Human Compensation

A/N: Hey, it's me again. I just thought I'd explain a little more about my story. This is an adult setting as you see, that's why I rated it R. Inuyasha and gang are a lot older with adult feelings, desires, and personalities. (Even though they still act like teenagers at times). You have been warned. Enjoy!
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Kagome gaped at the black convertible Inuyasha walked to.

“Are you getting in?” He asked.

“Oh, I’m sorry, I didn’t know we were having lunch together.”

Inuyasha gave her a strange look, but said nothing as they got into the car.

“Did Shippou tell you everything about this job?” He asked as they sped down the road.

“Well I thought he did,” Kagome said. “He said I would have to be like a secretary, receptionist and personal assistant.”

“He didn’t tell you everything,” Inuyasha said. “Never mind I’ll explain it to you when we arrive at the restaurant.”

Kagome eyes nearly bugged out when she saw what restaurant they were going to. She’d heard about The Plaza Restaurant. A place for only the rich youkai and humans to dine. They were immediately seated by the window. Kagome mouth nearly fell open at the prices on the menu. Everything was so expensive, even the drinks. Inuyasha ordered. He and the waiter stared at her as they waited for her to make up her mind. She ordered the broil chicken special. The waiter quickly took the menus away and left.

“Fast service here,” she said with a slight smile. “This place is nice. I’ve never been in a restaurant like this.”

Inuyasha took a sip from his drink while he studied Kagome. She was distracted by everything going on around her. He smiled a little. She was obviously new to all of this. He found himself wanting to know more about her. Then wondered why he was suddenly so interested. He shook his head. Well, she was his personal assistant, it was his job to get to know her since they would spending a lot of time together. Which brought him back to his discussion.

“Kagome,” he said to bring her attention back to him.

She turned to him and smiled.

Wow, she has a beautiful smile, Inuyasha thought. He cleared his throat. “Do you want to know the real reason why you’re getting paid so much to work for me?”

She nodded.

“You won't always be working in your office. There are times when I may need you to go on trips with me.”

Kagome frowned. Shippou never told her anything like that.

“Sometimes I may need you in the middle of the night. So, you always have to be ready because you never know when I may call you.”

“But Inuyasha, what could you be doing in the middle of the night?”

“Another thing, you’re not to ask questions. Just do as you’re told.”

‘What kind of job is this?’ Kagome thought.

“Have you ever been to this city before?”

“Once, a few years ago, I drove by with a couple of friends.”

“So you really don’t know much about it?”

“Well just the general stuff,” Kagome said.

“I see... It will be important for me to know where you live.”

“I haven’t picked out an apartment, yet. I just got here today. I checked in a hotel and came straight to work.”

“Well, maybe I can help you find an apartmenomewomewhere close to mine or maybe they have an empty apartment in my apartment complex.”

“I don’t understand why I have to live so closely to you,” Kagome said.

“Don’t you get it, yet? You’re going to be stuck to me like white on rice. You’re going to live and breathe me for as long as we’re working together.”

Kagome was beginning to have doubts about this job. ‘I should have asked Shippou more questions about it,’ she thought regretfully. “So, let me get this straight. You’re telling me we’re always going to be together, you may have to wake me up in the middle of the night, and I’m not suppose to ask questions? Just do as I’m told?”

“That’s right, you’re getting it,”yashyasha said.

Kagome suddenly gasped. She looked around quickly, then leaned forward. “You must be working for a secret organization created by the government!” She whispered excitedly.

Inuyasha nearly fell over in his seat. He choked on his drink.

Kagome took his actions as a yes. “I was right! Don’t worry, Inuyasha, your secret is safe with me,” she nodded seriously, then smiled, proud of herself for being smart enough to figure it out. ‘Wow,’ she thought. ‘I’m working for the government. That explains everything, my huge paycheck, the secrets, the close business relationship I’m going to have with Inuyasha...”

Inuyasha could only stare at her. It was best to let her think she was right, just to be safe.

Their food arrived a few minutes later. As they ate, Kagome couldn’t help but notice how good-looking Inuyasha was. His long white hair hung over his shoulders like thick silk. She wanted to touch it, to see if it actually felt like silk. And those beautiful, golden, eyes gave her little shivers every time he stared into hers. ‘Don’t go falling for your boss, Kagome. He’s so not your type.' She warned herself. She was still sore about the *B* word he’d called her earlier. First impressions weren’t that important to her, but Inuyasha had quickly changed her mind. So far she’d learned that he was rude, crude, impatient, short-tempered and demanding. How did he ever get such a high ranking job with his personality? She supposed working for the government was very strenuous on a person, that had to be the reason for his behavior.

“Where ya from, Kagome?” Inuyasha asked.

“A little town called Miko. Ever heard of it?”

Inuyasha shook his head. Actually, he’d been there a few times on business, but he didn’t want her to know.

“You’d like it. It’s very picturesque and homy.”

“Feh, how do you know what I like?”

“Oh,” Kagome laughed softly. “You’re right. I like it, but there’s not a lot of jobs there for people my age to make a decent living, that’s why I came here.”

Inuyasha snorted. She was so clueless.

