Hey I'm back. I told you this update would be pretty fast but I'm sorry that it wasn't, as I have written in the rest of my stories, a lot has been going on from school down to getting in arguments with my boyfriend… so I don't know how fast my updates are going to be. Just depends on how much time I have and how into writing I am into that day. I'm going to try to get it done as soon I can. Umm, this weekend is going to be a bit busy for me. I think that we may have a football MP for JROTC, and then I have a Halloween party that one of my friends is having that I need to go to. But It is a 3 ½ day weekend so I will have a bit more time to write new chapters, and as you can see this weekend I have updated all three so I'm doing pretty good!! Anyway thanks to these people who have reviewed my last chapter: Ai Amaya, Kaoru Sayuri Kamiya and Rebhist. You guys are amazing!! Again thank you and enjoy Chapter 19!!

3 months later

I slowly opened my eyes to look at the clock. 6:45am is what it said. 'Thank you sun for waking me up.' I thought rolling over on my side so I could get myself up. Waking up and getting out of bed had been more and more difficult lately. I am now eight and a half months pregnant, and let me tell you… when you're pregnant with a partial demon; you get worn out more than normal. So as expected I have been sleeping a lot more and getting worn out a lot easier than a normal eight month pregnant woman would. Take Sango as an example. She is nine months pregnant and really close to her due date, and she is still able to go out shopping and everything without getting worn out as fast as I would.

As soon as I got myself sat up I looked back at Inuyasha. He was still peacefully asleep in bed. I smiled and stood up, getting ready to go get dressed and make him breakfast. This is a routine that I had gotten into every morning, I would wake up early and fix him breakfast, and then we would start our day, and go to a doctor's appointment if scheduled Which it almost was since I have to go to a doctors appointment every week from now on until I go into labor.

I went into the bathroom and looked at myself in the mirror and then picked up the clothes that I had set out for the day, which consisted of a white short sleeve shirt that had a v-neck and had light blue flowers under the breasts and tied around in the back in a bow. Along with that I had the same color of pants that clung around my belly slightly and then a pair of light blue flip-flops to go with it. As soon as I had gotten changed into it I brushed my hair and pulled it back into a low pony tail, and then with all of that done, I walked out of the bathroom, took one last look at Inuyasha, and then went downstairs.

As I got into the kitchen I pulled out some pans from the cabinet, being careful not to hit my stomach. I then sat them on the stove and went to the fridge. There I took out four eggs, three sausage patties, and some bacon. I went back to the stove, spraying some cooking spray in each pan and then put them back on their spots on the stove.

I broke each of the eggs from their shells, adding them to the pan so I could make scrambled eggs, and then I put the sausage patties in the second pan, and the bacon in the third.

I was so busy paying attention to all of the food that I didn't even hear someone step into the kitchen, and didn't feel their presence until they put their arms around me. "Everything smells nice." Inuyasha's voice came from behind me.

I smiled. "Thank you." I said, feeling the pup move around excitedly. "He always knows when his daddy is around." I smiled up at Inuyasha.

"He does?" Inuyasha asked.

I nodded. "Every time he hears your voice he moves around a lot, its like he can't wait to come out and see us." I replied putting my hand on Inuyasha's and moving it to where the pup was kicking.

Inuyasha got a big goofy grin on his face and I turned off the burners on the stove because the food was ready. Inuyasha got down on his knees and put both of his hands on my stomach. "Well buddy, I can't wait until you get out here too, but you need to stop moving around so much, you're wearing mommy out. Daddies right here though, I'm not going anywhere so calm down bud." He said to my stomach.

"Inu… I don't know what you just did, but he calmed down, its like he went to sleep." I said shocked.

He smiled and stood up. "He listened to me." He said bringing my face towards his for a light kiss. "I just saved you a days worth of exhaustion from him moving around so much."

"Thank you." I said, hugging him and pecking him on the lips one more time before turning to put the food on two plates. I put most of the eggs onto Inuyasha's and then two of the sausage patties, and most of the bacon. The rest went to me. The doctor had been telling me that my hunger would go down more and more as I got closer to my due date, and boy was he right. If I ate too much I would throw it up. If I would eat something that the pup didn't like, I would throw it up. So I am one hundred percent ready to get this little boy out of me so that I can get back to things I used to do and things I love to eat.

I picked up the plates and walked over to the table where Inuyasha was sitting and reading the newspaper for the day. Setting his plate down on the table, he looked over the top of the paper and then folded it up and set it aside. "Thank you M'lady." He said winking at me.

I laughed. "Your welcome." I said sitting down across from him and we both began eating.

"So do you have everything packed and ready for next month?" Inuyasha asked breaking the silence.

"Yes, everything except what is essential for me to have as of right now." I said.

"Okay good. So where is the bag?" He asked.

"It's up in the room sitting on the chair closest to the closet." I replied.

He nodded and finished eating. I started to get up to put the dishes into the sink and wash them but he pushed on my shoulders to have me sit down. "I'll wash them, you go get the sonogram book and come straight back, we have to go to a doctors appointment after I'm done washing this and we don't need you to be too stressed out or tired for the testing." He said seriously.

