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Chapter 3: The Black Day

Naomi Higurashi strode boldly up to the Inutaisho mansion door and rang the door bell and straightened her skirt while waiting for Totosei, the Inutaisho's butler, to answer the door.

The rich mahogany door opened to reveal the short old man clad in a forest brown hakata and forest green haori. His white hair was tied back into a bun held by a black ribbon.

"May I help you?"

Naomi sneered at the old man, "I'm here to see Inuyasha."

"May I ask whose calling?"

"Naomi Higurashi."

"Right this way madam."

Totosei stepped aside to let her inside the huge mansion and closed the door behind her. He then led her to the study and left her there to go retrieve the youngest member of the Inutaisho household.

Looking about her surroundings, Naomi scanned the vast room, critiquing on Izaiyoi's taste of style.

"You wanted to see me?"

She turned to see an eighteen year old Inuyasha who was leaning against the doorframe with his arms crossed over his chest. She stared at him coldly leaving them in complete silence.

"Well?"

"I came here to discuss your friendship with my daughter."

"What's there to discuss? We're friends. End of story."

The front door closed shut drawing the attention of both Naomi and Inuyasha. Ryuu Inutaisho looked up from the file he was reading, first glancing at Inuyasha then at Naomi.

"Hey dad, you're home early."

"Yeah, the meeting ended sooner than we thought it would. What's going on?"

"Well Mr. Inutaisho, as I was telling your son here, I came to discuss my daughter's friendship with him."

Inuyasha's father stared at the floor for a moment before making his way over to his desk. As he poured himself a glass of scotch, he said, "Inuyasha close the doors please. We don't need your mother involved with this."

"But dad-"

Ryuu sent a cold glare at his son who obeyed his father and shut the sliding oak door and turned the lock into place.

"Alright, Mrs. Higurashi you have my undivided attention," Ryuu Inutaisho said leaning against his desk.

"I came here because I feel that your son's friendship with my daughter is a nunhealthy one and I want him to stay away from her."

"What?!"

"Inuyasha. Mrs. Higurashi what leads you to believe that my son's friendship with Kagome is unhealthy?"

"She lays in bed all day during the weekends when she's not with him, I'm finding empty beer bottles in her room along with used condom wrappers and she's become self-destructive. She always comes home crying and says it's because of him."

Ryuu studied his son for a moment before clearing his throat and taking another drink of scotch from his glass. Inuyasha clenched and unclenched his hands fighting the urge to lunge at Naomi Higurashi and strangle the very life out of her. Ryuu could sense his rising anger and finally spoke.

"I can see why you would want my son to discontinue his friendship with your daughter."

Naomi smirked at this remark while Inuyasha glared at an imaginary spot on the floor.

"However," Naomi's grin fell. "Since it is Inuyasha who is friends with Kagome, I must request that you give me a moment alone with him so that I may have a word with him."

"Very well," Naomi left the study closing the sliding doors in her wake.

Inuyasha opened his mouth to begin protesting but Ryuu raised a finger to his lips and shook his head no. They waited until they heard the clicking of her heels against the black marble floor before they said a single word.

"Okay," Ryuu turned to his son. "So you want to explain to me what's going on with you and Kagome to cause that to happen?"

Inuyasha growled, "Nothing happened! She's never touched a drop of alcohol and I'm the only guy besides Miroku who she hangs out with and neither of us have touched her because if Miroku did, he knows I'd rip him apart!"

His father took another swig of his scotch and nodded his head, "I know. I also know that Kagome is still a virgin-oh grow up Inuyasha! What my main concern is how far that woman is willing to go to keep you away from Kagome. I don't want to see either of you hurt, Kagome is like a daughter to me, but I also don't want her mother to place a restraining order against you so that you'll never see Kagome again."

Inuyasha sank down in one of his father's leather chairs and sighed heavily.

"So what do you suggest I do?"

"I hate to say it son and I know you're not going to like it, but I think it's best for all of us-especially Kagome-if you just end your friendship with her now."

"I can't do that," Inuyasha said sadly.

"I know son, I know. But you're going to have to. We all have to do things sometime in our life that we feel is impossible to do, but we must do them."

His father swirled the last of his scotch around in the bottom of his glass before finishing it off.

"Alright, well Naomi is right outside the door trying to eavesdrop on our discussion so would you let her back in please."

Inuyasha silently walked over to the oak doors and opened them to let his best friend's mother in. He looked like an abandoned puppy and Inutaisho felt his heart go out to his youngest son and felt the sadness radiating from him.

Naomi walked into the room briskly with a smirk on her face. Inuyasha could feel his blood boil at the sight of the woman.

"Mrs. Higurashi, please have a seat."

Naomi sat in the brown leather chair Inuyasha had been sitting in only moments before and smoothed out the wrinkles in her skirt.

"After discussing the situation with my son we have come to an understanding about what to do. Inuyasha has agreed to end his friendship with Kagome-but at the end of the week."

"Well I guess I can agree to that seeing as to insure that your son stays away from my daughter, I'm moving the family to California at the end of the week."

"WHAT?!"

"Inuyasha calm down!!!"

"You can't do that! You can't take Kagome away! She just started her senior year and you're going to take her away from all of her friends?!"

"INUYASHA!" His father's voice filled the study.

"That's enough." His voice was dangerously low.

"Naomi, if you're finished, I have work to do."

Inuyasha sighed heavily, his heart heavy with guilt. His father and mother had been so understanding of his grief and he had fought with them constantly. The last fight that he'd had with them he'd told his father that he hated him for making him end his friendship with Kagome. They died later that night in a car crash. The victims of a drunk driver.

"Inuyasha?"

Kagome's hand was on his cheek and she was brushing away his tears.

"Inuyasha what's wrong?"

He let out a strangled sob and held on to Kagome.

"Hold me please, Kagome. Just hold me."

Kagome ran her fingers through Inuyasha's silver hair and listened to him as he let out all the grief and sorrow he had bottled up inside of himself for the past four years. He'd stopped crying a while ago, but continued to cling to Kagome.

"Inuyasha?"

"Mmm."

"Will you tell me what's wrong?"

Inuyasha slowly sat up and began to tell her the story from the beginning, hoping by the time he finished, Kagome wouldn't hate him.

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