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Chapter 21: The Plan – Execution

Miroku had walked away towards his wife. "Sango!" he called.

"You're being stupid, Kagome!" she was saying.

"Don't make her feel any worse than we are about to make her feel."

Kagome furrowed her brow and glared at him. "What are you talking about?" she asked slowly. Something wasn't right. All her friends had been whispering to one another all night long and it was getting fishy. Even her youngest daughter was in on it.

"Ami!" Miroku called across the room. "Get them to play it, quick! Kouga!"

Kouga jogged over to them. "What?"

"Go stop InuYasha from leaving," Miroku whispered in his ear. "Tell him to wit in the lobby."

"Great," Kagome muttered under her breath. "More whispering."

"Nope," Sango grinned. "Their planning. And it's about to begin. So just, relax."

"You guys ready?" Ami asked over the intercom.

"Go ahead and play it, Ami!" Kouga called, staring at Kagome.

"Play what?"

That's when the tape started.

"You're pathetic," Sango's voice said. "You let Miroku punch you?"

"Not intentionally…Did you need something?" There was a pause.

"I didn't know you smoked…" Sango's voice chimed over the intercom.

Kagome looked at Sango with a baffled expression. What was this?

"That's because I usually don't."

Kagome noted how Sad InuYasha's voice had become, compared to the happy one she was used to when they were dating.

"Well, stop. It's a gross habit. I came over here to hear your story again. Ami came crying to me telling me that no one would listen to you."

Kagome instantly felt bad. Ami had been bugging her all afternoon one day to listen to InuYasha. She had threatened to ground her if she didn't stop.

"Ami was crying?" InuYasha's voice sounded genuinely concerned. Unlike Kagome had that day. With every word she heard, she began to feel worse and worse.

"It is just an act she puts on the draw attention to things she believes no one is paying attention to. She doesn't do it often, but when she does, it's usually something important."

There was another pause and a rustling sound.

"So," Sango said, there was more rustling and Kagome could hear the exhale of breath. "Let's talk."

"Like I had told you before, I was in the plane. It crashed. I wasn't found until the last of the debris had been cleared away. They found Tika and me in comatose states and I didn't wake up for a few years. But when I did, I had amnesia."

Kagome felt her heart and stomach lurch. She slowly sat down in the chair behind her, staring at the ceiling.

'It wasn't until after I proposed to Tika a while ago that I began to get my memory back. And still, it only came in little chunks. I couldn't see the faces of the people in my memories, though. When I saw Kagome's face, and I figured out the city I lived in, I came to check up on Kagome. But you guys spotted me first and I knew then that, because Tika just had to tag along that my chances of Kagome ever loving me again were slim."

Kagome waned to scream. The words coming from the speakers seemed to rip her heart to shreds, put it back together, and then rip it to shreds again.

"That's when my brother told me that I had until the end of the month to get Tika out of his house. I am still working on that one…I just got into a fight with her, I walked out here, she clocked me, and here we are."

"So…you've really been…in a coma…" Sango sounded shocked.

"Yup." Kagome could hear him exhale. I knew he smoked, she thought, but I thought he stopped once we got married…

"And you expect Kagome to believe you?" Good question, Kagome thought.

There was another pause.

"See, it's like this. I promised myself when I started dating Kagome that I would never be the pushy kind of guy. I'd let her do what she wanted. That's what I'll continue to do. If she wants to believe I actually love Tika, that's all her. I won't force her to believe me when I say 'I love you'. I love her. That's why I can let go."

Kagome felt the tears rush down her cheeks, but made no effort to wipe them away. He had never told her that before. She had always taken him for granted.

"You're saying you'd let her leave you?"

"That's what I'm doing," Kagome muttered in shock. "I'm leaving him…"

"I left first," he muttered. Kagome felt just as sad as he sounded.

"But from what you told me, it was a comprehensible accident. It was an act of god—nothing you could control!" Sango sounded pissed.

"The plane accident was unfortunate, yes. But I can't control what Kagome thinks. I'll do anything to make her happy. It hating me makes her happy, then so be it."

"But it doesn't!" Kagome said at the same time Sango's voice said:

"But it doesn't!" She sounded frustrated. "She's miserable! She's been depressed since she was pregnant with Ami! She has a damned SHRINE to you in the back of her closet!!" she yelled.

"What?!" Kagome shrieked.

"Everyone knows about your shrine," Miroku, Sango, Ami, Kuga, and Ayame said at the same time during the short pause in the tape.

"What did you expect to me to say to that?" he asked flatly.

"How about you get up and walk over to her house. You and me can duct tape her to a chair or the wall or something and we'll force her to listen to you."

InuYasha sighed. "I. Can't. I love her so much; it's killing me, Sango. You know that. I can't ever love Tika."

"That's the end," Ami announced before the intercom shut off.

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