InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Indecent proposal ❯ News ( Chapter 33 )

Chapter33: News

 

A/N: Here comes a long awaited chapter! Hope everyone will be happy.

 

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Disclaimer: If I owned Inuyasha, Sesshomarou would be the one to hold Kagura's heart. And I don't unfortunately own Godiva, but I love their chocolates!

 

 

“Speaking”

`Thinking'

 

 

 

“Okay how much longer do we have to wait?” Kagura asked her two best friends as she anxiously chewed her claws. The three of them were sitting next to each other on the couch and were intently staring at the small innocent looking, but so meaningful plastic stick.

 

“I told you before that's a nasty habit” Kagome remarked as the wind sorceress chewed on her claw even harder.

 

Ignoring the vicious glare Kagura was sending their human friend, Yura said “45 seconds more and we will know if the test is positive or not”.

 

“Okay, good. How long now?” Kagura asked her ruby gaze still locked on the small pregnancy test resting on the coffee table of the girls' apartment.

 

“You just asked!” Yura snapped, she could understand her friend's stress but it was seriously getting on her nerves.

 

“Time's up!” Kagome said as she bent forward to find the answer to the question weighing on their mind.

 

 

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“Kagura…” Kagome trailed off not knowing exactly how to react, or even how her roommate would react.

 

“I figured that would be the result. I had a feeling…” the wind sorceress said, as she calmly made her way to the kitchen. After some rummaging, she then strolled back into the living room with a large box of her favorite assortment of Godiva chocolates.

 

“This called for the emergency secret stash. Don't you agree?” Kagura asked her friends as she plopped a dark chocolate truffle in her mouth.

 

“How can it be so sure? We can try other tests, besides it's been what? Two, three weeks? The test could be wrong for all we know. And I heard that home pregnancy tests aren't really reliable. We should get you to a doctor to get a blood test.” Kagome said sending an apologetic smile to her friend.

 

“Kagome you know I consider both Kagura and you my sisters and I love you the same way. Don't take this the wrong way but you're human. Human females and demoness bodies do not function the same way. You can be sure about a demon pregnancy less than a week after the conception. Had Kagura taken a test at the time it would have come back positive as well. Besides it's the fifth test you made her take and it once again came back positive. I think if we force Kagura to drink more in order to try any more of your pregnancy tests her bladder will explode or she will skin you with her `Dance of blades'. Yura said nervously playing with a short strand of her black hair.

 

Kagome could tell that Yura's knowledge on the subject dated back to the times her and Byakuya desperately attempted to conceive a child, and knowing it was still a very sore subject for her friend, she decided to give up.

 

“Besides” the hair demoness added with a sigh “Yesterday Inuyasha did say Kagura had his brother's scent on her”.

 

`So that's what he meant' Kagura thought, relieved that her previous altercation with Ryukotsusei had not been found out by the hanyou. Realizing, that only Miroku and she had heard Inuyasha's words, the wind sorceress asked “when did he say that?”

 

“You had already left. He made a joke about the fact that you missed Sesshomarou so much, that you probably rolled yourself in his clothes or something.” Yura said.

 

“Remind me to smack some sense into your fiancé the next time I see him” Kagura said dryly, not amused by the half demon's humor.

 

“Let's get back on the problem. So are you going to tell Sesshomarou?” Yura asked bluntly.

 

“Rather than `if' the question should be `when'” Kagome remarked

 

“Kags is right. You just have to tell him. Talk things over together and figure out what to do next.” Yura said nodding.

 

“Easy to say, we haven't even seen each other in ages. He's been away ever since we came back from Paris” Kagura spat venomously, narrowing her gaze.

 

“Inuyasha told me things are getting better and that everything should be back to normal at the bank in a week at the most” Kagome said reassuring her friend.

 

“Even then, things will never be the same. I mean I'm freaking pregnant. ME! Can you imagine me with a baby? It would be like putting a tutu on an elephant and ask it to give a ballet performance in the middle of a store filled with fucking delicate china!” Kagura exclaimed wolfing down more chocolate.

 

“Now you know that's not true. You love kids, it shows in the way you teach at the school” Yura said.

 

“I'm just a part time substitute art teacher. I don't see those kids all the time, so of course I'm nice to them” Kagura said, dismissing her sister in law's words.

 

“How about that? Remember when we used to babysit Souta? You were the only one he would listen to. And Mama even said you would make a great mom!” Kagome said with a bright smile, trying to comfort her friend.

 

The wind sorceress let out a humorless dry laugh before saying “I wish things will be that easy. Anyway, let's just take things one step at the time. First I just have to tell Sessh”. She then got up and picked up her cell phone. Before dialing, she sent a nasty glare at Yura who had dared steal one of her emergency secret stash chocolates.

 

 

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`Maybe we could go to an amusement park with Rin when I come back. It would be killing two birds with one stone, after all the little she monster has been pestering me about it for who knows how long? Besides Kagura is so childish I'm sure she would enjoy herself greatly.' Sesshomarou thought with a small smile.

 

His thoughts were interrupted by the shrill sound of his cell phone.

