Beautiful Things

I do own somethin’ but it’s sure as hell isn’t Inuyasha! Damn!

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Chapter 1

A Beautiful Thing

Sesshoumaru casually walked into the living room and took a seat. Relief washed over his body; though he didn’t show it. Still, it wasn’t a total relief; because most her things were packed in boxes. The other day he became alarmed when one of Kagome’s co-workers told him that she quit her job. To Sesshoumaru that could only mean one thing; Kagome is leaving. At first he wasn’t going to come by and just settle for driving by her apartment, but he spotted some of Kagome’s furniture outside in the dumpster. So he put his issues aside and knocked on her damn door.

Kagome stood as still as a statue for the longest moment. After two years, he just shows up like nothing happened. Like they were still friends, and they were anything but. Sesshoumaru abandoned her, when she needed him the most; when she needed a friend. Tears began to surface but she refused to shed them, at least, not until she tossed this bastard out of her life as well.

“Kagome, are you just going to stand there all day, or are you going to sit down and talk to me?” Sesshoumaru asked; effectively breaking Kagome’s musings.

She snapped out of it and glared at the male who invited himself into her apartment. Kagome slammed the door shut. “What do you want Sesshoumaru? After two years, you’d think ‘you’ would have nothing to say.” She took a seat far away from him. “You should just leave.”

Ouch! “Are you going some where?” Sesshoumaru asked. He decided to ignore her for the moment.

“Where I go or what I do, does not concern you or your brother.” Kagome anger started to rise. “If that’s all you came for, leave.”

“What is your problem!” Sessho
umaru’s frustrations finally got the best of him.

Kagome grabbed the edge of her seat. “Like you don’t know! Why are you here?” She shouted. “We aren’t friends, remember! You stopped speaking to me years ago; when I needed you the most!”

“……”

“I stood by your side through everything.” Kagome continued. “Even when your father remarried for a third time and had a third child; I was there for you! But when I need that same encouragement, you left me. There was no one to help me when Inuyasha left me feeling like dirt!”

Sesshoumaru stood up and walked over to Kagome. He reached out to caress her face, but she slapped his hand back and pushed him away. “I’m sorry Kagome. I had a lot going on in my life at the time.” He lied. “There was college…”


She pointed toward the door. “Get out. You never lied to me before Sesshoumaru, so why start now? If you feel the need to lie to me, get out; I’ve heard enough lies for one year.” Kagome stood up and headed towards the door. If Sesshoumaru didn’t know the way out then she would show him.

“Fine. You were his fool!” Sesshoumaru shouted. “I couldn’t stand to watch you be a moron for a man you did not love and who, most certainly, did not love you. You gave him things he didn’t deserve and I started to hate you for it.” He spat angrily.

Kagome abandoned her trip to the door in favor for a place in front of Sesshoumaru. -SLAP- Her hand ran heavy across Sesshoumaru’s face. “You bastard.” Kagome pulled her arm back. “I did love him or, at least, I thought I was in love!” The tears she vowed not to shed started to run down her smooth skin. “If I didn’t love him, then who? Tell me Sesshoumaru, since you know me so well!” She said with as much discord as possible.

Sesshoumaru grabbed Kagome by the shoulders and looked her in the eyes. “You love me.” He stated simply. “You should have been with me, given yourself to me. You should have been mine to take care of!” Sesshoumaru hung his head low. “Instead you gave everything to that bastard brother of mine. You became his total fool; in mind and body.”

“I never… we never…” Kagome whispered. Then she found a better voice. “I never had intercourse with him. That’s why he cheated. That’s why he left.” Kagome’s eyes went down cast to the floor, so she didn’t notice Sesshoumaru looking up in surprise. Kagome could still hear Inuyasha’s accusations that she didn’t love him enough because she wouldn’t go farther than oral sex; even after five years. Still… she wanted more from the relationship than just words. Kagome wanted to know that he truly did love her before she gave him her body, so you see… she wasn’t a complete fool as Sesshoumaru thought.

Sesshoumaru placed a finger under her chin and forced her to look at him. “Why?”

“Why does it matter?” Kagome spat bitterly.

“I’m sorry.” Sesshoumaru admitted sincerely. He carefully pulled Kagome into his embrace and held on tightly. “I should have been there for you, but I could not.”

Kagome heard the realness in his voice and turned her watery gaze to meet his. “I shouldn’t have been so stupid.” She whispered.

