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Inutaisho put down the phone and massaged his temples; he didn't seem to notice that they were there until Sesshoumaru cleared his throat importantly. Inutaisho looked up at Sesshoumaru. he made no movement, but then his amber eyes caught sight of Mikomi. He smiled and stood up and walked up to them.
"Aah! Now who is this young lady?" He extended his hand to shake hers, Mikomi reached out shyly.
Sesshoumaru seemed wary of his father.
"My name is Inutaisho; none of my workers call me by my surname. And by what name may I call you?"
"Uh…Saikawa, Mikomi Saikawa."
"Aaah, Ms Saikawa is it?" He smiled a dazzling smile; he was still shaking Mikomi's hand.
Sesshoumaru knew his father was flirting with Mikomi; he stepped in between them so that they would stop shaking hands.
"This is my new assistant father" Sesshoumaru gestured towards Mikomi.
Inutaisho's smile faded a little, damn…she was off limits. But that didn't worry him, he winked at Sesshoumaru.
"Reeeeally? Ah yes, the contract…" Inutaisho turned to his desk and started rummaging through the draws, after a while he finally pulled out a huge thick book and dumped it on the table. Mikomi stared at it then looked at Sesshoumaru, who made her sit down on the chair opposite the desk and pressed a pen in her hand.
"Read it then sign."
"This is the contract?" Mikomi choked.
"Yes it is, it was so long that I had to get it made into a book!" Inutaisho said cheerfully.
Mikomi sighed and opened the first page and began to read the terms and conditions of working in Inutaisho and co. After a while she gave up trying to read the tiny print and just scanned the pages. In the meantime Sesshoumaru leant over to Inutaisho and said in such a low voice that only Inutaisho and himself could hear "Your act of surprise towards this human is most unconvincing" Inutaisho smirked.
"Do you agree to blah blah blah, workers must blah blah blah….." She muttered under her breath, but of course Inutaisho and Sesshoumaru could hear her. Mikomi was not even half way through, so she turned to the last page where her signature was needed. She lifted her pen to sign but Inutaisho stopped her.
"Be sure about this decision. You know as soon as you sign that contract you cannot go back."
Mikomi looked at the dotted line and nodded at Inutaisho. She signed it slowly and carefully. When it was done she put the pen down and leaned back in her chair. Sesshoumaru nodded approvingly at Inutaisho who clapped his hands together.
"Right! Now that's done, Sesshoumaru why don't you show Ms Sakurai around?"
Mikomi flinched at that terrible mistake. "Er…its Saikawa…sir."
Inutaisho looked at her. "Hmm?"
"Saikawa, my surname is Saikawa." She repeated.
"Ah….well…Whatever."
Sesshoumaru nodded at his father and lead Mikomi to the lift where they passed through all the floors and he explained which door led to what. All this information did not stick in Mikomi's brain.They were on the 16th floor when Mikomi had decided to ignore what Sesshoumaru was saying and was just looking around. She stopped dead and grabbed Sesshoumaru's arm.
"There are - Ms Saikawa what are you doing?"
She pointed at a tall man who had long black hair and purple lipstick who was chatting to the blue eyed guy she had seen earlier that morning. Kouga was it? Mikomi tore her eyes away from the sight and whispered to Sesshoumaru,
"That's my boss! Ricky, he was my boss! What is he doing here?"
"That is nothing of importance. Anyway-" But he was cut off by Mikomi,
"I'm going to say hi, be right back!" She let go of his arm and marched over to 'Ricky'. Sesshoumaru made a grab for her but held himself back. He had never liked that guy, he might just enjoy this.
'Ricky' and Kouga were now roaring with laughter. Ricky wiped a tear from his eye and looked in the direction were Mikomi was nearing towards him. His jaw dropped and he blinked several times.
Mikomi waved at him,
"Hey Ricky! What are you doing here? How come you've got all that weird make up on? And why didn't you tell me you had a job here? Well that would explain why you kept disappearing, so how are you?" She said this all in one breath. 'Ricky' was desperately trying to shush her and looked around at all the people who were staring. Including Sesshoumaru who was amused.Poor idiotic Kouga (no offence to Kouga fans) looked from 'Ricky' to Mikomi.
"RICKY? What the hell she talking about?"
"I have no idea, I've never seen her in my life!"
Mikomi stared incredulously at him. Then her cheeks flushed in anger. He was making her look like a mad woman in front of everyone!
"Oh and by the way Ricky, you fired me. I'm gonna give you a piece of my mind-"
Ricky clapped a hand over her mouth and laughed nervously.
"Hehehe, she has no idea what she's talking about, Ricky is just a nickname, I swear!"
Kouga shrugged and thumped 'Ricky' on the back.
"Whatever, I see you're busy. Catch ya later Gatenmaru!" And with that Kouga strolled off towards the coffee machine. Gatenmaru flinched at the sound of his name, Mikomi finally succeeded to pry Gatenmaru's hand off her mouth.
"GATENMARU? What the hell? But your name's Ricky isn't it?" Mikomi looked around the room as if expecting someone to give her an explanation. Gatenmaru's lip trembled, he let out a loud wail grabbing fistfuls of his hair and running out of the room.
"MY LIFE IS RUUUUIIINED!"
Mikomi blinked and walked up to Sesshoumaru.
