InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ The Last Girlfriend ❯ Chapter 6 ( Chapter 6 )

[ Y - Young Adult: Not suitable for readers under 16 ]

Disclaimer:Own Inu-chan I do not.
Own Itokuzu-pi(Sesshoumaru) I do not.
Own Miroku-san and Sango-san?
.......... -.- I don't and I wish I did.

Additional Disclaimer: I don't own author Valerie Frankel's book "The Girlfriend Curse", from which this story I've made a parody of(somewhat). So nobody sue me, or accuse me of plagiarism if you've read the book. I'm just altering some stuff, but the storyline remains indifferent all the same.

X) Oh yeah. The names of the characters, locations and events are plain fictitious.

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May 31, 2005
To: Sango Fuyuzuki
From: Kohaku Fuyuzuki, vice president, Citibank Private Bank
Enclosed: Contract on sale for 102 Momoiro Street, #4F

Onee, here's your signed contract. Keep for your records. You owe me for this. I'm not supposed to pick up the phone for clients with less than a million dollars. And I'm waiving my fee, only because Okaa said that if I made a penny on you, she'd make me do my own laundry for a month. A couple of details:

1)Nakano-san sent a personal check for his 10 percent deposit of 4,000,000 yen. I've got it in escrow.
2)Closing date is, tentatively, July 1. Nakano-san will pay the 36,000,000-yen balance at the closing.
3)At the closing, I will handle the payoff of existing mortgage(3,200,000 yen), taxes, fees and commission. Okaa is waiving her fee for representing you. But the Corcoran Group broker gets 6 percent(6,000,000 yen). City transfer taxes will be approximately 800,000 yen. Capital gains tax(15 percent of profit beyond 10,000,000 yen) is 3,920,000 yen. Your net profit for the sale is 29,600,000 yen, give or take a few grand.
4)I will also arrange a wire transfer to your new account at Shirotabi. Thanks for hiring Ryuji Kato. He's an excellent money manager, and now he owes me a kick-back for the referral. He'll give you good advice. My two cents: I recommend triple-tax-free bonds, providing a guaranteed annual income of about 1,120,000 yen. Enough to live like a princess in Hokkaido.
5)Once the wire transfer clears(24 hours), you can go get drunk, throw a party for yourself, and everyone you know, at the Shikisetsu, whatever your little heart desires. You are now a woman of means. Kind of makes me sick that I never bought an apartment in the days when Okaa and Otou were doling out the down payments. How could anyone have predicted that a crappy one-bedroom in Tokyo would increase by 900 percent in ten years? For the first time in my life, I am jealous of you. I expect that makes you feel pretty damn good.
6)On a personal note, Kanna and I are over. I have you to blame(thank?). She thought your leaving Tokyo would inspire me to leave Okaa and Otou's. I said, "Okaa cooks dinner, does my laundry and pays my phone bill." She said, "I suck your dick and mix your drinks." I said, "Unless you do laundry too, I'll be trading down." That was the last thing I said before the slap heard round the world. She'll come crawling back. When she sees what's out there, I'll look great in comparison.

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June 15
To: Sango Fuyuzuki
From: Reiko Fuyuzuki
Attachment: Five photos

Sango, some photos from Kaede Natsuno, the broker at Kageyama Realty. I think this place looks fabulous, and Kaede-san has staked her reputation(very good--I made inquiries) on this farm. It's in the Upper River Valley area, right near the border of Hokkaido. FYI: Kaede-san says locals call it the Upper Valley for short. It's on the outskirts of Hitohara(the town you mentioned specifically), on a dirt road. Ten acres, a pond; the farmhouse was built in 1791. It still has its original beams. The foundation and plumbing were renovated about seven years ago. Not ideal, but Kaede-san swears everything is solid and functional. Price: 7,200,000 yen. If you still want to buy outright in cash(Kaede-san loved the sound of that), she's sure she can talk the seller down to 6,000,000 yen. A very good deal. It's not Tokyo, but apparently, all these Upper Valley towns are seeing huge rises in property values in the past few years. Since the place is empty, you can move in at any time. Not that we want you to go. We want you to stay. Just so I have that on record.
P.S. Your brother is acting strangely. Quiet, stays out late. Is taking phone calls in his room. Kanna-chan mailed a box to the house, I opened it accidentally--the packing tape was peeling, I swear--and it was full of shredded clothing, doused in honey. Do you think they broke up? I never liked her anyway. What kind of girl hangs out in the lobby with the doorman rather than spend time with her boyfriend's family?

