Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha!
ME: Review! Or else!
SESSHOUMARU: You can't do that.
ME Why not?
SESSHOUMARU: Because I said so.
ME: I don't have to listen to you, and yeah, I know I'm not supposed to say that, because whether people review or not is up to them, not me.
SESSHOUMARU: That's not what I mean, AND you have to listen to me, because everyone listens to me, Sesshoumaru.
ME: Inuyasha doesn't.
INUYASHA: DAMN STRAIGHT!
Chaper Seven: Inuyasha in Hong Kong
Obviously for Kagome, the plane ride was not a pleasant one, despite the fact that she was flying first class. Inuyasha sat next to her glaring out the plastic windows at the creamy white puff of clouds below them. Kagome shifted slightly in her seat while straightening her pink shirt. "Inuyasha, are you going to sit there and continue to glare out the window like that? No offense, but you look as if you're going to break the window to pieces."
"That's exactly what I was trying to do." Inuyasha said calmly as he pulled his eyes away from the airplane window. Kagome found the situation a miracle, because for the first time, Inuyasha actually looked calm and didn't shout at her for once in his life. "I watched a TV program yesterday based on people with psychological powers and was trying to practice it on the window." He returned glaring at the window and stared at it for several minutes before heaving a loud sigh and pouting as he slumped in his seat. Inuyasha drummed his fingers on the armrest while muttering that they hadn't been given breakfast yet.
Behind the two, Sesshoumaru sat reading a book while shooting glances at Kagome, who seemed to sparkle in the white light that bathed around her. The sound of the table being put down was heard, which signified that Inuyasha was probably going to work. "Inuyasha…" He heard Kagome scold, "Stop being a workaholic and learn to have some fun in your life, come on, I bought a pack of cards so lets play poker and bet favors." Sesshoumaru had enough. He abruptly stood from his spot and placed the book on his chair before approaching one very smug male CEO and another disgusted female CEO.
"Poker? Huh?" He said as he leaned on Kagome's chair, still standing. Sesshoumaru tried his best to keep his calm posture, while inside he was seething. Why hadn't Kagome invited him to play poker with her? Things just weren't fair. Suddenly, Sesshoumaru's body stiffened. What the hell was he thinking? No! He was not going to let a simple mortal woman wrench his heart out like that! NO! Sesshoumaru suddenly started to bang his head on Kagome's chair. But she didn't seem to notice, because she answered in a chirpy manner:
"Yup! Poker, poker, salsa poker!" Kagome quipped cheerily as she started to shuffle the cards.
"KEH!"
"Wanna play too?"
Bingo! Sesshoumaru immediately stopped banging his head on the chair. He was itching to say yes, but as usual, his pride got the better of him. So instead of saying politely, yes please, he told her: "I will not dedicate my time in playing such stupid games with the likes of you." Dammit! Why did I have to say that? He thought angrily to himself.
"Then why are you standing there?" Inuyasha challenged with a sneer. Sesshoumaru went back to banging his head on the chair. Inuyasha smirked, but said nothing.
"Excuse me, sir, are you alright?" A stewardess was standing behind him looking overly concerned.
Sesshoumaru suddenly stopped banging his head on the chair. "Yes I am!" He said through grit teeth, trying to control himself from grabbing her and head-butting her over and over. Luckily, he managed to survive the tempting feeling of his head bobbing up and down in the momentum of the head-butting movements. Instead, much to his pleasure, he said quite calmly, "I am just here to watch you get your hindquarters kicked by Kagome."
"Like that's going to happen!"
"We'll see Inuyasha, we'll see!" Kagome said, her eyes burning with ambition and confidence.
"Okay then! The game is ON!"
Kagome shuffled the cards in several different ways before expertly handing Inuyasha his set of five cards and giving herself the same amount. She smacked the rest of cards on her meal-table and stared at the cards. Inuyasha's golden eyes flicked across the surface of his cards before he announced: "Okay, I'll bet first."
"Who said you could bet first!"
"I said so!"
"Okay."
"Okay, I bet personal slave."
"Hey! You can't do that! You can do things like getting an extra load of work or getting coffee and buying lunch for a week, but not unethical things such as slavery! It's against the law!" Kagome emphatically move her arms while Inuyasha rolled his eyes at her. Sesshoumaru simply raised an eyebrow at her, but Kagome didn't notice them.
"So? Why don't you do one of those too?" Inuyasha snapped, finally annoyed with Kagome's little humanitarian speech. "Oh, and you can't bet personal slave because I betted that first. You can only bet it if you win the game."
The smug CEO smirked at Kagome's reaction to his comment, but she only sighed and said, "Forget it. I bet living vacuum cleaner." Inuyasha glared at her, but didn't add any of his wisecrack comments. Instead, he concentrated on his cards while flashing a glare at Kagome's poker face. Kagome frowned with the cards in her hands and plucked out two of them dumping them in an empty pile before the two of them. Kagome took two cards from the stack and stared blankly at it.
Inuyasha wondered what her cards were before he quickly scanned the cards he had. Royal flush… Inuyasha shot a glance at Kagome who was blinking at her cards. "Okay, show your cards." She said as the two of them laid their cards out on the table.
"YEEAH! I WON!" Inuyasha screamed jumping up in the air and dancing in his spot. Several other first class flyers turned to stare at the jubilant CEO that danced around merrily. Several people scowled as they turned away from the excited CEO (most of them being at least forty years of age) muttering about kids these days. Kagome had a priceless look on her face as Inuyasha grabbed Sesshoumaru's arm and began dancing around the aisle not really noticing or caring if Sesshoumaru bumped his shin against the chairs and knocked over wine glasses. In the end, he happily tossed Sesshoumaru away from him in attempts to make him twirl away like Inutaisho always did, but instead, Sesshoumaru went flying across the plane and into the economy class section. He ended up in a heap against the fair wall horrifying most of the stewardess as he slowly stood up swearing fifty times a minute.
Kagome trudged wearily into her hotel room, it was about 22:30 and she was extremely exhausted. After a huge yelling contest with the desk person in Cantonese about room reservations, Kagome finally managed to point out his error and was given the keys to her room, one of the finest in Hyatt. The desk person, along with a bellboy, bowed constantly while asking her to forgive him. The room was spacious and clean along with a wonderful large bed and finely polished mahogany. Kagome had the bellboy place her suitcase on the luggage rack before shooing him out. She clicked open her luggage and pulled out a pair of pajamas she had packed in at the last moment. She wondered what Inuyasha was doing but shrugged it off as she shuffled into the bathroom with fuzzy penguin-slippers and her cute light blue pajamas with penguin heads printed on them.
She wearily brushed her teeth and washed her face before she blinked at the mirror. Kagome Higurashi had to admit that she did look like a complete wreck, her black-blue locks stuck out in a wild mane, her usually healthy white glow was now deathly pale like Kikyou's skin, and she had bags under her eyes. This was the exact reason why she didn't like traveling by plane. Always, for some reason, she looked like a complete disaster whenever she stepped off the plane. Sighing to herself, Kagome fretted over how Rin and Kaede were doing. She was especially worried with Rin in school. Although the little girl was bright and was at the top of all her class, she would always soil her reputation as the "class clown" or by playing nasty tricks on not just the students but on the teachers as well.
Pushing the mental image of Rin dropping an eggplant on the principal's head in the staircase, Kagome opened her luggage and immediately hung uip all her suits and placed the shoes in the shoe rack. She left the jeans and the shirts with the several pairs of socks, underwear, and bras. She sighed as she looked at her palm pilot. She had a busy day ahead of her so she placed the palm pilot on her desk and curled up in her bed and fell asleep… for a moment.
