InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ The One Who Heals My Heart ❯ Chapter 20 ( Chapter 20 )

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

Chapter 20

For the next few weeks, life was good to the group. Kagome and Inuyasha continued to plan out their wedding, and the school work just didn't seem as hard as normal for the five that were going.

But life definitely wasn't perfect. Kagome found that she was starting to get board. She didn't have to keep her average so high anymore, not that it wasn't still a 4.0, since Inu had insisted that he pay for her schooling. She had given up the scholarship to someone else that needed it. And school work wasn't nearly as hard when she had Inu there to help explain things that she didn't understand. He made learning easier.

In fact Kagome found herself with a lot of free time on her hands. Some of it she would spend in the music room writing new songs, or just playing the piano. Then there was the time she spent with the children in the house, but with there being so many other adults in the house, that time wasn't very large.

She soon found herself spending most of her time just sitting in front of the TV waiting for someone to get home. The guys were all busy with the band, and then there was always something else to take up their time too. Sess and Koga where busy with the children most days. And when they weren't busy with them, they had the band and Sess had the club too. Kagome found out that Koga had a construction business too, and that Sess was actually a big business tycoon. Shippo had a computer consulting firm, and Miroku owned and operated a car dealership, so those two were out a lot. And Toki had just started a job as

Then there was Inu. He tried to spend as much time as he could with Kagome, but when you were mated to a famous band member, and a world famous surgeon in the demon community, you had to take what little time he had for you. There were many a call for Inu to go to one of the hospitals for a consultation. He was just far too famous for being a founder in breaking technology in his field. Kagome found out that there was a saying in the demon hospitals that if Inuyasha couldn't save your life, you were dead when he got his hands on you. Then there was always the club, it seemed that if they had a problem, he was the one they called.

Most of the girls had jobs outside the home too. Like Sango, not only was she the manager for Fukumaden, but for a host of other talented people too. Rin had her psychiatry, and was usually busy at her clinic. Ayame was a professional photographer, and very high in demand. And Kaiya had more friends then she knew what do with, so was usually found out with them when she wasn`t in school. This meant that all of them were usually out until nearly dinner time.

Because of all of this, Kagome found herself with more time on her hands then she knew what to do with. And one night she brought this up to everyone after they were done eating and were in the den.

“Why don't you find a charity league or something?” Kaiya asked. “That's what Mom did before she got into the business.”

Kagome thought about that for all of a few seconds. “I don't think that would take up much of my time though. I like to feel useful.”

It was quite a shock to everyone when Sess came out with, “Why don't you come work at the club? We're there every night trying to handle things anyway.”

Inu's eyebrows rose in his shock. “That's actually a good idea. I was going to go back to working out of the office, since things seem to be going down hill since we left it to our old manager.”

“That we fired,” Rin cut in with.

“Well he was too busy trying to pick up girls to do his job,” Toki said.

“Which is why we hired you for the job, dumb ass,” Inu added.

Toki just smiled. Sess and Inu had just hired him as the manager, since he was in school for just that reason and was almost done. But there were still some things that would need one of the brother's consent for, so one of them was always found there each night.

“What would I do there?” Kagome asked.

“Whatever you would like,” was the reply that came from Inu.

“We need a new waitress or a bartender,” Sess added.

“I could be a waitress,” Kagome said. “I worked in a restaurant my last year of high school. I would have kept the job, but it was closer to home then the collage, so it would have been hard for me to get there each day.”

“Well that's settled,” Miroku said as he leaned back on the couch. “Now let's just see how it works out.”

“What do you mean?” Kagome asked.

“Have you seen the outfit's the girls that work there wear? They aren't really the most conservative, if you get my drift.”

“It's their own choice,” Sess said with a shrug. “It's not like we have a dress code.”

“True,” Miroku came back with, “but the outfits they chose are still a little slutty.”

“Hey!” Sango said. “You do realize that your own daughter works there don't you?”

“Ya, but she told me why she dresses that way.”

“Why?” Ayame asked. “I've always wondered why you didn't insist that she cover herself.”

“I did.”

Everyone laughed at this. They knew he had to of said something to her.

“But Sada explained it to me. The girls all dress like that because it helps with the tips. I couldn't really blame her for that, so I let it go.”

