Disclaimer: I don't own Inu-yasha. This is a shout out to Amelda's Angel who inspired this story with her Oh my God the Boys are Pregnant stories which I love. Amelda, you're the best.
Kagome's Baby.
Chapter One.
"Kagome!" Inu-yasha creid out as he searched high and low for Kagome in the shrine.
"She's not here." Sota said as he came out of the house.
"Where is she?" Inu-yasha demanded. "We've got demons to kill back in the Feudal Era."
"She's gone to the hospital with my folks. Something about a test being wrong." He said.
"A test, you mean she's gone to the hospital over a stupid school quiz?" Inu-yasha grumbled. "That girl is really stupid you know. Well, you're better than nothing, so come on." The half demon grabbed up Sota and took him down the well. They spent the day killing demons in the Feudal Era then came home late in the afternoon. Sota charged into the house with a demon skull helmet on his head and a sharp dagger in his hands.
"Kagome where have you been, cause of you, I had to go fight demons all day long." Sota gave her a good verbal thrashing before Inu-yasha came bounding into the house as proud as can be of himself for making a man out of little Sota. Kagome ran to him and put her arms around him.
"What is this?" He asked, she was crying and then he noticed Kagome's mother and grandfather standing over in the kitchen door. "What did I do this time?" Inu-yasha demanded. "If it's about the kid, then get over it, Sota's fine and he killed a dozen demons today while you were all off worried about some stupid test!"
"It was a pregnancy test you moron!" Kagome cried. Inu-yasha looked down at her, confused.
"What do you mean?" He asked her.
"I'm pregnant!" Kagome shouted into his white fury ears. Inu-yasha's face went ashen and he dropped to his knees.
"Pre…pre…pregnant!" He exclaimed. "You can't be!" He shouted.
"Well I am." She shouted back to him.
"Well…" Inu-yasha began. "It's not mine!" He turned around and crossed his arms. "It's got to be that pervert Miroku's or Sesshomaru's." He said. "I saw the way he was making eyes at you the other day. "What!" Kagome shrieked. "No way, it's totally yours! Cause you're the only guy I've ever been with Inu-yasha." Kagome turned around then and crossed her arms too. Inu-yasha just stood there and groaned.
"Well, what do you have to say for yourself?" Grandpa asked.
"I uh…I uh…I don't know. This is just so unexpected is all. I can't be a father. I'm a demon slayer and I can't change diapers or fix bottles. That's women's work. Kagome's just going to have to raise the baby on her own while I go collect Jewel Shards and become a full Demon!" He stated.
"I knew you wouldn't understand!" Kagome cried then ran off back to her room to cry into her pillows.
"Kagome, wait!" Inu-yasha tried to stop her but she just kept on running.
"Smooth." Sota said. "Now what are you going to do, Daddy?" He asked mockingly. Inu-yasha just plopped down in the floor and sat there thinking of a way he could get out of this. There had to be a magic spell or some weird ritual he could perform that would make everything okay again. Finally Kagome's mother came over to him and helped him up.
"Now the first thing you need to do is go apologize to Kagome. She's feeling very vulnerable right now. It's not easy being a teenage mother, believe me, I know. I was very young when Kagome was born and then I was not so much different. She's looking for your support and your love right now." She told the han-you.
"Love?" Inu-yasha asked. "What's that got to do with anything?"
"You do love her don't you, otherwise why did the two of you even…?"
"Cause we both got a little drunk one night on Miroku's homemade hooch. That's why." Inu-yasha informed them all. Kagome's grandfather gasped.
"You mean that my Kagome goes back to that feudal Era and drinks?"
"Relax old man, it's not her fault. Miroku was trying to get Sango drunk enough to make it with him and Kagome just got caught in the middle." The old man started balling away like a baby while Kagome's mother just sighed. Meanwhile Sota, who was totally uninterested in what was going on, went over to the television to play video games.
"Still," Kagome's mother said. "You should go talk to Kagome and reassure her that you're going to be there for her and the baby."
