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Pwale and Mr. X are sitting at a table in a small café in Wales, examining each other.
Mr. X: …I have asked you here for a very serious reason.
Pwale: I've told you, it's against my morals to date guys more then ten years older than me.
Mr. X: Where the hell did you get that idea!
Pwale: This isn't a date?
Mr. X: HELL NO!
Pwale: Wahhh! You hate me!
Mr. X: What!...that's not what I said…
Pwale: My father's alive?
Mr. X: …you are clinically insane.
Inuyasha: May I take your order?
Mr. X: I asked you here because of this! #gestures wildly at Inuyasha.# You don't own them!
Pwale: I never said I did.
Mr. X: Then why are they here!
Pwale: Blackmail works…and so do marriage certificates.
Mr. X:…I think I'm going to sue you…
Pwale: Many have tried. None have succeeded.
The Stamp Of Gold
Convening
A story by Pwalefriend
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As he sat behind his desk Inuyasha Takahashi reviewed his notes and tried to convince himself that since it was not Sunday his newest employee would not be able to outwit him…again. He didn't even know why she had outwitted him! It had been one of the most random experiences of his life!
Inuyasha Takahashi, for all of his pretenses, did not know the new governess very well. He may have stalked her a little when she had first arrived (for security reasons only) but he, apparently, hadn't listened to a word she had said. Because, as anyone who knows Kagome Higurashi can tell you, she is the type of person who would paint a tree purple just to say that they did.
The clatter of a door being opened could be heard just outside Inuyasha's study and he looked up. 'Finally.' He grumbled in his mind. 'The wench demes fit to show up.'
"He's waiting for you in there Kagome." He heard Sango mutter.
"Alright, thanks Sango." He heard the wench say. Then she came in with soft footsteps and a nervous air.
Kagome, after softly closing the door, looked up at the figure behind the desk and had to consciously keep her mouth from dropping open.
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…Silence filled the room like fog moving in on the bay at night…
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…It was so thick that you could have written haiku on it…
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…It was really getting on Inuyasha's nerves…
"Well, sit down, bitch!" He snapped at her. Kagome mentally shook off her shock and, though it irked her, ignored the name.
It was very different when you corrected your employer through a wall of cork then when you corrected your employer to his face…or, as the case may be…to his paper bag.
Yes. Inuyasha was wearing a paper bag over his head with holes cut out for his eyes. It had been Miroku's idea, a way to get around being a hanyou and all. Both of the men were too…erm…pleased with their plan to see any flaw in Inuyasha's…erm…apparel.
"Sorry, sir." Kagome said softly. 'Gods,' she moaned mentally to herself. 'I'm not usually such an idiot…why did I hit him? Why? He's probably going to fire me! And then I won't be able to get another job soon enough and I'll have to leave behind the children and I won't be able to pay the bills for the Shrine back home and Mama and Sota and Grandpa and I will all be thrown out into the streets and-'
"Your lessons start tomorrow. We will be in the same room as the last time I tried to tell you this…when you tried to poke my eye out you crazy bat." Inuyasha said, not realizing that he was interrupting her inner list of all sorts of horrible and nasty things that were going to happen to her and her family.
Kagome blinked.
"What?" She asked. Inuyasha glared at her from beneath his bag and Kagome could have sworn that she caught a flash of gold from the shadows.
Inuyasha sighed, completely exasperated.
"I thought that you were supposed to be smart!" He complained. "I said; your lessons start tomorrow. You'll meet me in the sitting room. We'll go back to our prior arrangement. I'll explain more then. Now get out."
"…wait, sir…lessons?" Kagome asked hesitantly. "I can assure you, though I have not graduated from the university I am fully qualified and I do not lack any elementary or, indeed, secondary education. I only had one term left in my fourth year of college…I'm perfectly educated, so what kind of lessons will I be undertaking with you?"
Inuyasha froze.
Shit. He hadn't thought about that.
"Um…I mean…you'll be reading books aloud to me…they'll really be my lessons…but you're the only one here who can read…uh…arcane languages…keh…" Inuyasha said slowly, making it up as he went along. That was complete nonsense of course, considering that the only people in his house who couldn't read 'arcane languages' were Koga, the lesser servants and the children. Inuyasha just hoped that Kagome didn't know that.
Kagome regarded her bagged employer with suspicious confusion.
"…I thought that Sango could read all but Finnish and some of the other northern European languages…" Kagome said slowly. From within his bag Inuyasha blanched.
"Well, she's not as fluent anymore so you're doing it. Get used to it." Inuyasha snapped. "Now get out!"
Kagome's right eye twitched. But she figured that she had already risked her position enough; and so she stood with a little bow and fled before she did something that she regretted.
Once Inuyasha was sure that she was gone he took the bag off his head and frowned. Well…that had been odd. She had acted resigned, almost fearful, not anything like the girl that he had encountered in the past.
And he still didn't know these damn beads were supposed to do!
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Sango was examining the mural. It was truly beautiful, and she could only begin to comprehend how they had managed to finish it in one day.
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It was lovely…
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Okay, so she was bored. It wasn't like there was anything else to do! Even though you'd have thought that Inuyasha and Kagome meeting would have been exciting, it simply…wasn't. No matter how many horrible situations that Sango tried to think up she just couldn't shake the feeling of indifference.
"Well…" Sango muttered to herself. "This is dull. I wish that something would happen."
BANG went the front door.
"EEEEK!" Went Sango.
"WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU!" Went one of the pair now standing in the doorway.
THUD went a noise upstairs.
BOOM went sudden thunder outside.
CRACK went the just as sudden (and backwards) lightning.
"APOCOLYPSE!" Went a nearby servant.
"WELL!" Went the speaker from before.
"This Sesshomaru knows not of what you speak, woman."
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I know, I'm sorry that it's so short. It's just the perfect cliffhanger! I'll update sooner this time, promise. Blame all the people who kept bugging me to update…when people keep asking me when I'll update at school and stuff it really gets on my nerves. I've got nothing against it online, it's just in real life. It just…bugs me.
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