InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Hotel Takahashi ❯ Just getting harder ( Chapter 4 )

a/n- Hey guys welcome to another chapter of Hotel Takahashi!! I hope you enjoy what happens next!!

 

Disclaimer: Inuyasha & co. belong to the great Rumiko Takahashi and I am just borrowing them for my own enjoyment.

 

Hotel Takahashi

 

Chapter Four: Just getting harder…

 

You think it's going to get easy?
But it's just gonna get harder

 

Tell me what you are trying to prove?
Playing games with my heart

 

You're the one who broke the rules
I'm the one who played the fool

 

Now you're trying to tell me it's alright
But you should know you'll never get a chance again

 

You play with fire I guess you'll never learn
You mess with me and you're gonna get burned

 

It's just gonna get harder…

 

TINA ARENA “Back Where You Started”

 

“KAGOME'S HERE! KAGOME'S HERE!! MUM! SOTA! KAGOME'S HERE!!”

 

Kagome's face lit up as she watched her younger sister bound down the shrine steps. Placing her bag filled with souvenirs on the ground, Kagome bent down and opened her arms wide.

 

The ten-year-old Rin launched herself straight into her sister's arms.

 

“KAGOME!!”

 

“Wow! Haven't you grown, Rin!”

 

Beaming up at her older sister, Rin let out a small laugh as Kagome spun her around on the spot. “Yep! I've grown three centimetres since you were last home.”

 

“No?!” Kagome replied, pretending to be amazed, “That much?”

 

“Uh-huh.”

 

Not noticing their brother coming down the shrine steps to join them, both Kagome and Rin shrieked in surprise when Sota suddenly enveloped his sisters in a bone crunching hug and picked them both up off the ground.

 

“So our sister has finally returns home!”

 

Still holding onto Rin with one arm, Kagome laughed and whacked her brother playfully across the head, “It won't be for much longer if you don't put me down, squirt. You're about to break my back!”

 

“You're getting old sis, what happened to the days of crash tackle football?” Sota teased, obeying Kagome's command and placing both her and Rin on the ground.

 

Kagome pretended to be hurt by Sota's comment. “I'm insulted that you would even think to call me old, Sota. I'm only twenty three.”

 

“Yeah, sis isn't old at all.” Rin piped in, now down from Kagome's arms.

 

“Furthermore,” Kagome spoke up once again, “Just for that comment I'm definitely not giving you you're present anymore.”

 

“Aww…come on Kagome, lighten up. It's not like I was serious.”

 

Kagome chuckled as she watched her brother try and worm his way into getting his souvenir. “You should have learnt by now Sota that you can't get away with teasing me without facing the consequences”

 

Rummaging through her bag, Kagome pulled out a large jar of vegemite, “Here Rin, this is for you.”

 

“VEGEMITE!!”

 

Barely able to hold her excitement, Rin took the jar and bolted back up the shrine steps. “Mu-um! Kagome brought me vegemite! Can I have some toast! Pl-ease!”

 

Watching Rin run towards the main house, Sota pretended to pout, “You gave Rin her present! Can I please have mine? Come on, don't be mean, it doesn't suit you.”

 

“You look constipated when you pout like that.”

 

“Mu-um! Make Kagome give me my present.”

 

Naomi Higurashi shook her head as she stepped out of the house and watched Kagome and Sota argue from the shrine steps. You'd think they were both ten year olds kids the way those two were acting.

 

Kagome stuck out her tongue, “Mum can't help you this time squirt. They're my presents to give and you're not getting yours till I'm completely satisfied you've earned it.”

 

“Kagome!” Naomi called out, “Just give Sota his present. I want to hear all about your first day at work.”

 

“Yeah, sis.” Rin yelled from the kitchen, “Give Sota his present so we can all come inside and have some toast!”

 

Sota laughed, “Yes! Score one for the little guy.”

 

“Little guy?” Kagome snorted in disbelief, “Sota, one; you've just turned seventeen, and two; you're the tallest one here.”

 

“It was a figure of speech.”

 

Rolling her eyes, Kagome watched as her brother gleefully ran up the shrine steps towards the house, now certain he was getting his present. Following suit, Kagome met her mother at the front door and gave her a warm smile.

 

“It's good to be home, Mama.”

