshee heard Kikyou's voice, her ears would go deaf as well. Secondly, Kikyou was one of the worst secretaries in the whole of the Suzuki Corporations office building, with an exception of Myiami,thus forcing him to do most of the work. And finally, the number one superfigeliously major reason why he disliked her was her almost insane possessiveness over him. In fact, Kikyou was so possessive over him that she was more than madly obsessed with him, which meant that she never let go of his arm once, AND glared at even the male office workers who approached him with loads of work.
Today, Inuyasha had somehow, miraculously torn his arm out of her grip and managed to tear into the elevator to take refuge in one of the conference rooms. Inuyasha stopping typing for a while and cracked his back and knuckles before jumping off the table and sitting on a chair like any other regular businessperson would. Inuyasha bit his lower lip thinking about what to write next. Much to his dismay, the ass-heating-toilet-seat man won the approval of Inutaisho. Inuyasha was upset, since it seemed as if Inutaisho wasn't paying attention to the fat-ass like everyone else. At any rate, Inutaisho had somehow managed to listen to Sean and play Connect Four at the same time, thus making him the ultimate master of multitasking. Inuyasha barred his teeth and growled at the helpless packet lying in front of him What was his father thinking?. It was just his luck to get this damn package. He had begged his father to take him off the toilet-case, but Inutaisho had stubbornly given Sesshoumaru the huge KTF program… with KAGOME! Of all the people, why did Inutaisho have to choose Kagome and Sesshoumaru? Inuyasha shook his head and went back to concentrating on his report.
Suddenly, the sound of the door opening jerked Inuyasha back into his surroundings. Someone was coming! Inuyasha hastily grabbed all his things and scooted under the table pulling the chair firmly into place before him. He lay flat on the floor and looked up to see who the intruder was… or rather, intruders.
His eyes widened in shock as he watched Sesshoumaru himself pull a surprised Kagome into the conference room. What on earth was Sesshoumaru doing in a conference room with Kagome… unless… unless… No, no, no! Clear your head! Inuyasha thought frantically to himself. Kagome and Sesshoumaru… haha! That was a good one. Kagome didn't even like Sesshoumaru and Sesshoumaru wouldn't be caught dead with a human girl friend. Perhaps they have come to discuss about the project they were working on together. Or maybe Kagome had pushed Sesshoumaru out of the elevator once more making him snap, so he dragged her here to scream at her and threaten her or whatever Sesshoumaru did that freaked out the co-workers when he dragged the "disobedient" ones into a spare room to have a little "chat."
"Higurashi, I have some things to discuss with you." Here it was. Inuyasha silently sucked in his breath and held it waiting for Sesshoumaru's quiet but scalding voice to begin the belting. "You shall be accompanying me to Dan Filander's birthday dinner party."
Inuyasha's jaw dropped to the floor. No way… Sesshoumaru didn't just ask Kagome to accompany him to… to… Dan Filander's birthday party, did he? Usually, Sesshoumaru always went stag, so what was up with him suddenly pulling Kagome into a vacant conference room to ask her to accompany him? What's more, Inuyasha was planning to ask Kagome to accompany him to the ball!
"Excuse me? Did I just hear you wrong…"
"No you did not. My words are simple and clear. You shall accompany me to Dan Filander's Birthday party."
"That's not my point, are you asking me to accompany you, or are you simply giving me a specific order?"
"You shall not disobey my command."
"WHAT! THAT'S RIDICULOUS!" Kagome suddenly screamed, making Inuyasha flinch andfeel proud for her at the same time. In fact, Kagome was one of the few women in the office (other than Sango and Kikyou) who didn't faint and die at his older brother's feet. "How can you FORCE me to follow you to the dinner party? What am I, some sort of slave?"
"Yes you are." Sesshomaru said blankly. Althought Sesshoumaru said that without any pitches, Inuyasha knew straight away that he was joking, which was shocking since Sesshoumaru rarely joked. He was really a very boring guy. But Kagome took him seriously and… slapped him across the face. Inuyasha's eyes widened at the same time Sesshoumaru's eyes opened wide in shock. The last time he had was when Inuyasha couldn't remember, since he either didn't remember orwasn't there (as in he wasn't born yet).
"How dare you, you… you… vain little… little… freak!" Kagome hissed, "I am NOT your slave! I am AN INDEPENDENT WOMAN WITH HER OWN LIFE, AND YOU WILL NOT DARE TREAT ME LIKE SOME SACK OF POTATOES! DO YOU UNDERSTAND ME?" Kagome was now screaming at Sesshoumaru. She had proceeded to grab ontothe collar of hisshirt and was shaking him back andforth."And the answer to your question regarding the whole accompanying thing is: NO! Because I am NOT going!" Breathing hard, she released him with one hard shove.
It was hard to believe that Sesshoumaru just stood there with one hand on the cheek that had been struck smartly by none other than Kagome Higurashi. Wow! If someone like Myiami had done that to him, he would have punished her mercilessly, or even worse, gotten her fired. Slowly, he lowered his hand while Kagome turned on her heels to stalk out on him. But he, the oh-so-great and almighty Sesshoumaru who never grabbed onto anyone else, except forInuyasha and Inutaisho,had suddenly reached out to turn her around. "You will accompany me to the dinner party, and that is a direct order." With that, he roughly released her hand and glided past her.
God, he's creepy! Always gliding around like that like a ghost. Inuyasha thought to himself. He watched Kagome muttering a string of curses before stomping out of the conference room. Satisfied that nobody would come back, Inuyasha slowly pulled himself out from under the table and sat warily on the chair to think. But he didn't think for long, he had work to do. So, reluctantly dropping the subject, Inuyasha bent down to retrieve his laptop and his paperwork from under the table. Resting one hand to his forehead, Inuyasha began shifting through the papers to concentrate on working. The CEO worked throughout the day forgetting lunch and eventually fell asleep promptly in the conference room. He did not notice that Kagome had dropped her USB stick.
It was 22:00 when Kagome furiously flew through the halls of the Suzuki Corporation building towards the elevator. By this time, all the office people had left, leaving her the only one in the building. She couldn't believe how much of a jerk Sesshoumaru was! How dare he force, no, command her to accompany him to the dinner party. Instead of going down to the lobby, Kagome got off at the 101st floor to the conference rooms. She realized that she had dropped her USB there and needed it to continue work at home.
