Summary: Looking at Kagome Higurashi, you'd never know that she carried a secret storm. Her therapist suddenly quits on her, and she must go to find someone else to help her. She struggles to keep her new therapist out of her life. She tells him the best of her is gone. Why won't he believe it? Kagome's POV.

"Talking"
"Sign Language"
Flashbacks

Best of You
Chapter 7: Evening Session

I'm really relieved that he knows this, for some reason. Now that he knows my family is dead, he may stop his therapy. Or he may press forward with it. I can't be too sure. Either way, I'll be happy. If he stops, then life can continue as it is. If he continues, I may be able to live like a real person. He may help me in gettting my voice back.

I just have to overcome this fear...

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"Kagome, we have to plan another session..." Inuyasha tells me over lunch. I pause with my fork half-way in my mouth. I nod my head then eat the food entirely. I don't need to ask when, because I know he'll answer it anyway.

"How about... Damn, my days are full." He says. I watch in mild facination as he eats his ramen. he's slurping it up like he's in love with it. Then again, the way he's talked about it before, I'm sure that he is in love with the stuff. I can remember him calling it the best food on the planet.

I set my fork down as I wait for him to keep talking. My drink isn't alcohol today, even though I wanted some. He ordered me some of my favorite soda instead. Guess not being able to talk makes it hard to get what you really want. All the same, I have found that I got something I want. Safety from the men I'm afraid of.

I guess that doesn't count. That's one pro against a million and three cons. So, Inuyasha pulls out his black booklet. He's going to check his schedule, I'm sure. He looks it over then shakes his haed in dissapointment.

"The soonest time I have available for therapy would be a week from tomorrow. But, the day is full. The soonest would be after the office closes. Care for a evening at the park session?" He asks. I shrug my shoulders. He'll make me go whether or not I care for the idea.

"Well, since you don't have opinions that I can hear, I'm going to take it as a yes. So, I'll meet you at the part at seven. Bring things to walk in. We're not sitting on the bench the entire time." He says. I smirk, taking one last sip of my soda as the waiter comes with our check.

Oh my God! How agonizing. I guess I'm overreacting, but I have the right to. I'm going to the park with Inuyasha. This means that I'll have to look good while being comfotable with what I'm wearing. They need to make stylish walking clothes. That's one of the things I could really go for right now.

I pull on my most comfortable sweats and keep my black jacket on. I don't have a shirt on under it, but it should be cold tongiht. I don't mind that. Inuyasha won't mind that...

I can't believe I jsut thought that. I'm beginning to think wrongly about him. I shouldn't feel this way. Sure, it's been... Let's count. It's been around 33 weeks that we've known each other. That sounds like hardly any time, but that's 8 months. That's plenty of time, in my opinion.

Then again, in my opinion, I'm trusting him too fast. I can't be letting him know all this about my family like I did. He now knows that something's wrong with my family that caused all three of them to die. While I won't tell him what it is, I'm sure that he's come up with a crazy idea that's close to the truth. At least he does't know if it's true or not...

I walk to the park, taking a deep breath. No matter what goes on tonight with my therapist, I can't talk to him. I can't let him know what my horrible voice sounds like. I can't let him know the things that I've experienced. If he knows that much, he may... He may begin to hate me like everyone else does...

"You're a horrible person, Kagome! You shouldn't have been allowed into this world! Your mother regrets the day that you were conceived. Even more the day that you were born! She hates the fact that you came out of her! You're a failure to your mother your brother!" He yelled. I looked at my brother and walked up to him. I ruffled his hair, shaking my head. I couldn't say anything to him, not at that time... I ruined everything.

I sit down on a bench, checking my watch curiously. I guess I'm only a few minutes early, but I didn't want to be early. I don't want to be waiting for him to show up.

What if he doesn't show up, thuogh? What if this is a setup or something? I suddenly feel like I've been duped. Like he's not going to show up and there's someone laughing at me right now. I guess that I'm getting too far ahead of myself. I know that there's a low chance of him actually doing this to pick on me, but it feels like that.

"Kagome!" I hear someone call. Inuyasha comes up to me, smiling widely. I wave at him calmly, secretly praising that he actually came.

"Hey, I don't mean to ruin the therapy session, but Italked to Miroku about it. So, he's going to come with Sango tonight." Inuyasha tells me. I take a deep breath then nod my head. At least this means that I won't have to be alone with Mr. Handsome. A part of me is disappointed, but that's the part of me that's hopelessly in love with him.

"Well, they're going to meet us on the other side of the park. So, we should get walking so they don't think we're ditching them." He says. I stand up then he begins to walk to the other side of the park. I keep up with him, lost in my own thoughts.

"I'm glad you showed up. I thought that you wouldn't. That's why I didn't mind Miroku and Sango coming along." Inuyasha tells me. I look at him, my eyes wide. When he looks at me, I begin to move my hands.

"I was worried that you wouldn't show up too." I admit. He smiles then grabs one of my hands. At first, I think I'm in trouble or that I said something wrong. But, he lets his hand rest at his side, holding mine in a way that's making me blush like crazy. If it weren't sunset, then perhaps he'd be able to see it.

"Well, don't worry that I won't show up. I couldn't do that to you..." He pauses, as if realizing something is wrong with what he's said. "It'd be rude not to show up for a therapy session that we're having." He adds. I sigh then turn my attention to what's in front of us.

