A.N. The good news is that im updating again! It's been how long? Idk, but anyway. The bad news is that it's really late/early, because my father is in the hospital and I can't sleep, so I'm here writing for ya'll's entertainment. Enjoy.
-Last Time-
"What did he want?" Sango asked when she returned.
"He asked me on a date," Kagome replied.
-Now-
"What'd you tell him?" Sango asked as they walked back to Miroku's room.
"I told him I already had a boyfriend," Kagome replied, "speaking of which, I need to call them both and explain."
"No need," InuYasha said, waltzing into the waiting room, Rin dangling from his back, "the hospital called me. Apparently I'm on his emergency call list. How is he?"
"Stable," Sango replied, "and they're doing a surgery soon to get the tumor out and into chemo to fix him up again."
InuYasha nodded, not looking at Kagome, "how are you doing?"
"Oh just great," Sango replied sarcastically, watching as Kagome disengaged the child from her uncle to play with her, "my fiancé has cancer, my best friend is having more man troubles than a prostitute, and I think I'm about to faint."
"It's all to be expected," InuYasha said as if none of it fazed him, "where's my brother?"
"At my house with Jiro," Kagome replied, pulling a comb from her purse and running it through Rin's tangled locks.
"Oh," InuYasha said, "you guys do anything interesting?"
Kagome blushed and pulled her collar up, "no not really. Just watched a movie."
"Right," InuYasha replied with a grin, sitting down behind her, "and I'm as innocent as a baby chick."
"Now I know that's not true," Kagome said with a grin, fixing Rin's hair and then pulling the little girl into her lap, "wanna go to my house with your daddy and Jiro?"
Rin nodded, "are you going to be my new mommy? InuYasha said you were going to be my aunt."
Kagome giggled, "I don't know babe's, but when I do I'll tell you okay?"
Rin nodded and snuggled into Kagome's lap as the older woman leaned against InuYasha.
"I'll take Rin to my place," Kagome replied, standing up, "and I'll see you on Thursday like planned."
InuYasha nodded and kissed her shoulder, "Okay. Tell Sesshoumaru that Sara is trying to stalk him again and has found 'his' address and is now constantly camping out on my front lawn."
Kagome nodded and leaned her head back to look at him, "okay."
As she got up to leave, she went to tell Sango and Miroku goodbye, but walked in on them in a very… compromising situation.
"DON'T DO THAT IN A HOSPITAL!" Kagome shrieked, shielding Rin with her body.
"Well we're getting as much in before the radiation and chemo," Miroku said with a grin, pulling the blanket of his and Sango's bodies, "I can't have sex later. I guess radiation spreads. So yeah, bye."
Kagome nodded and left, a bright red blush on her face.
"You should've known," InuYasha said with a grin.
Kagome nodded and left, "Thursday. No fancy shit, the last time you did that you almost got arrested."
InuYasha nodded and walked her to her car, "Okay. Deal. I'll take you back to the sports bar I regret showing you, that's all you ever go to anymore according to Sango, Miroku AND Jiro."
Kagome nodded, "it's your fault."
InuYasha grinned, "it is. But it's a awesome place to go and you seem to like it."
Smiling, Kagome walked with InuYasha to the parking lot and strapped Rin in Jiro's car seat to go to her house.
"You guys going to be okay on your way home?" InuYasha asked, grabbing her wrist to keep her from getting in the car just yet.
"We'll be fine," Kagome replied, "it's not that far and besides. I have my cell phone, you and Sesshoumaru are on speed dial so I can call both and see who can get here faster." InuYasha grinned and leaned down to kiss her, surprised when she kissed back, "see you Thursday," she whispered, slipping into the car and starting it up.
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-At Kagome's-
"Sesshoumaru," Jiro called, walking down the hall, "where my mommy go?"
"She went to visit your friend Miroku in the hospital," Sesshoumaru replied, pulling the boy into his lap, "why? Do you want me to call her for you?"
Jiro nodded, "Yes please. The bad man came back, he said for me to talk to mommy."
"What do you mean he came back?" Sesshoumaru asked, looking down at the child, "was he in your room?"
Jiro nodded, "I was sleeping. And he was in my dream. He said to tell mommy he knows where she hided me, and he's going to get me back."
Sesshoumaru stared before pulling out his cell phone. Just as he dialed Kagome's cell number, she walked in the front door, "hey boys. Look who I brought home."
"RIN!" Jiro cheered, jumping off Sesshoumaru's lap and running to Kagome and Rin.
"Kagome we have some interesting news," Sesshoumaru replied, picking his daughter up.
"Really?" Kagome asked, sitting in a chair and waited for Jiro to climb up on it with her.
"Yes," Sesshoumaru said smoothly, "Jiro would you like to tell you mother what happened?"
Jiro nodded and looked up at his mother, "the bad man came in my dream. He said to tell you he knows where me and you are. He told me he can find us and hurt you for taking me away from the lady."
Kagome stared for a minute, "when did this happen?"
"Not long before you and Rin showed up," Sesshoumaru said, "I don't think you guys should stay here much longer. Something could happen."
