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Month 4 Part 2

"So how are you feeling?" Dr. Shotlz asked as he checked Kagome's vitals.

"Much better than last month." she admitted.

"She's still hormonal though." Inuyasha said dryly.

"It will get a little better." the doctor said writting down her pulse. "By now the placenta has taken over the production of hormones the baby needs and she'll start feeling better. But having a baby is a big thing and the emotional stress will still make her hormones crazy no matter what the placenta is doing."

"How is she doing?" Inuyasha asked.

"Wonderful." Dr. Sholtz said bringing the sonogram machine over from the corner he had stored it while he checked Kagome's health. "Her heart rate is up but that's normal. Your body needs more blood," he patted Kagome's shoulder, "so your heart is beating harder to make up for the deficit. The baby should be doing wonderful. Shall we check?"

Kagome nodded enthusiastically and Inuyasha smiled as they performed the normal ritual of too cold gell and the sound wand thingy. Inuyasha seriously wondered what that thing's name was...

"Okay....an-n-n-d....Here it is." he turned the moniter and their eyes landed on the tiny being. Inuyasha was slightly disapointed that it hadn't changed much from last month.

Kagome's eyes, however, sparkled at seeing the tiny baby that was growing inside her.

"How big is he now?" Inuyasha asked curiously.

"Size of her finger. Maybe bigger." Dr. Sholts said. "The first few months are just getting the basic human shape down. It isn't until the last few that the baby gets bigger."

"It's so beautiful. Can we tell what it is yet?" Kagome asked not tearing her eyes away from her precious child.

The doctor looked closley at the screen. "Well, if he wasn't turned that way we might. Genitals general begin showing around this month but by the fifth month they become clearer. Next month, if it cooperates and faces the camera the correct way."

Kagome barely held back a squeal of joy as Inuyasha smiled at her happily.

Dr. Shotlz kept speaking, "Around the fifth month the baby will start to move. I mean, he's been moving for a while now, but you'll be able to feel it."

"I will?" Kagome said excitedly.

He nodded. "Absolutely. Dad might be able to feel it as well."

Inuyasha blinked in surprise.

"You might want to think about getting some maternity clothes. The baby will be getting big quickly and you want to be ready."

Kagome nodded happily thinking there could be worse things than constantly shopping for new clothes.

"I'm going to tell you to start taking vitamins if you haven't already." the old man continued writing it down on a piece of paper. "Particularly iron. The baby and you will need lots of iron. That and calcium. Iron deficiency is very common in pregnancies."

"Okay." Inuyasha said making a note to stop and get them on the way home.

"Stay away from the sick, don't need you or baby getting a bug because the only thing I would be able to do is prescribe tylonol. Speaking of which, don't take any medicines I don't approve first. You don't know what will hurt the baby."

"I promise." she said dutifully.

"No alcohol. No tobacco." he continued as Kagome nodded. "And I find that cocoa butter has always worked well at preventing stretch marks."

"She's way ahead of you there." Inuyasha said chuckling. "She comes to bed reaking of the stuff every night."

Kagome stuck her tongue out at him. "Oh, yeah." she said suddenly remembering something. "Doctor, I've read some stuff about being pregnant you know. And I'm curious...Is it uh...Normal to not want to..uh...you know?"

Dr. Shotlz laughed. "Prefectly natural, my dear." he said patting her extending tummy happily. "What with being nauseaus and dizzy and throwing your guts up each morning for three months I'm amazed you would even think about wanting to. Your sex drive will pick back up now that your hormones aren't going so crazy."

"Nice." Inuyasha said with a particularly male smirk on his face.

Kagome laughed and Dr. Shotlz continued. "However while having sex, I want you two to be careful. Nothing too..." he paused as he searched for a good word, "...much."

Inuyasha snickered and Kagome elbowed him in the stomach.

"Kagome, you're going to lay on you back or your side from now on. Some of my patients say they get their best sleep sitting in a recliner so....If you still have trouble getting comfortable..."

"Thanks. Anything else?" she asked as Inuyasha helped her sit up.

"Yes. Two things. One: This is the time to start exercising. Nothing too extreniouse. Just a power walk through the park, a little dancing, yoga even, not too much though. It will help you and the baby both and it will keep you from gaining too much postnatal weight."

"Great." Kagome said already trying to find the best time.

"And two: Start looking for birthing classes. Inuyasha, you'll be with her, correct?"

"Of course." he said looking almost offended at the question.

"Good. Birthing classes will also help. Teach you what to do when the time comes, help you get ready."

"Cool." Inuyasha said trying not to think about the birthing classes he had seen in movies. Because those had all been disasters.

"Great. See you all next month?" he said happily.


"Kagome! Guess what!?"

Kagome gasped as Rin hugged her suddenly, enthusiastically but being careful of her belly, smiling wide and her eyes glowing.

"I give up. What?" Kagome asked returning to what she had been doing. Washing dishes at the dare care center where she worked. It was Sango's day off and she had a sneaking suspicion who she was spending it with.

"Me and Sesshomaru..." she paused for effect, "...are getting...MARRIED!"