She walked briskly towards the conference room at the other end of the hall. The conference room door was opened ajar, and there was blue light streaming through it, indicating that it was occupied. Obviously someone was in there, but who? Kagome cautiously pushed the door open and nearly stumbled backwards in surprise. Inuyasha was sitting in one of the chairs with his back to her. He was sleeping in front of his laptop. Kagome took a step towards him and kicked her USB stick under the table. Cursing silently to herself, Kagome reached down and crawled under the table to retrieve it.
When she finally managed to reach it, she reared out from the table and leaned over to get a look at Inuyasha. It had just occurred to her that she had never seen him sleep before. And so, out of curiosity, Kagome leaned over the sleeping Inuyasha. What she saw surprised her. The face that was usually contorted in fury or depicted a scowl was smooth and serene. Silvery-white hair spilled down his back, some coming down on the table and partially covering his face. The dog-ears on his head were motionless. In fact, Inuyasha actually looked so cute and innocent when he was sleeping. It was a pity he covered it up with a scowl when he was awake. Kagome pulled up a chair and sat in it watching Inuyasha for a while.
She didn't have to wait too long for him to wake up, because his ears twitched slightly making it hard to resist rubbing them. Slowly, Inuyasha's eyes opened up to golden orbs, looking blearily unfocused. At first he didn't notice her, but soon he jumped out of his seat screaming his head off. Kagome fell off her chair and started to scream herself. They spend a good measure of time screaming until Inuyasha abruptly stopped, while Kagome continued to scream a little longer. Nonetheless, she too stopped screaming. For a while, the two of them stared at each other for a long time panting and gasping, Inuyashaclutching his chest to calm himself. Then they simultaneously tried to say something.
"When—"
"How—"
"You go first, Kagome."
"Um… How long were you in this room?"
"Oh uh… I was here since this afternoon."
"Oh."
"Yeah."
"So uh… you were saying…"
"When did you get here?"
"Ummm... not too long ago," Kagome admitted, "I left my USB stick here and came to get it when I found you here with your laptop and a whole stack of papers surrounding you. DO you have any idea what the time is right now?"
"No."
"It's 22:07 now, you've been sleeping for a long time now."
"22:07? SHIT!" With that, Inuyasha flew out of his seat and began hastily throwing his things into his brief case.
"Inuyasha?"
"NOT NOW!"
"Inuyasha?"
"WHAT… WRETCH?"
"Whoa! Just take a chill pill Mr. Irate-dog-boy! Why are you in the conference room, and not your office?"
"Because of Kikyou."
"Oh."
After that, the awkward conversation wounded down into a heavy, uncomfortable silence. Kagome fiddled with her scarf while Inuyasha, who still had his hand on his brief case shifted from foot to foot. "Umm… you know this morning, you said you didn't have a car…" Inuyasha started. He paused for a while and looked out the window. Steady streams of water ran down the glass to indicate that it had started to rain like mad. "Since it's sort of… uh… wet outside and uh… cold too… umm… I'll drop you… uh… off." Kagome smiled at the now blushing CEO.
"Thank you Inuyasha, that's very kind of you."
"You mean you don't mind riding in my car with me?"
"Inuyasha, I do not believe in the cooties you know!" Kagome said laughing.
"Feh!"
Inuyasha gathered his stuff and together, the two of them left the office. Inuyasha wasted no time clicking his seatbelt. Kagome followed suit as Inuyasha started the engine and pulled out of the parking lot. No sooner had they left the parking lot, rain splashed all over the windshield making it nearly impossible to see. Inuyasha scowled, muttering something that soundedinaudibly that sounded oddly like:"crappy" weather as he sped up the speed of the windshield wipers. Kagome sat next to him with laptop bag and her tiny white handbag on her lap. She was too busy fiddling with her palm pilot to notice the impact of the rain.
Inuyasha's car slid through the steady rhythmic drift of the traffic wandering aimlessly when it suddenly occurred to him that he didn't even know where Kagome lived. Because of that, he slammed his foot down on the brakes and the car skidded to an abrupt stop. Kagome screamed in horror thinking that they were going to hit another car or an innocent person. Their heads jolted forward, but the seatbelts prevented them from slamming headfirst into the windshield. Kagome straightened herself now glaring at Inuyasha who still hadn't moved from his earlier position. "INUYASHA! WHAT WERE YOU THINKING? ARE YOU TRYING TO GET US KILLED OR SOMETHING?" She screamed angrily as she grabbed Inuyasha and started shaking him like crazy. By the time she finished with him, Inuyasha looked dizzy and cross-eyed making her feel a bit bad. "Well, what was your problem?" Suddenly Inuyasha snapped out of his dizzy and dazed state and glared at Kagome.
"WHADDYA MEAN? HOW CAN YOU NOT SAY ANYTHING ABOUT DIRECTIONS? HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO KNOW WHERE YOU LIVE?" He yelled back. Kagome recoiled in surprise. So that was the reason why he suddenly slammed his foot down on the brakes.
"Sorry, but… you didn't have to press down on the brakes like that… it could have killed us!"
"So?"
"SO? You mean you don't even care about the other person's life? What would mom say when she found out that I was sent to the hospital thanks to you?"
"You're wearing your seatbelt for crying out loud! Why do you make a big fuss about it anyway?"
"OF COURSE I'D MAKE A FUSS ABOUT IT, YOU CRAZY NITWIT! I HAVE A LIFE, AND THAT'S A LIFE THATINEED TO KEEPTO SAFE YOU KNOW!"
Inuyasha cringed under Kagome's sudden explosion, and chose to close his mouth. Instead he asked her gruffly without shouting, "Well, aren't you going to give me the directions instead of sitting there yelling at me?" Kagome took a deep breath. Inuyasha definitely wasn't very mature. She sighed. She should have been grateful that Inuyasha was wasting his sleeping time or whatever time he had out of the office. Nonetheless, she simply could not letInuyasha's attitude go ignored.
"Inuyasha…" She growled, "How can you be so dense? The least you could do is apologize!"
"Apologize? FEH! Why should I apologize to you? You're the one that's being ingrateful to me!" Inuyasha angrily closed his eyes and quickly turned his head away in a haughty manner.
"GOD! IS IT SO HARD TO SAY TWO WORDS? GEEZ! WHAT IS IT WITH PEOPLE LIKE YOU? YOU KNOW, YOU'RE NO DIFFERENT FROM SESSHOUMARU! YOU, YOU…" Kagome never finished her sentence because she began to hyperventilate. Kagome had a habit of hyperventilating when she got too angry. And a night like this took her over the edge. She suddenly began taking deep shallow breaths, wheezing at the same time. Inuyasha's eyes flew open as he turned back to Kagome who was trying to get her breath back, but wasn't succeeding. "Bag… I need a paper bag…" She managed to wheeze.
