Sorry I know it's a little late, but it's up and ready. Enjoy! –Ainsley
The week drug by as though it was an eternity for Kagome. Nothing felt real anymore. She still wasn't sure that she hadn't dreamed the whole situation. Who knew? Maybe she was still dreaming. In the past week she had become a better wife than she had been in years. She cooked every night, she kept the house clean, she laughed at all Kouga's jokes and listening to him talk about his day. Her romp in her office seemed to have just been a terrible nightmare. Unfortunately she knew it wasn't. Every time she went into work and sat at her desk she would remember how she had been sprawled out on top of it while Inuyasha made her moan. She put her head in her hands and groaned. Remembering that she had to see the Takahashi couple later that afternoon. She had been mentally prepping herself for this the entire week. The first few days were tough. That weekend felt impossible. She avoided Kouga at all costs to prevent herself from admitting to everything. He had questioned her a few times on whether she was ok. He had asked if it was something he did and she wanted to scream. How could he possibly think HE was the one who had done something wrong? She was the monster. That's what she felt as though she had become, an adulterous whore. She had given herself to another man besides her husband of ten years, and she had done it after only knowing the man for a day! She had decided that it wasn't Inuyasha that caused her to do that. It wasn't the fact that she found him attractive or that he had kissed her. She realized that sooner or later she would've done it. She had grown bored with her marriage and wanted something new. If it wouldn't have been Inuyasha it would've been a different man. She just wanted the feeling of having a new man desiring her. Kouga was like a well-oiled machine for her. She knew exactly where he would kiss her, the gifts he would give her, the things he would whisper in her ear when they made love. She knew everything about him and she missed the excitement. Whereas she knew nothing about Inuyasha. She had never been touched in the way Inuyasha touched her. She'd never been so turned on than she was when he would whisper in her ear. And she and Inuyasha didn't make love, which was perhaps the most exciting part. With Kouga it was always gentle, always passionate and full of love. There was no love or gentleness in Inuyasha's touch. He was rough and demanding with her body. There was nothing but pure lust and greed when they were together. They desired nothing more than to get a release out of one another. He didn't whisper that he loved her with his every stroke. He didn't offer to cuddle afterward, or hold her hands during their time together. He simply fucked her, and she had never had that before. She had decided the very next morning afterward that she did not regret sex with Inuyasha. She regretted cheating on her husband, but she didn't regret about who it was or how it was done. But she had also decided it wouldn't happen again. Never. Kouga was not as good as a lover as Inuyasha but he was her husband. He was the man who had worked hard the entire summer after he graduated to buy her a ring. He was the man she spent all her Christmases with. The man who held her when she cried and took her out to dinner just to see her smile. Kouga was a good man, not exciting or adventurous but he was safe and he loved her. Inuyasha was out of her reach. She didn't even want to be with him. So she decided she would continue her life as though it would never happen. She had reasoned with herself that she could handle continuing to work with the couple. Why couldn't she? She was a mature adult who had had sex with her client. Her client desired to stay with his wife and she desired to stay with her husband. It would be awkward for sure, but she didn't care about Inuyasha, she didn't care that he was married to another woman or that he used her. It was done and over so things could continue on. Things became easier as the week went on, when she was busy at work she would completely forget that it had happened. She was more at ease around Kouga. She felt like life could go on just as easily as it would have if she never had done it in the first place. She smiled in self-reassurance and checked her clock. It was time for her appointment with the Takahashi's. 'I can do this' she thought as she stood up to go retrieve the couple.
Inuyasha spent his week in bliss and hell at the same time. Never had he been so torn and miserable yet happy at the same time. He felt like he was going insane. He had spent a lot more time with Kikyo this week and began to notice little things about her that he used to love. She still had little dimples in her cheeks when she smiled, just like he had always loved. She still loved her TV dramas, and watched wheel of fortune every night like she always had. She hated her feet to be touched and loved it when he played with her hair. He felt like a vault with all her secrets in his brain had just been opened back up for the first time in years. But at the same time he was constantly reminded of the things about her that made him not be able to stand her for so many months. She was judgmental, and snobby. She was cold, and wasn't the emotional type. She wasn't sweet or sympathetic. She was never sarcastic or joking. Sometimes he questioned why he wanted to be with her. She was very serious and hated when he acted childish. It was almost as though she wanted him to act like he did when he put on his mask at work. At work he was cold and calculating. He never made jokes and was always in charge. Kikyo was the perfect wife for that man. The man that he pretended to be for so many people. But when he came home he wanted to be himself. He wanted to be able to act childish and laugh and play around with his wife. He wanted to love her so damn bad because he knew she was who he wanted but he couldn't love her. He wanted her and desired her but he didn't love her. Of course he would never leave her. That much he had decided. No matter what he would make things work with the woman because she was who he was made for. She was his soul mate and he was happy. He wasn't in love but he did feel happy. At the same time he felt miserable. How could he swear he wanted only his wife and have sex with another woman? Their marriage counselor no less! He had decided it wouldn't happen again. No matter how great it was or how much he desired Kagome he wouldn't lay another hand on her because he cared for his wife and he wanted to be faithful. He felt bad for kikyo, but he felt a million times worse for kagome. He felt almost as though he had taken her virginity, she was almost as pure. He could tell she had never had sex like that before. He felt dirty for taking a married woman like that. Not to mention in the woman's office on her desk. He considered possibly taking her to dinner, or going by to visit her to apologize but he couldn't bring himself to do it, because he wasn't sorry. He was guilty but not sorry. He had probably ruined her marriage. Kagome seemed like the woman who would run and tell on herself immediately. He hoped for her sake she didn't. He hoped for himself as well. He would get terrible press if his one-time fling's husband came to his house claiming he had seduced his wife. Inuyasha winced at the thought. He told himself he would never touch kagome again. He had too much respect for her as well as kikyo to do that to either woman. He sighed as he realized it was almost time for his appointment with kagome. 'Might as well get this over with' he said as he straightened his tie and headed out of his office to go to Kagome's.
