InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Moving Up in the World ❯ And that is that! ( Chapter 8 )

Yay! I updated! I like this chapter a lot. I think I did a good job! I like the parts where Sesshy gets a little jealous. I'm also pretty proud of the Inu and Kag bits. REVIEW PLEASE! (Yes the one phone call is strange but it was based on a real life event!)

Rin sat at her desk. `Wow' she thought. `Not long ago I would have called you crazy if you had told me I would have a desk. Of course a lot of this seems surreal. I hope I'm not dreaming. Am I really gonna get to work 7 feet away from Sesshoumaru all day?' Rin snapped out of her revelry as she heard the phone ring.

"Hello?" she asked the plastic receiver.

"You, girl. Come down to the anteroom. Now." Yura snapped over the line. Rin hung up dejectedly.

"Um…Sesshoumaru?" she said quietly.

"Hmm?" he replied somewhat annoyed.

"That lady, Yura, wants me to go to the anteroom. Now." she said slowly.

"Then go, you remember how right?" he asked a little nicer.

"Yes, ok I will go." She stood up and straightened out her skirt before trotting out the door.

`This may take some work…' Sesshoumaru thought as she plodded out.

~anteroom~

"Um…hello?" Rin asked Yura who was too busy filing her nails to see Rin.

"Oh… its *you*" she said sassily. "here." She said handing Rin a rather large package. "Tell Sesshoumaru it is from Narraku, he delivered it personally." She went back to filing. Rin hefted up the huge package and turned around. "Please do something with your hair before it falls out your head." She said acidly before Rin was out of earshot.

~Sess's Office~

Rin stumbled through the door and Sesshoumaru had to leap up and catch her and the box.

"What on earth were you doing?" he asked

"Carrying the box…it's from Narraku. He delivered it personally." She finished proud of herself.

"Oh, in that case Jakken can open it." Sesshoumaru said as he tossed it in the corner and sat back down. Rin sat back down too. She was already tired.

<Beeeeep Beeeep> the phone made its familiar call.

"Hello?" Rin asked.

"Hello?" asked an elderly lady.

"I'm here." Rin said confidently.

"Who are you?" The old lady muttered.

"Well, I'm Rin." Rin replied. Sesshoumaru smirked as he overheard Rin's obvious mistakes. He would have normally fired someone on the spot for that kind of foolish mistake, but with her it was endearing and amusing.

"Who is Rin?"

"Rin is me." Rin continued calmly.

"I don't know any Rin's." the old lady answered confused.

"Well, who are you then?" Rin asked patiently.

"I am… who am I?" the old lady muttered almost incoherently.

"Hey? You aren't supposed to be on the phone!" another voice on the other side said. Rin heard a little struggle.

"Hello?" said a crisp male voice.

"Hello." Rin said impatiently.

"I'm sorry…that was my mother. She is senile. I hope she didn't bother you." He explained.

"It is ok." Rin said and hung up. She was quite ruffled. Her first day and she was talking to crazy ladies. What next? Loonies?

Inuyasha-------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------

Inuyasha had been at work for some time now. He had already written up two reports.

"Are you satisfied Ka-go-me?" he said irritably.

"Quite. This isn't half bad Inuyasha. Just a little better grammar and it would be perfect." Kagome said in a self-satisfied voice.

"Feh. Grammar is for losers."

"SIT BOY!" Kagome said as she whacked Inuyasha over the head.

"Owwwwwwwww!" he whined. "Why do you say that when you hit me?"

"I don't know. It just makes me feel more satisfied." She said as she shrugged.

