InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Forgiving Loss ❯ Chapter 2 Unavoidable ( Chapter 2 )

Disclaimer: I don't own Inuyasha, no matter how much I hate to admit this. This anime/manga along with all of its characters belongs to Rumiko Takahashi. This disclaimer is valid to all chapters of Forgiving Loss. Though they do not belong to me, BlueAngel326 loves to toy with them, a lot.

Chapter 2: Unavoidable

Kagome dropped the phone. "I want a divorce."

`Divorce? Why…Why would he…After all this time he didn't…He didn't love me? But why? I don't understand. It doesn't make any sense. Why would he want a divorce? I thought he loved being with me. He even told me himself, over and over again. Why did he change so suddenly?'

`Inuyasha must not have loved you in the first place. There's no other explanation. He just stopped loving you and only used you. He never loved you. You must have done something that he didn't like and this is only payback.'

`But Inuyasha would never do something like this. It wouldn't make sense. We've been married for over a year and he decided that he wanted a baby. Why else would we have made love on that one night? It just doesn't add up!'

Tears streamed down Kagome's face as she tied to figure out the meaning of his words. Though he never said it out in the open, she knew he loved her. Why else would he propose to her, have made love with her so many times, decide to have a baby with her?

The baby. That fateful night, Kagome had been working on some things for her job, Seikyo no Tenshi Agency, where she, Inuyasha, and their friends worked there. She was one of the agency's top spiritualist and purifiers, since the agency was about dealing with unwanted youkai and protecting people and/or valuables for a set amount of time. Kagome was finishing so paperwork that she had to fill out as her position as a part-time secretary, depending on whether she was needed or not when dealing with youkai. As she began reading over the content of a contract, she felt arms drape over her shoulders and lips fall onto the crook of her neck.

"Inuyasha…" she muttered as a small gasp escaped her lips.

"I'm home," Inuyasha said against her skin.

She shivered as his breath ran over her skin. "I-I didn't hear you come in."

"That's because I didn't want you to. Now why don't you put that down and come with me."

"Where are we going?"

"Do you have to ask?" He released her and stood up straight.

"But…I thought tonight was a full moon." Kagome turned to see Inuyasha nod.

"It is."

"But then…that means…" Kagome saw the glint of elation as he smiled a little. Kagome managed off the couch and lunged into his arms. "So, you really want a baby now?"

"Only if you're ready." Kagome nodded. She looked up at him and smiled.

The baby was her bond to him when he wasn't there, but now, the link felt as if it had been disconnected by Inuyasha's sharp words. The baby was still there in her, but the connection between her and Inuyasha felt as if it were severed or gone.

The phone rang. Kagome shook her head, refusing to answer it, knowing that Inuyasha was on the other line. She refused to touch it, refused to hear his voice, refused to hear his words for her.

"I want a divorce."

No, she wouldn't listen, wouldn't listen to what her once thought to be lover, wouldn't listen to reason, wouldn't listen to her heart. She ran out of the house, not locking the door, not taking her keys or umbrella as the sky had become gray with signs of the oncoming rain.

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"Damn it! What the fuck happened with the connection? And why the hell isn't she picking up the phone?"

Inuyasha redialed the number to his house, hoping that Kagome would answer the phone this time. He was greeted by the sound of Kagome's and his own voice on the answer machine:

"Hello, you've reached Inuyasha and Kagome…"

"And we're busy right now, so don't call back or you will have five seconds to live before I shove Tetsusaiga up your…"

"Inuyasha! Please leave a message after the tone and…"

"This message will be sent right back to you and explode in five, four, three…"

"Inuyasha! We'll get back with you as soon as possible. Thanks for calling and you have a…"

"Damn sword up your ass if you call again!"

"Inuyasha!"

"BEEP"

"Kagome, it's me. Answer the damn phone, wench! Kagome! Call me on my cell as soon as you get this message."

He hung up his phone. `What the hell happened?'

"I love you, Inu."

"Kagome, I'm sorry I'm not there with you." That's when the phone disconnected. "Kagome? Hello?" He tried calling back, but it said the line was busy. "Why's the line busy?" He tried calling back a few times, but the connection never went through, until now.

Inuyasha sighed as he leaned against the wall of the hotel he was staying in for the night. "Something doesn't feel right and Kagome won't answer the phone. If that ass of a brother of mine would have waited until I got on, I could've been there by now. And unless I can get through to Kagome, I won't know what's making me feel uneasy until next week."

He looked up to the sky as clouds began forming over London, wondering if Kagome was alright. He heaved another sigh and opened his phone to try to talk to Kagome.

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Kagome ran. She ran as hard as she could away from the things that she couldn't understand. She ran away from the things that she knew, from the things that loved dearly, but most of all, she ran away from everything that reminded her of Inuyasha.

But that would mean running away from her life and her heart.

Rain began falling lightly on the ground and drenched Kagome's clothes. She didn't care. The rain only added on to her tears. She still didn't care. Her heart told her to go back and talk to Inuyasha. She didn't want to care as her bare feet splashed in the already forming puddles. The rain came harder and she slipped on the slippery surface. Kagome easily picked herself up and continued fleeing from the life she knew, unaware of the scratches that stung in the rain.

She didn't want to care, to know, to hear, to feel the things that Inuyasha's words had produced.

Kagome inadvertently ran into the park, not paying attention of the looks she got from the people she passed. She ran deep into the trees of the place where old memories ran through her mind. `He said he loved me. He said he wanted to be with me. He said that he would never try to hurt me. He said that and I believed him. How could I have been so foolish?'

Losing her footing once again, Kagome landed in the soft, wet grass as she remembered her first time with him.

