What comes after 'happily ever after or the end?'

Chapter Twelve:

She awoke a few hours later, to a cold and empty bed. At first she didn't realize where she was until she remembered the party that some woman had invited her to, then just before she left, she'd finally been reunited with Inuyasha.

She looked over that the bedside table and read the clock. She smiled while trying to imagine a now hungry and cranky Mika. Standing up she found a robe on the back of the bathroom door and then headed down to the kitchen. The first thing that she noticed was the fresh pot of coffee that was by this time, cold from sitting. Then it was the faint scent of Inuyasha, telling her that he hadn't been in here for a few hours.

Looking around the room, she then seen the broken cup laying on the floor and the coffee on the wall and the floor. "What happened here?" She wondered. She walked over the glass and picked it up so no one would get hurt.

The sun was faintly shining into the kitchen, giving it a beautiful hue with every surfaced that it touched. She went out to the balcony and sat in a chair and pulled her legs up to her chest. Watching the sunrise, Kagome felt at peace. After sitting out there for a while, she stood up and walked back inside.

It was then that she noticed the broken glass on the floor and the coffee on the wall. Bending down, Kagome went to pick up the broken cup, but her finger slipped and then the scent of her blood filled her nose. She stuck her finger in her mouth and using the other hand, she carefully picked up the large pieces.

She found the first aid supplies and bandaged her finger. After cleaning the up the mess, she leaned on the counter and looked out the window. "Inuyasha...where are you? And what made you so made that you threw a cup at the wall?" She thought to herself.

After awhile she was walking back to the room that she and Inuyasha had occupied earlier. She smelt his arousal. But the question was, where was he and why didn't he come back to the room that she was sleeping in.

She put her hand on the doorknob but then stopped when her ears picked up on some thing a few rooms away. She found which room and could smell Inuyasha stronger then ever. Cocking her head, she asked herself, "What's he doing in there? Why didn't he come back to the room that I was in?"

Closing the door quietly, she quietly went over to the sleeping man, watching his chest rise and fall. Disrobing, she climbed into the bed and laid next to him. He wrapped his arms around her, and pulled her closer to him.

They made love once more, and then fell asleep in each other’s arms. About an hour after they fell asleep, the phone beside the bed, Kagome was sleeping on his chest. He reached over and grabbed the phone and answered grumpily. "Hello?"

"I know that you don't want to talk to me, but please just listen to what I have to say please." His brother said.

"You're god damn right I don't want to talk to you!" It was then that Kagome stood up, wrapped her self in the robe and left.

"Inu, please. I just wanted to call and tell you to stay home. Enjoy Kagome."

"I'm going into work, as planed, working and then leaving at the end of the day, then returning the next morning and repeating the same thing the day after that and after that and after that, until the day that I die or retire."

"Inuyasha. Please, I know that what I did was wrong. And I can never make up for that, but I'm trying the best that I can. Take a long vacation, take them with you. You need it."

"I'm not taking a damn vacation, I'm working on a case and I need to be here. Who do you mean by 'them'?"

Sesshomaru was silent for a moment then let out a deep sigh. "Talk to Kagome. Don't come in today, I will tell the security to ban you."

"Who the fuck do you think you are telling me not to come into my own office?!"

"Your brother. You've worked every single day since we opened this business seventy-five years ago! Take a damn vacation! Take a year off I don't give a damn, just don't come in! Take some time off and spend it with Kagome."

"You know what, screw you Sess. You can have the damn company. Your lawyers will be hearing from mine."

"Inu, please. All I'm asking is that you take a few days off. Spend time with Kagome. Get to know her again. Just please don't do anything rash right now."

"Stick you head further up your ass Sesshomaru, because I'm not listening to you. You watched me suffer for the last four hundred and seventy two years. I will never forgive you for that! EVER!"

"I understand, but please. Just take some time off."

"Why don't you want me to come in today? What's going on at the office?"

"It's not that I don’t' want to come in because there is some thing going on here. It's more like I don't want to come in because there is a few things that you need to learn. Talk to Kagome."

"Screw you Sesshomaru." Inuyasha said angrily, slamming the phone down.

