All's fair in Love and War

Chrysolite Heart

Prologue:

(Getting to know the characters)

Kikyou Sandra: Currently studying to become an actress on the stage. She's done a few small performances but nothing big yet. She's currently dating Inuyasha Takahashi.

Kagome Higurashi: Kikyou's current best friend. She is jealous of Kikyou because she has had a crush on Inuyasha for a long time but can't get together with him because he's dating Kikyou. She ends up blackmailing Inuyasha into dumping Kikyou and getting together with her. She's studying to become an artist.

Inuyasha Takahashi: He's currently Kikyou's boyfriend. He's studying business in university to become a business man. He has a half-brother named Sesshomaru.

Sesshomaru Takashi: He is Inuyasha's half-brother which is why their last names are slightly different. He's also studying business but is currently living in United States. He's a few years older than Inuyasha.

Hojo Asari: A friend of the family since childhood. He's been crushing on Kagome for the longest time and has admitted his feelings for Kagome numerous times but has been rejected each time. But being stubborn he refuses to give up and follows Kagome around like a love-sick puppy.

Those are all of the main characters. I may have Miroku and Sango in it, I'm not sure. I'll be having Kagura in the story but she really only comes up at the end. Ok, well, now to begin!

Chapter 1

Kikyou's POV

"Kikyou, maybe we shouldn't be together anymore," Inuyasha's voice said to her. Kikyou gasped.

"Why? What happened? I thought we were happy! Is there someone else?" Kikyou cried out in despair. "Please don't leave me Inuyasha, I need you,"

Inuyasha shook his head solemnly.

"I'm sorry Kikyou, it ends here," Inuyasha replied. He gave her a look that made her want to fall to her knees and weep but she managed to hold herself up until he turned and walked away.

Kikyou could still recall the sound of Inuyasha's footsteps walking away. The break-up had been just a week ago, although Kikyou had always considered herself a strong girl, she had never thought that the impact of a break-up could be so hard to cope with. She had never felt this way before. Not even when her mother had died years ago. Inuyasha had meant the world to her, and at the moment when she felt the most happy he had to go and tear away that happiness from her. Why? Why Inuyasha? She thought and thought but she could not come up with any reason as to why Inuyasha would want to break-up with her. She had called him to find out the answers to her questions but Inuyasha wouldn't give her a direct answer, no matter how hard she tried to get it out of him. Her eyes brimmed with tears. The couple had been going out for more than half a year and all of a sudden he wanted to break up with her. She just couldn't understand it.

Kikyou sat dully in her chair. She pulled out her airplane ticket from the envelope she kept it in. She stared at the strip of blue and white paper. Here she was, about to leave her home, Tokyo, where she had spent all her years of highschool. She was going to America. She had decided this only the day before, she felt she just couldn't handle the overwhelming emotions that had come along with her break-up with Inuyasha. She had informed Kagome, her best friend, and Kagome had seemed to support her which was strangely odd but Kikyou thought nothing of it. She had also told Inuyasha who simply replied.

"Do whatever you want to,"

Those words had hurt her but she had swallowed her tears and thanked him. And here she was. She checked her clock. The plane should be arriving in about 15 minutes.

Goodbye Tokyo…

Inuyasha watched from a distance as his beloved Kikyou got up at the call of her flight. He wanted so badly to run up and stop her. He wished with all of his heart that she wouldn't go, but he no longer had the right to stop her. He had broken her heart and at the same time had broken his own. He loved Kikyou, more than he loved his own life. But he couldn't be with her. Not after what had happened.

Flashback

The other day, Inuyasha had gone out for a drink with some of his buddies at a bar. One of the girls had taken an obvious interest in him. Before he knew what was happening the girl had pulled him in for a kiss which Kagome had caught. Inuyasha, slightly drunk at the time, had no idea what was happening when Kagome took pictures of the two of them. After that, it seemed his friends had managed to get him home. The next morning he had woken up with a horrible headache…then the memories of what had happened the night before had come flooding back. The drinks, the girl, Kagome, the blinding white flashes…he remembered it all. At that moment he immediately dialed Kagome's number and met out at a coffee shop with her. She showed him the pictures she had taken. She eventually said that if Inuyasha didn't break-up with Kikyou then she would show Kikyou the pictures of him and the girl at the bar kissing and give her a whole "explanation" of the situation. Inuyasha had found it hard to believe that the sweet Kagome he had known for so long was actually a person like this underneath but he didn't have a choice. He agreed. He didn't want Kikyou to feel any more betrayed or hurt because of him. After that Kagome had demanded that Inuyasha become her boyfriend and Inuyasha had to agree for he was still wary of the pictures in Kagome's possession. That very night, Kagome had forced herself onto Inuyasha. Inuyasha dully made love to her that night but in his mind he wished for more than anything that the one he held in his arms was not Kagome but Kikyou. Then the news of Kikyou's departure arrived soon after that. Inuyasha didn't know how to handle it so he had given her a cold reply when she called to inform him, which he regretted now.

End of flashback

Inuyasha continued to watch as Kikyou's back finally disappeared from sight. She was gone. Kikyou Sandra, the love of his life was gone…for good. He felt his heart drop but couldn't move his body. Inuyasha walked towards one of the wall-sized windows that gave him a clear view of the plane Kikyou was taking. He stared at it, willing with his mind that Kikyou come back out but he knew she wouldn't. He watched until the plane finally departed and when it was gone from sight Inuyasha allowed himself to trudge back home. Kikyou was gone.

As Kikyou sat on the plane, she placed a pair of earphones in her ears and switched to a channel on the radio. She listened contently and leaned her head back into the gray chairs of the plane. She looked out the window beside her and looked back the way she had come. She thought she caught a glimpse of the bright red T-shirt Inuyasha always wore but the plane began to move and she could no longer see the figure. It's not Inuyasha. Kikyou told herself. We broke up; no…he broke-up with me, why would he come to watch me leave…Kikyou scolded herself for even having the thought of the slightest mere chance that Inuyasha regretted her leaving. She thought about it no more as she drifted into a dreamless sleep. I have a new life waiting for me in America, I can start over again…I know I can was Kikyou's last thought before her eyelids shut closed.