Hope you guys like the first little taste of it, it's going to be going hard and strong (hopefully). For those of you who don't know, i don't have internet accessibly at my house. I know, i know, who doesn't? It's the 21st century, blah blah blah. Well, I don't have it, therefore updates are difficult and often times spread out. At the same time, I will be going away to college soon and I hope to be more accessibly then and there :)

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Deception

Chapter 2

"Yeah...you are..." InuYasha strained, avoiding her eyes after seeing the look on Sango's face. She didn't want to have his child, hell, she didn't want to have anyone's child in general. This wasn't anything that could possibly benefit anyone.

"That night when I went back in your room? You impregnanted me?" she said, starting to seeth, gritting her teeth together. He glared at her and pulled his hand from her stomach.

"Hey, you said it yourself! I was drunk!" he snapped back. Sango covered her face in utter despair, already on the brink of tears at the thought of a pregnancy. The mood swings were erratic already.

She was at the perfect age to have children, hell if she went to a village, most women her age already had two or three. She was almost near the edge of being classified as 'too old' to bear children despite Miroku's constant pressing. And yet, her eighteenth birthday was around the corner...

This was the possible worse case scenario. And InuYasha had already fussed at her about sleeping with Miroku simply because of the risk of babies. Then she sleeps with the Hanyou and...

"I shouldn't have went back there at all. How many times did you climax?" she asked, her voice shaking. He may not have remembered much, but she remembered every bit, every detail. From his silver hair was draping over her body, holding her, tickling her in all the right places until she passed out underneath him.

"The question is how many times did you..." he muttered, looking away. Sango's entire face turned red before she looked away.

So he was aware and conscious, at least to some extent.

She wasn't even all that familiar with being intimate with men and here he was picking on how much she had dared to enjoy her night with him, something that she had to keep reminding herself that it was a mistake.

He rolled his eyes at her innocence, what little bit of it that she had left.

"Don't try and play innocent now, too late for that."

"Look, we both know what we've done is wrong. We've got to tell Miroku and Kagome. I mean...seriously, we can't leave them in the dark for long. What about when I start to swell up?" Sango asked, almost to herself as if trying to find a plausible excuse.

"Oh, and we have less time than you think until that happens," he added on, throwing Sango a curve ball.

"Wh...what?" Sango barely whispered. InuYasha sighed and rolled his eyes.

"It's kinda obvious here, Sango. Demon births usually last a lot shorter than human ones. Your child is a quarter of a demon instead of a half demon, so you're not going to be dealing with it as much as you think."

"As much as I think? I thought I was dying over there!" she screeched at him, grabbing her head in fury. InuYasha rolled his eyes in annoyance once again. Sango was usually the one who did the least nagging, but now she was outdoing Kagome.

Could he blame her? She was pregnant, with his child. She was in love with the perverted monk and he was in love with the time-traveling miko. They both basically demolished the trust and friendship in their group from one mistake that happened in a single night.

But whats the worst case scenario? Her being pregnant for seven months opposed to the usual nine. They could play off the idea of it being a demon, that is, as long as it doesn't have demonic traits like InuYasha. They eyes and dog ears would throw everything off. Other than that, they could say that it was a premature birth and that the child was human. Until Miroku or Kagome sensed the youki..

"Sango, it's really-"

A slight sucking noise interrupted their conversation as Sango slapped her cheek, a flattened flea floating down like a descending leaf as InuYasha and Sango's eyes widened in amazement.

"M-Myoga!"

"Yes Master InuYasha. And I see Lady Sango is to bare you half demon child, yes?" he asked, fiddling with his legs, InuYasha capturing him with his sharp, pointed claws, causing the flea to attempt to...well, flee.

"Shut your trap you pest! This wasn't supposed to happen! It was just...just..."

"A moment of heat and passion? Stress can do that to you, Master. I'm sure the bad luck with Naraku can make you feel such a way-"

"Damn it, Flea!"

"InuYasha, wait," Sango interrupted, causing all commotion to stop for a brief moment. InuYasha's eyes turned towards hers as she shook her head as squishing the tiny insect. "You didn't hear what he said, did you?" InuYasha blinked twice and shook his head.

"Repeat yourself, or else," her snarled as he struck fear into the tiny flea's heart, his mouth moving like a motor. Sango rolled her eyes at InuYasha's demanding ways. She thought about it briefly how demanding he was that one time that night she was in his room before she had to slap herself. Damn it, stop it, girl!

