Alright! After years of not updating this story, yours truly is back! First off, I'm going to start off with I'M SOOOOOOO SORRY! I know it's been a LONG time since I've last updated but I haven't been able to write on Fanfiction up til recently and I haven't gotten the chance to look back into this story, until today that is.

Secondly, now that I have re-read this story, I'm able to pick back up from where I left off as wel" as the fact I do have another story that I've started already, known as 'Love and War'. It was started fairly recent so if interested, please go look into my new story and tell me what ya think. As always, I'm always looking forward to inputs and opinions.

Thirdly, as I've said years ago, the other stories I still have will remain on HIATUS until these two stories are done or at least close to done. Also, I haven't re-read them yet and I still lack the motivation to restart them. So, I'm sorry to those still patiently waiting, if there is anyone, but you guys will have to wait a bit longer. I'm focused on these two stories and don't want to get too caught up.

Again, I'm super sorry to everyone who has been waiting for years but I'm ready to start this story once more. So, without further ado,

Chapter 16 of Unfaithful. I will make this chapter worth it to my best ability. I hope you all enjoy.

Ja!

Last Time on Unfaithful:

"Inuyasha, what's wrong? You've been quiet for this whole drive." Kikyo turned to me in my car, we were parked at a park near the outskirts of town,

"So, Sesshomaru did know." She blinked at me to let me know she didn't know what I was talking about and I rolled my eyes and growled softly. "He knew about us, Kikyo. About us fucking and cheating. Everyone else knows too." Kikyo paled and had her hand over her lips.

"And Kagome?"

"She's the only one that don't know."

"Oh thank goodness." She looked at me with relief for a little before her face dropped again. "There's more to it." She stated and I nodded dully, looking ahead instead of at her, my heart cracking slightly at telling her about me going away.

"Because of the fact that I'm still with Kagome, I'm being sent to temporarily run one of pops company branches in New York." I told and she sat there quiet for a few moments before she spoke again, her face blank.

"Then leave her."

"W-what?"

"Look, I threw everything for you- for us. I'm well aware of the divorce soon to come. This was the path I chose for us. Now it's time for you to do the same, and if you can't do that then-"

"The decision has already been made. Old man Tenshi said that if Kagome isn't pregnant or hasn't already given me an heir within a years time after I get back, then I dont have a say in anything beyond that point; the marriage between me and Kagome will be terminated, of sorts."

"Even better! Just don't get her pregnant."

"Kikyo-"

"Inuyasha." She said sternly and I shut right up, ears clamming to my skull. "We're no longer in high school. I refuse to sneak around at this point. You need to choose who do you want at this point in time. And if you can't make that choice, then you're going to lose us both. Now, take me home. I doubt Sesshomaru is there." She spoke without looking at me, anger rolling off of her in waves and I just drove.

Kikyo or Kagome...I couldn't make up my mind back then. There was always something pulling me to Kikyo, as did Kagome. But Kagome was always there. No matter what. She's my light, in a sense. I don't want to lose her. And Kikyo, I couldn't let her go either. I don't know why. Both have been there, but I can't let neither go. I'm fully aware of what my actions have brought, at the time of when I was doing the deed, I didn't care. But now reality is hitting, and it's hitting harder than anything. But, I'm torn.

I guess this trip will do us all some good.

Kagome POV:

By 11, Sango and I already had Rin dressed and ready for her father, who called Rin around 10 to inform her he should be here by 12:30.

So, imagine my surprise to find the always studious and punctual Inu to still not be here and it's currently 1:16. Naturally, I didn't mind his tardiness, it gave me more time with my niece and gave her more time with her new nephew. But...

Sesshomaru is never really late. Normally, he appears earlier than the allotted time or right on the dot. So for him to not be here...

"You're such a worrywart." Sango said from her place on the floor with Rin and Shippo, making paper airplanes for them as well as herself, loudly munching on chips all the while. Looking at her, I was shocked to hear what she had said, as if reading my mind. "Yes, I am reading your mind." She said with a smug smile and I glared at her.

