The Affair

A/N: So, it's been a while. Not really my fault, considering my laptop's display drive nearly blew up, and I couldn't really do anything to fix it except... wipe my hard drive completely. I don't even have Microsoft Word anymore... Crap. Oh, well, Wordpad'll do for now. But here's the new chapter. Go ahead, love it. Btw, no lemon in this one; it's purely for plot-pushing. Maybe I'll throw in a wet dream or some fantasies, since we all know that the only reason anyone reads this is for the detailed descriptions of mind-blowing sex.



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When it started we had high hopes

Now my back's on the line,

My back's on the ropes.

When it started, we were all right,

But night makes a fool of us in daylight.

Then we were dying of frustration

Saying, "Lord, lead me not into temptation."

But it's not easy when she turns you on...

Since they've gone.



- Coldplay, "Yes"

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Chapter Eight: The Unhappy New Year.



Kagome just sat there on the sofa and glared at Inuyasha. They'd been together for two years now; they'd been living together for just that long as well. "All this time," she mumbled, "and you wanna try something like this NOW?"



They'd been arguing for several weeks about how to handle losing the apartment like this. The two hadn't been prepared for Inuyasha to lose his position as the manager of the theater, and Kagome had started working as an assistant photographer in a major studio in downtown Tokyo. She was only a semester away from completing her B.A. in photography. But she couldn't hold them afloat on the pay she was getting at the studio, not with tuition and books to pay for also. There was no way, and Inuyasha knew it. Kagome would go to live with her parents for her last semester at college, and Inuyasha...



Well, his parents had both died when he was very young. He couldn't go to live with Sesshomaru, because he didn't want to impose on his older brother and sister-in-law. He also didn't want to move in with Miroku and Sango, who had gotten married the year before, because they were now planning to start a family, and that would have just made Inuyasha plain uncomfortable. There was only one person left that could help him out at a time like this, and it really bothered him. But he knew that this would bother Kagome ten times more...



"You know what REALLY pisses me off about this?" Kagome asked in as bitchy a tone as she could manage. Inuyasha couldn't look at her; he sat across the room, in the chair at the desk, looking out the window and wringing his hands. "What?" he asked cautiously, knowing he wasn't going to like the answer.



Kagome stood and crossed her arms over her breasts, and her glare deepened. Inuyasha glanced at her and swallowed audibly. He hated the anger gleaming in her pretty brown eyes. He looked away again. "After two years, you're still married to her," Kagome murmured. Inuyasha looked at her again, a long, searching look, and he winced at the hurt in her expression. They stayed like that, Kagome standing and Inuyasha sitting, both staring at each other, for a few minutes before Kagome whispered, "It's like you're taking her back after all this time."



She was in his arms in an instant. "No," he murmured into her hair, cherishing her scent as it filled his nostrils. "No, I would never take her back. Not when I have you to look forward to. It's just..." He pulled back to look her in the eye. "There's nowhere else."



Kagome pulled out of his arms, a disgusted look taking residence on her pretty face. "That's not true, Inuyasha," she told him. "There's always somewhere else you can go. There's always something else that you can do. This is just the only thing that you feel COMFORTABLE doing."



He sighed. There was no convincing her; Inuyasha recognized that look. That was the look of hurt, of betrayal, of abandonment. Kagome already had trust issues, with her dad leaving her and her mom at such an early age, and then all the things that had happened to her in high school. She'd been hurt lots of times by boys, and, although Inuyasha knew he was no boy to her, he was hurting her all the same.



Kagome packed her things and was moved out that night.



When she was gone, Inuyasha sat up for a while, watching his favorite episode of Futurama [the Globetrotters one] to try and cheer himself up. It didn't work. Finally, he was getting ready to go to bed when he looked up and saw the clock in the dining room chime twelve. He groaned and rubbed his face, telling Kagome a quiet "Happy New Year," that he knew she couldn't hear.



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A/N: Sorry. No lemons. No wet dreams. No fantasies. This is purely about emotion. And, yes, I know I'm a bipolar writer.