"You're half demon child is with Lady Sango, Master InuYasha. I'm sure she wouldn't be under so much stress if you were to merely mate her before the birth-"

"That is not an option!" InuYasha snapped at the flea, his body shaking violently from the loud vibrations of his voice and the force that had blown him back from their yells. Sango's ears quirked at the intense refusal of 'mating'. All she seemed to be aware of was the fake it would make the pregnancy easier.

She had always heard about in the discussions of demon mating, but she had never actually come across to what it had to do with reproducing offspring. She'd ask him about that later.

"I'm sorry, Master InuYasha! I won't bring it up again!"

"And what do you mean, 'half-demon'? Shouldn't the brat be a half of a half demon or something like that?" Myoga shook his head.

"No, no, my Master. You're father discovered something in the Daiyoukai blood of your family. All of the offspring of half demons will only result in half demons to make sure the demon blood does not fade away in the generations!" he explained.

"So..."

"She will endure the birth of a Daiyoukai's half demon child. It can almost make it as if she would be bearing Lord Sesshomaru's child," InuYasha explained as his eyes widened.

He only seemed capable of swearing under his breath. He looked as if he was in deep thought.

"What's wr-?"

"I'm sorry, Master InuYasha, but as the son of a Daiyoukai, you shall carry on your father's traits. Your child, however, will not be able to carry them down. Sesshomaru's shall. At the same price, however, the concubines you use at your disposal to have your children will endure what is expected of a demon Lord.," he explained as Sango closed her eyes, a vein popping out of her head.

"Concubine?"

"I'm sorry, Lady Sango, no disrespect, I-"

"Save it, Flea!" she snapped, before turning to InuYasha. He still hadn't spoken. She had calmed down to some extent, unsure of how to take InuYasha's uneasy silence. "Any chance you want to tell me what's going on in your mind?"

At first he didn't respond. He simple remained silent, lost in his thoughts, but then he found his voice, sighing before deciding to break it down for the exterminator.

"This... Isn't going to be easy in anyway. You know what a Daiyoukai is?"

"Come on, InuYasha. Of course I do. A Demon Lord over a certain territory-"

"Yeah. Technically we're... a pure blooded breed. On the pyramid of demons, we're at the very top. Since we're so important, but there's so few of us, we have to make sure that we stay around a long time. Explaining why we never die out. At the same price, everyone is not capable of carrying a Daiyoukai's child. Some demons can barely do it, and most humans don't," he explained slowly.

Sango's mind slowly started to piece everything together.

"That's one of the many reasons why there aren't many half demons. Most human mothers can't carry them to term. InuYasha is one of many exceptions," Myoga pointed out.

"That and they happen very quickly. Daiyoukai hanyou pregnancies usually last about four to five months. Sometimes even three," InuYasha finished.

"So you're telling me...that everyone will be able to tell I'm pregnant? That will only prove that I'm not pregnant will a fully human baby..." Sango's fists balled up in anger before she pointed an evil finger at InuYasha.

"I knew it...I shouldn't have even considered sleeping with you! You were DRUNK when this all happened between us!" she screamed before InuYasha saw her eyes water, the smelt of salty tears evading his nose.

She was under a lot of stress. She was over emotional, panicky, and just outright ashamed. He couldn't blame her, but he didn't expect such outward reactions from the usually conservative woman.

InuYasha tried to soothe her, but he hated to admit the fact that he wasn't good at trying to do it, he was awkward with such. He heard Myoga call his name, dragging his attention away from his the crying demon exterminator.

"Uh, Master InuYasha, her emotions are unstable because of the child's unstable youki. You must know that you are the only one who can calm it down. You must try and keep her feelings stable or else it can be severely strenuous," Myoga warned as InuYasha touched Sango's shoulder and her stomach, helping ease her just enough for her to stop crying.

"InuYasha...please...we can't tell them, don't make me tell them," she was all she seemed to whisper when she opened her mouth.

After Sango pulled herself together, they both headed through the woods, seeing Kagome and Miroku had already packed up all the stuff, preparing to go back to Kaede's. Kirara seemed to have been waiting for Sango's return, sniffing her mistress before hissing briefly before turning her head towards InuYasha.

"What's wrong with her?" Shippo questioned from inside Kagome's bicycle basket. Sango's cheeks flared uncontrollably as she shrugged, the cat refusing to transform.

"Kirara, please! I promise to explain later!" she seethed as the cat rolled her eyes and transformed in a swirl of flames, waiting for her master to climb on top of her.

"I promise, I'll tell you," Sango whispered in her ear as the others followed Kagome at a steady pace.

