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Chapter 10

Stupid, how could you be so stupid. Kagome was walking as fast as she could to get as far away from every one as quickly as possible. Distance was the one thing all of them needed. She couldn't believe she let some thing as destructive as this slip through her lips in to the ears of her friends; of Inuyasha. She faught back tears, dodging strangers as she followed the streets home.

Her heart was sinking in to her stomach, and she felt sick, thinking of having to face them again. She couldn't.

Their faces were still vivid in her memory; the look of disgust, broken loyalty, and simple heart ache was visible within every single one of them. They had a good reason to be angry with her, and she didn't blame them. She blamed herself for letting her emotions catch her off guard, and her mouth giving her away.

It was early in the morning, barely any traffic and the sun was just coming up over the horizon. She could feel the moisture in the air, as the morning dew rolled down her skin, as she gripped her heels in her left hand. So many thoughts ran threw her head.

She was afraid.

She was afraid that Inuyasha would be completely finished with her. This wasn't the first time that they fell apart, but they some how picked up the pieces and were brought back together the last time, but this time she didn't think it would so easy. She had never seen him so hurt before, to know that she had did some thing so horrible and never even gave him the respect he deserved and tell him about it. She couldn't lose him again, not like this.

All of these worries were a huge distraction to her. She felt her right side being hit by a passing object, as she spun away from the slight collision and caught herself before falling on to the sidewalk. Fixing herself and looking up and around to see who had bumped in to her, she seen a familiar face.

Panting, shirtless, and breathing deeply, stood Bankotsu infront of her, with head phones sticking out of his ears and a smile starting to creep on to his face when he realized it was her.

He swallowed hard and licked his lips. "Sorry Kagome," he said with a smile, whiping off a bead of sweat running down his cheek and shutting off his music. "Went for a run to clear my head, you know how it is." and his tone suddenly got serious with her.

Kagome knew what he was gesturing at and, at that moment, she didn't want to talk to him about it. Not the proposal, or what happened in the bathroom between them. Nothing. She had enough on her mind already, she shook her head and shrugged her shoulders at him. "Bankotsu, I have to go." she told him, trying to press through him, but it didn't work.

Standing 6 feet tall, he was a stone wall between her and being home, and she wanted to pass.

"We need to talk, Kagome." he whispered to her, trying to grab her hand, but she pulled away. He could see that she was upset, and she didn't find it well. He ignored everything else but her.

He grabbed her chin with his thumb and index finger, pulling her face up to look at him. She looked in to his eyes, and everything from the bathroom came back to her; the soft kisses he planted on her neck, his fingers lightly rubbing against her skin, the sensation of being so close to him. It all flooded back in to her mind and she felt horrible for wanting that back. For wanting him back for a slight moment.

And she wondered what it would be like if she only said yes.

But she didn't. She said no for a reason. She looked in to those blue eyes of his and got lost in them, having everyone hate her at this moment and having him be there for her was a good feeling, and she didn't want that feeling to go away so easily. She was hurting and she wanted someone to help with that hurting. Without another care or thought she leaned forward and kissed him fiercely.

She shocked him and for a moment he tried to pull away from her, but then he gave him. His arms wrapped around her waist as his tongue licked across her lips, her fingers enlacing themselves in to his long hair and his hands pulling her as close to him as he could. Sounds of cars driving by could be heard and they were lost for a moment, but then Bankotsu snapped out of the fantasy and pulled her off him.

Kagome gasped, raising her hand up to her mouth. She felt embarressed; she did it again. Tears were a mere thought away from falling from her eyes. She had to get away from him. "I'm sorry." she whispered as she pushed passed him and started to run the rest of the way home.

He stood there in the street, watching her as she ran away from him the third time.

She finally made it home and as she walked up her path to the house, she felt a sense of warmth and serenity being home and away from everyone. As she walked up to her house, she saw that were was something sticking out of the mailbox. She pulled it out and it was addressed to her; not thinking much of it she opened it and began to read.

When the words assasain and new target came in to her vision, she ripped the letter up and threw it on the ground, walking in to her house and locking her door rushing up to her room.

Inuyasha finally got home.

