InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Dressing the part ❯ Broken Heart Medley ( Chapter 9 )

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AN- You can thank the inspiration of this chapter to my little sister's annoying, loud little friends. You can blame its lateness (compared to my other chapters) to various tryouts I've had recently. I've had some questions about who the two broken hearts belonged to. I will, therefore, clarify it in the first part of the chapter by going back and putting it into more detail.

Dressing the Part

Chapter Nine

Two Timing

Kagome felt like crap. Why was this happening? She swore she would be able to forgo her own happiness in order to help Souta, but now? Why did she have to give up Inuyasha too? Inuyasha. That issue disturbed her a bit too.

After she left, she knew Inuyasha would follow. She had to hide. Sure she could run faster than most of the boys on her team, except of course Kouga, but as talented as Kagome Higurashi was, running for dear life in three inch boots was not something she was good at. She had years of trying as Miko to know this.

The next best thing was to find a discreet hiding place. Having just been in close contact with her lips so close to his, her brain felt like it was melting away, willing her to go back, questioning her resolve to hurt herself by leaving the one man she truly wanted to another girl. Giving up, she hurried to the dressing room, which only a select few knew she had.

She just barely closed the door in time. She could he Inuyasha's shout. "Wait!" Then came the whisper that broke her down. "I'm in love with you." Her eyes widened as silent tears ran down her cheeks. Slumping down against the door with arms around her knees, she was conflicted.

How could he say he was in love with Miko, a woman he had only met for a minute or two (and probably had been jacking off two for years) when he didn't even invite Kagome, the real her he had known for a week, to his birthday party.

He could never love her. He loved her picture. Not even that. He was infatuated with her picture. Yet she still wanted him as her boyfriend. Then again, she also wanted her father back, a normal life, and her family's happiness, but those things didn't seem likely either.

The more she tried to forget about last night, the more she ached to have him, to touch him, to kiss him.

Was this what it was it like to have your heart ripped out? Kikyo was pretty sure it was. She had seen and heard what she was never meant to. She had been witness to Inuyasha's betrayal. That was all she could see it as, betrayal.

Last night, unbeknownst to anyone, Kikyo returned to the dressing room she had in the club. She wanted her night with Inuyasha to be special, but she had forgotten the pack of condoms Sango had bought for her. Sango and she weren't the best of friends, but both cared about Inuyasha. He and Sango had been friends for years. Kikyo would never come in the way of that. And Sango would not interfere in their relationship if he were in love.

Kikyo grabbed the condoms and stuffed them in her pocket with a blush. She was walking to the door, but stopped and she heard someone through the door. They were hurrying down the hall in high-healed boots. It struck her as odd unless something had happened. There were only guys left at the party, right?

She figured Miroku must have hired a stripper for Inuyasha, but Kikyo trusted him. He would send off anyone who came in their way. She found out how wrong she was. "Wait!" The desperation in his voice killed her. She could recognize that voice better than she could her own mother's, one she had not heard since early childhood.

Her heart broke with those five words, "I'm in love with you." When she heard them, they were for someone else.

Had he been playing her all along? Had he thought her a fool? Why, if he loved someone else, would he string her along. Wouldn't he have told her if there was someone else? Inuyasha was honorable in that sense, right?

Sure they had never officially labeled their relationship, but they have not seen anyone else in three-and-a-half years. Or at least she hadn't. Had he? Was she blind too not see it before now?

He would pay. By the end of the week, he would regret ever breaking her heart like this.

He had her. He had her not two feet away. And, he being the idiot he is, let her go. He had found the woman of his dreams and let her slip through his fingers. How could he be so stupid? He had to find her.

What was it she said? He had been too lost in her eyes, her lips to even think about listening to her, just like the rest of the male population. She had known Jakotsu and had come as a favor to the Higurashi brothers. That's it. He would go to Kagome! He barreled out the door, down the senior wing, through the junior wing, right to Kagome and Jak's door.

BANG!!! BANG!!! BANG!!!

KAGOME!!! OPEN THIS GODDAMN DOOR! I NEED TO TALK TO YOU! KAGOME!!!

The door flew open. Jak swiftly came out and shut it quickly once again.

He seemed cold and distant to Inuyasha. A combination Inuyasha was not accustomed to.

"Kagome isn't here Inuyasha. I suggest you come back later." Jak was pissed at Inuyasha for mixing up Kagome like this. She was the only one who gave a damn about him in the entire school. He would not let Inuyasha unwittingly tear her apart.

"Well where the hell is he?"

"Out."

"What did you say?" Inuyasha was bewildered. Had the entire world gone crazy? A sudden thought entered his mind? "Do you know Miko?"

`Oh shit! Kagome said I knew her last night. How do I answer?' "Of course, Dog Boy."

Ignoring the venomous insult, Inuyasha continued. "How?"

"She's...she's...Kagome...'s sister." Jak covered his mouth, unbelieving of what came out of it.

"Miko, the magazine goddess, is Kagome's sister."

Nervously he reasoned, "How else could you explain her sudden appearance?"

Growling he spat, "Don't get smart with me dumbass!" With that, he grumbled back down the hall to his room.

Jak, seeing this, went back inside to a crying, worried Kagome. "Jak, why did you say I was my sister? Do you know how much more complicated this makes things?" She wasn't angry at him, just overwhelmed. How could she pull this off?

"I'm really, really, really sorry Kags. He just put me on the spot like that and I didn't know what else to say. I know I totally screwed up royally. Please please please forgive me!" He squeezed her into a giant bear hug, nearly crushing her to death.

She knew Jak would never do something like that on purpose. He had been so good to her here.

"Jak, you know I love you right?"

"If only you actually were a gay man. Life would be great." She giggled for the first time since the other night.

Jak and Kagome just hugged each other for long time, each comforting the other in their stupidity as of late. Little did they now that their world would come crumbling down by the end of the week.

AN- Sorry for the short set-up chapter. I've been busy. I seem to have a problem with short chapters, but once again, if I did a full blown chapter, it would have been a few more days. This way the setup for the next chapter is already done. The next one should be good. Not a whole lot more left with the story, but I figure since schools about to start anyway, I might as well end this story with a bang. I want to thank all the readers for their patience and all the reviewers for helping me by telling me what they think.