Kagome sat silently the small, umcomfortable chair, waiting to be addressed. She gripped the arm rests in anticipation.
The receptionist looked up from her computer screen for a brief moment to study her friend's face."Kagome- Chan...? Kaede-Sama will see you now..."
Kagome lifted herself from her seat, and picked up the purse she had placed in the vacant chair next to hers.
"Alright. Thank you Sango."
Sango smiled. "Go got 'em tiger! I'm sure it's nothing too big for you to handle."
Kagome flashed her long- time friend a small smile and started down short hallway to the examination room, where Kaede met her at the door.
"Kagome-Chan, how are you?" Kaede said in a motherly tone as she placed a hand on her patient's shoulder. "I hope this visit isn't regarding anything serious?" She led Kagome into her room.
"Nothing too serous, i hope." Kagome muttered as she ran a nervous hand through her hair.
"Is Sesshomaru aware of your presence here?" Kaede asked in a worried tone.
"No. Nor should I tell him. My husband doesn't need to know of every detail of my life, business or personal."
"I see. He's been spending late nights at the office again, hasn't he?" Kaede asked worriedly.
"Yeah...." The younger raven haired woman replied almost inaudibly. "He's been so distant lately.... Even at work. I don't know what his issue is! He wasn't like this at all when we first got married..." She let out a long, shaking sigh.
"Now, now, Kagome. This isn't much to get upset about. I'm sure he's trying his best." Kaede patted her friends back in a successful attepmt to comfort her.
"I don't even think he's aware that our three year anniversary is comming up....." Kagome sighed again. "Something is bothering him, too. I can tell, but he refuses to tell me what it is."
"Yes, well. boys will be boys- sadly enough. Now, what seems to be your problem? Are you sick?" Kaede asked, looking at her clipboard. "Your check-up was only a month and a half ago, and you were as healthy as a horse then!"
"I'm not sure, Kaede. I've been putting on a little weight since then, but i haven't changed my diet. Whatever i do eat seems to just come back up the next morning..." Kagome's eyes shifted from her mother figure to her feet. "What do you think is wrong? Kaede began to chuckle softly. "What's so funny, Kaede?"
"Ah, nothing child. But I do believe i know what's ailing you." Kaede smiled. She walked over to one of her cabinets against the wall and opened one. She pulled a slender needle and some test tubes from a shelf and walked over to Kagome. "I'll need to take some blood samples just to be sure."
Kagome started at Kaede with a puzzled expression on her face. "Kaede, what's going through your wise, mischievious mind right now?" Kagome asked hesitantly.
"You'll find out if I am correct within three days or so. Now bear me your forearm to draw some blood. You might want to roll your sleeve up..." Kaede readied her needle as Kagome relunctantly complied.
--------After--------
Kagome shut the door to her blue Mustang GT and walked up the driveway of her and Sesshomaru's home. She fumbled for her house key as she approached the door, then let herself in. She used her foot to shut the door, carful not to scuff her stilettos as she slid out of the Armani coat Sesshomaru had bought her last Christmas.
"I wonder what I should make him for dinner....?" Kagome thought aloud to herself. "That is.. if he's even home to eat it...." She let out a sigh, the reached into her purse for her cell phone. She pressed speed dial #2, Sesshomaru's personal cell phone. The one she had bought him for his birthday a few months back. She put the phone to her ear with it's quiet ringing as the only thing breaking the silence. "He isn't going to answer...." She sighed as it rang twice more.
Then a monotonous "Hello?" snapped her from that thought.
"Oh! Um.. Hi, Sesshomaru...." Kagome stumbled for words. She wasnt expectiong to actually get an answer...
"Hello, Kagome," He sounded annoyed, and Kagome could hear papers being rustled on his desk. Now she felt bad for calling him while he was so busy. "What do you need? You took the day off with no explaination, and now you distract me with this unannounced phone call as I'm trying to get this paper work done before the meeting you're skipping out on."
Kagome moved the phone away from her mouth to release a small, quick sigh, knowing he'd pick it up if she hadn't.
"I just wanted to know if you'd be home in time for dinner, and ask what you'd like to eat tonight." She could hear him let out a light chuckle. "What's so funny?"
"Havo you forgotten about our dinner plans for tonight at the priciest restarant in town?" The fact of the matter was that she had. Whoops. She stumbled for something to say, but Sesshomaru saved her the trouble. "I'll be home at seven to shower and change. We'll be leaving shortly after."
KAgome smiled, assured her husband she'd be ready, then got off the phone to make sure she would be.
--------After--------
Kagome sat quietly in the passenger seat of Sesshomaru's car on the way home from dinner, staring at her phone. It had vibrated violently in her purse for five straight minutes halfway through their dinner. Kagome took it out after it had finally finished. She could not hide the surprise on her face, seeing that it was a call from her doctor's office. This call wasn't supposed to come for another few days. Sesshomaru started to question what the business of the call was, but Kagome couldn't even answer him. She did, however, manage to leave out the small detail that Kaede had left a voicemail. This troubled her even further. The night had only gotten worse.
-Flashback-
"Well Kagome, since you won't share your news, I'll have to share my own. I have to take a three month trip to America to oversee the coming of our new branch of our company." Sesshomaru regarded her wife slightly cold, aloof. "I'm leaving tomorrow afternoon."
Kagome just sat there, playing with her napkin for the rest of the night. He was leaving her...? It was only for three months, but saying it was so much easier than doing it, but even saying it was hard enough...
-End Flashback-
When Kagome had finally arrived home, she went straight to her and Sesshomaru's bedroom and undressed for bed. Sesshomaru went into his study to finish off his last minute paperwork. Kagome went to bed once again alone, without her husband.
