Chapter One: To never forget the one you love

Inuyasha Taisho stared dumbly at the white casket decorated with large bouquets of flowers. Feeling as if he had been deserted yet at the same time that all of this was just a joke and that he was waiting for Kikyo to jump out at him and say gotcha. He felt a small hand lace their fingers with his. Looking down he saw his youngest daughter Rin curl her fingers in his as they begin watching the people place flowers on the coffin's surface. The box was about to be layed to rest and Kikyo with it for eternity. His oldest daughter Kanna stood alone on the other side of him away from the family as she to looked at the casket that contained her mothers body.

He looked around. There were family, friends, and a select few he had not really invited that had come to see the burying of Kikyo. Sango walked up beside him.

"You weren't planning on telling Kagome were you?"

"No, did you?"

"Actually, I know she knows. Trust me, I am her best friend and was before I was friends with you or Kikyo. She said she was going to kill you for not telling her about her twin sister's death and if it wasn't for the fact she felt empty inside when she died she would never have known. Then she hung up the phone in complete rage. Probably off to get a drink or something." Sango said.

"What was that about a drink?" Kagome said as she walked up from behind him.

Everyone looked at Kagome in shock. She was wearing the standard black dress for the occasion and in her hand she held a rose of the darkest black velvet and one of the purest white velvet tied together by a length of red silk ribbon. She placed the objects on top of the casket and stood in the back as the pallbearers got ready to lower the coffin containing her beloved sister's body into the ground. Inuyasha approached the casket and was about to throw the offensive flowers away when a hand stopped him. He looked up at Miroku who already had streaks of tears running down his face.

"You have done enough to them. Leave that alone at least." He pleaded to Inuyasha. With a scuff Inuyasha turned, leaving the roses where they were in order to not be seen as the 'bad guy' in this situation.

"What is the black sheep of the family doing here?" A member of Kikyo's family asked to another.

"Aunt Sango, why do they call her the black sheep?" Rin asked.

"Because, she is different." Sango said facing an inner turmoil of wanting to go and comfort Kagome yet knowing that Kanna and Rin need her to stay with them.

"She says what she thinks and stands up to everyone. Heck, she might even take on your daddy's body guard if he pissed her off."

"No, she is a druggie and drunk. What idiot gets drunk at her own sister's wedding." Inuyasha hissed venomously. "She is not worthy of being called family by anyone let alone Kikyo's sister."

Sango watched Kagome turn away and leave as her sister was being lowered into her eternal resting place. "Inuyasha, you shouldn't have said that. She could hear you."

"Who cares. At least she will be out of my sight for a while." Inuyasha growled.

**One week later**

Inuyasha's parents entered there beloved son's home. It was not very massive, in fact it only had five rooms which was much smaller then the house that they themselves kept. Inuyasha's mother sat on the sofa drinking a cup of tea watching a soap opera and glancing over occasionally at Inuyasha and his father who were playing cards. While Rin played on the floor by their feet with her Barbie dolls changing the clothes from one to the other. Kanna sat beside her grandmother, quietly reading a book seeming to ignore everyone in the room, yet at the same time to be watching them. Inuyasha didn't understand, but since his wife's funeral Kanna seemed to be interacting even less with him then she had before almost appearing as wanting nothing to do with her father.

"Inuyasha, you really have not gotten out since Kikyo died its not good for you or the girls. You need someone to watch Kanna and Rin while your gone. I have the perfect young woman too. Very smart, I met her last week at the funeral."

"Sango is busy."

"Not Sango, Kagome. She has a right you know, did you know she has been planting her roots right here not all that far from where we live for about six months now?"

"Nope, and I don't care to know. She will never step foot into my house any time soon for as long as I live."

Inuyasha's father wasn't sure what to say to this bit of information. "Actually, she has stepped foot in our home and in fact I think it is in everyone's best interest that she sees Rin and Kanna at the very least."

