AN: Yes, just incase I haven't been clear, this is the last chapter of this fic, thanks for reading and reviewing love you all.

Chapter 50

Hamburgers…

It put a smile on Kagome's face when she had to put in more orders for ground beef and burger buns. Before this place was all the hundred dollar steaks and twenty-dollar cocktails, but now she'd turned this place around a bit. To believe a few years ago this place was about to be sold off to make way for a bigger parking lot to the nearby mall with no thought about it, but this waitress took it personally.

Besides the porch of her former apartment complex, which to her dismay had also been done away with due to new construction projects, this place had been where the foundation of her marriage of convenience was set in place as well as where Rin celebrated her first birthday in a real family and as Shippou's sister. This place was hers now, and she was running it her own way. Meaning, of course, it was open to everyone.

"A mayonnaise pepper jelly bean burger?" Sango questioned looking at the new menu.

Kagome smirked as she placed her friend's iced coffee on the table, "Shippou suggested I put it on the menu."

"I see, and the triple chocolate turtle shell pizza?"

"Rin."

"I figured as much, come on Kagome take a seat. You shouldn't be on your feet so much."

Kagome nodded since Sango was referring to what they'd talked about earlier. She'd only sit while though. The calling of socializing with all kinds of people and bringing toddlers their kiddie meals was beckoning.

"It's just a conflict," Kagome told her friend later on that night, "and it's not going to get resolved by throwing out the divorce word."

The lawyer sighed, "It's not just a conflict, it's a life choice. Miroku really wants to have children, and every time I consider it a huge case breaks for me and I have no time, well I mean I have time, but I can't exactly leave for ultra sounds and then to actually give birth. Not to mention the school plays and slumber parties. I'd be a horrible mother, but I know making this choice to distract myself with my career is dividing us."

"Sango don't make the same mistake I find myself making right now. Just talk about it rather than automatically throwing in the towel on a great relationship. You're a great negotiator, so I bet you two can come to an understanding, but I also think you'd be a great mother. I mean, if this crazy sugar happy orphan from the slums could do it for this many years so could you."

"Thanks Kagome."

"Shall I bring you a gummy worm dog?"

"How about a double cheese burger, I don't think I have the stomach your children do."

The waitress smiled before giving her long time friend a hug and returning to work. There was still a stage for plays and musicals to entertain the children, which meant the awkward silences between the abandoned married couples would ensue when a production began. Kagome often wondered if they were going to go home, only to sleep in different cold beds all alone tonight, like she would find herself doing.

(3 years ago)

It had been two hours since the ceremony began, and the host, Sesshoumaru Murashu, was nowhere to be found. The traditional music was playing on the intercom and couples were dancing in their kimonos, while Kagome Murashu leaned against the wall with a sigh. None of the rich and famous that inhabited these walls would believe in a million years that some one like her was loved by the owner of this place, and now she had no proof. Why would he do this!? And at his own party no less!

"Jerk," Kagome muttered walking over to the same table her brother-in-law sat.

"Sesshoumaru is a cocky bastard," Inuyasha spoke matter-of-factly while looking uncomfortable in his silky garb, "but being late to his own ceremony?"

So it was strange? What if Sesshoumaru had gotten into an accident? That could be why he wasn't answering the phone. What if he was…

"Earth to Kagome," Inuyasha shouted, "you're doing it again."

She wiped away any liquid that flowed from her chocolate colored eyes, "sorry, I'm just worried."

"If his plane went down we'd all know about it, and his car has a chip in it with heat sensors so my cell phone would be alerted if he wrecked or was shot."

Then he was probably doing something he shouldn't have been doing.

Thoughts of crazy Chinese prostitutes like Mei Lin made Kagome cringe for a moment. To make things worse she was stuck in China and expected to represent her family's support in their own hotel by staying here tonight. There could be no angry door slamming and driving away tonight.

"Where's Kikyo?"

He shrugged, "Probably talking to someone she knows, she's the only reason I came to this stupid thing, and once she's done bragging about me and the baby I'm off."

"Please kidnap me, even go as far as to throw me in the trunk if you have to, if you plan on leaving."

"You would be the one driving to the airport. I plan to be in the back seat either puking my guts out or 'playing' with Kikyo."

"I'm sure she will think it's romantic that you put those two options next to each other in comparison," she rolled her eyes watching him drink some more.

Not only did it hurt that her husband, who claimed to love her, had ditched her at his own party, but Inuyasha seemed to have no regard for her feelings in any sense at all. It hadn't been long since he broke up with her while Sesshoumaru bribed him to date her in the first place, and already he wasn't showing any concern for her dilemma and spoke openly about how good sex with Kikyo was. He was nothing but an idiot, and if he said one more word…

"She better quit talking to that guy over there and give me some ass tonight, or I'll-

"Will you shut up already!" Kagome finally had her outburst, "nobody cares!"

Her statement was pretty loud, and even Inuyasha out of all the people in the universe felt a little embarrassed when everyone looked at their table.

