End in DEMISE? Ultimate demise? Really Sesshomaru, you should learn a few new lines." Came a new voice, from a speaker on the wall.
"Kikyo, now is not the time." growled Sesshomaru.
"Kikyo is still alive too?"
"Yes, she is. She has the weirdest aversion to death I have ever run into. She supports Shikon banks united, and I keep her here under my eye whenever they come around."
Wow, that is the most I have ever heard him say at one time. Thought Kagome.
In that eerie way of hers Kikyo said what Kagome thought
"Wow, that's the most I've ever heard you say at one time, Sesshy."
"Sesshy?" asked Kagome incredulously, trying to hold back a laugh.
"That woman gets on my nerves." said Sesshomaru, truly annoyed in public for the first time in many years, if not centuries
"Just because she won't stay dead is no reason to call me that ridiculous name." muttered Sesshomaru darkly. Kagome found her eyes being inexorably toward his again.
"For a Miko who travels with my disgusting hanyou of a half brother you seem to enjoy staring at me a lot." remarked Sesshomaru coolly.
"It's not my fault that your eyes are so damn pretty." Said Kagome before she had time to think about what she was saying. Kagome flushed, and looked at her feet.
"It is not my fault either" said Sesshomaru "that your eyes seem to capture mine"
Before Kagome knew what she was doing she reached up on tiptoe and planted a peck on his perfect lips, but the peck turned into a kiss, and not a chaste one.
The kiss ended, however, when Kikyo interrupted
"Awww, how sweet, they're making out like two lovesick little birds."
The moment shattered Sesshomaru reared back, glaring at the wall that was really just a one way mirror, and then at Kagome, for lack of anywhere else to glare.
Kagome shrank under his glare, still confused about their kiss, and her feelings for him. She had thought that she loved InuYasha, but when he broke it off she hadn't felt sad, she had merely acknowledged that it was true, they wouldn't work together, so she was really confused right now.
"Miko, do you accept the job offer or not, that is all that this Sesshomaru is asking. This Sesshomaru would have your answer."
"Y,y,yes! Yes, I accept." said Kagome with the air of someone being given a way out.
"Then this Sesshomaru will see you at eight a.m. sharp." Said Sesshomaru effectively ending the conversation.
Kagome got home to the shrine to find her mother pacing at the door.
"Kagome Higurashi do you know what time it is?" started her mother, but Kagome cut in before she could start her rant.
"I got a job, like you asked me to mother, so please could you just save it?"
Kagome's mother stared at her daughter's retreating back in shock. Not because of Kagome's attitude, but because of the fact that Kagome had not sounded defeated for the first time since she got home from the other time as she liked to think of it.
When Kagome got to her room she found Koga pacing the floor looking worried.
"Why so worried?" asked Kagome. Koga jerked, having not noticed the fact that Kagome had entered the room.
"In case you hadn't noticed, you were just kidnaped! And you didn't show up again, it has been five hours since I came here and waited for you, so would you mind telling me why the hell you were gone so long?"
"I got a job."
"What?"
"I said, I got a job"
"No, I understood that, but why do you need a job?"
"Umm, hello, I'm like, twenty one! Silly."
"You don't need a job, I'll support you."
"That is kinda sweet but it's okay. I think that I'll manage, I'm working at Taisho Corp. as Sesshomaru's assistant, so I should be okay, but thanks for your concern."
"Kagome, stop being so goddamned stubborn, why can't you let me take care of you for once?"
"I don't need to be taken care of, just leave me alone, okay, I am not your woman, nor will I ever be, so get over it!" yelled Kagome, furious with herself and him, but confused as to why she was so mad at him.
Kagome turned around and stormed out her door, good mood in pieces. As if life wasn't hard enough at the moment while she was walking out the door she ran into Rin, who apparently had just gotten there.
"Kags, I was worried about you! I know that we haven't kept in touch that much, but I was still expecting a sporadic letter or two over more than five hundred years!"
Kagome nearly smiled at the tone in her friend's voice. Somehow when Rin had died for the second time Sesshomaru had managed to bring her back, except now she was half-youkai, to all intents and purposes, thus the fact that she was still alive now.
"It might have been five hundred years to you, but it was only a month to me, silly." the best thing about Rin, in Kagome's opinion was the fact that she didn't question why Kagome could travel back and forth in time, simply putting it down as a by-product of her Miko powers.
"I know, but still, it felt like forever. Oh, what's this I hear about you being Sesshomaru's knew secretary?" asked Rin, her eyes and her tone demanding an explanation.
"Well, I needed a job, and Sesshomaru needed an assistant, so this is the by product of a happy coincidence."