After a while, Kagome looked back and saw Sango in the air, InuYasha and Miroku running by the way it looked. She slowed down when she heard air escape her tire.

"Wait a minute, guys!" she yelled back as she stopped, getting off the vehicle. She inspected her front tire and found the hole where the air was escaping and gasped.

"I never would have guessed!" She exclaimed as she pulled a jewel shard from the tire, it sparkling in purity. InuYasha's jaw dropped just as Sango and Kirara landed, looking at tiny purple shard in her fingertips.

"How was it you didn't sense it?" Sango asked curiously, suddenly worried about Kagome's spiritual powers. "Do you wonder how many shards we could have possibly missed if your powers aren't working?"

"I'm sure they're working, I'm positive!" she refused, looking at the shard. "Is it possible for one to be defective?"

"No, then they all would be defective, because they were all apart of the Shikon Jewel," Miroku explained as Sango felt her body swoon for a slight moment. The hell?

She looked around and all of sudden she could see a lot clearer, and see a lot farther. Well, I guess that's a good thing... Then she felt her nose start to act up and she started smelling so many different smells. That's what's messing with my head...

Kagome's hair swished when the wind blew by it and the smell of vanilla invaded her nose. It overflowed and the smell started to make her nauseous. Sango covered her nose hoping for it to cease, but it didn't.

"Inu...InuYasha?" she called as he looked up almost immediately at the sound of his name. He rolled his eyes and walked over to her, the other three people in their group looking at them with curiousity.

"What is it?" he snapped with annoyance in his voice while she continued to hold her face in a gingerly way. "What the hell is wrong with your face?"

"Vanilla," she mumbled, closing her eyes, trying to fight the throbbing in her stomach, saying she was about to throw up. InuYasha looked at her confused.

"What?"

"Vanilla," she explained again, trying to gesture it until he smelt the air and looked back at Kagome. His eyes looked impressed and shocked at the enhancement of her senses.

"What's wrong with it? You hate it too?" he asked as she nodded, opening her eyes, lurching slightly. He backed away a few feet, realizing that it was making her sick. "That bad?" she nodded again before she turned around, going behind a nearby bush and releasing her stomach's contents.

"What's wrong?" Kagome asked, once again worried. InuYasha sighed and folded his arms across his chest.

"She's feeling nauseous. And for some reason, she can smell your shampoo crap, that vanilla shit that you seem to always use," he explained as Kagome reached for her hair, inhaling the delicious scent.

"It's me?" she asked in a terrified tone.

"Yeah, but you can't help it," InuYasha explained as Miroku's eyebrow quirked in suspicion.

"How can she smell Kagome's hair from all the way over there? And its enough to make her sick? What's going on with her?" he asked as InuYasha scratched his head and shrugged in the most convincing way possible.

"I dunno. She wasn't having menstrual cramps either," he said in an uncaring tone.

"So...she's not had her cycle?" Miroku muttered, slightly excited by the way it was heading. He thinks he's the only one who banged her. Aww hell. I might end up in that wind tunnel by the way it looks if he finds out it was me.

"Nope," he stated shortly as he turned around, heading back towrads Sango to go check on her. She rose her head, still heaving, trying to spit out the constant taste in her mouth, groaning in disgust before she looked up and saw InuYasha standing before her.

"What now?"

"The monk knows your pregnant. But he thinks it's his," InuYasha finished as Sango groaned, closing her eyes as she looked away, feeling tears in her eyes once again.

"InuYasha...we made up the other night. We were okay. We didn't sleep together though...I swear I think I love him again...I don't...I don't think he'll take me back if he finds out its not his, much less a demon," Sango cried as she covered her face.

"It's okay Sango..."

"What's Kagome going to say? When she finds out what we did? Oh Kami, no," she sobbed as InuYasha helped her up, wiping her face for her.

"They will be mad as hell, but they'll get over it if they realize the situation. You were depressed and I was drunk," InuYasha added as Sango looked away. He realized that she wouldn't listen to him so he scoffed and stood up, pulling her with him. "Come on, let's head back to the hag's."

"Ye wish for me to check on Sango for thee?" Kaede reassured as everyone nodded as Sango leaned into the door, followed the priestess into her hut.

She sat on a cot and awaited Kaede to return to her. Looking around, Sango couldn't help but worry. What would everyone say? What would they think? It made her own heart ache. She saw Kaede walk back towards her and sit on a stool, smiling warmly at her.

