A.N. Well well. Here is my update, it's been what… a year… two? I, to be honest am unsure of how long it has been since I last wrote a chapter of ANYTHING! I have been very scatterbrained lately, lots has gone on in the last couple of years. It's not a excuse, but it has happened. So here we are, back to the same old routine I had about two years ago! I will babble, you will get bored, and then the story will actually start! So this is the start of a new way of story!

Chapter 32:

It had been only a few days since Kagome and Sesshoumaru's fight at the bar. Only a few days since Kagome went home to find InuYasha sitting in her home. And only a few days since Kagome called a doctor requesting a blood sample pregnancy test.

She wasn't sure she was pregnant, there were no signs/symptoms that typically come before the loss of periods, or the tiredness or strange cravings. All she knew was that it was best to be sure early, than to not find out until it was too late.

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"Kagome, you do not have to take a pregnancy test," Sango chided her friend. "Don't you think by now it would be obvious if you were?"

"We don't know anything," Kagome responded lightly. "It is better to be safe than sorry. I don't know if Sesshoumaru was right when he said he would battle me if a child came in this world. I don't want to think of that. He know's he would never win this case, but I don't want to deal with it."

"You aren't going to…" Sango motioned to her stomach, and then made a slicing motion across her neck to signify terminating the pregnancy.

"Oh heavens no!" Kagome exclaimed. She could never think that way. The child she may or may not be carrying may have been concieved at a time where Kagome was emotionally out of it, but she would never get rid of it because of her own dumb mistake. "Should a baby come of this, I will keep it, raise it with the love and happiness it deserves. If not, then I will continue my life as it has been."

"You're a stronger woman than I could ever be," Sango said. "What time is your appointment?"

"I should probably head down there right now," Kagome replied. It's a four thirty, but I am also doing a physical today. We're adding a new segment to our magazine, every month we will do a 'Mix and Match' with all our single staff. Since I am the person in charge, everybody decided I would be the first to be picked on. I want to make sure my stats are still desirable."

"Sounds like fun!" Sango said. "You will have to give me lots of insight on it when you come home."

"I will!" Kagome said with a smile. "But I really have to go now. See you in a little bit."

Sango shut the door behind her friend. Shaking her head, she wasn't sure how things would work out with the girl if she was, indeed pregnant. She knew Kagome would be a fine mother, but it was Sesshoumaru that she worried about the most.

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"She scheduled a pregnancy test?"

"Yesterday," Sesshoumaru replied. "I think she made sure all arrangements were done through work on purpose."

"How can you be sure?" his father inquired.

"I am her secretary, still." The younger man said darkly. "She knew well enough the doctors office would call her office to confirm a four thirty appointment for a pregnancy test and physical."

"What are you going to do?"

"Since I was the one to take the message," Sesshoumaru said. "I will be waiting in the lobby when she emerges."

"You do know that it takes time for her results to come in right?"

"Of course I do. I will be there because they will need to know all messages for Miss Higurashi are to be sent to her place of work, not home."

"She wont be mad?"

"Kagome has had me on errands like this all week," Sesshoumaru said smugly. "It is not my fault she did not inform me her doctors could call her at home, or at work."

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"How long has it been since she cancelled on you?"

"Just a few days," Naraku said darkly. "She has been very 'busy' lately with work, unable to keep even the slightest reservations. But not to worry, our plan will come together soon enough."

"What is the plan? You've never stated."

"If Kagome Higurashi will not come to me willingly," he said darkly. "Then I will take her and remind her that she will always be mine."

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"Miss Higurashi?"

"That's me!" Kagome said brightly, jumping out of her seat and setting the magazine she was reading down.

"Alright," the woman said. "We need to get your height and weight, so go ahead and remove your shoes, purse and anything in your pockets that might weigh you down."

As Kagome complied, she realized she was carrying way too much stuff. She wasn't a writer, yet she always had a pen and a notepad with her. She wasn't in the style column, but she was always noting different styles as she saw them, and also asking the people if she could photograph them for her photography department. Maybe I should dabble in my own magazine…

"Alright miss," the girl said with a smile. "Your weight is at 110 pounds and your just at 64 inches tall."

"Good," Kagome said with a smile. "I thought I was gaining weight there for a minute. Guess not."

The nurse smiled and showed Kagome where to wait. "The doctor will be in shortly"

Laying back on the little table, Kagome felt weird. She wasn't ready to be a parent. She was only 18, it was bad enough she was running a magazine, successfully at that. She had her plate full, and if it weren't for Sesshoumaru and her team, she would probably be bald.Maybe I should have told him… nah. He's still mad at me about the other night. I shouldn't have let him come back to work so soon, it is just too much right now. But I cannot promote him any higher, if I do, he will be head of a department he knows nothing about! I definitely need to call him. Lunch! Rin can come as well. It'll help me figure things out more.