 

Naomi pulled her daughter into a tight hug, “It's good to have you home, we have all missed you. Even Sota.” She added with a chuckle.

 

“I'm sure he did,” Kagome joked, “How could he not miss me?”

 

“Yeah, especially when you bring me back video games.” Sota called out from the kitchen while he was helping Rin make her toast.

 

Kagome rolled her eyes, “Geez…glad to see I'm loved for all the right reasons.”

 

Shaking her head, Kagome turned back to her mother and gave Naomi one last hug before the two of them made their way towards the lounge room.

 

“So, tell me.” Naomi spoke up once they were both sitting down, “How was your first day at the hotel with Sango?”

 

“It was very…interesting.” Kagome replied hesitantly, not really sure how she would describe her day.

 

“Interesting?”

 

“Well,” Kagome began, “First there was this morning where one of the manager's, Kagura, tricked me into believing I was getting fired.” She walked over to the bar fridge and grabbed out a can of coke.

 

“Then,” she continued, “Sango introduced me to some of the staff member's I'll be now working with, including not only a seventeen year old fox demon who I think has a crush on me, but this perverted chef called Miroku who's now trying to persuade me to convince Sango to go out with him seeing as she and I are best friends.”

 

Kagome took a sip of her drink and glanced across at her mother, “After that, the day was basically just me standing behind the service desk dealing with customer complaints and questions.” She shrugged her shoulders and glanced out the window, her thoughts turning towards her encounter with Inuyasha today. “…Nothing worth your interest.”

 

Watching the changing expressions cross Kagome's face, Naomi studied her daughter for a moment.

 

“You know, Kagome...You were never very good at lying.”

 

The colour slowly drained from Kagome's face, and she refused to look her mother in the eye. “Mama, what are you talking about?” She asked hesitantly.

 

“Kagome dear…you should know that no matter what, you can't hide anything from your mother.” Naomi tucked a strand of Kagome's hair behind her ear and waited for her daughter to look at her again. “So tell me,” She asked softly, “When are you going to tell me the rest?”

 

Kagome stared into her mother's eyes feeling as if her thoughts were being read like a book. She shook her head in defeat and let out a small chuckle, “I hate it when you do that.”

 

Strangely enough once she had started Kagome found herself unable to stop. What's even more was once she'd finished there were no lectures or warnings, no accusations of any kind. Naomi simply gave Kagome's hand a reassuring squeeze.

 

“Does Sango know?”

 

Kagome shook her head, “No. I can't let her know just yet that Inuyasha was the guy I met in Australia. One it would make things awkward at work because she's friends with him, and two, if I was to tell Sango you know exactly what she would do…” A small smile etched its way across her face, “She'd beat Inuyasha to a bloody pulp. And as much as I'd love to see him in that state his brother does own the hotel.”

 

“So what are you going to do? Will you be alright?” Naomi asked.

 

Kagome nodded. “Yeah. I'll be fine. I'm a big girl, I can handle it.”

 

Naomi shot Kagome a sceptical look but decided not to say anything more. She knew Kagome, and she knew that her daughter was a grown woman and could look after herself.

 

“Did I here that our Kagome's having man problems?”

 

Bursting into the lounge room, Naomi and Kagome raised an eyebrow as they watched Grandpa Higurashi search through his pockets. “I have just the thing for the occasion.” he assured them, giving his granddaughter a big grin.

 

“Father, I'm sure Kagome is perfectly fine dealing with her problems without our help.” Naomi spoke up.

 

“Nonsense, Naomi. If Kagome's having problems getting this Inuyasha guy to leave her alone then it is our family duty to help her.”

 

To make things even more complicated, Sota and Rin suddenly made their way into the kitchen. “Did I hear you say Inuyasha?” Sota exclaimed, turning towards his

 

Kagome, "Are you marrying Inuyasha Takahashi? He and his brother are like, worth, 15 billion dollars or something.” Sota grinned, “We're gonna be rich.”

 

“If Kagome's getting married I want to get married too!” Rin spoke up.

 

Kagome glanced frantically between her grandfather, her sister and her brother not knowing where to begin. “Uh…guys. Sorry to disappoint you but one; I'm not having any man problems and two; I'm not even going out with Inuyasha Takahashi, let alone getting married to him.”

 

All three of her family members fell silent and stared at Kagome.

 

Rin sat down on the lounge beside Kagome, “So you're not getting married?”