Inuyasha frantically searched around the car for a paper bag, but found none. Heset the carto park and leaned over to check his glove compartment and every other nook and canny, but came up empty-handed. "Um… look, try holding your breath for ten seconds, I'll be right back!" With that, the panicking half-demon threw open his car door and ran out into the pouring rain to get a bag leaving the car door open. The streets were not empty, but was filled with so many people walking around and laughing under their umbrellas, which was surprising considering the weather conditions.
Okay, Inuyasha, think! Where can you get small paper bags? The liquor store! Without hesitation, Inuyasha ran a whole block as fast as he could. Using his demonic speed, Inuyasha arrived in front of the liquor store kicking the door open with his foot. "I need a paper bag!" The liquor store was owned by a chubby man with snowy white hair, and a huge tangle of gray beard, he could have passed as a Santa Claus. The old man greeted him cheerily, but Inuyasha, who was in panic, shouted, "Hand me all your paper bags!" The old man raised a bushy eyebrow at him, but nonetheless produced many paper bags. Inuyasha withdrew his checkbook from his suit and took his pen out. "Name!" He barked. The man backed away and didn't answer, but he didn't need to because he had his name tag pinned on his left breast. Inuyasha scribbled the man's name on the check and hastily signed his name before ripping it out and throwing it at the old man.
Without wasting any more time, Inuyasha grabbed the paper bags and ran out of the liquor store and back to Kagome. The old man gingerly picked up the check Inuyasha had dropped and dropped it again when he saw that it was a 200,000-dollar note.
"KAGOME!" Inuyasha shouted rushing back into the car. By the time he returned Kagome had calmed down. "Here, your paper bag… uh… bags…" Inuyasha muttered holding out a stack of half-wet paper bags.
"Aww… Inuyasha, did you get those just for me? I won't be needing them now, I guess your "holding-my-breath-and-counting-to-ten" method worked. But since you went through all the trouble in getting them, I'll take them. Besides, you never know when I'll need them."
"It just stopped?" Inuyasha asked feeling stupid. The rain was still pouring over him outside.
"For crying out loud, get inside the car, you'll catch a cold." Kagome said. Suddenly, he felt someone pull him into the car. "Shut the door." Inuyasha absentmindedly obeyed. "And thank you for buying me these." Kagome said holding up the now soggypaper bags in front of her.
"You sure you're fine? You look a little flushed." Inuyasha said inspecting her face. Kagome laughed and told him it was no problem and told him to hurry and get her home so he wouldn't have to stay wet any longer. Nodding in agreement, Inuyasha put the car to drive and sped off to the directions Kagome gave him. They crissed and crossed and turned corners until a huge skyscraper apartment complex loomed into view. Kagome had him stop the car in front of the taller one near the entrance. She adjusted her bags before thanking him one last time.
Inuyasha didn't move for a long time. He sat there still staring at the entrance of her apartment from his position in the car. Kagome's scent lingered in the passenger seat where she once sat. A small tremor in his body brought Inuyasha back into reality. Hastily, he drove off back to his apartment to have a hot shower and nice warm clothes.
The world was always a bright place for Inutaisho. It seemed as if nothing would be able to clash with his mood, even a failed contract thanks to the stupidity and the incompetence of the business partner. Inutaisho hummed another tune to himself as he weaved through the rows and rows of desks of his employees on his razor scooter. Things seemed to be going perfectly; somehow, Sesshoumaru had gotten Kagome to accompany him. Now the only person he had to "fix up" was Inuyasha. Inutaisho sighed. He wondered why Izayoi wanted Inuyasha to be with Kikyou. Kikyou wasn't too bad in personality, but her screechy voice and clumsiness seemed to make up for her good points. Perhaps the only reason Kikyou was still a secretary was because she was the only one who could fully stand Inuyasha without blowing up on him.
Suddenly, the elevator doors slid open and an irritated Inuyasha came stalking out of the elevator with Kikyou trailing after him. She seemed to be begging him about something. So it looks like I don't need to do any fixing after all! "Egg-cellent!" Inutaisho chuckled out loud to himself rubbing his hands together. This attracted some curious gazes, but most of the concentration was on the odd couple. "I said NO!" Inuyasha yelled trying desperately to yank his arm out of Kikyou's surprisingly strong grasp. "GET. OFF! YOU'RE RUINING MY SUIT!"
"Inuyasha… please? I've never been to those types of parties!"
"FEH! That's your problem, learn to stay in your place, wretch!" With one final yank,Inuyasha freed himself from Kikyou's grasp.Inutaisho watched, highly amused ashis son stormed awayleaving a half-sobbing Kikyou behind him. Now was the time for him to interfere. Scooting cheerily towards his son, Inutaisho hummed ahappy song before hecalled out to his son.
"YOO HOOOO! Inuyasha!" Inuyasha froze dead in his tracks. "I see that Kikyou is having a hard time to get you to take her out to Dan's dinner party." Inuyasha now stiffened. "Kikyou, I grant you the permission to accompany my son to Dan's birthday." Inuyasha seemed at a loss of words. He gawked at the great Chairman standing there in all splendor and glory. Kikyou's screech of excitement made them flinch.
"Oh thank you Mr. Suzuki!" She screeched. Then she grabbed Inuyasha's arm and dragged him away. This time, Inuyasha didn't struggle against her vise-like grasp. He had a look of disgust mingled with disbelief plastered on his face.
Right before the two of them disappeared into the elevator, Inuyasha finally found his voice and shouted, "DAAAAAAAAAD! I'LL GET YOU FOR THIS! DID YOU HEAR ME?" Inuyasha stuck his head out through the elevator door screaming:"YOU WIIIIIIIIIILL REGRET IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIT!" before Kikyou's arm poppedseemingly out of nowhere. Inuyasha struggled against herand stuck his head out again, "WE'LL SEE!"before Kikyouyanked him out of sight. He continued to scream and soonInuyasha's tirade was cut off when the elevator doors closed, but Inutaisho could still hear him screaming. Sometimes he found his son amusing, Inuyasha was definitely more fun than Sesshoumaru. Chuckling to himself, Inutaisho whipped out his cell phone to call Izayoi.
