InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Problems at the Office ❯ Interview Process ( Chapter 1 )

There is no way to pinpoint exactly when things had started to go wrong. It is pure luck that we are still together, or that either of us is still alive. Things went so bad so fast I was sure I was going to lose her. I wouldn't have blamed her, I was a real bastard. And I couldn't really apologize for it either; I mean it was my job. But I am getting ahead of myself; I should begin when all this mess started…

 

`Ding'

`27th floor, damn tall buildings. Why do all the CEO's think it is necessary to have their offices' all the way at the top, if you really think about it…it's only more inconvenient.' Today was just one of those days. I really don't want to be here, a new job a new day I guess. I straightened my tie in fake nervousness…if people think you're too confident they give you shit work. Kind of like a `see, your not better than me' thing. And I am not about to spend a month down in the filing room.

 

`Ding'

`28th floor. God I can't take this, only two more floors. I am SO mentioning this stupidity to my new boss. I heard he was a killer, not that that is a big change for me…it seems I only work for killers these days, the ones that work their people entirely too hard and take al the credit…dumb bastards'

 

`Ding'

`30th floor….oh wait, that's my stop. Damn, I need to stay focused. Alright, here we go'

 

3rd person

 

He stepped off the elevator and looked around the busy office.

“So, this is where I will be spending most of my time eh? Not bad, not bad at all. It's way better then the shit desk job I had before. Especially with all the incompetent I had to see day in and day out.” He said with a smirk. Out of nowhere a sharp ringing in his ears caused him to hiss in pain. As he reached to massage his ear he stopped when he saw a pair of gorgeous eyes staring at him and for a moment he couldn't breath.

 

He caught himself staring back and shook his head. “Focus dumb shit…this is the big chance to impress, can't screw it up.” `But, I can afford a few seconds to flirt. Hmm should I go for the eyebrow raise or a hair run thru…oh, I got it, yeah that should work'

He looked up to find gorgeous girl and wink at her, but she had disappeared. He started to scan the area, hoping she was still in the lobby.

“Are you looking for me?”

 

“God, I really don't want to be here, I am so just not cut out for this, stop hogging the creamer. I am the boss here, not you. Give it.” I held out my hand expecting to get what I had so kindly requested. I should have known better. It took a second to register that my hand was covered in liquid caramel sugary goodness. “What the hell was that for?” I scrunched my eyebrows together in mock irritation, I really should have known better.

“What? You asked for the cream miss bossy, you should have specified exactly what you wanted. I am not a mind reader you know. And you know you are cut out for this. We both went to the same damn school for 8 years to do just this. You did great at your internship and you are going to do great here as well. Plus you have me here to help you. I mean come on, what are best friends for. And I am brilliant, why you might as well just be the poster girl for the company; I do all the hard work anyway.” My so called best friend of all time absently commented as we exited the break room, which got her a sugar packet in the face.

“Oh shut up, we both know I had the highest GPA, and no matter what you say, I did not sleep with professor Jackson to get it either so shove it. But you're right, and I am sorry. We will continue to do great things here, while continuing our plan for world domination.” We both smiled as we walked down the hall.

We had been friends since elementary school. We sat at lunch together once and have been joined at the hip ever since. I suppose I should consider myself lucky, and I do. I don't think I could have survived everything without her. She is like my sister.

“Well, you get to work. I am going to the Sam about a message he took for me. I swear sometimes I just don't know what he is doing here. He is like a kindergartener, I don't know, but I just don't have the heart to fire him.” She patted me on the back and laughed at my expense before going into her office and answering the phone.

 

I started to walk towards my office to start the day. I stopped for a second to grab my messages that I missed from yesterday and earlier this morning. I heard a ding in the distance and wondered who was late.

I looked around the floor to try and guess who wasn't here. I was never big on waiting. I hated tardiness. `Everyone is here, who the hell could be coming now, god if it's another damn gift I swear I am throwing the messenger out my plate glass window' I looked up to see some guy practically leap out of the elevator barely catching it in time before it closed to go all the way back down.

`I remember those days,' I thought absently `it's a very long ride from the bottom, I actually did loose focus and had to start from the bottom again. I thank god those days' are over.'

 

3rd person

 

She found great humor in watching the new guy try and figure out what the hell he was doing. `Is there something wrong with his ear?' He suddenly met her eyes and she noticed just how damn good looking he really was. He was taller than her, always nice. She didn't like guys who were shorter than her or even her height, though there were exceptions. It made it difficult to go out considering if she was in heels she had to bend over, it just didn't work. But that was neither here not there. She saw him look away first and decided to introduce herself.

