InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Twisted Hearts ❯ Coming Closer To A Break ( Chapter 2 )

Twisted Feelings

Coming Closer To A Break

 

November 5th. 4:30 pm.

“Um, well I guess you are not there, so…I just wanted to say…could you please call me back when you hear this? I need to talk to you. Bye.”

 

November 5th. 8:44 pm

“So you are still not there, obviously, but it is urgent that you call me back. I truly need to talk to you. I have to explain.”

 

November 6th. 3:00 am

“I know you are there. It is three in the morning, and I happen to know that you are not out so late, so you just don't want to talk to me, and I understand, but we have to talk. You know it. I know it. Why won't you pick up your phone?”

 

November 6th. 12:15 am

“Kagome, please answer the phone. We need to talk. I need to explain. Give me a chance to tell you how things are. Kagome, please…”

 

November 6th. 3:55 pm

“Pick. Up. The. Phone. I know you are there. I have been calling you all day, and it is impossible for you to not be there at all. Stop ignoring me and answer the damned phone.”

 

November 6th. 9:32 pm

“Kagome, if you don't answer your damn phone, I'll go over there and tear your door open. We have to talk, and you know it, so answer the bloody phone.”

 

November 7th. 10:00 am

“Hell, are you never going to answer? This is stupid, Kagome. I know you are mad at me, but we have to talk and solve things between us. We can't just leave things like this.”

 

November 7th. 11:23 am

“Kagome, damn it, just answer the phone. This has gone too far. You know we need to talk. Kagome, please, I'm sorry I hurt you, but at least give me the chance to explain myself. Pick up the phone and lets solve things out between us. Come one, Kagome.” Long silence. “Fine, I guess I'll call later.”

 

November 7th 11:45 am

“Answer the damn phone now. Kagome, just…”

 

November 7th. 1:15 pm

“I have given you enough time. This is it. You are going to talk to me if it is the last thing I do. I will…what the hell are you doing here, Sesshoumaru?... Shut up, I'm on the phone….I know I asked you a question, but…Don't be so annoying,…Yes, fine, whatever. Kagome, I have to go, but as soon as I'm finished with him I'm going over to your house. We will talk.”

 

Kagome glared at her phone, unwrapped the cover from around her, got up, and got more ice-cream. She then went back to her couch and resumed to watch romantic movies that only made her more depressed.

“Kagome, what the hell is going on?

Sango's voice came from the door, and Kagome didn't know if she should feel relieve or disappointed. She had wanted to talk to her friend since Thursday, after what had to be the worst day of her life, but now she wasn't so sure. She hadn't cried since Inuyasha had…and she didn't want to do it now. She would be damned before she cried for him. She was Kagome Higurashi, and she did not cry for men. She was strong, and independent, and she didn't need him. She didn't…

“Kagome?”

Kagome turned to look at Sango and did her best to smile, but her eyes were a dull blue, and she was heartbroken, so her smile came out rather pathetic. Sango stood at the door, her bags neatly on the floor, and she stared at Kagome. She leaned down and picked up an empty vanilla ice-cream bottle. One of her perfect eye brows rose.

“What happened?”

And, of course, Kagome pointed towards the hated phone. Sango went towards it and heard the messages. A long silence stretched between them. Kagome felt the tears build up in her eyes, but she held them back once more. She would not give the world the satisfaction of seeing her tears.

“Do you want to talk about it?” Sango said, as she sat next to Kagome and took the offered ice-cream. Kagome stared at the movie in front of her. She wanted to yell at the actress and tell her not to fall in love with that man. He would swear he would love her for eternity, and then he would crush her heart. She wanted to warn the girl, to tell her to run away, and it really was pointless because it was only a movie, and in movies, everything worked out in the end. Girl met boy. Boy fell in love with girl. Girl married boy. They lived happily ever after.

Kagome smiled bitterly at the screen.

She thought it should be a crime to make such terrible movies. It should be a crime to put thoughts of love in your head and heart only to rip them apart in reality.

Romantic movies should be a crime.

“I don't want to talk about it.” She said, but she knew Sango wouldn't let her off that easily.

“Since when have you been like this?”

Kagome took a spoon full of ice-cream to her mouth and closed her eyes as it melted there. It tasted sweet, the way her love for Inuyasha had been. She thought it would last forever. She thought he said the truth when he told her he loved her. She had believed his every word. She truly had thought their love was pure and sincere.

She had believed his smiles.

She should have known better.

The ice-cream melted in her mouth, leaving but a trace of its sweetness.

