Chapter 17

Dear Diary,

Wow, today I went to the spa. I was right, Izayoi is just like Mama. I never realized how hard Izayoi's life was though. She told me and Sango, that when she was young her father had been hoping for her to marry a young lord, heir to a large fortune. Izayoi said, that she had loved that man a very long time ago, but one day everything changed. Izayoi had seen that young lord do something so horrible, that she felt disgusted with the boy. Then, she met Mr. Takashi. She said it was anything but love at first sight. Mr. Takashi had been her classmate all of her life, but she had never felt anything more for him then a slight annoyance…and of course a bit of a crush when she was a young school girl. But when Izayoi saw that young lord do such a thing she was heartbroken, and the first person that was there to comfort her was Mr. Takashi. It was strange, Izayoi had said, that she loved him in one single second. Izayoi had said that it was like, love at first sight, because for the first time in her life, she saw Mr. Takashi, in a new light. She forgot everything about him before, good and bad, and this was another person, then the boy she had known. Just like it was the same looks, and same name, but a total stranger. Izayoi said, it was as if, she had always looked at Mr. Takashi as the boy that she had always knew, but that moment, when she had collapsed in his arms, crying, she had saw him as a man. And she had loved that man. Isn't that sweet? Of course Sango and I had both cooed, at such a cute story. Very cute indeed. Just like a fairy tale.

Yours truly,

Kagome H.

Inuyasha snapped the book shut with a thump. 'How dare she?' Inuyasha fumed how she dares gossip like that about his mother. Did she know what had happened to the family? Of course she did, and this was all a mockery of what had happened. He could still feel the raw pain of his childhood. Perfect fairy tale indeed. Yeah, right. 'How could she?' He grimaced. How dare she, how could she, how could she betray him? Betray? Inuyasha smirked. Yes, he knew all about being betrayed. The way Kikyo had betrayed him, cut his heart in two like that…No, he must not waver now. He must go and talk to Kagome. And he must make it clear, that no one mocks his family. No one, he didn't allow it. He wouldn't allow it. No one mocks his mother.

OoO

Inuyasha hurled the book across the floor. Landing at Kagome's feet.

"HOW DARE YOU." He thundered, face pale with rage. Inuyasha watched as Kagome looked up in surprise.

"What?" Then she saw her diary, and her face colored with rage as well.

"Did you read my diary?" She asked, her voice barely even a whisper, trembled with anger.

"It doesn't matter….HOW COULD YOU GOSSIP LIKE THAT?"

"Gossip?" Kagome had calmed down, and now her face showed confusion.

"It does not matter…how could you?" Inuyasha's voice was silent with anger as well. Then he broke down. His bangs covered his face as he looked downward.

"I know you don't like me all that much, but what about my mother? Why did you have to do that to her… Did you think that it wouldn't do any harm? I wouldn't care if it was just me, but my mother…It would hurt her so much…What do you think she had to go through, to be married to my father, then for him to…" Inuyasha chanted in his head, he must not cry, he must not cry. Big boys didn't cry, that was what his father had always said. But, despite his chant, a couple of tears slid down his cheeks anyway. No, he could not, his father would be ashamed.

FLASHBACK

"Papa, where are you going?" A ten year old Inuyasha looked at his father. Inutashio was dressed in a business suit, and had a suitcase in his hands.

"I'm leaving." His father's voice was emotionless.

"What?"

"I've always given it to you straight, and I'm not going to stop now." Mr. Takashi looked ahead.

"Okay papa, but when are you coming home?"

"Never my son, never." Mr. Takashi bowed his head.

"Never papa?" Inuyasha asked. He should have known, yet he was too naïve. That was what Kikyo had always told him, and it was true.

"Yes. You should have known, your mother and I fight a lot." Inuyasha knew, but he had always told himself that it was just his dream, and that everything would be okay tomorrow. A tear slid down Inuyasha's cheek.

"Stop. Inuyasha, remember, big boys don't cry." Inuyasha nodded, but could not stop himself from crying. Big boys don't cry, he chanted in his head. But the tears came anyway.

"Stop it Inuyasha."

Inuyasha tried, but he couldn't.

"STOP IT!"

Inuyasha furiously wiped at his tears, but they wouldn't stop. He would never see his papa again.

"I SAID STOP IT!"

And then it had happened. In an instant. Both father and son stood there shocked. It couldn't be true, but there was the proof. Inuyasha's cheek was red and stinging, where he had just been hit. Where he had just been hit, by his father.

"I have to go…" quickly Inutashio picked up the suitcase again, and headed for the door, leaving Inuyasha standing there. At this moment, Izayoi had chosen to rush out, chasing after him.

"Inutashio! Please don't leave us!"

But it was too late, his father had stepped out of the door, and out of his life forever.

END FLASHBACK

He broke down, more tears silently rolling down his cheeks, when he felt two hands circle around him. Silently he cried, in those arms.

OoO

Kagome rocked Inuyasha back and forth for a moment. Then it all came out. His father had left Izayoi, who had been disowned by her father. This left Izayoi and him all alone. He had no body. Kagome promised that he would now have somebody. Now he would have her.

(A/N Okay see, some fluff! YAY for me! LOL Anyway, I warn you, next chapter I'm re entering Kikyo, though what's behind her and Inuyasha's past will NOT be reviled yet. Unless I'm in a really good mood or something, I wont tell you anything…and if I do, you can bet that it will be more complicated. Okay, so I finished this chapter…and yes I am taking SUCH a long time, but I have actually failed one of my tests, and was THROUGHLY distraught during this time. So, to bad. Sorry.

Question of the Chapter:

Do you think I should bring back Inutashio to Inuyasha and Izayoi's life again?

And sorry if you think I made him too mean, but I had to add a little angst in Inuyasha's life!

Luv,

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