InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ ~Melodic Memory~ ❯ Chapter 13 ( Chapter 13 )

[ X - Adult: No readers under 18. Contains Graphic Adult Themes/Extreme violence. ]

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~Melodic Memory

Chapter 13


Friday afternoon-

Kagome was so tired and weary from working out she thought she just might pass out. Sango's workouts were fast paced and exhausting. They had just spent an entire hour in martial arts class, one that Sango excelled in quite well. Kagome on the other hand was never one for hand to hand combat, well that's what she considered it. Sango raced into the bathroom, removing her socks and sweat pants during the hobble towards it.

"Geez Sango, yah know with your aerobics techniques you could kill someone."

"What you don't like my martial arts classes?" She yelled from the bathroom.

Kagome frowned, "No", she said quietly. She chugged eagerly on her half empty water bottle.

"I think I better go now Sango, it's close to evening and I'd like to get some work done before I hit the sack."

"Okay...Oh, wait a sec!" She yelled back.

Sango came running in from the bathroom into her room with just a towel on. Her hair was whipped up into a large bun that sat on the top of her head with little tendrils escaping the sides of her face. She came back into the living room with a large white box under her arm.

"This is for you, it's for tomorrow night...but don't open it until you get home okay?" "Promise okay?!"

"Okay promise, well, thank you Sango?"

"Thank me later Kagome." She said as she walked lazily back into the shower.

"Okay well I will email you tonight okay, bye!"

"Bye!"

Kagome nearly crumpled at the stairs of her apartment building, she was exhausted from the workout and ready for a shower and a nap. She placed the box on her dresser and took a nice long hot shower. She stayed within the confines of her shower for more then an hour, enjoying the hot beads of water beat down her neck and back. After her fingers began to prune she decided it best to get out. She pulled on her favorite Hello Kitty pajamas, the same set she wore at Sesshomaru's house, just placing them on made her think of him and his wonderful touch. She reminisced about his tender kisses on her throat, the whispers against her ear lobes. Shivers ran through her with her seductive thoughts. She laughed aloud like a giddy school child. She felt like one too. As she looked over for her slippers her eyes became heavy with sleep. Before she even hit the bed she was out. Sleeping peacefully.

Friday evening-

Sesshomaru entered the grand Taisho house with all it's splendor in more or less a drab mood. Bound and determined to speak with his half brother regarding the very important issues at hand, he knew it wasn't going to be pretty, nor would it be even the slightest bit entertaining. Inuyasha was angry and he knew the last person he would want to see would be him. But he also knew that there would be repercussions if Inuyasha would not come today, he knew he'd be there. Sitting in the foyer like always, huffing and sighing loudly until he arrived.

And there he was, sitting in their father's old chair watching the world turn slightly darker shades of red and orange in the setting sky. As Sesshomaru entered Inuyasha lifted his head towards the door.

"Your late, your actually late. Kagome must have done something to you, because I've never known you to be late." He said seriously, all haste and vengeance removed from his voice. More like contempt and ridicule. Sesshomaru was not use to such behavior.

"Kagome had nothing to do with it little brother."

"Keh"

That was an expected Inuyasha remark. Sesshomaru eased at the sound, he knew he was upset and knew what was coming.

"So yah wanna tell me why the hell you asked me here, and in such a threatening manner, I'll have you know I don't need your fucking money!"

"Well if that is true why are you here?" He couldn't resist playing alittle fun.

"Look I make plenty of money on my own you got it!"

"Oh and I'm sure the penthouse you now reside in and the car you drive...and lest we forget the monthly allowance, all merely pocket change Inuyasha?"

Inuyasha gripped the chair tightly, squeezing the last remnants of cushion beneath it's worn leather exterior.

"Look, I told you I would talk to you now what do you want?!"

"Only to talk with you little brother...as of late you've caused some mischief, mischief that has come to my attention due to the Taisho name and it's companies becoming plastered all over the newspapers. I am sure you are aware of this are you not?"

"Heh, yah so what, it's only about me."

"It's not only about you, it's about our family name Inuyasha, you are a member of the company like I am, and whatever is said or heard about you reflects upon the company. The news of late is nothing to be proud of, and it does not reflect well on the company."

"Will you cut the fucking crap Sesshomaru! I'm not one of your business collegues that you can talk down to!"

"If you had half the integrity they have I might start speaking to you like you want me to, but until you grow up and start acting like a mature adult these are the mannerisms in which I shall speak to you in!" Sesshomaru yelled loudly at him.

"Look Sesshomaru, I don't give a fuck what you think about the newspapers, fuck the newspapers, what the hell do they know?!"

"A whole lot considering the owner of that bar you decided to yell at told all to the papers, you are a disgrace upon the family name! Father would be so displeased with what you've become!"

"And what about you Sesshomaru, can't find his own woman, has to bang his brother's old girl!"

