When He Was Mine

By: Maggz

Disclaimer: InuYasha and Co. © Rumiko Takahashi

Chapter 28

Life does go on, doesn't it? I'd heard that all my life but had never applied it to myself. InuYasha left on a Saturday morning and by Monday, I was getting ready to begin my classes the following week. I had major changes going on in my life, at home, with my sister, my mom. I'd driven around for awhile after InuYasha and the other boys had left that day, just until I could get myself calmed down and sorted. Then I took the shortest drive of my life to my own house, the house I grew up in. My dad was sitting outside on the swing reading the paper when I pulled in and I got out of the car and left my things in there, even all the new clothes I had bought. I made my way up the steps toward him and walked to the swing. He looked up and smiled a small smile at me, patting the space next to him with his free hand and I smiled and scooted in next to him.

"Your mom has been worried, Kagome.", he said and I nodded. Where did I start? "Were you worried, dad?", I asked and picked up his hand in mine. "No. If you can take care of yourself in America for a year, you can surely take care of yourself an overnight or two here at home, right?", he asked me. I nodded, "Thanks, dad. At least that's the way I see it but I'm sorry I didn't call...", I said. "No worries, I believe Kikyo filled us in on where you were. It was with InuYasha, right?", he said and looked long at me. "Yes, dad. It was with InuYasha. He's gone now traveling...", I said. "You care for InuYasha, don't you? very much? ", he said and I nodded, looking at his hands. "He cares for you too. I could tell, the day he brought you home when his car broke down..", he said. "It's all so new, dad. But we do care for each other, very much. It's just horrible that Kikyo and mom...", I started. "Kagome, it's not going to be easy. You being with InuYasha after he was with Kikyo around for a bit... But honey, it's not unheard of. He just met you and fell for you. That isn't wrong, just makes it complicated. Your mom and Kikyo had big visions about Kikyo and InuYasha, that's where it's hurting you, and they won't let that go very easily. It's going to be hard on you.", he said.

I guess I knew what he was going to say next and part of me rejoiced, while part of me cried. "Kagome, I've been thinking... How would you like your own place when you start college next week?", he asked and I jerked my head up, looking at him. "You mean that?", I asked him. "Yes, a place just for you, close to campus maybe. And tho I DON'T approve of InuYasha and you living together… Well, I'm not so old that I don't know you want to be together alone when he comes home. And I know his schedule is hectic so the times together would be more special if you had your own private place. I don't like the idea of my daughter hunting out places to spend with her boyfriend, and I'm sure InuYasha feels a bit strange coming here to the house..", he said. I flung my arms around his neck and kissed his cheek soundly. "Thanks dad. Yes, I would love that... Only, does mom…?", I left the question hanging. "I've told her. She doesn't like it, of course. But I'm doing this for you, Kagome. You've given me much to be proud of, you're 19 years old and you deserve the happiness that InuYasha is giving you, as well as the quiet time with your studies at college. We'll look at places tomorrow, OK? I have a few in mind but you can make up your mind and tell me. It's up to you...", he said. "You DO understand, don't you, dad?", I said and squeezed his hand. "Yes, Kagome... I do. I might not like it all but I do understand it. And I hold nothing against InuYasha at all. Attraction is a powerful thing. I'd say the boy has good taste!", he laughed.

I hugged him once more and got up to go inside, stopping back by my car to grab my things out of it. He winked at me as I walked past him and into the house. I made my way up the stairs and was on the third or fourth from the top when I heard my mom's voice. "Kagome? You need to come down here as soon as possible, please...", she stated from the kitchen. I groaned and drug my shopping bags and backpack into my bedroom. The shopping bags, I put in my closet, my back pack I dug thru and put everything back to where it went. I saw that I had grabbed InuYasha's boxers with my clothes somehow and grinned, a treasure of my own to keep! I folded them and put them back in my backpack and set it in the closet as well.

Walking back down the steps wasn't easy. If I was the apple of my dad's eye I was the worm in my mom's. I had never been able to please her, ever. And now would be no different. I walked into the kitchen and sat down at the table. "I'm very disappointed in you, Kagome..", she started off with a bang, but I'd heard it many times before and I let her continue. "Kikyo told me she found you and InuYasha at his friend's apartment; you in a state of undress as well as InuYasha. I suppose I don't have to ask you if it's true...", she frowned at me. "We WERE at his friend's apartment, mom. I spent the night with him for two nights, he left a bit ago for some more travel... We are sleeping together mom...", I said figuring it was better to get it all out in the open with her. Her face reddened, her frown deepened and she turned away from me for a moment.

"It makes you look like a common whore, Kagome... a slut...", she said tightly. "No, mom. I care for InuYasha and he cares for me. If you're telling me it was OK for Kikyo to sleep with him and not me then I need an explanation, ok?", I said. "Don't get sassy with me, Kagome...", she turned on me then. "I'm not mom, but just tell me why?", I said. "I'm 19, I've lived abroad. I'm on birth control, I'm responsible and I love InuYasha...", I said firmly. "And that makes it OK for you to sleep with him. What do you think that does to your sister?", she said. "I'm sure it hurts, mom but she and InuYasha were finished before he and I got involved... granted, not for very long but they were finished. She pushed him for engagement and he didn't want it. She kept pushing him for newspaper stories and magazine stories about the two of them and he didn't want that either. The night of that party they broke up and she let someone else take her home without telling him. They were finished, mom!", I said once more making my point.

