InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ It's Dad Stuff ❯ A Meeting, that's all ( Chapter 1 )

REI'S CORNER: Hi. So what did you think of the prologue? Was it good? Did you like it? I hope so! I worked really really hard on it! me, it helped a lot! Well I won't keep you waiting for much longer! Here's the first chapter I guess!

Chapter 1- A Meeting, That's all

“That was a pretty good movie.” Inuyasha said. His son sighed next to him.

“The action was cool. But they focused too much on the stupid love story.” Shippo said.

“You're only ten. You'll understand when you get older.”

“I understand now. It's still stupid.”

Inuyasha sighed as he walked his son out of the theater. He didn't really feel like arguing today. It was his day off, and he had been working hard for two weeks straight, due to a big foul up in the media center of his business. Of course, he only stuck around that long because he wanted to. His new secretary seemed to be handling it without him. He remembered it all to clearly.

`You can go home, sir.' she had said

`And leave us in ruins? I think not.' he replied.

Then she said nothing more and went back to work. He observed her closely, and found out that he really could have gone home because the only thing he served to do was get in her way, asking questions and whatnot while she fixed the whole problem. He was amazed.

“Inuyasha?” came a voice behind him.

Inuyasha turned and met the face of Jojo. She looked gorgeous today, with her blonde hair flowing out around her shoulders.

“Hey Jo! How've you been?” he asked politely. He noticed her blushing and she looked at him with admiration in her eyes.

“I've been alright. It's not the same without you though.” she giggled and touched his shoulder.

Inuyasha smirked. “May I remind you that it was you who wanted to be `just friends' in the first place?”

Jojo nodded and a look of sincere regret passed over her face. Inuyasha was confused at this, seeing as she had been so eager to be `out of his clutches' as she had put it.

“Are you alright?” he asked.

All of a sudden, Shippo came up beside him and looked at Jojo, smiling. Something in Jojo's face changed, and she looked behind her nervously.

“Actually you know what, Inuyasha? I think my movie is about to start. I have to go. Bye!” and with that, she ran off quickly, disappearing in the movie theater without a trace.

“Well that was rude.” Shippo commented.

Inuyasha looked down at his son. `Why does this keep happening?' he asked himself.

“So where are we headed next, Dad?”

“Um, I'm taking you home. We had fun today but I really want to check out this new club that opened up last weekend.”

Shippo jumped back. “What? Why!”

“You know why.”

Shippo shook his head. “You can't possibly be serious. You can't be! Why would you wanna go looking for dates! In a club!”

“Well it's not working anywhere else...”

“Then give up! You don't need any dates!” Shippo yelled.

`Not this again.' Inuyasha thought.

“Look. If I don't settle down soon, you're never going to have a mother, and it'll just be you, me, and Kaede for the rest of forever.”

“I don't want another mother! Obviously, you don't remember what happened to my last one!”

“Shippo stop yelling. You need a mother. You know it. Kaede won't be you nanny forever. You're already passed her age limit. If I didn't have the extra money, she'd be gone as well.”

Shippo stomped his foot. “Well forget her! Forget everyone! It's supposed to be just you and me, Dad! You and me!” after that, he didn't listen to another word his father had to say and ran off.

Inuyasha sighed heavily. This was the usual argument. He knew that he sounded a little cruel to his son, but in all honesty, Shippo did need a mother. Inuyasha knew that his love alone couldn't amount to the love of a mother. That's why he was doing his best to find one. But so far Shippo hated all of the women he dated. It seemed like nothing he did was right anymore.

Thoroughly frustrated, Inuyasha turned the corner and started following Shippo's path home. They didn't live too far away. Besides, in a big city like this, who needed cars anyway?

“Mr. Taisho!”

He couldn't believe how rude Shippo was getting these days. But then again, he was ten. Teenage years weren't that far away.

“Mr. Taisho! Please hold on, sir!”

And Shippo and always been a bit old for his age. Well, always meaning after the divorce.

“MR. TAISHO!”

Inuyasha stopped, turning around curiously at who was calling him. Squinting, he saw a dark haired woman running down the street towards him.

`She's fast.' he thought.

She reached him in a matter of seconds, breathing a little heavily, but only as to be expected. It was Kagome, his personal assistant and secretary. She caught her breath quickly before speaking.

“Wow, I've been looking all over for you, sir. You're actually pretty hard to find.” he chuckled at her honesty. “Anyway, I apologize for interrupting your day off, I know how important it must be to you...son” She looked around, not seeing anyone with him. But then returned to the matter at hand.

