Hello Everyone!

This is a story I have been writting for a long time now but that I didn't had the courage to place here until now! So today, I'm starting to post this story and I hope you guys could tell me what you thought about it. Okay?

The main pair is Inuyasha&Kagome, but there are also Sango&Miroku and Rin&Sesshomaru.

DISCLAIMER: All these characters are owned by Inuyasha's rightfull author. I merely own the story.

Enjoy!


Chapter 1 - Birthday Boy

She awoke startled, as the bed where she was peacefully asleep bounced violently, propelled by the jumping child next to her. It was cold and still dark outside but, through her eyelashes she could see the first rays of the sunrise appearing behind the curtains at her window.

- Wake up, mama! Wake up! We're gonna be late!

- Hum… Hiro… let me sleep just a few more minutes…

- But it's almost time! Come on! We're gonna miss it!

- Okay, okay… coming… - she said as she flipped the covers open and rose from her sleeping state. - Can you get me my keys, please? They're on the door and we can't leave the house without them…

Next to her, a small 5year old child jumped excitedly and expectantly out of the room, only to emerge a few minutes later with a bunch of keys in his small hands. He was already 5 years old, she thought with a smile, as she dressed on her night robe and left her room behind him. It seemed only yesterday that that child, once the small baby she had hold in her arms after 12hours of labor, had been born into the world.

Grasping her hand, Hiroyuki Higurashi walked proudly into the street in the direction of the hill directly in front of her apartment. It was one of the few places in the city where there weren't buildings piling up and from where they could see the sun rise without any kind of obstacles. Since it was still so early and there wasn't anyone awake in the neighborhood yet, both were wearing pajamas and night garments.

- It's now, isn't it? – he asked his mother, as he grasped her hand a little bit more tightly than before while his eyes wandered through the landscape in front of him.

- Yes, it's now… - Kagome said, as the sun began to raise – Happy Birthday, Hiroyuki…

The child turned to his mother, a huge grin on her face and for a moment Kagome's heart seemed to stop altogether. For a moment he looked just identical to his father, those huge golden shinny eyes, filled with dreams and life; that already long silver hair and his small dog ears excitedly capturing the sounds of everything around him. Still, she said, no matter how much he looked like his father, there was still something in him that reminded her that he was her son too.

"Unfortunately it's not my personality…" she thought with a sigh, while she sat herself in the ground, enjoying the wind and the breathtaking view. Hiroyuki took the chance and sat in his mother's lap, his back against her chest as he listened to his mother's heartbeat, his best lullaby. While Kagome remained lost in thoughts, he slowly began to relax and his eyelids fluttered and closed.
Kagome slowly began to caress his hair, combing it through her hands, as he drifted to sleep and she remained lost in thoughts.

It had been 5 years since the dawn she had given birth to her son, precisely when the first rays of light were rising in the sky. And that was the reason why she brought her son to watch the sunrise every year on his birth day, as their own private ritual. He was her biggest bless, her "broad happiness" as she had named him.

He was everything she had to remind her of a past that would never came true, no matter how much she longed for it. Sighing she recalled how much of his father was present in him: as well as his good looks, Hiroyuki had his father's personality, stubborn and impetuous, but kindhearted and honest. He was more open than his father was, in what concerned his feelings. He wasn't afraid to show he was worried or sad, which Kagome knew instantly. When her son blabbered too much, he had done something or was hiding something. When he was too quiet, he was bothered by something. When he grasped her hand a little bit more strongly, he was about to cry or he was feeling frightened. At those times, Kagome sat with him and hummed him, while rocking him against her chest. She waited until he cried everything out and then, patiently, started inducing him into telling her what was wrong.

And then there was his bad temper. Kagome knew he wasn't rude, as opposition to his father, but she knew that he lost his head with tremendous speed and easiness. He was extremely protective of his mother and she would often smile when he ended up in confusions because of that and also because of his extreme curiosity. He asked about everything he caught his eyes on!

Every year, on this exact same day and precisely at the sun rising, Kagome Higurashi would take Hiroyuki, her now 5year old son into that hill and watch the sun rise along with him. It reminded her of her long labor hours and of her feelings when she had hold her son for the first time.

- Hey, mom… - came a sleeping voice.

- Hum?