Kagome pulled out her phone and pulled up the calendar and checked dates that she could take Sesshoumaru and Rin out to eat on. The only day she had free was the following one, she knew that he would be aware as well as she had asked him to upadate her calendar from the computer into her phone. He truly was good at his job, but he also knew that if it weren't for selfish reasons, Kagome would have sent him off already to do something else within the company, if not letting him go alltogther.

"Ah Miss Higurashi," a deep voice said. Looking up Kagome smiled, she was glad her doctor was such a nice person. He was a elderly man, balding and always with a smile on his face. "I see you're here for a pregnancy test…"

"And a physical," Kagome stated.

"Okay," he replied, grabbing a pair of gloves, tournaquet, cotton swab, needle and some alcohol wipes. "Go ahead and pull your sleeve up so I have access to the juncture of your elbow."

Ten minutes later, lots of pokes and prods, and a fresh band aid, Kagome was flexing her hand and arm to get some feeling back. She hated getting her blood drawn, but knew that it was the most secure way to get a pregnancy test.

"We can start your physical as well," the doctor said. "But we need a female in as well, for just a few minutes."Kagome nodded as the doctor went to get his Med Aid.

Twenty minutes later

"Okay Miss Higurashi," the doctor said brightly. "We're all done, you've checked out just fine. If you don't mind, due to family history. When we screen your blood for a pregnancy we are also going to check for hereditary illness such as high cholestorol levels."

"Of course," Kagome said with a smile. "It is best to learn of anything now, before it is too late."

"Right you are," the man responded. "Although, I am sending you with a prescription for your blood pressure. You are a bit elevated and it is best to keep that regulated."

Kagome nodded and took the paper from her doctor. Last thing she needed was to be stuck on a pill regimine, but she figured the blood pressure spike was because of all the stress lately. She was being hounded by another magazine similar to them about merging, and Kagome did not feel that they should do so. There were roomours floating around that there was a spy for that magazine within hers, and she was busy trying to figure the whole thing out. Until that was resolved, Kagome would have no choice but to stress and try to keep everything quiet.

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"You say you are Miss Higurashi's assistant?" the woman asked Sesshoumaru, one brow quirked.

"Yes," he responded. "I am, and she requested I ensure that everybody she does business with, including doctors appointments, know that she will be receiving her messages at her office. Is that a problem?"

"Not at all," the woman said. "But Miss Higurashi is just finishing up with a doctor, and I wouldn't see why she couldn't inform us herself."

"Miss Higurashi is a very busy woman," Sesshoumaru said, smirking at the woman. "She does not have time to do such silly tasks as make sure you know where to send her messages. That is what I am for."

"Among other things I am sure," he could hear a womans voice, and a giggle in the background. Sesshoumaru disregarded the message, knowing what the woman was implying and just sighed.

"Just ensure that all info is now sent directly to her office," he said. "It is simple, you put this phone number in your computer, update it, and it will pop up when you need to inform her of certain things. Such as appointments, or followups." The woman nodded, took the card from him, and entered the information quickly. "Thank you," he said with a another smirk.

As Sesshoumaru was rounding the corner after leaving the office, he could hear the woman greet Kagome as she exited the exam room.

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"Hello Miss Higurashi," the secretary said warmly.

"Hello," Kagome said with a smile. "How much?"

"Oh your assistant already took care of it," the woman said with a knowing smile. "He also gave us your update information and your new insurance cards."

Kagome was confused, "my assistant was here?"

"Yes," the woman said. "Tall young man, broad shouldered, silver hair, GORGEOUS…."

"I know who you speak of," Kagome said giggling. "What I want to know is why he came to bring my info…" she didn't have to think on it long before it dawned on her. When Kagome was called to confirm her appointment it was Sesshoumaru who gave her the message, just as it was Sesshoumaru who Kagome had been sending out to update her contact info with all the business partners.

All the color had drained from the young womans face, scaring the secretary a bit."Miss are you alrgiht?"

"Huh?" Kagome asked, "oh yea. I am fine. Thank you for your help."

Kagome quickly ran from the office, heading directly to her car, not noticing her own secretary just a few cars down from her.

Ten minutes later

"Kagome what's wrong?" Sango asked as her friend rushed into their apartment.

"Sesshoumaru know's I had a pregnancy test done today," the girl wheezed out.

"How can you be sure?"

"He's my secretary Sango," Kagome exclaimed. "He is the one who gave me the message confirming today's appointment, he is also the one who showed up at the doctors office to update my info and cover my fee. How could he not know!"

Sango nodded, " I understand what you're saying now. What are you going to do?"