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Lot number 456985545
Pottery Barn bedroom set
Starting bid: 80,000 yen
Place bid greater than
Time left: 7 hours and 39 minutes. 10-day listing. Offer expires 6/20/05 20:30 EST
History: 5 bids
Item location: Momoiro Street, Ginma, Tokyo
Description: Five-piece bedroom set from Pottery Barn, circa 2000. All oak, in excellent condition. King-sized bed(mattress and box spring--like new! Hardly used! Slept on by a ninety-year old grandmother!--included). Owner moving in two weeks and motivated to sell. See photos. Also, check out living room set(lot number 7899545), kitchen set--dinette-style table plus vintage chairs--and full day-to-day Hanagata Stoneware service, along with other kitchenware(lot number 26589952), and entertainment package includes TV, VCR, DVD, stereo, speakers, 2001 iMac, HP printer(lot number 5263574). I'll pay shipping to anywhere in the Northeast, and some parts of the Midwest. And the South. Hell, I'll arrange/pay shipping anywhere, except Alaska and Hawaii. And maybe even there, if the price is right. EVERYTHING MUST GO! Sponsored by ebay.com

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To: rin_tachikawa@kinmen.com
From: sangoleg@yahoo.com
Date: July 3, 2005 7:38 EST
Subject: my dream mountain man

Rin-chan, this is the last e-mail I will ever send from this computer. And I'm sending it to you. I hope you are sufficiently honored. I've spent the day with the UPS man(who was NOT dreamy), tagging and shipping my bedroom to America, my kitchen to Sendai and my living room to everywhere else in Tokyo. Rica's coming in an hour to collect all my electronics--including the iMac. Funny, I thought that stuff would sell first on ebay, but I didn't get a single bid. I'm happy to give it to Rica. She's been an excellent boss, and it was her idea that I become a perennials farmer in Hokkaido. I owe her. I made more money than I thought I would from selling the furniture(216,000 yen, minus shipping). Enough, I think, to replace it all with cheaper stuff once I get to my new home. Should be enough to get a flock(?) of chickens. Maybe a goat. Or a cow. What might a cow cost, I wonder. A live one, I mean.
Anyway, the train leaves first thing. You'll get this e-mail after I've gone. I'm not going to get weepy on you(you've been weepy enough for both of us). And, remember, Sapporo is only forty-five minutes from Akita, outlet mecca of the Northeast. Think of whole country weekends, getting 90 percent of retail at Barney's.
I'll leave you now with an image, a picture of what I'm going to find up north. I did a quick search of men in my new zip code on match.com. The pickings were slim. But that's good. I like slim guys. Most of them had facial hair, drat. Not all of them were rugged country types. Some claimed to have real jobs at IBM in Sapporo(who knew there were corporations in Hokkaido?). Anyway, see attached photo of the pick of the bunch. He's a logger, with a BA. He included a poem in his posting--"Ode to an Elm." At least it's not a sonnet to a sheep. Note the chest(logging). The legs(mountain climbing; skiing). The face(under the beard). The shoulders(chopping firewood). The wardrobe of hiking shorts, Timberland boots, and a matt of chest hair. Then again, the farmers are also stud-muffins. This is a man who can drive a tractor, the one he built himself with spare parts, a screwdriver and a stick of butter. And he'd love a woman with all the country goodness of fresh-baked apple pie.
Ahhhhhhhhh. I can smell it from here.

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Otou - term for the father

A/N:Peeps, here's the sad thing: according to the book I base this story upon, our sexy dreamboat(;) that is Miroku-san) won't be appearing for the next 4 chapters. He'll be in Chapter 11. That's all I'm saying.
):) Well, I hope you liked this chapter, even though it bores you listening to Kohaku-dono's letter and reading the numbers! ;) I converted the capital, the profit, and the prices using my calculator to yen. Damn, that was hard! XD Never thought I'd look back to Accounting! Despite my high grades on that subject, I still get a headache just thinking about it! AGH!
So, read and review please! Exactly 10 reviews! Or I won't update!

By the way, you people might hate me for the next chapter...

...and the one after that...most definitely...