InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Hereditary Secrets ❯ Chapter 1 ( Chapter 1 )

Chapter One

 

 

Kagome stretched, then looked at her alarm clock. `Damn. I'm up an hour early again'. She had been sleeping horribly for the past week, and she was tired all the time, now. But it still didn't help her sleep.

 

“Oh, well. Looks like I'm stuck surviving on coffee again.” She swung her legs out of her bed and reached for the phone, then thought better of her actions. `Like Sango would be up this early! Well, she might be, but I don't want to call her if she is.'

 

Dropping her hand, she stood up and walked to the door to her bathroom, and a nice warm shower. `Time to wake up.'

 

~*~*~*~*~

Inuyasha was pissed. He had been up all night, trying to restrain himself so that he didn't have to buy a new answering machine. His ex, Kikyo, had decided to call. Repeatedly. And sob over the line, even when he started letting the machine get the calls. He had just sat and stared at the machine, attempting to reign in his temper. At about two o'clock, though, he lost it. He answered the phone and told Kikyo to stop calling, and then slammed the phone onto the base. She called back, and he smashed his machine to pieces, realizing belatedly (seeing as it was two in the morning) that he could have just unplugged it from the wall.

 

`You idiot. No wonder your brother thinks you're a worthless disgrace!'

 

As a result of his brainless ex, he had managed to get a total of four and a half hours of sleep that night. Right now, he was seriously considering taking her up on her offer to meet and try to strangle her when he got close enough to. `Bet Sesshomaru would be happy with that. Then again, she's as annoying to him as she is to me. He'd probably thank me for getting rid of her.'

 

Growling to himself, he poured a cup of coffee, then went to change his clothes. Wondering if he'd have to see his brother today, he slipped on an ACDC shirt and tied his long silver hair back. Once again, his phone rang. He considered letting it ring and ignoring it, then shrugged and picked it up.

 

“Hello?”

 

“Inuyasha, I will be going out of town for the week, so I will not be contacting you again. That bitch has been calling incessantly since two in the morning, so... do something about it. I really don't care what. When you are dressed, go to the café on Fourteenth and try to persuade the contractor that he doesn't want to switch to the Higurashi companies. And wear something other than that damn shirt.”

 

Inuyasha rolled his eyes. “What damn shirt?”

 

“The shirt you're wearing. You seem to have dozens of that one, and it looks scruffy. Put on something that doesn't make you look like you belong in a jail, and meet the man.”

 

“Fine. How's the board taking your preposition about the contract budget?”

 

“Badly. I need another week to convince them. I will be back in town by Saturday. Call me Sunday and tell me how it went over. And the bitch said something about your answering machine, so I'll have Jaken send you a new one.” With that, Inuyasha's brother hung up, and Inuyasha growled in frustration.

 

~*~*~*~*~

“Hey, Kagome!” Kagome turned to see her best friend, Sango, running up to her.

 

“Hi!”

 

“Guess what Miroku gave me!”

 

“An ulcer? A heart attack? A migraine?”

 

“No! he gave me a new punching bag, and a personal gym set! He's so sweet!”

 

“He gave you something that could help you slap him harder?”

 

“We went out on a date, and he didn't look at another woman once. He held my hands, too, and didn't try to touch my butt.”

 

“That just means he's tired of getting slapped, Sango. It doesn't mean that he's learning.”

 

“He loves me, Kagome. You'll see, when it happens to you.”

 

“Ha! Let's get to gym. I don't want to miss Kaede again.”

 

The girls walked up the sidewalk, one looking happy, and the other looking worn out.

 

`Will I ever have it happen to me?'

 

~*~*~*~*~

 

Sesshomaru hung the phone up, and handed it to his personal assistant. “You heard what I told Inuyasha. Pick out a good one this time, and show him how to block calls. I'm paying for this.”

 

“But... My Lord, he goes through an answering machine a week. You buy him new ones almost every time.”

 

“I have sufficient funds to cover that, Jaken. Do as I say.”

 

The limo stopped, and the chauffer opened the door. Sesshomaru took hold of the briefcase Jaken held out to him, and stepped out of the vehicle. He walked to the airport's swiveling doors, and went through them, not looking behind to see if someone was following with his luggage. It was only one bag, but it would not do for him to be seen in public carrying his own luggage.

 

He checked in to see if the plane was running late, then sat down in one of the chairs in the waiting area, grimacing.

 

`They don't even clean these filthy things. Gods, how I hate airports.' He resisted the urge to squirm in the seat, and pulled out his planner. `On the plus side, at least I have those games I downloaded onto this thing.'

 

Sesshomaru looked around to see if there was anyone looking at him, though he knew that there wouldn't be, and opened one of the applications on the `organizer'. On the screen, a picture came up, and after that were the words that stated that he was holding a downloaded version of PacMan. He smirked, and began to play.

 

~*~*~*~*~

 

Rin Higurashi pulled out a piece of gum as the pilot announced that they would be landing soon. She started to stow away all the things she had out: her book, a magazine, an MP3 player, an IPod, a laptop, her cell phone, a picture of her cousin, a legal contract, a GameBoy, and a piece of paper telling her where her new apartment was.