He walked into his room and quickly washed up and dressed. Walking into the bathroom, Inuyasha thought about the previous night. Remembering why he'd gone into another bedroom, he slammed his fist against the door. "Dimmit! How can I have been such a fool? To think that there really wasn't any one else in her life. What she did was...what she did to me was just wrong." He punched the door. "Giving me pity sex. Even before I found out, it had to be pity sex." He thought, getting angrier by the second.

A few minutes later, he walked into the kitchen and made himself a fresh cup of coffee that Kagome had just made, and sat down at the table.

"Is there something wrong?" Kagome asked sweetly.

"No. Everything is just grand." He took a sip of his coffee.

She played with the eggs on her plate. "Um...."

He narrowed his eyes on her plate, then took a sip of coffee before asking, "Did you check the date on those eggs? I haven't gone shopping in awhile."

"They're fine." She put a small mouthful in her mouth, then started to chew. After chewing a few times, she swallowed them and gagged while pushing the plate away. "Ok, maybe not so good." Rinsing down the fowl taste of the spoiled eggs with her glass of milk, she looked up at Inuyasha and noticed that he was tense. "Inuyasha, really, what's the matter?"

"No. Just work stuff. You ready? I'll take you home."

-A WEEK LATER, WALKING AROUND, WINDOW SHOPPING-

Kagome was walking down a main street in the shopping district, while Mika was playing in her stroller. Absently, Kagome pushed the stroller, while her mind drifted back to the night of her birthday. She wondered when she would see Inuyasha again

"Aunt Eri!" She heard Mika cried happily.

Kagome returned to reality and seen that Eri was walking towards them, and wasn't every far away. "Hey Eri," Kagome smiled.

"Spacing out again, I see."

"No, just thinking. What are you doing in town?"

"I was going to treat myself. But I see that Mika needs someone that isn't spacing out all the time. So why don't we hang out together?"

"Hey that's not fair." Kagome pouted.

Eri giggled. "I'm joking, but seriously, let's hang out. Where were you going?"

"No where in particular. I just thought that I could take Mika out for a while."

"Oh, well there is this really cute little coffee shop just down the street, wanna go?"

"Alright."

Heading in the direction Eri asked, "So what were you thinking about?"

"Huh? Oh. I was thinking about my birthday."

"By the way, how was it?"

"WHAT?!" Kagome asked, truly shocked.

"That thing that you were invited to," Eri raised an eyebrow.

She let out a deep sigh. "It was boring, actually. For the most part. But then again, I did keep to myself most of the night."

"Oh, so did you meet anyone?"

"A lot of people. Some I haven't seen in years. And one or two that I didn't need to meet again."

"So what did you do? At the party I mean."

"Nothing. Stayed on the balcony most of it. It was really beautiful and peaceful out there. I even learned how to waltz." Kagome laughed.

Eri held the door open for her to push the stroller in. "Sounds like so much fun."

Kagome looked around for a table that the stroller had easy access to, she walked over and sat down. "Nah. I'm still in the learning stage."

"Hey, speaking of dancing, are you going to the dance?"

"Dunno, It depends."

"On what?"

"DOGGIE!" Mika cried happily.

"Mika, there is no yelling here." Kagome warned. She positioned the stroller to face the table. "It depends on me getting a date."

"Who cares about dates? Go alone. That way you don't have to worry about your date getting jealous."

"That may be true, but I'd rather look like I have a life then go alone."

"But you do have a life, Mika."

"You know what I mean Eri." Kagome sighed. "Besides, there's only one person that I'd want to go with, But I don't know when I'll see him again."

"Don't tell me it's that family guy friend that lives in Chiba."

"Family friend? Chiba? Is she talking about Inuyasha?" Kagome thought. "Gotta be."

"Well in any case, try to call him and ask him to go with you. It's coming in fast you know."

"Eri, I don't even know if I want to go." Kagome pulled out Mika's pacifier and put in her mouth, then lowered the back of the stroller so Mika could fall asleep. "I mean, it's every normal teenage girls dream, but I'm not normal. I never have been."

"But Kagome It's not just for normal people."

"I don't see what that point is to get dressed up for a few hours for one night, and then never do it again."

