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What would have made more sense was if Sesshomaru had fathered a child and that was why their scents were so alike but then the kid would be a hanyou and not something less. Regardless of the logic, that was what Inuyasha was hoping for… all five days it took to get the results back from the test. The most difficult thing during those days wasn't the wondering or the waiting but being around Kagome… being around Seishirou.

And pretending like everything was fine, that he didn't have an inkling into Seishirou's biological family… that was why he only let himself see Kagome twice and Seishirou once during that time. He couldn't take it.

Then the phone call came, the one he had half been yearning for yet half dreading.

The phone call that changed everything.

"The paternity test came back positive." Those words crashed down on him.

How the hell was that possible? How could he be a father to a child that he just met out of chance? How…?

He could remember the name of every woman he had ever been with, so wouldn't one of them have called him up and said 'hey, you're a dad?'… he had no idea how he was supposed to tell Kagome that, either. Wouldn't it ruin everything between them? Wouldn't she be upset with him?

And who the hell was her sister? That was why he asked her to dinner the night the test results returned to him. That was why he tried his hardest to listen about her day, her week, her work but… couldn't. Why he asked, "why don't you have any pictures of your sister in your apartment?"

"I do," she replied simply, yet curiously. It was strange for him to randomly bring that up, granted they had been speaking about family - about Seishirou. "They are in photo albums though."

"So… what was her name?"

"Well, it should have been Higurashi Midoriko, that was the name she was given after she was adopted but she always went by Inoue Midoriko."

It clicked, just like that with him.

"Midoriko…?" Inuyasha dragged out, "didn't she used to work as a server at Shikon?"

"Yeah," Kagome chimed, "but that was forever ago. I wasn't sure if you were working there yet when she was there. Besides, she was only there for a couple of months."

"I've been working there for over ten years, I knew her."

Knew her well, in fact. Their relationship wasn't something serious, he was hardly in love with her and the same went for the way she felt about him. It was purely out of physical attraction that they bedded each other. He wasn't manger yet, so he didn't see the problem with having sex with other employees… and it was only a couple times. Maybe four in total.

Out of those four times, out of the random, meaningless, sex… he became a father?

Oh… shit.

"Were you friends with her?" Kagome questioned to snap him back to the moment. His golden gaze shifted up from the table to meet her hazels.

It was either time for her to continue the lie, or tell her the truth but… he wasn't sure which one he could do.

A/N: I know everyone thought it would be Kikyou, that was too obvious and I just couldn't do it for numerous reasons. I feel like if it had been Kikyou then it would have been a serious relationship between them something that would make things too complicated for Inuyasha and Kagome. Besides, Kikyou is one of my favorite characters and she's always getting the short end of the stick in my Inu/Kag stories so I thought it was time to give her a break.