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Month 1
"There!" Kagome said finishing signing her name with a flourish.
She was with Inuyasha and his lawyer in his office signing the contract that bound them together with the birth of his first child.
Inuyasha nodded as his lawyer put the contract away. "One for you, miss."
Kagome took her copy and smiled.
A child. She was practically holding an assurance of her first child in her hands.
"Thanks, Miroku." Inuyasha nodded to his friend.
"I still can't believe you got away with this." Miroku shook his head in amusement. "Any other woman would have beaten you senseless."
"I have a certain amount of charisma and charm." Inuyasha smirked.
"Yeah, yeah. Sure." Miroku shook his head. "Like I said, only you."
"I have to go now." Kagome said. "I need to get to work."
"Have a nice day." Inuyasha said thinking he had to get back to work as well.
"I'll walk you out." Miroku said leading her out.
"See you." Kagome waved by and left.
"So," Miroku said after the door closed, "are you...I guess excited would be the right word?"
Kagome nodded. "I don't know Inuyasha that well but I suppose raising a child together will change that, but I've always wanted a child and I can't wait."
She put her hand over her stomach and smiled. Maybe even right now...
Miroku smiled as if he understood.
They entered the elevator together and had it to themselves.
"So when did you and Inuyasha start...you know?" Miroku didn't blush but he looked slightly uncomfortable.
"About a week ago." Kagome said. "We've been together every night since. We're really hoping that I'll get pregnant soon."
"You kind of sound like you two were picked to simply breed and produce offspring. Like horse breeding or something." Miroku shook his head.
"I know I should be insulted, and any other woman would be I guess, but..." Kagome sighed. "I've always wanted a child. And this is my chance to get one!"
"Are you going to be moving in with him or staying in your home?" Miroku asked.
"Me and Inuyasha have been talking, ironing out details. We figured since we'll be raising the child like real parents there is no reason to not live together. It's just easier. Besides, I don't want to ferry the kid between my house and his like we're divorced and can't stand each other. We'll be a big happy family. Kind of." Kagome stopped talking when the elevator stopped and let on three more people.
They fell into that special silence of an elevator. Where your temporarily invading other peoples space but there is no choice.
"Good-bye, Miroku." Kagome waved as they separated to their respective cars.
Kagome's car was a small and modest beige thing but it worked for her and she drove to work singing loudly with the radio wondering weather the child would be a boy or girl.
"I still can't believe this." Sango said baffled. "What are the chances?"
"I'm happy with it." Kagome nodded. "I can't think of anything better."
"How about loving the guy your baring the child for?" Sango asked.
"What's with you?" Kagome asked picking up the toys that were spread haphazardly all around the play room. "A week ago you told me to say yes."
"I was joking." Sango shook her head. "No. I guess I wasn't. I want you to be happy and if this makes you so, I say go for it!"
"That's the spirit!" Kagome nodded. "By the way, I'm moving into his place, do you think you can give me a hand with packing and stuff? You have a truck and with my little car..." she trailed off.
"Yeah, sure." Sango nodded. "No problem."
"Thanks." Kagome gave her a one armed hug as the other was filled with brightly colored, noise making toys.
"So, any chance you're pregnant yet?" Sango smiled.
Kagome shrugged. "It's probably too early to tell. Inuyasha and I are going to the doctor to check at the end of the month."
"Fun." Sango said. Kagome put the last of the toys in the last of the toy chests and Sango closed it. Then she stretched. "And that's that!"
"Let's go home." Kagome nodded.
"I'll meet you at your place tomorrow to start packing. I'll bring the boxes." Sango said walking down the front hallway as Kagome dug out her keys.
"I'll bring the tape." Kagome smiled and locked the door behind them.
"Inuyasha, I'm back!" Kagome called walking into his large mansion.
"Miss Higurashi." The old butler bowed his head.
"Hey, Myoga." Kagome waved. "Is Inuyasha back yet."
"No, ma'am." Myoga shook his head. "He called and said he would be home late. May I take your bag?"
Kagome shook her head and looked down at the duffle she held. She had made a quick stop at her place for clothes and the like because it just wasn't worth getting up an hour earlier to go back to her home and get ready. "No thanks. I got it."
"Dinner is at 8." Myoga said behind her and Kagome nodded as she continued her walk upstairs.
The house was full of servants more often than not because Inuyasha was never home. She would have to talk to him about that. She wasn't raising her child to love a father who always worked.
For now, she and Inuyasha were sharing a room and neither complained, so that's where she went.
She set her stuff on the bed and stretched.
She relaxed slowly and looked around. "It's too quiet here. Children would really liven this place up."
Content and relaxed, after all she had spent the last week here, she left the room and walked down the hall to the living room right off the front door.
"Hey, Satsuki!" she nodded to a maid on the way. "How's your mom? Feeling any better?"
Satsuki nodded, her arms full of linen, "Yes, she's much better now. Thank you for telling me what would help."
Kagome shook her head. "My Gramps gets those coughs all the time. Those herbs really help him. See you."
In the living room, she saw another maid, this one a male, who was dusting the mantle.
"Tatsiki, hows work?" she asked.
"Fabulous." Tatsiki said winking at her. "And don't you look edible today."
