Chapter 14- Two Sides to Every Coin

A/N: I just want to thank everyone who reviewed my last chapter, the love means a lot! Actually hearing from the people who read my story makes me excited to keep writing. Hence two chapters in one week! If I could thank you with homemade pound cake I would! So with that being said enjoy Chapter 14!

Kagome POV:

As I turned the corner and after Kikyo disappeared from my rear view window, I heaved a breath of relief. I was half expecting a brick to go sailing into my car, aimed at my head. As I approached a stop sign, I broke out my victory dance. I squealed and flailed my arms. The Universe was a sly devil indeed. Here I was thinking that everything was going to hell in a hand basket, but not only had I burned the skin of Kikyo's ass, but Inuyasha hugged me! Oh God, he hugged me and kissed me all in one day. My victory dance was cut short by a sharp honk from behind me. Oh, right, I was driving. I waved apologetically to the car behind me, once again setting off for home. As I drove, I turned up the radio and began singing along with it.

I can taste the tension like a cloud of smoke in the air

Now I'm breathing like I'm running cause you're taking me there

Don't you know? You spin me out of control

I wasn't sure about what would happen tomorrow, or even in a few hours for that matter, but I knew right now, I was Queen of the freakin' world.

Rock my world into the sunlight

Make this dream the best I've ever known

Dirty dancing in the moonlight

Take me down like I'm a domino!

As the song ended, I pulled into the driveway. Getting out of the car, I began mentally steadying myself for the onslaught of questions I knew Sango would throw at me. I also needed to take a dose of reality, the future wasn't promised. Happy Endings only really happen twenty percent of the time. Hollywood and children's books were so good at manufacturing them; we always think they're a wish on a star or a "first sight" away. As I began to walk up the driveway, I noticed Miroku's car. Wait, didn't I just take him home? I couldn't really recall him leaving everything between me throwing the bottle and Inuyasha saying he cared for me was a tad fuzzy. I guessed he came to tell Sango about my assault on that poor bottle. I walked up to the door and unlocked it.

"Sang –Oh MYGOD!" I clapped my hands over my mouth as I caught Sango and Miroku… I can't even recount it. Just know, I was scarred… for LIFE. I ran back out and closed the door, my back to the door.

They had definitely taken 'getting to know each other' to a completely different level.

"Oh my soul!" I squealed again brushing the heebie-jeebies from my body. I never needed to know where Miroku's birthmark was.

InuYasha's POV

I found myself staring at the door for several minutes. For the first time in three years, I had her in my arms again. I had a taste of what I'd been missing, and damn, I wanted more. I shook myself out of my stupor and went into the kitchen and brewed some coffee to help bring me back to the land of the sober. No sooner had I finished the coffee, a small knock came at the door. 'Okay, really? We have a doorbell you know'. I mentally complained. Feeling a bit more stable than before, I stood up and shuffled to the door, swinging it open to find Kikyo standing there, tears in her eyes.

"Aw, hell." I groaned. Is it sad that I was hoping for an Avon saleswoman? I wasn't in the mood for a fight. On second thought, those saleswomen could get pretty aggressive. I rolled my eyes, stepped back and held up my arm to allow her in.

She stomped in, without looking at me at all. She drug her feet as she made her way into the living room. 'Must be the hormones' I thought. I followed her into the living room and sat in a chair a good five feet away from her. I didn't know what mood would strike her next. She shifted and pulled something out of the cushion under her. She looked and at it and half scoffed half laughed. She turned it towards me. It was Kagome's ID. It must have fallen out of her purse when she threw it at me.

"So she really was here." She murmured, turning the ID back to herself. She looked up; spotting the broken glass I hadn't gotten around to cleaning yet.

"She do that?" She asked, the ironic smirk still playing on her lips. I nodded, scratching the back of my head.

As much as I didn't want to fight, this quiet Kikyo was too foreign to me. I had no clue what to say to her, I opened my mouth to try something but she held up her hand.

"I tried. I really did. Inuyasha, did you know that the first time I saw you I said to myself: Wow, that's the guy I want to marry." She looked to me, setting the ID on the coffee table, jerking her hand away like it burned her.

She looked at me, I shook my head. What was she getting at? This is starting to sound like a proposal.

"When you told me about the bet, I knew it was a horrible idea. I only said to go ahead with it, because I thought it'd make you happy." Her gaze was fixed on me, the tears were gone.

Again, what was she trying to say?

"I tried so fucking hard! Do you know how much it destroys a person to know that they're nothing more than a damn consolation prize? To know you're nothing more than a resemblance to the real thing? To- To know that you'll never fill the fucking hole she left?" Kikyo was sobbing now. "I-" She cut me off

"It felt good to be wanted for me. Someone looked at me and was attracted to me and it had nothing to do with the thoughts of what was," She breathed shakily. "I'm not sorry for what I did. I'm not sorry for seeking out real affection outside of a place where it doesn't exist."

Oh Crap, what do I do? …Holy hell, what had I done? For three years she knew where I really wanted to be. I'd wasted three fucking years of her life, because I was too damn stubborn to just say you're the wrong one, move on. If I was at a loss for words before, I was a complete mute now. I destroyed two women. One, had her heart ripped out and was left to stew in the pieces. The other spent so long trying to measure up and wound up simmering in bitterness until it overwhelmed her. She stood up and paced the length of the room.