He whizzed towards the elevators. One of them had opened up and Miroku and Sango stepped out from it. Miroku had a red hand mark on his face and was rubbing it sheepishly as Sango began talking about some business at the hand. "Hello my Popsicles, how are we doing today? Ah… I see that you have been slapped by Sango once more! You should quit that habit of yours Miroku, before she slaps a hunk of skin off your face!" With one last hearty laugh, Inutaisho wheeled into the elevator that was descending. "Lobby." Inutaisho sang to the now confused Elevator Boy. "Hello? Izayoi! Yes it's me, everything is going according to plan!" Inutaisho laughedevilly making the Elevator Boy cower in terror.
Office time was over since Kagome didn't have any other things to do, thanks to being taken off her other projects by Inutaisho.Kagome sighed, sometimes she wasn't sure if Inutaisho were sane or not."Kagome!" Kagome was in the bathroom washing her hands when Sango appeared beside her. "You've been invited to Mr. Filander's birthday party, haven't you?"
"Uh… yeah." Kagome muttered absentmindedly asSango reached over and turned the faucet on to wash her hands. Kagome cleared her throat before asking: "You've been invited too?"
"Of course! In fact, Mr. Filander invited all of Inutaisho's executive officers! Did you know that Sesshoumaru and Inuyasha are going? Of course they are! They're Inutaisho's sons!Anyway, Miroku asked me in the elevator if he could accompany me to the party!" Sango bubbled without noticing Kagome stiffen upon hearing Sesshoumaru's name.
"Hopefully he asked you that without rubbing your hindquarters… or did Miroku strike again."
"Actually he asked me without the rubbing, but when I agreed, his hand touched it again." Kagome burst out laughing until she nearly fell off her feet. "Oh and did you know that Inuyasha was forced by Inutaisho to take Kikyou out to the dinner party?"
"Really? Poor guy, he's going to suffer!" Kagome smirked. She pictured Inuyasha with Kikyou dragging him across the floor. The last time, they had all gone out to celebrate their employment at the Suzuki Corporation, and Kikyou literally dragged poor Inuyasha across the floor just to dance with him. What Kagome found the most amusing was when Kikyou was leading him across the dance floor. Inuyasha wore a look of pure boredom as he let the excited secretary yank him across the dance floor. Shaking her head slightly, Kagome decided to concentrate on the matter atpresent. "Hey, if you've got a partner, why don't we go get you a dress tonight?"
Sango's eyes lit up upon hearing Kagome's suggestion. "Good idea! It's go! Say… don't you have a partner to the dance?" Kagome narrowed her eyes at her friend making her jump back in surprise. "Geez, you look like you're going to bite my head off, What's wrong?"
"Sesshoumaru, that's what's wrong!"
"WHAT? You asked Sesshoumaru to Dan's dinner party?" Kagome opened to her mouth to explain the situation further, but Sango was caught on a roll. "What were you thinking? You know that Sesshoumaru always goes stag! So… did he reject you? I'll bet that cocky bastard did, he thinks he's too good for everyone. Don't worry Kagome, one of these days, Sesshoumaru is going to regret it big time!"
"Sango…?"
"Come one, Kagome, let's go get that egotistic bastard…"
"Sango!"
"Huh?"
Kagome took a big breath to calm herself. "Sango," she repeated, "You've got the wrong end of the stick. Sesshoumaru asked me to the party, no, he COMMANDED me as if it were some sort of business I had to do." Sango's eyes widened in shock. She stood there facing her friend gawping at her. Kagome sighed, "I told him I wasn't interested, and he told me to obey his 'orders', so I guess I'll be going to with him."
"NO! No way!How will you be able to stand him? Do you have any idea how cocky he is? That's why he always went stag for the last three years! I heard that his last girlfriend had enough of him and dumped him on his ass!"
"Oh well, I guess I'll be going with Sesshoumaru… I was hoping to go with Inuyasha, but Kikyou got to him first."
"Kagome…"
"Well!" Kagome cut in cheerily,"Let's go find ourselves a new dress! I just realized that for something like this, we need something a bit classy."
"Kagome are you sure you're okay?"
"Yes, yes! I want to see which types of party-dresses they have now!" Kagome chipped dancing around the bathroom. Several other women had come out of the stalls to wash their hands were staring at her as if she were crazy. "Come on! Let's go!"
"Okay! Let's go!" Sango cried out.
The two women cheered, pumping their fists in the air as they exited the bathroom. "Out of the way!" Kagome said as she roughly pushed someone out of her way.
Sesshoumaru glared after the two girls who had rushed away from him. Leave it to that vile Kagome woman, she's the only one brave enough to shove me out of her way! I'll fix her later. Sesshoumaru thought to himself before calmly sashaying into the bathroom. No body pushes this Sesshoumaru around!
Kagome and Sango had decided to go to SAKS where they could move around in warmth. Sango had been hovering around a set of pricey dresses. Kagome had helped by pulling some of the dresses off the rack, yet Sango still hadn't decided what to buy. "You sure you don't want this snaky red halter dress? It looks pretty sexy to me." Kagome held up a red dress and frowned slightly as she concentrated on it trying to imagine Sango in it. The poor sales lady came up behind her holding a bunch of "possibilities" in her arms. In fact, there were so many dresses in her arms, she was having trouble standing properly.
Sango plucked out a vomit green dress and frowned. Kagome looked as if she was going to vomit herself. "Sango, but that dress away! It's the color of vomit!" Kagome sighed when Sango ignored her turning the dress over to examine the design on it before pushing it back into it's rack. She finally stood back and said, "Okay, finished reaping through the whole inventory. Now it's time to choose the dress!"
"Okay, good. Let's get down to business. So… lot one, we've got the red halter dress, why don't you try it on?" Kagome handed Sango the red snaky halter dress. God… we really should have brought Miroku along, he's one of the three ladies man! Kagome sighed again as she held up a black glitzy Gucci dress with a plunging neckline. Hmm… maybe Sango should wear this one. "Sango?" Kagome knocked on the dressing door, "Are you finished yet? I was thinking about this glitzy black dress with a plunging neck line, I think it might really flatter your figure."
"Um… almost… there… yeah?" The door opened hitting Kagome on the forehead. "Oh! Sorry, I didn't know you were there!"
"It's okay. Turn around lets see you." Sango turned around once. The dress looked truly glamorous. Sango might be the star of the whole ballroom! "WOW! This dress does suit you! Here, try on this one." Kagome hastily shoved the black dress into Sango's hands. Sango took the dressfrom Kagome and went back into the dressing room. But the door popped open and she stuck her head out again.
