InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Unlayering the Soul ❯ Getting Down to Business ( Chapter 7 )

 

Kagome sat in her desk chair typing furiously, trying to finish her work for the day as quickly as possible. Although many of her coworkers would be finished with the work week in a few minutes time, Kagome Higurashi was not so lucky.

 

Hopefully, if she finished typing her boss's letters and filing a few more documents, he would let her leave early on this Friday evening, not so she could get a head-start on partying or going on a weekend road trip like most other twenty-five-year-old women.

 

No. Kagome Higurashi had to go directly to night school. Kagome knew the reason she had lost her old job at Tenseiga was because she was dispensable. To fix that, she had been attending night school. She hoped an employer would be less likely to randomly fire her if she had a degree. She had earned a bachelor's degree in fashion merchandising and was working on a master's in business administration.

 

Although night school let her acquire these degrees in a much shorter period, they did take time away from her seven-year-old daughter. She tried to be there as much as possible, but it just wasn't enough for Kagome. It seemed like only yesterday she was a toddler. Now, her little girl was finishing the first grade.

 

It was hard being a single mother, but her baby was worth it.

 

Seiki was very different from Kagome herself as a child. Whereas Kagome was outgoing and lively, Seiki was calm and reserved. However, they both shared a great deal of kindness and compassion. Seiki had a heart of gold, a trait clearly found in her mother.

 

As Kagome finished typing the last sentence of the last letter, she glanced at her inbox. To her glee, it was empty. She picked up her black office phone and pressed a button adjacent to the numbers belonging to the speed dial and picked up the receiver. A loud buzz indicated that her employer heard the beep and he answered.

 

“Houshi.”

 

“Miroku, I'm done. Do you mind if I leave a bit early and head to class?”

 

“Go ahead. Oh Kagome, can you get Kaede to babysit? I have a date.”

 

With a sigh, she agreed. After all, Miroku wasn't Seiki's dad. It wasn't his responsibility to take care of her. He had already done enough. He, despite his usually lecherous ways, was a good male role model for her.

 

She couldn't be angry with him for wanting to live his own life.

 

“Alright. Bye Roku.”

 

After clicking the receiver, Kagome made arrangements for Kaede, the kind, elderly lady who moved into Manten's old apartment, to babysit. She missed Manten, but was glad he finally found a girlfriend. She met her a few months ago.

 

The girl was very flirty and wore revealing clothes, but she and Manten shared the same hair fetish. Yura was a hair stylist and had all kinds of hair tools and accessories. She had a large number of wigs that Manten let her adorn him in as she pleased.

 

In the end, they both got what they wanted. Yura got a man who was surprisingly well endowed and didn't mind her passion for hair, and Manten got an attractive woman who wanted to be with him and who provided him with a new hairstyle whenever he desired. Even better, Yura was surely not after the fortune Kagome didn't know Manten had. Although Manten's family wealth was vast, Yura's was exceedingly more so.

 

She was happy for both of them.

 

At least, she would have been happy for them if she had time to. She was late. Even though it was considered okay to be late the class was designed for busy members of the workforce, she didn't want to be late for her first class.

 

That just wasn't cool.

 

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