AN: Thank you for the reviews! They made me rush to update, only took 4 days. I hope this chapter clears up any questions some readers may have about Inuyasha's intentions. Enjoy :)

Kagome tucked Kenichi in his racecar bed and gave him a kiss on the forehead.

"Night mommy." He said, with a yawn.

"Good night sweetie."

She then walked out of the room and turned off the light, closing the door behind her as well. Kagome went into the living room where her best friend was waiting for her.

Sango sat on the couch with her arms crossed and watched Kagome walk over to sit on the other end. Kagome clasped her hands together and looked away.

"Okay," Sango said, "what's going on." Kagome had been acting strange all day. When she and Kenichi got home from their day out Sango had asked her about it, but Kagome told her to wait till the boy was asleep so they could talk.

Kagome sighed. "I saw him, last night."

Sango's head tilted. "Who?"

Kagome glanced back towards the direction of the bedrooms to make sure that her son wasn't listening. Then she turned to her friend and said it.

"I saw Sesshomaru at Jewel."

Sango's mouth dropped. "What?" She need all the details; STAT.

"My manager told me about some men with money coming in, and I hurried to get to one. I sat in the guys lap and looked up to face my baby's daddy." She covered her hands with her face.

"Oh my god." Sango looked concerned. "So then what happened?"

"I freaked out!" Kagome grabbed her friend's upper arms and would have shaken her if she wasn't so strong. "First I froze up, but then the bastard asked me if I knew him!"

"No," Sango said, pulling Kagome's hands off of her, "you're kidding me!"

"Nope," Kagome shook her head, her face turning pink, "so I told him to leave and then… and then Inuyasha came up behind me."

"He was there too?"

"Yeah, so then I just ran."

"You ran?"

"I did." Kagome nodded. "I ran all the way to the dressing room."

They both started laughing, imagining just how crazy Kagome must have looked doing so.

"So anyways," Kagome began, "I got to the dressing room, hurried up and changed into my real clothes, and then I went home early."

"Wow." Sango responded. "I can't believe it."

"I know." Kagome frowned.

"Now what are you going to do?" She was always good at asking the hard questions.

"I don't know." Kagome sighed and covered her face with her hands. "I have no idea!" she said, exasperated.

"Well what do you want to do?"

"Hide under a rock until he goes back to wherever he came from?" She replied with a nervous smile.

"Uh huh." Sango eyed her, "and what do you think is best for Kenichi?"

Kagome glared at her friend. Sango was too wise.

Kagome was scared. Kenichi was her child. She did everything for him; it was Kagome and Kenichi. As far as she was concerned, there was no room for Sesshomaru in the family. What would change? Would Sesshomaru reject the child? There was no denying it was his, he couldn't if he tried; Kenichi looked just like him. How would Kenichi react to finally meeting his father and being rejected? Or even more, what if Sesshomaru wanted to be involved? Then what? Sesshomaru lived thousands of miles away as far as she knew. Would he try to have joint custody? Or worse! Would Sesshomaru try to take Kenichi away from Kagome? He was successful in life and could give him more in a financial sense, but he could never love him as much as Kagome did!

Sango saw the wheels turning in her friends mind and imagined the chaos going on in there.

"Kagome!" she grabbed her friends hand and squeezed it reassuringly.

Kagome was brought back from her frightening thoughts and looked at her friend with tears in her eyes.

"Sango what if-"

"Shh." Sango held her hand up. "You don't know what's going to happen. I don't either, but Kenichi has a right to know who his dad is."

"Ugh," the single mother groaned, "you're right."

"Don't worry," Sango pulled her friend in for a hug, "I've got your back."

"Thanks." Kagome hugged her friend, more like sister. "So now what do I do? Show up to the house that I'm pretty sure he's staying at with a child holding my hand?"

Sango smiled. "That's a good idea."

Kagome's phone started to ring; she looked at the caller identification and didn't recognize the number.

"If you wait till the weekend, I'll go with you."

Kagome smiled at how helpful and supportive her friend was. She swiped to answer her phone, curious as to who was calling.