"Lay back, child," she whispered as Sango laid in the cot, closing her eyes, hoping Kaede wouldn't be able to figure it out quiet as fast as InuYasha thought. A slight gasp was heard and Sango realized she couldn't stop the tears from flowing.

"Ye have youki in your system, Sango. You bedded a demon? His power is of a Demon Lord child, it is radiating off your body. It won't be much longer before Kagome and Miroku figure this out," Kaede warned as she continued to examine her body. "You're senses have heightened indeed as well. Is you're child's father Lord Sesshomaru-!"

"No! Never in a dynasty! Why would I-"

"Territory invasion. You had to give him something to live possibly. But he would never purposely put his seed in you. Maybe it was to repay him for something. Maybe for Kohaku's life-"

"Kaede...how can you say that...?" Sango whispered, her voice cracking from her tears. Kaede made a disapproving tone.

"I never said that ye would do that, Sango-chan. It's just some examples of things that some people are desperate for. Ye have been a pure soul, protecting innocent humans. And now you have bedded a Demon Lord. I'm not ashamed of you, I'm just shocked and disappointed," she explained.

Sango offered no words in response.

"Have ye told the others what thou art have done?" Kaede questioned as Sango shook her head as Kaede gestured for her to sit up. "You'll have to tell them at least of your condition. It's the best thing to do for ye friends."

The idea of breaking it to Miroku broke her heart, but she admitted the guilt and shame of revealing the father would only make her feel worse when Kagome found out it was InuYasha's. Maybe that was what was best for now. Not to reveal the baby's father.

Would that be beneficial long term? She had five months to explain and hopefully be forgiven, but who could tell what would happen. Could she forgive Miroku if she was in the opposite position? She wasn't sure. Would she forgive Kagome, more than likely she would, but the Monk was the only thing that she lacked any real trust in.

Kaede had banged it into her head. She had to tell them, but she would limit the information she released. Now was not the time for everything to come out. It was too soon.

"Okay..." Sango wiped her face and stood up, going to the other room inside of the hut. She saw the faces of all her friends. Shippo was outside playing with his toys, Miroku was looking eagerly to await the results. Kagome was reading one of those book things from home, and InuYasha looked...well, he looked convincing to look like he didn't care.

"Okay everyone. I have found out what is wrong with Sango-chan," Kaede announced as Kagome looked up, giving her undivided attention while Miroku merely straightened. InuYasha just looked at her, his eyes showing intensity.

"Sango is pregnant," Kaede stated shortly, Sango's eyes water as Miroku's lit up in pure joy. He stood up to go hug and kiss her, but Sango pulled away, feeling her tears start to slide down her cheeks.

"What is it?" Miroku asked as Kagome was confused as well. Everyone thought it was Miroku's child. Sango looked away, towards Kaede to tell them the other news.

"No, Sango. You must do it," she refused as Sango rubbed her eyes, looking Miroku in the eyes. His deep blue eyes asking for what she was hiding.

"It's...not yours Miroku. It's a demon's." Miroku's face was blank for a brief moment, as if the information didn't register right away. Then it was utterly distraught and enraged. He let go of Sango and backed away, her tears only starting to run a lot faster when she realized he had been disgraced.

"Wait...what?" Kagome questioned as InuYasha's hair hid his eyes at the monk's reaction to his fiance's recent diagnosis. He knew how Sango felt about Miroku's denial, he could feel the child's youki slowly on a rise. Please calm down, Sango...

"That's why...that's why you can smell so much more. Your senses are acute. And that was no menstrual cramps or even...or even a stomach sickness. It was the distress of a demon's youki," Miroku concluded as Sango reached for him, but he yanked away.

"Miroku!" Kagome scolded as Sango pulled her hand back, accepting the treatment he was giving her. She felt as if she deserved it. InuYasha's anger flared at how Miroku was responding.

"Who is it? Is it someone we know?" he questioned as Sango's eyes widened, the devastating question she had been anticipating coming up. InuYasha awaited for her to speak his name, but instead he saw her shake her head in refusal to give out one.

"I...I can't tell you yet..." Sango saw Miroku's teeth clench together and his hand that was once balled up into a fist was now winding back for a slap across the face with her name on it. As soon as he swung, Sango closed her eyes, awaiting the pain, but there was none. There wasn't even a sound.

She opened her eyes, seeing InuYasha in front of her, Miroku's wrist tight in his grip, Miroku's eyes filled with malice, InuYasha's filled with the urge to break his arm off. Sango tugged on his haori, hoping to stop the bickering. Even from from behind him, InuYasha felt the youki continue to rise. That was the last thing that needed to be happening.