He ripped open the front door. As he went in, he kicked off his shoes, pulled off his jacket and through it at the wall. As he stomped up the stairs to his room, slamming the door as he entered. Sesshomaru came in to the house as his brother was in mid-slam of his door. Miroku wasn't fair behind him. They both grabbed something to eat and drink before going to watch television and forget what had happen until it was time for detention.

Inuyasha was furious. He felt as if this wasn't real, that he was soon going to wake up from this horrible nightmare and everything would be fine. But he knew that wouldn't happen. He walked over to his punching bag and smashed it; his knuckles turning white and then a dark red. He shook it off and hit it again and again, as each blow relieved him of a small amount of anger.

My girlfriend and best friend, he thought, he couldn't believe that neither of them told him. He was even more mad at the idea that they hooked up when they knew how it would make him feel. The thought of Kouga being any more than a foot away from Kagome disgusted him, he felt as if he thought about it he would throw up. The thought that this was the reason why him and Kagome were so distance until now made him think of how untrustworthy both of them were.

He felt as if his heart was pulled out of his chest, still beating. That everything him and Kagome stood for was a compelte lie. He couldn't believe that she was the one he was planning on marrying, that if she couldn't tell him about this, what else was she possibly hiding from him?

He could feel his blood pressure getting higher and heart rate spiking, as he took deep breaths to try to calm down. He heard his phone starting to ring, and his head snapped around, looking at it sitting on his bed. He growled, as he snatched it from his bed. "What?"

He was expecting Kouga, at the least Kagome, but when he heard his voice, he suddenly got a cold chill. "I told you I'm out and to find someone else," he told them, listening to their reply. "Don't you dare, don't you even think about laying a hand on Kagome." Inuyasha looked out of his window, looking to see if they were watching him. He didn't see anything. "If you hurt her, I swear you won't live for long, remember, I was your best assasain." and he hung up on them.

"Inuyasha!"

He heard Sesshomaru hollaring to him from downstairs. He threw his phone on to his bed and opened his door as he made his way downstairs. Miroku was asleep on the couch and Sesshomaru was sitting inone of the chairs waiting for him. Sesshomaru could see how badly this was affecting his brother. "How are you doing?"

Inuyasha laughed at him, figuring it would be obvious as to how he was feeling at the moment. "Really Sesshomaru? How am I doing?" he repeated what his brother said in an immatation voice, rolling his eyes. "I am crushed and I can't believe that my best friend and girlfriend slept together and said nothing to me for two years. How would you feel?"

Sesshomaru nodded to him, trying to be the calmer one of the two. He shrugged his shoulders, "Maybe it was an accident," he suggested, looking at Inuyasha through the corner of his eye, he didn't look impressed.

"Accident? Sleeping with each other was an accident? Good way to put it."

Sesshomaru understood how his brother was feeling and he knew that nothing he said would be able to change his mind or calm him down. He had to get over it or not by himself, and Sesshomaru knew he couldn't do anything to help. Inuyasha sat down and covered his face with his hands, sighing. "I love her," he admitted, as he felt as if he had a lump in his throat. "I don't know what to do."

"Forgive her."

Inuyasha gave his brother the most disgusted look her gave anyone. It wasn't that simple to forgive someone that lied and cheated to you. He couldn't just forgive and forget, there was more to it than that. "Forgive her for sleeping with Kouga and not telling him, how can you forgive that?"

Sesshomaru laughed at him. Inuyasha always thought he knew everything, but the thing was he had so much more to learn. Sesshomaru leaned forward, putting his elbows on his knees and looking over at Inuyasha. "Because you love her, stupid." he said with meaning yet sarcasm all at the same time.

Inuyasha was speechless. For once his brother was right. Things like this only made us human; people make mistakes and we are suppose to forget and forgive them. You don't give up on the one you loved simply because you hit a small rough patch, you work together and get through it, if you love them you stop at nothing to be with them. He shouldn't have gotten angry or upset at Kagome, he should have listened to her and understood what happened instead of jumping to conclusions.

"Did he call you again?" Sesshomaru interrupted Inuyasha's thoughts by changing the subject.

And when his brother brought it up, Inuyasha felt chills go through him. He didn't want Sesshomaru to know or be involved with something like this, he knew it was be disappointed in him and wouldn't understand. "Dont' know what you're talking about."

