InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Free of Pain, Lost from Love ❯ chapter seven ( Chapter 7 )

Free of Pain, Lost from Love

Chapter seven

By: opalshyne

 

A/N: hey…hi…hello…hope you like the glorious chapter seven…if not, well, f*** you!

Sorry if I offended anyone, I am going through an ( incoherent mumbling) withdrawal…

Well, maybe if I got some uber pretty reviews (hint, hint) I would feel better? Maybe? Maybe?

 

Disclaimer: Ah, geez, well, you know what, eh he he, I swear that I owned it, really, I did, it was the best, first I rode a unicorn to Japan, then I fell down the well, it was great, and then, I owned it!...Then, I woke up, which proves that, I may dream about it, but! I DO NOT OWN INUYASHA!

 

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Kagome slipped on her favorite, red and white checkered bikini before pulling out a pair of khaki shorts and an old wife beater. She pulled her hair up in a messy ponytail and slipped on her flip flops before prancing out into the kitchen where a picnic basket (filled with food) and a beach bag packed to the brim with all sorts of beach necessities and accessories sat waiting on the kitchen counter. Kagome looked at the clock on the wall and tapped her foot on the tiled marble floor, "C'mon Sesshoumaru, I do want to get there sometime today!"

And angry growl answered her, "It is eight thirty in the morning, you can wait a minute!"

Kagome huffed and rolled her eyes before taking up a very pissed stance, arms crossed, foot tapping, face scrunched and one of her infamous glares. That was how Sesshoumaru found her, the epitome of a pissed teenager. He picked up the picnic basket and the beach bag and walked out the door, "I will wait no longer Kagome, I suggest you come now."

Kagome let out a frustrated scream, "No fair!"

He only laughed and got in the car, throwing the basket and bag in the back seat. Kagome yanked open the passenger side door and slid into the car, cursing when her foot got tangled in the seatbelt. Sesshoumaru smirked at her very unruffled condition and Kagome sent him a death glare, one that he only shot straight back to her. The drive was mostly silent and Kagome stared at the window, making a list of all the things they could do and all the things he had probably never done at the beach. Kagome was at number two hundred and thirty of "What fun things has Sesshoumaru never done.", when her list making was very much interrupted by the smooth voice of a youkai.

"I imagine your mother will worry where you are."

Kagome huffed and crossed her arms, "So?"

"Well, I suggest you somehow contact her, and tell her where you are, if you don't, and you are found by the police, the consequences may be unsavory, for both of us."

Kagome huffed again, but remained silent, thinking over what he had just said, "I suppose you're right…I'll call her later today."

"Hn," he vaguely voiced his approval.

Kagome's mood steadily lightened until she was once again her cheery, (or at least half-way cheery), self. Sesshoumaru looked at the girl next to him, practically bouncing out of her seat, you wouldn't think that she cried herself to sleep, and that he could hardly ever get her to eat anything. Sometimes, she frightened him, made him want to cast her out like the monster he was. Sometimes he wondered what was happening, and why he felt so damn compelled to help her, make her feel, something other than…empty. And he realized, only a night ago, that when he would listen to her cry at night, that the sound cut at him like knives, her pain caused him pain.

 

He parked the car and went around to open her door before grabbing the basket and the bag from the backseat, she walked next to him as he looked for an acceptable spot. Kagome grinned and grinned, so happy to be somewhere other than in the city, Sesshoumaru had decided that he didn't want to go to the museum and decided he would rather stay at the beach all day. Kagome happily submitted and pranced around the house, just overjoyed at going to the beach. Sesshoumaru however locked himself in his room for an hour, and when he came out Kagome saw a piece of paper stuck to his sacks.

"What is this?" she had asked.

"None of your concern."

Kagome rolled her eyes, "None of my concern?! None of my concer-," Kagome began to read the torn piece of paper, " Payroll to be reduced by three percent within the next two months following an extreme cutback on international business…You were working!"

Sesshoumaru was silent, guilty as he was accused.

 

Kagome flopped down on her towel that had been neatly set up by Sesshoumaru, and began stripping down to her suit, more than ready to dive into the cool water. Sesshoumaru watched the girl that he seemed to have grown so…attached, (because that was all he would call it). She grinned as she stood and looked down at him, "Lets go Sesshoumaru, I won't go in that water by myself, and if I don't go in the water today, I'll be pissed for the rest of the week." Sesshoumaru rolled his eyes and stood to pull off the white tee shirt he had on and walked with her down to the water's edge., she jumped up and down, obviously excited. She looked around her, at the people who were jumping up out of the water, laughing and playing. And a sparkle of silver caught her eye, for a moment, she thought Sesshoumaru had gone in the water without her, she looked up next to the youkai who stood beside her. "I…" she looked back out to the shining hair, it was a boy, like Inuyasha had been, she could sense his demonic blood, and his human blood. She stared at him, like he was a god, she ran forward, leaping over waves that may have hindered her progress, "Inuyasha! Inuyasha!" her legs began to feel heavy from running through the water, and the silver haired boy was looking at her strangely, "Inuyasha! I-I'm here!" She ran right up to him, placed a hand on his shoulder and looked him in the eyes, only there were no amber depths to look into. This boys eyes were blue, and he wasn't Inuyasha, "Inu…yasha?"

The silver haired hanyou shook his head before bursting out laughing, "Idiot," he said.

"Wha-What? Are you talking about?"

"Hey Ayumi! Human girl thought I was some… Inuyasha!"

A mean looking hanyou walked up to the silver haired boy and wrapped her arms around the boy, smiling cruelly, "Don't know what game your playing at honey, but he's mine, and some little ploy ain't gonna make him, or anyone else, like you!"

At this, the couple broke out into cruel laughter, laughing at her like, they couldn't see the tears in her eyes, or maybe, like they could.

She didn't feel the angry flaring of his youki, nor did she feel it coming closer as he played the part of "knight in shining armor" and came to her rescue. Her vision blurred from tears, and her ears deafened by the sound of her heart pounding in its cage, she did not notice Sesshoumaru come to her aid and scare away the cruel twosome. She only notice that he picked her up, before she could fall, and that he carried her to a park, and up into a tree where he held her as she cried, finally able to be strong and be there for her.

Finally able to help her.

Kagome had quieted, and only hiccupped every now and then, she curled against them and let out another sob as momentary grief overcame her.

"You still love him."

"Maybe."

"You still want to love him."

"Yes."

"You would love another?"

"…"