InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ The Impossible Possibilities of Love ❯ chapter 2 ( Chapter 2 )

[ X - Adult: No readers under 18. Contains Graphic Adult Themes/Extreme violence. ]

‘Who the hell sleeps for six hours?’ Inuyasha thought to himself as he lightly bounced the newborn baby boy in his arms.
After Megumi ran out with the birth certificate, Inuyasha finished filling out the other forms. One of which was an insurance form. Seeing as he didn’t know jack shit about Kagome, he gave the hospital his insurance information. They could straighten that out whenever she woke up.
Which, from the looks of it, she didn’t want to do.
After the birth certificate was filed Megumi came back in for the other papers and informed him that Kagome would be moved into the new room once she awakened. In the mean time, he would be in charge of the baby.
That was six hours ago.
Six hours he spent feeding, coddling and changing the diapers of a total stranger’s child whom happened to have his last name. And so did the mother. Shit.
Feeling his phone vibrate in his pocket, Inuyasha switched the baby to one arm and pulled his phone out of his pocket. He looked at the screen and saw he had five voicemails and three text messages. He unlocked his phone and clicked his texts open to read them. One was from his brother and two were from a girl he was occasionally seeing that didn’t know the meaning of space.
His brother wanted to know if he got the sketches for the fountain done. Inuyasha had originally been in the park six hours ago to sketch out a design for a fountain that the city wanted built. He worked in architecture and enjoyed his job. He loved creating beauty for everyone to see.
Inuyasha texted his brother back and told him he got caught up with something and would be returning later to do the sketch. His brother responded promptly with ‘idiot’. Yup, that was his big bro, such a loving person.
Inuyasha then read Iyana’s two texts of ‘where are you?’ and ‘what are you doing, get here now!’ and rolled his eyes. Guess she didn’t know the meaning of casual dating. He responded with ‘busy’ and put his phone back in his pocket.
He didn’t want to talk to anyone, except Kagome at this point. ‘If she would wake her ass up! Having a baby can’t be that exhausting.’ It was seven o’clock at night, going on eight o’clock, and he needed her to wake up so she could set the nurses straight and let him off the hook.
‘Or I could’ve grown some bigger balls six hours ago, told them who I was and let myself off the hook.’ He thought angrily. Inuyasha looked down as a small noise came from the baby again. He started wiggling around and scrunching up his face. After spending six hours with the kid, Inuyasha knew what that particular face meant. So, he got up and grabbed one of the pre-made bottles the hospital supplied. He twisted on the nipple and shook the bottle up a bit before settling back down and easing it into Kai’s mouth.
Inuyasha grinned as Kai greedily sucked his bottle. The kid had an appetite that was for sure. Inuyasha leaned back further in his chair and let his mind wander. He didn’t know why he named the kid Kai; it was the first name that popped in his head. He thought it fit him though, plus it started with a ‘K’ like Kagome’s name. Chicks like that kinda crap, right?
One thing that bothered him, though, was the obvious absence of Kai’s father. Shouldn’t he be in Inuyasha’s place, holding and bonding with his kid? Kagome hadn’t even asked anyone to call the father. Hell she cut him off when he tried to ask about the father.
‘Must be a deadbeat.’ He thought to himself, disgusted by the mere thought of it. His father taught him long ago that a man never walked away from responsibility, especially if that responsibility was his child.
Inuyasha felt Kai pull his head away from the bottle. He sat the bottle on the nearby table and adjusted Kai to his shoulder, like the nurses showed him, and patted his back until he burped.
Inuyasha stood and stretched as best he could while holding the little guy. Sitting around one room had him feeling cooped. Inuyasha looked towards the door and made a split second decision.
“Let’s go find a vending machine little guy.”
Kagome felt like she had been hit by a semi, and then dragged a hundred miles behind it. She blinked her eyes open slowly as she took in her surroundings. Memories from earlier in the day filtered through her mind and she groaned.
Why didn’t anyone tell her that just because her due date was two weeks away it didn’t mean her kid couldn’t make an earlier appearance? She wasn’t prepared for her baby’s arrival yet. She had wanted to disinfect the whole apartment at least one more time first. Hell, she hadn’t even driven to the hospital. How was she supposed to get her and her baby home?
Kagome looked around the room and saw it was empty. The strange eyed stranger must have left. She didn’t blame him; she acted like a psychotic bitch. She wouldn’t have stuck around either.
‘I suppose I’ll have to call Sango to come get us.’ She thought to herself. She didn’t like asking her friend for favors. Sango wouldn’t have a problem with it, but Kagome didn’t like disturbing her.
Her thoughts were interrupted when a nurse walked in smiling.