"Fine." Inu-yasha barked then started upstairs towards Kagome's room. He chocked at he tried to find words in his limited social vocabulary for what Kagome was going through. She obviously didn't want to hear anymore of what he'd said before but he wasn't going to get stuck at home taking care of a whiny little brat. "Um, Kagome." He said as he opened the door. His eyes dropped out of his skull and his mouth to the floor as he beheld her. She was standing in front of her mirror in nothing but her underwear and holding her belly as if she were pretending to know what it was like to be pregnant.. She was the most beautiful thing he'd ever seen. She turned to him then.
"Inu-yasha, what am I going to do?" She asked going over to him and putting her arms round him. "I can't have this baby here in the present. What will people think when I have a third blooded demon?" She asked him. He held her close to him and they just stood there.
"Kagome, I'll always be here for you, no matter what you decide." He told her. "I suppose it wouldn't be so bad to be a father." She looked up at him then with stars in her eyes and tears flowing down her cheeks.
"Oh, Inu-yasha do you mean it?" She asked him sweetly. "Do you really want me and the baby?"
"Yeah, sure, why not. Then that'll be something else I can brag about. I've got the cutest little woman and mother of my children."
"Oh, it's going to be so wonderful!" Kagome exclaimed. "We'll move back to the Feudal Era and have the baby there."
"And you'll stay with me there, always?" Inu-yasha asked. "And never come back to this crummy future world of yours?"
"Well, I mean I'd have to come back for a little while at least. I mean mom and Grandpa will want to see the baby, and I'm sure Sota will need help feeding the cat." She told him. "But sure, I'll stay with you there for the rest of my life."
"Kagome."
"Inu-yasha." They kissed passionately the moved over to the bed where they spent the rest of the evening making love to each other until Kagome's grandpa came in with a water hose and sprayed them both like a couple of dogs making out in the streets.
"You get off my granddaughter!" The old man shouted. "You've already ruined her for other men, you won't take advantage of her again!"
"Hey!" Inu-yasha cried as he got up, the water still focused mainly on him. "I'm sorry, I'm sorry!"
"Cut it out Grandpa!" Kagome shouted as he pulled the soggy covers up over her naked body. "Don't do that, you'll drown him, and then my baby will be fatherless!" She cried and threw a pillow at her grandfather's head. He dodged the white projectile and continued to hose Inu-yasha down. Finally, Kagome's mother went outside and turned off the water and Inu-yasha stood there with a soggy pillow covering his manhood, which was no longer of any consequence thanks in part to the cold water. He stared at the old man for a moment then glared at him with a wildness in his eyes.
"That does it you old fart!" Inu-yasha cried and ran over to him. "Get this through your thick skull. Kagome and I are in love so don't try to keep up apart! And when she has this baby I taking it and her back the Feudal Era with me for good so you don't have to worry about taking care of another little brat!" Inu-yasha had murder in his eyes which frightened Kagome's grandfather into submission. He shrank away from the naked half demon who was now greatly enraged.
"Now you've done it grandpa." Sota said passing by the Kagome's room. "I've seen him gut things twice as big as you. I wouldn't be a bit surprised if he doesn't want to take her after this."
"Not want me?" Kagome asked throwing another pillow. "Inu-yasha tell them to get out of here and leave us alone!" She shouted and then Sota peered in. He saw his sister and Inu-yasha in the buff, blushed, then ran to throw up. After what he'd seen that day he was already feeling kind of sick but this was too much. It wasn't enough that he'd seen Inu-yasha slaughter hundreds of demons with a single swipe of his sword but now he'd seen him in bed with his sister.
"Man this is too much!" Sota cried from the bathroom.
The next day when Kagome went to school her friends were waiting for her.
"Well?" Ayumi asked. "What did the doctor say?"
"I'm pregnant." She confided in her friends. They all three just whined and shuttered.
"It's such a tragedy!" Eri cried. "You had such promise and now…"
"I've still got promise. This baby is not going to ruin me. You'll see, I'll bounce back from this, and then everyone will know that Kagome Higurashi didn't throw in the towel when a little adversity hit."
"That's true." Yuka said. "Just look at how well she's handled all of her illnesses." Kagome winced. Her illnesses! Well, now she had a legitimate one for the next time she was out of school. Only she didn't want the whole school to know that she was pregnant. Just telling her friends about the morning sickness and the lot were worse enough.
"So you still haven't told us who the father is?" Eri said suddenly. The girls all leaned in close to hear Kagome's answer.
