INFO* To answer any questions or already assumptions: Yes, my characters are OOC most of the time. I can't help it because I love creating somewhat new personalities for everyone.
Sorry if you don't like InuYasha right now... -.-' It gets better, I promise :)
Also, I hate making up people that weren't in the series so I called the baby Aka-chan. It isn't the baby's real name because that means 'baby' in Japanese..I guess it could be but Kagome just called the baby that.. Hope you enjoy this read!
Again, dedicated to Lindsay!(Her baby was a girl too. She was going to name her Alexis and call her 'Alex' for short.) :D
Clouded Memories
Tragic Birth?
Kagome just couldn't get comfortable. She tried lying on her back, her left side, and her right side, but no position would work.
"You are very stubborn.." she whispered. The best position she decided was to just sit up and lean on her pillow. 6 months had passed since the incident but she blurred out most of it. Mrs. Higurashi didn't push her to tell about what happened which was nice in some sense. The whole family practically ignored it and acted ike it never happened. But only a few months ago did the big question come up.
"I am so full." Souta smiled and ate his last bit of noodles.
Kagome just quietly ate her meal while her mama and Ji-chan watched her.
"Uh, Souta, go upstairs and run a bath." Souta nodded and scooted his chair back before dashing up the stairs.
"We want to talk to you about uh.." Her mother was a little hesitant. She had made a promise to herself she wouldn't bring up the incident but it is around that time.
"About that baby." Ji-chan bursted out. Kagome dropped her fork when she heard 'baby'. She picked up her napkin and gently rubbed the area around her mouth. She would try and be calm no matter what. She remembered from her Child Development class that too much stress isn't good for babies.
"Yes."
"We want to know what you want to do with the baby." Her mother finished saying. Kagome had never really thought about it but she was so against abortion.
"I'll have the baby, I guess." Kagome slurped a noddle from her bowl and wiped her mouth again.
"You are 16! You have no business raising a child when you are one yourself!" Ji-chan was angry now. He stood up from the table and looked Kagome directly in the eyes.
"Let us remember that it isn't my fault and you should just keep your mouth closed and sit down, Ji-chan! It's my body and I can do what I want to with it!" Kagome yelled back.
"Both of you sit down. I thought we said we would handle this in a mature manner." Mrs. Higurashi said to Ji-chan.
"But she is being stubborn about the whole ordeal!"
"If Kagome wants to have the baby and then maybe give it up for adoption, she can. It is her decision." Mrs. Higurashi looked back over at Kagome but saw she was already halfway up the stairs.
"We'll start to homeschool once you start to show." Her mother finally said and started to clean off the table with Ji-chan right behind her, mumbling off randomly to himself.
Since she decided she probably wouldn't get any sleep tonight, she turned on the lamp beside her and reached for the new book she bought yesterday.
"Your Growing Baby: Month after Month.." she read out loud and flipped the cover over. It had everything about a baby you possibly had any questions about. From conception to birth and so on, even tips about nursing.
"I can't wait to see you in a few months. Tommorrow after the check-up, we'll go visit your daddy. Would you like that?" Kagome asked and gasped when she felt a foot kick,"I guess that means yes.." She laughed and continued to read on about "How to Pick Your Baby's Name!".
Somehow, Kagome managed to fall asleep sometime during the night. She woke up to a bright light shining on her eyelids. She hated that her bed was positioned right where the sun shone through every morning through the pink, sheer curtains.
"Your appointment is in an hour. You overslept." Her mother casually said, walking past her doorway.
"What!" Kagome quickly jumped out of bed and shoved her closet doors to the side.
"Nope. No. Hideous. Doesn't fit. I really need to go to that cute maternity boutique downtown.." Kagome rumaged through her closet, trying to find something decent to wear. She settled on a pair of jeans and a sweater that she received for her birthday.
"I'm off for the checkup. Then I'm going to see InuYasha." Kagome yelled from the front door.
"Wait! Kagome! Do you want me to come with you? What if something happens when you are with InuYasha? Stress isn't good at all!" Mrs. Higurashi ran over to where Kagome was.
