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Chapter 9

Decision

"You know, he followed you since I picked you up from your house." The man was lying on the bed beside the woman, his arm being used by her as a pillow.

"I know. Wasn't this the whole purpose?"

"I know but I cannot stop this feeling, that we're doing something bad. He thinks we have an affair, though I shall not feel bad for that bastard. Aren't you worried what he may think about you?"

"Not really. I thought a lot how should I punish him for what he did to me, and after a lot of thinking I decided to make him feel the same pain I have felt. But his reaction disappointed me. He saw us more than once entering in various love hotels, he checked my cell phone, reading our love messages, and what he does is keeping silent and smiling. It pissed me off."

"Didn't you do the same?"

"Yes I did. And I regret every moment. I should have left him the first moment I had the proof of his adultery. If he wanted to be with her I should have granted his freedom. At that time I took a wrong decision, allowing him to hurt me more and more. Sometime I think I am some sort of masochist."

She wanted to punish him but nothing she did brought her satisfaction; her new self wanted to see him hurt more and more, wanted to see desperation on his features.

"Why me? Why did you choose me to fake an affair? If you wanted to have one you could have picked any man."

"At first I thought that having an affair it would be the right punishment for him. I could have dressed in a provocative outfit, go in a bar, drink alone and let a man to seduce me or I seduce a man. I could have done all these. But I cannot bring myself to act like he did. And in that moment I said 'what if I would fake an affair?' I needed a close friend of mine; the only option was you. I could trust that you won't take advantage of me while being locked in this room."

The man chuckled. "If your jealous husband will know what we really do in this room: playing karaoke or cards or talking, not indulging ourselves in forbidden activities, he will have a fit. He agitated himself for nothing; indeed it's the perfect punishment for him."

"And beside, he doesn't like you. He prohibited me to be in the same room alone with you. He said something like 'your friend there is a wolf in disguise ready to take advantage of the sheep.' Why doesn't he know that you're a gay? In that day when you two meet I thought you will touch his butt cheeks."

"The bastard has cute ass. I could have fondled it a little bit but I thought you wouldn't like it. He thinks I am straight probably because I called you many times my precious girl, and said him that I love you more than my life, and I should take you away from him if you will be unhappy. I guessed it worked."

"Why would you say that? What about Jakotsu?"

"Jakotsu is my precious man. I didn't lie when I said you're precious to me. What brother wouldn't love his adorable little sister? What brother wouldn't love her more than his own life, and what brother wouldn't want her to be happy? I wanted him to know you may be taken away from him if you will be unhappy."

"But we aren't siblings?"

"Related by blood we aren't. It's really blood so important? My heart recognize you at it sister. Even if Jakotsu was against us as fake lovers – he thought you're too adorable - I couldn't refuse you when you asked my help."

The woman snuggled close to the man; she was happy to know that she's not alone; in this world existe someone who still loves her. "Thank you Bak-chan; you're the best brother ever."

"What will you do next? This situation cannot go on forever; one day he will know about the charade we played on."

Rin sat up from the bed heading towards the window; the blue curtain she tossed it aside, watching across the street, her eyes seeing the form of her husband.

"You know that he craves to touch me? The desire is so pure that sometime I swear I can touch it. If he will continue to keep silent then I shall force him to not anymore. One day when he wants to kiss me I shall gave up, letting him touching me, taking me to the bed. And when he thinks all goes the way he wants your name will be slipped off my lips. I shall force him."

"Rin, you became a cruel woman."

"He made me like this."

The sleep didn't catch her. The place was full with so many good memories that she was overwhelmed. Her ears caught the sound of the door opening, his footsteps coming closer to the bed, she felt him sat down on the bed.

She felt her lips being touched gently by him; the silent room being filled with the sound of her name. Rin opened her eyes, his face too close to her. Having a will of its own, her hands cupped his face, breaking the distance between them.

He was not the only one craving to be touched. A small part of her wanted him to touch her like before, to make every cell of her body shiver in pleasure. She kissed him like before, a kiss filled with want. His hands were touching her like before, her moans being engulfed by his hungry mouth.

For a moment she felt happy.

It was then when she wondered if he touched the other one the same; if he purred her name the same. That tiny part of her which wanted him was overwhelmed by anger. His lips moved on her neck, kissing her bare skin, and she took the small chance offered. If he still wanted to play stupid then she should anger him.

She shall force him to not anymore.

The name of the man he loathed escaped her lips. Above her, his form froze. She was euphoric; nothing not even his touch could bring her to such ecstasy. The man above her was filled with rage, his hands almost ripping off the sheets; she did not care. She wanted to see more of him.

She even wondered if she's sane.

In a second, he left the bed, turning his back on her. Sesshomaru couldn't stand to see her; he was afraid of what he will do to her. He was kissing her, touching her and she said the name of another.

