Authors note: EEK! Short chapter- very short chapter, and possibly another cliffhanger. I've probably got some people who hate me because of that, but the main reason I put it out is because it is a sign that I did not give up on this story, and that it is to be continued.

"-- usually tries again." Kagome finished for him. " I screwed up big time, but I don't have the chance to finish playing for it, I will one day, but today's not that day." Kagome finished, when neither of them had anything else to say. She turned around, ready to head to the well, but something crashed down in front of her.

The swaying red garments in the wind already told Kagome who it was.

Her immediate reaction was look toward the ground- not to meet his eyes. But as she cast her eyes to the ground her gaze met Kawayou's, and she visibly flinched. "Mom? What's wrong- I know him he won't hurt us."

Kagome's arms suddenly lacked the strength she had when she came here, feeling as though she didn't even have the strength to stand- let alone hold her son in her arms. She didn't say anything to Inuyasha- it wasn't as though she didn't have anything to say, but nothing she could say. All the words that had bottled up inside her suddenly spilt and vanished. Instead of even giving him a wordless stare, she ignored him completely.

"Kawayou, we should go now." She put her son on the ground and bent down to tell him in a softer voice. She knew everyone was staring at her, including Inu-Yasha and her son.

Kawayou was seconds away from objecting, but just looking into his mother's eyes he knew he should not- that something was different about these people.

His ears dropped, and he nodded. "Ok…mom…" Kawayou then glanced up at Inuyasha who were expression he couldn't even manage to describe.

Inuyasha stood still besides the breezes that were blowing his baggy clothing and long hair. Inuyasha's eyes were unexplainable, he looked to be between shock, surprise, and a sudden regret of coming here.

Sango and Miroku now stood off a number of feet's distance, now just spectators to what was about to happen. To everyone else they were completely forgotten.

"Kagome." Inuyasha managed to say, his voice dropping to just above a whisper. "You came back…."

Kagome herself listened with deaf ears, she grabbed Kawayou's hand and turned toward the most likely direction of the well.

Inuyasha continued, not even thinking of what he said as it rolled off his tongue. "It took 6 years, and now you're just going to leave- Kagome?"

Kagome froze in place and bit her lip, trying to suppress the emotions that were rising in her now. However it didn't work, and her voice started as a whisper increasing in volume quickly.

"You didn't actually think I'd come back? Inuyasha you crossed the line that time- or is that something you can't comprehend?" Her words were short and harsh, but she meant everything she said.

Kagome didn't stop there, all the things she'd bottled up over the years were ready to come out in the wrong time.

"I mean sure I could come and raise the kids here, but next time they need you will you be blinding running after Kikyou- I mean the nerve InuYasha! Good lord!" She flung her hands up in the air.

Inuyasha shook his head as if he were shaking the hit of her words off of him. "I know it was wrong Kagome! But you can't keep me away from my kid forever because of that."

Kagome twitched remembering the same pain she felt the night she decided to leave InuYasha. "Watch me." She said sharply, grabbing a firmer grasp on Kawayou's hand and turning on her heel to leave.  "You can't just appear in their lives now after I raised them from day one."

Kawayou remained silent, knowing if he spoke it would probably be one of the worst timed things he's ever done. Instead he cast his eyes to the ground listening with his ears. Kagome took off at a quick speed, but InuYasha was quick to come behind her in time to grab her sleeve.

"Watch me." He said sharply. "I'm not letting you go."

Kagome didn't try to pull away, but her grips on Kawayou noticeably tighten. "Why can't you accept what is already done." Her voice faltered, and grew lower with every word.

"No Kagome, you're the one who can't!" He didn't raise his voice, but he made his point sharply.

"Inuyasha I accepted what was already done- I did, and I left because of it." She turned to look him in the eyes, tears already beginning to form at the edge of her eyes.

Kawayou had watched some of the saddest things he could ever imagine, and never said a word about them in the past. For the time he thought it would just be another one of those things, but the more they fought- the more they said provoked an unpredictable urge to say something that rolled just off his tongue.

"Is this man my father?"

Kagome froze mid-sentence, and now because she was angry beyond comparison, she could barely even speak- in the back of her mind she knew it had to be coming, but she hadn't even thought of a response.

InuYasha didn't freeze however; he faltered stumbling back- just barely saving himself from hitting the ground.

Kawayou suddenly realized he'd said something not only flat out unexpected, but he still didn't understand the freeze. When he'd asked that in the past his mother only shook her head 'Of course not Kawayou.'

There was something though that set this apart, and that made him not regret saying it.

Kagome turned to him at that moment, thinking as quick as she could for an answer. Would she lie? The truth? How would she even explain the truth? What would Inuyasha say?

Things were going to fast for her, and all the tension in the area was dropped like a rock. Kagome wasn't sure just what she'd say, but a second later she turned to say it.

Looking at her son, she took a deep breath. "Kawayou….this man is…….."