"What do you mean, Rin is not really my daughter?"

She was scared to tell him, scared of the embarrassment, scared that he would see her as weak. She didn't want him to think that she didn't fight, that she just given up and let it happen. But she knew she couldn't escape from telling him now that she had let her secret slip.

She told her story slowly, sobbing every so often in between sentences. Inu-Yasha had raped her; although he had been drunk at the time it made no difference to Sesshoumaru.

Inu-Yasha had gotten drunk, on one of the last nights she went out before their wedding, and asked her to drive him home. Being the good friend she was she went with him up to his apartment building. Then… well she wasn't sure. She had unlocked his door for him and helped him inside, went to get him a glass of water from the kitchen, and then she was on the floor her soon-to-be brother-in-law lying on top of her. She had fought, she had begged, but to no avail.

When she finished, she looked at her husband; waiting. She wasn't sure what she was waiting for him to do. Anything that showed he understood and that everything would be fine. Instead he turned and went out the front door, slamming it behind him, leaving his wife to cry.

Sesshoumaru wasted no time going after his worthless brother. When he had left he hadn't been sure what he was going to do. He just needed to get away from the truths that he had been told. One thing he had been sure of though, he was going to bash hisbrother's; the word sounded acidic when he thought of Inu-Yasha now; face in. He drove down the highway like a mad man, not caring if he got a ticket for speeding. He arrived at the apartment complex in record time, let himself in, and pounded on his brother's door.

"Inu-Yasha! Get out here!" He yelled through the door.

He heard his brother fumbling around to get his bearings. There was a crash and several loud curses before for the door opened. When it did Inu-Yasha didn't even get a single word out before he found himself on the floor, his nose bleeding profusely.

"What the fuck was that for!?" Inu-Yasha gasped. He brought himself off the ground and glared at his elder brother.

"That was for even thinking about touching her!" He roared. He then proceeded to punch Inu-Yasha in the stomach causing him to double over. "And that was for raping her, you useless scum."

Inu-Yasha eyes widened in realization. He knew. "Sesshoumaru I-"

"Silence. You will never be within 50 feet of Kagome. You will come no where near Rin until you prove your self to me, or if Kagome says otherwise." Sesshoumaru ground out.

Then just a quickly as he had came, he left, slamming the door behind him so hard that it shook. Now he was going back to his wife.

Kagome however, did not know that Sesshoumaru had gone after Inu-Yasha. So when she watched him drive away, she thought he was mad at her, and was going to seek solace in the arms of Telulu. So, she immediately gathered Rin, got directions and headed to the Shinjuku Sunrise Hotel.

An hour later, an un-expecting Telulu received a call from the front desk of the hotel that told her she had a visitor waiting for her down stairs. Kagome tapped her foot almost violently against the ground as she waited for Telulu to come down. After what felt like forever one of the elevator opened and Telulu stepped out.

"Where is my husband?" Kagome spat.

Telulu's brows knitted together in confusion. Was Sesshoumaru missing? Did she forget about a doctor's appointment, or a meeting with him, perhaps? Going through her mental date-book, she came up with nothing. Then after a moment she realized she had seen him just an hour or two ago.

"I don't know. I haven't seen him for a couple hours. Is he missing?" Telulu asked, genuine concern lacing her voice.

"Don't lie to me." Kagome hissed. "Where else would he go after what I told him!? He always goes back to you!"

Tears began to fall from the distraught woman's eyes, her knuckles tightened in a death grip on Rin's carrier. Telulu looked around and realized they were making a scene. Carefully, she took the crying woman's hand and led her to the elevator.

Once they were away from prying eyes, safely on their way to her floor, Telulu spoke. "What are you talking about? Why would he come to me?"

"Because he loves you more than he loves me." Kagome sobbed. "And I told him today that Rin as not his daughter. She's Inu-Yasha's. You have his two real daughters. "

"Oh, Kagome." Telulu murmured, her hands hovering around the sobbing woman but afraid to touch her. "Even if he had come here Kagome, I could never do that to you, or to any one for that matter. I would have sent him straight back home to you. I love Sesshoumaru, but only in the way a sister loves her brother. Besides, I might be getting engaged."

Kagome's sobs began to ebb, and she felt slightly ridiculous. Had she really been so quick to jump to conclusions?

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