Kagome sat the letter down and looked over at Inu-Yasha, who still had his focus on the letter. It was as if he was trying to see what was really written on it. 'That's entirely possible though,' Kagome thought, 'I mean, that was unbelievable news...'
However shocking the letter was though, Kagome knew it was right. She had no proof, only her instinct, but her instinct rarely let her down. Inu-Yasha's eyes cleared up and he glanced to her, silently asking what her thoughts were.
"I want to take them up on their offer," Kagome said quietly.
Her boyfriend nodded his agreement. "I do too," he told her, "so what are we going to do?"
Kagome sat quietly, wishing she hadn't read the letter naked, so that she'd have some fabric to occupy her hands. 'I need to think,' she told herself, 'think...'
"Okay...I'm going to go to my parent's house and see what they wanted to tell me. Then we can meet downtown? I'll call a taxi home." she suggested.
"That sounds good...I'm going to go to Miroku and Sango's and get some stuff we forgot, and meet you down there. How long do you think you're going to be?"
Kagome snorted, "Probably not too long. They're probably just trying to get me to consider not going into the family business.."
Inu-Yasha snorted as well, remembering Kagome's business woes. Her plan was to graduate early and go into her family's corporation. However, they felt she would be better in a different position - any position. For some reason, they were dead set against either of their children working for them.
He got up, giving her a kiss on the cheek, and headed for the door. He turned around and smirked before saying, "Don't forget to get dressed. We don't want a repeat of my episode earlier. At least, not if I'm not around to see it."
Kagome watched him leave, had a few appreciative thoughts about his ass, and headed for the bedroom to get dressed. 'It's insane that this is happening. This isn't realistic at all! And we're taking it like we just found out it was raining...' The truth was, however, ever since Kagome met Inu-Yasha, she had prepared herself for the unpreparable. He did seem like the type who required such behavior. 'I guess it's not so much how we're handling this so much as what it is we're handling. Inu-Yasha and I aren't really the type who react to things explosively.' She rolled her eyes at a few memories that spoke contrary to that fact, but usually, Inu-Yasha took things quietly, not wanting to show his emotions about them. When something made him angry, he became loud, but he reacted to most everything else with silence or diversion.
She tugged a shirt on and glanced around for her shoes, noticing that her pants were getting much tighter. She was scared, because it seemed like she was getting bigger and bigger each day, and the visual reminder of the fact that she was carrying another life made her think about the future, and that was a scary thing to do. However, she was mostly excited. She hadn't even known she was pregnant for that long, and already she wanted her baby right that moment. 'This time next year, I'll be able to hold it in my arms,' she thought happily, envisioning what it might look like.
She dialed the front desk, letting them know that she needed a taxi immediately, and went towards the door. She paused to look around the penthouse, knowing she probably wouldn't be seeing it again for awhile. 'I won't be seeing a lot of things for awhile...' She turned off the lights and headed for the elevator.
-
Inu-Yasha knew he was way over the apartment's twenty mile speed limit as he slammed the breaks into a stop in front of Sango and Miroku's apartment. The action made a loud noise, alerting Miroku and Sango (and anyone else in the complex) that he had arrived. He jumped out of the car, stalling a bit to yank the key out, and and ran up to the door, pulling it open. He debated on telling the couple to lock the door once in awhile, but he settled for running to Sango's room and grabbing what he had left the night before. He could hear two sets of feet running down the stairs to greet him as he picked up the duffle bag he left at their apartment that included a few changes of clothes and some of his more important belongings. Sure enough, Miroku and Sango were waiting for him in the living room.
"Well?" Miroku asked hopefully. He really wanted Kagome and Inu-Yasha to stay together - he had become like a little brother to him, and it was obvious that Kagome made him happy.
Sango looked at him nervously, "Did Kagome tell you what I said before Miroku came in?"