"Hey, I'm Inuyasha's until further notice." Kagome giggled knowing full well that Tatsiki was gay.
"I'll be waiting, sweet-cheeks." he waved and left the room.
Happily, Kagome sat down and turned on Inuyasha's monster TV. "Men and their televisions, I'll never understand." Kagome mumbled listening to the surround sound with large sub-woofers and looking at the 82 inch plasma TV.
"Miss?"
Kagome turned and saw Myoga coming towards her carrying a box.
Kagome smirked.
Inuyasha sighed as he walked in his door then froze as laughter accompenied the sound.
He walkd into the living room and saw what must have been his entire household goofing around.
Kagome and Myoga were laughing on the floor with the remnants of a forgotten mahjong game between them, his maids Tatsiki, Satsuki, and Jen were lounging on the couch, or laying against it, his cooks were arguing playfully with his gardener between them cheering them on in turn.
A movie was blasting that no one was paying attention to, a half empty bowl of popcorn was on the floor as were three or four empty and crushed soda cans with some others that were still full next to their owners.
"Ah! Inuyasha!" Kagome called seeing him, her face flushed with happiness.
"You've made yourself comfortable, I see." Inuyasha said looking around.
His staff had never looked so frightened.
Kagome seemed to sense that. "Me and Myoga were having our nightly mahjong game," she explained, "Tatsiki brought us some popcorn and started to cheer me on then Jen showed up and took Myoga's side. Max and Yuu brought us home made pizza," she pointed to an empty platter on the coffee table, "and they took sides, then I saw Satsuki in the hallway talking with Jiji so I invited them to join us."
"Sounds like quite a party." Inuyasha said.
"Want to join?" she asked standing up off the ground and walking over to him.
"I have work..."
"No, you don't!" Kagome grabbed his arm and pulled him inside. "You've been at work all day and put in enough over time as it is!"
She pushed him on the couch and took his briefcase out of his hands.
"Kagome..." he started but she covered his mouth.
"Work belongs at work." she said. "You better get used to it because when the kid is born that's going to be a hard rule."
Inuyasha sighed as Kagome unbuttoned his jacket. He waited patiently as she opened the jacket, untucked his shirt, and loosened his tie.
"There!" Kagome said. "Wait. It still needs...I got it!" she spread his legs slighty, made him lean back, and put his arms on the back of the couch. "And done! What do you think?"
Tatsiki turned his head. "It's still missing some thing."
Kagome turned her head too and Inuyasha began rubbing the bridge of his nose. "Kagome, I'm not a puppet!"
"Hush." She said putting his arm back in place.
"How about this?" Max, the desert cook asked, giving Kagome a soda can.
"That's perfect!" Kagome placed it happily in Inuyasha's fist.
"The master has never looked so relaxed." Satsuki said giggling.
"How about this?" Myoga asked turning the movie to a sports channel.
Kagome nodded excitedly.
"I hate basketball." Inuyasha grunted but no one listened to him.
Yuu put a pillow beside him, Kagome put his feet up on the table, Myoga took his hair down, Jiji put the popcorn bowl on his other side, and Tatsiki unbuttoned the top two buttons on his shirt.
"I'm not a doll!" Inuyasha finally cried standing up.
The staff fell back looking nervous but Kagome giggled. "We're just trying to help you relax. You don't do it nearly enough."
"I don't needto relax." Inuyasha said crossing his arms.
"Every one needs to relax some times." Kagome said. "I'll have no workaholics in this house."
"You say that like you'rethe master of the house." Inuyasha grumbled.
Kagome smiled brightly, he looked so cute when he was being stubborn and mule-headed. "I am. Now stop grouching and...relax!" she used the lat word to push him back on the couch.
The sudden attack startled him making his knees bend and forcing him down.
Kagome laughed and Inuyasha growled but then he smirked.
Kagome squeaked when he suddenly grabbed her by the waist and pulled her down on his lap.
The staff, smart as they were, started to disperse, using skills honed over a life-time career to become ghosts as they vanished into the hallway.
"If you're going to make me relax I can think of better ways to do so." Inuyasha said but the words were muffled because he was nibbling on her neck.
Kagome leaned her head back to give him better access and threaded her hands through his hair but she said, "This isn't relaxing, in fact it's doing the opposite." She knew because of the hard bulge in his pants that pressed against her center.
"We'll get there." he promised pulling her pink sweat-shirt over her head so his mouth could move further down.
Kagome never ceased to be amazed at how well her body responded to his touch. Hell, one look and she was on fire! The tiny kisses and gentle nips he trailed down her collar bone to her chest sent electric shocks through her entire system. She knew it was lust and that it would burn itself out but until it did she was damn well going to enjoy it!
Inuyasha reached his hands up behind her and unsnapped her bra. "Beautiful." He murmered to himself as her breasts fell into his hands.
He personally felt he could spend the next year or so doing nothing but playing with Kagome's breasts and be the happiest man alive. He hated it when women put so much silicon in their chest they looked like they might tip over from the weight balance any second and the smaller breasts only held so much enjoyment for him. Other men were happy with them but Inuyasha prefered something more...round.
Kagome's silken orbs were perfect. Smooth and big enough to cup in the palm of his hand. And the best part? They were all Kagome. Nothing remotely fake about the beauties that he was enjoying licking and sucking.
