InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Indecent proposal ❯ Resignation ( Chapter 37 )

Chapter37: Resignation

 

A/N: Here's the next oh so awaited chapter.

 

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Disclaimer: If I owned Inuyasha, Sesshomarou would have been the one to hold Kagura's heart.

 

 

“Speaking”

`Thinking'

 

 

*Flashback: Friday, 6:40 pm*

 

Touran felt the swell of Sesshomarou's anger and started shivering in fear before quickly trying to flee from the room. Unfortunately for her, by the time she had gathered enough wit to turn around and head for the door she found Sesshomarou planted in front of her, effectively blocking her exit.

 

“What…is…it Mr Tashio?” she asked fear spreading throughout her entire body.

 

Stepping closer to Touran Sesshomarou noticed something shiny catching his eye, which validated his suspicions. Narrowing his darkened eyes to thin red amber slits, the dog demon raised his razor sharp claws before his secretary's face before he started speaking “Touran”…do you think this Sesshomarou stupid enough not to be able to smell deceit? I am neither a half breed nor a pathetic cat. And you reek of lies.”

 

The panther demoness yelped and tried to get away but Sesshomarou was too fast for her. He grabbed her arm and asked “what is this?” He then mercilessly ripped the collar of her shirt with his sharp claws heedless of the small welts he left on Touran's flawless pale skin. Sesshomarou's action exposed none other than the necklace he had purchased for Kagura.

 

Before he left New York, Sesshomarou decided to do something nice for Kagura in order to cheer her up. Of course he knew that a piece of jewelry no matter how expensive would not make her forget about the anniversary of her Grandmother's death nor his prolonged absence, but at least it would please his wind witch. Sesshomarou had the necklace delivered at his office so that he could give it to his Kagura as soon as he saw her. Merely a few minutes after he had received the necklace, his father had called him and Sesshomarou had to leave. The dog demon realized with furry, that during his absence Touran must have gone snooping into his office and seeing the necklace decided that it would be a good idea to take it for herself.

 

“How dare you?” Sesshomarou growled before forcing Touran to turn around and quickly yet carefully removed the necklace from her throat.

 

“You don't understand Sesshomarou. I did it for you, Kagura is…” She started trying to defend actions, but was interrupted by Sesshomarou.

 

“What have you done? What did you tell Kagura? You better not lie.” Sesshomarou ordered her as he restrained Touran with his iron grip. The dog demon right hand clenched Touran's slim left arm, unmindful of his deadly claws digging in her flesh.

 

Touran hissed in pain, but otherwise refused to show Sesshomarou how much he was hurting her arm. She did casually glance at the growing blood red stain on the sleeve of her shirt before answering him

 

“I just told her the truth the entire truth. I gave her the reason why you so desperately wanted to have an heir: I told her all about your mother's will” Touran said with a scowl. She really was vexed by the way Sesshomarou was pushing her around, when she only had his best interest at heart.

 

Taking a few seconds to process the information Sesshomarou asked “how did you come across such information?”

 

“When I was sorting out your mail during your absence, I came across a missive from your lawyer. It did not take me long to make the connection between the letter and the time I overheard Jaken reminding you that you only had a few months left before losing your inheritance.” Touran said as she took advantage of the dog demon's shock and finally managed to break free from Sesshomarou's hold on her arm.

 

The panther demoness took two steps backwards and gently massaged her wounded left arm. Through the tear in her shirt sleeve, she could see her skin staring to heal. She then realized that Sesshomarou's intention had luckily not been to hurt her. Otherwise Touran knew that she would be either buckling over in pain due to his poisonous claws or nursing deep gashes on her arm, a polar opposite to the small welts his deadly claws had left in their wake on her pale flesh.

 

Sesshomarou knew exactly what conversation the panther demoness was referring to. It had occurred a few months ago, as Jaken gave him the useless folders he had put together with the profiles of the different women he could use. It was the very same day he had met Kagura.

 

Deep in his heart Sesshomarou knew that he had to find Kagura and try to explain himself and tell her the entire truth. But the fact that she had blindly believed Touran over asking him about his version of the facts angered him and left him bitter.

