OK 3 things! One, If you want something, DEATH THREATS WILL NOT GET YOU ANYWHERE SHESSHOMARULUVER4EVA!! Two, 14 is way too young to have sex, Yuta and Hiroaki will not have sex unless you want me to write a continuation. Three, Um...Serenity2020, did I ever say that Inu had another daughter? I don't know where the hell you got that "Hint" but it is completely false. ok whew glad that's over with! You know it's readers like you that make me regret that I had to kill off Sesshomaru, I don't hate the guy! actually i find him awesome and number 6 on my fav list. But alas it had to be done! OK less Babble more story! NOTE: this is the chapter from which the story recieves it's name. This will be surrounded by a song intitled 'Broken Vow' performed by Josh Groban. Enjoy.
DISCLAMER: nope neither the song, nor the show and I just recently discovered that Rumiko Takahashi has another story with the name of the lead is Yuta, which is quite eerie since I thought I made it up...O.O
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BROKEN VOW
chapter fourteen: Broken Vow
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"Kagome..."
Inuyasha found that he could not say anything else. His throat was dryer than dust and it felt as though a huge frog had jammed itself down his windpipe. His breathing was heavy and he wouldn't dare blink. 'She might disappear' he thought. He had dreamed of nothing but this moment. A moment in which he would sweep her up into her arms and ask her why she had left and why she never said anything, or why she had broke his heart so long ago, but no. Here he stood, the love of his life before him, and he couldn't move an inch. Was she really even there? Was he sure that she just wasn't another dream? After all she too was just standing there as if nothing had happened, but her eyes said otherwise. Deep down into her beautiful azure eyes, flicked a mixture of hate, despair, and-'No that couldn't be love.' Inuyasha looked again and noticed that only the despair was left within her eyes. Why was she the one who was sad? After all she was the one who left him for another man. Why did she look as heavyhearted as he? Inuyasha swallowed hard at the lump within his throat, desperately attempting to win his voice back. "Kagome," he choked out once more.
Kagome nodded slowly and asked "Yes, Inuyasha?" She tried to hide the fear and the somberness of her voice but it was no use. She couldn't hide from the hurt now. Here he was; In front of her; Nothing to hide her, and nowhere to run. He was here. She watched as he finally broke their eye contact as he looked down cast to the floors. "Who-who was it that you left me for?"
-Tell me his name I want to know-
Kagome's stomach gave a huge leap of shock. "What?" she gasped out.
Inuyasha looked back up from the floor. Would she really make him ask such a horrible question over? He cleared his throat and repeated. "Who was it that you left me for all those years ago?"
-The way he looks
And where you go
I need to see his face I need to understand
Why you and I came to an end-
Kagome breathed out the words so softly not even his demon hearing could decipher it. He felt his heart sink down past his stomach as he smelt the salty scent of tears reach his nose. "Who?" he asked again, his voice cracking less this time.
-Tell me again I want to hear
Who broke my faith in all these years
Who lays with you each night
While I'm here all alone
Remembering when I was your own-
"Nobody," she said as loud as her weak voice could manage. A quick jolt bolted through the hanyou's system. His stomach gave another jolt but this one more out of shock than dolefulness. His throat re-dried it self to the point where he could no longer breath. Or was that the shock? He had no idea. "Nobody?" he asked dryly. He somehow found his voice. "But-but then why did you leave? Why'd you go? Weren't you happy here?"
Kagome felt the tears forming within her eyes. "Because you wanted me to." Her voice cracked as a single melancholy tear slid down her cheek.
Confusion painted itself across Inuyasha's face. His eyebrows furrowed in shock and disbelief. "I never said that! I-in what way would you think something like that?!"
Kagome cringed. "Well one Nobuhiku was on your orders to call me and he told me to get out-"
"Why would you believe a decrypted old man and not come to me?!" He questioned, his voice rising.
"I DID come to you!" she yelled out. Inuyasha's eyes were the size of plates. "I mean you came to me! You grabbed me and told me you didn't love me and that you needed your own life, and then I got up and tried to hold you but you clawed me and told me to get out!" She pulled up her sleeve to show him the scars, "I waited months for you to come back and get me, but you never did!"
Inuyasha's heart sunk.
-I let you go
I let you fly
Why do I keep on asking why?-
Inuyasha tried to grip onto reality as best he could. Someone had took his appearance and betrayed Kagome into thinking he hated her. But what was even the worse part was that they had kept them from reconciling by playing on the fact that Inuyasha was too proud to go after her if she wanted happiness, even if that meant sacrificing his own. If only he had went after her long ago. They never would have been in this position. He would have known his daughter, He may have had more. But of all the times to not go after her he chose that one.