Inuyasha hated sharing his apartment with Sesshoumaru. It was like a nightmare come true. What was worse was that apartments in Hong Kong were generally very small, thus making apartment sharing with his older brother completely agonizing. Sesshoumaru went on a ten hour tirade about how Inuyasha had humiliated him right out of his socks while Inuyasha had carelessly dropped his keys in the key pot before making a beeline towards his room that was covered in red, and only red. He slammed the door in his brother's face before he immediately got out of his casual clothing and into his usual fire rate haori with his red pants. Tugging the knots on his shirt one last time, Inuyasha laid down in his bed staring up at the ceiling. He, like Kagome, had a busy day ahead of him. Luckily for him, Friday was a day off along with Sunday. Inuyasha started to plan out what he was going to do on Friday and Saturday. He was going to lie around lazily flipping through the channels of rapid Cantonese and then he was going to order a huge pot of take-out noodles and eat them in his lap while reviewing his e-mail and reports that usually came with the e-mail. Yes, a perfect day of working alone in this apartment was nothing but pure bliss to him. Sesshoumaru, no doubt, would be out most of the time sitting in a café reading a book or sitting in the bookstore browsing through books, or whatever he did whenever he was out.
"INUYASHA!" Sesshoumaru's voice shouted at the other end as the rhythemic pounding continued, "GET YOUR ASS OUT HERE RIGHT NOW!" Obviously, Sesshoumaru had finally blown the fuse, which wasn't very surprising for Inuyasha. Usually, he always tried his older brother's patience and was pleased with the results. One time, Sesshoumaru had thrown a flowerpot at him, which ended up flying out the window and killing an old lady's dog. In the end, Sesshoumaru had to pay for her loss while shooting glares at Inuyasha, who wore a smirk of triumph on his face. In the end, the pounding stopped and he heard Sesshoumaru swear one last time before the sound of his bare feet pattering on the ground was heard and ended with a loud slam. Felling content with himself, Inuyasha stretched himself and smirked as he slipped back into pleasant thoughts.
Unfortunately, Inuyasha's reveries were cut short when the home phone gave off a shrill ring. Screaming in shock, Inuyasha bolted upright and banged his head on the floor when he fell off his bed. Cursing to himself, he shouted, "Sesshoumaru! Get the fucking phone!" No response. Growling to himself about annoying older brothers, Inuyasha reached over for the phone but froze when the caller ID identified it as his cousin, Kirara. Inuyasha groaned in annoyance and decided it was best to ignore the phone although he knew that Kirara would keep calling and calling until two hours later. Luckily, she didn't know when he was coming so after the twentieth ring, when Inuyasha and Sesshoumaru's answering machine went off: "This is Inuyasha and Sesshoumaru's residence, we are not in at the moment, please leave a message…" that was Sesshoumaru's voice, then Inuyasha's cut in with: "And if you're Kirara, get lost, because I am NOT going to babysit your kid…" the voice switched again to Sesshoumaru's: "Here's the beep, you know what to do." As if on cue, the answering machine gave off a shrill beep.
"Look, I know how much you find my adorable four-year-old daughter Minah annoying, but really, Inuyasha, she can be very sweet. And yes, like you just complained, I want you to baby sit Minah… with Sesshoumaru I know you're not going to call me back, so I'm dropping Minah off at your apartment at seven in the morning on Sunday…" Inuyasha put on a look of mortification before he grabbed the phone.
"DON'T EVEN THINK ABOUT IT!"
"Ah, so you were here! Humph! I should have known that you were ignoring me as usual."
"Kirara…" Inuyasha moaned, "You can't just drop Minah on my head and run off so you could do your work! I've got work to do myself and I'm not here on vacation! I'm here for work!"
"Yes, but I called your father and he told me that you had the day off on this Friday and on Sundays! And Sesshoumaru scares Minah, so you hsave to be there with him!"
"Well, that's good! The kid needs some discipline! Did you know that last year she drew on my face with permanent ink? It didn't come off for a week! And then six months ago, she insisted on baking cookies and got cookie batter in my hair and on Sesshoumaru's suit and I got all the blame! Me!"
"Inuyasha, that was a bit harsh you know. Kids are always like that! Look, it's not like you were any better than Minah when you were a kid! In fact, you were the one that glue gunned thumbtacks on a board and put it on my chair before I sat down!"
"That-that… well, at least I was smarter!"
"Look, I'm going to drop Minah at your apartment anyway and you better give her some discipline yourself! Smarter… my ass!"
"Well I scream at her and all she does is shove crayons in my mouth! YOU'RE the one that spoils her all the time!"
"Too bad. I'll be there by seven, bye."
"Wait… no! Stop!" Click. The line went dead. Sesshoumaru had shuffled out of the hall in his white haori with red floral printings on it and looked murderous. Inuyasha glared at the phone. If talking Kirara out of it didn't work then it was time to move on to plan B.
"So… who was it?" Sesshoumaru asked, looking thoroughly annoyed, "It wasn't Kirara again was it?"
"Who else would I be screaming at 22:30 night?"
"Of course, your incessant screamings woke me up. Now I can't go back to sleep and wake up at five as usual and leave by six."
"KEH! This time, I'm not going to be the one who baby sits Minah, now you have to get a taste of her nasty drawing skills and crayons in your mouth with cookie batter and juice all over your hair and clothes!"
"Minah does not do such silly things, she is quiet and sits down and does not move around much."
"Oh yeah, sure," Inuyasha said sarcastically, "If you don't want to turn the home into a hellhole then why don't you baby sit her this Friday and on Sunday?"
"I will do nothing of the kind."
"Yeah you will, besides, I have a… a…"
"Well?"
"A… date with Kagome this Friday! Yeah! I have a date with her and I'm going to be out all day!"
"You're lying as usual."
"Who said I was lying? I do!"
"And on Sunday?"
"I uh… need to buy some necessities!"
"Very well then, on Friday I shall look out for Minah and I shall watch Minah through the mornings until you return."
"Yeah, but you don't have anything to do!"
Sesshoumaru shrugged coolly and turned and walked away. "Yes, I will be here, but you will be the one baby sitting Minah while I take care of some business."
"HEY! I'm the one that needs to get my work done!"
Sesshoumaru didn't reply and disappeared into his bedroom. Growling to himself about annoying older brothers and impolite cousins, Inuyasha stormed into his bedroom and flopped on the bed imagining the horrors of Minah. Yes, she was terrifying and he swore that she had horns sprouting out of her head. Inuyasha banged his head against the wall several times until he heard Sesshoumaru screaming at him to cut it out. Inuyasha then flipped open his cell phone to dial up Kagome. At least the meeting on Friday had to be real. The dial tone of the phone went on until Kagome's groggily voice gave out a feeble hello.
"Oy wre—Kagome!"
"Huh? Is this Inuyasha?"
"Yah. It is… got a… got some time on Friday?"
"Friday? You mean on Christmas Eve?"
"Yeah, on Friday. I was just wondering if you wanted to go out or something."
"I can't hear you, why are you whispering?"
"Because…" Inuyasha hissed sneaking a look at his door, "Sesshoumaru's sleeping."
"Oh. So what did you ask?" Kagome sounded more awake and alert now that he got her talking.
"You wanna go out on Friday somewhere?"
"Say that again. I can't hear you Inuyasha, you're going to have to raise your voice a little." Inuyasha growled and twitched his ears hoping that he didn't hear the whispering of the sheets as Sesshoumaru got out of bed, this time to join him in a yelling contest that would last all night.
"YOU. Want. To. Go. Out. With. Me. On Fri-day?" Inuyasha hissed a little louder into the phone.
"I'm really sorry Inuyasha, but I really can't hear you. There's this kid from downstairs that has been screaming all night long."
"GOD DAMMIT! I ASKED IF YOU WANT TO GO OUT OR NOT, GEEZ! ARE YOU DEAF OR SOMETHING!"
"Inuyasha, what are you doing?" Inuyasha immediately stiffened and turned around. Sure enough, his older brother covered the door with his arms crossed over his chest in an annoyed manner. "Do you realize that there is someone who's trying to get some sleep around the house?" Inuyasha laughed nervously, which was very unlike him, and slipped the phone under his pillow without Sesshoumaru knowing. "Who were you talking to?"