- Can you… can you tell me about dad?

Kagome's heart seemed to have sunk a little bit further. Memories came back to her, good ones and bad ones, as they always did, year after year filling her head with "what ifs" and "could it be". Every year on this day Hiroyuki asked her the same, since he had started talking. And every year Kagome would hold her breath and tears and ask him the same thing:

- Your father? What do you want to know about him?

- What does he look like?

- … Well, you can see him… I see him everyday…

- How?

- Well, I see him in you… and you can see him when you look in the mirror. He's just like you…

- Really?

- Yup. Just a little bit older, that's all. You two are much more alike than you can imagine…

- … Why has he gone?

- We've talked about it…

- But I want to hear it again! Please… it's the only time you ever talk about him…

Kagome gulped hard and sighed:

- He had to. I've told you that your dad liked mom as a good friend but he had someone else he liked more… when two people like each other very much, they truly want to be together… so he had to be with her…

- But why? You said you liked him very much… don't you, anymore?

- Oh honey, things aren't always as you wish them to be. And I do like him very much, even today. He gave me something very precious, after all… - she said smiling.

- Me? – he asked, a curious grin in his face as he turned it around, his eyes now brilliant and expectant and holding no trace of sleepiness.

- Yeah, you. I love you very much… - she said, kissing his forehead.

- I love you too, ma…

Kagome stayed there a few more minutes, and she knew as soon as Hiroyuki adjusted himself in her lap that the questions weren't over yet.

- Hey mom…

- Yeah?

- How do babies come to be?

She blushed hard and gulped. Not again…

- Why do you ask?

- Well, Aunt Sango is going to have babies and when I asked her where she had gotten them, she said you'd explain me better. I think she was sick too…

- It's natural, honey. When women have babies, they use to get sick every time…

- Oh… but she was really red…

Kagome giggled.

- I imagine…

- Well?

- Well what?

- Where do you get babies?

- Well… well, it's complicated to explain, dear… when you're older, mom can explain better. You're still really small; you don't have to know that yet…

The child quieted and looked at the sun. It had already risen fairly in the sky.

- Mom?

- Yes, honey?

- Will you show me dad, someday?

- …

- Mom?

- … Yeah, perhaps…

- And can I meet him, then?

- We'll see…

- My friends asked me why it was always you who picked me up… where my dad was…

She gulped. Deep down, she always knew that there would be a day when he would ask all these questions and that she would get to remember everything once more. She knew that and still, it all seemed too soon yet.

- … And what did you tell them?

- The truth. I don't know him.

- You did?

- Yeah. You were the one who teach me to never lie, remember? – he said, rolling his eyes. Kagome couldn't help the giggles from escaping her mouth. He had sounded just like his father.

- What? What is it, mom? Why are you crying and laughing?

She hadn't noticed until he pointed that out; she was laughing and crying at the same time. And from the feeling of her tears, she had been already crying before he even noticed.

- It's nothing…

- People don't cry for nothing, you said so! – he stated as he turned in her lap to hold her face in his small hands. She let herself merge with those liquid golden eyes and smiled.

- Mom's just happy that she has you, that's all…

He grinned openly and kissed her forehead at the same time that Kagome closed her eyes. When she had calmed down, she asked him:

- So, where do you want to go, today? You're the one in charge…

- Do I get to be with you the whole day? – he asked, marveled and with his eyes shining of happiness.

- Yup. Mom's not going to the hospital, today…

- Yuppie! – he shouted, jumping from her lap and into the air. She giggled and caught him, tackling him and earning a handful of laughs from him.

They didn't notice the car stopping or the footsteps behind both. They only noticed when a voice came behind them:

- Well, seems like someone's having a lot of fun on his birthday…

- Uncle Sesshomaru! – Hiroyuki said, jumping into his uncle's open arms.

- Happy birthday, kid! – said Sesshomaru, as he hugged the child.

Kagome giggled and smiled. Sesshomaru was the person that most had changed after Hiroyuki's birth. He belonged to the group of friends that graduated with Kagome, that helped Kagome during her pregnancy time and that supported her and her son after the birth.

