A/N: Thanks for the reviews, everyone! I didn't get as many as I wanted, but oh well. As long as I get a few, I'm happy. Here's chapter eight.

"Kagome, why are we going here again?" InuYasha asked as she dragged him into her house. They had come back to her time that day hoping to evade Koga, but Kagome had also said that there was another reason she wanted to come, though she had yet to inform him.

"We are going to see the doctor," she told him, seeming slightly agitated. Kagome led him to her kitchen where her mother was cooking lunch.

"Kagome, you're here!" Mrs. Higurashi exclaimed happily. " I haven't seen you in months. You look wonderful!"

Kagome blushed somewhat at her mother's comment.

"Why are we going to see this 'doctor' thing of yours anyway?" InuYasha questioned.

Kagome sighed. "We're going so we can get a check-up to see if our baby is healthy."

InuYasha gazed at her, perplexed. "How can you do that?" he asked.

She shook her head. She didn't feel like explaining modern technology to him at the moment.

"I can call and make an appointment, if you'd like," her mother suggested. "Maybe you'll be even be able to find out the gender of the baby, and then you can start picking out names! This is going to be so much fun!" She walked excitedly toward the phone.

"Mom, will you please calm down?"

"I'm sorry, Kagome, this is just so elating!" Mrs. Higurashi proceeded to pick up the telephone, dialing the number of the gynecologist.

"Did she mean gender, as in, they can tell if it's a boy or a girl?" InuYasha asked, leaning toward Kagome.

She nodded, grinning. She placed a finger on his lips, knowing he was about to question this.

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"Is it done?" Kanna asked in a soft voice, turning to Kikyo.

"Yes, Kagome should begin to feel the effects very soon. I am sure she has already gone back to her time after her incident with Koga, or should I say, Naraku."

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InuYasha and Kagome sat in the waiting room impatiently. It had taken so long dissuade her mother from coming along, and now they had to wait for the appointment to actually begin. InuYasha was especially uncomfortable, since he had never be in a doctor's office and seemed to find it intimidating. Not to mention the fact that Kagome had forced him to wear a hat because they were going out in public.

"Higurashi!" the nurse called from the entrance to the wing of patient's rooms.

"Come on, InuYasha," Kagome said, pulling him out of his seat. "We're next."

The nurse led them to the room, announcing that the doctor would be with them in a moment.

The couple sat in a comfortable silence as they lingered.

The doctor introduced herself as she entered moments later. "Hello, I'm Dr. Brine and you must be Kagome."

She smiled friendlily at the doctor. "Yes I am, nice to meet you." Kagome stuck out her hand for a handshake.

"Who is this young man you brought along with you?" Dr. Brine asked politely.

"This is InuYasha, he's the father."

"Well, it's nice to meet you too." She began to pull out folders and scribble things down. "Alright, I will be performing a sonogram for you, Kagome, to check and see if everything is coming along the way it's supposed to." She turned on the machine, going through all the procedures of the sonogram.

"Everything looks great here," she said when she had completed. "Are you two interested in knowing the sex of the baby?"

InuYasha raised an eyebrow. "The what?"

"She means the gender," Kagome said quickly. "Don't mind him, Dr. Brine, he's not used to this kind of thing. Yes, we would like to know."

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Kagura roamed the castle in search of Kikyo. Naraku had ordered her to bring the priestess to him at once. "Kikyo," she called out.

The woman emerged from the shadows, sauntering over toward Kagura. "What is it that you want?"

"Naraku wishes to see you."

"Very well, tell him I am on my way." Kikyo headed to the main room where Naraku always stayed.

"Did you complete your task?" Naraku asked when she finally arrived.

Kikyo nodded.

"Then we shall proceed to the next step as soon as Kagome begins to feel the pain. The more pain she endures, the darker the jewel will become."

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"Are you sure that you don't want it to be a surprise?" Dr. Brine asked the anxious couple. "It's ok if you don't, I was just trying to be sure."

"We're sure," Kagome said urgently. "Please tell us."

"Well actually, I'll be telling you the sex of the babies." She smiled brightly at them.

"What?" InuYasha stumbled slightly, looking absolutely petrified.

"You're having twins," Dr. Brine said. "One boy and one girl. Congratulations!"

Kagome looked at InuYasha with a huge grin on her face. "Did you hear that, InuYasha? We're having twins!"

He seemed apprehensive then, and the entire way home. He didn't speak a word to her. Kagome told her mother the news as soon as they arrived at the house, as well as the rest of her family.

"Is something bothering you?" she asked InuYasha as they sat in her room. "You've been really quiet ever since we left the gynecologist's. Are you upset?"

"It's not that," he answered finally. "I just don't know if we can handle two babies. One would've been hard enough."

"Yes, but look at it this way; we get a boy and a girl. So, we both got what we wanted." She recalled their conversation on the way to the hospital. InuYasha had said he wanted a boy and Kagome had hoped for a girl.

InuYasha smiled warmly at her. "Well, that's true."

"Don't worry about a thing," she reassured him. "We'll do fine, I promise." She winced, feeling the same pain she had felt when they came home from the doctor's office. Kagome had decided not to tell InuYasha, knowing that it would burden him.

A/N: Ok, that's chapter eight. I finally decided on twins because I couldn't pick between a boy or a girl. I hope that ya'll are happy about the longer chapters. I'm really working hard to make them longer. Bye for now. REVIEW, PLEASE!