"So, has the club been doing good since it started running in the day?" He asks me. I nod my head happily and he grins. I guess he's glad for my company's success too.

"How much has your profit gone up since you started to run in the days?" He asks. I thik a bit, calculating all these numbers in my head.

"Around 2,000 more a day. I'm going to give my employees raises with the extra money." I tell him. He smiles once more, and I notice that he's been doing that a lot recently. He didn't seem to smile a lot in the beginning. Well, not from what I can rememebr at least. It's been eight months, so I'm sure that my memory has started to fade on this subject.

"You've always been really kind to people, Kagome. That's one of the things I admire about you. Rather than pocketing the extra two grand that you're making, you're gonig to give people raises with the money." He says. I blush then he stops moving. I stop and look at him curiously, wondering what's gone to his head.

"You're really beautiful, you know that? You look even cuter when you blush." He says. I feel my entire body freeze up and my face turn absolutely red. He leans his head towards mine, and I'm secretly hoping he's gong to actually kiss me.

"Hey! Inuyasha! We'er here!" I hear Miroku yelling. I jump instinctively, my head crashing into Inuyasha's. He makes a noise that I can't define... It's something like a painful sound, but he sounded like he was barking, or something along those lines. I hold my head in pain, and I'm sure he's donig the same thing.

"What'd you do that for?" He asks sharply. I resist the urge to cry as I try to make my head stop throbbing. His skull is hard to inflict this much pain on me!

"I'm so sorry! I didn't mean to! Please forgive me!" I signal. He shakes his head then looks towards Sango and Miroku,

"I'm sorry. I overreacted. You hurt my head, that's all... I'm sorry for snapping at you." He says. I look away, trying to get the tears in my eyes to go away. Before I know it, he's got his arm around my back and he's pulled me into him. I relax slowly, looking off towards where Sango is coming towards us.

"What's going on here?" Miroku asks. He looks at us, and I know he must be thinking perverted things about us. Either that, or he's too confused to be at that step yet.

"You two look so cute together!" Sango says. I smile at her, wishing that she'd be quiet. I like the compliment, but I don't want Inuyasha to know it. If he knows that I like him, I'm afraid that he'll freak out or something. Soon enough, he lets go of me and we start walking. Sango is to my right, and Inuyasha is to my left. On the other side of him is Miroku.

"So, did you hear the news about someone escaping from prison?" Sango asks. My body tenses up instinctively as I look over at her.

"Oh yah, I heard about that. Apparently this guy stopped eating for a long time. He got skinny enough to get through those really small windows." Miroku says. I think for a while before deciding that it doesn't matter. He got out of prison last year. With my luck, he'll get together with my ex-boyfriend and they'll start planning my murder together.

"Kagome, you okay? You seem tense..." Inuaysha says. I look at him, smiling fakely. I'm anything but okay, but I don't want him to know that.

"Hey, Inuyasha... Is that your brother?" Miroku asks. I look at him, then at tthe silver-haired man that is coming towards us. A girl who looks like she's hardly out of high school is with him.

"Inuyasha!" The girl squeels. She rusn up to him, hugging him so tight, I'm sure that he's about to lose his ability to breathe.

"Hi, Rin... What are you and Fluffy doing here?" He asks. Rin looks back at Sesshoumaru, then at Inuyasha.

"Well, since he's thinking about having a fmaily, I've started trying to take care of my body more. I want to be in good shape before I have a kid!" She says cheerfully. I guess she's married to the other man...

"Hi, Sesshoumaru. This is Kagome." Inuasyha says. Sesshoumaru takes one look at me, seemign unhappy. He looks like he could set me on fire right now because of the look on his face.

"Kagome... Is she the one you always speak so highly of?" He asks. His voice is stone cold, which makes me even more uneasy.

"Yes." Inuyasha mutters. I'm sure that he's embarassed from something. I don't know what it is. Sesshoumaru takes my hand and kisses it like a gentleman. I hear Inuyasha growling loudly beside me. I look over at him, surprised to see the protective look on his face.

"Sesshoumaru, your wife is right next to you. Behave." Inuyasha says. Sesshoumaru gives him a harsh glare then the two of them keep walking along behind us.

"I'm sorry, my brother and I don't get along." Inuyasha says. I shrug my shoulders and begin to listen to the conversation.

I guess this isn't as romantic as I thought. I'm happy, since i don't know what I could have done... My emotions are all strange recently. Sure, I do like Inuaysha, but I don't want to have these things happening. I don't want the romance because, well... He could find out about my past and then he'll hate me.

I'd rather keep him and my secret than lose him and my secret...

Next time on The Best of You...
So, after the first night session, he decides that more of them will help me to "open up" to people. Open up my ass, I'm not going to. So, where does a therapist take his mentally disturbed patient? I don't want to know, but I have a bad feeling about this. Something is bound to go wrong and he'll find out...

I hope the fluff in this chapters was good. I think it's cute how Kagome jumps and gets Inuyasha frustrated. I get ideas like this from thinking of Kyo from Fruits Basket. That's why Inuyasha snapped at her, because my mind is somewhere else. Anyway, I hope you all like this chapter. Hopefully, you like this story too.

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- Bipolar Tangerine