InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Leave it in the past ❯ Moving on ( Chapter 17 )

[ Y - Young Adult: Not suitable for readers under 16 ]

By: henjin

Hey guys! New chapter! I'm home sick!!! Yay! *cough, cough*! Lol jk. n/e way, hope you like it! Review if you like, review if you don't. I'd like some plot twists, any ideas?

Kagome opened the door to her apartment, motioning for Sesshoumaru to follow and closed the door.

“Sango! Rin! I'm home!” Kagome called through the house, “Oh, sorry. You may sit if you want, Mr. Takahashi.”

Sango ran out of her room and jumped on Kagome. “Kagome! I have so much to tell you! I just finished it and it looks Fabulous! And today at the college we…” Sango started to ramble before cutting herself off, looking at the gorgeous man on the couch.

“Oh…sorry Sango. This is Inuyasha's brother, Sesshoumaru. Sesshoumaru this is Sango” Kagome said.

“Nice to meet you,” Sesshoumaru said in his stoic voice.

“Likewise,” Sango said, in awe at the beautiful creature before her.

“Where's Rin?” Kagome asked.

“She's studying. Apparently, some asshole teacher is giving them a trig test, and she won't have herself making anything less than a frickin' A+,” Sango said in a offhanded tone.

“Well…I want her out of that room. She has all night to study,” Kagome said, winking, “I want her to meet Mr. Takahashi.”

“O.k.,” Sango said, hurrying to open Rin's door, “Kags want you out of your room!”

“I'm so busy! If I don't get an A+ on this test, It will bring my whole trig grade down to an A- and I can't get a scholarship to go to America and attend Harvard because I'm not the best!” Rin whined as she came out of her room.

She stopped dead, staring at the man sitting on their black couch.

“Rin, this is Mr. Takahashi,” Kagome said, pushing her toward the couch.

“Uh…I really should be going, sis,” Rin said, squirming away from him.

“Rin, don't be rude,” Kagome said, pushing Rin down on the couch by her shoulders.

“But, Kag…” Rin started to say.

“No Rin. You have to keep him company,” Sango jumped in, “I just HAVE to show Kagome my finished design. It can't wait or I'll die.”

“But…You…I…Fine!” Rin said, crossing her arms over her skimpy pajamas. `Damn… he can see straight down my shirt! I wish I hadn't been stupid at the hotel.'

The two other woman left, leaving Rin with the greek god. `Great!' she thought sarcastically.

“So… I really should be studying,” Rin said.

Sesshoumaru raised a sarcastic eyebrow, “you weren't so eager to get away from me at the hotel,” he said.

Rin sputtered before getting up. “You're a jerk! Wow. I'm bad a picking men to perpetually torment my mind.”

“Ah! So, you do remember the kiss!” he said, his eyes glittering.

“Nope. It was probably the worst kiss in my memory. You just stood there!” Rin said smirking.

“Well, with the inexperienced way you kissed me, you probably have little, if any, kissing history worth remembering,” he said checking his watch to hide his sneer.

“Ditto!” Rin whisper/screamed.

She heard Sango and Kagome laughing as they came out of Sango's room. “You say anything about that kiss,” Rin whispered with a cheery smile on her face, “and I'll castrate you!”

“Haha,” Sesshoumaru said in a bored tone.

“Can I please go study now, Kags? Rin asked in a pleading tone.

“feh..,Fine!” Kagome said.

“Nice to meet you mister, um…” Rin said, intentionally fumbling with his name.

“Sesshoumaru,” he said blankly.

“Oh, yeah, Sakutarou,” Rin said.

“Sesshoumaru, Rin. His name is Seshomaru,” Kagome said.

“Satonori, sorry. Well, Night!” Rin said as she left.

“Sorry,” Kagome said.

“It's fine. I should be going anyway,” Sesshoumaru said, standing and bowing before leaving.

He had the intense urge to get into that girl's room and show her who she was dealing with. Maybe he should! She'd treated him…

He was already making his way outside and up the wall to her window before he could finish the thought. She was sitting on her bed, her short shorts riding up her…tight ass. Her creamy legs were hanging over the side of her bed and books were lain out in front of her, her cleavage showing as she leaned over them. He heard her cell phone ring and she picked it up quickly.

“Hello?” Rin said into her phone.

She groaned as someone said something. “I told you I DO NOT want to go out with you!” Rin almost yelled into the phone.

