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Overtime
Chapter 5
Kagome looked up hopefully to the clock behind her.
'Yes, lunch time.' She pushed open the door to the staff room a little too excited to stamp out her card. She was met with a pained yelp and stopped. She looked behind the door to see a young man with crutches sprawled out on the floor.
'Shoot, I must have hit him.' "Oh my god..." Kagome was at his side in an instant. Inuyasha's muffled laughing could be heard from across the room. "It's fine.." said the boy while trying to peel himself off of the tiled floor.
Feeling terrible, Kagome helped him up. He smiled at her kindly.
"Hi, I'm Hojo."
"Nice to meet you, I'm Kagome." She said trying to sound friendly and not so jinxed or danger prone. "I'm so sorry…" she motioned to his leg. "What happened?" She suddenly regretted asking.
'That was kind of nosy for someone's first day.'
"Oh, this? Well, I was helping an elderly woman across the street and…um…." Hojo tapped on his chin, looking like he was trying to remember something.
"He was trying to pull a box out from the top shelf, lost balance on the ladder and fell flat on his ass." Inuyasha cut in flatly, not even looking the slightest bit interested in their conversation. "And thus, the leg."
Kagome stared at Hojo confused for a bit, then back at Inuyasha. Hojo reddened in embarrassment and stalked away, crutches and all. "Okay…" Kagome muttered as she put down her stuff on the couch beside Inuyasha.
She then went out the door to find the food court for some lunch, and was happy to see that basically everyone else was there too.
Back in the staffroom, Inuyasha tried very hard not to notice her stuff beside him, but it was difficult. Why would she sit beside him if there were three other couches, not including chairs.
Three!
'Damnit...' Inuyasha inwardly cursed, 'I'm not being mean enough! I'm not going to lose pay to a girl like her!' Not quite sure what kind of girl a 'girl like her' was, he looked at the TV, then to her stuff, his eyes nervously darting from the two.
Back and forth.
Then again.
After about twenty minutes Kagome returned from the mall, entered the store and went back to the staff room. She cautiously opened the door, avoiding a repeat of the guy with crutches, and went straight to the couch Inuyasha was sitting on. He didn't even blink at her presence. She looked down to find her stuff gone. "Huh…"
'I thought I left my bag here.' Kagome surveyed the area to find her stuff on the other side of the room. Inuyasha was the only person in there at the moment, he must have moved it. 'That prick…' she thought and then moved to where her stuff lay. She sat down with a huff and stared at the television...more like glared at it. 'What's so bad about sitting with me? He doesn't even know me!' Kagome couldn't take it anymore and finally blurted out, "Inuyasha, is there a legitimate reason why you felt compelled to move my things, or are you just ani-social?"
He kept his purple orbs fixed on the TV before him. She was greeted with the stern voice of Murrue Ramius communicating with the strike GUNDAM.
"Inuyasha," Kagome pressed.
"Buster, Launching!"
"Inuyasha?"
"This couch," He began to reply, not even looking at her, "Is my couch." He finally turned to face her. "Just making sure you got that." Inuyasha resumed watching Gundam SEED, carelessly popping chips in his mouth from time to time.
Kagome just looked at him with her mouth wide open in distaste to his rudeness but abruptly shut in when she heard,
"Might wanna close that, your mouth is open so wide a bird could perch in there." Inuyasha laughed and it was hard to tell if it was from the TV or his lame joke but she didn't even stay long enough to find out. She left the room with an, "I can't even remember why I chose a job here." The door closed sharply behind her.
"Hey!" Inuyasha said to himself with a grin. "I can't remember either!" 'She'll be outta here in no time, no time at all…'
Boy, did he have another thing coming. Two can play that game Inuyasha.
End of chapter five