Kagome gasped and dropped the plastic, panda shaped plate in her hands. "Really, Rin!? That's incredable!" she said delighted. "When did he ask you?"

Rin smiled as she bounced around the empty room, the kids having already gone home for the day. "Well, he hasn't asked me yet."

Kagome paused. "But...then how...Huh?"

Rin laughed with her smile still so wide Kagome was sure her face would start to hurt soon. "He hasn't asked me yet. But he will."

"Did you find a ring or something?" Kagome asked bending down and picking up the plate while trying to sort it out in her mind.

"Nope!" she said popping her lips on the 'p'.

"I'm confused." she said returning to her washing.

"He doesn't know it yet, but me and Sesshy are getting married. Not hard to understand." Rin said hopping up onto the counter to watch her friend wash.

"Sure. Of course not. Easy as pie. Why not explain it to me anyway." Kagome said sarcastically, laughing.

"Well," Rin said hopping back off the counter as it seemed she couldn't sit still for long, "I have decided that Sesshy will soon be asking me to be his wife. It's very simple. You know my thoughts on soul mates, right?"

"Yeah." Kagome said putting the last plastic cup in the dish washer.

"Well, I have determined that Sesshy is my love soul mate." Rin said as she began looking through the cabinets, needing something to do.

"Congrats." Kagome said drying her hands on a white dishtowel. "When did you decide this?"

"When I fell asleep last night thinking about him, dreamed about him all night, then woke up wishing he was beside me." Rin said discovering the candy jar. "Ooh. Got any cherry?"

"Yes, and only take one. That's all the kids get so thats all you get." Kagome said laughing as Rin took two anyway. "So you decided you love him and you are getting married?"

Rin nodded because to Rin, things were very simple. You either loved some one or you didn't and if you knew your own mind well enough, you could tell when you did and when you did not. Rin knew her mind very well.

"It might take Sesshy to come around to it but he will when he discovers he can't live without me."

"I wish I had half your confidence." Kagome said dully as she began wiping and spraying the counters with disinfectant spray.

Rin laughed, popping a cherry sucker in her mouth as she jumped back onto the counters. "It's a matter of knowing what you want and just how to get it."

"Well I want your ass off my newly disinfected counter and I guess I could just push you off."

Rin laughed and obliged her.

"So, the marriage thing, why don't you ask him?" Kagome asked putting up the spray and wipe. "Why wait?"

"Because he hasn't realized he can't live without me yet." Rin said immediatly. "Besides, I know him. He'll want me to think it was his idea and he came up with it first."

Kagome laughed. "And you've known him how long again?"

Rin ignored the comment. "It will take him a while, but I'm patient. You'll be my maid of honor, of course, because you introduced us."

Kagome blushed at the honor but said, "Have you ever heard the saying, 'counting your eggs before they hatch'?"

Rin shrugged carelessly. "Confidence, my dear. It might even lead to marriage with Inuyasha, if you use it."

"Hey! Who said I...?" Kagome turned but Rin had already left.


"So." Inuyasha said wiggling his eyebrows as Miroku walked into his office.

Miroku, with great dignitt, said, "Inuyasha if you have just called me in here just for tawdry gossip..."

"You'll spill you guts and you know it." Inuyasha inturupted.

"How do I even explain it?" Miroku said sitting across from Inuyasha at his desk. Inuyasha laughed at how quickly he gave in. "Man, Inuyasha. I've never met a more...more...passionate. She's got to be the single most amazing woman I've ever had the honor to..."

"Wow. You're getting pretty discriptive there." Inuyasha pointed out.

"There's no way to describe Sango in one word. And all the words I know aren't good enough. She's wild and strong like a lioness yet graceful like the gazelle. Powerful like a panther and..."

"And apparently a one woman zoo." Inuyasha laughed but Miokru didn't hear him.

"She's special Inuyasha." He said putting his head in his hand and staring into space. "Those thick brown locks that are softer than silk? Those deep chocolate eyes that a man could drown in just dominating her face? Those big, lucious lips that can drive a man insane? Not to mention...What are you doing?"

Inuyasha was swatting at the air like he was trying to kill a fly. "I can practically see little pink hearts floating off of you. I'm trying to keep them away from me."

"Har, har, har." Miroku said sitting back up striaght. "Like you can resist with Kagome?"

"I don't know what you're talking about." Inuyasha said in the same dignified voice Miroku had used earlier. "Besides, I'm not the one into beastiality. You're the one comparing Sango to a different animal every ten seconds."

"True. You may not. However, who was it I discovered overflowing his coffe mug while staring into space with a stupid smile on his face?"

"You did not!" Inuyasha protested, blushing.

Miroku snickered evilly. "I thought that, as a friend, I would spare you the embarresment of knowing some one saw you but..."

"You are an evil, evil man Miroku." Inuyasha said darkly.

Miroku snickered darkly again as his secretary buzzed him, "Mr. Takahashi? Your brother's on the line."

"Thanks, Akira." Inuyasha said and looked at Miroku. "Sesshomaru hasn't called me in years. Why would he start now?"

