Summary:
Kagome walked away from InuYasha five years ago when she fought him in bed with Kikyo. She disappeared to start her life over. Now a successful doctor her life is once again turned upside down when his little sister runs away from home one night. Kagome now finds herself face to face with Sesshomaru. Can he repair the damage that InuYasha inflicted on her heart or will she push him away before he has the oppertunity to try.
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Chapter One: Runaway
Kagome groaned as she was pulled from her slumber by the vibration on her phone. Glancing over at the clock she frowned it read 2:15 am. 'Someone better be dieing.' Kagome thought angrily as she slid her thumb across the screen.
"What?" Kagome bit into the phone. She hated being woken up early especially when she wasn't on call which was very rare.
"Kagome." The voice whimpered on the other end and Kagome froze. It was a voice she hasn't heard in a little over five years.
"Rin. What's wrong?" Kagome breathed as she scrambled to sit up in bed.
"I'm sorry I just didn't know who else to call. I... I... Know you don't like us anymore but Kagome I just didn't know what to do!" Kagome heart broke at the words of the sweet young girl on the other end. Rin was the younger sister of her ex boyfriend InuYasha. Rin had only been eight when she had found InuYasha cheating on her.
"Rin I never stopped caring about you honey. I left because InuYasha did something very hurtful not because I don't like you." Kagome was sure she herd the girl sniffle again. "Now Rin tell me where you are and ill come get you okay, sweety."
"I'm at Meadows park by the old middle school." Rin finally answered and Kagome was on her feet in a flash. Pulling on the old yoga pants she had been working out in earlier that day and a baggy long sleeved gray shirt. She swept her tangled hair up into a low messy bun as she rushed out the door.
"Alright Rin ill be there in fifteen minutes. Wait by the swings for me. " Kagome ordered as she hung up her phone shoving it in her back pocket. Meadows park was only a few short blocks from her apartment and Kagome was thankful. She hated the idea of the young girl sitting in the chillies fall air in the middle of night no less. 'Rin what were you thinking?' Kagome thought angrily as the entrance to the rundown park came into view. Panick started to overtake her as her eyes scanned the park looking for any sign of Rin. She was not by the swings where she had told her to wait. "Rin!" Kagome called out praying silently that the girl would answer her. Kagome could feel her heart begin to race as she was meet with silence "Rin!" Kagome called again.
"Over here." Kagome could feel release wash over her as the young girl stepped out from behind a small tree.
"Oh, Rin thank god your okay! You had me scared to death!" Kagome yelled as she pulled the girl into a tight hug. Crushing her to her chest.
"I'm sorry I just didn't know who else to call." Kagome frowned as Rin began to cry into her chest. 'What happened to you Rin?' Kagome thought as she ran her fingers through the girls long black hair in an attempt to sooth the poor girl. Rin may be a half demon bit she was still only thirteen.
"Shhhh, its alright." Kagome tried her best to reassure the crying girl.
"Why don't we go back to my apartment and have some hot chocolate with cinimmon and whipped cream." Kagome smiled down at the girl happy to see the traits begin to fade at the mention of there old ritual. It was something she had always done for Rin anytime InuYasha would get stuck babysitting she would come over.
He would sit in the game room playing away with head phones on and she would fix Rin hotchocolet and they would watch a movie of her choice. Almost every time it was the same movie Frozen or Tangled, but Kagome hadn't minded. In the years they were together InuYasha had always insisted she was a demon child always playing pranks and making him take the blame, but Kagome never saw it. When she had broken off her relationship with InuYasha leaving Rin behind had been one of the hardest thing.
"Alright." Rin smilled weakly up at her. The walk back to Kagome's apartment was a quiet one as Rin clung to her side never once letting go of her. Kagome sighed as her building came into view. It was nothing special but it was some of the nicer apartments in the city. Kagome pulled out her Keys unlocking the door as she made her way in Rin following hot on her heels. Kagome smiled softly down at the girl as she flipped in the light to her living room.
"You can have a seat on the couch and ill go make us our drinks." Kagome stated softly as she made her way into the kitchen. It didn't take long before she reappeared with two steaming hot cups in her hands setting them both down on the coffee table.
"Thank You." Rin mumbled as she grabbed her mug.
"Rin." Kagome stated sternly as she turned to look at the girls face. "You know I'm going to have to call your parents." The small flinch that came from the mention of her parents did not go unnoticed by Kagome.
"You can't!" Rin pleaded as her eyes widened.
"I'm sorry Rin but I have to. They have to be worried sick about you!" Kagome stated sternly.
"No they don't!" Run sighed. "They left me with InuYasha and Sesshomaru for three months while they go on a vacation!"
