Wow! Chapter 10 already! I'm so excited! Thank you to all my reviewers who made it possible…bah, here I am, acting like it's the Grammy's lol. Well go on, read and don't forget to review!
Inuyasha grabbed Sesshoumaru by the collar and rammed him against the nearest wall.
"What the fuck did you tell her?" Inuyasha growled in a low voice, ignoring the stares of the people around them. It had grown eerily quite.
"I told her everything."
"YOU HAD NO RIGHT!" Inuyasha's fist painfully connected with Sesshoumaru's face as he felt anger surge through him all over again. Gasps ensued as Sesshoumaru wiped the blood from the side of his mouth calmly. Quietly he spoke.
"But she had the right. She had the right to protect herself." Shippou stared in shock as his daddy ran out of the restaurant, leaving Sesshoumaru leaning against the wall.
"Sir, are you alright? Should I call the police?" a Waiter rushed over to Sesshoumaru and offered his hand. Sesshoumaru however pushed it away.
"Don't be nosy." He stood up, took Shippou's hand in his and led him out of the restaurant, leaving people to mutter and gossip about what had just taken place.
"KAGOME!" Inuyasha panted as he ran down the street. 'I have to explain!'
'Explain what, the fact that I'm a drug dealer?' Nonetheless, he kept running. He kept screaming her name, but found no hint of her around. He stopped finally, and took a moment to sniff the air. He suddenly caught a hint of her scent, and he whirled around in that direction. A little ways ahead he saw an apartment complex, and remembered that Kagome said she had lived in one. He broke into a sprint in the direction of the apartments, determined to get his babysitter back.
Kagome wearily thanked the cab driver and handed him a 20 dollar bill, telling him to keep the change. She slowly trudged up the stairs to her apartment as she tried to soak in all the information she had received that night.
'I would be crazy to still work for him!' she thought as she made her way into her apartment, kicking off her shoes as she did so. 'But, for some reason I can't stand to be away from him…' Kagome frowned as she remembered Inuyasha giving her a soft kiss. She shook her head. '"This isn't right!" she yelled to no one in particular. She curled up into a ball and sighed. "I shouldn't be feeling this way," she muttered. "He's just some stupid guy. He's my employer for Christ's sake!" She fell quiet at this thought. 'Was my employer…'
Suddenly, she heard pounding on her door and she shot up off the couch. Her heart started pounding a mile a minute as her eyes scanned the room, looking for any object that could possibly be used as a weapon. She rested her eyes on a Harry Potter book she had left lying around. She got up slowly, trying not to make any noise, and reached for the book. She stared at the door, rooted to the spot, not daring to move.
"Kagome! Come on it's me open up!" Kagome dropped the book and it hit her toe.
'SHIT! God I'm so damn clumsy!' Ignoring the stabbing pain in her toe she rushed over to the door and pulled it open.
"Inuyasha? What the hell are you doing in my apartment!" Inuyasha grabbed Kagome's shoulders and said, "Please, don't leave. Don't leave Shippou, don't leave us." He paused and then said, "Don't leave me." Kagome blinked as she said slowly," Inuyasha I-I don't know what to do, honestly." She sighed as she grabbed Inuyasha's hand and led him into her apartment, closing the door behind her.
"A part of me tells me I should go. Forget about you and Shippou, and protect myself. Honestly Inuyasha, you're a fucking drug dealer!" Inuyasha stared at the carpet, suddenly finding it extremely interesting.
"When were you planning on telling me?"
"…"
"You were never going to tell me were you? You were going to try and keep it a secret from me weren't you! You could trust me enough to leave me your child, you could trust me enough to tell me that your wife was dead, but you don't care about me enough to tell me you were a drug dealer!" Inuyasha's head jerked up.
"And how exactly do you think I would have gone about telling you this piece of my life? Especially when I knew you would react this way, I knew you would leave, and I couldn't risk that!" Kagome rolled her eyes, and tried to keep strong. She honestly felt like she was going to break down.
"It's called daycare Inuyasha! So what if you're kid cries as soon as you leave it happens to everyone, you've got to let go sometime!" Inuyasha growled and rose up from the couch, pulling Kagome into a tight embrace.