“I didn’t ask Shippou a lot of questions about my job. I just jumped on it when hed med me about it, that’s how desperate I was. What exactly do you do? I mean, what is it you pretend to do so people won’t discover your secret?”

“We don’t pretend anything. We’re an investment company and we lend people money for their businesses or personal reasons, that’s our real business.”

“So you’re not working for the government?” Kagome asked.

“That’s all you’re suppose to know, Kagome,” Inuyasha said.

“Of course, I get it,” Kagome said with a knowing smile.

Inuyasha rolled his eyes. He felt a little guilty for deceiving the innocent girl, then wondered why he felt guilty? He had told her the truth. It was her own fault for having such a wild imagination.

‘But you didn’t bother to correct her so that’s just like lying,’ a tiny voice said in his head.

‘I lie to a lot of people. Why do I feel bad about it now?’ Inuyasha thought.

‘Cause you like her,’ the voice said.

‘Feh, I barely know her. She’s just a dumb girl with a py fay face.’

‘You want her, you know you do,’ the voice persisted.

‘So, I’m attracted to her, so what? Who the hell are you, anyway, and what are you doing in my head?!’

‘I’m your conscious, you idiot!’ The voice shouted sounding just like him.

‘My conscious? I didn’t know I had one....’

“Inuyasha,” Kagome said bringing him out of his thoughts. “I was wondering...why aren’t you dressed in the usual business attire? When you walked into my office, I thought you were just someone from off the streets.”

“I hate suits, ties and any other formal clothing. I can’t move around in them like I want to.”

“Oh, do you like your job?” Kagome asked curious now.

“I don’t like sitting in a stuffy office everyday and dealing with stupid clients.”

“Then why do you have it?”

“Because, I can’t have one without the other.”

“You have two jobs?”

“It’s the same job, it just have two different parts.”

“Oh, what’s the other part?”

“Let’s just say it a ‘hands on’ job, more my type.”

“And you like that one better?”

“A lot better.”

“What do you do at that job?”

“You ask too many questions,” Inuyasha said suddenly annoyed.

“Sorry,” Kagome said. She was still curious.

The waiter came back and asked them if they wanted desert.

“No thank you, I’m on a diet,” Kagome told him with a polite smile.

Inuyasha raised an eyebrow. “What are losing? Your common senses?”

Kagome didn’t know whether to take his remark as a compliment or an insult.

A pretty waitress with short black hair, dressed in a skimpy uniform, walked towards them.

“Hi, Inu, where you been? I haven’t seen you in a while,” she pouted completely ignoring Kagome.

Kagome watched as she smiled flirtatiously at Inuyasha and sat in his lap.

“Yura, you looking good as usual,” Inuyasha said with an arrogant smirk.

“I miss you and that pretty silvery hair of yours,” Yura said running her fingers through Inuyasha’s long hair.

Kagome didn’t know why, but seeing the little strumpet all over Inuyasha made her want to pull her off him and start a catfight in the middle of the restaurant.

“I’ve been busy, you know that,” Inuyasha said smoothly.

“Too busy to see me?” Yura pouted.

‘She sounds like a fake Marilyn Monroe,’ Kagome thought.

“Do I still get a tip? I know I’m not working your table, but I’ve been working so hard today and you’ve been depriving me of your company for a very long time. What’s a girl to do?”

She kept running her fingers through Inuyasha’s hair, while she spoke to him, over and over causing Kagome to grind her teeth in irritation. She wanted to do that. ‘Get her off of you, Inuyasha!’ She angrily screamed in her mind. ‘Whoa, what is going on here? I can not be jealous of this guy. I just met him plus I don’t even like him.’

Inuyasha pulled his wallet from his pocket, opened it and took a hundred dollars out. He slowly slid the bill down her bosom, between her luscious, well-developed, breasts and slowly slid his hand back out.

“Oooh,” Yura moaned. “Aren’t we naughty today?” She stuck her face in his hair, inhaled deeply, and rubbed a hand full of silken strands over her cheeks. “Umm, such lovely hair.” She finally stood up and winked at him. “See you tonight, hopefully.” Not waiting for a reply, she left.

Inuyasha turned to Kagome with a big, stupid, grin on his face and saw her giving him a disgusted look. He had the decency to blush a little.

“That was Yura, she has a hair fetish.”

“A hair fetish?” Kagome asked. “You have very strange friends.”

“Most demons are,” Inuyasha said.

“That girl was a demon? She looked so human.” Kagome asked surprised.

“Not all demons look like me,” Inuyasha said. “Some of them pass as humans until they reveal their powers.”

“Do you have any human friends?” Kagome asked.

“One,” Inuyasha replied.

“Who?”

“My mother.”

Kagome gasped. “You’re a half-demon? A hanyou?”

“You really don’t know anything do you? I suppose youkai don’t live in your town?”

Kagome blushed. “No, not really. Shippou was the first one I’ve ever talked to.”

“Feh! You know nothing, little girl. You were better off where you came from,” Inuyasha said pissed off at her naivety. How was she ever going to make it in his world? ‘Weak, naive, human, she won’t last a week here.’ The thought only made him angrier.