 

“Miss Hi... Miss Rin?” Rin's new personal assistant, Joe, tapped her shoulder.

 

“I heard you, Joe. Don't tap my shoulder. What do you want?”

 

“I was just seeing if you heard the announcement.”

 

“Yes, I did. If that's all, you should probably go back to your seat. The sign's on.”

 

“Of course. Do you have everything packed?”

 

“Yes, I do, Joe. Vacation's not over until I get out of the airport, so I'm pretty sure I can take care of all of my things until then.” She shooed the man away, and gazed out the window. The plane began its descent, and she put her tray up.

 

`Why does my family insist on me having a personal assistant? Why did they make me bring him on my vacation, for that matter. At least he's not calling me “Miss Higurashi” anymore. Gods! That is so annoying. I think I should become the black sheep of the family and apply for a job at one of the family's business rivals. That would get them off of my back.'

 

She stared out the window until the plane had landed, stopped, and began to unload passengers. She waited until Joe showed up, handed him her briefcase, and exited the plane.

 

~*~*~*~*~

 

“Hey, Shippo! Is Miss Kaede here?”

 

“Nah. She left early for an appointment. She said to tell you that she'll be here Monday, early.”

 

“Thanks.” The girls turned to walk away, and Shippo stopped them.

 

“There's something else, too.”

 

“What?”

 

“Miroku is in the weight room, and asked Sango to meet him there, and, um, Kagome, you don't want to go to the snack bar today.”

 

“He's there, isn't he?”

 

“Yeah. He's been waiting for about an hour and a half.”

 

“I wish Koga would just leave me alone! I'll never go out with him. I'm gonna skip the gym today, Sango.”

 

“Oh, don't. Come to the weight room with me. Say hi to Miroku, and we'll leave to get lunch early. Please?”

 

Kagome sighed, and agreed. Sango grabbed her hand, and led her to their destination.

 

~*~*~*~*~

 

Inuyasha was annoyed by the time he finished up with the contractor. The man had been adamant in what he wanted, and he had already given the Higurashi companies the contract to look over. He snarled as he started up his bike.

 

`Why does Sesshomaru have to make me meet these people? He knows I hate it, and there's tons of employees who can do it for him. I just don't understand him.'

 

He sped up, swerving the other vehicles on the road. He needed to blow some steam off, and headed for the gym. `Maybe destroying some punching bags will help.'

 

~*~*~*~*~

 

“Flight 404 from Hawaii is arriving on time. Flight 405 to New York will be departing shortly after from gate 14A.” The person at the desk spoke into the microphone, then went back to chewing her gum and reading a book.

 

A few minutes later, the person at the desk came on over the intercom again. “Flight 404 from Hawaii is now unloading. Flight 405, please prepare to board.”

 

Sesshomaru quickly shut off his game and stood up. Grasping his briefcase, he strode to the area where, already, people were lined up to board. The gate opened, and the first of its passengers began to emerge. One of the last people to come out was a woman on a cell phone, who was looking increasingly annoyed. She ended the conversation and thrust the phone at the man next to her, and went to the desk. The man said something to her, and she replied, “I really couldn't care less right now what Auntie has to say; I don't want to know what she wants. If she wants to tell me something, she can call me at the hotel!”

 

Sesshomaru snorted, and then turned away.

 

~*~*~*~*~

 

“Auntie, I've literally just gotten back! You can't seriously be telling me I have to go somewhere else so soon.” Rin was talking to her aunt, the Lady Higurashi, and her `employer's' wife.

 

The woman said something through the phone, which apparently translated as an affirmative, because Rin scowled, and said, “If you had been away for two weeks with an annoying little nuisance like I've been stuck with, you'd want to go home and just relax.”

 

The person on the other end said something else, and the aggravated woman said, “I don't like having people following me around with itineraries on what I'm supposed to do on my vacation. I don't like being woken up before ten thirty at least when I'm on vacation. I don't like some skinny little twerp scaring all the hot guys on the beach away from me. I really don't like being called `Miss Higurashi' on my vacation, either. So I did not get to relax.”

 

She heard another remark from the woman, and then said, “Fine. I'll do this. But your secretary better send me something other than a gift basket or fruitcake next time you send out presents.” She forcefully pushed the `end call' button on the phone, and handed it to Joe.

 

“Miss Rin, your mother wanted to tell you something else...” he began to say, but Rin cut him off with a quick gesture.

 

“I really couldn't care less right now what Auntie has to say; I don't want to know what she wants. If she wants to tell me something, she can call me at the hotel!” With that, she handed her ID to the desk clerk, and the woman checked for the next flight she was on.

 

“Your next flight will be flight 405, boarding first class now at Gate 14A.”

 

“Thanks. Where is that?”

 

“Right there.” The woman pointed to the line that was waiting to board the plane she had just left. “You're on first class, seat 1B. It's window.”

 

“Thanks.” Rin tried to suppress the urge to strangle her personal assistant, and took a deep breath. “Do the baggage people know not to move my stuff?”

 

“They should have been alerted the moment I checked you onto the flight.”

 

“Thanks, again.” Rin turned and walked to the end of the line, noticing a tall, pale, silver-haired man gazing at her.

 

`Why's he looking at me?' she wondered, then walked onto the boarding ramp.