Sesshomaru slapped him firmly across his face, he didn't even see it coming, it silenced him immediately, he was thrown back against the chair.

"Inuyasha...I did not come here to fight like little children, I wanted to come here to explain to you that if the company means anything to you that you would assist in keeping it's good name and keep your personal affairs away from the public, I only want to attempt to be your brother and try to salvage a lost bond."

"A lost bond...fuck you, who are you kidding? Maybe if you weren't sleeping with Kagome I might have considered, but now...no way!"

"I am not sleeping with Kagome, I don't understand you, you had your choice, Kagome told me herself, you chose Kikyou, what? Now that Kikyou has lost interest in you, you think you can just go back to her?!" "How selfish!"

"No it's not like that! I...I made a MISTAKE!!"

"Yes well...Inuyasha for Kagome it was too little too late."

Inuyasha growled, he was seething.

"Your in love with her aren't you?!"

Sesshomaru said nothing, only looked away at the ever darkening sky beyond the window.

"Go on...ADMIT IT!!! I know you are, I can see it, it's all over your face!"

"Inuyasha, I only ask for you to cool your temper and try to remember your fathers company and how much he did for us."

"You still haven't answered me..." Inuyasha rose from the chair..."it's okay...I already know, your silence is all the answer I need."

"Inuyasha...please...I would like to make amends with you.."

"That. Sesshomaru, will never happen." Inuyasha began to walk away.

"Oh and Sesshomaru, as for our fathers' company I'll take what you said into consideration, but as to us ever becoming brothers or even friends, that will never happen."

Sesshomaru watched as he left the mansion. He was relieved to hear him take the main reason he came to the mansion into consideration. That was all he really cared about. It didn't matter one damn bit if he didn't want to become closer siblings. Sesshomaru never cared he was only offering for Mr. Tokugawa. That crazy old man, he thought, thinking Inuyasha and I could ever be more then enemies.

Friday, late evening-

Kagome woke to a very dark room and a small electronic noise from the living room. She stretched out and lifted her arms in the air.

"Whoa, how long did I sleep for?" She asked aloud. She looked at the clock, 10 p.m. She slept for a few hours. She began to rise from the bed when she hear the sound again. It was her computer, she had mail, urgent mail.
Kagome turned on the lights in the house and pulled her hair into a pony tail and walked into the kitchen to fetch some tea. When she turned her monitor on she was astonished by the email amount, 20 emails, one from Sango, 19 from Inuyasha. She sighed aloud.

"Just what I need, Inuyasha bugging me again."

Kagome deleted all of them without looking at them, chanting in her head that it was better this way and that no confusion was better then more confusion. She rose from the computer sipping her oolang tea with milk and headed into the bedroom to grab her slippers, suddenly noting that the tiled floor was very cold. As she turned on the light to find them the white box from earlier caught her eye. She remembered Sango giving it to her and promising not to open it until she got home.

"Well might as well see what she got me."

As she pulled the white box top off, red chiffon and satin shown through the white tissue paper, Kagome gasped in shock, she knew exactly what it was, she recognized it immediately! The red dress from the boutique shop the other day. Kagome couldn't believe it.

"No wonder she had me promise her to not open it until I got home, she's a very bad girl!" She thought. It was so expensive and beautiful, how could she ever repay her she thought. She noticed alittle note in the box.

To Kagome,

A special dress for a special girl. Every girl should have a little red dress.

Have a wonderful evening.

To my best friend with love,

Sango

Kagome could have cried right on the dress. She wanted to call Sango right now and make her take it back, explain to her how unworthy of it she truly was. But she knew in the end Sango would refuse, she had probably burned the receipt already anyways. Sango was prone to doing such things. Kagome gently hung up her new dress and threw away the box in the trash. Just as she closed the lid to the trash the door bell rang. She bolted up.

"Sesshomaru she thought!" She smiled and ran to the door.

As she opened it she caught his silver hair waving in the night breeze and she ran into his embrace.

"Sesshomaru!"

"I'm sorry, your wrong." A very sad voiced Inuyasha answered.

Kagome gasped. She looked up into his warm yet sad eyes.

"Inuyasha! Wh...what are you doing here?" She mumbled.

He still held onto her tightly as if letting go of her might end his life. She let him, she felt his pain, despite herself and all she had said she couldn't resist him now, she felt slightly sorry for him, being in his place so many times before. "And to think I should enjoy his pain so much?" She thought. But instead all she felt was pity. She was jolted from her thoughts when he sighed in her hair.

"Oh Kagome..please..don't send me away, please talk to me?" He asked in desperation. His words stung like a thousand wasps, she didn't want to let him in, letting him in, meant feeling something, and she didn't want to feel any of him ever again. But she caved.

As if by some strange occurance of luck on his part, the clouds grew darker in the night sky and the rain began to fall.

