InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Cheating Fate ❯ A Blast From the Past ( Chapter 1 )

[ T - Teen: Not suitable for readers under 13 ]

Kagome walked through the school courtyard biting her lip nervously. ‘I can’t believe I’m pregnant. How will I be able to tell him? He’ll never understand.’ She knew that InuYasha wasn’t anywhere near ready to become a father, but she wasn’t about to give up what they created together just because he wasn’t ready. It wasn’t going to be easy, but she was sure that they could get through it. A smile slipped onto her face as she spotted him talking to someone.

She quickened her pace when she saw him lead the person behind the school. Kagome ran around the corner of the school only to stop dead in her tracks. The sight she saw made her feel nauseous.

InuYasha, her boyfriend--no--the father of their baby, was making out with Kikyo Juzo, the head cheerleader.

Kagome turned around and emptied her stomach onto the grass. The revolting sound seemed to catch the kissing couple’s attention. “Kagome!” she heard InuYasha gasp as he ran to her side. “Are you alright?”

‘What kind of dumb question is that?’ Kagome glared up at InuYasha. “No. What is this?” she asked as she gestured toward Kikyo.

InuYasha looked at her with guilt in his eyes. “Listen Kagome, I swear I was going to tell you.”

“Tell me what? That you were screwing someone behind my back?” Kagome yelled as she felt her stomach start to act up again. “I thought you loved me?”

InuYasha sighed as he looked down at the ground. “I’m sorry Kagome. I wish you could have found out a better way, but I don’t have feelings for you anymore.” he said and Kagome felt her heart break in two.

Tears whelped in her eyes as she shook her head and ran off in the opposite direction. “Kagome!” she heard him call after her which only urged her to run faster. “Kagome!”

Kagome woke up with a start. She was covered in cold sweat and she was panting heavily. How she hated reliving that memory. The day when InuYasha left her more than four years ago.

Kagome looked around her room and checked the clock that sat upon her nightstand. It read two a.m.

As she wiped the sweat from her brow with her pajama sleeve, her bedroom door slowly opened causing the hallway light to spill into her room. When the door was opened far enough, Kagome recognized her three year old daughter, Ami, walk into the room rubbing the sleep out of her eyes.

Kagome smiled to herself as she looked at her daughter. She resembled her father in so many ways and it sometimes pained Kagome to look at her. She had her father’s gorgeous amber eyes and even though they held so much innocence, they stilled reminded her of him. Then on the top of her head she had an adorable pair of dog ears, that looked so much like her father’s. The only difference was that they were the same blackness as her hair instead of silver as his was.

“Mommy, I had a bad dream.” she whined as she stood beside the bed and stuck out her arms, silently asking to be lifted onto the bed.

Kagome smiled as she obliged to her daughter’s plea and lifted her up and placed her in her lap. “Really? What was it about?”

Ami sniffled as she looked up at her mother. “I couldn’t find you. I looked and looked, but you weren’t there.” she replied as she tried to pronounce the words that all three year olds have difficulty with.

Kagome wrapped her arms around her daughter. “I’ll always be here. Don’t you worry about that, okay?” she whispered as she tried to sooth her crying daughter.

Ami nodded as she sniffled and then snuggled against her mother. “Mommy?”

“Yes sweetheart?” Kagome replied as she gently rocked her back and forth.

“Can I . . . sleep with you?” she asked innocently as her eyelids started to get heavy.

Kagome smiled. “Of course.” she said as she laid back down and tucked Ami and herself in and then slowly fell into a peaceful sleep.

When morning finally came, Kagome was running late. She hurriedly threw on her work scrubs and then got Ami dressed.

As she ran out of the house to her car carrying Ami, she buckled her up in her booster seat then got into the driver’s seat. She started up the engine and then she sped off down the street. ‘Oh Mom’s going to skin me alive. She worked so hard to get me this job. I can’t screw it up now!’ she thought franticly.

In less than three minutes she was pulling into the hospital parking lot. She threw herself out of the car and rushed to the backseat. She unbuckled Ami’s booster seat then grabbed her and ran inside.

“Mommy drives fast.” Ami exclaimed as she started to play with her mother’s hair.

“Yes. Especially when Mommy’s running late.” she told her daughter with a smile.

Kagome saw her mother notice her through the office window and she hurried out to meet her. “Where have you been? You’re . . .” she trailed as she checked her watch. “ten minutes late! Do you know how many excuses I had to make for you?”

“Sorry Mom. I’m having a rough morning.”

Her mother had worked so hard to get her this job, which was difficult considering she didn’t have a doctor’s degree. She wasn’t allowed to handle any of the medicine. Her job was to go around making hospital beds and she sometimes got to do some paperwork. Kagome often thought of her job as a janitor’s, but without having to mop up anything. But as long as she got to work in a hospital Kagome could cope with anything. And besides the pay being reasonable, she got to have her daughter watched for free by the nurses who took care the newborns and Kagome enjoyed pitching in whenever she could.

Her mother shook her head. “Well I’m afraid it’s only going to get rougher.” she replied. “We have a new intern working here this summer and my boss wants you to show him around. Since you don’t have that much to do. He‘s in the lobby waiting.”

“Okay.”

Her mother suddenly looked nervous. “Oh and Kagome?” she said timidly as Kagome looked at her waiting for her to continue. “I just want you to know, I didn’t have any say in him working here.”

Kagome looked at her mother in confusion. “Alright, but I don’t see why that would concern me---” Kagome started and as if on cue her mother changed the topic.

“How’s my little Ami this morning?” her mother cooed to Ami in a grandma type voice as she took her out of Kagome’s arms. “Let’s go see all the nice nurses up stairs.” and with that her mother and daughter walked around the corner towards the elevator.

Kagome sighed as she started in the direction of the lobby. Her mother’s words still echoed through her head as she tried to make sense of them, but she suddenly stopped when she heard a voice she didn’t think she’d ever hear again.

She looked up to see the man who had broken her heart a little over three years ago talking to the nurse behind the counter. InuYasha Takahashi.