Chapter 1

It was late Friday afternoon when Kagome finally made it back to her small apartment on Seventh Avenue. That morning she had a feeling her day wasn't going to be such a good one and thought she should have stayed at home in bed; she was right.

This had to have been one of the worst days of her life. She wished, oh how she wished she had just stayed at home in bed on this raining and thundery Friday.

You must be wondering what I am going on about, well let me start off by saying that there are some people you should just never meet and some you should just ditch when you ever have the chance.

This is a story of a young 21 year old girl named Kagome Higurashi. She had just graduated from college and had just moved into this little apartment she called home; instead of living in her family shrine with her mother, grandpa and little brother.

Kagome had a rather messed up life compared to her friends and others she didn't know. Her mother was a working shrine maiden at the shrine, her grandpa believed that Demons lived and that they were still around and that they were evil, so he would always attack strangers with his sutras, that don't work, hoping to rid the shrine of them and her little brother well there's not much to really say there. He was just a 13 year old kid, who thinks he is in love with a pretty young girl who attends his school and is in all his classes.

She was a strange little one. Always happy even when the weather is horrible, Kagome had made it her duty to help her little brother, Sota, out and see what she could find on the little girl, so far she has had no luck finding out anything about her. But she wasn't going to give up. He even aced all his tests and exams with straight A's now that was something she would like to know about.

Whoops, getting a bit off the matter here and mumbling on about everything. Well anyways, the reason behind this bad day was because she had run into one of the richest guys around, his name is Sesshomaru Tashio, the eldest son to Inu-No-Tashio, CEO of Tashio Corp. he was also the elder brother of Inuyasha Tashio, one of the biggest bad mouths around, he was such a hot-head that if you piss him off at all he would either punch you square in the face or start snapping at you about it all.

Well, shall we start the story or would you like to know more about everyone who might be in this story?

I think I might just start this story right now…

Kagome opened the door to her apartment, she looked around and smiled. It was just as she had left it.

She walked to her lounge room just to the left of the door and dropped all her groceries and bags on the ground before turning around to close her door, just as she was around to, the next door neighbor came running to her and as Kagome looked at the girl she could see she was in hysterics of crying. Kagome helped her into her apartment and sat her down, then quickly closed the door before the girl's boyfriend decided to trespass. She turned around and walked back to the girl, kneeling in front of her; she rested her hands on the girl's knees and looked up at her softly.

"What has happened, Becca?" Kagome asked kindly.

"He… he… he beat me…" the pretty blonde haired, grey eyed girl sobbed, harshly.

"Beat you…" Kagome stiffened. Oh how she hated that boy Damien. Ever since Kagome had moved in here about two months ago, almost every day to a week Becca had come running to Kagome for help. Normally, the neighbor's would have left by now but Kagome could in no way move away or leave Becca alone here. So she had taken it upon herself to help Becca out as much as she could, but beating her, that was the last straw, only thing was, Kagome couldn't fight him, she herself would get beaten up. "I will find a way to get rid of him, for you, I promise, Becca," Kagome declared in a determined voice.

"I thank-you so much, Kagome, for everything you have done for me, I can't expect you to help get rid of him," Becca replied a little shocked at Kagome.

"I would do anything for you, Becca, you're my friend and I won't let some guy hurt you for the rest of your life, I will find a way to rid him of your… our lives, but it might take a while, I think you should move in here for a while, just to let him settle down a bit before anything," Becca smiled sweetly and nodded.

"Thank-you, Kagome?" Becca sweetly asked.

"Yes?" Kagome asked in a laughing manner.

"Could I please have some of your yummy chamomile tea?" Becca blushed a bit.

"Of cause you can, Becca, I will be back in a minute and will have two cups of chamomile tea, made and created by me," Kagome laughed softly as she stood and walked into the little kitchen attached to the lounge room.

"Um, Kagome, could I ask you something?"

"Yes?"

"Do you have any special men in your life?"

Kagome's head popped out of the kitchen with a smile on her face. "No, but I do hope to find him one day,"

"What would you like him to be like? Like his personality, looks, you know all that?"

"Well, I never really thought about it," Kagome sighed, making the tea silently for a few moments. "Well I guess he would be a rather cold guy who would only show me how much he cares, he would be tall, he wouldn't be much of a talker and would just sit there and listen to me go on and on about nothing until he got annoyed and told me to be quiet, he would let me make my own choices but let me know when he didn't like them, criticize me on my clothes and tell me what to wear and what to get rid of… and so much more, but I'm not too sure of that yet," Kagome smiled, walking out with the tea on a tray and lay it on the coffee table carefully, before kneeling down in front of it across from Becca staring off into space.

"Wow, Kagome, that's some deep thinking you have thought up there, I can think of one guy who has a few of those traits," she giggled, picking up her tea and sipped at it.

