Tapping on the glass of the baby ward, Kagome nearly squealed when one turned its sleeping head toward her. 'They're so... well, intelligent.' Kagome watched as a nurse took one of the babies from its 'hut', or so Kagome had dubbed the incubators.

The nurse brought the blue swathed babe through the arching door, supposedly to go to his mother's room. "Um, nurse?"

The nurse turned around, "Yes, dear. Do you need help?" Kagome could see the woman was about her mother's age and had a friendly demeanor. I sure hope so, she probably works with babies all the time! Don't want the children to be affected.

Kagome shook her head no, but asked if she could see the child's mother. A flicker of suspicion crossed the nurses friendly features but was replaced by curiosity. "Well, since you've been standing here for the last twenty minutes examining the babies I'm sure your not related to the mother." Kagome flushed. 'Twenty minutes?'

"But you seem nice enough," the nurse gave Kagome a very warm smile which Kagome returned. "Yes, you may. Poor Taturao-sama, she hasn't gotten any visitors. Not even the father."

"That's terrible!" Kagome was surprised, a father not wanting his child? 'Horrible!'

Kagome sneaked a peak at the child, unerringly looking straight at her, its green eyes a large contrast to the small frame and dark fuzz of hair. "He's going to be a heartbreaker." The nurse joked teasingly.

Kagome solemnly nodded, though the twitching corners of her lips belied she was anything but solemn about it.

The nurse suddenly turned to Kagome, "Dear... What's your name?"

"Oh, I'm terribly sorry! I'm Higurashi Kagome."

"May I call you Kagome?"

The girl in question beamed, "Of course."

"Well," The nurse then stopped at a closed door and looked at Kagome sternly, "You will be Taturao Yuki's first visitor. Be kind."

"Aye. Aye, ma'am!" Kagome then did a mock salute. "She will not be offended while in my presence!"

"Taturao-sama? You have a little visitor." The nurse said as she walked in beaming, the child tucked in her arms.

"Oh, my child! My little baby boy!" The woman in the bed stretched out her arms to take the green eyed infant. Kagome could see where the green eyes came from, hers were sparkling with tears unshed.

"Taturao-sama?" The nurse asked, picking up a clipboard.

"Yes?" The bleary eyed woman looked up.

"You passed out last night." Yuki was obviously startled at this bit of information and she twisted the gold band on her finger. "And you haven't specified his name yet." Yuki chewed her lip, eyes darting from Kagome to her baby to the nurse.

"How about," Kagome said, "you let her think about it." The nurse smiled at Kagome kindly; complying, she left. "Maybe I could help you figure one out?"

"Um... I'm sorry, but I don't know who you are... And... well-"

"It's okay, I'm Higurashi Kagome. Call me Kagome please, Taturao-sama."

Yuki started to cry. Startled, Kagome moved towards the woman. Holding Yuki in her arms Kagome told her to tell her everything.

Yuki, moved by the stranger's kindness, did just that. "He was so handsome, my -" she hiccuped, "husband, I mean he seem so heroic, and- and I loved him... Or I thought I did. I met him in college, he seemed so perfect- well, perfection's never meant to last. Second year, second semester we got married. I was so blissfully in love. I should've seen it coming, but I didn't... Love- love is blind-"

"Naw," Kagome said, "just the guy who got rid of you. Some guys have-" she thought of Miroku, "perfected they're techniques." No, that's not fair, Miroku would never leave the woman who married him, he might have been a pervert but he wasn't that bad. "But go on," Kagome urged, "I want to hear how bad of an idiot this husband-wanna-be is."

Yuki giggled, and sighed. Closing her eyed Yuki shifted the baby and let him suckle. "Well, he- he urged me, I guess, to become a stay-at-home mom- no, that's not right," Scrunching up her nose she considered her words. "A stay-at-home wife. I don't think he ever wanted a child- because," Yuki started crying again, "the night that I told him I was pregnant he left the house."

Kagome gasped in indignation.

"No," Yuki chuckled, though Kagome could tell her heart wasn't in it. 'Well, duh, she's talking about the husband that left her, of course her heart wouldn't be in it!" "Not like you're thinking, he left the house... to go to a bar. When he came back I knew he was drunk. He didn't do anything, besides ignore me and pass out in our bed... then after a couple of months -he did that almost every night, go to a bar- he got the idea that I should have an abortion..." Kagome waited on baited breath, "What happened next?" "That was the day I felt the baby first kick," Yuki's eyes glazed over. "The very day I had a- oh what are they called? Cat scan?"

Kagome shrugged her shoulders.

"But I had saw him, I saw my baby, all twenty digits, I heard his heart beat. I saw his eye lids, Kagome... His eye lids! Kagome I hope you will never have to face having the man you love, not truly love you. Because a part of you breaks, something inside that, had it not been for my child I would have never tried to patch up- well, I probably would have died." Yuki's sniffles nearly broke Kagome's heart and she started crying.

"Sir? Sir?" yelled a male, "You're not supposed to go in there!"

The door slammed open, cold brown eyes narrowed as he saw the woman on the bed, "Yuki." He growled.

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