A.N. I KNOW! I said I'd update by Friday. Got kinda distracted. Learned how to shoot a gun, chilled with friends I haven't seen in over a year, just and recruited people to spend friday and saturday night with me because I hate being home by myself overnight. So anyway! New Chapter! YAYYY!

-Last Time-

"It'll be fine," her friend said.

"No it wont," Kagome whined. "Rin wanted Sesshoumaru and I to have a baby so she'd have a brother..."

"You can always fix it," Sango suggested.

"It's not right," Kagome said. "We'll just find out won't we."

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CHAPTER __:

That's Life

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-Now-

"Kagome!" Sango called. "You need to get up."

"No I don't," Kagome yelled back with a giggle. "Nobody is working today. I'm going to lay here all day and do absolutely NOTHING!"

"Why?" her friend asked, walking in the room.

"I don't know," Kagome replied. "I just feel like being lazy."

"You're not..." Sango started. "Are you?"

Kagome shrugged, "I don't know."

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-Across Town-

"Son," Mr. Takahashi started. "You need to call her."

"I have tried," Sesshoumaru replied. "She does not return my calls, nor does she speak to me of anything but work. I have no more need of Kagome Higurashi."

"NO!" Rin yelled. "KAGOME IS SUPPOSED TO BE MY MOTHER! YOU'RE RUINING EVERYTHING SESSHOUMARU!"

Both men stared as Rin ran upstairs and flinched when the door slammed. She never had a temper, with anyone, and she never spoke towards Sesshoumaru angry. He knew he had not done right with Kagome, but he knew that in order for anything to work it took two people. He wasn't sure how Kagome would react to seeing him.

"Ok father," he said. "I will speak with Kagome tomorrow about everything."

"Good."

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-Kagome and Sango-

"So you're meeting him?"

"He want's to appologize," Kagome replied. "For what he's done in the past, and for the way certain things played out recently."

"Can you trust him though?" Sango asked.

"I don't know," she replied, staring at her two friends. "He said I could. But he's said that in the past."

"He broke into your apartment!" Miroku exclaimed. "It's invasion. He entered your room while you weren't home! Who know's what he did, or took."

"Nothing was missing," Kagome said. "The only thing out of place had been my engagement ring that he put there."

"What if he tries to pull something," Sango said. "He's not huge, but I'm pretty sure he'd over power you if he wanted to."

"I'm meeting him in a public place," Kagome giggled. "You two can come if you want. I just want to see why he wants to see me all of a sudden. It's been months, and I haven't seen him at all."

"Maybe he's trying to get back together with you..."

Kagome laughed, "CHANGE OF SUBJECT! LET'S GO DO SOMETHING!!"

"Like what?" both her friends said at once.

"I don't know," Kagome replied. "I just want to get out of this apartment. All we do is work, come home, go grocery shopping, and repeat the process again! I say we go to the diner and get some good food!! I haven't been there in a while and I really miss it!"

"I'm surprised it took you as long as it did to finally quit," Sango said.

"I was dragging it out. But I was always tired, from waitressing and more bustling about at the magazine. I couldn't take it anymore."

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-Across Town-

"So she's meeting you?" he asked.

"Yes," he said. "In the park across from where she used to work."

"She will not be alone," a woman replied.

"I know that," he sneered. "I will make her feel guilty for forgetting about me, and then she will meet me later for dinner. That's when we do it."

"How do you know it'll work that way?"

"I know Kagome," he replied with a smirk. "And she doesn't like to dissapoint."

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-Later That Night-

"Kagome!" Sango cried. "Put that down!"

They had decided to go dancing instead of to the diner. It'd help Kagome feel a little more happy. Or so they thought. The second they arrived, Kagome made best friends with the bartender and was on her 6th round when Sango took it away.

"HEY!" Kagome pouted. "I WASN'T DONE WITH THAT!"

"I know!" Sango exclaimed. "How you're not drunk, I don't know. But you need to stop. And drink water!"

"I don't want water!" Kagome pouted some more. "I want sake!"

"You don't need sake," a deep voice said. "It'll make you more drunk."

"What are you doing here?" Kagome and Sango said simultaniously to their new guest.

"It is a public place," he replied, downing Kagome's shot. "And I was hoping for some reliefe of the home for a while."