She made her way over to him ready greet him in a professional flirty manner. Hey, he was hot! Give me a break here. `Wow, he must really not be paying attention. He doesn't even notice me.' She thought as she saw him looking around sort of frantically.

“Are you looking for me?”

 

He turned around quickly, he hadn't even noticed someone had gotten behind him, `not good' he thought. `I can't afford a stupid mistake, a rookie mistake. Damn.' He quickly switched his anger and annoyance to a fake `happy to be here early in the fucking morning' attitude.

“Maybe, wouldn't you like to know.” He gave her the handsome sophisticated smile that most women fall for. `But not her apparently' he noticed when she didn't giggle or blush like most do. “But maybe you can help me; I am looking for Mr. Higurashi's office. I am supposed to be starting here today, I am supposed to see him first to get “acquainted with the company” or some shit.” He said while using finger quotes. “I heard the boss is a real killer, but I do have to tell you. Why the fuck would he stay all the way on the top floor? I mean sure the view is nice, but damn the ride up is a bitch. And look, it's foggy. It wasn't even worth it. And in the afternoon, the glare is going to be a bitch.”

While he continued his ranting and raving she watching him, very amused.

“You know,” She said, interrupting him “it sounds like you have a lot to say. You really should bring it up with the boss. Higurashi is very understanding. And yes, he has earned a reputation as a killer, but only with his adversaries. Everyone here works well together. You're going to love working here. Let me show you to the boss's office.” She gave no room for excuses, which was fine with him, he wasn't about to argue. He followed her like a trained dog down a few paths when he came to a set of double doors.

 

She was about to shove them open when a man came walked towards her looking frantic.

“Hey baby. Help me please. My assistant just quit and forgot tell me she hadn't yet gotten to the board meeting problems yet. I kind of don't know what to do and I am running out of time.” He gave her paper which apparently held all his problems and she quickly scanned it before handing it back to him.

“Ok, put the 10:00 A.m. meeting in the room across the hall, they are just here for a “we're doing just fine with your money” talk so it won't take long. The people who are supposed to be here at 10:30 haven't seen the building, so take them on a quick tour, and show them one of the vaults or something. Talk about how safe and secure they are here. I don't know make something up, that's not really my problem. But that should be enough to get the first run through out and have new water set up. The 11:00 meeting involves a presentation so that should be in the projection room anyway, plus all those people are old and it's cooler in there anyway. Next time hire someone with a little competence and not just a pretty face or I will hire someone for you and it will be an ugly old lady and you wont like that. Now go away, we have a new worker and he has to meet the boss.”

The frantic man was turning to walk down the hallway to his own office when she made it clear she was not done talking. “Oh, if you call me baby one more time I am calling your girlfriend. And I think I will just have to mention that problem you seem to be having with your assistants.” He paled a little before walking just a little bit faster so he could get out of sight.

 

The so called “new worker” stood there with a stunned look on his face. Damn she was good, she must be his assistant. `Lucky bastard has a total hottie for a secretary.' He was still so amazed that he didn't really even notice she had started talking again.

“Hello?” she said, a little louder than last time, “Are you in there? Are you listening?” When he blushed and looked down she smiled at his obvious admittance of “no” and repeated herself. “I said, let me see if the boss can see you now, wait here.”

She left him for a few minutes, which he spent remembering how good her ass looked in the skirt she had on. She walked out and waved him in. She pretended not to notice him fixing himself up a little more to make sure he made a good first impression and led him into the office.

 

He walked through the doors with a smile on his face and started to greet…and empty chair. He turned to look at hottie assistant girl, which was what he had decided to call her since they hadn't exchanged names yet and gave her a confused look. He could tell she was amused because she was giggling. And he kept his confused look on her, even as she broke eye contact and slowly made her way to the other side of the desk and sat down in what appeared to be a very expensive chair.

“Oh you have to be fucking kidding me.” He said not even bothering to hide the surprise on his face.

“No I am not. Sorry I didn't tell you earlier. I couldn't help myself. You can slap my wrist if you want. But you made it so fun. I am Kagome Higurashi, one of the CEO's and your new boss I guess. She held out his hand to shake it. He took it and the shook hands, she smiled at him, but he couldn't seem to get the wide eyed fish look off of his face.

 

She could tell he was having a hard time and instantly felt bad for not telling him immediately that she was head of the whole shebang. She started to apologize but before she could get the words out he beat her to them.

“Hey, I can forgive your little joke if you can forget about my smart mouth comments I said in the lobby.” He smiled at her. He was working hard to hide his irritation. `I can't fucking believe that this chick is the head of all of this. The “killer” that I had heard too much about in the past 2 months.' And it pissed him of to no end that he was going to be working under her. I mean yeah it was an ego thing but the really sucky part was that you are not supposed to date people you work with. Not that that had ever stopped him before but that was irrelevant.