He had arrived late. The cute secretary had led him back to Kagome's office and opened the door to let him in. There he was face to face with the two women he'd had on his brain for the past week. Kikyo smiled, kagome lifted her head towards him and smiled a polite smile as well, "thank you for joining us Mr. Takahashi. Me and kikyo were just discussing your past week together. It's to my understanding that it's going rather well." Kikyo smiled at him and held out her hand for him to hold. He felt ashamed to hold her hand right there in front of kagome, so he nudged her hand away. "Inuyasha dear, wouldn't you say were doing much better? I think it's silly that we ever considered this separation to begin with." Inuyasha snorted, it was he who had considered the divorce, not both of them. Why did he suddenly feel so opposed against kikyo all of a sudden? In this room he felt angry and bitter towards her. Was it because kagome was sitting right across from them? 'She looks so sexy in those glasses' he thought as he saw her tuck a strand of hair behind her ear, waiting to hear what Inuyasha had to say. "Yeah, I'd say the past week has been better than the past months, but it's far from an improvement kikyo, and definitely no reason for me to quit considering a divorce" he said crossing his arms across his chest. Where had that come from? He had been telling himself he absolutely wouldn't leave her, and now, five minutes in this room, and he's suddenly considering divorce again. He began to get frustrated, was it kagome causing all these mixed emotions? He had felt so sure of his feelings before he'd walked into the room. "Mr. Takahashi, if there seems to be a slow reconstruction of the relationship do you think it would be best to throw in the towel or to continue to work at it? Relationships don't just happen, they take work and it requires effort on both parts as well as trust, honesty and respect." Kagome eyed him seriously, with her glasses and messy bun she looked like a school teacher chiding him for making a bad grade. A laugh exploded out of his chest realizing what she had just said, "tell me Dr. Higurashi, what would you know about trust honesty and respect?" She gave him quite the death glare, causing his laugh to falter and slowly come to a halt, but she didn't say anything further on the subject. The next thirty minutes had gone by fast. Kikyo did most of the talking, she talked about how she could be a better wife and what kagome knew about pleasing her husband and simple questions. Inuyasha couldn't take his eyes from Kagome's very nice cleavage the entire time the women talked. It seemed as though a button had come undone that shouldn't have, leaving a slight view of her very perky, pale breasts. His attention came back to the conversation when he heard kikyo thanking kagome for her time and kagome telling her to schedule their next appointment at the front desk. Kikyo grabbed his arm and they walked out of the office together.
He walked her to her car and waved her off as she left. He felt now was as good of a time as ever to go back to talk to kagome when he noticed it had started to rain. He knew they were her last appointment so he figured he'd wait for her in the parking lot, she had to come out sometime to get to her car right?
Kagome emerged from the building twenty minutes later. Her face twisted in agony. 'Wonder what her problem is?' He wondered as he saw her step out in the rain. 'Stupid woman, doesn't she have an umbrella?' He saw her begin to walk out towards the street. He was confused, didn't she need to get to her car? She was going in the opposite direction of the parking lot. It was then he remembered that kagome didn't go towards the parking lot the last time they had left the building at the same time either. 'Kagome must not have a car' he decided. He pulled out of his parking spot and began to follow her. 'I'll give her a ride, I owe it to her'
Kagome wanted to scream, of course she didn't have an umbrella on the day it decided to storm. Huge fat raindrops were falling as she walked out of the building. 'Fucking fantastic' she thought. As if her evening couldn't get any worse. She decided she might as well get it over with and began to walk towards her home, not having any other options. She took her heels off after stepping in a giant puddle, she cursed at how wet they had gotten but continued walking. She was drenched to the bone, her glasses were fogged up from the humidity and her hair was plastered to her face. "Hey!" She looked around and saw Inuyasha driving along the sidewalk next to her. "Get in! Let me take you home." She refused to look at him. She was already soaked, why give him the satisfaction of letting him help her. "Kagome I know you can hear me!" She turned to look at him, his car was still crawling along the side of the road next to her while she walked. "Go away Inuyasha." She said with her voice filled with annoyance. He pulled over and she stopped, confused as to what he was doing. He got out of the car with his umbrella and shoved his keys in his pocket. "Fine. We'll share my umbrella then." She huffed and refused his help as she sped up a little to get away from him. He shook his head at her stubbornness. "Well I'll be walking right behind you if you change your mind." She ignored him, continuing to walk in the rain. He followed her for another two blocks when she finally realized he wasn't going to give up. She whirled around to ask him "Why do you care what I do? I don't want your help. I don't want you following me. And I don't even want to acknowledge that you exist other than every Friday for the next six weeks. So please go back to your car and go home." She spat the last word at him. Her stopping gave him enough time to walk beside her. His small umbrella had done little to keep him from getting wet and he too was slowly getting drenched from the pouring rain. "Look, I'm just trying to help you out. You looked like you could use some assistance and I didn't want you to have to walk home in the rain. However, since you insisted I figured the least I could do was follow you home to make sure you arrived okay." She eyed him suspiciously, "my apartment is a few more blocks up the road. I'll be fine." Inuyasha looked up, eyeing the part of town they were in. "Actually I know some place closer we can go to until it dries up. Come on." Kagome was in no mood to disagree and she began to follow him in the opposite direction of her apartment.
I really didn't expect you guys to like my story so much. Your love is much appreciated. Until next time, Ainsley.