InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Fenced ❯ No More Mrs Nice Girl ( Chapter 11 )

Chapter Ten: No More Mrs Nice Girl

Kagome had not gone back to work that Monday. When interrogated Sesshoumaru had, under duress, admitted that it might have had something to do with him dismissing her as merely amusing charity work.

Even Sesshoumaru could admit that calling her such was probably not a good idea. Inuyasha had laughed himself stupid and Sesshoumaru had been forced to render the boy unconscious to preserve his sanity.

Izayoi had not been amused and took off to Kagome's home in order to do some persuading.

She was not expecting what she found.

Kagome led Izayoi into the kitchen and sat her down at the table. She had been brought up properly and made Izayoi tea with a minimum of fuss and decorum.

She was just really annoyed with Sesshoumaru, not seriously upset. She expected him to apologise though, not his step-mother. If he wasn't going to apologise she wasn't going to forgive. She refused to be insulted like that. To her face, she could handle that. But behind her back, that was spiteful and she wouldn't take it.

Glancing at Izayoi, she couldn't help but reflect on how out of place she looked in the homely kitchen. In her designer clothes, with her designer sunglasses and her expensive jewellery. Kagome wondered why she hadn't been mugged on her journey to the tiny flat.

“I really don't know what you're doing here.” Kagome shrugged. “I'm not coming back, I don't like being degraded.”

“Please Kagome-chan, he didn't mean it!” Izayoi swore “he was merely being callous as always”

“Sometimes enough is enough” Kagome replied “I've had enough of his perpetual teasing; I don't think he's ever really been that nice to me”

“That is just his way Kagome” Izayoi pleaded “he must have some attachment to you or he would not have paid for the dress”

Kagome blinked “He paid for my dress?”

“Yes” Izayoi shrugged “I was going to but he insisted. That comb you wore, it was his mother's”

Kagome was stunned “Seriously?”

“She is not going back Izayoi” Kagome's mother cut across as she stepped into the kitchen.

Izayoi's eyes widened in shock “Aki-neechan?”

“Imouto” her mother nodded and took up a seat opposite Izayoi with a calmness that had apparently abandoned Izayoi, who sat their gapping most unattractively.

“Wait, are you two are sisters?” Kagome demanded.

“No,” her mother corrected, “but we were as close as only sisters can be.”

“And so... what happened?” Kagome pressed tentatively.

“Class always gets in the way,” her mother answered. “Eventually Izayoi had to pick a side, stand by her rich upper-class boyfriend even though he was obviously in the wrong, or stick with me, her sister, who only wanted to look out for her. He was cheating on her, she turned a blind eye and called me jealous,” she sighed, “surprisingly we fell out of touch after that.”

“Aki-neesan, I'm so sorry” Izayoi whispered softly.

“I bear no grudge.” Aki shrugged. “I just don't wish for my daughter to be involved in this class warfare that, to be honest, is petty and ridiculous.”

“It isn't like that,” Izayoi protested.

“I'll come back,” Kagome murmured, “when he apologises.”

Izayoi closed her eyes in resignation; she might as well have said `when the world ends'.

***

Sesshoumaru opened the drawer in his desk and pulled out the mobile phone that he had pilfered from Kagome in her absentmindedness a few months ago.

That girl was unbelievably stubborn.

He had not meant to dismiss her to upset her. He had meant to stop Sara before she deduced that Kagome meant something to him. If she had discovered that truth then Kagome would have discovered her wrath. Sara and her cronies could reduce people to blubbering wrecks by the time they were through with them.

He had meant to defend her through insulting her. Which sounded like a ridiculous excuse even inside his own mind. He was certain she wouldn't believe him.

He insulted her enough as it was, though she didn't hesitate to give back what he gave out. And her aim was painfully accurate; those stilettos had hurt.

He sighed and placed the phone on his desk, scowling at it. He had no idea why he hadn't given it back when she had first come to work for them.

“Sesshoumaru-niisan” Rin said softly as she slipped into his room.

“Yes Rin-chan?” he asked.

“Where is Kagome-neesan?” she asked.

“She's angry at me, so she's staying away,” he supplied.

“Then you should say sorry” Rin said folding her arms stubbornly.

He rubbed his temples; she had picked up entirely too many habits from Kagome.

“It's not that simple Rin-chan.”

“It's never that simple because adults complicate stuff.” Rin folded her arms. “Sensei says that if we apologise then it means we won't ever do it again. Kagome-neesan will be very happy if you tell her that.”

Sesshoumaru snorted, amused at the notion of her forgiving him just like that. “Really Rin-chan?” he asked

“Yeah” she looked at him dubiously “but because you're not really very nice to Kagome-neesan you should probably give her something, like flowers, too.”

His hand tightened around the phone and he smirked. “Hn.”

A/N: I don't own Inuyasha! Thanks for reading and please review!