My Lovely Sin
Taken away from her family at the tender age of two, because her father cheated on her mother, Kagome lives with no memory of the Truesdale family; growing up with Jaden for a few years before her untimely trip down the well. She grows up in the past for about four years before she returns, with more than the majority of Japan thinking she's dead. She goes to Duelist Academy with her close friend, and her past only too willingly returns.
Anime – Yu-Gi-Oh GX/InuYasha
Main Couple – Kagome/Zane
Genre – Romance
Rated – M (Just guess!)
Akuma Chibi: Hey guys! Starting another partner fic, this time with Bishonen'sFoxyMiko! So make sure you give her credit where it's due! This was a story that me and her had thought up a while back...in fact, I was working at another building so...and it's been...yeah, we thought this up about three months ago, give or take a few days. Hope you all enjoy, the chapters we wrote are truly mixed with us, and there is no real way to tell who wrote what since we didn't switch on scenes. Still, please read and leave a comment telling us what you think! Much Love! ^_^")
Bishonen'sFoxyMiko: LOL, this was really fun co-authoring with Akuma Chibi in this. It started out as she was telling me about another Zane/Kagome pairing of hers and I asked how she would like to do the same pairing but with a sense of taboo. After that, ideas started coming to us like crazy XD. Anyways, I hope you guys enjoyed this! XD
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Little Princess
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Hark! Hark! The dogs do bark,
The beggars are coming to town.
Some in rags,
And some in tags,
And one in a velvet gown!
Her voice soft and gentle; soothing the toddler held closely in her arms. The little girl was staring off ahead of her listening to the rhyme her mother spoke, though the meaning fell on deaf ears. She would every so often twiddle her fingers or turn to look up at her mother's face, minute hands cupping her mother's cheeks, tiny nimble fingers learning her mother's eyes and lips.
Her mother kissed the fingers of the toddler as they touched down on her lips. "You are a curious one, aren't you?" She smiled, "Let's go find something for you; I'm sure we can sedate that curiosity."
"Momma?"
The woman turned with her smile still in place, looking at the three, soon to be four year old, that stood in the Nursery doorway. "Hello Zane dear, what are you doing up? It's well past your bedtime."
"Not tired."
She grinned, "Come then, maybe you could help me. I'm trying to find something that will hold your sisters attention." She said, taking his hand in her left, holding her daughter in her right arm.
"Kagome can't sleep?"
"No, she wants to play."
"I'll watch her."
She laughed, "Okay, but while you watch her, I'll watch you." She smiled.
"Okay then!"
She looked at her son, having the same fair skinned complexion that she and her youngest and only daughter had. She had two beautiful kids; her little girl, Kagome, had just turned two; now after almost two years, she had a full head of black hair, thick and naturally wavy, stopping at her ears. Her eyes were deep blue, similar to that of an ocean, mesmerizing, you could almost drown in them; her son, Zane, with his teal colored hair, taking after his father in looks, her in complexion, his eyes were the same cloudy green as his father's.
He was protective of Kagome, always watching over her. Far be it if she tumbled or fell it was the end of the world and he was calling the police. She laughed, remembering when her daughter was learning to crawl and had lost balance and bumped her head on the leg of the table. He had ordered the housemaid to put pillows on all the legs of the tables, chairs, desks; so on and so forth.
Walking into her room, she put her finger to her lips and motioned for silence to her eldest child. Her husband lay asleep on the bed, and she had no real desire to wake him from his slumber. She moved to her dresser and took the medium sized jewelry box, simple in its mahogany wood and oval shape. She quietly removed herself from the room, making sure Zane was with her before shutting the door silently behind her. They walked back into the nursery and she sat the box on the floor.
"We are giving her a necklace?" Zane frowned, "It might hurt her."
"No, not a necklace," She opened the box and immediately, Kagome reached her hand out to grab the first thing to catch her eyes. "Ah, ah, careful Kagome,"
"Mm, ball-ball!"
Zane looked inside the jewelry box and picked up the lavender/pink jewel, an orb on a simple string, nothing about it looked expensive, but his sister seemed to like it a lot.