"Umm… the ghost." The ghost had always been Inuyasha's escapism from talking by himself and it worked when he and Sesshoumaru were children, but as they grew Sesshoumaru didn't believe him. The vice president raised an eyebrow in mock belief. Kagome's voice came out in muffled cries, but still, with his own hearing, Sesshoumaru could hear it perfectly.
"Inuyahsa? Hello? Are you there? What's wrong? Hello? Hello—oh my god… there's a murderer in there! A robber! INUYASHA! INUYASHA! CAN YOU HEAR ME! I'LL CALL THE POLICE!" Sesshoumaru looked slightly amused as he coolly crossed the room and despite Inuyasha's desperate pleas, stuck his hand under his pillow and fished out his cell phone before bringing it to his ears. "Don't worry Inuyasha! I'll think of something clever!"
"What are you talking about woman?"
"EEEP! It's the robber! Release Inuyasha now!"
Sesshoumaru put on a look of amusement on his face as Kagome babbled on uselessly about how she was going to make him sorry. "Kagome." He said coolly, "Do you not even recognize my voice?"
"Huh?"
"It is I, Sesshoumaru. Pray tell me why you called my imbecile of a brother."
"Sesshoumaru? What are you doing with Inuyasha?"
"I am simply here because we share an apartment… which was forced by father. Now, answer my question."
"Oh well…"
Before Kagome could answer fully, Inuyasha dove at the phone and yanked it out of a now surprised Sesshoumaru's grasp. "I called her because I forgot to tell her where out rendezvous point. Now get lost." Ignoring his seething brother, Inuyasha turned back to Kagome and acted as if he was having a pleasant coversation. "How stupid of me! I forgot to tell you our meeting place. Meet me in front of the HSCB building…"
"What?"
"I'll see you there on Friday, six o'clock SHARP! Bye!" Inuyasha immediately hung up and tossed the phone on his desk before quickly pulling the blankets over his head begging the entities above that Sesshoumaru didn't catch his scheme. He felt Sesshoumaru's clawed hand on his blanket before he angrily pulled it off. "OY! What's the deal?" Inuyasha shouted as he scrambled up in a sitting position. He snatched the end of the blanket and without warning, gave it a sharp tug. Sesshoumaru didn't seem perturbed by anything and immediately yanked the blanket towards himself making Inuyasha tumble face-first into the ground with a dull thud. "Give my blanket back, dammit!"
"You woke me up and now I can't sleep."
"So? That's your problem, not mine!"
"If this Sesshoumaru cannot sleep, then neither can anyone else."
"WHAT? That is the most stupidest thing that I had ever heard in my whole entire life!"
And so the argument was on, and just as Inuyasha had feared, he and Sesshoumaru spent the rest of the night holding a screaming contest over something as stupid and measly as the blanket they continued to tug on.
Kagome opened her eyes and found herself lying around in her bed. Her cell phone lay harmlessly on the night table. She then remembered everything, Inuyasha had called her the other night and asked her if she wanted to go out, then he quickly gave her the time and the place where they were to meet. When she heard that they had to meet by six in the morning, she really couldn't believe her ears. What was he talking about? Six in the morning? Kagome sighed. All her plans on going shopping and soaking herself in a nice relaxing bubble bath with a glass of orange juice or wine came crashing down around her. That jerk! She thought to herself as she sifted the blankets around slowly pulling herself to a sitting position. "Jerk."
She turned her gaze towards the window that was currently covered by cream-colored curtains and stood up slipping her dainty feet into the penguin slippers that made cute squeaking noises as she walked. She stretched her arms and her back as she made her way towards the window before she pulled the curtains open to let a stream of sunlight filter down on her. Kagome opened the windows and stepped out into the balcony that had a folding chair and a table with an umbrella over it. The winds whipped about her, letting her blue-black locks swirl around her dramatically. Luckily, the hotel was up in the mountains a little far from the city itself, which meant that the air was fresher up where she was. She closed her eyes and took a deep breath and let the salty sea-air swirl into her lungs and let it out with a satisfying sigh. Letting her eyes swoop over the small yet magnificent city, and at Kowloong, the mainland-part of the city. Kagome smiled. Hong Kong wasn't too bad, it was actually very wonderful, almost as good as New York City.
Deciding that she needed a nice jog, Kagome turned and left the balcony to pull her long hair into a snug ponytail and nimbly got into her pink jogging suits, thick ankle socks, and her sneakers. Smiling to herself one last time, Kagome snatched one of the white hotel towels on her way out and placed it around her neck and tucked her passport and her cell phone into her pocket so that someone didn't steal it while she was gone. The halls were empty, provided that it was only six thirty in the morning, but it didn't matter for her since she was going on a nice jog through the park that was owned by the hotel. She let herself stroll into the elevator, and out of it at the lobby.
The thick smell of earth, sea, and pine trees met her nose as she quickly and efficiently made her way out to the road that led to the jogging course. Immediately, she broke to a light jog that led her away from the huge building and the parking lot filled with cars and some early morning bellboys. The scene shifted to those of lovely pine trees, rocks, flowers and a small stream, which she jogged over and out towards the sea. The slight tingle of flowers filled her nose and Kagome was too happy to think of anything else. In New York, central city was too dangerous to go jogging in, so she was forced to use her treadmill out near her balcony. Never was she able to experience something like this unless she was in a hotel like she was now. The cool air streamed through her hair and out under her ears and through her body. She felt light and ecstatic as a pair of birds fluttered by her.
She jogged until she ran into a fork in the road with one wooden sign that had an arrow pointing down and another one pointing up. The arrow pointing down read: Beach Walk while the one pointing up read: Pine Woods. Without hesitation, Kagome chose the path leading down to the beach and light heartedly jogged down the stairs until the ground leveled out to a boardwalk that ran along near the beach. When seeing the ocean, she let out a whoop of joy. The blue green water washed up to the shore, looking like a rainbow of blue ranging from aqua marine, to sky blue, to blue, to baby blue, then to a deep Persian blue. The sand sparkled under the rising sun, which splashed red, yellow, orange, purple and a small thin line of green into the sky. Kagome paused to watch the sun rise in a huge, fiery red ball. How lovely it was. She checked her time and when she found she had a good two hours left for work, she turned and jogged along the boardwalk that eventually led to a rocky area and led her a cliff where the boardwalk ended in a wide balcony overlooking the ocean.
It was a complete splendor! So beautiful that Kagome's breath caught in her throat. The ocean water churned white as they crashed against the rocks below sending a huge spray of water several feet below where she was. Still some of the salty water sprayed on her very lightly. Smiling sweetly to herself about a wonderful morning, Kagome felt invincible. "NOBODY CAN RUIN MY DAY, NOT EVEN INUYASHA!" She screamed out to the ocean, "I AM INVINCIBLE!" Kagome stood, with her legs shoulder-width apart and raised her hands to flex her biceps as the waves exploded against the rocks below. Laughing to herself very loudly and manically, Kagome turned and left jogging back along the beach and up the stairs to the path she followed before. Hmm… I should bring Inuyasha here with me! It would be so wonderful at night! She thought as she jogged out of the jogger's path and into the hotel.
Kagome checked her watch again and realized with relief that she wasn't late. Yes, everything was perfect for her; so far, nothing had gone wrong and Inuyasha hadn't called her screaming at her that she was late although he was an hour early. Without further delay, Kagome unlocked her hotel room's door and entered. Everything was how she had left it, and it didn't matter. She dabbed her soft skin with the towel before tossing it off and draping it on her bed. Next, she turned and took a nice warm shower, humming to herself, leaving her cell phone on the sink so that she could pick it up the moment it rang. When she was done, she dried herself and came out of the shower. She wiped away the steam that coated the mirror with a thin layer of water droplets that clouded it up and stared at her reflection.
Last night, she looked like a wreck, but today, she looked refreshed and ready to start the day. Her chocolate brown eyes sparkled with anticipation and her white skin had regained its healthy glow. Her hair lay matted on her head, but still, she felt great. Last night after the rather hasty call from Inuyasha, she had slept soundly and woke up feeling like a million. She dried her hair and pulled on one of the white fluffy robes then began blow-drying her hair smiling happily to herself.
