Cracking the Heart of Stone

DG32173

Sarah: eh (yawns) here's chapter 1 … (head falls to desk, dead to the world until she awakens)

Inuyasha: she goes to sleep almost too quickly … makes me wonder what she keeps getting into to do that …

Sesshomaru: same here … (glances at readers) the girl owns nothing relating to any anime or manga.

NOTE

(Author notes)

"Someone on the other end of a phone, singing, radios, etc" (you'll figure it out)"

Scene change

POV change

Memories

Scene change in memories

INDEX

If it's not Japanese, I'll put the language like this note is. Otherwise, assume it's Japanese. The Index is in alphabetical order!

Hanyou: refers to a demon with mixed blood, usually demon whose blood is mixed with human blood

Tenshi: angel

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Chapter 1

I'm Sorry … My Tenshi

A small ball of fluff leaps into Kagome's arms while another, this time human, child grabs her legs; both children are crying their small hearts out. "Shippo, Rin? What's wrong?" she asks gently, crouching protectively, like a mother eagle spreading her wings, over the two. Three years ago, she had found the two orphaned children wandering the streets of an American town that is home to mostly Japanese-Americans and insisted they travel with her and Inuyasha. It's been four and a half years since the Kagome and Inuyasha have been in Japan, traveling the world in style thanks to Inuyasha's high-class family.

"Inuyasha! He was with her again!" Shippo wails.

"He g-glared at us and y-yelled for us to go j-jump of a b-bridge or s-something!" Rin cries pitifully.

Kagome's blue-grey eyes narrow angrily, turning to a cold, harsh silver. If Sesshomaru were to see the look on her face at that precise moment, even he would not be brave enough to get in her way. "He did, did he?" she asks calmly … too calmly. The children can sense the anger radiating off of the former shrine maiden. Anger towards the child who had been seen with a look-alike of herself far too many times for her liking AND had told off the two children she had taken as her own and had even went so far as to legally adopt. She stands up, carrying Shippo and holding Rin's small hand. "Come, children, we're packing," she says, taking them into the hotel suite she had just exited.

"Where are we going, okaa-san?" Shippo asks.

"To the home of a friend of mine. His name is Sesshomaru," she says.

"Where's your friend's house?" Rin asks.

"He lives in Japan," she says gently. She and Inuyasha had been considering going back to Japan for a visit with their families and had only managed to afford to purchase three tickets. Someone, we won't mention the hanyou's pathetic name, had spent over eighty thousand American dollars at this stop, in a city in the United States, with a woman she had only glimpsed twice. Now she's using those tickets to go back to Japan with her children and without Inuyasha.

She and the children pack quickly, as they don't have much. She grabs the tickets out of the drawer of the nightstand between her bed and the bed the children share. Inuyasha had taken a suite attached to this one by a door. She walks down to the office, the children following her. She turns in the key to her suite, saying that 'something had come up and she was taking the children with her back to Japan' and that her 'friend' was staying for a bit longer. Well, it is true. Something had come up, she is taking the children back to Japan with her, and Inuyasha is staying longer than she and the children. But the desk clerk probably assumed something came up in Japan, not here. She gets the refund from the nights that she hadn't used. Inuyasha had paid for both suites for a full month's time. She's leaving one and a half weeks into that time. Meaning she gets a good deal of money to use on their trip back, since one suite would cost about two hundred fifty American dollars a night. Like I said, traveling in style thanks to his family's vast supply of money.

After that, she hails a taxi and the driver takes her and the children to the airport. She exchanges almost all of the remaining money for Japanese currency. After that, they board the next plane to Japan, not looking back as the plane takes off. All three of them have become fed up with Inuyasha's rude and irresponsible behavior. And now the hanyou will pay for it when and if he tries to enter the suite she and the children had shared and finds them gone. And she knows her soon-to-be host will take care of her and the children without questions. Sesshomaru will wait until she is ready to tell him what had happened. His patience is something even she envies to an extent. And she had been voted most patient person of her graduating class nearly six years ago. Let's see. Nearly five years of traveling with Inuyasha, and about a year of adjusting to a life without school. Yep, nearly six years, five and a half years if you wanna be exact.

