Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha or any of its characters.

Well, I had some mixed feelings on that last chapter. May I just say: have I ever done you wrong? Things always turned out right and, hopefully, made sense? So be patient. All will be clear, hopefully, in time. :)

XxBeautiful Black RosexX any help you could give me on pregnancy would be really appreciated. I'm looking online for things to expect but it's hard to find what I need so advice would be much appreciated! :D!

Month 5 Part 2

"What do you means she wants out!" Inuyasha demanded slamming his fist on his desk making the cup of pens and pencils scatter across the expensive wood.

Miroku shrugged. "I thought it was pretty simple." He sighed as a twitch started to develope in Inuyasha's eye. "She said she wanted out."

"Why?" Inuyasha demanded. Without waiting for an answer he jumped from his seat and tore the tie from his neck. "What's her problem? Everything was going along fine. Why did she have to ruin it?"

"To hear her tell it, you ruined it." Miroku said and Inuyasha turned on him.

"And why are you helping her anyway? You're my lawyer! Not hers!"

Miroku stood up refusing to be yelled at like a student in a principles office. "Don't yell at me! I know I'm your lawyer, that was never in question. Kagome just told me she wanted out and, as your lawyer, I delivered the message!"

"She's not getting out." Inuyasha said unbottoning his shirt. "She signed and there's no judge who'll let her out. She's still having my baby."

"Of course she's still having it." Miroku said obviously. "That's not the problem. She just wants the contract-"

"Well if she's still having it then why does she want out!" Inuyasha demanded. "It makes no sense!"

Miroku shrugged, calm. "To her it does."

"This is rediculous." Inuyasha said throwing himself into his chair. "I'm not letting her out."


"I'm confused." Rin said her voice fuzzy from the distance between the two phone. "Why do you want out?"

Kagome sighed. She was tired of the question.

"I mean, Kagome, you had everything you wanted. So what if you had a contract? You and Inuyasha had a relationship."

"You ask me that after declining Sesshomaru's conract?" Kagome laughed. She was busy shopping for maternity clothes now that her jeans were too tight.

"That's different." Rin said. "For one I never signed it and two: It was basically a booty call. Yours is a relationship as long as you want it. You could have had him falling for you with enough time."

"I know. I just don't want us to be bound by a contract." Kagome said.

There was silence for a moment. "Kagome, you do know what a marriage certificate is, right?"

"Ha ha." she said dryly. "I know very well what I marriage certificate is. I mean I don't want a business contract between us. A marriage certificate is different. And besides that, Inuyasha isn't interested in signing a marriage contract with me or anyone else for that matter."

"I just don't understand." Rin continued. "You had everything. Why are you risking it all?"

Kagome shrugged though she knew Rin couldn't see it. "Maybe pregnancy is making me crazy or maybe I always have been crazy. That's not the point. Have you ever heard that phrase, 'if you love something let it go-'"

"'-and if it comes back it's yours'. Yeah, who hasn't heard it."

"Well, sometimes you have to force what you love to leave so it can come back." Kagome smiled.

Rin sighed. "That makes no logical sense!"

"Not to you." Kagome laughed. "So how's South America?"

She could almost see Rin rolling her eyes. "Fine. I love it. It's actually really great over here but I can't wait to come home. Don't change the subject. I still don't understand why you did it."

Kagome shrugged. There were moments when she didn't understand herself but she knew what she wanted. "I want him to want the baby."

"He does want the baby!" Rin exlaimed. "Why else would he have you sign the contract?"

"But he doesn't want it with me." Kagome said back. "Kami, Rin. He searched for me through education and medical records looking for an 'ideal mate'. He didn't love me. He didn't want the baby with me. He wanted the baby with my genes, with my personality. I want him to want the baby because he loves me and wants me to have his children. Without a contract saying I'll do so." She added knowing what Rin would say.

Rin sighed and Kagome could practically see her calming down. "Alright. Do what you feel is right. I'm here for you if you need me."

"Thanks." Kagome said finishing her search for pants and starting to look for tops.

"Who am I to say you can't do something?" She continued talking as if she had been speaking to herself. "So have you found out what the baby is yet?" Kagome could hear the enthusiasm building back up.