Once finished, she turned and picked out her favorite black suit along with a white silk blouse along with a clean pair of underwear and bra. She pulled them on with a pair of black panty hose and put her clothes on. She then fixed her hair in the mirror and put on her pearl earrings and necklace. She then collected her necessary items in her briefcase and pulled on a light coat along with her computer as she whipped out her palm pilot. She immediately switched it on, and scanned her schedule before she pulled on a pair of Versace high heels and walked out of her hotel room.
She hailed a taxi at the hotel entrance and got in telling the driver in Cantonese, "Suzuki Corporations building." The man nodded and told her that she spoke excellent Cantonese for a foreigner. Kagome blushed and told him that she had been learning languages since a very young age. The mad gave her a friendly nod and drove off in the direction of the Suzuki Corporations building. The scene of the hotel vanished into a mountainous scene that changed into a city scene where Kagome could see the early birds up and about, walking around, some with friends, some with their boyfriend or girlfriend, and some scurrying alone to catch a bus or cross the street. This was indeed a very busy city and not very different from New York. The taxi driver pulled up to the Suzuki Corporations building, which was newly built. It was huge, but not as big as the headquarters. It stood up to a hundred and twenty floors and was plated with mirrored glass. The ground floor was high and held up with immense marble pillars and the revolving doors gleamed as they moved on their own, stopping when no one came by.
The driver exclaimed cheerily that they were there and Kagome paid him the money telling him to keep the change as a tip. The driver thanked her and helped her out of the car along with her brief case and computer, tipped his hat and got back into his car and drove off. Kagome straightened her jacket and stepped into the building. The building was magnificent even on the inside. It had a small bamboo forest near the windows and an information desk smack in the center. On either sides of the room were four elevators each, making that a total of eight elevators. It wasn't as much as the ones in the headquarters (sixteen elevators total), but it was still very nice. To the left a little sunken in were the bathroom signs and another one had the emergency escape stairs. Kagome made her way to the front of the desk and greeted the person at the desk.
"Ah! Ms. Higurashi!" The man up front said brightening up, "Mr. Chang has been expecting you. Mr. Suzuki… err… the Misters Suzuki are waiting for you." Just then, Kagome's cell phone let out a shrill ring. Kagome blushed with embarrassment as she answered the phone.
"WOMAN!" Inuyasha thundered from the other end, "You are late!"
"Inuyasha," she said with a sigh, "I'm not late, in fact, I'm thirty minutes early."
"Well…" Inuyasha paused uncomfortably, "I've been here for an hour. Hurry up!" With that, the line went dead. Kagome stared at her phone in disbelief. Inuyasha was just impossible.
"Mr. Chang's office is on the hundred and sixteenth floor."
"Thank you." With that Kagome turned and went to one of the many elevators.
Contrary to Kagome's condition, Inuyasha wasn't feeling very great. In fact, as he colorfully put it, he felt like shit. He and Sesshoumaru had spent the rest of the night screaming at each other senseless. The screaming went on all the way through the night and into two in the morning with Inuyasha miraculously throwing his brother out of his room and slamming the door shut before locking it. So, strictly speaking, Inuyasha didn't sleep very well, in fact, he only had two hours of sleep before he was up again to prepare for work. Kagome cheerily entered the office giving Mr. Chang a chirpy hello that really annoyed the sleep-deprived CEO. Inuyasha's ear twitched slightly in irritation as Kagome waved at him before she sat down and thumped her briefcase and her computer bag on the floor.
In the meantime, Sesshoumaru was sitting on the couch with his legs crossed and sipping some coffee the secretary Ruri had brought in. Inuyasha immediately slipped his folder out of his briefcase and set it on the table in front of Mr. Chang. "These are the files that we've been speaking about. I will not be here for long, but Sesshoumaru and Kagome will be able to fill you in on the Shikon Jewel."
"Ah, Inuyasha, aren't you going to be on this project?"
"Unfortunately not. Next week, Sesshoumaru and Kagome will be in Seoul consulting Cellular phones with KTF and Samsung. I, on the other hand, am remaining here in Hong Kong about the heated toilet seats. I'm sure father has already sent you some files on them."
"Ah, yes. Of course, I fully understand. Your father told me about the heated toilet seats, and I completely agree that they would sell like mad." Menomaru nodded quite contently. Speaking of headquarter leaders for the Suzuki Corporation, every single one of them were eccentric, just like his father. Inuyasha rubbed his temples with his claws while Menomaru babbled on about how excited he was about the latest technology for toilets. "Inuyasha… you haven't slept a wink haven't you?" Inuyasha scowled letting his right eye twitch slightly. Luckily, Menomaru dropped the subject and turned to Kagome and Sesshoumaru.
Sesshoumaru simply sneered down at Menomaru through his nose and slightly pushed Kagome forward so that she could give them a brief on their work. Kagome shot him a glare as she tried her best to smile with charm. But being at least hanyou, Inuyasha could smell the sense of discontempt coming off her in waves. Kagome began to give her briefings on her projects. She sounding pretty professional, provided that Inuyasha was more used to her other side. Inuyasha noticed that Sesshoumaru was laying his rare fond eye on her as she spoke. Inuyasha shrugged Sesshoumaru's lovesick expression off and scanned Kagome's report critically.
Suddenly, a loud banging was heard making Inuyasha scatter Kagome's report in surprise. Sesshoumaru had suddenly started to bag him head on the coffee table. Menomaru looked horrifyied and quickly jumped up to keep the vice president from killing off his brain cells. Kagome looked terrified as she backed away from the insane vice president while shooting Inuyasha a pleading look. Inuyasha immediately obliged and stood up towering menacingly over the still mad Sesshoumaru. "CUT IT OUT!" He shouted before giving Sesshoumaru a sharp kick in the face. Kagome looked greatly relieved when Sesshoumaru suddenly stopped.
"Don't kick my face."
"Well don't start banging the shit out of your head on the table. You just disturbed our work process, what's your problem anyway?"
"Stay out of this Sesshoumaru's business."
"Well, next time, don't smash your head on the table like that. Not only did you disrupt me from work, but you also scared both Kagome and Menomaru out of their wits."
"Since when did you give me orders?"
"Since when did you start smashing your head against the table?"
Inuyasha never got a reply, but he did feel Sesshoumaru's hands grab his head and give him a head butt so hard that he saw stars. And he continued to smash his head against his head and paused only once to say: "Now I'm no longer banging my head against the table."
"You asshole!" Inuyasha shouted, pushing Sesshoumaru away from him, "Cut it out! I don't want you to bang your head on anything or anyone, understand?" Sesshoumaru reached out to start banging his head against Inuyasha's head, but Inuyasha immediately flew out of his seat and hid behind Kagome. "I mean it! It's not nice to bang your head on things, especially other people."
Sesshoumaru shrugged and grabbed Menomaru and started to bang his head on Menomaru's head. Inuyasha and Kagome looked at each other and sighed in exasperation. Finally, Kagome stood up and gently pulled Sesshoumaru away from a now unconscious Menomaru. "Sesshoumaru, you just knocked Menomaru unconscious, it's enough." Surprisingly enough, Sesshoumaru stopped and dropped Menomaru on the floor without much concern. Inuyasha raised an eyebrow at Kagome to express his surprise. Menomaru, in the meantime, lay on the floor in an unconscious heap.
Lunchtime was very calm for the three of them. They sat in a small Subway fast-food restaurant and nibbled on their sandwiches without much conversation. Finally, Sesshoumaru put his sandwich down, while Inuyasha and Kagome stared up at him wide-eyed as he suddenly stood up. Both had their sandwiches posed at their mouths, when Sesshoumaru grabbed Kagome's arm and dragged her out of the restaurant. Inuyasha sat there alone wondering what had gotten into his older brother. Very slowly he lowered his sandwich and stared off into space, fighting the lonely feeling that seemed to invade his heart as Kagome and Sesshoumaru vanished into the busy streets of central Hong Kong.
