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Chapter 2: Walk Away

Indignant shock suddenly turned to anger. "Have you gone mental? I'm not doing that with Sesshomaru!"

"Yeah! Not right now, because I walked in on you two!" Inuyasha shouted in her face. His face warped into an ugly sneer. "Just think about what would have happened if I had gotten here a few minutes later. How many times have you been plowed by the arrogant prick?" His claws dug deeper into her flesh, causing blood to bubble from the marks.

Kagome flinched at the ugly words. "Let go. You're hurting me."

"Keh! Fine! I don't want to touch anything Sesshomaru has fucked!" He shoved her away from him.

"Hey!" She shook her hair out of her eyes as she looked up at him from her sprawled position on the floor.

"That's the perfect position for you. All sprawled out on your back like that."

"Boy, Inuyasha, with pretty vocabulary like that have you ever thought of writing greeting cards?"

He looked down his nose at her. Then, he turned on his heels, leaving black skid marks on the polished white floor, before stomping from the room.

She couldn't believe how much he looked like Sesshomaru when he did that. It was totally the wrong time and place to see the family resemblance.

Kagome winced as her hand landed on the thorns of the roses as she tried to stand up. She shook as she rose to her feet and gasped as she pulled the rose that had been embedded in her back by its thorns from her.

She was sure that she would never look at roses the same way again.

"Here!" Inuyasha growled as he shoved her yellow book bag into her hands. "I packed your shit, now get the fuck out!"

She lowered the bag to the floor and began to go through the contents. There weren't many things in there. A few scrap books, a sketchpad, her camera, Ipod, a few shirts, and some anime stuff. "This isn't all my…"

He smirked and folded his arms across his chest. "You didn't think I'd let you walk out of here with anything I bought for you, did you, you freeloading slut?"

She opened her mouth to protest and he cut her off. "You haven't had a job the entire time you've lived here. That means that if I haven't bought it for you, you bought it for yourself with my money. You decided that I wasn't good enough for you when you spread your legs for my brother. If I'm not good enough for you, then my money's not good enough for you."

She folded her arms across her chest. "My laptop. Kikyo and Kagura gave me that for my birthday. I get my laptop, its accessories, and the bag it came in."

"Whatever." His glare softened, as if he were rethinking kicking her to the curb. He sighed and ran a hand through his hair, then glanced at the clock. "I'm going to get in the shower and wash the stench of what you and Sesshomaru did off me. And then we can talk about where we go from here. While I'm in there, clean this mess up."

Kagome shot him double birds as he turned and walked toward the bathroom. She couldn't mumble anything under her breath, because he would have heard her.

She had wanted to yell in his face about all the humiliation she had suffered when he had gone off with all those other women. About all the times she had waited for him and cried herself to sleep, because he had blown her off. Memories of careless shoves and name calling.

And the nights he was human.

Those were the worst!

He always came home tanked. Or got hammered while he was home. He hated the nights of his weakness and would drink until he passed out. He was meaner and more violent when he was human. One night he had come home and beat her so badly she had had to go to the hospital.

She should have left him then. But the next morning, he promised it would never happen again.

And it never had. Kagome had always wondered if it was guilt that kept him from striking her again or the fact that his father had threatened to disown him, if it happened again.

She had seen him glance at the clock and knew that when he got out of the shower, he would be human. She didn't think that human Inuyasha would be as forgiving as his hanyou self had been.

Kagome liked to think of herself as pretty resilient. She could roll with the punches and take whatever life threw at her. She tried her damnedest to find the sunnier side of everything.

She could look at the events that had taken place since the conclusion of the Sesshomaru incident two ways: The first being that her life as she knew it was over. She was going to be homeless if she left. She had been disowned by her family for choosing Inuyasha over them. They would never let her back in and now that he had discarded her, she had nothing. She could cry and plead for him to take her back. She could beg him to forgive her for something she hadn't even done. She could endure whatever his human side heaped upon her as punishment for viewing him as not enough.

Because that's what he always told her when he was human. Any time she talked to a youkai during his human nights, he accused her of wanting them.

His brothers and father were suspect as well. He had once accused her of wanting to be with Sesshomaru's mom.