 

“…and you're not even dating?!” Sota asked, a frown forming on his face. “Damn, I thought we were gonna become millionaires or something.”

 

To everyone's surprise however, instead of being discouraged Gramps simply chuckled, “You don't need to lie to us, Kagome. We're your family.” He searched through his pockets and pulled out what he was looking for before handing it to Kagome. “Take this. It's a protection spell to help you ward off this Inuyasha fellow's advances.”

 

“Uh…thanks, Gramps.” Doubtful that the spell actually worked, Kagome slipped it into her pocket anyway.

 

“Make sure you always wear it, even at work. That way you're always protected.”

 

“Yeah Kagome,” Sota joked, “You never know when Inuyasha will unexpectedly jump you, especially seeing as you two work all day together.”

 

Rin glanced around the room confused, “What does `Jump you' mean? Is jumping on someone wrong?” She turned towards Kagome, “When I `jump you', is that the same thing as what Sota means?”

 

Everyone in the room let out an awkward chuckle.

 

“No Rin, you're not doing anything wrong.” Naomi spoke up. “Sota was just being a bit careless with his words.”

 

“What?” Sota replied innocently, “I was only trying to help Kagome protect herself against unwanted attention.”

 

Kagome whacked her brother across the head, “Sota! You know full well no one at work is going to `jump me'!”

 

Sota shrugged, “Alright, alright…But speaking of your job…” He shot Kagome an inquiring glance.

 

“What about it?” Kagome asked, suspicious of where he was going with this.

 

“Did ya swipe any bathrobes for me?”

 

~*~

 

YOU HAVE ONE NEW EMAIL!!

 

From: Miroku

 

To: Inuyasha

 

Subject: The new girl

 

So, how was the first day with Kagome? Knowing you, you probably couldn't even get her to give you her name let only anything else. Trust me man, after what I've seen of her today when she came in to the restaurant to pick up Kagura's folder and what I've heard from Sango, you're way out of your league here.

 

…You don't stand a chance.

 

Changing the topic how was the press conference this afternoon? I know you asked me to tape it but I ended up having to work a double shift because most of my night staff called in sick too. Must be some bug going around.

 

Speaking of work. Is it true that because you were late and left Shippo on his own again your brother is making you clean every toilet in the hotel with your tongue?

 

According to Koga, (who, if you remember, got given the same punishment when he left Ginta to handle the bar by himself while he chased after that American chick) it totally screws up your senses for at least three days.

 

Tough luck man. It must totally suck knowing that unlike Koga, you didn't even get laid to make it worth it.

 

Miroku.

 

P.S. By the way, don't think I've forgotten that once again you didn't give me my pen back.

 

YOU HAVE ONE NEW EMAIL!!

 

From: Inuyasha

 

To: Miroku

 

Subject Re: The new girl

 

Okay, first off—why the hell are you emailing me when we live not only in the same apartment complex, but on the same floor in flats across the hallway from each other?

 

Oh wait, I guess I forgot who I was talking to.

 

Secondly, what the hell do you mean I'm `way out of my league'? This is me we're talking about here, Miroku. ME?! I'm sorry, but remind me would you who the one currently kicking both your and Koga's arses by six points is?

 

Yeah, that's what I thought.

 

…Yesterday was merely the beginning.

 

Inuyasha

 

P.S. By the way, I didn't steal your pen. I'm merely minding it for Sango so that next time you touch her arse, she can shove it up yours.

 

~*~

 

Pushing the empty luggage trolley back into the hotel lobby, Inuyasha raised his eyebrow as he noticed Shippo standing off in the corner watching the scene unfold in front of him. Walking over to teenager, the inu-hanyou jabbed his thumb in the direction of the commotion. “Yo, Shippo! What's going on over there?”

 

Shippo let out an amused chuckle, “From what I can tell from the yelling, one of the customer's is complaining about something to do with the chemicals used to clean his room.”

 

The luggage trolley came to a stop as Inuyasha glanced across the hotel lobby to where Shippo was staring. Standing next to the young fox-demon, Inuyasha watched as Kagome and Sango tried to console a disgruntled customer.

 

“I'm a coyote demon for goodness sake! I have a very sensitive sense of smell.”