He couldn't wait until her pregnancy increased their size and sensitivity.
Although, judging from her tiny moans and gasps and that sexy clouded over look in her eyes, they were sensitive enough already.
Only when Inuyasha had decided he had had enough fun, did he lean back and begin working the jeans from her hips.
"Hurry." she said unbuttoning his shirt so she could spread her fingers across that rock hard chest and hills of his six pack. "You have got to work out."
"Every morning before work." he said lifting each of her legs so he could throw her pants off which were quickly followed by her underwear.
"It was well worth it." Kagome told him leaning foreward so she could start sucking his neck.
Inuyasha groaned and unzipped his pants.
Kagome smirked when his erection jumped forth. "Ready are we?"
Inuyasha didn't respond but grabbed her hips and forced them down on top of him.
The reunion of familiar flesh was sweet and Inuyasha wasted no time before moving his hips.
Kagome couldn't think anymore but knew her hips were moving of their own accord as well.
She remembered the sex ed. classes she used to have. Wait until marriage, abstinence, abstinence, abstinence! And, to be fair, she had taken it all very seriously. She didn't want a kid halfway through high school or college, she didn't want a man to use her then lose her as soon as he found out he had real responsibility. Or worse, he stick around and she and him would grow to hate each other. No, she wanted a good life with her children, so she had waited.
She wanted it and was tempted very badly at times, but the lessons always came back right when she didn't want them to and she had ended up pushing her boyfriend of the time away. This had caused a few of her relationships to fail, some thing she felt was best because if he didn't stick around because of that then he was an asshole anyway.
And now that she was having sex with Inuyasha, she found it was all worth while. None of the boys she had dated before even closely measured up to the man that held her in his arms. He knew how to pleasure her the way no fumbling teenage boy in the back of a car ever could.
It's the lack of condom, one side of her brain whispered but another part knew that even with the restricting rubber Inuyasha would have made it amazing.
They both gasped and Kagome called out as they threw back their heads at the same time and the jolt of the pleasure of their climax burned through their bodies.
Inuyasha was breathing hard as the sweat cooled from his body. He and Kagome were still connected and he knew he would be happy not needing to move ever again. The sweet heaviness of her body on his was nice enough but still being sheathed inside her warmth was a heaven all of its own that he wouldn't have missed for all the money in the world.
Kagome leaned back and looked him in the eye, her breathing calming down with her heart and she smiled at him.
He smirked back and Kagome rolled her eyes. "Proud of yourself, are you?"
His smirk got wider, "I love it when a woman screams because of me."
Kagome shook her head and kissed him, a gentle press of lips as his hands carressed her back. She leaned back again. "Welcome home."
"So make it official." Sango said stacking another box against the wall.
"He made a contract, Sango." Kagome said closing a different box and taping it shut. "What kind of man makes a business contract for a woman having his kid?"
"The kind that doesn't want to get screwed?" she asked wiping her sweaty brow.
Kagome moved the box and pulled the last one in front of her.
"I know it's not going to last. There's no way this...need could last forever but..."
Sango picked up the box and put it with others as Kagome taped the last one. "You don't know that." she said. "Isn't that why people get into relationships in the first place. To see if it will last?"
"I suppose..." Kagome said pushing the box over to her friend.
"That's that!" Sango said proudly stacking the last box.
The moving men had been over earlier and had taken the bigger stuff Kagome couldn't box, i.e. her couch, and had moved them over to Inuyasha's already. All that was left was for Kagome and Sango to load Sango's truck and Kagome's car and drive the rest of her things over.
"Kagome, if you want the candles and rose petals just tell him so." Sango said. "I'm sure he'd understand and do his best to make you happy."
"I know." Kagome said standing up and looking around her empty house. "But I want him to want me because he wants to, you know?"
"For some reason, that made sense." Sango said dully picking up a box with Kagome and walking out of the house.
"I don't want him to feel obliged to be romantic." Kagome said, trying to clarify.
"I know." Sango said putting first her box, then Kagome's in Kagome's trunk. "I can see why you'd feel that way but some one has to start it if you want a real relationship."
"I want him to start it." Kagome said.
"You know, this is the twenty-first century..."
"Shut up." Kagome laughed. "I don't want him to ask me because it's traditional." Kagome mocked her. "I just want to know he wants me."
"Sure, I can understand that." Sango said as they walked back in. "But, judging on how much you two have been jumping each others bones these last few weeks..."
"It's been a week and a half!" Kagome said through her teeth, her cheeks turning red.
Sango laughed and continued her sentence, "Judging on how much you two have been jumping each others bones the last week and a half, not that any one keeping track, I would say he wants you just fine."
"I am not keeping track." Kagome said with great dignity as she scooped another box in her arms. "Besides, lust is easy. I want to know that he's attracted to me."
"See previous statement." Sango said dully following her friend out of the house.
"Haha." Kagome said putting her box in the trunk as Sango did the same. "You know what I mean."
"Yeah, I know. Now let's get the rest of these boxes loaded up so we can go over to your new mansion." Sango said excitidly.
Sango whistled in appreciation as they walked up the small staircase of Inuyasha's mansion. "I think I've seen places like this in magazines."