Sesshoumaru----------------------------------------------------- --------------------------

Rin was finally busy. She had realized that Jakken had been neglecting the file cabinets. He had finished the report and there wasn't much to do anymore. He looked at Rin. She sure was different, yet the same. Her hair was glossy and smooth, unlike the dirty mess it had been. Her skin was smooth and clean. It had been dirty and bruised. Her lips had some gloss on them. Izayoi had made her wear it. Her eyes were even shinier than they had been, if that's possible. The same warm chocolate color beamed out from them. Her thick lashes framed them. She radiated with mirth because she was `helping' by filing. Her slender, soft fingers flew as she put the papers in order. He didn't even know if she knew the order of the alphabet but he knew he wouldn't stop her from doing something that caused such happiness. What was the matter with him? He needed something to stop all this sticky sweetness. It was not like him to give in for some little homeless girl. He had never before given any attention to a woman that wasn't for his own purposes. He shouldn't feel any responsibility for this young woman. But as he stared at her she began humming an odd tune. It was remarkably familiar. It sounded just like a quirky tune that had been made up.

Rin sang softly to herself, unaware that she was even doing it. Sesshoumaru immediately looked up at her in dismay. He had heard that before…somewhere he had heard that…he couldn't think of where though.

"Rin. What was that song you were singing?" he asked her abruptly ending the song.

"Um…well my…mother… said I made it up as a toddler. She said I would just hum it sometimes when I was very little. It bring very odd memories for me." She explained obligingly thoughtful.

"Hn." Was all he could bear to say. He knew that song. Or perhaps he was just mistaken. Though the tune brought odd thoughts to his mind. He felt oddly reminiscent, about what though he couldn't tell. It was certainly happy though.

Today would be a busy day, Kouga was coming. He had something he wished to discuss with Sesshoumaru. No doubt he was unhappy about something or another. Hopefully he would be cooperative and leave peacefully. That wolf could be more than troublesome.

"Sesshoumaru-sama?" Rin asked softly.

"Yes." He said coolly.

"What is it exactly that your business *does*?" she asked cheerily.

"Hn." Was all he got out because he was so shocked. She didn't know what the West Oni corporation *did*?

"You know, what is it that people pay you to do?" Rin clarified unnecessarily.

"Uh…well…we do a lot of things. Like we loan money and we organize benefits. We work with the Unions and we sell insurance. Basically if someone wants it done, whatever it is, we will do it." He said thoughtfully.

"Oh…so if someone were to say…ask for a thousand gallons of strawberry ice-cream, you would do it?" she asked seriously.

"Well I suppose that if the client was giving us enough money we would, but you see *we* personally wouldn't, but we would call and order that amount from the local factories and have it delivered." He said still thoughtful.

"Oh… that's really cool." Rin said awed and went right on back to fling.

That girl certainly was something different, Sesshoumaru said to himself. Suddenly the door slammed open and scared the beejesus out of Rin. Sesshoumaru, however, knew exactly who it was and in a rare show of emotion slapped himself on the forehead. Great, he had thought Jakken wouldn't be showing up today.

"Jakken, what brings you here today?," said Sesshoumaru.

"I wished to help you Milord." Jakken said, though Sesshoumaru knew Jakken wanted to see Rin. There was little to do about stopping him. Sure, he could hurt the toad, but eventually he still would harass Rin. Might as well let him get it out of his system.

"Ah, so *this* filthy little thing is my replacement." Jakken looked up at Rin and swaggered around the front of her desk.

"Tell me girl, what is Sesshoumaru-sama's favorite flavor of ice-cream?" the toad shouted at her like a drill sergeant.

"Um…strawberry?" Rin offered out meekly.

"WRONG!" Jakken shouted making Rin flinch. "If you had served Lord Sesshoumaru since he was a child, like *I* have, you would know that his favorite flavor is vanilla! In a bowl too, he doesn't like cones!" Jakken yelled. Sesshoumaru sighed deeply and anticipated what Rin would do next.

"Well…At least I'm not an old, short, warty little toad!" she shouted right back at him to both Sesshoumaru's and Jakken's surprise. Perhaps Jakken had finally met his match. Sesshoumaru thought that perhaps Rin was more fit for her job than he had realized.

"Well…At least I-" Jakken said before he was cut off by Jakken.

"Shut up Jakken. Rin is your superior and that is *that*." Sesshoumaru said icily.

"But sire, she is just a little girl, look at her she has to be highschool aged." Jakken pleaded.

