Promise me Forever

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Chapter 2

Disclaimer: I don't own these characters...So please don't sue me...Unless I stole your candy (preferably sourpatches) the don't sue me.

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AN: I just want to say something reallyIMPORTANT ...Hiiiii! (lol) No, seriously i just want to thank y'all (I adore country accents) for liking/reviewing/following/favoriting my story. And another thing, I want to apologize for my FOREVER-NESS to post. (Bows) Gomen Nasai ( So sorry, Forgive me, yata..yata)Really i honestly couldn't figure out how to post another chappie for you guys. I'm so stupid..:P

And now, without further ado, I present to you...Promise me Forever Chapter 2!

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Kagome's Pov

The bell on the registration desk jingled impatiently. Kagome Mikage dusted from her hands as she hurried from the shrine/inn's kitchen towards the front hallway. The Mikage shrine inn wasn't expecting any new guests today and the rest of the family took advantage of that fact to scatter in various directions.

She'd thought she'd have at least an hour interrupted to bake ginger cookies, before Asumi got home from school. It looked as if she'd been wrong. She shoved through the swinging door to the wide hallway that housed the shrine inns registration desk, along with whatever clutter of slippers and fishing poles her brothers left on the floors.

"Mikage's shrine and Inn. How may I help you?" the tall stranger turned slowly. Afternoon sunlight through the front window lit broad shoulders silverfish hair and expensive suit that was WAY too formal for the shrine inn. Then he faced her and her heart stopped entirely.

Sesshomaru Takahashi, the man who had broken an eighteen year olds heart. The man she never expected to see again when their marriage had dissolved. The man who never knew he'd fathered a daughter.

"Kagome. It's been a very long time."

His voice was soothing as she remembered. Confident. He didn't sound surprised to see her here.

"Sesshomaru." Pain ripped through the numbness of shock when she said his name. She hadn't said it aloud in years. "How could one name have so much power to hurt?'

He arched an eyebrow, sending another pang of pain to her heart. "His eyes express nothing at all." He made no move to close the gap and attempt to shake hands, thank goodness!

He seemed to move farther away from her, though he really didn't move at all. Maybe it was the effect of his chilling gaze of his amber eyes glaring at her. Kagome squared her petite shoulders.

"What brings you to the Mikage Mountain?" She basically spat the words out.

When had he'd become such a sarcastic bastard? She glared at him coldly.

"Not a pleasure trip." He said crisply.

Of course it wouldn't. Sesshomaru probably vacationed in the south of France, for Kami sake! He certainly wouldn't come hereafter what happened between them. Maybe it didn't matter to him. After all, he had eight years to forget his useful indiscretion. While she had been looking at a reminder everyday in Asumi-!

"Asumi!"

She sent a frantic, fearful glance at the clock. Her pup would be walking in the door from school any minute now. As soon as she heard his name she'd know who Sesshomaru was.

But Sesshomaru didn't know Asumi existed, and she had to keep it that way.

"You're here on business, then." She moved behind the desk, putting sacred oak between them. It was a pitiful barrier, but it was all she could do- for now.

'You might say that. I'll be here a night or two, so book me a room." He leaned against the desk as if to say: "Do you really think this piece of wood can hold me?'

He couldn't stay here.

"Hell- I mean- No. We're all booked up anyway…" Kagome flipped through the agenda book to emphasize her point. His traditional arch eyebrows arched yet again.

"This early in season? And that says 'April' Mikage. (Blushed) you cannot fool this Sesshomaru so easily Mikage". 'Where was the dude that promised her forever?' Her heart throbbed at the thought. He was rich of course. Takahashi's had always been rich and successfully. 'And arrogant, and snobby..'

Once Sesshoumaru had wanted her- timid little kagome Mikage, native and pure. Who hadn't the slightest notation of another world outside her own. But his wanting -lust rather- hadn't lasted long. 'just long enough to make a baby he'd never know about'...

" don't have enough room for you", Kagome said in a coldly polite tone.

Some emotion flickered in his amber eyes, his jaw muscle ticked. "Leave? After you've gone through so much to get me here? Mikage, you aren't making any sense.", he growled.

Startled Kagome dropped her agenda book. "Get you here?", she snorted." What on Earth are you growling about?" That was the very last thing she wanted.

Sesshoumaru planted both his claws on the table, leaning forward until he was in Kagome's face. She felt him trying to crush her with his youkai aura. It radiated from him, so angry and so hot it threatened signed the tiny hairs on her

arms. His lips were a hard, bitter line.

" Do you take this Sesshoumaru as a fool? This Sesshoumaru's talking about the little surprize package I received from you!"

Baffled, Kagome stared at him.

"Whaa- I didn't send you anything!", she protested while rubbing he tingling arms.

With a swift movement, he took something from it pocket and tossed it on the desk between them. Curious, Kagome picked it up.

'Asumi'. Her fingers felt frozen solid. Her stomach twisted, making her feel as though she'd been punched in the gut. Sesshoumaru had a picture of Asumi. No. She suddenly felt lethargic. With a quick ,and angry movement he turned it over it her hand. "Don't forget the inscription."

Your daughter

Suddenly Kagome was thrusted into reality again. The realization ing of having kept her -their- daughter a secret from him, only to have him blow it up in her face by those words snapped her into action.

"Where'd you get this?"

"Wench don't play fool with me. You sent this to me!"

"No the hell I didn't Sesshoumaru!"

Sesshomaru took a deep breath, and pinched the bridge of his nose. "Who else? I'm warning you Mikage- he spat her name out like bile-you'd better be able to prove that bastard child is mine."

When he opened his eyes they were tinted red.

'How dare he imply she'd had someone else's child?!'

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End Note: A few things are needed to say here.

One: Someone mentioned I needed a beta. After reading my own story, I concur. Thank you who ever said that. I need one. Anybody want to tell me how to get one?..

Two: Review,REVIEW, review. Or else I won't post Chapter three. (Dangles chapter three in your face.) Na na na-na. ;P

Four: There are special thank you's I have to give out.

+The Gazette lover (For helping me type some)

+Deathlove ( for reading all my crappy ones)

and to Bluberries, for slapping me when I made Sesshoumaru say certain thing that will continue to go unnamed.

Cheers!