Catse: Here you go! Next chapter! Inu finally gets a job! Yay! Anyways, this isn't as funny as the other one I guess, but I still think it's kind of cute. Oh well, enjoy the story!
Disclaimer: See chapter one...
Next morning the same schedule convened. Kagome hopping around to get everything done, and then, once gone, Inuyasha doing the same thing.
Kagome's mother had come up with another list of things for Inuyasha to do, and he left to locate them.
The first thing on the list, he didn't even know why she had chosen it, was something called the Paper boy.
From what he found out about the job, it was low paying, and it involved him tossing a newspaper at the doorstep every house on a certain street, early in the morning.
Because he got there early enough, they allowed him to try it out, but it all ended when he barraged an innocent young girl with the entire set of newspapers because she called him a pointy eared freak too old for the job.
Next came another job, similar to the first, calling for a Garbage man. He was glad the jobs chosen weren't as crazy as yesterdays, but he had a feeling this one was not a very good job for him. And he was right. They were going to have him in a little green uniform, riding on the back of a garbage truck, picking up trashcans and dumping them in the back as they came up to them. He didn't even get close to the vehicle before deciding that this was not the job for him. Actually, he couldn't close to the vehicle. He ended up fainting from the terrible smell of it twenty feet away.
When he awoke in the waiting room of the garbage disposal place, he left in search of a little home like residence. Apparently, this was a different job than the usual, and might make him some money.
He found the house with difficulty, having had asked ten people in order to find it, but once there, he was surprised by the kind of job lined up for him.
The people there came to the door expectantly, looking him over with a confused eye, the woman holding a baby in her hands.
They asked him if he was the babysitter, and he replied that he wasn't sure, but considering this had to be the house, then maybe, sure he was.
Before the people would even leave their baby in Inuyasha's care, they wanted him to change it's diaper and try cooking for it.
The diaper changing took him an hour to get right, because he had to keep running away form the dirty diaper every time the smell hit his overly sensitive nose, and then the food cooking went around terrible, because he was always forget about the food while he was trying to keep the baby from crying. Every time the baby cried, it hurt his ears.
He ended up leaving there, glad he didn't get the job, and wondering how it was the parents were able to keep up with the little brat.
Finally, there were two jobs on the list, and he went investigate them.
The first one wasn't hard to find. Upon coming to the house, he had the first figuring that maybe it was another babysitting job. It was a simple apartment after all, with beaten up walls and a door that wouldn't close exactly right.
When he got to the said door, he brushed off his shoulders to make sure there was nothing to make him look odd, and then swept his silver hair over his shoulder. Finally ready for what lie ahead, he knocked on the door, completely unaware of the fact that there was a doorbell he could ring instead.
The door swung up to a woman in her early forties, with long brown hair and simple brown eyes.
"Who the hell—?" She began, but then she stopped and looked him over. "Ooh…who are you?" She inquired, putting on an interested voice Inuyasha wasn't quite familiar with.
"I'm Inuyasha." He answered, truthfully.
"I'm Atsuko." She said in the same, seductive voice.
"Who is it mom!" A voice shouted rather rudely from within the apartment, amplifying the moment of confusion. "If it's Kuwabara tell him I'm busy."
"Yusuke! Stop being such a lazy ass and get over here. There's an unusual man at the door!" The woman shouted back, before turning back around to Inuyasha with a sweet smile. "If you're here for Yusuke, wait a moment. If you're here for me, you can come right on in!"
Inuyasha cocked an eyebrow, completely disgusted. He was beginning to understand why the woman's voice was unfamiliar. She was flirting!
Finally, a man about Inuyasha's age (if not adding the fifty years of sleep!) came to the door, looking him over incredulously. His hair was jet black, wiped back like a helmet on his head, and his cinnamon brown eyes looked daring, almost mean as he glared.
"Yeah, he's for me mom. Why don't you get back to you're soap opera!" The man shouted to his mother, before returning his attention to Inuyasha. "You come with me."
Yusuke let Inuyasha in, in which the strong smell of cigarette smoke and alcohol took him by surprise, forcing him to cover his nose with his hand as he gagged.
The man led him down a hallway to an open door, and once inside, shut it. The window was open, so the heavy smell finally left and relieved Inuyasha of his burning nose.
"Excuse all that. Mom loves her cigarettes. What's your name?" He asked warily, as Inuyasha stood by the window to ensure no other smells would harm him.
