InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Cheating Fate ❯ Close Call ( Chapter 3 )
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By: Dreamer6164 
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Anime/Manga: InuYasha Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Romance / Drama | Type: Alternate Universe | Uploaded On: 06.10.2007 | Pages: 2 | Words: 2.0K | Visits: 2.7K | Status: Work In Progress
Disclaimer: I do not own InuYasha.
Anime/Manga: InuYasha Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Romance / Drama | Type: Alternate Universe | Uploaded On: 06.10.2007 | Pages: 2 | Words: 2.0K | Visits: 2.7K | Status: Work In Progress
CHAPTER THREE
“Push Kagome, push! You can do it!” Kagome’s mother told her as she held Kagome’s hand. “You’re almost there!”
Kagome was covered with sweat as she tried to push her unborn daughter out of her. The pain was unbelievable. She knew it would hurt, but never this much! She had been in labor now for ten hours and it was a interminable pain.
Her contractions were coming one right after the other now and she knew she was close when the doctor said, “You’re doing great Kagome, the head’s almost out now.”
“AHHHHH! Get this thing out of me!” Kagome screamed as she tightened the death grip on her mother’s hand.
“One more push, Kagome.” the doctor said. Kagome gave it her all and she felt her baby slip out of her. She collapsed with exhaustion and smiled to herself when she heard her baby cry for the first time.
“Oh my gosh, I’m a grandmother!” Kagome’s mother said in astonishment as if realizing for the first time that Kagome was indeed having a baby.
When the nurses finished cleaning the baby up, one placed her in Kagome’s awaiting arms. Kagome had to fight back tears as she gazed at her baby girl. She looked so tiny wrapped in a pink blanket.
Kagome’s attention went up to her daughter’s ears. . . . Like her father’s . . . Kagome didn’t know if that fact brought her more sorrow or more joy. She had always loved his ears.
Her daughter’s little hand found its way out of the blanket and blindly reached for something. Kagome smiled and gently grabbed the baby’s hand with hers. Her daughter blinked up at her and that’s when Kagome noticed her eyes. The same color of amber as InuYasha’s.
“Have you decided on a name Ms. Higurashi?” a young nurse asked.
Kagome nodded, but didn’t take her eyes off her daughter. “Ami. Ami Takahashi.”
The nurse smiled then told Kagome that they had to take Ami so they could clean her up some more. When the nurse left, Kagome’s mother exclaimed, “Why Kagome she looks just like you!”
But Kagome just shook her head sadly at her mother. “No. She looks just like InuYasha.”
Mrs. Higurashi didn’t say anything. Knowing that her daughter’s life would be haunted by the past.
~ * ~
Kagome sighed as she sipped her coffee in the hospital’s cafeteria. She had just got done showing InuYasha around and now she was on her break. Luckily, InuYasha was nowhere in sight.
Sango and Ami walked into the cafeteria. When Ami saw her mother she immediately ran over to her. Sango smiled as she walked over to the lunch line. “Mommy, Mommy, look what Auntie Sango bought me!” she exclaimed as she pointed to the hat on her head. It was a simple design. Light blue with a sunflower in the middle.
Kagome smiled as she patted her on the head. “You look even prettier now.” Kagome complimented her daughter.
Ami giggled as she tried to climb onto the chair next to Kagome, but when she was maneuvering herself around, her knee accidentally hit the bottom of the table causing Kagome’s coffee to spill all down Kagome’s light purple scrubs.
“Oh crap!” Kagome exclaimed as the hot liquid soaked through her clothes. Ami was instantly looking at her mother with horror. She started wailing. “It’s okay Ami. Mommy’s alright.”
“But Mommy got all yucky!” she cried.
“Well then why don’t you go get Mommy some napkins?” she asked and Ami suddenly brightened.
“Okay Mommy! I’ll bring you lots of napkins!” she said as she dashed off toward the lunch line, but with all the commotion that was going at Kagome’s table, she failed to see InuYasha enter the room as he headed toward the line as well.
He walked up to the counter, that held the condiments and food trays, as Ami ran up beside him jumping, trying to reach the napkins.
When Ami sighed realizing she was too little to reach the napkins, she tugged on InuYasha’s pant leg. He looked down at her with a questionable express on his face. Ami scuffed her shoe on the ground as she put her hands behind her back. “Um . . . can you get me some napkins please? My mommy got all yucky and I need lots of napkins.” she said innocently.
InuYasha looked at her for a moment, trying to figure out why she seemed familiar, before he grabbed a hand full of napkins and handed them to her. “There you go. Tell your mother I said that I hope she gets un-yucky. ” he said as Ami smiled at him.
“Thank you, mister. I‘ll tell her!” she said before she disappeared into the crowded cafeteria. There was something about that little girl that puzzled InuYasha. He couldn’t put his finger on it but it nagged at his self-conscience.