Kagome and Inuyasha had been studying at Kagome apartment. Her roommates were out for the night and wouldn't be back until noon the next day. They were studying for their exit exams and it became very late.

Kagome was about to ask Inuyasha another question for Social Science when she noticed he was asleep on her small sofa. She was tempted to wake him up but saw the content look on his face as he slept. Kagome quietly got up and began quietly putting away their books and notes. She saw the time and decided to take a bath before she too went to bed for the night.

Checking to make sure Inuyasha was still asleep, she slipped into the bathroom and began filling the tub. She ran the water till it was close to the edge and slipped in. She relaxed in the warm soothing water as she let the tension out of her muscles from the day's tiring of her body. After a few minutes, she sat up to wash herself.

"You never learn, do you?"

Kagome eeped when she heard the voice. She tilted her head some to look back at Inuyasha who was standing behind her a few feet. In her absentmindedness, she forgot to close the door behind her before getting in. "You scared the life out of me! I thought you were asleep."

"As I was all the other times when you decided to hop off to the bathroom for a bath or shower. You really need to learn how to close the door when someone's in your apartment, or do you just let strangers in your house while you bathe with the door open?"

Kagome wasn't too surprised besides him sneaking up on her. He caught her naked several times before and she was used to it. "Scrub my back, will you?"

He rolled his eyes and took the cloth as he gently ran the cloth over her smooth, pale back. He took his time as Kagome shuttered under his touch. When he finished, she tilted her head back some.

"Thank you." He just looked at her. "Uh, don't you think you should leave now? I gotta dry off." He muttered a `Feh' and walked to the door. She heard it close and began ringing her hair out. She stood up, having pulled the drain out of the tub. She reached for the towel and pulled it around her and started turning around to step out of the tub when she felt strong arms pull her to a bare body. She gasped as she realized that Inuyasha was naked. "I-Inu…yasha?"

Her answer was a growl as he dipped his head and began nuzzling against her neck. She gasped as his lips sought out the paleness of her flesh. He kissed her gently as his fangs grazed over the sensitive skin of her neck. Her arms rose to seek out the touch of his ears but his arms pinned hers to her side as he trailed his lips along her collarbone. Her torture became his pleasure as she let fall her towel and he kissed her with a searing passion that ignited the fire between the two as all coherent thought became nothing but senseless ideas to the two. The world around them no longer existed as only those two remained, loving the other with only that of which could heal their wounds.

The one thing that Kagome needed at the moment, the love of the man she cherished so dearly.

Kagome sat up, looking up to the sky that had become dark from night and the rain. It was dark, so as her heart was. Dark, empty, void of any light that she could not produce. The tears had stopped, her body felt numb from the cold and from her desire to escape this world.

"Kagome?"

Kagome looked up to see Rin, one of her friends that she always hung out with, at and out of work. Rin ran to her, seeing her friend on the ground, her face familiar to her, even in the dark. "Kagome, are you okay?"

"Rin… no, I…"

"What's wrong?"

"Inuyasha… he… he wants a divorce," Kagome managed to choke out, her voice trembling as all feeling came back to her.

"Inuyasha what?!"

"It's nothing. I'm okay." Her face betrayed her words as her tears spilled out her eyes. She stood up, trying to ignore her friend's questioning stare.

"Kagome, you're not okay. Come with me. You need to lie down before you get worse."

"No, really, I'm fine. It's nothing."

Rin took hold of Kagome's shoulder and turned her to see the tears that she tried to keep at bay. "Kagome?"

Kagome looked at her concerned friend and finally broke. She let the tears fall freely as her friend tried to console her. It wasn't enough.

"I don't understand, Rin. He never acted like that before. I've always known what he wanted or how much he loved me, but now, it's like I don't even know him anymore. I thought I knew him. I thought he loved me. It doesn't make sense."

"It'll be alright Kagome. It'll be alright. We'll find out what's gotten into him."

"No, you don't get it. It won't be alright. If he really meant it, I don't know what I'm gonna do! He's always been close to me ever since I first met him. If he really doesn't love me anymore, than I'll just be nothing."

"Kagome, we've gotta get you home. You need to calm yourself."

"No!" Kagome broke away from Rin. "I can't go back there. If I do, then that means that I've got to hear the truth. I can't go back to him. Not if it means to feel like this!"

Kagome took off running again. "Kagome, wait!" Rin tried to catch up to her friend.

Kagome couldn't see from her tears and the thick rainfall. She stopped to see where she was going and realized she was in the middle of a street. She saw the light coming from a car on the street and wasn't able to move.

"KAGOME!!!" But Rin's scream was lost as the driver stomped on the brakes and the car skidded.

At the Zenya residence, the phone was ringing nonstop, the hanyou on the other side of the line unaware of the events happening in Tokyo.

Seikyo no Tenshi: Angel of Death

Hehe, sorry, but gotta leave you there for the moment. I gotta go update an original fiction of mine and give my people another chapter of Engaging Enemies since I didn't update last week. Oh, and sorry about using Sueric's thing for having children with a hanyou. It's just a little twisted up, but now I gotta go apologize to her for stealing an idea of hers. Ja ne!

BA326's Final Thoughts:

I wonder how many times a girl can get hit on in a week when there're these jackasses that keep coming up with the lamest pickup lines ever. "I like the way your shoes squeak?" "I like your braids?" Where do they come up with this stuff?! I gotta start wearing more baggy clothes from now on to make me look like a boy. That way let's see some guy try to come up to a person that looks like a boy and say, "Hey, honey, you looking hot today. Come over here shorty." If not, I'll just tell them to fuck off or just flick them off.