Hey, fans...if there is any left...I'm so sorry I havent uploaded a chapter for three months...after that long I certainly wouldnt still be a fan...Im so sorry -bows over and over- I am a lowly author simply trying to please you with my miniscule existence and the scripts that follows my accursed and unworthy life...but if you would please, have mercy upon me and read my story...at least finish it finally, you dont even have to read the sequel coming after this story, just finish this story for mow, and I would be forever in your debt...

Inuyasha: wow...you must have really screwed up to have to grovel like this. -laughs at meowsa-of-DOOM-

meowsa-of-DOOM: yes...I did screw up...but not to you, so I dont have to grovel to you. So get'ta disclaimin', PUNK!

Inuyasha: ha! treat me like this and your fans will hate you even more.

meowsa-of-DOOM: ...they're gunna hate me anyway after they finish this chapter...either that or love me...i think its gunna be the same for you...

Inuyasha: oh?me too? why???

meowsa-of-DOOM: oooh...nuthin...ur just put completly out of the story for a while...and even if u dont show up in the story, ur still in a wierd predicament!!! haha!...Im so evil : )

Inuyasha:...I noticed the last part...u've alwaysbeen evil... -.- Its gettin kinda old.

meowsa-of-DOOM: weeeelll...NOBODY ASKED YOU!!! Im tellin' you...disclaimer, now!...or the story will take a bad turn... : )

Inuyasha: ...-sigh- she thankfully does not technically own any Inuyasha characters... and yet her evilness still grips me tightly. T.T

meowsa-of-DOOM: good boy...oh, and you know me! the story will always take a bad turn if possible, whether you do something or not, baka!mwahahhaha!

Inuyasha: ... T.T

Chapter 15

Kagome woke up with the feeling of cold down to the bone, causing her to endlessly shiver. She was laying underneath a tree in the middle of a forest just outside of the town she used to belong to before her home was taken away from her and she was left with nothing but the clothes on her back. The dew the night had left on the ground blanketed her entire being inside and out, making her long for her warm bed and a hot meal. But she hadn't had either of these things for a week now, and she certainly wasn't going to get them now.

All week she had been trying to find somewhere to stay, and somewhere to work to pay for the place she'd be staying at, but all the places she went were always suspicious of her and questioned her why she was alone at her age. All the jobs she asked for were refused because they always said, "Teenagers under 18 need written permission to work here." "One year difference! So close." she'd scream in her head angrily. She was 17 now. If only she was 18, this independence would be so much easier.

Kagome sighed and drew her knees to her chest. "If only I had thought of bringing some blankets before I left my home. That is, my old home. Not anymore. This is my new home. The woods. Yep, nice and homey. All to myself." She thought to herself sarcastically.

Suddenly, she heard a twig crack behind her, and she turned quickly. There walking out behind a tree was a man, no older than 20, carrying a pack on his bag. Before Kagome could hide from him, he looked over and saw her. He walked over slowly and stopped a few feet away from where she was sitting. He crouched down and looked into her face.

"Hello, miss. What are you doing out here alone?" he asked with a calm quiet voice that Kagome couldn't help but relax to. He had a clean shaven face and bright blue eyes. His hair was coal black and stopped just beyond his ears. All in all, he was purely gorgeous.

"I…. I'm camping." She lied, not sure if she should trust him completely. "My dad is near, so don't try anything." She said warningly, and wiped off the helpless look on her face that matched the rest of her appearance.

"Yes, of course, madam. I merely wish to sit with you for a moment, if it would be alright wit h you." He sounded so kind and truthful, she couldn't help but nod, giving him permission to sit if he wished.

"Thank you." He said, and sat down on his pack across from her. He then looked around him as if there was something different from this area of trees than the one he was just walking through. "Lovely home you've got yourself." He sighed happily.