“Well, hello there sleeping beauty! We thought you’d never wake up. Let me just check you and then we’ll get you cleaned up and into your new room so you can finally meet your baby.” The nurse said cheerily.
Kagome smiled as the nurse checked her blood pressure and took her temperature. She hadn’t gotten a good look at her son before she passed out. She was anxious to meet her little bundle of joy.
The nurse helped her out of bed and into to the bathroom so she could relieve herself and freshen up a bit. She was too weak to attempt to stand in the shower, so she did the best she could. The nurse supplied her with a toothbrush, toothpaste and comb. When she was done, she put on a fresh gown and was escorted to a wheelchair. The nurse pushed her out the room and began navigating the halls.
“Is my baby in the nursery?” Kagome asked as they passed the infant nursery. If he was in there she wanted to stop and have a peek. The nurse continued pushing and turned into a new empty room.
“Oh, no, he’s taking a walk with daddy. Saw them over by the vending machines when I was on my way to your room. So cute those two are. You can tell he’s a proud papa.” The nurse said in her cheery voice, completely unaware of the surprised look on Kagome’s face.
The nurse helped her into bed, handed her a menu, advised she order dinner and then left. Kagome sat in the bed confused. How had Kouga known she was at the hospital? She hadn’t even called Sango yet!
Kagome looked around the room and her eyes landed on the clock. She had been out for almost seven hours. Knowing Sango, she probably tried calling Kagome, got no answer, went to her apartment, saw she wasn’t home and proceeded to panic and call everyone on the planet.
‘But why would Kouga be here?’ She thought to herself. He had made it crystal clear he didn’t want any parts in their child’s life. Had he changed his mind? Did he want to work it out after all? Be there for his child? Part of her hoped so, part of her wanted to stab him in the neck.
Kagome’s head jerked around as she heard the door open. She braced herself to see Kouga walk in with her baby in his arms.
What she saw was the stranger from the park walk in with a soda bottle, chips and her baby in his arms. What was he still doing here?
He looked up at her as they door closed and noticed that his steps faltered a bit. He walked over to the table by the bed, set his soda and chips down, then made his way to her.
“Hey.” He said softly.
“Hey.” She mimicked, lost for anything else to say. He stared at her for a moment before speaking again.
“You were out awhile.”
“Yeah.” She replied lamely. Kagome shook her head slightly. “That my baby?”
She could have smacked herself for asking such and stupid and obvious question. Instead of waiting for an answer, she held her arms out, clearly indicating he should hand her baby over. He lowered the baby to her arms and then went and sat in a chair by the table.
Kagome looked down at her precious baby boy and committed his features to memory. He had her black her, her nose and lips. His eyes were closed, so she couldn’t see the color, but the shape of his eyes belonged to Kouga. She smiled and lightly kissed the top of his forehead.
“Mommy has to think of a name for you.” She said softly to the sleeping baby. She had a list of name’s she liked, but had yet to pick one.
“Actually….I named him.” Kagome whipped her head to the side when she heard the stranger’s voice.
“You what?” She asked, because she couldn’t have heard him quite right.
“While you were sleeping, the nurses asked me to fill out some forms so they could make his hospital bands and stuff.” He said hurriedly. Kagome narrowed her eyes at him.
“And just what did you put on these papers? You don’t even know my name.” Kagome pointed out. A look that she didn’t like crossed his features. One that was a bit too close to guilt for her liking.
“Hamada. Kagome and Kai Hamada.” He said softly, almost as if he had to force the words out.
“Who, the fuck, is Hamada? And you better not say you.” She warned. There was no way she had the name of some stranger. There was no way in hell her baby had the name of some stranger. The stranger fidgeted a bit before responding quietly.
“I’m Hamada. Inuyasha Hamada.”
Kagome saw red on the outskirts of her vision. Was she being punk’d this month? Someone had to be playing a joke on her because this shit DID NOT happen in real life! Kagome took a deep breath before responding.
“You mean to tell me, you illegally signed my son’s birth certificate, illegally gave my son your name, illegally gave me your name, and still have the balls to be in this room?” She asked with thinly veiled hostility. If it was up to her she’d be up yelling and beating the hell out the guy, but she couldn’t because her precious bundle was in her arms. “What are you, some perv who gets off on watching women give birth?!”
The stranger narrowed his eyes at her and fired back.
“Let’s not forget woman, you made me bring you to this damn hospital and you held my hand and kept me here. Then you passed out and slept for six hours, leaving me in charge of your shit. So don’t go trying to make me the bad guy here.”
Kagome was about to respond back when a thought she didn’t much like popped into her head. Her mouth dropped open and her eyes widened.
“Oh, no.” She whimpered. Inuyasha got up and came towards her, suddenly feeling bad for yelling at her.