Sesshoumaru lowered his lips to hers. “That’s makes the both of us.” For the first time, he tasted her sweet lips. She’s kissed him plenty of times before, but never like this. There is loneliness in this kiss; loneliness that he intends to fix.

She didn’t quite know how it started, but her hands made there way around Sesshoumaru’s neck on their own. Kagome found herself acting wanton and desperate. Did she really need love this badly; that she was willing to take it from a person that hurt her so? Apparently so… As things got out of hand, Kagome could not find a voice to protest. Even when the phone broke her trance; it was just too late.


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“Damn it all!” Inuyasha shouted into his cell phone. He called Kagome’s job today only to find out that she quit. Then he called her house, several times, only to not get an answer. He’s pissed.

Inuyasha wanted to go over to their apartment an pick up the rest of his ‘things’, at least that is the lie he keeps telling himself. He has, what, like a pair of scissors and a handkerchief left at Kagome’s; so there is no real reason for him to want to go. Never the less, Inuyasha couldn’t stop this behavior. He called everyday, for no reason at all, requesting different things of Kagome; like to talk, to look for something he may have left behind, or to look up something that he could not find on his own. Sometime she answered the phone and other times he got ignored, but she never let him anywhere near her and it is driving him crazy. Inuyasha can’t explain it. Kagome meant nothing to him; yet since he moved out, he yearned to see her.

Today, Inuyasha made up in his mind that he would see her, but she won’t answer the phone; any of them. So he called her apartment one last time, and the answer machine came on. “You can’t avoid me forever, Kagome. Tomorrow I’m comin’ by like it or not.” Inuyasha angrily flipped his phone closed and sped off towards the nearest restaurant. Kikyo doesn’t cook like Kagome did, and he misses that greatly.


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Kagome put her hand up to stop his descent. “Sesshoumaru wait.” She said breathlessly.

Sesshoumaru stopped only for a moment before he continued with his assault on her person. In the past thirty or so minutes the heat between them has reached a new limit and he is not going to let it just drop. “Why?”

“Because…” Kagome tried to sound serious, but their state of clothes-less-ness made it difficult. As a friend she couldn’t deny Sesshoumaru what he wanted, and now she couldn’t deny him ‘this’ either. But she would try, her heart and virtue demanded as much. “I’m not ready for this.”

Ripping off the last object that obstructed his view of Kagome nude body, Sesshoumaru started on his own clothing. “Nonsense. I will show you how it feels to really ‘be’ loved, Kagome.” With his clothes pooled on the floor, he took his place over her body and kissed her with a passion that Inuyasha never held.

His kisses felt like small fires all over her body that threatened to burn her alive. His tongue made a blazing trail from Kagome’s full lips to her neck, to her breast, to her abdomen. From there Sesshoumaru’s tongue made a hot wet trail down to her center. Kagome shook violently as the heat took her. “Sesshou… I… please…”

Sesshoumaru longed for this. He held Kagome tighter as she shook in his grasp. There was no part of her nether region that his tongue didn’t touch, and he liked the taste of it all. Sesshoumaru wanted to share in the sweetness and the pain of sex with his Kagome. After bringing her to a climax, he took his fill of the wine only produced by ‘her’ body and repositioned himself yet again. “He will never make you feel like this, Kagome. No one ever will.”

Her head was spinning. Then Sesshoumaru crawled back up her body and rubbed his swollen girth up again her tender core. “Wait!” This time Kagome’s voice held a bit more panic to it. “I’m sav…”

He anticipated her words. “And who says I won’t marry you, Kagome?” Sesshoumaru asked teasingly, but it was no joke.

“You would marry your brother’s fool?”

Sesshoumaru place another scorching kiss upon Kagome’s lips and eagerly thrust forward taking what he thought belonged to him in the first place. “Yes.”


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Kagome awoke in the early morning hours later to find herself VERY raw between the legs. Sesshoumaru is still there as well. She groaned and rolled over the best she could without waking Sesshoumaru up. Kagome had hoped that this was all one big bad dream, but as she sat up the evidence of her virginity covered the sheets and her body. Gross. How could she?

She quickly donned her robe and headed toward the shower. There, Kagome could do her best thinking and she did. She wasn’t angry with Sesshoumaru, but Kagome concluded he was no different than Inuyasha. Sesshoumaru only wanted her body after he learned that Inuyasha didn’t partake in its pleasures. Like Inuyasha, he only told her what he thought she wanted to hear. Both of them were cruel to her and both of them abandoned her; now it is time to move on with a clean slate. Kagome stepped out of the shower and put on fresh clothes and a pad. Who ever said that sex was beautiful LIED to the high heavens! She was hurting like Hell and she is still spotting! Damn it!!

