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Coming awake was painful. Sesshomaru places a hand over his forehead. Slowly moving off the bed; swaying when he stands. Once he's steady he blinks his eyes a few times. He slowly makes his way to the door. Entering the dining room Sesshomaru takes a seat at the table and lays his arms on the table placing his head in the center. Inuyasha is sitting across from him glaring hatefully. "You're an asshole." Sesshomaru slowly lifts his head. "Is that so?"
"I can't believe what you did last night."
"And what did I do to earn your ire?" Slightly taken aback Inuyasha's harsh glare lessens. "You don't remember?" Sesshomaru pauses for a moment. Trying to recall what it is that Inuyasha is so upset about. "I don't remember much but whatever I did that upset you I'm glad I did it." Studying Sesshomaru, Inuyasha tries to see if he's telling the truth. "It's not what you did to me; it's what you did to Rin." Shocked Sesshomaru tries to focus. Inuyasha gets up and starts to leave the room, he turns back before he finally exits and gives Sesshomaru a sad look. "Just so you know an apology won't be enough." With that Inuyasha exits.
Sesshomaru is silent for a moment, trying to recall what happened. He vaguely remembers seeing Rin at the party but isn't sure if it's a real memory or if what Inuyasha said made him conjure up the image. I need to find out what happened. As Sesshomaru is making his way to his room to change and try to get to the bottom of this mystery he's stopped by Tenshin. "Your mother is going to be here soon."
"Why?"
"Your graduation. She's coming into town so that she can be there for it. Didn't I tell you this already?"
"I don't want to see her!" Storming past Tenshin, Sesshomaru makes it to his room and is about to slam the door when Tenshin blocks it. "She wants to speak with you and I think you should hear her out."
"No." Sesshomaru practically growls the word out. Tenshin glares at Sesshomaru, trying to control his anger but he feels it slipping. "Stop being difficult, all you have to do is listen."
"I have better things to do." Like speak to Rin. While the two continue to glare at one another the door bell rings. "That's probably her." Tenshin turns to leave and Sesshomaru slams the door shut. Quickly dressing, Sesshomaru reaches for the door hoping to make an escape before he has to confront his mother. When he opens the door she's standing there. Tall, beautiful, they have the same hair and the same natural grace about them. Though Sesshomaru doesn't like to admit it, they have similar personality traits too. "Move." She does the opposite. "Can we talk?"
"I don't wish to." They stare at one another. Sighing Sesshomaru moves to the side and allows his mother to enter his room. She better make this quick. She moves towards the bed and sits. Sesshomaru closes the door and leans his back against it. He crosses his arms across his chest and glares at her. She looks to his eyes and takes a deep breath.
"I want to apologize for the way I've treated you. I subconsciously put pressure on you to hold together a marriage that was falling apart before you were even conceived. Your father and I rushed into marriage thinking that what we had was true love, but it wasn't. In less than a year I think we realized we made a mistake, before we could do anything about it I became pregnant. I felt that you could fix our problems and things would be perfect between us again; but it was wrong and childish of me to put those pressures on a baby." Sesshomaru continues his glare, mentally he agrees, it was wrong of her.
"Things didn't get fixed and I knew he was having an affair but I blindly ignored it hoping that if I pushed you to be successful and talented that he would stay with us. When things finally fell apart I couldn't help but push my feelings of failure onto you and that was not right. I sent you to live with your father because I realized that I needed to do some soul searching to figure out what I could do to make myself happy and work through my insecurities. You needed a parent and I couldn't be what you needed." Sesshomaru lowers his arms and turns his head away from her and towards the wall.
"Your father truly loves Izayoi and I'm glad he could find happiness. If you choose to go to a college near where I live I invite you to live with me again, but only if you want. It might relieve some financial burden for you and maybe we can work on our relationship." Standing she makes her way over to Sesshomaru.
"I love you Sesshomaru and apologize for not being a better mother to you. You deserve so much better." She reaches forward and pulls Sesshomaru into an embrace. Sesshomaru is shocked, but not angry. He reaches his arms around her and she pulls him in tighter.
A knock at the door ends their embrace. Sesshomaru's mother quickly wipes at her face and Sesshomaru turns to answer the door. Standing on the other side is Izayoi. "I'm sorry to interrupt but Lolita is on the phone for you, she says it's urgent." Sesshomaru exits the room and heads towards the kitchen. "Hello."
"Sesshomaru have you seen Rin? She left the house really upset last night and she never came home. We figured she might be with you." Lolita's voice is filled with worry. "No to my recollection the last time I saw her was at school the other day."
"Do you know of anywhere else she might be?"
"No." There is a long pause. Sesshomaru can hear talking in the background but can't make out what is being said. Suddenly Lolita's voice is clear. "Please if you see her, can you tell her to come home?"
"I will." They say their goodbyes and Sesshomaru hangs up the phone. Rin where are you? Izayoi walks into the kitchen with Sesshomaru's mother behind her. "Is everything okay?"
"Rin never came home last night. They hoped she was with me but I haven't seen her."
"Who's Rin?" Sesshomaru's mother looks to the two of them for an answer. Before either can answer a very angry voice speaks up. "She's the girl that adores Sesshomaru but he humiliated her in front of practically the whole school." Everyone turns their head to see a very angry Kagome glaring at Sesshomaru. When did she get here? "I can't believe what you did to that poor girl. What you did was unforgiveable. She loves you and you teat her like, like…" With a growl Kagome goes storming over to Sesshomaru, she raises her fist but Inuyasha comes up from behind her and grabs her around the waist, halting her movements. Tenshin walks into the room and looks around. "What's going on here?" Inuyasha turns to their father. "I think it'd be easier to show you." Inuyasha, still holding Kagome, leads everyone out of the room and towards his bedroom.
Making sure that there is plenty of distance between Kagome and Sesshomaru, Inuyasha opens the web browser to YouTube. "Some jerk recorded what happened last night and posted it. Kagome found out this morning. It's not the whole thing but pretty much the worst of it." With that Inuyasha hits play and everyone watches.
When it's over Izayoi is crying, Sesshomaru's mother is staring at the screen stunned, Kagome is glaring at Sesshomaru with her fists clenched, and Sesshomaru is horrified. How could I do that? Suddenly he feels a sharp pain in his side and is leaning on the wall for support. He looks over at Tenshin who looks like he's about to explode. "Rin is the sweetest girl in the world and she loves you yet you would treat her like that! I'm ashamed to think of you has my son." Izayoi places her hand on Tenshin. "You don't mean that." Sesshomaru looks around at everyone's faces. I hate me too.