A Mistake by Tsuykomi

A Mistake

Me: This took forever!!! I do not own Inuyasha . . . . .

A Mistake . . .

She picked up the phone on the second ring.

"Oh, hi Sesshoumaru! What's wrong?" Kagome asked with a bright smile, trying to ignore the feeling of dread in her stomach.

"Nothings wrong . . . . I need to tell you something," He admitted.

She remained silent. "You already know what I'm going to say don't you?"

"Yeah, I do. But can we still be friends?" she asked.

"Do you think I'd still be talking to you if I didn't want to be?" He asked as if she thought him to be stupid.

"No . . . . *sniff* *sniff*" She tried to hold in her tears, and was failing miserably.

"What's wrong?" He heard he sniffs and knew that she was going to cry.

"Nothing. I'm fine, nothings wrong." She betrayed herself by sniffing again.

"Are you gonna cry Kagome?" He asked, concerned.

"No I'm not. I'm *sniff*, I'm *sniff*, I'm gonna cry!" She said as she burst into tears. It had nothing to do with him, well kinda. Her best friend had gotten mad at her for a stupid reason, and she had been strong all day; until he called. What he told her just broke her resolution not to be upset.

"What's wrong Kagome?" She told him everything, all the while trying to stop crying.

"And, and I know she's mad at me, so I really don't want to go over to where I usually sit cause she'll be there!" Kagome wailed into the phone, finally finishing up her story.

"Well then you can come over and sit with me and my friends." He said as if it were the simplest solution in the world.

"Are you sure?" She asked him.

"Positive," He was restraining himself from killing her best friend, Sango, who was the cause of Kagome spending thirty-five minutes crying while telling him everything that had gone wrong that day.

"Well thanks Sesshoumaru, but I gotta go now. I'll see you tomorrow?"

"Yup, bye."

The next day as promised as soon as she got to school she walked over to Sesshoumaru and his friends. At lunch instead of sitting with her friends, she walked to a fast food restaurant. She completely ignored Sango all day.

Months pasted and Kagome and Sango made up and Sesshoumaru started drifting away from Kagome.

One day Kagome's dad fell deathly ill. Kagome devoted all of her free time to helping him. She stopped sleeping and eating regularly. She grew thin and pale, and had black rings around her eyes from lack of sleep.

Sesshoumaru had three classes with Kagome, and he watched her every day, knowing he made a mistake in breaking up with her, but afraid to try to repair the damage. So he watched as she stopped laughing. And eventually stopped smiling as well. He watched as she became a mere shadow of what she had once been.

Kagome told no one about her father, she didn't want their pity.

One day in sixth period, a class she had with Sesshoumaru, she was called to the office. She got up from her seat, ignoring everyone asking what she had done she walked silently to the office. Where, much to her surprise stood her mother with tears streaming down her face.

"Mother? What's wrong?" She asked concerned.

"Your f-father, he's g-gone!" She wailed and promptly burst into tears again.

She stared at her mother in a state of complete and total shock. Dead? He was dead? She nodded numbly then turned and walked out of the office and headed back to class.

She made it halfway there before her mothers words fully sunk in. He was dead. Never coming back. He daddy was dead; she would never see him again. She began to cry. Not those soap-opera tears that a lot of girls cried; nope, she had tears streaming down her face by the time she got back to class.

She wiped her tears away before walking into class; unaware that the tears continued rolling down her cheeks as if she hadn't wiped them away at all.

Sesshoumaru looked up when the door opened and gasped. It was Kagome; and she was . . . . She was crying. What happened?! Kagome hadn't cried since the night he had made the biggest mistake of his life.

Five minutes after she got back into the classroom the bell rang. Sesshoumaru suddenly remembered he had to walk home today. This would normally mean nothing, except that Kagome walked home.

Seventh period came and went, and he followed Kagome as he headed home. She was stumbling and swerving as if she where drunk, but he knew better. He was just about to go up and help her when, right in the middle of the road, she collapsed.

