Disclaimer: I don't own it.Never will.Unless I get a million bucks and buy it over,this dream is impossible as me jumping off the Empire State Building.
Author's Note: Sorry I forgot to mention this.Sesshoumaru's gonna be a bit OOC...I only realised I hate made him OOC when someone pointed out to me.So I'll try to be much less.I prefer Mr Ice King,anyway.
Chapter 4:
Kagome stormed around her room, furious.How could that bloody idiot Sesshoumaru take her as some kind of whore?
She paced back and forth, and stopped at her mother's picture on her bedside table. Eyes softening ever so slightly, she picked up the framed photo gently and sat down on her plushy bed, enjoying the feeling of sinking down into the soft bed.
"...Mom, I wish you could help me right now..."
Smiling sadly, she stood up again and placed her beloved picture onto the bedside table, before walking outside to wait for the idiot that she was SO looking forward to meeting.
She walked quietly out of the room, down the wooden stairs and had barely made it to the last step when the melodic twinkling chimes filled her ears.
Eyes reflecting hurt once more, she thought about how her Mama had wanted to choose that doorbell.Just so that she could keep at least one more thing in her life that was innocent.The other only thing was Kagome herself.
You could safely say that Kagome was the reason Mama really kept herself alive before.
Mama never told Kagome her real name.Kagome didn't know why.
Mama had been rich. Her father had been a wealthy businessman, her mother an ex-debutante. She had been in a prestigious private academy of fine arts and literature.
But her life hadn't been a fairytale at all.
Her father had always been at work, while her mother just couldn't care less about her only child. All her mother had done was to show off her wealth to her high class friends.
Mama had been lonely.
So she had delved into the "bad" world. She began to go clubbing, practically inhaling drugs and alcohol. She hung out in alleys in the daytime, skipping school. She went home late, always managing to catch a little shut eye quietly because nobody would have been at home,anyway.Her father would have always been overseas on some trip, and her mother would probably be at some premier fashion show in Paris.
Initially, her father had always tried his best to maintain close ties with his daughter. He called home often, tried to visit whenever he could, and gave her toys.But soon after,business boomed and although Mama's mother was happier, Mama wasn't.Because this meant that she would be alone for long periods of time without her papa visiting her anymore.
She had begun leading herself down the wrong path.
Then she met him.Higurashi.Pretty well off guy, seemingly like her, but his parents still cared. Although he mixed around with the same kind of company that she did, he stopped doing drugs and only drunk.
The two hung out together often, and she found herself falling deeply in love with him. The feeling was mutual.
But one day,disaster struck.It wasn't a disaster at all in fact, but at that age and current moment, it was.
She was pregnant.
So they had a shotgun marriage.It had been a simple ceremony,just her father and his parents.Her mother had eloped with some millionaire, but her father seemed to loathe her as much as she did.
Both parties had been pretty happy.Higurashi's parents were glad that their son was settling down to a peaceful family life,while Mama's father simply wanted her to be happy.And she was.She had never appreciated her father and realised that she loved him at that point.
They settled down in a new country,him with a new job,she expecting the arrival of her baby.
But it was not meant to be a sparkling fairy-tale ending.
She did give birth to a beautiful pair of twins. But it was the fact that she had discovered something shocking was what torn her apart.
She had cancer.And she was only left with a few more years to live,at the most,ten.
By that time,Kagome and Kikyo were already ten,and old enough to understand what was going on.
But it was also another fact that hurt Mama.
She had discovered that he was working underground.
Not in the subway underground,but the deep shady underground works.
She had seen a picture of a suspect in a bank robbery in the newspapers one day, and immediately she knew it had been Higurashi, her own husband.
So she confronted him.And he told her nothing but the truth.
But she realised she couldn't trust him anymore.After all,he had kept his true identity a lie for a decade already.And slowly,
their relationship withered too.
Their marriage was on the rocks,and she was dying. It was a triple blow when she discovered that Kikyo, at the tender age of thirteen,had begun to stray down the path that she herself had once taken. So she was left with almost nothing,
except for her dear Kagome.
Kagome had been like the fragile,beautiful rose in Mama's eyes. It was her that gave Mama the drive to just stay alive.
