Summary:
Kagome walked away from everything she had ever known in hops of starting a new life. Far from her cheating boyfriend InuYasha and the sympathetic looks of her friends and family. Now five years latter a successful doctor her life is once again turned upside down when her ex-boyfriend's little sister runs away from home and ends up on her door step. Kagome now finds herself face to face with the oldest brother Sesshomaru. Her once friend and crush Can he repair the damage that InuYasha inflicted on Kagomes heart or will fear of the past foce her to push him away before he as the opportunity to try.
Chapter One: Runaway
Kagome groaned as she was pulled from her slumber by the inssesint buzzing of her phon. Rolling over she looked at her clock it read 2:15 am. She had only been asleep for an hour and a half 'Someone better be about to die.' She thought angrily as she slid her thumb across the screen.
"This better be important." She snapped into the phone. She had just gotten off a fourty eight hour shift and she hadn't been planning on waking up anytime soon.
"Kagome." The voice whimpered on the other end and she froze her breath caught in her throat. It was a voice she had not heard in over five years, but it was a voice that she would know anywhere. 'Rin.'
"Rin. What's wrong?" Kagome asked as she scrambled to sit up in bed. If Rin was calling her of all people, then something had to be terrible wrong.
"I'm sorry I just didn't know who else to call. I... I... Know you don't like us anymore, but Kagome I just didn't know what to do!" Kagome heart broke at the words of the sweet young girl on the other end. Rin was the younger sister of her ex-boyfriend InuYasha. Rin had always been such a sweet girl and she and Kagome had been very close when she had been with InuYasha.
"Rin honey. I never stopped caring about you." Kagome did her best to reassure the girl.
"InuYasha says you hate us now and that's why you left and didn't say goodbye" Kagome frowned and wondered what other nonsense InuYasha had been spreading around.
"Rin, I left because InuYasha did something very bad not because I don't like you." Kagome was sure she herd the girl sniffle again. "Now Rin tell me where you are and I'll come get you okay, sweety."
"I'm at Meadows park by the old middle school." Rin finally answered and Kagome was on her feet in a flash. Pulling on the old yoga pants she had been working out in earlier that day and a baggy long sleeved gray shirt. She swept her tangled hair up into a low messy bun as she rushed out the door.
"Alright Rin ill be there in fifteen minutes. Wait by the swings for me. " Kagome ordered as she hung up her phone shoving it in her back pocket. Meadows park was only a few short blocks from her apartment and Kagome was thankful. She hated the idea of the young girl sitting in the chilly fall air in the middle of night no less. 'Rin what were you thinking?' Kagome thought angrily as the entrance to the rundown park came into view. Panic started to overtake her as her eyes scanned the park looking for any sign of Rin. She was not by the swings where she had told her to wait. "Rin!" Kagome called out praying silently that the girl would answer her. Kagome could feel her heart begin to race as she was meet with silence "Rin!" Kagome called again.
"Over here." Kagome could feel relief wash over her as the young girl stepped out from behind a small tree.
"Oh, Rin thank god your okay! You had me scared to death!" Kagome yelled as she pulled the girl into a tight hug. Crushing her to her chest.
"I'm sorry I just didn't know who else to call." Kagome frowned as Rin began to cry into her chest. 'What happened to you Rin?' Kagome thought as she ran her fingers through the girls long black hair in an attempt to sooth the poor girl. Rin may be a half demon but she was still only thirteen and even though Kagome didn't know anything about being half demon she did know what it was like to be a thirteen year old girl.
"Shhhh, it's alright." Kagome tried her best to reassure the crying girl.
"Why don't we go back to my apartment and have some hot chocolate with cinnamon and whipped cream." Kagome smiled down at the girl happy to see the tears begin to fade at the mention of there old ritual. It was something she had always done for Rin anytime InuYasha had been forced to babysit. Kagome had never minded she had loved Rin.