"Sorry, it slipped." Furiously, he turned to see her; her voice void of any regret. She brought him to the edge.

"You – " Rin didn't even look at him; she was too busy to arrange her clothes. When finally she lifted up her gaze, watching him intensely, it was like she asked 'something is wrong.' Anger rose inside him, seizing him completely. "You thought it was him. You thought he was kissing you."

"I said already that I am sorry. It – "

"Slipped." He finished her sentence. "You whore, how dare you say his name while –" the words were left unspoken.

SLAP

The sound echoed in the room.

"Whore? You from all people call me a whore? A spouse having an extramarital affair it's a whore? Then are you a whore too?"

"Rin, did you ever – "

"Forget? I would have wished so. You thought that a car accident will make me forget what you did to me? I wasn't so lucky.

"So she –"

"Had right? Of course your slut was right. She asked to see me, the slut having pure intentions and told me about your affair with her because it was not fair for me to be oblivious. Is she a comedian or something?" the sarcasm in her voice obvious.

His Rin was not the same anymore; before she was gentle, her eyes shining with happiness. Now, what he was seeing was a bitter woman, shine long gone from her eyes. It was his fault; he trampled over her purity, leaving behind a dark angel.

"Why didn't you say anything? If you would have said something, maybe all these wouldn't have happened?"

"What wouldn't have happened? Your affair? My affair? Tell me Sesshomaru, what wouldn't have happened?

"If I would have known you remember everything, I would have tried to be a better husband. We could have talked and tried to fix our problems."

"Fixed them? Have you lost your mind? Do you think talking solve all the problems? After all you did to me you think talking would have worked?"

"I am sorry Rin! Every day I regret what I have done to you. I was a stupid man, but I will never do it again. I swear I won't cheat you again!"

"Swearing, promising, do you think it's enough? What about my pain? The pain day after day you inflicted on me? Do you even know how great the pain is? Sesshomaru, even my birthday? In that day how could you do that to me?"

Rin couldn't believe he could do that; he ditched…no, he forgot about her birthday and dined with his mistress instead. What kind of men forgets about the wife birthday? What kind of men does such on the wife birthday?

Unfaithful men should have some limits.

Sesshomaru Takahashi was the worst among them.

He lied to her.

He was happily dining with his mistress, and felt disgust when she, the wife, called asking him where he is. He lied to her; he was not working at all. But she lied to him as well; she was in the opposite corner of the restaurant, having a clear view of them.

Sesshomaru whispered love words to her, the wife, through the phone, and later his lips touched another.

He indeed was the worst.

Rin was in a bar near the house, thinking at her rotten husband and drinking glass after glass. No matter how much she would drink it didn't seem to affect her. She wanted to pass out, her mind to be emptied by bad memories; his memories with the mistress.

She kept silent about many thinks; she even was willing to forgive him for his mishap but now?

Her birthday?

Was she so insignificant for him to forget a mere day from calendar?

Her birthday?

She will never forgive him.

Since the day she find out about the presence of another he tore apart parts from her body and trampled them over.

Today he took the last.

The car she drove, she let it at the bar; she was too intoxicated to drive. 'Pass midnight; is he home already, or he's still with her?' It wasn't like she cared; she had no heart to anymore.

Rin opened the front door, took her shoes off, ready to go to the kitchen to drink some of his expensive wine when she froze. On the arm of the couch rested a woman cloth; it did not belong to her. Her eyes scanned the dark room, her eyes falling on others feminine clothing, a shirt, a skirt, leggings.

Like a robot…no…like a puppet moved by a puppeteer she followed the tray till the bedroom. Not any bedroom, but hers and Sesshomaru's. The silent room, the silent house reverberated with the sound of his name. The woman beyond the door shouted his name in pleasure. He was taking the woman on – "

Rin couldn't bring herself to turn the door knob and watch the sinful couple. On her birthday he brought the woman in their home, tainting the sacristy of their home. On her birthday he made love with his mistress on the same bed he used to take Rin hundred of nights.

Sesshomaru tainted everything which was sacred.

He was the worst.

Rin turned around, leaving them behind doing what they were doing. She didn't want her mind to be filled with their image in the throes of their passion. The mistress scream was enough.

The next day, Rin already arrived to Arita. In the place where she grew up she wanted to find answers to her dilemma. She stopped at the grave of her aunt and just cried. A whole night she kept the tears back, the memories back. Now those were coming out, turning the young woman into nothing.

She became nothing.

He turned her into nothing.

That was a day he will regret forever. That was the day he hoped she will never find out. But she did. Somehow she knew all along. Rin asked him something and he was mute; unable to make an excuse. The shock of her knowing about his greatest sin left him speechless.

"Why do you say nothing? Didn't you hear my question? Why on my birthday? How could you trash me so much?"