"We talked about things. And no, we haven't talked about you saying anything...But I've gotta go now, and you may not see me again for a long time. See, it turns out, Naraku wasn't my father, and my real father is Touga Taisho, and he's involved with some crime mob somehow, and they're after me and Kagome. So now we've gotta go and hide, and she's over talking to her parents right now, and we're about to go downtown to leave. But I'm sure we'll be okay. I'll find a way to talk to you guys, alright? Alright! Bye!"
He was out of the door before Miroku and Sango could even think up a reply. Miroku turned to Sango and sighed.
"Well...what did you tell Kagome?"
-
Sesshomaru and Rin paced inside the lobby of the Youkai Industrial Corporation building, as Rin quite literally freaked out.
"How did they find that out? I swear I covered all of my tracks! How did they-"
"Rin! That's enough. Someone will hear you."
Rin glared at Sesshomaru and sank to the floor. She didn't handle failure well. Probably because she wasn't very used to it. She took extensive pride at being very good at her job. The phrase 'Failure is not an option' was one that she took to heart. The fact that she had failed at something that big did nothing to make the blow easier. Sesshomaru sighed and sank down with her, placing his hands on her shoulders.
"It's okay Rin. They didn't get him, and now we can send him somewhere else without any way for them to find out or anything to track. It's better this way."
Rin nodded sadly, and waited for Inu-Yasha's car to pull up out front. Despite Sesshomaru's (out of character) "comforting" words, she wouldn't be okay until things were fixed, and even then, she would beat herself up for that one for awhile. She quickly pulled herself together when a dark red car pulled up in front of the building. She looked up at Sesshomaru excitedly, forgetting her screw up.
"He's here!"
Sesshomaru didn't show much of a reaction, but Rin had gotten to know his subtle signs. She was good with that anyway, but she found that with Sesshomaru she'd had to try harder than usual. His eyes changed mostly, and his head swivelled to where he thought his younger brother may be. Rin was filled with an almost painful feeling of floating. She knew that this was a bigger deal than just keeping Inu-Yasha safe. This was Sesshomaru's brother. She grabbed his hand, but he stood frozen to the spot. She rolled her eyes, and with without him to greet Inu-Yasha.
She pushed out of the doors just as Inu-Yasha stepped out of the Cobra.
"Inu-Yasha. I'm Rin." she said happily, glancing behind her to see if Sesshomaru had moved yet. He hadn't.
Inu-Yasha moved around the car to stand on the sidewalk in front of Rin, and shook her hand.
"It's good to see ya, I guess," he said, sounding unsure.
She heard the whoosh of a door opening and grinned widely.
"Sesshomaru," she said, turning around towards the man, "I'm glad you could make it."
He stepped next to her, staring at Inu-Yasha intently.
"Well," she said, addressing both of them, "I'd like you to meet your half-brother."
-
Kagome sat nervously as she waited for her parents to enter the room. Kikyou looked weepy upon seeing her, which was extremely unusual for the rather straight faced woman. Before she had more time to contemplate Kikyou's face, she'd ran away, and one of the random people who worked in their house ushered Kagome towards one of the random rooms. She recognized this one. Her father held business meetings here, when it was amongst friends.
Her parents entered, her mother seemingly gliding on air and her father walking behind her, almost as if he didn't want to slow her down.
"Kagome," her mother said softly, "I think it's time we do something about your desire to join the business."
Her father nodded his agreement, and let his wife do the talking.
"So, we're sending you to my father's house. You can finish up your last few essays there, mail them to us, and we'll send them in. I'm sure he can talk you out of it."
"Let me get this straight," Kagome said, "I'm going to be sent to live with the man who taught you everything you know?"
Sora shook her head, "No, my real father. He's agreed to take you in, and you'll be going there immediately. Kikyou is driving you. Pack some things."
