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The Choice

"Inuyasha, I've always loved you. I thought you knew that. If things were different..." he kissed her again. He wasn't going to let go again. He couldn't let go of her. He needed her but she was happy. All he had now was her lips as she kissed him back.

Kagome couldn't believe herself. She had just had a baby the day before and suddenly she felt great but no. 'KAGOME GET A HOLD OF YOURSELF! YOUR KISSING INUYASHA!' Kagome finally listened to her little voice. She pulled away from the kiss and looked at him.

"Inuyasha this is wrong. Kouga would be so hurt it he..."

"Saw you kissing Inuyasha?" a familiar voice said from the shadows. Kagome and Inuyasha both froze. They moved away from each other as quickly as they could.

"Kouga-kun it not what it looks like." Kagome stood up and walked towards Kouga.

She had to do something. Apparently she didn't notice Kouga had seen everything. Kouga folded his arms across his chest and looked away from her. He didn't want to hear any of her excuses. He was happy that she had stayed with him but this hurt him more then anything. He was only worried about her so he went to find her. He had no idea she would be out in the woods with Inuyasha, kissing. How dare Inuyasha kiss his mate? He knew he wouldn't be able to control his anger this time. He clenched his fist together so hard he could feel the blood in his palms. Kagome saw how angry he was. And she saw that his anger was directed towards Inuyasha.

"Kagome, I think you should go back to village and check on Taro. I have to talk with Inuyasha." Kouga didn't even look at her as he spoke. He kept his eyes lock on Inuyasha.

"No. I won't leave you here. If you fight with him I'll leave. I'll go back to my time." Kagome had to stop their fighting somehow. This was the only thing she could think of. 'If I leave to my time then Kouga can't get through the well.' It seemed like Kouga was completely ignoring her. He began to charge towards Inuyasha.

Inuyasha wouldn't draw his sword because he knew he could hurt Kouga this time. He didn't want to upset Kagome anymore. He had to just dodge Kouga's attacks until he stopped fighting.

Kagome could stop the tears in her eyes as she ran towards the village. She had said she would leave and now she would do it. She couldn't take Kouga and Inuyasha fighting every time they were face to face with each other. She ran until she got to Kaede's hut. Sango, Miroku, Shippo, Ginta, and Hakkaku were sitting around the fire with Taro. Kagome didn't want to talk to anyone. She just walked in a grabbed her bag and her son.

"Kagome-sama what's going on? Where are you going?" ask Miroku as he stood to stop his friend.

Kagome didn't want to say anything. She just wanted to leave. She figured her friends would try to stop her. "I'm going home." She figured that would be enough of an explanation. She turned and left taking Taro to the well.

When she got to the well, she looked down at the darkness. She held Taro closer to her and jumped into the well. When she got to the other side, she had a hard time climbing out with the baby. She figured someone would probably be home so she called for someone to help her.

"Souta? Momma? Jii-chan? Someone help me!" she sat down on the bottom of the well and waited for someone to come. She finally heard the well house door open and footsteps come towards the well. Someone was looking down at her from the top.

"Kagome? What are doing down there? Why didn't Kouga come with you?" It was her brother. Kagome didn't want to tell him why Kouga didn't come. She figured he was too young to understand anyway.

"Souta please come take my bag so I can climb out." Kagome took off her bag and waited for Souta to come down. Souta jumped down to the bottom of the well and took his sister's bag. He then noticed the bundle she held in her arms.

"Is that the baby?" He asked.

"Hai. His name is Taro. He's your nephew." They both climbed out of the well and went into the house. "Souta is momma or Jii-chan home?" Souta nodded his head and dropped Kagome's bag on the floor.

"Can I see him?" He was standing on his toes to see the new member of the family. Kagome smiled and lowered the baby to his view. Souta squealed when he saw little brown ears. "He has dog ears like Inu-no-oniichan." H reached out and rubbed Taro's little brown ears.

Kagome laughed and shook her head. "No Souta. Taro is a wolf youkai. Inuyasha is a dog youkai. The ears may look the same but Taro has wolf ears." She smiled down at Taro. He was enjoying Souta rubbing his ears.

Kagome went into the kitchen to find her mother. As always Mrs. Higurashi was in the kitchen cooking. She looked up when she saw her daughter come in.

"Kagome I didn't know you were coming back so soon. I got your room ready for the baby since you said you'd only be pregnant for three months. Oh is that my grandbaby?" Mrs. Higurashi was so busy talking that she didn't notice till now Kagome was holding a baby. Kagome moved some of the blanket back and handed the baby to her mother.

"His name is Taro." She smiled as her mother's eyes light up.

"I have a grandson." She said in almost tears. "Oh come with me so you can see your room." She was beginning to follow her mother upstairs but her mother turned around and went out the back door. She followed quietly behind her mother and son. He mother walked to one of the adjacent buildings of the shrine.

"Momma what are we doing here? I thought we were going to my room." Mrs. Higurashi went through her pocket to find the keys to the door. She unlocked it and walked inside.

"We are going to your room. You don't expect me to make you live in the main house when we have many guest houses that you could stay in." Kagome didn't understand. Was her mother kicking her out?

"Momma are you kicking me out?" Kagome didn't know what to do. She didn't have any money except for her savings and she only came home to get away. She was even more confused when her mother began to laugh. "Momma, what's so funny?"

"Oh Kagome you get so worried over everything. Why would I kick my daughter and my grandson out after just meeting him? I moved you to the guesthouse so you can Kouga and Taro could have privacy but be close. This house is yours. Jii-chan, Souta and I have been fixing it up for the past month. Come inside and see it. There is a kitchen and a bedroom with a bigger bed for you and Kouga and bedroom with a crib for Taro." She stepped aside to let her daughter look around the house.

