Inuyasha © Rumiko T.
Akira H. © SilverDrops-6593

Chapter 2 – You're not a mistake

...Kagome....

Kagome.

-Kagome!

The young girl opened her eyes slowly. A voice quite familiar called for her, along with other tired and angry voices muffled by the walls. They were still arguing? What time is it?

-Two in the morning...?-She looked at the alarm clock on the bed table, and then at the sun golden eyes watching her, shining with the light of the table lamp, full of curiosity and concern. Then she remembered she was supposed to come back that night.-Inuyasha...

-What the heck is going on here, Kagome?-He asked, looking at the old man behind him when he mumble something about demons trying to possess the fat cat of the family.

CRASH!!!

Souta sat up scared at the other end of the bed. Gramps still sleeping looked around and mumbled about demons invading the neighborhood's house, turned and continued snoring loudly. Inuyasha looked at the teenager with widen eyes and Souta shrank and crept close to his sister, seeking comfort.

-They didn't stop, did they?

-Not yet, Souta. But don't worry, soon it will be over.-She ensured with a wink, gently taping his head, and waited till he made himself comfy at the end of the bed, using her covered legs as pillow, never noticing Inuyasha.-Good night, Inuyasha.-She smiled sleepily.

-Your mother is arguing madly with a stranger downstairs and you say 'good night' to me? Do you even know what's happening, wench?-He frowned his brows.

-Yeah, I know.-She yawned.-The stranger is my father, and sadly, mom have good reasons to be fighting with him.

-Your dad?-Inuyasha looked surprised at the floor when he felt something hit the ceiling down there, right under him.-You never told me about him.

-You never asked.-She turned on her belly and hugged the pillow, hiding half of her face in it.-And mom don't like to talk or hear about him.

Inuyasha observed her close her eyes slowly. Looking around, he asked himself why Souta and Gramps were sleeping here. Maybe it had something about the fight? Probably. Kagome's room seemed to block the noises better than any other place in the house. It was better to sleep here. But he couldn't understand: how Kagome could be to calm while her parents were like that downstairs? Souta was restless, and was doing his best to ignore all those shouts. Gramps preferred not to anything about it, so it was normal that he could ignore it better than his younger grandson. But Kagome? She was their daughter! Why she was ignoring the fact that her parents were fighting?

-"It must be difficult. She must be divided between stay with her father or her mother if they end up doing that thing called divorce. But... maybe it has already happened?" Hey, wench...-He stopped when he noticed that her eyes were closed, thinking she was asleep.

-Hum?-The eye that wasn't hided by the pillow opened. She didn't appeared to be sleepy anymore.

-Sorry. Didn't mean to wake you up.

-I wasn't sleeping. I'm not tired anymore.-She stopped when she noticed the silence. Then her mother cried out again, not waking up Souta or Gramps.-Beside, who can sleep again with this?-She smiled. Inuyasha didn't.

-How can you be so calm while your parents are fighting? Aren't you afraid of wat might happen to them?

She looked down and sighed.

-that's because I already know how everything will end.-She smiled a false smile.-It's been happening for three days already.

-T-three days? They are fighting like this for three days long?

-Yeah.-She shrugged and supported herself on her elbows to get up. She looked sideways at him with a sad smile.-And you haven't seen anything. You wasn't her to see my dad fight back.

That's when the hanyou noticed the man wasn't yelling back at his upset woman. He only brought down his head and let her hit him, scream at him and curse him. Inuyasha, before jumping to Kagome's room, saw through the window that he had heavy guilt in his face and eyes. But what did he do?

-What happened, Kagome?-He asked, sitting beside her on the bed.

She looked at him and sighed. Then rested her head on his shoulder and began telling him everything.

-It started when I was four...


~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*___Flash_Back___*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
-How much it will take, mommy?-She looked at her mother, who was laying on her back on the couch. The woman smiled and touched her swollen middle.

-Not much, my little angel. You only need to be patient.

Kagome pouted.

-But he's been in there for almost nine month! What if he's liking it and don't want to come out?

Keiko laughed, till she heard the door open, and behind it, her husband appeared. She looked at the clock on the wall and her face wasn't so calm anymore. Her little daughter noticed the change and took a few steps back.

