Chapter 2

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"…" Dialogue '…' Thoughts

When Kagome's alarm went off at twenty to five the next morning the last thing she wanted to do was get out of bed. She would rather have hurled her alarm at the wall and watched it shatter into hundreds of little pieces. Instead of taking her sleepy anger out her electronics Kagome stumbled into her bathroom. After a quick shower Kagome threw on a pair of fitted faded jeans and a black swoop neck shirt and hurried into the kitchen, not even bothering with make-up.

Filling both the sleeping cat's and dog's food and water dishes Kagome grabbed a chocolate chip muffin. Scrawled a note for her brother and scurried out the door. Stampeding down the flour flights of stairs she cures the broken elevator and booked it to her car when she reached her underground parking. Once she was in the car and on the way she aloud herself to breath, 'its okay you're not late,' she thought and tried to calm down on the twenty minuet drive to work.

Kagome's mid morning panic turned out to be futile when Kagome arrived five minuets early. Closing the door she saw Sango across the lot heading towards the entrance, "Sango, hey, wait up!" she called out.

Sango stopped and turned around noticing Kagome she waved and waited. When she walked up Sango gave a happy greeting, "Good morning!"

"Morning," Kagome responded still a little groggy.

"Don't worry you'll get use to the odd hours pretty quick," Sango chuckled.

Kagome gave her a look of disbelief, "Right, that'll be the day."

Opening the door the pair entered the building, scooted through the mud room and headed straight to the coffee table. Pouring her self a cup of coffee and piling a load of sugar in Kagome turned to Sango and asked "Does Mr. Taisho have any particular rules against pets?"

"No, why do you ask?"

"I have a dog that I can't leave at home all day, right now my brothers looking after her but he can only do it for a couple more days. Do you think it would be okay if I brought her here, she's incredibly well behaved?"

Sango shook her head, "He won't mind, unless it's a small dog, Inuyasha's girlfriend has a small yappy dog that she brings frequently and Taisho hates it. Least we think he does, he doesn't exactly show a lot of emotion. We just assume because he glares at it and tells Inuyasha that "if it does not cease that racket it will cease to exist,' I think the dog knows what he's saying because it always stops."

Kagome laughs, "Don't worry, Valeo is anything but small; she's a Great Dane."

"Perfect, nearly everyone here loves big dogs. Except for Kikyo; which may be interesting if you bring your dog because she is one of the main actresses, you'll meet her today; and her little dog too."

Sango leads her quickly towards the two directors' chairs that Miroku and Sesshoumaru had been seated in the day before. They were empty when they walked up but the two men were in the in the immediate vicinity. Both men stood in the center of the set ordering various stage hands about, changing any last minuet placement of all the props. When Sesshoumaru noticed their approached he acknowledged them with a nod of his head. Miroku's welcome was a little more vocal.

"Ladies," he exclaimed exuberantly, "how good it is to see such lovely faces at such an early hour." Coming up to Sango Miroku swept her up into a massive hug and let his hands slide down to her ass and gave her a quick grope.

Faster then lightning Sango whipped out the can of pepper spray she had stashed in her purse the day before and got Miroku right in the mouth. "Hentai! I've told you tons of times that even though were going out you can't just grope me whenever you feel like it."

Miroku didn't answer or defend himself, he couldn't; he was to busy sputtering and spitting trying to get the maize taste out of his mouth. Kagome watched the whole thing with amusement, 'So that's what the pepper spray was for, I wondered.'

Sesshoumaru seemed indifferent to what was happening with his assistant director, glancing at Kagome he told her offhandedly, "I need you to check with both Kagura and Yura; see how long until they are ready. Tell them that they can be no later then six thirty unless they want to be replaced."

"Yes Mr. Taisho."

"Come back here when you are done."

"Yes sir." Kagome told him, turned on her heel and all but ran the opposite direction. 'Man, the guy has to learn how to smile; I know he is a Taiyoukai but demon or not he needs to lighten up.' Kagome shook her head trying to dispel the thoughts, 'Why do I care anyway, the guy is just my boss. I just have to do my job.'

For the next few hours Kagome ran around doing Sesshoumaru tasks, retrieving things, delivering messages. She was running around so much that she hadn't sat down once and had not even had a chance to peek at the actors that were in the film. She didn't mind that much, it was only the first day and Kagome knew that she would probably end up having to deal with them at some point.

By eleven thirty Kagome finally received her first chance to sit down. Dropping into a folding chair by the coffee table that was still holding the less desirable of the morning's donuts she waited for Sango. The two had planned to meet for coffee at there first break, which had come far later then expected.

Grabbing a Styrofoam cup Kagome poured herself a strong black cup of the liquid, and turned to sit back down and wait for Sango. Unfortunately the plan went awry the moment she turned around and walked straight into a silver haired man. Mistaking it for Sesshoumaru she immediately opened her mouth to spill out an apology. But before she could even make a peep she was been screamed at.

"What the hell is wrong with you, you stupid wench! How could you not see that I was standing behind you, are you stupid or something or just blind!" The silver man yelled at her as he stared down at his stained shirt.

"I'm sorry," Kagome told the two fuzzy ears at the top of the bent head, that let her know this was definitely a hanyou, 'Well this definitely isn't Mr. Taisho' she thought as she looks at the cute fuzzy ears. Unable to resist the urge Kagome reached out and rubbed the soft ears.

Bad idea, "What the hell are you doing, isn't scorching me with bad coffee enough!"