I nodded and got up to go into the other room and get the sonogram photo album that we had been making. They had all the way from our first one and up to the date as of now. I smiled flipping through the book as I went from when the pup was just a little blob up until now when you can actually make out his face and his little ears sitting on his head and his hands and feet and gender.

I walked back into the kitchen and sat down just as Inuyasha was finishing cleaning the last pan and drying it off.

"Ready?" He asked.

I nodded and he helped me up. We walked outside and he helped to get me comfortable in the car before he shut the door and went around to the drivers seat.

"You have everything right?" He looked at me.

"Yeah, Sonogram book, cell phone, money, insurance card, etc." I said looking through my purse.

He chuckled. "I didn't mean you had to list everything, I was just asking." He said.

I smiled sweetly at him and then we were off.

At the hospital

"Ah Good Morning Mrs. Takahashi." The secretary said with a smile on her face.

I smiled back. "Good morning Angie. I'm here for my appointment." I replied.

"Alrighty let me just bring your file up and then have you sign your sheet." She replied. As soon as the paper finished printing she laid it up on the counter and gave me a pen to sign. "Say, is Mr. Takahashi feeling okay?" She asked.

I finished signing the paper and handed it back to her, looking back at Inuyasha who was staring off into space. I smiled. "I think he's fine, its just getting closer to the time that the pup is going to be here, so he's getting nervous. He's always staring off into the middle of nowhere when we come to these appointments. Half way through he's okay though." I said smiling.

Angie nodded and put the folder with my files in a pile.

I went over to Inuyasha and sat down for a little bit looking at him, but he was still staring off into space.

"Kagome Takahashi." Kaede said as she opened the door.

"Yes." I said standing up and grabbing Inuyasha's hand. He snapped out of his trance and stood up with me. When we got into the office and into the room Shippo was standing in there waiting for us.

Inuyasha helped me onto the doctors' bed and then went to sit in the chair by the wall so that my doctors appointment could begin.

"Well Kagome, how have you been feeling?" Shippo asked.

"Ready to pop." I said.

Shippo laughed. "Well it isn't time for you to pop yet, but it is possible if you get too much stress, so try not to stress yourself okay?"

"Yeah…" I said. "Other than that I've been feeling really tired and exhausted. I haven't been able to get up and move around as much as I would like to. After I make Inuyasha breakfast and do a few other things for the day I feel like laying down on the nearest peace of furniture and sleeping."

"That's natural. You know that demons are powerful. Even if your baby is going to be a hanyou like Inuyasha it still has more demon blood than he does human. Therefore his demonic aura is bringing down your strength because he's feeding off of more energy from you." He said.

"Yeah I know, sometimes I wish that I was a hanyou or full blood youkai so that I'd still be okay doing everything. Or if Inuyasha was full human so I could still be like Sango." I said.

Shippo chuckled and turned to Inuyasha. "So keep her away from stress, I know she isn't able to do a lot right now, but at least keep her in bed a good ninety percent of the day."

Inuyasha nodded. "Alright."

Shippo came over to me and put the strap on my arm to take my blood pressure. "Your blood pressure seems fine." He said. "Lay back and we'll listen to this little guy's heartbeat."

I did as he said and he took out the heart monitor and lifted my shirt up, putting the warm jell on my stomach. He then took the machine and put it on my stomach rubbing it around until he found the pups heartbeat. "He sounds pretty good too so you're doing everything okay." He replied. "Now if you'll come with me we'll get a quick sonogram and then hook you up to the contraction and heart monitor for a half an hour and then you can go ahead and go home." He said.

I slowly got off of the bed and then we went into the room with the sonogram machine and he put fresh warm jell on my stomach and took a few new sonograms and then took Inuyasha and me into a nice quiet room that had peaceful wallpaper all around and TVs and the machine that I would be hooked up for awhile on.

He laid out two straps that would be wrapped around my stomach, one was blue and it was the contraction tracker, and then the second one was pink and it was the heat monitor and movement tracker. After he put it them around my stomach he turned the monitor on and I heard the baby move around because it sounded like a big swish sound. "Okay Kagome, Inuyasha, I'm going to leave now to go check up on my other patients, I will be back in a half an hour to forty five minutes to check on your status and send you home." He said. Inuyasha and I nodded and then he left the room.

45 Minutes Later

"God where the hell is Shippo?" Inuyasha complained.

"I don't know Inuyasha maybe he is still with a patient or something. He should be in here any minute." I said.

"Well the timer went off probably five minutes ago." He replied.

I was about to reply back to him when my phone started singing 'There's A Class For This by Cute Is What We Aim For' and I took it out of my pocket seeing Sango's name flashing. I flipped it open. "Hello?"

"Kagome?" Miroku said

"Yes, Miroku why are you calling from Sango's phone?" I asked.

"Well… we are on our way to the hospital, Sango's water broke but she isn't having any contractions, and so I was in a rush and forgot my phone. I thought I would call and tell you that she will probably be having this baby today." He said basically in panic.

