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My Bitter Romance

Chapter Six

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“I heard you leave. Why are you back here and where is Rin?” Sesshoumaru was interrupted by the ring of the doorbell.

He scowled and turned in the direction he had traced her voice from. “Stay there. I will finish speaking to you when I return.”

Kagome lifted a hand in a nonchalant wave, “Looking forward to it.” She then mumbled under her breath as he left, “And put on some clothes while you’re at it, you God damn streaker…”

Kagome sank against the wall of his bedroom with a frustrated sigh.

Maybe this was her personal hell.

Kagome lifted her translucent hand with a frown to her face. And she felt the familiar feeling of self loathing that had frequent her for years.

Abruptly the feeling began to smother her.

Yet again she was her own downfall.

She never remembered her damn inhaler.

Kagome mirrored Sesshoumaru’s scowl and suddenly Kagome could not see her self any longer.

Her eyes widened.

In fact, she could see only a dismal black abyss.

She could see nothing…

She could feel nothing…

It was as if she were in nothing…

A pool of dismal nothing…

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Sesshoumaru hurriedly went to open the door, ignoring Keys yipping excitedly by his feet. He suddenly paused.

Keys always became like that whenever he heard someone at the door.

Clearly that irritation in his room hasn’t used the front door…But then how did she get in?

He slowed his pace as he opened the door.

Someone launched into his arms sobbing and he stiffened. He quickly identified the voice as Rin’s and frowned; clearly knowing that the source of her tears probably had something to do with that aggravation on legs.

“Rin? Why are home so early?”

The brunette gripped him tightly. “They had to cancel classes. Kagome was hospitalized—” She broke into a spasm of sobs.

Sesshoumaru’s eyebrow rose. ‘Hospitalized?’

But his room—

Rin nodded in his arms, “She had an attack in the front foyer, but she didn’t have her inhaler…I can’t even…Nothing that I’ve read is explaining why she won’t wake up!” Her tiny frame shook viciously, “No matter how many books I read…” She made a disgusted noise. “This is the second time I’m this useless…that I come out physically unscathed—”

Sesshoumaru interrupted her, “Go lay down.”

Was she really thinking like that…?

Rin shook her head and made the motion to pull away from him, however Sesshoumaru held her firm, “I shouldn’t have left…I should go back…It’s the least I can do!”

Sesshoumaru patted her head and Rin blinked, “You’ve done enough for her.” Honestly, he was unsure how to handle this situation.

Clearly she needed some reassurance, but what was he to say to her?

As Rin walked towards the stairway, Sesshoumaru ran a hand through his hair, “Rin. I would have rather be blinded than be forced to see you injured. I don’t blame you for how things turned out.”

They had never really spoken about that night, and thinking back on that now, it was probably a foolish thing to ignore.

His sister was very protective despite that fact that it really wasn’t her role to be.

But he had not known that she was hurting so much because of it.

Rin smiled at him, “Thanks, Sesshoumaru-nii-chan.”

She felt better hearing that…

So much better.

She suddenly wrinkled her nose, “Now go put on some clothes. You’re going to get the neighbors going around questioning your decency.”

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As Sesshoumaru entered his room, Keys in tow, he was surprised to find it empty.

He assumed it was empty because of the lack of a sarcastic greeting or some comment on his state of current undress.

And Keys was completely silent for that matter.

Perhaps he had been hearing things.

Rin had said she had been hospitalized, so what were the chances that she was in his room now?

He slid a belt through a random pair of pants and slid on a pair of red tinted sunglasses.

Sesshoumaru sighed and placed his head in his large hands, after he had dressed. He took a seat on his bed, for some reason feeling unaffected by the news. He was more concerned about thinking about the accident. Now that he had the subject brought into the open, he had to wonder…

Of course he was not content with how things turned out, who would be? But things could still be straightened out.

He had been a high priority hire when he graduated however, if his sight did not return within a year, their offers would retract.

He scowled.

However, he had to take probability into the equation.

Sesshoumaru was so caught up in his musings that it barely registered when Keys began to whimper as he started to paw the bedspread in futile attempts to climb onto the bed.

A voice suddenly whispered by his ear, “Depressed that you have no one to argue with?”

Sesshoumaru turned his head into the direction of the voice. With a sneer he sat up. “You…What exactly are—”

Kagome’s image materialized once again in the room and she sat next to him, keeping her legs crossed Indian style so as Keys would not come into contact with her. That is… if he could come into contact with her…

“Before you finish that question, I’m still a ‘who’, thank you very much.”

Sesshoumaru continued to scowl, “I’m rather tired of your attitude. Why are you here?”

Kagome shrugged despite the fact that he couldn’t see it, “I wish I knew. This isn’t quite my first choice of places to be,” she drawled with a glance about the room.

Kagome suddenly grinned, “But I suppose we’re roommates for now.”

Sesshoumaru scowled, “You have a house of your own, do you not?”