"I know but come on. You have to believe that we can be something were not, even if it's only for a few hours."

"And what are we exactly?"

"High school girls that deserve some fun! Especially you. In the past two and a half years that I seen you dressed up was in the pictures that you sent from America."

Kagome looked down at Mika, who was now sleeping and brushed the hair from her face. "I have no reason to. I don't know any one of importance and I'm not rich. If anything, I'm becoming poorer. I just want to graduate high school and support my child. I don't see how a dance is going to change anything."

"No one said it would. But give yourself one night at least to forget that you a teenage mother and just be a regular teenage girl."

"But Eri, I'm not a regular teenage girl," She listened as the door opened, and a familiar scent hit her sensitive nose. She scanned the room, and over by the counter, stood a tall muscular man with white hair with black ends. "Excuse me." She said to Eri then walked over to the counter.

His look was casual, with a simple T-shirt and a pair of jeans with sandals. He really did look good in anything. She noticed that he tensed when she approached him. Lightly tapping his shoulder, "Hey," She said softly.

Shaking off her hand, he asked a bit coldly, "What do you want?"

Kagome drew back, looking at him, she became a bit angry. "What the hell is you problem? You've been avoiding me the past week, and now you're giving me the cold shoulder. Why?"

"I don't want to talk about it."

"You know what, you're an ass."

"Great and the world still loves me."

"Here you are, sir." the man behind the counter said, handing him his coffee.

"Damn. I really wish that I still have sit." (A/N: She took it off a week before, I forgot to mention it, sorry people, but I just wanted to let you know.) Kagome mumbled to herself.

He leaned towards her and then said, "You will never control me again!" He started towards the door.

"What crawled up your ass and took control?" She asked so everyone could hear. He was silent as he walked through the door and turned and walked away. Kagome followed him. "Too damn bad! You've been an asshole to me since you walked into that coffee shop. I want to know what the hell I did to you to make you act that way towards me."

"You lied to me! Are you happy now?"

"I never lied to you."

"I heard the conversation that you had with your mother. Not all of it, but I heard enough."

"The conversation with my mother?" She paused to think back. "Then he knows about her, and is refusing her?" She asked herself. Then she hung her head in defeat. Letting out a deep sigh, she looked up at him, her eyes beginning to fill with tears. "You know that really hurts, Inuyasha." She said softly.

"All I want to know is why." He lowered his voice, and then asked. "Why did you give me pity sex?"

"Pity sex?" She asked in a whisper. "That wasn't pity sex."

"Oh? Then what would you call it?"

She took a step towards him, placing her hand lightly on his chest. "I would never do that. I love you."

"Save it Kagome." He said, pushing her hand away. "You chose someone else rather then wait for me."

"Wait for you? I've spent the last two and a half years waiting for you to find me. I've turned down countless potential boyfriends, all because I wanted one demon. And that's you.

"'He'll find out when he comes over anyway.' I believe that those were your exact words."

Letting out a sigh of relief, "You could have just asked me what I meant. I would have told to. Not right away, but I would have."

"Oh? So what does it mean?"

"Come in and I'll show you what I meant." She turned around and seen through the window that Eri wasn't in her seat and Mika's stroller was askew. "Oh my God!" She ran into the shop and over to the table and looked around, "Maybe I'm overacting, lets check the bathroom first, then we can panic." She walked into the ladies’ room and called, "Mika?"

A toilet flushed and a few moments later, Eri opens a stall door, and in her arms was Mika. Kagome let out a sigh of relief and grabbed for Mika.

"I'm sorry if I frightened you. I really had to go, and it looked like you were having a heated conversation with that guy. By the way, who is he?! MEOW!" She teased while washing her hands.

"No, it's ok. I wasn't paying attention to her." She walked through the dinning area and then out the door and stopped for a moment. Inuyasha was still standing where he was when she ran back inside. She let out a sigh and then slowly walked over to him. "Inuyasha." She called.

He turned around and looked at her, then the small child in her arms.

In a small voice, Kagome said, "She'll be two in October."

Narrowing his eyes at her, he asked, "And she is?"

