False Pretense
Description: He had fallen for her and her him. But he screwed up, when it came to it he dumbly rejected her to uphold a reputation, but will he cave in when they start spending even more time together because of a band? SessKag, mainly
Recap: "DON'T LIE TO ME, DAMNIT!" He yelled at her, as he now realized he was yelling, for he heard Sesshoumaru stirring in his room.
"Damnit… We've woken up Sesshoumaru." InuTaisho said sighing. "Izayoi, I think you should leave. I don't care where you go. And… I don't want you to go anywhere near InuYasha. I'll take care of him.. Now, really… Leave…" InuTaisho looked away from her and headed upstairs to check on Sesshoumaru.
Chapter 14. Bwahaha, I'M FREE!
Sesshoumaru awoke in his bed, slightly confused. He didn't understand how he got there. And then he remembered what happened in the car, and he guess he fell asleep, and his father put him here. He woke up to his father yelling. And immediately he wanted to know why. He got out of bed, and walked to his door, and upon opening it, and he smacked in the forehead again, with a door. He was knocked on his ass for the second time in two days. With a small groan he rubbed his forehead and he heard his father.
"Sesshoumaru! Are you alright? I'm sorry." InuTaisho apologized before pulling his son back to his feet.
"I'm.. Fine." Sesshoumaru groaned a bit annoyed. "What was all the yelling?" He asked, letting his hand fall back to his side.
"Um.. Nothing, don't worry about it." InuTaisho said, looking to his the side a bit. "And, I'm officially ungrounding you, by the way." InuTaisho said as he turned around and walked out of Sesshoumaru's room.
Sesshoumaru sat there dumbfounded. "What?" was all he could say, before forcing himself to follow his father.
"Hey, what's going on? What did I do? Heh.. Good behavior?" Sesshoumaru asked, following InuTaisho through the house. "Doubt that.." He added under his breath.
InuTaisho turned around to face his son, and sighed. He should tell him everything that had just transpired. Izayoi was gone already, and InuTaisho had to go get InuYasha from kindergarten before Izayoi got the brilliant idea. InuTaisho was a bit afraid to tell Sesshoumaru the absolute truth, because he knew Sesshoumaru would go after Izayoi. Perhaps he would tell him when Izayoi was already on trial or in prison. For now he would make something up.
"Sesshoumaru.. Don't get too excited but me and Izayoi have decided to go our separate ways. I suppose that's putting it lightly, but she's very upset, and I don't want InuYasha to get caught up in a rash decision, so I have to go pick him up from kindergarten. Now." InuTaisho said, gathering a few things before heading towards the door. "Sesshoumaru, you stay here, with Gaara, perhaps show him around a little bit, I'll be back soon." InuTaisho added, before walking out of the house, closing the door behind him.
"Right.. Gaara?" Sesshoumaru called, not sure where he was.
"Yes?" Gaara, asked from just behind Sesshoumaru. Sesshoumaru calmly turned around.
"Would you like me to show you around?" Sesshoumaru asked him.
"Sure." Gaara answered smiling slightly. Without another word Sesshoumaru began to walk around the house showing and telling him where things were.
"This is a very big house." Gaara said around the end of the tour. Sesshoumaru smirked.
"I still get lost. Heh, in the morning when I'm a bit dazed." Sesshoumaru admitted. "I really do. I have to yell out "Help me" normally in a pathetic weak voice, cause I'm still tired and lazy- feeling but, they find me." Sesshoumaru said chuckling a bit, and Gaara seemed amused as well.
"So, why are you gonna be living here anyway? My father never mentioned you." Sesshoumaru asked, now remembering the situation.
"Well, my father is the Kazekage of Suna, and well.. He.. Disowned me. Because I'm a demon. He thinks of me as a monster, and he wanted nothing more to do with me.. So I came here, and the Hokage of Konoha found out, and contacted your father. The Hokage and your father are acquaintances, she told your father all about me and my situation, and he still agreed to take me in." Gaara explained, a sad look on his face as he did so.
"Oh, I'm sorry, about all that. Actually Neji Hyuuga told me a bit about you, so I think I got everything. That's a lot to go through. But, you know.. It's over now. You're here, and you'll never have to deal with any of that anymore." Sesshoumaru said, trying to make Gaara feel better.
"Thanks. It helps to know that. I guess, we're technically brother's now." Gaara, said jokingly.
"Wouldn't be hard to tell." Sesshoumaru said before staring Gaara up and down analyzing his clothing, as Gaara did the same to Sesshoumaru. They looked back up at each other and shook their heads.
"Nope." They both said in unison.
Sesshoumaru sighed. "Well now what?" Gaara asked.
"Wanna meet my friends? Schools letting' out soon, we gotta walk, so we'd get there, just when they get out." Sesshoumaru said, while looking for anything else to do in case Gaara didn't want to leave the house.
"Sure, why not?" Gaara said, grabbing his bag, and walking towards the front door.
Sesshoumaru nodded and did the same.
They walked to the school, and they talking about the band, that Sesshoumaru was in with his friends.
"Wow, that's amazing. How many songs do you guys have now?" Gaara asked.
"We have three completed, I'm working on the fourth." Sesshoumaru answered as they sat down on a bench outside the school, as they waited.
They continued to talk until they heard the final bell ring, and out came a sea of students. Sesshoumaru spotted Kagome, and Sango, who was being followed by Miroku, And behind them, were Ayame, Kouga, and Bankotsu.
Kagome looked over at Gaara, and Sesshoumaru, walked over to them, and forcefully squeezed herself to sit between them.
"Getting acquainted while ditching, eh?" She accused as she draped an arm around Sesshoumaru.
