Disclaimer: I own nothing. InuYasha and all his hotness belongs to another of who I cannot name. She is my enemy. Who is the creater of InuYasha? I forgot. Anyway. Ya. Sooooo... Kay. Right. And I don't own the recipie at the bottom. Better Homes and Gardens New Cook Book owns it.
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"Sir," Kagome knocked on the door, "Your food is ready."
She waited by the door with the tray of food is one hand and a fist clenched with the other. Loud thumps were coming through the door along with odd moans.
If they were going to have a love-fest, why did they order a tray of food? I wish people would be more considerate.
Kagome's anger was rising more and more as the sounds got louder and louder. But then her blood froze in her veins. Ice was pumped from her heart and cold seeped through her body as she heard a horrifying scream. The loud thumps, the odd moans, the hair-raising scream all registered in her brain.
Someone is getting hurt.
She took no time in flinging the door open hoping upon hope that it wasn't too late.
Unfortunately, it was.
Kagome saw the man on the floor, blood quickly seeping out of a straight gash in his head. When she looked up at the pair of shoes beside the man she saw they were connected to a woman's body who was clad in a tight red and black outfit with a black cloth mask that hid her forehead and mouth showing only her eyes. Oh, her eyes. They were a deep red. A blood red.
The memory of those eyes staring straight into her own startled Kagome into consciousness.
She awoke on her bed sitting straight up, sweat slick on her face and causing her fleece pajamas to stick to her. She was breathing fast and hard. If a person were to see Kagome at this moment they would have been convinced she had been having a midnight run. One that lasted at least two hours.
She knew otherwise. That same dream had caused this reaction for the last five years since she had first witnessed the crime-or her ears had anyway.
Kagome got out of her bed and headed to the bathroom. She sighed with pleasure at the cool water washing away the sweat and the memories. Looking out of the window she saw the sky was a multitude of colors-yellow, pink, purple-and got ready to set up for breakfast.
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Thirty minutes later, Kagome was cracking some eggs over a hot frying pan when a drowsy Sango shuffled into the kitchen rubbing her eyes.
"Well don't you look awake," snapped Sango before sitting at a small table accompanied by three chairs.
Kagome just continued flipping her eggs over and added a sprinkle of salt and pepper. Then, when the whites were set and the edges were cooked, she added a small amount of water for each egg. When three minutes had passed she carefully lifted the eggs with spatula and flipped them over onto a plate before setting it down on the place mat in front of Sango (for the recipe of these eggs look at the bottom of the page).
Sango grunted a thank-you and began the process of devouring her favorite breakfast food.
Kagome, having already eaten, sat in front ofher and watchedSango inhale the eggs with a slight smile on her lips.
Sango had never been a morning person, but her favorite plate of eggs always seemed to rouse her out of her agitated slump.
After a few moments of pleasurable silence between the two young women, the door leading to the male servants sleeping quarters flew open revealing a young man with long black hair tied in a high ponytail emerging from the hall.
His eyes swept the kitchen, but abruptly stopped when they landed on Kagome. A smile covered his face as he headed towards her.
"Good morning Kagome. Sango," he added when he got close enough that his range of sight was partially taken over by Sango. He sat down and continued, " I heard that InuYasha fellow was harrasing you yesterday. Want me to serve him a plate of grilled vegtables and tofu sprinkled with laxatives?"
Kagome giggled at the thought of InuYasha eating laxatives, but said reprovingly, "Now Kouga, that would be wrong. Besides, "she dopped her voice to a whisper, "you'd get into a lot of trouble if they found out."
Kouga scratched his head and nodded dismally, "I quess your right. Too bad. Would've been fun. Oh well," he stood up and said, " we better go get the dinning room ready for breakfast. It's supposed to be ready by 8:00 and it's," he looked at his watch, "7:23."
Kagome jumped up and exclaimed, "Goodness! I didn't expect it to be that late. Sango," she said turning to her friend, "go help Kouga make the dinning room presentable and I'll get the food ready."
Sango nodded and started off for the dinning room, Kouga in the lead. He turned around and gave a little wink to Kagome.
"See ya around, Kagome,"
She just gave a wave and began to start the fryer.
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A protesting InuYasha was being dragged out of his bedroom by Miroku.
"Come on InuYasha. You must get out sometime. This is a cruise ship, not a penitentiary," Miroku said patiently.
I swear, sometimes he can act like such a baby, but he must be going through a hard time so it's understandable.