Kagome's mouth dropped as her parents left. Her mother's real father was perhaps was one of the best kept secrets of Sora Higurashi's life. As far as everyone else was concerned, the girl was raised by Kai Suzuki. The only people who knew her real father was her now deceased mother, her child and husband, and the man himself, though he had only found out a year or two before Kagome was born.
As she headed to her room, she resisted the urge to scream. Kikyou appeared again, now looking more stable.
"I'll help you pack," she said, taking Kagome's arm and leading her towards her room.
They walked silently to her room, and Kagome collapsed onto her bed as Kikyou opened up her closet and began to pull out some of Kagome's favourite outfits.
"They won't fit," she muttered under her breath, running her hands across her growing abdomen.
"Why?" Kikyou asked.
Kagome paused, unsure of what to tell Kikyou - or whether she would tell her anything at all. But the stress of the past few months of being pregnant and the recent events regarding Inu-Yasha, Kagome had to tell someone, and Kikyou was practically her mother.
"I'm pregnant. Three months ago I slept with Inu-Yasha on the jungle gym. And then his father, who beat him, was murdered, but it turns out, that wasn't his father, and his real father is Touga Taisho, and this group called the Kitsunes are after him, and me, because I've been dating him, and now I have to run away with him to this safe place that they've gotten set up. So, I won't be able to fit in those clothes - I can't really fit in them now."
She gasped for air, and Kikyou's eyes widened. She left the room, and Kagome feared she'd gone to tell her parents the truth. Then she almost broke into tears, thinking that Kikyou was ashamed of her. Before she could go further, maybe theorizing that Kikyou was calling someone from the Kitsunes, the nanny/cook emerged, carrying a pile of what she recognized to be her mother's clothing.
"It's her maternity clothes," Kikyou answered, as she began folding them and putting them in one of Kagome's suitcases.
Kagome immediately burst into tears, lunging forward and hugging Kikyou around the waist. Kikyou would probably chalk it up to the hormones, but lately Kagome had stopped feeling their effect. She was just overwhelmed, and Kikyou's help simply set her off. 'Outlets are good,' Kagome thought to herself as Kikyou rubbed her hand across her back.
"Come on darlin'," Kikyou said, giving a bit of her Southern accent, "let's get your stuff ready."
-
"He wasn't there."
The rest of the "flunkies" cringed at the statement. He didn't tolerate failure.
No one ever failed twice.
"I want you to find the girl. Bring her to me. This is our last chance to make Touga pay for what he did. Our final attempt should be big - we should really make him suffer."
-
Sesshomaru kept one eye on Inu-Yasha, who looked just as short on words as himself, and one eye on his girlfriend, who appeared as if she might explode from happiness. It wasn't that he wasn't excited, because he was, but he had no way of showing it. He almost wanted to hug Inu-Yasha, but he didn't know if it would be received well, and he feared that if he did, Rin may very well go into pieces.
As it was, Rin hugged him first, and then hugged Sesshomaru, and began to tell the brothers and about each other, not giving them a chance to speak for themselves. They were grateful, however, because they weren't quite sure what to say themselves.
"You two are a lot alike," Rin said happily, "I think you two may be too much alike. So, do you have any questions Inu-Yasha?"
He looked down, and for a minute Sesshomaru thought he might start scuffing his sneaker against the pavement. Instead, he looked at his older brother, who in turn, braced himself for a question.
"What's our father like?"
Sesshomaru thought before answering. He didn't want to give the wrong impression of the man before Inu-Yasha got to meet him.
"He's very much a businessman, but he's got a horrible sense of humor. He likes to tease a lot. Um...I actually don't see him very often outside of business. He's sort of a work-a-holic, ever since..."
He trailed off, becoming uncomfortable with the topic. Inu-Yasha guessed the ending, and decided to change the topic.
"I remember you," he said.
"You do?" Sesshomaru asked, obviously surprised.
"I didn't actually get to see you up close, or talk to you or anything, but you were in line ahead of me at the store, arguing with the checkout girl over the price of tampons."