"I-I'm s-sorry." I said.

She shook her head. "Keep your apology. You've given me so many meaningless ones; I'm out of space for them. " She snapped.

Did all pregnant women get like this?

"What do you want me to do?"

"Be a fucking man for once!" She yelled.

"And by that you mean…?" I asked.

She pointed to her belly and then her ring finger. This chick must be nuts. I shook my head, and she glared at me with her arms crossed.

"W-what?"

"I'm not taking responsible for anything until I get the information I need." I said coolly, leaning back in my chair.

She raised an eyebrow, arms still crossed. Had she always been this big ball of attitude? I couldn't understand her. She was pissed at me for not loving her and yet she wanted me to marry her. I guess she'd rather be in a loveless marriage than have a kid out of wedlock. It made sense. The whole time we were in California she hadn't tried to go to school, and refused to get a job.

"What information?"

"Doctor. I want you to get a full blown checkup," She looked apprehensive but nodded. I breathed before I began the next sentence. "And I want a paternity test."

"You want a what now?"

"You heard me."

"You don't trust me?" She asked incredulously.

"Hell, fuck no! " I bellowed, sitting up. Extreme stupidity was cause for extreme cursing.

Where in the name of all that is good in this world did this chick come from? Crack Head Island? Miroku's list of horribly undateable women? Did she really think I was going to give up all my dreams, my entire life, to marry her and take care of this kid, without my bases being covered? Even if we had to go on Maury, I was going to find out whether or not I was the father of this child.

"And if I refuse?" She asked quietly, after an extended silence. She had taken her seat again, but hadn't dropped her arms.

I looked away from her, and tucked my lips in, shaking my head. I was still at a loss on that one. I mean, if I did just walk away I'd be taking what might be a 50/50 chance. If that kid came out with my eye color or something, and Kikyo decided I'd never play a part in his life… I wouldn't be able to live with myself.

"Kikyo, if you're telling me the truth, then I really don't see why the test is such a big ass deal."

"Because you're insinuating I slept with another man. I told you that one time with Ayame, was the one and only time."

"And you expect me to believe that, no questions asked? Even after the way you just hesitated?"

She paused slightly at that, and then nodded her head.

"Not gonna happen."

"You're being an ass."

"And you're being an unbelievably delusional dumbass." I muttered.

"You want me to prove it to you? Then fine. I'll take the fucking test." She growled.

I looked up shocked. She was…

"You find the place, you make the appointment. I'll show." She grabbed her purse, and began to walk out, but stopped and turned back to the coffee table. She picked up Kagome's ID and threw it at me.

"Get ready to say good-bye to your little whore."

She walked out, my face still frozen. She agreed. I was sure I was going to have to fight more. She wouldn't agree so easily unless she was sure. All of a sudden, I wasn't feeling so sure things were going to go as planned.

Kagome's POV

After about 30 minutes had passed, or maybe more, I went back into the apartment. Sango's face was beyond red and avoided eye contact with me and Miroku was just looked smug. I fought my brain to not go back to those images.

"Uhh… Kagome?" Sango started.

"No, no. We will never speak of it again. It never happened." I stopped her.

"Never happened? Now come on Kagome, I was…" Miroku interjected.

"Eh! I said it never happened!" I squeaked covering my ears. I knew by the tone of his voice that if I let him finish he was going to say something that would make be puke up a lung.

Sango seemed to shake off her earlier embarrassment, and all too eagerly changed the subject.

"So, did you two get a chance to talk?" She asked me. I nodded and moved over to a chair, far away from the 'crime scene'.

"He said he needed to talk with Kikyo and that he would call me when he could basically." I shrugged.

"So everything is good? Even with the broken bottle?" She asked.

"Pretty much." I answered, after glaring at Miroku for ratting me out.

"Hmm." Sango mused as she crossed her legs on the couch.

"I know that face," I said grabbing a handful of chocolate out of the candy dish in our living room. "What are you thinking?"

"You."

I looked up her quizzically.

"K.K.," She started, moving closer to me. "Right now you look happier than you have since high school when he first asked you out, and honestly that scares me."

"I don't think I-"

Miroku interrupted me. "I get it. She's not trying to be a buzz kill, but she thinks you're flipping to the end of the book, without reading the middle."

"Guys, I know what can happen. I'm just-"

"Being Kagome," Sango finished. This was feeling like déjà vu. "You know what can happen, but you don't feel it. What you're feeling is how much you love him, Not how much it's going to break you if it turns out he is the father of that child, and decides to marry her.

This was déjà vu, I remember having this same conversation the night after I went on the first date with Inuyasha. I sighed. She was right. I had to come back from my cloud. I looked up at the clock. It was already 8. The day had passed so quickly, too quickly.

Inuyasha POV:

Right after Kikyo left, I found an OB/GYN online and set up an appointment. I also found a lab that would do SNP Microarray tests. I knew Kikyo would 3 bitch fits if I set up anything that involved a needle in her stomach. I sighed after I set an appointment there and leaned back in my desk chair. Tomorrow, bits of the truth would begin to fall into place. I wasn't so sure I wanted them.

End of Chapter 14

A/N: Little Disclaimer: I do not own the song Domino by Jessie J (The song Kagome was singing in the beginning of the chapter) nor do I mean any offense to Avon saleswomen or actual inhabitants of Crack Head Island.