"I'd keep it down Kagome. I can be as stupid as I want because everyone here already knows I'm a bastard and expects no more than that, but you? You're representing the man everyone here to see, and already his ruining his reputation by being late. And don't you even take your anger out on me just because that tit fuck didn't show up."

Things were a bit shaky between the two as another Sesshoumaruless hour went by, but she didn't plan on leaving the safety of her family's table. Still, having an intelligent conversation with Inuyasha wouldn't be possible by this point since he'd hammered down a few more drinks, so she continued where they left off.

"Why tit fuck, doesn't seem like something you'd normally say," she felt so liberated, but yet dirty when she said such words now.

"Feh, you haven't gotten real far with that hard ass yet have you?"

She blushed thinking about last night.

"Like most men my brother has a favorite move that I heard about from one of his past whores, and it is one that would work perfect with you."

She didn't have time to respond to that.

"I have favorite moves to," the also intoxicated voice of Kouga Urashima blurted, "but ones that will be pleasure for both of us, Kagome."

(Present Day)

Kagome Higurashi returned home by the stroke of midnight and felt guilty when dismissing the babysitter. The children were in bed and she hadn't seen them since lunch, but at least she had caught up with Sango and Miroku.

Which reminded her to mentally beat herself up.

Who was she to give advice on settling conflicts? Look at where her negotiation skills had gotten her! She returned to a home that housed her children, but there was no one she can turn to for adult conversation. To make matters worse there was nothing for her to do now except go to bed, alone wishing for somebody. Still, she should have been counting her blessings, her children were family members that had always respected her.

"Moms!"

Kagome smiled when she turned around to discover a beautiful three-year-old girl with intense black hair and piercing gold eyes. She looked a lot like Rin except her hair curled up a lot slightly and she always rampaged around without shoes and paint on her face. The cutie was her youngest daughter and the first she had biologically with Sesshoumaru.

Algeria, a strange abstract name that didn't exactly roll off the tongue sometimes, but it had its meaning.

"Hey," she couldn't help but to scoop the little girl up in her arms, she was just so adorable, "you should be asleep honey."

"I missed you and daddy," she said, "why did he leave?"

"It's okay, don't worry about him. It's time for sleep, okay sweetie?"

She nodded as they walked upstairs into the master bedroom that had once been inhabited by Sesshoumaru till he said he would be leaving it for good. Algeria spoke of having nightmares like she often did so Kagome knew she would be cuddling with her child tonight trying to the best of her ability to protect her from the boogey man.

"Moms," she whispered a while later still wide awake, "I'm thirsty."

Kagome sighed and maneuvered herself to get up, but was then handed a small sippy cup full of water, from someone in the darkness.

That was the thing about him. He wasn't always there for her, but he was always at her side when she needed him.

Just like that night she knew for sure she'd always love Sesshoumaru Murashu.

(2 years ago)

"Let go of me!"

That bastard Kouga had ambushed Kagome on her way to the hotel room when it was apparent that Sesshoumaru had no intentions of showing up.

"Shut up," his breath reeked of booze as he pushed her into her bedroom, "I've worked too hard for you to be someone else's whore."

She tried to defend herself and tell him to clam down, but she was thrown on to the bed and his body pressed her down.

"Stop," Kagome begged, "I can't Kouga. I have a family and I'm in love with-

"Shut up! And don't give me any of that innocent shit, everyone knows you got laid by that stupid bastard last night."

His hands moved towards her sash to untie it while his lips pressed hard against her neck. She tried to scream for Inuyasha or somebody, but she knew there was no one on this floor at the moment. No one was going to come for her, so Kouga was going to rape her and probably wouldn't allow her to walk free afterwards. She'd been told on several occasions that Kouga's father had to work hard to cover up a scandal that involved his son and a dead dancer after a wild night with friends.

"When were done you'll never think of that idiot Murashu again," he unzipped his pants, even though he'd been unsuccessful with removing her kimono.

"Open your mouth and spare me the teeth," he commanded harshly, "your going to-

"Step away from my wife."

Sesshoumaru was here, but Kagome didn't know where he came from or if he'd been here already since she couldn't see him from her position or heard the locked door being forced open. Still, his presence was obvious when Kouga moved away from her to swing a punch, only to end up face first on the ground. All Sesshoumaru could do was make an animalistic growl before dragging his opponent by the collar of his suit towards the balcony.

"Sesshoumaru," she finally managed to breath his name.

"I'll deal with you in a moment," he lifted Kouga on to his feet with his back pressed against the railing.

"This building is forty floors!" Kouga gasped.

"Unfortunately for you it's forty-seven," Sesshoumaru's eyes flashed with revenge, "You'll be an example of why no one will ever touch my wife."

Kagome's eyes widened as she watched her husband violently push Kouga over the railing and with no doubt to his death. The fool, he would probably be trailed for murder now, and even if he got away with it his career would be over and everything he'd worked for would be traded off to lawyers. How could he exchange all of that in one moment like he'd done?

