Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha.

Ok, polls are in people! Here's how the votes went! Remember, majority wins, so I apologize to those who wanted it otherwise.

Sesshoumaru: 14

Inuyasha: 7

Undecided: 2

I'm still not sure. I think I may keep this an Inu/Kag, as that's what it started out as.

Midnight Lies – Omg that reminded me of pokemon the way you said it LMAO

Inu/kags – I am sorry that you feel Kagome/Sesshoumaru pairings are 'gay'. I happen to like them.

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Faith

Chapter 7- Heartbreak

Inuyasha slammed his fist against the wall in front of him. The pain barely registered through his rage and grief filled mind. Thoughts of anger and sorrow overwhelmed him, and he slowly sank to his knees in the small alleyway he was hiding in.

He was hiding from Kikyou, but that wasn't the point. The point was that he was going to lose Kagome and his daughter, and fast. They were slipping through his fingers like water through a sieve, and there seemed to be nothing he could do about it.

For gods sake his daughter was in the ninth grade! He had always been there for her, from her first steps to her first scrapes to the time she nearly killed someone with her newly acquired claws. He had been there for it all, he knew everything about her, everything. She was his daughter, dammit, and he was damn glad she was born!

He realized he had been growling ferociously and was attracting the attention of passersby. He stopped and glared at the ones who lingered. Slipping carefully out of the dank alleyway, he checked to make sure the coast was clear of Kikyou. Spotting her in a nearby store, he quickly walked in the other direction, heading for his house, and hopefully still, his home.

He shoved clawed hands into blue jeans, his only other apparel a red t-shirt. His favourite, actually, that Kagome had given him for a birthday present. She was always careful when she washed it, to make sure the colour he loved never faded.

Now he looked at it gloomily. Kagome was most likely more then angry with him, but he knew her inside and out (in more ways then one), and knew that she was also feeling sorrow. He knew that even without the mating bond telling him so.

A wave of anguish passed through him, and it took a moment before he realized that it wasn't his own. He stopped in his tracks, trying to decipher the direct cause of Kagome's feelings.

The anguish was hard to decipher; it took him a few minutes. Loneliness was there, but so were sorrow, helplessness, and a feeling he could now identify as a broken heart. The only reason he could identify that one was because it was mutual.

He knew what he had to do, and also knew how hard it would be. With his brother in the picture, things would be difficult. He had to get Kagome alone and talk to her. How else would he be able to explain things?

How else could he explain himself? How else could explain that he knew he had made a mistake, and was now willing to do whatever it took to let her know he was sorry. He knew he couldn't take it back, but at least he could damn well apologize for it.

How else could he explain that he loved everything about her? He loved the way her nose scrunched up and how her eyes blazed when she was angry. He loved the way she religiously watched her favourite show. He even loved the way she only wore a special kind of orange flavored lip gloss.

He knew though, that getting Kagome alone, with him, would be next to impossible. She would not want to talk to his lying and cheating ass anytime soon, unless he went to her right away…

With that though in mind, he began running this time, using his demon speed to reach his love.

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Kagome sat at the kitchen table, elbows resting on it with her head in her hands. She was completely motionless, except for the slight shudders that went through her every now and again.

The shudders were the last of her tears. With Kimi and Rin gone to Sesshoumaru's, she was all by herself, and had been able to release the emotions she had been feeling.

She knew that not all of the emotions were hers; she could feel Inuyasha's sorrow and regret through their mating bond, but she had pushed those away. If he had truly felt those, wouldn't he be here and apologizing by now?

She shook her head. There was one emotion she knew all to well, though she wasn't sure if it was hers, Inuyasha's, or a little of both. It was one of the last emotions she had felt after Kouga's betrayal.

Heartbreak.

She had liked Kouga at the time, even thought she loved him, and had been devastated at his betrayal. But the emotions that had come afterward were fear –that he might try something again-, and lastly, anger.

She felt she should be angry at Inuyasha like she had been at Kouga. She felt like she should never trust him again like she had with Kouga. But there was a big difference between Inuyasha and Kouga, one that Kagome could not deny.

She truly loved Inuyasha.

And he had gone and broken the trust Kagome knew he had worked so hard for. God dammit, SHE had worked damn hard to trust him again! This time though, it was different. They had a child for God's sake, and for him to go and do this!

Kagome was just starting to work herself up in an anger she felt was rightly deserved when there was a knock at the door.

The first and last person Kagome wanted to see at that moment was standing in the doorway. Kagome wanted to cry and run into his arms, wishing for the comforting words he would so often murmur in her ear like she was a child who had scraped her knee.

At the same time she wanted to slam the door in his face. He had betrayed her! He had no right to stand there looking like the downcast and apologetic dog he was! Kagome tried so hard to narrow her eyes and look cross with him, but it just wouldn't work. The tears welled up before she could so much as squint at him.

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All her could do was look at her.

She was disheveled and ragged, with an aura of sorrow surrounding her. Her eyes were red and puffy from crying, while her clothes were ruffled at though she had been sitting down in the business suit she was currently still wearing.