She was taken aback for a moment, but she continued to go with the lie she had started. "I told you, I'm camp-"

"Yes, well, long camping trip ahead of you." He said, interrupting her but still sounding kind. "My name is Akamaru. And you are?" he held out his hand in greeting and reluctantly Kagome took it and shook his hand.

Not seeing any threat in only giving out her first name, she stated her name, "Kagome."

"Kagome, huh? Beautiful name, Kagome; beautiful girl too. Rough place for beauty to be in, isn't it?" he tilted his head and smiled slightly.

"I suppose." She replied and looked at the ground uncomfortably. The warmth he showed towards her for no reason confused her.

"Hm. You look cold. Would you like a blanket? You can keep it if you would like." He said, pulling a plain blue blanket from his pack and handing it to her.

Kagome looked down at the blanket in her lap and looked up at him. She was speechless for a moment, then finally she grasped it and wrapped it around her and choked out, "Thank you." She wasn't sure why, but a tear now found its way down her face.

"Dear Kagome, you are welcome. Please, make me a promise, Kagome?" he said hopefully, his tone as if he was talking to a long lost friend.

Kagome, now all her suspicions of Akamaru gone, nodded tiredly.

"Promise me that when your child is born months from now, please wrap him or her in this blanket." He smiled broadly, and got to his feet slowly.

Kagome was shocked at such a promise, and wondered what he was talking about. "My child?" she asked confusedly.

"Yes, you're child. When a woman is with child, she glows with beauty beyond any beauty of an unpregnant woman; and I must say, you being pregnant is the only way I can think of a reason of you're such blinding beauty." He explained and continued to smile happily, only now his face showed a hint of sadness.

She was still shocked at such news, but she managed to look him in the eye and smile while saying, "I promise."

"Then I must thank you." He replied happily, picking up his pack and before turning around, he fished something from his bag and set it down on the ground. This ended their meeting, because he then walked away into the trees, never meeting Kagome again.

Kagome watched him leave until she couldn't see him anymore, then she turned her attention to the package he had left on the ground. She picked it up and looked at it. It was several tubs of food. Once again, she felt a wave of gratitude flow over her as she opened it and tore off a piece of bread.

After she had eaten a bit of the food he gave her, she leaned against the tree again and began to think. "So I'm pregnant. With Inuyasha's child, no doubt. So my child will most probably be a half demon." At thinking this, she couldn't help but smile happily. "I hope my child has ears like Inuyasha's. That'd be so cute!" "A half demon… wait, that's why my priestess powers are dormant! If they weren't they might harm the child. That's why I can't get through the well. So… I should be able to go back through the well when the baby is born." She said happily to herself. "I wonder what Inuyasha'll think. He's a father; and I'm a mother." This brought up her memories of her mother. She felt a sudden anger surge through her. "She must have known somehow. That's probably what she was talking about when she said that she didn't approve of our relationship. And…. Oh! Sota knew too. Mother must have told him! That's why when we were saying good bye to eachother, he said, 'Uncle Sota will always be here'.

Tears fell down her face. "Oh, Sota. If only I didn't have to leave. You always cared for me so well. You are always the best little brother ever."

"My child… will have the best life I can give him or her… no, that I can give him. It'll be a boy, I'm sure of it." She said happily, and wiped the tears from her face. "Only about 8 more months, my little baby."

hey, all. Im not really sure if this will make you all happy, sad, crying happy, crying sad, mad, angry, disasterous to my well being, and or any other emotion that may drive you to kill me, or to love me. ...buuuuut, I do know that after reading that, ur probably wondering who the Akamaru guy was...well, hes a stranger and will prob not appear again...so get over him! I know I had to force my self to...T.T...now its ur time! seperation anxiety, sheesh!! well, if u wanna keep reading on to know how it actually ends, then read my sequel that's gunna come out soon.(not sure what its gunna be called yet) If you dont want to know how technically ends, and just figure this as a good enough happy ending for you, then fine! thanks for reading, please review if u can, and see those who reads my new story, later: )