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Chapter Three: Heart Pain

Even Hero could not save Kagome from her friend Sango when she was on hyper mode.

Kagome had made it home shortly after her visit to the vet's office with Hero in tow, totally asleep. He was so cute and Kagome could feel herself falling in love with him already.

How could someone not?

He had to be easily the cutest puppy in the world. Kagome was not regretting her spur of the moment decision one bit. Not only did she get a totally lovable puppy out of it, but she also got to see an old friend.

It was such a surprise to see Hojo again! Him being a vet fit him. He was destined to help people, after all, that was how she had met him in the beginning. She had been sick one day at school in middle school. Just a slight cough and a bit of a fever, but if was nothing to be worried about. She had just coughed into her sleeve when Hojo had passed by her. He stopped and looked at Kagome. Walking up to her and handed her his apple.

"Here you go." He said, "You should eat this. You should try to eat healthy things before you get too sick. Hopefully you can fight what ever got a hold to you off and then you'll feel better."

Hojo had walked away waving his hand and smiling. He was always so nice and Kagome loved that about him.

Shaking off the memory, Kagome walked up to her small suburban home that a grandmother that she never knew she had left her and released a much needed sigh.

She was finally home.

Kagome was working so many places that it was borderline ridiculous. She of course had one constant job a big company called Tiasho Comp, but she needed more income and not only that, but she needed to keep on moving.

Sitting still, she was sure, was somewhere in her dictionary, but Kagome couldn't find it. Sometimes she thought that she was ADHD and needed medication, but since she was not bouncing off the walls it was okay.

Finding her key to her house, Kagome opened the door and a small blast of cool air her her.

It felt wonderful.

It was getting close to Autumn, but it was still hot out. It would not get cool for a while so Kagome kept her air conditioning unit running mostly all day. It was set not to start at 7o'clock pm and end at 9o'clock am. It would only be off when she was gone away from home.

Looking down at Hero, Kagome smiled.

Shutting the door, Kagome locked it and then switched on the light. Her living room was decorated in various color. The walls were a deep solid red, but that was where everything stopped being normal. The couches were black with different colors of brown pillows thrown into a neat design. The floor was marble like and it's color was a deep green. There was a orange carpet on the floor underneath the coffee table in the middle of the room. The coffee table was shockingly a solid looking black that was polished to perfection. The curtains covering two separate windows were the same loud orange as the carpet was.

It should have looked like a disaster with all of the colors in the room clashing with one another, but it wasn't. It made the room look as if it was a piece of art out of a painted picture.

There was color everywhere that seemed barely contained.

It was glorious!

Kagome loved the work that she put into her home! Every time she open her door, she was hit with a feeling of accomplishment. Everything in her home was hers and she worked hard for it all. It was worth all the pain and tears she had shed and all of her sick days.

Going up the stairs, Kagome hit the switch on the wall and continued on to the path to her bedroom. she turned the corner and opened her door. Her light was always off in her room because the light in the bathroom was always on. for some reason the light always bothered her so it remained off. Sitting Hero down on the bed, Kagome wondered if it was a bad thing that he was still sleeping. She would have to ask Hojo if it was normal for him to be resting so much with the medicine.

Taking off her cloths, Kagome walked to her bathroom to hop in the shower.

She decided to leave the door open just in case Hero awoke.

In the shower, Kagome made a mental note to go shopping in the morning for what her new puppy might need. Food and all that came with that was a necessity. She would also have to get him a dog collar and also something to bath with. If she went to the pet outlet then she would be able to take him with her.

Yeah.

That would work.

A short while later, Kagome stepped out of the shower with a towel wrapped around her looking refreshed and sleepy. Drying off totally, she sat down on the bed and finally noticed the answering machine beeping lowly.

Pressing the button and typing in her code, Kagome listened with surprise at her messages.

'Kagome, this is Sango. Miroku told me all about what happen today at the bar! Why didn't you tell me you were seeing someone! I'm your friend, how could you keep something like this from me? I wan't details and I want them now... Where did you meet him? wha..'

It looks like her fifteen seconds were up with the message, but then another message came up.

'Kagome, damn it! I'm sick of talking to an answering machine! Like I was saying. What's his name? Where does he stay? When are you going to let me meet him?' She gasped. 'You are going to let me meet him right?'

She was cut off again. Kagome sat there listening to her for a couple of more messages before skipping them all that had Sango on them. She loved her friend, but she would not be calling her at all. It was better to tell her in person than over a phone, but Kagome didn't know how she was going to do it either way.

What happened still shocked her.

Deciding not to dwell on it. Kagome wen't downstairs still in the towel and cut off the living room light, went back upstairs and cut off the light behind her, before cutting off the light in her bathroom and going to the bed. She had brought another towel with her into the room and wrapped hero in it before laying him down on a pillow next to hers.

Tossing the towel into a basket in a corner of her room, Kagome laid down and then was struck with a terrible pain in her chest.

It was like someone had taken a hold of her heart and took a powerful squeeze.

For a moment, Kagome was to shocked to react to the pain and when she did it was over.

Confused, Kagome sat up.

Why did her chest hurt like that? It was a question that had to go unanswered. Kagome laid down slower the next time and kept her eyes open. The pain was confusing and she did not want to experience it again.

Drifting off to sleep, she was not aware that the same thing was happening to Sesshomaru.

Only he had a clue why it was so.

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