Sesshomaru Taisho was a lawyer and at his 30's he was already one of the most promissory students that had graduated from Sengoku Jidai University. He was still single, though he was a "ladies' killer"; he was currently dating a woman named Kagura Kaze, a 28year old woman, also lawyer, with whom he had already broken up a few times, only to get back a few days after.

Seeing him holding his nephew, Kagome couldn't help to recall how they looked alike. The same silver long hair, deep golden eyes… they were after all blood related, even if in half. Sesshomaru's younger half-brother was Hiroyuki's father and her son had inherited his father's condition.

Sesshomaru's father, InuTaisho was a fully fledged youkai (demon) and Sesshomaru was too. However, Sesshomaru's younger half-brother was what people called hanyou (half-demon), since his mother was human but his father was InuTaisho.

People now seemed to be accepting the demons and half-demons much better than before, but there were still quarrels amongst them and people who believed that they shouldn't even exist.

Sesshomaru turned to look at Kagome and she smiled at him, while getting herself up.

- Congratulations. – he said, while smiling a little and hugging her too.

- Thanks.

- 5years, huh? Who would guess time would fly this fast? – he said, while looking at Hiroyuki.

- I'm a man now! – the boy shouted, his fists in the hair.

- Almost there, little one. What were you guys doing out here?

- Watching the sun rise.

- Oh really? In your pajamas?

Kagome chuckled and asked him:

- Have you eaten yet?

- No, honestly I haven't. I have a trial tomorrow so I stayed at the office later than usual.

- Then come up, I'll get you something. Bet that you're starving and tired too… - Kagome said, while turning around and walking in the direction of her apartment, keys in her hand.

Sesshomaru followed her inside, playing with the child as Kagome pushed the door open for them.

The apartment wasn't big but for Kagome it was perfect. It had three bedrooms, one toilet, a big kitchen, a living and a dining room, being the last one the biggest division of the house. It wasn't the first time Sesshomaru came there; Kagome had for habit to invite her friends to her house, since university and that habit had been kept. They would reunite themselves in her house every two weeks to catch up with everyone and hang out.

- Anything in particular you want…? Fruit juice, bread, coffee…?

- Coffee would be nice.

- Hiro, sit down and stay quiet. I'll get your milk. And I believe it will be coffee for both of us… - she said, while searching in her kitchen for the things she needed.

- Okay, mom.

As she had told, Hiro sat down in his chair, beside Sesshomaru in the square kitchen table, his feet dangling from the ground. It took a while for Kagome to serve breakfast and to sit down, but when she did Hiro, who had been staring at the food attentively, asked:

- Can we start now, mom?

- Sure, go ahead. Mind your manners… - she warned him, as soon as she saw him gulp down a generous portion of his chocolate milk.

- So, - asked Sesshomaru – how is everything?

- Well, so far. We are overloaded in the hospital but still, I can't complain. And though he is a handful, he's very much worth it. – Kagome said, looking tenderly at Hiroyuki who was now attacking his cereals.

- You're doing pretty well, for a 27year old single mother. – Sesshomaru said, completely honest.

- Thank you. – she said smiling openly.

- How about Sango, is she still working?

- No, she already signed for maternity leave.

- I see. When is she due?

- I think she's due in more or less two months…

Sesshomaru turned to Hiroyuki and asked with a small smile on his face.

- And what about you? Have you been behaving yourself?

- Of course! – he stated proudly, his mouth proudly "crowned" by a chocolate moustache, and Kagome saw the smirk that tried to overcame Sesshomaru's lips before his nephew's exuberant answer. – After all, I have to take care of mom!

- Yes, you have. And how is school?

- It's alright. I have tons of friends… I also have some that don't like me but I don't mind them… I'm already learning to write the numbers and the letters…

- Already? – Sesshomaru asked, surprised. – Isn't that a bit too soon?

- His teacher told me that he is one of the smartest ones, so she wanted to start working with him, already… she asked me and I saw no harm in it so…

- That's good… I mean, thank God that he has your brains!

Kagome chuckled, drink up her coffee and after eyeing Sesshomaru for a while she said:

- Hiro, why don't you go to your room? Mom and uncle have to talk…

- Why can't I listen? – he sounded offended, crossing his arms and surprising Sesshomaru by how much like his father he looked right then.

- Because it's grown up stuff and because I said so. And no listening behind the doors, mister, or else… - she threatened as he jumped to the ground from his chair.