"You have to tell us who it is." Yuka stated. "That way we can all be there for you when you tell him." Kagome looked at them all suspiciously. She couldn't very well tell them who the father was. How could they possibly understand?
"Oh my gosh!" Eri cried. "Is it Hojo?" They all looked at her for an answer.
"What, no!" Kagome shouted. "It's not Hojo, its… It's someone you guys don't know." She told them. "He's from far away, you've never met him, and you won't get to meet him cause he's never coming back again." She lied. Her friends all cried for her.
"Oh Kagome, a one night stand?" Yuka was shocked.
"Just wham bam thank you ma'am and that's it?" Ayumi was mortified.
"How tragic is that?" Eri asked the other girls. "Pooe Kagome, so you've got to have your baby all alone?"
"Not all alone, I've got Grandpa, Mom, Sota, and Inu… I've got you three." She told them. "You'll see I'm going to be fine." She couldn't tell them yet that she was going to be leaving them all soon. Going back to the Feudal Era was going to be hard enough but leaving all her friends and her family to go be with Inu-yasha just seemed to be so right. She didn't really feel like she belonged in this world anymore. She was more apart of Inu-yasha's time where she had other friends and family waiting for her. Sango, Miroku, Shippo, and Keade. They were all so wonderful to her and she just knew they would be so supportive of her decision. Before that day was over though, they would all be shocked again. This time by quite a different announcement. Kagome and her friends were sitting at the benches outside the cafeteria when from out of nowhere, Hojo came up to her with his friends following far behind, and out of earshot.
"Kagome, may I speak to you?" He asked, chocking down.
"Uh, sure." She said, putting down her chop sticks. "What about?" She asked him nervously.
"I've heard all about your problem from Yuka." He said. Kagome looked over at her with a crazed look of hatred. What could she expect though, it was Yuka of course, and her other friends didn't look too innocent either.
"So they blabbed to you that I'm pregnant, so what?" She asked Hojo. He loosened his collar around his neck, dropped to one knee, and took Kagome's hand.
"I've come to ask you to marry me." He said. Kagome and her friends were all stunned.
"You what?" They all four asked him at once.
"I know how terribly hard your family has had these past few years with you being sick and all. I just couldn't stand aside while you face yet another hardship all on your own. Eri told me that the guy who knocked you up ran out on you. I want you to know that there is at least one gallant soul left in this world who isn't afraid of responsibility." He proclaimed. The scene drew quite a crowd.
"Oh my…oh my…" Kagome was speechless. "Oh Hojo…"
"Yes Kagome?" He asked leaning in close.
"I…uh…I can't." She said shocking all on lookers and listeners.
"But Kagome…" He started but she continued.
"I can't let you throw your life away like this for me." She told him, helping him up. "You've still got such a great future out there and someone is waiting for you who is capable of being the kind of woman you need. Look at me, I'm sick all of the time, I'm having another man's baby. It's just not right for you to devote yourself to someone like me who can't love you." She told him. "Now get going Hojo, there's someone out there for you who's capable of loving you, and being the kind of wife you can be proud of." She said sending him on his way. Eri got then and chased after Hojo.
"Oh wait Hojo! I'll marry you! Please wait!" She cried. Kagome sat back down and finished her lunch while her friends stared at her.
"I can't believe you turned down an offer of marriage from the hottest guy in school!" Yuka exclaimed. Eri came back to her seat with a look of sad frustration on her face.
"Wouldn't go for it huh." Ayumi said.
"No." Eri slammed her face down on the table and cried her eyes out. "Kagome you're nuts. Any girl in this school would die to be with Hojo."
"Well, not me, okay. I have more dignity than to marry a guy I don't love just so I can shirk a little responsibility." Kagome stated then got up. She was tired of her so called friends and their meddling. After school she walked home alone to the shrine where she hoped her supportive family would be waiting for her. Instead she found her grandfather drinking, her brother playing video games, and her mother cooking for Inu-yasha who was wolfing down noodles like they were going out of style. "Oh!" She just couldn't handle it. She ran up stairs to her room and started packing her bags for another trip down the well which she believed would calm her nerves more than anything else would. Seeing Sango, Shippo, Miroku, and Keade again always made her feel better after a hectic week at school. It used to be the other way around though. She used to like school and her friends and seeing Hojo, and doing things that normal girls did. What she was finding out now though was that she was more used to her life being a jumble of demons, monsters, and jewel shards.
