AN: Thank you very much for the reviews! Always greatly appreciated. Well it's now 3:30am. I won't bother making you wait any longer by reading a long authors note!
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After taking my shower and getting dressed in some comfortable clothes I lit a cigarette and went through my wallet, looking through my small collection of ultrasound pictures; the nicotine and image of my daughter are instantly relaxing. My alarm clock says it's a quarter past six and I soon hear my mom knocking on my door.

"Inuyasha," she opens the door, "Your father just arrived. We need to make this discussion quickly so let's hurry up and go to his study."

I stood up and followed her out. "What's the rush mom?"

"Sesshomaru just called and told me that Rin was induced and we'd like to go to the hospital."

I nodded. "Yeah I forgot that was today."

"Well you've been distracted I'm sure."

Huh, kind of low blow there, mom.

We got to the door and walked in sitting in front of my father's desk. He looks up at me from his computer. "Inuyasha, how are you feeling?"

"Better now." I guess.

"Good." He straightened in his chair. "Let's make this short and sweet son; I don't want to miss the birth of my grandson."

Yeah, you missed enough of your kids' lives already. "Alright dad."

"Well in response to your recent behavior issues I've decided that we have some new rules for you to follow." Great. "First, you are grounded."

Ugh. "Alright." I say.

"You are no longer allowed to socialize with whoever you please anymore. And your driving privileges have been revoked. Unless you are driving to family affairs or school."

I interrupted him. "School? You mean we're talking that long from now?"

He gave me a look that shut me up. "If that's what it takes. I don't know when this drug use issue started with you or where you even got into it. You will be given random drug tests whenever I see fit. If you can pass three consecutively then you will be rewarded with more freedom. Every test you fail will be added to the amount of tests you must pass consecutively. Do you understand?"

I nod while sighing. This is ridiculous.

"Also, you will be going to therapy twice a week until you pass the three tests. After that you will continue therapy, but once a week until further notice under the discretion of your therapist."

Great.

My dad took a glance at his watch. "Alright Inuyasha we are done here. I'm sure Rin would enjoy you and your wife's company as well." Ever the business man. With that said he stood up and started to walk out of the room.

My mother turned to me. "I hope to see you and Kagome at the hospital." She stood up and gave me a hug before leaving.

I sighed. Man my life is messed up. Then I stand and go to Kagome's room to wake her up.

I open the door without knocking to find her in bed where I left her. I go to the edge and sit next to her. "Kagome."

She stirs easily. "Hmm?"

"Did you want to go to the hospital?"

She cracks an eye open. "Why?"

"Rin is supposed to have the baby today."

She sat up. "Yeah! Of course I do, I didn't even realize that was today." Then she got out of the bed, looked at her body, and blushed. Forgot what put her to sleep, I guess.

I laughed. "You okay?"

"Inuyasha, turn around!"

At least I get to drive us to the hospital. When we're walking to the building I say to Kagome, "Just think next time we come here it's gonna be you having the baby."

She smiled and looked away. "Yeah."

We sat in the waiting room with my dad. Neither of us talking to one another.

"Kagome," I say, "I'll be right back." I stand up.

"Where are you going?"

I put to fingers to my lips to indicate that I'm gonna go smoke a cigarette. I feel my pops glaring at me as I walked away. Whatever, right now I could give a shit less about his feelings.

I left the hospital and found myself in the parking lot. I sat down on a bench and pulled out my phone, searching for Naraku's number. Once I found it I pressed the call option.

It rang a couple times before he picked up. "Hello?"

"What up?"

"Hey you alright Yash? I heard you were in the hospital."

I roll my eyes. "Yeah, I'm fine. Why the fuck didn't you tell me what we were doing?"

"I thought you knew."

I felt my blood boil. "Hell no I didn't, and then I fucking overdosed!"

"…" There was silence on the other line.

"I was in a coma for two fucking days." I glared into the air.

"Well shit my bad."

"Yeah, now I got my old man breathing down my back. I'm under ball and chain unless I stay clean."

"Wow, that sucks."

"No shit. I would see you later but I'm grounded too. I might sneak out though."

"You should man."

"I'll think about it."

I hang up the phone without saying more. I'm a little irritated that Naraku was so stupid about what happened the other night.

When I walk back to the small waiting area I notice that Kagome isn't there. My dad is though.

"Where's Kagome?" I ask.

He looks up from the laptop he brought with him. "She is with Rin; Getting a preview of what to look forward to in the next few months."

"Oh." I sit down.

Tomaru was born at 1:24 a.m. He weighed a little over 9 pounds.