A tear ran down the side of her face. "Her name is Mika. And she's your daughter. Do you remember at the well when I told you that I wanted to tell you something, but I couldn't? Well, she was what I wanted to tell you."

"So then...last week...wasn't...." He sank down onto the bench that was a few feet behind him.

"No! Never, Inuyasha," She sat next to him, still holding Mika. "I love you, I would never do that. Ever. Please, don't tell me that I have to go back to those days. I don't want to have to tell her that her daddy didn't love her."

He didn't say anything, his brain was trying to take in the fact that he was a daddy. What else had he missed in the last two years of their lives.

"Inuyasha?"

He turned to her and stared at her, not really seeing her. "What have I missed What has gone on in her life that I don't know about?" He asked himself. He looked down at the sleeping child. Then he asked, "Should she be in the sun like that?"

"She's fine." She said quietly, then said, "Inuyasha, please don't make me go back to that."

"To what?"

"To before you knew. Before last week."

Inuyasha started at her for a moment. He caught her bye surprise when he leaned over and kissed her. She bounced back quickly and started kissing him back.

A few moments later, she pulled away. "What are you going to do Inuyasha?"

"Do you have to ask?"

"Yes."

He looked down at his watch. "I have to go, but I'll call you later." He programmed her number into his phone and before he left, he gave her another kiss, then kissed Mika on her head.

-TAISHO AND TAIYUKII INDUSTRIES-

He burst into the waiting room before heading towards Sesshomaru's office.

"Mr. Taisho, you can't just go in there!!" The assistant said, outraged at his intrusion.

"Watch me!" He threw the door open and seen his brother sitting in his chair.

"Inu..."

Inuyasha walked over to him, gripped his shirt in his hand, pulled him off his chair and then punched him. "You have some fucking nerve!"

Wiping the blood from his mouth while standing, he said. "Can we talk about this later?" he motioned towards the two gentlemen sitting in chairs.

But Inuyasha didn't care if it was the Prim Minister and the Emperor, he was going to talk about this at this very moment. "Fuck no! For two years you kept both of them from me. You knew that I was suffering and you did nothing! I was angry at her because I thought that she was with someone else. But come to find out, I was mad at the wrong person. And it's your damn fault!"

"Inu, please."

"Don’t'! Don’t' try to act like my brother now! It's too damn late for that! Why Sesshomaru?"

"Why?"

"You kept them both from me! The love of my life and my child!"

"So, she finally told you?"

"F-fin-ally-!" Inuyasha pulled back his fist and connected it with Sesshomaru's face. "She wouldn't have had to "finally" tell me anything if you told me where she was in the first place!"

"I was trying to keep them from danger."

"That's no-" He turned around, bit his tongue and then breathed out. "That's not your place to decide! I would think that after six hundred and forty years that I can take care of y own!"

"I know." He walked towards the door and walked into the waiting area. Inuyasha followed him. Shutting the door, Sesshomaru continued. "Being in this business as long as you have, you know exactly just how dangerous it is."

"It's still not your fucking call to keep them from me! Sesshomaru I've been suffering the last two years longer then I needed to. Why did you hide her? And don't give me this shit about how dangerous it is." He paused a moment. "You're in the same boat I am. What about Rin and your children?"

"Rin grew up in the Feudal Era. I know that she can protect herself."

"That's the same damn point!"

"No it's not."

"Did you forget that Kagome's been to the Feudal Era numerous times? And has suffered from a lot. You. Naraku. And countless others. I doubt that a few stupid humans could over power her."

"I haven't forgotten Little Brother. But what's a better way to keep the ones we love from danger then leaving them out of your life?"

Inuyasha punched Sesshomaru once more. "From now on, you're dead to me! Come near them again and I'll kill you!" And with that last note, Inuyasha left.

(AND THEY LIVED HAPPILY EVER AFTER)

Author's Note:
There might be another chapter after this, more like an Epilogue.



Woooo!! I hope every one likes my first fanfic!! ^_^; Please R&R!!
Oh, and, I know that it's not perfect in many ways but in any case, it was really good?? *Points fingers together and hope all the answers are good answers.* Well any way, UNTILL NEXT TIME! (hopefully that's soon!!)