"Umm... Kagome, why don't you choose a dress too?"
"You don't worry about me, you have someone to impress while I do not! Besides, why would I want to impress," Kagome wrinkled her nose in disgust, "Sesshoumaru? He's never satisfied with anything! God, he's even worse than Inuyasha!"
"Well, try some dresses on too, okay? Just because you're going with haughty, vain, I-think-I-rule-the-world Sesshoumaru doesn't mean that you have to end up looking like a rag doll!" Kagome hastily nodded and shoved a surprised Sango back into the dressing room.
"I'll be fine. Oh, and after you're done, try on this beautiful inky purple vera wang cocktail dress! It looks stunning!"
Moments later...
And so the pattern repeated until they came upon a nasty brilliant yellow-colored dress with hot pink and electric green trimmings. Sango was about to reach for it, when Kagome quickly knocked her hand out of the way. "There's no way you're going to wear that! Look at it! It looks like a child's birthday cake mixed with a huge, formless saussage roll!"
"Kagome's right. In fact, I don't think I'd want to grope you if you were in it."
The two girls whirled around to find Miroku standing there with Inuyasha and Sesshoumaru. Inuyasha was yawning with Sesshoumaru grabbing onto his elbow so he didn't disappear. While Sesshoumaru grabbed onto Inuyasha's elbow with one hand hewas examiningthe claws on his other hands, looking very disinterested.Leave it up to Sesshoumaru, everything seems tobore that brat out of his mind! Kagome scowled to herself.Kikyou had come with them as well, but shewasn't standing next to them, but was bouncing around in the store at the dresses. "Miroku? What are you doing here?"
"I've come to help my dear Sango choose a dress." Sango and Kagome rolled their eyes. Sango was in a beige and white dress from Emanuel Ungaro. "Ah… that dress looks perfect on you!"
"Actually, Miroku, we've stumbled across several dresses that makes Sango look stunning. So far we narrowed it down to That snaky red dress, the glitzy Gucci dress, the white dress with the 3D butterflies, and this one." As Kagome verbally listed the inventory off, she held up each of the dresses to show her choices.
"Hmmm… lets get down to business shall we Sango?" Miroku snaked his way towards Sango, who immediately snaked away from him, glaring at him mockingly.
"Don't even think about it pervert." Kagome stood there at the bickering but happy couple holding the yellow dress limplyin one hand. She looked like she was in a mess. Her silk black blouse was wrinkled, her face slightly flushed from going through all those dresses. They truly look happy… she thought glumly to herself as Sango slapped Miroku across the face when his hand came in contact with her rear end. Inuyasha stood there looking harassed by an excited Kikyou, who was holding the whole inventory in her arms.
"Get away from me, Kikyou! No! ARRRGH!" Inuyasha screamed as Kikyou happily dumped a huge pile of dresses on his back. Inuyasha fell prostrate on the floor scowling as Kikyou danced around him plucking a dress of his back to whirl around in circles before a mirror. In fact, even Inuyasha and Kikyou looked happy.
"Hello Kagome! Why don't we choose a dress together?" Kikyou asked, oblivious to the empty feeling that Kagome started to feel at the pit of her stomach.
"Woman, are you going to wear that ridiculously ugly dress?" Kagome turned around to face Sesshoumaru who had released his brother when Kikyou dropped her pile of dresses on his back. Seeing that Kagome was not, he stepped forward, "Come, woman." Kagome made a desperate attempt to rush away as fast as she could so she didn't fall as a victim under Sesshoumaru. The only person who called her woman or girl was Sesshoumaru. Inuyasha called her wretch (and on rare occassions, by her name). Kagome wondered if Inuyasha had forced his brother to be nice to her, but Inuyasha was laying flat on his stomach cursing angrily. Kagome stumbled over her heels dropping the yellow sausage-roll-slash-child's birthdaycakedress as Sesshoumaru coolly walked away from the bickering couple.
"Where are we going?" Kagome asked as she managed to stumble along clumsily in her four-inch high heels. "To a boutique." Was Sesshoumaru's cold reply. Kagome tried her best to yank her hand out of his grasp, but he only tightened his hold on her arm, dragging her out of SAKS. Sesshoumaru quickened his pace along Fifth Avenue still holding onto Kagome's arm. He dragged her into a Chanel store, pushing the door open. The sales ladies were sitting around doing absolutely nothing. At first they gave Kagome a bored look without seeing Sesshoumaru next to her, then they started to argue over whose shift was next.
"Women, we are on a very tight schedule here, now move it, before I get each and every one of you fired." Sesshoumaru hissed icily. Upon seeing Sesshoumaru, much to Kagome's amusement, the women stopped bickering and gushed around Kagome who was overwhelmed by the masses of arms and heads around her. "She shall be accompanying me to Dan Filander's dinner party, so I hope you choose her the appropriate dress." The sales ladies that had gathered around Kagome nodded quickly and began throwing the finest dresses at her. The first one was a velvet mono-strap dress with slits up the sides. Kagome felt herself being pushed into the dressing room while Sesshoumaru made himself at home on the largest, widest couch he could find.
One of the sales lady entered the dressing room, scaring her. "What are you doing here?" She hissed, but the Sales lady promptly turned her around to inspect the dress, but found it unsatisfactory. She left the dressing room as Kagome stepped out of the dressing room. Sesshoumaru, who was holding a cup of coffee or something looked up. He frowned inspecting her and nodded. But that didn't mean that he didn'tpoint out the dress made her look fat. Kagome huffed and stomped away from Sesshoumaru. Sesshoumaru hid a smile behind his cup. He liked making her angry. Kagome had stomped back into the dressing room holding a white dress with a plunging neckline and slits up the sides.
After series of dissatisfaction, frowns, and the shaking of his head, Sesshoumaru was ready to fall asleep. The sound of the dressing door opened and out stepped Kagome. Sesshoumaru gawped up at her, the dress she had was perfect. "Well, girl? What do you think?"
"I'm tired of trying on dresses, I guess I'll go with this one."
"Good. That's done then."
Kagome nodded and went back into the dressing room relieved. Sesshoumaru nodded at the sales ladies indicating that they were going to take the dress Kagome was wearing. By the time Kagome came out, Sesshoumaru was holding out his credit card for the pay. "WAIT!" Came her voice, Sesshoumaru turned around still not withdrawing his credit card.
"Yes?"
"Please, I can pay for it."
