A/N: I've had wonderful guesses as to what you guys thought the name would be, and you can still guess! You have one more chapter! Anyway, after that rather pointless chapter, here's one with an actual PLOT! YAY! THREE CHEERS FOR A PLOTLINE!

Chapter 7: Return of the Nightmare

"How's your morning sickness?" Kagome asked Sango, when everyone was gathered at Kagome and Inuyasha's hut that evening for dinner.

"Gone." Sango said, patting her slightly bulged stomach. "Finally after four months. I was beginning to wonder if this one would ever let me get some food down."

Kagome sighed. "I know what you mean, that was awful. But wait til it starts kicking." She out a hand to her stomach and felt a kick. "I swear, being kicked at all hours of the night when you're trying to sleep…not fun."

"Not fun for me either." Inuyasha said. "Cuz it always wakes me up."

"It is your fault." She said. "Sometimes I think its trying to claw its way out too…are they supposed to get their claws after seven months?"

"How should I know?" he snapped.

Sango shrugged. "Must grow faster."

"How long is it going to take until the baby comes?" Shippou asked.

"Um…about two months." Kagome said. "If it doesn't claw its way out of me first."

"It probably will." Inuyasha smiled, pulling Kagome so she'd lean against him. "It's my kid, remember?"

"Don't I know it." She muttered.

"I'd rather be in your position." Sango said. "You only have two more months. I still have five more."

"And what horrible five months." Miroku added. "I shall have to wait until I can fully wrap my arms around you again."

Everyone cringed as they knew what was coming. Sango looked at him, her eyes brimming with fury. "MIROKU!" She yelled, hitting him over the head so hard that everyone would swear the house shook.

Of course, no one held any sympathy for the monk now lying on the floor with a gigantic bump on his head. "Baka." Inuyasha said. "Should have known better, monk."

Of course, it was quite clear that Miroku would be unable to say anything in his defense for quite some time. Sango was still fuming.

"And he says he's going to be a father soon…" Inuyasha said, shaking his head.

"I hadn't planned on children until he grew out of his…tendencies." Sango said, glaring at the now unconscious Miroku.

"Keh! That lecher of a monk will never grow out of that." Inuyasha said.

"Hmph." Sango said. A second later, she jumped in surprise. The oh-so-familiar hand was once again grazing her bottom. And the thought to be unconscious monk now had a smirk on his face.

"Oh no…" Kagome said, as everyone ducked.

Everyone in that room would swear that Sango was scarier than any youkai when she got this mad. It was like a fire had been lit behind her, and it seemed like her eyes had turned flaming red. Miroku gulped, and jumped up and ran out of the door, with Sango running after him.

"YOU PERVERT! I THOUGHT YOU HAD STOPPED THIS! YOU WONT GET AWAY WITH THIS! I WONT EVEN LET YOU NEAR OUR CHILD, YOU'LL HAVE A BAD INFLUENCE ON THEM! YOU'LL PAY FOR THIS!"

"He's a bigger baka than I thought." Inuyasha said.

"But I'm pretty sure that after this, he'll have learned to be much less of one." Shippou commented.

All three of them nodded.

That night Inuyasha and Kagome were lying in bed, their arms wrapped around each other.

Kagome gave a small gasp. "She kicked again!" She said, putting Inuyasha's hand to her now large belly.

"She? Don't you mean, 'he'?"

"Inuyasha, I know it has to be a girl. I don't think fate would be so cruel to give me yet another you."

"Keh! Think what you want, but I still say its going to be a boy. I need a strong, healthy son."

"You and every other guy in the world." Kagome remarked.

Inuyasha shrugged. "Can you blame us? All you women ever want is a girl to coo over. At least I can teach a boy how to slay youkai and stuff."

"You can teach a girl to do that too." Kagome said. "Or do Sango-chan and I need to prove it to you?"

"You're not proving anything to me right now." Inuyasha said. "You're not doing anything until that kid is born."

Kagome rolled her eyes. "Yeah, and then you won't let me do anything because I'm going to be stuck watching the baby. By the time you do let me out of this infernal hut, I'll be too old to go slay youkai!"