"Ah, the Shikon no Tama,"
"What's that?" Zane asked curiously, turning the orb over in his hand. It had no blemishes, no ugly marks or scratches.
"Ah, the Shikon no Tama, a jewel my mother gave me, and she received it from hers, so on and so forth. You wanna know something funny? All of the women in my family have one daughter. Only one, so that no one fights over the Shikon no Tama."
"Why would you fight over a marble?"
"It's an old jewel of legend; grandma say's that our ancestors believed it to hold great powers, and it was said that the Shikon no Tama could grant its protector any one wish."
"A wish?"
"Yes, but...it's never worked, at least, not as far as I know of. Mind you, I never wore it or anything. All of the women in my family kept it in a case away from harm, they said we should protect it, not expose it."
"Is it real?"
"...I don't know."
"Ball-Ball!"
"Ah, right, right...I hear you." She smiled at Zane, "Go ahead and let her have it; there's no harm in letting her play with it."
He nodded and handed the jewel to his sister, watching her hands wrap two thirds of the way around the jewel, not able to grasp it all in her hands. She stared into the jewel, her eyes taking on a hazy look as she got lost in the small orb.
Zane and his mother watched the youngest as she was lulled into sleep.
"That was strange." She stood and placed Kagome in the crib, pulling the jewel from the little ones hands; she looked into it and smiled, tying it to the mobile above her daughters crib. It was tied in the center of the string to the center of the mobile to keep it from hitting her daughter in the head when she woke up, puppies hanging around the Shikon no Tama, turning with the mobile that played soothing melodies in tones so sweet and low.
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(The Next Morning)
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Once reaching her destination, Kagome and Zane's mother, Amaya (Night rain) turned the ignition of her car off and sat in her seat. All that had happened just an hour or two ago started to sink in before letting her tears fall and setting her forehead on the steering wheel, sobbing quietly so to not wake her sleeping daughter from her nap in the back car seat.
The day started out like any other day, with her waking, tending to her daughter, and a couple of maids helping her make breakfast for her two children. It was around the early afternoon, after lunch, as she was playing with her son and daughter that everything turned so bad.
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Her husband had returned home earlier than his usual time of five-thirty in the evening. He came up to her, saying that he had to talk to her about something.
The expression on his face was so serious that she knew it had to be important. So with a nod, asking Zane to watch his sister while she talked with his father, Ayame followed her husband to his study. During their walk to the study, her husband, Hisao Truesdale was uncharacteristically quiet and it made Amaya wonder what he needed to talk to her about. Not knowing what was wrong made her insides twist with worry of what might be wrong.
After reaching the study, Hisao allowed his wife to walk in first before entering himself and closing the door behind him. He watched as Amaya took a seat; he hoped beyond hope that his ever-faithful wife, the mother of his first two beautiful children would forgive him of the sin he'd committed…and also come to understand what he was about to do was to take responsibility of the wrong he had done.
"What did you need to discuss dear?" Amaya asked.
Hisao didn't answer immediately until he was seated in front of her, taking her delicate hands into his. Looking into her eyes, he started, "Amaya…I know that all throughout our marriage you had always been faithful to me…and had not lied to me once…or hidden anything from me…" Seeing her nod, although confusedly, he continued, "…despite all this…what I've done…"
"I don't understand. What is it that you did?"
Sighing, Hisao thought over what he should say…how he should tell her. Finding no way to try sugarcoating it, he answered hesitantly while torn, "A week before Kagome had turned two…you remembered how I was held up at work and arrived home late?"
"Yes…" Amaya didn't like where this was going…and was a bit scared as to what he would say next.
Something was terribly wrong since she hardly ever saw her husband look so guilty while looking at her as if begging for forgiveness. The only times she ever saw him look guilty is when he was forced to let an employee from work go but she had never seen him look her like this…
"That night, I was held up…but it wasn't for work…" Hisao's grip on Amaya's hands tightened slightly, not to where he was hurting her, as he lowered his gaze before he continued to confess, "...something happened…that I could─ SHOULD have been prevented."
Amaya looked at him in hurt and denial, asking, "What…? Are you saying that…?"
