1 month latter……
RING! RING!
Hi I'm not home right now so please leave a message at the beep.
(beeep!)
"Kagome why haven't you called me it's been over a month since you had dinner with Mr. Tashio and his daughter. Well if your not going to tell me what happened could you at least call me so I know your still alive and not dead call me bye.
RING! RING!
Hi I'm not home right now so please leave a message at the beep.
(beeep!)
"Hey Kagome it's Stevie I'm glad your new hours are working for you. But I was calling you to see if you can come in early tomorrow it will have to be in the morning so I'll see you at 10:00am thanks Kagome bye.
"I guess I should call Jamie so she knows that I'm alive and laying dead somewhere."
Kagome headed to the kitchen to make some tea.
KNOCK! KNOCK!
"Who could that be?" she cracked open the door to se who was there when she saw who it was she put her head down against the door.
What do you want?"
"Well it's nice to see you again too Kagome." It was InuYasha he took off his sunglasses "Are you going to let me in or do I have to stand here all night?"
"InuYasha I'm not letting you in so say what you have to and leave."
He leaned on the doorframe "You see Kagome I got a call from a friend named Athrun Ness and he said that my older brother had a date with my Ex."
"No I didn't have a date with him I had one with his daughter. Now if that's all you wanted to know." She started to slam the door. InuYasha put his hand out to stop her "Athrun also said that Sesshoumaru did say something that got you upset. Do you want to talk about it with me?"
"NO!" she tried to close the door again.
"Athrun also said that my brothers cheek was very red after you left the house."
"You know InuYasha when we were dating I would have told you anything done anything for you but. She looked at him with anger in her eyes. Now I don't give a damn what you want or need." She slammed the door in his face.
InuYasha smiled at the door then turned around and reached into his pocket and pulled out his cell phone he dilled Athrun's cell.
"Athrun here."
"Hey it's InuYasha."
"Did you talk to her?"
"Well kind of I think she's still mad at me for the break up."
"Your lucky that's all she's mad at. I guess I will have to pull out my number two plan."
"I don't want to be you Athrun if Sesshoumaru finds out."
"If he does I guess I'll be in the same boat as you. Got to go talk to you soon."
"Ok see ya Athrun."
Athrun heard the door open he looked up to see Sesshoumaru come in the room.
"Did I interrupt your call?" he sat down behind the desk Athrun was leaning on
"No Sessho I was done." Athrun pushed away from the desk and walked to the window that looked out to the backyard of Sesshoumaru's house "So Sessho how's the company coming along?"
"It's better then when I first started. Why do you ask?"
"No reason and how is Rin-Chan these days?" he looked over at Sesshoumaru
"Not good she still misses Kagome but she will get better over time." He looked down at his desk.
"Are you sure about that?" Athrun smiled at him
"I don't know." Sesshoumaru ran a hand though his hair "after the first week she was upset that I made Kagome go away (her words) now it's just that she's mad at me."
"You know Sessho you can always go to the shop and talk to her." Athrun rubbed his nose
"Do you think she'll talk to me after what I said to her?"
"Well I can't help since you didn't tell me what happened." Athrun slapped him on the head.
"If I told you do you think you can help?" just then someone knocked on the door.
"Come in." Sesshoumaru called out
"Mr. Tashio." It was Mrs. Parker
"What can I do for your Mrs. Parker?"
"I thought you should know Sir that Miss Rin was picked early from school today."
"Why?" he frowned at Mrs. Parker
"She has a very high fever and it has not gone down yet sir. I've done all I can I think she needs to go to the hospital."
"Where is she." Sesshoumaru was up and running
"In her room Sir." He was out the door as she answered
Sesshoumaru rushed upstairs Athrun not far behind him. When they entered Rin's room Sesshoumaru was in shock at the sight of seeing his daughter laying in bed short of breath and very pale was to much for him.
"Athrun I want a doctor here ASAP."
"Sure thing Sessho." Tears were gathering in his eyes as he left the room
Sesshoumaru heard something coming from the bed of he kneeled down to see Rin opening her eyes.
"Father."
"I'm here Rin."
"Father I'm sorry for all the trouble I've caused you." She coughed
"Don't talk your going to get better."
"Yes father." She fell asleep
When the doctor showed up he made Sesshoumaru leave the room so her could work on Rin. After about an hour the doctor came out of the room.
