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A/N- I am sorry for taking so long to update, everyone. My finals are coming up in all of my classes. I'll try not to take so long next time.

Going Home

When Kagome got back to the village, Miroku and Sango were already putting their things in the bags they were carrying. Kouga had walked with her to the village, but now he and Keiko were gone back to their den. He had smiled and gave her a kiss before running off with the older demoness, causing her to blush profusely in front of the demoness. Keiko had only bowed her head and said goodbye.

Kagome was glad that they had left. What had just happened between her and the wolf prince had been….intense….to say the least. Her heart started to beat faster at the thought of the youkai. When she realized what was going on in her head, she stopped herself.

'Don't go falling for another one, you dolt!!' she said. 'You're just going to hurt yourself again!' She looked over at Sango and sighed. He exterminator had the biggest smile on her face Kagome had ever seen. She was so happy with the man that she loved. 'You're loosing your mind, Kagome girl.' she thought. 'You're only going to wind up hurting again if you fall for Kouga.' She shook the thoughts from her head and walked up to her friends, taking in their happy demeanors. Sango looked happy as a lark and Miroku was grinning from ear to ear. Shippou, however, was still adamant on staying with Kagome.

"I don't wanna leave you, Kagome!" he whined. "I wanna stay with you! Why can't I stay?" Kagome smiled at the little kitsune and took him in her arms. Even after their years of traveling together, she still considered the kit her own son. He had grown some, but to her, he was still that scared little boy they had found that day so long ago.

"I've already told you why you can't stay with me, little one." she said, hugging him. "I'm going back to my era right after you leave. I've got to go see a doctor about my baby."

"When will you come back?" he asked.

"I won't be gone long." she said. "A few weeks at the most. And when I come back, I'll come get you and you can stay with me." That seemed to cheer the kit up and he quickly climbed onto Sango's pack she had slung across her back.

"We must go now, Kagome." the other girl said. "We hope to get back to my village before long." Kagome nodded, giving the exterminator a hug and wishing her well. Miroku embraced her with the familiarity of a brother and wished her good luck at the doctor. The three friends set out towards the path that led out of Kaede's village. Kagome sighed and watched them until she could not see them anymore, then went inside to grab her oversized backpack and head home.

"I'm going home for a while, Kaede." she said to the old miko sitting on the floor of the hut and mixing some sort of medicinal herbs together to make a paste.

"Have a good journey back, child." the woman replied. "And come back to see us soon." Kagome smiled and gave the old woman a hug before turning to leave the hut.

Her walk up to the well was peaceful. No one stopped her on her way, but they all waved and smiled at the woman who had helped to save the village on more than one occasion. When she got to the well, she jumped in and was quickly surrounded by the soft lights that brought her between eras. Her heart soared when her feet hit the ground of her home era.

She was home.

Climbing out of the well, she suddenly realized that her grandfather and brother would know about the pregnancy by now. Her mother had said that she would break the news to the two of them while she was back in the Feudal Era.

"Well, it's now or never." she said quietly as she opened the door to her house. "Mom! Grandpa! Souta! I'm home!" Two seconds later, she heard the unmistakable sound of her brother thundering down the staircase.

"Kagome! You're back!" he yelled, hugging her.

"Yes, I'm back, little brother." she said happily. "And you don't know how good it feels."

"Mom told me and Grandpa about you being pregnant." he said quickly, a smile on his face. "Does this mean I'm going to be an uncle?" Kagome grinned and nodded, happy that Souta didn't seem too worried about the pregnancy.

"Yes, Souta." she said. "It does."

"Yeah! I'm gonna be an uncle! I'm gonna be an uncle!" he sang as he pulled Kagome into the kitchen.

"Where's mom and Grandpa?" she asked, sitting at the table.

"Your grandfather had a meeting to go to for the temple counsel." came the voice of Rei Hirugashi. Kagome looked up at her mom and grinned.

"When will he be back?" she asked.

"Sometime tonight." she said. Meanwhile, Souta was still prancing around the kitchen singing 'I'm gonna be an uncle!' at the top of his lungs. Kagome watched her kid brother and laughed when he tripped on a chair leg and went crashing to the ground.

"How long has he been like this?" she asked, looking at her mom.

"He's been on cloud nine since I told him about the baby." she said with a smile. Her smile quickly faded though, and Kagome had a feeling she knew why.

"How'd Grandpa take it?" she asked quietly. By now, Souta had left the room to go play with his Playstation. Rei looked at her daughter and shook her head.

"He wasn't overly ecstatic." she said. "But he took it a lot better than I thought he would. He's worried about you, and what kind of part Inuyasha is going to play in raising the child. Just a for-warning though, when he gets back, you can expect to get a long lecture from him on how a lady is supposed to be proper."

"I expected as much." she said, her hand rubbing her stomach. "He does realize that I'm probably going to have to spend a large amount of time in the Feudal Era when I start showing, doesn't he?"

"Yes, and he's not happy about it. Neither am I to tell you the truth, Kagome."

"Mom, I can't let anyone see me like this, at least not until after the baby is born. If my child has dog ears and a tail, I'm going to have to come up with answers. Because I sure can't tell everyone the truth." Rei nodded in agreement, knowing her daughter was right.

"We still have some time to worry about that." she said. "How did Inuyasha take the news?" Kagome grimaced as she recounted the expedition of the past few days she had been in the Feudal Era, minus the part about Kouga and her at Miroku and Sango's wedding.

"So, as you can see, he was not the happiest camper in the world when I told him." she said. Kagome nodded, knowing that she had let her grandfather down in an immense way. He had always hoped the she would grow up and marry well before having any children. Although she knew he was mad and a little hurt by what she had done, she also knew that he would be in raptures by the time it sunk in that he was going to get to be a grandpa again.

"It's just going to take time, mom." she said with a shrug. "I'm not going to abort the baby, and I can't give it up for adoption since it's part demon, not that I ever would anyway." Rei smiled and hugged her only daughter.

"We're here for you, Kagome." she said. "If it is one thing you can always count on, it is this family."

"Thank you, momma." she said. "Thank you so much."

-Later that night…-

Just like Rei had said, the minute Grandpa had found out Kagome was home, he dragged her into his bedroom. She got the biggest lecture she had ever heard from her grandfather about how it was unhonorable to have a child before being married. He reamed her out for running around in the Feudal Era with a half demon. He chewed her out for anything and everything under the sun, but then he gathered her up in a big hug and told her everything was going to be alright and the baby would have a good life. Kagome told him about the situation between Inuyasha and herself and he got even madder.

"Let that despicable hanyou come around HERE again!" he threatened, "I'll send him to Hell for doing this to you and not having enough nerve to stand by you!" Kagome smiled at the exuberance her grandfather was showing. She knew he wasn't mad at her, and that he was glad she was okay. Her Grandpa's opinion meant much more to her that was wise. Since she had never really had a father figure in her life, her grandpa was kind of like a father and grandpa mixed into one. The only thing that worried her was when she would have to tell him that the child would probably have to be raised in the Feudal Era because of it's bloodline. 'Well, we'll have to wait and see about that one.' she thought. 'Maybe they won't have dog ears and I can raise them here, in my time.'

A/N - It's short. Yes, I know. And I apologize. This is just a bridge chapter between the last one and the next one. Besides, I needed to show what her family's reaction was going to be. I'll have the next chapter up by the end of the week.

Later.

A.A.

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