Kikyo had never in a hundred years since her family had disowned her sweet younger cousin Kagome, expected to ind her in one of the rooms that she was to visit to do an examination. So to say that she had been happy to see Kagome's name on the file in her hand, had been an understatement of the century. However upon reading the file a little more and taking in things like her cousin's weight, blood pressure, and so on- she had begun to wonder if the file in her hands was part of some sick joke or something.

And she could have continued to think so, until she opened the door to the room and finally stepped inside and got her first real look of the young woman that she was to examine. She was tall like her cousin, her build was much more petite and fail than she could recall Kagome being. But that probably had more to do with the fact that the woman wieghed ninty three goddamn pounds.

Which in Kikyo's opinion was far too thin for anyone healthy.

She had taken a moment to look the woman over before deciding that she wasn't her disowned cousin after all when the woman had turned to look at her with the same blue eyes that her baby cousin had. There was no mistaking that unique shade of neon blue anywhere!

It was official, the girl standing before her was her cousin! And oh- oh god she had missed her so badly!

Despite the fact that Kagome had been disowned by the family, Kikyo had been waiting for her cousin to contact her and tell her what was going on. Especially since everything that she had heard from their grandfather, her aunt, and Kagome's little brother seemed to conflict with what she knew of Kagome's character.

Why she had even asked Inuyasha and a few of their mutual friends from school, all of whom worked at the local police station, to keep an eye and ear open for any information as to where Kagome was and whether or not she was alright. But apparently all of that effort on both her part and theirs had been for naught.

That of course had been when she finally snapped out of her stupor and noticed the other presence in the room and turned her head to look at the beast. Only to see that the so called beast was her Inu's own father.

Shocked, appalled, and angered beyond reason at Touga for what she assumed he had done to her poor cousin, Kikyo swooped down on him like a scretching avenging angel.

"What the hell did you do to my cousin, Touga?!" She damn near shouted as she slammed the door to the room shut behind her and began to advance on her future father-in-law.

Touga took one look at the furious human female soon to be mated to his youngest son and quickly moved himself across the room where he picked up a chair and a box of...tissue paper? To fend her off with... The very notion that he, the former great dog general and holder of the title of most feared Inu no Taisho in history would make such a lame attempt to defend himself with a mere chair and box of tissues was laughable at best.

And embarrassing and humiliating at worst.

But what could he do? Kikyo was as much family as Kagome now was and he didn't want to actually hurt her. Of course, he didn't really want her to hurt him either. Especially since he was sure that she would walk away relatively unscathed whereas he just might wind up in traction for at least a week straight.

And he was sure that while he was down, she would pay him a visit every day just to rebreak some fo his bones.

So not ending up in traction would be wonderful.

"Touga! Answer me now!" Kikyo growled out and she pointed to Kagome and then demanded as she reached out and yanked the chair from his hands and brought it up over her head, "What the fuck happened? Why is Kagome in such a deplorable state?"

"It wasn't me!" Touga whimpered before finally snapping, "If you strike me down, I will become more powerful than you can possibly imagine! Tell her Kagome! Tell her!"

Kagome had watched the whole scene with a sense of detached amusement as Touga began to furiously pull tissues from the box, wad them up and throw them at her cousin only to have them either miss or bounce off of her until he ran out of material and then shrank back in total abject terror as he waited for Kagome to say something to save him.

"Kikyo," Kagome finally spoke, her voice catching her angry cousin's attention just long enough to allow Touga to slip by her and run to the other side of the room and half duck down, half hide behind her as she went ahead and said. "Touga's done nothing wrong. I'm in this horrible state because of Sesshomaru."

This information of course caused the woman to lower the chair and set it back on the floor as she mulled over that particular bit of info before cutting Touga a look and finally saying, "Alright. I won't hurt him." However Kagome and Touga both could sense that the word, Yet, went unsaid as Kikyo took a moment or so to calm down enough to regain some sense of professionalism.

Picking up the discarded file, Kikyo looked through it again before looking at her cousin and saying in a curious tone. "This says that you need me to not only examine you, but your...baby? Since when have you been pregnant?"

Kagome thought back for a moment before saying, "A few weeks."

"How many?"

"Six?"

"That sounded more like a question than a definate answer."

"Sorry, I have very little in the way of keeping track of the days, so I may be off a bit." Kagome said as her cousin gave her a sad look before saying,

"I'm assuming that you'll want a copy of everything documented today?"

"Yes."

"Very well, climb up on the examining table and lets get started." Kikyo said as she quickly slipped on a pair of latex gloves and moved to Kagome's side and shot Touga a dark look that sent him scurrying out of her way so that she could work.

The first thing that she checked were Kagome's hearbeat, lungs and then felt her breasts for lumps. Once that was done she went on to check her under arms, and the lymphnodes in her neck before moving lower to press down her stomach a little bit and feel around until she found a little bulge that could very well have been the fetus.

Smiling at the feel of a new life nestled under her hands, she couldn't help but wonder what kind of mother Kagome would be. True the girl had always been kind, patient, and understanding where others weren't. However she couldn't be sure of how much that had changed since the last time they had spoken.

Next she moved a small backless stool over to the end of the examination table and brought out the stirrups and her tools.

It was then that Kagome seemed to become more than a little uncomfortable. Seeing this, Touga moved over to her side and gently took her hand in his- an action that didn't go unnoticed by the one woman demon destroyer- as she helped Kagome move to the right position and told her to relax, this part of the exmaination may be uncomfortable for her, but it was neccissary.

Kagome however wasnt able to relax. She was about to start panicking when Kikyo began to press her lubed up fingers inside of her. Kagome's breathing was comeing out in little pants, her pale skin had turned chalk white, and there were tears in her eyes as Kikyo continued the exam for another minute or two before finally pulling everything either away or out of Kagome and telling her that she was done.

Kagome reacting by rolling off of the examination table and moving over to the sink where she vomited a few times as Kikyo cleaned everything up and then looked up at Touga and whispered only loud enough for him to hear, "We need to talk."