"Yes…I…had an affair with another woman." Without looking up to see her expression, Hisao tried to assure, "The affair was very brief…and I was drinking. I don't remember very much of it. The only thing I remember before it happened was that it was with one of the women I work with…" his eyes clenched, mentally cursing his stupidity for allowing this all to happen. "After the first time, we never spoke of it and never got together again, despite that she wanted to. But─when I found out she was pregnant today...I...I─"
"Stop it…" Her voice came out barely above a whisper.
"Amaya, please hear me out; I─"
"I've heard enough!" She stood so suddenly, pulling her hands from his loosened grip.
"Amaya," He tried calming her but she stormed out of his study and down the hall to the Nursery where Zane and Kagome played. "Amaya!" He followed after her in time to see her pick Kagome up and move to the crib where she pulled a jewel from his daughters' mobile, handing it to his youngest before grabbing a blanket and wrapping it around her. "Amaya, you can't leave!"
She turned and glared callously at him, "Watch me!" She moved to her son, crouching down on one knee, careful of her youngest as she balanced her on her hip. "Zane sweetie, mommy has to go."
"You are taking this out of way out of control," Hisao said, placing a hand on her shoulder only for it to be slapped away.
"Don't you dare touch me!" She pulled the wedding band from around her finger and tossed it across from her and out the door. Hisao turned to get it but stopped short, instead turning to his wife who stood glaring coldly at him. "Did you think it would be forgiven? That I would smile and say, 'it's alright' and 'everyone makes mistakes'? What were you expecting? Tell me, Hisao, when you slept with her, was it worth it?"
"I wish I could take it all back."
"...so do I, so do I."
She walked past him and left him standing in an empty Nursery, tears spilling from his smoky teal eyes. Zane was running after her, trying to keep up with his mother, catching her by her Fang Tiered Mini Skirt that fell and stopped just above her knees in shades of brown and red. She looked down and smiled sadly. "You need to stay, Zane. I love you so much, but I can't take you from him. He loves you so much, and you are so dear to him. I hate him so much for what he's done, but I still love him, and for that, I can't take everyone he holds dear away from him. Zane, do something for me."
"..."
"Watch over your new sibling, okay? Protect the little one to the best that you can, and...Watch over your daddy."
He looked at the ground and frowned but nodded none the less. He didn't like it, but...he would do as his mother asked of him, even if it meant staying.
Amaya took one more look behind her before turning and leaving the place she once called home.
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(End Flashback)
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And now Amaya was back home where her mother lived; where she herself was raised. As much as her heart ached and she wanted to take Zane with her, let him grow up in the settings she did…she didn't completely have the heart to leave the man without his eldest son and only took their daughter with her since her baby was still too young to be without her.
But it had to be done. She wasn't going to live with that man anymore; Amaya didn't even want to be in the same room as him. She couldn't trust him right now, possibly not ever, even if it was just one affair.
Even if she was to forgive him, whose to say he won't betray her again by sleeping around behind her back once again? What if this wasn't the first he had done this, despite his word of saying it was?
She'd still come around to see her son and allow him to see his sister, as well as allow her daughter to see her new baby brother…but she couldn't go back to Hisao…not now. And she didn't believe she ever would be able to.
Once Amaya had calmed down a bit, she dried her tears with a bit of a sniffle. After a deep breath to calm her nerves, she got out of her car and went to the back seat where her little girl was still napping in her car seat. Unbuckling everything and bringing Kagome into her arms, Amaya locked her vehicle and started the trek up the steps of her family's shrine.
With each step she walked on, she remembered how she first met her soon-to-be ex-husband. It was on these steps that she had met Hisao while she was home from college during, her winter vacation. Most would say that it was love at first sight…and maybe it was. But it wasn't forever…not after what Hisao confessed.
By marrying the man she loved, she gave some snobs the belief that she married Hisao for the money. But even after Hisao told her that he came from a wealthy family, the money never mattered.
And despite that his late grandmother didn't like her, Hisao, with his mother and father's blessings, went through with marrying Amaya…and took her to the place she always desired to go to for their honeymoon; Cairo, Egypt.
She ascended the rest of the way up the steps and stared at the shrine that she had grown up in; so many fond memories were made here, and she looked forward to making many more with her daughter.