 

“Hello Sessh?”

 

“Kagura” he acknowledged, recognizing her voice at once.

 

“Did I get the time zones right this time? Not that it would matter if I called you in the middle of the night, you barely sleep after all.” Kagura said, thinking that joking and teasing would make her news go a little easier.

 

“Did you have fun yesterday?” He asked her.

 

“Yeah, yeah the party was good. Your brother proposed to Kagome, he gave her his mother's engagement ring. The scene was very touching and all” Kagura said flashing a small smile at Kagome who was glaring at her with a small blush.

 

“Oh, did he know? This means that Izayoi is going to start annoying me about wedding preparations soon” Sesshomarou said with a sigh. At his words Kagura could not hold back a small laugh.

 

“Come on, I'm sure you'll be his best man.”

 

“Hmpf! This Sesshomarou hopes the thought will never cross his mind. But I doubt that you called me only to discuss my younger half brother's impending nuptials.”

 

“Yeah, right. So are you coming back soon?”

 

“I am sure you will be glad to hear that I am coming home this coming Friday morning. Maybe we could do something in the evening. I want to spend the morning with Rin and the afternoon at the office”.

 

“That's great Rin must be ecstatic, I'm sure she missed her dad. But shouldn't she be at school on Friday?”

 

“I will write her a note. Missing one day of school will not be this damaging to her education” Sesshomarou said with a shrug.

 

“Wow I never would have thought hearing you say something like that. Guess Sesshy has it in him not to follow rules.” Kagura teased. She then breathed deeply and sighed to gather her strength before saying “there's something I have to tell you”.

 

“Which is?…” Sesshomarou trailed off getting worried by Kagura's silence. `She has never been one for hesitation' he mentally added.

 

“What I wanted to say was that….about Friday night, I thought I should be the one in charge for a change. I heard about this great Italian restaurant that opened downtown, and I've been dying to try it” Kagura quickly said.

 

“I do not have any objections” Sesshomarou answered thinking `I feel as if that was not what she intended to say at first'. He simply could not brush off his suspicions, so he added “Is there anything else you need to tell me”.

 

Kagura made her best to stifle her gasp of surprise. She considered lying to him, but remembering her earlier promise not to hide things from him anymore she simply said “well, there is something else.”

 

“I am listening”

 

“It's…not something I want to tell you over the phone… Anyway it's not important it can wait until Friday. I'll come pick you up, and I will drive you around. And I'm not taking `no' for an answer.

 

“I see. Drop by the office around six, I shall be awaiting you.”

 

“Okay, you better be ready because I'll be there at six sharp! See you on Friday,…I can't wait, I've missed you. Oh and by the way thanks for the roses.” Kagura did not wait a second more before hanging up the phone.

 

Sesshomarou looked surprisingly at his phone. As he replayed the conversation he just had with Kagura, he wondered: `Kagura sounded strange, maybe something is up with her. It was as if she called to tell me something than changed her mind at the last second.'

 

As Sesshomarou's gaze roamed around his hotel room, he heard his cell phone once again. Thinking that it might be Kagura who called him to tell him about what she seemed to have been hiding, the dog demon quickly picked up the device.

 

“Hey!” Inuyasha said as a greeting.

 

“What is it you want? Little brother, over here it is too early and I am hardly in the mood for your usual non sense” Sesshomarou said with a heavy sigh.

 

“Keh! Glad to hear you too. What's up with you? You sound all preoccupied or something” Inuyasha said. The hanyou could hear irritation emanating from his brother's voice. He could also easily imagine the lips of his older half sibling pressed into a firm line as he gently drummed his claws on whatever surface near him.

 

After a long silence Sesshomarou finally spoke “Something is amiss with Kagura. It is as if she is hiding something from me”.

 

Inuyasha had a thoughtful frown as he spoke “Yeah, she did leave the party early yesterday. And she seemed pretty down. Maybe it's `cause it's almost the one year anniversary of her Grandma's death. From what Kagome told me it's next Friday”

 

“'Friday' Sesshomarou echoed. Maybe you are right. By the way I hear congratulations are in order?” Sesshomarou said grinning as he imagined Inuyasha's flustered face.

 

“Yeah… well that's why I'm calling you. I want you to be my best man” Inuyasha said, his ears twitching.

 

“Really?” Sesshomarou asked bemused, the idea that Inuyasha would want him to be the best man at his wedding was unfathomable. “What of Miroku, I figured you would ask him”.

 

“The lecher? No, he will conduct the ceremony. So, you want to?” Inuyasha asked worried about his brother's answer.

 

“I believe that even if I was to say no, Izayoi would find a way to force my hand. So I might as well accept now” Sesshomarou said sitting behind his desk.

 

“Good. Anyway Dad said that he would have beaten your ass if you said no.” Inuyasha said. Without bothering to say `bye' he hung up on his brother.

 

`Kagura is feeling down, maybe I should do something nice for her then. It is true that I have been pre occupied by my work these past few weeks.' Knowing exactly how to please his wind witch, Sesshomarou picked up his phone to have Jaken make all the necessary arrangements.