"Like that will ever happen." Inuyasha growled angrily.

"It isn't like that Inuyasha. You know all of that mean talk, some of it by you at the funeral? Well it really got to her. She passed out as soon as she got into her car." Inuyasha's father said over the table. "In fact, I thought she had died at first. She insisted on going home but we wouldn't hear of that. So she stayed with us for two whole days. Where I found that she is above all, my favorite out of all of their family. She didn't spend a minute of her time feeling sorry for herself. She was upset, but she kept moving. You on the other hand are still in the same shirt you were in when you went to the funeral. Lots of people get drunk at a wedding. Get over it!"

"It is different, it was our wedding."

The older Taisho sighed. "Do you even know what she was going threw? I asked her about what happened and she told me. Her boyfriend at the time played a joke on her. She said surprise me, he gave her a Miami nice, she loved it and asked for another. She only had one and a half drinks before she was completely drunk and the second he asked to make it a bit stronger. A couple of your friends were in on the joke in fact, I think Miroku was one of them to. The Black sheep as everyone calls her, was trying to straiten out. However, that completely messed that up and you wanted nothing to do with her. Don't you get it, the rich guy her sister marries wants nothing to do with her and her family not wanting to incur the disfavor of the rich in-laws fallow your example and shun Kagome. Kikyo has to see her secretly for years. Has to sneak out to see her own TWIN sister."

"Yeah right." Inuyasha snickered. "Kikyo wanted nothing to do with the bitch as well. She said so herself." Just then there was a yank on Inuyasha's sleeve. "What is it honey?"

"Is Aunt Kagome going to come live with us? Mommy said we could give her some earrings we bought for her birthday next time we saw her. They are pretty, they match the ones she got mommy last time just a different color."

Inuyasha's breath caught in his throat. "What... what earrings honey?"

Rin rolled her eyes like he should know what she was talking about and disappeared into Kanna's room. When she came back she was holding a pair of earrings that had yet to be given to their true owner. Inuyasha seemed to stop breathing. Sango had chosen the clothing in which Kikyo would be sent off in. Inuyasha however, had decided to pick the earrings. Feeling that it was best for them to be fit for an angel. He could remember handing the silver wings to Sango for them to be placed in his beloved wife's ears. If he had known they were a gift from Kagome he may have never picked those. However, in Rin's small hands were the black wings that Kikyo, Kanna, and Rin had chosen for Kagome.

Kagome sat in the bar taking a sip of her jack and coke. How she loved alcohol at this moment. She missed her sister, terribly. It was in times like these that she would e-mail Kikyo and tell her how her day went and soon, she would respond. However, she now sent messages that were out of habit that went unanswered and every time that she realized this it seemed she needed to drink a little more and more. This was the first time she had reached out for the alcohol to dull the pain in her heart since her sister's death. The pain was just far too great for her to bear alone. Her cell phone rang, caller ID reading, Kikyo? She answered it.

"Kanna?" Kagome questioned.

"No." Growled a male voice.

Kagome hung up the phone immediately. She had just spiraled into hell. She took a long deep drink hoping it would take away what ever delusion she had. The phone rang, once again reading Kikyo and she hit ignore. It rang again, and she punched the ignore button. The phone rang several more times until she finally picked the phone up again.

"You had better not hang up on me again or ignore me or I swear I will kick your ass! From what Rin has said you have been in my house before so it isn't like I need to give you directions. Get your ass over here now!" He hung up.

Kagome sighed, might as well go face the firing squad. Kagome payed for her drink and then left. She arrived at her sister's home. She could see Rin bouncing up and down like she always did when she would visit secretly with her sister and nieces. In fact, Inuyasha had not known that she had been seeing ether of his girls or let alone her sister since before the children were born. Kikyo had made it clear that Inuyasha did not like her around and that she would never be allowed to set foot in the house with him present. However, in secret Kikyo could have her over without worry of an argument arising between her and Inuyasha.

