1A Husband & A Father
Notes and Flowers
Kagome trembled as she held a crying Rin in her lap. The twins sat, unusually silent as their
mother rocked their older sister back and forth in the confines of their car.
"Shh. Daddy's going to be just fine," Kagome said, also trying to convince herself of her own
words.
The ten-year-old stopped crying and looked into her mother's face. "I'm not worried about dad."
"Oh?"
"It's Shippo! I called him a girl! He's going to die knowing the last thing I ever told him was
that he was a girl!" Rin commenced back into her sobbing with a fresh batch of tears.
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He plucked out the bloody knife that was embedded into his pillow and let out an exhausted
breath. The alleged blood was only catsup.
Apparently our intruder has a sick sense of humor.
Picking up the note that had also been left on his pillow, he read it and then crumpled it into a
ball.
Like hell anyone is going to lay a hand on my family!
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The doorbell rang as Kagome swept up the last of the glass shards that littered the kitchen floor.
"Go it," Sesshomaru called as he jogged to the door. "What are you doing here?" she heard her
husband say in angered disbelief.
Sighing she heard Inuyasha's shrill and raucous voice enter their house. Setting her dustpan and
broom aside,
Kagome carefully made her way through the hallway that looked like World War Three had just
occurred in.
"Geez! Did you guys have a really big fight also?" Inuyasha pushed his way though the front
door that Sesshomaru tried to close in his face. Looking at Kagome, Inuyasha shrugged and set
his duffel bag down on the floor. "I got kicked out."
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"He can't stay here!" Kagome said as she and her husband argued in hushed tones in their
kitchen.
"And what? Let him drink himself away in some seedy bar?"
"Aww," she pinched Sesshomaru's cheek and he swatted her hand away, "I didn't know you
cared about him!" his wife cooed in a sickeningly sweet tone that she only reserved for babies.
"I just don't want him making a fool of himself."
"Aww, the Ice Man's heart is defrosting!"
Sesshomaru glared at her as he left the kitchen to go and retrieve his half-brother.
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Hefting the last of the wedding planner books off the coffee table, Kagome placed Inuyasha's
duffel bag on top of it.
"Why don't you just hire a wedding planner?"
"What? And take the joy out of planning every minute detail for my wedding away from me!
Never!" Inuyasha shrugged and grumbled something about stupid girls as Kagome handed him a
blanket. "I'm sorry if there's glass on the couch, I've been cleaning it up all night so the twins
won't step on it." Kagome rambled on to herself as she turned to leave the family living room
that Inuyasha was going to sleep in for the night.
A hand shot out and tightly grabbed her wrist. Squeaking in dismay Kagome glared at Inuyasha
as he put his arms around her waist.
"What do you think you're doing?!" Kagome tried to wiggle herself out of his hold, but that only
made him pull her more towards him. She did not like where this was leading!
"Kagome, it's time we're serious about this and get the truth out." She stopped moving,
confused by what her brother-in-law was saying. "We both live in unhappy marriages, and we
were so great together in high school..."
"Inuyasha this isn't high school anymore! We're grown adults! And this needs to stop between
us because I am happily married!"
"Don't you see," he pleaded with her, "he's just pulling the wool over your eyes."
"No he is..." she was cut off as Inuyasha roughly seized her lips with his.
He kissed her more passionately than he had ever remembered kissing his wife. "I love you," he
whispered into her ear as a shadow from the doorway fell upon them.
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Sesshomaru smiled to himself. This ought to cheer her up, he thought as he looked at the roses
he had handpicked for her from their little garden.
He cursed silently as a thorn pricked his skin and drew tinny droplets of blood.
Ready to walk upstairs for bed he heard heated words coming from the living room. Worried
that his brother was about to do something rash, Sesshomaru instead headed for the family
living room.
He could clearly hear their words now with his sensitive hearing.
"Inuyasha this isn't highschool anymore! We're grown adults! This needs to stop between us
because I am happily married!"
"Don't you see he's just pulling the wool over your eyes?"
"No he is..."
Sesshomaru walked through the doorway of the living room just in time to see his half-brother
passionately kiss his wife. "I love you," he heard Inuyasha mutter.
His grip tightened on the roses as dozens of thorns embedded themselves into the palm of his
hand.
Kagome pushed Inuyasha off of herself and turned around to leave. "Sesshomaru," she
gasped in a strangled whisper upon seeing him staring at her.
A look of defeat and despair crossed her husband's face that Kagome had never seen before, nor
did she ever want to see it again.
A bouquet of roses fell from his hand and she frowned at the blood that oozed from the palm of
his hand.
Everything seemed to be happening in slow-motion to her as she finally snapped back to reality,
wondering how much her husband had seen.
Suddenly Sesshomaru turned and walked away, trampling the flowers he had dropped in his
wake. She started to run after him, but was stopped as a hand yet again grabbed her wrist.
Careening around to face Inuyasha, Kagome balled up her fist, swung her arm back to get
momentum, and squarely punched Inuyasha in the nose. He released her arm with an
angered curse and fumbled blindly around the room in pain.
Wasting no time or sympathy, she resumed her mad dash to get to Sesshomaru. "Sesshomaru!"
running out of the livingroom Kagome caught him unlocking the battered front door. "No! It
isn't what you think!"
He now had the front door open.
She madly sprinted down their long hallway. Pausing, Sesshomaru turned to face her just as she
ran into him. Babbling madly Kagome hugged him fiercely and held onto him like he was her
last lifeline as she sobbed into his chest.
He did not bother to hug her back.
Glancing over her head he saw Inuyasha emerge into the hallway, blood streaming down his
half-brother's face. Sesshomaru glared, not knowing what else to do as his wife was still
hung onto him and sobbed about how much she loved him.
Peering up she gazed into his sad golden eyes as he lightly pecked her on the forehead. Then he
turned, walking from his wife's embrace and into the chilly night air as he slammed the front
door in Kagome's face.
Hey, guys! I hope you liked this chapter a lot. Well, I've got some ideas of where to go from this… but not many. If anyone has any spectacular ideas or suggestions please review and tell me, I need help!
Darkluvaah 3: thanks a lot!
Shimashi: thanks, I was worried that people might not be able to make the connection between my first story and this sequel.
Helikesytheymikey!: yeah, that is really weird. Lol. You can't be serious, you've never seen Kouga! eyes pop out of head oh yeas, Inuyasha and Kikyo are married, marked, the whole shebang. (sorry if I didn't make that clear!)
Hitotoki No Shukun: Thank you so much! I don't think anyone has told me I'm a great writer before! You're so incredibly nice!
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