“It's just that when you left yesterday, you forgot to sign the important papers stating that we could merge with the Zito company so long as they agree to stop treasoning our company's name. I would have just waited until Monday, but they due tomorrow morning, and they need a signature or else there's no point in returning them.”

At this point, Kagome yanked a large manilla folder out of messenger bag, and tugged a bunch of papers out of it, handing them over to Inuyasha.

“Please sign on pages four, seven, ten, and thirteen.” she stated while handing him a pen.

Inuyasha hesitated for a moment, knowing that he hadn't read the document over completely, but he signed anyway. It appeared obvious that Kagome had done that for him, and professionally, he trusted her. So he signed away and handed them back to her along with the pen.

“Thank you, sir.” she said with a big smile on her face.

It was then that Inuyasha noticed she had the most beautiful smile he had ever seen. Of course, ever meaning since his first marriage. He always had to compare women to Kikyo. Most of them never came close. But something about Kagome reminded him so much of her. But she was different. Something was different about her, and he wanted to find out what it was.

He had never noticed such beauty before. Of course, he never really had the chance to, with her being his secretary and personal assistant. She was always off on errands for him, and we he did see her, she always had her face down, reading something to him.

`How did I miss this?' he asked himself.

Kagome had then set everything back into her messenger bag and bid him farewell, before turning to leave. She didn't get very far, seeing as Inuyasha caught hold of her wrist before she could really walk off. She didn't even flinch or anything.

“Yes sir? Did I forget something?” she asked.

Inuyasha almost couldn't get it out with her looking at him like that. He hadn't felt nervous to ask anyone out in years. He couldn't believe it. So he played it safe.

“Well there's a meeting in two days that I am supposed to attend for the company... I was hoping that you would come along. You know, to take notes.” he said

Kagome immediately nodded and pulled out her palm pilot in a flash, typing things in.

“Where and when, sir?” she asked.

As Inuyasha told her the where and when, he felt kind of guilty. She actually thought there was going to be a meeting. `Oh well.' he thought. `Better make the best of it.'

“And please dress formally.” he said.

“Of course sir.” she said. “Anything else?”

Inuyasha thought about it and looked down at her. She really was pretty. Even though she looked a bit tired from working and her hair was tied in a taught bun on her head.

“Wear your hair down.” he told her.

Kagome then for the first time caught his eye, shocked at his sudden comment. She hesitated before nodding and turning back to leave. She left like she was in a hurry, running back up the street the same way she had run down.

Inuyasha grinned and made his way home.

Shippo did not meet him at the door as Inuyasha had expected it. He was probably still sulking in his bedroom. He went upstairs and turned the corner to prove his point and he was right. He briefly knocked on the door to let him know he was entering and made his way in.

“Still mad?” he asked.

Shippo said nothing to him, and continued to write in a notebook that was open on his desk.

“I'll take that as a yes.”

Again, Shippo said nothing.

“Please understand, son, that I'm doing this for you. I know what it's like to have a wonderful mother, and I'm trying to do me best so that you can experience that. I won't make a mistake like your real mother again, I promise.”

Shippo scoffed. “Whatever.”

“Ah, he finally speaks. Anyway, you'll see what good I'm doing for you when you get older. You just have to trust me. Now, I just got a date for Tuesday night, so I want you to stay home with Kaede, okay?”

Shippo felt his blood boiling as he turned and looked at his father.

“Fine, Dad.” he said. Inuyasha missed the hostility in his voice.

“Good. Kaede's done with dinner. Wash up and come down.” and with that, Inuyasha left and went down to the dining room.

Shippo threw his notebook at the wall, frustrated. It made a small thump before clattering to the floor.

It had been at least a month before his dad started talking about dating again. Shippo just couldn't see why he had to. Shippo thought things were fine the way they were.

He reached under his bed and retrieved a yellow box. It was pretty heavy, but Shippo didn't care. It had been about a month or two since he had to use it. He wasn't very pleased to use it anyway.

“Here we go again.” Shippo muttered to himself and opened the box.

So, any questions? I tried my best to make this as interesting as possible. But hey, it's the first chapter so it has to be interesting or else the story's gonna flop anyways, right? I think I did ok. Review please and tell me what you're thinking or ask any questions that you may have, alright?

The next chapter should be out next week if I get it typed up and everything. So please be patient. I'm trying to work up a schedule for the summer where I can update my stories once a week since I probably have nothing better to do with my time. And if you get bored in between the waits, you can scroll on over to one of my other stories, which I am also working on. And currently I have two other stories I am working on. One is the sequel to `And into his lap'. And the other, well you'll just have to wait and see that, eh? I promise you'll like it though!

So I'll be waiting to read any reviews you may have for me and I'll try to update next week!

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