"Okay...come in."

He nodded and walked in cautiously. He sat down on the couch, Kagome kept her distance and sat in the chair across from the sofa. He looked at her solemnly, with those amber colored puppy dog eyes that could make any girl melt. But all Kagome could think of was Sesshomaru and how wrong it felt for him to be here. She felt as if she was cheating somehow. Inuyasha kept looking but no words escaped his lips.

"Well Inuyasha, you wanted to talk, I am here to listen."

"Sorry, it's hard, I guess I don't know what to say now."

Kagome sighed, she was getting over this rather quickly, she was becoming quickly agitated with the situation.

"Look you came over here, told me you wanted to talk, so now I'm listening and you have nothing to say?!"

"No no no...calm down, I do." He said calmly and almost with a hint of maturity, dare she think of it as that.

"I spoke with Sesshomaru today, I don't know if you heard what happened..."

"Yes I know, not only did Sango tell me, but you did a pretty good job on your own of letting all the newspapers know."

"Yeah well, I was alittle overzealous."

"Overzealous?!" "Inuyasha I think it goes further then that!" "For Kami's sake we are not 18 anymore, your a grown man, you should be acting like an adult! That kind of behavior is to be expected out of a teenager."

"I know I know. I've made some mistakes but..."

"So why did Kikyou break up with you?"

"Uhh.." "She said I still loved you, she couldn't stand hearing me complain about how you were now dating Sesshomaru."

"I'm sorry you had to find out that way.."

"Kagome...why?"

"...."

"Why are you dating Sesshomaru?"

"It just happened, thats all, and...and it's for the best Inuyasha...he treats me right, he's good to me. Far better then his brother thats for sure!"

"Look I know I've made some mistakes but..."

"Mistakes? Mistakes? Is that what your calling them now? Well look people make mistakes Inuyasha, but yours, well, it was cruel and unusual punishment for me, and I'm sorry but I cannot accept these as mistakes, you knew full well how I felt about you, but you used me, I was there whenever your newest endeavor wasn't working out. I know in the begining, in high school when we were friends it was okay, I think maybe then you might have truly loved me, but the money, the greed, the selfishness got to you, and all you wanted was satisified. Such an insatiable hunger you have Inuyasha. And now after all you've put me through you come back here to tell me it was all a mistake!"

"Kagome, I'm sorry, I do love you...more then anything or anyone in this world!" "Please! Won't you give me another chance?!"

"Another chance?! What about Sesshomaru, do you expect me to just leave him? Have you even considered his feelings?!"

"Fuck Sesshomaru, he's a pompous ass!"

"No Inuyasha, your the pompous ass. Now go home, you can't possibly expect me to drop everything for you, I did that for far too long. I love you too as my cherished friend, and that is all."

Inuyasha looked up, the want and need in his eyes more then ever. He was on the verge of tears. Kagome walked over to him and placed his head against her stomach, he lay there slipping his arms around her waist. She knew it was wrong but it was natural for her to be the nuturer.

"Kagome I didn't know...I didn't know what I was doing, I was a fool."

"Inuyasha I know, but now is not the time, you need to calm yourself and think...on your own, please Inuyasha, it's time for you to go home."

Kagome relased her grasp on his head, she moved his bangs from his face and kissed his forehead.

"Kagome?"

"What."

"Can I ask you one question?"

"What?"

"Do you love him?"

"...I don't know Inuyasha, I don't know. But I do know that if you would like to salvage what might be left of our friendship then I want you to go home and get some sleep, I want you to think about all this. And remember I will continue to be your friend, but I can never be with you again."

Inuyasha was upset, very upset now that things weren't going his way. He hadn't really expected them to, just wished it would be so. He motioned for the door quietly. Kagome was surprised she didn't have to cause a screaming match in the hallway with him. He was calm and solemn. It looked as if he had no fight left in him.

"Please think about what I've told you... I know I haven't been much of anything lately, but if there's any chance Kagome, any semblance of what you felt for me, I want to exist upon that. I love you, more then I really knew until now."

"Well, I guess I will hopefully see you soon. Goodnight."

"Goodnight Inuyasha."

Kagome closed the door, she watched from the window as he got into his car and pulled out rather quickly and sped down the road. Finally a little familiar behavior from him. Kagome was sad, all the years she yearned to hear him say such things, yet now, when it meant nothing. Or did it? She was so confused. So many emotions and thoughts running through her mind.

"Always saying things too late Inuyasha, always at the wrong time!!!" She yelled.

"Why! Why did you have to say anything!!!!"

Kagome began to cry, she walked to her bedroom and cried alone in her bed. Soon she fell alsleep, wet tears still streaking the curves of her face.

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Okay so I felt my little muse come by and she told me to write more! So I did!

And some props go out to Aska19- thank you soo much for your wonderful comment! So nice! Thank you!









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