InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ This Wasn't In The Job Description ❯ The End of a Very Strange Day ( Chapter 10 )

Chapter 10

 

The End of a Very Strange Day

 

For the second time that day, Kagome was rendered speechless as she looked into Miroku's pleased, grinning face. But she closed her mouth and resolved to not let him affect her anymore. It seemed she might have to put up with this behavior from the agent fairly regularly. Fleetingly, she wondered if she could talk to InYasha about this. If so, now was definitely not the time. The hanyou obviously needed some time to cool off after Kikyo's unexpected and confrontational visit.

 

“Would you like something to eat?” Kagome asked. “Kaede has made some lunch and was just waiting for you to wake up before offering it.”

 

“That's a good idea,” Miroku said. “I am hungry. Shall we?”

 

Miroku gestured for Kagome to leave the room ahead of him. She quickly stepped out, keeping herself out of arm's reach as they went downstairs to the kitchen.

 

Kaede looked up and smiled at Miroku, obviously pleased to see he was up and about.

 

“Ah, Miroku - glad to see you're awake,” Kaede said. “Would you like something to eat?”

 

“Yes, Kaede. Thank you,” Miroku said.

 

“Have a seat at the kitchen table and I will serve you,” Kaede replied, and gestured for him to take a seat before turning back to prepare him a plate of sushi.

 

“I'm going back to do some more work now,” Kagome said. “If there is anything I can do to help you, Miroku, I'll be in InuYasha's office.”

 

“Thank you, Kagome,” Miroku replied, as he seated himself at the table with a smile.

 

Kagome smiled back briefly, and turned and left the kitchen.

 

Back in InuYasha's office, Kagome saw no sign of the documents she had been sorting. The other files she had been working on were still in a stack on the floor, and she picked them up and went over to InuYasha's desk, looking for a place to put them. Finally, she shrugged and just pushed some papers aside, plopping the files on his desk. Next, she decided it would be a good idea to call the service to come and pick up the box of fan mail to be dropped off at Sango's office. After doing that, she went back to the list to see what else she could do when a voice came through the intercom.

 

“Delivery,” it said.

 

`Oh, that must be the cell phone InuYasha told me about,' Kagome thought.

 

Going over and pressing the intercom, Kagome answered, “One moment please.”

 

As she walked by the kitchen, Kaede stuck her head out and beckoned her over a moment. Kagome stopped and walked over to her.

 

“I heard the intercom at the door,” Kaede said. “I need to show you what to do when taking a delivery, or when a delivery service comes here for a pick up.”

 

Kaede led Kagome back into InuYasha's office. The housekeeper walked up to what looked like a closed cupboard and opened the doors. Inside, there was a phalanx of monitors and a board of switches. Kagome realized that this must be for the security cameras mounted on the walls outside.

 

“InuYasha has a remote for these,” Kaede said, “but only he knows where to find it in that perpetual mess of his desk, so use these switches here.”

 

Kaede reached over and flicked the switches labeled front gate, and three monitors came to life. They looked at the screens and saw a young man in a dark blue delivery uniform, holding a box and waiting at front of the gate, switching impatiently from foot to foot.

 

“Always check here first before letting anyone in who claims to be making a delivery,” Kaede said. “Because we get so many deliveries here, we must be careful to make sure they are what we are expecting first. You never know who may be trying to pass themselves off as delivery people just to try and get access to InuYasha.”

 

Kagome nodded. “Yes, that makes perfect sense.”

 

“Good girl,” Kaede said with a smile of approval. “Now go let the antsy-looking young man in the gate before he wears out his shoes.”

 

Kagome cracked a grin at Kaede, and they left the office together. She buzzed the delivery man in while Kaede went back to the kitchen. After signing for the package, she took it back to InuYasha's office.

 

Opening the package, she saw it was the cell phone he had told her about, just as she expected it would be. It was the latest in Sony mobile phone technology, and was small, sleek and black, with a large viewing screen for scrolling through the internet and even had the capability of being used to pay for things in place of money or credit cards. She realized he must have paid a lot for this top of the line model. As instructed, she dug out the charger and found a socket on the wall behind InuYasha's desk where she could charge the phone. Then she found the cell phone number and wrote it in InuYasha's rolodex.

 

“I'm leaving now,” Miroku said, popping his head in the office. “I've called a car service to pick me up.”

 

“How is your hand feeling?” Kagome asked, looking up from InuYasha's desk, her brows drawing together in concern.

 

Miroku flexed the gauze and chain bound hand and smiled wryly.

 

“Good enough, considering the circumstances,” he replied. “Tell that shit-head boss of yours I am going back to my office for a while before heading home. That is, if he comes out of his sulk long enough to wonder where I am.”

 

Kagome nodded. Miroku flashed a quick smile at her and with wave of his hand was gone.

 

InuYasha never made another appearance that day. Kagome stayed in his office, answering phone calls and taking messages. The service came to pick up the box to be delivered to Sango's office, and she checked the monitors before letting them in as instructed.