"What?! Are you serious? Do you have Shippo as your doctor?" I asked.

"Yeah. He said he'd meet us there as soon as he got one of his patients finished up." He replied.

"Oh well Miroku I think that is us. We're in here for an appointment and he was supposed to be here at least five minutes ago. I'll be down there as soon as he gets finished with us, tell Sango to hang in there." I said panicking.

"Alright see you soon." He replied before hanging up.

I shut my phone and looked at Inuyasha.

"What's wrong with Sango?" He asked.

"She's going to have the baby, her water broke but she isn't having any contractions, that isn't good Inuyasha, not good at all." I said

"Okay Kags, we'll be out of here soon don't stress out it's bad for you." He said.

"I know it isn't good for me Inu but my best friend is coming to the hospital and the baby could be in trouble it isn't good, how am I not supposed to freak out and stress?" I asked.

He sighed and didn't push the subject any further. Shippo walked into the room quickly.

"I am so sorry that I left you here for so long, I got a phone call from Miroku, Sango is coming in…" Shippo said.

"Yeah I know." I replied.

"Okay well lets just take a look at these papers and then I'll let you go." He said walking over to the machine that was still monitoring the pup and me. "Kagome you're starting to have contractions." Shippo said.

"WHAT?!" Inuyasha yelled. "Kagome you're stressing yourself you're only 8 ½ months pregnant!"

I looked at the sheet of paper wide eyed. "I didn't even feel them." I said.

"Well they're very short contractions for now, but I guarantee you that you will feel them by the end. Just take it slow okay?" He asked.

I nodded. "Is everything else okay? Can I go?" I asked hurriedly

He looked over the papers one last time. "Besides the minor contractions it looks like you're doing just fine." He said. Walking over to me he undid the straps and gave me a paper towel to wipe my stomach off with. He then tore the papers off of the machine and attached them to his clipboard. "Oh here are your sonograms." He said handing them to Inuyasha. "You guys are free to go now, I'm sure that Sango and Miroku are here, so lets go and see them shall we?" He asked.

I nodded and we took the elevator up to the maternity ward. There we found Sango in a room hooked up to IV's and the same monitor I had been on a few moments before. She looked to be in a lot of pain and I got scared.

"Sango…" I said quickly walking up to her bedside. "How are you feeling?" I asked.

"Ready to get this baby out of me!!" She yelled and gave a glare to Miroku. "It's all your fault I'm going through this!"

"I-I'm sorry Sango, but… I'm really sorry I swear." Miroku said nervously.

"I'll be with you the whole way Sango." I told her and she just nodded.

"Come on Miroku, we better get out of here, I think it might be better for Kagome to be in here." Inuyasha said. Miroku nodded and left the room immediately with him.

10 Hours Later

"AHHHHHH GET IT OUT GET IT OUT RIGHT NOW!!" Sango screamed.

"Sango calm down, breath, the baby is almost out. Take a deep breath and push." I said while rubbing the cool cloth across her forehead.

"WAIT UNTIL I GET A HOLD OF THAT MONK, HE IS NEVER GOING TO LAY HIS PERVERTED HANDS ON ME EVER AGAIN!!" She screamed again before breathing and pushing one final time.

The baby came out and the doctor handed it off to the nurse close by. I looked over to see a pink blanket and smiled.

"Sango it's a girl. You had a girl." I said looking over at the crying baby. "What are you going to name her?

"Mari Aika Houshi." Sango said smiling. We smiled and looked back at the little girl who was getting cleaned off, but something was wrong. The little bundle was no longer crying her little lungs out. She wasn't crying at all. "Why isn't she crying?" Sango asked. "Why isn't my baby crying!?" She screamed as the nurse rushed the baby in the little crib down to another room to get hooked up to a breathing machine and checked out by a pediatrician.

I held onto my stomach. Something didn't feel right. "Sango, I'm going to go find Inuyasha okay? I'll be right back…" I said as I left the room and started my way to the waiting room.

The pains in my stomach kept getting worse and worse, they just wouldn't go away for moments at a time. I was so close to the waiting room but I had to grip onto the wall. "Ah!" I yelled.

Inuyasha turned around and looked at me. "KAGOME!" He yelled and ran towards me with Miroku by his side. "Kagome are you okay? What's wrong?"

I couldn't answer him; the pain in my abdomen hurt so much. But when I finally caught my voice, all I could get out was. "The pup…"

Inuyasha's eyes got wide. "The pup, what is wrong with the pup." He asked.

Right then though his question was answered… my water broke.

Haha Cliffy!! You guys love me though, I haven't updated this story in awhile and now that I did you should be jumping in joy!! Haha j/k but now that it's done I think it's time to work on the next chapter of one of my other stories. But before I can do that I need to get my homework done that I had all weekend and I didn't do because I wasn't at school on Friday. And I have to get up early tomorrow because I have to make up a test for my grades. Seriously though, first quarter went super fast and now it's the second… I better study hard because after this one I have semester exams, yuck. Anyway thanks for reading…REVIEW PLEASE!! Until Next Time! –Paige;;