InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ I'm Looking In ❯ Origins of a Breakup ( Chapter 6 )

Kagome awoke sometime later, she couldn't tell what time of day it was since the curtains on Inuyasha's window were drawn and she couldn't make out what his alarm clock said. It took some creative wiggling and flexibility that she didn't know she possessed to get out from under Inuyasha's arm and off the bed.

 

She silently berated herself and cursed her stupidity as she snuck around collecting her clothing, stopping only to admire the fact that Inuyasha had managed to throw each article of clothing into a different corner. She glared in the direction of the bed when her bra fell off after she did it up. She felt the material in the darkness and realized that he had ripped it off of her.

 

No wonder I didn't realize he had taken it off. She thought bitterly as she did the buttons of her shirt up. She slipped out of the bedroom and made her way through the loft towards the front door. She caught sight of his computer and briefly thought about hacking into it to find the damn email that everyone kept talking about.

 

There's no time. He's going to realize very quickly that you're not there anymore and he's going to get up to come looking for you. She said to herself, moving quickly towards her shoes. She scooped them up in her hand and stepped outside the apartment.

 

She heard Shippou's giggles coming from the area of the elevator and she quickly moved to the stairs. She ran down the stairs, knowing that if Shippou caught her scent he'd definitely come looking for her. She stepped out the door and all but slammed into Sesshomaru.

 

“Damn it.” Kagome muttered, feeling like a teenager being caught after just making out with her boyfriend while being grounded.

 

“I take it you had fun?” Sesshomaru smirked.

 

Kagome glared at the Inu-Youkai, knowing he could smell Inuyasha on her. “Not a word Sesshomaru.”

 

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Inuyasha awoke and knew instantly that Kagome wasn't beside him anymore. “Kagome?” He called into the darkness of the room, more out of habit then anything. Her scent told him that she had left the room, and it hadn't been that long ago.

 

His ears twitched as he tried to catch the sound of her movement. He swore loudly as he heard the loft door slide closed. He grabbed his pants from where they were lying on the floor and quickly pulled them on, yelping when he nearly caught himself in his fly.

 

 

He stumbled out of his room and nearly collided with Shippou who had been on his way to see his adoptive father. “Hey Inuyasha, was Kagome here? I can smell her.” Shippou said.

 

“Uh yeah, she came by for a visit.” Inuyasha said, rubbing the back of his head.

 

He stepped past the kit on the way to the door, turning at the sound of the low whistle. “From the looks of those welts on your back it must have been one hell of a visit.”

 

Inuyasha's mouth dropped open in shock. Sometimes he forgot that Shippou was a lot older than he looked. He reached over and thumped the kit on his head, making the kit whine. “Did you see her in the hall?”

 

Shippou stopped rubbing his head and glared at Inuyasha. “No, why?”

 

“Damn it, I need to talk to her and she just took off.”

 

“So why don't you just go over to Sesshomaru's house?” Shippou asked.

 

Inuyasha crossed his arms and looked at Shippou with a questioning look. “Why would I go there?”

 

Shippou's eyes grew wide and he licked his lips nervously. “Oh wow, look at the time, I should really get to bed. I gotta get up early for school tomorrow.”

 

“Tomorrow's Saturday, Shippou.” Inuyasha said.

 

“Uh, yeah, I know. I forgot that we're having a special class tomorrow!”

 

Inuyasha dove at the kit and snatched him up by the tail. “Spill it.” He said calmly.

 

“I don't know what you're talking about.” Shippou said innocently.

 

“You suck at lying.” Inuyasha told him. “Now tell me what the hell is going on.”

 

“You know if it weren't for the fact that you were a complete dumb ass and started dating Ayame, you wouldn't have to ask me what was going on!” Shippou snapped. “You also wouldn't have to wonder why Kagome's living with Sesshomaru!”

 

A loud growl tore from Inuyasha's throat. Normally Shippou would have cringed away in fear, but he was feeling more than a little defiant thanks to his little outburst. “She's what!”

 

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Kagome could hear Sesshomaru talking to someone in his study as she moved towards it. She had just spent the better part of an hour taking a hot shower, mentally screaming at herself for showing that kind of weakness. She paced around outside his office until she heard him hang up his phone and leaned against the doorframe.

 

“And why do you look so smug?”

 

“Because my idiot brother just realized that his mate is living here.” Sesshomaru told her, a cocky smirk gracing his features.

 

Kagome visibly flinched at the word “mate”. Sesshomaru studied her as the color drained from her face. He watched her hand raise and she touched her mate mark. Ever since she had returned home it had tingled non-stop. She blamed it on after shocks of their activities a few hours before.

 

“Kagome,” Sesshomaru's voice broke through her thoughts. “I want you to tell me exactly what's going on.”

 

Kagome sighed heavily and crossed the room to the large bay window. “How can I tell you what's going on when I don't know that myself.”

 

“What do you mean?”