“In other words, she beat him into agreeing,” Koga said. “That girl is too much like her mother!”

They all laughed at this.

“Speaking of the club, shouldn't Toki be there now? Sada and Kado left an hour ago,” Rin asked.

“I'm catching a ride with Inu in a few. It's his turn to be at the club tonight.”

“Well, why doesn't Kagome start tonight then?” Sess asked. “It's Friday so it's bound to be busy, and we could use the extra hand.”

“Sure!” Kagome said. “I'll just go get ready.”

With that she bounded off to her room to find an outfit that would work.

“Why don't we all go there? It'll be our way of giving her some support,” Kaiya asked.

Rin smiled. “That's a good idea. What section are you going to have her handle?”

The brother's took one look at each other and said, “The VIP room.” in sync with each other.

“Ooohh!!” Ayame said while clapping her hands. “I like that! There hasn't been a girl up there for ages!”

Koga smiled at his mate and wife and took her hand as he got up. “I guess we should all be getting ready to go then.”

Inu soon made his was to his room and opened the door to see Kagome putting on a little black mini skirt. She had yet to pick out a shirt.

“Do you have any shirts with a saying on them?” Inu asked while peeling off his shirt.

Kagome looked up from the zipper she was just pulling up. “Ya, Kaiya got me a bunch.”

Inu shook his head. “Figures. Pick one out. Tonight is one of the few nights that we actually have a dress code for all staff.”

Kagome looked at Inu in confusion. “Huh?”

“When Sess and I opened the club up, we had so many t-shirts with sayings on them thanks to Kaiya, that one night a month we get everyone at work to wear one so we have a good reason to wear them ourselves. A lot of the regulars have actually picked up on it too.”

“Oh.”

Soon Kagome was looking through a drawer. She came out with a white tank top that said `Don't you wish your girlfriend was hott like me?'

Inuyasha started to laugh. “Isn't that a song?”

Kagome smiled. “Ya, but it's the only one I like, besides the one I wore to your first concert.”

Inu smiled and put on the t-shirt he found for himself. It said, `Been there, Wrecked that'.

“Cute, it suits you,” was all Kagome said before the two of them left to collect the others.

Kagome got a good laugh at everyone's shirts, they suited them so well. Sess's said, `Evil shouldn't look this good', Rin's said `A good girl is just a bad girl that didn't get caught', Ayame's said `Yes they're real… Real Expensive' across her chest. Koga's said `If you're not living on the edge, you're taking up 2 much space'. Sango's said I'll just make you cry'. Toki's said `Got Chaos?'. Shippo's said `Chaos, Panic, Disorder - My work here is done.'. Kaiya's said `Your boyfriend wants me'. Then there was Miroku's, `I'm part of the problem'.

Soon everyone was ready to go, and were piling into cars to go. It didn't take too long to get there, and they were all immediately aloud to enter, even though the club wasn't open yet. The people that were in the line up already started to complain, until it was explained that it was the owners of the club that had just entered.

“I guess we should tell you what your job will entail,” Toki said as Inu and Kagome followed him to the office. “First I'll get you a float. It'll be $100. You can leave your tip money in there too, since we get the waitresses to pay the bar when they get drinks, that way anything over the original amount is yours to keep.”

“That makes sense.” Kagome said. “That way the waitresses won't ever be over or under on their floats.”

“It gives them more time to clean up at the end of the night,” Inuyasha told her. “The bartenders only have to do the cash out, clean behind the bar, and do the restock, so they have a lighter load at the end of the night, but it still takes up the same amount of time.”

“Here you go,” Toki said as he handed her a mini till drawer and a tray. “You'll be working the VIP section, so I'll have to tell the bouncer that's there. Otherwise he'll keep you out of there. We haven't had anyone up there for a while and have kept the other girls out since they tend to get star struck from some of the people we get in there.”

“Won't he recognize me from the other times we were here?”

“Normally yes,” Inu answered. “But tonight is Takai's night off. He's the one that's normally there. So tonight we have a different guy. He's new, so we'll see how that works out.”

“Kaori is good at his job, but he's only been on the front door before tonight,” Toki added. “If he does a good job, we'll let him switch out with Takai. We mainly want to see if he keeps out the people that don't have VIP cards, and to see if he gets star struck like the girls tend to. I hope you won't get like that.”