“It has been an interesting morning. I am Inuyasha.” He sat down in one of the chairs on his side of the desk. “I am sure I will do a great job working for the company and for you.” He was about to continue but she quickly cut him off.

“Yeah, that's why I had wanted to meet you in person instead of having someone else. You aren't really working for me.” At the sight of his obvious confusion she went on. “Yeah as I am sure you know because of the Newspaper. I grudgingly took over the company when my father sadly past away. I did not like the idea of everyone working under me. Especially since when my father died a lot of his employees surprisingly left pretty fast I was forced to restaff rather quickly so I ended up picking some of the people I went to college with. I trusted them and it's easier going into something new with people who are capable of the job at your back then spending countless hours going through interviews with unqualified people. The people who stayed on after dad died said it was a cast improvement. Anyway, So I decided to make it equal sharing. And while there are people who do work for us. A lot of the people are CEO's of the company. It is just because of my name that I am seen as the boss. I thought to change the name of the company but my friends made me keep it, to honor my father and since I can't really argue with that it has stayed. But listen to me I am going on and on. Let me show you around.”

She got up excitedly and practically dragged him out of her office. She led him down to the break room and the bathrooms. Everything looked practically brand new. “It is actually” she answered when he mentioned it. “I thought it was horribly dark in here when I first came in, way to master of the universe cherry oak thing. New paint as well, it was forest green, I think the light blue is more comfortable. We wanted me to enjoy working here, not just think of it as a chore. Everyone works but there is no reason to keep it unpleasant. Morale is definitely at a high here. Which I am very glad to here, it took weeks to get this place the way it looks now, and that may seem pretty fast for a whole floor or changes but it cost a hell of a lot and the noise made it hard to work. Went home with a migraine even night. But it was definitely worth it don't you think?”

 

She continued to rattle on about everything and nothing about the goings on on the 30th floor and told him everything that he needed to know. But looking at her it was just so hard to pay attention. She seemed to amaze him at every turn. The boss thing was still a little new but she was just so young. And her incessant chatter was both comforting and ridiculously amusing. `It's just too bad though,' he thought `such a terrible waste' He didn't really have time to think much. She was talking a mile a minutes and he was having a hard time keeping up.

 

It had taken up most of the morning leading into the afternoon to show him around completely and to get him set up with his office and helping him become familiar with his department. They were coming back from the computer room with a ton of new equipment and wires when she suddenly stopped and caused him to pump into her. When he turned to see around the boxes he was holding he found her struggling to hold both the boxes and dig through her bag to find her phone, which happened to be ringing very loudly.

“Damnit, I hate it when you can never find your phone.” She looked for a place to set the boxes down and soon turned her attention onto him. “Hey, Inu, hold these for me please. Just for a second I promise.” He didn't really hear her request `Inu? She is calling me Inu now?' Inuyasha didn't really get a chance to give a nod before a million more pounds were added to his already way too heavy load

 

One sided conversation-

“Hello?”

“I am helping Inuyasha, why?”

“He is the new guy, and yes ok. Damn.”

“Um, sure that sounds good,”

“Yeah I will, meet me in the lobby in 5. Bye”

Kagome hung up her phone and put it back in her bag before starting to head towards the lobby. Completely forgetting about her new friend”

“Um, hello? If you don't mind, I can seriously use to help here. These aren't exactly light as feathers” He was starting to struggle because of the weight and he really didn't want to drop hundreds of dollars worth of computer crap.

Kagome turned around to come face to face with boxes that seemed to be towering over her. “Oh Shit! Sorry, I didn't mean to forget. Here let me take my share back. We will drop them off at your new office and then your done for today. Its lunch time and you can start tomorrow. My friend and I are going out to eat. That's what the call was about, would you like to come?” She asked pleasantly.

“Um, I think I will rain check on that one. I have some things I needed to do in the city today. But maybe another time?” he asked. Hoping it wasn't one of those obligatory new employee things. He felt he should get to know her a little better, `especially if I am going to be spending so much time around you Kagome, even if you don't really know it yet' he added silently to himself.

 

She nodded and dropped the stuff on the floor by his desk. She looked around as if to check if there was anything she was missing. She shrugged her shoulders and led the way out to the elevators. Just as she was about to say goodbye a loud yell was heard throughout the office

“Hey, boss lady, what did I tell you about hot male strippers in the work place? You better not be annoying him.” Kagome flushed red and he turned to see a smirking woman casually strolling towards them wish a cell phone in hand. “I am sorry sir, is she bothering you, I will have security escort her out.” She started laughing as she stood right by him

He stood there, at a complete loss of what to say but it appeared Kagome was not

“Bite the big one and choke Sango, you know damn well who this is. But let me be the one with sophistication and charm and introduce the two of you. Inuyasha she is Sango, a co- CEO and a soon to be dead one at that. Sango this is Inuyasha, new co-CEO. Now both of you shake hands and smile.” Sango glared at Kagome after he got the choke on it comment, but she did as he best friend, and sometimes boss told her to and shook hands, smiled and made nice.