I held my breath as he was passed on to me. I think for the first time in my life I was holding a baby. I felt a small smile creep onto my face when he started to yawn. I'm not one to get all girly but I gotta admit he is adorable.

We took what felt like a thousand pictures, everyone with the baby, some by himself. During the car ride back home Kagome was yawning once every ten seconds. I walked her to her room and she was asleep before her head hit the pillows.

Going back to my room I lay down and reflected today's events. It turned out to be a good day I guess, you know, since Tomaru was born and all. I lit up a cigarette and smoked about half of it. The alarm clock by my bed read 3am. Yeah, it's time to pass out.

Christmas.

After waiting a whole year it's finally here!

My alarm went off early for the first time since school ended. I hurried up to shower and dress for Christmas breakfast. When I got down to the table everyone including my new nephew was already seated. Well not really, he was in Rin's arms at the moment but she is sitting so it counts. I took my seat next to Kagome and we all started to eat.

I was anxious to finish my food. Why? Well because, then we open presents. Yes I'm 17 but that doesn't meant I don't get presents. And besides it's not like my parents do all the shopping. I bought everyone something too.

We all went to the main family room and circled the tree with its gifts all around. The bulk of the gifts for Tomaru. Kagome got a shit ton of baby stuff and some gift cards to use for whatever. I got a new 3D phone which is awesome!

After opening all our gifts everyone went their separate ways. The extended family is supposed to be coming over for diner today, so I'm just gonna have some time to myself before they get here.

I go to my room and sit on my bed. I've been sober for almost a week now. It's been the shittiest week of my life. My day goes by so fucking slow now, and I don't have any escape when I get pissed off. I still have my cigarettes but they only do so much.

I end up smoking a cigarette while toying around with my new phone. A 3D phone would have been even better if I was high I bet.

I woke up this morning with a huge ass headache. Today is New Year's Day; I have a hangover from getting drunk last night, but have been 13 days sober from everything else. I've come to the conclusion that my therapist is a total bitch. With the way our visits have been going I don't think she'll ever release me from this shit. The stupid woman even prescribed me anti depressant pills! Like I'm crazy, or I'm depressed. Uh, no!

A knock on the door made my head pound even more. "Come in!" I yelled.

Kagome walked in with a cup of water and what looked like aspirin in her hands. "Hey, how are you feeling?"

"Like shit." I said as she sat down on the bed next to me.

She smiled. "I figured. Here take this."

"Thanks."

She laughed. "I found Sesshomaru passed out in the kitchen this morning. When he wakes up not only will he have a hangover but a sore neck too!"

A smile crept on my face.

"I never thought he was one to get drunk."

Ha. "You should have seen him before he met Rin. He was just as bad as me if not worse."

She lifted an eyebrow.

"I'm serious. Where do you think I learned it from?"

She crossed her arms. "I don't believe you. He's way too responsible and mature for that."

I tilted my head. "Believe what you want."

"So…" she said.

I relaxed into the bed, adjusting my pillow so I can see her as I laid down. "What?"

"How are you doing?"

"Hung over."

She looked away. "Not that."

I sighed. "Don't worry Kagome I haven't done any drugs. Let's not talk about it."

She pressed her lips together, finally learning to shut her mouth. "Okay."

Thank you.

We stayed silent for a minute both of us lost in thought until Kagome put her hand on her stomach. "She's kicking."

I reached over and replaced her hand with mine. I felt one little kick but then she stopped. I frowned. "She would stop when I feel."

Kagome smiled. "That's because she's a momma's girl."

I just rolled my eyes before I felt a small nudge. Then I grinned. "Make that a daddy's girl."

She crosses her arms. "Anyways, Rin and I were talking last night. Your nephew is just the cutest! Like a friendly, adorable baby version of Sesshomaru."

I gave her a sideways smile. "He is pretty adorable."

"Well like I was saying we were talking and she told me that your birthday is next Monday."

"It is."

"Why didn't you tell me?"

"You never asked. I figured you'd find out eventually."

"Oh, well what do you want for your birthday?"

I give her a blank look. "What, you're gonna get me something?"

"Well yeah."

I smiled. "Ya know, you're cute too, sometimes. And I don't know."

She pouted. "Gee thanks. Well I'm gonna let you get back to sleeping your hangover off then."

The Friday before my 18 birthday.

I'm on my way over to Miroku's house to pick him up and go to Naraku's. It's the first time I've gone out since my 'incident' and even though I'm still grounded my dad is out of town again and my mom is giving me the weekend as my birthday present. Kagome was a little upset that I'm going out but I promised her that I'd call her every hour and if I don't then for her to call me whenever she wants. I don't want her to be stressed out worrying about me but I do need a weekend out already.