Slowly, he crumpled the Sandwich wrap with one hand and popped the rest of the sandwich into his mouth before getting up to wander around for no reason before returning to his office to continue on with his work.
"Inutaisho!" A woman's voice thundered through the room. Inutaisho flinched. He knew that Izayoi would explode on him once she found out that he had sent all three of them to Hong Kong. The doors to the dining room was thrown open. "I know you're in there! Come out now!" Inutaisho had been hiding under the dining table for several hours now, despite the fact that he knew Izayoi would eventually find him. Inutaisho wondered if he could dash out from his hiding space. After all, Izayoi might have had problems trying to catch him. Inutaisho sucked in his breath and rushed out of his hiding place upsetting some chairs, but immediately he felt Izayoi's hand clamp around the scruff of his shirt. Obviously, he was never fast enough for his wife.
Nervously, Inutaisho turned around to face his wife whose violet eyes were burning with anger. Inutaisho trembled and dropped to his knees begging his wife not to kill him. "Please Izayoi! I know I foiled your plans, but don't you think Kagome should be with Inuyasha instead of Sesshoumaru?"
"No! Not now, not ever! Sesshoumaru loves Kagome and I'm not sure about Kagome."
"But I'm sure that Kagome and Inuyasha love each other…"
"But…"
"Izayoi," Inutaisho said as he stood up, now turning dead serious, "Inuyasha and Kagome had always been close ever since childhood, even if their relations were always err… eccentric, but they've always been inseparable. When they were children they were always causing trouble together even if they would sometimes try to beat each other senseless, then in Middle School, they always served detentions together. When they got into High School they would always pair with each other and now they're both CEOs."
"That's because YOU made Kagome a CEO."
"Yes, I did, but she has the potentials. Also, another reason why I placed Kagome with Inuyasha was because they work well with each other better than they think."
"Inutaisho, although Kagome and Inuyasha are very good friends, it doesn't stop them from arguing all the time."
"Well, what about Sesshoumaru? Kagome can't stand him and neither can he stand her."
"It's not what you think Inutaisho."
Sesshoumaru dragged Kagome down the streets of Hong Kong, weaving past a group of tourists who shouted insults as his long silvery hair ruined the scene for their cameras. He dashed across the street, ignoring the red light for the walkers and forcing several cars to screech to a halt. Finally, he pulled Kagome out near on the dock of the Star Ferry. The sun's rays splashed down on her making her face glow so beautifully that Sesshoumaru feared that some random person on the streets would snatch her away. Gripping her shoulders firmly, but not so that she would be in pain, Sesshoumaru asked her if she had time for dinner on Sunday.
"Sunday?" Kagome wondered aloud. She took her palm pilot out and scanned Sunday only concluding with calling Rin and Kaede at four in the afternoon. She also knew that Rin would not stop talking until two hours later, meaning that their conversation would terminate roughly around six to six thirty. "Well… that depends on the time."
"Dinner at seven."
"Well, okay, I guess I'm free, but I have to go back at around…"
"Nine. I know; we have a plane to catch on Monday."
Kagome sweat-dropped and took a step back holding her hands in front of her to signify that she wasn't feeling very fine with Sesshoumaru's sudden demands. Unfortunately she took one too many steps back and fell into the ocean with a shriek. "KYAAAAAAAAAAA!" She resurfaced, the beautiful knots in her hair coming loose. Without further ado, Sesshoumaru snatched a pole that was leaning against the wall and held it out so that Kagome could grab it. Unfortunately, the terrified woman was too scared to notice anything.
"Kagome! Grab onto the pole so I can pull you out!"
"Nu-nuh… help me!"
While Sesshoumaru was trying to prod Kagome to grab onto the pole so he could pull her back to shore, a blur of white and black whizzed by him and landed straight into the water. "KAGOME!" The figure shouted as he swam to the terrified woman. He had long silver hair that billowed about him as he swam to Kagome. It took Sesshoumaru several minutes to realize that this figure was Inuyasha. There was no mistaking the two snowy-white dog ears that stuck out of his head. "KAGOME!" Inuyasha shouted.
Inuyasha quickly grabbed the woman before she could do anything else, the last thing he needed was being ducked underwater by a panicky CEO. He pulled Kagome closer to his body and hugged her. "Shhh… it's okay, you won't drown… I've got you… shhh…" Kagome quickly hugged him back, gripping him a little too tightly for comfort. Nonetheless, she had stopped screaming and crying. Inuyasha softly stroked her hair and told her that he wasn't going to let her sink into the sea like that. "Don't worry, I'll always be there for you." By that time, the only sounds were the gentle lapping of water against the port and the sounds of Inuyasha's legs treading in the water. He ignored that fact that his two-thousand-dollar Armani suit was ruined, and hugged her back.
Kagome's firm grip on his arms loosened and Inuyasha decided that now was the time to return to the port. When he returned to the dock, the crowd exploded into claps and words of approval. The coast guard offered Kagome a hand, but she refused to let go of Inuyasha, who actually seemed as if he didn't mind. "What you did was very monumental, stupid, but monumental." The coast guard told Inuyasha. Ignoring his hand, Inuyasha repositions Kagome in his arms so that he held her bridal-style, and crouched down in the water, making Kagome panic only slightly, but he leapt out of the water.
The people watched in awe as Inuyasha sailed through air as if in slow motion. The tiny water droplets around him sparkled in the sun looking like diamonds winking around him. Some of the women placed their hands on their chests and sighed dramatically. Inuyasha landed neatly on his feet next to his brother. He lowered the surprised woman onto the ground and was about to let her go, when she suddenly hugged him. The look on Inuyasha's face was priceless. He didn't seem to know what to do. He blushed slightly before hastily pushing Kagome away.
Kagome tumbled along the desk as Inuyasha abruptly turned away from her. For a while, Kagome was shocked, then her beautiful chocolate-brown eyes, which had a few stray tears left over from her previous traumatic event, narrowed into suspicious slits. "Inuyasha…" She growled, "How dare you push me like that!"
"KEH! You were the one who suddenly grabbed me!"
"Well, how about when I was in the water? You hugged me too!" Immediately, Inuyasha's face slightly turned pink. He opened and closed his mouth not knowing what else to say.
"That's… that… was because… you…" He suddenly lost his temper and shouted at her: "THAT'S SO YOU DIDN'T JUMP ON MY HEAD AND DRAG ME UNDER WATER!" Kagome's mouth opened and closed in shock and horror. The other people around them began to back away as Kagome suddenly seemed as if she was glowing with anger. Inuyasha didn't seem to notice and turned his head away from her, his eyes closed and his mouth adamantly pouting. His right eyebrow twitched slightly. And suddenly, squeezing water out of his hair seemed to important.
"WHAT? WHY YOU… YOU ARE SUCH A… GRRR! YOU'RE SO ANNOYING! DAMN YOU!"
"SO?" Inuyasha shouted back, still not looking at her in the eye. Kagome went on a fit as Inuyasha casually squeezed water out of his hair Kagome suddenly started screaming every single obscene language she knew at Inuyasha. Inuyasha pretended she didn't exist as he took his shoe off and held it upside down. A small stream of water splashed out of it along with some ugly looking fish. Suddenly, he felt a high heeled shoe hit his head and he landed flat on his face. "WHAT THE FUCK?" He shouted turning around. The sight he saw immediately freaked him out.
Kagome was standing there as her hair seemingly billowed about her as she glared at him. "You… dare… ignore… me…" Inuyasha grabbed his brother and hid behind him shivering slightly. "TAKE THAT! AND THAT! AND THAT! YOU ANNOYING, UNSENSITIVE PIECE OF SHIT!" Suddenly a rain of items flew at the two brothers, Sesshoumaru looking slightly perturbed. Another ruined Chanel high heel flew at them. Suddenly Sesshoumaru snapped back to reality and tried to get behind Inuyasha, who kept of running around in circles so that Sesshoumaru was directly in front of him. Suddenly a huge hook flew at them.