There was another way for her to look at it. She was in a dead end relationship with a volatile, cheating hanyou, who became mean and crazy on his human nights. She was humiliated on a regular basis, belittled, verbally battered, and on rare occasions physically assaulted. Inuyasha had already told her to get out. She could step through the open door and escape the toxicity of this relationship.

She could stay here and wait for Inuyasha to toss her out.

Or she could wait for him to lose it completely in a drunken rage and kill her during a new moon.

Her lips quirked. She was more afraid of him losing his youkai side than she was of him losing his human side.

Her heart was breaking with the realization of what she had to do. She loved Inuyasha with all that she was, but that would never be enough for him. He would never get over his own insecurities and see how much she truly cared for him. He would never see that she would have stood beside him through anything.

He would never see her as… Actually, Kagome had no idea what he saw her as. The last thing he had called her was a freeloading slut, so if that was how the man she loved saw her, she had to go.

Love really wasn't all you needed. A relationship needed respect, trust, and dignity. Kagome was pretty sure that none of them replied to her relationship with Inuyasha.

She hurried to pack up her computer and slug the bag across her body. She pulled on her book bag and stepped into her sneakers, because there was no way she would tackle Tokyo streets in her heels. She grabbed her heels anyway, just to take them with her. She left her keys on the coffee table, next to the cell phone he had bought her.

Besides if she took it, he might have one of his weirdo techie friends track her down by it.

She wouldn't worry about him anymore. It was time for Kagome to worry about Kagome.

She closed the door behind her and she did what was best for her.

She walked away.

!#$%^&***&^%$#!

Have you ever had one of those days where nothing went the way it was supposed to?

This was totally Kagome's day.

It was pouring!

Her flawless white dress was transparent and showed everyone that she had gone sans bra and her red lacy panties. They had seemed like a good idea at the time. Of course, you couldn't see them when her dress was dry.

She finally made it to the train station and tried to ignore everyone looking at her. She was standing on the train when the usual groper moved toward her with a grin.

"Don't you even think about it, fucker!" She shouted in the crowded train, ensuring that she had more than enough space.

Her sneakers slapped against the wet sidewalk of the Tokyo Wednesday night as she walked toward the Hard Rock in Roppongi. Wednesday nights she usually met her friends there for dinner.

So it wasn't exactly high quality Tokyo dining, but it was laid back and they always had a good time.

Except tonight she had had other plans. Boy, had those been shot to hell!

She still couldn't believe that she had let Sesshomaru touch her like that in the kitchen. She really had a hard time believing that he had ever thought of her that way. Though she didn't know him that well, she knew that he wasn't fake. So, he had to be attracted to her, but why act on it now? She wondered if it had something to do with why he had been so angry.

"Kagome!" Someone grabbed her arm. "Kagome! What happened to you?"

All of her earlier emotions that had kept her going were doused like small fire with a bucket of water thrown on it. Tears burned in her eyes as she looked at the young woman with shoulder length silver hair and silver dog ears.

Kind and concerned gold eyes that were wider than any of her four brothers regarded Kagome in shock. "Let's get you inside. I'm running late tonight. Everyone is waiting."

Rin steered Kagome in the direction of the table where Riku's mate, Jocelyn, Kagura, and Kikyo were waiting.

The table fell silent as they looked at Kagome.

Any remaining emotions that had fueled Kagome since Sesshomaru left, ran away at the sight of her friends, leaving her shell shocked.

Kagome sank into the empty chair next to her, even though she was still holding her shoes, and wearing both her bags. Water dripped from her into a growing puddle on the floor and she trembled slightly in the chill of the air.

No one said anything. The noise of the restaurant faded into the background as they all looked at Kagome.

Hot pink eyes rolled as Kagura slapped her hand against the table and rose to her feet. "And you all say that as a youkai, I'm emotionally inferior." She gently took the shoes from Kagome and sat them on the table. Then she helped took the bags from Kagome. She knelt in front of her. "Kikyo, hand me my purse."

"Here." Kikyo knelt next to her.

"Thanks babe." Kagura handed Kikyo five Band-Aids and opened a few to put on Kagome's shoulder, watching as her mate did the same. "This will have to do until we can get you somewhere to clean these better. If the person who did this is who I think it is, we'll have to reopen them to clean them. We don't want them to get infected. God only knows where his hands have been."