 

`But then again, it's the side of youthat you have been showing her so far. I mean think about it:you offer the girl one million dollar to have your kid without explaining to her `why' so of course she would believe the first explanation given to her' Sesshomarou's inner demon tried to reason him.

 

`You are right; I need to tell Kagura everything'. Sesshomarou thought as he looked with disgust at Touran before addressing her on a chilling tone “by the time this Sesshomarou comes back, for your sake you better be gone. Otherwise I might just kill you”.

 

The only sign that she had clearly heard his threat was a small pathetic whimper Touran let out. Sesshomarou then stormed out of his office leaving a shock still and deathly terrified Touran behind. Luckily for her, the dog demon wanted to find Kagura as soon as possible and did not have time to deal with the panther demoness.

 

 

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Just for good measure Sesshomarou once more knocked loudly on the door. But still he received no answer.

 

`I do not understand. I have been knocking on the door for the past ten minutes. Why isn't Kagura answering? Or at least Kagome…' Sesshomarou thought consumed with anger and a little worry.

 

`Maybe they're out, you should try again tomorrow morning otherwise the neighbors might call the cops or something.' His inner demon suggested.

 

Sighing heavily Sesshomarou stopped his assault on the wooden green door of Kagura and Kagome's apartment. He then once again fished out his cell phone and tried reaching Kagura. But once more he was greeted by her voice mail. Going against his aversion of answering machines he left her a short message:

 

“Kagura this is Sesshomarou, call me as soon as you get this message. We need to talk”. He then hung up, wondering if he should have used some term of endearment or a greeting. Shaking his head and sighing heavily Sesshomarou decided that it would be best to listen to the words of his inner demon and simply go home.

 

 

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After spending a painful sleepless night going over what he could have done differently with his wind witch, Sesshomarou got up. He tried following his usual Saturday morning ritual but was sure that he had done a few things wrong.

 

Sesshomarou did his best to act as normal as possible for Rin's sake. He did not want his precious little girl to worry even if his mind was racing with ludicrous ideas. Somehow during the night his over productive imagination had managed to convince him that something was wrong with Kagura and that the reason neither her nor Kagome had been home the previous night was that the wind sorceress had been in some sort of accident. He was about to call every major hospitals in the city, but Sesshomarou had managed to calm down his fears.

 

Shaking his head to remove the absurd ideas, Sesshomarou glanced at Rin over the breakfast table and said to her “Rin I know I promised to take you to the zoo today, but I have things to do”.

 

“It's okay” the brown haired human said masking her slight disappointment. She had missed her father deeply during his month long absence, and was looking forward to spending the day with him. Just then something occurred to Rin. She was sure that the only reason Sesshomarou would cancel their outing would be her beloved Kagura. Suddenly the prospect of her father not spending the day with her did not seem so bad to Rin, that is just as long as he was really spending his time with Kagura

 

. Wanting to make sure that she was right, Rin asked “Are you going out with Kagura again?” the little girl's eyes were sparkling in happiness.

 

“You could say that” he answered with his best indifferent mask on as he got up ready to go chase down the woman responsible of his torment.

 

“Say `hi' to her for Rin!” the bubbly little girl said as she energetically waved to her father's retreating form.

 

 

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“This is becoming ridiculous!” Sesshomarou exclaimed as he smashed his fist against the wheel of his car.

 

The reason for his anger was that he had just spent the entire morning sitting in his car, waiting for Kagura to get home. He had called her cell phone many times, but each and every time he ended up on voice mail. As his worries took over him, the dog demon had ordered Jaken to check all the hospitals of the city to find out whether Kagura had been in some sort of accident, but thankfully as he expected and hoped she had not.

 

Sesshomarou knew he still had one option, but he also knew that he would be damned before he asked Inuyasha for his assistance in something so personal.

 

Just as he was about to start his car and drive home, Sesshomarou saw none other than Kagome walking up to their apartment. He was disappointed that it had not been his wind witch, but he knew that the young human would surely know where Kagura was.

 

He stepped out of his car in an elegant fast and fluid motion and quickly walked up to Kagome.