"Just meet me in the parking lot and walk me in." Kagome grabbed her keys from the hook by the door.
"Just be careful, please?"
"I will. Love you." She kissed her mother on the cheek and closed the door behind her before walking to the car.
"Everything seems quite normal, Mrs. Higurashi. Your baby is healthy." The technician continued to rub around Kagome's jelly-slick belly.
"That is so good to hear. I've been having a few pains down there but since you said everything is fine, I'll not worry." Kagome smiled when she saw her baby on the screen beside her.
"And you're sure you don't want to know the gender? Most expectant mothers do.."
"No, I want it to be a surprise. Can I have a copy of the ultrasound to carry to the father?"
"Of course you can! I'll be right back." The technician turned off the machine and left the room.
"You are alright, Aka-chan('baby' in Japanese.). She said you are healthy." Kagome rubbed her stomach and laughed when felt a kick. The technician soon entered and gave a printed copy of the baby to Kagome.
"I picked out the one that you could barely tell the gender."
"Thanks so much!" Kagome sat up and slipped her flipflops on.
"Your next appointment for the doctor is in 2 weeks. We'll call you to notify the date. Good luck!" The technician waved as Kagome wabbled out the door and a few more doors before exiting the building.
"You make me look like someone blew up a balloon and just stuck it in me. I look so odd.." she giggled at the thought and started the car.
"I think visiting time is at 11. We'll make it just in time, Aka-chan." She backed out of the parking space and drove to the main road.
She knew the place by heart almost. Even though she's only been once, it is so familiar. She saw her mother's car in the parking lot and pulled up beside her.
"Are you ready?" Her mother asked, pulling her purse on her shoulder.
"Yeah." Kagome closed the car door and walked with her mother to the front door, a police officer waiting.
"Hello Ms. and Mrs. Higurashi. Are you here for the visitation with Mr. Taisho?" The handsome officer smiled.
"Yes, Hojo. Here are our driver's license and we have no pockets to put anything in." Kagome annoyingly said.
"I can see that. Go through the metal detector anyway and put your purses on the belt." He pointed through the door while looking at the driver's license. Kagome sighed and walked after her mother through the detector.
"I hate doing this. It's like they expect a pregnant lady to be carrying knives and other weaponary.." Kagome scoffed. Officer Hojo walked back to them and handed them their licenses back.
"You know the drill..You have an hour, Kagome and you can stay here, Mrs. Higurashi."
"Ok. You go on Kagome. I'll be here." She sat down in one of the chairs of the lobby while Kagome made her way to the back.
It was kind of creepy here. She always hated prisons and even words related to it. She thought of prison, she thought of her father. Not that he was IN prison technically. He was a police officer and worked here(explains why Hojo knows both of them). She continued to walk down until until she saw "Visitation Room" printed on the label of the door. Kagome took a deep breath in and slowly let it out before opening the door. She started to walk to the last 'cubicle', the one she had come to know so well. As always, everyone is staring at her.
"Probably thinking what they usually think:'What's a pregnant girl doing here?',''Isn't she too young to visit?', or something like 'I bet she's visiting the Father.'." Kagome thought. She finally made her way and sat down. A few seconds later, the door on the other side of the glass opened, revealing a cop carrying Aka-chan's father towards Kagome.
The cop un-cuffed InuYasha and left only saying 'one hour'. It was awkward for a few minutes before the ice was broken.
"I've missed you..I think about you everyday and the baby.." He couldn't look her in the eyes. It was too painful to know her facial expression.
"I just went to get a checkup. Aka-chan is doing fine..The baby was excited when I said we were visiting 'daddy' today. The baby kicked." Kagome rubbed her stomach and smiled. InuYasha missed her warm smile.
"That's great! Have you found out the gender?"
"I don't want to know until after the birth." Kagome reached in her purse for the picture.
"That's stupid. Why don't you want to know? I want to know.." He mumbled.
"This is the baby." She slid the photograph through the little opening of the glass,"Aka-chan has your ears and nose.." she softly said. InuYasha took the picture and glanced at it real hard.
