Thankx for your reviews Meirisa- chan (okay then, next chappie Sesshy will be broke) DAYLE-CHAN (there will be suprises at the end, believe me!) littlefiction, kyougu-neko, hiraikotsu ( kinda. Its gonna be very confusing believe me)
Disclaimer: Why oh why oh WHY? WHY do I not own CHOCOLATE? Oh yeah, I don't own Inuyasha and blah blah blah. WHY?
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AHA! FINALLY! I WON! I ATE YOUR QUEEEEN!" Mikomi roared as she stood up abruptly, knocking over several empty mugs of coffee and holding up the queen piece in the air triumphantly. (Just so you know, they had been playing all night)
Mikomi began to shriek with hysterical laughter in honor of her victory. Surprisingly…okay not so surprisingly, Sesshoumaru was perfectly calm.
"Ms. Saikawa, that's your queen"
Mikomi's wild laughter ceased immediately and she squinted at the queen held in her hand. It was, indeed, a lighter shade of glass.
"DAMMIT! Why couldn't you get a wooden chess set like normal people? I can't tell the difference between the whites and the blacks in this one! WHY?"
Mikomi threw her arms up in exasperation and began to traipse slowly towards the sofa, while Sesshoumaru went to get changed for work. She was all set to collapse onto the black leather sofa and sleep like she had never slept before, but was interrupted by Sesshoumaru who was already fully dressed, briefcase in hand and was waiting at the open door.
"Time for work"
Mikomi swooped out of her half fall, grabbed her jacket and followed Sesshoumaru out the door. They got into Sesshoumaru's Porsche and drove off to Inutaisho and Company. On the way, Mikomi fixed her hair into its usual tight bun at the nape of her neck, applied some lip balm and curled her lashes with a teaspoon which had mysteriously appeared in her pocket.
"I mean, where did you learn how to play chess like that anyway? It's obvious that you're not teaching me everything otherwise I would have won….and you didn't have any breakfast this morning."
Sesshoumaru looked up at the sudden change of subject. "What does that have to do you losing spectacularly to me in chess?"
"You never eat breakfast, in fact I never see you eat! Remember breakfast is the most important meal of the day."
Sesshoumaru glared at her for a moment and then pressed the red button on his intercom. (remember that she doesn't know about demons so he must be like a human in front of her)
"Sarah." (Hey looky! It's Umineko!) "Bring me a black coffee, no sugar."
Mikomi opened her mouth to ask what he was doing but was cut off by an eager female voice which she supposed was Sarah.
"Oh yeeeees Mr. Sesshoumaru Sir. Aaaaaanything for my wise and beautiful-" Sesshoumaru let go of the button and began to write again. He glanced at Mikomi who was red in the face and was obviously biting her lips to stop herself from exploding with laughter. She managed to hold it back.
"I would also like some caffeine." She didn't really want any, but it was worth hearing Sarah worshipping Sesshoumaru in an extremely embarrassing way again. He hesitated slightly but pressed the intercom button again.
"Make that two."
"Whatever you command my Lord! I would bring you a thoouuusand coffee's if you told me to! I would do aaanything for you, Oh faultless, elegantly beautiful, all knowing, immensely powerful, grand, Lord of the Western-"
Once again Sesshoumaru interrupted her thwarting worshipping. He leaned back in his chair and read over his work in silence trying to ignore Mikomi's stifled snorts. They had been waiting for at least half an hour for their coffees, when Sesshoumaru turned to Mikomi.
"Saikawa. Find out what is causing the delay."
Mikomi nodded and was about to leave when she was suddenly motivated to mock him one last time. She turned to face him and gracefully threw down her arms and bowed so low that her nose was almost touching the floor.
"Oh yeeeeesssss my wise and noble Lord….aaaaanything for YOU."
Mikomi backed out of the room waving her arms about in mock worship. Sesshoumaru glared at her with a look of deepest loathing and waited until she had disappeared from view to give a tiny humourless smile.