"It's Inuyasha." He answered indifferently, staring out the window. "I came for some sort of job you had set up."
"Yeah. We're lookin' for a fifth spirit detective. You're a demon right?"
Inuyasha nodded. "Yeah. You're the first person in this place that has realized it."
"Yeah, well, I work with demons a lot. But you're a strange one. Most in this world either cover up their appearances, or don't show themselves at all. You walk around as if confident that no one will recognize you. It's odd."
"Yeah well." Inuyasha replied with the same manner. "Where I come from, I don't need to hide."
"Yeah, I hear that a lot. Take a seat. So…where are you're ears?" Yusuke asked, still looking him over with a keen eye.
"Why do you want to know?"
"Because it's strange that you have no ears? What? You ashamed of them?"
Inuyasha shook his head and undid his ponytail, letting his silver tresses fall around him and his dog ears pop out. They swiveled around in relief, finally able to move from the mass of hair that pinned them to his scalp.
"Hey! You look like Yoko!" Yusuke half near shouted, before covering his own mouth.
"Who's Yoko?"
"Another of the team." Yusuke answered, smiling. "He usually looks somewhat normal. His hair is red, and his eyes are green, but when he turns into a demon, he looks like you. Only he has a tail and his eyes look meaner."
"What's wrong with my eyes?" Inuyasha snarled.
"Nothing." Yusuke amended. "I'm just sayin' he has a killer look to his eyes, but they're gold, just like yours."
"So there are demons in this world?" Inuyasha inquired.
"Sure are. What, you never knew?"
"No." came the response, as Inuyasha leaned away from the wall. "What is the job you have?"
"Well, it's Spirit Detective. I told you that already. Basically you're just going out and kicking demon ass and kicking more demon ass."
Inuyasha nearly leapt for joy. "Finally! I job I know how to do!" He chided, smiling. "What does it pay?"
"Oh…there's no pay involved. It's more like a free activity."
"What!" Inuyasha shouted. Yusuke glared at him to quiet down.
"Yeah. Totts is too money conservative to pay. Sometimes I wonder why I'm still working for the squirt, but I do it for the kicks, and something to get rid of my boredom. So, will you take the job?"
Inuyasha had to deny. After all, even though it was a job he liked, it wasn't exactly what he wanted. He needed money, not fun. He needed to buy that bracelet for Kagome.
Yusuke understood well enough, and told him that if he ever wanted to kick some ass, just to come to him and he'd accommodate.
Inuyasha put his hair back in the high pony tail left a while after, with Yusuke's mother in low spirits because of it, and left for the last job on the list. Hopefully it would be something he could do.
Upon walking to the site, he noticed that the interview was at Kagome's school, in which he began to wonder what the job was. There was no way he was going to take a job as a teacher or anything like that. He didn't think he could keep up with it, considering all the homework Kagome got from it. Besides, there was nothing he could teach besides fighting and killing, and he doubted schools of this era taught such.
He ended up walking into a building on the side of the campus, in which he was ushered into what was called the office of the place, where he was seated in front of a tall, sort of chubby man behind a desk with the title of "Principal". He didn't know what a principal was, but by the decoration of the office, and the trophies, he had the figuring that he was the leader of the place.
If so, this was who he would have to please in order to get the job.
"What is your name?" The man asked, and Inuyasha gave it.
"Inu Yasha is it? Interesting name. I've not heard anything like it in all my life."
"Many haven't sir." Inuyasha replied, head down a little.
"And so you've come for the job of Janitor here, right?"
"Yes sir." Inuyasha replied, using what Mrs. Higurashi had told him about. She had given him a lecture the night before on how to act during an interview, after she found out that he had failed the list of jobs she had given him.
"I see. How well can you clean?"
"Well enough I should think sir." Inuyasha answered, eyeing the man.
The thick business suit didn't seem to match with the laugh lines in the corners of the man's eyes, and Inuyasha was beginning to wonder if the man even belonged in this room.
"Well, okay. I'll give you the job. You've got one week to show your worthiness. If you keep things up, you'll keep the job. Go and talk to Jaki. He's the head of the janitors. He'll get you the uniform and a cleaning cart."
Inuyasha nodded and left, glad that this job didn't seem as strange as the others had. But there was still time for oddness.
Catse: There, what do you all think? I'll do my best to update the next chapter in less than two days, so keeping watching for it! Oh well, any questions or comments, please send to me in a review. I'll do my best to answer! Ja Ne for now!