“So Kag baby are you ready to go? I got reservations, we got 20 minutes to get there, and its going to be had traffic so we have to move, is new guy coming?” she asked. She was distracted by Kagome's “I am going to kill you” hand motions to truly put all her attention on Inuyasha.

“Well my name is Inuyasha. And no, I will not be coming. But I have gotten your friend here to promise for another time. I just have a lot of things to do today. So maybe another time. If you ladies will excuse me now, I will be going. See you both tomorrow, if you don't kill each other by then.” He pushed the down button and waited for the elevator, which apparently was pretty close because it wasn't long at all before the doors opened and he walked in. `Well that was just damned lucky, I really didn't want to wait the 10 minutes for it to come all the way up from the bottom floor.'

 

He walked out of Higurashi Corp and into the hot afternoon sun. `Damn, It just sucks to wear a suit in this fucking weather.” He commented as he took of his jacket and causally strolled down the street. He was caught very off guard however when he was suddenly grabbed by the elbow and yanked towards the police car on the side of the street.

“Hey, what the hell is this about?” He asked heatedly. `This is fucking ridiculous, I am getting arrested? For what?'

“Just relax and get into the car, we need to ask you some questions about your family. If you cooperate we can forget about the handcuffs but if you want to do this the hard way then you can put your hands on top of the car and I can throw you in the car. Your choice.”

 

He pretended to think about if for a few seconds then angrily got into the car without any complaints. He slid into the back seat and shut the door. The officer walked around, got in on the drivers side, started the car and they were off.

“My family eh? You got a lot of Balls Miroku,” Inuyasha said smirking. He reached into his inner left jacket pocket and pulled out a cigarette, lit it and continued “You are so lucky those girls didn't catch you. What the fuck were you thinking, pulling me off the street like that? If they had seen it I would have been screwed. You think they would keep me on the job if they saw me getting pulled in by a cop? Stupid ass. And you better believe you paying for me to get this suit dry cleaned. You shoved me into the car and its dirty as fuck!” Inuyasha threw the cigg out the window and started to rub off the invisible dirt of his pants and jacket.

 

“Oh, I am deeply sorry my dearest friend but us incompetent people you work with at that crappy desk job of yours need to know the information you got. So we wanted to pull you in while it was still fresh in your memory.” He looked at him in the rear view mirror and smirked at him before pulling the radio up to his mouth.

 

“Bullshit. I have a good memory, that's why I am so good at my job. So don't even try that tired story on me. You just wanted to through me around. And if you fuck with me earpiece again I am going to shave your head while your sleeping. That shit hurt! You know I have sensitive hearing.” He pulled out the ear piece that was carefully hidden in his ear and jet black hair and set it in its holding case and put it back in his pocket. Miroku, his friend since training school just laughed and called in that they were just a few blocks away then settled his eyes on the road.

 

The silence crept on for about another minute before Inuyasha started to talk again. “Hey, did you know that Higurashi was a girl? I mean, are you sure she is the right one? It seems impossible that she is capable of running the mob.” He was staring out the window, picturing her in his mind. She seems so...so…innocent. There was no way she could do the things that the file had said she did.

 

“No, Higurashi is a guy. He died about 3 months ago. At first we couldn't have been happier, the crime should have slowed and we wouldn't have to work so hard to shovel shit day and night. But even after he died. Things were still happening around that company. It was like nothing was different. Its obvious that the girl is following in his footsteps. It's a compromised company, we know it is. We just cannot prove it yet. That's why we were assigned. Before, it was too dangerous. He would sniff out every undercover we put in the job. But since we have a newbie as head boss…she is bound to make mistakes. That's where we come in. Watch and report until we get the go ahead to take her down.” Miroku was going on and on about what was expected of them and what the file said. But Inuyasha wasn't really listening. He just couldn't get her out of his head. `No, she is a mob boss. Never get involved with bad guys. First rule! I am the job! I am all about the job! I will figure her out. Its just a job.' He was repeating the mantra in his head hoping his doubt would go away. This was his job. He was an undercover agent for the FBI. And he had done this a million times. But as he was trying to see her as nothing more than a case. It occurred to him that he had never had this much trouble with getting head strong into his work. Why was he having so much trouble with this one?