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He took the washcloth and softly washed every part of Kagomes body. She was shocked at how gently he really was. She laid back and enjoyed. When it came to her hair, he was extra gentle, although his claws made for an actual good massage. He turned the shower on and helped Kagome stand up so she could rinse herself off.

Though the whole time Inuyasha's thoughts lingered on the few events that had happened the past couple of hours. The second heart beat, the new scent, the pregnancy test. Kagome was pregnant. It was a happy thought at least to him. "We're going to have a pup. He kept thinking in his mind. It couldn't get better. But why hadn't she told me. Does she not want the pup? What will we do if she doesn't? I love her and nothing would make me more happier than to have a family with her."

"Ok Inuyasha I think I can get it from here," Kagome manage to regain her balance and mind. She wrapped herself in a towel and shut the door behind Inuyasha. She leaned against it for a moment, wishing that she could tell him what she was doing. But she was so scared that he would run. Run back to the well, and never want to see her again. She took the test and then got dressed while she was waiting for the results. It took her all of two minutes to get dressed, so she sat on the toilet wandering what she would do if it was positive. "How could I tell him? Will he run away from me? Not want to have it? Not want me as a mate anymore." She was practically about ready to cry once the five minutes was up. She took a breath and picked the test up. "It was positive!" She felt like fainting again.

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Inuyasha sat down on Kagomes bed. "Is she taking the test," he questioned himself. "Feh. I could have told her she was pregnant if she would have just asked me when you started to wander." Inuyasha heard a thump, and he headed to the bathroom door to check on Kagome. He tried the door and it was locked. He put his ear up to the door, and listened. Kagome was crying. He knocked softly on the door.

Kagome went silent as she heard a knock on the door and then a, "Kagome are you alright in there?" "Yea she called back ill be out in a minute." She washed her face trying to make it look like she had just scrubbed to hard. Then she opened the door, not surprised at all to see Inuyasha hadn't budged. He helped her get into bed and, cuddled up next to her.

As they lay there Kagome keeping wandering if she should tell him now. "Inuyasha?" She called.

"Yes, love," Inuyasha replied.

"I love you."

The words had almost torn through his heart. "I love you too Kagome. Is everything alright?"

Kagome gulped about to tell him. "Yea everything is fine," She lied as she chickened out. She closed her eyes, suddenly they felt very heavy. A tear hit Inuyasha arm. "Inuyasha?" Kagome called again half sleep.

"Hmmm." He had started to drift off into his own thoughts by now.

"Promise you won't leave. No matter what." He heard pain in her voice as she spoke these words.

"I would never and could never leave you. I couldn't think of life if I lost you wench," Inuyasha was back to tears again.

She smiled, as she drifted off into a heavy sleep. She turned over onto her back as she drifted into a heavier sleep. Inuyasha checked her breathing to see if she was really sleeping, then he lifted her nightshirt up. He laid his head down on her stomach, and listened. He heard her heartbeat, but couldn't hear the other. He started to get a little worried. He turned his head and moved down a little bit lower. He closed his eyes and tried to shut out every other sound. Then it came. A small "thump, thump, thump, thump." He almost jumped clear off the bed. There was no mistaking it. "Kagomes pregnant," he said to himself.

He laid back down next to her thinking to himself again. "Why hasn't she told me, yet? Did I do something wrong? Was Sesshoumaru right? Had I screwed up and broke her heart again? Is that what she had been sad about all day today? Had he really hurt her? And what did she mean about promising her to never leave? What would give her the idea that I would want to leave? Sesshoumaru really was right. He had broken her heart every time he turned around. Always running off to Kikyo. Always being so mean to Kagome. And then there was the telling her his feelings thing, and then taking them back. I truly am lucky that you have stuck with me through all of that." Inuyasha lightly kissed her cheek.

He looked down at Kagome. "My Kagome I'm so sorry for whatever it is that I have done to break your heart this time. You truly are the light of my life. I'd be lost in the dark without you," Inuyasha said out loud. He flinched as Kagome winced lightly and then fell back into her heavier sleep again.

He gently spread her legs, and laid between them. Laying his head back down in the same place that he had before, he closed his eyes. Before long both the heartbeats of his pup, and his mate had driven him to sleep.