“I don't care! I barely know you! I don't want to date you. At all. Leave me alone!” Rin said as she closed the phone.

Sesshoumaru snuck through the window and stood over her as she did trig problems.

“You did that one wrong,” he whispered in her ear.

Her head whipped around, effectively smacking him in the jaw.

“Ow!” Rin whined as her hand came up to cover the already rising bump on her head, “What the hell are you doing in here?”

“Who do you think you are, offending me like that?” he asked immediately.

“I don't know what you're talking about. I tried to be polite, given the awkward circumstances, but you persisted in being a jackass,” Rin said.

He grabbed her and pulled her from the bed, pinning her arms behind her back. “There you go again,” he said gruffly.

“You have no right to restrain me in my room!” she yelled at him, struggling against his superior strength.

“You have no right to insult me,” he said, in her ear seductively, “so we're even.

“You do know that if Kagome comes in here and sees you, she'll beat you within an inch of you life, right?” Rin said through clenched teeth.

“Of course I do!” he said heatedly.

“Then, let me go and kindly get out of my Bedroom!” Rin said, trying again to get away.

Sesshoumaru captured her lips in what was suppose to be a punishing kiss, but only served to make Rin gasp and lean into him. He wrapped his arms around her, releasing her arm and holding her up so that she wouldn't topple over. She sighed and wrapped her arms around.

Rin was so completely caught up in the kiss she hadn't thought about what would be wrong. Now, it nagged at her drugged mind until finally it broke through the haze to the forefront: he had an extremely pretty girlfriend.

“STOP!” she said, pushed herself away from him as forcefully as was possible for her human body against his obviously superior strength. He didn't hold her where she didn't want to be, letting her go. Her knees were still weak and she fell backward onto bed and let out a puff of air.

“Get out,” she said quietly.

He looked at her, his eyebrows raised as if to ask, “YOU are rejecting ME?”

“Just go,” she said to the bedspread.

He nodded. “Is there any particular reason?”

“Reason for what?” she asked, pulling her shirt down.

“For wanting me to leave so abruptly,” he said as if saying “DUH!”

“First: you're not suppose to be in here. Second: You have a girlfriend and shouldn't be macking on me,” Rin said, “I'd like to say let the window hit on the way out, but I think it's highly unlikely so lets just hope you fall four stories.”

He huffed before climbing through the window and disappearing.

`Thank god,' she thought to herself, taking a shaky breath before getting up.

“I feel so dirty.”

She pulled off her clothes on the way to her bathroom, not knowing there were two amber eyes following the progress of her strip to the bathroom. She vowed she would never let him in her heart. She didn't anticipate the next few weeks.

<<<<<

Kagome woke up the next morning with grim determination. Yes, her job said she was Inuyasha's client, but it didn't say that it had to be her that met with him. She still had to go in and check on him, but hopefully he would still be asleep.

“RIN!!” Kagome yelled out of her bedroom door.

“What?! I'm trying to get ready for school,” Rin called, a straightening iron in her hand and half her hair sleek and straight while the other half was a ratty mess.

“When you're done, we need to talk,” Kagome said, ducking back into her room to get ready also.

<<<<<

Sango had woken up early to and gotten dressed in one of her own creations, a cobalt blue v-neck silk dress with a slit all the way up to the top of her thigh. She had a pretty blue long coat to match and set off her eyes and made her now softly curly hair look even darker next to the contrast.

She'd arrived at the college early with her sketches and art books and swathes of multicolor fabric and had set to work early on a new design that had come to her early that morning.

As she was sketching the neckline, she heard footsteps behind her. There was an undeniable presence behind her and after finishing the torso sketch, she turned in her swivel chair to be pinned in place by cerulean eyes that held so many emotions she didn't dare decipher.

“Can I help you?” Sango said coolly.

“Umm…yes. I was looking for Sango. I heard she was enrolled at this school. Do you know where I might find her?” Miroku said in his silky voice.

“I'm sorry she isn't available,” Sango said, going back to her drawing with renewed interest.

“Is she here at the moment?” Miroku asked again. Always the stubborn one. Sango could feel her heart ache at just his voice.

“Yes,” Sango said as she quickly pulled a swab of fabric over to see how it would look on the dress.

“Where?” He asked, making Sango growl.

“She is drawing and you are interrupting her! Now if you'll excuse me,” Sango said.

“Sango?!” Miroku asked in alarm.

“Yes! And your annoying me,” Sango jumped out of her seat, “Can you please leave me to my work?”

