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The Choice Part Two

Kagome sat up to look at the hanyou on her floor. She sat up in her bed to face him.

"What are you doing here?" She asked. She pulled her sheet to cover her slightly see through nightgown. She looked behind him and around the room. "Where's Kouga?"

Inuyasha sat down and looked at her. He came to talk to her but not because the wolf wanted her to come back. He came because they had things to discuss and because he was afraid of getting pummeled by Sango and Miroku. He looked into her eyes then at her lips. He remembered the feel of her lips against his. Then he remembered she had asked him a question. He had been daydreaming so much that he had forgotten to answer her.

"Kouga? He's on the other side of the well. He can't go through, you know that." He answered with a slightly bitter tone. 'I came to talk to her and she asks about that stupid wolf.' "Why do you care where he is anyway? You left him."

Her eyes widened at the realization. She didn't even think that Kouga would look at it that way. 'Of Course I didn't leave him. I was just mad and went home. But it's not like when I get mad at Inuyasha. Inuyasha can come and talk to me. Kouga is forced to wait until I'm ready to talk.'

"I didn't leave him. I just needed to get away from the fighting." She felt satisfied with her answer. She was about to say more when a loud cry was heard from the other room. "Um, excuse me Inuyasha. Taro is crying."

She got up and walked to her closet. She searched quickly for a robe or anything to cover herself. She found a bathrobe and wrapped it around her body. She walked down the carpeted hall to her son's bedroom. Inuyasha followed her out of curiosity. He had never seen a baby youkai before. He didn't see the baby when it was born and he wanted to see if it looked like Kagome as Sango said.

Kagome walked into the room. She went straight for the crib and took the crying hanyou into her arms. She slowly rocked the baby and hoped he would go back to sleep. Inuyasha leaned forward to get a better view of the child. He did indeed look like Kagome. Well he looked as much like her as a little baby boy could except for his little brown ears. Taro noticed Inuyasha and reached out to grab his hair. He got his tiny fingers on a lock of hair and pulled on it.

"Ite! Get him off!" Inuyasha screamed.

"No. Its keeping him quiet and plus I think he likes you." She laughed at the scene in front of her. "Here hold him." She tried to hand the baby to him but he attempted to step back.

"Feh. I don't want to. Just get him off my hair. I think he's ripping it out." He tried to pry the baby's unusually strong grip off his silver hair. As soon as he was free, Taro began to cry and reach out to Inuyasha.

"Just hold him Inuyasha. I think he wants you to hold him." She handed the baby over. Kagome wanted to have a picture of how cute they looked. Inuyasha was so afraid to hurt the baby with his strength. Taro just wiggled and grabbed Inuyasha's hair again. Inuyasha tried not to look down at the little hanyou in his arms but it was unavoidable.

He couldn't help but smile at the baby's amusement with his hair. He looked down at the child again and realized why he didn't want to hold him. He pried his grip on his hair and dumped him back in Kagome's arms.

"I need fresh air." Then he walked out of the house leaving Kagome with a crying hanyou and confused expression on her face.

When Inuyasha got outside, he leapt into the sanctity of the Goshinboku Tree. He needed time to think alone. Just holding the baby made him thinks of how much he hated the fact that Kagome was with Kouga and not him. 'I just feel so betrayed when I look at their pup. Fuck! Why did she have to do this to me?' He knew that deep down he wished it was his son not Kouga's and that just made it harder for him to even look at the boy.

Kagome figured Taro needed a fresh diaper. She went through his changing table and found that her family had bought everything she would need for the baby. 'Momma how could you afford this?' she thought as she changed the baby. She figured she needed to get dressed now that Inuyasha was here so she took Taro and ran the bath water. 'I'm sure you won't mind bathing with me Taro. It not like I haven't seen all of you already.' She smiled as she got undressed and got in the tub with her son in her arms. After she sure they were both clean, she got out and wrapped a towel around her and Taro. She didn't notice the other hanyou sitting on her bed when she came out the bathroom.

Inuyasha didn't say anything. Kagome just walked out of the room and got Taro dressed. She figured he was probably hungry so she took him back to her room so she could get dressed and feed him. She was going to place the baby down on her bed when she finally noticed Inuyasha.

