Angel: Ok, well we got some very interesting news in the last chapter! -sighs- Also I apologize for making a generalization and comparing Inuyoukai to dogs, it was wrong of me. I'm sorry to all Inuyoukai who may have been offended by my comment...
Sesshoumaru: As well you should be...
Angel: Psh, I'm not sorry to you, I apologize to all Inuyoukai without sticks up their butts.
Sesshoumaru: ...
Inuyasha: HAHAHA! You tell him Angel!
Angel: I'm not apologizing to you either, I said youkai, not hanyou.
Inuyasha: ...
Angel: Anyone else I can piss off today?
Inu: What about Kouga?
Kouga: What?!
Inu: -rolls eyes-
Angel's Disclaimer: Sadly I do not own any characters in this story except Chad, and maybe a few others later. They belong to Ms. Rumiko Takahashi and if I owned them Sesshoumaru would be locked in the hall of Bishis for eternity so no fan girl could get drool on his perfectness, except me and now Inu!
Inu's Disclaimer: As she said, I don't own. If I did the pairings in the series Inuyasha and Kikyou would be together, who should be burning in the deepest pit of hell. And that Sesshoumaru would be mine.
Things Change
by Angelmom07 & InuTaiyoukaiGalOfDarkAndLight
Chapter Nine: With You Through It All
Kouga stared at Kagome in disbelief. There was no way he heard what he just thought he did, he was just upset and hearing things, right? "You're what?" he asked for the thrid time.
"You heard right. The Inuyoukai they brought in to speak to me, she was trained to detect pregnancy at conception and sense the aura shifts that go along with it. Apparently that's what caused me to blackout, my aura changed too suddenly for my body keep up so it shut down," Kagome said still staring at her reflection in the window.
"But how... I mean we just had sex, and this was the first time..."
"Yea well, not using condoms will do that to you I guess," Kagome snapped, her voice cold and bitter. She didn't mean to be nasty with him, but there was too much going on in her head to deal with his nonesense too. She wanted to forget that there was a possibility it was Chad's baby not Kouga's, but deep inside her conscious was telling her that she was counting her chickens a little too early. Right now she just needed to focus on herself and the baby. Angel had gone over options, abortion being one of them and Kagome would be lying to herself if she said the thought hadn't crossed her mind. She had always thought she'd be completely against it no matter the circumstance, but now just the thought that the baby she was carrying could be the result of Chad's attacks made her sick. The only thing that made her decide against an abortion was that the child could also be Kouga's and she could never forgive herself if she aborted his baby. What had happened to her simple, 15 year-old, carefree life? Chad had taken away more then he could ever imagine.
Kouga walked over and put a hand on hers. "I'm sorry, I know you're going dealing with this too. Here I am acting like I'm the only one affected, how selfish."
Kagome smiled and leaned her head on his chest. "No, I'm sorry. I shouldn't snap at you like that, I just... This is so much to deal with at one time and I just don't know what to do."
"Well, I'm going to be here with you every step of the way. Sure we're a little young to be starting a family, but who cares? My father will help us and I'm sure your family will do what they can for us too."
Kagome sighed. "I wouldn't be too sure of that..." she whipsered to herself. "I don't even know how to tell them..."
"We will tell them together, I'm just as much a part of this as you are. I won't let you go through this alone."
Kagome's lip quivered and her eyes started to water. How could she tell him that the baby might not be his? Why tell him? a voice in her head rang out. I mean what are the chances that it's Chad's? Angel told you the chances of fertilization lower drasticly after the first 24 hours, then they keep going down. It's Kouga's for sure, have no doubts about that! Kagome thought about it and decided the voice was right. The chances of the baby being HIS were slim to none. Kouga had to be the father, it was the only thing that made sense. "Thank you," she said to him as he ran his hands through her hair.
Kagome sighed. Today she was going home to the shrine. They kept her overnight to run some labs and so Angel could make sure everything was progressing normally. In a demon/human pregnancy the egg had enough issues attaching, in a miko/demon pregnancy the mikos powers has to adjust to the unknown aura the fetus gives. After Angel monitered her for 24 hours she gave her the all clear to go home, her only orders being to take it easy and try not to get too stressed. As the pulled up to the shrine she sighed again. She still hadn't told her family she was pregnant... She had talked Angel into telling them that she had just gotten overstimulated and her body couldn't handle all the changes at once. That bought her a little time before she had to tell them what really happened.
"Kagome! You're home!" her little brother said running and jumping into her open arms.
"Not so rough kiddo, you're sister has been through alot," mom said as she walked around Kagome and up the steps.
Kagome smiled down at Souta and hugged him. "I missed you too."
Souta pulled away and crossed his arms. "Who said I missed you?" he asked sticking his tounge out and running up the stairs.