"Oh and who can you think of who is like that?" Kagome asked with her head tilted to the side.

"The one and only, Sesshomaru Tashio," Becca pulled a face of distaste but desire at the same time, if that was possible.

Kagome gave her the 'if I ever see that guy, I would rather kill myself' look before looking down into her tea and thinking about what she had said. I guess in one way I wouldn't mind being with him but at the same time he's such an asshole and cold bastard, could I really ever like a guy like that, like him? She thought silently. A few minutes later the silent trance they had been in was disturbed by the banging on her apartment door with yelling following the banging.

"Becca, get out here now and face me!" it was Damien. They glanced at each other then slowly stood up and crept to Kagome's room. She softly closed the door and looked around.

"Becca, grab those two bags and go to the window," Kagome whispered pointing to two shoulder bags sitting at the end of her bed, as Becca got the bags Kagome unlatched the window and slid it up, so it was opened all the way. When Becca got back Kagome took one bag and swung it over her shoulder, Becca followed suit, Kagome waved her hand to the window and Becca sighed, climbing onto the window seal, she grabbed the tree branch and climbed over it until she was safe in the twisting branches of the trunk, Kagome climbed out once she was safe and slipped a book against the side of the window, so it was opened just enough for her to get her arm under it and put the window down on it before climbing over to Becca and they both proceeded to climb the rest of the way down the tree truck till they got to the ground then they turned and bolted for the back fence, climbed and jumped over it and run all the way to the park a few blocks away.

By the time they stopped, they were panting loudly, trying to catch their breath. Kagome stood up and looked around making sure they hadn't been seen when they ran for it.

"It's clear for now, but we should keep going, just to be on the safe side of things," Becca nodded and started walking beside Kagome, towards the mall.

"So, what do you think he will do when he finds that we're not there?" Becca asked, glancing around every now and then swiftly.

"Probably get pissed off and trash my apartment, then walk out leaving the front door opened, come out looking for us and try to drag you back to your apartment, when and if he finds us,"

"I guess you're right," Becca sighed. "I really don't like it sometimes when you're right about these kinds of things,"

"Well I really don't like it sometimes when you put ideas in my head that I like Sesshomaru," Kagome teased, poking Becca in the arm softly. Becca smiled and laughed childishly.

"Well, it's not my fault I'm right about that kind of stuff,"

"And it's not my fault I am right about almost everything else, like that fact that you like that guy who lives a few blocks away from us at the five star apartment building, by the name of Miroku," Kagome laughed. Becca turned her head away from Kagome with a soft blush across her cheeks.

"I do not, even if I did how would you know?" Becca countered still looking away.

"Oh I don't know because you talk about him in your sleep and say some other stuff that I am not going to say because it creep's me out to even think of it," Kagome smirked at her friend. Becca didn't reply and walked in silence.

*snap*

The girls stopped and looked around them, they were walking through the parks forest along the paths. Kagome looked at Becca, to make sure she was alright. She was, just scared. Becca was looking over Kagome's shoulder with wide scared eyes. She lifted her hand and pointed, shaking violently, over behind Kagome. Kagome spun around, dropping her bag, grabbed a long and thick stick, swinging it and smacked whoever it was over the head.

They stumbled backwards a few steps and looked at her angrily, then smirked. She was in a crouched stance with one out flat in front of her, her other hand gripping the stick in the centre, with it out behind her back, her head was down but her eyes were on their face.

"Well, well, well isn't someone feisty today, what's got your nerves on edge?" they chuckled. He had short black hair with deep brown eyes that looked black; he was in a black suit.

"That would be none of your business, who are you?" Kagome growled, slowly rising to full height, setting one end of the stick against the ground, and her other hand on her hip.

"Now why would I want to tell you that?"

"Because not many guys just walk around following young girls around and want to have a nice little chit-chat, who are you?" she replied.

He nodded a little understanding what she was saying and put his hand out to shake hers. "My name is Naraku Kumo and who might you be?" he grinned. Kagome stared at him and didn't shake his hand, just started at it then back at his face.

"Well isn't this a fabulous encounter, good-bye." She growled, grabbed her back and Becca's hand then went on their way, taking the stick with her.

After walking for a few minutes Kagome let go of Becca's hand and stayed close to her side.

"What was that all about, Kagome?" Becca asked.

"Do you mean Naraku or the stick?" Kagome asked looking at the long stick in her hand.

"Both, I mean I know you can fight with like num-chucks and all but that was so cool and with how calm you were and all with that guy... What was that?"

"Naraku Kumo is a conniving snake, he works as the CEO for Kuro Enterprise, his father Onigumo is a world renowned salesman, he has been in competition with Inu-No-Tashio ever since they both started their own companies up,"

"How long have they been like this for?"