“He left me three days ago.” Kagome finally said. “I thought he was going to propose, but he left me. He left me on our anniversary.” Kagome turned to look at Sango. “What kind on man leaves their girlfriend, who they said they loved, on their anniversary? People don't just do that.”

“Oh, Kagome…” Sango put an arm around her. “That jerk. He doesn't know what he is losing, dear. He will never find anyone like you, not anywhere in this world.”

Sango, the big sister who would always said something to make her feel better. Sango, who would always be by her side. Sango, who for the first time was wrong.

“You are wrong, Sango.” Kagome said quietly. She had tried to avoid the reason why Inuyasha had left her. She had tried to erase the name that had come out of his lips so hard that it was now carved in her mind. She had tried, and failed, just like she had failed in so many things…

“What?”

And Kagome couldn't ignore the truth anymore.

“He found someone else.”

“What do you want, Sesshoumaru?” A very irritated Inuyasha asked. He did not like to see his brother, especially not now that he had so many problems. He did not need to deal with one pompous Sesshoumaru.

“Have you not been informed?” Sesshoumaru asked, and Inuyasha let out a small growl.

“I obviously haven't been informed of anything important. No one ever tells me anything important.”

“That is because you are only capable of creating chaos.”

Inuyasha turned red from anger. “That is not true. I have taken care of the company here in Japan while you were somewhere else doing who knows what.”

Sesshoumaru glared at him, and Inuyasha folded his arms over his chest, trying to look indignant.

“For your information, hanyou, I have been increasing our demands in Europe. That is far more difficult than keeping an already secured company.”

“It is not.”

“It is.

Is no.”

“Is.”

“Is not.”

“Stop being so childish, Inuyasha.”

“Keh, whatever.”

Sesshoumaru and Inuyasha glared at each other until Sesshoumaru spoke again.

“Aren't you curious as to why I'm here?”

Of course, bloody Sesshoumaru was always right, and Inuyasha only glared harder. It didn't even make him flinch. How come he always won this arguments?

“Fine, why are you here, Sesshoumaru?”

“Ask it nicely.”

Inuyasha let out another growl. “Would you please tell me why you are here?”

Sesshoumaru's golden eyes looked at his own.

“Father is dead.”

The words didn't make sense at first. He had heard wrong because that was impossible. Their father couldn't be dead.

“What?”

“His plane fell. The police are investigating, but they're incompetent. I already put the best detectives on the case.”

“He is dead?” And of course Inuyasha didn't know what to feel. His father had never been around, and the only person that was always with him was Sesshoumaru, until he turned into a cold, arrogant person. Still, he was his father, and Inuyasha had loved him. He slowly sat on his couch and looked at his brother.

“He is dead?” He repeated, shutting his eyes close. “Dead…”

Sesshoumaru watched as Inuyasha slowly sank on the couch. He saw as he closed his eyes and tried to hold the tears that wanted to fall. Sesshoumaru's brows narrowed. He didn't get along with his brother. He was a half-breed and a disgrace to the family. Besides, it was not in Sesshoumaru's nature to be kind, especially not to him.

`Your father would want you to make it easy for him.' A little voice in his head said, and Sesshoumaru's lips formed a line. Just what he needed. A voice in his head.

And, of course, the bloody voice was right. His father had wanted them to work together and get along, and those were his last wishes, but then again, his father was also forcing him to marry a human, and Sesshoumaru hated Inuyasha. He decided that the little voice could go to hell for all he wanted.

“Get ready. We have to be at your lawyer's office in an hour.”

Inuyasha nodded and Sesshoumaru exited the room.

“Oh.”

Today, Inuyasha thought grumpily, had definitely not been his day. Not only had Sesshoumaru told him that his father had been killed, but he had also been informed that he had to marry someone and fast. He had a week to find a bride and a month to marry her, or he would be disowned. Completely perfect.

“Inuyasha, are you okay?” Miroku, Inuyasha's lawyer and best friend, asked.

Inuyasha looked at him like he was insane and consider hitting him very hard.

“Fine?” he asked “Fine? Of course I'm not fine. I…It's a lot of things in a short time.”
”I understand, Inuyasha, but you have to solve it or lose everything.” Miroku said. “You should tell Kagome soon. I'm sure she'll be happy to marry you.”

Inuyasha shifted uncomfortably. “I broke up with her.” He mumbled under his breath, and Sesshoumaru and Miroku looked at him.

“What?” Miroku asked.

“We broke up on our anniversary.”

“And can't you talk to her, fix things up?”