That sentence hit Inuyasha like a giant realization. She'll be too old to slay youkai…He had never really thought of it before, but now he realized it. He was a hanyou. He had already lived three times a normal human's lifespan, and he was still going to live. Kagome however, was human, and she wasn't going to live that long…That means…Kagome will be…I can't think of it right now!

Inuyasha pulled the blanket over them. "Get some sleep, Kagome. You need more."

Kagome stared at him. She wondered what could have caused him to suddenly get so cold. But she sighed, rolled over and instantly fell asleep.

Kagome wandered through her kitchen, looking around. "Mama?" she asked. "Grandpa? Souta?"

Her mother walked into the kitchen. "Kagome!" she said, in a tone of happiness It's been so long! I was so worried—" But she stopped dead, staring at her. "What happened to you?"

Kagome looked down. Her belly was bulged, obviously pregnant. "Who did this to you?" her mother asked.

"Mama, no its not that, its Inuyasha."

Her mother stared. "Inuyasha? He did this to you?"

"He didn't do anything to me, we are both—"

"He is a hanyou!" Mrs. Higarashi said. "Hanyous and humans can't ever be together!"

Kagome stared, she wondered what would make her mother suddenly feel this way. "Mama…"

For a second, Kagome thought that she didn't see her mother. For a slight second, it was as if she a shadowy figure take her place. But it faded. "Get out." Her mother said. "Get out of here, you whore!"

Kagome was too scared and frightened to stay, she ran. Outside in the bright sunshine, she saw Souta and her grandpa playing with Buuyo in front of Goshinboku. Souta looked at her. "Sis…" he stopped and turned away when he saw her. Her grandpa also didn't look at her, he just muttered about "that youkai…"

She had tears in her eyes. She had suspected her family to be happy about this, but instead, they were shunning her like she was the lowest tramp on earth. Her friends were there too, but they started chanting, "Youkai's lover, youkai's lover!"

Kagome couldn't take it anymore. With tears falling down her cheeks, she ran towards the well house. She pushed open the door and ran to the well, jumping down it just as a sob escaped her. She couldn't believe her family and friends would be so mean.

Once she ended up on the other side of the well, she wiped the tears out of her eyes. "I have Inuyasha." She said. "At least I have Inuyasha." She climed out of the well with a little bit of difficulty, considering that she had a new weight added on to her. Once she gor out of the well, she looked around. She saw Goshinboku. She sniffed, and decided to walk towards it.

As she walked towards it, she saw another person sitting underneath Goshinboku. "Inuyasha…" she said, walking towards him.

"Kagome," he said, standing up and coming to comfort her. "Why are you crying?"

She sobbed and buried her face in his red haori. "My family…my friends…they…they don't understand. They don't want us to be together!"

He held her close. "That doesn't matter, Kagome. We won't let them bother us. It'll just be us, a human and a youkai, forever."

Kagome's eyes popped open. "Y-youkai? But you're a hany—" She looked up at his face. His eyes had changed to red. Purple streaks had formed on his cheeks. His fangs and his nails had grown. She stared at him in fear. "Inuyasha…"

He growled and struck at her, his nails leaving deep gashes in her belly. She gasped in pain and looked down at the blood flowing freely from her stomach. She knew the baby was dead.

As he came closer to her, his nails dripping blood, she screamed, "INUYASHA!"

"INUYASHA!" Kagome screamed, making him jump about three feet.

"Kagome! Kagome! What is it?" he asked, shaking her out of her dream.

She tried to catch her breath as she realized she was still in their hut, and Inuyasha was still a hanyou. Tears had fallen from her eyes and had stained her face. She put a hand to her belly and felt the baby kick, just to make sure.

"Kagome?" he asked, "Are you all right?" he tried to wrap around her, to comfort her, but she flinched under his touch, for a second, it looked like she might jerk away from him, but she leaned against him and cried.

Inuyasha knew what she must have dreamed must have been awful. He also knew it had to be about him. She was afraid…she is afraid of me…but…why? What have I done to her to make her afraid?

Far away in the woods, the mysterious shadow laughed as he saw the hanyou ponder Kagome's fear.

A/N: That evil dude is just…EVIL, isn't he? Anyway, you guys can still guess as to what the name will be, and I guess you'll find out soon, ne?