"Jakken I have a job for you." Sesshoumaru chose to overlook that statement, for as her noticed it was true.

"Yes sire?" Jakken asked eagerly distracted.

"Rin and myself shall require coffee." He said. "And if I find *anything* wrong with either of them I shall kill you." Sesshoumaru threatened.

"Yes… right away Milord." Jakken said as he scrambled off.

"Rin, do you see how you shall be required to distract Jakken now, that is if I'm expected to get any peace now that he is all ruffled over you." Sesshoumaru said in an uppity cold tone that he seemed to always use.

"Yes, I shall enjoy showing that toad who he is messing with." Rin said as she playfully punched her hand to show that she will handle Jakken.

"Good, but right now we will have to deal with Kouga." He said.

"Kouga?" Rin queried.

"Yes, he is a client and he is angry about something. He will be coming in at anytime. You will be learning how I handle clients so you will stay and take notes." He explained in as patient as a tone as he could manage.

"Oh, I can't wait to see how it's done." Rin said surprisingly serious.

"Milord, I'm back!" Jakken said as he entered once again.

"Good. Now go to whatever muck pond it is that you call home." Rin said in a mocking tone.

"Wha-? Milord! Punish this insolent girl! Who does she think she is to mock *me* the cherished servant of our Lord?" Jakken sputtered.

"She thinks she is your superior. Which she is, go home Jakken you are not needed today. Tomorrow you can come back." Sesshoumaru said commandingly.

"Fine, but you shall see! There is no way that that little girl will be able to replace *me*!" Jakken said loudly. Sesshoumaru through the paperweight and ended the tirade as the toad left demurely. He noticed Rin giggling softly at this and thought that that toad certainly had been replaced. It was quite a better trade he thought.

Kagome---------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------

Kagome was leafing through the reports that Inuyasha had made. Sure, they may not be quite up to par, but compared to his unwilling previous attempts they were pure gold. She was very proud of the changes Inuyasha had made. As early as a week ago anyone could have said he was a pure loss on the West Oni Corporation, but now he was making great strides.

Kagome had been hired to help with Project Shikon. She did not really like the project. Something about that Kikyo made her feel weird. Kikyo was always attempting to get Inuyasha alone for some reason. Kagome would have to keep her eye on her. Kagome was leaving and went to get in the elevator.

"Kagome you are leaving?" said Shippo in a panicky voice.

"Yes. Why? Kagome asked.

"Kagome, Kikyo is still up there!" Shippo said urgently.

"WHAT!" Kagome said totally panicked.

"She came in like twenty minutes ago. She still hasn't left. You had better go quick!" Shippo shouted as he held the elevator door opened.

"Thanks Shippo!" Kagome shouted as she began running towards Inuyasha's office. She ran into his lobby and saw Miroku and Sango talking.

"Guys is Kikyo in there?" she sad panicked.

"Yeah Kagome, you had better get in there quick! There is no telling what she did!" Sango said.

Kagome ran up to the door into Inu's office and went to turn the knob when suddenly the door opened to reveal a very smug looking Kikyo.

"You better watch were you are going, someone might get hurt." Kikyo said slyly adding emphasis on the word `hurt'.

Kagome could do nothing but watch her leave. After Kikyo left, hips swaying triumphantly the whole time, Kagome barged into Inuyasha's office.

"Inuyasha!" Kagome shouted. A vein throbbing on her forehead.

"Yes, no need to shout you know." He said. He looked strangely satisfied with his feet up on his desk.

"That was Kikyo!" she continued shouting.

"Why yes Kagome, I'm glad you can see." He said sarcastically.

"What did she say to you?" she asked franticly.

"I don't really think that is any of your business." Inuyasha said.

"Of course it is my business! I was hired for the sole purpose of making sure you don't screw this up! Now tell me exactly what went on!" she shouted.

"I don't have to. Now if you will excuse me I have work to do." He said coolly.

"Argh!" Kagome said.

Miroku---------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------

"Kagome hasn't quit shouting yet." Miroku casually said.

"No, I believe he is being very uncooperative." Sango said.

