InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ I'm With You By Choice ❯ Kikyou, The Better Cousin ( Chapter 2 )
[ T - Teen: Not suitable for readers under 13 ]
By: Jessica Lyn 
Anime/Manga: InuYasha Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Drama / Romance / Comedy | Type: Alternate Universe | Uploaded On: 04.26.2007 | Pages: 2 | Words: 4.2K | Visits: 740 | Status: Work In Progress
Anime/Manga: InuYasha Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Drama / Romance / Comedy | Type: Alternate Universe | Uploaded On: 04.26.2007 | Pages: 2 | Words: 4.2K | Visits: 740 | Status: Work In Progress
I’m With You By Choice
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Summary: Kagura convinces Kagome to go out with her friend Inuyasha, after Hojo makes the ultimate betrayal. But when Kagome and Inuyasha bash heads more than get along, will things work out? And what would happen if there was a bet involved? InuKag, SanMir, Fluffy/Kagura
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Disclaimer: Oh how I would love to own Inuyasha... but I don’t so don’t turn me in for fraud! :D
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Authors Note: Here is the second chapter... I hope it goes better than the first
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Recap of Last Chapter:
“Just remember five o’clock you two!” Kagome shouted to them as she turned and walked back down to her room, leaving the couple alone in the living room.
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Chapter Two: Kikyou, the Better Cousin
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Kagome walked up to the family shrine and reached her left arm up to knock on the large wooden door. After a few moments of stillness, she heard the door begin to creak open and saw it begin to move away from her gaze. The door soon became all the way open and in it’s place stood her younger brother Souta.
Souta was seventeen years old and a bit of a pest to Kagome. She loved her brother dearly but he knew just how to get on her nerves sometimes. “Hey sis!” Souta smiled brightly and opened the door up further, this time Kagome could see a young girl sitting on the couch with her jii-chan. She knew automatically that the young girl was Miroku and Kagura’s younger sister Rin. Rin was sixteen and also, Souta’s girlfriend. They had been together for almost a year, and as such, Izumi insisted that Rin too join in on the ‘Family dinners’. “So where is everyone else?” he asked.
“They should be coming in a bit.” She smiled at her brother and then walked into the door. Souta closed the door behind her and she waved to her Jii-chan and Rin as she walked past the couch and then walked into the kitchen silently. She walked over to where her mother was working and she hopped up onto the counter.
“Hello Kagome.” Her mother smiled.
“Hi momma. Do you need help with anything?” Kagome questioned Izumi while Izumi was busy chopping up some vegetables.
“If you want, you can set the table.” Izumi said while not turning away from her work.
“Okay.” Kagome smiled and hopped of the counter, and doing as her mother had asked. As she was finishing up there was another knock at the door. She heard Souta get up and open the front door.
“Hey Souta!” Kagome heard Kagura squeal, she knew that Kagura loved any chance to pick on her little sister and her boyfriend.
“Hi Kagura.” Was the dry reply heard from Souta, who Kagome knew would only nod curtly at Sesshoumaru, as her brother had a large fear of the overly tall man with his broad shoulders and seemingly well toned body. Not that Kagome had looked. Okay, so she thought he was handsome, but other than that fleeting thought, Sesshoumaru was her friend, and more importantly, the property of one of her best friends, in other words, off limits.
As her daughters’ friends entered the house, Izumi moved away from her work just far enough to stick her head out the doorway of the kitchen. “You two have a seat in there until dinner is ready.” Izumi smiled as the two of them nodded and she then went back to her work at hand.
Kagome smiled at her mom before leaving the kitchen, her job now finished, and she walked into the living room to find her two friends seated on the couch with Souta and Rin, her Jii-chan had left the room. The two sisters were seated in the middle of the couch, each of their boyfriends on their other side, one looking slightly scared, the other looking completely impartial. Kagome flashed them a smile as she took a seat in the love seat that was next to Sesshoumaru’s end of the couch.
Kagome looked at her friends as they paid either great or little attention to the pictures flashing before them on the t.v. screen. She smiled at the sight of both sisters sitting together, Sesshoumaru had his arm placed firmly around Kagura’s shoulders and Souta was almost shyly holding onto Rin’s small hand, with their fingers laced. Kagome’s mind begin to wonder over the couples relationships.
Rin and Souta, as previously stated, had been together for nearly a year. Kagome had to admit that they were a rather cute couple. Souta with his shaggy dark brown hair and brown eyes, was an even match for Rin’s long black curls and sparkling blue eyes. Rin in her self was just a smaller version of Kagura, and Kagome would admit to being jealous, at times, of the looks that Kagura had been blessed with. Souta was completely head-over-heels for Rin, he would do anything he could just to get a smile from the petite girl, not that it took a lot. However, when she was depressed or someone had hurt her feelings, he was right there beside her, comforting her the whole way.