"Rin. You know your parents care about you but they need time to themselves too. Every adult dose." Kagome said calmly as she took a sip of her drink. "And I know you and InuYasha don't always get along but from what I remember you love Sesshomaru."
"No Kagome you don't understand! I haven't heard from my mother or father in three months! They went on vacation and forgot all about me. Then to top it off InuYasha's fiance just moved in and she is a horrible woman! She tells me all the time how ugly and worthless I am. The kids at school don't help they keep picking on me because I don't act like the other girls! They all say I look like a boy. With my flat chest and today they threw razor blades at me and told me I would be better off dead." Kagome's heart broke as the girl began to cry but that pain was quickly replaced by anger. She would kill InuYasha if she ever saw him again. Not that she didnt have enough of a reason too already this was just another charge on hisblong list of offices.
"What about Sesshomaru? Have you told him about this? You know he would protect you with his life?" Kagome asked but frowned as the girl only began to cry harder.
"I tried but he's always working! And then when he's home InuYasha keeps me away from him by locking me in my room and taking my phone' and Sesshomaru doesn't even notice because he's doing more work. He has completely cut me off from everyone. Its like he wants to make me suffer. " Kagome fumed as rage began to overtake her.
"But why did you runaway sweety? And why did you come to me? Surely you c o Ulf have found Sesshomarus office?" Kagome asked as she patted the small girl on the back.
"I just wanted someone who would be kind to me. InuYasha and Kikyo are cruel and Sesshomaru although he cares for me is so cold and indifret. I just couldn't take it any more especialy after what InuYasha said tonight." Kagme could feel herself becoming angrier with each word that passed from Rin's lips.
"What did he say sweety?" Kagome asked as softly as she could.
"He said that mom and dad never wanted me. That I was just a mistake that they should have aborted and no one would even notice if I was gone. That everyone would be better off without my constant whining. So I ran away." 'Oh InuYasha would pay for this., Was the only thought that ran through her head as she pulled out her phone handing it to Rin. Kagome had all the information she needed.
"Dile Sesshomarus personal number for me please and then why don't you go find us a movie. My shelf is just right over there." Kagome smiled sweetly but Rin, could see the fire in her eyes. The fire that said some one was going to pay. She had seen that look in Kagome's eyes once before, that was the day Kagome had cought InuYasha with Kikyo that was also the day Kagome had hit him with such a blast of her purification powers that InuYasha had been forced to live as a human for almost two weeks. She hesitates for a moment before taking the phone from the older woman. Kagome's anger was not something any one wanted to be on the receiving end of but if anyone could handle it, then it would be Sesshomaru.
Sesshomaru growled low in his chest as he could hear InuYashas obnoxious laughter from in the house. Oh, how he wanted to run his claws through the boy. From the day he had been brought into this world he had been nothing but a thorn in Sesshomarus side. Braking his toys as a child, and always taking what didn't belong to him. And it wasn't just toys anything Sesshomaru had InuYasha seemed to want. From his first car to any girl who showed the slightest bit of interest. 'Kagome.' Sesshomaru growled at that though of her name. It sent a pain through his chest like no other he had ever known and it only made the urge to kill InuYasha even stronger. Kagome was a simple shrine maiden who won a scolorship to attend there private high school and from the moment he had laird eyes on her that first day in gym his beast had wanted her.
She was the first girl to ever knock him on his ass during sparing or even dare to yell at him. All the other females were so weak and quiet with no fight in them. They fawned over him threw themselves at him like he was some prize to be won, but not Kagome, she had such a fire that burned within her. It was because of that fire Sesshomaru had finally agreed with his beast on the woman. But because she was human and he himself had no experience with human women he had sought his father for advice. That had been his biggest mistake, as InuYasha over heard there conversation.
In his haterade for his older brother InuYasha has swooped in and wooed the girl right under Seshomarus nose. Sesshomaru had been furious almost killing InuYasha in his rage when Kagome had told him she was seeing his brother. If his father had not stepped in when he did InuYasha would have died by his hands. His father had wormed InuYasha to let the girl go that she was not ment for him that he would only hurt her in the end. Did he listen, no the stubborn boy held on to the girl as if she was some trophy to flaunt in front of him and then he did exactly what his father had said. He hurt Kagome so deeply that she just disappeared from there lives all together all because of InuYasha's selfishness.
Sesshomaru had to resist the urge to gag in disgust as he made is way into the living room. It was like this almost every night. Did the two of them have no shame? Sesshomaru growled low in his chest at the sight before him. InuYasha sat on the couch with both in but his boxers on while Kikyo straddled his lap. Her shirt was unbuttoned revealing her less the classless bra and the smell of sex hung heavy in the air.
