Disclaimer: I do not own any characters from Inuyasha nor do I make any profit from this story.

*Due to a rumor of FF deleting adult material, I will be taking out the adult scene between Sesshomaru and Kagome. If you would like to read it, feel free to email me and I will send it to you.

Chapter One

"Mommy! Mommy! Wake up!"

She was awake but pretended to be asleep for her son's amusement.

"Mommy! Wake up! Bweakfast! Hungwy!" cried the small boy.

Groaning, Kagome rolled out of bed and peeked at him with one open eye. Even on a Saturday, Kenji was up bright and early and wanted his mother's undivided attention. With his endless amount of energy, she didn't need an alarm clock any more. She knew that sleeping in on the weekends was pointless anymore. She didn't mind though. Her son kept her going and she was happy to oblige him.

"Hungry you say? What are we having this morning?"

"Bluebewwy pancakes! Please?" Kenji asked her with wide and hopeful eyes.

"Alright, blueberry pancakes it is. But, we are going to have to make a trip to the store afterwards. You've used up most of the berries."

He smiled. Her two and a half year old son loved adventures and going places, whether it be to the local grocery store or across town to see his Aunt Sango, or grandmother and uncle.

"Yay! Up mommy, up! Can we play?"

Kagome smiled. "You have to eat breakfast first silly! We can play once you take a bath. If you take your bath, maybe we can go to the park later. "

Kenji pouted for a moment, preparing to argue by the looks of it. She knew he hated taking baths. But if it meant his mother was going to take him out today, then it was worth it. "Otay mommy."

"Good boy. Now go get the ingredients ready so mommy can get dressed."

His golden eyes brightened, he quickly nodded and ran to the kitchen.

Kagome laughed at her young son's antics. It still amazed her that he was two, going on three, even the fact that there was someone in the world who called her "mommy." She never thought she'd be a mother at nineteen. She thought at this point she'd be finishing up her first or second year of college, dating someone and living on her own. Well, two of those things were right. She was in college and she did have her own apartment. But, instead of a having a man, she had a little boy who demanded her attention twenty-four hours a day. She couldn't blame him though. Being a half demon, it was expected that he would have endless amounts of energy and a short temper if he didn't get his way.

A crashing sound quickly brought Kagome out of her musings and she ran into the kitchen. A shattered bowl covered the kitchen floor with Kenji cowering in the corner. Her anger spiked immediately but it soon dissipated when she saw his scared expression.

"Sowwy! Sowwy mommy! It fell…Sowwy mommy!"

Walking over to the storage closet, she sighed as she grabbed a broom and dustpan and swept up the broken pieces. That was the third bowl this week. At this rate she'd have to invest in a whole new dish set.

"Come here Kenji. It's okay baby. Mommy's not mad. Help me clean this up."

Relieved, the young hanyou walked over and helped his mother clean his mess.

Kagome would have to keep a closer eye on him now. Even though he was almost three and looked like an average human toddler, she knew he was quickly advancing and his strength was increasing. It was time to start teaching him how to control that power and work with him to slow down his reactions.

"See? All better. Now, go turn on cartoons and I'll start breakfast."

Smiling his trademark smile, Kenji ran from the kitchen and turned on his favorite Saturday morning cartoons.

She sighed again. She could only imagine what the next few years were going to be like. After getting pregnant with her son, she read and learned everything she could about hanyou children. There was no way she was going to ask his father, or his half brother. To Kagome, they were both dead. One had cheated on her numerous times before finally leaving her for the girl. The other….well the other wasn't so bad, but she couldn't afford to get involved with him right now.

Kagome prepared the batter as she recalled the night that changed her life forever.

It was the junior prom. The after party held at no other than the Taisho brothers' lavish mansion. She had gone alone, stood up by her then boyfriend and left to fend for herself. She watched as her former love and his new girlfriend danced and grinded against each other in the middle of the room. She felt stupid. She still couldn't believe that she had been oblivious to Inuyasha's affair with Kikyou and it had gone on for most of their relationship. Disgusted, both with the scene and with herself, Kagome grabbed the nearest bottle of liquor and headed for a secluded room.

Unbeknownst to her, a certain Taiyoukai was watching her every move.

Kagome found an empty bedroom, closed the door and moved to sit on the bed. She hated herself for being so blind. Of course Inuyasha had used her. They were friends, yes, but to think that he actually had any interest her was laughable. The whole six months they were together he was secretly messing around with Kikyou, her cousin on her father's side, who had quickly captured his eye. Why he even continued anything with her, she'd never understand. For every lie he had told her, she took a shot. Kagome knew better than to be doing this, but at the moment, she didn't care. By the time she had gone through them all, three quarters of the bottle was gone.

Amazingly, she didn't even feel a buzz. Realistically she knew she was drunk, but she had been so numb for the past month or so that it didn't feel any different. As much as she tried to stop them, the tears came anyway.

"Miko. Drowning your sorrows in alcohol will not make your problems go away."

She whirled around, a bit too fast for her drunken state, and stared wide-eyed at the dog demon watching her from the door way. Didn't she close that door…?

"Ssince when do you care Ssessshomaru? Just go away. It'ss better to feel nothing than to feel sorry for yoursself."

His upper lip curled back into a snarl. The slurring of her words irritated him. "Is my idiot half-brother worth getting drunk?"

She exhaled heavily and shook her head. "No. He never was." More tears escaped her closed eyes as she spoke.

Sesshoumaru smelled the salt of her tears and was next to her in a flash, an arm around her shoulders. "Then why punish yourself like this? If he couldn't see the amazing beauty he had right in front of him already, then it's his own fault for letting it go."