"Ready?" Inu-yasha asked her when she came back down with a full back pack.
"I think so. I'm taking a few more of my personal things for the hut, if that's alright?" She asked him.
"No, that's fine." He said sticking his sword back into his belt. "Just don't bring back your whole house or nothing. There's enough futuristic junk back there already for my liking." He told her.
"Don't worry. I won't." She agreed. There was actually very little of the modern age she wanted to take with her anymore. Use to be that she couldn't bring back enough modern conveniences back with her. Now she kind despised "Let's go." Just as they were heading out the door though, the worst possible thing happened. Eri, Yuka, and Ayumi came walking up the steps. "Oh no!" Kagome cried. "Quickly the hat!" She shoved a red ball cap down on Inu-yasha's head and threw her back pack down on the ground.
"Hi Kagome!" Eri said then they all noticed Inu-yasha.
"Oh my gosh, this is him, isn't it?" Yuka exclaimed.
"Who?" Kagome asked them.
"The reason you can't marry Hojo!" Ayumi shouted. "This is the guy who knocked you up!" Inu-yasha flinched as the girl encircled him.
"Alright, who are you, and what's your story. Back for some more fun in the sack?" Eri demanded.
"What, no!" Inu-yasha cried. "I'm… I'm…" Then the girls noticed Kagome's back pack on the ground by Inu-yasha's feet. They looked at Kagome.
"Ooooooh. He came back for her, now they're running off together!" Yuka cried.
"Kagome you couldn't tell us that you were leaving?" Eri demanded. "What could we have possibly done to make you feel that you couldn't confide in us?"
"Uh, you told Hojo that I was pregnant and now the whole school knows." Kagome said.
"What, you mean they all know?" Inu-yasha exclaimed. "What else have you told these giggling cats about?" He wanted to know. "Come out with it!" He said to the girls, "You know all about me don't you!"
"Well…"Yuka said. "We, uh…we don't know that much about you." She motioned to the other girls to step in.
"Yeah, we've hardly ever heard anything about anyone that Kagome's seen." Eri said.
"HUH" Inu-yasha's jaw dropped. "Who else have you been seeing?" He asked Kagome.
"No one, just Hojo, and he means nothing to me, Inu-yasha. I love you." She told him, reassuringly. The other girl gasped.
"You love him!" Ayumi fainted into Yuka's arms.
"This is so romantic." Eri said. "I can't believe we're actually witnessing this." She clasped her hands and looked starry-eyed at Inu-yasha and Kagome. "You have to let us throw you a going away party!" She exclaimed Ayumi came to then and agreed.
"Yes, Kagome. You must let us throw you a girls' night out, going away party." Yuka nodded.
"We really don't have time for that." Kagome said. "We're leaving today and besides I'm not going away forever, I'll be back in a few days to attend school and pick up some more of my stuff." She told her friends."
"Oh great. More garbage." Inu-yasha gagged. "I thought that we agreed that you had everything you needed back at our hut." He said.
"Your hut?" The girls asked. "You're going off to live with this guy in a hut?" Yuka asked turning to Kagome. "Oh I thought you were smarter than that."
"What's wrong with my home?" Inu-yasha asked. "It's been good enough for the five of us so far."
"Five of you, who else has been living there?" Eri demanded.
"Just a few friends." Kagome said. "Shut up Inu-yasha, you're saying too much about stuff these girls don't understand." She muttered to Inu-yasha.
"Oh, Kagome you're not going off with this guy right now, we won't let you!" Yuka took her arms. Ayumi took her feet, and Eri grabbed the middle. "We've got to see where he's taking you first, to make sure it's appropriate for you."
"NO!" Both Kagome and Inu-yasha cried and then Inu-yasha snapped. "Get out of here right now you gaggle of insignificant little pukes!" The girls back off then and starred in disbelief at Inu-yasha.
"Now I'm taking Kagome home with me right now and we're going to be happy, understand. HAPPY!" He grabbed Kagome and the backpack up in his arms then and dashed off into the well house. The three girls looked at each other then followed. They ran into the well house just in time to see Inu-yasha leap down the well. They all shrieked and then jumped in after them.
