Summary: Looking at Kagome Higurashi, you'd never know that she carried a secret storm. Her therapist suddenly quits on her, and she must go to find someone else to help her. She struggles to keep her new therapist out of her life. She tells him the best of her is gone. Why won't he believe it? Kagome's POV.

"Talking"
"Sign Language"
Flashbacks
(Diary Entry)Beginning/End of diary entires

Best of You
Chapter 14: Breakthrough

"What?" She asks. I tell her the one thing that I was afraid to tell Inuyasha, and she squeels with excitement. I cover my ears, and Miroku grabs her shoulders. He must be trying to calm her down from the excitement.

Maybe Inuyasha doesn't know it yet, but I hope he doesn't mind. I mean, there's nothing horrible about it... Not in my eyes at least. I can only hope that he'll feel the same way that I feel. Or, even better, than he'll be willing to take part in this. I would love it if he could actually be a...

Well, I guess I need to tell him before Sango and Miroku do!

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"You are planning on having a child with Inuyasha?" Sango repeats in shock. I cover her mouth to keep her from saying it too loud then nod.

"Have you told him this? I'm sure he'll want to know." Miroku says. I look at him evilly before returning my gaze to Sango.

"I haven't told him yet. I don't really know how to go about it. What if he doesn't want a kid?" I ask. Miroku starts laughing quietly, and both Sango and I look at him.

"I don't think he'll mind children." Miroku says. I roll my eyes then slap him.

"Get your mind out of the gutter! Geez. You've known me for this long and you can't limit your perverted mind around me?" I ask sharply. Sango rubs my arm to get me to calm down. I take a deep breath then let it out slowly.

"I'm not going to be able to ask him... You know that, right?" I ask her nervously. She nods her head then hugs me for support.

"Just try. I'm sure he'll react better than you think." She reassures me. From the way she says it, I'd say that she knows something that I don't. Then again, I'm probably just overreacting. In fact, I'm positive that I'm overreacting. This is just in my mind.

"Well, I have to get Sango home. She's got no other way back. I heard that--" Miroku suddenly stops himself from speaking. I stare at him for a while before shrugging the thought off. He must've just realized how soon Sango wanted to be home or something. Because, instantly, he's dragging Sango towards the parking lot. I turn to find Inuyasha, but he's vanished too.

If I wasn't suspicious before, then I have a good reason to be like this now. What in the world is going on? Everyone is just... vanishing into thin air. Okay, maybe they're vanishing into the parking lot (and other places), but they're still leaving. There something that I'm missing here, or is this just normal for them?

Wait a minute. What do any of them know about normal? Sango is a hard-ass woman who depends on herself. Miroku is a pervert with a wandering hand (he know keeps it to Sango's ass only). Inuyasha is... Well, no offense, but he's a half demon. I guess I'm not one to judge. I'm a mentally abused brat.

Wow. I make friends with abnormal people, don't I? Well, I don't mind. They're good friends, and that's all I'm really interested in.

I walk around the club floor, grabbing a small glass of Captain Morgan. Now, I'm not a drunk. I rarely have this stuff, even though it seems like I have it a lot recently. It just... I don't know how to explain it. It helps calm my nerves. And trust me, I've got nerves right now.

Inuyasha comes up to me and scares me silly. He hugs me from behind, causing me to jump and spill my drink. I'm upset at first, but Inuyasha kisses my frustration away.

"I want to take you somewhere." He says. I stare at him dumbly before finding the ability to nod my head. Perhaps this is what Miroku was trying to keep me from figuring out. It sounded like he was going to say that, until he dragged Sango away. Now I'm almost positive that's what he nearly said.

"Where?" I quesiton skepitcally. He shakes his head and puts a finger over his lips. I glare at him then follow as he takes me to his car. What could be so important that he's got to drag me away from my club? Are we going to pay the hospital bill or something?

No, we're not paying the bill. He takes me to a luxurious home, and we get out of the car to look at it. He walks me up to the house and he opens the door.

"Are you sure that it's legal for us to be here?" I question nervously. Inuyasha nods his head.

"I'm pretty damn sure. If it's not legal, then I'll have to look into this." He says. I toss this around in my head for a while. What makes him think that walking in on someone else's private property is legal? I'm so afraid that we're going to get thrown in jail for this.

He takes me through the rooms and shows me around. I feel like I'm about to buy a new house or something. Every room is empty, the carpets look new, and I can almost swear that I smell drying paint. Maybe it's just my imagination...

"So, what do you think?" Inuyasha asks. He stands in the center of the master bedroom, looking around.

"I think we need to leave before the owners of the place move in... We're gonna get in trouble." I tell him. I still feel scared that the cops will come and get mad at us for intruding. How can Inuyasha be so calm and causual about this?

"The owners are in this room right now, Kagome." He says. I spin around in a circle, trying to figure out where they are. When I realize what he means, I gasp loudly.

"You've got to be kidding, Inuyasha. You-- We can't afford this!" I tell him. He comes up to me and puts a finger over my lips. I guess that it's the only way to make me calm down. There's no way that we'll be able to live here. It's got to be over a million dollars!

"My father owned it. He died, and this is what he gave to me. My half brother got the successful business, I got the house. I got it a while ago, but I had some people come in and fix it up. This is going to be our home when we're married." He says. He hugs my waist and kisses my lips.

"And... When will that be?" I ask in a low tone. I feel like we should get married soon, but this cast isn't making it very easy.

"When you want to. If it were up to me, we'd have the liscense right now, but it's up to you." He says. I smile then rest my head against his chest.

"When I get my cast off, we can start planning the wedding..." I tell him quietly.

"Hey... Kagome... I need to ask you something." He says. I look up at him, taking mental note of how concerned he looks. Maybe concerned isn't the right word. Nervous does it more justice.

"What is it?" I ask. I feel like I'm about to fall asleep. Of couse, standing up in an empty room makes it much harder for me to do that.

"Well... If you..." He hesitates. "What do you think about having kids?" He finally manages to spit out. I stare at him for a while, wondering if I heard that right. I was going to ask him about it, but I guess he beat me to it. That's good, since I don't think that I could have dealt with the pressure of doing it myself.

"I'd love to have kids... I was going to ask you, but I haven't been able to work up the guts." I tell him. He smiles then hugs me closer. Then it hits me. He doesn't want one kid, he wants more than one. He wants kids. Kids as in plural.

I've heard pregnancy is painful. First time will hurt the most, since my body hasn't experienced it before. Second time will hurt a lot, but not as much... So... How am I supposed to deal with the pain of this? My body suddenly starts to get weak as I imagine the pain. Before I know it, everything is black.

Hard times come with good times. Even though I may have had my own problems in the past, it's evened out now. Things are going to go good for a long time, I assume. My nightmares about Naraku and Kouga have stopped. I think most of that is due to the fact that Inuyasha is always in my house.

Inuyasha likes to protect me. He stays on the couch every night - he doesn't want the temptation of being in the same bed with me - and will bolt in the door if he hears me crying. That's the biggest reason I have for him loving me. When I do have my nightmares again, he cuddles me until I'm asleep again.

And, when I fall back asleep. There's no more nightmares, and no more pains of the past...

Next time on The Best of You...
(Epilogue. Kagome's diary entries)
Things are so much more different than they were in the beginning. I've gone from the depressed mute, to a happy girl now. Life seems to be giving me a hand that I can play, or something like that. I'm scared, though. What could happen with all this good stuff? I have a feeling that it'll only stay good for so long... I have anxiety problems.

Wow. The story is coming to an end. Hard to believe, since I've spent only a few days actually typing it up (I just didn't post the chapters until I was working on chapter 11).

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