The Job | By : BlackRavenOfDeath Category: InuYasha > General Views: 4439 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0 |
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Chapter 1: The Feeling
'That was so weird,' Kagome thought as she sat behind her desk in her office shortly after she had gotten the new employee's settled into their offices. 'I sensed the presence of youkai. I've never sensed a youkai at work before. On the street, sure, but never at work,' Kagome thought, confused. 'What was weirder, I sensed two. Youkai are never in groups of less than four these days. Hanyou's stay in even larger groups,' she thought, shaking her head. "I wouldn't even worry about it if they weren't so strong," she said aloud.
"Worry about whom?" asked a cold voice from her door.
Kagome looked up, startled, to see Inutaisho Desumasuku standing just within her doorframe. "It's nothing to worry about," Kagome said once she calmed down, though it took her a little longer than normal to relax. She was certain that the man in front of her was one of the youkai that she had sensed earlier.
"If it is nothing to worry about, then why are you worry about it?" he asked as he crossed his arms and leaned against her door frame, cocking an eyebrow at her.
"It's nothing that you should concern yourself with. Now is there a reason you have come here, or are you just wasting time?" Kagome asked, sitting up straight in her chair. That man, correction, youkai in front of her exuded power and strength that her miko powers could not ignore.
Desumasuku stood straight in her doorway once again. "I merely came to inquire if there was anything that required doing," he told her, his eyes turning cold and calculating.
"You were already assigned work. You didn't finished it all already, did you?" she inquired. His reply was a simple nod. "I see," Kagome said as she looked through some of the paperwork that resided on her desk. She found the folder that she had been looking for and held it out to the young man. "If you have nothing else to do, I need you to go over this file and transfhe ihe information into the computer network database," she said.
He walked up to the front of her desk and took the file out of her hand, opening it up to look over the contents. He nodded, turned and walked out the door.
Kagome sighed and massaged her temples. She got the feeling that she knew him, and when he had stood in her doorway, looking at her with those cold eyes, she had a massive wave of deja vu wash over her. 'He almost reminded me of...' she thought, but cut herself short, not wanting to think about it. She sighed, nostalgia overcoming her mind as a picture of a young boy with wild orange hair and tail appeared before her mind's eye. 'Shippo, I hope you did alright without me,' Kagome thought, resting her head in her hand.
"Higurashi-san?" a feminine voice asked from her door. Kagome lifted her head and looked towards the door to see Kat Tennyo standing there. Kagome waved her hand to let the girl know that she could continue. "Higurashi-san, I'm terribly sorry, but I can't seem to work this copier, and I couldn't find anyone else to help me. Could you assist me, please?" she asked, bowing slightly from the waist down.
Kagome nodded, slowing getting up from her seat and walking out of her office, Tennyo in tow behind her. A few minutes after Kagome got back to her desk, Inutasiho Hitori showed up at her door, but he looked like he was trying to not be noticed by her. "What can I do for you, Hitori?" she asked, trying to sound polite.
He jumped a little and looked a bit nervous. "I was just looking around a little on my lunch break," he said, stuttering a little, and a faint blush appearing on his cheeks. He then shook his head, crossed his arms over his chest, and snorted before walking off.
Kagome shook her head at his antics. Then what he said sunk in and she looked at her watch. 'Kami-sama, it's already time for lunch.' She sighed mentally, knowing she would have to work through most of her break to make up the work that she missed earlier.
Kagome got through the rest of the day with far fewer interruptions and gladly climbed into her car after she had packed up any work that she would have to take care of later at home. She sighed as she relaxed her muscles and guided her car into the daily rush hour traffic. She could tell from experience that it would be a while before she would get home and her mind was taken away by memories that she wished would just stay buried sometimes.
~*~*~*~*~Flashback~*~*~*~*~
Kagome sat on a boulder in the same clearing as the well that she used to travel through time, thinking. A huge smile crossed her face as she saw the golden eyed and silver haired young man walk into the clearing. She jumped up from the rock she sat on and ran to him, only to have him embrace her in his strong arms.
