InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Cold Fire ❯ Separate ( Chapter 12 )

Separate

 

 

 

Inuyasha stood over the stove. The sound of frying bacon echoed through the kitchen. Kagome sat at the island counter drinking some strong brewed coffee. It had been a tiring night for both of them; there was hardly any sleep. After eating Kagome's Mac and cheese, they had gone back to bed and made love over and over. Inuyasha placed a plate in front of Kagome with eggs bacon and Toast before sitting on the stool beside her. He was shirtless in shorts while Kagome was parading around in one of his t-shirts. Sango came down the stairs in a pinstriped black pantsuit. She looked rather professional. She glided into the kitchen and stopped short.

“ Oh. Ya'll are up. I'm impressed; I thought ya'll would be knocked out for the rest of the day seeing how the two of you went at it last night. How I slept it's a wonder. Did you get any sleep? “ She inquired nosily.

“ Sango. Aren't you late for work?”

“ Oh, I forgot to tell you. I was reassigned. I'm going to be working in the lab now. No more digging up of rocks for me. Well at least for a while. Like my suit?” She spun daintily on her stiletto heels. Kagome, who had the mug to her mouth flashed her a quick thumbs up. Inuyasha nodded slowly. Sango walked over to the fridge after being satisfied with the response. She pulled it took out a pop tart. “ I'll catch some food at work. Ya'll don't kill yourself ok? And Kagome, some honey and lime would be good for your throat. I'm sure its sore from all that screaming.” She smiled and bounded out of the kitchen. Kagome stared at her as she left. How did she know she had a sore throat? She hadn't said a word but good morning since she woke. Smiling, she turned to Inuyasha, sleepy eyed and all. Inuyasha looked at her. Her hair stuck out in places she had slept on and it was frizzy all around. There were faint darkness under her eyes from lack of sleep, or it could have been her eyeliner smudge. She was drowning in his shirt and her long sleek legs flowed from under the shirt to hover above the ground. Inuyasha felt a twinge. He was steadily being aroused, even though she was in that dishelved condition. She yawned to show off all her molars. She hadn't said anything to him except morning since she woke. He decided to test Sango's theory.

“ You want me to make you that honey and lime mix?”

She nodded slowly but her eyes smiled. So her throat was busted! “ Your throat is bothering you much?” She nodded again. “ Since when?”

“ I think it was round three in the morning, on our 4th round.”

He was shocked. Her voice had been reduced to nothing more than a dry whisper. It sounded like a rouge wind blowing over dry leaves. He should have noticed her voice going hoarse but his memory was blurred.

“ Why didn't you say something to me?”

“ Didn't really care. And I didn't want you to worry.”

He turned to the cupboard that held the jar of honey and took a lime from the fruit basket. After combining them, he gave her a small amount in a teacup. She tasted it experimentally as he reclaimed his seat beside her.

“ Ewww. Its nasty.”

“ What does it taste like?”

“ Its too sweet but too sour at the same time.” She stuck her tongue out in distaste. Inuyasha chuckled and turned to his breakfast that was steadily getting cold. Kagome down the rest of the potion and turned back to her breakfast. She could have sworn he was lost in the TV that was playing the morning news until he spoke to her.

“ My mom was the most amazing woman ever.”

“ Huh?” She was genuinely confused.

“ Yesterday, you asked me about my parents.” He paused. Kagome munched on a bacon strip. Taking her hint, he continued. “ She always took care of me and even when I didn't understand why the villagers treated me so cold, she was always there to comfort me.”

“ Villagers?” Her voice was regaining some of its normality.

“ I'm native to Japan just like you are. I lived in a small town up north, far from Tokyo. Anyways, it turns out my Dad was an elite royal from England and the people feared and disliked him. According to my mom, he did some evil deeds to the village but stopped when he fell in love with her. He died when I was two and the only thing I have to remember him by is the sword he was knighted with in England when he became an elite royal. The Tetsigua. The people in my village scorned me because I was half and half. Half Japanese and half British. The children teasingly called me a hanyou which basically meant half human, half demon.”

“ So You and Sango—“

“ No, Sango was spared. She was living with our father in England the whole time until he died, then she lived with his brother. It was when my mother decided to move to America I first met her. We were almost 5. Our mom died when we were 12 and were basically charity cases until I was 16 when I got a job and tried to support us. We did get help from our Father's inheritance, which I used to buy this house and start the restaurant. And here we are now.”

Kagome thought of her father and how comfortably she had lived after his death. She had had the privilege of having both parents while Inuyasha hadn't. She never had to fend for herself while he had and yet still, she was spoilt rotten while he was happy and never gloomy. How did he do it?

“ This was all recent?”

“ What, my business and the house? Yeah. About 3 or 4 years now.”