When she collapsed Sesshoumaru thought his heart had stopped beating and he ran to pick her up off the ground before she got run over.

He took her to his house; walked into his room, ignoring the curious glances at the person in his arms from his family, and set Kagome on his bed.

He looked down at her fragile body surrounded by his silver silk sheets. Her hair, somewhere between her knees and her butt, was fanned out around her. And her pale skin was made to look even paler by the black shirt and baggy jeans she was wearing.

It was close to 2 o' clock in the morning when Kagome woke up; she had no clue where she was, and taking a look around the room, she saw Sesshoumaru in a chair by the bed.

No one knew that Kagome still liked Sesshoumaru; she hadn't wanted them to know. He was still asleep and she took the time to study him. He looked the same as he always did; silver hair down to the backs of his knees, two maroon stripes on his face and on his eyelids, and the blue crescent moon on his forehead.

He was a demon. Not just any demon, oh no he was the Lord of the Western Lands. And she was a miko, the descendant of Midoriko. She was supposed to hate his kind, but she loved him. And he didn't know. He never would. She would walk out of his life right now, just like he had done to her a few months ago. She didn't want him to be hurt, as was more than likely if he stuck around her.

Golden eyes snapped open and watched, more than slightly amused, as Kagome struggled to untangle herself from his sheets cursing to herself. She was failing; failing miserably.

He got up to help her, groaning slightly as his back protested from spending most of the night in a chair.

She heard him, and looked up, and her eyes widened and she abruptly stopped cussing.

"Hello Kagome."

"Sesshoumaru," She said trying to figure out why he looked so worried.

He sighed, she hated him. It was kinda sad really; Sesshoumaru Lord of the Western Lands was in love with Kagome reincarnation of Midoriko. 'Unrequited love' He thought, 'Sucks big time.'

"Ya know, you lied to me," She finally said.

He started. He had lied to her? When?

"You said we could still be friends, you ignored me after Sango and I made up." She informed him, upon seeing the confused look in his eyes.

He stood up, "I'll go get you something to eat. Maybe some soup . . . possibly oden . . ." He trailed off as he left the room.

Kagome watched him walk out the door with a sigh. He didn't answer. He never did when someone said something that bothered him, or that he didn't particularly like. Sesshoumaru came back into the room fifteen minutes later with a bowl oden in his hands.

He watched her eat with a depressed gaze. 'I broke her heart. So how can she possibly love me like I love her?'

Unbeknownst to him, Kagome's thoughts ran along the same line. "He broke up with me. He can't love me the way I love him. There's just no possible way.'

It was truly a stupid situation.

It was only after Kagome left that a thought struck both of them almost at the same time. 'I've been willing to fight for everything I gained in life but I'm letting Kagome walk away from me?!'

'I fought to save my father but I'm giving up on Sesshoumaru?!'

Sesshoumaru called her house only to get the answering machine. He left a message then hung up waiting for Kagome to call him back.

Kagome however, had a better idea. She ran back to his house and up to his room; knocked on his door and waited.

-Knock Knock!-

"Go away Inuyasha," Sesshoumaru ordered thinking it was his annoying brother. The door swung open, proving him wrong.

Kagome stared at him. He stared back.

Sesshoumaru sighed and decided to put his pride on the line. "Kagome? Will you give me a second chance? Please?"

Kagome was shocked. Here she was trying to figure out how to ask him out and he beat her to it! But then she noticed that he had indeed asked her out and she squealed and launched herself on top of him; hugging him and showering his face in kisses.

And then noticing how foolish they must look; they looked at each other and burst out laughing.

And when Sesshoumaru looked back on that incident years later he realized his mistake. He never should have broken up with her in the first place.

Me: If any of ya'll want a lemon in any of my stories then you'll need to suggest someone who would be willing to write one for me and I'd give them credit. But I can't write lemons.