Title: Setting You Free.
Author: Aryenne
Genre: Angst
Rated: T
Pairing: Kagome/ Sesshoumaru
Summary: she was done waiting and done faking. She is setting him free. (AU)
He was on his way home. He felt something tell him to go home it was almost one year since he slept at home but today he had a bad feeling, after ignoring him for almost the whole year today his beast was pounding on the cage he made for his beast. He mated her when she was just seventeen and that was four years ago. He didn't love her. Ohh, He had lusted her at the beginning and in the tryst of passion had marked her as mate. She didn't know that and if he had his way she will never know. She was powerful and she can be an asset to him in the future or so he tries to convince himself.
He arrived at home and enters to find the house quiet. His beast started banging more furiously at the cage. He walked through his home to find all his mate things gone. He ignored his mating mark to a point he even forgot it was there now he was looking for their connection he can't find it. He walked in their bedroom nothing. In the kitchen, it looks as if it hadn't been used recently. He walked in his study even knowing she isn't allowed in there. That was his first rule for her. The rooms that, were off-limits to her. There on his favorite chair was a letter duck-taped on the back with his name on it. Now he had a feeling of foreboding as he reach for the letter. He opened and sank in the chair as he read it.
My dear,
Every time I saw your smile I wanted to cry because I know that that smile was forced, much like our living together.
After living for you so long I came to realize that this isn't what you want. To know you regret marking me hurts but it hurts more to see you try and faking because you can't, you never could hide something from me. Oh, I knew of your lady friends. All of them even before you mark me.
I know you can't change the past but I can change the future. For almost two years I've been searching for a method that can set you free and keep both of us alive and guess what I've found it. So with this letter I set you free. I thank you for the beautiful memories we had while the happiness lasted which I guess was never love from your side, oh you lusted but I realized you never loved I don't think you know what love is. But I loved you at the beginning.
I want you to find love or at least happiness even if it isn't by my side. So with this letter I set you free. I didn't take anything because I don't want anything. I never did. Know that now as I sit in your study to write this I'm happy you didn't marry me, it would've been worse, with lawyers' and judges. Now we don't need anyone else. Almost no one knew we were mated, they knew we were an item but not that we mated and I for one will not tell anyone. You have my word.
You are now free,
Kagome.
When he finish reading the letter he was crying. "What have I done?"