I've been going to therapy, staying drug free, and I only drank alcohol the one time on New Year's Eve. So far I've had 2 drug tests which I passed, thank god! They were close together so I don't know when the next one might be. Well since they were recent then I'm sure it should be another week or so when I get the next test. I'm sure that if I don't smoke a lot tonight and drink a bunch of cranberry juice everyday plus workout then I should be fine. Besides it's been so long since I last smoked it'll probably only take me a few hits to get high.

I pull into the driveway and park my car. Then I knock on the door and wait for someone to open it. It's cold as fuck out so they better hurry up.

Miroku opens the door after what seems like forever. "What's up Yash? Come on in I'm almost ready."

"You're still not ready?" I asked walking in.

"Well you know how Sango is. I've been on the phone with her for the last hour."

"Damn. What the hell do you guys talk about for that long?"

He rolled his eyes. "Me pretty much begging her to let me have this night with you instead of her. I had to use the birthday card on her."

I smirked. I can't stand Sango sometimes. She's way to fucking bossy. I don't know why he likes her.

"How's Kagome?" Miroku asked as he looked for some cologne.

"She's doing alright." Kagome was always an awkward subject between us. "I'm supposed to call her every hour to let her know I'm doing fine. If I don't she'll have a heart attack."

"I can't blame her though." Miroku said giving me a small glare.

"I know." I sigh. "I can't either."

He thankfully changed the subject. "So you said you stopped over Bankotsu's earlier?"

I grinned while pulling out a small baggie of weed. "Yup, it's some grade A kush."

I opened the bag and pulled some out. "Why don't we take a few hits before we leave?"

Miroku smiled. "Let me get my bowl."

...

10 minutes later we were half way to Naraku's when I noticed the blue and red lights in my rearview mirror. I felt my heart speed up, realizing that I have at least an eighth on me. "Oh shit." I said as I looked at my speedometer and began to pull over.

"Fuck." Miroku said, slyly putting his forgotten seatbelt on. I did the same. My adrenaline was rushing through my body as the cop pulled over behind us. Quickly I moved the small bag of weed from my jacket into the mini pocket in my jeans. It barely fit, but thankfully it did.

Miroku watched me while asking, "Do you have any wraps or anything in here?"

I shook my head. "No."

"Good."

The cop was at my window before I knew it and shone his flashlight in on our laps as I rolled the window down.

I looked up and tried to act as naturally as possible. "Is there a problem officer?"

"Yes there is. Did you notice how fast you driving back there?"

"Uh, no sir."

"Well, I clocked you going 47 on a 35. So I'm going to need your license and registration as well as insurance information."

"I didn't realize I was going that fast." I said as I handed him what he needed out of my wallet.

He looked back and forth from my ID and me. "Let me run this and I'll be back."

I looked over at Miroku as the officer walked away. "This shit is crazy. I'm glad it's just a speeding ticket. This could have been way worse."

He shook his head while exhaling. "I know."

The officer came back over to my car. Shining the flashlight in the backseat before looking over at me. He handed me my things back before leaning closer. "I'm going to right you a ticket for speeding. It's winter and you shouldn't be going this fast." He pointed his pen onto a blank line. "I'm going to need you to sign-" He stopped talking and made a face.

Then he backed his head away from my window and waved his partner over. What the fuck? The partner walked over and after being told something leaned his head near the window of my car, held it for a moment and after straightening backup nodded towards his partner.

Oh shit. I felt myself getting nervous all over again.

The first officer spoke finally. "Mr. Takahashi, can you explain why my partner and myself smell marijuana?"

I swear my heart dropped in my chest. "I don't know sir."

"Ah huh," he said shining his flashlight in my face. "I'm gonna need both you and your passenger to step out of the car. We're just gonna do a small search."

Fuck! I step out of the car after nodding. Right now I'm scared, I'll admit it. I hear Miroku mutter 'shit' before opening his door and stepping out.

We were lead to the trunk of the car and told to put our hands on the top of the car.

"Do either of you have anything on you that we should know about before we search you?"

Miroku and I shook our heads. I felt the officer pat my down going through all my pockets. Please don't go into the one with my bag in it.

What luck! I felt his finger dip into the small opening.

"Just as I thought." I heard him say as soon as he pulled it out. Dammit! "I wish you hadn't of lied to me just now. I would have thrown this out and given you your ticket and a warning about this, but unfortunately I can't do that anymore."

I stayed silent. He pulled my arms behind my back and led me to the back seat of the police car. After he opened the door I got in and sat down. He closed the door behind me and walked away.

I sighed. "Fuck me."

AN: Okayyyy... so how did you like it? I bet you're wondering what's going to happen next huh?