"There is no need for payment from you, Higurashi, consider this a gift." With that, ignoring Kagome's protest, Sesshoumaru handed his credit card to the almost eager sales lady. The ladyexpertly toreoutthe receiptfor the credit card asking him to sign it. Sesshoumaru calmly signedit without looking at the price. One ofthe othersales lady was folding the dress neatly in a trademark Chanel box and handed it to Kagome in a crisp new Chanel bag. "I trust you have something suitable to wear with that." Sesshoumaru said without stopping or looking back at her.
"Of course I do. I've got plenty ofthings at home."
"Good."
That was the end of the conversation. Sesshoumaru got into his car and drove off without bidding Kagome goodbye.
Inuyasha walked briskly down the halls, his leather shoes making no noise on the carpeted floor. He had things to do and things to discuss. So far, the toilet seat project was coming along okay, but not as stellar as he would have liked. Besides, who cares about heated toilet seats anyway?Whaton earth had gotten intoInutaisho anyway?Growling to himself about Kikyou's stupidity, Inuyasha kicked about wondering why his life was always so messed up. He kicked open the door to his office (literally) with his foot scowling obscenities. He walked around and much to his horror, he found his suave and cool looking office in a wreak! A wreak of dolls, streamers, Whinne the Pooh crap, and lots of smiley faces surrounding him. His screen saver had been changed from his matrix-style cuss words to a boring white background that continued to flash a red colored angry face that was shattered to become a big, fat, yellow smiley face. "What the hell?" Inuyasha muttered shocked beyond his own words. He noticed a bunch of stings hanging over him all around him. His shock gradually transformed to that of anger. He glared around the room as he roughly yanked one of the many colorful ribbons hanging around him. It was a balloon with his face on it. It had the most hilarious face on it, but it was angry.
How dare this person mock him! He quickly released the balloon letting it float back up and grabbed another ribbon, then another and another. All of them had his face on it with different facial expression on them. "Grrrr…. WHOEVER DID THIS, HOW DARE YOU MESS WITH MY TEMPER!" Inuyasha screamed clawing the air with all his strength. He clawed up all the balloons. They all popped around him and just as he did that, Kagome came waltzing out of his private bathroom. "Wretch… it was you…" He growled advancing menacingly towards Kagome who had now become nervous. "What… did… you… do… to… to… MY FUCKING OFFICE! I'LL KILL YOU!" He screeched lashing out at Kagome who had dropped a stuffed doll of a dog she hadn't put up yet. Kagome then turned and ran out of the office with Inuyasha hot on her back. She held another puppy doll in her hand and much to Inuyasha's disgust, it was his puppy doll he played with when he was a child!
"GET BACK HERE!" He screamed at the retreating Kagome. They ran down the stairs rushing down the stairs and out to the busy office workers. Every single worker had stopped what he or she were doing to watch the awkward couple thundering down the hall, Inuyasha as red as a tomato. The workers found it surprising and amusing at the same time, and so they stopped working and playing the usual silly games they played at work. Even their pet dogs stopped what they were doing to stare at Inuyasha and Kagome. "Put my office back to normal you crazy woman!" Kagome just laughed as she ran away from the CEO, thus making him angrier. "Don't make me pounce on you!" Inuyasha shouted making all the office workers buzz with excitement. Kagome, of course, ignored him, so: "Okay! You asked for it!" Inuyasha leaped up in the air making the excited workers end up in a huge rally.
Suddenly, from Sango's office above, Inutaisho's voice came out as if he were broadcasting a soccer game. "Kagome is on the run, she has Inuyasha's favorite puppy doll! Aaaaand… OH! He pounces! Will Inuyasha be able to catch Kagome?" Inuyasha was midway through his pounce when Inutaisho's voice boomed through the office. Inuyasha was so surprised by the sudden burst of Inutaisho's voice, he came crashing down into the ground without catching Kagome. One leg stuckup in the air twitching occassionally."OW! That has got to hurt!"
"Daaad…" Inuyasha groaned into the ground, "Please stop embarrassing me…."
"Why should I? Oh this is so much fun! I should try this on Sesshoumaru! But alas my older son is so boring… Sesshoumaru! Hello! Did you come to watch me torture… I mean… annoy… no… do fathery things with Inuyasha?"
"WHAT YOU'RE DOING TO ME IS NOT FATHERY DAD! IT'S TORTURE! PURE TORTURE! YOU HEAR ME?" Inuyasha yelled as he pushed himself to his feet. Ignoring the conversation between Inutaisho and Sesshoumaru, Inuyasha made one more flying attempt to grab the giggling Kagome and succeeded in pouncing on her, knocking her flat across the floor. He was sitting like a dog on her back as Kagome made failing attempts to pull herself out of Inuyasha's weight. "HAHA! I got you now!" Inuyasha cheered, smiling for the first time in ten years. "Give it to me!"
"No!" Kagome wailed hugging the puppy doll to her chest. Inuyasha, still standing on her back tried to reach under her to snatch his puppy doll back, but Kagome wiggled under his grasp.
Inutaisho had now disengaged himself from his conversation with Sesshoumaru and was waving the microphone around screaming: "HE GOT HER! HE GOT HER! INUYASHA IS LEADING ONE NOTHING!" Sesshoumaru was trying to snatch the microphone out of Inutaisho's grasp, but Inutaisho who had gotten so excited, unknowingly swung the microphone out of Sesshoumaru's way. Finally, Sesshoumaru pounced on his father, and soon father and son were no longer engaged in a conversation, but a tug of war over a microphone. Inutaisho was yanking on the microphone trying to yell frantically and excitedly into the microphone.
"YOU'LL SQUASH IT! Now give it here!"
"If you're so worried about it, then why don't you get off my back?"
Inuyasha narrowed his eyes at the woman beneath him. "You think that I look that stupid. Because if that's what you think, Wretch, you're wrong!" With one final attempt, Inuyasha managed to reach under her to make a grab at his puppy doll, but as fast as Inuyasha jumped on her back, Kagome's hand that held the puppy doll captive, shot out so that it was dangling in the air by it's tail. "OY! Don't hold it like that!" The woman giggled as she shook the puppy around by its tail. Inuyasha grabbed the puppy doll and told her that it was over and that she might as well let go of his puppy doll. Kagome shook her head and yanked the doll with all her might, thus ripping the tail out. The two of them froze and said nothing for a while. Inutaisho who hadmanaged to win the tug of war, stoppedscreaming with excitement into the microphone above them fell and the rally that he had just started amongst the workers died down to an eerie silence. Kagome stared in horror at the tiny white tail that was still in her hands, but not the whole doll. For a while, Inuyasha was speechless with shock, then: "MY TAIL! HOW DARE YOU RUIN MY DOLL'S TAIL! THAT'S THE ONLY CHILDHOOD MEMORY I HAVE! YOU'RE GOING TO REGRET WHAT YOU DID WOMAN! DID YOU HEAR ME? I'LL MAKE YOU SO SORRY YOU'LL WISH YOU NEVER EVEN THOUGHT ABOUT SNATCHING MY DOLL? YOU HEAR? YOU'LL REGRET IIIIIIT!" Then he turned around and faced a guilty Inutaisho who was rocking back and forth on his heels, "AS FOR YOU, FATHER, I KNOW THAT YOU'RE A PART OF THIS... THIS... CONSPIRACY AGAINST ME!"