-I let you go
Now that I found a way to keep somehow
More than a broken vow-
Inuyasha shook away the rage that was spilling into his veins. He gazed at the woman before him, her eyes begging for answers. "Kagome, I never did that. But I can't help but think that this was my fault. I should have came after you, I should've have ran to that well and dragged you back here, but I couldn't. I-I thought you hated me and wanted a different life, one with out me. I was told that you loved another man. If I had known that this was all just a lie, and that you still loved me, I never would have let you leave! Never! Do you understand that Kagome? Say something!"
-Tell me the words you never said
Show me the tears you never shed-
The tears were now falling freely from her face. Kagome's head hung toward the floor as she stepped forward to him. As she gazed into his dark pupils, she saw nothing of the hatred and intensity of the last time she had seen them. Oh how she longed to reach out and caress his him once more. How she longed to have him hold her in his strong arms and never let go. Her hand slowly reached for his cheek. She cupped her hand over his smooth skin and his own hand reached up and clung to it as if afraid he may never feel it again.
-Give me the touch
The one you promised to be mine
Or has it vanished for all time?-
Kagome's eyes brought on a new wave of tears as she stared up into his beautiful golden eyes; Every flake, every speck, engraved deep within her memory. Oh how she missed those eyes. Kagome noticed tears beginning to well up in them.
-I let you go
I let you fly
Why do I keep on asking why?-
Inuyasha wished she would say something. Anything. The tears burned his eyes and he tried desperately to keep them back but it was of no use. So for the third time of his adult life, Inuyasha cried. 'Why won't she say anything?' he thought bitterly. It would be better to know that he was hated rather than letting his mind take over his heart once more and imagine it. That would kill him. He knew now that he could not live another fifteen years, let alone another day, with out her. He had not lived in those fifteen years, he only was. Like how he had been while on the Goshinboku. He hadn't lived a day until Yuta had wandered into his life. He had only existed, day-to-day, week-to-week, year-to-year.
-I let you go
Now that I found
The way to keep somehow More than a broken vow-
"Kagome?" he breathed her name with what little air his lungs would take. "I don't what happened fifteen years ago. I don't know if it was someone's dyhibolical plan to drive us apart, or who the mastermind behind it was. All I know is that every minute of every day I think of you, I dream about you. I don't know why or what lies we've been fed, but-but Kagome I love you!"
-I close my eyes
And dream of you and I
And then I realize
There's more to love than only bitterness and lies-
Kagome was crying uncontrollably as she through her arms around his neck and held him tight to her, preparing to never let go. She pulled her head up from his clothes so he could hear her words. "I love you Inuyasha, only you! I've never felt anything from any other man. You were my first love and you will be my last."
-I close my eyes-
Inuyasha held onto Kagome as if he would never again let go of her. He bent his head down and dug his face onto the crane of her neck, to breath in her beautiful scent mingled with the salty tears. He kissed her neck lightly and his clawed hands gripped tighter onto her form.
-I'd give away my soul
To hold you once again
And never let this promise end-
"Kagome, Please don't ever leave me again." He whispered into her ear, "Stay with me here. You, Yuta and me can be a family. I let you go once, I don't intend on ever doing that again."
-I let you go
I let you fly
Now that I know,
I'm asking why
I let you go
Now that I found
A way to keep somehow-
Kagome rested her head onto his shoulder and let her tears dry up before nodding vigorously. "Inuyasha I will stay with you forever. Someone caused to lose fifteen years of our lives. Fifteen years in which I too did not live. Nothing but death could tare us apart now."
Inuyasha shook his head. "Not even that could separate us my love."
-More than a broken vow-Inuyasha leaned back a bit and pulled Kagome's chin to face him. He stared into her azure depths and for the first time noticed, not a glint, but a mass amount of harmony and jubilation fly from them. How I missed that smile,' he thought warmly. He leaned down to capture her rosebud lips, like he had remembered. The kiss, though gentle and sweet compared to others they had shared, left both to another plane of existence in which only the two belonged. Everything mixed and melted around them. This kiss almost surpassed their first-no who am I kidding? This DID surpass their first kiss.
Kagome added her own pressure to it causing it to evolve from gentle, to heated, to passionate. Kagome entangled her hands into his long silvery locks. Inuyasha smiled as they finally broke away for air, and he picked her up and twirled her around giddily. Kagome let out a laugh and kissed him again. Neither of them wanted this to end, for fear that this was just a dream. But the heat between them and feel of each other's lips... no they were real. For the first time in fifteen years, both hearts were filled to the maximum point of mirth and love causing them to forget everything else. Inuyasha was lost in her sweet tasting lips. Oh how he missed them upon his own. He picked her up so they wouldn't have to reach so far and carried her to the low bed behind them. The sheets crumpled beneath them. Inuyasha slid onto her and left a trail of kisses upon her neck and chin and stopped teasingly at the frame of her mouth. A small heated tingle spread on the skin above his heart, which caused him to smile and his eyes to alight even more than what they were. The mark was renewed. Inuyasha's hand crept to the collar of Kagome's shirt and pushed off the shoulder to reveal a glowing handprint. Inuyasha's hand traced across it lovingly and smiled. He stared back into his love's eyes. "Kagome?" he asked her.