Kagome laughed and shook her head. This is how the family used to be before dad died, before Chad came around. They were all happy, they played games and had a million and one inside jokes. After dad died it seemed like those things just slowly disappeared, then after Chad they drowned in the alcohol and beatings. All of them knew things were different, but nobody said anything, they just let it slip away. As she reached the top of the steps she turned to the Go-Shin-Boku. When she was little her father always told her to pray there if she really wanted it to come true. She walked to the tree and placed a hand on it's thick trunk. She lowered her head and placed a hand on her stomach as she knelt beneath it's consuming branches. "If there is someone out there listening," she whispered, "please, kami please let this baby be Kouga's." Her body glowed and the tree began to glow as if some kind of agreement had come between the two of them. Kagome lifted her head into the suns rays and felt as if warm arms were wrapping around her and for just a moment she could see her father holding her close and telling her it would be ok.
"KAGOME! Where the hell are you!?" came Sango's voice in the last of 20 messages she had left.
Kagome sighed as she dialed Sango's number. The phone didn't even get through the first ring when Sango's voice came over the line. "OH MY GOD! Do you have any idea how worried I've been!?"
Kagome laughed a little. "I'm sorry."
"You better be! We didn't know where you were or anything!"
"We?"
"Yeah, me, Miroku, Inuyasha, you know, your friends. So where were you?"
"I was in the hospita-"
"WHERE!? What happened? Was it Chad? I swear to kami if he hurt you again I'll kill him!"
"Sango I'm pregnant," she blurted out.
"Oh thank go--- YOU'RE WHAT!!!????"
Kagome sighed. "I know..."
"Kagome, you're fifteen! You just started dating Kouga, you're telling you've already... you know."
Kagome changed from upset to pissed. "What the hell is that supposed to mean?"
"You've only been dating the guy for like a week and you're already pregnant! Wait, how do you know already if you've only been together for a week. You never had sex with Inuyasha, right?"
"No I never had sex with Inuyasha, and what's it matter to you if I had sex with Kouga?"
"I just... I mean you dated Inuyasha for like 3 years and never, you know. Now you've been with Kouga for a week and you're pregnant... What are people going to think of you when they find out?"
"I don't give a shit and why the hell do you care what people think of me, it's my life! I called because I needed a friend but forget it," Kagome shouted, snapping her phone shut and throwing it across the room.
A knock came on her door a few minutes later. "Kagome sweety are you ok? I heard some yelling and it sounded like something fell..." her mother's concerned voice came.
"I'm fine mom, just tired I guess," Kagome lied. She wasn't okay, the person who was supposed to be her best friend basically just called her a slut. She sighed and laid down, curling her knees up to her chest. When did life become so complicated? she thought for the thousandth time in the last week.
(this is taking place a week or so later just so there is no confusion)
"Kagome!" her mother called. Her eyes fluttered open and for a moment she was disoriented. "Kagome you better get down here! Your friend is here."
"I don't have any friends," Kagome grumbled as she climbed out of bed. She looked at the clock, it was 7am, who the hell in their right mind showed up at her house at 7am!? It was Saturday, she didn't have to work and the only person she was on speaking terms with at the moment was Kouga. As soon as she told Inuyasha, another person who was supposed to be her friend, about the situation she had found herself in he turned and walked away and hadn't so much as looked in her general direction for a week. Sango had told Miroku, who in turn told her he was "disappointed" in her, which caused another "This is my life" speech and they hadn't talked since then either. To make things worse she was starting to feel nauseous all the time and could barely eat. It was getting harder to keep the secret from her mom, Kagome was sure she already knew. It was like spidey sense, only for moms.
A knock on her door brought her out of her drousy musings. "Kagome," came Kouga's voice, "can I come in?"
"Yea it's unlocked," she said laying back down.
Kouga walked in and sat on her bed, worry written all over his face. "Your mom said you weren't feeling well, is everything ok?"
"Yea, I just feel like hurling everywhere."
"Is that, um, normal?" he asked hesitently.
Kagome shrugged. "I guess so, I called Angel and she just sent over some ginger tea and told me to eat crackers. It doesn't really help... I just makes my vomit taste like ginger..."
"Kagome, we need to tell our parents," he said quickly.
"I'm not ready..." she said softly.
"You're never GOING to be ready. We have to tell them sometime, you can't keep your appointments with Angel secret forever, not to mention it's going to get... obvious."
"But we have a while before that, I'm still getting used to the idea, I can't even imagine explaining it to our parents yet..."
"Explaining what?" came a voice from the doorway. Kagome and Kouga looked at the person then at each other, the same thought going through both their heads. Uh-oh...
Angel: SOOOO I want to know who YOU think is in the doorway.
Inu: The first person who guesses correctly will get to have their own OC as an important character in the next chapter.
Sesshoumaru: In addition, the first 5 reviewers get to name a character for next chapter as well.
Angel: Now you have incentive, REVIEW!