InuYasha grabbed the doorway struggling to keep hold of it.
"Why do I gotta go? It's only breakfast. If I get hungry I'll just call the kitchen and order something up," he persisted. His fingers started slipping and he couldn't grab the wood again because of Miroku pulling on his haori.
Miroku saw this and took advantage by giving an enormous tug and causing InuYasha to bang into the wall with an "Oof!"
He groaned and tring to stand up again,felt Miroku's hand grasp his forearm and forcibly thrusted him up and towards the dinning area.
"Just because you have broken up and do have access to food inside your room doesn't mean you should hide like a coward from others," Miroku smirkedknowing InuYasha would now willingly come.
InuYasha yanked his arm out of Miroku's hands and stopped abruptly, turning Miroku around so he was facing him, "I. Am. Not. A. Coward." Sendinga death glare to Miroku he walked on grumbling softly to himself.
Miroku chuckled lightly and jogged to catch up with InuYasha.
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Sango burst through the kitchen door and yelled at Kagome, "We got an order for sashimi (raw seafood) with some wasabi."
Kagome made a face. She hated wasabi. It looked like green toothpaste and tasted about the same.
We sure do have a lot of people on board this time. I've never had such a breakfast rush before.
She wiped her brow before starting on the order. There were many sounds of clanking dishes and food sizzling. The smell wafting to her nose invigorated her and she began making the disgusting wasabi a little happier than usual.
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A young waitress with ebony hair walked through the mazetables set up towards two people who just entered the room.
"Hi. My name's Rin and I will be your server today. Let me show you to your table," shesmiled at thembefore turning and leading them to an empty table in the middle.
She heard one of them snort and mumble something incoherent under his breath.Rin sat them down and handed them their menus.
One of the men flashed her a white smile and said, "Thank-you so much," and placed his hand upon hers resting on the table. Rin blushed.
This man is certainly charming. So handsome too. I wonder if he's single.
A snort from the other man snapped her back to reality. She stood up straight, removing her hand from underneath the other man's hand.
"Can I get you anything to drink?"
The two men looked down at their menus in thought giving her a chance to examine them more closely. The charming man had striking features with violet eyes and onyx hair tied in a small ponytail at the nape of his neck. The other man had white-silver hair (she couldn't decide which color) and golden eyes. Rin mentally gasped.
That's InuYasha! Oh my goodness! I can't believe he's actually here. He must be trying to get away from all the press. Poor him. I can't believe Kikyo!
"I'll take some green tea," thesmiling man said.
InuYasha looked at Rin and said, " Just get me some orange juice."
"Coming right up," Rin left the table and headed towards the kitchen to tell the exciting news.
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Kagome looked up from the chopping board to see the young waitress Rin burst excitedly through the doors. A wide smile was stretched across her face and she was bouncing on the balls of her feet.
"Kagome! Kagome! Guess what," she didn't wait for Kagome to answer, " InuYasha, the InuYasha is here! On this boat. Can you believe it?"
Kagome chuckled, wiped her hands on her apron, and stepped toward Rin, "Yes. I know. And he...is a...complete...JERK, " Kagome roared the last word and started to rant about what happened the night before.
When she was done Rin just stared, "Really? Are you sure?"
Kagome looked as if she was going to explode again so Rin put her hands up in defeat, "Okay! Sorry. I didn't mean to offend you. I believe what you said it's just, I dunno. Hard to see. I mean," she started to pace the kitchen, "he is such a good actor," shewith an emphasis on 'such'.
Kagome returned to butchering the pork with vehemence, "I guess that kind of stuff doesn't matter, does it? Whatever," she smiled tightly at Rin, "it's in the past. Now go out there and waitress your butt off, okay?"
Rin looked at the floor and nodded, " 'Kay," she started to turn around again when the door flung open exposing an angry InuYasha.
"Where the heck did you go?" he yelled at Rin who was knocked onto the ground by the force the door was opened with, "We've been waiting ten minutes for drinks and we're ready to order. You can't just leave people waiting like that. Now hurry up!"
Rin cowered at the volume his voice had gone up to. The kitchen had gone completely quiet. All the employees had stopped mid-way with their work to stare at either InuYasha or Rin. One worker was filling a cup of coffee which was over flowing onto his hand, but he seemed oblivious to the scalding liquid sheathing his skin.
InuYasha was shaking with frustration, Rin was trembling with fear, and Kagome was stepping toward him with her hand slowly raising.
