Revised, edited, and modified on July 26, 2006.

Just in case anyone is confused, InuYasha, Sesshoumaru, and Kouga are demons. I think...lol

Disclaimer: I own nothing. What did you expect? Who knows, I might own all of InuYasha one day!

PG-13

-AU- Kagome and Sesshoumaru hate each other, although they may look like the perfect couple. After InuYasha breaks up with Kagome for Kikyou, she decides it's time for a little revenge. SessKag

A S i n g l e S p a r k

Chapter 1

The Pain of Loss

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Kagome Higurashi was getting out of her math class with a pout on her face but she quickly cheered up when she saw her boyfriend InuYasha waiting for her. She ran over to his side but saw he was distracted by something. Or someone, in this case.

"InuYasha?" She waved her hand in front of his face.

Snapping out of his trance, he turned to face Kagome, who was obviously frustrated.

"So, where do you want to go today?" Please don't be shopping, please don't be shopping, InuYasha chanted in his mind.

Whenever InuYasha went shopping with Kagome, he ended up holding all of the bags and paying for a lot of it. He didn't really mind all the stuff or the expenses...it was just pretty heavy. Not that it was too heavy for him of course. He was a man after all.

"Hmm, nowhere I guess. I just want to relax and get away from all this homework."

InuYasha nodded and even almost did a little cheer, but his mind was on something else. Unfortunately, Kagome could tell.

"InuYasha! What's wrong with you today? It seems like you aren't really paying attention to anything at all..."

Again, InuYasha barely noticed a thing she said. She followed his view and saw what he was looking at. It was the new girl, Kikyou Takeda. Kagome nearly growled.

"Can you stop looking at her?" Kagome muttered under her breath. She was sure InuYasha could hear her.

Kagome actually knew Kikyou, and she knew that all Kikyou would do to InuYasha was break his heart. Just like she did to all the other boys she went out with.

Kagome wasn't as rich as Kikyou, and it made her frustrated when she was called a 'Kikyou-look-alike.' After a little…altercation between the two, nobody called her that again.

Many people thought Kagome had had plastic surgery to look like Kikyou, but they found out it was all natural. A lot of the guys liked Kagome, but since they thought she was a Kikyou wannabe, they wouldn't even go near her.

Now, however, they asked her out constantly, but she always refused. With InuYasha by her side, no man or boy even wanted to go near her anymore. They were too scared of her overprotective boyfriend.

"What? Yea, sure. Let's go," he said, but when they left, he couldn't stop looking at her.

He knew Kagome was his girlfriend, but something made him want to go and leave her. He wanted to go to Kikyou instead and just dump Kagome. But he couldn't do that. He still loved Kagome and couldn't do that to her. Right?

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Sesshoumaru Yamada mentally sighed as he felt something cling to his arm. He would never show any emotion, so most of the things he did was in his head. He refused to think he was insane in any way. Turning around to see who it was, he frowned. It was just some girl. He shook his arm fiercely, but she hung on tight.

"C'mon Sesshoumaru. You don't want to seem like a loner do you?" she pleaded. Oh, now it made sense. It was that Takeda girl again.

His frown deepened. What was this…this thing doing on his arm?

"If being a loner means I don't have to have a woman like you stuck on my arm, then, yes, by all means," he replied.

Kikyou reluctantly let go of his arm. Why didn't he like her? He should have been happy to have the privilege for her to be on him!

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Kagome's smile slowly faltered as she watched InuYasha prepare to say what he had planned to say.

"Kagome...I don't think I can be with you anymore..." he said, trying to keep a straight face.

He looked into her eyes, and there were tears threatening to spill. How could there not be? He was breaking up with her! Kagome felt her heart take a giant leap and plunge to the bottom.

"Wh...why?" she managed to say, suppressing the tears. "What did I do? Is it me?"

"N-no! It isn't you and you didn't do anything! I just think we need some space...," InuYasha said. Yea, that's it. Make it a believable lie...I'm sorry, Kagome.

He held her shoulders firmly and forced her to look at him in the eye. She was obviously angry, but didn't want to show it. He kissed her forehead and left her by the tree they were standing by. She watched helplessly as he walked away from her. Probably for the rest of her life...

