InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ The Life She Chose ❯ Surprise ( Chapter 3 )

Disclaimer: I don't own InuYasha or Avril Lavignes song Get Over It

 

The Life She Chose

 

Chapter 3

 

“Guys. This isn't funny. I have to work.” InuYasha growled as he pulled on his Nikes determined to get his possessions out of his fathers GMC and back into his house.

 

“Oh, unclench, Yasha. Even your father and brother are taking three weeks off. The Company will survive. You can work at our destination on a computer anyway.” His mother explained.

 

Early that morning, InuTaisho, Izayoi, Sesshomaru, and Rin came into his house, packed up his stuff, and loaded in the car, all while he was sleeping.

 

“Where are we going?” InuYasha demanded to know, watching as his father and brother added his stuff in the back, and in the carrying compartment that had been fixed to the roof.

 

“To a holiday getaway!” Rin exclaimed.

 

“Why are you and Sess coming? You always spend Christmas at Kagome's place.” InuYasha said quietly.

 

“And leave you to mope around in misery, loneliness, self pity and heartbreak? No sir!” Rin giggled. InuYasha cringed slightly at her words. He did not pity himself! InuYasha hated Christmas, Easter, Halloween, and Thanksgiving. He especially hated February 14, but most of all, He hated the fourth of March.

 

Each date had a memory behind it. Painful Memories. He hadn't celebrated Christmas, Thanksgiving, or Easter in the past four years. On Halloween he would scare the trick or treaters away from his house out of hate, loathing, and wanting. He no longer acknowledged Valentines Day, and on the fourth of March, he locked himself in his house and refused to come out.

 

“So….what is she doing?” InuYasha asked his ex-girlfriend's big sister.

 

“She invited her family and the band to her place for Christmas.” Rin answered, glancing over at Izayoi.

 

“Finished. Everyone in the car.” InuTaisho ordered.

 

“I'm not going.” InuYasha declared. There was something odd going on her. They all smelled nervous, like they were hiding something.

 

“Yes. You. Are.” Sesshomaru stated slowly.

 

“Please Yasha? You are always alone on Christmas. We are just going to a nice tourist location to celebrate Christmas. Please.” Izayoi begged her son.

 

“Fine.” InuYasha angrily rolled his eyes and got in the back of the vehicle. Rin and Izayoi sat in the middle section, while InuTaisho and Sesshomaru sat in the front. A song that InuYasha despised came on the radio.

 

`Slipping down a slid,

I did enjoy the ride,

Don't know what to decide,

You lied to me

You looked me in the eye,

And took me by surprise

Now are you gratified,

You cried to me,'

 

The Radio voice echoed through the car, hitting all the right notes.

 

“Change the station.” InuYasha shouted up to the front seat.

 

“Come on, Yasha. It's a good song.” Izayoi said.

 

`La, la la la la'

 

“No its not. Turn it off.”

 

“Are you still mad at her?” Rin wanted to know. She turned around to face her sisters ex-boyfriend.

 

`Don't turn around,

I'm sick and I'm tired of your face,

Don't make this worse,

You've already gone and got me mad,'

 

“Yeah. I am. She left me for this! For music! She left me for music, and partying, and the damn fans!” InuYasha yelled, even more pissed off then before.

 

“You did make her choose between you and her dreams.” Izayoi tried to reason with him.

 

`Its too bad I'm not sad,

Its casting over

Its just one of those things,

You'll have to get over it,'

 

“Oh! So now you're on her side!” InuYasha glared at his mom.

 

“No, it's just…..Kagome was young, and she wanted to experience life as a rockstar.” Izayoi explained.

 

`when I was feeling down,

you'd start to hang around,

and then I'd feel your hands all over me,'

 

“Sango and Ayame were in the same band and they didn't act like her! Sango was already married! Turn this shit off! Are you hearing this? This song is about me! She is making me look like the bad guy!” InuYasha shouted.

 

`And that was outta bounds,

you dirty rotten hound,

Its badder then it sounds, believe me,'

 

Sesshomaru changed the radio station, knowing he was right. They all knew the song had been about him, since she had written right after they had broken up. Sesshomaru didn't hate Kagome, he understood that she did what she had to do, but calling his brother a `filthy rotten hound' was way out of line. Even if he was one. InuYasha had not been the one who broke that couple up, and yet she had tried to make it seem like it was all him.

 

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Kagome sat in one of the many rooms of her mansion. The room was sort of a library, and where she went to write most of her songs. She sat at her desk, trying to work out some new music. She had been sitting here for an hour and a half, with no results.