 

 

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“Why didn't you tell him?” Yura asked as she looked at her friend.

 

“No, Kagura's right she can't tell him that over the phone” Kagome retorted.

 

The said wind sorceress set her cell phone down, and sat on a chair, she gingerly ran her fingers over her flat abdomen before musing aloud “what am I going to do with you?”

 

“Well first you have to schedule an appointment with your doctor” Yura answered.

 

“And you also have to start eating healthier” Kagome said eyeing with a frown the half empty box of chocolate where Kagura's fingers were slowly but surely stretching towards.

 

“Hey you guys! You're not my moms so leave me alone!” the wind sorceress exclaimed.

 

“Say Kagome, does she really think that she is going to get out of us hovering over her?” Yura asked with a small smile, trying by teasing to cheer up her sister in law.

 

“Then that means she doesn't know us that well” Kagome said with a smile of her own. She too could see Kagura's worried expression, despite the wind sorceress' efforts. Just like Yura, Kagome had decided to joke, trying to lighten up the situation.

 

“Pfft, leave me alone, I may be pregnant but you're getting married so we should be hovering about you too.

 

“Let me thing about that in the one hand a baby and in another hand a marriage. Nah! I think you win Kagura.” Kagome mused aloud.

 

“Hey Yura's getting a baby too” Kagura retorted.

 

“Yeah, but I'm not pregnant.”

 

“Whatever just stay the fuck away from me and my chocolates!” Kagura said as she picked up her box of chocolates and sat on the couch.

 

After a long silence, the wind sorceress finally spoke “do you believe Sessh will think I did it on purpose. You know for the money? That I really was interested in him only for the proposal? Because it wasn't like that, it's not like I planned to get pregnant or anything”.

 

“Of course not, I mean, why would he? And Sesshomarou wouldn't doubt you, you've been honest with him ever since the beginning” Kagome said as she walked over to Kagura to gently rub her friend's back trying to soothe her. The miko nervously bit her lip, she could tell that Yura and her teasing had not alleviated Kagura's worries.

 

“What if it were the other way around?” Yura wondered aloud. Noticing her two friend's curious glance, the hair demoness elaborated her idea “What if Sesshomarou did not get you pregnant by accident? I mean the guy was ready to spend a crazy amount of money to get a kid. And it's not because you two “talked” about it and discarded the proposal that it means he wouldn't want his heir anymore”.

 

“Oh my God Yura you did not just say that?!” Kagome said clasping her hands over her mouth in shock. “That's just ridiculous. How would he do that anyway? From what Inuyasha told me even if they have a great sense of smell dog demons can't smell when…you know a woman is…'in heat'.” Kagome said flushing red. “So he could not plot to get Kagura pregnant”.

 

Kagura stayed inconspicuously silent listening to both of her friends. She could understand Yura's concern, but she really could not believe the idea that Sesshomarou would invite her on a trip in order to get her pregnant with his child. She did, however wonder why he had been so desperate to have a child.

 

“Guys, I think I'll go lay down for a bit. I've got a throbbing headache” The wind sorceress lied getting up and taking her chocolates with her before heading towards her bedroom.

 

Kagura knew that she would need plenty of time and rehearsal to decide how exactly to break the big news to Sesshomarou. She figured that the privacy and calm of her bedroom would be the best way to do so.

 

As soon as she locked the door behind her, the wind wotch threw herself on the bed. She snuggled into her light pink pillow and cried silent tears. She had tried to appear as composed and strong as possible in front of her two friends, but now that reality came crashing down she felt miserable.

 

`What am I going to do now? I can't have this baby, especially with Sesshomarou. I mean we barely started really dating. Besides he can't fit me into his schedule, so what makes me believe that he would be able to fit a kid in his life?!'

 

`Well he already has an adoptive daughter…' Kagura's inner demon said.

 

`Gods I'm so confused, I don't know what to do. I just wish Grandma Kaede was still here. She was always so full of advice; I wonder what she would tell me?'

 

`Knowing her she would probably give you a hug, congratulate you and tell you you'd make a great mother'.

 

`It is true that she always had a pretty opened mind.' The wind sorceress thought with a small chuckle. `To think that it's already been a year since she left us. Gods I miss her so much' she then thought with a heavy heart.

 

`Just as you said earlier, take things one step at a time….And for now, I think a little nap sounds pretty damn good'

 

`You're right. I still have until Friday to figure out how to tell Sesshomarou' was Kagura's last thought before she slipped into a dreamless sleep, her right hand gently resting on her stomach.

 

 

 

To be continued

 

 

 

A/N: Ohh so Kagura is pregnant, how will she tell Sesshy?

Congratulations to all of you, who have guessed right about Kagura's delicate condition. You all get a freshly baked cookie. To the others, better luck next time…

 

I'm still unsure about the title of the next chapter. So far it's named Black Friday but that's surely going to change. I am so sorry, but the next update won't be posted before next week because I have a ton of work to do. But I'll try my best to update on Friday (not a promise!)