He would sit in the game room playing away with headphones on and she would fix Rin hot chocolate and they would watch a movie of her choice. Almost every time it was the same movie Frozen or Tangled, but Kagome hadn't minded. In the years they were together InuYasha had always insisted she was a demon child always playing pranks and making him take the blame, but Kagome never saw it. When she had broken off her relationship with InuYasha leaving Rin behind had been one of the hardest things she had to do. By that time the little girl had felt like her own sister, but after what InuYasha had done she couldn't have stayed.
"Alright." Rin smiled weakly up at her. The walk back to Kagome's apartment was a quiet one as Rin clung to her side never once letting go of her. Kagome sighed as her building came into view. It was nothing special, but it was one of the nicer apartments in the city. Kagome pulled out her Keys unlocking the door as she made her way in Rin following hot on her heels. Kagome smiled softly down at the girl as she flipped on the light to her living room.
"You can have a seat on the couch and I'll go make our drinks." Kagome stated softly as she made her way into the kitchen. It didn't take long before she reappeared with two steaming hot cups in her hands setting them both down on the coffee table.
"Thank You." Rin mumbled as she grabbed her mug.
"Rin." Kagome stated sternly as she turned to look at the girls face. "You know I'm going to have to call your parents." The small flinch that came from the mention of her parents did not go unnoticed by Kagome.
"You can't!" Rin pleaded.
"I'm sorry Rin but I have to. They have to be worried sick about you!" Kagome stated sternly.
"No, they don't!" Rin sighed. "They left me with InuYasha and Sesshomaru for three months while they go on a vacation!"
"Rin. You know your parents care about you but they need time to themselves too. Every adult dose." Kagome said calmly as she took a sip of her drink. "And I know you and InuYasha don't always get along but from what I remember you love Sesshomaru."
"No Kagome you don't understand! I haven't heard from my mother or father in three months! They went on vacation and forgot all about me. Then to top it off InuYasha's fiancé just moved in and she is a horrible woman! She tells me all the time how ugly and worthless I am. The kids at school don't help they keep picking on me because I don't act like the other girls! They all say I look like a boy. With my flat chest and today they threw razor blades at me and told me I would be better off dead." Kagome's heart broke as the girl began to cry but that pain was quickly replaced by anger. She would kill InuYasha if she ever saw him again. Not that she didn't have enough of a reason too already this was just another charge on his long list of offices.
"What about Sesshomaru? Have you told him about this? You know he would protect you with his life?" Kagome asked but frowned as the girl only began to cry harder.
"I tried but he's always working! And then when he's home InuYasha keeps me away from him by locking me in my room and taking my phone' and Sesshomaru doesn't even notice because he's doing more work. He has completely cut me off from everyone. It's like he wants to make me suffer. " Kagome fumed as rage began to overtake her. How could InuYasha be to crueler and how could Sesshomaru of all people not notice his own sisters suffering.
"But why did you runaway sweety? And why did you come to me? Surely you could have found Sesshomarus office?" Kagome asked as she patted the small girl on the back.
"I just wanted someone who would be kind to me. InuYasha and Kikyo are cruel and Sesshomaru although he cares for me is so cold and indifferent. I just couldn't take it any more especially after what InuYasha said tonight." Kagome could feel herself becoming angrier with each word that passed from Rin's lips.
"What did he say sweety?" Kagome asked as softly as she could.
"He said that mom and dad never wanted me. That I was just a mistake that they should have aborted me and no one would even notice if I was gone. That everyone would be better off without my constant whining. So I ran away." 'Oh InuYasha will pay for this' Was the only thought that ran through her head as she pulled out her phone handing it to Rin. Kagome had all the information she needed.
"Diel Sesshomarus personal number for me please and then why don't you go find us a movie. My shelf is just right over there." Kagome smiled sweetly but Rin, could see the fire in her eyes. The fire that said some one was going to pay. She had seen that look in Kagome's eyes once before, that was the day Kagome had caught InuYasha with Kikyo that was also the day Kagome had hit him with such a blast of her purification powers that InuYasha had been forced to live as a human for almost two weeks. She hesitates for a moment before taking the phone from the older woman. Kagome's anger was not something anyone wanted to be on the receiving end of but if anyone could handle it, then it would be Sesshomaru.