 

She picked up her glass of vodka, and took a quick swig, savoring the effects it was having on her. Bored, she pulled open a drawer on her desk and shifted around some papers. A picture caught her attention. It was one from all the way back in high school. InuYasha had his arms wrapped around Kagome and was smiling down at her. Meanwhile, Kagome was tweaking one of his puppy ears.

 

Kagome smirked. Had they really been this happy? For the life of her, she couldn't remember being that happily in the love. Looking closer at the picture, she realized she couldn't even try to guess around what time had this picture been taken. Had it been right after they started going together? Or had it been when they were in college, before the band got signed? Sighing, she laid the picture on her desk, and continued to shuffle through the drawer.

 

She pulled out another picture. This one she could imeadiatly tell how far along in their relationship this picture was taken. It had definitely been from the end. In fact, she could tell that it had been taken just a few hours before they broke up. In the picture, InuYasha had one arm around her, while looking down at her, like she was the only women in the world. Kagome, on the other hand, wasn't paying any attention to him, and looked like she would rather be somewhere else. Yep. This was definitely right before they had parted ways. She had her Virgin in one hand, and a martini in the other. Kagome no longer had that guitar, and she didn't ever drink martinis any more. Both were from her past, two things she tried and tried to forget.

 

Kagome bit her lip as events from that day flooded back to her.

 

~~~Flashback~~~~

 

A twenty year old Kagome pushed her way to the center of the crowd, and began to dance, her martini in her hand. She was having a blast. It was the after the concert party and tons of people were there. Music was thumping, red and black lights were flickering over the crowded room, and everyone was dancing. Well…not everyone.

 

“Kagome! We need to talk!” InuYasha shouted over the blaring music, coming out of nowhere, and making Kagome jump.

 

“Later!” Kagome yelled back at him, not ready to call it a night. She had only just started. She still had a lot of time to kill before the drinks kicked in, and she would pass out. Then she wouldn't have to talk to InuYasha about whatever he was bothering her about anyway. It all worked out for the best.

 

“No. Now.” InuYasha grabbed her arm, to pull her to a quieter place. Kagome screamed, causing a few faces to look her way.

 

“Let GO!” Kagome screamed at her boyfriend, jerking her arm out of his grasp.

 

“Kagome! I just want to speak to you!”

 

“I said LATER!” Kagome shrieked, becoming seriously annoyed. He was ruining her fun. Just like always. Just like every night. He NEVER let her party. He would always yell at her for staying out to late, or drinking to much, or getting the entire band behind schedule.

 

“Is this how you want to spend your fucking life? Partying everyday?” InuYasha asked loudly.

 

“Yes! Now dance with me, or leave!”

 

“If I choose to leave, would you stop me? Would you even miss me? Or realize that I was fucking gone? Would you even fucking care if I left you? What's more important to you, This or me?” InuYasha asked, anger and fear swirling in his amber orbs. Kagome didn't answer, she stood there, and glared up at him. “Choose! What's more important to you?”

 

“You want me to choose between two things I love?” Kagome questioned in disbelief. “How could you be so selfish and make me pick?”

 

~~~End of flashback~~~~

 

Kagome quickly shook her head, so she would not have to relive the rest of their fight. She already did that enough in her dreams. She hated that memory with a passion. She could still see his face every time her eyes closed, she saw his pain. It was as if he haunted her.

 

Maybe that was for the best. She got all her inspiration for her songs from him. They might have split up a long time ago, but he was what was making her rich. Girls and women loved songs about heartbreak and love gone wrong, and that's what she specialized in.

 

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The rest of the ride was silent. Everyone knew that InuYasha was right. Kagome had tried to make him seem like the bad guy at first. She had been out of control for a while. Nothing and no one had been able to stop her. Everyday she had the same routine. She would party hard every night, pass out, wake up hung-over, practice, perform, then party some more.

 

She really had not paid attention to InuYasha, the boy who stuck by her side since senior year. He was with her when the band broke into stardom. He wasn't with her for fame or money. He actually loved her. She just couldn't see it.

 

Even Rin would admit, Kagome had been out of control, and had made big mistake. She had made the biggest mistake of her life. But she realized that now, and she was paying for it. She paid for it everyday. She deserved a second chance.

