Spring Flower by tuffyluffy

Crash! Bang! BOOM!

Authors Note: Blah... I like to write in my spare time. x( I discovered Single Spark through many amazing writers @ fanfiction.net. I just would like to warn you guys that I will probably frequently upload more at @fanfiction.net. My username is the same here as in ff.net =) Jya!

Summary: SK It all started when Kagome literally crashed into Sesshoumaru's ordered world in a form of a rusty pink bike...

Story: Spring Flower

Chapter 1: Introduction: Crash! Bang! BOOM!

"Exactly, our investments are not progressing!" a calm pause rang through phone the person at the other end of line. The youkai's claws slowly etched into his desk. "You dare to question my skills in business. I was no Cumlnaude in Princeton for nothing." The quibble on the line was pure nonsense; his sensitive ears could not tolerate it. He was inches to pulling out his ear muffs to mute out the idiocy of his client. Kami knows how the members of his board saw this organization as an asset. Yet, he was entitled to review all the organizations that wanted support and vice versa.

He shook his head in dismay. "Kazu-san, I advise you to reread the agreement terms I sent to you via fax. Once you grasp the concept of our deal then we continue forth. I have already read the documents you sent through e-mail, but you are contradicting yourself. Make up your mind, if you fail to follow through. I will not hesitate to cancel our deal." The receiver increased with raucous, the youkai quickly ended the conversation.

"Good day." He hung up the phone.

Simply as that, he was strictly business and he had no time to hear constant rubbish from his clients. All his clients knew that he only wanted straight to the point statements to back up the points that were needed to show what their intent was. He wasn't rude for hanging up on his client but the amateur did not know that he was getting off topic and not-so-business like.

"Amateur," the cold youkai said. There was no room for clients that expressed their full fledged opinion on the phone. There were meetings for that, and the anger expressed through the receiver was another form of breaking business etiquette. He did not tolerate that.

"Petty humans drowned in their sea of emotions." He took out the stacks of documents from his inbox. "How pathetic." The youkai took a sip of his hot Starbucks coffee. He was nearly done with drinking the last drop of the chocolate looking liquid until he heard a quiet knock on his door.

"Enter, Miyako." He could smell the anxiety coming from the neko youkai.

Miyako courteously bowed and entered his office. Her soft padded steps made a 'clank clank' sound on Sesshoumaru's marble floors.

"You may sit," he addressed.

Miyako muttered a thank you to the influential youkai before her. He acknowledged her comment by nodding.

"Sesshoumaru-sama?" Miyako could feel the anxiety and fear rolling off of her, and this emotion was bad for the baby. She was surprised she felt a light kick from her midsection.

"Before you continue Miyako," Sesshoumaru stated. "Does this regard your leave?"

"Yes, Sesshoumaru-sama," Miyako quickly nodded. "With much difficulty, I have tried to go to work everyday, but next month is when I am going into labor. My doctor recommends that I should stay home for the next month. She says that work has strained me physically and emotionally on the baby."

Sesshoumaru saw the visible lump in her midsection. She gained weight, obviously. It took no mathematician to figure that out.

Her once visible cheek bones were now chubby from consuming food for the baby. Hopefully it was nothing of that Ben & Jerrys ice cream that he found on her desk that contributed to her gain of weight. If it was Sesshoumaru's pup, he would make sure his mate was limited from eating junk food.

As of now, he had no plans of getting a mate.

"Sesshoumaru-sama, I request if I can take leave with pay," Miyako said.

"It will be granted, but earlier this year you had the intent of using your leave to go to Cancun with your mate?" Sesshoumaru noted.

"Yes that was earlier this year Sesshoumaru-sama, but since my unexpected and joyful pregnancy I have decided to take a full month leave to rest for the baby." She responded with much vigor. "May I be granted the permission to use my 30-31 day leave and still receive pay for the month of my pregnancy?"

"I grant you permission. I will immediately change the period of your leave. I will assure you once you return everything will be in the norm. To fill in for your position, I will grab a one month intern to fill in your roll."

Miyako smiled with glee, she didn't expect the Sesshoumaru-sama to understand.

"Thank you Lord Sesshoumaru! Thank you! Thank you! Once Mimiru is born... she's going to thank you, too!" Miyako started to sob in emotion and laughed at the same time at the success of Sesshoumaru granting her leave.