SMACK!
A collective gasp went around the room at the same time when everyone witnessed Kagome slap InuYasha across the face.
InuYasha looked sundered at his feelings of embarrassment, infuriation, and bewilderment.
"How...You...But...," InuYasha seemed at a loss of words so Kagome stepped in.
"How dare you? She is your waitress, not your slave. I think you can stand to wait ten minutes for a drink," her voice rose louder and louder until she screeched the last word. Chest heaving, breath deep and loud, Kagome took ahold of the back of InuYasha's haori, "Now get out of here. Customers are in the dinning room not the kitchen."
With that she heaved him out of the quiet room with all the strength she could summon. He fell onto the floor of the dinning room face-first.
"And stay out," she yelled before letting the door swing back.
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Miroku stared at the mortified figure on the floor. He had been quietly wondering how he could get Rin into his chambers when InuYasha came flying out the kitchen door with a ferocious flaxen-haired girl yelling, "And stay out!"
InuYasha rose up from the floor looking around the dinning room at all the astonished faces watching his to see what he would do next. His expression was a mixture of revulsion, anger, and astonishment. He looked around the room and yelled, "What? Haven't you ever seen someone thrown out of a room before?"
There were scattered murmurings across the room and some people shook their head to their partners with a shrug or a look of dissaprovement.
InuYasha's face flushed a deep red, "It was a rhetorical question. Morons," he yelled. With that he stomped toward the door leading to the hallway without looking at anyone else.
Miroku just sighed and got up heading toward the doorway InuYasha had just left from.
He will never learn. I wish he could have some more patience and think before he acted. I swear, the day he calms down is the day I settle down with one woman.
He laughed at himself and smiled at a woman who had been ogling him since he entered the room.
Dreams are just dreams. Never meant to be a reality.
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Miroku found InuYasha fuming in his room, not quite silently.
"How could she do that? The impertinence! I will get her back. I swear!"
Miroku stepped over the broken shards of glass and ceramic tile littering the floor toward InuYasha. Carefully removing the lamp clutched between InuYasha's hands he said,"Calm down InuYasha. You didn't really have any right to be in there at all so..."
But he wasn't able to finish his explaination because InuYasha interrupted,"I didn't have any right to be in there? How," he yelled, his voice rapidly rising,"did I not have any right to be in there? That stupid waitress was taking forever to get our drinks. She just needed a reminder to hurry up." He crossed his arms and turned his back toward Miroku.
"But she's not the one I'm worried about," InuYasha growled,"That other wench is the one that needs to be dealt with," he cracked his knuckles menacingly. "And I think I know a way."
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One hour later the door to the kitchen was opened by a tall man with brown hair and an aggrivated face.
Kagome put down the plate she was washing and said with a perplexed smile, "Hey Kyoto. What can I help you with?"
Her boss put his hands on the counter and said, "Kagome, I have been told a very disturbing story by a customer. He said you literally threw him out of the kitchen just because he was checking up on some drinks that were late coming to his table."
That freak! He told on me. He actually told on me. No one's told on me since the third grade. And he made it seem like it was all my fault.
"Well, sir. See the thing is," Kagome stammered not knowing what to say to contridict InuYasha's tale,"that isn't...I mean...well you see...,"
Kyoto held up a hand to stop her, "Listen Kagome I can't understand why you would do such a thing. You are such a sweet girl, but I guessthis kind of stuffhappens. Maybe it's your past catching up with you," Kagome flinched, "but I can't allow it to happen again."
He grasped his hands behind his back and said, "So to ensure this won't be repeatedyou are to be InuYasha's personal servant for the rest of the trip."
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I hope you enjoyed my story. To all my "old" fans, thanks for your patience. It means a lot. To all my new fans, thanks for taking the time to read my fanfic. I hope it was not in vain. Review however you see fit and remember, flames are cool withme.
Here's that recipie from the beginning of the story:
For Fried Eggs you must have the following ingrediants:
Butter or margarine
4 eggs
In a 10-inch skillet over medium heat melt a small amount of butter (or, use a 6-or 8-inch skillet for 1 or 2 eggs). Add eggs; sprinkle with salt and pepper. When whites are set and edges cooked, add a 1/2 teaspoon of water per egg. Cover skillet; cook eggs to desired doneness (2 minutes for soft or 4 minutes for firm). For "over-easy" eggs, carefully lift eggs with a spatula and flip; cook briefly to set yolks. Serves 2.