"I am so sorry. I am so sorry!"

"Do you think your sorry will solve something? Do you even have idea how much you ruined me that day? Like dining with her it wasn't enough you even brought her into our home, in our bed. The bed we bought together you tainted it with her presence. Do you know how I have felt when I heard her screams coming out our bedroom?"

"I repent for that mistake since that day. Please forgive me!"

"Forgive you? Never. That day will never come."

All he could say was sorry. He had no excuse for his actions. All he could do was ask for forgiveness, hoping it will be granted in the end.

He could only hope.

"Forgive me! Please forgive me!" he repeated the words like a mantra.

His sorry however never reaching her heart; day after day he made sure to shred it to pieces, now unable to feel any emotion.

"Since the day you started cheating on me I wanted to know one thing. Why did you cheat on me? What do I lack and that woman gave it to you? You were unhappy with me? You didn't love me anymore? Since the first day I am wondering why. Why did you do it Sesshomaru?"

He was missing his Rin. In the last couple of weeks both of them were beyond busy; she with her exhibition, and he with an upcoming merging. The good night kisses he gave it to her sleeping form weren't enough for him. He wanted them to merge again like one, her little voice filling the room with her pleasurable screams.

All he needed to do to feel her again was to leave this place, the party where one of his co-workers dragged him in, to his home and into his wife's arms. Sesshomaru felt uncomfortable here, in this place where known models were present. A big chested-woman approached him, purring the brown liquid into his glass.

When he left the place and what happened afterwards he had no idea. He was sleeping soundless when the voice of a woman woke him up.

"Who was it?" half-asleep he asked.

"Don't know; probably another fan of mine. They pissed me off when they keep silent." The voice he heard it belong to a woman he did not know. He turned to lights on, beside him being a naked woman.

That woman was not his wife.

His shocked amber eyes looked at himself, observing the lack of clothes. He cheated. He was unfaithful. 'How could I have done this? I don't remember doing it?'

"Who're you? What happened between us?"

"So rude to ask me this after we have spend the night together. You were better than I ever hoped. Your wife must have reached the heaven during your lovemaking. She's a lucky little girl."

Sesshomaru stood up, immediately searching for his clothes. He had to leave this place, the events never to be mentioned again.

"Whatever happened between us consider it didn't happen. I don't know you, you don't know me. You will never speak to me ever again; I will never do it again. You will say nothing to anyone. Do it and you will regret for the rest of your life."

That single mistake was never meant to be repeated. The woman who had to never see him again not listen his words. Two days later she came to see him, the mistake being repeated. He had no idea why he gave up to her, cheating his adorable wife again.

In the first days of his wrong doings he felt repulsed by his actions, his person not being worth of touching Rin again; his hands were dirty. These thoughts however were soon forgotten, he feeling repulse when Rin touched him.

The woman he wanted to embrace was not the wife but the mistress.

How cruel fate can be with him. This summer the woman he desired was a blonde woman, his mistress; he seeking freedom from the wife. Now, close to December, the woman he wanted to embrace was not the mistress anymore; his heart seeking the wife again.

Someone up there is hating him; he seek the forgiveness from the woman he made suffer the most; the woman he couldn't stand touching.

A forgiveness he probably won't ever get.

She was still waiting. What could he tell her? He was drunk in that night and he doesn't even remember it? What about the other nights?

Sesshomaru realized that he was the worst. The promise he made to himself to never repeat the mistake, he broke it himself.

"Again you don't answer me? Are you thinking to the reason you had? Always I thought that a husband who's cheating is a man who finds something at the mistress the wife lacks. What do I lack? I let you unsatisfied in bed? Is her nose more beautiful than mine? You like her big fake breasts more than mine?"

He gave her no reply; he not daring to ever look at her again. His answer will never satisfy her.

"Still silent huh? If you didn't like how I am in bed then you should have say something; you shouldn't have lied to me, whispering in my ear how good you feel while inside me, how no woman made you feel the satisfaction you feel with me."

Wrong. What you think is wrong.

She asked some simple questions; questions she needed an answer. But all he did was keep silent. He was pissing her off. His silence only fueled her anger. If he wanted to say nothing then he should say nothing.

She punished him; she made him feel the same pain she felt. She was satisfied by the outcome of her doings. If he wants to go to his mistress he's free to do so.

She had no need of him anymore. Somewhere around the middle of July he asked for his freedom. Now it was her turn; to leave and never turned back.

"Sesshomaru, I want to divorce."

Author note: I couldn't bring myself to make Rin a two-timer. I already made her as a cruel woman, though she has an excuse, and if I would have made her a cheater I would have destroyed her character. I don't like two-timer girls, I won't create one. But Sesshomaru still doesn't know the truth.

Chapter 10 Reunion