Walls

InuYasha/ Yu Yu Hakusho

Kagome/ Kurama/Youko

Rating: K/T

Walls

Chapter 1:

Kagome kicked her heels off as she got inside her apartment and leaned back against the closed door, she sighed and took her hair out of the twisted braid she put it in that morning and combed her slender fingers through the raven colored locks. Her mood was sullen as she continued to lean back against the door and listened around her, everything was silent except for the ticking clock on the wall.

"Hey Kagome, do you wanna go out to the bar with us?"

The question rang in her ears and the conversation played through her mind again.

"Sorry, I have to bring work home with me again." It was her response, there was no work, and she got it all done earlier that day but refused to ask her boss for the rest of the day off.

"I'm sure you can spare an hour?"

"I'm babysitting tonight, I'll do my work when the kids are asleep."

She wasn't babysitting.

"Who are you babysitting for?"

"My brother, he and his wife are going out on a family emergency."

There was no family emergency.

"I didn't know you had a brother."

"Yeah."

She doesn't.

Kagome gave a shaky sigh and slid back down against the door, covering her eyes with her palms and breathing deeply and trying to control the stabbing pain in her heart from the look one of her other co-workers gave her.

Shuichi Minamino, a handsome man roughly around the same age as Kagome herself, gave her such…. A sad or disappointed stare. Kagome wasn't sure which one it was, but she was sure that she didn't want to know.