Kagasha: Hey guys. How's it going?

Kagome: (coming through the door with Inu-Yasha) Hey Kagasha. I brought you some chips.

Kagasha: Thanks.

Inu-Yasha: She gives you chips and I get doggy treats.

Kagasha: (laughs) Are you serious?

Kagome: Yup (pulls out doggy treat bag).

Kagasha: Ha ha, oh my god. You guys are hilarious. Well here's the new chappie you guys, ENJOY!!

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Young Love

Pick Up the Phone

It was about 5:17, two hours after school let out. Kouga was in Kagome's bed, sprawled out sleeping as if it was his own bed. Kagome was downstairs in the dining room doing her homework when the phone rang. She ignored it, figuring it was for her mother, when he mother screamed down the stairs for Kagome to pick up the phone. She dropped the pencil on the thick Englsih book and shuffled her way to the phone. When she picked it up, Sango was panting.

"Sango, what's wrong? Why are you breathing so hard?"

"Oh, it was nothing. Miroku was chasing me outside and I was trying to get in the house."

Kagome giggled. "You two are silly."

"I know. But I wanted to tell you something. I talked to Inu-Yasha a couple minutes ago and..."

"Oh no," Kagome sighed, interrupting Sango.

"Let me finish. I talked to Inu-Yasha and he's really broken up about this. I mean, you guys got together about I'd say a week ago and to find his new girl locking hot lips with Kouga in the hallway. I mean, if anyone knew about the relationship with you and Yasha then they would've been all over him, just laughing at him for having little miss shy girl kissing the most popular guy in school. That's humiliating. And don't think I'm just taking his side because I'm not."

Kagome digested Sango's speech and sighed again. She just didn't know what to say. She didn't mean to break his heart, but she had to follow hers. Being with her best friend was awkward from the start and she didn't know how to handle it. Kagome scratched her head and untangled a small knot in her hair. "Sango...I don't really know what to say or do about that."

Before she could finish her statement, Sango interviened. "You guys are still best friends!! You have to say something!! If not to me, than him. Oh and side note, you guys are still together. No one has broken up with each other yet."

Kagome's face scrunched up. "Weird." She paced the floor and ended up in the kitchen looking through the refrigerator for an apple. "I know I have to talk to him and believe me I will. But if I call him, he might not even answer because he's been giving me the mega cold shoulder after he seen me and Kouga kissing."

"I would too. That's like ultra betrayal."

"Don't rub it in." The phone beeped and Kagome looked at it, assuming it was dying, but it was Inu-Yasha on the other line. "Oh gosh, Sango?"

"Yeah?!"

"It's Inu-Yasha on the other line, I call you back later."

"Good. See ya."

Kagome clicked the send button written in green and was on the other lne with Inu-Yasha. She bit her apple, munching it for a while, before stuttering a hello.

"Hey Kagome..."

There was an extrmely awkward silence. They wanted to say some much, but couldn't squeak out a word. There was a huff on Inu-Yasha's end of the line and he began. "Why Kagome? I know you were still in love with him, but damn. You didn't have to go and stab me in my back like that. Why couldn't you just realize that you two were not together nomore and get over it?"

"Get over it? Get over it?! How could I possibly get over someone I'm in love with. I love Kouga and I can't just possibly get over him. How would you like it if I told you to get over me? You said you love me, so could you possibly get over me in a split second?! Inu-Yasha, I'm deeply sorry for leading you on into thinking I was in love with you because I'm not. But you also have to blame yourself for getting with me when I was still a very vunerable state. I mean, geez Inu-Yasha, we just broke up and you pounced on me. You didn't give me a chance to breath before you asked me to be with you. Inu-Yasha, when you asked me to be with you, all I wanted was to be in Kouga's arms, not yours, not in an intimate way. Inu-Yasha you are my bestfriend, and I love you, but not the way I love Kouga...I'm sorry."

Inu-Yasha said nothing for a while and he groaned with disgust for his own mistake of going with her from the beginning. He seen that she was still hurting over Kouga, but he decided to ask anyway. It was stupid, and it was manipulating his friend's feelings...his best friend's feelings. "We're done then. Just forget we even went together, ok? I'll talk to you later." And with that last word, he hung up and left Kagome listening to the automated voice telling her there was an error. She set the phone down on the charger, bit her apple again, and instead of going back into the kitchen to finish her homework, she went upstairs to be with Kouga.

Kagome crawled beside him and snuggled up close to his chest. He began to wake up from the movements and subconsciously wrapped his arm around her, pulling her closer to him. He fluttered his eyes and looked around, finally becoming fully awake and alert. He noticed Kagome in his arms, mindlessly nibbling on the green apple. "Why so blue, love?"

"I just feel bad for mistreating my friend like that."

"Who?"

"Inu-Yasha."

"Oh." He repositioned himself to feel more comfortable. He kissed Kagome lightly on her forehead. He was about to say something when the baby began to cry. Kagome sighed, beginning to lift her body up and away from his to get the baby, but Kouga stopped her and rolled off the bed to get Myran. He craddled the baby, rocking it back and forth, but it didn't stop crying. He thought about taking one of Sota's bottles to "feed" the baby, but he settled on slipping his finger inside the baby's mouth. After a few minutes of having his finger in the baby's mouth, it settled down and he put it back in the corner with the big stuffed dog that Kagome won at an amusement park.

He crawled back into bed and kissed Kagome again. "Inu-Yasha will come around and be the same old Inu-Yasha he was before all this happened. And if he doesn't...that's his mistake."

