Disclaimer: I don't own InuYasha (someone else does but I do not)

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Kagome finally went to bed with Kaori in her arms. Kaori usually doesn't sleep with Kagome unless she wakes up in the middle of the night with a nightmare, which she usually does, but tonight Kagome thought it would be nice to sleep with her daughter since she had been gone for the last 5 days. Kagome drifted off to sleep around 10:30.

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Kagome's Dream

"InuYasha?" Kagome asked as a shadow lurked outside her open window. It was 12:00 at night and Kagome awoke to the sound of her window opening.

"Who else would it be the boogie man?" said InuYasha as he stepped into her room.

Today was Kagome's Birthday and she just turned 19 years old. Her and InuYasha have been going out for about 1 year now.

"What are you doing here?" Kagome asked as she stood and rapped her arms around his neck and his arms rapped around her waist.

He pulled back just enough to give Kagome a sweet kiss before whispering "Happy birthday baby" in her ear.

"You remembered" she said happily and gave him a quick kiss.

"I did more than that I even got you something," she said before pulling a small box out of his pocket. "Happy Birthday baby"

"You already said that" she said and opened the box to show a beautiful heart shapes white gold locket that had the word 'forever' on the front and on the inside of the locket was a picture of her and him kissing on their first date. On the other side of the locket was the words InuYasha and Kagome.

"Oh my goodness, its beautiful." Kagome said throwing her arms around his neck again as he leaned down to give her a passionate kiss.

The only thing she could think of was how perfect everything was. If only she knew what was going to happen next.

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Kagome awoke clutching on to her necklace. She never took it off, even after he betrayed her, but now over their names was a picture of Kaori.

She hated that dream, that memory. It reminded her how much she hated InuYasha for what he did to her.

She saw him every once and a wile. Only because he was Miroku's friend, so it was only natural that she would run into him.

He had no idea, about Kaori that is. Kagome didn't want him or anyone else to know. She moved to Kyoto before she found out she was pregnant, but after she had Kaori she decided that she needed help and moved back to the shrine until she finished college and got a job. When she finally got a job she moved into an apartment with Kaori closer to were she worked.

Sango and Miroku were the only one out of all her old friends that new about Kaori. Since Kaori went to preschool Kagome met a lot of people and became quick friends with Kaori's best friend Kira's parents, but that's a different story.

Kagome deciding to tale a shower, sat up carefully so she wouldn't wake her sleeping child. Then stood up and went to go take a shower.

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A.N. i know it is short but give me a break it was longer when i wrote it out. Well i hope you like it and i will try to make the chapters longer, but no promises. Well PLEASE review!

thanks