"No, I got suspended for three days." Sesshoumaru said looking at her, and almost sounding proud of it.
"Why!" Kagome exclaimed as she jumped up.
"You'll see." Sesshoumaru teased with smug expression. He stood up and gestured for her to follow him, with Gaara. Kagome only looked at him with a questioning look, before catching up to him, and Gaara.
"So, when did you guys start talking?" Kagome asked, looking up at him.
"He's my adopted brother." Sesshoumaru said, bluntly.
"What? Since when?"
"This morning."
Silence.
Kagome thought about it for a minute, and then started jumping up and down excitedly.
"That's so cool! Hey, maybe he can be in the band! Hey, Gaara, got any musical talent?" Kagome asked skipping to Gaara's side. Gaara blushed, and shook his head.
"Not really. My sister used to tell me I was good at the whole screamo singing thing, but I'm not so sure." Gaara, said, shaking off the blush.
"Oh.. OH! I never introduced myself, I'm Kagome Higurashi." Kagome said, smiling.
"Gaara Sabaku. Heh, nice to meet you, Kagome." Gaara said nodding.
"Well, we'll just see what you can do. Sesshoumaru will bring you t- Oh wait.. Sesshoumaru's grounded… Hmm." Kagome didn't know what to do about this dilemma. She thought for a second but heard Sesshoumaru's voice.
"No, I'm not. Not anymore." Sesshoumaru said turning around.
"Oh, really? What'd you do, to change your dad's mind?" Kagome asked.
Sesshoumaru's face lit up, remembering what his father said about him and Izayoi. He laughed an almost barky laugh, and smirked.
"My dad, and Izayoi separated, my dad is filing for divorce. Ahahahaaaa~" Sesshoumaru said happily and laughed again, enjoying the new development.
Silence for a moment, again, and Kagome laughed as well, she had never seen Sesshoumaru so happy before. So this was definitely a good thing. She then felt an arm drape over her shoulders.
"Wow, Sesshy- Kun, I've never seen you so happy. Your terrible. Happy over a divorce. Haha." Kagome said smiling again. She never liked Izayoi either, she was always so snobby towards her, and always had a smug expression. So she was also glad Izayoi was gone. Besides she wasn't liking the way she treated Sesshoumaru anyway. Always setting him up to get in trouble with his father. To Kagome she was just a "Dumb bitch."
"Well whatever! It's time for celebration! For me at least." Sesshoumaru said jokingly.
"Well, to me, she was just a dumb bitch." Kagome said obviously annoyed, just thinking of Izayoi.
Everyone but Kagome, Sesshoumaru, and Gaara went their separate ways, because they thought it best to do their homework before band practice. Kagome, and Sesshoumaru however, didn't care.
"Let's go to the café on the corner of my street, I want to finish Porcelain. Can get something too if you want, I have plenty of money on me." Sesshoumaru said, before taking the turn that would take them there. Kagome shrugged, and Gaara nodded. A few minutes later they entered the café and sat down in a booth in the back next to the window, the café was a classic one, dimly lit, vintage, all that. It was playing an old type of music lightly. The waitress came to take their orders soon there after, and the friends placed their orders. And a few minutes after that she came back with their orders, and gave them the bill to pay on their way out.
Sesshoumaru sipped on his coffee, as he intently worked on the song, not paying attention to Gaara and Kagome's small talk. It was about an hour and a half before Sesshoumaru slapped the note book containing the finished product in front of Kagome. She jumped and grabbed the notebook, and began to read.
Porcelain-
Sat up for hours, thoughts of a lover,
I'll probably never get a chance to hold again.
All of my days spent, waiting for nights, with her again, again.
And I'm, sharing a drink with a memory, and a laugh with an empty seat.
Do you still look the same? Will you still look at me the same?
Cause I know that I don't, I've gotten so old in these last few years.
And I'd rather be fighting with you than sleeping here next to her.
Don't let me fall I'll break, what a mess I'd make.
Pathetic pieces on your floor, will cut your feet forever more.
You're porcelain, such fragile skin,
Just let me hold you. I'll be gentle. I won't drop you.
This time I'll be careful.
Forget for just one second that this is not alright.
Let's drink to feeling nothing, at least just for tonight.
Stay for one more, pass out on the floor just like we used to do,
It got so hot in your room.
Don't let me fall I'll break, what a mess I'd make.
Pathetic pieces on your floor, will cut your feet forever more.
You're porcelain, such fragile skin,
Just let me hold you. I'll be gentle. I won't drop you.
This time I'll be careful.
And I can't let it go, This Phantom pain I'm feeling,
And the hurt wont leave me alone, and I'm tired of sleeping with ghosts.
Fell asleep with your ghost woke up with a headache.
From a cure that's only temporary, and in the morning always fails me.
Don't let me fall I'll break, what a mess I'd make.
Pathetic pieces on your floor, will cut your feet forever more.
You're porcelain, such fragile skin,
Just let me hold you. I'll be gentle. I won't drop you.
This time I'll be careful…
Kagome looked up from the notebook when she had finished reading and just stared, stunned for a moment.
"Wow, just.. Wow.. Again.. You never cease to amaze me." Kagome said smiling truly amazed with his work as usual.
Sesshoumaru smirked. "Oh, yes I-" Sesshoumaru stopped mid- sentence when he caught the scent of a certain someone he didn't want to deal with at the moment. He sighed. "We should leave.." Sesshoumaru said, standing.
"What? Why?" Kagome asked obviously oblivious.
Sesshoumaru sighed and pointed at Sasuke, who was angrily stomping towards them.
"That's why.."
Haha, another cliffeh~ Well anyway, hope you liked it, I'll get going right away on chapter 15. Thanks.
~Akio Toshiya