"I haven't been to the doctor yet." she said.

There was a pause. "Your appointment was three days ago. I'm sure it was."

"Yeah." Kagome said nodding. "I didn't go."

"Kagome!"

"I can't afford him, Rin." she explained. "He's the best in his field with a bill to match it. I'm going home later this week and mom's taking me to our family doctor. She'll tell me what it is."

Rin sighed again. "Alright. Just be safe, okay. No stress."

"Stress free. I promise. Sango's taking all the stress." Kagome frowned and lowered the shirt she was gazing at. She sighed. "I feel so bad. Sango and Miroku are at odds right now. Miroku with his job and Sango with me. She's hanging onto me insisting that your friends come first but I see it everytime Miroku comes over. They didn't sleep together last night. It was the first time since they got together."

"That's tough." Rin sympathized. "Want to come to South America with me?"

Kagome laughed. "Pilots don't like carrying pregnant women."

"Your only like 5 months. You aren't going to pop anytime soon."

"And it wouldn't change anything. I just want out of the contract."

"Well, what will you do if you get out?" Rin asked.

Kagome shrugged. "Go back, I guess. Tell him what I want."

"And if you don't get out?"

"I haven't thought of that yet. I have to get out Rin. If I don't he'll never forgive me."

"He'll never forgive you if you do."

"No. He might. And it's too late to stop now. I know what I want. It's his turn to find out what he wants."


"Thanks for this, mom." Kagome said. Her mom smiled so wrapped up in joy the world was tinted pink.

"No problem, honey, no problem. I'm so excited." There were practically stars in the older woman's eyes. Kagome was afraid she would run into something on their walk down the street to the doctor. "We get to find out if I'm having a sweet little granddaughter or a strong little grandson."

Kagome smiled. "Yeah. I can't wait." She frowned. "Inuyasha never told me what he wanted. I wonder if he'll be happy with it."

"He will." Midori insisted putting her arm around her daughter's shoulder. She could still remember carrying Kagome around. She had glowed with pregnancy and Hatichi, her husband, had practically worshiped at Kagome's tiny feet when she was born. He had spent hours at her crib just wacthing her sleep. When Souta had been born he had been beside himself with joy. He had immediatly gone out and bought a baby soccer jersey that had been too big for him. That was Midori's favorite photo. Sitting in the hospital bed with baby Sota in her arms his body wrapped in his cloud soft blue blanket with a red and white jersey pulled over it. Kagome, only a child, had been standing on her tip-toes looking at her baby brother and Hatichi had been beaming with pride. It was her happiest memory and had been taken right before the car accident that had robbed the family of their husband and father.

She shook her head and brought herself back to the present. "Don't worry, baby. He'll come around. This isn't just an emotional time for you. He must be going through his own emotional roller coster ride. Particularly with you saying you want out. He'll come around and you two will have a beautiful wedding and I'll have tons more grandchildren." Her eyes lit up again and Kagome wondered why her mother wanted them back together.


"Kagome." The elderly doctor Keade said looking at her patient. She saw her bulging belly inside. "I remember you when you would sneak in here after school with a scrapped knee just so you could get the lollipop on the way out. Now you're here, pregnant, and probably still wanting a lollipop on the way out. Kami, I'm old."

Kagome laughed and traced her stomach. "You're not old. You're just a sucker for big eyes and scrapped knees. And I would like a sucker for your information."

"On the way out." Keade said sitting on the rolling stool with her clipboard on her knees.

It had been slightly odd for Kagome to come back to the doctor that had treated her her whole life instead of going to Dr. Sholtz. They treated her like a queen there. No wait, no rush, a glass of sparkling cider, and tasteful if bland decorations. Here she had waited for half an hour or more in the waiting room with screaming kids, runny nosed old men, and mothers who looked just a little too worn out.

"Mira should be back with the sonogram machine in a second." Keade said her kind, dark eyes twinkling. "Why don't you lay down. Have you been taking your pregnancy vitamins?"

"Yes, ma'am." Kagome said laying back. "Those delightful little horsepills. I've also been doing a little yoga."

"Don't want a baby belly, huh? Can't blame you. I never lost mine." Keade laughed and filled in her chart. "Birthing classes?"

