We Can't Be Friends
Chapter Sixteen: Jealously Woes
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With Inuyasha's help, Kagome was taken back to Sesshoumaru. He said nothing of the earlier incident, but helped her into bed. They didn't sleep thought, Kagome watched him go over business papers. Signing this and sorting that. She shivered at the knowledge he was so organized and precise. He was her opposite.
"Are you going to keep staring or say what's on your mind?" Sessie asked without looking up. She smiled faintly and closed her eyes.
"You have a daughter, an eleven year old named Rin."
Just as suspected Sesshomaru stopped and looked up at her, his short black hair falling sexily in his eyes.
"How did you find out?"
"Why didn't you tell me?"
"Why do you want to know?"
"Why do you insist on keeping secrets?"
They both quieted and looked the other in the eyes. Without breaking that contact, Sesshoumaru gave her a heart melting smile.
"I do have a daughter."
Kagome wasn't affected.
"Why didn't you tell me?"
"Children were never brought up. You know I want a son, that's as far as it went. If you'd asked, I wouldn't have kept it from you."
"Okay, so have you even been in love before me?" she asked remembering Delilyah's words earlier.
"Yes."
"About how many times?"
"Does it matter? Is it relevant to the fact I have offspring?"
Kagome fixed him with a haunting frown. He sighed. "About three other times."
"Did you have children with them?"
"Rin's my only child."
"Who's her mother?"
"My ex-wife, also the result of faulty protection and too many cheap beers."
"You've been married before?"
"Yes."
"How many times?"
"Is this going to go on all night?" he asked stiffly putting up his business documents. Kagome's silence answered that question as well. He sighed defeated. "Three, two year marriages."
Kagome paused a beat.
"Why didn't they work?"
"Kagome-"
"Why Sesshomaru!?"
He stopped, contemplating whether the truth would set him free. But it wasn't in his nature to lie.
"Infidelity."
"On her part?"
He cleared his throat.
"On mine."
Kagome stopped and looked at him closely. He matched her steady gaze, though his eyes looked a bit sorrowful. Kagome closed her own in thought.
"Why did you cheat on them?"
"They were chosen for reasons other than love. The first was an old friend in debt, the last was the daughter of a successful oil tycoon."
"And the other girl?"
"She was for love."
"Why didn't that one work?"
"She refused me satisfaction. She always froze up and I wouldn't force her."
"So you sought out your pleasure else where?"
"Yes."
"Where."
He cleared his throat again. He was really getting in deep shit.
"In the third wife."
Kagome felt warning bells go off in her heart. She knew if she went any further she'd find even worse things she didn't wish to know. But stubbornly she decided she had a right to know what she was getting herself into.
"And the third wife?"
"She actually was dating someone else, but didn't sleep with him. I played dirty and beat her to it."
"And who was the lucky girl you used?"
"She was a poodle from down the street," he said sarcastically.
Kagome's head snapped up from her pillow and she turned to him full of anger.
"This isn't a game," she snapped. He somehow got the smile to disappear and a stoic mask to replace it.
"I don't remember the girl, it was just someone I met earlier that day."
Kagome nodded as if she understood completely, and then she grabbed the alarm clock on the nightstand and threw it at him. He didn't see it in time and was clocked hard about the head.
"You've been in strangers you baka!" she hissed. His unusually pretty eyes were full of violence when he turned to her.
"Don't throw anything else." He said in a calm, no-room-for-argument voice. She stayed her hand.
"Would you do it to me? Would you cheat on me Sesshomaru?" she asked quietly.
"No."
"Are you sure?"
"Yes."
"Okay."
"Okay?"
"Okay."
"Well while we're asking questions, what's your relationship with my brother?"
"Friends."
"Do you swear?"
"Yes."
"And before?"
Kagome didn't even try to lie.
"We dated."
"That explains the way he looks at you."
"What way?"
"With the look of a man staring at a flame long dead."
"Very dead," she secretly hopped it'd stay that way.
"Do you care for him?"
"Not much."
"Did you once love him?"
"With a passion brighter than the statue of liberty's torch."
'And just as hard to extinguish' she thought.
He gave her a weird look.
"Is it a possibility that you two can fall in love again."
"No."
'You can't when you're already in love.' She thought bitterly.
"Need I worry about my brother in my bed?"
"No."
'But my own sounds nice......WHOA what am I thinking?' she thought.
"Will you cheat on me?"
"Not if you don't."
"Do you back out on promises?"
"Not usually."
"Inuyasha I'm not stupid! I know there is something between Kagome and yourself!" an angry Kikyo spat. Inuyasha sighed, knowing full well he wasn't getting any tonight.
"Kagome is none of your business, Kikyo. She's an old acquaintance. Nothing serious."
"Then why am I jealous."
"Because you were born without a penis." He said in good humor. Her mouth fell open and then she pouted.
"Ha ha, very funny."
"That's what I'm here for, your amusement."
"Inuyasha I'll find out if you tell me or someone else does."
"Go ask someone then."
"Come on, tell me Inuyasha."
"That information is personal."
Kikyo narrowed her eyes.
"How personal?"
Inuyasha glared at her before moving to the door.
"Where are you going?" she whined.
"To sleep outside where there's some peace!"
He slammed the door behind him and headed for the bar.
On the way he passed lingering couples making out or just cuddling. Inuyasha itched for that love. With Kikyo it just wasn't the same......
(End Chapter)
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