"Well Mr. Tashio it looks like your daughters going to be fine.
Sesshoumaru let out the breath he was holding. "I'm glad. So doctor what was wrong with her?" he asked
"She just had a really bad common cold."
"How could we not know she had a cold." Sesshoumaru thought to himself
"I asked her why she didn't tell anyone about her cold and she said that she didn't' want to be in anyone's way. It's a good thing her school sent her home if this cold had gone on any longer I think we might have lost her.
After Sesshoumaru showed the doctor the way out he went to his office where Athrun was waiting for him.
"Athrun I think I'll go see Kagome."
"Good choice Sessho."
The Next Day…
"Hey thanks for showing up Kagome."
"No problem Stevie I'm glad to help."
"Well thanks again Kagome but I have to get going."
"Ok Stevie I'll see you latter."
As the day wore on people came in and out of the shop. Just before the shop was about to close Kagome looked at the list of witch puppies needed to washed for the next day. That was when she noticed that fluffy's name was crossed off with red.
"Does this mean he was sold?" she thought to herself. She was about to head to the washing area when she heard the bell on the door ring.
"Hi Kagome."
"Oh god not that sexy voice." She closed her eyes and turned around slowly
"Can I help you with anything sir." Her voice cracked a little
"So she doesn't want to say my name I guess she's still mad at me." He thought "Yes I'm looking for a puppy for my daughter can you help me pick one out?"
"I sorry sir but I was just about close up for the night. But if you come back in the morning I'm sure someone can help you then." She started to head to the door to show him the way out. But he didn't move she turned to look at him.
"Look I know what I said is unforgivable but please listen to what I have to say."
"You don't have to tell me anything. I know now that you don't want me near your daughter and for some reason you think that I have some kind of link with my Ex. Agh! I don't want to go through this again. She put her hands to her face. "I thought I could let myself want again but the moment I did I was crushed at least this heartbreak was fast and not slow like with your brother now can you please leave."
He felt crushed also "I'm sorry but I didn't want to be hurt so I hurt you first."
When he reached the door he looked down at her. "My brother was stupid to let you go and so am I." He walked out the door and across the street got into his car and drove away.
"Why did he have to say that now I can't stay mad at him." She closed the door sat on the floor and started to cry.
"Well how did it go Sessho?" Athrun asked when Sesshoumaru walked into the living room.
"Not to good Athrun she refused to talk to me and would not call me by my name my last name at that." i "but she did tell me I broke her heart again."
"Well Sessho did you think that she was just going to say Oh ok Mr. Tashio no problem. Athrun batted his eyelashes and tried to talk in his most girly voice.
"Oh god." Sesshoumaru said and fell on the couch.
"Oh Sessho I forgot to tell you but someone from your father's company is here to talk to you." Athrun was headed to the kitchen
"And what is this person's name Athrun?"
"It's Lee." Athrun started to walk faster
"What did you just say!" Sesshoumaru sat up to see Athrun running away
"Hahahaha! Isn't that the name your brother is using." Athrun was already out of the room when Sesshoumaru heard him say this.
Sesshoumaru ran his hands through his hair after he calmed down he got up and headed to his office.
When he entered his office he saw his little brother sitting at his desk waiting for him.
"Well little brother it looks like you made yourself at home."
"Hello to you brother." InuYasha had a smile on his face.
"So Inu why did father send you here?" Sesshoumaru asked
"He didn't send me I came on my own."
"And what would you want to talk to me about?" Sesshoumaru waved his hand at him to tell him to get away from his desk InuYasha smiled a little grin and got up and moved to a chair in front of Sesshoumaru desk.
"Well first of all I came here to tell you. InuYasha looked Sesshoumaru straight in the eyes. You had better not hurt Kagome if you do I will kill you."
"Well little brother I didn't know you cared about her so much." Sesshoumaru looked at the papers on his desk. "Why does it make me mad when he say's this."
"And second I have come to ask you to let me have a piece of your company." InuYasha sat back to wait for the anger that was about to hit him but it never came.
"Why are you doing this InuYasha? Do you hate me that much that you have to try to?
Take my company away from me." Sesshoumaru looked at his brother.