Miroku shrugged and Inuyasha answered the call on speaker.

"Hello?" he said cautiously.

"Brother."

"Yes?" Inuyasha asked still cautious.

"What did you do about Kagome?"

Inuyasha blinked in confusion. "What do you mean, do? What happened that I don't know?"

"The baby thing." Sesshomaru said as if to a small child. "What did you do when she agreed to bare your child and heir?"

"Umm..." Inuyasha looked at Miroku who shrugged again. "Well, I had Miroku draw up a contract and..."

"Contract. That's perfect."

There was suddenly a dial tone.

"Weird." Miroku said while Inuyasha scratched his head in confusion.


Kagome sighed and stretched happily.

Inuyasha had lain his head next her still growing stomach and was currently working on memorizing every curve as if someone had threatened a test about it later.

Moonlight was pouring over their naked bodies and the balcony doors were thrown open to let in the cool night breeze.

Kagome had never felt so content in her life as she watched Inuyasha loving stroke her belly and the child nestled within.

"You're beautiful." Inuyasha whispered breaking the silence between them.

She smiled happily. "Yeah, well it won't last long. Soon I'll be fat, crancky, covered in stretch marks, and gifted with huge hips."

Inuyasha laughed. It was such a rich laugh. "I like big hips." he said running his finger down over the said curve. "And you won't be fat, you'll be pregnant. The other stuff? I'll agree to."

Kagome hit his shoulder and laughed. "You're so mean to me."

Inuyasha kissed the apex of her belly and crawled back up so he could look into her eyes."Like I said: beautiful. Even if you'll be cranky. And with the amount of cocoa butter you drown your skin in? I doubt you'll have a wrinkle until your 90."

"One can hope." Kagome said with a smile.

He lay on her shoulder as she pet his hair and she couldn't help but wonder if he felt the love pouring out of her.


Sesshomaru was going crazy. He had been nearly out of his mind when he had contacted his brother. The fact that he asked him for help was just proof how crazy he was going.

It was that blasted Rin!

He couldn't work. He couldn't eat. He couldn't sleep. The woman was always in his thoughts and it was driving him mad!

He needed a way to keep her by his side. Answering him when he found himself too destracted by her face to even work. Like a wife. Yes. A wife. A contract, Inuyasha had said, that would make her, for all intents and purposes, his wife.

Rin was a business woman herself, she would see the logic in it. And would they were both done with each other it could be broken off with no nasty divorce. Perfect. He would have the papers ready before the day was out!


"Wow. When you jump in you jump in headfirst, huh?" Sango laughed after Rin had told her The Plan.

"He's going to marry me. Can't you just picture our future?" Rin asked.

Sango would want to think they had run into each other shopping but she knew Rin had purposefully sought her out to tell her this. "Not really." Sango confessed. "Don't you think you're maybe moving a little fast?"

"Never!" Rin cried as Sango browsed the racks for a new top. Nothing too fancy as the babies at the day care center loved throwing up on anything over 100 yen. "We'll be married and happy and together forever and that is a cute top and I can't wait!"

"Do you have ADD?" Sango asked looking at her. "Be honest."

Rin opened her mouth, a sarcastic comment on the tip of her tongue, when her phone rang.

"Sesshy!" She squealed recognizing the ring tone. Sango rolled her eyes and moved on as Rin hit 'talk'.

"Hey." she said acting all cool as if she had not just squealed like a teenage girl.

"Rin, I need to talk to you. Can you come to the office?"

"Sure. See you in ten." she hung up and cocked her head. "I wonder what for?"


"Ah. Good you're here." Sesshomaru said closing a leather bound book and looking up at her. Flanking him were two dark and slightly imposing creatures with suits and square glasses hiding their eyes.

"What did you need?" she asked looking around at his sparsely decorated office. She would have to talk to him about that. Later.

"I want you to sign this." He said pushing the leather bound book forward.

"What is it?" Rin asked walking up to his desk and picking it up.

Sesshomaru sat back and connected his fingertips as she red.

Her face fell then hardened and slowly got redder and redder as she read faster and faster.

She finally slammed it closed and slammed it on his desk. "What is this?"

"I thought you would be able to tell. It's a contract describing-"

"Describing me as a booty call!" she yelled glaring at him.

"Not at all." Sesshomaru said, still calm. "It is a mutually beneficial-"

"Mutually beneficial my ass!" Rin cut him off. "Who the hell do you think I am!?"

Sesshomaru opened his mouth to ask what was wrong but she cut him off. "You are such an innsensitive prick! My favorite part has to be clause 2-B!" she nearly screeched. "'Party B shall henceforth dote upon the pleasures asked by Party A'!"

The lawyer's eyebrows went up but Rin was busy tearing strips out of Sesshomaru's hide to notice their disapproval.

"Are you litterally out of your mind, Sesshomaru!" she roared.

Without waiting for an answer she turned and stormed out of his office

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One part of me says make the chapter longer, another, much more devious side of me, is snickering evilly at the cliffy.

Naturally, the devious sides laughter is drowning out the other side very affectively.

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