Then a splash was soon heard, and she remembered there was a swimming pool just a few feet below their balcony since this floor for the rich and famous had it's private spas and such.

"He will be fired," Sesshoumaru announced turning to her, "or dead, depending on what he has done to you."

"I'm okay," she spoke glad to see him, but she still wasn't going to exactly embrace him.

She had to take a breath for her oncoming outburst…

"Where have you been!? You left me down there looking like an idiot with that raptist and your drunk perverted brother! It was your own party stupid!"

He smirked. He was actually smirking about all of this.

"I've been in this room for the last three hours now," he stated.

"What? How could you? Now your reputation has probably been-

"I don't care."

That shocked her, usually everything he did that wasn't for himself revolved around his image in some sort of way.

"You can't just host a party and blow it off, even I know better than that."

"I didn't want to talk to anyone tonight, I plan to only concern myself with you for the rest of our stay here. If you'll allow it of course."

He sat down next to her on the bed as her eyes watered, "I thought you abandoned me, or was dead. I was worried."

"I would never abandon you. I was waiting for you to get annoyed and come to me, I didn't think you'd last down there as long as you did. I'm almost proud of you."

"Almost proud of me, though I might have had a stupid outburst me being down there as long as I was probably was the only thing stopping the press from mocking this whole operation."

"You should've come right here. When I want something I get it Kagome."

He then cupped her chain and she looked at him. Though he didn't bother to make an appearance downstairs he was still adorned in a white kimono with red flowers on the sleeve. The moon from outside only enhanced his appearance more as his snowy bangs seemed to glow. She just couldn't resist him, and he knew to take advantage of that.

"I had planned on meeting you prior to the engagement," he couldn't look away from her beauty, "but something distracted me."

"And that was?"

The doubt in her voice made him frown, but he decided to change that. His hand gracefully dug into his pocket and then in a swift motion clasped a silver chain around Kagome's neck. Attached to it was a jade sphere, carved in it was some kind of foreign symbol she didn't recognize.

"Algeria," he spoke.

"Algeria?"

"That's what the symbol means. On a street corner I met a beautiful woman-

He noticed her frowned again, but continued, "a beautiful woman that still wouldn't be able to hold a candle up to you, and she was selling jewelry. There were the old traditional Chinese symbols I understood, but then I noticed some that were like the one you wear now, in invented but yet magical language it was called that is responsible for love spells. I didn't believe I could find a symbol that would make you fall helplessly in love with me like they were advertised, but after conversing for a while and browsing the best quality I discovered the Algeria stone."

She laughed a bit, "Doesn't seem like something you would believe in or spare a time of day too."

"I didn't believe I could fall in love either," he answered quite coldly, "Algeria means complications with positive results, which is what we have and will end up with. I'll make sure to it, but the stone should help."

She sighed, but yet smiled again. When she first met him he was nothing but a cold monster, but now she was discovering a Sesshoumaru that could be destructive one moment and playful the next, and she was in love with him.

(Present Day)

"Get out," Kagome moved Algeria to the side with her drink, "you said you weren't coming back and I was hoping you'd keep your promise."

Sesshoumaru's eyes darted dangerously around the room before targeting her again, "and you think I would just leave you behind. You're the mother of my first three children, and not to mention…mine and mine alone."

She rolled her eyes, "You've abandoned me for two days, I've thought you gave up on this family."

"Oh I see," he crawled into bed and closed in on her like a wolf on the hunt, pinning her, "so what you've done to me was just an elaborate scheme to keep me out of my home."

"Elaborate scheme? Sesshoumaru all I did was redecorating the bedroom and you threw a fit and disappeared. Kind of pathetic that you and Shippou have the same traits of pouting, your almost as bad as your brother."

"Don't compare me to him," Sesshoumaru stated, "my master bedroom is to be white, like I said I won't be returning to it until it's glory is returned."

"The only unmanly color in here is lilac so don't give me that, and by the way Kikyo is pregnant."

"And I would care, why exactly?"

"Grrr, since when have you had such a sharp attitude? If it wasn't for your cold shoulder giving fit throwing you'd realize Kikyo isn't the only Murashu who will be giving birth."

He paused for a moment and stared his wife right in the eye, "I don't have a sister let alone an unwed pregnant one."

"Don't be smart…" she sighed, but still surprised that the cold millionaire she met on her porch all those years ago could have a sense of humor.

Sesshoumaru smirked laying down next to her. He didn't have to say anything, she knew he was proud of her. They would be having another child together, and though it would be another between them their parenting treatment was still equal to that which was given to Rin and Shippou. Kagome had a lot of love to give, that's why she didn't mind another pregnancy and continuing her volunteer work. Sesshoumaru did as well, when he wasn't disappearing due to the color of the wallpaper.

"I love you," she said before closing her eyes wondering about the future of their family, "even though you're a cold bastard."

He nodded closing his eyes as well, "you chose that cold bastard over millions of dollars despite the fact that he ruined your reputation, hired a prostitute, and bribed his brother to go out with you. Live with it."

And she was, one day at a time.

The End.