"Oh yeah?" I challenged and she only chewed louder, smacking her lips with even louder 'smack'.

"Yup."

"Well then, Miss-Know-It-All, what was I thinking about? Hm?" Raising the bag high and opening her mouth, she shook the rest of the chips into her awaiting mouth, Rin eyeing her with disgust, looking very much like her mother when I used to do the same thing. Finishing her chips, she let out a loud and satisfied 'Ah' before looking at me with a bored stare.

"Firstly, you was not thinking about Inuyasha. That's first. Secondly, you was thinking of Sesshomaru. About what? About the fact that he's not normally late, about he's normally on time or early and so for him to be late, something must be wrong since he's not here, especially for his daughter much less. Anything else I'm not adding?" Throughout her 'speech', her eyes were closed and I could only gap at her, undoubtedly looking like a fish, and she opened her eyes with a smirk. That smirk caused me to growl and launch one of my couch pillows at her, causing her to erupt into smug laughter.

"Yeah, you did. You left out how much of a bi-" I began to say, ready to let out the string of the curses guaranteed to come out before I was interrupted by not only the same pillow hitting me square in the face, but also to the door opening and Rin screaming 'daddy' at the top of her lungs, resounding footsteps crossing the short distance to the front door.

"No cursing in front of the children." She stood as the pillow slid down my face, her laughing at whatever look is on my face as well as Shippo.

Standing as well, I didn't bother with even looking toward after Sesshomaru's direction after I recovered, the anger was still simmering from his last choice of words to me as well as the guilt of not listening to him about Kikyo, now that it's definitely been confirmed by Rin.

No. What's there for us to say to each other?

Sorry?

First off, the Lord of Ice doesn't apologize, ever, and I refuse to kiss his ass.

Nope, not today, Satan.

And besides, whatever was happening between he and I shouldn't have ever been started to begin with. That conversation, argument, whatever one may call it, was actually a necessity. He and I are both married and we fell prey to weakness, him not having Kikyo with him and cheating and I the same.

We're two people who happens to be going through the same thing, same time and with our spouses. And technically, at this point, we're not too far off from our spouses, not with how we've crossed a boundary between brother and sister-in-law! Technically, we're actually worst!

Sure we ain't no go all the way, but we still made out! More than once! And not to mention, I was dreaming (still was if I was being honest to myself then) of Sesshomaru, when it should've been the absent-yet-currently-trying-Inuyasha.

No, we went too far and like all dreams and fantasies, it must end at some point.

There's nothing real there except loneliness and lust and built up tension that's just looking for a way out. With that thought, I headed upstairs, not bothering to say anything to anyone, he will be leaving and Rin will come say goodbye to me, possibly as well as Sango, which is good. It leaves me alone and uncomfortably comfortable. It leaves me with the world I've known for about two years now, soon to be three.

There will be no more guilt, smoldering and heated ambers locking me where I stand as though experiencing paralysis. No more of the scorching, lingering touches, the laughter-ugh! Just no more! As calmly as I could, I open my door, although the need to push the door off its' hinges was great, and I enter my room, softly closing my door. Walking further into my room, my one destination is my bed, especially seeing as how today is Sunday and I have work tomorrow, I'm enjoying my one true love for as long as possible. Plopping onto the bed with a hop, I press my face into my plush pillows, some of my stress relieving itself just a bit.

Once on my bed, however, memories of the fight began to replay and a specific sentence stood out to me like a mantra in my head

'I wouldn't be surprised to find out that Kikyo was cheating on me with Inuyasha.'

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Sesshomaru...he had said that twice. Sitting up quickly, not realizing this is the exact spot he and I fought at, more and more thoughts began to swarm through my head, me beginning to hold it as it swarmed. All at once, too many 'What If's' was ringing throughout my head. Endless possibilities played itself like a short film, each one making a bit too much sense. Each one becoming too much and more of a 'coincidence'.