"Baka! It's not Shippou at all! I was afraid that I would lose the one good thing in my life right now!" He buried his face into her hair as he went on.
"I haven't felt this happy since Kikyou was alive. I feel like I have something to live for now! Don't get me wrong, I love Shippou, but it hurts to know I have to go home to an empty bed every night. Ever since I knew you would be there waiting for me, happy that I was home. It drives me crazy not being near you, not being able to talk to you and joke around with you." He smiled into her neck and she shivered despite herself.
"Besides, I promised to protect you, remember?" Kagome burst into tears as she finally wrapped her arms around him, hugging him back. Inuyasha stroked her hair as she cried into his shoulder.
"I can't." Kagome choked out. Inuyasha pulled back from her and stared at her.
"What?"
"I can't stay with you Inuyasha. I know that the only reason you feel this way is because you're mistaken."
"What are you talking about!"
"You're not seeing me Inuyasha." She looked up into his eyes and whispered, "You're seeing Kikyou." Inuyasha let his hands slip off of her shoulders as he watched her walk to the door and open it.
"Please leave, Inuyasha." Inuyasha stepped out of the door and glanced back at her. After a moment he said in a hollow tone, "Funny. Sesshoumaru told me the same thing." With that, he turned and walked out of Kagome's doorstep. She shivered as the wind picked up, dancing with her hair. She let the tears fall freely once more, not sure if they would ever stop.
Inuyasha stripped down to his boxers and lay down on his bed. With one arm behind his head he stared up at the ceiling, nothing but thoughts of Kagome running through his head. "You're wrong, Kagome. I see everything I want by my side in you." He whispered out into the darkness. He rolled over and fell into a light sleep.
"Inuyasha?" Inuyasha's head shot up as he heard his name being whispered.
"Kagome!" He stood up and groped around for the light switch. Finding it, he flipped it and squeezed his eyes, letting them adjust. He looked around and saw nothing. He sighed sitting down on the edge of his bed. He put his head in his hands as he tried, for what seemed like the billionth time, to get Kagome out of his head. He thought back to there kiss, and how he felt so determined to never let anyone hurt her again. It had been almost a month now since he had let her go, and he seemed to be getting worse each day. And Shippou also had a hard time adjusting to life without Kagome. Like father like son, they say.
-Flashback-
"Daddy where's Kagome?"
"She left, Shippou." He burst into tears.
"my new mommy left me! Just like my old one!" Inuyasha's eyes grew wide as he realized that Kagome had not just been a babysitter to him. He kneeled down and took Shippou into his arms.
"She didn't mean to, Shippou. It was all my fault."
-End flashback-
He sighed and glanced at the clock. It read 12:12. He closed his eyes and made a wish. 'Please let Kagome come back to me. Don't let her really be gone.'
He got up, checked to make sure that Shippou was still sound asleep and quietly turned the TV on. Ironically, they had a rerun on of the comedy show they had watched together when Kagome fell asleep on the couch. Staring blankly at the TV, he watched as the audience roared with laughter. For some reason, he didn't find the jokes funny at all.
He jumped a mile when he heard his house phone ring. Cursing the loud sound, he snatched the phone up and said,
"What!"
"I-Inuyasha?" a timid voice slowly replied. It sounded like heaven to his ears though.
"Kagome? What is it what's wrong?"
Twenty minutes away, Kagome Higurashi bit her lip nervously. She took a deep breath and said,
"I miss you." It was all Inuyasha needed to hear to know that his wish had been answered. He smiled into the phone and responded,
"Of course you do. Who wouldn't?" Kagome smiled in spite of herself.
"Inuyasha shut up, you're such an ass..." Inuyasha chuckled and said,
"I think it's time for you to come home." Kagome grinned, wiping away her final tears as her heart fluttered.
"Wait up for me okay?"
"I'll be here."
Sorry if you guys find these chapters short, I do review almost everyday, lol. But ill make them longer if it pleases my reviewers! Don't forget to review, just type a few words, it would make me smile :D