Kagome's Baby.
Chapter One.
"Kagome!" Inu-yasha creid out as he searched high and low for Kagome in the shrine.
"She's not here." Sota said as he came out of the house.
"Where is she?" Inu-yasha demanded. "We've got demons to kill back in the Feudal Era."
"She's gone to the hospital with my folks. Something about a test being wrong." He said.
"A test, you mean she's gone to the hospital over a stupid school quiz?" Inu-yasha grumbled. "That girl is really stupid you know. Well, you're better than nothing, so come on." The half demon grabbed up Sota and took him down the well. They spent the day killing demons in the Feudal Era then came home late in the afternoon. Sota charged into the house with a demon skull helmet on his head and a sharp dagger in his hands.
"Kagome where have you been, cause of you, I had to go fight demons all day long." Sota gave her a good verbal thrashing before Inu-yasha came bounding into the house as proud as can be of himself for making a man out of little Sota. Kagome ran to him and put her arms around him.
"What is this?" He asked, she was crying and then he noticed Kagome's mother and grandfather standing over in the kitchen door. "What did I do this time?" Inu-yasha demanded. "If it's about the kid, then get over it, Sota's fine and he killed a dozen demons today while you were all off worried about some stupid test!"
"It was a pregnancy test you moron!" Kagome cried. Inu-yasha looked down at her, confused.
"What do you mean?" He asked her.
"I'm pregnant!" Kagome shouted into his white fury ears. Inu-yasha's face went ashen and he dropped to his knees.
"Pre…pre…pregnant!" He exclaimed. "You can't be!" He shouted.
"Well I am." She shouted back to him.
"Well…" Inu-yasha began. "It's not mine!" He turned around and crossed his arms. "It's got to be that pervert Miroku's or Sesshomaru's." He said. "I saw the way he was making eyes at you the other day. "What!" Kagome shrieked. "No way, it's totally yours! Cause you're the only guy I've ever been with Inu-yasha." Kagome turned around then and crossed her arms too. Inu-yasha just stood there and groaned.
"Well, what do you have to say for yourself?" Grandpa asked.
"I uh…I uh…I don't know. This is just so unexpected is all. I can't be a father. I'm a demon slayer and I can't change diapers or fix bottles. That's women's work. Kagome's just going to have to raise the baby on her own while I go collect Jewel Shards and become a full Demon!" He stated.
"I knew you wouldn't understand!" Kagome cried then ran off back to her room to cry into her pillows.
"Kagome, wait!" Inu-yasha tried to stop her but she just kept on running.
"Smooth." Sota said. "Now what are you going to do, Daddy?" He asked mockingly. Inu-yasha just plopped down in the floor and sat there thinking of a way he could get out of this. There had to be a magic spell or some weird ritual he could perform that would make everything okay again. Finally Kagome's mother came over to him and helped him up.
"Now the first thing you need to do is go apologize to Kagome. She's feeling very vulnerable right now. It's not easy being a teenage mother, believe me, I know. I was very young when Kagome was born and then I was not so much different. She's looking for your support and your love right now." She told the han-you.
"Love?" Inu-yasha asked. "What's that got to do with anything?"
"You do love her don't you, otherwise why did the two of you even…?"
"Cause we both got a little drunk one night on Miroku's homemade hooch. That's why." Inu-yasha informed them all. Kagome's grandfather gasped.
"You mean that my Kagome goes back to that feudal Era and drinks?"
"Relax old man, it's not her fault. Miroku was trying to get Sango drunk enough to make it with him and Kagome just got caught in the middle." The old man started balling away like a baby while Kagome's mother just sighed. Meanwhile Sota, who was totally uninterested in what was going on, went over to the television to play video games.
"Still," Kagome's mother said. "You should go talk to Kagome and reassure her that you're going to be there for her and the baby."
"Fine." Inu-yasha barked then started upstairs towards Kagome's room. He chocked at he tried to find words in his limited social vocabulary for what Kagome was going through. She obviously didn't want to hear anymore of what he'd said before but he wasn't going to get stuck at home taking care of a whiny little brat. "Um, Kagome." He said as he opened the door. His eyes dropped out of his skull and his mouth to the floor as he beheld her. She was standing in front of her mirror in nothing but her underwear and holding her belly as if she were pretending to know what it was like to be pregnant.. She was the most beautiful thing he'd ever seen. She turned to him then.