Kagome just nodded in agreement. "Inuyasha." Inuyasha caught her lips once more preparing to do what neither had done in over fifteen years...
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-(A/N on request from a reader, please set down all drinks and/or food while reading the next few paragraphs)
Yuta rustled the sheets once more as she tossed in her bed. She had followed her father's orders and got ready for bed, but only found she could not sleep. It was too big a night. Here she was in bed and her parents were in the very next room deciding her future! How could she possibly sleep? Her stomach had given an uneasy jolt when she had heard a yell about twenty minutes back but that was it. There were no other sounds that she could distinguish. The memories of the looks they each shared were now etched into memory. It was a hurt look of longing. 'Did they-? Was it possible-?' Did her parents miss each other? It was obvious from Inuyasha; the look whenever Kagome was mentioned was that of want, but her mother? Souta had said that she desperately missed him but didn't she hate him too? Yuta let out a frustrated sigh and rolled onto her back to face the wooden ceiling. The truth was her parents were now alone in the same room and she had no idea how they would react.
Yuta sighed again. 'How can they just kick me out?' she thought, grumbling within her own thoughts. Yuta desperately strained her powerful hearing for anything thing that might be emitting from the room next door. Some indistinguishable noises met her ears. Something was happening. Yuta pulled the covers off of her and tip toed over to the wall and pressed her ear against it. At first all she heard was the muffled hollowness of the wood but then another sound captured her interest. 'Was that banging?' (A/N omg I cannot keep a straight face right now) Great what are they throwing?' but the next sound was that of a soft moan. Yuta's eyes immediately widened and she quickly pulled away, her hand covering her mouth to keep from screaming. That wasn't a hurt moan, it was more of a... Yuta couldn't bring herself to think of the word, but immediately after she told herself not to think of it, came the mental images. Yuta jerked her eyes shut and shook her head wildly.
"NOOOO!!" she whispered, "Oh god don't think of that!"
Yuta's red face grew even darker as she could now hear the cries of her mother without straining her ears. Yuta bit down hard on her fist. Oh god she had not been expecting this. Screaming, yelling, crying, beating the crap out of each other, but most definitely not THIS! Yuta shook her head once more. She couldn't stay here a moment longer. 'Who knows how long they'll be at it?' Yuta tiptoed across the cold floor and out the door to the stone corridor. She glanced back at the door to the room her parents were currently occupying and thanking the gods that she could no longer hear them. But where was she to go? 'Well that's obvious' she told herself and grin spread across her lips. She hurried down the corridor and turned left into the wing that mimicked hers. The moonlight was her only guide but it worked well enough for her. She stepped down the hall to the third door on the left and silently entered. Yuta glanced over to the bed where the back of Hiroaki faced her.
"Hiroaki!" she hissed to his form. Hiroaki turned around, surprised and starred at her through the darkness. He sat up and surveyed her.
"Yuta? What-what are you doing here?" he asked rubbing his eyes.
Yuta smiled at his rumbled hair slowly falling it's way out of its rat-tail. God how she loved it. She loved everything about him. Yuta eyes widened momentarily when she realized she hadn't told him that. 'I never told him that I'm in love with him...I am aren't I?' Yuta smiled and said, "I wanted to talk to you. Do you mind?"
Hiroaki sustained a lecherous grin with a smile instead. Here was the girl of his dreams, standing in her nightgown, asking to talk to him, in the middle of the night. How could the thought have not crossed his mind? He scooted over from his spot and patted on the bed indicating for her to sit down. Yuta climbed over and lay down on her side next to him. Imagine her surprise when nothing "slipped." Yuta stared deep into Hiroaki's wonderful violet eyes.
Hiroaki watched the surprise deep within her gold eyes, which shinned and almost glowed within the darkness of the night. "What's wrong?" he asked her, turning so that he too lay on his side.
Yuta sighed and took a deep breath. She needed to tell him now; she would not wait and end up like her parents. In their thirties, separated with an unknown child, and finally consummating their love in the room NEXT TO THEIR DAUGHTER'S! 'God what a soap opera, huh?' Yuta took another deep breath. "Hiroaki, I love you."
