Sesshomaru sat in his limo, reading over a rather large contract. He just didn't understand why people had to make everything so difficult on themselves. Why try to buy me off when all I want is to claim your company as my own and sell it piece by piece, why delay what is inevitable. What I want, I get.
"Sesshomaru, we have arrived." Came the voice from the limo intercom. The door suddenly swung open shattering his calm, serine ride with the inferiority of light.
Stepping out, without a glance to the driver of acknowledgement, walked into the tall 156-story building in front of him. He had a meeting today, a rather, important one, and one he did not want to attend. Why did the world insist on throwing such meaningless problems at him?
He stepped into the luxurious silver plated elevator where the bellboy waited for him. Stepping in the bellboy pressed the top button and waited. The doors eventually closed and they headed up. Sesshomaru wasn't sure but it looked like the guy was new, from the amount of sweat perspirating from his body he was almost sure. Eventually stepping out of the small compacted room Sesshomaru walked into is office debating on whether or not to fire the new bellboy.
Walking in he saw Kouga Wolf sitting in one of the business chairs, at least one of them was here. Nodding at Kouga he sat down at the chair next to the man with long black hair that was currently in a ponytail. Sesshomaru's chair was at the head of the table, for he was the CEO of the entire company, so when sitting down he pulled out his brief case and started sifting through papers, not once looking at the annoyed man next to him. Why people bothered themselves with emotion was beyond him.
Kouga was mad, no, he was really mad, but unfortunately, not surprised. This was Sesshomaru he was talking about here, can't expect anything less, guess he'll just have to get his attention.
Sesshomaru continued to sift through the ungodly amount of papers, trying to decipher the best action on a few mergers. Basically if he could con the other company into forfeiting over their company, he looked back up at the clock. The remaining morons still weren't here, they were late. He doesn't like tardiness.
"Relax Sess, not everyone can make it on your beck and call. Buy the way, what was with the whole over-nighting me from Germany thing?"
Sesshomaru looked over at the arrogant man beside him. "Don't ever call me that again." He stated in a cold monotone voice.
"Only if you relax," Kouga said in a rather challenging voice "and you didn't answer my question." But this time it came out as more of a pout.
Sesshomaru looked over at Kouga, he wore a black business suit while the top three buttons of his shirt were undone. His waist long jet-black hair was pulled back into a low ponytail while his blue eyes seemed to stair off into space. That didn't surprise Sesshomaru one bit.
Kouga turned his head back to Sesshomaru's direction. "Why are you so worried? It must be pretty big if you pulled me out of that Germany meeting."
"We'll talk when the half-bread and the letch get here."
"At least give me a clue about it, I'm not exactly big on sitting around and doing nothing."
Well that was new to Sesshomaru; he could feel a smirk making it's way across his face. It was at that moment that both Inuyasha and Miroku came barging through the large maple doors, crossing the room they sat down in their respective chairs, the ones nest to Sesshomaru and Kouga.
"Your late." said a very pissed Sesshomaru
Inuyasha didn't even look up at his older brother. "So?" he said arrogantly while putting his muddy feet up on the newly imported desk from China.
Sesshomaru could feel a growl coming on. "Get your grimy feet off m desk."
"Feh." said Inuyasha, he loudly moved his feet off the desk, making sure to knock over as many things as he could, knowing his half-brother couldn't stand messes. Inuyasha glanced over to see the vein decorating his brother's forehead growing ever so largely. He knew his half-brother was using every ounce of control to not reach over the table and rip Inuyasha's head off.
Miroku noticed the tension in the room, once again coming from the two brothers, and decided it would be safer, overall, if he were to intervene before Inuyasha did something really stupid. "So what's the meeting about?"
The pulsing vein on Sesshomaru's head slowly decreased in size until it was gone, the formerly mentioned CEO calmly opened his eyes and pulled out the file that was next to him. Kouga immediately recognized them as some of the papers Sesshomaru had previously been shuffling through.
"What's this?" asked Kouga
"This is a potential problem."
Shadow looked up at the mansion in front of her, a large bronze gate, standing over 20 feet tall, resided in front of her, in the middle of the entrance sat a small booth, which was obviously security. Walking up she took a look at her surroundings, trees of every kind grew around her: maple, pine, willows…every kind imaginable. Peering into the checkpoint she saw an old man reading a magazine. Closer inspection showed it was a Playboy, figures, dirty old men.