Making her way to the living room, Kagome saw the light on the answering machine going off; so he turned the volume down and listened. She was not at all surprised to find that almost all of them were from Inuyasha. Why can’t he just leave me alone, she thought. The last message, however, got her attention. It was Inuyasha saying that he was coming over, no matter what, today! Kagome’s fragile heart almost failed her, but she calmed down. This just means she would be leaving home earlier than expected.

Kagome picked up the phone and called her mother. “Hello mom!” She had to sound excited. “Yes I know it’s 4:50 in the morning, but I need you and Souta help me!” Kagome hoped she didn’t sound too over dramatic. “No, I’m not in trouble, but I will be leaving the country.” She rolled her eyes. “No. Sango found me a better job.” Kagome lied. “Yes, I’m happy too. So can you take care of all my affairs for me? You know; like my apartment, storage, and the rest of my bills?” Kagome twisted the cord between her fingers and nodded her head. “I need to leave right away but I will stop by to see you before I go to the airport. Okay bye.”

Next Kagome called Sango and arranged for her pick-up. Then she set about packing her clothes. She is going to be gone by the time that bastard arrives and Sesshoumaru wakes up.


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“What tha…” Sesshoumaru rolled over and his hand started searching for the figure that he knew should be there; only there was nothing. It was early, so maybe Kagome got up to make breakfast? Yeah, she always made breakfast, so he rolled back over. Suddenly someone started to beat at the front door.

Inuyasha stood at the front door beating at it with a fury. Most people would be shocked to know that, although Inuyasha is lazy, he is an early riser. With his mind swirling; he couldn’t think. Certainly Kagome knows it’s him? Inuyasha’s vigorous knocking continued till he heard foot steps.

Try as he might, Sesshoumaru couldn’t stay sleep. The bastard at the door wouldn’t let him. He figured Kagome must be out or not to be able to get the door; so he slipped on his pants, minus the underwear, and answered the door. Needless to say he was more than shocked.

A half naked, disheveled Sesshoumaru is not what Inuyasha had planed on seeing this morning. In fact, what is he even…. Inuyasha didn’t finish the thought.

“What is it mongrel?” Sesshoumaru questioned. Inuyasha is the last thing he wanted to wake up and see.

Snapping out of his trance like state Inuyasha retorted. “Why in the Fuck are you at Kagome’s?” He pushed his way in. “Answer me you bastard!”

Sesshoumaru smirked. “I finally took what was mine to begin with.”

“What?”

His smirk grew. “It’s hard to find a twenty-three year old virgin these days.” Sesshoumaru said cryptically. Inuyasha threw him a confused look. “I see you are as slow as ever, brother.”

“Where is Kagome?” Inuyasha all but shouted and stormed off into the bedroom. There, he got his first clue to Sesshoumaru’s riddle; blood all over Kagome’s prized white silk sheets. “You bastard! What did you do to Kagome!”

“Hn?” Sesshoumaru racked his fingers through his long locks. “I thought that would be obvious by now.”

As the brothers prepared to square off, the front door opened. The both stopped expecting it to be Kagome, but it turned out to be her mother and brother.

Mai, Kagome’s mother, smiled at the two men in Kagome’s living room. “Oh! Hello. Kagome didn’t tell us that someone would be here.”

Souta, her bother, glared and decided to grace the brothers with some information he was sure they didn’t have yet. He of his sisters misery and want those to bastards to share in the pain that they both brought to her. “You can’t stay here long.” Souta said in a bored tone. “We need to get all her stuff packed.”

“Packed?” Both Inuyasha and Sesshoumaru asked.

“Yes, we are terribly sorry, but Kagome didn’t tell us much this morning before she left.” Mia replied; innocent of the game her son is playing.

Souta smirked something evil. “Kagome moved out of the country today and won’t be coming back.” Inside he laughed in triumph. Those bastards didn’t deserve his sister, and he is happy that she left.

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Somewhere over the Pacific ocean Kagome’s eyes were shut. Her new future, no matter how shaky, lay just ahead of her and she couldn’t wait to get there. Life is a Beautiful Thing…. Sometimes.

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