"Hey, Kagome!" Tatsiki said walking outside and over to her car. Satsuki and Jen followed him both nodding in greeting.
"Servants?" Sango asked as they got boxes out of Kagome's car.
"Maids." Kagome corrected. "I don't think they call them servants anymore."
They entered the house and saw Myoga in the front room.
"Welcome back, Miss Kagome." he bowed his head to her.
"Hey, Myoga." Kagome smiled. "This is Sango. Sango, Myoga."
"Wow! A butler!" Sango shook his hand.
Myoga smiled proudly but kept up an air of great poise and dignity. "Kagome, Master Inuyasha is home, he's in his study."
"Oh? I thought he would be at work." Kagome said as Tatsiki and the others came back in with their arms loaded.
"He was, but he and Mr. Houshi came here for lunch."
"Great." Kagome said. "I'll try not to disturb him. Come on, Sango."
Kagome led the way up the stairs and down the hall.
"This is awesome." Sango said turning her head this way and that.
"I know, right?" Kagome laughed and opened the door to the room she was storing her boxes in until she unpacked.
"Who's Mr. Houshi?" Sango asked.
"Inuyasha's lawyer." Kagome said. "I think their best friends, too."
"He's one of those big corporate hotshots, isn't he?" Sango asked as they put the boxes in the room, against the far wall.
"He's a total hunk!" Tatsiki said walking past them and setting his box down with Satsuki and Jen. "Mega-genius and a fabulous body to boot."
They laughed and walked out.
"Why did my gay-dar suddenly go nuts?" Sango asked smiling.
"I love Tatsiki." Kagome said following the maids. "He's such a sweet heart and so hot it should be illegal that he's gay."
"All the great ones are." Sango shook her head.
They both looked as a door to they're right opened. "Kagome. I was wondering who was making all the noise." Inuyasha said.
"Sorry to disturb you." Kagome appologized.
Inuyasha shook his head. "It's a good thing you did, or I would be late getting back to work." he said looking at his watch.
"Yeah, your boss might fire you, oh wait..." Kagome laughed. "You are the boss. Why don't you relax?"
"Maybe later." he said looking down at her body making her blush.
"That's not what I meant." Kagome folded her hands over chest as her nipples started to tingle.
Inuyasha laughed and opened the door wider revealing Miroku. "Come on, let's get back to work."
"I agree with Kagome." Miroku said standing up and shutting his own briefcase. "You work too much."
"Shut up." Inuyasha said walking back in and putting his jacket back on. "I've got more important things to do than listen to you two bark about how much I work.
Miroku was the first one out and caught sight of Sango first. "And who is this?"
Sango would have had to have been dead not to notice the gleam of interest in his eye.
"This is my friend Sango." Kagome said. "Sango this is Inuyasha's lawyer, Miroku."
She stepped back and watched.
Miroku shook her hand and Sango blushed as she felt him caress her palm. "Your boyfriend is a very lucky man." he said happy the left hand he was holding held no ring.
Sango smiled at his lack of sudtlety. "I don't have one."
"Then I am the lucky man then." he winked and kissed her hand.
Inuyasha watched curiously and Kagome had stars in her eyes.
"Sango, may I ask you some thing?" Miroku said looking down into her eyes, very seriously.
Sango bit her lip as her heart fluttered. "Ye-es?"
"Will you do me the honor of baring my child?" he said his face still dead serious.
There was a moment of hard silence.
SLAP!
Inuyasha burst out laughing and Miroku had a slightly dazed look in his eyes.
Kagoem groaned and dropped her head in her hand and Sango's cheeks blazed in fury.
"I can't believe you would even ask me that?" she screeched.
"I don't understand." Miroku said rubbing his cheek. "It worked for Inuyasha!"
Sango mashed her teeth together. "I. Am. Not. Kagome!" she turned and marched off.
"That was smart." Inuyasha said leaving his study and closing the door behind him. "Come on, let's go before she kills you."
"I don't get it." Miroku said being pushed forward by Inuyasha.
Kagome walked with them to the front door. "There's no way that line would work more than once, Miroku." Kagome laughed. "Especially not on Sango. No girl would fall for a line like that."
"What about you?" he asked pitifully.
"I'm the exception." Kagome said as they passed a pissed looking Sango walking up the stairs with Tatsiki and the others.
Inuyasha and Miroku left at the front door as some one brang a black car around.
"Have fun at work." Kagome said kissing Inuyasha firmly.
Just as she was about to pull away, he grabbed her waist and pulled her closer. "Hey, some of us aren't finished yet."
Miroku cleared his throat in the background. "Inuyasha, you'll be late."
"I'm the boss. It'll be fine." he said sucking on her bottom lip.
Miroku rolled his eyes and got in the car.
"You'd better go." Kagome said but she made no efforts to leave.
"Mmm." Inuyasha said in the back of his throat.
Myoga was the one who cleared his throat this time. "Sir, may I remind you that you have an important meeting in half an hour."
Inuyasha frowned and pulled back. "Later." he promised before releasing her.
Kagome waved him and Miroku off while Myoga was behind her chuckling.
Sango came out with the others and together they got the last of Kagome's things put away.
"See you." Kagome said hugging her friend at the door.
Sango nodded. "How are you feeling?"