Suddenly a fresh scent of spaghetti hit InuYasha’s noise and soon all thoughts of the little girl left InuYasha’s mind.
~ * ~
“Mommy, I got lots of napkins!” Ami said as she approached the table where her mother was still trying to keep as much spilt coffee on the table as possible.
Kagome gave her a chaste smile before taking the napkins out of her daughter’s hands. “Thank you honey.” she said then started dabbing her shirt and lap.
“The man that helped me said that he hoped you get un-yucky.” Ami said as she smiled at her mother.
“Really? And who might this man be?” Kagome asked. She didn’t really approve of Ami talking to strangers.
“That man, Mommy!” Ami exclaimed as she pointed in the direction of a man paying for his lunch. A man that happened to be InuYasha.
“Shit.” Kagome swore, then realized her mistake as she widened her eyes at Ami. “Mommy didn’t say shit.” she said as she stood up and grabbed Ami’s hand.
“Yes she did.” Ami snickered as she let her mother drag her out of the cafeteria.
Kagome hurried toward the elevator and before she could hit the button, Ami stopped her. “Mommy, Mommy! I want to push the button!” she said in a childish voice. Ami looked up at her mother with big eyes. “Can I push the button Mommy?”
Kagome sighed as she anxiously looked over her shoulder before nodding. “Okay. Push the up button.”
The smile never left Ami’s face as she pressed the button, which then lighted up. Making Ami even more excited.
The elevator just had to take it’s time. Kagome just wanted to get Ami back up stairs before InuYasha saw Ami with her.
Kagome nervously tapped her foot as she waited for the elevator, when she heard someone call, “Kagome! Hey wait up!”
Kagome tensed as she turned around to look at the person calling for her, but let out a sigh when it turned out to be only Sango.
“Why you’d leave so fast? I barely enough time to get my coffee.” she said as she stopped next to her.
Kagome leaned closer to Sango, blocking Ami out of ear shot. “InuYasha was in there,” she said. “and he talked to her.”
Sango’s eyes widened at the news as she cautiously looked down at Ami, who had occupied herself by pushing the up and down buttons of the elevator, then looked back up at Kagome. “He didn’t find out, did he?” Sango asked carefully.
A look of horror came upon Kagome’s face at the mere thought of that happening. “No! Oh Lord, no! I don’t think we would have gotten away so easily.” Kagome replied. “But he did talk to her and she told him that she needed napkins for her mother. So if he had seen her with me than he would have put two and two together and--”
“And realized that you’re her mother.” Sango finished for her as the elevator opened.
Kagome grabbed Ami’s hand again and then followed Sango into the elevator. Then Sango let Ami press the fifth floor button and had to restrain her from pressing them all.
When they reached their the floor of their destination, Kagome felt all the anxiety leave her body. InuYasha was still down in the cafeteria and she and Ami were up on the fifth floor. Quite a distance between them.
Of course, she had been thinking that same thought for the past three years.
Kagome had just walked into the nursery, when she heard her mother greet her. “Oh Kagome! There you are! I was just looking for you!”
“Oh hey Mom.” Kagome replied. “What’d you need?”
“Well,” Kagome’s mother said as she led Kagome a little ways away from Sango and Ami. “I just wanted you to know that I set up a blind date between you and this nice gentlemen tonight. He’s the son of one of the nurses her.”
Kagome closed her eyes in anguish. “Oh Mom. I don’t think I’m going to feel up to it after a day like today.” she sighed, but her mother wouldn’t take no for an answer.
“Nonsense. You’ll go out on a date with this young man.” she retorted. “Look Kagome, I’m not saying you have to fall in love with him. I just think you need a little relaxation and I think the best way to do that is for you to be away from your troubles.”
Kagome nodded reluctantly. Kagome hated going on blind dates set up by her mother. Actually she just hated dates period. They weren’t like they were back in high school. She had Ami to think about now.
Dates just felt like a job interview. Something that no one looks forward to.
“Oh and don’t you worry about finding a sitter for Ami.” she said. “I’ll watch her.”
“Thanks Mom.” Kagome told her mother as she pulled Kagome into an embrace.
When her mother pull away, she smiled and said, “You’ll have a wonderful time.” Then she started to walk away, but then stopped and turned around again. “Oh, I almost forgot. He’ll be picking you up around eight, alright.”
“Alright, Mom.” Kagome replied. “Thanks again.” When her mother was out of sight, Kagome let her shoulders drop. This day was not going to get any better.
“So,” Sango said as she walked over with Ami. “Going on a date are you?”
Kagome nodded as she put her face in her hands. “I hate today.” she mumbled.