The raven haired girl rose from the bed and walked towards the only window in the room. The shades were pulled down on it. Kagome sat on the sill, “I…don’t remember where it is. My head hurts thinking about it.”

That did not strike Sesshoumaru as good news. He rubbed his temples, “Let me be frank with you: I do not want you in my room.”

Kagome scowled, “Well, I don’t know how to leave. I don’t know how many times I need to repeat this: this is not high on my list of desired locations.”

Sesshoumaru rose, “Then I shall go for now. I expect you gone by the time I return. Come, Keys.”

Kagome waved with a pasted on smile. “A bientôt!”

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“Your grandmother was one of the best Japanese actors of her time, Kagome-chan. She was basically the most respected dramatic performers in her field and I would be proud were you to follow my mother’s footsteps.”

“Sasura Higurashi—she was a woman to look up to.”

Those had been her bedtime stories. Every night she would hear about her. Hear her accomplishments. It was a never ending tale of a woman she had never met, by a man she would always remember.

A man who saw that woman’s potential in her every time he looked upon her.

Ryuu Higurashi.

Her father.

He had wanted to give her his mother’s success.

And since she adored him so much, she had tried her hardest to be able to be everything that woman was. She accepted the years of training and home schooling. The years of junior troupes and novice thespian courses—all without question.

And then suddenly she was in advertisements and plays. She had a fresh face that people seemed to enjoy seeing. She was interviewed several times during her youth.

She had never seen her father happier.

But he had always wanted more. Even if he never told her that…

And even though it never really showed…

Always…

Wanted…more…

Sesshoumaru jolted awake at the sound of the vicious wails and agonized screams that echoed in his room.

He noticed then that Keys was pawing at the empty air trying.

He scowled and rubbed his temples half tempted to enlist in an exorcist.

Apparently she was still somewhere in his room.

She would leave for periods of time and then return to irritate him. Apparently she did not understand that she was not his problem.

However this was new.

The crying and screeches almost reached levels of aggravation capabilities that her voice could not.

Sesshoumaru rose from his bed wondering why he alone and not the family that brought her into the world had to suffer through her presence. He had barely known her for long and he had not wanted to.

He had no real connection to her.

And yet she was here…

Sesshoumaru’s brow twitched a bit as the sounds surrounded him and smothered him in her pain.

He felt the surface of his bed for a moment then grabbed a pillow from it and exited the room.

Perhaps he could continue his slumber on the couch….

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The next morning arrived quickly.

Unfortunately what arrived with the morning hour was enough to make him wish he had stayed asleep.

It was not long after the doorbell that woke him up rang that his troubles increased ten fold.

Several suitcases littered the floor along with half a dozen boxes and a familiar silver haired man.

Inuyasha had quit his job, once again.

“Long time no see, Sesshoumaru!”

It was an hour after that and yet the elder brother still cringed in remembrance. Rin quickly had prepared breakfast and soon afterward began serving it.

Rin smiled, happy to see her brother, “I’ve been worried about you. You haven’t called in days.”

Inuyasha was dressed in a black police suit that was sans one badge. He also had a thick black police cap pressed tightly over his short cropped silver hair.

“Well I’ve been busy, Rin. I can’t help it. That bastard supervisor of mine had me running through hoops every damn day!”

Sesshoumaru inwardly sighed.

From one hell to another it would seem.

Rin giggled a bit, “So you quit again, I’m guessing. Though, I kinda got that when I saw all of your things in the foyer.”

Certain polices stations in some districts would supply apartments through contract just as they did squad cars. However once the contract was terminated, so did any ownership.

Inuyasha scowled and placed his hat down next to him on the table, “Yeah I quit. I like being a cop, but I don’t like being anyone’s bitch! I can’t stand that Naraku guy! He fucking made me cut my hair even though his was just as long! Mine looked better anyway….”

He fingered the short strands in remorse.

Rin patted him on the head as she placed down his food, “I’m sure it did, Aniki.” She bit her bottom lip. “So why don’t you move back here and join this district’s force? They’d be happy to have you and so would I.”

Inuyasha rubbed his brows, “I like it there Rin. And I’m only fifteen minutes away—tops—so you still get to see me.”

Rin pasted on a smile and sat down. “Right...” But wishing instead she could say, “I’d rather have you fifteen second away than fifteen minutes!” But she didn’t want him to do something he didn’t want to.

Sesshoumaru scoffed, “Then why quit in the first place if you are only going to go back?”

Inuyasha pushed back his bangs and look flustered, “I don’t know…”

His brother coolly continued. “And, you would think you would stay with someone from that district, since it would be less of a hassle to move your things back when you cool off.”

“I guess you still haven’t dislodged that stick up your ass, eh Sesshoumaru?” He stretched his arms behind his head. “I just needed to be someplace that felt stable for a little bit, you know. It’s not that I couldn’t do what you just said.”

Sesshoumaru strayed away from the conversation.

Somewhere he felt stable….

Perhaps the same principals applied with her.

But that still didn’t make the question of, “why his home?” disappear.

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