Rin began to chuckle, and began uncontrollable laughter as Sesshomaru's pale skin became extremely red.Kikyou ove her red Focus in and out of traffic, and rushed to a stop behind Inu-Yasha's own red Ford. She got out before Kagome, and pulled out her two suit cases from the truck. All eyes were on her car as she opened up the passenger door, letting Kagome out.
The pregnant teen stood for a moment, and contemplated yelling out "IT'S A CASPIRACY!" just for nostalgic kicks, but decided against it in favor of appearing normal and not confusing everyone.
"Um, Rin, Sesshomaru...this is my girlfriend Kagome."
"Yeah..I'm pleased to meet you. Wow...you look a lot like Inu-Yasha!"
Rin smirked, "I told you."
"I never denied it," Sesshomaru muttered, not liking the way Rin was implying he was wrong in some way.
Kagome looked down briefly, before taking a deep breath. Inu-Yasha tensed, knowing that was Kagome's sign that she was about to give some news - usually bad news.
"I have bad news. My parents have ordered me to go to my grandfather's house. Well, no one knows he's my grandfather, but he is, and that means I can't go with Inu-Yasha."
Inu-Yasha's face fell, but Rin, and even Sesshomaru, looked as if they may dance a jig.
"You see, the place we had lined up for you..." she glanced over at Sesshomaru for help on how to phrase it without scaring the two teens very much.
"It fell through," he offered.
"Right! It fell through. So, if you and Inu-Yasha could go there, then you'd be safe. But um, what's this about no one knowing he's your grandfather? That could work out well."
Kagome nodded, mostly relieved that her problem had turned into a solution.
"There's no documentation of it, but my mother's real father is this guy who lives a little bit further up north from here, when it starts getting more country. My mother has only seen him a few times herself, and I've seen him once, in a photgraph, which my mother later burned. It's surprising she's sending me there, she really hates him."
It was silent for a moment, save for Rin's excited squeals, until Kikyou spoke up.
"Well then, should I put the suitcases back in the car or...?"
Sesshomaru turned to Rin for the answer. She was definitely the one who was holding the most cards in the entire situation. He was well aware that she wasn't telling him all she knew yet, or all that she planned to know. And Sesshomaru was quite sure that Rin wouldn't stop until she found out every aspect that she could.
"Hmm..well, why don't you put her luggage in the front? Inu-Yasha, don't you have any bags?"
Inu-Yasha brought out his duffle bag and nodded, which Rin took as a signal to continue.
"Okay then! Kagome, Inu-Yasha, you two can sit in the back, and if you want to keep your duffle bag back there with you, I'm sure there's enough room at your feet. Sesshomaru and I can sit in the back seat, and Kagome's bags can go to the passenger seat."
Everyone assumed their places, and Kagome and Inu-Yasha had a perfect view of everything they were leaving behind during the four hour drive to her grandfather's house.
-
Kagome was the first one out of the car, despite numerous attempts from all present to jump out. That was officially the most insane car drive that Kagome had ever been apart of, and that's including the time when her mother was driving, and went semi-insane and began chasing a man all the way up to the state border where she cornered him outside of his house.
She glanced at the rest of her carmates, and realized just how hilarious their situation actually was. She rolled her eyes at the insanity, and headed for the front door, since everyone else seemed lost as to what to do. Before she had a chance to knock at the door, a large crashing sound was heard from inside the house, and a few seconds later, her grandfather appeared at the door.
He didn't look too different from his picture, so Kagome recognized him right away.
"Kagome! You're here! What took you so long?" he asked, staring at the three extra people he didn't expect to be there.
"You don't want to know...but um, there is something you need to know," Kagome said nervously, not sure how she was supposed to tell her Grandfather - who she had just met for the first time - that he was going to have to take his pregnant grand daughter and her boyfriend in because they were hiding from a gang.
Rin came up behind her with one of her bags, and placed a hand on her shoulder comfortingly.