 

At dinner time, Kagome ate in the kitchen once again while Kaede brought a tray up to InuYasha in his suite. She found that she rather missed his company, mannerless or not.

 

Kaede returned and ate with her, but there was no pleasant conversation this night, and Kaede could see Kagome was acting subdued and did not press her. So much had happened that day, Kaede felt sorry for what the young woman must be going through.

 

“Kagome, if you wish you may use other rooms in the house,” Kaede said. “InuYasha won't mind if you use his entertainment room. He rarely goes in there unless his band mates are here. Please make use of the television there if you want.”

 

“Thank you,” Kagome said with a sigh, running her hand through her hair. “Maybe I will use it tonight.”

 

Wearily, Kagome climbed the stairs. The silence coming from InuYasha's end of the house made Kagome a little sad and slightly disturbed. She couldn't help but wonder what InuYasha was doing and feeling now. Turning to go to her room, she decided that what she needed was a nice, long, hot bath.

 

Kagome climbed into the tub with a sigh of pleasure as the hot water swirled around her. Steam rose in curls around her face, making her cheeks turn pink. What a strange, terrifying day it had been. It was all so surreal; she could hardly believe it had happened.

 

Just what was InuYasha into? What was so important to him about this Shikon no Tama formula? Was it worth his risking his life and Miroku's? But now it seemed Miroku had an even more urgent reason to be looking for it besides helping InuYasha. Thinking about InuYasha made her feel sad and wistful again.

 

When she was done with her bath, Kagome wrapped her hair in a towel and put on her pajamas. Going over to her night table, she thumbed through the books there. Nothing caught her interest, so she decided to take Kaede's advice and go watch some TV.

 

Going downstairs, Kagome peeked into the huge, empty, and dark entertainment room. She felt on the wall for a light switch, and flicked it on. The track lighting in the room came on, illuminating a large black leather circular sofa, a low coffee table, and a huge, flat LCD TV screen, surrounded by tall stacks of speakers with a console with a DVD player in front. Kagome walked up to it and found a remote sitting on top of the console. She picked it up and walked back to the sofa, sitting down and raising her legs, tucking them beneath her and to the side as she leaned on the armrest.

 

It took a moment, but she figured out what button to press to turn the TV on. Flicking through the channels, she found re-runs of a show she used to like, Detective Conan. It was an entertaining show, and she hoped to lose herself enough in it to take her mind off all the strangeness that was going on around her. With a sigh and a faint smile, she rested her chin on her arms and let her mind zone out.

 

InuYasha was reading, sprawled in a leather chair in his sitting room, wearing just a pair of jeans. Suddenly, his stomach growled, and he threw down the documents he had been reading. It was time to go get a snack in the kitchen.

 

He stretched and scratched his head wearily, then rubbed his eyes before getting up and heading out the door of his quarters. His sensitive hearing picked up the sound of the TV, and his ears swiveled forward towards the sound. Quickly, he went downstairs and looked in his entertainment room. Kagome had fallen asleep on the sofa in front of the TV. The towel around her hair had slipped off, and her head was cocked at an odd angle. He shook his head ruefully. She would have one hell of a stiff neck if she stayed that way for too long.

 

Quietly, InuYasha walked into the room and gazed at Kagome's sleeping form. His expression softened as he looked at her. This young woman he had hired did have a beauty similar to Kikyo's. But whereas Kikyo was cold and hard, Kagome was a warm, sweet, good-hearted girl.

 

Vaguely, he wondered if he should have brought a girl like her into his complex and dangerous world. Yet, not once had she complained or broke down when faced with all that had happened today. There was more to this girl than just her sweet exterior; this he had intuitively felt when he hired her. And for once, it seemed he was right.

 

He picked up the remote and turned off the TV. Then he bent down and carefully picked Kagome up in his arms, and headed back up the stairs. As he walked with her, she mumbled and sighed sleepily, nestling under his collarbone. InuYasha closed his eyes and gasped softly at the feel of her soft cheek and warm breath against his naked skin. Then he continued on to her room and carefully laid her in her bed, drawing up the covers around her as she adjusted herself in her sleep.

 

InuYasha turned to go, but could not help turning in the doorway to look at Kagome one last time.

 

`Sleep well,' he thought. `Get some peace and rest while you can, `cause who knows what will happen in this crazy life of mine, which you so foolishly have accepted getting caught up in.'

 

In Kagome's dreams, she stood pressed up close to InuYasha, her hands resting on his naked chest, his arms around her waist, as they gazed silently into each other's eyes. A wind came from nowhere and swept their hair up behind them. InuYasha's intense eyes bore into hers, and she looked into them, desperately trying to fathom his intentions.

 

`What are you trying to tell me?' Kagome thought in her dream. `Why do you look at me that way with those strangely beautiful golden eyes of yours? Why don't you speak to me?'