Hiroaki's eyes widened in surprise and amazement as he leaned back trying to decipher if this was real. 'Did she really just say that? Did my Yuta really just confess that she loved me?' But Hiroaki was cut from his thoughts as she spoke again.
"Yes Hiroaki. I-I know were still really young and this is our-well my first ever relationship, and that I really shouldn't be saying this, but it's true! I do love you and I really don't want to end up like my parents and I don't want to feel what they felt for the past fifteen years. I-I want to be with you."
Hiroaki was still silent as he listened to her speedy confession. 'She rambles when she's nervous' he noticed. But Hiroaki's silence was scaring Yuta. She looked down to her hand, that lay in front of her, determined to not look at him. 'Why doesn't he do anything? Hug me, hold me, or even grope me?' She was feeling such a complete rejection wash through her system that even groping would be alright now.
Just when she thought that she should go find Euiko's room and pull the blankets over her head to die, Yuta felt something pull her up and something warm met her lips. All of her doubts left her as she leaned into the kiss, wrapping her arms under his. This was as sweet as their first. A happy tingle spread throughout her body, starting from her lips and creeping down to her toes. She wanted him to say it back to her-no she needed him to.
Hiroaki smiled affectionately at her after they parted and his hand reached up to tuck a strand of fallen hair behind her ear. His other hand lay clasped over her left hand holding it lightly and warmly. Hiroaki did not feel the urge to do anything lecherous at the moment. He was perfectly content on just laying next to the beauty that had somehow stolen his heart with a mere glance. His left hand cupped her cheek and his thumb grazed her skin ever so lightly. His eyes caught hers and he forced her to understand not just with words, but with his very soul. "I love you too Yuta."
Yuta blushed. She smiled and gave him a swift kiss, before laying back down. She gazed deep into his eyes that looked so loving; she couldn't help but enjoy every rapid beating of her heart, or the lurches within her stomach. This was it, life was perfect. '-Wait-life...O MY GOD! MY parents!' Yuta jammed her eyes tight in embarrassment and she gave a mixture of a smile and a grimace.
"What's wrong?" asked Hiroaki worried. Yuta opened her eyes and looked back to him, slowly turning redder by the minute.
"Er-Hiroaki?" she asked meekly.
"Yes Yuta?"
Yuta tried to keep from reliving the memories from five minutes ago. "Um, do you mind if I stay here tonight-WHAT?"
Before Yuta could even finish her sentence Hiroaki had let go of her hand and was now on his back laughing hysterically. He couldn't help it. Yuta stared at him as if were a mad man. "WHAT?"
Hiroaki rolled back onto his side, wiping a tear from his eye. "All this time I've been trying to act proper around you, but it turns out YOU are the lecher around here!" He exclaimed, causing Yuta to glow scarlet. She reached up and slapped him on the side in more of a joking matter.
"I didn't mean it like that BAKA!! It's just..." Yuta couldn't bring herself to say it.
Hiroaki looked at her concerned. "'It's just' what?"
Yuta looked back up into his eyes. She held back the river of giggles dying to escape from her throat. "My mother's room is next door to mine and I guess that after working out all their issues, all of those years of chastity got to them and they are now in the process of making up."
There was a moment of awkward silence before and uproar of laughter that threatened to wake up the entire castle. Over five minutes later they finally wiped the tears from their eyes and stared back at one another. Hiroaki smiled and groped for her hand in the dark. He caught it and interlaced his fingers within his own. "Yes you may stay here tonight, but just as a warning I may not be able to control my hands in my sleep, there is no assurance that I may not grope you."
Yuta chuckled and shook her head. "I think I can manage that. You'll just wake up with a bunch of bruises in the morning."
Hiroaki smiled as he lay back down. Yuta lay down next to him. It took her the better part of two minutes to succumb the courage to slide over to rest her head upon his chest. She smiled as a warm arm wrapped around her and hold her tight. She nuzzled into his chest as the words, "I love you Yuta." met her ears.
"I love you Hiroaki." Slowly but surely both teenagers drifted off into dreamland together.
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YES!! Everybody do a victory dance!! I have finally got both couples together! after 14 chapters! But let me just say; this is not the climax...the story has a while to be finished, but I promise lots of fluff, drama, intriege, and ACTION! yeah we've been really missing out on action, haven't we? Hmph, Now I know what the new frequently asked question will be...(adapts high preppy voice) "Who broke them up?" ha! I'm still not telling!! You have to wait! Where do you think we get the intriege from? well I hope you loved this chapter as much as I did while writing it. As for the comment on me being a slow updater.. I-have-a-life! it includes homework, key club, friends and school. Updating every 5 days is very good compared to other stories, believe me, i've been waiting on some for a month...(cough)maggie(cough) ok well g2g I have to go finish a biology report! bye bye!
-HPangel