"Then, it needs to be celebrated. Come on, I know this awesome bar that serves a tequila to die for!"
oOo
The next thing that Kagome remembered was dropping into bed at the shrine, and thinking, oh my god, how in the world will I manage to be up and at work by eight a.m.?
Kagome was awakened by a buzz that intruded on her dreams of flowers and- what else?
"Kagome, hon, you'll be late for work on your first day if you don't hurry!" came her mother's overly cheerful voice, and Kagome groaned. Work. With Sesshomaru, who would probably be a stickler for punctuality.
Kagome heaved herself out of bed and started working her way through her closet, attempting to find a clean suit, and having absolutely no luck she realized that this job might not be worth all that she had to go through for it. Musing over Kagome triumphantly held up a clean suit, sure it was more form fitting then most of her other ones, but then maybe that wasn't such a bad thing.
Kagome was starting to feel better, despite the fact that it was six in the morning, and she set off with a semi cheery goodbye. However, Kagome quickly ran into a problem. Although she knew how to get home from the Taisho corp. but getting home and getting there was two different matters. Kagome set off in the direction that she thought Taisho Corp. was, but after half an hour of walking she still couldn't see it.
Stopping at a hot dog stand that was for some reason being manned at six thirty in the morning she asked the pimply faced high school kid working there which way Taisho corp. was. His answer was something along the lines of
"Why the hell should I know?" and then "It's over there-ish"
oOo
After about another half hour of walking Kagome reached the Taisho building, which, of course was locked but Kagome didn't let even that quell her now high spirits, instead looking around for the buzzer that she had noticed yesterday. Finding the buzzer she pressed the button labeled Taisho.
"Hello?"
"Hi, I'm Kagome Higurashi, the new secretary."
"Come on up, why don't you."
The door buzzed, and Kagome went through it, wondering why that voice sounded so familiar to her.
Kagome took the elevator on her way up to the office, thoroughly tired of walking, and made a mental note to visit the gym soon, she was getting rather out of shape. When the doors to the elevator opened Kagome tried to get out, only to find her way blocked by a silver haired neko youkai Moving to the other side in an attempt to get out the neko demon blocked her there to, all the while saying nothing. If Kagome hadn't known better she would have said that Kagura was controlling the demon, using her corpse dance, but Kagome had seen Kagura die.
"Um, excuse me?" Asked Kagome, trying to figure out whether or not she was under the influence of another youkai.
"Hai?" answered the youkai dreamily.
"Why are you blocking my way?"
"Your blood smells so, mmm, appetizing." said the neko youkai, and Kagome saw her eyes turning red, signifying that her youkai blood was astir.
Kagome tried to barrel through the youkai, but youkai reflexes beat human ones every time, and the youkai caught her wrist, twisting it into an unnatural position, making Kagome yelp in protest. The youkai lowered her head for the kill, and Kagome summoned her Miko powers, knowing that it was too late, that she had hesitated to long. Shoving her hands up between the youkai's mouth and her neck she burned any flesh that she could reach. The youkai jerked her head back and howled, turning tail, so to say, and fleeing.
Kagome straightened out her suit and entered the room marked Taisho only to find none other then Sango!
"Sango?"
"Who?"
"You're Sango, right?"
"No, but I had an ancestor named Sango, and I'm told I look a lot like her."
"Oh, sorry about that. I'm Kagome, the new secretary."
"yes, Sesshomaru-sama told me to show you to the office."
"You mean that this isn't the office?"
"Oh, no, this is just the waiting room."
"Kinda big, isn't it?"
"Not really well, not if you'd seen the amount of people who come through here every day. To be honest, I'm kinda glad that you're here now, it's crazy busy."
"How many people constitutes crazy busy?"
"Well, lets just say that our conference rooms have a waiting list the length of this room, and that's just for today."
"Oh"
Kagome was in shock. The room that she was standing in was super long, and if there was a list that long, then it had to have at least two three hundred names on it.
"Sesshomaru takes care of all those people in a day?"
"No, silly, Sesshomaru-sama only takes care of the people highlighted in blue."
"Oh, okay."
"This is your new office, it is conjoined to Sesshomaru-sama's office he's right through that door on your left. Office hours start at nine o clock , and you may redecorate your office as you see fit, as long as you stay under five hundred dollars per piece of furniture. If you have any other questions just ask me."
"Actually, you never did get around to telling me your name"
"I know that."
With that she turned and left the room. Kagome nearly protested at that. Strange as she was she had been the only person here, and Kagome did not want to be left alone in her imposing new office. Well, she had been told to make herself comfortable, so she would.
The first thing that Kagome did was get rid of the huge chandelier that looked like it was going to come crashing down on her.