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Mikomi straightened up and grinned to herself, before remembering that she had been bursting to go toilet for more than an hour (she wasn't sure whether to ask Sesshoumaru to go or not). She looked around wildly as if expecting a sign to pop out of nowhere telling her where the secretary was situated. Mikomi rushed to the office closest to Sesshoumaru's (which just happened to be Kouga's) and somehow convinced him that Sesshoumaru had specially requested for Kouga to bring him his coffee. Kouga puffed out his chest proudly and saluted Mikomi before marching out of his office. Mikomi waved him goodbye as if he was about to go on some kind of important mission. She waited for a painful 15 seconds and ran out of the office. She tried to compose herself and walked quickly past everyone nodding occasionally to her smiling companions. She wished she had paid more attention on Sesshoumaru's tour on her first day. Mikomi turned the corner and bumped into what looked like a pile of files with legs.
"Oh, sorry Hojo" She said through gritted teeth. Mikomi was now hopping on the spot, desperate to find a door with the sign reading "Ladies". She wheeled round to face Hojo who was trying to balance the pile of files on one arm while he scratched his nose. Mikomi gave an exasperated sigh,
"Um Hojo? Could you tell me where the bathroom is?" She said in a voice of forced calm.
Hojo blinked at her and gave a hearty laugh, which caused the files to sway dangerously.
"Sure! It's that way"
Hojo flung out his free hand in that direction hitting the unsuspecting wolf demon (carrying a tray with two coffees) in the mouth. Mikomi gasped and a few others screamed as Kouga hurled backwards, upturning the tray and causing the coffees to splash his chest. He writhed on the floor clutching his mouth and making flapping gestures at his burning chest. Hojo lowered his arm, rolled his eyes and tutted.
"People these days, they just don't look where they're going!"
Mikomi forgot all about her desperate need to relieve herself and stared wide eyed and what had just happened. Kouga was now being restrained with great difficulty by at least 5 other demons and was yelling at the unaware Hojo.
"LEMME ATTIM! I'LL KILL HIM! I'LL RIP HIS FUCKIN' HEAD OFF! LEMME AT HIM!"
Mikomi slowly edged away from Hojo
"You know…I think I can-" She began, but Hojo cut in "No no no! I'll remember, don't you worry." He flashed her a grin and peered around again. Mikomi stood glued to the spot, not knowing whether it was safe to move or not. Hojo's eyes widened and he suddenly threw his head back laughing heartily.
"Now I remember! I told you I would Mikomi!"
Mikomi sighed in relief, but it soon disappeared as Hojo thrust out his index finger in the opposite direction plunging it in the eye of a very handsome looking demon. A group of vain demoneses screamed and rushed to help him. Hojo withdrew his finger (with a sickening squelch) and scratched his head, staring around muttering "Or was it this way?"
"Yes Mikomi I'm pretty sure it's that way-" He yelled over all the commotion around him while throwing his arm out to his left knocking over yet another unsuspecting demon who seemed to be carrying the whole company's files, which went flying, hitting several demons in the face. Mikomi could do nothing but gawp at all of this; Hojo seemed to be single-handedly destroying the whole company, and the worst part was that he was completely oblivious to the chaos around him. Hojo suddenly jumped forward, making Mikomi flinch expecting to be knocked out or worse. He punched her weakly on the shoulder laughing.
"Hey Mikomi! I found it! It's over THERE!" He cried happily flinging out his hand to his right –closely missing Inutaisho's face. The dog general caught Hojo's wrist just inches away from his eye. The entire 13th floor went quiet. The females stopped flapping and fussing over the now one-eyed demon, the males stopped trying to edge closer to Hojo with the intention of killing him, the obsessive-compulsive assistant stopped tapping each file 7 times before picking it up and Kouga stopped struggling to free himself from the thirteen demons who were desperately trying to restrain him. A few demonesses gasped but hesitated, not knowing if they should fuss over their beloved boss too. There was complete silence, not one movement. Everyone was obviously anxious to see what would happen next. Hojo's eyes widened and he looked as if he was in shock. Inutaisho glared around, Mikomi heard several sharp intakes of breath as Inu-no-taisho's amber eyes travelled over them in turn. He finally rested his stare on Hojo who, due to his state of shock, couldn't close his eyes or throw himself to the floor. Inutaisho gave a shaky laugh as he lowered Hojo's wrist. Hojo simply stood there, arms limply by his side and without changing his expression.
"You have my permission to leave and continue with your duties." Inutaisho said quietly. Hojo nodded and turned around stiffly. Everyone who had been edging closer drew back to give the walking calamity a clear path to the photocopying room. He walked slowly towards it but as he hadn't fully recovered, he collided with the door frame, and stayed there. Inutaisho shook his head despairingly. He suddenly clapped his hands together making everybody jump.