 

“When I was in America I thought about him every day. I was hospitalized five times my first semester for exhaustion. I couldn't sleep because I missed him that much. It really scared me that I felt something that powerful.”

 

“He felt the same way.” Sesshomaru told her. “Shippou said that there were days on end where he would just sit and stare at pictures of you.”

 

“If he truly felt that way then why did he start dating Ayame?” Kagome said softly.

 

“Well that email that he got from you probably made him think that you wanted out of the mating bond.” Sesshomaru explained.

 

“What the hell is this email everyone keeps going on about?” Kagome demanded. “Don't you think that if I wanted out of our god damned bond I would have told him face to face!”

 

“That's what I thought too, until I made him show me the email.”

 

“I thought no one saw that email.”

 

“I do have certain persuasion over my brother.”

 

“So in other words you beat the shit out of him in order to read it.” Sesshomaru nodded, a proud smile on his face. “And what did it say?”

 

“It mentioned that you had started dating someone named Brandon.”

 

Sesshomaru physically moved his chair back when he saw the look of anger cross her features. “That mother fucker!” She exclaimed.

 

“What?” Sesshomaru asked. “Who is he?”

 

“Brandon was in my World War II history class in my third year.” Kagome explained. “We were friends, but I knew he always wanted more.”

 

“Did you tell him about Inuyasha?” Sesshomaru asked.

 

“Of course I did!” Kagome snapped. “He knew I was involved with someone.”

 

Sesshomaru cocked an eyebrow. “Involved?”

 

“Sess, in America, Youkai have to use concealment spells. Hell I had to cast one over all of the pictures in my apartment to hide certain features on some of the people in the pictures. I told everyone that I was engaged to explain why I never dated. I even went out and bought myself a goddamned ring.” Kagome told him. “How else was I supposed to explain it when hardly anyone there believed in demons?”

 

“So he never took the hint?” Sesshomaru asked.

 

“No, he always seemed to think that I would change my mind and call off my engagement.”

 

“How did you explain the mate mark?”

 

“Well, Youkai and Hanyou knew what it was. Everyone else thought I was this radical, out of control teenager who got her boyfriend's name tattooed onto the base of her neck.” Kagome told him. “How the hell did Inuyasha get an email like that.”

 

Sesshomaru scratched his chin in thought. “Maybe Brandon hacked into your account and sent that email hoping that Inuyasha would call of your `engagement'.”

 

“I guess. It's the only thing that really makes any sense.” Kagome said with a sigh.

 

Sesshomaru stood and walked over to where Kagome was standing. He brushed her hair away so that he could look at her mark. His eyes widened when he realized the mark had faded from black to a medium grey.

 

“Have you been feeling anything strange around your mark?” He asked.

 

“It's been tingling since I got home from Inuyasha's, why?”

 

Sesshomaru bit his lip, wondering if he should tell her. “It's fading.” He told her. Nothing her blank stare, Sesshomaru sighed. “That means that while you two were, well you know, he released you from your bond.”

 

Kagome's eyes widened and tears formed in her eyes. She pushed away from Sesshomaru and ran from the room. The Youkai followed her and winced at the sound of her retching. He entered the bathroom and rubbed her back soothingly.

 

“What am I going to do?” Kagome asked him.

 

“You have two choices. Either you forget about him and move on with your life, or you make him want you back.”

 

The two of them jumped at the sound of a door slamming open and Jaken screeching. “You can't come barging in here like this you ungrateful…”

 

“Save it!” Inuyasha growled kicking the imp out of the way. “Kagome!”

 

Sesshomaru saw the flash of anger on Kagome's face and quirked an eyebrow at her. “Well I do have one other option.” Kagome hissed through clenched teeth.

 

“What's that?”

 

“Castrate him.”

 

Sesshomaru briefly wondered if he should stop Kagome from causing Inuyasha serious bodily injury. That thought was quickly buried at the thought of how much Inuyasha deserved this, and how entertaining it would be to watch Kagome put him in his place. Sesshomaru quickly jumped to his feet and followed Kagome.

 

“You!” Inuyasha shouted as Kagome came into view. “You are coming with me right now!”

 

“Oh really?”

 

“Yes! No mate of mine is staying here with him.” Inuyasha said, motioning to his older brother.

 

“Mate?” Kagome snorted. “Oh, that's rich. You really are a complete fucking moron!”

 

Inuyasha was surprised by that. “Excuse me?”

 

“You believed a God damned email without talking to me first?” Kagome shouted. “What the fuck is wrong with you?”

 

Inuyasha took a step back, but his own anger was rising. His mate was pissed off sure, but there was no reason for lashing out at him. His Youkai and his pride wouldn't stand for it. “What the fuck is wrong with me? You're the one who sent me an electronic Dear John letter!”

 

Kagome stormed up to him and Sesshomaru suddenly wished he had a video camera. “Yeah, and why in the hell would you believe it? Don't you think if I was going to break up with you I'd do it in person! I do have more class than that you moron!”

