We Can't Be Friends

Chapter Twenty Five: Explanation

(A/N: For the answer to all FAQ's, read below)

It was hard, trying to convince himself to hate something he loved so dearly. Yet, it came almost easily as a sea of calm washed over his entire body. The cruise was ending, in another day he'd be in the lush Bahamas, tasting the wares of the local women. Yes, that's what he'd do to get over his loss.

Crying was always hard to do. A man is taught at an early age, women do the waterworks, not men. But men are strong. Masculine. Anything less than that seemed to be grounds for fagotism. It was just so relieving at times, so incredible in its ability to cure every heartache, pain, and ache.

He'd been hurt. There was no doubt that what he overheard had been deeply upsetting. He had gone and fallen in love with her all over again. Doubts began to surface, if that was his biggest mistake. If SHE was his biggest mistake.

When the ship docked, and everybody was ushered off by the cheerful, smiling cruise staff, he made sure he didn't run into her. When he checked into the Westgate Resort, he made sure his room was changed to be on a completely different building. She had done if over five years ago, and he sure as hell could do it for the remaining time of his vacation.

"Inuyasha, you're being a complete idiot," his brother stated into the small cell phone. He had to suppress an eye roll. His brother could be such a pain at times.

"Sess, stay out of this. You don't know what's going on-"

"But I do know that Kagome is beside herself with worry. I give her up and than you throw her away? What sick game are you playing?"

"There's no game, big brother," he couldn't cover the sarcasm laced thickly in his voice, "Kagz isn't what I thought she would be. So I'm done."

"And you disappear instead of saying good-bye? Where are you? You're not in the room I reserved." Inuyasha smirked while sipping as his drink. He took a second to check out a blond clad in a skimpy red bikini.

"Look, I have some business to take care of." Before he could be pelted with Sesshomaru's brotherly love, he flipped the phone shut before getting up to peruse his next victim. The upside to bachelorhood was the choice. Pick up a menu and eat to your hearts content.

For the fiftieth time since his mysterious leave, he didn't pick up his phone. Kagome had done everything, even camped outside his cabin door. The only time she stopped her frantic search was when Sesshomaru 'casually' dumped her suitcase on the deck and some of the younger girls started to run off with her outfits.

Since then, she hadn't heard or seen neither hide nor hair of her beloved. She talked to her mom, enlisted her help as a sign of forgiveness. She came up just as empty. It was tough, and she almost gave up hope. She had something special with Inuyasha; no doubt it ran thickly through both their veins. But his stubborn pride, that damn ego of his could make him forget that. Instead of fighting to stay together, he had picked up and left in betrayal. At first she thought it a sign from the Divine One, telling her that they weren't as devoted to each other as they believed.

Kagome was startled from her depressing thoughts as her cell rang. With a little shriek, she fumbled with it until it popped open.

"Hello?" she snapped.

"I've found him, Kagome. I'm moving in," her mother said. Further startled by his discovery, the girl almost fainted from shock.

"Where?"

"Don't worry I'm taking care of it."

"Mom, no-" a dial tone echoed in her ear. With a frustrated snort she tried recalling the crazy woman to only receive her voice mail. "DAMNIT!"

As the door opened in her face, she found herself completely taken aback from seeing her daughter's love so close. He was handsome, almost painfully, and a look of intelligence sparkled in his pretty eyes. She knew that Kagome had chosen well, for he was engulfed in an aura so powerful it demanded every shred of your respect. As he stood in the simple robe, she felt her girl radar go to smush. After a moment of rude staring, she forced a friendly smile on her face.

"You must be Inuyasha!" She extended her hand. He gave her a surprised smile and leaned casually against the door frame.

"And you are, lady?" His voice was tight, restraining when he took her hand and shook it gently.

"I'm Kagome's mom," he dropped her hand like she was a rearing snake. She forced herself to be cheerful, but it got harder as his eyes narrowed in hate.

"And you're here because?"

"Because I know what you heard, and I think you don't understand."

"I understand completely! Your damned daughter went out and killed my child!" he snapped moving to slam the door in her face. She quickly pushed pass him, and into the dark room. It was the fantasy of a slob. Clothes and food littered the ground, and apparently he'd gone off on a tantrum, the couches and even television were overturned.

"What're you doing!" he yelled. She moved towards the bean bag in the furthermost corner. After settling herself in amid his angry glances, she pulled a packet of pictures out of her large tote bag.

"You didn't understand, so you must've heard the end of the conversation…" she turned to him, offering the photos. After staring into her face for a moment, he moved forward, snatching the package from her finger.

