Disclaimer: I don't own the rights to Inuyasha.
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The snow drifted slowly to the ground, but it went unnoticed by the party-goers. Today was New Years Eve, a time to celebrate the past year and the new year to come. Everyone there is happy except for one, the only one to notice the snow outside. She presses her head up against the pane of glass and lets out a long sigh. This year had been hard on her, and at midnight tonight Rin would start her life as a single woman. No, she was even worse than a single woman, she was to be a divorced woman. The stigma behind such a word was enough to drive off the best of people who failed to even comprehend that she was not at fault in her divorce.
She could remember the day her life fell apart perfectly.
It was early December, and Rin and her older sister Kagome had decided to go out Christmas shopping while Inuyasha was home to watch his child. They had agreed to go over to Sango's house afterward to wrap the gifts while Sango was away so that they wouldn't have to worry about Sakura trying to steal a peek at her gifts. When they got there they found Miroku at home with the children but Sango was not there. "She went to her father's house to look for some gifts she bought our children back in October," Miroku explained.
He invited them into the house, and they went into the study to start their projects assuming that Sango would be joining them soon. When she did get, Sango seemed to be greatly troubled about something. "What's wrong? Is your father okay?" Kagome asked concerned.
Sango sat down slowly with a camera in her hands, which were trembling. She wouldn't even look at Rin, which made Rin's stomach acid churn. Finally she handed the digital camera to Kagome, who glanced through the pictures with Rin and Miroku looking over her shoulders. What Sango had captured on camera was a couple in the middle of a sexual act. Miroku grinned like the pervert he was, but it was the pictures at the end that explained why it was that Sango had taken the photos in the first place. It looked as if the couple had heard Sango and you could see the faces of both of them with their eyes open wide like a deer caught in the headlights.
Rin's knees gave way, but thankfully Miroku caught her before she could faint. Kagome's face was captured in extreme concern, and Sango now was crying as she chanted over and over, "I can't believe he did it to you." For indeed the male in the photos was none other than her brother Kohaku, who just so happened to be Rin's husband.
Miroku comforted his wife while Kagome tried to give Rin some encouraging words, but Rin could not comprehend what Kagome was telling her. Instead, in Rin's mind the world seemed to slow down entirely. It was like she was dreaming, and that's what she prayed was happening.
Unfortunately for her it was not a dream. Kohaku really had committed adultery, and the worst part was that he was not sorry for it. Sango and Kagome both dragged Rin to a lawyer immediately to get the paperwork started. Because it was caught on film, Rin got most of their possessions since adultery is illegal in the state of Illinois. And the lawyer had somehow even convinced her to start a civil suit against Kohaku's mistress, thanks to the Alienation of Affection law. Whenever that finished she would likely gets thousands of dollars from his mistress, but that mattered not to Rin.
Instead she just wanted it all to go away. She remained in the grieving process for the first three weeks, but within the last few days she had gone into the angry phase, and everything that reminded her of Kohaku angered her. Everything except for Sango and Sango's father, who both did their best to help her because they were both angry with Kohaku.
So now she was sitting in her sister's house listening to everyone be happy. Tomorrow would be a new beginning for her, one that was sure to leave her lonely and bitter for a long time to come. And as the countdown to the new year reached zero a tear slipped from each of her eyes.
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Note: So I promised CelestialDragon423 that I'd consider making a New Year's story, and here's the start of it.
As for divorce, I do know both of the laws mentioned above are real laws in Illinois, something that I came across while doing research for my own divorce. The only thing is that you have to physical evidence, which I unfortunately was unable to get.