Taking a few steps towards the door, she watched as it opened, a slightly breathless woman staring out from the door.
"..." The older woman caught her breath and ran forward, hugging both Amaya and Kagome in her arms. "Amaya, love..."
"Mom, how─"
"Motherly intuition; I always know when my baby needs me." The woman ushered her daughter and granddaughter inside, closing the door soundly behind her. "Story time can wait till tomorrow, for now, rest. The drive from the Truesdale manor to the Higurashi Shrine is a long and taxing one, are you hungry? Is the little one tired, perhaps you should lay her down?"
Amaya smiled at her mothers' worried mind-set, watching as she pulled out an old baby bassinet for the sleeping toddler lying in her arms.
"Mom, thank you."
The older woman smiled a wearing old smile, wrinkles from worry were apparent on her brow and around her eyes. "You needn't thank me. You are my daughter, and she my granddaughter. I will always help you, no matter what troubles you. Now, lay her down and we will go have some tea."
Amaya did as told, hoping the night would fade and she wouldn't remember anything come tomorrow. She lay Kagome down and the sleeping girl turned slightly to the side, still gripping the jewel tightly in her small hands. 'Sleep tight, my little angel.'
Once she was sure that her baby girl was sleeping peacefully, Amaya left the downstairs guest room to the kitchen where her mother was most likely making the tea.
In the hallway, she was met by her father, who was wearing an evening yukata, 'he must've been sleeping when I arrived…' she thought guiltily, but the guilt she felt was forgotten when her father came up and wrapped his arms around her, giving what comfort he could to his first and only daughter before leading Amaya to the kitchen with one of his arms still wrapped around her shoulders.
As they walked to the kitchen, Amaya savored her father's comforting embrace before they reached their destination where her father pulled a chair out for her before taking his own seat across from her as his wife brought in a third cup and started to pour some tea for all of them.
After Amaya's mother took a seat next to her husband, no one said a word, but that didn't bother Amaya…she felt that she wasn't ready to tell them why she had returned home with only her daughter…or tell them about Hisao cheating on her and getting another woman pregnant.
That one fact made her heart clench painfully, asking herself how Hisao could sleep with another woman when he was married to her and had two growing children…
But what was done was done…there's no way either of them could change or take back what happened…
The sound of her father clearing his throat caught her attention as he calmly held his teacup before he spoke, "We know something is wrong, Amaya…especially for you to have made such a sudden trip; to come home from the mansion." His closed eyes then opened to look at her, asking, "What happened between you and Hisao? And why isn't Zane with you as well?"
Amaya lowered her gaze to her cup, not wanting her father to see the emotional pain in her eyes or even the tears that threatened to fall from her eyes.
Seeing her daughter's hands trembling as they held her cup, Amaya's mother was about to scold her husband about being to straightforward until she heard her daughter's voice speak softly, almost trembling, "Hisao…he…" Her heart compressed in her chest with the words she would have to sooner or later speak, which meant, she would have to admit the truth to herself. "…he found someone better suited…for him." She knew it wasn't that way, but in her mind, that's what he had done. 'Both are heartless. That girl knew he was married, and they both…' She clenched her fists in her skirt. "He had an affair with some…girl at work. He told me today, and he said she was pregnant." She had finally said it. It hurt like hell, but she had spoken those heart wrenching words, and…she felt no better about than she did when he'd said them.
"Oh my," Her mother's hand was over her mouth, a surprised gesture; no doubt she had believed them to be perfectly happy and married…but then, so had she.
"That bastard," Her father stood and moved as if her were going to leave.
"Dad, please let it go. Zane needs a father, and that's why I left him with Hisao, so please, let's not cause anymore problems. I'll be fine, I have Kagome, and I have you and mom. Please...let's just drop it. I want to move on, and it will be hard enough to forget about Hisao and what he did, even if that's possible, he will never truly be gone from my mind…or my heart…" Her head dropped, so did the hand that had momentarily been holding his sleeve.
He turned and wrapped his arms around his heartbroken daughter, "Then we will help you move on."
"Thank you," Her voice a whisper as tears fell from her eyes. She leaned her head against her fathers shoulder and cried. She knew that her troubles…had only begun…
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