“ And you are successful and happy?”

“ Yeah basically.”

Kagome jumped off the stool and ran up the stairs. Inuyasha, not sure of what was happening, hesitantly followed. When he entered his room, he saw her pulling on her clothes and grabbing up her stuff. She pat down her hair and walked past him as if he wasn't there. He held on to her hand as she passed him.

“ What the hell?”

“ Lemmie go. I'm going home.”

“ Why? I don't understand.”

“ Just take your fucking hand off me before I spit in your shitty face!” Her voice was still hoarse but she sounded even more threatening that usual.

He let her go and watched her run down the stairs. He followed to see her turning his living room upside down. He stood at the base of the stairs and crossed his arms watching her. She was muttering. “ Keys… keys… keys. Where are my goddamned keys?!” She made a 360 turn before she rushed over to the TV. She scooped up what appeared to be her car keys and ran out the front door without so much as a later. He would make her boil before he attempted to find out what went wrong.

 

 

“ How could he?!” Kagome shouted to herself in her car. The engine shifted gears and accelerated more as she pressed the gas pedal. “ He made a fool of me! Had me talking out about how he doesn't know how I feel when he had it worse off than me! I'm not some charity case! “ She felt a heat rise in her throat. No way in hell was she gonna shed any tears for that mongrel, half breed! “ He pitied me! He pitied me when he was worse off! I feel like shit.” She choked a sob before lifting her foot off the pedal. She slowed to a stop at an intersection. She had no idea where she was driving, she was just driving. She put her head on the steering wheel. What was she going to do now? She hated him for not confiding in her. She hated him for telling her the truth. She hated him for treating her they way he had. She hated that those were all the same reasons she loved him. She remembered vividly telling him she did. She highly regretted it. “ Dad…daddy. What should I do?” Her response came in a cacophony of loud horns and blares from the traffic she was holding up. Her dad wasn't there for her. In a time when she needed him most, he wasn't there.

 

`What kind of story do you want to hear?”

` A princess story.'

` Ok. Pull up your covers and listen.'

` You can't read without a book daddy.'

` With this story I can. I know it by heart. Now listen…' Her father spun a tale of a beautiful princess who had everything her heart desired. She had love and was the most cherished princesses in the world.

` Where is this princess now?'

` She should be sleeping now.'

`What's her name. Does she have a name?'

` Kagome Higurashi.'

` Me?'

` Yes you. Now go to sleep. We need to sleep so we can visit mommy in the hospital tomorrow.' He kissed her and stood to leave the room.

` Daddy?”

` Yes princess?'

` I love you very very much. I love you for ever.'

` You know I love you Kagome. Princess.'

 

 

Kagome began to drive again. Her face was wet with tears for her father, that's what she told herself. She missed him terribly. She wanted his company and his advice. She wanted his love. She used one hand a wiped her eyes. Looking for any familiar road signs, she drove home.

 

 

Kagome walked into the foyer then to the library. It was early, still morning. Her mother should be in one of these rooms. Jackpot. She spotted her curled up in a chair reading a hard cover leather bounded book.

“ Umm, mother? Mom?” She tested the words on her lips. She never called her mom. Her mother looked up from her book and immediately her face was stricken with worry.

“ Kagome! What is it?! Come here!” Kagome forgot her game plan to stand firm and just gain comfort from her presence. She ran across the room and fell into her mother's arms and cried. After crying for a good 5 minutes she was reduced to a sniveling mess. Her mother rocked her gently. “ I'm not going to ask you what the problem is.”

“ I miss him.”

“ Rumiko.”

“ Daddy.”

“ I can never replace him Kagome, but I can try to be an alternative.”

She sobbed again. “ You did well mom.” She stood and wiped her eyes. That was it. Nothing more. “ Thanks.” She walked out of the room leaving her mother stunned.

 

 

Inuyasha drove up circular driveway of the enormous mansion. He parked his car and jumped out. He briskly walked up to the door and rang the bell. It was a little after 7. She should have had time to cool down. A stiff man opened the door.

“ Yes?”

“ Kagome please.”

He shoved his hands into his pockets as the man reached for a wall phone.

“ Ms. Higurashi. A visitor. Please hold. Who should I say it is?

“ Inuyasha.”

He turned back to the phone and muttered his name into it. A long pause before he hung up the phone.

“ Ms. Higurashi is not seeing any visitor.”

He turned and walked back outside. He wasn't about to provoke her. He was simply going to leave it.