Sesshoumaru and Kagura were a very different couple. They had met four years prior, when Kagura was only 17. At that time in his life Sesshoumaru was 21, and he had already had a position in his father’s company. Satou Inc. was a multimillion dollar company, and although Inutaisho made sure that he was well cared for, Sesshoumaru had still wished to work. He wanted the experience for when it came time for himself to take hold of the corporation when his father retired. Sesshoumaru and Kagura had met at one of Miroku Sr.’s business parties. At first they had a pretty rocky start, but after they gotten used to one another from all of the business affairs that they attended with their fathers, Sesshoumaru started to ask Kagura to accompany him to such affairs, claiming that such a beautiful and well mannered woman would only up his social status.
Frankly Kagura didn’t care if he was only out for a higher social status, the man was as beautiful as a God, and her 17 year old self, could not turn that down. Eventually the two went from a mutual attraction, to him asking her on dates outside of those for business, and after the first year of knowing one another, the two of them started to date exclusively. Kagome thought that the two of them were perfect for one another. They were completely adorable together, and she knew that they loved one another very deeply.
Kagome and the others soon brought their attention back to the door when there was another knock at the door. Kagome looked at Souta who was pretty comfy with his woman, so she got up and answered to the knock at the door. She opened the door to see not only Miroku and Sango, but Hojo as well. She opened the door wider so that Miroku and Sango could enter the room, and they did, going over to sit on a couch to Souta’s right side and then Hojo walked up to the door with a smile on his face. Kagome kissed his cheek softly, and he grabbed her hand and laced their fingers while walking with her over to the love seat where she had previously been seated. Not a word was said between the two, but Kagome did remember to close the door with her foot as she walked away with Hojo.
The moment that Kagome and Hojo had sat themselves down, there was another knock at the door. Izumi came running out of the kitchen, declaring that it was her turn to answer the door. “I’ll get it.” She smiled as she walked through the livingroom. “You kids just sit down.” She walked over and opened the door to see her brother-in-law and niece standing outside of the door.
“Hello little Izumi.” Naraku smiled to his sister after she had opened the door.
“Hi Naraku, Kikyou.” Izumi nodded to both of them and then let them go past her so that they could enter the house. They both walked into the livingroom and sat down on the couch next to Sango and Miroku.
“Dinner will be ready in about ten minutes.” Izumi stated before walking past her guests and going back into the kitchen. The group sat in a still silence, the only sound being the show that Souta and Rin had been watching on the television since before Kagome, herself, had arrived. After about ten minutes of Kagome staring at Hojo she noticed that he was looking in a certain direction with a smirk on his face. Kagome followed the path of his lustful eyes and found that they rested on her cousin Kikyou. She frowned slightly before biting her lip while trying to decide if she should question him about this longing gaze he was giving to the cousin who looked so much like her.
Kagome and Kikyou had grown up very closely. In fact they had grown up so closely, that with their looks, most people thought that they were twins. However much they looked alike, it was clear to some how they looked different. Kikyou had an artificial like beauty, it was evident that if it had not been for the make-up that she frosted onto her face everyday she would not hold her beauty at all. Kagome’s look was more natural, she wore nothing more than eyeliner, mascara, and a clear lip gloss every day. The only other major difference between the two cousins was their hair. Kikyou’s hair was short, only a little past her shoulders, straight and a dirty brown color. Kagome’s tresses were inky black, waist length, and had a seemingly perfect amount of waves to them. All of this aside, over the past couple of years, the two had drifted apart, something unknown had come between them.
Kagome then decided that she had had enough of Hojo’s staring. “Hojo, is there a reason why you are looking at Kikyou?” Kagome questioned her boyfriend.
“Nothing Kag. Just, the two of you look a lot alike.” Hojo smiled down at his woman with a reassuring squeeze to her hand. Kagome only nodded at him. Izumi then came into the livingroom and announced that dinner was served.
Dinner was pretty uneventful and nothing much happened. After dinner the group moved back to the livingroom, this time Izumi and Jii-chan joined them. The youngsters of the group, had sat where they were previously and Izumi and Naraku brought in three of the kitchen chairs, per usual, for themselves and Jii-chan to sit on.
“So, how has the past month been treating you all?” Izumi asked, this was her true reason for inviting everyone to dinner once a month. She wanted to know how everyone was doing. The group was so used to these talks that had started over two years ago, that they already knew that they would start with the oldest of the kids and then go to the youngest just so that everyone could have a turn. This being said, it was Sesshoumaru who spoke first, then the others followed in suit.