"All I see is a black blob with horns on top of a shaded grey region." He turned it ever which way, trying to find the baby.
"How can you not see the baby? Here." She took it away from InuYasha and pointed out the baby to him and the ears, which he thought were horns.
"Oh! I see the baby now." He smiled when he did see the cute ears.
"It took you long enough. I wish you were there to watch her scroll all over my stomach..."
"I know..but I have all of these charges against me. I'm looking at 20+ years.."
"Whose fault is that? Not mine."
"Actually..."
"Are you really saying that it's MY fault you are in here?"
"You did read the note Kikyo put at your door and you did come over."
"But I wasn't the one who was high and drunk out of my mind! Because of you, I am so afraid. I am being homeschooled, I have no friends because everyone left, and I have nightmares every night. What if this baby is a girl or even boy? I won't let them do anything because I will be so over protective of them! It will all be because of you!" Kagome yelled.
"I am so sorry I ruined your perfect rich life! I am so sorry I moved here so long ago, searching for a friend. But then caught you cheating on me with Kouga!"
"Because you were late, he got to me. I thought this was over when it happened. But it was only 3 months and you were with Kikyo, smoking and drinking! I thought you hated her because she was a slut!"
"She was but she kept me late that day. I wasn't at a track meet. She did the same thing Kouga did to you but I got mad."
"You kissed Kikyo?" Kagome felt her heart being stabbed. It was quiet until InuYasha quietly said," Yes."
"You kissed her but broke up with me because the same thing happened with Kouga? What difference do you see there! Huh? What is so different between that? She got you caught up in that illegal mess and then you did this to me! I hate you so much Taisho InuYasha!" Kagome yelled at the top of her lungs and stood up from the chair. She stuffed the picture back in her purse and clutched it.
"I don't care if you get a life sentence or get on death row. I am getting a restraining order and you will never see this child or me again!" Kagome started to walk away but she felt that familiar sharp pain in her lower abdomen. She grabbed her stomach and tried to walk but it hurt so much.
"Kagome!" InuYasha cried out. He stood back and was about to jump over the glass but cops surrounded and handcuffed him. He watched Kagome collapse on the floor, other cops crowding her and yelling out "Call the paramedics!" and "She's knocked unconcious!" Hojo came running through with Kagome's mother. InuYasha cried out her name when he heard her mother yell through all the madness," She's bleeding badly!"
"The baby!" He yelled and tried to escape from their grasp but the cops already took him back to his cell before returning to where the paramedics were now carrying Kagome off.
Memories of that day and a few months before flooded through Kagome's mind as she watched herself being carried off. Kami-sama stopped the clip just in time, right before the surgery.
"Your reviews on this clip?"
"This was the most horrific thing that ever happened. I was so happy and ready to give birth to Aka-chan. I blame that miscarriage on myself, not InuYasha. I became all stressed out and angry and upset. Aka-chan just went into distress and wouldn't come out so I lost the baby. I never even knew the gender..." Kagome sobbed softly to herself. Kami-sama smiled and nodded to the angel that was behind Kagome.
"Okaa-san." the little angel said. Kagome's eyes widened as she turned around and saw the cutest baby girl she had ever seen. She had long, black hair, the cutest button nose and the prettiest brown eyes but she strangely resembled InuYasha and Kagome.
"Who are you?" She wiped a few tears from her eyes, clearing up her vision.
"I am your's and otou-san's baby.I'm known here as Aka-chan, since that is all you called me. I just wanted to say that it isn't your fault that you lost me. I loved being with you every second of the day, even if was for just 6 months. You are a wonderful mother." Then the little angel flew over and kissed Kagome on the cheek before flying off.
"Thank you, Kami-sama." Now she was crying tears of joy. The regret she had held all these years was no more because she heard Aka-chan say it wasn't," I now can live with myself a little more and I know that Aka-chan was in fact a girl. I thank you so much."
"You are very welcome, Kagome. You were only 16 when all of this happened but you stayed strong, right?"
"I had to see a psychologist for a while after the loss but I soon recovered and didn't see InuYasha for years and I mean years."
"Let's move on. This next one is happy. Your high school graduation."