"Hello?"

"…Kagome?"

Kagome's eyes widened as she recognized the voice.

"Inu- Inuyasha?" he voice shook and she heard Sango gasp.

"Yeah, it's me."

Kagome didn't know what to say. "How did you get my number?" She switched her phone to speaker so that Sango, who was now leaning close to her, could hear.

"I don't want to get into that, can we talk? Please?"

Kagome frowned wanting to say no, but Sango's hand on her wrist stopped her.

She let out a breath. "Sure."

"Great." His voice seemed a bit more cheery. "Do you think, maybe, we could meet up? Grab a drink or something?"

Sango nodded her head vigorously.

"I guess we could," she answered hesitantly.

"How about right now? It's only 9 o'clock."

"Go." Sango whispered. "I'll babysit."

Kagome made a face towards Sango. She made Kagome do things that were out of her comfort zone.

"That's fine, Inuyasha." She tried to think of a well populated bar that wasn't far. "Meet me at the Winking Dragon?"

"How soon can you be there? If I leave now it'll be ten minutes."

"Be there in a fifteen."

"Okay." He said. "Thank you."

Kagome nodded, not realizing that he couldn't see her. She then hung up the phone and turned towards her best friend.

"Wow." Sango breathed, staring at the phone in Kagome's hand. "That was weird." What a coincidence that the girls were having a conversation about Kenichi meeting his father and his uncle calls on the phone.

"If I didn't know better, I'd say you had something to do with it." Kagome shook her head and smiled.

"If I had anything to do with that, it would be Sesshomaru calling you. Not Inuyasha." Sango smirked. "Now go get ready."

Kagome sat in her car, staring into the entrance of the bar she was supposed to meet Inuyasha at. Half of her wanted to run away and lie to Sango, saying that Inuyasha changed his mind. The other half knew that she needed to reach out to him. Not to Inuyasha exactly, but he was the key to Kenichi meeting his dad.

She slowly got out, and walked inside of the bar. Her eyes landed on Inuyasha sitting at a table in the back. He had a drink in his hand and was doing something on his phone.

Kagome sat down across from him. Inuyasha looked up at her and gulped.

"Kagome." He said taking her appearance in. She looked beautiful. She was always pretty but the last few years seemed to be good to her.

"Hi." Kagome replied anxiously.

"Uh," he stood up, "let me get you a drink. What do you want?"

"I'm fine."

"No." He shook his head. "I insist."

"Well," she bit her lip, "I guess I'll have a screwdriver."

"Okay."

"Can you tell them to add grenadine?"

Inuyasha beamed. "You got it."

He was back in a matter of minutes with drink in hand.

"Here you go." He said, placing the concoction on the table in front of her.

She thanked him and took a sip. It was strong, but good.

Inuyasha took his seat in front of her and both parties stared at their drinks. Neither of them knew where to start.

"So," Kagome was the one to break their silence, "you wanted to talk?"

"Yeah... I just..." he struggled for words. He had many questions and didn't know which ones to ask or what order to ask them in. Not only that but seeing her brought up some guilt from the past. "I called your moms house today."

Kagome's breath hitched. What did her mother reveal to him?

"She said you haven't lived there for years. Then she yelled at me and told me never to call again."

Kagome let out the breath she was holding in.

"I know we were great friends in high school. I'm sorry I took advantage of your kindness and yelled at you. I was just so jealous when I found out about you and him." He didn't say the name; they both knew exactly who he was referring to.

"You were jealous," she said angrily. "How do you think I felt watching you with Kikyo all the time?"

"I know." He continued. "I was going to apologize for exploding on you when I realized what a hypocrite I was but then we moved and I just felt so bad about how I reacted so I never said anything." He figured that she would move on with her life, just as he had. That she was still upset about it surprised him and made him feel terrible.

Kagome stayed silent. Listening intently.

"I had no idea you'd still be mad about it this many years later."

