Catse: Here you go! Sorry it took me so long to update this one. For some reason I keep thinking I updated when I didn't. I have no idea why, but I'll make sure this next time that I update early. That is if I remember...; ). Okay, well, here's the next chapter, and I'll shut up so you can read it! Ja Ne for now!
Disclaimer: In Chapter one...
That night, Mrs. Higurashi went out and bought him so Halloween Hair dye, some fake human ears, and lent him her husband old contacts, completely cleaned with alcohol before even attempting to put them in his eyes.
Kagome's mother had wanted to cut Inuyasha's hair short before dying it blonde with the Hair dye, but after a long argument of how Inuyasha liked his hair the way it was and that if she even came near him with scissors he'd cut her hands off, she finally decided he would be a long haired American guy.
The only reason she had bought Halloween Dye though, was that he would need to wash off his hair every time he came home so Kagome wouldn't suspect everything.
Thankfully, she was asleep now as they mulled over his appearance, and finally, after two hours of fussing with him and his ears, he stood before the mirror, rather pleased with his look.
His now long blonde hair was pinned back in a braid along his back to keep it from getting in his way as he worked, and his now blue eyes analyzed the fake ears on the sides of his head, in which ran together with a head band he would keep hidden under his hat. He would still be able to hear very well, his only problem would be in keeping his hat on so people didn't notice that he had two pairs of ears instead of one. In order to keep his hair looking that way, he would have to hide from Kagome for the rest of that night, and in the morning, replace the blue contacts, re-braid his hair (done by Mrs. Higurashi) and replace his ears and hat.
Morning came all too soon, with Kagome leaving the house at the right time this morning, in which Inu was glad because now he could ready and get to his job early. His job, although longer for the usual employee, was cut short especially for him so that he could have it as part time instead of full.
Well, once prepared and ready, he jumped from rooftop to rooftop, not wanting to get caught in the evil traffic of the streets, and got to the school about fifteen minutes early.
Already, students were bustling around the hallways, only a few minutes before the bell was to ring.
Many noticed the new janitor, and some of the girls even commented on him, saying something about there being an American version of Duo from Gundam Wing walking the halls of their school.
Inuyasha did his best to keep his face stern, so that no one would begin to talk to him or question him. He spotted Kagome from a long way off, and on instinct, tried to jump out of her way so she wouldn't see him at school.
Instead, she just walked past him like she didn't even notice him, her three friends dragging her around, telling her about the things she had missed at school and what tests to prepare for.
Finally, he made it to the locker room of the janitors, and found Jaki zipping up the front of his suit in preparation for a days work.
When Jaki turned around, he didn't even recognize Inuyasha.
"Excuse me, but, do I know you?" He inquired, looking the man before him up and down.
Inuyasha cocked a quizzical brow and nodded. "It's me, Inu—"
"Ah! Smith! Good to see yah! You had me confused there for a moment."
Inuyasha tried to argue that his name wasn't Smith, but Jaki pushed him out of the room and lead him down the now empty hallways, as now the students were all in class.
"While you're hear Inu, you will go by the name Smith, okay. That's what all of us Janitors go by. Our last names. Get used to that name, you'll hear it a lot. Who did your hair by the way?"
"Mrs. Higurashi." Inu answered as a blush stained his cheeks.
"Mrs. Higurashi? Kagome's mother? Oh I see, she knows you're comin' here."
"She's the one that set me up for the job here." Inu answered truthfully, scratching the back of his neck in anxiousness.
"Ah…Okay. Well she did a great job. I couldn't even recognize yah! Well, we better get our carts and begin work, shall we. We've got quite a bit to do today."
Jaki took Inu to get his cart, and once set up and ready to go, Inuyasha began his days work. Of course, Jaki made sure to brief him on not entering the classrooms until the teacher allowed him to, so he spent most of his morning sweeping and mopping the hallway, and then caring for the boy's bathroom. Upon first entering the bathroom, he had to cover his nose.