Miroku was quite worried. He had known Inuyasha since middle school and he had never seen anything quite like this. Inuyasha always got so mysterious about Kikyo. And Miroku did not like the aura of that woman. Kagome was a different story. Miroku could see that she only wanted good for Inuyasha or the company, for that matter. But Kikyo was difficult to decipher. Plus Miroku had heard that she was in cahoots with Narraku, now he was a bad guy.

"Hmm, I wonder what Kikyo said to Inuyasha?" Sango said as she stopped listening to the paper cup they had next to the wall that they shared with Inuyasha's office.

"I just don't know. Quick come here I can hear better." He said. Sango moved closer and listened to the cup that the monk was holding.

"I don't- Ah! You pervert!" she screamed as she slapped him. He couldn't help it, she had the most firm and pert behind he had ever seen. He was only a man.

Rin------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------

"Kouga is here." The intercom projected Yura's voice.

"Go to the anteroom to get him Rin." Sesshoumaru said.

"Oh, okay." Rin said as she scrambled to get to him quickly.

She walked through the way Sesshoumaru had led her. Heels did nothing but slow you down, she thought. She exited the doorway to see a tall, tan man leaning over Yura's desk to flirt. She walked over to them and cleared her voice.

"Oh, here you are. Took long enough." Yura said bitterly.

"Hmm, who is this lovely lady?" the tall man asked suavely. He had very intense blue eyes. She liked Sesshoumaru's gold ones better she thought unconsciously.

"I'm…in…Sesshoumaru-sama's assistant." She said meekly as he took her hand.

"Oh, I see he has good taste in women then. Please take me to your boss Miss Rin." Kouga said while Rin blushed profusely.

"Oh… please follow me then." She said as she walked over to the door.

"Hmm, do you have a boyfriend Rin?" he asked as she led the way.

"Ah well…no…" she said not knowing what else to say.

"Well then perhaps I should show you around town. If you don't mind anyway." He asked in his seductive manly voice.

"Uh…here we are." she said as they reached the door and opened it.

"Hello Sesshoumaru. You are lucky that your lovely and charming assistant has calmed me down or otherwise I would be quite upset right now." he winked at Rin. Rin moved towards her desk and blushed profusely. She thought she heard a low growl come from Sesshoumaru's direction.

"Kouga, what is it that has upset you about our company's service." He said calmly.

"Well, for one your god damned company didn't do any service what so ever!" Kouga lost his cool quicker than Rin could stop blushing.

"Please tell me what it is exactly that we didn't do." Sesshoumaru continued calmly.

"Well I came over and told that god damned dog brother of yours that I wanted a whole new security system installed into my company by true professionals and he didn't do shit!" Kouga yelled. Rin flinched.

"Well, I suggest you see him about that then." Sesshoumaru said.

"I don't want to have anything to do with that no good loser ever!" Kouga said as he pounded Sesshoumaru's desk.

"Fine, I shall get the paperwork in order and upon payment we shall see that it is done. Please come back in two days and I will have the papers prepared." Sesshoumaru replied.

"Two damned days! You have to be shitting me!" Kouga shouted.

"No, Mr. Wolf, I am not `*shitting*' you. There are more important things for me to be doing than for me to be getting a security system for you company." Sesshoumaru said with his hands folded.

"Fine!" Kouga shouted and got up. He swaggered over to Rin and saw that in an instant his demeanor had gone from anger to suave. "Miss Rin, it was a delight to see you. Here is my card." He handed her a little square of paper and swaggered out.

Rin turned to Sesshoumaru and thought for an instant she saw something flash in his eyes. She looked at the piece of paper and saw that it said `Kouga Wolf. President Of Oogami Inc.' and then a couple of numbers. Including one written on the back that said `Cell' by it. She also noticed it smelled strongly like a man. Had he put cologne on it? It wasn't the same as Sesshoumaru's spicy smell.

"Well, do you see how it works?" Sesshoumaru interrupted her revelry. She slid the card into her desk drawers.