"Well! Now that's taken care of, I see no reason why we shouldn't pursue our daily duties." He looked around expectantly but everyone appeared to be temporarily stupefied. He stared back at the blank faces for a while then raised his eyebrows sharply as if to say "Well?" Everyone snapped out of it and began to busy around again. Soon everything was back to normal…well…apart from Hojo who was still standing with his forehead against the door frame. But he seemed safer there so no-one bothered to move him. Inutaisho beamed around at his busy workers and turned to face Mikomi who hadn't been so quick to recover like the others. He patted her on the shoulder which jerked her back to her surroundings.
"Close one wasn't it, Sakurai?" He chuckled and sighed.
Mikomi forced a smile which disappeared as soon as Inutaisho's back was turned. "Sakurai yeah right." She muttered irritably. As she turned her eye caught sight of a beautiful white plaque proclaiming: LADIES BATHROOM. Her urge to relieve herself flooded back and she rushed in.
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Mikomi exited the bathroom looking content and feeling relieved. She strolled back to Sesshoumaru's office catching him gazing out the window. He noticed her presence and swivelled around quickly.
"Where is the coffee?"
Mikomi walked to her usual spot and picked up her clipboard and pen.
"What coffee?"
Sesshoumaru did a very unsesshoumarish thing and sighed irritably.
"I gave you simple foolproof instructions-" "- Foolproof? Are you implying that-"
"- you are useless. If you don't have the capacity to do something as elemental as bringing two coffees then be my guest and ask yourself why you bother getting up in the morning."
Mikomi bit her lip so hard that it bled, she was determined to keep quiet. She needed this job.
HOUR LATER
Both demon and human had been in complete silence. This was perfectly fine for Sesshoumaru but Mikomi was feeling restless. She opened her mouth to break the silence but was interrupted by the ring of a phone. Sesshoumaru calmly put down his Parker pen and made to press the hands free button but Mikomi grabbed his hand and pressed it herself.
"Oh hello Kagome! How-"
Sesshoumaru suddenly put her on hold and turned to glare at Mikomi who laughed nervously.
"You gave your pathetic friends my office phone number?" He hissed angrily.
"yeah well…..just in case…."
Sesshoumaru gave her a look that clearly told her that the conversation was not over, he released the hold button and signalled for Mikomi to speak quickly.
"Hi Kags!"
"Hi Mikkie! Hey what number is this anyway? What company did you say you worked for?"
"Oh…um…well, its not really a known company. Its just some crappy warehouse that calls itself one. ahem."
This comment made Sesshoumaru draw a line through the page. Mikomi quickly changed the subject before something bad happened.
"SO what did you call for?"
"Oh yeah, everyone's gonna be at Inuyasha's restaurant at 3pm so I was wondering if you could ask your boss to let you off. I mean we haven't had a chance to get together with everyone for aaages and today Miroku's not working and Sango is there too."
Mikomi glanced at Sesshoumaru who was still writing but she could tell that he was listening.
"Yeah why not"
"Great! Okay so I'll meet you-" Mikomi could hear Inuyasha's voice in the background.
"Hey Mikomi? Inuyasha wants to talk to you"
There was a shuffling sound on the other end and Inuyasha's familiar raspy voice was heard.
"Hey Inuyasha." Mikomi said flatly, she knew that whatever conversation between them would involve Inuyasha yelling at her.
"Tell that bastard boss of yours to let you off cuz I don't have time to sit on my ass and chat. I have to work you know! And when I do have time, which I don't, I have to sit and listen to Kagome talking about her girly shit and I'm not made for that! So you better get your furry lil' ass over here before I-"
Sesshoumaru blinked in surprise as Mikomi held the phone away from her mouth and began to yell across the room, at nobody.
"WHAT? MY BOSS SAYS I HAVE TO WORK NOW? OKAY THEN! I'LL BE RIGHT THERE!"
She returned the phone to her mouth again and spoke quickly
"Hey Inuyasha?"
"What now wench?"
"Can you hold on for a sec? I need to take care of something"
"Huh? Sure but-"
"It might sound like I'm hanging up but I'm not"
"Whatever I-"
"Wait for me"
" But-"
Mikomi cut Inuyasha off and slammed the phone into the cradle.