"I'm sorry if it hurts Kikyo but she's a woman now, she will deal with it. I've dealt with it, dealt with her saying horrible things to me, dealt with her busting in on InuYasha and I saying horrible things to both of us. Now it's her turn. I'm sorry that's just how I feel.", I said. "Then I think it best if your father helps you get that apartment for you. There'll be no peace in this house until he does...", she said and turned away from me.

So that was it? Was she just throwing me out? Washing her hands of me? Not willing to ever discuss Kikyo's actions, only mine? I got up and walked back upstairs, closed my door and shed my clothes to lie across my bed and take a nap. I slept soundly, not awaking until I heard the chirp of my mobile. Rubbing my eyes, I hopped off my bed and started to search for my phone. Digging in my closet for my bag, I found it at last and answered it. "Hello?", I said, a bit out of breath. "Kagome, what took so long?", my InuYasha asked. "Oh, I was asleep... napping and I forgot where I put the darned thing so I was madly searching for it.", I laughed. "So do you miss me?", he asked and I smiled. "So much I, miss you!", I said. "Ahhhh, me too. I just got booked into a hotel here, now just relaxing...", he sighed into the phone and I could just see him, lain back on the bed, talking into his mobile.

"You at home?", he asked. "Yeah, home...", I answered. "Did you talk to your parents?", he asked me. "Yes, already. Note I said I was sleeping, taking a nap???", I laughed. "That bad, huh? Kagome, I'm so sorry...", he said. "No, no need to be. I have some news for you!", I laughed. "Oh, good news?", he asked. "Very. My dad is taking me apartment hunting tomorrow. It was his idea. I'm moving out...", I said. I was met with silence on the other end of the phone and the smile slowly faded from my face. "InuYasha? Are you there still?", I asked. "Here, Kagome. Look, are you fooling with me, now?', he asked quietly.

"NO, not fooling. I'm going with my dad tomorrow to look for an apartment.", I said. And again... SILENCE. "INUYASHA, you're scaring me here! Say something!", I pleaded. "I don't know what to say, Kagome. I'm so chuffed!", he finally said. "You mean it, you're moving. We can be together when I come home, just us...", he said. "Yes, just us, InuYasha. Me and you..", I murmured. "Ahhhhh, that's great... just brilliant, Kagome!", he laughed into the phone. "I think I'm getting turned on just thinking of it now...", he offered. "InuYasha Hara! Control it!", I laughed. "No control when it comes to you, Kagome. This is excellent, we can stay in bed all fucking day… just fucking!", he offered once more and I laughed harder. "You're terrible, InuYasha... just horrible!", I laughed.

"Say it didn't cross you mind, Kagome...", he said. "What?", I asked already knowing where this would lead. "Say that you didn't think we can damn well fuck the shit out of each other when and where we want...", he said. "The thought MAY have crossed my mind...", I said and grinned. "That's my girl!", he laughed. "Look, sweetheart. I gotta go, have to go to a call. I'll talk to you later, ok? Give us a kiss and wrap your arms around yourself and say you love me...", he said. "I love you, InuYasha...", I smiled. "I adore you, Kagome...", he said and then he rang off.

I smiled and lay my head back on my pillow, holding the phone in my hand, letting his words, his laughter roll over me. I never noticed Kikyo had made her way into my room as I was talking to him. Now she made her presence known. "You're fucking sick!", she said lowly and I jumped, not realizing she was there. I sat up on the bed and lay my phone on the night table. "Excuse me?", I said softly and reached over to turn on my lamp. "I said you are sick, fucking sick!", she spat at me. "Don't Kikyo. Please, not again...", I said and watched her. "I'll bet you two fuck like rabbits. I can see it in YOUR eyes and I could see it in his too. You can't get enough of each other, can you? Why in hell did he want YOU so much but push me AWAY?", she asked. "I don't know, Kikyo...", I started but she pushed ahead. "I'll bet he's on you and IN you before you can get laid down, isn't he?", she asked and I drew in a breath. "Is that how it is with him? God, he was a good fuck!", she moaned and sank down to my floor. "Kikyo, please. Don't do this, please. Have more pride. Don't!", I said. "You took him from me, Kagome. He's telling you he loves you, isn't he already?", she asked. "Nevermind. I heard it all. Now you have your own place to fuck in... That's grand, just grand...", she said and lay her head in her hands.

I got up off my bed, grabbed my robe to cover myself and walked to her, not sure how to approach her but knowing I had to. "Kikyo... I... Look, I don't know what to say to you at all. I'm not sorry InuYasha and I are together, not at all, but I don't want to hurt you, ever...", I said. "Liar... fucking LIAR!", she blasted at me and I backed away. "I'm not lying and I'm sorry you think that, but I deserve to be happy just like you have been, and you didn't want him anymore, Kikyo… nor he, you. It was all over before InuYasha and I slept together. I never would have had it any other way.", I said. "I hate you, Kagome. I hate how he looked at you that night at the apartment, how he begged you to stay and just pushed me aside. He's... different with you. And I hate you for it. I can't help it... maybe someday...", she cried into her hands. "Maybe someday then, Kikyo. I'm sorry. I'll always be ready to talk with you, always. You're my sister but I can't make you stop feeling about me the way you do.", I said. I opened the door and walked out into the hallway, down the stairs, and out the front door to sit on the steps. It wasn't a very cold night and I wrapped my robe tightly around me and sat there, looking at the stars as I let my thoughts wander.

Tomorrow would start a new life for me, a very independent one. And I looked forward to it. I was sorry things between my mom and Kikyo couldn't have been better, but there seemed to be no win for me in this situation and I wasn't going to waste my time or energy on it now. My energy needed to be directed toward my schooling and then to my relationship with InuYasha. I was ready.

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Maggz