Hey everyone. Sorry for the wait. I'll try to be more consistent.

I sat on the stool waiting. For what, I never knew. Maybe his return, or my rescue, all I knew was that I was hurt, I was scared and I was alone.

"Have you seen Kagome?" Inuyasha walked into the kitchen and asked Izayou.

"I thought that she went shopping?" She inquired.

"Yeah… she did but that was hours ago. It's dark now. We should go find her." He pointed got into the car and headed out.

I woke up on leaves, and when I looked around all I could see were trees. There was a slight frost on the ground, the first one of the winter. I stood up slowly. There was still sunlight in the distance. I started walking, walking anywhere but here. I just wanted to go home. It was hours before I came upon a path and started to follow it. Not long after I knew where I was. A little further ahead is where I had my first kiss.

"So what's the big deal about kissing anyway? Why does everyone get so worked up about it?" I asked. He shook his head.

"I don't know. It always seems to make people crazy." Inuyasha answered. He kicked his feet against the side of the rock that we were sitting on. The sunlight made him look gorgeous, something he never seemed to notice about himself.

"Maybe… maybe we should try it? Just to see what all the mess is about? You wanna..?" I proposed looking up into his wonderful eyes.

"Alright if you want to." He answered.

"How do we do it? Do we close our eyes? How do we find each other with our eyes closed?" I blushed slightly; these questions were awkward in a silly sort of way.

"Our eyes don't close until our lips touch, you'll know." He said as he moved in closer. I tilted my chin up toward him. I had never kissed before and was a little nervous about kissing my best friend. What if it destroyed our friendship?

Before I knew it there was electricity flowing between us, as if our mouths were the gateway to some wondrous realm of reality we had never know before. He put his hand on the back of my head and I my own on his chest. The kiss was deep with so much meaning I wasn't sure that my brain could process it all. It was perfect. Then, it was over. He pulled back slowly taking small breaths. I lay my head on his chest.

"That was magical." I said.

"Yeah…" was all he said. We didn't talk until we phoned each other that night as we did every night since we were 10. We talked as if it never happened, but that memory would stay with me until the end of my days.

I rested on the rock I held so dear. I would be home soon. Just then there was a strange feeling in my stomach. I pressed my hand to the spot where it was happening and could feel it from the outside as well as the inside. Then I realized, the babies were kicking. They must have been disturbed by the abnormal amount of exercise that I was implicating on them by trying to escape Naraku.

I decided to continue my walk when it started to rain. At least I wasn't wearing anything white. Another couple of hours and I was out onto the road. I walked in a neighborhood that I was barely familiar with when I stopped in front of a house that I recognized. I couldn't remember who lived there. The occupant came out carrying a large trash bag. He noticed me right away and it only took one good look to recognize him.

"Haruo?" I called out. The figure looked up and stared at me. I started walking towards him.

"Kagome, is that you? You look so… different." He put the trash into the garbage can and turned to face me.

"Oh thank God, someone I know. Can I use your phone, and.. maybe get out of the rain for a bit?" I pleaded. He looked at my swollen stomach and nodded his head opening the door for me. I followed him into the living room where a pretty girl about our age was sitting on the couch.

"Kagome, this is Ayame, Ayame, Kagome. She is just going to use the phone real quick." He said starting toward her. She just stared for a little while and then looked away as if embarrassed for looking. I quickly dialed Inuyasha's phone number.

"Hello," Izayou's voice, "You have reached the Fang residence please leave your name and number and we will get back to you as soon as we can." I hung up and took a seat across form them.

"Would you like anything to drink?" He offered to both of us. Ayame nodded leading him to go to the kitchen.

"You're that girls who's married aren't you?" She asked quietly. I blushed at this remark, it was embarrassing for me.

"Yes, I am, but not for long." I answered quickly. She looked puzzled.

"He's gotten worse?" She asked. I stared into her eyes. What did she know?

"Worse? What do you mean…"

"I mean worse than he was before. I've seen you two around school. You never look happy anymore, and you wear a ton of make-up." I was shocked, someone had noticed. "I've even walked into the bathroom to hear you crying sometimes, but I never got the chance to talk to you. I started watching you, to see if you were okay. You weren't." I opened my mouth to speak but nothing came out. I just closed it back up again. "I told the counselor what I suspected was happening, which by the looks of it was more than I suspected, but they never did anything about it. Said that Naraku came from a reputable family and he would never do such a thing. When I tried to get the police involved you disappeared. I thought maybe that you had, well, been murdered by him. I've seen him do things to you, behind the school, in his car. I tried to help you." I clasped and unclasped my hands continuously.

"Why help me? I never helped you…"

"People like him and my father belong in a jail cell to rot for the rest of their lives." She got up and took a seat right next to mine. She took my hand in hers. "What happened, what he did… it's not okay, ever. "

The tears came in a flood as she took me in her arms. All I could do was cry, how could I have missed someone watching me all those times? All of a sudden the phone rang. Haruo came in and answered it.

"I believe it's for you." He said offering the phone to me.

"Hello…Inuyasha?"