"How long have you been waiting?" he asked, his voice hushed, but she could hear the concern in it.
"Not long," she reassured him. Kagome looked up to him with bright eyes, but her smile faded when she got a good look at his face. He looked sad. "What's the matter?" she asked, raising a hand to brush along his cheek.
He sighed, but quickly covered it up. "You must return to your time. You can not return here. Leave and never come back," he said pushing her away from himself and into the well. Once he was certain that she was on the other side, he destroyed the well, making it impossible for her to come back.
What she didn't realize until later that day, was that he had taken the completed Shikon no Tama from around her neck. She cried herself to sleep that night and for several months afterwards. Kagome tried to bury her past in the past, along with her broken heart, from then on.
~*~*~*~*~End Flashback~*~*~*~*~
Kagome sighed as she maneuvered her car into the parking garage of her apartment building. She gathered all her things from her car and made her way to the elevator. She got in and pressed the number for the tenth floor. Just before the doors closed, she heard a voice calling for her to hold the elevator. Without thinking, she pressed the hold button while scanning over her paper.
"Higurashi-san, we didn't know you lived here," the voice said.
Kagome looked up, surprised. There stood Tennyo Kat and Aozora Jade, their jackets thrown over an arm and the top few buttons of their blouses were undone.
"I do, but I didn't know you lived here. When did you move in?" Kagome responded.
"We moved in Saturday. Then, Kat dragged me shopping Sunday," Jade said, crossing her arms over her chest.
"That explains why we didn't see each other. I was at a family friend's over the weekend," Kagome said, hoping to return to her paper soon. "What floor are you going to?" she asked them, since they seemed to have forgotten about it.
"Tenth," they said in unison.
"I also heard that a couple other guys moved in on the same floor, and they're really cute," said Kat, excited at the prospect of cute men.
Kagome nodded absentmindedly. She lived in a really good part of town and it had taken her almost a year to get an apartment in this building, and then all of a sudden there were new tenants in two different apartments. She hadn't even heard of the open apartments.
The elevator stopped and all three girls got out and went to their apartments, which happened to be right across from one another. Kagome got out her keys and started to unlock her door when she saw Inutaisho Desumasuku and Hitori exit the stairwell. There was also another young man behind them that Kagome didn't know.
'So they are the new tenants. I wonder who the third guy is,' Kagome thought as she turned the key in it's home so that she could get into her own home. She watched the three men walk to the apartment to the right of her own out of the corner of her eye.
Kagome shook her head and went into her apartment, locking the door behind herself. She went straight to the refrigerator and pulled a few things out for dinner and went tocklyckly change into a tank top and some lounge pants, tossing a robe on over the skimpy tank top. After a few minutes in the kitchen she was deftly chopping vegetables and meat, putting it in a pot for a stew, with some rice in another pot, boiling already.
While her dinner was cooking, she washed her hands and went to the table where she left her briefcase and got out some paperwork that she had yet to finish from that morning. She went to work, checking on the boiling pots every-so-often. Kagome quickly got through the rest of her paperwork and then fully concentrated on her cooking. Or at least that was her intentions. Her mind kept wandering to the past and her time spent there. Most of all, it kept wandering to the friends that she had made.
Kagome was startled out of her revere by a knock at her door. She quickly turned down her stove and made her way to the door. She quickly looked out the peep hole before opening the door to reveal the other young man that had been with the Inutaisho brothers.
"Can I help you with something?" she asked, keeping most of her body behind the door. She looked him over, trying to assess him. She sensed that he was a youkai, which was probably why he was staying with Inutaisho's. He had reddish orange hair that was tied in a ponytail at the base of his neck and intense green eyes. He was about five foot six inches, had a well muscled build, and looked about twenty-one.
The young man bowed and flashed her a brilliant smile. "I was wondering if you had an onion that I could have. My friends and I just moved in and don't have very much in our refrigerator," he said as politely as possible.
