Teacher's Pet

Chapter 28: Confrontation

A week. It had been an entire week since Kagome stayed the night over Sesshomaru's. She couldn't face him if he was cheating on her. But it was about to change.

"I'm going to ask him if he's cheating on me. If he can't give me a straight answer, I'm leaving him." Kagome said to Inuyasha and Kanna.

"Good morning to you too then." Inuyasha said.

Kanna giggled.

Kagome had made it a custom to pick both Inuyasha and Kanna up for school in the mornings. Sango normally got a ride with Miroku if she didn't call Kagome. Kagome rolled her eyes. "Good morning. Now, today is Friday and if I have to be single, I'd rather it begin on the weekend than at the beginning of the week."

"Why? So you can stuff yourself with junk food?" Inuyasha teased.

"Shutup." Kagome said.

"Are you sure you're gonna leave him? I mean, you love him." Kanna had told Naraku the previous week that Kagome and Sesshomaru had broken up. He seemed pleased with the news, though she didn't know what he was up to. Kagome couldn't check to see what he was up to because of the football games going on every night and she had to be prepared to cheer and lead the team.

"Yes. I've never told anyone this…but my mother cheated on my father. She was away on a business trip and she came back really happy. I was young, but I remember the change in her. She started whispering on the phone and locking doors. My father, the kind hearted man that he was, tried his best to ignore it. But he couldn't once she accidentally called him by her lover's name. It shattered my dad. And he was a strong man. After that, he got sick. Then it was too late for my mother to even apologize, but my dad had already forgiven her because he loved her with everything inside of him. The only reason we didn't doubt Sota's paternity was because he looked so much like our father." Kagome said with tears gathering in her eyes. "I don't want to be like my dad. He loved to a fault. And that was eventually what took him away from us."

"Kagome, you don't even believe that. Your father was sick, you said it yourself. Yes, he loved to a fault, but that's not what took him away." Inuyasha said softly.

They pulled up at the school and Kagome was glad that none of her tears had fallen. She looked at Inuyasha. "Thank you." The three of them got out of the car and saw Sango and Ayame standing there talking. "Hey you two."

Sango turned around and saw Kagome. "Hi." It was dry and unenthusiastic.

Kagome frowned. "What's your problem?"

"Nothing. It just seems that you're spending more time with your little boyfriend and your new best friend than me and Ayame these days." Sango had an attitude.

Kagome rolled her eyes. "Not this again. Ok, Sango you haven't been over my house in a week. I spent the entire weekend with you and Ayame two weeks ago. You can always call me or text me if you wanna hang out since whenever I ask you what you're up to, you're with Miroku. And he isn't even your boyfriend."

Sango tried to say something, but she couldn't because she knew that Kagome was right. She had a habit of running off at the mouth when she got jealous of anyone taking Kagome's time besides her. It had been Sango and Kagome thick as thieves for the longest.

"Are we done here?" Kagome asked.

Sango nodded her head. She opened her mouth to apologize, but Kagome shook her head and walked off.

"Why do you always do that?" Inuyasha asked. "You know Kagome loves you like a sister and she would never do anything to hurt you."

Sango shrugged. "I…get so jealous sometimes."

Inuyasha shook his head. "Well stop. It's pissing Kagome off. And you're only driving her further away. She's gonna need you by her side real soon." He turned to walk away with Kanna right behind him.

"What the hell does that mean? Are you gonna break up with her?!" Sango yelled at Inuyasha's back.

He didn't answer her, just kept walking.

Sango watched Inuyasha and Kanna chat as they walked into the building. "Oh hell no. That dog is cheating on her with that bitch?!" She instantly pulled out her cell phone and pressed a few buttons.

At her locker, Kagome's phone vibrated. She saw that she had a text message from Sango.

He's cheating on you! The message said.

"What the hell does this mean?" Kagome mumbled to herself. There was no way Sango could know, was there? When Inuyasha came to her locker, she showed him the phone.

Inuyasha shook his head. "I'm gonna assume she thinks I'm cheating on you with Kanna since she saw the two of us walking together."

