InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Decisions ❯ Confrontation ( Chapter 15 )

Chapter 15: Confrontation

“Kagome!” Sango sprinted into her friends office the next Monday without bothering to knock, Ayame was in tow.

“What is it?” she half growled, she was still pissed about the Naraku issue. No matter that she may have forgotten it for a short while whilst being with Sesshoumaru.

“We got it!” Ayame squealed throwing a letter onto the table

Kagome picked it up and noticed that it was addressed to her and yet had already been opened and read “You know reading other peoples mail is a crime right?” she said pulling the letter from the envelope and skimming it.

Her jaw dropped open.

Naraku had given her the backing she needed: she was getting the computer suite!

Her first reaction was absolute joy.

And then came the suspicion.

“Kagome?” Sango asked “Why aren't you happy?”

“Yeah, I mean you've been trying to get the grant for ages!” Ayame chimed in

“It smells fishy” she said “no scratch that, this smells like a certain dog”

“Kagome?” they both squawked as she grabbed her purse and stalked out of her office

“Kagome, where are you going?” Ayame yelled

“I'm hunting a dog” she snarled

“Huh?” Sango asked

“That woman exists in a world of her own” Ayame said

“Hey, you actually sounded smart just then” Sango giggled

“Ha ha” Ayame drawled rolling her eyes

Sesshoumaru was contented at knowing he had helped Kagome and knocked the smarmy Naraku down a peg or three too. He sat in his office working on his computer when his new secretary started shouting.

“Hey, hey you can't go in there!”

The door to his office was thrown open and Kagome stood there his flushed secretary behind her. Her eyes were like blue fire, she was livid.

“You got Naraku to agree” she said in a voice shaking with suppressed rage

“It's okay Yuka” he consoled his latest secretary who sat down again shrugging

“Did you or did you not get Naraku to agree?” she asked

“This Sesshoumaru did not” he said

“Do not lie to me” she snarled “I know for a fact that Naraku would never let me have the money”

“Why?” he asked

“Because I refused to go out with him after the first meeting when I first proposed the suite” she said “he isn't someone who forgets being jilted it seems”

“Which is why Souta knew his name” Sesshoumaru put the pieces into place. She flushed, he was right; she had complained over a double Gin to Souta that he was still pestering her.

She had tried to keep the stalker like tendencies of Naraku to herself, but she had gotten mildly intoxicated and blabbed some of her problems to Souta one evening.

“The point is that I did not need you to stick your nose into my business” she barked “I am not some poor defenceless female who needs you to solve her every problem!”

He narrowed his eyes feeling his own temper bubble dangerously close to the surface. As he saw it she was pack, and as her alpha it was his responsibility to make sure her needs were met, she would not challenge him on this.

“I was going to get that on my own. I have worked hard every day of my life to get all that I have now and I needed none of your help”

“You should be grateful” he snarled

“Grateful?” she was incredulous

“Yes” he snarled “I solved your insignificant little problem”

“Insignificant?” she demanded getting closer to the desk and slamming her hands onto the wood. “Well I'm sorry if the wants of a head teacher pale in significance to the problems of the great Sesshoumaru-sama” she added the honorific sarcastically

“This Sesshoumaru helped you” he was cold “say thank you”

“No!” she yelled “I practically built that school with my own two hands, I spent years convincing people that it was a good idea and then you swan in and pretend like you care!”

“You are jealous that this Sesshoumaru succeeded where you failed” he said shortly

She slapped him “Stop being such an arrogant cocky son of a goddamn bitch” she yelled “people in this planet survive on their own without people like you messing with them”

He stood, he was seriously pissed. She had slapped him, Sesshoumaru Taisho. Not only that but she was throwing his help back in his face.

“Are you going to hit me Sesshoumaru?” she asked as she watched his hands twitch at his sides

“Apologise” he ordered

“You know what?” she said her eyes narrowing “I don't think I will” she walked to the door of his office “Sayonara”

“Get back woman!” he roared but she was already in the lift and the doors slid closed over her hostile being.

“Damn it” he growled

***

It had been two months since the argument and Souta was worried. The Inu Yokai currently occupying his usual seat at the bar was as usual in a terrible mood.