Kagome walked up the steps to the place she knew as her sister's home. Rin opened the door, happy to see her as she always did. Kagome hugged the little girl. Kanna walked over and gave her aunt a hug as well. Inuyasha watched the exchange seething in anger at seeing his oldest come into contact with her aunt and show more affection in the past minute then she had with him in the last week since her mothers funeral. In fact, Kanna was glued to Kagome's side from the time she walked into the house. Kagome sat in the living room comfortably beside Mr. and Mrs. Taisho. Inuyasha hated her confidence in the way she had strolled into his own home as if she had known it. However, he couldn't complain because she had known it.

He cleared his throat and grabbed the box full of pictures which were handed to Kagome. She looked threw them. All pictures she had copies of. Pictures of Sango, Kikyo, and Kagome with a child Kanna who held onto Kagome's arm and a baby Rin in a stroller as they went to a theme park. There was even a picture of Kagome and Kanna on the tea cups ride. They consisted of several pictures Kagome already owned. She put them back in the box after they began to weigh too heavily on her broken heart.

"How long have you been seeing my wife?" Inuyasha asked.

"Since your honeymoon, I was there during both pregnancies. I always took time for my sister." Kagome said.

"Yeah right, you never cared about her." Inuyasha said.

"Kanna, Rin, go into your bedrooms." Kagome spoke calmly. Kanna who was connected at the hip to Kagome unbound with her and ran into her room, shortly followed by Rin going into her own room as well. Before Inuyasha could respond Kagome had risen from her chair and struck him. "That is for trying to keep my sister from me for far too long. It is also not being there when she died. Sango and I were the only ones there when she died in that hospital while you were on some business meeting in Europe for over six months. Then you have the gull to not even tell me of my own sister's death! How dare you!" Kagome said with a hatred and tear chocked voice

Inuyasha looked at his parents who nodded their heads at his silent question of whether or not what she said was true. Just a few minutes ago he was ready to set into her. Tell her that what she was doing was not right. Now something else began to form in his center of feelings. He had tried to keep his wife and her sister away from each other. He had been slowly trying to kill not only Kagome but Kikyo as well from the inside out. Now it seemed he was killing Kagome with Kikyo's absence as she looked as though she would die in the middle of his floor.

"I'm so-" He was stopped by another swift slap in the face.
"Don't you dare speak to me. You kept me away from my life! Did you ever think about anyone but yourself! My sister was my fucking life Inuyasha! You tried to cut me off with my sister and then my nieces. I hope you die a very lonely old man because I am sure I will die lonely without my sister soon." Kagome hissed. She then grabbed her purse and stormed out of the house.
"Short temper." Mr. Taisho observed.

"No, it was called for. I was in the wrong here and so I don't blame her for what she did." Inuyasha said as he shook off the shock of what happened, realizing for the first time how truly wrong he was and the consequences of his actions.

"Look, I don't think that I will ever get over Kikyo. She was the love of my life and she told me that I should let it go with Kagome over and over again. After all, it was no one's fault when she ruined our wedding on accident the way she did. I was more upset that she did it to Kikyo. However, Kikyo didn't care when I did. I am going to let this all go now, let her forget us, and let the girls forget her. She seems to be on the verge of dieing so why bring the children into it. After all, you never forget the one you love." Inuyasha said with a dreamy look on his face as he remembered his beautiful Kikyo on their wedding day seven years ago.

**Chapter End**

I hope you all liked this. I have been sitting on this story for a few months as I wrote chapters of it which I will continue to publish but only with the understanding that people actually read it and comment. I have been a writer on Dokuga for about a year though I am more of a fan of Inuyasha and Kagome. Which makes this story more of a favorite of mine due to actually being my favorite characters. If the chapters get too adult for this site then they will be moved or cut out to meet this site's requirements. But don't worry, I will definitely post the new whereabouts if that was to happen.

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