"No Sesshoumaru I know that you hate me for what happened to Kimberly but I can't change that." InuYasha looked down at his folded hands "I Just thought that if I could work with you in some way that you would find out how muck I want to help you with anything you take on without father's help."
Sesshoumaru put his elbows on his desk and put his hand under his chin. "Ok InuYasha I will give you a year in this time you will run my company in New York if you can make the company worth anything then I will keep you on. But if you fail you will have to give me 2.5 billion for the company you ruined." Sesshoumaru pulled out a stack of papers and gave them to InuYasha. "Look through this and come back tomorrow and we'll have you sign them then with your lawyer here just in case you want to change anything."
"Thanks for this chance brother."
"Don't let me down little brother." Sesshoumaru stood up and held out his hand to Inu Yasha. Inu Yasha looked at his brother then stood up and shook his hand.
"Now all I have to do is tell father that I'm not taking over the company." He smiled and walked out of Sesshoumaru office.
"Sessho." Athrun said when he walked into the office.
"Can you believe it Athrun he wants to help me."? Sesshoumaru was in shock. This was the first and only time his brother wanted to help him.
"It's good he wants to help you and he asked without you getting mad.' Athrun smiled at his friend.
"What's that mean?"
"Nothing so are you going back to the shop to talk to Kagome again."
"I don't know what do you think I should do?" Sesshoumaru looked over at his friend
Athrun walked up to his desk. "Are you sure you want to leave this up to me?" he gave Sesshoumaru a lopsided grin.
"Yes I'll leave this up to you Athrun." Sesshoumaru ran his hand through his hair. "This can't be good."
"Great now it's time for my next plan!" Athrun smiled an left Sesshoumaru's office.
Kagome was just getting out of the shower when she heard someone knocking on her front door. "Who could that be at this time of the night? I'm coming please hold on." She called out. When she opened the door she was shocked to see Athrun.
"Athrun what are you doing here?" she was so shocked this was all she could say to him.
"Hi Miss Kagome I thought I would come by and see how your doing without us I your life." He looked at her his eyes opened wide with shock. "Oh I'm sorry were you in the bath?" he blushed.
"Yes" she pulled her robe tightly around herself
"Do you want me to leave?" He stepped back away from the door.
"No come in. she opened the door wider to let him in. "Have a seat I'm going to change."
Athrun sat down how was he going to set his plan started this was a good stare she did let him inside the house. Then her thought of a good way to start it Rin-Chan's cold he knew that she liked Rin so…
"Hey Athrun you know I should be mad at you too." Kagome stuck her head out of her bedroom door.
"Why? What have I done?" he looked over his shoulder.
"InuYasha showed up here."
"Oh did he now."
"I should pop you one for telling where I live." She held her fist up at him
Athrun held up his hands. "Ok kagome I did call him but I didn't tell to come see you." He put his hands down "Kagome the reason I came her is to ask you if you can come to the house in the morning to visit Rin." He looked up at her.
"I don't think I can do that Athrun." She sat down across from him
"Kagome Rin-Chan caught a really bad cold and we almost lost her." Athrun put his head down.
"What! Is she ok?' kagome was worried about her.
"Yes for now." He put a fake smile on for her. "God I hope this works." He thought to himself.
"Athrun can you take me there now?" kagome was already at the door
"Kagome you know Sesshoumaru will be home right now but if you wait until tomorrow I can make sure he's not there."
"Athrun I don't care about that right now." She was out the door
"I guess this plan is going to work.
When they reached the Tashio house kagome was surprised to see Sesshoumaru waiting outside for them.
"Athrun my father…." Sesshoumaru stopped when he saw kagome in the passenger seat of Athrun's car.
"Sessho what's wrong with your father?" Athrun asked as he got out of the car
Sesshoumaru looked away from kagome "My father wants to see me right now so I was wondering if you can keep an eye on Rin for me until I get back." Sesshoumaru leaned closer to Athrun and Whispered "why did you bring her here?"
"I told her about Rin's cold and she wanted to come and see her." Athrun whispered and scratched his head.
"That's good. Sesshoumaru rubbed his chin. Well I got to get going I'll try to get back soon." He jumped into his car and was gone.
"So what happened to his father?'
"I don't know sometimes his father calls and just wants to see him." Athrun looked at kagome was she worried about sessho's father he shook his head no that can't be.
