Pain by sesshomarusama33

The Rain

EDIT 4-13-12: Thank you to my amazingly wonderful beta, Stella, for revising my earlier chapters! You are amazing! <3

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For some reason, Kagome thought that calling Inuyasha out would make her feel better, but instead, she felt like a tangled mess. She had no idea what she was supposed to do now, and no idea as to what was supposed to happen.

The look on his face bore into her memory, and each time she tried to think of something else, those haunting honey eyes squeezed at her heart.   

'Inuyasha..." Her eyes watered as memories of the brash hanyou struck through her head. She felt so lost and confused. She had been so used to her married life... now what was she supposed to do?   

Part of her wanted to work it out. She wanted to forgive and forget, but the other part of her wanted to banish him from her memories, and to live her life in seclusion. She couldn't bear the betrayal, and she couldn't bear the thought of being without him.  Inuyasha had her heart in his clawed hands, and she couldn't veer herself away from them.  

Her rash, yet semi-planned outburst led her to where she was now - alone, walking in the Koto district, crying softly to herself as the rain started to swell.  

A sleek, black Mercedes slowed down as it neared her, humming as it was set in park. Kagome stopped, looking at the tinted window with a confused look on her pale face. The window rolled down, revealing her husband;s half-brother, Sesshomaru, peering at her on leather seats.  

"Oh... Sesshomaru... what are you doing here?" She asked, sniffling slightly from a combination of the cold and her crying.

"I live here." He stated nonchalantly, watching her movements with curious golden eyes.  

"Oh... I forgot." She shrugged, wrapping her arms around her shoulders. She heard a jingling coming from her purse and exhaled loudly, opening her bag to find her keys lying on top of the pile inside.  

Sesshomaru raised a brow as the woman cursed at something, what he guessed to be keys from the jingling noises, in her bag. "Problem?"   

She didn't answer. How could she? She had already failed at her marriage, how could she admit at somehow forgetting a car after confronting her husband? She sighed, taking the keys out and staring at them in the palm of her hand as rain dropped on them.  

"Where are you parked?" He asked, not noticing a car around for quite a ways.  

"Shibuya," she muttered, clearly upset at herself. She stared at the keys in her hand, tears falling from her face as she fell to her knees. "Shi...buya!" She wailed, her shoulders shaking violently as tremors coursed through her body.

Sesshomaru watched with curiosity as he exited the car, making his way to the tiny woman crying in the rain. What was she doing? She was sure to get sick in this kind of weather. "Woman," he tried, towering over her in the darkness.  

"Why can't I do anything right?" She sobbed, dropping her keys as she buried her face in her hands, violently shaking.   Sesshomaru watched as the woman sobbed her sorrows out on the pavement, knees bleeding from the impact of her fall. This woman would get sick if he didn't do something, and his father would not be happy with him if the woman fell ill... Not to mention the possible guilt he would feel, considering that he was the one who told her of the incident.  

Without second thought, he bent down and scooped the tiny woman bridal style in his arms, opening the door to his Mercedes and carefully sliding her inside, buckling her up and shutting the door. As he made his way to the driver’s door, he thought of the recent events that had just happened.  

He also thought of the potential responsibility he had just taken.