"Excuse me."
The man turned around and looked at her, his eyes went wide as he desperately attempted to stash the magazine under his seat. "May, um, I help you?"
"Yes, I'm the new maid, Kagome Hiragashi."
He looked at her skeptically. "One sec…"
He turned around and opened a drawer, pulling out various files. Turning back towards her he scanned the picture and then her face. Shadow immediately noticed how he lingered at her breasts, lecherous old man.
"Ok, but I'm going to need to ask you a few procedural questions."
"Understandable."
"Name?"
"Kagome Hiragashi."
"Age?"
"24"
"Cup size."
"What?"
The man looked up. "Cup size."
"You fucking bastered, how the hell can you as a girl that question?"
The man showed her the clipboard, and there, typed out and everything was the question, 'Cup size'. "Um, C."
"When was the last time you had sex?"
"What the hell? Give me the me the damn clip board!" She grabbed it out of his hands to find the question typed out, looking further down she saw a few other 'provocative' questions. Trying not to scream she grabbed the nearest pen and wrote 'fuck off' in large letters over the entire page. Handing it back to the man, she smiled. "Done." she said sweetly.
She reached over and pressed the button to open the gates. Walking off she headed into the large mansion awaiting her; this was going to be a very aggravating job.
"I couldn't give a damn about 'potential problems', I've already got enough current problems with Kikyo." said Inuyasha furiously
"You will care about this."
The three newcomers in the room turned to see a short stubby man with three hairs on his balding head walking towards them.
"Who are you?" asked Kouga
"This is the head of the black-market division in the CIA, Maten. He has reason to believe that an expert team of thieves are after father's sword."
"So? It's not like people haven't tried before."
"This is different, they are the best." said Maten.
"Again, people have tried." said Miroku
"And again, they are the best." interrupted Maten
Shadow marched furiously onto the mansions grounds, she was already pissed, how the hell was she going to make it around here? Well, guess it kind of figures, from what she knew about Inuyasha he was a filthy rich playboy who thoroughly enjoyed his life, guess he would have dirty old men working for him too. Damn, she hoped all the other people working around here aren't like that.
Stepping onto the massive front door in front of her, after a ten-minute walk from the gate, damn this guy had a long driveway, she rang the doorbell. No answer. Out of the corner of her eyes she thought she saw something moving through the window but disregarded it when no one answered. She rang the doorbell again, still no answer. Wasn't he supposed to be able to afford decent service?
Taking the doorknob she gently pushed it open, surprisingly, it was unlocked, this could actually be fairly easy, she quietly stepped inside
"Well, what is this delicious treat? Looks like a naughty burglar."
Shadow turned around to see an extremely hansom man standing behind the door. Well that explains the shadow she saw, but why the hell didn't he answer the fucking door?
"You know breaking and entering is a crime, I just might have to punish you."
Looks like all Inuyasha's employs are fucking bastards, no, not just that, also sex maniacs. What did she do to deserve this? Well, there was that job in Cairo, and the one in London, and Italy…never pretend to be the Pope, it's very hard to pull off, manageable, just hard, and somehow extremely funny.
"I'm a new maid here so it's not breaking and entering." she answered back
"Well your going to be fun." Said the man with deep red eyes and thick black hair pulled back into a long braid passing his waist. "Names Hiten, Inuyasha's personal trainer."
Hiten? That name sounds familiar, he looks familiar too, wait? No way is he Maten's brother! He looks like the picture of the guy on Maten's desk. It is him! Well this is hysterical, I'm going to be living with the brother of the guy who has dedicated his pathetic life, well what he calls a life, to tracking me down. "Names not interested, goodnight now."
"Goodnight?"
She grabbed his outstretched hand, which she was undoubtedly suppose to shake, and twisted his arm behind his back, with her other hand she reached for his neck and pressed a rather strong pressure point. The man immediately fell to the floor unconscious. She tapped his dead beat body with her foot, slightly disgusted with having to touch him, luckily he wouldn't remember they had ever met, beauty of knocking people out.
"So what's so great about them?" asked Kouga
"They don't loose, they can do absolutely anything. Just last year they pulled of robbing the Pope of his personal bible." answered Maten
"Wait, you mean the bible that is passed on to every new Pope, that's got to be over…" Miroku started to count his fingers.