"AHH! How long have you been sitting there?" She put her hand up to her chest over her heart. "You scared the crap out of me!" she said as she put Taro next to Inuyasha on the bed. Inuyasha moved away from the baby and stood up.

"I have been sitting her for a while. I'm going to go out side while you change." He walked out of the room and pulled the door closed behind him.

Kagome watched him leave and wondered why he seemed to be afraid of Taro. She shook the thought off and got dressed. She took Taro to the kitchen and saw Inuyasha sitting on the floor of the living room.

"Are you hungry? I was going to make food for Taro. I can make you something if there is any food here." She walked towards the kitchen. "Can you hold Taro while I cook?" She stopped and waited for him to come take the baby. "You know, he's kind of big for a baby just born a couple days ago. And also I've completely lost my stomach." She subconsciously rubbed her belly.

Inuyasha just stayed where he was. "Feh. I don't want to hold that pup. And I don't know much about humans but I know when youkai have pups, they only look like it for a little while."

Kagome looked at him with a confused look on her face. 'Why is has acting so strange he won't even hold Taro?' Kagome figured he was just being moody and tucked the baby on her hip. She walked back to the kitchen to make some Ramen and got a bottle for Taro. Thankfully her mother put milk in the refrigerator while she was sleeping.

When the Ramen was finished, Kagome placed it on the table and called Inuyasha.

"Inuyasha the Ramen is ready." She called as she sat down to feed Taro. "Inuyasha wasn't there something you wanted to talk about?" she was enjoying the silence as the baby drank the milk.

Inuyasha was savagely eating his ramen. He only stopped to think of what he wanted to talk about.

"Feh. I came here to see if you were going to come back or not?" he asked in between shoveling more ramen in his mouth.

"Of course I'll go back. Just not right now. I need time to myself. And don't take this as an excuse to go get Kouga. You can stay if you want but I won't have both of you fighting in front of Taro." She brought Taro up to her shoulder and burped him. "Is that all you wanted to talk about?" She waited for his answer.

"No, but we can talk later." He got up from the table and walked outside again.

Kagome watched him leave and then got up from the table. She walked back to Taro's room and placed the now sleeping baby back in his crib. She began to think of what Inuyasha wanted to talk to her about. 'He still hasn't really said anything since he kissed me. Why do I care anyway? I'm supposed to be Kouga's mate. But am I really happy with him?' She knew she should be thinking these kinds of thoughts but if Inuyasha had told her his feelings long ago she would never be in this situation. She reached her hand up to her neck lightly traced the bite mark Kouga had left on her. 'Why should I wait for him to talk to me? Maybe I should just talk to him.'

Kagome walked out of the house and called Inuyasha's name softly from the doorway. She didn't want to disturb anyone in the house or wake the sleeping hanyou inside.

"Inuyasha?" she called waiting for a reply. The only sound she heard was a 'FEH' from above her. She looked up to see if she could find the person who belonged to the voice. "Inuyasha where are you? I don't want to talk to trees." She waited for him to show himself. After a few minutes he jumped down from the roof and landed in front of her.

"What is it wench? What's so important?" He looked at her and could tell something was on her mind.

"I wanted to talk to you Inuyasha." She looked down at the ground. "I wanted to talk to you about why you kissed me." She slowly looked up to meet his eyes.

He didn't know what to say. He just did what he felt was right. She kissed him back. He should be asking why she kissed him back. "Why did you kiss me back?"

"I don't know. My mind was screaming at me stop because of Kouga and Taro but it felt so right." 'Did he just get out of answering my question by asking me a question of his own?'

Inuyasha smiled at her admittance. "It felt right to me too. Why didn't you listen to yourself and stop?" She slowly turned around and walked back into the house. She walked into the living room with Inuyasha at her heels. She sat down on the couch and looked at him as he sat next to her.

"I told you why already." She looked down at her hands as she spoke. "Because I love you."

He looked at her and smiled. "Well what do we do now?"

A/N: Thanks for all the reviews. I want to thank my beta reader agian. She is doing an awesome job. I have two chapters for you. Enjoy.