Kagome couldn't, but smile at him. "Thanks Kouga."

"Oh yeah, almost forgot. Do you want to be me girl again?"

She gave him a few quick kisses and afterwards, smiled. "You know that answer to that already Kouga. I love you."

"I'll always love you too Kagome."

After some time, Kouga was gone and Kagome was sitting on the couch bouncing him on her knee. "Who's a happy baby? Who's a happy baby?" she cooed at her little brother. He giggled and his eyes squinted with delight. She continued to play with him as her mother came down the stairs.

"Oh there he is. I was wondering why he wasn't in his crib."

Kagome giggled. "Yeah, I stole him." Ms. Higurashi sat down beside Kagome and looked at her play with her bouncing brother.

"Kagome, I heard your conversation with Inu-Yasha and just to let you" she nudged her shoulder a few times, "I do notice you and Kouga squeezing each other in bed like you're going to lose each other." Kagome blushed rapidly and deeply and darted her eyes towards Sota to avoid eye contact with her mother. "And uh...I kind of don't want to ask this in front of Sota, so let me get him really quick." She took Sota away from Kagome and took him to his room to put him to sleep. She came back down stairs after a few minutes. She sat back down on the leather cream couch. "Ok, let me just ask another question before I get to the one I was going to ask you earlier. What happened with you and Inu-Yasha? You two were I guess together when he was over here a few days ago. But now I see Kouga coming over and cuddling with you in your bed."

"It just didn't work out. He was...he was..."

"Not Kouga?"

Kagome swiftly turned her head towards her mother, her eyes slightly wide. She blushed. "Yeah, you could say that. And like I've told Sango, he's my best friend and it's really weird to be all of a sudden calling my best friend my boyfriend."

Ms. Higurashi nodded and placed her together in between her legs. She slowly shook her body with a happy smile. "I had a boyfriend like that. His name was Hiroshi...couldn't stop thinking about him. Even when we broke up and we "moved on" I still thought about him. So...one day we finally seen each other again, at this cafe near our high school. I couldn't help myself. I broke up with my boyfriend to get back with him. And...some years after you came along. He named you after his great grandmother. We were going strong, really strong. He decided to move in with me after you were born and we thought about getting married. Instead, he gave me this promise ring." She lifted up her hand, showing off the half carat ring she worn on her middle finger. "I never took it off. He said, when he gets the money to get the wedding and the ring I greatly deserved, we would get married...that was his promise." Kagome sat in awe of her mother's story. She never told her any of this before.

She continued, "And around the time you were about to graduate from elementary school, he got me pregnant again and along came little Sota." She sighed with happiness. "God Sota looks just like him...in every way. Well after Sota's birth, we decided to move to this house and everything was going very well..." But soon the happy smile she worn on her face was destroyed by tears swelling in her eyes. "No less than a few days Sota was born, I got a call from his sister saying he was in a car accident and that he was pronounced dead on the scene." Tears slipped out of her eyes as she continued her story. "So, I took his last name because in my heart I already felt like we were married."

"So what was your last name before then?"

"Yoshida. Ren Yoshida." She quickly wiped away her eyes and looked at Kagome with a smile. "Now back on to you. I was...I was wondering if you were...um...sexually active."

Kagome jumped up from the couch and sighed. She fiddled with her hair and looked at the ceiling. "Ahh geez, Mom!!"

Ms. Higurashi closed her eyes tight and pushed her hands out and then back on repeatedly. "I know I know, it's kind of weird. But I just had to ask because you and Kouga are a bit cozier than I'd like."

"No Mom, I'm not."

"If you are, I can get you some condoms and birth control from the local clinic. I just don't want you getting pregnant before you can afford it."

"I said I'm not Mom." Kagome's blush was getting deeper and deeper with everything her mother was saying. "I'll make sure to lose my...virginity...ew...with someone I love deeply and truly."

"Good." Ms. Higurashi got up and was about to go upstairs when Kagome stopped her with a question.

"Why didn't you tell us or me that Dad died?"

Ms. Higurashi sighed and stood at the foot of the stairs. "You guys were too young. I didn't want to break you're heart Kagome. So I just told you that he left...just to protect you I guess. It felt better to tell you he left with the hope that you could see him again than telling you he died and saying you would never see him again. I couldn't do that to you or myself." And with that last word, she went back upstairs and into her bed room.

Kagome flopped back onto the couch and just stared into space. Would me and Kouga's love story be like Mom's? Would it have a tragic ending or have a sweet happily ever after? What would happen to us when we end up in high school and could possibly be seperated? What if we did eventually have sex and I got pregnant? Right after that thought went through her head, her and Kouga's plastic baby began to cry and she went upstairs fast to get him.

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Kagasha: How'd it go? Was it good?

Kagome: Wow the father part was sad and cute at the same time.

Kagasha: Yeah, since they really don't say what happened to Kagome's father in the TV show, I just made it up.

Kagome: It was really good.

Inu-Yasha: (nibbling on doggy treat) These aren't too bad. But they're a little bland.

Kagasha: I thought you weren't going to eat them.

Inu-Yasha: I wasn't. But Kagome told me she wanted me to try them and if I didn't she was going to sit me.

Kagasha: Ha ha, ahh geez. Well anywayz, leave me a good 5 reviews and I'll post another chappie. And please good people, NO FLAMES!! I'd rather be happy with a sweet review or constructive critisicm than an 'I hate this fanfic' flame. So with that said, BYE FOR NOW!!

Inu-Yasha: (with mouth full of doggy treats) See ya.