 

Shooting a quick glance across at Sango, Kagome turned her attention to the obviously upset customer in front of her and bowed her head in apology, “I'm very sorry about the confusion, sir. Our two cleaners were unaware that a lower concentrated form of the cleaning products they were using was required.” She turned towards the two hotel cleaners that were involved, Momiji and Botan, and gave them a supportive grin, “I promise you this will not happen again.”

 

The coyote demon scowled, “Do you really think some lousy apology is going to make up for nearly completely destroying my sense of smell? I must say, I expected more from a hotel as prestigious as this.”

 

“Is everything all right over here, Miss Kaoru? Miss Higurashi?”

 

Kagome watched as the two security guards, Monten and Hiten, (who'd she'd been introduced to this morning), came to her side. Shaking her head, Kagome glanced between the two thunder brothers, “No guys, everything is fine. I can handle it.” She turned towards Sango, “Miss Kaoru? Could you please take this gentleman over to Ayame at the reception desk and get him keys to room 142?”

 

Giving the coyote demon a reassuring smile, Kagome once again bowed apologetically, “Again sir, I'm terribly sorry about what's happened. If you go with Miss Kaoru, I've asked her to give you a new room that has been cleaned with weaker products. In addition, your first night with us here is completely free of charge.”

 

“Well I'd hope so!” the customer replied tetchily, giving Momiji and Botan one last scowl before following Sango to the reception desk.

 

Still watching everything from the side, Inuyasha leant against the luggage trolley beside him. Unfortunately for him however, he forgot it was empty. Having that extra weight applied the luggage trolley flew forward and crashed into Shippo's.

 

“Shit!”

 

“Watch it, Inuyasha!” Shippo complained before gesturing towards the coyote demon who was being led to his new room by Sango. “Do you really wanna make Sango and Kagome have to deal with another set of customer complaints so soon after dealing with that guy?”

 

“Well then,” Miroku spoke up unexpectedly as made his way towards the two bell-boys. “I guess that would explain why Inuyasha didn't turn up this morning.”

 

Inuyasha raised an eyebrow, his attention still on Kagome, “Turn up to what exactly?” he asked.

 

“Breakfast! You and Sango always come up and grab some food off me on a Tuesday morning. It's how I find out my hotel gossip seeing as I'm always stuck in the kitchen all day.”

 

Miroku came up and stood beside Inuyasha before glancing in the direction of the inu-hanyou's gaze. “Ah,” he said, watching Kagome chat away with the thunder brothers, “Seems like someone's got himself even more competition.”

 

Hearing this, Inuyasha turned towards the perverted chef, “You're delusional. There's no way those two pose any sort of threat to me.”

 

Or at least he hoped so. After his encounter with Kagome yesterday Inuyasha knew that although he could still get underneath her skin it would almost near impossible at this moment in time to get to her heart unless he changed his tactics. This didn't worry him however. He had gotten through Kagome's barriers once, he could do it again.

 

Things were just going to be more challenging this time around.

 

Inuyasha spun back around and once again observed the scene in front of him. To his annoyance, Kagome was laughing at one of the jokes Hiten just told.

 

“Well, come on, Inuyasha? Let's see this charm of yours in action.” Miroku coaxed, seeing a frown suddenly cross his best friend's face.

 

The inu-hanyou simply shrugged, “That, unfortunately for you, is something that I'm saving solely for Miss Higurashi.”

 

Certain she'd heard her name, Kagome turned around for a moment and noticed Inuyasha off in the corner watching her. “Don't you have a job to do, Takahashi?” Shooting him a deep scowl she turned back towards the Thunder brothers. Reaching up behind her back with one hand Kagome then flipped him off.

 

Miroku burst out laughing. “Oh yeah Inuyasha, your charm is simply amazing.”

 

Inuyasha scowled and shoved the perverted chef aside.

 

The game was so on…

 

TBC

 

~*~

 

I loved writing the last scene. To be honest, I had the idea of Kagome flipping Inuyasha off right from the start and from there I kinda worked backwards to set up how this could've come about.

 

I had the mental image in my head for days…it always made me laugh. (Is that healthy? Oh well…)

 

The next few chapters are gonna be about introducing a couple of characters (some familiar, some original) and seeing what working at Hotel Takahashi is all about. Not to mention finally meeting the illustrious Makoto Higurashi, Kagome's father.

 

Cya all next chapter!!

 

Cheers!