As he started to go through them, his face softened and his eyes got misty. Ms. Higurashi had gone through major pains to secure the pictures he held so tightly. When Kagome ran away from home she left all her belongings, which included an entire bag full of photo albums of collected memories since the fifth grade. And many of those pictures featured a boy with enchanting violet eyes, rebelliously short hair and the cutest, sexist grin. It took five minutes to watch ten years worth of growth and maturity through Kagome's cherished memories. The childlike innocence left those gorgeous orbs, and close to the end of the albums, were soon filled with a humbling wisdom.

That child stood before her now a grown man. The same guy whom her daughter had fallen so head-over-heels in love with. Now that she had a chance to fix what shouldn't have been broken, a bit of fleeting hope flew through the aging woman's heart.

"I've always been very protective of my daughter; after all, she was all I had left of my beloved husband. She's the mirror image of him, right down to that slow smile of hers. I'd read the billions of parenting books, taken notes on ways to communicate with her when she hit those crucial teen years…..but it started way before that, before I was prepared.

I was only fifteen when I became pregnant with Kagome, a mistake really. We were just children, and as children we didn't think out the consequences to taking a relationship further than what it should've gone. Things were different for me though, I came from a well-to-do family and Kagome's father truly loved me. For my eighteenth birthday he proposed, and I abandoned my futile dreams of college to move with him here, to America. It was supposed to be grand, opportunities were supposed to be here. Kagome was two then, already bubbling and sweet. My husband and I dreamt up a perfect life for us, for her, but in reality we had nothing. We were dirt poor. I worked as a maid and all he could find was a bit of construction work….."

Inuyasha listened patiently to Ms. Higurashi story, watching curiously as her brown eyes turned misty during her confessions.

"….I was waiting for him to come home one evening, excited about the news of my second pregnancy, when I got the call. He died, falling from a ten story iron beam down to the ground below. Instead of crying for him, I cried for my children. We were all alone in a world I knew nothing about. Everyday the phone rang, bill collectors, credit calls, solicitors and lawyers….Kagome was just four years old, and wouldn't stop growing. Expenses rose and rose, and I got desperate. But that's not what I would like to tell you about."

She blew her nose in the little handkerchief she pulled out. He felt a pang of guilt over being so rude to her before.

"Well, I made it. Kagome and Souta never had to want for anything living with Nana and my father. It was the sixth grade, Kagome was frightened because all her intermediate school friends had gone to other schools and she was virtually on her own. And then she met this guy, a guy she called Dog Boy." He smiled, that he remembered.

"All through middle school she spoke of no one else except for a few girls here and there, and I never got to meet him. While her best friend, Sango, spent hours chatting about boys and boyfriends, I had never, once, heard Kagome talk about one herself. It was her freshman year, and with her naturally beautiful face and style I thought she'd be pick of the litter….." A bigger grin lit up his face, he remembered that too. He'd gone though hell fighting off all those kids trying to take her to homecoming.

"…..I asked and she admitted that she'd been with the same guy since sixth grade. I'd never known a crush to last that long, but I dropped the subject. But she remained silent during her sophomore, junior and finally, senior year. I figured she wasn't up to going to her ring dance, and I didn't see who she went to prom with. She made an issue of keeping this dream guy a secret…but I guess you know that don't you….dog boy," her eyes twinkled. He gave her a sheepish smile, running his long fingers through the thick mass of choppy black hair.

"All I know is that I found a pregnancy test in her waste basket. Tested positive. Kagome was just seventeen at the time, still so new to the heartaches of the world. I had thought she wouldn't follow in my footsteps, for though she was older she had dreams. She wanted to write, she wanted to travel around the world….you couldn't do that with a baby. I was thirty-two and had never known the world, I was confused and scared speaking so little English, I had no where to turn without confessing my shame. The clinics charged more than I'd ever had in my hand, and I had bills to pay less we end up on the streets.

But I was told that someone was helping for practically free, twenty dollars and you could be baby free. With a little help from my co-worker, I got Kagome from school and took her to this place-" her eyes flooded with unshed tears as she avoided Inuyasha's incredulous eyes.

Pregnant? Seventeen? Cheap abortions? Kagome's mom? He started to speak, to voice his concerns when she held up a silencing finger. With another wretched sob she composed herself enough to plow on.

"The place was so unbelievably dirty. Drugs were being dealt on the streets and pale hookers hopped in mini-vans. With Kagome held securely in my arms, and with my friend's help, we got her to the room, paid the twenty dollars and laid her on a table. Oh, it was filthy! I should've taken her back. Dried blood lay caked upon the wooden floors and the 'tools' he held looked no different than a screwdriver and an ice pick! Kagome begged me to take her away, she had a bad feeling about the entire thing. I put a drugged rag to her mouth……knocked her out completely-" The tears were flowing again and the pitch of her voice was screeching, almost unbearable. Inuyasha stumbled to one of the chairs, sitting on the overturned edge.

