I SUPPOSE you're all wondering were the HELL I've been since...forever...well. To tell you the truth, for a while there I'd lost interest and Inuyasha and writing stories in general. After getting on the computer one other time I decided to re-read my written fanfics and have come to the conclusion that I WILL NOT abandon my stories.

So expect updates soon!

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Home Sweet Hanyou

By: RisuBento

Disclaimer: I own nothing except the title and the plot of this here story. Oh. And the unborn baby.

Kagome's P.O.V.

I was handing out hot chocolate to one of the last few people at the shrine. It was nearing midnight and mostly everyone had gone home or left to be with that significant other when the new year came around. It was really getting cold out. The snow was coming down harder and harder as it grew closer to the new year. I was really beginning to wonder where Inuyasha had gone off to. One moment he was there and the next he wasn't. I know Kikyou had gone inside sometime ago. She's broken a mug so maybe she went to bandage her hand up... Sighing...I turned to look up at the house and noticed that Inuyasha was just closing the door behind him.

I smiled to myself...and began walking over to him. "Inuyasha?" I asked. When he visibly flinched a little, I frowned and walked up to him. "Where've you been?"

He was standing with his hands buried deep within in his pockets and he was looking at everything...but me. What happened to him?

"I've..." he cleared his throat and continued. "I was helping Kikyou...she burned her hand on some hot chocolate and...I was just helping her with some...first aid..." He was visibly fidgeting.

"Oh...well. Now that you're here can you help clean up the mugs and help Souta pick up garbage? It would help a lot." I asked, motion towards discarded cups and other pieces of garbage strewn carelessly across the shrine grounds.

"Uh...yeah. Sure. Are we going back to the apartment after this?" He asked, taking his hands out and rubbing them together so they became warm.

"I thought we agreed that we were staying here for the night...?" I said slowly. Why does he want to leave so bad?

"I think we should go back...you know...this place kind of gives me the creeps." He said, walking past me and picking up a garbage bag and heading over towards Souta.

The shrine gives him the creeps? Since when? He practically grew up here...maybe he's just tired... It has been a long day.

A snowflake suddenly landed in my eye and I blinked rapidly. It was really beginning to come down hard. I don't know if the car would be able to make it back to apartment. The streets were already coated in slush and muck...this cold weather and snow would freeze the ground again and cover it up once again with a fresh pile of snow.

"Kagome?" Came my mother's voice. I turned to see her standing in the doorway of the house. She had a blanket wrapped around her shoulders and was beckoning me into the warm abode. "Come on! Let the men do the work for once. You should rest, sweetheart."

I paused and looked back at the silver haired hanyou walking around with my younger brother, collecting garbage and nearly tripping and falling over a cord that extending to the well house to light up lanterns. I giggled slightly before turning towards my mother and letting her wrap part of the blanket around my form too.

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Midnight had come and gone only 2 hours earlier and I was still waiting for Inuyasha. He and Souta had both come in frozen to the bone and wet from the snow landing and melting on them. I helped Inuyasha removed his scarf and jacket and then drying his wet hair with a towel. My mother was bickering behind me how Souta was a fool for not zipping his jacket up. When I took the towel from Inuyasha's head his hair was everywhere and his teeth were chattering.

"Come on. You'll really catch a cold if you don't warm yourself up. I'll draw a bath for you all right?" I didn't wait for him to reply before leading him to the bathroom down the hallway. I turned the bathwater on and proceeded in letting it fill the large basin. Inuyasha was standing behind me and when I turned around I flinched and let out a little yelp when I saw that he'd already removed his shirt and was currently undoing the zipper of his pants.

"Hold on! Let me...let me give you some privacy..." I said, averting my eyes and walking around towards the door. He didn't say anything and from what I could tell he didn't stop undressing as I left. It didn't even faze him. Maybe I'm the weird one...

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Inuyasha's P.O.V.

After nearly freezing off everything on my body, and getting into a scorching hot, but wonderful, bath---and not getting enough strength to laugh at Kagome when she came back in to get my wet clothes---I was lying in Kagome's bed, with about four blankets on top of me. I was still cold! I could seriously sense a cold in the future.

Anyways...that's not what I currently have on my mind. It's Kikyou. I'm still baffled as to why she...did that. What is she trying to say...? Does she still love me? Do I still love her? And what're my mixed feelings for Kagome? Am I supposed to try and love her because of our situation...or do I really have feelings for her after all? Sigh... I don't think my love for Kikyou has ever gone away...she's someone who would always have a piece of my heart...but I don't think I can't go any further than that... Maybe I should give Kagome a chance. Right now...she needs me...and I think I need her. The baby is due at any moment now...and I had to be ready to be a full-fledged father. It terrifies me to the soul... Can I really do this?

All I really wanted to do with my life is get a nice paying job, find a nice woman to settle down with and raise a nice family. A boy and a girl. I'd imagined all of this happening with Kikyou. I was blinded by my love for her. I was only in high school...and I didn't understand what Fate itself was...until the night I climbed into the wrong bedroom. From that day forward my life was thrown for a loop and tossed into a garbage disposal. I didn't know what do with myself anymore. How am I supposed to start over with my life---a completely different woman...and a baby? The God's are surely laughing at me now. Is this their way of punishing me for getting overly drunk that night? For not buying my mom a birthday present 3 years in a row? What did I do wrong?

A door slowly creaking open threw me from my thoughts and I buried myself deeper beneath the covers. I could hear Kagome's feet walking around the room slowly, getting ready for bed. Her dresser drawer was opened slowly---she thought I was sleeping---and I assumed she'd gotten dressed already---so when I sat up to talk to her, I was confronted with a topless Kagome.

She froze when she saw me sit up, her arms in the sleeves of the shirt she was attempting to put on for bed. She was absolutely lovely. I don't know what it was...something about the way her hair was still damp from her shower and the way she didn't wear a bra to bed---snicker---...or the way her belly was sticking out...all plump and full of life.

Without a word, she frantically turned around and pulled the shirt on. I smirked to myself and continued to watch her. She went into the bathroom again and I heard her brush her teeth. When she came back into the room she cleared her throat went to hit the light switch off.

"Good night Inuyasha." She said, before climbing into the bed next to me.

I chuckled to myself and sighed. "Night."

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