"900 years old, ya, that one. They are known as the Black Widows-"
"Kind of girly isn't it?" interrupted Kouga
"Well considering their women-" Maten was once again interrupted
"Their women?" said Inuyasha
"Yes, and extremely good at what they do." Maten pressed a button attached to his laptop and an image immediately came onto the large screen on the other end of the wall.
"This is The Legendary Black Widow, the original."
Sesshomaru was now interested in what was going on, this was about the time Maten had stopped before when explaining everything to him. Looking closer you could see a building and from looking even closer you could see what appeared to be a shadow.
"Don't see anything? How about now?" he pressed another button, it became slightly clearer and closer up. "How about now?" Once again the picture seemed to refocus. "Now?" For the last time the picture changed, and with that last change the picture cleared.
Everything was extremely defined but nothing important seemed to be there. Inuyasha got up and walked over to the screen, upon closer inspection he saw an elbow and a foot sticking out from the shadows. "What's this?"
"That is her, one of the first pictures we managed of her, and it wasn't until it had been through seven labs that we were able to even get this." He pressed another button, the picture changed. "This is the only other picture."
This one was of a woman who was extremely beautiful, she had obviously not known her picture was being taken from the smile she held, and not the mention the very rare gem in her hands. The picture was still slightly hard to define, but the moonlight framed her figure, while illuminating her eyes and white purled teeth.
"What does this have to do with us?" asked Inuyasha
"This is the woman who personally hand picked and trained Shadow, the current leader of the Black Widows. When Shadow was looking for her team Black Widow was the one who approved and helped train them. There is Shadow the leader, Amazon the bomb expert and Virus, the computer expert. Together they make an unstoppable force."
"So why would they be after the old mans sword?" asked Inuyasha once again
"A few reasons, for starters, he was the one who provided the technology to take this picture, but over all…she failed at one job, and one job alone, stealing your fathers sword. Back when you were probably still children Black Widow attempted a heist on your father's sword, but failed, after that she was never heard from again, working anyway. In her eyes it ruined her career, labeling her a failure, disgracing her and any honor she had. Now the ones she trained are out to gain back that honor for their teacher."
"Why now?" asked Sesshomaru
"I have my sources, and those sources say they were eyeing the bid."
"How will we know? When they attempt a steal?" asked Kouga
"No actually, that is another trait they carry from Black Widow, before a theft they will introduce themselves to the owner of the item in some way or form, always in person actually."
"They…introduce themselves?" Miroku looked at his friends skeptically, who the hell does that?
"Ya, we still can't figure that out either. Black Widow did it as well."
"They must do it for the thrill, not the money." said Inuyasha quietly
"What was that?"
"Nothing."
"So that's how we'll know?" asked Sesshomaru
"Yes, they don't start a case before the meeting." answered Maten
"Child? What happened to Hiten?"
Shadow turned around to see an old woman with an eye patch staring at her. "Tripped. So who are you?"
"Head maid in simple terms, an ye?"
"Kagome Hiragashi, new maid."
The old woman stuck out her hand for a handshake. "Kayede, glad to have you here, so far. I just pray ye aren't like the other maids, I swear all they care about is the master Inuyasha, just so he'll glance at them." said Kayede while rolling her eyes
Shadow smiled. "I wouldn't worry about that, in fact, I would like to stay as far away from him as possible if I could."
"Ye seem like a sweet girl, what ye doing working for a boy like Inuyasha?"
"Boy?"
"He acts like it." the old woman sighed
Shadow held back a laugh, almost. "I see, actually I really need a job right now so I'm salvaging all I can get, college is expensive."
"I understand, and I will do my best to keep ye away from Inuyasha and his henchmen…" she looked at Hiten, "such as him."
"Much obliged."
The two set off to the new room which would be Shad-no, Kagome's. She was going to have to remember to answer to that now, what a bother, oh well, soon her and the team would be off to the Demon Ball where they would introduce themselves. Where's the fun if there's no challenge?
Firevixen73- Well all done there, hope everyone liked it and please review. And this is an Inu/Kag fanfic, just to clear that up, I was sketchy about that for a bit. Please review! Oh, and since I didn't do a disclaimer, I don't own Inuyasha or any of the characters.