The two of them lost their senses and started to scream quite loudly. They were now hugging each other, rooted to the spot. Luckily, they managed to break away, and the hook crashed into the dock. The coast guards tried to calm Kagome down, but when she glared at them, they immediately backed away, not wanting to be a part of her tantrum.
A rain of strange items flew at the Suzuki brothers as they dodged every single one of them, still screaming so loudly that their tonsils showed. "I HATE EVERY SINGLE ONE OF YOU! YOU TWO SUCK! DID YOU HEAR ME? YOU SUCK!" By the time Kagome calmed down, Inuyasha and Sesshoumaru looked ruined. Sesshoumaru's usually neatly groomed hair was now tangled with a strange assortment of weird looking fish-hooks, sea-weed, fish nets, remains of a tire, and so on. His suit was slightly wrinkled and stained with engine oil. Inuyasha, on the other paw, was a complete wreck. He had several bruises on his face, and had about thirty rusted cans and ugly looking fish in his hair. On top of that, his hair was soaked in dirty ocean water and somehow, a ruined Chanel high heel hung off his left ear and he had some strange, dirty black stuff smudged over his face, hair and shirt.
Kagome stood there panting, as people ran away from her, clearly petrified. Even the police were terrified and retreated quickly along with the people, leaving Inuyasha and Sesshoumaru to their demise. "What did I do?" Sesshoumaru finally asked, glaring at the woman.
"SHUT UP!" Kagome snapped, "That very cocky look on your face just makes me so… so… mad!" Sesshoumaru immediately snapped his mouth shut and decided that it wasn't wise to snap back at her. Inuyasha in the meantime cowered behind Sesshoumaru shivering uncontrollably. "Inuyasha…" Kagome snarled, as she advanced on Inuyasha,. Inuyasha prayed to all the gods that existed in the world, even creating several gods of his own that Kagome wouldn't do something freaky to him. "I don't EVER want to see you again!" With that Kagome stomped past Inuyasha, who looked slightly disappointed that she didn't hit him again.
Kagome had not spoken to Inuyasha throughout the rest of the day, making him feel extremely bummed out. Sesshoumaru had gone back to their apartment, but Inuyasha decided to take a little walk down the fashion avenue of Hong Kong. Inuyasha wandered down the roads staring idly at the clothing that were displayed. As he walked down the streets, people kept on staring at him in horror. "Yeah, I look fucking ugly with all this shit in my hair, don't I?" Inuyasha asked a passing British businessman who looked as if he wanted to laugh. The man looked horrified and quickly went on his way. Inuyasha sighed. Just his luck; not only did he smell like engine oil, but he also had this repulsive dirty seawater smell about him.
Suddenly, his phone gave out a shrill ring. People were generally surprised that Inuyasha was able to own a waterproof cell phone, and started to whisper among themselves. "What?" Inuyasha snapped into the phone sounding generally annoyed.
"M-mister Suzuki?"
"Naraku? Pray, tell me that father decided to pull me out of here."
"Umm… that is not why I c-c-called you."
"Well?"
"It's about your horse."
"Jesus! Did you think I'd even want to hear about that goddamn thing? It's so annoying, all it does is eat and buck me, why should I care about my horse? In fact, if that thing died, I couldn't have cared any more."
"Well, maybe this may be a… s-s-slightly better… uh… umm… n-n-news… but umm… you know… well I uh… sort of, oh the weather there is perfect, I presume?" Inuyasha narrowed his eyes suspiciously, despite the fact that Naraku could not see that, he made it very clear that he wasn't very happy with Naraku by giving him a long, heavy silence. The sound of Naraku clearing his throat was heard on the other end of the phone, "Well… uh… maybe the weather isn't so uh… great there, so uh… yeah! But the weather in New York is absolutely fabulous! The sun is shining and Mr. Inutaisho seems very… uh… well, Mr. Suzuki seems to be more energized than uh… usual…"
"NARAKU!" Inuyasha thundered in a terrible voice. The sound of Naraku falling over was heard on the other end before the sound of feet scurrying back was heard. "Did I ask you to talk about the fucking weather right now?"
"N-no sir, of course not!"
"And I hope you realize that I know that you are evading whatever topic you must bring up when you talk about the damn weather. Now be straight with me, what the… what is going on with my damn horse?"
"Well, your horse… I sold him."
A huge grin of delight formed on Inuyasha's mouth, spreading slowly across his face until his whole face lit up. In fact, he looked much more handsome that way and many of the women on the streets realized that this smelly, dirty CEO was quite handsome after all. "Well! Now THAT is good news! You sold that thing! I do not know how I can thank you, that blasted thing was getting on my nerves for every second." A sigh of relief was heard on the other end of the phone indicating that Naraku was completely relieved. However, the tension came back.
"Then I suppose this next bit of news won't be so pleasing to you."
"Oh? And what might that be?"
"Um… ah… well, your horse, I mean, the horse, of course, heh, heh, sort of missed you so the new owner decided to…" Suddenly, a sickeningly familiar neigh split through the busy streets, making everyone scatter. Inuyasha stiffed and slowly turned around to see his horse, no, the horse charging at him head-on, in full speed.
"ARRRRRRRRRRRGH!" Inuyasha screamed accidentally into the phone as the horse somehow picked him up with its nastily large teeth and threw him on its back galloping madly across the streets of Hong Kong. "No! NO! Stop! I command you to stop! NARAKU, YOU SON OF A BITCH! WHY DIDN'T YOU TELL ME THIS BITCH OF A HORSE WAS GOING TO COME HERE? HEY! I TOLD YOU TO FUCKING STOP!" The horse ignored Inuyasha's frantic screaming and continued to gallop madly around the streets even making it's way to the tunnel that ran under the sea to Kowloong. "If you do not stop right this instant, I won't give you any apples or oats!" Immediately, the horse screeched to a halt. "Good horse, very good. Now calmly walk to the nearest supermarket and I'll buy you ten boxes of apples." The horse gave a snort of satisfaction as it slowly trotted its way back to where Inuyasha was.
"Wow. So that was how you controlled that horse of yours." A voice came from behind him. Inuyasha turned around and found himself facing an old man who, like Myoga, had bulbous eyes and had his meager amount of gray hair up in a high ponytail. "Oh, forgive me, I forgot to introduce myself. My name is Toutosai, Toutosai…"
"Toutosai Yuma, yes, I know you. You are father's friend."
"Well! You must be Inuyasha."
"Yes I am, now please buy your horse some apples, because it interrupted me with my mourning, and I'd hate to see it be cheated."
"You do care about my horse after all!"
"Uh… no, it's just that it suddenly starts bucking and neighing it's ass off, if you don't get what you promised it."
"Oh. Then I'll get it ten boxes of apples… what a waste of money…" Toutosai walked away scowling about buying spoiled horses.
Inuyasha sighed in relief as Toutosai led the horse away assuring it that he was going to buy it apples. Feeling somewhat relieved about escaping the horse, Inuyasha reverted back to walking down the road with a dejected look back on his face. As he passed a Chanel store, something began to bother him, so he reached up and yanked whatever the thing that was bothering him off his head when he realized he was holding onto one of Kagome's ruined Chanel shoes. Although his face was clouded with annoyance from the memories of Kagome tossing things at him after saving her life, Inuyasha's heart and mind told him that he had to apologize to her no matter what. He stared at the display window, and noticed that he was staring at the exact same pair that he was holding.
The image of Kagome going back to work barefooted suddenly zoomed into his mind and he knew he had to apologize. Who knew? Kagome could have hugged him because her shock still didn't wear off. This was it. He had to apologize to her when he found the moment, the faster, the better. Inuyasha nodded firmly to himself, then subconsciously ran his fingers through his messy mane. God, he had to do something about it. Shrugging to himself, Inuyasha quickly made his way to the closest public bathroom, buying a pair of cheap black socks off a street vender. First, he began to take the nasty pieces of junk out of his hair. He stuck his head into the water and did his best to wash out the rancid smell in his hair. He took his suit and shirt off and did his best to wash the stain of gasoline stain on his shirt. Luckily, it was on his stomach. His tie was royally screwed, so he took it off and chucked it. With that, Inuyasha put his shirt back on and did his best to take out the wrinkles from his suit and straightened his pants. When he was done with his suit jacket, he let it hang so it wouldn't wrinkle. He dusted off all the salt that had formed on his suit when the seawater dried up. He checked his belt and luckily, it didn't look too bad. Using a paper towel, he wiped the salt-crystals off it. As for his shoes, he quickly took them off and squeezed the water out. Using many paper towels, Inuyasha dried the shoe up, starting on the inside then working his way on the outside. He took his soggy socks off and tossed them in the garbage.
