Chapter Four

Shippo patted Kagomes head as she sobbed, as she had often done for him. He was angry and wanted to bite something. 'That bastard! How could he do this to Kagome! I'm going to kill him for making her cry!' He thought as he looked at her. Now everything made sense. Some protector Inuyasha turned out to be! The one time he really needed to protect her and he failed! Shippo regretted his promise not to tell the others as he looked at her. She needed her friends to talk to, and the only one holding her back was Inuyasha! She was so afraid of what he would think and how he would treat her that she did not want to chance it reaching his ears. Kagome seemed a little better after talking about it, but was still upset. Shippo hoped that in time, she would get better and eventually tell everyone what had happened to her. As they walked back to camp, Kagome decided to go back to her time for more supplies and help from her mom, the only other person she had told what exactly happened to her. Talking to her mom always made her feel a little better. Inuyasha grudgingly allowed her to go but only if he could go too. Kagome gave in in the end, telling him to stay in her living room as she searched for supplies in her bedroom whenever they made it back there. Several weeks later, they arrived at her house. She had this nagging suspision that something was missing. She searched her bedroom and found nothing. Finally, upon entering the bathroom, she realized what she had been missing. She started hyperventillating as she tried to count back as best as she could to count the days. The object of her distress was under the sink... an unopened bag of feminine products she got a little over a month ago. She felt dizzy and started mentally yelling 'NO! No not like this! This can't be happening! Maybe im just late!' She looked all over the bathroom in a hurry, trying to find the one object she needed that her mom had put there so long ago as a joke. She finally found it and pulled it out of the bag under the sink. She used it and impatiently paced around the bathroom, waiting for the result. Trying to make it to where she could actually breathe. Upon her fourth rotation pacing around the floor, she looked at the results and immediately fell to the bathroom floor with a loud...

CRASH!

"Kagome?" Inuyasha and Mrs. Higurashi yelled as they heard the loud boom from upstairs. Kagome's mom sprinted up to the bathroom door and unlocked it, letting herself in. She saw Kagome sprawled out on the floor hyperventillating and shaking and then she saw the object on the sink. Her heart sunk as she realized what it said. Her little girl was no longer a little girl. Her childhood had been forcefully ripped away from her. She knelt down by Kagome and just held her to her and hugged her. They both started crying while downstairs, Inuyasha was confused, angry and frightened. He could hear them crying with each other and just knew something horrible had happened. He wanted Kagome to tell him what was wrong so that he could fix it, but he was afraid that she would reject him. The two women emerged from the bathroom some time later, no longer crying, but still stear stained. Kagome asked Inuyasha to go with her to the hospital so that she could check on something. He didn't quite understand her through her tears, but he got the gist of it. He looked around and found another hat, since Kagome had his regular hat on, and he carried her to the big building with the sick and death smells that he hated. The nurses there were very nice to them, seeing if they wanted water or coffee, and letting them know they would take them right back. When Kagome's name was called she grabbed Inuyashas hand and had him walk back there with her. They took down her weight and height and her temperature, and a whole bunch of other things that Inuyasha did not recognize. He started getting worried when they started measuring her stomach and had her put sticky liquid stuff on her belly. Was she sick? Were they trying to help her get better? The doctor stuck a pointy wand looking thing on her belly and started moving it around and looking at a screen of some sort. Inuyasha was curious, was the screen somehow showing them Kagomes insides? Kagome watched Inuyasha the whole time she was getting looked at, and saw his confusion at what was going on. She was about to say something when the doctor started talking to them. "Okay, Mrs. Higurashi, it looks like you are about 8 weeks, so roughly around two months. Everything seems to be going good and it is very stubborn and active." Inuyasha was getting more confused. 'What? What the fuck does that mean? 8 weeks of what?' He got even more worried when she started crying. The doctor turned the screen so that both of them could see what he was looking at. Inuyasha just stared at it. 'wh-what the hell? I-is that...a pup?' He wondered as he looked at the image on the screen. The image on the screen moved and he could see a leg kick out. It was definitly a pup. It was Inuyasha's turn to hyperventillate as they left the room. 'How...when did Kagome get mated? With who?' He felt upset and betrayed that she did not choose him to mate. He could not say a word, just stared at her until she took the cap off and showed him her dog ears. 'Crap! She has dog ears! It had to be a dog demon, they are the only ones that pass their ears and life spans off to their mates.' He thought in misery. 'I hope he makes her happy' Kagome took a deep breath and looked at him, wondering where to start her story.