"Oh I thought something happened."
Athrun smiled she was worried. "Lets go inside Rin will be happy to see you." He grabber her hand and pulled her inside.
When Sesshoumaru reached his father's house he was a little worried. "What could father want at this time of the night?" he got out of his car and looked up at the wide stair's that lead to the front door. He reached out his hand to ring the door bell. After a couple of minutes he heard someone coming to the door. When the door opened Bridgette Less opened the door for him. Bridgette was Sesshoumaru's fathers house keeper.
"Oh! Lord Sesshoumaru its you. You haven't been home in a long time its nice to see you." Bridgette was in her mid 60's and very mother-ish. Sesshoumaru smiled at her then leaned down and kissed her on the cheek. "Hello Bridgette, Yes it has been a long time."
"So my lord are you here to see your father?" she asked
"Yes is he in?"
"Yes my lord he's in his office with Lord InuYasha. Follow me I'll take you there."
Sesshoumaru fallowed to his father's office. Bridgette knocked on the door but no one answered the door "My Lord I think something might be wrong? I know they are in there I just brought them some tea." She had a frown on her face.
Sesshoumaru looked at her "Stay over there." He pointed a little further down the hall.
He backed up a little and ran straight into the door with his shoulder the door gave just a little. "Father InuYasha!" Sesshoumaru slammed his shoulder into the door again. The door flew open Sesshoumaru's eyes grew wide at what he saw inside the room.
His father was holding InuYasha by the neck and blood was running down his arm.
"Father!" Sesshoumaru garbed his father from behind InuYasha fell to the floor.
"Father why are you doing this?" Sesshoumaru pushed his father away from InuYasha's body.
"This good for nothing Son of mine just told me that he's not going to take over the company just like you."
Sesshoumaru let go of his father and backed away from him.
"Does his not wanting to take over for me have anything to do with you?" he turned to look his eldest son in the eyes.
"Yes yes it does." Sesshoumaru leaned down to check on InuYasha. He had a broken arm and several cuts on his face, arms and chest. When Sesshoumaru looked around his fathers office he saw that there was broken glass everywhere and also some of the furniture was broken too.
"Father is Mr. Shindo here?" Sesshoumaru looked up at his father.
"Yes he is Sesshoumaru." Lord Tashio looked down at his youngest son.
Sesshoumaru got up and went to the door. He looked down the hall to see if Bridgette was still there. "Bridgette could you please see if Mr. Shindo will come here Please Oh wait a minute tell him to bring his medical bag too."
"Yes My Lord." She was off in a flash.
When Sesshoumaru went back inside he saw his father kneeled down next to InuYasha. Lord Tashio was moving hair away from his face.
"Father I know this might not be the right time to say this but did you ever think that we don't want to take over you company for you." He walked closer to his father
"I never thought that neither one of you would not want to take over for me. I've worked so hard to leave this to the both of you." Lord Tashio stood up "I guess I'll have to keep it."
"Father."
"He told me that you sold him part of your company. I just hope that the two of you can work together. Lord Tashio walked away from both of his son's. "I'll be in my room when Mr. Shindo is done with him he left the room.
"Well My Lord it look like your brother is going to be ok.
"Good can you inform my father of InuYasha's condition? I'm going home now I've been gone from my daughter long enough. Good night Mr. Shindo."
"Good night My Lord." Sesshoumaru was out of his father's house in a flash. When he reached his house it was all dark inside. "Damn I hope I didn't miss her." Sesshoumaru thought to himself. As he walked thorough the main door he noticed the living room light still on he smiled a little. When he saw who was on the couch he wanted to laugh he sat down on the arm of the couch "Hey you wake up." Sesshoumaru punched Athrun on the shoulder.
"Ouch! Come on Sessho don't do that." Athrun sat up and stretched his arms over his head.
"So how was Kagome's visit with Rin?"
"I think it might have made her feel better." Athrun said with a smile
Sesshoumaru looked down at his feet. "That's good. How long did she sat?"
Athrun tried to stop his yawn. "She's still here. Athrun looked at Sesshoumaru to see what he was going to do but stopped when he saw the blood on his shirt. "Sessho what happened why is there blood on you?"
"Oh this my father was in the act of killing my brother when I got to the house." Sesshoumaru pulled at the dirty shirt. "So Athrun where is kagome?"