"Well they have hated each other since they were around four just like their fathers and they still hate each other and it's been about twenty odd years since they started business. Sesshomaru and Naraku have hated each other since they first saw each other when they started school. It's come back from so far, it's hard to really keep up with how much the two families hate each other and why the whole thing started." Kagome sighed, looking at the park bench a few feet away. Becca saw the tired look in her eyes and sat down when they came to the seat. Kagome slouched in the chair, staring off into the distance.

"How do you know all this about them, Kagome?" Becca questioned after a minute.

"I might just happen to have a few sources, so I can get information on anyone and everyone, if I wanted to," Kagome smiled, sitting up.

"Wow, you must be like a computer nerd in your spare time," Becca teased her best friend for the past two months.

"I just might be," Kagome winked at her. She leaned her head back against the chair and looked up into someone's face. When she had sat down she had put her bag on the ground so she didn't need to worry about it, so as soon as she saw their face, she jumped up onto the chair and over the top of it, knocking them over with a strong push, landing on her feet, she grabbed the stick with her other hand and started spinning it around.

"Ouch, jeez girl chill out," the guy said, looking up at her as he rubbed the back on his head. He watched the stick and blinked at it, when it stopped on end of it was trapped under her arm and the other end was at his throat.

"What do you want?" Kagome hissed harshly at the boy on the ground.

"Okay, I can see you are not in one of the best moods… My names Jakotsu and I'm here looking for Kagome Higurashi." He replied slowly. His hair was a light brown with tips of blonde, his eyes soft green like the grass in a field, he was also in blue slacks, white sneakers and a green shirt.

"Why would you be looking for this girl?" she growled.

"Because a friend of mine knows her and would like to speak with her,"

"Who would this friend be that would like to speak with her?"

"Miroku Houshi, he is looking for her," Kagome relaxed and moved the stick, helping the boy up with her other hand.

"Then you are speaking to her now, what can I do for you Jakotsu?"

"Gosh he said you were pretty strong but damn you got a lot of it," Jakotsu grumbled to himself. "He needs to speak with you about your job with Starlight,"

"Oh is that so where is he?" Kagome asked picking up her bag, noticing Becca sitting stiffly on the seat, she had forgotten her friend was there.

"Where he always is, in the food court flirting with all the girls," Jakotsu smiled. "I'll take you to him," he offered his arm to Becca who took it gratefully and walked with him as Kagome walked on his other side.

*.*.*

"Ah, Kagome, Becca, Jakotsu, I see you found her," Miroku smiled to his partner in crime for Starlight as Jakotsu lead the girls to Miroku. Miroku had short black hair a little ponytail at the back, bright violet eyes and mostly seen walking around in a black and purple suit with a girl or two always with him.

Such as now he had two cute girls sitting with him at the table. One had bright violet hair and shinning green eyes while the other had dark green hair and deep violet eyes, they seemed to be opposites. The violet haired girl jumped up and hugged Kagome and Becca tightly then walked back over with them chatting about something do to with Starlight, the green haired girl stood up and shook their hands before sitting down quietly again.

"It will be so good to have someone else working there that I will know just a little, all the other girls are so mean and up themselves, I'm always hanging out with the nice pretty girls in the crowd and have a good long chat with them," she chattered on, Miroku sat there laughing with Kagome and Becca at the cuteness of the girl. "Oh, whoops, my bad I'm Violet Star, it's nice to meet you," she blushed softly.

"No problem, I'm Kagome Higurashi and I might be working with you if mister hot-shot here with give me the job," Kagome gave Miroku the 'glance' and looked back at the girl smiling brightly at her.

"I'm Becca Raine, nice to meet you Violet," she smiled.

"This is my younger sister, Grumpy," Violet made a pouty face at her sister with a small glare.

"My name isn't grumpy, Violet," the girl growled. "My name is Emerald, pleasure to meet you Kagome, Becca,"

"Same goes to you, Emerald," Becca smiled at her and sat down on the seat next to her.

"So what was this so important stuff that you needed me for, to get Jakotsu disturbing my quiet time in the forest?" Kagome turned to Miroku, staring blankly at him.

"If you're going to be so rude then I might just not tell you," he grumbled, watching as Kagome's face was never changing with the comment. "Fine, I just wanted to let you know that you will be starting work tonight so you might want to be there on time, or you will get disregarded by the other girls."

"I could care less about them, if they want to be stuck up, selfish morons then so be it, I'll be there when I get there, late of not." Kagome flatly replied. "What time does it open and what time is I needed?"