"Listen," she stopped him, "I got over it. You were an immature eighteen year old boy. You liked to think with the wrong head and Kikyo was a slut. Of course you'd keep going back to her, I get it now. Okay?"

"Then why wouldn't you talk to me last night?" he questioned. "You specifically brought up that day as the reason you wouldn't talk to me so-"

"I just wasn't feeling right! I didn't want to talk and that was a good way to shut you up." She replied, cutting him off.

"What?" Inuyasha shrunk in his chair. When had Kagome become so cold?

Kagome knew that Inuyasha had a lot more to say so she chose to remain silent and let him speak whenever he was ready. She wanted to put off Kenichi as long as possible for the night.

"Okay." He trailed off, the next question forming in his head. "So you're a stripper now?"

"Obviously."

"Right," he shook his head, "but why?"

Kagome lifted her cup and took a small sip of her drink before responding. "For money."

"Yeah, I get that." He said, clearly annoyed. She knew damn well what he meant. "I'm trying to figure out why such a good girl like Kagome Higurashi would end up working at a strip club. I mean, Kikyo I could see being a stripper. Maybe Sango because she could be ruthless. But you?" He held his hand out to her. "The Kagome I know would have died before she did anything as degrading as that."

"Excuse me?" She started to get offended.

"You're getting naked, shaking your ass for money. You grind on guys dicks all night long. What kind of shit is that?"

"Oh please," she scoffed, "if it's such a bad place to be then why were you there in the first place then?"

"Because I'm a guy!" he raised his voice and stood up. Then his eyes widened. "I'm sorry." He sat back down. "I didn't want to make this turn into an argument."

"Well good job." She glared.

He sighed and looked away.

They went back into their awkward silence. That's when Kagome decided it was time to let out a little information. The whole time she got ready, and the whole drive there she tried to figure out the words to say to him. But none came.

"Inuyasha," she said resting her hand on his forearm, "it's not the best job in the world. But it's the best and easiest money I can make without a college degree and no other skills."

"I see." Once she opened up he felt a bit more relaxed. "I thought you had that scholarship?"

"I know." Kagome looked away with a frown. "I ended losing it. I had some family stuff happen and I had to put college off for a bit."

Inuyasha looked at her concerned and confused. What the hell was he missing?

She saw his facial expression and sighed. 'Oh, I don't know what to say!'

"Yash," she used his old nickname, "I uh, I had a baby." She stumbled over her words. "I had a baby, and that's what kept me from going to school." She pressed her lips together. "Me getting pregnant, I couldn't go off to college…" She trailed off, not knowing what more to add.

Inuyasha looked into the distance as he let the words soak in. He felt a small pang of jealousy in his heart. Kagome was one of the most amazing girls he'd ever met in his life, and some lucky guy got to have a child with her. Did he want to be with her? What guy wouldn't? He would not pursue her, but he was no longer blind to noticing a good thing when he sees it.

"Wow…I don't know what to say." He really didn't. Then a thought came to him and he turned his lip into a sneer. "So what kind of job does this guy have that you have to do what you're doing?"

She let out a laugh. If only he knew. "We're not together."

"Oh, I'm sorry."

"It's fine. I live with Sango now. She's my babydaddy now." Kagome joked with a smile.

"Damn," Inuyasha's face lit up, "I remember her. You guys are still friends?"

"More like sisters."

"Does she still talk to Miroku? We used to be such good friends; I don't talk to anyone from high school anymore."

"Yes." Kagome nodded, smiling. "They've been engaged for a while now, but they're putting of the actual marriage until he finishes school."

"That's great," he said, "what about Sango?"

The two were in much better moods now that they could reminisce.

"Well," she started, "Sango and I moved in together once I left my moms. And she's going to the community college right now. She works at a gym and plans on opening her own one day."

"Nice." Inuyasha nodded. "What about you?" He wanted to know more about his long lost friend.

Kagome flinched, but he didn't notice. "You first," she deflected, "what's going on in your life."

"Yeah," he tilted his head, noticing her subject change, "well, I've just been focusing on MMA. I train every day, my main goal is to be number one. I want to be a champion."