In a nutshell they spent about an hour, each person saying anything important that happened to come to their mind. Sesshoumaru making it known that he had gotten another promotion at his father’s company, this receiving a lot of praise from Naraku. Which made Hojo even angrier because of Naraku’s hate for him only having a small job at his family’s pharmacy. Kikyou smiled saying that she had quit her old job because her father had told her that it was no longer necessary. Before they got to the two youngest of the children, Souta and Rin, Sesshoumaru’s cell phone started to ring.
“Sorry Izumi.” He smiled to her as he got up and left the livingroom and walked out the front door to take his call. A few minutes later his tall form came back into the room only to shake his head as he tucked his phone back into the pocket of his slightly tight jeans that hung loosely on his hips. “I apologize Izumi but my idiot brother seems to have messed up a lot of paperwork today, so I must go and fix it.”
“Not a problem Sesshoumaru. I will see you next month?” Izumi questioned.
“Of course. Are you coming?” He asked softly, his eyes trained onto Kagura, who nodded and got up and then waved goodbye to everyone as she followed him out the door. After they left Kagome turned to Miroku with a questioning glance.
“How long have I known him and not known that he has a brother?” Kagome questioned her friend with a small smile.
“Me either.” Sango mumbled from the other side of the room.
“I haven’t told you guys about him?” Miroku questioned. “He’s pretty stuck up but he’s still fun to be around sometimes.”
“He’s not half as stuck up as Sesshoumaru was when I first met him.” Rin laughed and Miroku nodded his head in agreement. It was about this time that Kagome noticed that Hojo had been rather silent. She looked over next to her where he had been sitting to realize that he was gone. ‘That’s strange, I didn’t even feel him move.’ After her brown eyes took a quick scan of the room, she noticed that Hojo was not the only person missing; Kikyou was also no where to be seen. She turned to Sango with a questioning glance.
“Did you see where Kikyou or Hojo went?” Kagome questioned her friend.
“No, I sure didn’t.” Sango replied while shaking her head. Kagome shrugged her shoulders and stood up from her current seat. She took the few short strides needed to reach the kitchen and she let her eyes scan the room upon her entrance. After she had realized that no one was in the room she decided to take a look upstairs, so she walked over to the stairs that led up to the second floor of the shrine and began to walk up them. As she reached the top of the stairs and stepped into the brightly lit upstairs hallway, she heard an almost grunt like sound being muffled from behind one of the doors.
She continued her search until she reached the all too familiar door in the middle of the hall. This was the room that Kagome had stayed in for the first eighteen years of her life, she smiled softly with a sad look in her eyes as she remembered the room. She didn’t go up to her room very often due to there being just too many bad memories, the last day she had ever stepped into that room was the day that her father, Shinichi died. But as Kagome heard that same grunt-like sound coming from behind that door, her door, she knew she was going to have to look upon the room again.
She didn’t think that it would be necessary to knock, it was her room after all, so Kagome reached a hand up to the doorknob and turned it to the left while pushing inwards on the door. She took a quick look around the room and made a soft, almost inaudible, gasp at the sight before her and she quickly, but silently shut the door behind her as tears began to assemble themselves in her eyes.
Kagome traced her own steps back to the kitchen, she walked slowly, almost as if she was in a daze. She found the elegant notepad and overly sharpened pencil that her mother kept on the counter and she wrote a quick note saying that she was sorry for ditching and that something had come up. Kagome took a few silent moments to read over her note while thinking to herself. ‘Something came up alright.’ she scoffed before a few tears left her deep brown eyes. She shook her head as to remove that thought, before she walked towards the back door of the house and snuck out, much like she had in her younger days.
Kagome drove herself silently back to the house that she shared with her friends. Only a few tears managed to escape on her ride home. She walked into the house and stopped immediately upon entering and seeing Kagura and Sesshoumaru on the couch. She had not expected them to be at the home, and her eyes grew twice their size in shock. Kagura turned toward the sound of the door clicking, she knew from the look her Kagome’s face, that something was terribly wrong. At the look of sympathy that Kagome received, all of the things that she remembered from before came flooding back to her and the tears that had fallen only in a sporadic manner before, now ran as if flood gates had been opened on an unsuspecting town.
As the tears began to flow, Kagura jumped out from under Sesshoumaru’s arm and she quickly moved towards Kagome. Sesshoumaru’s eyes widened slightly before he got up, in a manner that he normally wouldn’t, and walked over toward the girl that he had formed a deep friendship with over the years, as his girlfriend wrapped her arms around her.