Kagome didn't notice when Sesshomaru entered the room, nor did she notice that he was even in the room until he was right behind her.
"Morning, Miko." Said Sesshomaru, making Kagome jump.
"Geez, Sesshomaru, just because you're the InuTaisho doesn't mean that you can just sneak up on people like that!" Exclaimed Kagome feelingly.
Sesshomaru merely smirked, saying
"Actually, as your boss I can do whatever I want here, as long as I stay within the contract parameters."
"Yeah, well, you smell funny" said Kagome, that being the best insult that she could come up with while in close proximity of Sesshomaru.
"I smell funny?" echoed Sesshomaru blankly
"Is that the best that you could come up with Miko?"
"Umm, yes?" responded Kagome, slightly befuddled by the way that Sesshomaru was staring at her. Once again Kagome found herself unable to look away, much to her dismay. If Sesshomaru could snare her with a glance then how was she ever supposed to win an argument!
"Miko, correct this Sesshomaru if he is wrong, not that he is, but do you find this Sesshomaru pleasurable to look at?" there was no way that Kagome was answering that question, but her blush gave it away. Sesshomaru looked at her triumphantly before capturing her lips with his own.
oOo
This Sesshomaru had no clue what he was doing, kissing a secretary, let alone his half brother hanyou's old traveling companion, but when her lips met his he stopped caring about why, only relishing in the rightness of the moment. (I can't believe I'm writing this--') As he deepened the kiss his demon cried out for more, to take this woman here and now, and make her his.
After a long while that seemed too fleeting they had to stop kissing to come up for air, which is when they noticed the speechless and blushing assistant in the doorway.
"Kisa, what do you want" Asked Sesshomaru, his eyes glaring daggers at her for interrupting them in the middle of a make out session.
"Umm, your first client is here, sir." quavered Sango's descendant- no- Kisa, then turning and practically running out the door.
Sesshomaru growled in sheer frustration, then said
"I will be back Miko."
oOo
The rest of the day passed in a blur as Kagome hashed and re-hashed the happenings. When the end of the work day arrived Kagome was shocked that it had gone so fast. Kagome finished typing up Sesshomaru's schedule for tomorrow, then left the office, relieved to be on her way home.
When Kagome got home there was dinner on the table, and InuYasha was wearing a groove on the floor pacing.
"Whoa, don't you ever stop pacing?" asked Kagome cheerfully.
"Kagome, you're home, I was worried about you!"
"Um, why are you referring to my house as home? You don't live here."
"Whoops, sorry, slip of tongue."
"Be sure it doesn't happen again."
"I made you dinner."
"Thanks"
The rest of the evening was as mind numbingly dull as it had started, and Kagome started wondering what InuYasha wanted to talk about.
Finally, Kagome's temper took control
"InuYasha, what the hell do you want, I've sat here with you, I've exchanged pleasantries with you, and all the while you have had something on your mind. Spit it out already!"
"Um, are you sure that Sesshomaru is right for you?"
"What?"
"You like him, don't you?"
"Wait, how the hell do you know?"
"Hanyou nose here! I could smell him on you the moment you walked in the door!"
"Well, it's my business who I like, in case you don't remember, you chose Kikyo, so just go home to her why don't you, okay, I'm sick and tired of being second best, and the time when I'd accept being second woman was long gone."
"Keh"
"You know what InuYasha, SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT!"
By the time that InuYasha stopped being shoved into the ground he was in a huge bad mood, muttering something about bitch and walking off.
Me: next Chappy time, flip the web page!
Sesshomaru: not so fast. I need to have words with you
me: nice words?
Sesshomaru: no
me: gulp Please flip the page now! Help!
Koga: is there going to be a slaughter?
Me: hopefully not.
Sesshomaru: no promises
me: wow, I can hardly stay in my own head any more without going insane, does anyone else find that sad?
Sesshomaru: some would say that you are already insane for having conversations with fictional characters in your head.
InuYasha: for once, I agree with him
Kagome: are you sure that you aren't Shippo pretending to be InuYasha?
Shippo: What about me?
me: gack!! too confusing, leave me alone for a bit. Please.
Sesshomaru: you had something to say.
Me: Oh, yeah, right I am sorry that I'm so bad at writing Sesshomaru. Please don't slaughter me
Sesshy: off in a corner fluff!
InuYasha: Sesshomaru, you know that she just referred to you as Sesshy, right?
Sesshomaru: what?
Me: what the hell was that for?
InuYasha: just because you put me with Kikyo in this fic. does not mean that he can go around kissing her
Kagome: does everyone know about me kissing Sesshomaru?
Koga: you did what?
Sesshomaru: he didn't
Koga: what am I missing here?
Koga: what the hell is going on?