It was just as her mother had said. It was a little house with a small kitchen with a dinning room attached. There was a living room with a couch and television. She walked into the master bedroom and it had some of her furniture from her old room but there was a new king size bed and night tables on each side. There was door that lead to a small bathroom. Next to the master bedroom was a smaller bedroom that had Taro's crib. Kagome was amazed at what her family did for her. She was so happy.

"This is mine?" Kagome did a happy dance in place. "Arigatu momma!" she kissed her mother on the cheek. Her mother shhhed her and went to place Taro in his new crib.

"Taro's sleeping and you look like you need some rest. Go to sleep and I will bring you your dinner later." Mrs. Higurashi smiled and left Kagome to go to sleep.

As soon as she left Kagome decided to take a bath. When she got undressed and started to get into the tub she looked down at her stomach. It was almost completely back to normal. 'Having a hanyou does strange things to my body.' She shook her head and got in the tub. After relaxing and washing, she got out and found some nightgowns her mother bought for her. She put them on and got into bed. 'Its too bad Kouga is so stubborn. Then he would be here with me.' She sighed and slipped into a dreamless sleep.

Back in Sengoku Jidai with Inuyasha and Kouga

Inuyasha's plan was working. He had been fighting with Kouga for a while. Finally Kouga was beginning to tire. The two of them had been so preoccupied with fighting that they didn't notice Kagome was not there. The truth was. She had left a while ago.

"Kouga give up. I'm not going to fight you." Inuyasha yelled as he dodged another of Kouga's attack.

"Why should I? Next time I turn my back you'll just try to take Kagome from me. Why can't you accept that she has chosen me?" He ran towards him again. Determined not let him dodge his attack.

"Kouga stop!" Came Sango's voice above the pair. She knew her voice wouldn't stop the wolf youkai from attacking so she threw her boomerang in front of his attack. "Hiraikotsu" she yelled as the huge bone slammed to the ground directly in front of Kouga. Kouga stopped moving and looked up at Sango on the Kirara.

"Get out of here or I'll come after you next. This is between me and him." He said looking at Inuyasha.

"No Kouga. Kagome left. She took Taro and went back to her time. You have to stop." She hoped he would stop after hearing his mate left. He froze in place and looked back at her.

"Nani? She went back through the well?" Sango nodded and came down in front of the pair.

"She just came back and took Taro. All she said was she was going home." She walked in between them to hopefully stop any more fighting. At the same moment Hakkaku, Ginta, and Miroku ran up with Shippo on his shoulder. They looked from Inuyasha to Kouga to Sango. 'Sango stopped them? Wow what a woman!' thought Miroku.

"Shit," Kouga said as he sat down. "She did that on purpose. She knows I can't go through the well without her. She just wants you to go get her." He turned away from everyone and stood up. "Well then, I guess we can wait for her to come back or you can go get her or at least talk some sense into her. When I say talk I mean talk. You better keep your hands off." Kouga walked up Inuyasha.

He wanted to just punch him but he knew he was only one who could go to Kagome's side of the well. 'Why would she leave me? She knows the only person who can come is Inuyasha. Is she trying to say she wants only him to come? Damn it Kagome.' He shook his head and focused on the situation at hand. He looked back at Inuyasha. In fact everyone was looking at Inuyasha.

"Nani? What are you all looking at?" Inuyasha said. He stepped back away from everyone's stares.

"You have to go talk to her Baka!" Yelled Shippo from Miroku's shoulder.

"But she won't talk to me. She's just as mad at me as she is at Kouga. She'd just try to kill me again. Feh. I'm not going." He turned his back on everyone. "Why should I help that wimpy wolf?" He stuck his nose in the air to emphasize that he wasn't going. SMACK Then he was kissing ground. Miroku had smacked him with his staff.

"I always said you were a baka. Now get up and go talk to her before you have to deal with all of us." Miroku walked away with a slight smirk on his face. He knew Inuyasha just needed to have some sense smacked into him. Inuyasha looked at Kouga.

"Are you sure you're ok with me going to talk to Kagome alone?" He turned his back again to everyone.

"I'm not ok with it but what choice do I have. It's my fault she left." Inuyasha got a strange déjà vu feeling when Kouga took the blame for Kagome leaving.

"Feh. I'll go but don't think I'm doing you a favor. I'm only going cause they will beat me if I don't." He said pointing to Miroku and Sango. He turned slightly to see if they were looking. Then he leapt off into the trees towards the well.

"Remember Dog face," Kouga yelled after Inuyasha. "I said talk, no touching!" He then walked towards the well with Ginta and Hakkaku running behind.

"KOUGA WAIT!" Hakkaku and Ginta yelled after their leader. They followed him to the well. "Kouga what are you doing?" asked Hakkaku.

"I'm going to wait for Kagome to come back. I don't care how long it takes. We will wait here until Kagome and Taro return." Kouga sat down facing the well with Ginta and Hakkaku behind him. 'She'll come back, I hope…' Kouga thought, as he got comfortable on the ground. He knew he had a long wait until she returned.

Higurashi Shrine

Inuyasha crept though the well house. He ran through the shrine grounds a quietly as possible. He smelled the air. 'She's not in her house but she is here somewhere.' He followed her scent to a smaller building connected to the main house by a covered walkway. He went up the window of the house and looked through. He saw her lying in bed with the sheets rapped around her body. He opened the window as quietly as possible and stepped into the room. He crouched on the floor next to her bed.

"Kagome?" He called. She stirred and opened her eyes.

"Inuyasha? What are you doing here?" She sat up to look at the hanyou on her floor.

A/N: Thanks again to my beta reader. Here is chapter 9. I am leaving for vacation today and won't return until the 10th of Oct so there won't be any new chapters until then. Thanks for all the reviews. Hope you enjoy.