She was expecting the inevitable from the formidable figure, but all her anxiety went away as he cleared her leave and allowed her to do this for her baby.

Youkai were very understanding when it came to the care of their pups. Miyako could only make out that this was a favor and silent thank you for all the trouble she had to go through as his secretary.

Her occupation was fun and she enjoyed fiddling with her Sony computer, but really she preferred US named brands like Dell and HP. Her job was stressful keeping up with the CEO's activities.

She was getting paid well and she loved her job, life, mate, and now unborn baby, Mimiru.

Sesshoumaru nodded at her joy and excitement, her emotions ran through her face. He never saw the neko youkai this happy. He really did push her when it came to keeping the annoying partners at bay, phone calls, and etc.

This was her break, and Sesshoumaru quite understood with the seriousness care for a pup. He was just helping another member of youkai society and increasing the population of the youkai that have fallen over the centuries. Still, the youkai race was still overpowered by the humans as the human population boomed throughout the world. There was still discrimination between both races, but there was unity in there somewhere in the bubble.

His business partners were human and youkai alike. Sesshoumaru still thought humans were pathetic for their visible weakness, but tolerated them at some level. He rarely respected some humans. He especially looked down at the corrupted who held no dignity and morals.

Sesshoumaru's company only allowed youkais to enter and work for him. Certainly he did have human partners, but in his company there were no humans.

They were all youkai.

He saw humans as a weakness and incapable to accomplish tasks as quickly as a youkai could. He could tolerate them, but he still disliked them.

"Thank you again, Lord Sesshoumaru!" She giggled and flirtatiously fluttered her eyes. Miyako's heels made the continuing 'clank clank' noise on Sesshoumaru's floor until she heard the youkai's voice.

"Wait, Miyako." Sesshoumaru calmly instructed in his usual tone.

She froze and stood there waiting for him to continue.

"You may leave once you finish filing those reports from each department and neatly placing them in my inbox" The dull tone in his voice alarmed the neko youkai. "And then you may take your leave." He put emphasis in his words.

Miyako nodded, "Yes, sir." 'That's so many damn reports...' she thought. She would have complained but she wouldn't risk getting mutilated with his venomous poison. 'Shit... I'm mad.'

Miyako politely bowed and let the anger loosen from her veins, he could tell that she was angry, but she didn't care. She briskly walked to the door, and softly closed the door behind her.

'It was necessary,' Sesshoumaru shook his head. He immediately noted to himself that he needed to officially approve and document Miyako's leave and communicate with the public affairs section to publicize the need for the interns to replace Miyako for the time being and other positions that needed to be filled in.

He continued to decline and sign parchments that needed his attention. Sesshoumaru, Lord of the Western Lands, continued to do this until 6:30 PM.

He was indeed a workaholic and still a renowned unmated youkai lord, but today he needed to get home early for Rin.

Sesshoumaru Haruka was indeed Japan's most eligible bachelor and a well respected youkai royalty. He was cruel and hard as a rock.

Sesshoumaru took life seriously.

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"Exactly see!" the raven haired young adult pointed at her white dirty laundry that was no longer white. "This is what happens when you forget to separate whites and colors, Souta!" Her voice was strained in frustration; her brother flinched at her sudden rush in anger.

"And... look! You not only discolored all my clothing but shrunk the t-shirt I ordered online!" She pouted and held the piece of cloth in her hands and shook it in his face. Her face scrunched at the foul scent coming from her so called 'clean laundry.'

"This was worth twenty U.S. dollars Souta. This beautiful piece of artwork was imported from THE United States!" The woman continued to rant on. "You don't know how difficult it was for me to read from that English site." She huffed and folded her shrunken sized t-shirt that could no longer fit her. The barabara logo was discolored with blotches of blue and pink.

"Jeez sis, I'm really sorry!" Souta begged for forgiveness. "I was listening, I did separate the whites and colors and made sure that the colored had to be in cold water and the whites had to be in hot water...one cycle..." His sister took hold of him and secured his arms behind his back. "Itai! Oneechan! I'm really sorry, Jeez!"

"Then why are there blotches of blue and pink everywhere, why did they shrink, and why do they most certainly smell like rotten eggs?" she interrogated.

"What?" he said with a clueless gaze.