'W-what...what if Kikyo...and...Inuyasha are...No way...' My mind tells me one thing, but my soul and heart is speaking of different things, both confusing and yet making sense.

"Miko." Literally jumping, my bottom lifted off the mattress as Sesshomaru's voice disturbed the quiet peace and my raging thoughts, giving me the sense he interrupted a case that was being close to solved and also eliciting a very, high-pitched scream.

"Fucking Kami!" Placing my hands atop my now spasming-heart, I nearly panted as I tried to regain my bearing, instantly glaring at the damn dog who has the nerve to look like I burst his ear canal, which is good for his creepy ass!

"Must you make so much noise?" Sesshomaru growled out at me as his cupped an elfin ear and I growled back at him, my heart still very close from beating out of my chest.

"Me!? Must you come in unannounced!? Knock next time, creep! I could've been naked!" Just to rub it in, I choose to yell some more, watching in satisfaction as he cringed, good for him.

"Cease your yelling, woman! And no one but your husband wants to see you naked, I should be the least of your worries lest you keep shrieking." Almost at once, my heart calmed and my hand resting on my heart was no longer there cause of the rapid beating, no, it was there because of the hurt. Opening his eyes, he froze at what he saw and whatever he see I don't like, so I just sit back down where I was and look ahead, feeling as my face went blank and I heard him sigh. "Kagome-"

"Higurashi or Mrs. Taishou to you, brother-in-law. What is it and please, open my door, in case my husband come home. It doesn't look proper for us to be in here like this." I can practically feel his eye brows raising as if they were a part of me, worse I can see it from my peripheral and feel aura. Unfortunately for the big guy, I'm done. So with that, my eyes shift to the window, looking at my view of my colorful backyard, Rin and I seeing to that personally from since she was young.

"Kagome, I'm-" He tried again and I shake my head at him, halting him in his speech.

"It's fine. Again, what is it that you want? I'm tired of all this." The urge to hit something came rather violently but I just as violently crushed it, there's no need for it and this will be the last of it.

"...I am sorry." My neck stiffens as I keep it still, not once turning to face him and he sighs before walking over to me, my body tensing with each step. After a few paces, he stop, more than likely finally understanding I don't want him near me. "I shouldn't have said what I said, I'm wrong and I went too far."

"...It's alright. I pushed it, I guess." Only because he has apologized to me and is actually sincere is the only reason for why I'm speaking to him. "Besides, it's the truth. I'm no Kikyo nor am I any other woman that he must seek instead of me. I'm Kagome, Kagome Higurashi to you and all." Growling is suddenly filling the air and the next thing I know, I'm on my back and Sesshomaru's above me, sclera red and irises still golden, just glowing slightly.

"Yet again, you're pushing me! I literally just apologized to you for my harsh words yet you just continue to self-pity yourself and abuse your own already battered self-conscious." He was nearly barking at me and this time, my violent urge began to pump, and I don't think I can ignore this time. "I have to spell it out that I didn't mean my words? If I never felt such a way I would have never-" Fuck it I thought as a place my hand on his chest and with one last thought, I watched him fly to the wall behind him, my hand smoking from the fires built up.

Push.

Almost regretfully, almost, I can only watch as he slides to the floor with a pained expressing, a hole the size of my hand smoking through his shirt, not quite touching the skin but definitely feeling the sizzles.

"'Would have never' what, Sesshomaru? Kissed me? Made out with me? Teased me, flirted!? Hell, you would've never looked at me the way you do?! You even did it my wedding night!" Lifting his head, his eyes burned so much, as though I'm standing on the cliff of a volcano and his eyes are coating me in lava without touching me. Before I'm able to analyze that look further, however, a sudden ringing is all I can hear, warnings rush through my veins and I quickly stand, instantly crouching in preparation, heeding that yelling voice I've grown accustomed to. "You see?! That look! That scorching look! You would have never done any of those things? It shouldn't have happened to begin with and we know it!"