"Pleasse, Maru. He never wanted me. It was alwayss Kikyou. Even when he kisssed me it felt like he was kisssing someone elsse."

He had come to like the nick name she'd given him at the start of high school. She and Inuyasha had become fairly good friends and she was over at their house just about every day. That was when she had developed feelings for the hanyou.

She came to Sesshomaru for advice on the matter, and even though he couldn't stand his younger half-brother, he helped her as much as he could. Things seemed to be going well, that is, until her cousin, who freakishly could have been her twin, had started at the same school. Once Inuyasha had met her, Kagome became discarded as their friendship progressed. He couldn't explain it, but it pained him to see her rejected look when they were together.

Then one day, Inuyasha asked Kagome to go out with him randomly after class. Naturally, she jumped at the opportunity. It seemed he had forgotten all about Kikyou. He seemed sincere. She was finally happy, until she caught them in the parking lot one day, making out. His explanation? He liked them both and couldn't decide who he wanted to be with more, so he secretly dated both her and Kikyou .When Kagome stumbled upon them, she made his choice for him.

That was a month ago. Inuyasha seemed unaffected. In fact, both and he and Kikyou flaunted their relationship every chance they got when Kagome was around. The more Sesshomaru thought about it, the more he realized he couldn't blame her for her actions now.

"Miko. The baka will one day reap what he has sown. I promise you that. Trust me, Karma is a bitch."

Although she never looked at him and the tears still flowed, she did manage a laugh.

"Why would he play with my emotions like that? I know I'm nothing compared to Kikyou, but that was just cruel."

He placed a clawed finger under her chin and lifted her face to his. Her tear-stained face took on a look of surprise as his expression turned as soft as she'd ever seen him.

"Kagome, if the hanyou couldn't see the beautiful woman he already had in his grasp, he was the fool for missing out. You are everything. Don't ever let me hear you downgrade yourself again." It was more of a command, but still sincere to say the least.

Kagome gasped almost inaudibly. "You actually said my name. I didn't think you even knew it." For as long as she knew Sesshomaru, he'd never once called her by her first name. It was always "miko", due to her being a priestess, or he simply did not acknowledge her at all.

Smiling he leaned in and kissed her. She stiffened but gradually gave in and kissed him back. After a few minutes of him ravaging her mouth, she pulled back panting and asked, "Sesshomaru, what are we doing? Are you sure about this?"

"If you are not comfortable, this Sesshomaru will stop."

For a split second Kagome considered stopping it right there. If she had been sober, she would have ended it. But, the feelings that he was stirring in her lower abdomen made her think twice about it and she quickly returned the heated kissing and wrapped her arms around his neck.

He laid her down on the bed. Kagome moaned when his hands traveled down her neck, over her collarbone, then stopped to cup both breasts.

At the sudden intake of breath, Sesshomaru's tongue darted into her mouth and together their tongues fought to gain dominance as he unbuttoned her shirt, while she lifted his over his head.

As he collapsed on top of her, they both laid there for awhile, trying to catch their breath and come down from the sexual high. Neither of them spoke as Sesshomaru slowly removed himself from Kagome and lay down on the bed next to her, pulling the comforter over them both.

As she drifted off to sleep, Kagome began to wonder. Was their recent tryst a mistake? Probably. Did she even care at the moment? Not even close.

The next morning Kagome found herself alone in the bed when she awoke. The pounding in her head and the pain between her legs were enough for her to rush to the bathroom and quickly release everything that was in her stomach from the night before.

Remembering what had occurred, she was shocked that it happened, but she did not regret it. She was a bit miffed that she was alone, but upon walking back to the bed she saw that all evidence had be cleared, including the dried blood on her body. Grateful she gathered her clothes, hastily dressed and left the Taisho home.

She hadn't wanted her first time to be a one night stand, but it was worth it. Hers and Sesshomaru's relationship stayed about the same after that. It wasn't until she found herself pregnant that she avoided him completely. She was seventeen and going to be a mother.

He was about to graduate and go off to business school so he could eventually take over his father's company. He didn't need a kid on top of all of that. She made the decision to finish her junior year and then quietly left school to finish her schooling with online classes.

She never believed in abortion and there was no way she was going let someone else raise a half demon child. Her mother was furious at first, but gradually accepted it and supported her. The only other people that knew of her pregnancy were her best friends Sango and Miroku. They were shocked, naturally, at first but had supported her from day one and were there when Kenji was born.

What she saw surprised her. Instead of a silver-haired baby that Kagome was expecting, she had a black-haired little boy with bright golden eyes. He did not have the puppy dog ears like Inuyasha. In their place were elfin ears like Sesshomaru's. He had a blue crescent moon that adorned his forehead, but no other markings to resemble his father. He was beautiful.

After Kenji was born, Kagome got her diploma and enrolled in a small community college close to home with Sango and got a job, making just enough to support herself and her son and live on their own. Yes, she had come a long way in the past two years.

"Mommy! Bweakfast weady yet?"

She smiled when she saw her boy run into the kitchen and sit down at the table. "Yes sweetie. Go and pour yourself some milk and I'll get everything else together."

One day Kagome knew she would have to confront Sesshomaru with the truth. She barely kept in contact with either of the Taisho brothers anymore, so she still had some time to figure what she would do. No matter what happened, no one was going to take her son away from her or come between them. No one.

Author's Note: Hey y'all! I'm not just a one-hit wonder :) Please review and let me know what you think.