“You don't recognize me?” he asked.

“Well you don't recognize me so why should I be bothered to recognize you,” Sango said aloofly.

“Oh…You're still sore,” Miroku said, his eyes glinting with mischief.

Sango huffed. “Miroku I never did like your antics. I'm busy.”

“You're still mad at me,” he said, a slow smile coming to his face.

Sango was absolutely sickened. How he could make light of what he'd done to her was beyond her. “Are…you…kidding me?!”

Miroku's eyes changed from mischief to shock as he saw the tears that had slowly started to form.

“Just get away from me! I told you I never wanted to see you again!” Sango said, gathering her stuff and hurrying to leave.

He was quickly behind her and trying to grab her arm.

“Miroku, I'm not the stupid little naïve girl you screwed over in High school. Why don't you just drop dead?”

“I can see you don't look the same but you sure as hell act the same. That's the only difference I see,” he said, a smirk on his face.

“I can name about a million ways I'm different,” she said.

“Name One!” he said.

“I'm not a virgin,” she said, giving him a cruel smile.

He stopped in his tracks. “What!”

“I'm twenty-one. You expect me to stay a virgin?” Sango asked, “Well, actually it was after the incident.”

“You hopped into bed with someone after you refused to do it with me?” he asked angrily.

“Yup. He was good too,” Sango said, opening the door and leaving him standing there like an idiot.

`Serves him right. It may have been a lie, but at least he'll leave me alone.' She opened the door to a private room and began working on her designs again.

<<<<<

“Please Rin!” Kagome whined as Rin gathered her stuff for school.

“No! I can't do it!” Rin said.

“Rin…I can't face him. I'll even pay you!” Kagome begged.

Rin stopped. She looked over at Kagome. “If you can't face him, I guess I can. The plus is the pay but remember I'm only doing this for you.”

“O.k. Just drive over there after school. Tell them your filling in for Kagome Higurashi,” Kagome said, giving Rin a huge hug before they both grabbed their keys and left.

Kagome hopped quickly into her car and headed grudgingly to Inuyasha's house, trying to calm her heart that was pulsing in pain.

She used the key to get in and silently closed the door behind her, looking toward the couch where she'd left him last night, but there was just a rumpled blanket where she'd left him. She ventured towards his room to look for him where she found him, barely covered by a towel, his chest slick with water, his hair cascading down his back in wet tendrils.

She gasped before closing the door, going to sit on the couch, hoping there was no sign of the red flush that usually accompanied these encounters.

The door was opened soon after, a still equally wet and half-naked hanyou coming curiously out of his room before stopping short to see her sitting on the couch, her eyes on the floor.

<<<<<

Inuyasha had come out of his room after hearing a noise while he was in the process of getting dressed. He found Kagome sitting on the couch, her head down. She looked gorgeous, her hair flowing straight down her back in milk chocolate waves, her body encompassed in a black v-neck shirt, short skirt and strapped heels, a black fitted jacket with a white flower on the shoulder.

“I didn't really think you'd come,” he said quietly.

Kagome looked up, her face red and slightly pale, trying to keep her eyes on his face. He noticed this and was deeply satisfied before reminding himself of their grim issues.

“I promised didn't I?” she said in a faint voice, “I just wanted to make sure you were o.k. I hope you're feeling better.”

“Yeah. That kind of stuff just lasts a couple hours,” he said softly.

“Well, If your alright then, I should be heading to work,” Kagome said with a small smile.

“Kagome, I…” he said, but she cut him off with a painful breath and expression that made his heart clench.

“Inuyasha, there's nothing you could say. Please, at least try to make this easier on me,” she said, fishing something out of his pocket before laying something cold in his hand and wrapping his fingers around it.

She turned and was about to go, before turning back, a pained look on her face.

“I just wanted you to know that I had put my complete faith in you…and you let me down. You don't know how much that hurts. So, before you go trying to change things, just know that I can NEVER completely trust you again…and that makes me sadder than anything that has happened during this relationship,” Kagome said, her eyes finally looking into his, and there he saw an expression he'd never seen on this happy girl's face since highschool. She looked so vulnerable and alone, like the time he'd found Naraku sexually harassing her. She looked so small and fragile. But, the look was soon gone and a look of grim determination replaced it. Now, she looked like a brave warrior princess, her face set to keep him out. She turned and left without another word. And he stood there for a long time, cursing himself for what he'd done…