But that wasn't why he was worried. Today the mood he was in wasn't really terrible and more likely borderline homicidal. The aura of death he was projecting into the bar had caused all of the customers to take seats in the little tables away from the bar and one by one they were slowly leaving the pub, fearing for their lives.

Even Toji, the resident drunk who was always asleep in his corner of the pub was awake and glancing shiftily at the Inu Yokai in a worried kind of way.

Souta sighed. The Yokai was singlehandedly clearing out the entire pub; this was not good for his earnings. He'd been doing this nearly three times every week since he had fought with Kagome.

Sesshoumaru was ranting to himself in an undertone and every now and then Souta caught words like `wench' `apologise' and `Naraku'.

The phone behind the bar rang and grateful for the interruption from musing over his dwindling profits Souta picking it up.

“Mushi, mushi” he said

Sesshoumaru glared at the phone as his sensitive ears caught Kagome's voice at the other end of the line.

“Souta?” she asked

“Yeah?” he asked turned his back on the demon who was watching like some kind of hawk

“Is he there?” she asked

“En” he said “Where are you?”

“I'm outside, I was going to come in, but if he's there then I'll not bother” she said

Sesshoumaru stood and threw a twenty onto the bar and stalked outside.

“Uh oh” Souta said

“What do you mean uh oh?” she asked and then she felt a familiar aura prickle her Miko senses and she turned around to see Sesshoumaru.

“Aw, crap” she hung up the phone and bid a strategic retreat.

“You are avoiding this Sesshoumaru” he stated following her

“I'm sorry do I know you?” she asked flinging him a wan smile that seethed with anger before retreating at a faster pace.

“Stop” he snarled

“I don't listen to you” she said “leave me alone!”

She got into her broken down in need of a new engine car and tried to put her keys in the ignition but failed as he hands were shaking with suppressed anger. She didn't want to blow up at him again because that would only serve to make him angrier at her, plus when incensed she tended to blurt out hateful things. And that wasn't her style.

“I said stop” he ordered holding onto the cars side

“Let go Taisho-san” she said

Shocked, he did as she said and she drove away in her battered car.

It was the first time she had called him by his last name. And on top of that she had used a suffix.

But that wasn't what had made him let go. He had let go because he had seen a single solitary tear make its way from the corner of her eye down to her cheek.

***

“Damn it” she said as she pulled up outside her flat. Sure she had been angry but she was also upset and somehow that had won out as the dominant emotion and she had actually shed a tear.

Now that she was away from him she was bawling like a baby and she had no idea how to stop.

“Stupid, tear ducts” she muttered opening the door to her flat.

Sasuke started. He had been over to look after Ranmaru for a while.

Kagome looked over at her friend through her crying eyes and then fell over the welcome mat straight onto her face.

“Ow!” she bellowed “Stupid mat!”

“Kagome are you crying?” Sasuke asked getting up cautiously

“No” Kagome shook off her helping arm and stood on her own “I'm not crying, I just fell over the mat is all”

“Kagome” Sasuke was sympathetic “do you want to talk about it?”

“About the mat?” Kagome was flippant “there's not much to tell”

“Kags” he said

“I'm really fine” she said grabbing her friends arm and throwing him unceremoniously out of the apartment and closing the door. Once the door was closed Kagome slid down the door onto the floor and sat there staring at nothing.

Ranmaru looked at his mother and frowned. Someone had to do something.

Outside Sasuke had come to pretty much the same conclusion, he and Hana had been planning on going back home soon, their annual visit almost being over. But at this latest revelation he wasn't so sure. The Inu was an idiot if he let Kagome slip through his fingers, opportunities like Kagome only came around once in a lifetime, regardless of how long one lived.

***

Sesshoumaru walked through the door into the apartment and collapsed onto the couch in confusion. He had been angry at her but now he was just plain confused; why was she crying?

What reason was there to cry?

He felt terrible as he sort of realised that whatever her reason for crying was, it was probably interconnected with him.

“Why me?” he asked aloud

Rin sighed from within her room; adults were so tiring.

A/N: I do not own Inuyasha and I make no profit from this. Please review and I hope everyone liked it. This was kinda short huh? I just wanted to get our confrontation out of the way so that the good times (sort of) could roll.

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