“What’s wrong Kagome?” Kagura asked her friend worriedly, while trying to calm her crying. Kagura’s words however, sent Kagome into racking sobs, Kagura not expecting the change let Kagome’s body slip through her petite arms as she collapsed on the floor. Sesshoumaru reached where the two women were standing and Kagura went to reach for Kagome but he batted at her hands softly before leaning down and picking up Kagome’s weak body and with one arm under her knees and the other supporting her back he carried her crying form over to the couch that he and Kagura had just removed themselves from. He sat her in the middle of the couch and then he and Kagura both took a seat on either side of her as she cried.
“Kagome, sweetheart, tell me what’s wrong.” Kagura said her voice now soft and light as she tried to find out what was wrong with one of her two best friends. Kagome continued to sob, but through them, she tried to tell her friends about what had happened. To Kagura it came out as a bunch of mumbled words, but Sesshoumaru must have caught what happened because the second that Kagome finished trying to talk through her racking sobs, Sesshoumaru made his move.
“Oh, you poor, poor girl.” He said sadly to her while wrapping his arms around her in a genuine hug, something that was normally reserved for only Kagura, but he felt that it was needed here. Kagura looked toward her love with a questioning glance. She watched carefully as he mouthed the words to her that he had caught coming from between Kagome’s sobs. Kagura’s eyes grew in size before she threw her arms around her friend.
“I’m so sorry Kagome.” Kagura said softly while trying to calm Kagome down by telling her that things would be okay and rubbing her back in a soothing manner. Sometime later Kagome’s sobs turned into just small whimpers and she was finally calmed down. Sesshoumaru had moved away from her slightly but he still sat next to her, facing her, and holding one of her hands in his while trying to pat it soothingly. Kagura pulled back from her friend but left her arms around her shoulders for comfort. “You wanna talk about it?” Kagura asked after Kagome had stopped crying, and Kagome nodded her head.
Kagome told them everything that happened up until the point of her reaching up to opening the door to her old room, then the story began to get interesting. “I didn’t really think anything of it because it’s my room ya know? But I opened the door just a bit and I saw.... I saw them both. They were both on my bed, completely naked. He was on top of her, and her legs were wrapped around his waist and... ewww. I just looked in shocked for a moment and then left.” Kagome said a little tiredly as both her friends looked at her with sympathy.
“Were you caught?” Sesshoumaru questioned her softly. She shook her head ‘No.’
“Don’t worry about him Kagome, If he would do this to someone as great as you, then he’s obviously not worth it, and he doesn’t deserve you.” Kagura smiled softly at the girl with the dried up tears still showing the trail they took down her now reddened cheeks.
“I just don’t understand why, we’ve been together for so long.” Kagome stated then with a shake of her head she began to laugh softly. “Maybe that’s the problem.”
“I don’t quite follow Kagome.” Sesshoumaru said with one of his perfect eyebrows raised. Kagome laughed still.
“As a 21 year old male, sex was probably something that should have been included in our relationship.” Kagome stated pointedly, with Sesshoumaru looking at her with a brief flash of shock in his eyes. They had been together for so long, he had just assumed that they had.
“It’s not your fault, it isn’t as if you haven’t tried.” Kagura giggled a little at the look on Sesshoumaru’s face.
“Okay, now that was way too much information.” The older boy said while shaking his head. Kagome then stood up from her seat.
“I want to thank you both. I’m glad you were here to comfort me.” She smiled softly. “I’m really tired though so I think I’m going to go take a nap for a while.” She said while heading to her room. After they both witnessed her going down the stairs to her room, Kagura looked towards Seshoumaru.
“She needs to find a good man, one who will see her for the beauty she is, one that knows how to treat her and won’t take her for granted.” Kagura stated with a smile.
“Yes, this is true. I’ll make sure to keep an eye out for one of those.” Sesshoumaru smiled, this making Kagura laugh but then she pounced on her man and embraced him into a passionate kiss that they knew that no one would be home to witness for a while.
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Author’s Note- And there you have chapter two! It was a little drama filled eh? But again, needed for my plot line!
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Chapter Quotes:
“Nothing Kag. Just, the two of you look a lot alike.” Hojo smiled down at his woman with a reassuring squeeze to her hand. ----- Liar
“How long have I known him and not known that he has a brother?” Kagome questioned her friend with a small smile.----- You will know him very shortly my dear....
“Oh, you poor, poor girl.” He said sadly to her while wrapping his arms around her in a genuine hug, something that was normally reserved for only Kagura, but he felt that it was needed here.----- Sesshoumaru hugging people is kinda scary... but I’d still like him to hug me! Lol
=“It’s not your fault, it isn’t as if you haven’t tried.” Kagura giggled a little at the look on Sesshoumaru’s face.