"Excited." Kagome said her eyes dancing. "I can't wait to be pregnant."
Sango rolled her eyes. "To each his own." she said in parting and climbed in her truck.
Much like she had done with Inuyasha, she waved Sango away and leaned against the door frame.
"I like her." Myoga said appearing at her elbow. Kagome wasn't surprised. Myoga seemed to have a knack for appearing without making a sound. She supposed it was a butler thing.
"Yeah. She's great." Kagome nodded coming back inside and closing the door.
"What would you like for dinner?" he asked her.
"Oh, whatever is fine." Kagome shrugged. "I think I'll go scroung some thing up."
Myoga followed her to the kitchen where Max and Jiji reined supreme.
"Hey, love!" Max, the french man, said mixing some thing in a bowl.
"What are you making?" Kagome asked joining him by jumping on the counter and sitting there.
"Taste." he said lifting the spoon to her mouth.
Kagome opened obediantly and let the thick and sweet creme spread on her tongue. "Oh, that is heavenly. What's it for?"
"Master Inuyasha's business dinnner." Myoga said from the doorway.
Kagome alone was permitted to enter the sacred room of Max and Jiji. "I didn't know he had a business dinner."
Max nodded. "Yeah. It's how he meets potential clients and things like that."
Jiji nodded and continued to mix something in his bowl.
"So what's on the menu?" Kagome asked sneaking a finger dip of Max's delicious creme.
"Mostly finger foods." Jiji said. "This is a mix for my stuffed shrimp. Secret recipe, don't ask." He showed her the contents of the bowl before adding some peprika.
"And for desert, my speciality, creme puffs." Max said taking the bowl from her and setting it out of her reach.
"Mmm." Kagome licked her lips.
"If you ask nicely, I'll let you and the master use the rest of my creme when I'm done with it." Max said with a knowing look in his eyes.
Kagome blushed hotly and stumbled over words that made no sense, even to her.
The three old men laughed at her.
"Oh to be young." Jiji said pouring the contents of the shrimp stuffing into a pot on the stove.
"I've got...unpacking to do!" Kagome said hurrying out of the kitchen, she still heard them chuckling behind her.
"Kagome?" Inuyasha poked his head into one of the drawing rooms.
"Inuyasha!" Kagome looked up. "I hope you don't mind. You said I could decorate with my things." She pointed to a vase and stand that she had placed in the corner.
"No. No. That's fine. It looks good." Inuyasha nodded walking inside. "I wanted to talk to you."
"About the business dinner?" Kagome asked fluffing a pillow.
"I have maids to do that." Inuyasha said.
"I know. But I've been doing chores all my life. It's habbit by now. You wanted to talk?" Kagome reminded him as she bent to straighten out the rug.
"Yeah, about the business dinner." He didn't ask how she found out. The staff gossiped worse than old women. "I was wondering if you wanted to come?"
Kagome stood up. "I'm invited?"
"Of course." Inuyasha said sitting down on the couch that he didn't recognize. It was probably hers.
Kagome sat next to him. "Nice time to invite me. Giving me like no notice."
Inuyasha smiled and pushed a strand of hair behind her ear "I'm sure you'll work some kind of magic to make it happen."
Kagome smiled and leaned into his side. "Won't your clients be kind of...shocked at our relationship?"
Inuyasha shrugged. "I don't see how it's any of their business."
"It could still hurt yours." Kagome said.
Inuyasha sighed and Kagome could almost hear him think. "We'll tell them...That we're a couple. It's true enough. And when you start showing we'll just say it was an occupational hazard."
"'Occupational hazard'?" Kagome repeated laughing.
Inuyasha shrugged. "Do you have anything to wear for tonight?"
"What do people normally wear?" Kagome asked.
"Formal." Inuyasha sighed. "I hate my tux so much."
"And yet your tux apparently loves you." Kagome kissed his cheek. "No man fills out a tux the way you do."
Kagome laughed softly to the old mans joke, trying not to let the fact that his eyes hadn't gone any further up than her neck since she began talking to him bother her.
She wore the same strapless dress she had worn to the dinner with Inuyasha only without the sweater jacket. Instead she had a thin black ribbon tied around her throat with a pretty bow on one side.
Inuyasha had gone to their room just as she was deciding which of her jewels would work.
Flashback
"Here." he said handing her a bag.
Kagome saw a famous jewelry stores name on the side and took it with a large smile. "Oh, Inuyasha, you didn't!"
He smirked that pleased male I-did-good smile of his.
Kagome took out of the bag, a diamond bracelet, elegant silver hoops with diamonds laid on the outside, and a necklace which Kagome thought was fabulous beyond measure with a spiderweb like thin-ness and pattern and sparkling like stars on a river.
"Inuyasha, I can't accept these." Kagome said looking them over with wonder in her eyes.
Inuyasha grabbed the bracelet from it's box and put it around her wrist. Then he kissed the inside of it and smiled at her, "I like seeing you in the things I buy you."
She felt a pecular fluttering in her stomach at his words.
Normal
She had decided to forgo the necklace in place of the ribbon, some thing Inuyasha had taken notice of but had not said anything about.
The question that ran rampant through the room was about who she was. No one had ever seen her before and these people all ran in the same circles. She wasn't from one of the powerful families like these people and no one had ever seen her before.
