Title: Going with the Flow
Author: landofthekwt
Rating: PG-13
Prompt: Flow (Ebony Silks)
Word Count: 476
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Warning: None
Summary: How Kagome came to love Sesshoumaru.
A/N This drabble came from a question Luxken asked about how Kagome happened to leave Inuyasha for Sesshoumaru in one of my stories
Who knows the ways of love? It flows like a river. If we allow ourselves to be swept away, it will carry us to places we never intended. So it was with Kagome.
She had always been a person who loved. She followed without regard to consequences of her actions. It had led her to follow a hanyou on a quest and then to leave her own world for him.
It had started so innocently. A greeting to a brother-in-law. She had only been trying to reach out to him as a family member. Family had always been important to her.
A chance conversation as he was leaving Kaede's hut from his visits to Rin. which became regular chats. With Inuyasha constantly on the road with Miroku she had become starved for male companionship.
For some reason Sesshoumaru reminded her so much of Inuyasha. For some reason talking to him seemed as natural as talking to her husband. Maybe she was just attracted to dogs.
The chats became cordial. She would invite him for meals even though he did not eat. The conversation was pleasant enough and helped to pass the time.
They became used to one another's company. Being around each other seemed only natural. Whenever Sesshoumaru visited, they became inseparable. Constant companions.
One day they were walking their hands just happened to touch. It was not planned or based on any conscious design, but neither flinched from the touch. It seemed only natural.
As they spent more time in each others company, the touches became more frequent. When they sat, she would lean against him and he would put his arm around her.
The visits became more frequent. A place was always set for Sesshoumaru. With Inuyasha absent it was only natural that she gravitated to his brother.
There came a day when she begged him not to leave. She could not bear to live one more day in that house alone. Somehow it seemed so right to be with him.
The day came when she could no longer dismiss her physical attraction to him. She wanted him as much he wanted her. The consummation of their relationship only made her eager for more.
It became harder and harder to hide their relationship. Sesshoumaru was always there when Inuyasha was not. And when Sesshoumaru was not there it only made her want him more.
The day she realized that she was pregnant was the day she realized that she must finally choose with whom she wanted to live her life. It would not be fair to either Inuyasha or Sesshoumaru if she raised Sesshoumaru's child with Inuyasha.
It was a day of parting. She had never stopped loving Inuyasha for one moment, but she had come to love his brother. Nothing planned or orchestrated just something that happened in the natural flow of events.