Kagome smiled. "That's awesome."

"I can't wait till the day I go in the octagon against Sesshomaru and beat him on national television."

They both shared a laugh for a moment. Kagome's was a nervous laugh but Inuyasha couldn't tell. The two spent the next hour or so just catching up, reminiscing, and talking about random things.

After they'd each had a few drinks, courtesy of Inuyasha, Kagome felt comfortable enough to do what she'd been putting off all night. The liquid courage giving her enough confidence to go above and beyond just telling him about Kenichi.

"Inuyasha," she said as he came back with another round of drinks, "do you want to meet me son?"

"What?" he looked at her incredulously.

"Well, he's asleep, but we can hang out with Sango."

"You know what?" he said, "yeah. It'd be fun to see her and to see your son."

"Cool," she held up her drink, "well, let's down these and get going."

"Bet I'll finish my drink first."

"Oh gosh," she laughed, "you're dumb. I'm not racing."

Inuyasha brought his drink to his lips with a twinkle in his eye. Kagome was not competing against him, but she did drink as quickly as she could.

"Ah," Inuyasha said, slamming the empty class on the table, "I win."

"Shut up," Kagome rolled her eyes, not bothering to finish her drink. "I wasn't playing your game."

"Mhmm." He was grinning by now.

"Let's go." She stood up. "You can follow me back."

"Are you good to drive?"

"I'm fine," she waved him off, "Just a little tipsy, but my place isn't far from here, it's about a five minute drive max."

"Oh," he nodded. "Sweet."

They made it back to Kagome's apartment safely and parked near each other. The walk inside the building and to her door was silent. Inuyasha was excited to see Sango and hang out with old friends, plus seeing Kagome's kid would be alright. Kagome, on the other hand, was starting to feel a bit more nervous. The alcohols effect on her was wearing off and she realized exactly what she was doing.

Kagome didn't bother using her keys, but knocked on the door for Sango to open. She knew the woman would still be up.

Sango opened the door and her eyes almost bulged out of her head when she saw who was standing behind Kagome.

"Inuyasha," she said, "this is a surprise." Then she cast a questioning look towards her roommate.

"Hey Sango," Inuyasha said, unaware at the tension coming from both girls. "It's really good to see you."

"Yeah," she smiled, trying not to be rude. Inuyasha was her friend after all; they just grew apart when he moved away.

Sango stepped back to let the other two in and closed the door behind them. She didn't know what Kagome had planned but she was going to observe for the most part.

The three stood in the living room and an awkward silence overcame them.

"Well." Inuyasha bent his arm behind his head and scratched the back of his neck nervously.

When Kagome made no move to do anything Sango changed her mind about just staying silent.

"I guess you'll want to meet your ne-" she was cut off by Kagome.

"Your new friend, Kenichi!" she said quickly. "That's his name."

Sango then realized that Inuyasha was unaware of his relation to the child. 'Just what did these two talk about for the last hour?'

Inuyasha noticed the strange behavior and became confused. Something wasn't right, but he didn't know what.

"So?" he turned to Kagome.

"Right," she hesitated, but then nodded, "this way."

He followed her to the room as Sango kept her eye on them from the living room.

Kagome stood in front of the door, her hand was on the knob, but she couldn't turn it. She was scared. She had no idea how Inuyasha would react.

'It's too late to change your mind,' she thought to herself, 'no turning back now.'

Kagome opened the door and stepped in. The room was dark but the light from the hallway would suffice for Inuyasha to see Kenichi.

Inuyasha followed Kagome in slowly and was surprised to see a racecar bed in the far corner of the room; he expected to see a crib. Kagome said she had a baby so he thought that she meant recently. He tried to be quiet as he walked over, not wanting to wake the child up. He couldn't see very well but his eyes slowly adjusted and with the help of the light coming from the hallway he was able to get a good look at the boy.

'He looks like… but we never… so that means…'

He was brought to his knees as his brain put two and two together.

AN: ^_^ someone knows! haha review please