"I will do nothing for now," Kagome said. "Things will continue as they have been, and when I receive my results, I will deal with it then. I will make sure when the doctors call me for the results of the pregnancy test, they call my cell phone. Sesshoumaru is not in charge of that, and he will not know until I let him know."

Sango nodded, unsure of how to comfort her friend, "so you going to tell me about this 'Mix and Match' the magazine is doing?"

Kagome smiled, "It's pretty interesting. Somebody randomly came up with it during a meeting. A fun way to get to know our crew, singles first, and then people in relationships. Each person will be on the cover, and then there will be a couple page update on that person. Naturally we will be mostly interested in their favorite types of music. But we also will go through much more. They all agreed I would be first, and next, because they all hate me, will be Sesshoumaru. And so forth and so on."

Sango nodded, "sounds interesting."

"We did a little thing a while ago randomly stopping people to gain their prospective," Kagome went on. "We put Sesshoumaru and Kiera on podiums and had a sign by each of them with their info and likes in music. We screened two hundred people on the idea and came back positive 120%. So we decided to run with it. My issue is out soon. All they have to do is photographs. Yuck." Sango laughed at her friend, she knew Kagome hated being photographed, although she wasn't sure why.

"Let's go to dinner," Sango said with a wide smirk. '"My treat!"

Kagome laughed and agreed, as they went into their separate rooms to change the girl couldn't help but wonder about her ex-fiance Sesshoumaru and his actions today at the doctors office. Picking up her cell phone Kagome dialed without thinking.

"Hey are you free tomorrow?" she asked the person on the other end of the line.

"I think so," the person responeded. "Why?"

"Meet me tomorrow for lunch at the U.S. Diner," she said. "I will send you directions."

"Okay," the person replied. "What time?"

"Noon on the dot," Kagome said with a smile.

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"Miss Higurashi's office," Sesshoumaru said as he picked up the phone.

"Hello," the voice on the other end said warmly. "I was hoping to speak with a Sesshoumaru Takahashi?"

"Speaking," he said into the phone. "May I inquire as to who is calling?"

"Shori," the woman replied. "Shiori Takeda."

"How may I help you Miss Takeda?" He asked.

"Well I work for 'Japans Finest' and we were hoping to do a piece on Miss Higurashi," she said slowly. "And I was told to contact you, Mr. Takahashi."

"Why is that?" Sesshoumaru asked, typing in 'Japans Finest' into Bing as the woman continued talking.

"Well as her former fiance I was hoping you would have insight to the mind of Miss Higurashi."

Sesshoumaru stared at the screen. It was a tabloid. It posed as a nice magazine pretending to give info on the up and coming big wigs in Japan, but it wasn't.

"We do not associate ourselves with tabloids," Sesshoumaru said darkly. "Shall you call this magazine again, I will personally ensure your office is slapped with a harrassment suit."

"Of course Mr. Takahashi," the woman said hurriedly. "We will bother you no more."

Sesshoumaru put the phone down and sighed, he was sick of tabloids calling to get info on him, Kagome, him and Kagome, or if Kagome was having a three way affair with him and his younger brother InuYasha. It was too much and he was ready to explode.

"Sesshoumaru would you come back her a minute please," Kagome called out her office and into his.

"Of course," he replied smootly. Standing Sesshoumaru grabed a pen and notepad just in case she needed him to take a few quick notes.

"Please sit," She said, not turning around from her fish tank. Sesshoumaru obliged and sat in the seat opposite her desk. "How are you?"

To say he was taken aback was a understatement. "Uh.. I am fine. Thank you for asking. And yourself?"

"I am fine myself," she responded. "How is Rin?"

"Missing you dearly," he responded not realizing how he said the phrase.

"I miss her as well," Kagome replied. And you. "I was wondering if you and Rin would mind meeting me for dinner tomorrow night?"

"It is a bit short notice," he responded. "But that should not be a problem."

"Wonderful," Kagome said with a smile. "I will contact you with the info. Also, I know you are aware I had a doctors appointment the other day."

"Yes…" he replied slowly.

"I am sure you are aware that the appointment effects both of us do you not?"

"I do," he said. "I also remember our discussion last week."

"Yes well let us forget that," Kagome said meekly. "I want to get your feedback on what you want to do should the test be positive."

"As I have told you before," he said. Standing at his full stature, Kagome felt small compared to Sesshoumaru.

"Should you become pregnant," he resumed his sentence. "I would hope you reconsider our relationship and come back to Rin and I."

A.N. So roughtly I typed up about 10 pages in just a few hours. I am proud of myself to say the least. Also, this is not half as long as I had originally wanted. But I felt this may be a good place for me to stop the chapter. I believe I shall start drafting up a new one immediately. I hope you enjoyed! And yes, I will attempt to be back from now on!