"Inu-InuYasha, please-"

"Didn't you're mother teach you not to hit women, especially ones that are holding a child?" InuYasha sneered as if he was holding back.

"Why are you protecting her?" Miroku seethed as he felt the grip on his wrist tighten. "You must know who the bastard's father is, don't you?"

InuYasha chuckled as he tightened his grip again, Miroku cringing in pain. He had no idea why the monk dared to run off at the mouth, knowing that he was no match for InuYasha. That and the fact that it was his child that he dared to call a bastard was something that struck a nervein the Hanyou.

"Stop it, both of you!" Kagome yelled, trying to pull on Miroku, hoping he would back down. Sango already had a grasp on InuYasha, and there was no point in grabbing him as well. Miroku was the opposing force in this.

Kaede looked at InuYasha and then Sango as the situation registered in her head. My word... She too sensed the youki growing with in the woman due to the stressful situation they were all in. She would collapse soon.

"I just have this thing for protecting women who can't protect themselves in their time of need," InuYasha growled. "You don't get the fact that she still loves you."

"Love me enough to go and fuck another person, moreso a disgusting demon who would put his seed in her?"

"Miroku!"

Sango felt a painful strike in her stomach, something that seemed to have knocked the wind out of her. Suddenly, she became lightheaded just as another pain hit her.

InuYasha felt Sango's grasp on him loosened as she collapsed to the floor, holding her stomach in her hands, groaning. The child's youki began releasing itself from her body after it had begun to build itself up inside of her. She looked exasperated and InuYasha knew that this was where the conflict between him and Miroku would have to end.

"Sango!" Kagome shouted, letting go of Miroku. InuYasha turned around and saw her on the floor, trembling from her pain, biting back a moan.

InuYasha reached down and picked her up as Kaede gestured for him to take her into her bedroom of the hut. Her heartrate had increased substantially in a matter of moments, it was almost as if she was going into shock. Gently laying her down on the cot, he covered her with a blanket, trying to make sure she was comfortable. He pushed her hair aside her face, placing his hand on her stomach; the youki calming down as he released his own into her body. Her breathing slowly started to steady.

After a few moments of silence, Sango grabbed his hand, his attention redirecting to her face. His eyes softened at the look in her eyes, the distress her voice, the pleading sound it made. He had never once seen her look so helpless.

"You could have gave it away," she whispered as he looked away before shrugging as if he didn't care.

"I'm not going to let him hit you. Not only are you a woman, but you're pregnant. Just because he's pissed off doesn't mean a thing about hurting you. He's done enough-"

"Do you really care that much?" Sango asked, feeling her heart lift at the realization that InuYasha did indeed care about her deeply.

"Yeah. I mean, even this far, Sango, what the hell else do you want me to say?" InuYasha asked before Sango gave him a faint smile, one he didn't even pick up on. There was a long awkward silence between them before Sango spoke.

"I want him back." InuYasha's irriation came back at her words. He still wanted to beat the hell out of the monk and she wanted to...she wanted to love him.

"You can't have him back," he stated, as if there was simply no argument about it. Sango's brow knitted together in surprise at his command, almost as if he was trying to be a parent already.

"And why not?" she asked, starting to sit up, InuYasha pushing her back down, giving her the look that she needed to rest and relax. "If he forgives me after its born, I mean, you and I both know everything can be okay..."

"He actually considered laying a hand on you Sango. And he calls himself a monk," he trailed as he looked at Sango once again, his eyes demanding. "No. You can't have him, Sango. He's not worth it."

"You may be this baby's father, but you're not in control of me, InuYasha. I can do whatever the hell I want, and you know it," Sango objected, InuYasha scoffing at her comments.

"I have to do what I can to protect you and that child until it's born as its father," he explained in a tone that suggested her opinion to be not needed.

"After it's born?"

"Whatever environment it's going to be in has to do with me as well. I don't want my child to be around some womanizing, woman beater of a -"

"I'm not your mate. I can do whatever I want after I have this baby. You're not going to change that no matter what you want, say, or do," Sango sneered as InuYasha's eyes had never looked so angry about being opposed, but then again, how many had opposed him. He wasn't the most demanding person.

"Me and you are bound by that baby in your stomach. The least you can do is make sense of why I am saying what the hell I'm saying," InuYasha growled as Sango shrugged and turned away.

"Just you wait. He'll accept me and this hanyou baby. Give it some time."