 

 

 

 

Kagome wrapped her hands around her knees and blankly watched the television in her room. He had come to visit. That was what mattered, even if she didn't want to see him, he came. She sighed and rested her chin on her knees. Her hair fell into a shroud around her face, masking it. Fuck him. I don't need him and his lying ass. It was just a summer thing anyways. In about 3 weeks time, she'd been on a plane to the sanctity of her home—and her crazy lifestyle. No time to worry about that man and his ways. She lay back in her bed and stared up onto the ceiling. Why wouldn't he leave her alone? Go away Inuyasha, just go away. She grabbed her cell phone and searched for Sango's number. She may not have his number but she had his sisters and even though she was like him, she was completely different.

“ Sango?”

“ Kagome?”

“ I know you have work in the morning but—“

“ No. What's wrong? Inuyasha came home looking dead. Something happened?”

“ Can we talk somewhere?”

“ Ummm, the restaurant?”

“ Will he be there?”

“ No. its on the late shift now. He's in his room. So you want to meet there?”

“ Kay.”

“ See you in 10?”

“ Ok.” She hung up. Kagome had no idea what she was doing. She needed someone to talk to. Not her mom, not Sota, not blogging. A girl who understood and could talk back. Sango fit the bill.

 

 

 

“ You gonna tell me what happened?” Sango sipped some herbal tea at a corner table in her brother's restaurant. Kagome sat across from her tapping her teacup, which she hadn't tasted yet.

“ I dunno if I should or if you'd even understand.”

“ Try me. I bet I would.”

Kagome stared down into her cup and swished the dark hazel colored liquid around. Hazel. Inuyasha's eyes. Taking a deep breath, she gave Sango a recap of her background and how Inuyasha came into play, which caused the problem they were in right now. Sango sipped her tea nonchalantly and soaked in the situation. Slowly she put the cup down and stared Kagome in the eyes. Kagome held her breath, afraid of the response that was coming. Sango sighed heavily.

“ My brother is an idiot!”

Kagome exhaled. “ Tell me about it. But that's not the point. The whole point is that I'm shocked he treated me like a charity case when ya'll—no offence to you—were worse off than me!”

Sango shrugged. “ None taken. I really don't think he did it on purpose. Maybe when you told him that you loved him, you scared him. Maybe this is all some sort of tactic.”

“ I scared me too but you don't see me over reacting!”

“ As I said, he's an idiot.”

Kagome took her first sip of her now cold tea. “ I just wished he had told me all that shit from the beginning.”

“ I thought he did. But in all fairness Kagome, you didn't really tell him everything either.”

“ But he has a fairly good idea. That's good enough.”

“ Eh. He's a guy, so that's not enough for him. You would have to spell it out.”

Kagome pushed the tea aside and linked her fingers in thought. Sango drained the last of her tea and motioned for one of the waiters to come over. Kagome thought about everything that had happened over the last 5 weeks, from their accidental meeting to last night. Sango ordered some finger sandwiches and turned to Kagome who was now tapping her fingertips together.

“ What do you think I should do? You should know, he's your brother.”

“ Exactly, he's my brother. I don't know him in the way you do. I've never even thought of screwing him.”

They shared a small laugh. But soon Kagome was solemn again.

“ What was your first instinct to do Kagome?”

“ Run from him and avoid him.” She said without hesitation.

“ Then maybe that's what you should do. Absence is good for mind clearing.”

“ I don't have time for that Sango. I leave at the end of the month. Its now or never.”

“ Sounds to me like you want to talk to him.”

“ I do but I can't. I don't want to face him. I'm…embarrassed.”

“ Embarrassed? Of what?”

“ Beats me. I just feel stupid for letting him pet me around like a sick puppy.”

Sango began to laugh hard. She even reached the point of slamming the table.

“ He wasn't pitying you! He's like that all the time!!! I tell him all the time he needs to man up! Trust me kagome,” she breathed in deeply to express her seriousness. “ he didn't treat you like any sick thing. That's just how he is.”

Kagome looked down into her cup. There was silence for a minute before Kagome looked at her phone. It was just after 9.

“ My birthday is in a weeks time. I want to have a little thing. Nothing too big since I don't know much people but a little party. You wanna help me plan it?”

“ Sure. I love this kinda stuff.”

“ Great. I'm going to go home now. You staying?”

“ Yeah. I ordered some food and I'm waiting for it.”

“ Lemmie pay for it since I was the one who forced you out of your bed.”

“ I wasn't in bed. You didn't force me and I never pay for anything at this restaurant. I get free service.” She flashed her a smile. Kagome returned the smile and waved as she walked out. Sango laughed to herself. Her idiot brother had to deal with a moody girl. She had known from the beginning that this was going to be exciting. She smiled sneakingly as a plan formulated in her head, and this party was going to be the perfect opportunity.

 

 

A/N: I wonder what Sango is going to do. She seems crazy to me. It won't be anything drastic but whatever it is better come soon. Kagome's bags are packed to go back home! Do something Inuyasha! Get up off your fat ass!!!!