"Inu-yasha, what am I going to do?" She asked going over to him and putting her arms round him. "I can't have this baby here in the present. What will people think when I have a third blooded demon?" She asked him. He held her close to him and they just stood there.
"Kagome, I'll always be here for you, no matter what you decide." He told her. "I suppose it wouldn't be so bad to be a father." She looked up at him then with stars in her eyes and tears flowing down her cheeks.
"Oh, Inu-yasha do you mean it?" She asked him sweetly. "Do you really want me and the baby?"
"Yeah, sure, why not. Then that'll be something else I can brag about. I've got the cutest little woman and mother of my children."
"Oh, it's going to be so wonderful!" Kagome exclaimed. "We'll move back to the Feudal Era and have the baby there."
"And you'll stay with me there, always?" Inu-yasha asked. "And never come back to this crummy future world of yours?"
"Well, I mean I'd have to come back for a little while at least. I mean mom and Grandpa will want to see the baby, and I'm sure Sota will need help feeding the cat." She told him. "But sure, I'll stay with you there for the rest of my life."
"Kagome."
"Inu-yasha." They kissed passionately the moved over to the bed where they spent the rest of the evening making love to each other until Kagome's grandpa came in with a water hose and sprayed them both like a couple of dogs making out in the streets.
"You get off my granddaughter!" The old man shouted. "You've already ruined her for other men, you won't take advantage of her again!"
"Hey!" Inu-yasha cried as he got up, the water still focused mainly on him. "I'm sorry, I'm sorry!"
"Cut it out Grandpa!" Kagome shouted as he pulled the soggy covers up over her naked body. "Don't do that, you'll drown him, and then my baby will be fatherless!" She cried and threw a pillow at her grandfather's head. He dodged the white projectile and continued to hose Inu-yasha down. Finally, Kagome's mother went outside and turned off the water and Inu-yasha stood there with a soggy pillow covering his manhood, which was no longer of any consequence thanks in part to the cold water. He stared at the old man for a moment then glared at him with a wildness in his eyes.
"That does it you old fart!" Inu-yasha cried and ran over to him. "Get this through your thick skull. Kagome and I are in love so don't try to keep up apart! And when she has this baby I taking it and her back the Feudal Era with me for good so you don't have to worry about taking care of another little brat!" Inu-yasha had murder in his eyes which frightened Kagome's grandfather into submission. He shrank away from the naked half demon who was now greatly enraged.
"Now you've done it grandpa." Sota said passing by the Kagome's room. "I've seen him gut things twice as big as you. I wouldn't be a bit surprised if he doesn't want to take her after this."
"Not want me?" Kagome asked throwing another pillow. "Inu-yasha tell them to get out of here and leave us alone!" She shouted and then Sota peered in. He saw his sister and Inu-yasha in the buff, blushed, then ran to throw up. After what he'd seen that day he was already feeling kind of sick but this was too much. It wasn't enough that he'd seen Inu-yasha slaughter hundreds of demons with a single swipe of his sword but now he'd seen him in bed with his sister.
"Man this is too much!" Sota cried from the bathroom.
The next day when Kagome went to school her friends were waiting for her.
"Well?" Ayumi asked. "What did the doctor say?"
"I'm pregnant." She confided in her friends. They all three just whined and shuttered.
"It's such a tragedy!" Eri cried. "You had such promise and now…"
"I've still got promise. This baby is not going to ruin me. You'll see, I'll bounce back from this, and then everyone will know that Kagome Higurashi didn't throw in the towel when a little adversity hit."
"That's true." Yuka said. "Just look at how well she's handled all of her illnesses." Kagome winced. Her illnesses! Well, now she had a legitimate one for the next time she was out of school. Only she didn't want the whole school to know that she was pregnant. Just telling her friends about the morning sickness and the lot were worse enough.
"So you still haven't told us who the father is?" Eri said suddenly. The girls all leaned in close to hear Kagome's answer.