“I…eh…”

Sesshoumaru smirked. “What did you do, Inuyasha?”

Inuyasha blushed. “I fell in love with another girl.”
And of course he had done it at the worst time. Two months ago, he would have simply asked Kagome to marry him. Sure, he hadn't loved her enough, but it would have been the easiest way out. Now, though, he couldn't do that.

He loved another, and it was just way to soon to ask her to marry him.

“You are an idiot.” Miroku told him coldly, and Inuyasha had to agree with him. Still, his lawyer had never spoken to him in that way. It made him uncomfortable.

“Kagome loves you. How could you do that to her?”

“Eh…”

“He is a half-breed. Worse than humans. What did you expect?” Sesshoumaru said, and Inuyasha felt his cheeks go red.

“Look, you idiot, you have…”

“I have every right.”

“Um, you should calm down.”

“You have no right to tell me what to do.”

“Guys, really, things could get bad…”

“Bastard, how dare you insult me?”

“Far as I know, you are the bastard.”

“I will kill you, Sesshoumaru.”

“I dare you to try.”

“You know, your father wanted you to work together.”

“You think you are so cool with your…”

“Again, you are being childish, but I did not expect better from you.”

“You fucking…”

Inuyasha launched towards Sesshoumaru, but unfortunately for Miroku, he was in the middle of both of them, and received the full impact of Inuyasha's punch in the gut. Miroku grabbed Inuyasha to try to keep from falling, but it just caused Inuyasha to lose his balance, and the two of them ended up falling straight into Sesshoumaru, who had no time to move. The three of them fell to the floor.

“Inuyasha…”

Three pairs of eyes turned to look at the person in the door.

She was tall, and her skin was snow white. Her black hair was in an elegant style, and her brown eyes twinkled with amusement.

“Kykio…” Inuyasha breathed, and his heart beat faster. He completely forgot about his anger towards his brother, and all his attention was on her.

“I have to go.” Inuyasha bluntly said. He got up, took Kykio's arm and went away with her.

For some time, Miroku and Sesshoumaru just stared at the door. Miroku didn't know what to think because Inuyasha's face had glowed when he had seen Kykio, and it had never done that with Kagome. Sesshoumaru was simply cursing his brother for leaving off like that. Then, Sesshoumaru decided that been on the floor was very disgraceful and got up gracefully. He made his way towards the door.

“Who will you marry, Sesshoumaru-san?” Miroku asked as casually as he could while picking himself from the floor. “Do you have any prospects?”

Sesshoumaru's face stayed blank as he stared at Miroku, and Miroku grinned.

“I thought so.” Miroku said. He calmly offered Sesshoumaru a sit. “I think we should talk.”

Sesshoumaru looked at Miroku for a long time. What he had proposed was interesting, and it definitely solved his problems, but…

“You are Inuyasha's lawyer.”

“And friend since childhood.”

“Why should I trust you?”

And Miroku leaned back against his chair and folded his arms behind his neck.

“You can't, but that is not important.”

“How is it not important?”

“Because” Miroku said, quiet unafraid of Sesshoumaru “if you don't, you'll lose everything, and you wouldn't just marry anyone, so this is your only way out.”

Sesshoumaru stared at Miroku. The human was not scared of him. That was something he respected. Even youkai were afraid of him. The man in front of him was merely nervous, though he hid it well. He was either like Inuyasha, too stupid for his own good, or really confident and cunning. As Sesshoumaru watched him, he went with the later.

“If what you said is true…”

“Which it is...”

Perhaps he was a bit stupid, he thought, as he chose to ignore the interruption.

“…why would she want to marry me?”

Miroku unfolded his arms and leaned forward.

“She will marry you because she has to.” He stated simply. Sesshoumaru arched one eye brow.

“She will be heartbroken as soon as she finds the news about Kykio and Inuyasha, and she'll feel really bad when she hears about your father. She will feel betrayed, too, about Inuyasha's choice, and you'll be there, and she'll have way too many emotions to think straight.”

“Isn't that taking advantage?”

Miroku smiled. “It is for her best.”

“Why?”

“I know her. She'll thank me later.”

“Why would I want to marry her?”

“She will make a good impression with the press.”

Sesshoumaru looked at him intensely. “You father was a great business man, and he helped maintain peace between youkai and humans. This girl draws attention to her. If you marry her, you'll have no problems with the humans. It'll look like you are trying to keep what your father started.”

“I don't care about them.”