"Not yet."

"Might want to get on it. Ah, Mira there you are. Leave it there, will you?" Keade said to the young nurse with dark hair.

"Yes, Dr. Miko." The girl smiled and left the sonogram machine in the middle of the room and left.

"Bet you want to see it, huh?" Keade asked taking the gel from the cart as Mira left.

"I'm so excited." Kagome said though she wished desperately Inuyasha was there. It just didn't seem right without him. But Keade was already smoothing down the gel with the sonogram wand thing and looking at the black and white screen.

"Let's see if we can get the little trouble maker, huh?" Keade moved the wand around and Kagome started recognizing parts. Ten fingers, ten toes, a huge head that Kagome couldn't imagine pushing out of her body, and was that...

"Look, Kagome. It's a boy."

Kagome lost her breath. A son, a tiny strong little boy.


Inuyasha was very nearly mad enough to kill someone.

"She sent you...to tell me..." he ground out through clenched teeth.

"No." Miroku corrected. "Kagome told Sango who sent me to tell you it's a boy."

Inuyasha focused on his breathing and tried counting to ten like his anger manager had told him to when he was a teenager but the numbers were spaced by images of Kagome finding out the gender without him.

"I deserved to find out when she did! I'm his father!" Inuyasha growled sweeping his arm out to the side and knocking his reports, his cup of penicls and pens, and his phone to the floor.

"At least she told you." Miroku said.

"Why are you on her side!" Inuyasha demanded slamming his fist on his desk. "I'm sick of this, Miroku! Why do you keep talking to her?"

"Inuyasha we're not in high school!" Miroku growled back. "It's no longer a case if you don't like someone I don't like them either. I happen to enjoy Kagome's company and I adore Sango."

"You are my lawyer!" Inuyasha shouted standing up and slamming his hands down on his desk.

Miroku mimicked him. "I know that! But you're both my friend and Sango is my girlfriend! I don't want to do this! Anything else Inuyasha, ask me anything else and I would do it for you but don't make me choose between you and Sango!"

"Why? Don't know who you'd choose?" Inuyasha sneered.

"No." Miroku said his voice deadly calm now. "The problem is I do know who I'd choose, Inuyasha. You're my best friend and you always have been but the hard truth is I love Sango. I stayed at my place last night and I couldn't sleep. I couldn't eat. I can't live without her Inuyasha."

Inuyasha scoffed. "One night. You were probably sick or something."

"Yeah. Heartsick." Miroku said feeling the blood boil through his viens. "You and your problems with Kagome are driving a wedge through a relationship I had to crawl through broken glass to get! I won't let you and your baby mama drama ruin my life! Fire me if you want I don't care I have enough money stored to take an early retirement but find another lawyer for this!"

He turned and stormed out not wanting to stay another second.

"Oh, yeah! Well..." Inuyasha trailed off not sure what to say. He dropped back into his chair.

Damn her! Why did she have to screw everything up! Everything was perfect until she decided she wanted the contract gone.

Inuyasha sat there in silence, too destracted to work and as his heartrate calmed so did he. He didn't know why he was holding on so tight to the contract. But Kagome had sworn to bare his child in writing! He still wanted the baby why didn't she?

If he was being honest with himself he knew that he could barely belive the baby was there. Sure Kagome was getting big and she was deffinately hormonal but some part of him didn't believe it. The vagely shapped sonograms were no help and he hadn't been able to feel it and with Kagome gone he had no proof it really exsisted. She was the only proof of his son and he wanted her back and she would come back if he had to force her to!


"Why did you tell him that?" Kagome asked Sango, she was mad because she just found out that Sango had told Miroku to tell Inuyasha the baby was a boy. Kagome and her mother were the only people who knew, Sango was just being a vindictive bitch by rubbing the fact that Kagome knew the gender in his face. "How did you even find out he was a boy?"

She shrugged. "I guessed."

Kagome sighed and tried to reign in her emotions. "Sango, you lied to him. What if the baby was a girl? And why would you do that?"

"Because he's an asshole." Sango said sitting back against the couch still looking at the TV screen that niether of them were really watching.

