Chapter 7: Talk about a Bar

They were lying side by side starring up at the ceiling.

"Where did all that come from?" Kagome questioned, curious about the poem.

"You said that to me once. You were trying to end what we had before it got to serious, but I wouldn't let you. You said that a priestess couldn't be with a demon, but you are the only woman for me."

"I wrote that?" He found her hand and clasped it with his own.

"You did." He sighed. "You may not remember all the things we went through, but I do, and when you died I thought I would never love anyone again. Now you're back and I don't have to worry." Kagome didn't speak. She was beginning to feel uneasy.

'I'm not ready for this. I'm only 25; I don't want a family yet. This is too much.' She sat up and climbed out of the large bed. Inutaisho sat up and looked at her back.

"Kagome, where are you going?" She didn't turn around, but did answer him.

"I'm not ready for all of this. This is just all too much for me. I just met you yesterday!!" She kind of felt ashamed. She was getting ready to crush him, again. "I'm very sorry, Inutaisho, really I am. I just don't think I can do this." He watched her walk away. Leaving him for the second time in his life. He just sat there starring at the door hoping she would change her mind and walk back into his arms. He allowed the tears to fall….he came to the realization that she didn't want him anymore. She may have recovered some memories, but she was a different person and he couldn't change her.

***

Kagome was standing in the living room of her apartment. "Am I a horrible person for leaving?" She asked no one but herself. "I mean, we had such a wonderful time last night and these feelings from my past are growing and taking over. My heart says I'm supposed to love him, but my head says that I need to run away. Why?" She threw herself onto the couch. "I need help." Kagome heard the front door open and looked over her should to see her friend standing there. "Hey, Miroku." She said.

"What's up, Kagome?" He said sitting next to her. "You see….down."

"Nah, just breaking someone's heart is all." He laughed.

"Wanna tell me about it?"

"Nah." She said into the couch.

"Come on." He said playfully hitting her on her butt. "Let's go get a beer." He walked to the door and grabbed her coat and purse. "Let's go, Kagome." She groaned but got up anyways.

"Fine, you win." He smiled.

"Of course I do. I always win."

***

-At the Bar-

"Alright, Kagome, spill." Miroku said as he took a sip of his beer. Kagome's eyes widened.

"Geezz, Miroku! You're so nosey!" He shrugged. "Besides, even if I did tell you, I don't think you'll believe me."

"Try me."

She sighed. "Fine, but don't say I didn't warn you." She took a deep breath to compose herself. "Alright, so you know I'm taking that Logical Thinking class right?" He nodded. "Well we received an email with our first assignment that had to be completed before the first day of class. Anyways when I went to my assigned partner's house it turns out that he is the professor's son. When I got there I ended up agreeing to go out on a date with my professor instead of working on my project." Miroku's eyebrows rose.

"Wow, someone's trying to get an A." She hit his arm.

"Shut-up! Do you want me to finish telling you the story or not!?" He put his hands up in surrender.

"Go ahead."

"Thank you. As I was saying, we went out to dinner and that night after he took me home I started getting these weird feelings. When I went to bed I even dreamed about him, but it wasn't just him, it was us as a married couple in the feudal era. So, I called him up and went over to his house and spent the rest of the night there. I had a couple more dreams and when I woke up in the morning and told him about them, you know what he said?" Miroku shook his head.

"What did he say?"

"He told me that the dreams I was having were about my past life with him. That's he's a demon and hasn't died, but lived this while time. To top it off his two sons are actually my sons. The youngest being the one I had and then died after giving birth too. He said he's been looking all over for my reincarnation." She stopped to let Miroku take it all in. "So, what do you think?"

"I think you either have some serious psych issues or you have a lot of thinking to do." He sipped his beer. "Whichever is true, you need to do something. You can't just ignore the situation. Obviously you started getting these dreams for a reason." She sighed and put her arms up to rest her head.

"I just…it's….damn, Miroku I'm not ready for all of this. All of these memories that are coming back just threw themselves at me. I never even thought about having a family yet. Boyfriend, yes, family, no."

He laid his hand on her shoulder. "Kagome, I know it's a lot, but I know you'll do what's right."

"Thanks a lot Miroku, you're a big help."

"No problem, girlie. But hey, I gotta jet. Sango and I have a big date tonight, 3 years!! Shit, I never thought I'd be with one girl this long." Kagome smiled for the first time in a couple hours.

"She loves you, don't ruin anything."

***

Kagome sat at the bar alone. She drank and barely paid attention to her surroundings, until she was approached by something.

"Kagome?" She jumped from her thoughts and looked to her right. It was Inuyasha.

"Did your father send you to find me?" she said sarcastically. Inuyasha sat down next to her and waved the bartender over.

"Can I get a beer?" The bartender nodded and reached into a fridge under the bar, pulled out a beer and handed it over to Inuyasha after removing the top. "Thanks." He said as he slapped a ten dollar bill down onto the bar. The bartender took it. "Keep the change." The bartender nodded and walked away to help other customers.

"What do you want, Inuyasha?" Kagome said becoming impatient with him.

"First of all, Kagome, my father didn't send me to find you. I own this bar. I try to stay low key and let my managers handle everything so the employees don't know who I am. I can't stand ass kissers. And we both know if they knew I'm the one that signed their paychecks, they'd be kissing my ass." He took a swig of his beer.

"Oh" Kagome said, slightly embarrassed for how she had spoken to him. "Well you have great bartenders." He smiled.

"Only the best." They sat together quietly for nearly an hour before Kagome spoke.

"You know, I didn't leave because of you and Sesshomaru." How was she going to put all of this? Inuyasha was 500 years old and had never met his mother and now she was sitting right next to him and she didn't even know what to do. "This is all just so over-whelming. I started off this week as a college student with only a mother, a grandfather, and a little brother and now I have a husband and two kids!" She was getting emotional. "I didn't ask for all this. I …I…oh gods…" she rested her head in her hands and started crying. Inuyasha reached over and touched her shoulder causing her to lift her head and look over at him.

"No one expects you to just jump into the motherly role. Trust me; I've come to terms with everything. I'm a grown hanyou that doesn't need his mommy." He sighed. " I would love more than anything for you to just simply say that you love me and we would all be one big happy family, but come on, Kagome, we're adults. We both know that won't happen." He chugged the rest of his beer and set the empty bottle down, he looked over at her. "None of this is your fault. What happened then was all about what the gods wanted." He stood. "It was nice talking to you, Kagome. Perhaps we'll see each other again." With that he left. Leaving Kagome alone at the bar, again.

A/N: this is the last chapter I have written so there might not be an update for a few days. Thanks to the ones that have been reading and reviewing…it keeps me writing!!!