Because his hair still looked messy, so Inuyasha quickly fished through his pockets, and when he came up with nothing, he reached back into the garbage and took out his ruined tie. Using that, he tied his hair up into its rare ponytail, making him look a million times more handsome than when he had his hair down. In fact, he looked even more like Inutaisho with his hair up. Using some more paper towels, he did his best to dry his hair up, and when it was a little dryer than damp, using his fingers, he rearranged his bangs so that they didn't look so clumped. All the salt in his hair was gone because he washed his hair with water. Inuyasha checked to see if his Omega watch was still running and was satisfied that it was still ticking. Of course, it was waterproof, after all. Satisfied that his watch wasn't ruined, Inuyasha sat on the toilet and pulled the new dry socks on and put on his shoes. He inspected his shoe and was satisfied that it didn't look too bad. Finally, he pulled his collar up so that it made a high collar around his neck. He then pulled his suit on and buttoned the front up so that the stain was covered. He unbuttoned one button and smoothed his suit down, tugging the sleeves of his shirt. With one last dust, Inuyasha looked ready. In fact, if someone didn't scrutinize him too much, he looked quite good. Suddenly remembering that his wallet might have looked a little scruffy, Inuyasha pulled his wallet out. Much to his dismay, the leather had already started to wrinkle. Inuyasha died his wallet the best he could. Frilling his bangs one last time, Inuyasha left the bathroom. It was no use walking into a Chanel store looking like a wreck. Heck, they would have kicked him out thinking he was some sort of bum.
As he took a casual stroll through the department store, Inuyasha quickly grabbed the cologne he usually wore and sprayed himself a couple times. He would have rather died than to have done that, but he didn't have time to go back to his apartment to make himself at least smell slightly better. Inuyasha was about to walk away from the cologne section, when the saleslady leaned seductively in his face. Putting on a nervous look, Inuyasha arched back slightly. "May I help you?" She asked, flashing her tongue out at him. The nervous look on Inuyasha's face rapidly vanished and was replaced with annoyance.
"Excuse me, I do not need help from the likes of you."
"Oh, I'm sure you need help… maybe you like me spray cologne on neck?" Inuyasha's eye twitched slightly. "Or maybe…"
"Woman," He said, his voice dangerously low to almost a canine growl, "First of all, I do not need your assistance, and secondly men do not spray cologne on their neck." With one last cold shoulder, Inuyasha turned and left. He was a busy person. He needed to get those pair of shoes. Sighing and mentally complaining about slutty gold diggers, Inuyasha quickly made his way to the same Chanel store. He eagerly pushed through the doors and was greeted almost immediately by four salesladies.
"Hello, is there anything we can help you with?"
"Yes. My uh… girlfriend just ruined her shoe, and I was hoping that you had the same design."
"Oh? Which design was that shoe?"
"Well, I didn't know how to describe it, so I brought the ruined shoe. Inuyasha held the ruined Chanel shoes at the women. They exchanged looks that clearly read: Okay…
"We'll see what we can do. If you could just hand me the shoe, I can go find the model for it. In the meantime, why don't you make yourself comfortable?" The saleslady led Inuyasha towards a plushy black and white couch. Inuyasha nodded curtly and sat down, hoping his socks didn't look too cheap. "This should take a moment. In the meantime, would you like anything? Coffee? Tea?"
"Yes please, I would like a cup of coffee… oh yes, black please."
"Right away."
As if on cue, one of the women disappeared somewhere and the saleslady that Inuyasha spoke to immediately disappeared into the storage room and about three minutes later, one of the remaining three women returned with a steaming cup of cappuccino and placed it front of him. Inuyasha took a sip and waited for the woman to come back out. After what seemed like hours, the woman returned… empty-handed. "I'm terribly sorry, but this model has sold out."
"There's not even one pair left?"
"Yes. The last pair was bought about five minutes ago."
"Jesus Christ, why does everyone go crazy about one stupid pair of shoes?" Inuyasha snapped to himself. "People these days, no work, all play." Inuyasha shook his head sadly, his silver locks dancing. He didn't even notice that when he did that two of the salesladies fainted. "Very well then, I suppose Kagome wouldn't mind if I bought her a different pair of shoes… by the way… who bought the last pair."
"Umm… well…" Suddenly a dreamy look crossed the saleslady's face, Inuyasha began to feel slightly uncomfortable. No, it couldn't possibly be him could it? "He had very long hair, and it was the same color as yours…" The remaining one saleslady (the one who managed not to faint in front of Inuyasha) let out a sigh, "And his piercing gold eyes were so sexy…"
"SESSHOUMARU! THAT BASTARD! HOW DARE HE PICK ON KAGOME! THE BASTARD DOESN'T EVEN LIKE HUMANS! WHAT THE HELL IS HE DOING BUYING KAGOME THE SAME PAIR, WHEN…"
"You… you're… you're…" The saleslady's eyes suddenly became large and puppy-like. Inuyasha immediately stiffened. He knew that look, he just knew it. "INUYASHA!"
"Uh… umm… actually… I'm uh…"
"Oh my god! What is it with us today? First we see Sesshoumaru and then now his younger brother!" The other one screamed ignoring the ones that had fainted and were still lying on the floor, out cold. "Inuyasha! It's Inuyasha! Can I have your autograph?" Inuyasha blinked at the delirious woman before him.
"Erm… actually, I'm a… uh… I'm an Inuyasha wannabe. My name's actually…" Inuyasha quickly thought of a name, "Inutaisho." Damn him! Why did he think about his father's name? But it was too late he had already said it. Why didn't I just say Naraku? Stupid Inuyasha, STUPID! He thought to himself, mentally slapping his head. "Yeah, my name's Inutaisho."
"Oh? That's funny, you sound very much like Inuyasha… and you look so much like him. Are you sure, you're just pretending? You're using your father's name as a disguise aren't you?"
"Actually, my name is uh… coincidentally the same as the great Inutaisho, father of Sesshoumaru and Inuyasha."
"Then why did you suddenly shouted: 'Sesshoumaru! That Bastard!'?"
"Well… I like to imitate Inuyasha at times, you see, I so want to be like him, but I absolutely assure you that I am not Inuyasha, my name is Inutaisho Boushin."
"Oh. Okay. So… how did you get yourself to look like this? I mean, your eyes, your hair, your ears, face structure…"
"It's easy! Have you ever heard of color contacts, hair dye, and the wonders of plastic surgery? With those, you can imitate nearly anyone. In fact, I can run over to the plastic surgeon right now, and I can come back looking like that coc—Sesshoumaru with the simply slice of a scalpel! But I like Inuyasha much better."
"Then your ears?"
"Look, like I said before…" Inuyasha snarled, now getting very angry, hell, he should have told them that he was Inuyasha, then he should have given them his damn autograph and those million of photo shoots. "It's the wonders of plastic surgery." The woman opened her mouth to say more, but Inuyasha quickly cut her off, "Oh, and the same with the voice, it's called voice transplant… yep, voice transplant…" He nodded as he said that.
"You act so much like him!"
"Look! Just let me see the damn shoes already!" Sighing loudly, Inuyasha rubbed his temples with his clawed hands.
"Those claws… are they fake nails?"
"OKAY! YES! I AM THE GREAT INUYASHA, SO LEAVE ME THE HELL ALONE, OKAY?" The woman's eyes lit up automatically, and immediately, Inuyasha reacted. "Oh no, that was a joke. Just a joke! You see, when I crack jokes, I sound serious, but you know, I'm not really… you know… heh, heh…" The woman looked at him as if he were nuts.