"He doesn't deserve that." Kagome insisted. "He deserved to hear it from me. Not from Miroku who got it from you who supposedly got it from me."

Sango sighed but seemed convinced she had done nothing wrong.

"Sango, I don't want him to hate me. I just want-" She got cut off by the door slamming open and Miroku storming in, his eyes firey and determined.

"Miroku, what-" Sango started but she was cut off by him grabbing her face and slamming his lips down on hers. She only had time to gasp before his tongue dashed inside. In their kisses and lovemaking he had usually let Sango take control. He enjoyed being pleasured and she enjoyed being in control. But now he grabbed and took from her what he wanted without appology or any care about what she wanted.

He stopped as suddenly as he started but he only put a few inches of space between them. Kagome had already left the house recognizing a couple that needed time alone.

Sango was breathing hard, her arms frozen by her side and Miroku had never looked so dominating. To a girl who had never let herself be dominated it was strangely sexy.

"I told Inuyasha where he could shove his contract." he said at last running his thumb over her cheek. "I wont let his stupidity tear us apart."

"Oh, Miroku." Sango said her face flushing. "You didn't have to do that. Kagome told me...I mean, I've been a real bitch about this whole thing and I shouldn't have done some things and I never should have taken out things on you. I never should have divided your loyalty or...or..."

"Hush." Miroku said softly. "Even if you hadn't done it, Inuyasha would have and he did. But I chose you Sango."

"Miroku you shouldn't have-"

"I love you." he said firmly cutting her off and making her already wide eyes go wider. "I love you, so much. I should have known when I bought you Dolce. I've never brought a woman Dolce. I've showered them in flowers and candies but never deseigner clothing. But it didn't hit me until last night. Sango I lay in bed and I couldn't sleep. I was exhausted but I couldn't sleep. I kept reaching for you but you weren't there. Food didn't taste right, the shower wouldn't go to the temperture I wanted, I couldn't even decide what to wear. I don't know what you did but I just can't function without you."

"Miroku." Sango whispered her eyes misty.

"I'm a dman good lawyer. That's not arogence but a statement of fact. I'm not the best but I'm damn close. So if I fought Kagome in court she wouldn't have a chance. But I couldn't see her lose and I couldn't see you become bitter toward me because if it."

"I wouldn't-"

He pressed a finger to her lips. "You would. Myabe not at first but it would stew and hit when you least expected it."

He kissed her again, gently this time, but still selfishly. He pulled her up off the couch and into his arms and he felt at home.

She pulled back this time. "I'm sorry." she whispered. "I didn't mean to force you into this descision. I've been such a bitch. I'll stop. I'll behave, I promise. And, Miroku, I love you, too. So much. I held Kirara last night but it just wasn't the same and I wanted you home so many times."

"Home." he repeated hte word and smiled. "I like the sound of it." He bent down and kissed her once, twice, the swept her up into his arms, bridal style.

"Miroku!" Sango cried in surprise with a smile on her face.

"I'm going to enjoy doing this." He promised and took her down to the bedroom.


For lack of a better option, Kagome had been staying at Rin's place. Her plants needed watering and since Rin didn't mind, Kagome figured why not? Sango and Miroku were at her house, Kagome didn't have a place anymore and she didn't want to go back to mom's, so she stayed there. Kept the plants happy and promised to pay the bills she ran up.

When the phone rang in the middle of the night she was tempted not to answer it but she reached over anyway.

"'Lo?" she slurred her eyes not even open.

"Hey, Kagome." Rin's voice came through, bright and perky.

"If you're not dying I'm going to kill you. It's 2:34 in the morning." Kagome grumbled.

"I know but I need a favor." She pleaded.

Kagome sighed. "What?"

"Can you, subtly, slip it to Sesshomaru that I'm coming home?"

"What? Why?" Kagome asked rolling from her side to her back. She couldn't wait to be able to sleep on her stomach again. She didn't normally but just having the option taken away made her want to.

"No reason." she lied very badly. She seemed to realize this before Kagome could point it out because she said, "Okay, there is a reason but I'll tell you later. Just let it slip in a conversation or something that I'll be home at the end of the week." She said the day and time she was expected in.

"Will do." Kagome promised.