Positive that both Kagome and Inutaisho got the message, Inuyasha angrily snatched the tail out of Kagome's hand with a: "Gimme that!" Then he leapt off Kagome's back and thundered into the elevator. He practically shouted his floor number to the elevator operator, who happened to be the same one when Naraku spilled hot coffee all over his shirt. She cowered slightly, but managed to press the correct number. Fuming, Inuyasha stomped out of the elevator rudely shoving a surprised Kikyou out of his way. He threw the double doors to his office open, and as Kikyou rushed to see him, slammed the doors in her face.
Inuyasha turned around on his heels and sighed. He looked down at the remains of his puppy doll, which wasn't much. "Kikyou!" He barked. No response. "KIK-YOU! GET YOUR BIG HORSE'S ASS IN HERE NOW!"
The double doors were thrown open as a flustered Kikyou rushed inside after Kagome. Upon seeing the woman, Inuyasha narrowed his eyes. Kagome laughed nervously and raised a hand in the air to give him a little wave. "What do you want?" Inuyasha snarled. Kagome hesitated for a moment before flashing him her cheeriest look. Inuyasha rolled his eyes at the woman before him. "Get out." Kagome bent down and picked up the remains of his puppy doll. "Don't touch those!" He snapped. Kagome waved the doll in the air and skipped out of the room. "OY! Put that back!"
"Don't worry Inuyasha! I'm just going to reassemble the tail!"
Gritting his teeth, Inuyasha glared after the cheery woman who acted as if nothing had happened. He didn't realize that Kikyou was in the room until: "Yes, Mr. Suzuki?"
"Never mind, get lost."
Giving a scared squeak of an answer, Kikyou stumbled out of the office tripping over her heels along the way. "And Kikyou? Please learn to walk properly; I would be extremely embarrassed if you did that feat when visitors were here. The last thing I want is you clumsily spilling hot coffee all over their front." Kikyou bowed apologetically and rushed out of the office. Sighing to himself one last time, Inuyasha took a seat in his chair. For the first time in his life, he could not concentrate on work. Growling about distracters, Inuyasha made an attempt to get back to work, but instead found himself coming up with a revenge plan. "Okay… if that Wretch wants war then she got it!" Forgetting about his work, Inuyasha tore out his pen and began to come up with a plan that including huge pots of Jjang Myung and a corridor. Smirking evilly to himself, Inuyasha rubbed his hands together. That Kagome woman was going to get it. Now the only thing he had left was to figure out which halls Kagome frequently passed through before lunchtime.
Kagome quickly made her way towards Sango's office in search for Inuyasha. She had just left Inuyasha's puppy doll with Kikyou, since she wouldn't let him in. Kikyou had even taken measures to grab onto her legs. So, Kagome reluctantly asked Kikyou to hand Inuyasha the puppy doll, which she had sewn the tail back on… or at least Kaede did that for her while she and Rin lay on their stomachs to watch Kaede nimbly sew the tail back onto the doll. The only thing she hoped was that Inuyasha didn't scream at her the next time he saw her. Kagome had chosen a small aisle, since the main aisle was too crowded with people dashing in between desks playing a game of squash. Usually, not very many people passed through the small aisles, and only used it to play putt putting a gold hole at the end of the hall.
But alas, today was Kagome unlucky day. Down the other end of the hall, someone was rushing down the hall carrying huge bowls of Jjang Myung. She didn't notice it, until: "OUTTA MY WAY WRETCH!" It turned out that the person carrying the huge tubs of Jjang Myung was Inuyasha, provided that he was the only one in the whole office that called Kagome Wretch. Much to her horror, just as he pushed past her, her head bumped into his arms that held the bowls of black noodles above his head. The contents seemed to fall in slow-mo. Inuyasha jumped out of the way and landed gracefully on another worker's desk, leaving Kagome to stand in danger's way. The noodles hit her directly on the head spilling the contents on her head, face, shoulders, and neck. The whole office stood there watching her wide-eyed. From the loud speakers around came an: "OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH! DIRECT HIT! INUYASHA LEADS THE GAME ONE NOTHING!" Kagome glared up at the glass office that contained Sango's office. Miroku was looking down at them and holding the microphone shouting into it triumphantly.
The bowl of Jjang Myung was still sitting on an angry Kagome's head when she realized that Inuyasha had done it intentionally. Inuyasha was rocking back and forth laughing at her standing there miserably in a puddle of black bean sauce and noodles. "INUYASHA!" She screamed, "I'LL KILL YOU!" She snatched the bowl off her head and scooped the Jjang Myung into it before throwing it with all her might at Inuyasha who simply jumped out of the way and landed on top of someone's computer. The Jjang Myung ended up flying towards the elevator doors and, much to her horror hitting, Sesshoumaru directly in the face. Sesshoumaru suddenly froze, the bowl was large enough to cover his whole face. It slid off his face and landed at his feet in a clatter. It was a pity he was a full dog demon because he was able to locate the direction of the Jjang Myung coming towards him by sound. He turned his cold gaze on Kagome who was shifting from one foot to the other.
"Do you dare to throw something so low in my face?" He snarled throwing the bowl back at Kagome with all his might. Kagome ducked and it ended up hitting the wall opposite of her, shattering into millions of pieces. Kagome didn't need to think twice before breaking to a run. Sesshoumaru pounced, landing on the spot where she stood just seconds ago. "AIEEEE! Fluffy's mad!" Kagome screamed before running clumsily in her heels as Sesshoumaru lashed out at her with his claws. "Wait! WAIT! I can explain," Kagome screamed putting her hand in front of her "Just let me..." When Sesshoumaru paused, she quickly slipped out of her shoes before breaking into a run.