"You have to tell us who it is." Yuka stated. "That way we can all be there for you when you tell him." Kagome looked at them all suspiciously. She couldn't very well tell them who the father was. How could they possibly understand?
"Oh my gosh!" Eri cried. "Is it Hojo?" They all looked at her for an answer.
"What, no!" Kagome shouted. "It's not Hojo, its… It's someone you guys don't know." She told them. "He's from far away, you've never met him, and you won't get to meet him cause he's never coming back again." She lied. Her friends all cried for her.
"Oh Kagome, a one night stand?" Yuka was shocked.
"Just wham bam thank you ma'am and that's it?" Ayumi was mortified.
"How tragic is that?" Eri asked the other girls. "Pooe Kagome, so you've got to have your baby all alone?"
"Not all alone, I've got Grandpa, Mom, Sota, and Inu… I've got you three." She told them. "You'll see I'm going to be fine." She couldn't tell them yet that she was going to be leaving them all soon. Going back to the Feudal Era was going to be hard enough but leaving all her friends and her family to go be with Inu-yasha just seemed to be so right. She didn't really feel like she belonged in this world anymore. She was more apart of Inu-yasha's time where she had other friends and family waiting for her. Sango, Miroku, Shippo, and Keade. They were all so wonderful to her and she just knew they would be so supportive of her decision. Before that day was over though, they would all be shocked again. This time by quite a different announcement. Kagome and her friends were sitting at the benches outside the cafeteria when from out of nowhere, Hojo came up to her with his friends following far behind, and out of earshot.
"Kagome, may I speak to you?" He asked, chocking down.
"Uh, sure." She said, putting down her chop sticks. "What about?" She asked him nervously.
"I've heard all about your problem from Yuka." He said. Kagome looked over at her with a crazed look of hatred. What could she expect though, it was Yuka of course, and her other friends didn't look too innocent either.
"So they blabbed to you that I'm pregnant, so what?" She asked Hojo. He loosened his collar around his neck, dropped to one knee, and took Kagome's hand.
"I've come to ask you to marry me." He said. Kagome and her friends were all stunned.
"You what?" They all four asked him at once.
"I know how terribly hard your family has had these past few years with you being sick and all. I just couldn't stand aside while you face yet another hardship all on your own. Eri told me that the guy who knocked you up ran out on you. I want you to know that there is at least one gallant soul left in this world who isn't afraid of responsibility." He proclaimed. The scene drew quite a crowd.
"Oh my…oh my…" Kagome was speechless. "Oh Hojo…"
"Yes Kagome?" He asked leaning in close.
"I…uh…I can't." She said shocking all on lookers and listeners.
"But Kagome…" He started but she continued.
"I can't let you throw your life away like this for me." She told him, helping him up. "You've still got such a great future out there and someone is waiting for you who is capable of being the kind of woman you need. Look at me, I'm sick all of the time, I'm having another man's baby. It's just not right for you to devote yourself to someone like me who can't love you." She told him. "Now get going Hojo, there's someone out there for you who's capable of loving you, and being the kind of wife you can be proud of." She said sending him on his way. Eri got then and chased after Hojo.
"Oh wait Hojo! I'll marry you! Please wait!" She cried. Kagome sat back down and finished her lunch while her friends stared at her.
"I can't believe you turned down an offer of marriage from the hottest guy in school!" Yuka exclaimed. Eri came back to her seat with a look of sad frustration on her face.
"Wouldn't go for it huh." Ayumi said.
"No." Eri slammed her face down on the table and cried her eyes out. "Kagome you're nuts. Any girl in this school would die to be with Hojo."
"Well, not me, okay. I have more dignity than to marry a guy I don't love just so I can shirk a little responsibility." Kagome stated then got up. She was tired of her so called friends and their meddling. After school she walked home alone to the shrine where she hoped her supportive family would be waiting for her. Instead she found her grandfather drinking, her brother playing video games, and her mother cooking for Inu-yasha who was wolfing down noodles like they were going out of style. "Oh!" She just couldn't handle it. She ran up stairs to her room and started packing her bags for another trip down the well which she believed would calm her nerves more than anything else would. Seeing Sango, Shippo, Miroku, and Keade again always made her feel better after a hectic week at school. It used to be the other way around though. She used to like school and her friends and seeing Hojo, and doing things that normal girls did. What she was finding out now though was that she was more used to her life being a jumble of demons, monsters, and jewel shards.