“Why Mommy?” Ami asked, surprising Kagome, but she recovered quickly. She lifted her up onto her lap and scratched her behind the ear, which had Ami nuzzling into her mother’s hand.
“Mommy’s just tired.” she said.
“Then Mommy should take a nap.” Ami replied innocently.
Kagome smiled sadly. If only it was that easy. If only.
“Push Kagome, push! You can do it!” Kagome’s mother told her as she held Kagome’s hand. “You’re almost there!”
Kagome was covered with sweat as she tried to push her unborn daughter out of her. The pain was unbelievable. She knew it would hurt, but never this much! She had been in labor now for ten hours and it was a interminable pain.
Her contractions were coming one right after the other now and she knew she was close when the doctor said, “You’re doing great Kagome, the head’s almost out now.”
“AHHHHH! Get this thing out of me!” Kagome screamed as she tightened the death grip on her mother’s hand.
“One more push, Kagome.” the doctor said. Kagome gave it her all and she felt her baby slip out of her. She collapsed with exhaustion and smiled to herself when she heard her baby cry for the first time.
“Oh my gosh, I’m a grandmother!” Kagome’s mother said in astonishment as if realizing for the first time that Kagome was indeed having a baby.
When the nurses finished cleaning the baby up, one placed her in Kagome’s awaiting arms. Kagome had to fight back tears as she gazed at her baby girl. She looked so tiny wrapped in a pink blanket.
Kagome’s attention went up to her daughter’s ears. . . . Like her father’s . . . Kagome didn’t know if that fact brought her more sorrow or more joy. She had always loved his ears.
Her daughter’s little hand found its way out of the blanket and blindly reached for something. Kagome smiled and gently grabbed the baby’s hand with hers. Her daughter blinked up at her and that’s when Kagome noticed her eyes. The same color of amber as InuYasha’s.
“Have you decided on a name Ms. Higurashi?” a young nurse asked.
Kagome nodded, but didn’t take her eyes off her daughter. “Ami. Ami Takahashi.”
The nurse smiled then told Kagome that they had to take Ami so they could clean her up some more. When the nurse left, Kagome’s mother exclaimed, “Why Kagome she looks just like you!”
But Kagome just shook her head sadly at her mother. “No. She looks just like InuYasha.”
Mrs. Higurashi didn’t say anything. Knowing that her daughter’s life would be haunted by the past.
~ * ~
Kagome sighed as she sipped her coffee in the hospital’s cafeteria. She had just got done showing InuYasha around and now she was on her break. Luckily, InuYasha was nowhere in sight.
Sango and Ami walked into the cafeteria. When Ami saw her mother she immediately ran over to her. Sango smiled as she walked over to the lunch line. “Mommy, Mommy, look what Auntie Sango bought me!” she exclaimed as she pointed to the hat on her head. It was a simple design. Light blue with a sunflower in the middle.
Kagome smiled as she patted her on the head. “You look even prettier now.” Kagome complimented her daughter.
Ami giggled as she tried to climb onto the chair next to Kagome, but when she was maneuvering herself around, her knee accidentally hit the bottom of the table causing Kagome’s coffee to spill all down Kagome’s light purple scrubs.
“Oh crap!” Kagome exclaimed as the hot liquid soaked through her clothes. Ami was instantly looking at her mother with horror. She started wailing. “It’s okay Ami. Mommy’s alright.”
“But Mommy got all yucky!” she cried.
“Well then why don’t you go get Mommy some napkins?” she asked and Ami suddenly brightened.
“Okay Mommy! I’ll bring you lots of napkins!” she said as she dashed off toward the lunch line, but with all the commotion that was going at Kagome’s table, she failed to see InuYasha enter the room as he headed toward the line as well.
He walked up to the counter, that held the condiments and food trays, as Ami ran up beside him jumping, trying to reach the napkins.
When Ami sighed realizing she was too little to reach the napkins, she tugged on InuYasha’s pant leg. He looked down at her with a questionable express on his face. Ami scuffed her shoe on the ground as she put her hands behind her back. “Um . . . can you get me some napkins please? My mommy got all yucky and I need lots of napkins.” she said innocently.
InuYasha looked at her for a moment, trying to figure out why she seemed familiar, before he grabbed a hand full of napkins and handed them to her. “There you go. Tell your mother I said that I hope she gets un-yucky. ” he said as Ami smiled at him.
“Thank you, mister. I‘ll tell her!” she said before she disappeared into the crowded cafeteria. There was something about that little girl that puzzled InuYasha. He couldn’t put his finger on it but it nagged at his self-conscience.
Suddenly a fresh scent of spaghetti hit InuYasha’s noise and soon all thoughts of the little girl left InuYasha’s mind.
~ * ~
“Mommy, I got lots of napkins!” Ami said as she approached the table where her mother was still trying to keep as much spilt coffee on the table as possible.
