In The Office

Hello everyone!
Hope you are all fine! ^^
I must admit, I was a little frightened to know how you will receive the sequel of “in the elevator”. It was the first story (beside one-shots) that I have ever completed and the decision of doing a sequel or not had not been that easy. I’m so glad and surprised by the warm welcome of this new story and sequel. Thank you so much!

Thanks to Ryuumahou for the corrections!
I don’t own InuYasha.

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Chapter 2 :
I don’t want to go, part 2

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Kagome held her breathe as she was attentively listening the sound of her little brother, Souta, as he walked down the stairs slowly.

When she was sure that the boy was out of hearing range, Kagome sighed and pulled off the sheets from over her head.

At first, the light of the sun filtered by the curtains of her bedroom windows was still too strong and blinding for Kagome, obligating to keep her eyes close a moment longer. After a moment, as her eyes were getting used to it, her eyes slid opened.

The young woman didn’t move. She just fixed her eyes on the ceiling of her room, trying to gather up her thoughts. She knew that she must have hurt her little brother’s feelings when she dismissed him and his worries. It was evident with the way he had dejectedly walked out of her bedroom. She could tell only by the sound of his steps when he exited.

She must have hurt her mother’s pretty badly too, but what could she do? It wasn’t like she could tell them why she wasn’t feeling at the top of her form! How could she confess to her family that she didn’t want to get up and go to work because she had given, without her knowledge, her precious virginity to her new big boss and was too afraid to face him now?!

The poor woman groaned again.

What should she do? She knew that, by now, all the company must be aware of what had transpired between her and Sesshomaru. ‘Takahashi-sama!’ she mentally reminded herself. She will have to be careful and not call him by his first name from now on, even in the confines of her mind because it would only worsen the situation if she was to let it slip at work. Work. Yes, at one moment or another, she would have to go back there. Would she be able to step in one of the elevators without risking the heart attack? Nothing was less sure. Work. Everyone must already know what happened, she was sure of it and if not, then she was pretty sure that they will be able to smell it. Oh Kami, how could she face anyone now? ‘They will all think that I purposely slept with Sesshomaru to have the job. Takahashi-sama!’

It was still difficult to associate, even just in thoughts, Sesshomaru and everything they shared that night, with The Takahashi-sama, CEO of one of the most famous and big company of the whole Japan! Kagome groaned anew.
But aside from her shame…well not really shame, more like the fear of how people will see her now, to have slept with her boss and that everyone know it, there was something far worse than that that was eating her.

This problem could really be solve quickly sure, she just had to voice her question but she was seriously frightening by the possible answer. Several different scenarios went through her head during the weekend of how things could go but nothing she could imagine was able to settle her heart at ease. The doubt was there, growing after each ticking minute, driving her to the limit of the insanity. The response of this troubling question could be easily obtained but she wasn’t sure that she was ready to hear it.

Did she have this job because she slept with him?

That question had haunted her since Saturday morning. Would he have really given her the job, only because of what happened between them or was there a chance that he had hired her for her capabilities and not because the sex was good.

Kagome blushed when the last thought passed her mind. Well, it was the truth, it had been good. Maybe if she had known that it was so great she wouldn’t have waited so long…but, at the same time, never before had she felt as strong an attraction as she had felt that day for that man, err, male. Well, the fact that she was so stressed at the moment could have obscured her judgment. She would probably not have given in so easily in another situation.


She sighed. Kagome got up and started to get ready for her day of work. As she was looking for what she could wear, her eyes fell on her ruined blouse suspended on the door of her wardrobe. She flustered as memories of that fateful day flashed in her mind.

It was her favorite blouse and her mother knew it. When she had seen in which state it was, she had proposed to sew bottoms back on. Kagome didn’t know why but she had panicked and said she would do it. Maybe she wasn’t ready to erase all traces of what happened so rapidly, she didn’t even know herself.

Oh she knew that certain traces of his scent for example, will take time before been intimately washed away but it wasn’t something she could touch and see.

Mentally, she profusely thanked her mother again to have forced her to be on the pill. She, at least, wouldn’t have to be worried of ending up pregnant after their one night stand. A one night stand. Never before would she have thought that she was the type to have one night stand relationship but what was done, was done and she couldn’t change it.

Gathering up her courage, she continued to get ready.