Kagome was confused at this. “Why would I? I know everyone that'll be up there.”

Inuyasha laughed. “I realize that we've been the only ones up there since you've started coming with us, but that isn't always the case. We always get told before hand if some one famous is coming, and one of us will tell you when that's the case. Tonight you won't have to worry, it'll only be us, so you'll have an easy night.”

“But I'll get board if I have nothing to do,” Kagome explained.

Toki laughed. “I figured you'd say that, so I'll have you work the area under the stairs tonight too. It's not too big, so you'll have plenty of time to get to everyone.”

“Sounds perfect.”

Toki then took Kagome around the area that she would be working, and introduced her to Kaori. He then introduced her to the bartenders that she didn't know and left her with them so they could tell her what closing for the night would involve.

“It's really kinda easy,” Sada said. “I'll get Haya to show you where everything is that you'll need when she gets here, but basically you just clean the area you were working in.”

“That involves wiping the tables down, sweeping and mopping the floor, and putting all the chairs up onto the tables,” one of the bartenders that was named Kiho told her. He had already explained that the waitresses got to come in later then the rest since the bouncers don't do cleaning at closing, they only have to make sure everyone's out of the club, then they were aloud to leave. This meant that they had to do the opening tasks for the waitresses, like put the chairs in their proper spots.

“And don't worry if you get done before everyone else,” the other bartender told Kagome, “you're aloud to go as soon as Toki says you're done, and the doors have an auto lock on them. You can't open then from the outside once they've been locked, but you can still get out.”

“Okay, Yoshi,” Toki said with a laugh as he came up to the bar. “Enough flirting with the new waitress.”

Yoshi laughed. It was a well known joke around the club that Yoshi would flirt in anything in a skirt. It wasn't true since he was gay, but most of the bartenders were male and they were the ones that did the flirting. Yoshi was a quite guy and didn't like too much attention, but the club was more of a family, so he was a little more outspoken with the people that worked there, and the regulars to it.

“Shut it Toki,” Sada said to her younger brother. “Is Kado in his booth? Because here comes Haya and the other waitresses for tonight, so that means we're going to be opening soon.”

“Yes Sada, he's been up there since you two got here.”

“I have a question,” Kagome said. “Why do the waitresses get to come in later then the bouncers…”

Toki interrupted at this point. “Because the bouncers leave early.”

“We already told her that Toki,” Kisho said as he counted out his float to make sure it was all there. “I think there was more to her question then that.”

Kagome smiled. “Yes actually, there was. I was wondering why you bartenders come in so early. Why don't the bouncers do you're opening jobs?”

Sada smiled and leaned over the counter. “We don't need to be here early actually, most of us bartenders just like to make sure the stock was done properly the night before. That way if it wasn't we can correct it.”

“That and the owners don't mind paying us overtime for it,” Kisho said with a grin.

“I love the shirt Sada,” Said one of the waitresses as she came up to the bar.

Sada pulled the edge of her shirt down in order to read it herself. It said, `Test drive available. For experienced drivers only'.

“Thanks Haya, I found it the other night and had to buy it, if only for the comments I know I'm going to be getting from some of the regulars. But you should see the one that I got for Kado. It fits him perfectly. It says `I taught your girlfriend that thing you like`.”

Haya laughed and looked over at Kagome. “Hi, you must be the new girl that Kaori told me about. I'm Haya. I like your shirt too.”

“Thank you. I got it from a friend. And I'm Kagome.”

“Good to know. I'll introduce you to the others. I'll worn you now though, watch out for Akako, she's a real bitch. She's been trying to talk the brothers into letting her work in the VIP room for a year now. She got the old manager to agree to it, but the brother's vetoed the idea. So she's bound to be even worse with you.”

Soon Kagome was introduced to everyone at the club. It wasn't hard for her to remember their names and faces, thanks to her new hanyou abilities. She knew them all by sight and smell now, and they were imprinted into her memory.

It wasn't long after that when the doors opened.

One of the waitresses, a really nice young girl named Shina, leaned over and whispered, “Good luck on your first night Kagome,” with a smile.

Let the first night at my new job begin, Kagome thought with a light grimace when she saw the mob making their way through the doors.