-Time for bed, love. It's getting late.-The pregnant woman stood and glared at her husband.-Really late.

Kagome thought about using her persuasion tactics , but one look at the exchange of glares going on between her parents, and she decided wisely to just give a hug and a good night kiss to each and run upstairs. The last thing she heard before closing the door was a impatient 'where were you this late in the night?'. That was going to be the first night in her young life that she'd be awake till dawn hearing the first discussion of her parents.

----- 3 years later -----

Sitting on the couch, at the house of her grandfather, Kagome nestled her little brother, who was only three, on her lap. Why mommy was crying in the kitchen while daddy was bringing in all those bags? And why only their bags? Why wasn't he bringing in his too?

-You won't stay with us, daddy?-She asked confused when he left a huge light blue bag with Souta's little clothes inside beside the couch.

-I'm sorry, my little angel, but I can't. Daddy is going to spend some time away from home.-He smiled, but little Kagome wasn't happy with that smile.

-And when you're coming back?

He smiled that way again, then turned his back with nothing to say. He was opening the door again...

-Daddy!

Akira turned, meeting both his little babies' eyes. Both watched him with the same question which was easy to understand, even without words: Why?

He didn't smile. He just turned once again and exited the house, meeting the cold of winter outside. Kagome left Souta on the couch, sneaked through the kitchen entrance, where her grandfather was trying to comfort her mommy, and made her way to the door. She ran ignoring the cold snow that reached past her knees, and carefully stepped down the endless temple stairs till she reached the street. There was a car parked near the sidewalk, daddy's car, and inside it, was a blonde woman in a red dress with a black fur wrap on her shoulders, looking at her impeccable painted nails. From the stairs Kagome could see her swollen middle, just like mommy was three years ago when Souta was still in there. Did it mean that woman was going to have a baby too? Her daddy was about to enter the car, his eyes locked at the woman inside and misty in a way Kagome only saw some times when he looked at her mommy after he arrived home at night, and there were strange noises coming from their room. Once she asked Gramps, who was drunk by the way, and only one word escaped his lips that time: lust. She didn't understand that word's meanings, and neither had the interest to discover it. But now she wanted. Why was daddy entering the car with that woman inside...and leaving mommy, little Souta and her behind at Gramps house?

-Daddy?-She called once again, hoping he could truly smile and take her back to the warm of the house, staying there with them. But he looked sideways with his face contorted in a serious expression. Kagome could also see the disgust in the woman's eyes inside the car as she looked at her, but ignored it. Her shining gray-blue eyes, similar to her father's, only wanted to know... why. But again, he didn't say anything. Just got inside the car, warmed by the heater, and watched her for a few moments, before turning on the engine. He left, warm by the heat of the car's heater and the arms of that strange woman, and left her behind in the cold of the winter, with no answers. Kagome didn't say anything, didn't shed a tear. But her sad eyes followed the car, always asking: why?
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*___Flash_Back___*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

Inuyasha watched as Kagome yawned in her sleep and turned on her other side. It was already four in the morning, and she had fallen asleep when the noises of the fight finally subsided again. She was only seven when she experienced the happening of something called betrayal. The love between the parents, which seemed to be perfect, broke in two. How was it like to feel yourself the product of a love that failed? Inuyasha looked at Souta. The product of an erroneous union, and that right now might be, or not, disputed by the halves.

-"No..."-He shook his head, angry at himself to think like that.-"Kagome and Souta are not a mistake. Kagome taught me: even me, a half demon, was not a mistake. I was born by love, not by mistake. She is human, pure and the most perfect person I ever met. Someone as perfect as her must NOT be a mistake. Not when she make me believe that I, a damn hanyou who should have been drowned at birth, am the product of a real love."-Inuyasha leaned his head and rested it on the bed, next to Kagome's, looking at her raven black hair that covered the pillow like a fan of silk.-"You're not a mistake, Kagome."

Sorry my mistakes on the text. English is still a new language for me. xP
Hope you enjoyed it as much as I enjoyed myself writting it. Just two more chapters to the end.
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