He jump down from his chair and walked through the corridor, mumbling. Kagome could hear the door closing and since she didn't hear the "click" of the locket she shouted:

- Hiroyuki!

There was a sonorous bang and she smiled, as Sesshomaru pointed out:

- He seemed upset…

- He'll get over it, don't worry.

- He looks a lot like him…

- I know. And every day the resemblance grows. But then, what did you expect anyway? After all, he is the son of your brother!

- Yes, I know. That stupid brother of mine…

- And how have you been?

- Everything is fine, for now. More work and new files, everyday…

- You know it's not healthy to put up all nights…

- I know, but I have been kind of lazy with work lately so…

- You? Sesshomaru Taisho being lazy? – she mocked and he smirked. – Then the world might be about to stop…

- Mock me as you will… even I have periods when I want to relax…

- And Kagura?

- She's… she's fine. I guess… - he said, averting her gaze and seeming too much concentrated in the cup of coffee before him.

- You guess? Oh, I don't like that tune… something tells me you're not telling me everything. What happened?

- … We broke up. A few days ago…

- What? How? How come you didn't tell me anything?

- Well… I was busy…

- Busy? Honestly, Sesshomaru… can't you think of a better excuse?

- I...

- You thought I wouldn't wanna listen? – she asked, offended.

- No. I actually believed you would tell me "I warned you!" or "I told you so!"

- And what makes you think I won't say it? Especially because you know who is suffering the most with this… attitude of yours…

- Me? – he guessed, although he had a good bet on who she was going to say next.

- No! Rin! Every time you change girlfriend, it's Rin who gets her heart broken… she's the one who you run to, every time you finish a relationship, isn't she? To talk about what happened to you! And she's the one who suffers the most, especially because every time you do, she believes that you'll give her a chance…

Sesshomaru's face changed instantly. Rin… sure…

Rin Nagasaki was Sesshomaru and Kagome's friend since their university days, now a brilliant gynecologist working at the same hospital Kagome did. She was younger than Kagome by a year and younger than Sesshomaru by 4.

Everybody knew how much and for how long Rin had been in love with him, but Sesshomaru never paid her much importance. He treated her as a friend and as a sort of psychiatric he could talk about his failed relationships. It was cruel, but even he couldn't explain the need he had for being pampered by her when he was feeling down. She still loved him but she had taken the advice of Sango and Kagome and started dating other persons as a way to forget about him. But since Kagura was Sesshomaru's girlfriend, Rin had ended up meeting them in Kagome's house, during many of the gatherings.

Sesshomaru would never admit there was much more than what it seemed, when Rin was concerned; he had deep hatred against any of the man Rin dated, including the current one and so far the longest: the "seven months" Bankotsu Shichinintai , as he would call him. They simply weren't good enough for her, as he would say. And there was another thing worrying him, these days. His longings for being with her had started to became stronger and he knew why… he was even afraid that if Rin was too near him, that he wouldn't be able to control himself. After all, he was a dog demon…

- So you're telling me I should have stayed with Kagura?

- No, I'm telling you to make up your mind once and for all and admit! Rin doesn't deserve this! So decide once and for all, or otherwise, you may end up losing her…

- …

- Tell me, when are you going to admit that you love her? – asked Kagome, without delay. – When she's already taken?

- What if you'd stop imagining things? You should have been a writer, instead of a nurse…

- I'm not imagining things! You can't hide it anymore, that every time you see Rin dating someone, you get all jealous and cranky.

- …

- Why don't you admit it? You like her… no, you LOVE her…

Sesshomaru chose to give her no answer. Noticing that she wouldn't get anything more from him, she sighed and asked:

- Anyway, what are you doing here, especially so early? What happened?

- How do you…? – he looked at her surprised.

- Well, it's not only because of Hiro, I know. Otherwise, you wouldn't be so apprehensive and anxious… and especially wouldn't be here so early in the morning.

- I'm not anxious…

- Oh, no? Then why don't you stop with your foot taping? – she said, making him notice what he was doing all of a sudden.

Sesshomaru averted his eyes to his cup.

- You know you can tell me everything right? – she said, as she took her cup to her mouth at the same time he dropped the "bomb":

- Inuyasha is back.


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