"Opens at six o'clock, you don't need to be in before eight, only if you want to be in before then, you can be,"

"Alright, see you at work then," Kagome smiled lightly. "Good-day Jakotsu, girls… come on Becca lets head off before Damien figures out where we are," Kagome said turning to leave then stopped and waited for Becca to reach her side. "See you at work, Boss," she waved over her shoulder and walked off.

*.*.*

"Do you think Damien will be at the apartment when we get back?" Becca swallowed stiffly, glancing at Kagome from the corner of her eye.

"Maybe but I have my trusty stick and should be able to knock him out possibly," Kagome smiled, turning her head towards her friend. "Don't you worry Becca, I'm not going to run away and disappear on you,"

"Thank-you so much, Kagome," Becca smiled, looping arms with Kagome as they headed home.

Turning up the road their apartment building they slowed down and crept silently towards it, instead of getting in the elevator they took the stairs to the fourth floor, peaking around the corner and ran for it.

Just as Kagome had expected, her door was thrown wide open and her belongings and furniture pretty much destroyed, nothing she couldn't fix though.

"Wow, Damien did this, I'm so-"

"No apologize, I can work with it and fix it, don't worry, you just get your belongings and get them over here," Kagome encouraged, looking around the room then headed off to inspect the rest of the place. Becca smiled to herself, putting the bag down on the couch she headed out and went to her own apartment, sneaking in silently. No sign of Damien around, she thought walking in and getting all her belongings together before heading back, making a few trips to get all of it to Kagome's.

When Becca got the last load in, she realized that Kagome had already cleaned the lounge room, kitchen and little dining room. Closing the front door, she walked to her right and down the hall looking in each of the rooms. Kagome had cleaned up the Bathroom, Laundry and the spare room, which was set up for Becca. Becca then turned around from the spare room to face Kagome's room.

Kagome was cleaning merrily, humming a tune Becca didn't know. Kagome finished cleaning and smiled brightly at Becca.

"Feel free to just dump your stuff anywhere around here, it's pretty organized, so you should be able to find anything, if I do move it and put it away,"

"Thank-you for this, Kagome, I really appreciate it," Becca sighed softly. "But I do think it might be time for you to start getting ready for work, you have about an hour and a half to be ready and there,"

"Thanks, Becca, "Kagome sighed, giving Becca a quick hug before getting all her clothes together then headed into the bathroom for a shower.

When Kagome emerged from the Bathroom she was wearing a strapless black and blue dress that ended a few inches below her butt, with a black belt done up just under her breasts, with black lace up high heels, her hear was tied up in a side ponytail with her light two light blue streaks and light/dark blue coon-tails left out over her shoulders. Light pink blush, a bit of lip gloss, blue and black eyeliner showing her pretty hazel eyes off with a little pit of mascara.

"Whoa, I think I might need to come and make sure all the boys in the club don't try and rape you," Becca laughed. Kagome blushed, walking over to Becca on the couch she picked up her leather trench coat that reached the floor and her big hand bag with a change of clothes and a few other things in it. "Are you walking to work?"

"Yep, I don't have any other way of getting there," Kagome sighed, how she wished she had time to get her license.

"Hello, miss forgetful, I have my license, I can drive you," Becca waved her hand in front of Kagome dramatically.

"Oh yeah… whoops," Kagome bit her bottom lip. "But you don't need to,"

"Yes I do, now let's go." Becca finished, standing up grapping her keys and they headed out the door and down to the parking lot where a few cars sat, but the one that stood out the most with the silver Porsche Carrera GT.

"I wonder who's car that is," Kagome murmured to herself, but kept walking over to Becca's green Dodge Viper SRT10 Coupe. Opening the doors they climbed in, relaxing back into the smooth leather seats. Putting their seat belts on, Becca put the key into the ignition and revved it a little, then back out of the parking spot, not seeing the person walking behind the car, she stomped on the break before hitting them, getting out of the car quickly she run to them and started apologizing.

"I'm sorry, I hadn't noticed you walking before I started backing out of my spot, are you alright?"

They made a deep un-humored chuckle before answering. "I am very well but if you don't watch where you are going next time I may just have to turn you into the police," they had a deep muscular tone with a light note in it. Kagome was getting bored and impatient sitting in the car, so she climbed out and looked over to her friend and the strange guys there. He was very tall with short cropped silver hair that ended at the nap of his neck; he was wearing a black and white work suit with a black ground length coat on, his hands stuffed into his pockets. At first she didn't know who he was until his eyes slid from Becca to look at her. Amber gold eyes, who has amber, gold…

"Good evening Mr. Tashio, I wouldn't expect to see you hanging around here," Kagome curtly nodded at him with a smile on her face. He seemed to recognize her and gave her a short nod before turning and walking towards the Porsche. Figures he would own the most expansive car in the parking lot. Kagome grumbled to herself in her thoughts, before getting back into the car with Becca and they headed off towards Starlight.