“Hey, I didn’t mean to hurt your feelings or nothing.” He tried to console her, but she just looked at him. He was about to speak again but she spoke first.
“Idiot.” She whispered. His brows pulled together and his eyes narrowed.
“Excuse me?” He asked. She narrowed her eyes back at him.
“You idiot!” She slightly yelled. “Kagome Hamada doesn’t fucking exist. My name is Kagome Higurashi, but the name on my son’s birth certificate says Kagome fucking Hamada.”
“Yeah, I know I told you that.” Inuyasha stated a bit confused.
“Idiot! Legally my son doesn’t belong to me; he belongs to fucking Kagome Hamada and you.” She yelled at him, startling the baby. She whispered softly to the baby and bounced him lightly until he settled.
Inuyasha could nothing but stare. He hadn’t thought of that when he filled out the papers. Shit. Now he’d really done it. Kagome looked back up at him and gave him a look that made him want to run and hide under his bed.
“Fix it.” She said. He nodded and walked out the room towards the nurse’s station hoping there was something he could do to get himself, and Kagome, out of this fucked up situation. He saw Megumi there and immediately approached her. She looked up at him and smiled.
“Hey there, you need something?” She asked cheerily. ‘Are all the nurses in this place eternally happy or what?’ He thought to himself before answering.
“Actually yeah, I made a mistake on the birth certificate and need to correct it.” He told her without revealing exactly what mistake he made. He still wasn’t sure if they could arrest him for that or not and something told him that Kagome would happily have him sent off.
Megumi gave him an apologetic smile. “Sorry, but we already sent the paperwork off. You won’t be able to make changes until the copy comes back in three months.”*
Inuyasha felt his blood run cold. He thanked Megumi and then walked back towards Kagome’s room slowly. He felt like a prisoner on death row, since Kagome would surely kill him when he gave her the news.
He entered the room and barely made it to the bedside before Kagome spoke up.
“Well?” She asked in a clipped tone. He swallowed and braced himself before answering.
“They already sent in the paperwork. Can’t make changes until the final copy comes in.” He told her. She narrowed her eyes at him.
“And when does this final copy come in, Inuyasha?” The tone in her voice hinted at danger and Inuyasha had the sudden urge to turn and run.
“Three months” He mumbled. Kagome exploded.
“THREE MONTHS! MY FUCKING SON WILL HAVE YOUR NAME AND NOT EVEN LEGALLY BE MY SON FOR THREE FUCKING MONTHS?!” She screamed, the baby cried, and Inuyasha prepared to run in case she decided she come after him.
He watched as she calmed the baby down, made him a bottle and fed it to him. Then she turned back to him with the most vicious looking face he’d ever seen in his life.
Kagome Higurashi was fucking scary.
“Fix. This. Shit.” She hissed at him. Inuyasha swallowed.
“Kagome, I don’t know what you want me to do, but-,”
“Fix. This. Shit.” She hissed again. He closed his mouth and tried to think quickly. He wasn’t the best at spur of the moment decisions, but he valued his life, so he blurted the first thing that came to mind.
“Marry me.”
Kagome gave him a look that one could only interpret as ‘are you fucking crazy’.
“We get married; your name legally becomes Hamada, meaning Kai is legally yours. Then once the birth certificate comes in three months, we divorce and you can change both your names back to Higurashi.” He explained quickly. The plan sounded stupid, even to him, but it was all he could think of at the moment. If he was lucky, she would say no and throw him out.
“Fine.” She said, using that clipped tone once again. “But we divorce in three months when I get that certificate and I never see your face again.”
He nodded. Apparently, he wasn’t lucky. Kagome continued talking.
“Tomorrow you go down to the court house and order a marriage certificate, take my i.d. and tell them I’m in the hospital. I should be out the day after tomorrow so we’ll do it then.”
He nodded once again. She continued.
“You better not try and back out of this Hamada. I’ll have your fucking balls for breakfast if you do.” She threatened.
He nodded.
“I’ll call my friend, give you my address and she’ll meet you at my place so she can give you a change of clothes for me and…Kai. Why the fuck did you name my child Kai? What does that mean anyway?”
“I’m not sure.” He answered both questions with that one statement. He wasn’t sure of any of this.
“Idiot. When you get back tomorrow—and you will come back if you know what’s good for you—I better see a damn marriage certificate in your hand.”
He nodded once again.
“My friends a lawyer, I’ll have her draw up a legal contract for this shit you created.” She gave him the scary look again and then muttered ‘fucking idiot’ under her breath as she turned her attention back to the baby. She lifted him to her shoulder and burped him while muttering all the ways in which Inuyasha was an idiot.
He agreed.
He was an idiot. A soon to be a married idiot. An idiot married to a stranger and the legal father of said stranger’s son.
Fuck.