Chapter 2-
"Watch out Sango!" A petite raven-haired woman screamed. The woman named Sango turned too late and a shot echoed through the hall.
"No! Sango!" the woman screamed.
Sango looked up at her with disbelieve and began to fall forward on top of a pile of people. She looked up one more time before smiling, "Sorry, I'm really sorry. Please believe me. I should have done something I should have told you or never did… what… they…" But she never finished.
The raven-haired woman tried to run forward, but it was like she didn't have any legs anymore. "Please someone help me! Someone help her!" The cry tore out of her throat, but it didn't sound like any language. It was squeaks and growls.
'What happened to me?' She wondered.
Tears fell down her face and hit her hands like acid. This was just like a nightmare a terrible nightmare. She had lost everyone. Everyone, even the one she loved. She was alone now with the vile creature.
"Kagome." Something rasped behind her.
A shiver worked up her spine and she began to turn. "Kagome!" The sound was growing louder. "Would you get up? Kagome! You're going to be late again!"
'What?'
"KAGOME!" Someone screeched yet again.
Kagome jerked her eyes open and looked around her in relief. Thank goodness. It had only been a dream. A nightmare really, but still it wasn't real. She was laying on her bed in her small but lovely apartment. Shared with her best friend Sango. A knot began in her throat. Sango had been killed in her dream.
'But it had only been a dream.' Kagome thought with a sigh.
She looked up into the emerald depths of her best friends eyes and began to smile. Sango really needed a haircut, badly too. But other then that Sango was very beautiful. Many guys had been after her, but none had caught her fancy. Kagome didn't blame her either. Men were so stuck up now days you couldn't go anywhere without bumping into one that just wanted you in the sac.
Sango's hair was the shade of chestnuts and she was taller then most women. Her attitude was simple and sweet. Shy, nice -same old same old- but she did have a depressing past one that she had never told anyone except for Kagome. Sango's family had died when she had only been 16. But her brother had survived and Sango had to take care of them or the orphanage would have split them apart. So Sango quit school and took up a job letting Kohaku go to school and get a degree. But Kohaku had died from an epidemic going on in the city and Sango was back in school with a new family.
That was when Kagome had met her. Surrounded by boys bossing her around. Kagome had been about to step in when Sango began busting some moves. Karate, fighting in all styles, until all the boys had been lying on the ground groaning in pain.
The start of a beautiful friendship followed. And they were together ever since. Following each other around and back talking men. Kagome smiled up at Sango and giggled.
"Sango I'm always late. They never fire me, I'm too important for the job. Don't worry about it." Kagome looked over at the clock by her bed, and then looked away.
'Wait a minute,' she thought.
A quick glance at the clock again said that she had slept in to about noon. Kagome's eyes bulged. "The boss is gonna kill me. She'll rip me apart then stick me back together to rip me apart again." Kagome flew out of the bed in a flash of red pajamas and then a moment later you could hear the water rushing in the shower.
Sango sighed and walked over to her side of the room to finish getting ready for the day.
"Kagome will never learn. Will she?" Sango said aloud. "Shut Up Sango" Sango could hear vaguely from the bathroom.
Sango smiled and began her makeup.
Miroku came cruising in his new red Cadillac to pick up Kagome and Sango for lunch. He had been lucky enough to grab Sango's attention for more then a minute and he was very proud of the fact. Even though he had grabbed her ass to do so. Miroku blushed at the reminder.
'I have to keep my hands to myself today. I have to or I may not live to watch tomorrow's sunrise.' Miroku thought. Then he snorted, 'like that will ever happen.'
The building that they worked at came into view and he sighed. Finally he had made it; he lived at least seventy-five miles away. And it took a toll on a fine young man. A parking place came into view and Miroku began to shower himself with compliments of finding such a perfect place to park, when a light purple beetle came rushing into his spot.
"Damn it!" He yelled while slamming his head on the steering wheel. The wheel honked and he glanced up at the beetle. Two women came out of the car and he began to smile goofily. Sango and Kagome, the two prettiest girls in town. The girls that broke ever man's heart that came up to them. Except for him of course.
"Hey! Kagome, Sango! Wait up!" He yelled in hopes of gaining their attention. It worked and they stopped to glance behind them. Kagome began to say something in Sango's ear which mad Sango blush and Kagome laugh Hysterically. Miroku watched amazed as Sango pushed
Kagome to the ground. Miroku found a place to park and then jumped out of his car hurrying to them.
Today he would be with the most beautiful lady in the world.
Sango regretted talking to Miroku the day before. Now she couldn't even get him away from her. Her treacherous mind reminded her that he was very handsome and that yesterday she had actually felt like a human being in a man's presence then an artifact.