“Okay, now that was way too much information.” The older boy said while shaking his head. Kagome then stood up from her seat.= ----- I can’t imagine Sesshoumaru saying something like that... but I thought it was a little funny piece after all the crying and drama and stuffs
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Summary: Kagura convinces Kagome to go out with her friend Inuyasha, after Hojo makes the ultimate betrayal. But when Kagome and Inuyasha bash heads more than get along, will things work out? And what would happen if there was a bet involved? InuKag, SanMir, Fluffy/Kagura
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Disclaimer: Oh how I would love to own Inuyasha... but I don’t so don’t turn me in for fraud! :D
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Authors Note: Here is the second chapter... I hope it goes better than the first
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Recap of Last Chapter:
“Just remember five o’clock you two!” Kagome shouted to them as she turned and walked back down to her room, leaving the couple alone in the living room.
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Chapter Two: Kikyou, the Better Cousin
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Kagome walked up to the family shrine and reached her left arm up to knock on the large wooden door. After a few moments of stillness, she heard the door begin to creak open and saw it begin to move away from her gaze. The door soon became all the way open and in it’s place stood her younger brother Souta.
Souta was seventeen years old and a bit of a pest to Kagome. She loved her brother dearly but he knew just how to get on her nerves sometimes. “Hey sis!” Souta smiled brightly and opened the door up further, this time Kagome could see a young girl sitting on the couch with her jii-chan. She knew automatically that the young girl was Miroku and Kagura’s younger sister Rin. Rin was sixteen and also, Souta’s girlfriend. They had been together for almost a year, and as such, Izumi insisted that Rin too join in on the ‘Family dinners’. “So where is everyone else?” he asked.
“They should be coming in a bit.” She smiled at her brother and then walked into the door. Souta closed the door behind her and she waved to her Jii-chan and Rin as she walked past the couch and then walked into the kitchen silently. She walked over to where her mother was working and she hopped up onto the counter.
“Hello Kagome.” Her mother smiled.
“Hi momma. Do you need help with anything?” Kagome questioned Izumi while Izumi was busy chopping up some vegetables.
“If you want, you can set the table.” Izumi said while not turning away from her work.
“Okay.” Kagome smiled and hopped of the counter, and doing as her mother had asked. As she was finishing up there was another knock at the door. She heard Souta get up and open the front door.
“Hey Souta!” Kagome heard Kagura squeal, she knew that Kagura loved any chance to pick on her little sister and her boyfriend.
“Hi Kagura.” Was the dry reply heard from Souta, who Kagome knew would only nod curtly at Sesshoumaru, as her brother had a large fear of the overly tall man with his broad shoulders and seemingly well toned body. Not that Kagome had looked. Okay, so she thought he was handsome, but other than that fleeting thought, Sesshoumaru was her friend, and more importantly, the property of one of her best friends, in other words, off limits.
As her daughters’ friends entered the house, Izumi moved away from her work just far enough to stick her head out the doorway of the kitchen. “You two have a seat in there until dinner is ready.” Izumi smiled as the two of them nodded and she then went back to her work at hand.
Kagome smiled at her mom before leaving the kitchen, her job now finished, and she walked into the living room to find her two friends seated on the couch with Souta and Rin, her Jii-chan had left the room. The two sisters were seated in the middle of the couch, each of their boyfriends on their other side, one looking slightly scared, the other looking completely impartial. Kagome flashed them a smile as she took a seat in the love seat that was next to Sesshoumaru’s end of the couch.
Kagome looked at her friends as they paid either great or little attention to the pictures flashing before them on the t.v. screen. She smiled at the sight of both sisters sitting together, Sesshoumaru had his arm placed firmly around Kagura’s shoulders and Souta was almost shyly holding onto Rin’s small hand, with their fingers laced. Kagome’s mind begin to wonder over the couples relationships.
Rin and Souta, as previously stated, had been together for nearly a year. Kagome had to admit that they were a rather cute couple. Souta with his shaggy dark brown hair and brown eyes, was an even match for Rin’s long black curls and sparkling blue eyes. Rin in her self was just a smaller version of Kagura, and Kagome would admit to being jealous, at times, of the looks that Kagura had been blessed with. Souta was completely head-over-heels for Rin, he would do anything he could just to get a smile from the petite girl, not that it took a lot. However, when she was depressed or someone had hurt her feelings, he was right there beside her, comforting her the whole way.