Kagome fell backwards, collapsed to her knees, and began to cry. That was all she could do. Cry and hope he would come back.

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Sesshoumaru was walking to his dorm when he saw Kikyou again. She was bent over by a tree and crying. He almost smiled. Did the girl finally get what she deserved? He decided to walk over and see what she was crying about. Not that he cared.

"Girl."

She wasn't answering; all that could be heard were sniffles and the shuffling of leaves. What could have made her so upset that she wouldn't answer him? Him, of all people.

"Takeda?" he asked, partially surprised that it came out as a question and not an insult. Maybe she was deaf and didn't hear him; it was always a possibility. She always ignored it when he said no to her, so it could always happen.

She lifted her head, and he could see tears stained her cheeks. Sesshoumaru almost had a look appear on his expressionless mask. It wasn't Kikyou.

"No, Sesshoumaru. I'm not…Kikyou," she said through gritted teeth.

Sesshoumaru practically smiled, although he didn't. He never did. This was certainly fascinating. A girl who actually dared to defy Kikyou? He knew a lot of people disliked her, but they never said it aloud. Unless they had a higher status than her or something. Most likely, there were none, aside from him.

He just raised a brow as if to ask who she was and how she knew his name while mentally scolding himself for almost showing so much emotion in just one day. Truthfully, this day was quite intriguing.

She sighed and got up, grabbing her books and wiping her eyes with a handkerchief.

"Nobody," she answered and left. /1/

Sesshoumaru fought the urge to follow her and find out who she was. He was Sesshoumaru, after all, and Sesshoumaru didn't do things like that. So of course, like every single time, he repressed the urge to do anything and just walked away.

He remembered who she was. Or at least, he remembered her face. She had been in a couple of his classes in their childhood. They despised each other then. How did they feel about each other now? She had practically talked back to him, and no woman had ever done that. On his way home, he decided at that moment that he hated her. Or maybe just highly disliked her. He couldn't possibly like her, now could he?

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InuYasha wondered if he had done the right thing. There was nothing wrong with dumping a girl! People were doing it all over the world, and they got over it! Right?

He flopped onto his bed and stared at the ceiling. Was he really ever going to get over her, and was she over him already? He remembered her hurt look and the threatening tears. He shook his head as he reminded himself that it wasn't a bad thing and that he had done the right thing.

"I mean, she doesn't rule my whole life! I control my life!" InuYasha looked in the mirror and grinned wryly. Great, he was talking to himself. That was pathetic...

Suddenly, his best friend Miroku Mazaki walked in the dorm with a girl.

"Hey, InuYasha. Mind if I borrow the dorm for the night? Promise we'll be done by midnight."

InuYasha smirked. "I see. Studying, are we?"

Miroku and the strange girl InuYasha had never seen before blushed a deep crimson, but Miroku seemed proud of it.

"Yes, studying. Now out. Half of this dorm is mine. "

"Only half! What makes you think I'll leave?"

Miroku grinned, walked over to a drawer, and was about to open it when InuYasha jumped over and locked it.

"Fine, fine. I'll leave." InuYasha grabbed his jacket and left the door open.

"Remember, if you don't listen to me, I'll show all your old and new girlfriends' this."

InuYasha let out a 'keh' and left.

Miroku just grinned slyly at the girl and asked, "Shall we?"

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InuYasha sighed. Normally when Miroku brought over a girl, he would go and stay at Kagome's dorm. Even though there were no boys allowed there, she would let him stay. Now that they had broken up, there was no place to go.

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Sesshoumaru was in his dorm sitting on the edge of his bed, glaring at the floor. For some reason, this girl wouldn't leave his mind. He couldn't get rid of her, so he was going to find out who she was. It didn't matter how. He would find out. That was just the kind of guy he was.

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/1/ Okay, some people were a little confused about this. Read the paragraph before this. "Sesshoumaru raised a brow as if asking her...etc." He was asking her who she was without saying anything and she replied with a simple "Nobody." Kagome just told him she wasn't anyone. Get it?

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