But it ripped her apart that she would obviously never get the chance to see her grandchildren, or to see their weddings,even.
At long last,she could hold on to nothing more, and she had passed away,albeit rather peacefully,clutching Kagome gently like any mother would.
Kagome shook her head to get back to the present and to stop dwelling on the painful recollections,and she blinked back furiously to get the tears that had been threatening to gush out go back in again.Swallowing hard to get the painful lump to go away, she opened the door to find the silver haired man who she,despite the fact that he was a coldhearted arrogant ass,had found herself falling in love with.
She wouldn't admit it out loud.She was a headstrong,stubborn young woman,just as her dear Mama had been all those years before.
And she refused to let even herself acknowledge the fact that she was developing feelings for the Ice King.
Sesshoumaru himself, had too begun to feel this blissful attraction towards the young woman in front of him.
He too wouldn't admit it. The two were too stubborn in their own ways.
It had been a week since they had discovered that they had both slept together, and the both of them were now planning for her to move into Taisho mansion, since their old home was being reclaimed together with the land.
Therefore,in the meantime, the Higurashi Family had to put up with the InuTaisho Family for a while.
Smiling up ever so slightly at the man before her, she beckoned for him to sit down in the living room,what was left of it,
as she went up to collect the personal belongings she would need in the meantime.Her furniture would be shifted later on.
As Kagome entered her airy,neat,flowery bedroom, she took the box she had already prepared earlier on, grabbed her Mama's photo, and was just about to exit when something caught her eye.
Her calender.It had been necessary for her to plan events on that simple calender that hung on top of her bedside drawers.
Reaching over, she glanced at it before putting it in the box, and then stepping outside.
Not thinking clearly, she had dazedly made her way down the strairs and was just about to hand her box to Sesshoumaru when she saw it.
The dreaded red mark.
It meant her monthly cycle, and she had to record it down for...medical purposes.
Sneaking a small,hesistant peek at the decorated paper below her chin, she gasped and dropped the box.Thankfully, Sesshoumaru caught it in time and he placed it on the floor,raising an elegant eyebrow at her shocked gasp.
"S-Sesshoumaru.W-We have to go to my doctor.Now."She choked out,before walking unsteadily to the sports car outside and stopping outside of it.
Placing the box in the second row, he looked at her with slightly concerned eyes before getting in and signalling for her to get it too so that they could get to the doctor. He did not know what had been so urgent until she had to see the doctor straightaway,but he obliged and they were soon driving out of the short driveway and heading towards the hospital.
Kagome,meanwhile,was thinking in horror about what she had seen.
She had missed her period by six days.
She chided herself for not noticing it earlier.After all,it could mean that she could be-no,it was impossible,it had only been that ONE time.
But a voice in her head told her otherwise, as the both of them entered through the glass doors of the cool,air-conditioned lobby and proceeded to the fifth floor to see her gynaecologist.
When they arrived, they were sent in immediately,since they knew that Sesshoumaru was a powerful member of society and had enough connections to make him the President.
Kagome knocked on the white door timidly and creaked it open a fraction.Hearing her doctor's voice,"Come in,Kagome,
she entered with Sesshoumaru and sat down on the two chairs provided in front of the doctor's desk.
"And what may the problem be today?"The middle-aged woman enquired gently and pulled down her round glasses slightly to look at Kagome in the eye.
Kagome fidgeted nervously and leaned over,to tell the doctor about her suspisions.
The doctor looked slightly suprised,and she requested Sesshoumaru to kindly exit for a while so that she could carry out some tests on Kagome.
Growling slightly and not wishing to leave Kagome alone, he only left after she touched his arm gently and gave him a weak smile,reassuring him that she was okay.
Twenty minutes and a lot of growls towards the infatuated nurses later, Sesshoumaru entered the doctor's office again and sat down.
The doctor removed her glasses and looked at the both of them.
Sighing she continued."I take it...he's the father?"
And this question made Sesshoumaru realise what it all meant.
Looking at Kagome, she smiled nervously and clasped her hands tightly before looking down at her purse.
They were going to have a baby.
Mwee hee.Meep.Please don't kill me.
Sesshoumaru was much more in character,ne?I prefer him when he's Mr Ice King.Cause he gives me chills up and down my spine and--you don't need to know the rest.
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