Kagome stared, "I'm not leaving. We just got settled here, and I'm not letting Naraku's minions scare me and my son out of our new home."
Sesshoumaru stared, "I don't want you living here if there is some mad man trying to harm your or Jiro."
"Well I am not leaving," Kagome stated hotly, "and whether you like it or not we're staying here."
"I see," Sesshoumaru said, standing up, "If you do not agree to go home with Rin and I tonight then we can no longer see each other."
"Then I guess we wont be seeing each other any longer," she replied, standing up herself, "I'll see you around."
Sesshoumaru looked at her, nodded and picked Rin up off the couch and left the house. Kagome didn't even seem upset, instead she pulled out her cell phone.
"Yash," she said quietly, "I need you to come over. Jiro had a bad dream, and I fought with Sesshoumaru."
InuYasha laughed on the other line, "I'll be over as soon as I can. What happened?"
"Just stupid stuff," Kagome replied, "I don't want to talk about it."
"All right," InuYasha said, "I'll be there soon."
"Thanks," Kagome said with a grin, "see you soon." As she hung up, Kagome watched Jiro as he drifted in and out of sleep, his eyes drooping his small body sprawled out on the couch.
When InuYasha arrived, Kagome had put Jiro to bed and was reading in the living room, almost surprised to hear a knock on the door.
"Hey beautiful," he drawled when Kagome opened the door.
"Hey," Kagome said with a smirk, letting him in the house, "thank you for coming over."
InuYasha nodded and grinned down at her, "so what all happened?"
"Jiro had a dream about his kidnapper," Kagome said pathetically, plopping down on the couch, "after he told me,
Sesshoumaru said he didn't want me and Jiro in the house any more, but got mad and pretty much broke up with me because I said we are not leaving like cowards."
"So what happens with you two now?" InuYasha asked, sitting down next to her.
"I don't know," Kagome replied, leaning into him, "I don't really like guys who want me to be little miss damsel in distress, and it's clear that's what he's looking for."
InuYasha nodded, "It is. I'm not surprised that he wanted you to be scared so he can try and protect you."
"I don't need protecting," Kagome replied, "not unless something happens. I can take care of myself."
InuYasha grinned, "I'm sure you truly can."
"Shut up," she grinned, "just no more talking."
InuYasha nodded and wrapped his arms around her, "can do."
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When Kagome woke up the next morning, she expected to be still in the living room, asleep in InuYasha's arms. He was so warm, she thought to herself, I felt so comfortorable there. As she got up, Kagome heard the sound of Jiro laughing. Quickly pulling on some different clothes and brushing her frizzy hair and teeth, Kagome went downstairs to see what was going on.
"Good morning boys," Kagome said with a grin, seeing InuYasha entertaining her son, who was sitting in his booster seat at the table, while cooking breakfast.
"Hi mommy," Jiro piped up, grinning as Kagome went and kissed InuYasha deeply and lovingly after himself.
"Yes hi mommy," InuYasha said with a mischievous grin, wrapping his arms around her waist as she kissed him.
"Mommy," Jiro said, pulling Kagome and InuYasha back to the real world.
"Yes baby," she said, moving towards him, not sure if he was just being jealous or wanted to know what was going on.
"How come you only give InuYasha a kiss like that," he asked, looking a little saddened.
"Oh love," Kagome cooed, pulling him out of his booster seat, "it's because he's… well…" Kagome wasn't sure how to say it, looking to InuYasha for help.
"It's because you're her son," InuYasha said with a grin, "you don't kiss your baby that way."
"Sesshoumaru never got a kiss like that," Jiro replied.
Kagome blushed as InuYasha looked down at her, "no he didn't."
"Why?" InuYasha asked, smiling as Kagome put Jiro back in his seat and looked at him.
"It wasn't the same with him as it is with you," Kagome replied, "what do you guys want for breakfast?"
InuYasha just grinned, "whatever you make is just fine, or at least better than my burnt french toast." at the last statement, he pulled out a piece of black stuff that was supposed to be food.
Jiro grinned, "I WANT PANCAKE SURPRISE!"
"Pancake surprise it is," Kagome said, "you boys go watch TV and I'll cook."
"What's pancake surprise?" InuYasha asked, pulling Jiro out of the chair and setting him on the ground.
"I make pancakes with a special ingredient," Kagome replied, "chocolate chips, or different fruits."
InuYasha nodded and followed the little boy into the living room where they ended up spending the morning watching various cartoons.
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-Somewhere else-
"So he showed you no fear?" she asked.
"None," the man replied, "he just nodded and drifted into nothingness. I guess he must've woken up."
The woman nodded, "I see. So are you sure you know where they are?"
"Indeed," the man replied, "she moved a few miles in the other direction. Closer to her beloved boyfriends."
The woman nodded, "I see. Well we're going to have to fix that. She will not take my husband, and she will not take my chance at a child again either."
"I thought you were divorced."
"I am," she replied, "but he's mine. Any woman who tries to take him will suffer. And she is now corrupting my own daughter against me, I will not allow her to have all that was once mine!"