'Stop that.' She scolded herself.
She glanced over her cubicle wall to find Kagome looking at some pictures of men that she had dated in high school. Sango sighed and sank back down to listen to Miroku.
Kagome had never been great with men. They had always found her so naïve that they could just say they loved her and take her to bed. But she had always pushed them away in the end when she found out what they had planned to do.
She had always acted okay about the situations, but Sango knew that kagome had always thought she had been used and would always feel hopeless after these encounters. Sango had once thought that Kagome had found a guy she could be with and would treat her the way she should be treated, but InuYasha had treated her worse then any other guy had. Giving her trinkets and telling her that he wanted to marry her as soon as they graduated.
The night that Kagome had wanted to give her virginity away to InuYasha was the night Sango found out about his plan. To have ever girl in school before he got out. To live the life a bachelor should. Sango had about committed murder right then but had held herself back for Kagome's sake.
Sango had told Kagome that night and Kagome had never been the same. She only dated a guy for a week then dumped him before he could get close to her. She would not tell Sango anything about the guys or show her how hurt she really was. But Sango knew anyway.
'Man, guys suck more then ever in this era.' Sango thought while placing her head in her hands. 'I wish that there was just two guys out there for me and her.' Sango looked up at Miroku and smiled slightly.
'Maybe I found my guy.' She thought wistfully.
Sango felt something moving on her butt. Her face began to go red and then she swatted around. "Pervert!" She yelled as he held his face that had gone red from her slap. He looked up at her with hurt eyes.
"But my hands have brains of their own. I'm sure of it. They can't ever seem to stop around you Sango." Miroku tried to protest, but Sango had walked away with her head held high and her butt wagging.
"Idiot!" Her voice sounded through the cubicles.
Sango had a smile own her face as she wound around the office. He was so stupid sometimes. As Sango watched Kagome came racing into the lunchroom and over to their table. Kagome already had a smile on her face, which meant she had, had an encounter with Miroku already. Sango leaned forward urgently; her soft green eyes softened even more.
"How is he?" She asked desperately. Kagome's smile became a grin and she leaned forward. "Well?" Sango asked.
"He is doing very well you see… he was so ashamed of how he acted that he remembered that he had some tickets to this private island for vacation. The boss told him he could invite anyone he wanted but only if that person was willing." Kagome stopped to look at Sango who had a look of surprise on her face.
'And?" Sango urged.
"Well he stopped me in the hallway and he stuttered a sorry then asked if you and I would like to come with him to the private isl…" But Kagome's speech was interrupted by Sango's Squeal.
"I knew he was the one for me! He's so kind and caring. Yes we'll go! Right Kagome?" Sango jumped up and down as everyone in the lunchroom watched in amusement.
Kagome chuckled, "Well of course we'll go. I wouldn't lose on a chance like this ever. Maybe we'll even get to meet some hot guys there. Who can't speak our language." Sango calmed down a little more and breathed out deeply as she took Kagome into her arms and hugged her tightly.
"When do we leave then?" Sango asked, a glint in her eyes. Kagome had seen that glint before it meant shopping. "Oh…. Tomorrow." Sango gasped and grabbed her hand.
"Shopping!" She shouted loud enough to wake the dead. This company didn't even need them that much. They were after all only little secretaries. Kagome giggled as they went sweeping out of the company.
'Vacation.' Kagome thought. 'How wonderful!'
He glanced up at the man in the doorway of his office then brushed it aside. The man always came into his office; he was after all his father. And he did indeed own the company even though he himself worked there in the highest department.
"What do you want father? I am very busy today and I haven't got anything done so far except settle some disputes." He looked dispassionately up into the golden light of his father's eyes. He would never allow any emotion out after all that had happened in his childhood.
"I would like you to go on vacation, son. It would keep you happy and let you have some rest. Plus it would keep some people from killing you." His father stated.
The black hair swished around him as he stood up. "What did you say, father? Did you just say vacation? I have never gone on vacation and never intend to. So you can just keep your vacation and leave me be. I am fine the way I am. " He sat back down thinking he had shown his father exactly what he should do, but his father had always been quite dense.
His father leaned down over his work and pushed it all to the floor. He looked up at his son and glared. "You are going to this vacation or you are going to be fired! You hear me boy? FIRED!" His father leaned back up and straightened his suit.
"The tickets were free anyway. So you should be lucky and just go with the flow. This will be good for you. You'll see." And with that last statement his father rose and left the office.
All the rest of the paperwork fell to the floor as Sesshomaru glared at the spot his father last stood.
"Damn him! Damn him to hell!"