"Um, yeah, are they always that…mad?" she asked.

"No, Kouga is very…angry." He said in an odd tone. He looked at his watch.

"It is 12:45, are you hungry?" he asked still in his icy tone.

"Oh…Um, yeah I guess I could go for something." She said happily.

"Well I usually don't have lunch, but I will go with you to show you around." He said as he locked his drawers and turned his computer off.

"Thank you very much." Rin said as she grabbed her purse.

Sesshoumaru----------------------------------------------------- -----------------------------

As they walked towards the elevator he thought about Kouga. Kouga had really been hitting on Rin. Sesshoumaru decided he didn't like that, but did Rin? He hadn't given thought to the fact that she might actually go with him. He looked at her; she was walking bouncily by his side. She was smiling and looking around curiously. He had not expected her to adjust so effortlessly. He had not thought that a homeless girl could suddenly be a businesswoman. And whether or not he liked to admit it, the toad was right, she was very young. Could he allow her to be hit on by all these sleaze ball businessmen? She was very naïve. Especially of this side of life. Likely she had never had any experience with men. He took a deep breath threw his nose, yes, he could smell that she was inexperienced.

"You stupid, ignorant, son of a bitch!" that woman who worked for his brother yelled at him. Sesshoumaru thought that he definitely agreed with her.

"Well you can just leave then if I'm so god-damned ignorant!" Inuyasha yelled back. Sesshoumaru smirked at the fact that his rebuttal had not made much sense.

"Fine! I'm going to lunch!" she shouted and suddenly appeared in front of the elevator right by them.

"Oh, Sesshoumaru, I'm glad to run into you. Are you two going to lunch?" she asked in a polite tone.

"Yes." He said.

`May I join you? I have something to speak to you about." She said quietly. "Sorry, I don't mean to interrupt anything…" she said looking at Rin.

"Your aren't, this is my assistant, Rin. You may join us." He said very icily. The elevator door opened and the fox boy saw them.

"Kagome!" he shouted and then he saw Sesshoumaru and Rin. "And Sesshoumaru sir." He bowed to him. "Miss." He bowed his head to Rin. The rest of the ride was quiet, though Rin could see that the fox boy wanted badly to talk to Kagome. He made faces at her and she frowned at him.

Suddenly the doors slid open and revealed an awing sight. Rin gasped as she saw what she could only describe as some-what like a mall's food court, only huge, fancy, and full of expensive places to buy stuff. She saw Starbucks, a menagerie of fancy food counters. All surrounding long wooden tables with cushy chair on either side of them. There were also a few booths too.

"Wow…" Rin said. Kagome laughed.

"First day?" she asked.

"Yup." Said Rin.

"It is huge, it's the most extensive and fancy lunch center in all of Tokyo." Kagome explained thoughtfully. Rin already knew she like Kagome. Sesshoumaru lingered behind as he watched the women look around and Kagome explain things to Rin. Rin and Kagome went off to get some food and he sat down at a booth. He watched as the cheery young woman got Rin her favorite and watched as Rin looked around in awe and happily laughed with Kagome. Rin was so very different from him.

"Here you are sir." A geeky young man in a Starbucks uniform gave him a coffee. "Your favorite, compliments of Starbucks." He said and he walked off. Sesshoumaru sipped at his coffee till the women returned. Kagome sat across from him and, to his surprise, Rin sat next to him. He was surprised, but he didn't suppose he minded.

"You aren't eating anything?" Rin asked concernedly.

"No." he said. "So what is it you wanted to speak to me about?" he said changing the subject.

"Well, its about project Shikon…" she said looking in Rin's direction.

"Go on." He said assuring her of Rin's ability to hear this.

"Well you see Kikyo, you know her?"

"I know of who you speak." He said icily.

"Well, I think she is sneaking behind my back to get Inuyasha to do something I wouldn't approve of." Kagome said.

"That is it?" Sesshoumaru said.

"Well, yes…she just makes me nervous…"

"I shall look into it." He said.

"So Rin, you are Sesshoumaru's new assistant?" Kagome turned her questions to Rin.