Sesshomaru growled low in his chest as he could hear InuYashas obnoxious laughter from in the house. Oh, how he wanted to run his claws through the boy. From the day he had been brought into this world he had been nothing but a thorn in Sesshomarus side. Braking his toys as a child, and always taking what didn't belong to him. And it wasn't just toys anything Sesshomaru had InuYasha seemed to want. From his first car to any girl who showed the slightest bit of interest. 'Kagome.' Sesshomaru growled at that though of her name. It sent a pain through his chest like no other he had ever known, and it only made the urge to kill InuYasha even stronger. Kagome was a simple shrine maiden who won a scholarship to attend there private high school and from the moment he had laid eyes on her that first day in gym his beast had wanted her.
She was the first girl to ever knock him on his ass during sparing or even dare to yell at him. All the other females were so weak and quiet with no fight in them. They fawned over him threw themselves at him like he was some prize to be won, but not Kagome, she had such a fire that burned within her. It was because of that fire Sesshomaru had finally agreed with his beast on the woman. But because she was human and he himself had no experience with human women he had sought his father for advice. That had been his biggest mistake, as InuYasha overheard there conversation.
In his hatred for his older brother InuYasha has swooped in and wooed the girl right under Seshomarus nose. Sesshomaru had been furious almost killing InuYasha in his rage when Kagome had told him she was seeing his brother. If his father had not stepped in when he did InuYasha would have died by his hands. His father had wormed InuYasha to let the girl go that she was not meant for him that he would only hurt her in the end. Did he listen, no the stubborn boy held on to the girl as if she was some trophy to flaunt in front of him and then he did exactly what his father had said. He hurt Kagome so deeply that she just disappeared from their lives all together all because of InuYasha's selfishness.
Sesshomaru had to resist the urge to gag in disgust as he made his way into the living room. It was like this almost every night. Did the two of them have no shame? Sesshomaru growled low in his chest at the sight before him. InuYasha sat on the couch in nothing but his boxers on while Kikyo straddled his lap. Her shirt was unbuttoned revealing her breasts. The smell of alcohol, and sex hung thick in the air.
"Brother you are aware that you have a room for such activities." He snorted as InuYasha flew up successfully knocking Kikyo into the floor. If Sesshomaru had been anyone else he would have laughed at the angry expression on the woman's face as she scrambled to cover herself.
"Feh, your home early. Why?" InuYasha snorted as he folded his arms across his chest. Sesshomaru never came home early. It just didn't happen not since Kagome had left him. Sesshomaru had thrown himself into his practice spending most nights at the hospital.
"I wish to take Rin out for dinner. Not that it is any of your concern little brother." Sesshomaru snorted as he brushed past InuYasha and up the stairs. Rin's school would be going on fall break at the end of the week and his father had wished for Rin to join him and his step-mother on the final week of there vacation. This had been their plan all along and the whole last week had been planed especially for Rins birthday.
"Yea well the brats in her room!" Sesshomaru heard InuYasha yell as he took his seat back on the couch next to a very passed off Kikyo. Sesshomaru made his way to Rin's room with haste eager to get away from his younger brother. He paused outside of her door however before a viscous growled escaped his lips. Rage on the verge of taking over as he had InuYasha by the throat before he himself even realized it.
"Where is Rin?" Sesshomaru demanded as InuYasha clawed at the hand that was constricting his airway.
"What are you talking about the brats in her room!" InuYasha bit out as Sesshomaru tossed him into the closest wall.
"She is gone! Her sent is old Rin has not been in her room for hours!" InuYasha's eyes widened as Kikyo gasped. "If anything has happened to her little brother even father will not be able to stop me from killing you this time." Sesshomaru growled out as he pulled out his phone. Anger and guilt working there way onto his normally static face.
"Wait Sesshomaru who are you calling?" Kikyo asked as she helped pull InuYasha off the floor.
"Father." Was his only reply as he left the room. Her sent was old but there was still a chance he could track her sent. He had to try, he had already lost Kagome he refused to louse Rin as well to InuYasha's foolishness.