"Your friends?" she asked tentatively.
s. s. I live with Inutaisho Hitori and Desumasuku. We live right next door. I'm sorry. I haven't introduced myself. I'm Teiru Gishi," he said, bowing again.
"Higurashi Kagome," she introduced herself, bowing slightly. She noticed his eyes light up when she said 'Kagome', but didn't think much of it. "An onion, right?" she asked, stepping back and letting him in.
He stepped in and looked around a little. "Uh, yea, an onion," he said, following her to the kitchen. Teiru watched Kagome search in her refrigerator for an onion with a huge smile revealing his overly sharp teeth.
Kagome found an onion quickly and straightened to give it to Teiru. "Here you go," she said as she handed it to him. Kagome quickly checked on her own food, finding that it was just fine. "Is there anything else that you need?" she asked.
"No, not at all. This is all I needed. Thank you," he said, bowing and then walking towards the door, Kagome following after him. He stopped at the doorway and bowed to her again. "Thank you very much." he said before disappearing into the hall and then the apartment next door.
Kagome shook her head and went back to her kitchen, hoping that what she cooked was edible. Most times it was, but there were those few times that her cooking was almost unbearable. At least this time it smelled good.
As Kagome packed her papers into her briefcase and set her table, she could feel her miko powers tingling, constantly letting her know that there were youkai nearby. Kagome sighed and shook her head, then went about setting the table for her dinner. She served herself and tentatively tasted it. Finding that she had once again cooked a delicious meal, she quickly ate the rest of her meal.
She was glad that she cooked extra, that way she wouldn't need to make anything for her lunch. She quickly put the leftovers away in her refrigerator and washed the dirty dishes. Kagome then went to soak in a nice hot bath for a while before she went to bed. She suspected she would have a hectic day tomorrow and wanted all the sleep she could get.
As she relaxed in the tub, her mind wandered once again.
~*~*~*~*~Flashback~*~*~*~*~
Kagome walked along a path in the forest, thinking about what she should do with the completed Shikon no Tama. She was its protector, after all. It was her duty. She knew Inuyasha wanted the jewel so that he could turn into a full youkai instead of remaining a hanyou. That had been his desire since she first met him.
Kagome soon found herself in the clearing that contained the Bone Eater's Well. She sat down on a boulder and considered what she could do with the Shikon no Tama. Suddenly an orange furry ball landed in her lap and hugged her tightly around the waist.
"Okaa-san, you aren't going to leave me, are you?" cried Shippo.
"No, I would never leave you. They would have to drag me away kicking and screaming," Kagome reassured her pup, holding him to her. "Don't worry about it. Could you go check and see when lunch will be ready, please?" she asked, messing up his hair a little.
Shippo nodded. "Hai," he said and hopped off her lap, running towards the village and Kaeda's hut.
Kagome leaned back and continued her contemplation of the future of the Shikon no Tama, until she sensed a youkai nearby. She recognized the power, so she didn't worry too much. She had also advanceeatleatly with her miko abilities and could take care of herself, much to the chagrin of one inu hanyou. Kagome also didn't have to worry because Inuyasha and Sesshoumaru had made a truce, and since then, Sesshoumaru had stayed rather close by. Kagome looked up and smiled when the youkai she had sensed entered the clearing.
~*~*~*~*~End Flashback~*~*~*~*~
Kagome sighed and got out of the bathtub, quickly drying off and got dressed in her pajamas. She then crawled into her large futon bed and quickly fell asleep.
Translation of their names:
Teiru: tail
Gishi: adopted child
Please keep in mind that I have the names in the proper Japanese form, last name or the family name first and then the first name or individual name last. Also, in Japan they always say 'please' at the end of the sentence.
Other translations:
miko: priestess or shrine maiden
youkai: demon
hanyou: half demon and half human
Shikon no Tama: Jewel of Four Souls
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