Sesshoumaru and Kagura were a very different couple. They had met four years prior, when Kagura was only 17. At that time in his life Sesshoumaru was 21, and he had already had a position in his father’s company. Satou Inc. was a multimillion dollar company, and although Inutaisho made sure that he was well cared for, Sesshoumaru had still wished to work. He wanted the experience for when it came time for himself to take hold of the corporation when his father retired. Sesshoumaru and Kagura had met at one of Miroku Sr.’s business parties. At first they had a pretty rocky start, but after they gotten used to one another from all of the business affairs that they attended with their fathers, Sesshoumaru started to ask Kagura to accompany him to such affairs, claiming that such a beautiful and well mannered woman would only up his social status.
Frankly Kagura didn’t care if he was only out for a higher social status, the man was as beautiful as a God, and her 17 year old self, could not turn that down. Eventually the two went from a mutual attraction, to him asking her on dates outside of those for business, and after the first year of knowing one another, the two of them started to date exclusively. Kagome thought that the two of them were perfect for one another. They were completely adorable together, and she knew that they loved one another very deeply.
Kagome and the others soon brought their attention back to the door when there was another knock at the door. Kagome looked at Souta who was pretty comfy with his woman, so she got up and answered to the knock at the door. She opened the door to see not only Miroku and Sango, but Hojo as well. She opened the door wider so that Miroku and Sango could enter the room, and they did, going over to sit on a couch to Souta’s right side and then Hojo walked up to the door with a smile on his face. Kagome kissed his cheek softly, and he grabbed her hand and laced their fingers while walking with her over to the love seat where she had previously been seated. Not a word was said between the two, but Kagome did remember to close the door with her foot as she walked away with Hojo.
The moment that Kagome and Hojo had sat themselves down, there was another knock at the door. Izumi came running out of the kitchen, declaring that it was her turn to answer the door. “I’ll get it.” She smiled as she walked through the livingroom. “You kids just sit down.” She walked over and opened the door to see her brother-in-law and niece standing outside of the door.
“Hello little Izumi.” Naraku smiled to his sister after she had opened the door.
“Hi Naraku, Kikyou.” Izumi nodded to both of them and then let them go past her so that they could enter the house. They both walked into the livingroom and sat down on the couch next to Sango and Miroku.
“Dinner will be ready in about ten minutes.” Izumi stated before walking past her guests and going back into the kitchen. The group sat in a still silence, the only sound being the show that Souta and Rin had been watching on the television since before Kagome, herself, had arrived. After about ten minutes of Kagome staring at Hojo she noticed that he was looking in a certain direction with a smirk on his face. Kagome followed the path of his lustful eyes and found that they rested on her cousin Kikyou. She frowned slightly before biting her lip while trying to decide if she should question him about this longing gaze he was giving to the cousin who looked so much like her.
Kagome and Kikyou had grown up very closely. In fact they had grown up so closely, that with their looks, most people thought that they were twins. However much they looked alike, it was clear to some how they looked different. Kikyou had an artificial like beauty, it was evident that if it had not been for the make-up that she frosted onto her face everyday she would not hold her beauty at all. Kagome’s look was more natural, she wore nothing more than eyeliner, mascara, and a clear lip gloss every day. The only other major difference between the two cousins was their hair. Kikyou’s hair was short, only a little past her shoulders, straight and a dirty brown color. Kagome’s tresses were inky black, waist length, and had a seemingly perfect amount of waves to them. All of this aside, over the past couple of years, the two had drifted apart, something unknown had come between them.
Kagome then decided that she had had enough of Hojo’s staring. “Hojo, is there a reason why you are looking at Kikyou?” Kagome questioned her boyfriend.
“Nothing Kag. Just, the two of you look a lot alike.” Hojo smiled down at his woman with a reassuring squeeze to her hand. Kagome only nodded at him. Izumi then came into the livingroom and announced that dinner was served.
Dinner was pretty uneventful and nothing much happened. After dinner the group moved back to the livingroom, this time Izumi and Jii-chan joined them. The youngsters of the group, had sat where they were previously and Izumi and Naraku brought in three of the kitchen chairs, per usual, for themselves and Jii-chan to sit on.
“So, how has the past month been treating you all?” Izumi asked, this was her true reason for inviting everyone to dinner once a month. She wanted to know how everyone was doing. The group was so used to these talks that had started over two years ago, that they already knew that they would start with the oldest of the kids and then go to the youngest just so that everyone could have a turn. This being said, it was Sesshoumaru who spoke first, then the others followed in suit.