Athrun rubbed his eyes. "She's with Rin she wouldn't let her go And when I went in she was sleeping with Rin."
"I think I'll go check on them." Sesshoumaru started to walk out of the living room
"I would think about taking a shower if I were you. Athrun said this as he laid back down on the couch. "you don't want to worry those two girls if they wake up and see all that blood on you."
"Yeah I guess your right."
While Sesshoumaru was in the shower he thought that this might be a good time to talk to kagome. About all the things that he said to her and how he was starting to feel about her. And he was also going to tell her about Kimberly.
After putting on a pair of loosing fitting jeans and a t-shirt he went into Rin's room. Rin was asleep in kagome's arms he loved the way they looked together. He walked up to the bed.
"Kagome" he called out her name
"Kagome."
Was this a dream or was he really calling to her. She loved the way his voice sounded when he said her name. "Oh just keep letting me sleep if this is just a dream." She though
"Kagome please wake up." Sesshoumaru started to stroke her hair
"Sesshoumaru." She looked up at him and smiled
"Wow I think that is the first time you called me by my first name." He let out a little chuckle.
Kagome sat up "I'm sorry Mr.Tashio. I'll be going now it's just that Rin didn't want me to leave her " she started to get out of bed with Rin
"No it's ok. I'm glad that your still here I wanted to talk to you." He helped kagome tuck Rin back in bed.
"Come with me please." Sesshoumaru held out his hand to her. She took his hand
"Where are we going?"
"To my room."
Kagome was a little surprised to see that his room was right across the hall from Rin's
"Have a seat." He pointed to the bed.
"I'm ok right here." She waked to the window.
"Well I thought we could talk. He sat down on the foot of the bed. I just wanted to tell you that when I was mad I might have said something's to you that weren't right."
Kagome turned to look out the window her heart was pounding.
"I know that you hand nothing to do with my brother trying to take over my company."
Sesshoumaru laid down and put his arms behind his head. "It's just that sometimes my father tries to get me to come back to his company. And the fact that you just happen to know InuYasha kind of pushed me over the edge" he turned his head to look at kagome.
When she didn't look at him he looked at the ceiling "He showed up here the other day. And told me that if I hurt you he was going to kill me."
"Hahaha! I guess he can still tell a good joke." She put her head against the window she felt the tears gathering in her eye's.
"But now me and him are going to be working together. You know when my wife was alive she was always trying to get me and InuYasha to be closer brothers. But when the accident happened it just drove us more apart." Sesshoumaru sat up and ran a hand across his forehead.
"And what accident would that be." kagome turned her head to look at him
"I was working for my father at the time and Kimberly had gone home to visit her parents in California. She called me to pick her up at the airport but I couldn't make it so I asked InuYasha to pick her up for me. He got up and walked to the fireplace that was in his room. It was raining that day and Inu lost control of the car and Kimberly died and Inu Lived. After that I had so much hate for my father and InuYasha.
Kagome walked over to Sesshoumaru and wrapped her arms around his waist. "So when I said InuYasha's name you thought that I was trying to get close to you so that I could hurt you?" she pressed her cheek into his back
"Yes." he put his head down and rested his chin on his chest
"And how do you feel now?" she asked and pulled away from him
"If you must know I fell like shit." He turned around to look at her
"Good. She smiled and took a couple of steps away from him. "Now you know how I felt when you said all those hurtful things to me."
"Yeah but when I tried to apologies you wouldn't hear anything from me." He started to move closer to her.
"I think that's just what you needed." She turned to look out he window again
"And now you will hear what I have to say to you Kagome. He garbed her by the shoulder and turned her around to look at him. I've fallen in love with you do you think you can love me. He put his hand to her cheek.
"The question is do you think you can handle this kind of change in you life Sesshoumaru?" she ran her hands up his chest
"Yes I think I can." He leaned down and kissed her.
Meanwhile downstairs……..
"Hey Athrun do you think Father is going to be happier now?" Rin asked him as the sat at the kitchen table eating ice cream.
"Yes Rin-Chan I think your father will be happy with Kagome in his Life." Athrun looked down at the puppy that was eating ice cream too. "Thanks to you Fluffy." He reached down and patted him on the head. "Thanks to you."
The End
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