"Ms. Higurashi you don't have to-" he tried to console her.

"Shut-up! If I don't say it now I won't ever be able to!" She attempted to dry her eyes a second time. "He made me leave, made me wait outside the door, locking it securely behind us. We waited for about half an hour, I didn't mind the wait until I heard her screams. I pounded on the door, I called for him to stop, screamed for him to let me in. He didn't. All I knew was that my daughter was calling for me, whimpering in pain. When the locks clicked open she was shoved back out, bleeding heavily between her thighs and sobbing her heart out. She said she hurt, she hurt badly and I rushed her to the hospital.

I was told that whatever had had used had been un-sterile, that the blood of other victims had been upon the instruments he tore into my baby's body with. It had done the damage, he had poked countless holes in her reproductive organs, and she was unable to have children. The risk of infection had been too great, and though once sewed up she should've healed, infection could lead to blood clots and those to tumors. I had them shut her entire reproductive system down, for her own safety. She never forgave me for doing it, for taking away her means of making you happy."

A shocked, disgusted silence filled up the room along with Ms. Higurashi's convulsing cries. Inuyasha's throat was completely dry with the entire thing. His head spun and his heart was laden with grief for his lover. She'd gone through so much pain and suffering, yet she never told him. She'd trooped on alone, she suffered by herself.

He swallowed hard, pushing himself up on shaky legs and moving towards the door. The room was stuffy. His heart was breaking……how in the world had he thought the worst of her? His Kagome was incapable of doing wrong.

"Wait, Inuyasha please!" the woman called to his back. Anger filled his guilty frame as in a whirlwind of hurt, he spun on her.

"How could you live with yourself after doing such a thing? You jeopardized your daughter's future for your own! All she wanted was to make me happy, and I led her to believe that she could only do so by baring me children. You took our dream away! I'll love her to the day I die, but she will forever have to live with the fact that her mother, the woman that she' supposed to trust, stole away something you had no means of repaying!" He moved closer, maliciousness in his eyes, "I'd strike you if you were a man, hell, I'd kill you for what you've inflicted on us both. Lucky for you, I'm a damned decent person, and I won't do neither!" He strode, with head held high, towards the door again, the veins in his neck straining and his knuckles cracking.

"No wonder she chose you," she whispered eyes glued to his back. He stopped for a moment, allowing her time to get a few last words in. "You're a good man Inuyasha, and I know you'll take good care of my girl. But please, tell her what I couldn't, the mistake I made can be fixed."

He turned around, eyeing her with a challenge to produce any amount of money to replace five years of lost happiness and pain.

"Oh? And what would that be?" he sneered, shoulders thrown back in his conviction.

"The stitches for the wounds used for Kagome would safely dissolve when the risk had passed and she was completely healed," Ms. Higurashi rose from her chair and walked slowly up to Inuyasha, eyes moist and shining. "I got a call last month from the doctor's office……the stitches had disappeared at the time of her last check-up."

"So what? Does that mean she can have sex or something?" he sneered hoping to offend her. She smiled faintly at him, squeezing his arm reassuringly before continuing her way to the door.

"For the last two months Kagome's reproduction cycle has functioned properly-"

"What!" Inuyasha grabbed her from the exit and hauled her towards the kitchen. His deep violet orbs wide in amazement and fear. "What does that mean?"

She easily slapped away his slightly rough fingers, frowning at his expression. "You're a slow one aren't you," she whispered to herself. With a chuckle she placed her hand to his cheek, affectionately caressing him until he drew back in confusion. With a sigh she put on another cheerful smile. "It means, dear boy, that Kagome can get pregnant any time she wants." She opened the door and with a wink, tossed him their room key. "Hurry things up, I would like to be a grandmother soon."

(End Chapter)

BGLI

Wooooo Hoooo! There you go folks! I know you've wanted that for so long and there it goes. KAGOME CAN HAVE KIDS! Now, I know that I've probably screwed up somewhere, and now have to go change everything in the first few chapters, but who cares? I have satisfied my readers (hopefully) and the last chapter is soon to come! Yay people! Yay!

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Well there is everything. It took a while, it took a lot of sweat and blood and three pieces of extra greasy pizza, but it's done. I'm glad. I'm happy. And those who're reading this have to be leaping up and done for joy.

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