 

Once the truth of the matter had struck, the fact that InuYasha was gone, really gone, Kagome had eventually changed her ways. For a while everything had just gotten worse. She had become unstoppable. No one had been able to get through to her once he left. It had gotten to the point where they had to hospitalize her. And not from her drinking. Oh no, she had to be hospitalized for something far different. Luckily, the press bought the lie they gave them, that she had passed out from exhaustion, from working to much and stressing over her latest break up. Eventually she shaped up, and only drank when she desperately felt like she needed a drink. When something about InuYasha got to her, she would break out the hard stuff. But, other then that, Kagome had changed her ways, in hopes that he would come back to her.

 

However, it had been four years. Rin knew her baby sister had long since given up on hope, fate, destiny, soul mates, love and InuYasha. Kagome knew that he wasn't coming back. No way, no how. He was gone. She had let the best thing in her life get away. It was so cliché, `the one that got away.' Rin wished that Kagome would have made the right choice back then, but knew the only thing she could do to help, was what she was currently doing.

 

No matter what he had said that night, InuYasha never would have made her give up her career. He had just wanted to see if she would pick him. All he had wanted was a little time. A family. Right now, InuYasha, Kagome, and their kids could be celebrating the holidays together. Instead, Kagome sat alone in her big, lonely mansion, rich, famous, and miserable. InuYasha sat in the back of the vehicle, starring blankly out the window, being forced into the home of a girl he never wanted to see again.

 

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Kagome sat on the couch with her lyric notebook in her lap. She wore red and blue flannel pajama pants, and a tight, red shirt, along with a pair of red socks with green Christmas trees on them.

 

“Mommy! Mommy!” A tiny little girl shrieked, running at Kagome. The little girl had black hair, just like her mothers. She was a full human, no demon blood at all. Her eyes were violet, just like her daddy's while he was human.

 

“What's wrong baby?” Kagome asked, setting her notebook aside, and picking up her four-year-old daughter.

 

“Daddy yelled at me!” The little girl pouted, crossing her small arms. InuYasha stomped in the room, a toddler in his arms, and a stern look on his face. His face softened when he saw his two favorite girls sitting on the couch, looking at him and his son.

 

Kagome and InuYasha's son was two. He had silver hair and dog years, but Kagome's brown eyes.

 

“Really? Why did he yell at you?” Kagome asked, smiling at her husband.

 

“Cuz he's a butthead!” The little girl explained. Kagome laughed.

 

“See, now you got our daughter calling me a butthead! What now, our son, too?” InuYasha playfully teased Kagome.

 

“Butthead! Butthead! Daddy's a butthead!” A voice shouted from InuYasha's arms.

 

“Hey! I'm on your side!” InuYasha said to his youngest kid.

 

“What did you do Mika?” Kagome asked the girl in her lap.

 

“Nothin'.” She answered.

 

“She was hitting Koji.” InuYasha explained for her.

 

“Why?” Kagome asked.

 

“He gets all the attention! You love him more then me `cause he's a demon!” Mika began to cry.

 

“Aww. That's not true. Why do you think we named you Mika? Cuz I got mommy pregnant with you on the new moon.” InuYasha explained to his daughter, Kagome grinned.

 

“We love you guys the same. Ok?” Kagome asked.

 

“Ok.” Mika sniffed cutely, and rubbed her eyes.

 

“Time for bed guys.” InuYasha said. Kagome got up to help. “No, go back to writing your music. Besides, you put them to bed last night, it's my turn.” InuYasha said to her, and then left the room with both kids.

 

He came back sometime later, and sat next to his wife. They sat in silence for a few minutes.

 

“You shouldn't have told her you got me pregnant. She thinks the stork brings babies.” Kagome said, setting aside her notebook again.

 

“She wasn't even listening.” InuYasha informed Kagome, who leaned against him.

 

“She may have been. You don't know. It surprises me that she hit Koji.” Kagome said.

 

“Scares me how both Mika and Koji will react when we tell them.” InuYasha said grinning, placing a hand on Kagome's slightly showing belly.

 

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“Hey! We're here!” Sango shouted coming in the front door, causing Kagome to snap out of her fantasy. Kagome jumped up and ran down the stairs, excited that she wouldn't be alone in the house anymore.

 

“Hey everyone! I'm so happy….you….could….” Kagome sentence stopped when her eyes drifted to the back of the group and met amber orbs.

 

InuYasha.

 

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A/N: ok. The little fantasy thing Kagome had wasn't just a stupid filler thing that has no meaning and is there 4 no reason. It will, well, some parts of it will come into play later in the story.