At that moment, I was tired of everything. Inuyasha, my sister, my past, Sesshomaru, the what if's, the loneliness. Especially the pain. There's only one person I would be running to then and he's dead. Even as I watched Sesshomaru stand and stretch out his neck, burning ambers not once leaving mine, I grew even more tired, as if knowing I may probably have to fight the best and hardest fights of my life. "It was never real. It was just us taking our pent up emotions out, it was lust and loneliness that ate at us, except you had to feel for it two." I said calmly to try to perhaps persuade him to stay on that side of the room with my close, as I was in the middle of the room, inching closer to the bedroom door. I guess my choice of words were wrong since he raised a brow and cocked his head to the side, his already burning stare seemingly began to gleam.

"It was 'lust and loneliness', huh?" Sesshomaru asked and I almost gulped, taking a few more steps and his other brow raised, a fang starting to poke out from his lip and this time, I did gulp. " It was never 'real', you say?" He takes two, long strides toward me, damn near closing the distance between us and I took three steps back. Just a few more steps and I'm out the room and at a bigger distance from him and a bigger field to play with; my living room and kitchen and dining area. "You're right, that wasn't real. Everything that has occurred between us thus far, wasn't real." He took another two steps and finally, I looked away, dashing backward as I knew the door was right behind me.

But in the next few seconds, I found out that I gravelly messed up the second I looked away.

Suddenly, I was face first in solid yet soft, overly-heated in my opinion, chest and on contact, froze. Slowly looking up at him, both fangs poked out and then...he smiled.

I literally almost shitted myself at the serenity in that expression of his. "But this? This..." He bent his lips to my ear, amber and azure locked with each other, "is real, no lust, no loneliness. Only the reality in which you unknowingly dwell in." And with that, two large clawed hands wrapped themselves around my neck, the two claws poking at my jugular forcing my head up, where soft lips came crashing down, my back somehow being slammed against a wall somewhere throughout the room.

All at once, we were passionately and hungrily kissing, as though we were down to our last breaths and this was how we wanted things to end. My hands had, at some point, came to tangle themselves into his silver locks, his hands moving from my neck to my butt and I moaned at the contact, turning my head at the sound as I grew flushed from the sound and he stopped, not removing himself from me.

"S-Sesshomaru..." Was all I could get out as I panted, the tension between us was too thick and if it didn't stop here...there would be no going back for neither one of us. At the sound of his name leaving my lips, he, The Sesshomaru, purred. I didn't even know such a sound could come from him but it did and his eyes tinged pink. I knew at once, he understood my last warning and he knew all to well what I knew.

He only shook his head at me, a soft smile on his lips as he grabbed my left hand, lifting it slowly until it rested on his chest, right over his heart that I earlier could've blasted through, our eyes searching the others, mine a plea to back out now and his...I'm not sure. But I can see his resolve loud and clear.

"No. No more words. Hear my actions, then we can talk." The hand on my hip pulled against 'him' and I could also feel his resolve. "My reality right now is Kagome Higurashi. I want to hear her." His voice shifted and once more, his lips were on mine and I didn't fight.

Neither did I fight the first time.

Soooooo? Did I do good?

I am sorry if ya feel like I should've waited a bit for this to happen but its' been years since I've worked on this. I'm getting into this all over again and it feels natural. The next chapter will further explain it. Again, I'm sorry.

To those who do like it but hate that it's a cliffhanger, I'm sorry but I'm not sorry *insert evil laughter*. This was a re-introduction back into this story and to you guys, my followers. It's been years since ya have read anything from me, that this is my gift as well as the fact that this story is back in progress.

And to anyone new, I hope you enjoy this story entirely for what it is so far. I'm not going to go on for too long, just again thank you to everyone that's been here already and has been patiently waiting on me. Ya are loyal followers and I'm grateful, this story has the most reviews. 55/58 reviews may be nothing for some, but it means a lot to me.

Once more, thank you everyone and see you in the next chapter.

Ja!