“But it would be one less problem, and it would be wise to keep things friendly. Your father's death could be an accident, but there is always doubt. After all, your family has a lot of enemies.”

The man was cunning. Sesshoumaru made a mental note to keep Miroku close. He could be useful at some point.

“She could say no.”

“She can't.”

“Why?”

“She needs the money you have.”

“Are you telling me she would just marry me for money?”

Miroku gave a soft laugh. “God, no, she would never do that.”

“Then?”

“She would marry you because that is the only way to save her brother.”

And Miroku proceeded to explain the situation.

Kagome thought that perhaps she had taken her little mourning a bit too far.

`It is not the end of the world.' She reminded herself. There were worst things in life than being dumped by the love of your life for another woman. She herself had suffered far worse things, and she had come out of all of them shining. Before Inuyasha, she had managed to survive through her break up of a four year relationship. Of course, she had never really loved the other guy, so it really wasn't the same, but still, she had done it. She had managed to pass college while working and keeping the shrine, and now she was studying a Degree at Tokyo U while doing research at a very important museum, and it had not being easy for her to get to where she was. She had been besides her mother and brother as they buried her grandfather, and…

And she should stop before she remembered the most difficult things she had been through. That was not what this was all about.

What it was about was that she should stop sulking and start doing something to distract herself. It was not healthy, what she was doing, and Inuyasha wasn't worthy. If he didn't want her, then he was the one that was losing, not her. Never her…

Except that she felt horrible, and she wanted to know why Inuyasha had left her because it was really nagging at her, and she really, really wanted to know. She thought that perhaps it would have been a good idea to answer the phone when he called. Damn, now she would have to call him. She truly didn't want to. But she wanted to know. Then again, maybe she could manage to live without knowing.

Kagome ran her hand through her hair and let out a frustrated growl. Sango looked at her, shook her head, and went to the kitchen.

“Do you want something to eat?” She asked from there.

“Um, no, thanks, but I would kill for a coffee.”
”All right. Are you actually leaving the house today?”

Kagome smiled. What would she do without Sango? “I'm going to the University and then to the museum. I have some investigations to do.”
”Glad you are getting back to your life. He didn't deserve you. Oh, and I have to go for a few days. It seems that a very important youkai leader was killed in China, but he was from Japan. Really complicated case.”

“Really? Nothing has come up in the news, and I've been watching a lot of TV these last few days.”

“The government decided to keep it secret. There is too much tension between youkai and humans as it is. They won't even tell me the name of the victim until I get there.”

Sango's voice got muffled as she no doubt looked for something, and Kagome was left alone with her thoughts again. She closed her eyes, and tried to not think about Inuyasha. It seemed that trying not to think about him only made her think about him more. She opened her eyes and rested her chin on her knees. She wished it didn't hurt as much as it did. When she had kissed him, and he had called another name, her heart had gone to pieces. All of her dreams, hopes, illusions, everything she had been looking forward to, had vanished, and it truly had felt like it was the worst thing ever. No matter how much she tried to convince herself that it wasn't the end of the world, she still felt like it was. Her life had revolved around Inuyasha, and she felt lost without him by her side. It was like a piece of her was missing, and she had a whole in her chest that kept growing bigger and bigger, and life was becoming harder with each passing day. Everything reminded her of Inuyasha, and she knew that outside of her house wouldn't be any different. She felt safer home, but of course she couldn't be here for the rest of her life. She was 23 and had a whole life ahead of her. It didn't matter that she felt like screaming, and that she fought the tears before going to sleep. It didn't matter if she had to pretend to be fine before her family and friends, and smile because if she didn't, they would know nothing was fine. She didn't want their pitying looks and she didn't want them all asking if she was alright because she wasn't, and she hated lying. She didn't want them to worry over her.

`Eventually' she thought `it will get better. I just have to wait. I'm sure one day, I'll wake up and the pain will be gone.'

“Could you answer the phone, please?”

Kagome snapped back to reality. “Yes, of course.”

“Hello?”

“Is this the house of Kagome Higurashi?”

“Yeah…”

“May I speak to her?”

“You are.”

“Oh, Miss Higurashi, we are calling you from the hospital…”

Kagome froze.

No, no, no, not again.

“Miss Higurashi? Are you there?”

But Kagome had dropped the phone and was already halfway through the door.

“Kagome, where are you going?”

And Kagome ignored Sango and ignored her neighbors as she went passed them and made their vase fall. She ignored the car that almost hit her and got on a cab.

“To Tokyo's Hospital.” She told the driver, and pleaded that it was not what she thought.