InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Just friends ❯ lives utterly cold ( Chapter 2 )

Just friends

Chapter 2 Lives utterly cold

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Climbing, because it could only be called climbing, the old steps to the shrine of her family, she couldn't help but think of how cold Sesshoumaru had gotten, after the couple interrupted them.

He grew back to the man who's heart was ruled by emptiness. Why couldn't he just relax?! `Such a stubborn tiger!!!' she thought angrily.

Tiger? Where had that come from?

Smiling she remembered their little verbal spar. They weren't out to hurt each other with it, she knew that too well, it was more of a way … a way to what?

She had no idea, curiously she didn't care, as she realized it was just their way.

Their… how come every time she thought she cleared something up there would arise another question?!

Ahh!!!

Clearing her mind, she looked at both the brick red shrine as well as the white villa which stood to it's left.

Her home, she thought sarcastically. The only thing here which was her home, was the God Tree. She had always liked it. Since she was a child. The tree was very tall, thick and it's branches could shield you from the world.

,,Kagome!!!" She heard her mothers voice echo from the house, the usual sigh escaping her lips . Inuyasha just had to marry her freaking cousin now didn't he?

The fact that the woman was just as nice as the rest of her family didn't seem to bother him at all.

The problem was, it bothered her. Inuyasha deserved to do better, he deserved someone who truly loved him, not just the money…

Walking towards the door to the villa she slightly pushed it open, closing it softly after her, trying very much to ignore the fact that her presence had already been detected.

,,Kagome, where were you? " Her mother admonished.

,,Kikyo and I were dress shopping today, and God knows, that if the money which we spent on this wedding won't come back, we're so broke!"

Kagome specifically couldn't care less. She knew for a long time now, that her family was just a facade. The nice , genuine ,rich people they apparented to be were just masks. No character there to back them up.

Ignoring her mother she silently made her way up the stairs , noticing the clock on the wall reach 11. Wow, where had she been? The park, and the library.

Yes , that was it, but still, so much time?

She fondly remembered the first time she had found that shelter, so long ago, just a stupid school assignment which told her to read Dickens, and from then on, read she did.

,,Oh, so the dreaming off into space monster came back." A malicious voice sneered from the top of the stairs. Kagome knew it before even looking.

Kikyo. Who ever would see the two, would consider them sisters, their resemblance was so great. But while she had the eyes of the sky, Kikyo's eyes deflected cruel earth.

,,Yes, Kikyo I am back." Kagome told her sighing. She was so not in the mood for this.

,,Kagome be nicer to your cousin!" Her mother scolded again.

Nicer?! Nicer?! How freaking nice could she get?! She was still alive and breathing , how much nicer could she be?

Continuing with her walk towards the upper half of the villa, she was just about to strode by Kikyo, when she heard her vicious laugh.

,,Please aunty, how could she be nice, knowing fully well it was her fault why uncle left. "

Kagome's head whipped towards Kikyo, her hand already raised to slap her just the moment the vile woman turned around , receiving the slap full force , loosing her balance.

Kagome saw it all so slow. The way Kikyo fell, the way her own hand reached out to stop her, and the way it grasped nothing but thin air.

And then it was over.

Kikyo was lying there, at the end of the stairs, her hair fanned around her, blood trickling from her head, but still she was awake, still she was able to half be up in her aunts arms, still she was fully aware of what Kagome had done.

,,You will pay for this." Her shaky voice told her, before passing out.

,,Help!" She heard her mother call, but when she ran down the stairs, to her side, she was showed away, only left to watch how their butler lifted Kikyo's body, throwing her a `I know you didn't mean it` look, before climbing up the stairs, her own mother close behind.

How many times ? She wondered. How many times had Kikyo done that to her, how many times had her own mother done that to her, how many times had she been left to lay there?

Running out into the night , the cold autumn rain and wind hitting her full force, she never thought of stopping, she needed…needed to …

Lights, a car, her pain…it all swam from her, like the shadows of cruelty.

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Stock growing constantly, in all of his branches. New companies bought or taken over, his secretary annoying him to death, he really had to fire her soon, before she destroyed the last part of his documents.

Well, he had nothing else to do. Of course he asked himself why, and then he knew Miroku was no where in sight, dragging him off to God knows where.

He was still in Paris. Kami knew he pitied french women.

Sighing, he sent a look to his watch. 10:30. He had spent too much time in that park.

`But then again', another part of his mind argued, `you didn't mind did you?'

No, he had to admit. He didn't .

Although he knew perfectly well that the chances for him to meet the girl again were small, very small.

Clapping down his laptop, he took some more papers from his archive. Half gone already. Yes, the firing was approaching, but only tomorrow.

He grabbed the keys to his black Jaguar, exiting his office as well as the building.

Starting the car, he followed the already known path towards home, he couldn't help but let a name form on his lips…Kagome.

And then he saw her, a girl running, right in front of his car…

Stepping out he was at her side in an instant, brushing her hair out of her face, a stabbing pain going through him at recognizing her…

Kagome.