Kikyo smiled and nodded when Kagura looked at her.

"Why does the bad ass youkai bitch carry Band-Aids in her purse?" Jocelyn teased her friend.

"My mate is a klutz and a human. Why wouldn't I carry them?"

"Bitch!" Kikyo hissed as she threw the empty wrappers at Kagura and stomped back to her chair.

"Hey! Don't throw shit like that! Someone has to clean that up. Being in food service sucks enough without extra trash to clean up." Jocelyn began to pick up the pieces.

Kagome's lips curled into a slight smile.

"There you go, Kagome. I knew that would make you smile. Don't get your panties in a wad, Kik. I was trying to make Kagome smile."

Jocelyn looked up at Kagome and tossed her blond hair from her eyes. "Get over yourself, Kagura. She was smiling because of me."

"Get real, gaijin." Kagura rolled her eyes.

"Here." Jocelyn handed Kagome Riku's bomber jacket and watched as she slipped it on.

They sat in silence except for when Kagura ordered Kagome a drink and some food.

"I left Inuyasha." She whispered, looking at the glass of soda that had been set in front of her.

"It's about fucking time!" Rin announced as she sipped her iced tea. "What?" She looked at everyone's shocked faces. "Inuyasha's my brother and I love him. I love all my brothers, even when they're the dumbest beings on the planet. But you deserve so much better Kagome."

"What are you going to do, Kagome? Are you sure you made the right decision?" Kikyo tried to reason with her.

Kagome's eyes narrowed as she looked at Kikyo. "He goes out and fools around all the time. He accuses me of doing the same when it shouldn't even matter. And I didn't even get laid. He told me to get my shit and get out. You see the stuff I have?!" Her voice was increasing in volume. "This!" She held up the yellow bag. "And this!" She held up the laptop bag. "And these!" She hissed through her teeth when she held up her white heels. "Are all he would let me take! He told me that since he wasn't good enough for me, then I couldn't take anything he bought for me or I bought with his money. He told to me wait for him to get out of the shower and we could talk. Like I wanted to be anywhere near him after he became human. He said I was a freeloading slut, because I don't have a job!"

"But you…"

"I know I have a job, god damn it!" She shouted, drawing the attention of people at other tables. "I never told him, because he'd tell everyone what I do and who I am. He'd tell everyone my secret to make himself look better! I couldn't let him do that to me. Fuck him!"

Her wrath faded as she looked around the table before she burst into tears. "What am I going to do? I gave up my family for him and he never loved me. I love him so much. Why didn't he ever love me? I have nothing."

Jocelyn scowled at Kikyo. "You did the right thing, Kagome. There is nothing wrong with self-preservation. You gave all you had." She looked at Rin. She didn't want to say anything bad about him in front of his sister. If she wanted to that was fine, but Jocelyn wouldn't.

Rin sighed. "Inuyasha is one of the most selfish people I have ever met. It would never matter how much attention or love you gave him, because it wouldn't be enough." She grabbed Kagome's hand across the table and gave it a squeeze. "I'm going to call my parents. I'm sure they'll let you stay with us."

"Yeah. That's a good idea, Rin. Kagome, Izayoi, Bishi, and Toga love you." Jocelyn agreed.

"No." She shook her head. "I'm sorry, but I can't move in with all of you. You are Inuyasha's family and I can't move in with you when I know how much he'll be around."

"You can come live with us." Kikyo offered without the expression on her face changing.

"That sounds nice. Just until I can get a place of my own."

"If that's what you want." Rin smiled softly.

Kagome nodded and stood up. "I'll be right back."

"We'll go with you." Kikyo grabbed Jocelyn, nearly upsetting the glass of soda she had been trying to take a drink from and they followed Kagome to the bathrooms.

Rin shook her head. "They are just supporting the rumor that women go to the bathroom in groups." She turned back to Kagura. "You think she'll be okay moving in with you?"

Kagura nodded. "I don't know why she wouldn't. Our alpha won't care if someone else moves in with us."

"Don't you think you should be a little more forth coming about your pack details?" Rin looked at her. "Maybe you should tell her that you guys live with Sesshomaru."

Kagura shrugged and took a drink of her water. "Why would it matter?"