Rin thanked her in her damned too happy voice and hung up.

Immediatly Kagome called Sesshomaru.

She had to threaten a servant with bodily injury before he would wake him up and when he answered he wasn't too happy.

"You better be dying, Kagome."

"You know you'd feel terrible if I was dying." she said with a half smile.

"Get to the point or I'm hanging up."

"Rin's coming home." Kagome said.

There was a moment of silence and Kagome thought he had hung up but he finally said. "Home? When?"

"End of the week." Kagome shrugged. "Go appologize your ass off and in return, try to talk Inuyasha into letting me out of our contract."

There was another, less lengthy, moment of silence. "Bribing me?"

"You want the time and flight number?" Kagome asked.

There was another moment of silence. "Very well. I will speak to my brother. I cannot promise anything, he is extremely hardheaded."

"I know." Kagome sighed. "Just talk to him." She told him Rin's arrival time. "Hint of advise? I wouldn't bring up the contract except to mention that you're an idiot for thinking of it."

Another moment of silence. "Very well. Thank you, Kagome. I will fufill my part of the deal. When I'm not sleeping of course."

"Naturally. By the way, don't mention I told you she's coming back, okay?"

"Very well."

They hung up and Kagome tried to snuggle into her pillow from the side. It didn't work too well.


"Attention passengers. We're coming up on Tokyo Airspace. Please buckle your seatbelts and prepare for landing."

Feeling excited, Rin sat her seat up and buckled in. She had been away from home for a month. The store must be in an aweful state without her, so she hoped. If it wasn't that just meant she had an excellent manager and she was practically useless. Sad thought. She couldn't wait to see her friends and soo how big Kagome had gotten in her absence. To hear Kagome tell it she could fill a stadium by herself but Rin knew better.

The landing process took a while but when she finally got off she had a surprise waiting for her.

Sesshomaru was standing in the middle of the terminal, looking right at her.

She felt a shiver of pleasure go down her spine but she frowned like she was unhappy to see him. She sighed and walked forward, the expresion on her face anything but joyous.

"Sesshomaru." she greeted.

"I'm sorry." he said immediatly. "I was wrong to suggest such an outragous contract. You were very right to deny me." Even appologizing he looked like an ancient lord ordering his troops off to battle.

"Okay." Rin said. "Anything else?"

"Marry me." he said as if asking her the time.

"That's one sucky proposal." Rin said but in her head she was dancing gleefully.

"I can take you to dinner." He said. "Prehaps surprising you by taking you to an expensive jewelry chain. I wont get on my knee."

"No, you wouldn't." Rin said thinking this man wouldn't get down on his knees and beg for his life even if his life depended on it. He would die first.

"The fact of the matter is, Rin, I want you in my life. I want you to be a part of it."

"Just a part?" she asked.

"The largest part." he said and reached into his pocket. "I got this for you." He opened the small ring box and Rin couldn't stop her gasp nor her jaw dropping. The diamond inside was orange. He had known she wouldn't like a traditional color and he went for orange. The design was odd but captivating and the band was silver.

"Oh, Sesshomaru." she said looking at the ring in reverence.

"Do you want a bigger one?" he asked making her look up at him. "Perhaps more gems?"

"How can that diamond get any bigger?" Rin asked. "And I wont marry you because you demand it."

He caught her words and their order. He was a very good business man, he knew how to say something but mean something else all while saying exactly that.

"Then let me ask you." He said walking close to her and holding out the ring box. "I will not get on my knees and I will not beg. But I will ask. Will you marry me, Rin?"

She looked at the gem then up at him. "Tell me you love me. Say it and mean it."

"I do love you." he said simply as he had said everything else. "At least I assume I do. I enjoy you, your company, your spirit and liveliness. I want to be near you and I want you by me always. I want you to bare my children. I suppose those are the things that make up love so I'll have to assume that I am in love."

Rin laughed. "Leave it to you to try and analyze love." She took the ring and slipped it on her finger. "Yes, Sesshomaru, I'll marry you. For all those reasons and because I believe that you are my soul mate. I love you and I am going to spend the rest of my life proving that passions dont always fade."

He rasied and eyebrow and smirked. "Looking forward to it."