 

 

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`Damn you and your stupid pride Kagura Kagewaki! That idiot wouldn't even listen to me!' Kagome thought angrily as she readjusted the sling of her yellow overstuffed purse on her shoulder and marched with heavy steps towards her apartment.

 

`But then again I understand Kagura, for all I know Sesshomarou could try to feed her more lies. Maybe everything Touran said was true…everything fell into place and made sense. Maybe I am the one who is wrong. In fact Inuyasha did say on several occasions that his brother was a manipulative bastard…Why haven't I thought of this before?! Inuyasha! Maybe I should ask for his assistance! As if he would help me on this one… Bet he would simply say `none of my business wench!' That baka I wonder how he managed to make me love him so much…' Kagome's straying thoughts were suddenly interrupted when she heard someone call her name behind her.

 

 

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“Kagome” Sesshomarou said catching the miko before she could enter the building she lived in.

 

The young human jolted in surprise and abruptly turned around. As soon as she saw Sesshomarou, the look on her face quickly went from surprised to fuming in anger.

 

“What are you doing here? No, better yet how dare you show your face here?!” she maliciously said pointing an accusing finger in his direction.

 

“This Sesshomarou should not have to explain my action to one such as you, but anyway I will. I simply want to see Kagura” he said crossing his arms over his chest. Sesshomarou had to admit that he was surprised by the young human's uncharacteristic anger.

 

“Why? So you can hurt her some more?” Kagome hissed, rage rolling all over her. She refused to back down in front of the powerful dog demon. The young miko was focusing all her anger and frustration about the whole situation on the man standing in front of her.

 

“I merely want to explain myself, what Touran…” he started but was cut off by Kagome:

 

“Do not even dare utter her name in front of me, and do not waste your breath on me. How could you do this to Kagura? And on this date out of all the days! As if losing Grandma Kaede was not enough, you had to do this to Kagura on the anniversary of Kaede's death…And anyway you're too late, Kagura is gone”. Kagome said on the verge of tears. All her pleading had been for naught and Kagura, Kanna and Hakudoushi had indeed left.

 

“Gone?!” Sesshomarou echoed incredulous.

 

“Yes, she did not want to deal with the pain so she left. She also said she had some thinking to do and did not want to see you.”

 

“Where did she go?” Sesshomarou inquired.

 

“As if I'd tell you of all people. She doesn't want to see you. You're the reason she left! Don't you think you have done enough already?” Kagome said as she walked inside the building, not turning once to look at Sesshomarou's crestfallen face.

 

`She left me, without even giving me a chance to explain myself?' Sesshomarou wondered bewildered as he walked back to his car. He knew that following Kagome and harassing her to answer his question would not do any good.

 

`I am sure that if you were to ask Inuyasha for his assistance, Kagome would tell him where Kagura went. Then you could win her back' Sesshomarou's inner demon remarked.

 

`There is no need for me to do such a thing' Sesshomarou retorted angrily.

 

`Of course there is, you love Kagu…' his inner demon started to be interrupted:

 

`I do not! It is now clear that the two of us were ill suited after all. If Kagura would rather selfishly run away than listen to what I had to say, if she would rather believe the lies of Touran over my word then the two of us were not meant to be. How could I ever be with someone who distrust me and intended to cheat me from the start? For all I know Kagura could have just been acting and pretending to have feelings for me, waiting for the perfect opportunity to rip me off. Maybe Touran's schemes were just an excuse for Kagura to run away… No Kagura and I were indeed not meant to be'.

 

`If you say so. All I hope is that you will not regret your decision later on' his inner voice said stubbornly.

 

Sesshomarou silently listened to the words of his inner demon as he felt his heart sink in his chest. He then grew extremely angry at himself over the fact that he had let a woman, a mere wind sorceress be such an important part of his life that the idea of losing her could hurt him so deeply.

 

`She does not matter to this Sesshomarou' He thought trying to convince himself. Sesshomarou then turned on his engine and drove home to his little girl. Looking at his watch, he realized it was not too late to take Rin to the zoo.

 

 

To be continued…

 

 

A/N: Sniff so sad. Will they ever get back together? Will Kagura have her baby? Will Saphira finally answer some of the questions she keeps on asking? Find out next time in Getting by.