Kagome took this unknown oppprtunity to mingle and try to drum up business for Inuyasha.
With him on her arm, she talked with people about his company, using every ounce of knowledge at her disposal, which wasn't much at all. Kagome and Inuyasha had only ever talked about his business that night they had dinner when there was nothing else to speak of.
Tetsuaiga Inc. was a computer security company. Specializing in programs that could defend against any attack which were mostly used for government things. The people Kagome was talking to now were those who were interested in protecting their home security and, just perhaps, their business security.
"Well, the computer world is changing at a fast rate," Kagome had said trying to sound knowledgable, "you need top security for your home computer alone to keep viruses and trojan horses at bay just by visiting normal sites." Like the porn site you probably visit, you old geezer. She thought looking at the white haired man, never letting her charming smile slip.
The old man, and his equally old but much more scary wife nodded. "What kind of viruses?" she questioned in a percise and very snobby voice.
Kagome smiled. "Inuyasha will send you an information packet on Monday."
Inuyasha tried not to smirk at the way she wiggled him into these old peoples minds.
"You're very good at this." He told her later handing her one of the creme puffs that were making their way around the room on the silver trays held by the staff, who were all dressed in their very best livery.
"It's much easier than convincing a parent that their child is safe at your daycare." she said taking the bite size pastry and popping it in her mouth. "Parents are more paranoid than that old fart and his wife could ever be with their business secrets."
"I can see why." Inuyasha said looking at her belly longingly. "At least I won't have to worry about reliable daycare when our child is born." he whispered so no one else could hear.
Kagome smiled and winked. "I'll watch it free of charge."
Inuyasha laughed and turned back to his guests.
Usually he was bored stupid at these events. Not having a thing intelligent to say or saying too much and driving people away. Then of course the fact that these damn dinners were normally more boring than watching paint dry, it was a miracle having Kagome by his side. She seemed to know just what to say and still look interested at the same time.
"Tell me, did you not like the necklace?" he asked suddenly. He tried not to show that he was slightly hurt by it. It had taken him forever to find pieces that he thought she would like. It didn't help knowing that she would like anything he brought back, that just made it harder!
"I loved it." Was all she said before leaving his side to go talk to a person who was standing on his own.
"Like herding sheep." he said as she stopped, talking to him for a second, then led him over to a group of people. There he got into an intimate discussion with another person and Kagome disappeared from his side to go round up another straggler.
"She's a gem." Miroku said appearing at his elbow.
"Go get your own." Inuyasha said watching her.
"I've already got one." Miroku said grabbing a flute of champagne from a passing tray.
"Oh? Who?" Inuyasha looked at him wondering why he hadn't heard of it before.
"Well," Miroku stuttered, "we haven't actually started...that is to say, she never...It's Kagome's friend." he confessed.
"Sango?" Inuyasha raised an eyebrow. "The one you asked to bare your child?"
"You asked Kagome to bare your child." Miroku pointed out.
"Yeah, but my way worked." Inuyasha laughed. "I can't believe she agreed to date you."
"She didn't...I haven't exactly asked her yet." Miroku said scratching his head and Inuyasha snorted. "I was hoping to talk to Miss Kagome about talking to Sango for me."
"Talk?" Inuyasha shook his head. "You would need to turn back time to undue what you did. According to Kagome, you were doing well up until that point."
Miroku groaned and hung his head.
Kagome re-appeared by Inuyasha side. "Hey, Miroku. Why so glum?"
Miroku grabbed her hands and looked at her with pleading eyes, "Kagome, you consider me a friend, right?"
"Maybe. Why?" Kagome said suspiciously.
"He's trying to get you to hook him up with Sango." Inuyasha said leaning against the wall and watching how this played out.
"Shut up!" Miroku whispered fiercley then turned his big eyes back to Kagome. "Please, you ahve to help me here. Sango is just mesmerizing and I want a chance to get to know her. Please, please?"
Kagome sighed. "Of course. I'll try to talk to her."
"Yes!" He threw his arms around her. "Kagome, you are a goddess among women!"
Kagome laughed and pushed him back.
"Inuyasha, Mr. Tatsuya was wondering how Tetsuaiga Inc. goes about protecting big insurance firms. He wants to talk to you."
He nodded and took Kagome's arm to lead him to the man.
"Well, that was interesting." Inuyasha said untieing the bow tie at his throat.
"You got a lot of new clients." Kagome said from behind the bathroom door. As far as he could understand, she was performing the same magic that turned a woman from the stunning creature she had become to the beautiful creature she was before she got dressed.
"Potential clients." he corrected but he knew she was right. A night had never been so successful as that one.
She laughed but didn't bother to argue.
"They seemed to adore you." Inuyasha said unbuttoning his shirt. Then he gave up and just pulled it over his head along with the wife beater that was udnerneath. "Thought you were the bell of the ball."
"Well, I was." Kagome snickered jokingly.
Inuyasha looked at the bathroom door and said, very seriously, "You looked wonderful tonight."
There was a heartbeat of silence then Kagome came out of the bathroom in her pink fuzzy robe. Her make-up had been removed without a trace, something he couldn't understand how it was accomplished because he had seen women fill a bucket with tears without a mark on their mascara, and her hair was down again.