"Look!" She flashed her contaminated, shrunken sized, and foul scented barabara t-shirt in front of her brother's face. "This was my favorite t-shirt Souta! Look at what you did! Didn't I tell you that my blouses needed to be hanged up?"

Souta shook his head. "No... I don't recall!"

"Yes you did you conniving little twerp!" She twisted his ears and Souta whelped in pain.

"OKAASAN! OJIICHAN!" Souta screamed with his battle cry. He was really hoping his mother and grandpa would come home ASAP and lock his sister in her cage.

"No you don't!" She clasped her hand over his mouth and Souta slowly tried to release himself from her grip.

"KAMI YOU'RE PULLING MY EAR OFF!" Souta made out with Kagome's hand over his mouth.

"No I'm providing the torture you deserve for ruining the ONLY t-shirt that I have ever bought ONLINE," Kagome retorted. "You know how illiterate I am when it comes to reading English. I am not a bilingual speaking human being."

"Not my fault you skip your English classes," Souta gasped for breath.

She twisted his ears even more and strengthened her arms around his neck.

"MERCY! MERCY!" He rasped in desperation. "Pretend I didn't say that!"

"What I can't hear you?" She innocently asked.

"MERCY! OH GREATFUL ONE!" Souta exclaimed with false passion.

His sister grinned like a Cheshire cat and continued to invade his soar earlobe.

"And?" She asked.

"I ... I .. WILL LISTEN NEXT TIME AND... AND," Souta gasped for air. " I'LL DO ALL YOUR CHORES!"

"Promise? A month sounds good." She questioned again. "If you don't follow your word, I'll just have to tell mom what happened to her white summer blouse she bought at Osaka..."

"NO... NO.... DON'T!" Souta begged. "A MONTH. FINE! I AGREE"

She continued to torture her young innocent brother, she enjoyed moments like this. She wasn't really all that mad about the loss of her barabara t-shirt that had a rose print that her favorite artist drew.

As always, she could never really get mad at her brother, except that time he invaded her privacy and read her diary! Really, the evil spawn from the gates of hell with the addition of blackmail could absolutely not be blended together or even come in contact.

She made sure Souta would not put his so called 'blackmail' into use in the form of her precious diary.

She had her resources to overpower HIS blackmail; she knew things he wouldn't want her to know. She definitely had pictures to prove it.

'I'm just so... good,' she mentally cackled in her mind at the victory of not having to do chores for a godforsaken month and scavenging the needed blackmail to keep her dear brother's mouth shut for eternity.

"KAGOME HIGURASHI!" she heard an alarming noise at the entrance of the kitchen door. "In the name of Kami! What are you doing to your brother!" Her mother gasped at the baskets of her once white laundry. It was currently contaminated with a variety of colors, especially the noticeable pink blotched blouse that belonged to the mother of the household.

Kagome stopped the torture and turned around to face her mother. She realized the horror that her mother recognized the 3000 yen blouse she bought at Osaka covered with irremovable pink blotches. She didn't expect her okaasan to come home so soon.

"MY BLOUSE! Who did this?" the anger in her mom's voice was evident.

"I can explain this... mother?" Kagome said.

True to her word Kagome Higurashi covered her brother and sucked in the breath that held her nervousness.

"Young lady you have a lot of explaining to do. Souta go up to your room. Kagome go to the living room."

Kagome gulped.

Even though she was a 20 year old she still felt intimidated by her mother.

She was so scary at times, but she loved her that way.

Kagome looked at the clock and noticed it was only 6 PM. She had to go to her job in two hours.

Hopefully, her and her mom's 'discussion' didn't last long. She had a long way to pedal to get to work, and if it was going to rain...

... she was seriously going to cry and get rained on. She proceeded to the living room and waited for her mother there.

She saw a glimpse of her grandfather with his broomstick sweeping the shrine and suddenly the broom was flung in the air ready to exterminate an ominous force.

"Evil youkai go away!" he grunted and waved his ofudas in the air.

'I guess some things just don't change...' Kagome thought and laughed at her grandfather's actions.

"Is that you Kagome-chan?" her grandpa's voice rang noting her sudden laughter.

"Hai, Hai" She chirped. "Ojiichan, ofudas can do nothing to harm a youkai, have you figured that out yet?" Kagome giggled. "You can't kill youkai with brooms either, Ojiichan. I thought you were smarter than that."