He tried to speak, but something stuck in his throat, the rain behind him drowning out the choking noise he made. The downpour had started as soon as he began running, the dreary and wet night suiting his and his mate's mood.

"Kagome…"

It was all he could say. His tone was soothing and sympathetic; the tone that worked best on her when she came to him for comfort. He knew she was torn. He knew she either wanted to slap him and send him packing, while at the same time run into his embrace like a little girl and cry.

It looked as though the latter was about to win; one hand lifted to her lips while the other rested still on the doorknob. She took a tentative step forward, as though about to run to him at any moment, but then froze, her remembrance of his activities taking over.

"I didn't mean it I swear." He said hoarsely, barely remembering what he was talking about. The girl in front of him was all that mattered; he needed her, more then he needed sustenance and water. He had to have her, she was his, his cheating be damned she was his!

All this time she had been here waiting for him, while he had been too blind to see it. He swallowed, clearing his throat for his next words. He needed her to know how he felt, he needed to tell her.

"It may not have much meaning to you right now…but Kagome…I love you more than anything. Please…I can't lose you."

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The tears were welling up. Kagome wanted so badly to run to him, and she was giving into that basic instinct to go to the one she cherished, loved, and trusted. She even took a step forward, before her treacherous mind reminded her.

'He broke that trust!' her steps froze, and she leaned back slightly. Her instincts and mind were creating an inner turmoil that Kagome just wanted to ignore.

His next words caught her slightly off guard, though she had been expecting them. If only he had come by tomorrow! Kagome knew she would have been confident and not so…weak. But the damn bastard knew that, and Kagome knew he knew it.

He knew she was vulnerable and weak right now; that's why he had come. 'To deceive you into taking him back!' her mind whispered suspiciously, while her instincts screamed that it was because he knew she needed him and the comfort only he could provide, and he was here to give her that. Her instincts told her he was being the supporting and caring mate he had always been, up until now.

"It may not have much meaning to you right now…but Kagome…I love you more than anything. Please…I can't lose you."

The words hit Kagome like a ton of bricks, and she nearly crumpled under their weight and impact. She had not been expecting that. She had been expecting him to demand that she forgive him, not a tender and completely honest declaration of love accompanied by the thing he feared most.

He had admitted that to lose her would be devastating to him with just those simple words. Kagome knew that right now they were both balancing on a precipice, one side of it anger, the other side sorrow. Kagome knew that if he said sorry that it wouldn't mean anything to her, and she knew he felt the same way. Sorry just wouldn't cut it; it couldn't.

His eyes were silently pleading her to forgive him. In them Kagome could see that he was truly sorry for the things he had done. Never mind her traitorous mind telling her to shut the door and forget about him; her instincts had won, and god dammit Kagome was glad.

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Amber eyes watched the inner conflict that went on. He knew what she was going through. Underneath that surface of beauty and danger was a pot, boiling with anger, yet cold as stone from sorrow. He wanted so badly to embrace her and gently whisper away her troubles.

His promises would do nothing now; he knew that. He had said everything her could; in words AND actions. She had to come to a decision on her own, and he sent a silent prayer to god that she wouldn't turn him away.

Liquid golden pools widened as she suddenly stepped forward. The step was hesitant, as though she were suddenly shy and unsure of herself. He didn't move, fearing that should he try to go towards her, she would suddenly flinch away from his touch as though burned by the sin that was adultery.

She took one more towards him, and all the had to do was take one more step before she would be right up against him, able to embrace him or shove his unresisting form away. This was her decision, one he could not make for her, but one he was hoping would be the one he so desperately wanted her to choose.

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She was one step away from him. One step and she could hug him to her as tightly as possible. One step and he could embrace her. One step and she would take him back into her life.

One step could make everything right.

Kagome lifted her right foot, intending on taking that monumental step. A step she felt was bigger and much more important then the man walking on the moon. She put her foot down, and found herself staring at the hollow of his throat.

She was so close she could see him swallow. She sensed his arms come up, hesitantly, to wrap around her shaking form. She needed him to embrace her so badly. She reached up at the same time, and time passed slowly as they embraced each other.

The dam of tears Kagome had been holding in broke. She sobbed uncontrollably into his shoulder, unable to do anything else. He whispered softly in her ear as he gently picked her up, bringing them into the house. He shut the door behind him before taking off his shoes and brining the two of them upstairs.

He lay her down gently on the bed, looking directly into her bloodshot eyes, trying to convey everything he felt into that single glance. Keeping eye contact, he stripped down to his boxers before stripping his mate down to her own undergarments.

He slipped them both beneath the covers of their bed, wrapping his arms around her still-shaking form. She was cold, and snuggled up to him, hoping to absorb some of his body heat. He kept both arms firmly around her waist, and kissed her forehead. He murmured a goodnight across her cheek, before falling asleep with his loved one safe, protected, and cared for in his arms.

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-whew- sorry for the long wait. I had to write a tender moment between Kagome and Inuyasha, even if they don't end up together (which I really think they will).