With Inuyasha while Kagome and the kids were boarding the plane

Inuyasha walks into his suite, regretting being so mean to the kids. He decides to try and make it up to them and heads through the door connecting his suite and the one Kagome shares with the kids … one problem with that decision. No one's here and their suitcases are gone. He checks the drawer that he knows held the airplane tickets to Japan. They're gone too. "Dammit!" he growls, before sinking onto the bed that she had slept on.

He can still smell her sweet, flowery scent emanating from the bed. No demon he had come in contact with could identify the flower that she smells like. No demon in the entire world that they had run into recognizes it, except that, for a human, she smells undeniably irresistible. But, he can also smell the lightning scent that entwines with it when she is beyond pissed. He has a feeling that her fury is … was directed at him.

"I guess I pushed her over the edge," he murmurs. "I shouldn't have even agreed to talk to Kikyo that first day. But … she looks so much like Kagome." He sighs and leaves the room, locking the door in his suite that leads to the one she and the kids she had legally adopted as her own had shared. He leans against the door. "I'm sorry Kagome …," he whispers, sliding down the door, not bothering to fight the tears that flow to fill his eyes and roll down his cheeks. "I'm sorry … my tenshi."

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Sarah: I know. Shorter even than the prologue. BUT it explains why she was so upset to talk about Inuyasha to Sesshomaru. And it shows what the implications were for! They weren't what most people thought they would be, that's for sure! Inuyasha was being his rude, self-centered, jackass self and hurt the kids feelings. With her "children's" prides bruised, Kagome also got her own pride bruised and left! And almost everyone probably thought that it would be he cheated on her … which he did, but that's not why she left.

Sesshomaru: long ending speech, girl. Longer than your usual ones.

Sarah: (blushing) I didn't really notice … AND I'M NOT A GIRL! I'M A WOMAN! W-O-M-A-N! WOMAN! … actually, I'm a hanyou who looks like a human but has demon blood in me.

Sesshomaru: (smirking) okay … hanyou.

Sarah: GRRRR! THAT'S NOT THE POINT! GACK! MALES ARE SO STUBBORN! (looks at female readers) don't you ladies out there agree? (glances at length) WOW! With the ending note, this document is gonna be longer than the prologue document!

Inuyasha: yeah, you talk too much, wench!

Sesshomaru: (glaring, barely controlling his youkai instincts) what did you call my mate!

Inuyasha: (gulps) uh … AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH! (runs)

Sesshomaru: (chases)

Sarah: (suddenly dressed as cheerleader) GO, SESSHOMARU! GO, GO, GO! (pompoms waving in air) KILL THAT MUTT! GO, SESSHOMARU!

Inuyasha: KILL! NO WAY! (runs as fast as he can, Sesshomaru hot on his heels (I always wanted to say that!))

Miroku, Kouga, Sango, Shippo, Kagome, and Kikyo: (dressed as cheerleaders and following Sarah's cheers)

Inuyasha: WHAT! KAGOME! KIKYO! YOU'RE ON THEIR SIDE!

Kagome and Kikyo: yep! (has lots of cash in their brand new purses)

Inuyasha: TRAITORS! YOU WENT TO THEIR SIDE FOR MONEY!

Kagome: plus, Sarah-chan seems to have a few … followers … that can be very convincing!

Sarah: FOLLOWERS! FEW! MORE LIKE A MILLION RABID PSYCHOTIC FANBOYS!

Sesshomaru: (growls at mention of said rabid psychotic fanboys) GRRRRR! THEY AIN'T TOUCHING MY MATE!

Kagome and Kikyo: don't worry Sesshomaru!

Kagome: we'll take a few!

Kikyo: yeah!

Inuyasha: (HUGE eyes, blue depressed thingy over eyes, pouting in a corner) they ditched me … they DITCHED me!

Sarah: uh-oh … my fanboy senses are tingling!

Inuyasha: fanboy senses!

Sesshomaru: (growling)

Random Fanboy 231: HEY! THERE SHE IS! AND SHE HAS SOME CUTE GIRLS WITH HER! (stampede of thousands of fanboys)

Sarah: oh no … how'd they find me in …

TO BE CONTINUED…