"Brother you are aware that you have a room for such activities." He snorted as InuYasha flew up successfully knocking Kikyo into the floor. If Sesshomaru had been anyone else he would have laughed at the angry expression on the woman's face as she scrambled to cover herself.
"Feh, your home early. Why?" InuYasha snorted as he folded his arms across his chest. Sesshomaru never came home early. It just didn't happen not since Kagome had left him. Sesshomaru had thrown himself into his practice spending most nights at the hospital.
"I wish to take Rin out for dinner. Not that it is any of your concern little brother." Sesshomaru snorted as he brushed past InuYasha and up the stairs. Rin's school would be going on fall break at the end of the week and his father had wished for Rin to join him and his step-mother on the final week of there vacation. It had ment to be a surprise for the young girl as a birthday present. He was to surprise her with the plane ticket that was safely tucked in his front pocket.
"Yea well the brats in her room!" Sesshomaru heard InuYasha yell as he took his seat back on the couch next to a very passed off Kikyo. Sesshomaru made his way to Rin's room with haste eager to get away from his younger brother. He paused outside of her door however before a viscous growled escaped his lips. Rage on the verge of taking over as he had InuYasha by the throat before he himself even realized it.
"Where is Rin?" Sesshomaru demanded as InuYasha clawed at the hand that was constricting his airway.
"What are you talking about the brats in her room!" InuYasha bit out as Sesshomaru tossed him into the closest wall.
"She is gone! Her sent is old Rin has not been in her room for hours!" InuYasha's eyes widened as Kikyo gasped. "If anything has happened to her little brother even father will not be able to stop me from killing you this time." Sesshomaru growled out as he pulled out his phone. Anger and guilt working there way onto his normally static face.
"Whait Sesshomaru who are you calling?" Kikyo asked as she helped pull InuYasha off the floor.
"Father." Was his only reply as he left the room. Her sent was old bit there was still a chance he could track her sent. He had to try, he had already lost Kagome he refused to louse Rin as well to InuYasha's foolishness.
"InuYasha how could you be so careless?." Sesshomaru snorted as he watched his father chastise InuYasha. After receiving his call his father wasted no time in rushing home with his mate. Even with his fathers demonic speed it he still taken him hours to return home. It was now almost dawn and the whole house was in an uproar. Izayoi had been a crying mess when they had landed and as soon as she laird eyes on InuYasha she had slapped him. Refusing to say anything at all to her son as she turned her back on him. Rushing up to Rin's room in hopes of finding anything that could help them locate her.
"I'm sorry! I thought she was in her room! How was I supposed to know the little brat was going to take off!" InuYasha yelled back at his father before he found himself pinned to the nearest wall once again. His fathers eyes flashing from gold to red.
"It was your responsibility to watch her." Touga boomed as he tossed InuYasha to the side sucksessfuly destroying the large tv that hunt on the wall in there living room. "InuYasha you better pray that Rin is safe and unharmed because if she is not I will personally hand you over to your brother."
Sesshomaru smirked at that thought. No matter how bad he wanted to sink his claws into InuYasha he did not wish for Rin to be harmed in the process. She was such a sweet and innocent child with such a large heart. He had tried his best to track her sent but it was to old and she was to smart for her own good. Rin had purposely walked into the subway where there were to many smells to shift through. If he wasn't so worried Sesshomaru would have been proud.
Sesshomaru was brought out of his thoughts abruptly by the ringing of his personal phone. Raising a delacit brow he eyes the number it was one he did not recognize. 'It may be Rin.' He thought before sliding his finger across the green button that had appeared on his screen.
"Hello." He answered drily.
"Hello is this Sesshomaru?" He froze as the voice on the other end reached his ears. It was one he would have known anywhere a voice he still heard in his dreams.
"Yes." He breathed as he tried to pull himself from his shock. After all this time why was she calling now? Had she kept his number all these years?
"Oh, thank god you answered I wasn't sure you would. I know you must be busy and I'm not sure if you even remember me but it's Kagome." Sesshomaru couldn't help. The small smile that tugged at the corners of his lips. 'She hasn't changed a bit.' He thought as his father eyes him suspiciously.
"Yes I remember you Kagome." The whole room froze at the mention of her name. "Why have you called this Sesshomaru?"
"Yeah about that... Well you see... Rin is with me. I don't know how she found me but she did. I would have called sooner but it took me forever to get a real number out of her." Sesshomaru breathed a sigh of relief 'Rin is safe.' He thought proud of how clever she had become. Rin had somehow managed to track down the one person she knew would help her no matter what.