"Nonsense," he stopped his chanting ," Younger generations these days." He muttered not making his voice audible.

"You have to believe!" His raspy voice rang through the hallways. "Kagome-chan, don't forget to fix your brakes before you go. I believe you told me you broke them, yesterday."

"Hai, Hai," she lazily responded. "I bought a new chain and all yesterday."

"Alright, child," he responded. "This old man will be keeping the spirits at bay. I will secure the perimeter of these blasted youkai dwellings!"

Her grandfather left the house and proceeded to do as he said, secure and bless the perimeter.

Lazily, Kagome comfortably recoiled into the soft couch until she saw her mother come into the living room sobbing. The tissue held in her hand the whimpers erupted from her chest.

Her relaxation ended and the muscles in her abdomen tensed.

"Kagome-hun, we need to talk." Her mother choked.

"Okaasan, what's wrong? Are you sad... mad... about the blouse?" Kagome asked.

"No Kagome it's not that... I don't know how to tell you this but...," her sobs increased and the puffiness in her eyes was evident. "I sold the shrine. We are moving out next week."

Kagome was in disbelief.

"Mama you didn't!" She wailed. "This is too sudden! You don't know how much this means to papa! WHY! WHY! THIS IS OUR HOME!" She yelled which was so unlikely for her to get angry.

"You don't understand...," she responded, she lightly used her tissue to dab her tears.

"What do you mean I don't understand? I am a 20 year old woman supporting you, Souta, and Grandpa!" Kagome retorted. "I balance college and my part time jobs to support this shrine, pay for Souta's tuition, and you and the whole family." Kagome shook her head to brush away the tears. It was frustrating, this shrine was her home. She placed her hands over her eyes to hide the pain. Her face was turning slightly red from her anger and sorrow.

"I need to go," Kagome said and immediately exited the room. "I don't want to be late for work." She suddenly grabbed her bag, money, and keys.

Without giving a glance at her mother she rushed to the door and entered into the garage to grab her mode of transportation.

Her pink bike.

She unlocked the chain that kept it together with the pole; Kagome placed the chain into her yellow back pack and zipped it shut.

Kagome sat on her bike and swiftly pedaled her way to work at Tokyo's exclusive Club Kagami. On her route to work, she wasn't optimistic as usual. The bottled up anger and sorrow effortlessly trickled down her face.

From the window of the shrine, Kagome's mother watched her daughter pedal away.

She didn't understand.

She sobbed even more, Kagome's mother felt a soft touch on her shoulder.

"You told her, Ruki-chan?" he grumpy old man softly asked.

Ruki nodded her head with her sobs.

"There's was nothing we could do, sweetie," her father said. "She'll understand, but now is not the time."

"I know," She whimpered. "There was nothing we could do."

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As he scheduled his day, he stopped looking through his inbox. He looked at his Rolex watch and it read 6:30 PM, the hands on his watch continued to tick.

If traffic was nice to him he would be home about 7:35 PM, and allow him to assist Rin with her project she begged him to help her for the past week. He looked at his planner and made sure his world was flowing correctly. Sesshoumaru made sure he accomplished all the important and needed tasks that needed to be completed that day.

May 30, 2006. Agenda.

10:00 AM Meeting with CEO of Maikuron. Check.

12:00 PM LUNCH. Check.

1:00 PM Personally speak to all Chiefs of respective sections. Check.

3:00 PM Check and Review Reports. Check.

... and the list went on.

He closed all the lights in his office, and secured all his items and locked them up. He exited his private floor and entered is private elevator. His floor was at the top that gave a clear view of Tokyo and a throng of people below him. The sun was slowly setting down and he admired the scenery.

His profile faced the sun light and his deep amber eyes were glassy and determined with vigor. His silver mane effortlessly flowed down to his knees, but he neatly tied it to keep it from getting in the way. His body was tucked in with the finest silks and adorned with the top quality fashion lines. Today, he wore a black pinstripe Armani suit that defined every inch of his body.

His high cheek bones and strong defined features made him more alluring and exotic to the women of Japan and across the world. To his distaste he was a celebrity and dubbed as a sex symbol among his fans. He was the most desirable and wanted, yet he was not interested in having a mate. Some tabloids made accusations that he had a gay lover.

He leaned back on the metallic wall until he heard a 'ding.' As the doors opened he was greeted with a bow from the valet, but he merely nodded and proceeded to his ride.