"What?" Kagome snarled. "Without some dipshit like me around you no longer want to take care of your daughter?"

"Without you around she will not speak with me," Sesshoumaru said; motioning for another shot. "I may have ruined her plans, but you ruined many people's plans. Including those of which I know you were begining to think on."

"That's life," Kagome sung. "You're flyin high in April, shot down in May."

"Stop quoting," Sesshoumaru growlled, drawing her close to him. "You know what happened earlier this month was not something simple. And you know if anything comes of it, I will try and get that from you."

"You will?" she asked. "Because they're going to give a young man, who couldn't adopt his first without parental consent a child. A man who is a SECRETARY TO THE WOULD BE MOTHER?"

"Do not yell," he spat. "I can hear you just fine."

"Then listen here," Kagome said angrily. "You will not threaten me. No one will hire you, you have no real expierience. Your father spoiled you to the brink. You can do nothing for yourself except cook and clean your person. It will not win a battle of this proportion. Now let me go."

Sesshoumaru released her roughly, and stared as she walked away. He wasn't sure what to say, but by the time he began to follow her out, Kagome had already said good bye to her friends and was in a cab and gone.

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"Nothing better than a bubblebath!" Kagome exclaimed to herself as she walked out of the bathroom.

"Except for one with me," came InuYasha's voice.

"What are you doing here?" she asked quietly. "You ran off. Mad, never wanting to see or speak with me again..."

"Life makes you wonder Kagome," he replied. "And what I was thinking before I left was skewed. I thought I was still in love with you. But what I realized was I was in love with the thought of you, and us, when we were a us."

Kagome smiled, "I see. Well I'm glad you came to your senses. How'd you get in?"

"I saw Sango on her way downstairs with a bag," he replied. "She gave me a key."

"I see," Kagome replied. "Let me call her then..."

InuYasha waited impatiently as Kagome called and spoke to her friend.

"Why would you?" -pause for Sango to speak- "I'm not saying it isn'tInuYasha. I'm just saying..." -pause for Sango to speak-"No... there are shapshifters who would pull stunts like this to steal from peoples homes..." -pause for Sango to speak- "It's okay..." -pause for Sango to speak-"Stop complaining now. Nothing has happened. I know it is no imposter..." -pause for Sango to speak- "I can just tell." -pause for Sango to speak- "Fine... InuYasha take off your shirt and turn around..." -pause for Sango to speak-"I'm making sure its really hime. If it is only me and Kikyo would know of what I'm looking for..." Kagome couldn't help but stare as her friend removed his shirt. He was magnificently toned and sculpted. "Turn please..." -pause for Sango to speak-"Sango it's him. Bye."

"You thought I was a shapeshifter?"

"You can never be too careful," Kagome replied. "So why'd you come over?"

"To appologize," he said. "I'm sorry for what I said and the way I acted. I was wrong."

"Not completely," Kagome said softly. "I am no longer with Sesshoumaru."

"Why?"

"He figured some stuff out about you and me," she replied. "Didn't like it. Tried his usual 'I'm your fiance, you must tell me' bullshit. I got tired of it."

"I'm sorry," InuYasha said. "But I do have one question."

"Shoot," she said.

"He works for you?" the confusion on his face was obvious.

"Your fathers request," Kagome said. "But if he doesn't shape up he won't be working at all anymore."

"You'd fire him?" InuYasha asked. "Just like that?"

"If necissary, yes."

"Without references?"

"No," Kagome said. "If he used me as a reference I would tell the truth if I was called."

"Why?"

"He is a good worker," she explained. "But he lets his personal feelings get in the way. I will not sit around and deal with that. I have too much to worry about."

"But..."

"I have a bit of a issue," she started. "And I'm scared."

"You're pregnant?"

"I don't know."

A.N. I KNOW! I KNOW! It's short. It's lame. It ended on the same note! Trust me it'll be better in the next one. Just hit me up. Let me know! OOOH! AND IF I POST A PIC OF MY NEW DOG YOU SHOULD SO TELL ME WHAT YOU THINK!!! He's my scootin little shithead and I adore him! Got him tuesday, which is why I haven't been able to update. Fams been out, I gotta follow him like a buzzard on a limpin rabbit.