Kagome woke the next morning. She was sore, and still tired. She tried to sit up but couldn't. She lifted the covers up and looked down at a sleeping hanyou. "INU-YASHA," she had called in annoyance. Inuyashas' ears twitched. She hadn't wanted him to find out about the baby, yet. Although he looked so sweet the way he was laying. She noticed that he had half stripped her to be able to lie on her stomach. His eyes fluttered open, as he looked up at an annoyed looking Kagome. Once he noticed where he was he jumped up, "I'm sorry Kagome." Kagome looked down at her stomach, as she started to pull the nightgown down in disgust. She looked away almost with tears in her eyes. They were silent for along time.

"So you know?" She finally broke the silence. Inuyasha nodded. "How long?"

"Since last night, when you fainted. Your heartbeat slowed down to the point that I heard the pups louder than yours. That is what scared me so much," He confessed.

"I'm sorry Inuyasha," Kagome finally started to cry as she flung herself back down on the bed. "I should have been more careful. I shouldn't have let it happen. I'm so sorry Inuyasha please don't hate me," she continued, "Please don't," "gulp" "leave me." After saying this she cried harder.

Inuyasha sat up in the bed just starring at her. "It wasn't him she was upset at. She was scared that I wouldn't want the pup. She thinks that I would get mad at her and leave her," he breathed a sigh of relief. "Sesshoumaru wasn't right."

"Wait a minute. She thinks that I would leave her, and that I would get mad. Why would she think that." He pulled her over into his arms. "Shhhhh, I'm not mad, and I'm certainly not going anywhere. What would make you think that?"

"You just said that when you heard the baby's heartbeat it scared you," Kagome started to calm down, and let him console her.

"Baka, Wench No I didn't. I said when your heartbeat slowed down to the point that I heard the pups louder than yours it scared me. I thought I was losing you. Right when I had found yet another reason to love you, and hold onto you even tighter," Inuyasha said as he hugged her tight to him. "Nothing would make me happier than for you to have my pups," Inuyasha smiled.

"Pup," Kagome corrected. She wasn't about to think about if she was having more than one.

"Well pup for now. Maybe pups in the future," He smiled, one of those rare smiles. They had become a lot less rare here lately. He gently kissed her.

"I guess I can handle that," Kagome smiled back. "But lets get through having this pup first before we talk about having anymore, Ok? We still have along way to go before this ones here."

She cuddled up in his arms. "Inuyasha?"

"Hmm?" He replied kissing her fingers.

"Why were you crying the first night after we mated, and then again last night?"

"What do you mean Kagome, I haven't cried," Inuyasha tried to hide that kind of weakness.

"Yes you did, I felt your tears on my skin. They left a mark, too." She showed the light mark on the side of her cheek, from the first teardrop the other night, and then one of her stomach from last night.

He honestly didn't remember crying last night, but maybe he did. "I was crying the other night because I had thought about you being human, and how you would die long before me," He softly admitted. "It pains me to think about losing you Kagome," Inuyasha turned away as a tear dropped from his face. "And well last night I was crying because I thought that the reason you were shutting me out and not telling me that you thought you were pregnant was because of something Sesshoumaru said."

"What was that?" Kagome wiped his tears away.

Inuyasha sucked in a deep breath, "That you didn't seem like my type. That you were stubborn and set in your ways. And that I was thickheaded, and always broke your heart. Then he asked me how long would it be till I broke your heart again. Truth is, I thought that maybe you regretted becoming mates, and you regretted having the pup." Inuyasha couldn't stand it anymore, he got up off of the bed, but Kagome pulled him back down.

"You haven't hurt me at all Inuyasha. Nor have you broke my heart." She wrapped her arms tightly around him. She gently whispered in his ear, "Your the light of my life, also. I love you."

Inuyashas' eyes lit up. "You were suppose to be sleeping! Damnit how do you do that?" Inuyasha was amazed at how she always knew what he had said.

AUTHORS NOTE: SORRY ABOUT ALL THE REPLACING FILES. I HAD REMEMBERED THAT I HADN'T PUT IN A COUPLE OF THINGS, AFTER I HAD ALREADY POSTED THEM. IN THE FUTURE I WILL TRY AND MAKE SURE THAT I CHECK EVERYTHING BEFORE I POST THEM.