 

“Well how the hell was I supposed to know? I hadn't talked to you in two weeks!”

 

“I was writing finals and working!” Kagome snapped. “And why the hell didn't you act any differently when I did talk to you after that?”

 

“Because you asked me not to!” Inuyasha said.

 

“And that didn't seem slightly odd to you?” Sesshomaru asked, not being able to withhold his two cents any longer.

 

“Stay out of this Sesshomaru!” Inuyasha and Kagome snapped.

 

“Wait he's got a point.” Kagome said, causing a smirk to cross Sesshomaru's face as he leaned against the wall. “You didn't find that odd?”

 

“I didn't know what to think Kagome. My mate had just told me she was leaving me for some guy and told me that she didn't want this to affect our God damned friendship. That I was her best friend and she didn't want to lose that!” Inuyasha ran a hand through his hair. “If that doesn't sound like something you would say I don't know what is.”

 

“You could have asked me about it!” Kagome said. “You could have at least waited until I got home, you would have smelt him on me if I had left you for him!”

 

“I didn't know what I was doing Kagome.” Inuyasha said softly. “I was in so much pain!”

 

Kagome never replied to that, she was too busy going over in her mind everything she had told Brandon about Inuyasha. She had told him how they were childhood friends and had even admitted that if she ever lost his love, she'd at least want his friendship. “Figures, the first time a male actually listens and he put it to that kind of use.” She muttered. “I'm going to kill him!”

 

“Whatever, now we know what's going on. I'll phone Ayame and break up with her and you can move into the loft with me.”

 

Kagome's eyes flew to Inuyasha's and Sesshomaru caught the scent of fear radiating off his brother from the look. “Wait a minute. You and I had sex and you're still dating her.”

 

Inuyasha bit his lip nervously. “Um, it's not quite like you think. I haven't talked to her for a while so I haven't had time to break it off.”

 

Kagome's eyes fluttered closed and she took a deep breath. “Fuck you, Inuyasha.” She said so quietly he had to strain to hear her.

 

“What?”

 

“Fuck you!” She screamed at him.

 

Sesshomaru winced and silently prayed that Rin wasn't listening to this, he really didn't want to have to explain why it was okay for Kagome to be screaming those words. “Too late darling.” Inuyasha snapped back.

 

Kagome's breath hitched in her throat and she closed the remaining distance between them. She brought her hand back and slapped Inuyasha so hard that Sesshomaru's face hurt in sympathy for his brother.

 

“You disgust me. You two timing asshole!” Kagome said to him in a low voice laced with hate.

 

“You mated me.” Inuyasha whispered.

 

“Yeah well I guess we don't have to worry about that now do we?” Kagome said, her voice shaking with unshed tears.

 

“What are you talking about?” Inuyasha asked.

 

Kagome grabbed his arm and dragged him over to the large mirror that stood in the hallway. She grabbed the hem of his shirt and raised it to reveal his mark, or what was left of it. Inuyasha stared in horror as the remaining color disappeared and his skin was left completely unblemished. He desperately wanted to brush Kagome's hair aside to convince himself that he was just seeing things...that hers was still there.

 

“We aren't mates anymore Inuyasha, so I guess we have nothing left to worry about.” That said, Kagome spun on her heel and ran for her room, the scent of her tears lingering in the air.

 

Inuyasha turned his confused expression to his older brother. “I don't understand, what's happening?” He pleaded with his brother.

 

“It would seem that your Youkai released Kagome from the bond while you two were making love earlier.” Sesshomaru told his brother. “You two are no longer mates.”

 

Sesshomaru watched his younger brother fall to his knees, a sob ripping from his throat. “What do I do?” Inuyasha pleaded.

 

Sesshomaru sighed and went to kneel beside his younger brother. “I don't know little brother, I honestly don't know.”

 

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AN: THERE! YOU CAN ALL STOP HARASSING ME ABOUT THE EMAIL! Hehehe. Now we can all sit back and watch Inuyasha grovel. I originally wanted Kagome to talk to Inuyasha about the email before she went to talk to Sesshomaru, but then I watched episode 55: Stone Flowers and Shippou's first love, and I had to put in a mini Shippou/Inuyasha argument in there, I couldn't resist.

 

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dogdemonandkagome ::: wench ::: PrincessLovely (Oh believe me I know all about that kind!) ::: inux3kagome4eva ::: Sangokirara711 ::: KitCatKit ::: InuGrrrl (Ah my little fan girl, does that answer your questions? Now we get to watch Inuyasha grovel and try with everything in his power to get back in Kagome's good books. This is what I've been looking forward to writing. Also Sesshomaru will be helping in the “Torture Inuyasha” scheme, but of course it's all his own doing.)

 

Disclaimer: I don't own Inuyasha or the characters of Rumiko Takahashi. I do own the plot of this story along with any original characters that may make an appearance.