Sesshomaru wasn't stupid and he could tell that his brother was keeping something from him. For months, Inuyasha had been leaving at odd hours of the day and night and not coming home for hours, having late and short phone conversations with some one Sesshomaru didn't know of and seemed to always be on edge, and he was starting to worry about his brother.

Sesshomaru didn't believe him. He rose an eyebrow at him remembering what had happened last night. "What was the call in the car last night about?"

"Buisness meeting."

Sesshomaru sighed and decided to drop it, Inuyasha was stubborn and he knew he wouldn't get anything out of him. But Inuyasha wanted to tell him what was going on, what he had been involved in until recently, but he couldn't find he right words and thought his brother wouldn't talk to him again. He didn't want Sesshomaru to worry about something that wasn't his to worry about.

Then he thought of what he said to him on the phone, that he would go after Kagome if he didn't continue to help them and he couldn't have Kagome be pulled in to this because of him; he couldn't live with himself if she got hurt from this, even if she hurt him first.

Kagome couldn't help but feel as if some one, some where, was watching her. She checked under her bed, outside her window, in her closet and behind her door several times, as if she was living in a horror movie; she felt on edge and that something was going to happen. The words in the letter still stuck to her and she prayed that it was a prank from some juivenile delinquents. It wasn't funny, but she would rather it be a prank than real.

She sat on her bed, with her arms wrapped around her legs, as her eyes twitched back and forth around her room, ready for any one. She was going over board, simply over reacting over nothing. No one was ater her and nothing was going to happen.

She jumped when she heard her phone ringing. She sighed, and laughing at herself for getting nervous only a phone call. She grabbed her phone, looking at the screen that said unknown caller; she answered warily. "Hello?"

And all she could hear was breathing from the other end. "Hello?" she asked again.

"Well, goodbye."

The stranger on the other end finally broke the silence before she pulled the phone away from her ear. "Hello Kagome."

She froze, slowly bringing the phone back up to her ear. She swallowed hard as her heart started to beat faster and her breathing became heavy and her whole body felt numb. She didn't know what to say, besides the obvious. "Who is this?"

"I see you got my letter." they said and Kagome suddenly felt eyes on her. She spun around, looking out of her window, seeing nothing, she got up and pulled over her curtains and locking her closet. "How did you get my number?"

"That really isn't important now." they told her, as she listened to them, it sounded as if they were flipping through pages, clearly their throat they continued. "So, the letter."

"Do not call me back." she warned them and slashed her phone shut. Putting it on her bed and backing away from it. As soon as she put it down, it began to ring again. She was terrified, she didn't know who they were and what they wanted but she knew this wasn't going to end good; she had a feeling.

Her phone kept ringing and ringing; they weren't going to leave her alone. Kagome took a few deep breaths as she picked her phone up, turned it on and put it back up to her ear. She didn't have to acknowledge them, they could tell she was listening. They began to flip through more pages, as Kagome waited for them to say something. And then she snapped. "Leave me alone!" she screamed in to the phone and was about to hang up when they yelled back at her.

"You hang up and you can say goodbye to Inuyasha."

And she was hooked. She didn't want anything to happen to him, she already hurt him so much, she didn't want him to go through anything else. Kagome didn't know what was going to happen or why they wanted her, but she knew she had to do what they say to keep him safe. "What do you want?"

"Just your assistance and co-operation," they told her, sounding more calm now. "If you give us that, Inuyasha and you will be fine."

"Fine." Kagome agreed through clenched teeth, as tears again came to the surface and tried to free themselves from her eyes. "What do you want me to do?"

She could her them whispering to some one else for a moment, she barely was able to hear what they said, and then it stopped, as the stranger came back o her. "You will know when you need to know." they told her. "You are not to talk to anyone about this; if anyone finds out, you can consider Inuyasha as good as dead." they stopped for a moment when they heard her start to sniffle. They gave her a minute before finishing. "Go off on your own during detention and go to locker 183 in the East wing; there you will find what you need. Do not fail us. Or Inuyasha." and she heard the line disconnect.

The phone feel from her hand, she couldn't feel any part of her, she was frozen with fear. She couldn't tell anyone, you couldn't do anything. All she could do was what they told her to or else. She didn't think something like this would ever happen to her, or why some one would do this, but she wouldn't have them go after Inuyasha because of her. She would die first.

Kagome would deny it if asked, but she was absolutely terrified of what might happen.