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Kagome was now standing in front of the building, still hesitating to go in. When she had walked down, she avoided her mother, not wishing to answer her questions. She felt bad about it but she couldn’t do anything else. If her mother was to probe too much, Kagome wasn’t sure that she wouldn’t spill out some compromising details that the old woman shouldn’t know about her daughter.

So the young woman just yelled out that she was going and went out before her mother could ask anything. She felt guilty to act that way around her family, but it was the only thing that could keep her going at the moment. If her family was to hear what happened now, she would probably just abandon and refuse to go out of her room for the rest of her life. That was if she had the courage to face anyone long enough to walk through her house to her bedroom.

As Kagome was adding the last touch of her light make-up, her cell phone rang. It had been her best friend, Sango. Apparently, the young woman had heard about her little problem on that fateful Friday and how she came back home only on Saturday morning. Of course, she heard about the ‘purged’ version that had been served to Mrs. Higurashi.

So Sango had called her that Monday morning to congratulate her and wished her good luck for her first day of work…or at least, it had been her intention at first. Kagome didn’t know if it was because they had been as close as sisters since the day of their first meeting, during their freshman year in high school, but with the minimum of talking, she had been able to tell immediately that her friend wasn’t well and was hiding something. The young woman had never been a sweet talker and was rather blunt in everything she did, so the woman furiously and mercilessly probed Kagome to have satisfactory answers. She had known that something must have happened to her friend that day, and wouldn’t relent until she had all her answers.

Kagome had panicked, knowing that she had never been able to hide anything from her friend in all the years they had known each other. Kagome had felt cornered but succeeded in saving herself some time by talking about everything that happened BEFORE the trip in the elevator. She explained in details about the bitching females that were there more to have a chance in jumping her new boss than really for the job. Of course, Sango asked what he looked like, if he had as much of a body killer as the rumors said and if the whores, at least, had some taste. At that moment, Kagome almost chocked. Her friend didn’t know of course, but she knew, first hand, that the rumors on that point weren’t lying. Sango was worried and asked what was wrong when her friend dropped the phone.

Kagome had tried to cover up as she could, laughing weakly as she said how could she know? Not wanting more questioning, and after promising that she would explain everything later, she hung up, saying that she was going to be late for her first day.

She had been so embarrassed to have reacted like that but she was sure that her friend would hear the whole truth very soon, whether she wanted it or not and frankly, she was worried. What would her friend think of her after that?

Well, if she was honest, she was pretty sure that Sango would laugh her ass off and probably congratulate her, without forgetting to ask every little detail. Sango would say that she was lucky. But there was still the chance that she would be disappointed in her and Kagome preferred to wait later the confirmation or invalidation of her thoughts.

So now she was standing in front of the building. She knew that as soon as she would walk in, everyone in the lobby will turn to her. She was sure of it.

On the way, as she was travelling in the metro, she was sitting in front of two demons. During all the way, they talked among themselves while sending glances in her direction. She wasn’t absolutely sure but she thought that they could smell Him on her. Why every demon crossing her path would turn around to look at her if it wasn’t for that?

She had never been so embarrassed in her life. Hell, she had enough embarrassment to last for a life time! It was mortifying and it was only the beginning of the day! Even now, as she was facing the building, the two guards at the door were scenting the air and fixing her with heavy gazes.

She was sure that they knew. Was she really ready to walk in and confront everyone’s critical eyes? She wasn’t so sure anymore. At the moment, she was just praying that the Earth would crack open and swallow her whole to save her from anymore humiliation.


Kagome shook herself. Now wasn’t the time to turn around and run like a coward. It was too late. After all, she didn’t do anything wrong. It wasn’t like she had jumped on Sesshomaru to have the post! Now, as soon as she saw him, she would ask for his reasons for giving her the job. If it had anything to do with what happened between them, then she would leave to never come back. It was a promise she had done with herself to find the courage to be there today.

If she was sincere, she would say that if Sesshomaru’s reason to give her the job was because of their ‘intercourse’ then she would be severely disappointed. Not because she would have to abandon the job, even if it was the most important company in Japan, an experience unique, but she would be disappointed in him. She felt a sort of connection with Sesshomaru when they had shared the small space that was the elevator when she had no idea of who he was. It would mean that she had misjudged him greatly. Oh, she didn’t think that it meant anything more than what it was, a one night stand, but still, once the uneasiness passed, she was sure that she could work for and with Sesshomaru efficiently.

But before that, she had to survive the day. Yes, before the end of the day, she would make sure to have her answer…