"Let's not discuss this outside...probably best if he's sitting down," she said, before turning to Kagome's grandfather.
"Pleased to meet you. I'm Rin Takaishi. We're all going to explain everything as soon as we get these bags inside, okay?"
Kagome watched her grandfather step aside for Rin, and she smiled as she studied her grandfather. There was a little bit of family resemblance, especially in the eyes. He seemed to have Kagome's easy going attitude as well. Sesshomaru and Kikyou came up with the rest of the bags, and Inu-Yasha followed, carrying his duffle.
Once inside the house, all eyes were again on Rin as they stood in the foyer. She grinned at everyone; she really did love being the one who knew it all.
"Well, here's the deal Mr...oh damn it all, I don't know your name."
Well, maybe she didn't know everything....
"Ken," he answered, "Ken Shibata."
"Mr. Shibata! This is Sesshomaru Taisho, and his younger brother, Inu-Yasha. Inu-Yasha and your grand daughter are dating."
Kagome blushed, and avoided eye contact with her grandfather, who was nodding sagely.
"Well, he's going to be moving in as well. Now, do you mind if I talk to you while they move their things into the room they'll be staying in?"
The man laughed, as did Inu-Yasha and Sesshomaru at Rin's lack of room for discussion, but it was really more of a cough, as he said, "Well, about that...the room that I planned on putting her in was the master bedroom upstairs. It's filled with boxes and such however, and I was going to just put her in one of the other four bedrooms. Except for another bedroom, they're all extremely small. However, with Inu-Yasha joining us, and Kagome expecting, it would be pretty crowded in there."
"You know she's pregnant?" asked Inu-Yasha, who was only noticing now that he'd been told.
Kagome laughed at the look her grandfather sent to her boyfriend. His face held the "Well, duh." expression that she herself often sent others. Sesshomaru and Kikyou, who had both been keeping a low profile since they got in the house, were discretely rolling their eyes at Inu-Yasha's rather obvious question.
"Well you guys," Rin said, "are you up for cleaning out the room?"
"What?" asked Sesshomaru and Kikyou at the same time.
"You're helping Kagome and Inu-Yasha," Rin informed them, giving Sesshomaru a push towards his brother, "I mean, we established earlier that you don't talk much, but you really should get to know your Sesshomaru. You're both way too stubborn. Kagome, if you don't start talking when they get up there, kick someone's ass, okay?"
Kagome nodded enthusiastically and headed for the stairs.
"Is someone going to tell me where I'm going?" she asked as she was halfway up, "or am I going to have to just march into all of the rooms up here?"
"Double doors to the right!" her grandfather called as the rest of their group, aside from Rin, followed her up.
Kagome spotted the doors soon enough - they were open and she couldn't even see in the room for some boxes that were stacked up in front of the door - a few of which ad fallen over.
"If those boxes go all the way back," Kagome said, "I think you should know you'll be doing most of the work."
As they moved the boxes aside, they found that for the most part, the room wasn't so bad. It just needed a giant duster and and some more boxes scattered around the room cleared out. The master bedroom however, was huge. It was more of a master suite, complete with a sitting area, sun room, and a giant closet and bathroom. They split up - Kagome moved boxes to the back of the closet, Kikyou got some cleaning products to do the bathroom, and for Sesshomaru and Inu-Yasha to clean with. The sun room was empty for the most part, and they mutually agreed to leave it alone.
Kagome nearly fainted as she entered the walk in closet with the first box. It had shelves. She wasn't one of those girls who owned a different pair of shoes for each day of the year (and spares, just in case), but she did have several purses. 'Depending on how long I stay here, I might fill it up,' she thought happily, as she went out for another box.
-
Rin sat with Kagome's grandfather, having what she called "open conversation", one of her best tactics for getting information. Essentially, it was having two conversations at once, doing what you needed to do to get them to say what you needed to know.
