The job by blackrosewitch

Prologue

Prologue

A twenty-five year old Higurashi Kagome sat in the weekly morning meeting at the corporation where she worked. Her boss was saying that there were a few new employees in her department, starting today. They were supposed to come in during lunch to see her, receive a tour of the office and their new offices.

The meeting was adjourned shortly after, not much had been discussed, just the new employees. Kagome returned to her office, to get as much of her work done before the new employee's showed up. She was surprised when twenty minutes after she had started working, her secretary buzzed her, informing her that the new staff had shown up early.

Kagome sighed and stood up, stretching. She had been up late the previous night, thinking about a life she had thought she left far behind her. Though for some reason, she had been thinking about it more and more often lately. It bothered her because she hadn't thought about her past for the longest time, and now it was all she could think about in her free time and even sometimes during work.

Kagome sighed again and walked out her office door. She stopped short when she saw two men standing next to her secretary's desk. It wouldn't have been that big of a deal except they looked incredibly alike. Both men had unusual features. One, the older looking of the two, that she assumed was probably not much older than herself, had spiky hair that looked like it would be almost shoulder length when down. It wasn't that unusual, except for the color. It was an exceptionally light blonde.

The other man, who looked to be a few years younger, had hair that was the same color, only longer. His hair almost went down to the middle of his back.

Kagome blinked and looked again, and for an instant their hair looked an eerie white color, a color she hadn't seen in many years. She blinked again, and it was the light blonde color again. She shook her head a little, and passed off the white color due to the lightness of the hair to begin with and her overactive imagination recently.

She realized she was staring at their hair and looked somewhere else, their eyes. The older man had blue eyes, oddly tinted gold. The younger man had light brown eyes. Even in the office lighting, their eyes looked almost golden, and she was certain that in the sunlight, they would look purely golden. She mentally shook her head at her nostalgic thinking. But she still couldn't help but think of their odd resemblance to men she had known in her past, that she wanted to leave in her past.

Kagome shook her head again and extended her hand in greeting to the men. "Hello, my name is Higurashi Kagome. I assume you are the new employee's in my department?" she asked.

The taller of the two men nodded his head and was about to accept her hand, but he was interrupted before he could. "Well, they are two of them," a female voice said.

Kagome looked towards the voice and saw two women wearing business suits standing there. One had golden blonde hair that went a little past the middle of her back, hazel eyes, and looked to have quite a few muscles on her five foot nine body. Her black business suit was immaculate as was her hair, but what caught Kagome's eye was how the woman stood. She was in a modified defensive stance. Kagome put that in the back of her mind to think on later.

The other woman had flame red hair that went to the middle of her shoulder blades, sky blue eyes, and a slightly smaller frame than the other woman. She wore an extremely expensive black business suit that looked like she had just taken the tags off that morning.

"I am Tennyo Kat," said the blonde, "and this is Aozora Jade," she said motioning to the red head.

Kagome looked at them confused. "Tennyo and Aozora. I recognize the names, but your application's had different first names," she said, leaving her real inquiry unsaid, but it was plain to see what she wanted to know.

"We do have different names. We just don't use them unless we have to," Jade said.

Kagome nodded, but was interrupted by someone clearing their throat. She looked back to the two men, slightly embarrassed about forgetting them. "Gomennasai. You two are also new employees?" she asked. The shorter man snorted and crossed his arms. The other man looked like he wanted to hit him, but instead nodded in response to her question.

"I see. Gomen, but I only went through part of the applications. Could you please tell me your names?" she asked.

"I am Inutaisho Desumasuku," the taller one said, slightly bowing his head in mild respect. The other man just stood there with his arms crossed over his chest until Inutaisho nudged him in the arm.

He looked at Inutaisho with a mix of malice and forced respect. "I'm Inutaisho Hitori," he said, following the other man's lead, and bowed his head.

Kagome looked a little surprised. "You two are brothers?" she asked, pointing between the two of them.

Desumasuku looked at her. "Half. Will there be a problem with that?" he asked.

Kagome shook her head. "No, I just won't be able to call you by your family name, that's all," Kagome said, smiling at them.

"If you'll follow me, I can show you around the building and show you to your offices," Kagome offered, turning to walk down an aisle of cubicles.

All four nodded and followed her towards the far end of the level, Kagome explaining things as they walked and answering questions. Occasionally she would stop to talk to a few other employees and then move on.

Translations of their names: Tennyo: heavenly nymph or celestial maiden; Aozora: blue sky; Desumasuku: death mask; Hitori: alone