"Ready?" Inu-yasha asked her when she came back down with a full back pack.
"I think so. I'm taking a few more of my personal things for the hut, if that's alright?" She asked him.
"No, that's fine." He said sticking his sword back into his belt. "Just don't bring back your whole house or nothing. There's enough futuristic junk back there already for my liking." He told her.
"Don't worry. I won't." She agreed. There was actually very little of the modern age she wanted to take with her anymore. Use to be that she couldn't bring back enough modern conveniences back with her. Now she kind despised "Let's go." Just as they were heading out the door though, the worst possible thing happened. Eri, Yuka, and Ayumi came walking up the steps. "Oh no!" Kagome cried. "Quickly the hat!" She shoved a red ball cap down on Inu-yasha's head and threw her back pack down on the ground.
"Hi Kagome!" Eri said then they all noticed Inu-yasha.
"Oh my gosh, this is him, isn't it?" Yuka exclaimed.
"Who?" Kagome asked them.
"The reason you can't marry Hojo!" Ayumi shouted. "This is the guy who knocked you up!" Inu-yasha flinched as the girl encircled him.
"Alright, who are you, and what's your story. Back for some more fun in the sack?" Eri demanded.
"What, no!" Inu-yasha cried. "I'm… I'm…" Then the girls noticed Kagome's back pack on the ground by Inu-yasha's feet. They looked at Kagome.
"Ooooooh. He came back for her, now they're running off together!" Yuka cried.
"Kagome you couldn't tell us that you were leaving?" Eri demanded. "What could we have possibly done to make you feel that you couldn't confide in us?"
"Uh, you told Hojo that I was pregnant and now the whole school knows." Kagome said.
"What, you mean they all know?" Inu-yasha exclaimed. "What else have you told these giggling cats about?" He wanted to know. "Come out with it!" He said to the girls, "You know all about me don't you!"
"Well…"Yuka said. "We, uh…we don't know that much about you." She motioned to the other girls to step in.
"Yeah, we've hardly ever heard anything about anyone that Kagome's seen." Eri said.
"HUH" Inu-yasha's jaw dropped. "Who else have you been seeing?" He asked Kagome.
"No one, just Hojo, and he means nothing to me, Inu-yasha. I love you." She told him, reassuringly. The other girl gasped.
"You love him!" Ayumi fainted into Yuka's arms.
"This is so romantic." Eri said. "I can't believe we're actually witnessing this." She clasped her hands and looked starry-eyed at Inu-yasha and Kagome. "You have to let us throw you a going away party!" She exclaimed Ayumi came to then and agreed.
"Yes, Kagome. You must let us throw you a girls' night out, going away party." Yuka nodded.
"We really don't have time for that." Kagome said. "We're leaving today and besides I'm not going away forever, I'll be back in a few days to attend school and pick up some more of my stuff." She told her friends."
"Oh great. More garbage." Inu-yasha gagged. "I thought that we agreed that you had everything you needed back at our hut." He said.
"Your hut?" The girls asked. "You're going off to live with this guy in a hut?" Yuka asked turning to Kagome. "Oh I thought you were smarter than that."
"What's wrong with my home?" Inu-yasha asked. "It's been good enough for the five of us so far."
"Five of you, who else has been living there?" Eri demanded.
"Just a few friends." Kagome said. "Shut up Inu-yasha, you're saying too much about stuff these girls don't understand." She muttered to Inu-yasha.
"Oh, Kagome you're not going off with this guy right now, we won't let you!" Yuka took her arms. Ayumi took her feet, and Eri grabbed the middle. "We've got to see where he's taking you first, to make sure it's appropriate for you."
"NO!" Both Kagome and Inu-yasha cried and then Inu-yasha snapped. "Get out of here right now you gaggle of insignificant little pukes!" The girls back off then and starred in disbelief at Inu-yasha.
"Now I'm taking Kagome home with me right now and we're going to be happy, understand. HAPPY!" He grabbed Kagome and the backpack up in his arms then and dashed off into the well house. The three girls looked at each other then followed. They ran into the well house just in time to see Inu-yasha leap down the well. They all shrieked and then jumped in after them.