In this case, it was mostly for time issues - she didn't want to stay in the same place for too long, and she was curious about whether or not Ken had managed to completely cover up Sora Higurashi's paternal lineage. She wanted to make sure there was no way anyone would be able to track Kagome there, and her plan worked well.
"Well," she said, "I guess you really had it airtight then, hmm? Kagome and Inu-Yasha should be safe here...I'm really glad you're willing to take them both in."
"It is a six bedroom house, so it gets kind of lonely in here," he said, pausing when a loud noise came from upstairs, where the cleaning crew was working directly above them, "I wouldn't say empty though...How long do you think they'll be here? Should we worry about Kagome's prenatal care?"
"Well, I'm hoping she won't have to be here long. We're ending our problem as quickly as possible, so it won't have to be an issue. But should it become an issue, there's really not much Kagome can't do for herself. Can you make sure she has a healthy diet?"
He chuckled, "I'm a chef. I can promise good food, but I can't promise it'll be healthy."
"Well, that will do," Rin said, grinning, "I did some research on you in the car. You don't know how hard it is to discretely look someone up on a cell phone while surrounded by four people who hang on your every word...but, I'm glad to report that I couldn't dig much up on you, but I did find out you have a very cheap dsl bill. I'm wondering if you can hook me up on that...but, also, I have a list of sites that I think Kagome should visit about this. And, maybe you should encourage Inu-Yasha to talk about his mother's experience."
"Okay..." the man said, reaching for the list that Rin sat on the table.
"Don't worry about things," Rin said, "I'm sure things will turn out great. I've handled situations like this before, and it's kind of personal now. I've got too much of an investment in this to let anything go wrong...now let's go keep ourselves busy. I don't feel like cleaning out a room...
-
Kikyou rolled down the window and looked Kagome in the eye, "Keep yourself safe kid, okay? I'll find a way to check up on you."
Kagome nodded, and glanced over at Inu-Yasha, who stood on the porch, having already said goodbye to his brother ("Uh...bye." "Yes. Goodbye.").
Inu-Yasha watched as his girlfriend waved off Kikyou's Focus, and let out a deep breath. 'I just want to lay down and never have to get up again,' he thought, the recent events catching up to him again, mixed with the fatigue of what turned out to be a much harder job cleaning up their room than he'd thought. He led Kagome back up the stairs and collapsed in bed.
A/N: Okay, first of all, I'm SO sorry this took so long to get out. I tried to make up for it by typing the longest chapter I have ever written, but I know that doesn't even begin to cover my taking so long to get you guys the next chapter.
I won't even go into all that's happened, because that doesn't matter - I am here now! I actually rushed this one out (well, I mean, after I was close to finishing...) in honor of the Inu-Yasha anime ending on September 13th. I said it on my lj, and I'll say it again; they had BETTER not pull another damned Furuba. We need to be clear on who the main characters end up with, just in case there are morons who don't read the manga who will proclaim that Yuki and Tohru ended up together - er...I mean...Sango and Inu-Yasha?
So, now would be a good time to address a few things about this story. A lot of stuff here is personal - Kagome's going to a park to escape, meeting a cute guy there (though, unfortunately, I haven't seen my guy in years. I miss you Ken), Rin's "open conversation" is something I do, but mainly so I can talk about what I want to and not impose on someone else, Inu-Yasha working at an autoshop named Stewie's (my family owns one; Stewart's. XD) Kagome's love of purses, Kikyou's red Focus, even Kagome's birthing choices (which, like my own, started one way and will change to another). However, the primary focus of this story isn't the things that I put in there that reflect my own life - therefore, as I've mentioned, this is not a Pregnancy fic. My whole life, I've wanted children more than anything, so don't get me wrong, it's nothing against that - that's just not what this story is about. I do have several fics where Kagome is pregnant that are currently in the works, but I also have several that are not. Some focus on the pregnancy, most don't.
But this one doesn't..
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