"What's wrong with him?" She asked jerking her thumb her thumb in Gatenmaru's direction.
Sesshoumaru shrugged and led her to the 17th floor.
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Sesshoumaru had already introduced Mikomi to his office where she would be spending most of her day. He sat down in his chair and checked his watch, he glanced at Mikomi who had taken her place next to his desk, she stood looking expectantly at him. Sesshoumaru looked at her hair-style (high ponytail) and 'hmphed' disapprovingly. Mikomi narrowed her eyes.
"Whaaat?"
"Nothing" He replied while taking out a pile of papers out of his desk draw. Mikomi rolled her eyes.
"Oh fine then." She fixed her hair into a tight bun at the nape of her neck then glared at Sesshoumaru who nodded approvingly. At that moment there was a knock at the door.
"You may enter"
Sesshoumaru took out a black clipboard and several sheets of paper and handed it to Mikomi, she supposed it was to take notes. So take notes she would, Mikomi stood straight, pen poised, and waited.
The door opened, and a very pretty woman walked in with a clipboard in hand. Her black hair in a bun held with a clasp in the shape of a feather, her brown eyes travelled from Sesshoumaru to Mikomi.
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As she walked in the sight of Mikomi worried her. Which was very rare.
'Who the hell is she? And why is she in here…..' Kagura sniffed. 'She's a human? What interest does Sesshoumaru have with her?'
She stood in front of Sesshoumaru's desk and slightly bowed her head in respect.
"State your business"
Kagura lifted her head 'Dammit, why do I always have to get nervous around this bastard?' She cleared her throat.
"Our branch in the eastern lands are rebelling, they are refusing to work the extra hours that Inutaisho has set for them."
"And….my father could not handle this?"
"Yes well, he told me to go straight to you."
Sesshoumaru sighed. He was not surprised; his father obviously had no clue what to do. He pondered for a moment.
"Send a message to the rebelling workers stating that anyone who is unwilling to work will be punished severely, with no mercy."
Kagura nodded and handed the clipboard to Sesshoumaru for his signature of approval. She waited patiently while Sesshoumaru wrote the message. He looked up at her.
"Why are you still here?" he asked frostily.
Kagura stiffened.
"I'm waiting for the-" "There is no need I will hand this in to my father personally." Sesshoumaru cut in.
Kagura bit her lip to stop herself from doing anything foolish. She bowed and turned to leave glancing at Mikomi. Sesshoumaru 'humph'ed and went back to his writing. He glimpsed at Mikomi who was extremely concentrated on what she was scribbling furiously on her clipboard. Sesshoumaru watched until Mikomi dropped her pen and held the clipboard in front of her admiring her work. Sesshoumaru extended his arm for the clipboard. She hesitated but gave it to him. What was on it did not amuse him.
It read in untidy scrawl:
Pretty lady comes in the room……Sesshoumaru acts like a bastard…as usual. Pretty lady leaves…..and I need caffeine.
And there was a drawing that took up the rest of the page which consisted of two stick people, one had long scribbled hair, big feet and a huge head. The other was obviously Mikomi, in the air above 'Sesshoumaru' with a gigantic hammer which was being brought down on Sesshoumaru's head. She had obviously made more effort on herself. There was also a speech bubble coming from her wide mouth, which read "TAKE THIS SIR!"
Sesshoumaru handed the clipboard back to Mikomi who was grinning, and gave her a look which clearly read 'Grow up'. Before Mikomi could mock him there was a deafening squeal of a microphone and Inutaisho's voice spoke.
"Stupid mike thing….hem hem. Ok People! Break time!" The microphone screeched again and was followed by a thump.
Mikomi began to make her way out of the office but paused.
"Um Sir? Its break time, you can stop now."
Sesshoumaru remained silent; Mikomi shrugged and closed the door behind her. She spun around accidentally knocking someone on the floor.
"OMG! I am soooo sorry!" She helped up the grumbling lady who she recognised as the same woman who was in Sesshoumaru's office earlier.
"Oh I know you…you're the lady who-"
"Yes that was me, now if you don't mind I would like to get my lunch." Kagura said curtly.
But Mikomi was determined to make friends so she wasn't about to let Kagura get away that easily,
"Really? So am I! Why don't we go together?"
"But I-"
But Mikomi was already pulling her along to the cafeteria; they stood in line with trays in their hands, chose their food and sat down at an empty table where Kagura picked at her food trying hard to ignore Mikomi who was chatting happily non stop to her about work, Sesshoumaru being a pain, etc.
"So I sez to him, I sez-"
At that precise moment a brown haired young man who we all know as Hojo walked by with his tray of food, tripping over his own feet sending himself crashing to the floor and his tray flying. Unfortunately a single drop of the soda landed in Kagura's eye.
"Owch!" Kagura put a hand over her eye and blinked a few times,
Mikomi gasped and pointed in horror, "Whoa Kagura! Your eye!" Kagura quickly shielded her eye from Mikomi's gaze and adjusted her contact lens which had slid revealing her true eye color. Hojo picked himself up, laughed nervously and went back to the cafeteria. Mikomi tried to shake off what she had just seen; she could have sworn that Kagura's eye was red…
Don't forget to Review! And yes I know…poor Hojo. And that was just the beginning of his misfortune! Hehehe.