It stunk to high heavens in there, and again, like he had many times that day, he cursed his delicate nose. Jaki had told him that for the restroom, he had to make sure the floor was swept and mopped, the sinks were cleaned out, the mirrors polished, the urinals cleaned if dirty, the toilets cleaned and unclogged if clogged, and the toilet paper and paper towels replaced if there rack was empty. This restroom had the white tiled walls sprayed in a soft yellow around the urinals, gum was pressed into the tiles, and there was all sort so stuff stuck into the gaps of the walls. One area in the wall in particular had a strong, ugly smell to it, in which sort of reminded him of the headache pills Kagome sometimes took in the feudal era to calm her stress. Inu wasn't sure what had happened to that side of the wall, but he wasn't about to go digging through the brick there looking for it. So he got to work, first cleaning off the mirrors until they sparkled like crystal, and then the sink until there was not a hair to be seen on the plain porcelain. He sneezed a couple of times from the chemicals he used, and almost gagged at the strong urine scent at the urinals, but after a while, he became used to it. Then he worked on each stall separately, cleaning the toilets, using his trusty plunger, and replacing any paper that needed replacing, making sure to throw the rolls away and empty each trashcan in each stall. He got so concentrated on cleaning in fact, that he ended up scrubbing the stall walls of any writing that was there, polishing the urinals, and then making the floor so clean a teacher nearly slipped and fell on it when he walked in.
Inu, proud of his job, left the bathroom, to begin work on one of the classrooms a teacher had let him into.
Jaki had also briefed him on what things could and could not be thrown away. For instance, if he found a book on a desk, he was to place it in the holder beneath the seat, and if there were papers on the floor, he had to sweep them up with everything else and toss them away. Once finished with that room, he went to the next, and then the next, until before long his entire hallway was completely finished. When Jaki came to find him about the Janitor's lunch time, he was astonished by how clean everything had been left.
He found Inuyasha walking out of the last class room, a little spotted with sweat, dumping the last of the contents in his dust pan in to the trash bag attached to his cart with a sneeze.
"Amazing!" Jaki commented as he and Inu went to the cafeteria. "You did a fine job. I haven't seen that hallway so clean in ages. You sure you weren't born to be a janitor bub?"
Inuyasha shook his head. "I'm certain." He answered, taking a plate of food at the lunch line and sitting with Jaki at a spare table.
He ate thankfully, guzzling down his two milk cartons in a flash and his meal, and then headed back for a second helping. Because of his hard work, the ladies granted him with another helping, tickled pink at how much he loved their cooking, and once that was devoured, and he was full, Jaki saw it fit to give him a new set of rounds to clean.
"Since you're such a fast worker, I guess I can give you the gym too. But I will warn, most of us hate that gym. There's all sorts of gunk stuck in almost every gap you find there, and it'll take you most of the day to get it as fit as your hallway. Good luck."
Inu nodded and left, taking his cart to the gym as he wondered how much worse the Gym could be compared to the boy's restroom.
He found out what Jaki meant when he walked in. The fine wooden basketball floor was covered in a thin layer of pressed dirt, sweat, and saliva from every time a student accidentally fell on the floor or drooled. The walls, although mostly covered up with mats for leaning on, held their own assortment of grime and gruel, and the benches to the far side for seating during basketball games had all sorts of gums and wrappers, food bags, broken pencils, and the occasional assortment of hand held foods stuck in the cracks of every other seat. The locker room was in much the same condition, with scum all over the shower walls, and the outsides of the lockers smudged with even more sweat and the disgustingly strong smell of more "perfume" and "cologne" stuff that he most despised.
'Oh well, better get to work.' He thought one last time, before pulling out a wash rag and a duster.
Catse: I guess Inuyasha isn't really the kind of person you would call clean, but in this story, I just make him determined. After all, he's trying to get a bracelet for Kagome right? Comments would be loved! So please review!