Annoyed at being yelled at Kagome growled at him, "Look buddy, it wasn't my fault that you were standing two inches behind me; if you hadn't been hovering I wouldn't have bumped into you. And I said I was sorry."

The peeved hanyou growled at her, "Look you stupid women, your just some useless stage hand. I would shut up if I were you, unless you want to be fired."

Kagome growled right back, "Now look here, just…" She stopped talking the moment she realized Sesshoumaru had walked up behind the hanyou.

"Inuyasha don't believe you have the authority to fire people in my company little brother, especially not my personal assistant." Sesshoumaru said icily behind Inuyasha. 'Hmm, she growls' he thought regarding the woman who had managed to set Inuyasha temper off within the first minuet of meeting him.

Inuyasha rounded on her brother, his rage switching targets. "What the hell were you thinking hiring an imbecile for an assistant? She can't even hold on to a cup of coffee."

Sesshoumaru merely cocked an eyebrow, "Whom I hire is none of your business, Kagome is a very capable assistant, so please do not harass her. Why don't you go find Kikyo, tell her that I expect you both back here in an hour and a half for the next scene. And be sure to tell her that if she insists on bringing her toy with her then it will be quiet."

Inuyasha scoffed but walked off towards the direction of his change room muttering under his breath about a stupid bastered older brother.

Once Inuyasha was gone Sesshoumaru turned to Kagome, who swallowed nervously, "I need you to go to Hiten, he is the stunt director and give him this" he told her handing her an envelop. "Tell him that it is the schedule for the next to weeks."

Glancing down at the pearl stationary Kagome thought of the note she left her brother about the dog, remembering her early conversation with Sango she decided to ask Sesshoumaru. "Mr. Taisho," She called, when we turned in acknowledgement she continued, "Umm, I can't leave my dog at home all day long would it be okay if she came in with me?"

"As long as it is not a little yappy thing I do not care." He responded turning around and continuing on his way.

"Thank you." Kagome called after him, even though she knew he probably didn't care about her gratitude.

As Kagome watched him walk away she saw Sango walking up from Yura's room. "What happened it sounded like Inuyasha was yelling, did someone insult him. Better yet did someone insult Kikyo?" Sango asked when she got close enough.

"No, I sort of spilt coffee all over him."

Sango gave her a look of disbelief, "No way, you're still in one piece."

"Yeah, I almost wasn't," Kagome told her laughing, "Luckily Taisho came and his presence diverted the anger."

"That would do it Inuyasha can't stand having his half brother around but he was the best guy for the part and Taisho knew it. Plus their father wants them to… learn cooperation."

"Ahh."

"I have to say though, Taisho must not hate because normally he just lets people deal with Inuyasha themselves."

Kagome gave Sango a slightly skeptical look the most she Sesshoumaru had said to her all day were the few words they had just exchanged after Inuyasha had yelled at her. The most he had said earlier when directing her on what to do next was five words. Deciding a change in topic was necessary Kagome asked, "So how did it go with Yura?"

Sango got a sour look on her face, "That women is an imbecile, she spent ten minuets ranting about how she was missing a very important color set of eye shadow, different shades of brown that Kikyo had to have. She insisted that it was my fault that it was missing. When she finally stopped ranting I pointed out to her that it was sitting by the make-up chair were she left it. Then we heard Inuyasha and I came to see."

Kagome couldn't help but giggle, 'If working here is like this everyday, my life is defiantly not going to be dull.'

"Well anyway, enough about the nutty people we have to deal with lets grab lunch before they start filming the next scene."

A little over an hour later Kagome was placing a sandwich palter on the morning's coffee table while Sango was off getting a fresh container of juice. Just as Kagome finished setting it down a haughty female voice hit her ears. "Oh, Inu, look at this food they brought. They can't really expect us to eat it can they?"

Looking up Kagome saw Inuyasha and a beautiful black haired woman on the other side of the table, "Its better then the cafeteria's food, and you don't even have to eat it, shish." Kagome mutter.

"Of course it's better then that crap," Inuyasha barked, "of course you wouldn't care would you. You're just my brothers little lap dog, while tell him next time that maybe he should give us something edible. Don't you think Kikyou?"

"Yes, you're right. I know thinking might be a little hard for you but I would try to remember if I were you. We don't want to have to complain again." Kikyou told her, glaring down her nose.

The hair on the back of Kagome's neck bristled, just as she was about to give the pair a peace of her mind a cold voice called across the room. "Kagome."

Knowing that it would not be wise to leave Sesshoumaru waiting Kagome left the snobby couple, glaring as she walked by. "Yes run off to Sesshoumaru like a good little submissive." Inuyasha taunted as she strode off.

Kagome ignored the taunting, 'Oh, keep talking hanyou, I'll get you back at another time.' She thought as she hurried off to her boss.

The rest of the day went smoothly for Kagome, and was void of any contact with any of the actors or actresses; a fact that she took as a blessing. As she climbed into the car on her way home she realized just how much of a blessing it was that she was going to be aloud to bring Valeo to work. The poor dog would have been board to tears other wise. And Kagome knew if that were to happen her furniture would no longer exist.

When she arrived home Kagome quickly fed her pets a phoned her brother to let him know that he wouldn't have to take care of Valeo anymore. After chatting with a relieved brother she prepared for the next day before finally relaxing and cuddling up with her animals. Throughout the course of her evening she couldn't help but wonder how thing would go over in the morning when Sesshoumaru found out just how un small and yappy her dog actually was.