Sesshoumaru unlocked his new 2006 Black Cadillac Escalade, he nodded at the valet. The valet took this as an order to immediately open the exit, and so he did.

Sesshoumaru sped away, nodding at the bear youkai as he left to return home.

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Kagome pedaled as fast as she could and the tears flowed down her pale face, she tried her best to balance herself. She really needed to get to Club Kagami, before customers started to roll in. If she wasn't there Jakotsu would kneed her like bread and dice her into pieces and kneed her together again.

Drip Drip Drip

It started to rain and her clothes were soaked and she didn't have a jacket to cover her body. Luckily, in her locker at Club Kagami there was an extra spare of clothing she left there in one shift.

This was such a worse case scenario.

Drip Drip Drip

Sesshoumaru took his usual route making sure he was on a safe speed, for some reason it just started to rain. He didn't want to skid, and die in his escalade. If he died, his death would be the most embarrassing and a disgrace on his royal bloodline.

Drip Drip Drip

Kagome shivered from the cold and the tears continued to fall, she accelerated and did not take heed of the slippery road. She pedaled harder and drove her anger into physical strength.

Drip Drip Drip

The traffic light turned red and Sesshoumaru grew very impatient. Looking at the clock in the Escalade, it brightly glowed in green it read 6:40 PM. He saw the traffic ahead of him, and he immediately tried to grab his cell phone from its stand to call Rin. With not much finesse he accidentally tugged it, and his cell phone dropped to the carpet covering. This angered Sesshoumaru, because he had to take his eye off the wheel and get it from the floor.

Drip Drip Drip

Kagome stared at her watch and it read 6:41 PM, she needed to hurry Jakotsu was going to literally kneed her over. She needed the money, badly. If she added her savings and scraps of money she kept around her room... maybe she could convince her mom to buy the shrine back.

Drip Drip Drip

Sesshoumaru finally retrieved his global Nokia phone and dialed a call to Rin; his phone read 1842 in military time. The traffic light finally turned green, and he slowly made a right turn to avoid skidding on the sharp turn.

Drip Drip Drip

Taking in every minute of her watch she gazed at the two hands that landed on 6:42 PM. She needed to get there faster, she pedaled harder. She was confident that she could make the sharp left turn.

Instead, she lost control of her bike.

Kagome panicked and immediately clutched her brakes, but she remembered her brakes were broken from the day before.

"Kagome-chan, don't forget to fix your brakes before you go. I believe you told me you broke them, yesterday."

Herself on her bike; she skid off the sidewalk and crashed head on into a black vehicle on the road.

She lost conscious and blacked out. Kagome did not directly impact with her body, but her bike was destroyed, as so was the vehicle.

Drip Drip Drip

Sesshoumaru saw a flash of pink, black, and yellow blur his vision the occurrence was fast as he slowly turned right. The rain made it sort of difficult for him to see. He was multi-tasking, calling Rin on his cell phone, and simply driving. He felt a sudden impact on the right side of his car.

If there were any damages on his new ride, he would make sure there would be reparations for the person who caused the injury to his car.

He stopped and parked his car in the middle of the road. The cars behind him started to blow their horns at him.

Sesshoumaru did not care; he would fine the culprit who injured his ride.

He stepped out of his car and the people behind him recognized who he was.

He was the Lord Sesshoumaru. Human and Youkai alike knew who he was. They stopped their beeps and buzzes.

Sesshoumaru looked at the right side of his Cadillac Escalade and saw an unconscious human girl with blood oozing from the right side of her face.

He immediately took out his cell phone and dialed 119. Sesshoumaru could still feel that the human was still alive.

"We need an ambulance on the corner of Kiriku Michi," Sesshoumaru commanded. "Yes. My name?' He paused.

"Sesshoumaru Haruka, a girl just crashed into my Escalade with her pink bike," he snapped.

He noticed the dent and closed his phone.

It read 1845 PM or 6:45 PM.

Sesshoumaru was angry, he was going to make this girl pay.

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Author's Note : I hope you like the new story!

Just FYI –

119 – Is Japan's emergency number. Not 911 in the states

Club Kagami means Club Mirror. Correct me if I am wrong.

Michi – Street

Bara – rose

Please review I would like to hear what you guys have to say! )