"Thank you." she smiled at him and turned off the bathroom light. "You were wondering about the necklace?" she suddenly changed the subject.
"Uh...yeah." Inuyasha said confused by the sudden change of topic. He removed his belt.
"I loved it." she repeated. "I loved it so much I didn't want any one else to see it."
Inuyasha smirked. "That's silly. I already saw it."
Kagome smirked back. "I know. I just wanted you to see it. You and me."
Inuyasha's eyes nearly popped out when she shrugged her robe off her slender frame.
She was completely nude in front of him, her skin glowing and letting off one of those cremes that woman seemed to know made a man go crazy. But around her neck, sparkling in the light, was the necklace he had gotten her.
"Just you and me." she said walking over to him moving her hips in a way that made his mouth water and his mind blank.
Before he knew it, she was in front of him with her arms snaking around his neck and her chest pressed against his.
His breathing got labored and his pants way too tight but his mind refused to work for him.
Kagome grabbed him by the pants hem and dragged him to the bed. "Do you like my necklace Inuyasha?"
"Love it." he murmered as she pushed him on the bed.
She moved her hands down his chest and pulled his pants and boxers off all the while letting her hands explore each new bit of flesh she uncovered.
Then she kissed her way back up and Inuyasha's breath went ragged as she got closer and closer to him.
She smirked and stopped just before she reached it making him groan.
She giggled and kissed the head making him gasp.
"I had no idea you could be so...." he find himself suddenly lacking oxygen as she put him in her mouth. "Damn, woman!" he growled his hands curling into fists on the sheets.
Kagome had never been so dominant before. He was always the one who took control, he gave the pleasure even as he took it. But now Kagome, with a mouth he would have never guessed at being a virgin's, was doing unspeakable things to his body and causing him unspeakable pleasure.
When Kagome lifted head, Inuyasha was sweating and his body was as taut as a bow string.
"You...are...dangerous." he said, panting.
Kagome crawled up his body and positioned herself above him. "Want more?" she asked then licked her lips.
Inuyasha nodded, enjoying being the passive one much more than he would have thought.
"Tell me." she said stroking his length and bringing him so close that he could feel her heat.
"M...more...More!" he begged.
Kagome dropped her body on his and gasped at the joy of being peirced by him again.
Inuyasha cried out as Kagome began rotating her hips. She bit her lip and tried to resist moaning outloud.
She rode him hard and mercilessly, enjoying taking her pleasure for once.
Kagome had never imaginged she would want to be dominant but when she saw the jewelry Inuyasha had provided she had thought up some thing that was just so much fun.
She didn't need to think all that hard to decide what peice of jewelry to pick for the nacklace was obvious, not because it was a central feature, but because it rested just above her breasts. Breasts Inuyasha just adored.
Kagome forced her own orgasm to wait, to hold until he had come inside her.
She barely lasted that long.
Inuyasha couldn't resist holding her hips at the end, even moving them himself, because the feel of her taking himc aused him a sweet pleasure he didn't know he could feel. There was a special joy in surrender that the dominance never brought and Kagome was the only one who had ever given him that joy.
They cried each others name in ecstasy and Kagome collapsed on top of him.
"Come on, Sango." Kagome said trying to walk and avoid little children running around her feet at the same time.
"No way." her friend said angrily shoving the cookies in the oven to bake.
It was Friday, Cookie Day.
Kagome had to wait a week before Sango stopped fuming long enough to even talk about Miroku.
"He said he was sorry." Kagome repeated for the thrid time as she took the cookie dough out of the tub and put the irregular spheres on a different bake tray.
"I can't believe he's using you. No, wait, that I can believe. I can't believe you agreed to it." Sango shook her head and mumbled some thing about traitors.
Kagome laughed because she knew Sango didn't mean a word.
"You know how men are." Kagome smiled taking a glob of dough and popping it in her mouth. "Inuyasha succeeded so he thinks he can get away with it as well."
"Inuyasha has enough luck to win a world wide lottery." Sango crossed her arms.
"Sango," Kagome leaned toward her friend with another bite sized lump of dough between her fingers and whispered to her, "he called you mesmerising!"
Sango's jaw dropped and Kagome took advantage by throwing the dough in her mouth and walking away.
"Mesmerising? Seriously?" Sango said around the dough ball.
Kagome nodded and closed the tub and put the little bit left away.
"It was so cute. He was actually begging me to talk to you." Kagome said knowing when she had Sango's attention.
"Wow..." Sango breathed looking into the distance. She shook her head furiously. "No! I don't date perverts."
"He's not a pervert." Kagome said but knew when to back off.
Sango, not wanting to take chances however, changed the subject, "Speaking of perverted men, how's that thing with you and Inuyasha going?"
Kagome put her hand over her belly in an instictive move. "I don't know. Lately I've been...terrified."
"Terrified?" Sango repeated checking on the cookies. "You were excited last week."
"I know." Kagome said. "Just, lately I've been getting kind of scared. What if I'm not ready for a baby? What if me and Inuyasha went about this the wong way?"
"What if, what if, what if." Sango said grabbing the old chicken shapped oven mit. "It's too late to change it now."
"I'm due in two days, Sango." Kagome told her.
"Really?" Sango raised her eyebrows.