Kagome gave her a chaste smile before taking the napkins out of her daughter’s hands. “Thank you honey.” she said then started dabbing her shirt and lap.
“The man that helped me said that he hoped you get un-yucky.” Ami said as she smiled at her mother.
“Really? And who might this man be?” Kagome asked. She didn’t really approve of Ami talking to strangers.
“That man, Mommy!” Ami exclaimed as she pointed in the direction of a man paying for his lunch. A man that happened to be InuYasha.
“Shit.” Kagome swore, then realized her mistake as she widened her eyes at Ami. “Mommy didn’t say shit.” she said as she stood up and grabbed Ami’s hand.
“Yes she did.” Ami snickered as she let her mother drag her out of the cafeteria.
Kagome hurried toward the elevator and before she could hit the button, Ami stopped her. “Mommy, Mommy! I want to push the button!” she said in a childish voice. Ami looked up at her mother with big eyes. “Can I push the button Mommy?”
Kagome sighed as she anxiously looked over her shoulder before nodding. “Okay. Push the up button.”
The smile never left Ami’s face as she pressed the button, which then lighted up. Making Ami even more excited.
The elevator just had to take it’s time. Kagome just wanted to get Ami back up stairs before InuYasha saw Ami with her.
Kagome nervously tapped her foot as she waited for the elevator, when she heard someone call, “Kagome! Hey wait up!”
Kagome tensed as she turned around to look at the person calling for her, but let out a sigh when it turned out to be only Sango.
“Why you’d leave so fast? I barely enough time to get my coffee.” she said as she stopped next to her.
Kagome leaned closer to Sango, blocking Ami out of ear shot. “InuYasha was in there,” she said. “and he talked to her.”
Sango’s eyes widened at the news as she cautiously looked down at Ami, who had occupied herself by pushing the up and down buttons of the elevator, then looked back up at Kagome. “He didn’t find out, did he?” Sango asked carefully.
A look of horror came upon Kagome’s face at the mere thought of that happening. “No! Oh Lord, no! I don’t think we would have gotten away so easily.” Kagome replied. “But he did talk to her and she told him that she needed napkins for her mother. So if he had seen her with me than he would have put two and two together and--”
“And realized that you’re her mother.” Sango finished for her as the elevator opened.
Kagome grabbed Ami’s hand again and then followed Sango into the elevator. Then Sango let Ami press the fifth floor button and had to restrain her from pressing them all.
When they reached their the floor of their destination, Kagome felt all the anxiety leave her body. InuYasha was still down in the cafeteria and she and Ami were up on the fifth floor. Quite a distance between them.
Of course, she had been thinking that same thought for the past three years.
Kagome had just walked into the nursery, when she heard her mother greet her. “Oh Kagome! There you are! I was just looking for you!”
“Oh hey Mom.” Kagome replied. “What’d you need?”
“Well,” Kagome’s mother said as she led Kagome a little ways away from Sango and Ami. “I just wanted you to know that I set up a blind date between you and this nice gentlemen tonight. He’s the son of one of the nurses her.”
Kagome closed her eyes in anguish. “Oh Mom. I don’t think I’m going to feel up to it after a day like today.” she sighed, but her mother wouldn’t take no for an answer.
“Nonsense. You’ll go out on a date with this young man.” she retorted. “Look Kagome, I’m not saying you have to fall in love with him. I just think you need a little relaxation and I think the best way to do that is for you to be away from your troubles.”
Kagome nodded reluctantly. Kagome hated going on blind dates set up by her mother. Actually she just hated dates period. They weren’t like they were back in high school. She had Ami to think about now.
Dates just felt like a job interview. Something that no one looks forward to.
“Oh and don’t you worry about finding a sitter for Ami.” she said. “I’ll watch her.”
“Thanks Mom.” Kagome told her mother as she pulled Kagome into an embrace.
When her mother pull away, she smiled and said, “You’ll have a wonderful time.” Then she started to walk away, but then stopped and turned around again. “Oh, I almost forgot. He’ll be picking you up around eight, alright.”
“Alright, Mom.” Kagome replied. “Thanks again.” When her mother was out of sight, Kagome let her shoulders drop. This day was not going to get any better.
“So,” Sango said as she walked over with Ami. “Going on a date are you?”
Kagome nodded as she put her face in her hands. “I hate today.” she mumbled.
“Why Mommy?” Ami asked, surprising Kagome, but she recovered quickly. She lifted her up onto her lap and scratched her behind the ear, which had Ami nuzzling into her mother’s hand.
“Mommy’s just tired.” she said.
“Then Mommy should take a nap.” Ami replied innocently.
Kagome smiled sadly. If only it was that easy. If only.