In a nutshell they spent about an hour, each person saying anything important that happened to come to their mind. Sesshoumaru making it known that he had gotten another promotion at his father’s company, this receiving a lot of praise from Naraku. Which made Hojo even angrier because of Naraku’s hate for him only having a small job at his family’s pharmacy. Kikyou smiled saying that she had quit her old job because her father had told her that it was no longer necessary. Before they got to the two youngest of the children, Souta and Rin, Sesshoumaru’s cell phone started to ring.
“Sorry Izumi.” He smiled to her as he got up and left the livingroom and walked out the front door to take his call. A few minutes later his tall form came back into the room only to shake his head as he tucked his phone back into the pocket of his slightly tight jeans that hung loosely on his hips. “I apologize Izumi but my idiot brother seems to have messed up a lot of paperwork today, so I must go and fix it.”
“Not a problem Sesshoumaru. I will see you next month?” Izumi questioned.
“Of course. Are you coming?” He asked softly, his eyes trained onto Kagura, who nodded and got up and then waved goodbye to everyone as she followed him out the door. After they left Kagome turned to Miroku with a questioning glance.
“How long have I known him and not known that he has a brother?” Kagome questioned her friend with a small smile.
“Me either.” Sango mumbled from the other side of the room.
“I haven’t told you guys about him?” Miroku questioned. “He’s pretty stuck up but he’s still fun to be around sometimes.”
“He’s not half as stuck up as Sesshoumaru was when I first met him.” Rin laughed and Miroku nodded his head in agreement. It was about this time that Kagome noticed that Hojo had been rather silent. She looked over next to her where he had been sitting to realize that he was gone. ‘That’s strange, I didn’t even feel him move.’ After her brown eyes took a quick scan of the room, she noticed that Hojo was not the only person missing; Kikyou was also no where to be seen. She turned to Sango with a questioning glance.
“Did you see where Kikyou or Hojo went?” Kagome questioned her friend.
“No, I sure didn’t.” Sango replied while shaking her head. Kagome shrugged her shoulders and stood up from her current seat. She took the few short strides needed to reach the kitchen and she let her eyes scan the room upon her entrance. After she had realized that no one was in the room she decided to take a look upstairs, so she walked over to the stairs that led up to the second floor of the shrine and began to walk up them. As she reached the top of the stairs and stepped into the brightly lit upstairs hallway, she heard an almost grunt like sound being muffled from behind one of the doors.
She continued her search until she reached the all too familiar door in the middle of the hall. This was the room that Kagome had stayed in for the first eighteen years of her life, she smiled softly with a sad look in her eyes as she remembered the room. She didn’t go up to her room very often due to there being just too many bad memories, the last day she had ever stepped into that room was the day that her father, Shinichi died. But as Kagome heard that same grunt-like sound coming from behind that door, her door, she knew she was going to have to look upon the room again.
She didn’t think that it would be necessary to knock, it was her room after all, so Kagome reached a hand up to the doorknob and turned it to the left while pushing inwards on the door. She took a quick look around the room and made a soft, almost inaudible, gasp at the sight before her and she quickly, but silently shut the door behind her as tears began to assemble themselves in her eyes.
Kagome traced her own steps back to the kitchen, she walked slowly, almost as if she was in a daze. She found the elegant notepad and overly sharpened pencil that her mother kept on the counter and she wrote a quick note saying that she was sorry for ditching and that something had come up. Kagome took a few silent moments to read over her note while thinking to herself. ‘Something came up alright.’ she scoffed before a few tears left her deep brown eyes. She shook her head as to remove that thought, before she walked towards the back door of the house and snuck out, much like she had in her younger days.
Kagome drove herself silently back to the house that she shared with her friends. Only a few tears managed to escape on her ride home. She walked into the house and stopped immediately upon entering and seeing Kagura and Sesshoumaru on the couch. She had not expected them to be at the home, and her eyes grew twice their size in shock. Kagura turned toward the sound of the door clicking, she knew from the look her Kagome’s face, that something was terribly wrong. At the look of sympathy that Kagome received, all of the things that she remembered from before came flooding back to her and the tears that had fallen only in a sporadic manner before, now ran as if flood gates had been opened on an unsuspecting town.
As the tears began to flow, Kagura jumped out from under Sesshoumaru’s arm and she quickly moved towards Kagome. Sesshoumaru’s eyes widened slightly before he got up, in a manner that he normally wouldn’t, and walked over toward the girl that he had formed a deep friendship with over the years, as his girlfriend wrapped her arms around her.
“What’s wrong Kagome?” Kagura asked her friend worriedly, while trying to calm her crying. Kagura’s words however, sent Kagome into racking sobs, Kagura not expecting the change let Kagome’s body slip through her petite arms as she collapsed on the floor. Sesshoumaru reached where the two women were standing and Kagura went to reach for Kagome but he batted at her hands softly before leaning down and picking up Kagome’s weak body and with one arm under her knees and the other supporting her back he carried her crying form over to the couch that he and Kagura had just removed themselves from. He sat her in the middle of the couch and then he and Kagura both took a seat on either side of her as she cried.