"Yeah. And I haven't been getting cramps or bouncing off the walls with my emotions, nothing." she took a steadying breath. "Sex was so easy and...wonderful. And I knew that sex made babies but..."
"Wait." Sango cut her off with a shocked look. "Sex makes babies?!"
Kagome laughed and punched her arm playfully. "I guess it never really sank it."
"It still hasn't sunken in yet." Sango told her. "Your just realizing that you could be pregnant. Wait until you realize you are."
"We'll wonder in two days." Kagome said smiling nervously.
"I'm pretty sure you're pregnant." Sango said taking the cookies out of the oven.
"Why? Are you a fetus whisperer?" Kagome snickered.
"Haha." Sango said dully. "No. I mean when you PMS you always wind up doing something weird."
"What do you mean?" Kagome asked wondering if she should be offended.
"That time you decided your house would look better purple, thank all the heavens that you never actually went through with it." Sango said putting the next batch in. "Then the next time you took up pottery and never finished the course. When you had the kids making glue portraits and I still get shudders when I think of that one." she mock shook in fear.
Kagome stuck out her tongue out at her.
"How are you feeling, miss?" Myoga asked a few days later.
Kagome smiled. "Excited." Then she shook her head. "I must be pregnant. Jumping from scared to excited each day."
Myoga laughed and put a bowl of soup at her elbow. She was in the living room watching her favorite show, which was just now on commercial, all wrapped up in a thick robe and fuzzy socks.
"That's normal." Myoga promised. "It happens when pregnancy looms on the horizon. When you don't suspect you don't roller coaster your emotions. I know, my own mother went through it a few times."
Kagome smiled in thanks then sniffed her stew. "What' this?"
"A special home made recipe that I had to bribe Max to let me make." Myoga flushed with pride. "It helps with morning sickness."
Kagome laughed. "Myoga, I don't have morning sickness yet."
"You will, and my mother always told me that the soup worked better if you took it before morning sickness."
Kagome lifted a steaming spoonful to her mouth and sipped. "Mmm. Delicious. Thank you, Myoga."
They both looked up as Inuyasha entered the room. "Well, I've done it." He said putting his breifcase down.
"Done what?" Kagome asked as Myoga left the room quietly.
"Made your doctors appointment." he sat next to her and wrapped his arm around her shoulders.
"You did?" Kagome asked, her voice excited.
He nodded. "At the end of the week. 5 o'clock sharp."
"Are you sure you can get off work by then?" Kagome asked looking at him sharply.
Inuyasha gave her a quick, happy peck on the cheek. "It's a Sunday, I'm off. Besides, I wouldn't miss this for all the money in the world."
"Good." she nodded in satisfaction. "I have some good news."
"Is it better than mine?" Inuyasha asked picking up her bowl and putting it on the table so he could kiss her neck without worry.
There was some thing simply glorious about that smooth piece of skin at the base of her neck.
"I think so." Kagome said trying not to forget what she was saying.
"What is it?"
"I am now two days late."
"Two days late for what?" Inuyasha asked cluelessly.
Kagome waited patiently.
Inuyasha froze. He sat up quickly and looked her dead in the eye. "Really?"
Kagome nodded happily.
"Yes!" He hollared jumping off the couch and pulling her into his arms. He spun her around in circles, laughing deliriously.
"Jeez, if your this happy because I'm late, I wonder what will happen when we get a positive test result?" Kagome said but she was smiling.
Niether of them seemed to question that she could be pregnant. Both were totally assured of the success of their mating.
"I'll buy you an entire jewelry store." He said his eyes bright. He knew he had wanted a heir to follow in his footsteps but he didn't count on being this....ecstatic at the thought of the child being conceived. "No, make that an entire mall!"
Kagome laughed and kissed him. "You don't need to do that."
Inuyasha sat her back down and kissed her all over her face. "I can't wait until Sunday!"
"We could always cheat." Kagome offered.
"Cheat?" Inuyasha repeated.
"Home pregnancy tests, Inuyasha. We could have a pretty certain idea in a few hours."
Inuyasha froze. "Yes! Yes! That is a great idea! Why didn't I think of that?" He said grabbing her hand and pulling her off the couch.
"Wait, I need to get me shoes!" Kagome said laughing as he pulled her out the front door.
One drug store purchase and quick bathroom break later: Kagome and Inuyasha looked restlessly at the white stick that they had turned face down so they couldn't see the answer yet.
Kagome took a deep breath.
Inuyasha squeazed her hand. "Nervous?" he asked.
Kagome nodded.
"One minute left." he looked at his watch then back at the inoffensive little stick.
The doctor walked into their room with the test results in his hands and shut the door.
Two days ago Kagome and Inuyasha had gone to the clinic and Kagome had given him a little tube of blood.
"Ready?" the kind, white haired doctor asked opening the manila envelope.
"Ready?" Inuyasha asked picking up the stick but keeping it face down.
They both nodded as the doctor took out the paper and looked it over.
"1. 2. 3!" They counted down and turned the stick over.
There was a moment of silence, then they both said...
The doctor looked up at them and smiled.
"Positive."
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Cookie Day sounds like the greatest idea EVER!!! And sorry this took so long, this was a wa-ay long chapter to write.