"Kagura!" a sharp deep voice interrupted.
"Yes Naraku."
"Stop your fussing," he said, "bring me Kagome. She has eluded me far too long."
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-Back at Kagome's-
"Boys," Kagome said, turning the TV off, "It's time for breakfast."
"It was just getting to the good part!" InuYasha complained, upset that Kagome interrupted 'Goosebumps'.
"Yeah the good part!" Jiro piped in, throwing her this pathetic look to mirror InuYasha's as he sat curled in the man's lap.
"It'll come on later," she said, pulling her son off the floor, "now it's time for breakfast."
InuYasha grinned at her back as he followed her into the kitchen.
"You know something better than breakfast?" he whispered in her ear, causing a shiver to run down her spine.
"Enlighten me," she responded, putting Jiro in his seat and serving him a plate with blueberry pancakes, already cut up, with butter, syrup and sausage with some juice in his cup.
"I can't tell you with the little one in the room," he drawled, gently nipping at the lobe of her ear.
"If you wont say it here then don't say it at all," Kagome said in a stern motherly voice, "now sit down and eat."
InuYasha grinned and sat down at the table, opposite of Kagome who was making sure Jiro didn't stab himself with his fork, apparently he did that often. It made InuYasha laugh as he watched them fight over whether the boy could eat on his own.
"Shut up," Kagome said rudely, "he has issues with a fork and persists on using it the wrong way!"
Jiro stuck his tongue out at his mother, "it's right! The pointy part goes into the food, and into my mouth!"
InuYasha howled with laughter at that last statement.
"Jiro," Kagome tried to say calmly, "you don't hold the fork with your hand cupping the base of the prongs! That's how you hurt yourself every time."
"Nuh uh!" Jiro protested, dropping his fork in his lap, where it landed prong down on his thigh.
"See!" Kagome exclaimed.
"It don't hurt," Jiro whined, sniffling slightly from the sting.
"Your about to cry," Kagome said softly, pulling the fork out of his leg and picking him up, "so it hurt a little. C'mon, we'll go clean you up to get the blood off and if you're good I'll get you a treat." Jiro nodded and quietly allowed Kagome to clean his wound and put a band-aid on it, "better now?"
"It burns from the medicine," Jiro said simply, poking at the band-aid, surprised at what had happened. He didn't get hurt easily, and the fact that he stabbed himself in the leg with a fork proved that his mother was right and he shouldn't be playing with sharp things.
"Well let's get dressed and we'll go to work, and you can have any book you want," Kagome said with a grin.
"Really?" Jiro asked, excited that Kagome wanted to take him to work.
"Yup," Kagome replied, "now quick! Let's go get dressed and kick InuYasha out so we can go to work!"
Jiro nodded and raced to his room, a tiny blur of colors, "what'd you do?"
Kagome turned around, grinning. "Nothing," she sang, walking into her son's room, "we're going to work."
"What about Naraku and his goons?" InuYasha asked, concerned that Kagome was still going out.
"They'll have issues doing anything in public," Kagome remarked, helping Jiro into a pair of jeans he pulled from the closet, "we'll be fine. You should go to work also, from what I've been told you've avoided your job lately."
InuYasha grinned, "I've been avoiding work. I have no real job there, and unlike my brother, I find it odd dating the woman who will be my biggest competitor."
Kagome nodded, "at least you admit we're dating."
InuYasha looked at her confused for a moment and then realized what she was talking about. A few weeks before, when in a interview, Sesshoumaru had been asked if he was seeing anyone and he outright told the press that he was still single, but not looking for anyone to share his life at the moment. It hurt Kagome to see that, on live television to add insult to injury, but she didn't let Sesshoumaru see or hear about it.
"It's not all that bad," InuYasha purred, pulling her to him, "if he's not going to acknowledge you to the public then he's not true to you. Don't worry about it."
Kagome nodded and went into her son's room to finish helping him get ready. She moved at one point too fast, and instantly felt where she had been pierced not that long ago with a bullet, "DAMMIT!"
"mommy?" Jiro asked quietly, going to stand beside his doubled over mother, "what's wrong?"
"Kagome?" InuYasha asked, confused.
"I'm fine," Kagome said, standing up slowly, "InuYasha go to work. We'll see you later."
InuYasha stared, "Kagome…"
"We'll see you later," Kagome said again, more forcefully this time, "bye InuYasha."
He wasn't sure what to make of it, so instead of pushing, InuYasha just left.
"Mommy what's wrong?" Jiro asked, sad that she sent his friend away.
Kagome looked down, "nothing babe. I'm not feeling too good, and InuYasha has to go to his own work."
Jiro nodded and waited while Kagome quickly changed for work and gathered him up to leave.
A.N. okay! I'm done with this chapter. Not only did it take me forever to write, but it's also the only thing I've written since my last update… it's been about I month I think. I'm going to try and update more this month on my other stories along with this. Did you notice InuYasha is majorly OOC? Hope you like it, I didn't decide to make him that way, the story did. REVIEW!