Kagome looked from Kanna to Inuyasha. "You two would make a cute couple. Especially with your silver hair and her white hair." Kagome got a closer look at Kanna, then she remembered something from the beginning of the year. "Sota has a crush on you. You played soccer with him."

Kanna shook her head and smiled. "Naraku had me at that school to get some information from a teacher. I'm not that young."

"Oh." Kagome shrugged. "I have no idea why I just remembered that."

Kanna shrugged as well. "Time for class."

They walked to class. In her first two classes, Kagome contemplated how she was going to confront Sesshomaru. She knew she had to do it in order to keep her sanity, but she had no earthly idea how. She would've taken him to the place they met at, but there were too many people that could possibly see them there. So she figured his home was the best place.

It was time for his class, though, but Kagome didn't want to go. She walked into class and got a brilliant idea. "Cheer meeting. I need Sango, Kanna, and Inuyasha." She said to Sesshomaru.

"When was this meeting called?" He asked.

"Just now. We have to work on a routine for tonight's game." Kagome said, coming up with the lie on the spot. She watched as Sesshomaru inhaled, trying to scent the air around her to see if she was lying. She knew that her aura wouldn't betray her, as she could manipulate it the way she wanted to.

Sesshomaru nodded, not wanting to make Kagome angry.

"What routine do we have to work on? I like it the way it is." Sango told Kagome on their way to the gym.

"I know. I just don't want to be in class right now." Kagome said.

"Well I happen to enjoy watching Mr. Taisho's muscles move underneath his shirt." Sango said with a smile that made Kagome regret getting her out of class.

Finally, though, the day was over.

"Have you figured out how you're going to do it?" Inuyasha asked at Kagome's locker at the end of the day.

"Yeah. I'm gonna go to the house and just ask him." Kagome said.

Inuyasha nodded. "Ballsy. I like it."

Kagome smiled and rolled her eyes. "Let's go. I have a football game to go to."

The game ended around nine, and Kagome and Inuyasha got to Sesshomaru's condo at nine-thirty. Kagome took a shower and waited on him to get back. It wasn't until after two in the morning, though, that Sesshomaru entered his condo. Kagome was sitting on the couch waiting on him.

"Where have you been?" She didn't waste any time.

"Taking care of some business."

"Another lovely scent you are wearing. Lovely and expensive. Where have you been?" Kagome wasn't about to back down this time. No, she wanted answers.

Sesshomaru repeated his answer.

"Are you cheating on me?" Kagome was blunt, since it seemed like he wouldn't tell her where he'd been exactly.

"Why would you think that?" As soon as it left his lips, Sesshomaru regretted asking it.

Kagome narrowed her eyes. "Did you really just ask me that?!" She took a deep breath before she started yelling. "Sesshomaru, are you cheating on me?" She asked again.

Instead of answering her, Sesshomaru stepped closer to Kagome and tried to kiss her.

"No. Get off of me." Kagome said, turning her head to the side so he couldn't kiss her lips. So he went for her neck. Normally Kagome would be putty in his hands, but not this time. "Get off!" Kagome pushed Sesshomaru away from her. "We're done, Sesshomaru. I really thought better of you, but apparently you're the same dog you've always been. Goodbye."

"Kagome, I-"

Kagome put her hand up. "Save it."

"It's after two in the morning, it is too late for you to be driving on the road."

Kagome scoffed. "Fuck you. I can take care of my damn self." She walked out of the door calmly, but her attitude made her aura crackle around her.

Sesshomaru couldn't speak as the love of his life just walked away from him, possibly for good. There was a pain in his chest that he didn't understand. His breathing got choppy and his vision became blurry. What was happening to him? Sesshomaru barely made it up the stairs before he collapsed on the bed.

Inuyasha has been in his room the entire time, listening to it all. He heard it in Kagome's voice that she wanted to cry, but she was too strong to let it out. He knew that she would want to be alone right now, but he would check on her later. It was his duty as her best friend.

Behind the steering wheel, Kagome closed her eyes and took a deep breath. That was probably the second hardest thing she'd ever had to do in her life. That was twice that Kagome had had to lose a man that she loved. She backed out of Sesshomaru's driveway and headed home. She refused to cry, she refused to let a tear fall.