“Kagome, sweetheart, tell me what’s wrong.” Kagura said her voice now soft and light as she tried to find out what was wrong with one of her two best friends. Kagome continued to sob, but through them, she tried to tell her friends about what had happened. To Kagura it came out as a bunch of mumbled words, but Sesshoumaru must have caught what happened because the second that Kagome finished trying to talk through her racking sobs, Sesshoumaru made his move.
“Oh, you poor, poor girl.” He said sadly to her while wrapping his arms around her in a genuine hug, something that was normally reserved for only Kagura, but he felt that it was needed here. Kagura looked toward her love with a questioning glance. She watched carefully as he mouthed the words to her that he had caught coming from between Kagome’s sobs. Kagura’s eyes grew in size before she threw her arms around her friend.
“I’m so sorry Kagome.” Kagura said softly while trying to calm Kagome down by telling her that things would be okay and rubbing her back in a soothing manner. Sometime later Kagome’s sobs turned into just small whimpers and she was finally calmed down. Sesshoumaru had moved away from her slightly but he still sat next to her, facing her, and holding one of her hands in his while trying to pat it soothingly. Kagura pulled back from her friend but left her arms around her shoulders for comfort. “You wanna talk about it?” Kagura asked after Kagome had stopped crying, and Kagome nodded her head.
Kagome told them everything that happened up until the point of her reaching up to opening the door to her old room, then the story began to get interesting. “I didn’t really think anything of it because it’s my room ya know? But I opened the door just a bit and I saw.... I saw them both. They were both on my bed, completely naked. He was on top of her, and her legs were wrapped around his waist and... ewww. I just looked in shocked for a moment and then left.” Kagome said a little tiredly as both her friends looked at her with sympathy.
“Were you caught?” Sesshoumaru questioned her softly. She shook her head ‘No.’
“Don’t worry about him Kagome, If he would do this to someone as great as you, then he’s obviously not worth it, and he doesn’t deserve you.” Kagura smiled softly at the girl with the dried up tears still showing the trail they took down her now reddened cheeks.
“I just don’t understand why, we’ve been together for so long.” Kagome stated then with a shake of her head she began to laugh softly. “Maybe that’s the problem.”
“I don’t quite follow Kagome.” Sesshoumaru said with one of his perfect eyebrows raised. Kagome laughed still.
“As a 21 year old male, sex was probably something that should have been included in our relationship.” Kagome stated pointedly, with Sesshoumaru looking at her with a brief flash of shock in his eyes. They had been together for so long, he had just assumed that they had.
“It’s not your fault, it isn’t as if you haven’t tried.” Kagura giggled a little at the look on Sesshoumaru’s face.
“Okay, now that was way too much information.” The older boy said while shaking his head. Kagome then stood up from her seat.
“I want to thank you both. I’m glad you were here to comfort me.” She smiled softly. “I’m really tired though so I think I’m going to go take a nap for a while.” She said while heading to her room. After they both witnessed her going down the stairs to her room, Kagura looked towards Seshoumaru.
“She needs to find a good man, one who will see her for the beauty she is, one that knows how to treat her and won’t take her for granted.” Kagura stated with a smile.
“Yes, this is true. I’ll make sure to keep an eye out for one of those.” Sesshoumaru smiled, this making Kagura laugh but then she pounced on her man and embraced him into a passionate kiss that they knew that no one would be home to witness for a while.
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Author’s Note- And there you have chapter two! It was a little drama filled eh? But again, needed for my plot line!
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Chapter Quotes:
“Nothing Kag. Just, the two of you look a lot alike.” Hojo smiled down at his woman with a reassuring squeeze to her hand. ----- Liar
“How long have I known him and not known that he has a brother?” Kagome questioned her friend with a small smile.----- You will know him very shortly my dear....
“Oh, you poor, poor girl.” He said sadly to her while wrapping his arms around her in a genuine hug, something that was normally reserved for only Kagura, but he felt that it was needed here.----- Sesshoumaru hugging people is kinda scary... but I’d still like him to hug me! Lol
=“It’s not your fault, it isn’t as if you haven’t tried.” Kagura giggled a little at the look on Sesshoumaru’s face.
“Okay, now that was way too much information.” The older boy said while shaking his head. Kagome then stood up from her seat.= ----- I can’t imagine Sesshoumaru saying something like that... but I thought it was a little funny piece after all the crying and drama and stuffs