Inuyasha sat in his brother's huge antique leather chair waiting for this lawyer guy to show and waste his time. All he could think about was Kagome.

"What an asshole I am. I treated her like shit for years. I wasted so much time. Taking all of the love she had to give and returning none of it to her. Telling her I could never love her. Now she finds happiness with my brother and I continue to shit on her by announcing that I suddenly love her. God, she must think I'm a jerk. I am a jerk.'

Inuyasha's self deprecating thoughts were interrupted by a soft knock on the door. Inuyasha grunted out a simple "come in." The door opened to reveal a very non-lawyer looking man.

He had on a purple buttoned down shirt tucked into jeans with the sleeves rolled up to the elbows. No tie, creepy sandals and a small ponytail at the nape of his neck. The only thing about this guy that even hinted at him being a lawyer was his crazy, all knowing, gleaming on the perverse, smile.

"Hey, my name is Miroku Yamamoto, I am a friend of you brothers. I am here to help get you out of your little legal mess." Thrusting his hand towards Inuyasha so he could shake it.

"You are a friend of my brothers? Oh please, my brother doesn't have any friends. Especially ones who are not tight assed anal bastards." Inuyasha shook his hand forcefully and stood up to go.

"I believe I am the only lawyer your brother knows outside of your family's team of them. I think he wants this as far away from the family business as possible." Miroku went to the desk, opened his briefcase and pulled out a file.

"I have been going over your case. It doesn't look like it will be to hard to discredit their star witness. He is a pretty shady guy. It wouldn't be hard to prove he is lying." He looked at Inuyasha with that know it all smile from earlier.

Inuyasha took in a deep breath and leaned against the door. "What if I told you I took it? That I took it out of anger over a stupid girl I thought I was in love with. A girl who wanted me to become human. A girl who didn't love me as I am." He crossed his arms over his chest and looked at the floor.

"What if I told you I almost became human for said girl? While at the same time using a perfect girl who was in love with me just as I was. Telling her over and over again that I could never love her because I was in love with the bitch who didn't love me. Ha! What would you say about that? Want to defend me now?"

"What if I told you that the girl I was in love with wanted me to wish on the jewel so I could become human as an experiment to see if the jewel worked? I was a pawn used to prove a theory so she could obtain more grants for more research. So I stole it, just to be a prick." Inuyasha grinned from under his bangs.

Miroku lifted his eyebrows and smiled at Inuyasha "Damn, I probably would have taken it too. Does anyone know that you have it?"

"Nope, no one. Especially not that stool pigeon they paid to say he saw me. I can smell and hear when someone is around. I would have known if someone was near enough to see me." He nodded his head to show he had proven his point.

"Perfect, then I am going to stick with my original plan. We will discredit their witness and the case will be dropped. 'Nuff said." He also nodded his head to show he had made his point.

"Wait, you are still going to defend me after I told you I did it?" He shook his head in disbelief. Miroku put the file back in his case and shut it with a click. Pulling it off the desk he headed for the door.

"Of course I am going to defend you. The proof they have is coming from an unreliable source. They also have no evidence. I can't let you go to prison on a trumped up case. That would go against my code of ethics." He winked and smiled at Inuyasha as he walked out of the door. "See you next week in court. Don't be late and dress to impress." He waved behind him as he walked down the hall out of sight.

'I wonder how my arrogant, rude and bossy brother ever met someone as cool as that.' Inuyasha smiled at that thought as he too made his way down the corridor.

As he came into the entrance hall to leave he heard his niece laugh and say something in her sweet giggly voice. He decided he should go to the kitchen and tell her goodbye.

When he arrived at the door to the kitchen he saw Kagome was the one making Rin giggle and laugh. They were coloring in a coloring book and Kagome was drawing pictures on the corners that were making Rin laugh.

Inuyasha moved in slowly and put his hands over Rin's eyes. "Guess who?" Rin giggled and screamed "Uncle Yasha" She stood on the chair and threw her arms around his neck. "How did you know it was me?"

"That's easy. Your claws. They are like daddy's but your voice is always happier than his." She smiled and kissed him on the cheek. "Are you going to stay and play with Kagome and me?"

"Oh, I wish I could kitten, but Uncle Yasha has a lot of work to do and I have to go do it. But I tell you what, next week I will come and take you to a movie, just you and me." He gave her his best smile.

She clapped her hands together and screamed a very loud YAY! "Kagome can come too, right Uncle Yasha? I miss going places with Uncle Yasha and Kagome. I like daddy, but Uncle Yasha and Kagome are more fun." She sat back down in her chair and continued to color.

"Sure pumpkin Kagome can come too." He flashed Kagome his sexiest smile, but she just frowned at him. "Well then, it's a date. Next week I will take out my two best girls." He bent down and kissed Rin on the cheek.

He left the kitchen and headed back to the entryway. As he reached for the front door he heard Kagome's voice angrily whisper to him. "Who the hell do you think you are you son of a bitch? How dare you come around acting like everything is just fine after the bombshell you dropped on me this morning?"

"Kagome, I am so sorry. I know that was an asshole thing to do. I suddenly realized that while I was convincing myself that I only could love Kikyo I was closing my eyes to the most amazing women I could ever have been given a chance to love and I blew it." He bowed his head to show her his shame.

Again Kagome found herself wanting to touch him, to hold him and tell him everything was going to be ok. 'NO! I cannot give into him. He treated me so bad for so long. No, no, no!'

"Inuyasha, you claim to be in love with me. If you are, then leave me alone. Don't screw this up. I have a real chance at happiness. Possibly even love. I can see myself with Sesshomaru and Rin. I can see us as a happy family. Please don't get in the way." She could feel herself welling up with tears.

He hated it when she cried. He especially hated it when he was the cause. He reached to grab her and pull her into a hug as he had done for her many times over the years. But she pushed him away.

"No. Not this time. I am over you. Done. I never want to see you again outside of this house. I am only allowing that because you are Sesshomaru's brother. Just go Inuyasha, get out. NOW!" She turned her back to him just as the tears came.

"OK Kagome. Your right. If I truly love you I would only want your happiness. So I will go, so you can be happy. But please be that, please be happy. I really do love you, I think I always have." He opened the door, shoved his hands in his pockets and left without closing it behind him.

Kagome's heart busted into a thousand pieces. Her knees started to shake and give way. Just as she was sure she would hit the cold marble floor a warm arm wrapped around her waist.

Pulling her tight to him Sesshomaru brushed the tears from her eyes. "Did you really mean all of the things you said to my brother?" She sniffed and bobbed her head.

"You can really see yourself as a family with Rin and I? You see yourself as happy with us, me? You can see yourself maybe falling in love? Truly?" She sniffed and buried her head in his chest.

He slid his hand under her chin and made her look up at him. "Kagome, you can't play with me. I am not someone to use to make my little brother jealous. I have Rin. Toying with me would be very unwise. Now, did you mean the things that you said to him?" She bobbed her head again then buried it against him.

'I want to mean it, really I do.'