"Well yes, I suppose." Rin said.

"Are you enjoying your new job?" Kagome asked sweetly crunching on her salad.

"Oh yes!" Rin said putting down her fork. "My desk is just the coolest thing ever. I even have my own computer! This man came in and he was angry! He yelled as Sesshoumaru-sama but Sesshoumaru-sama kept his cool and told the Wolf-man off smartly!" Rin said excitedly. Kagome smiled and looked at Sesshoumaru who only looked away.

"Well Rin, I have to go, I really enjoyed meeting you." Kagome said as she picked her tray up and left. "Thank you for hearing me Sesshoumaru." she said and got up. "She is really cute." Kagome said quietly to him before she got up and left.

Inuyasha-------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------

"Who does she think she is anyway!" Inuyasha yelled at Miroku.

"Well, I suppose she thinks she is the analyst hired by your father to oversee you, which she happens to be by the way, just a theory." Miroku said in his sage-like way.

"Yes, I thin she is merely looking out for you and the company." Sango said.

"I didn't ask you!" he shouted. "I'm the boss and if Kikyo wishes to talk to me privately then that is that!" Inuyasha said.

"Whatever you say, boss." Both Miroku and Sango said sarcastically.

Rin------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------

Rin had had the time of her life. The lunchroom was the coolest thing she had ever seen! Kagome was as sweet as sugar and she had gotten to sit in on two private meetings in one day! She even got to sit next to Sesshoumaru, who hadn't seemed to mind! Today has to have been the best day in Rin's life. And to think it was only half over!

Sesshoumaru----------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------

Sesshoumaru was starting to think today was going to be the worst day of his life. He had already had to pull Rin out of the rotating door, pull her off of Myoga, get her past Yura, survive Jakken, keep Kouga from jumping on Rin, deal with his rants, listen to his brother's argument, take Rin to lunch, talk to Kagome, have lunch with two women, and now he had to deal with his brother. And to think today was only half over. But as he looked to the smiling girl next to him, he suddenly felt like it was all going to be fine…

All right! I got it done! And in a reasonable timeframe too! I hope you liked it. I tried some stuff that I didn't really know how it would be received. Here I will put some thanks….

Vegita-dias- awww thank you so much! You seriously have inspired me the most (Besides Rumiko Takashi of course) if I had never read Thread Bound then this story would suck at least 90% worse. Lesson: everybody should read Thread Bound. Meow!

VAB- Oh yeah… I didn't notice the pretty Woman thing…which is odd since much like your mum, mine has watched it a billion times, they are quite a bit similar, minus the prostitute thing of course. Rin simply couldn't be one, she is much to naïve. Kagura could though.

Owlman114- it all right, its my fault for being so gosh-durned confusing. Plus I love you because you review. And for some unknown reason I like your name. I hate owls (my gma had a stuffed one *Shivers* creepy stuff) but I like it.

Lady-Wicca666- Yeah don't you hate when you realize you could have been enjoying a fic for months but you just found it? But the upside is you get a bunch to read at one time. Thank you!

Sesshy's Obsession- THANK YOU! (love your name!)

Lynn-Minmay- not just one but THREE wonderfuls! THANK YOU! I hope there was enough Jakken bashing, there will be much more.

Retta- Sorry to keep you waiting again. I try to hurry but I mean at least I make the chapters long…right? THANKS!

SakuraBaby- I updated my speediest. I will try to check yours out. THANK YOU.

Choco-coco- yup, I like to try to make Sesshy's thoughts reflect his personality. And yup I guess to make the story work I had to make it seem like he didn't expect her to do anything. I like to blame that on his pride of not having others do *his* work, but really its just more or less the fact that that is how I had to make it fit…but I like to blame it on my genius!

Anuri-Chan- I hope I updated soon enough so you don't have to hurt me with pasta (lol) Thanks, I am proud of my version of Izayoi. I figured that she had to be pretty cool. Hot guys at the port are ALWAYS good.

Thank you the rest of ya! Hope you liked it!

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KitKat07