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Chapter 10: The Letter
Kiyuki flopped down onto her dark purple down comforter, messing is up. She heaved a heavy sigh and waited for her friends to take their seats around the room.
"What gives? Why does he come back now of all times?" Haru asked.
"We aren't totally sure. He probably just wants a divorce," She whined and rolled over, picking up a porcelain dog that InuYasha had gotten her.
It was the size of her cell phone and had silver 'hair' that was carved into the figure. It had golden brown hair and a dark blue dog collar. She had forgotten she had it. Without thinking, she lifted her arm and broke the head on the corner of her dark wood nightstand as if she where breaking the bottom off a beer bottle
She found herself wondering why she hadn't done it earlier. She opened the window and removed the screen. She then proceeded to chuck the broken dog at InuYasha's car, which left a nice scratch in the side of his pretty little sports car.
"Wow, Kiyuki, no need to get destructive…" Yuki said in mock horror as the rest of the kids in the room burst into laughter and clapped. She loved how supportive her friends were.
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Kagome sat at the kitchen table, finishing the bills. She collected them into a pile and headed out to place them in the mailbox.
Lifting the lid, she notice an envelope in it already. Switching the bills and the letter, she flipped the plastic flag up and shut the mailbox. She froze when she saw the return address. InuYasha.
She ripped the letter in half without reading it and threw it to the ground.
"LEAVE ME AND MY KIDS ALONE, INUYASHA!" She screamed at his house. She felt the warm tears glide quickly down her face.
Ami ran outside and to her mother. She noticed the two halves of the ripped up letter and quickly slid them into her back pocket. As soon as Kagome calmed down and she was inside on the couch, Ami ran upstairs, past Kiyuki's room and all her friends, and into her own room. She pulled the letter out and taped it back together. She was lucky her mother had spared its life.
The return address made her stomach flip. It was from her uncles summer home – next door. Hr jaw dropped as she read the letter, eyes carefully skimming the page, memorizing the neat handwriting.
She stood there, in this middle of her bedroom, frozen. She couldn't show it to her mother – she was already a wreck. She looked out her window which overlooked the front lawn. Sesshoumaru had gone home. His car was there half an hour ago. She looked across the street. Miroku was home.
She raced over to Kiyuki's room and burst into the room, all of the kids turned to look at her.
"If mom asks, I'm at Riku's."
"Uh, o-okay. Why are you crying?" Kiyuki asked, shock written on her face.
Ami reached up and touched her face. "Dammit…" She mumbled. When she ran from the room, she heard two things. "Screw it" from Kiyuki and "Your sister has a mouth…".
She raced across the street and pounded on the door. He opened the door, surprised to see a teary-eyed ten-year-old.
"Ami, what's wrong?" he asked in alarm. She handed him the letter.
"Mom just got this. She didn't read it, she just tore it in half." She watched as he skimmed the paper.
"It's a good thing she didn't read this. I'm going to skin that kid." When he finished he put his arm around her and walked her back across the street. As they walked down the street on the sidewalk, they talked. They talked about everything but InuYasha.
Miroku had always been the closest thing to a father Ami ever had. And she was glad.She loved Miroku like a father.
When they turned the corner at the end of the street they saw InuYasha, hands shoved in pockets, looking at the ground. Miroku told Ami to stay there as he walked up to the unsuspecting InuYasha. And then Miroku did something that made Ami cover her mouth in surprise.
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