"I see. I am sorry she bothered you. However I am relieved she is safe." Sesshomaru stated calmly as he watched his fathers face relax.
"Oh, its not bother I have missed her really I have. I just know how worried you all had to be. I told her she should have come to you instead of running away like she has." Kagome rambled on.
"Yes she should have but I am thankful for your help Miko. " He paused for a moment as a devilish smirk made its way across his lips. "If you send me your address I will come pick her up personally."
"Oh, no you don't have to do that. I can always bring her by on my way into work in a few hours. I pass your house anyway so its not trouble." Kagome spoke softly as she tried to reshure him.
"I insist Miko. It is the least I can do for the inconvenience she has caused you." Yes he was not going to let her out of seeing him so easily. Rin had opened an opportunity for him to slowly work his way back into her life and he would not squander it.
"Alright just don't be angry with her okay. Wait till you have the full story before you scold her. Ill text you my address." Kagome sighed as she gave in to his request.
"I will see you shortly Miko." Sesshomaru replied as he ended the call. He turned to face his father who only nodded. As much as he wanted to see his little girl he had to allow his son this opportunity to see Kagome again. Touga watched as Sesshomaru exited the room making his way to the garage.
"InuYasha." He spoke his voice low and harsh.
"Yes." InuYasha froze as he meat his fathers gaze.
"Until further notice you no longer have my blessing to marry, or mate Kikyo. Tonight you have proven you are unprepared to handle the responsibilities that come with caring for a family and a child." Touga
"You have got to be fucking kidding me!" InuYasha yelled in protest.
"I am far from joking InuYasha. Since Kikyo has already given up her apartment she will be moved into the guest house. You are not to touch her until I say other wise." Touga bared his fangs at his youngest son.
"Oh, yeah and what if I don't listen. Its not like you can really stop me old man." InuYasha snorted.
"Then you will be thrown out on your ass! With just the clothing on your back!" Touga released the tight hold he had kept on his aura forcing InuYasha to the ground. "Now I have to go inform your mother Rin has been found."
Kagome sighed for what felt like the hundredth time that night. Rin had finally fallen asleep on the couch giving Kagome the opportunity to reach out to her brother Sesshomaru. 'I wonder if he's still just as handsome as he was back then.' Kagome thought as a light blush tinted her cheeks. 'M Kagome he wasn't interested in you back then. He won't be now.' She scolded herself as she glanced at her watch. 6:30 am and she had her morning rounds at eight. Kagome sighed again as she placed her head on the kitchen table.
She was exhausted the hospital had been running her raggade with her overload of cases, but she just couldn't turn away sick children. She just didn't have it in her. Kagome groaned as she forced herself to move she needed a shower and Sesshomaru would be here shortly to collect Rin. If she hurred she could squeeze in a quick one.
Kagome had just finished pulling on her dark gray scrubs and combing out her long black hair when a knock could be heard on her door. Kagome glanced over at the sleeping Rin before she opened the door to come face to face with Sesshomaru. Her breath cought in her throat and she was sure her heart was going to pound out of her chest. There he stood in her door way in black slacks and a white button up with the first two buttons undone sowing off just enough of his toned chest. His ling silver hair had been pulled back in a low brade that hung loosely over his left shoulder. But what really shocked her was the bouquet of white roses in his hands.
"Sesshomaru." Kagome breathed as she took in the sight before her. 'I guess that answeres my question.' Kagome thought as she slowly came back to her sinces.
"Hello, miko these are for you." He healed out the bouquet for her to take and she graciously accepted.
"Thank you, but why?" Kagome asked as she moved to allow him entrance to her small apartment.
"To thank you for taking care of Rin." He stated calmly as he smiled down at her and Kagome was sure she felt her heart race again as she turned away from him. Trying to hide the slight blush that had spread across her cheeks.
"It was nothing." Kagome muttered as she moved into the kitchen to place them in a vase of water.
"It was not, nothing. Most would have turned her away or expected something in return for her safety. Rin still does not understand the dangers that come with being part of a royal line." Sesshomaru stated softly as he watched every move the small woman made. She was just as beautiful as she had been back then. If anything the five years had taken away the last of her childish features.
"I'm just happy I was able to help." Kagome smiled up at him before glancing at her watch. "Shit!" She cursed. "I'm going to be so late." Kagome whined as she began rushing about the room the male in her kitchen forgotten about as she darted through the house. "Take as long as you like. Just lock up before you leave." Kagome called as she rushed past him and out her door. Never once stopping to see the amused smile on his face as he watched her run about.