"Ha! I even got the world's scariest vice-president, Fluffy-Sama." Inuyasha sneered from his spot that happened to be in the middle of the office room. Kagome and Sesshoumaru were running in circles around him. When no one looked up at him, he leapt up high in the air grabbing onto a hook in the ceiling before swinging right into Sango's office, shattering the windows with his feet along the way. By this time, Kagome and Sesshoumaru stopped chasing each other to realize that the culprit really was Inuyasha… or at least that was what Sesshoumaru found out, since Kagome already knew. Inuyasha frantically pressed the buttons on the elevator. When the doors open, he yelled into the elevator operator's face: "Floors eight, ten, twenty, 200, and seventy!" The elevator operator put on a confused look as Inuyasha dashed away from the elevator towards the stairs.
"IDIOT!" He screamed before turning back into the elevator and pressing all the numbers on the elevator, "If I get caught, I'm going to have your head on a silver platter!" He yelled before jumping out of the elevator and down the stairs. Just as he ran down skipping three stairs at a time, Sesshoumaru and Kagome were coming up. Without much thinking, Inuyasha roughly jumped over them but landed quite gracefully at the landing at the bottom. Kagome and Sesshoumaru turned around as Inuyasha skittered across the landing and into the door from the lower floor on all fours.
"GET HIM!" Kagome shouted, pushing Sesshoumaru at his younger brother. Sesshoumaru stumbled on the stairs before regaining his composure. The two of then were hot on Inuyasha, who had skidded into the elevator. He slammed his finger on the close-doors button just as Sesshoumaru slammed right into the doors. Pumping his fist in the air, Inuyasha whooped as he shoved the elevator operator out of the way to press all the floor numbers. Then flashing a wink at the terror-struck elevator operator, Inuyasha kicked open the top of the elevator with his foot and jumped up on it deftly swinging up to the top where his father's office was, leaving a flabbergasted elevator operator behind as the elevator continued to descend.
The doors of the elevator blasted open to Inuyasha's foot as he flew out from it. Jennifer, who was working on some contracts, screamed as the elevator doors tumbled across the floor as Inuyasha jumped out from the hole. Inuyasha threw open the doors to his father's office knowing that Inutaisho did virtually nothing except for playing card and video games with Shippou, one of the video editors. "Let me borrow your toilet plug." Was all he told a surprised Inutaisho who had just lost another game of Poker.
"Darn! He took my jelly beans!" Inutaisho grumbled glumly at a grinning Shippou who was taking the bet be just won. "What are you trying to do son?"
"You'll see!" Inuyasha said as he yanked the sticks out the plugs. He attached handles to the top and gave them a test on the frosted glass doors of Inutaisho's bathroom door. Satisfied with the result, Inuyasha yanked with all his might to get the plug off, but ended up taking out the whole glass and shattering the edges. "Sorry dad! I'll have that fixed." Was all he said before managing to yank his plug off the glass. Just as he did, the doors of Inutaisho's office were thrown open and there stood Kagome and Sesshoumaru dripping wet in black sauce, red in the face from running up and down the stairs so much and panting. Inutaisho burst out laughing. He was laughing so hard that he bent forward dropping his cards and exposing them to Shippou, who frowned realizing he lost and told him that he decided to fold. Inutaisho didn't notice because he was laughing too hard. Shippou turned around and gawped at the two executive officers panting and glaring. Inuyasha quickly put his hands behind his back. "Uh… hi guys… umm… I hope you had a lovely day…" Inuyasha stuttered.
"Lovely day? Dear brother, do you realize that you just ruined my image?"
"Your image?"
"Face it, Inuyasha, you have nowhere to run and don't think that Inutaisho can save you!" Kagome snarled.
"Really. What if I jumped?"
"Jumped? My younger halfling fool of a brother, you know that you can't survive the jump, your halfling powers cannot save you from a drop like that!"
"Yes, but… what if I had... these?" Inuyasha did a huge backwards summersault in the air smashing the glass of Inutaisho's floor-to-ceiling window with his elbows. Sesshoumaru and Kagome gawped as Inuyasha flew out the window, shards of glass floating around him. He waved the plugs attached to his hands. Inutaisho stopped laughing and scampered across the floor to look out the window.
Inuyasha waved at the four heads that now peeked down at him before he flipped himself upside-down with his head pointing down at the streets. Then with lightening speed, Inuyasha reached out firmly planting his palm on the glass so the plug hit the window to stick. He was dangling from it and waving up at the four dots before he kicked the window with his feet. He sailed into one of the conference room, where a research was going on, and landed on the desk before rolling across the table at shocked researchers. "I trust you're doing your work properly." Was all he said before landing at the other end of the table. Inuyasha straightened himself and took the plugs off his hands before calmly brushing his suit down and walking off in his usual haughty manner.
For those of you who don't know what Jjang Myung is, it's this black noodle thing that's usually interpreted as Chinese noodles… but I don't think it's Chinese… anyway… this chapter was a long chapter… as most of the chapter… and finally, we see Inuyasha snap! Anyway, stay tuned for the next chapter!
And someone asked me if this was a Kag/sess or an Kag/Inu thing… so let me explain. This is both… but Kagome must choose one in the end… and I'm not going to tell you who Kagome chooses, because you have to read the story further, and it's going to ruin the story! Sorry… I just can't tell you!
I'm sorry this chapter sucked, I had a writer's block while writing this… but review anyway! I promise the next chapter will be MUCH MORE FUN! Especially for those of you who like to read party scenes!
Next chapter: CHAPTER 4: THE DINNER PARTY (PART I)
Next to come: a pissed Izayoi, preparation to the party, meeting Nina… crazy things happening in the middle of the dance floor, punch messes, and the great reveal of Kagome and Sango's dresses! (I didn't describe the final dresses that Sango and Kagome chose for a reason!)
The author would like to thank:
Susan: WOW! Youre chapters r so long and i hope ull write more.
Ryine Kuriso To'oname: This story rocks. Is it a sess/kag or a Inu/Kag?
Ryuu-nin: When you have time, read my Sesshoumaru story. It's a kind risque.-
Strawberryneko: ur story's so funni... lol... plz update soon!... )
Shadow Of A Lost Soul: hi! i liked your story! the part where Kagome pushed Shesshoumaru out of the elevator. Please update soon! cant wait!
Sibby4ever: Abuse tsk tsk tsk not that that's a bad this i like that kind of thing in a fanfic. To say the least6 i enjoyed your story indeed please update soon for you have gained my interest. your fellow twisted author and new fan sib.