"At least we agree on something." Sesshoumaru commented idly.
Mikomi 'humph'ed and turned on her heel, ready to stalk out.
"Who gave you permission to leave to meet my senseless brother?"
Mikomi inhaled deeply and turned to face him. "Well, as I don't appear to have the capacity to do anything right then I don't see the point of my presence here." She said swiftly, and with that she stalked out of the office. Leaving Sesshoumaru to boil.
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Mikomi stepped out of the office doors and breathed in deeply. She looked up at Sesshoumaru's office window and saw him standing there looking down on her. As usual. She pretended not to care and walked down the street. After 10 minutes of walking, she bumped into a perfume salesperson. She apologised but gasped as she recognised the salesperson.
"Hey! Ginta? I didn't know you sold perfume too!"
Ginta began to look around nervously at the people who were beginning to stare.
"Wow! Does this mean you have two jobs? Do I get a discount on perfumes because I know you? How come you never told me in the company that you have two jobs? Does Inu-"
"WELL MISSUS WOULD YOU LIKE TO TEST SPRAY THIS NEW PERFUME?"
Mikomi looked taken aback at Ginta's behaviour. It was as though he was embarrassed of her! Maybe she was speaking a little loud but there was no need to yell. She shrugged and held out her wrist for him to spray on.
"Anyway does he know that you have this job? You know, InutaAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH!"
Mikomi staggered backwards covering her burning eyes; she blinked several times and managed to see Ginta running away. She wiped the perfume off her face and continued to walk leaving a group of goggling passers by.
She sloped past a chicken takeaway shop, mouth watering at the sight of people happily devouring crispy chicken. As she wasn't paying attention to where she was going she collided into what seemed to be a huge chicken. She blinked and saw that it was a familiar person dressed in a big yellow chicken suit.
"Hakkaku? Wow what a coincidence! I was just talking to Ginta a few minutes ago!"
Hakakku seemed to behave the same way as Ginta. He looked around desperately for someone to save him. But as no one came and Mikomi was blabbing about his other job he had no choice but to point over her shoulder and yell:
"I'M OVER THERE!"
"Huh?" Mikomi stopped chatting abruptly and looked around. By the time she turned around again Hakakku was already gone. She sighed sadly and trudged the rest of the way. When she arrived she caught eye of her friends. Miroku was staring dreamily at Sango who was delicately licking the cream off a strawberry and Kagome was chatting animatedly to a very bored looking Inuyasha. As soon as Inuyasha saw Mikomi he left Kagome talking to herself and stormed up to her.
"What the fuck's your problem? You made me hold for a whole hour!"
Mikomi suppressed a snort with difficulty "You actually held? Whoa I didn't think you were that stupid." She pushed past him to greet Sango and Miroku leaving Inuyasha to growl angrily. They all sat down at the round table (except for Inuyasha who was busy being the waiter) and began to chat. A while later, someone came and sat down in Inuyasha's space next to Kagome and put their arm around her shoulders.
"So how ya'll doing?" It was Kouga.
Mikomi stood up abruptly making him jump to his feet thinking that she was going to fight him. She gawped at him.
"No way!"
Kouga lowered his fists and blinked at her. He recognised her and his eyes popped. He shook his head so that she wouldn't say anything but Mikomi had already opened her mouth.
"I know you! You work in the same company as me! Inutai-" Kouga quickly slammed a hand over her mouth before she gave away the name of his second unknown job. He looked around nervously and forced a hearty laugh.
"Funny stuff! Ha ha. I'm sorry lady but I don't know you Mikomi." He said patting her almost sympathetically on the shoulder. Everyone blinked at Kouga who was still wearing a fixed grin on his idiotic face and nodding slightly.
"Er...Kouga? You just called her by her name." Kagome said quietly.
Kouga blinked at her, still smiling.
"We haven't told you her name yet."
Kouga suddenly understood. And without changing his expression, he turned around and walked into the kitchen. Everyone stared after him for a while until Kagome peered into the kitchen window and caught a glimpse of Kouga with his head in the glowing red oven. There was a moment of silence until Kagome smiled at Mikomi.
"Mikomi you made it! Are you okay? You're eyes are a bit red."
Mikomi gestured carelessly and plopped down into a seat next to Sango.