"Sally, where should I place this picture?" One woman Inuyasha never noticed came walking into the room holding up a picture frame of Sesshoumaru holding up his pair of shoes, those very same pair of shoes that Inuyasha was supposed to buy. "DAMN SESSHOUMARU! WHEN I SEE HIM, I'LL SKIN HIM ALIVE AND THEN FEED HIS INSIDES TO THE DAMN FISHES IN THE SEA! Oh… now that was a joke!" Inuyasha quickly added, when the woman stared at him with her eyes wide.
"Oh! Now Sesshoumaru's younger brother's here! Wow! Why don't you pose while Eunice gets the camera… uh… why is Eunice lying on the ground like that?"
"She passed out on the wrong person. He's just an Inuyasha-wannabe…"
"Yup!" Inuyasha placed his elbow on a rack of clothes and nodded. Suddenly, the rack of clothes moved slightly and he landed on the floor with a thud. At the same time, his phone rang. Inuyasha quickly sat up and grabbed his phone. "Hello?"
"INUYASHAAAAA! WHAT THE FUCK DID YOU DO TO…"
"OH JOHN! YOU DIDN'T HAVE TO CALL ME THAT!" Inuyasha suddenly yelled into the phone. "LOOK, JUST CALL ME BY MY REAL NAME AND EVERYTHING'S COOL!"
"Inuyasha… are you…"
"AH! DON'T PLAY JOKES ON ME, YOU KNOW MY REAL NAME… INUTAISHO!"
"Inuyasha, why are you using father's…"
"OH REALLY? WELL, I HAVE TO GO NOW… BY THE WAY, HOW MANY TIMES DO I HAVE TO TELL YOU NOT TO CALL ME WHEN I'M TRYING TO PICK OUT A NICE DRESS FOR MY GIRLFRIEND? REALLY?"
"Inuyasha…"
"WELL, I'M NOT SURE, OH… YEAH? YEAH?"
"INU—"
"GOTTA GO NOW, I NEED FULL CONCENTRATION NOW! SEE YOU!" Inuyasha immediately hung up and straightened his suit.
"Yeah, that was his name, Inutaisho, quite a coincidence."
"Well, they look so similar, let's take a picture of him anyway and show everyone that…"
"Look, I'm here to get my girlfriend a pair of new shoes. So can we please?"
"Well, okay."
"And NO, I do NOT need your help. I can look myself." Inuyasha quickly added and walked away from the women. He looked around for a descent pair. Since the ones he was looking for was bought by SESSHOUMARU, he had to buy something even better. "Oh, and I need her size." He quickly reached over and snatched the shoe out of the surprised saleslady's hand. Inuyasha looked around; something business-y but sexy and beautiful. Easy-peasy! Inuyasha sighed. He held up a pair of white shoes, but they looked too corny, so he put it back down. He picked up a sandal, but it was too formal, so he reached for another shoe. Finally, he picked up another shoe. It was black and pointed, but not too much, in fact, the toes were like fat triangles. The leather was not too shiny, and it wasn't too decorative. These were the ones. "Do you have the same size as these shoes… erm… make that shoe." Inuyasha held up the soggy, ruined shoe.
"We'll see what we can do." The saleslady disappeared. Twenty minutes later, she returned with the shoes. "Luckily, there is a size."
"Good. I'll take those." Inuyasha tapped his chin with a clawed finger; these shoes were good enough, although Sesshoumaru did get the original pair. In fact, on Kagome's foot, the shoes he chose would have been so much better than her original shoes. Grinning evilly, Inuyasha rubbed his hands together. Oh yes, Sesshoumaru was going to cry. The very prospect of Sesshoumaru sobbing on the ground made Inuyasha burst out laughing in a wild, evil manner. "Mu-ha-ha-ha-ha!" He laughed, as he tossed his head back and held his hands up. "I AM INVINCIBLE!" He suddenly shouted throwing his arms up in the air.
"Uh… sir, I think you can stop now…"
"Oh sorry, that was just a…"
"Joke."
"Yes! A joke! And I do not appreciate your attitude." Inuyasha suddenly snapped, poking the woman before him. The look of triumph vanished from his face and was now replaced with a scowl.
"Of course, I apologize. Now, would you like to buy these shoes by cash or credit card?"
"Credit card." Inuyasha shoved his credit card towards the woman praying to the gods that she didn't see the INUYASHA SUZUKI that was blatantly scrawled across the card. The woman took his card and simply put it through the card-scanning machine. Inuyasha quickly grabbed the card so that nobody saw his name. The saleslady named Sally wrinkled her nose at the sight of Inuyasha's wallet. "I know, it looks very nasty right now doesn't it? Well, some cocky asshole pushed me and my wallet fell into the sewage system. Luckily, some people were working on the sewage system, so I got one of them to get it for me."
"Would you like to buy another wallet."
"Oh, no, no! No way! I have… I mean, I'm very attached to this wallet. There are so many memories with it. Like the time I threw it at Sesshoumaru's head and then he lost his cool for the first time in his whole entire life."
"That was a joke right?"
"Huh? The Sesshoumaru one, no it was… actually, YES! Yes! It WAS a joke! Heh, heh!" Sally gave him this strange expression that clearly read: you're weird.
"Please sign this."
"Oh! Absolutely!" Inuyasha grabbed the slip and scrawled his name across from it. It didn't hurt to put his real name down on the slip of paper. Besides, it would have been weird if He wrote Inutaisho Boushin (whatever the heck of a last name he invented this time) when the small typed letters clearly read INUYASHA SUZUKI. Inuyasha quickly signed his name and held onto the paper so that he got his package first. Sally tried to take it from him, but he kept a firm hand on the slip, laughing nervously. He also made sure that his name was covered.
"Excuse me, I need this."
"I need my package first."
One of the other salesladies came and handed him the shiny Chanel bag. As Inuyasha took the bag, Sally asked him, "Now why would you do that?" Inuyasha made sure that he had a firm grip on the handles of the bag.
"Well, first of all, I need to make a clear run…" Inuyasha immediately released his grip on the receipt and tore the copy off as he backed away from her, "Because…" The three salesladies leaned in on him eagerly, now very curious about what he was talking about, "Because…" Inuyasha neared the door…
"You're a phony! You stole the card!" Sally suddenly screamed. Inuyasha literally smacked his head with the bag.
"NO! It's because," He took a deep breath then said very quickly: "IAMINUYASHA! BYE!"
"What?"
"I said… I! AM! INUYASHA! I! LIED! EEEP!" Inuyasha backed out of the door as fast as he could when the mad gleam returned to the eyes of all three salesladies. Suddenly he paused, opened the door again and stuck his head back into the store: "Forgot… tip for believing my lies! BYE!" Inuyasha quickly tossed 20,000 Hong Kong dollars at the women before quickly sticking his head back out to the safety of the outdoor world.
"ARRRRRRRRRGH! INUYASHA! I LOVE YOU!" Sally screamed, "YOU'RE EVEN BETTER THAN SESSHOUMARU!" Inuyasha ran away as fast as his legs could carry him. He kept on running his head off and when he was sure that he was safe, he stopped. He opened the bag and realized that the box was too light. The night sky of Hong Kong swirled around him as he gaped at the empty box before him. He had to go back now! "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" He screamed. Inuyasha's screaming echoed throughout the city, it was so loud that it caused several car accidents. "I HAVE TO GO BACK TO THOSE RABID FANGIRLS! NOOOOOOOO!"
LONGEST CHAPTER YET! I hope it was hilarious enough, because the last three chapters weren't funny enough! Anyway, maybe my story got boring, since so little people are reviewing all of a sudden. So maybe this should do the trick. Anyway… next chapter: Chapter Eight: Sibling Rivalry. This next chapter would be a hilarious one, and we see more of Kagome in the chapter! Then more chibi flashbacks in this next chapter! Love you all! Please review!