IT'S A WHAT!
READ: Yeah, it came early. But it will NOT be updated as quick. So that's a downside. It's coming early, but, won't be updated fast. Sorry :(
Special thanks to... EVERYONE! And now, Toxic Panda gets a ONESHOT request! If you don't know the rules, look back on that one chapter I posted them on.
And I am reusing that OTHER HAND line, it was hilarious :3
C.A.M.E.O. something (sorry, too lazy to check but you know who you are): I'm not a baby. I was joking. Seriously this time. I've typed way more than 3,000 words before.
"Hachi, I must go,"
"To where, Miroku-sama?" Hachi asked.
"I feel the need to go visit my friends," Miroku, deciding that Hachi should come too, added, "will you accompany me?" Hachi, remembering what happened last time, kindly nodded his head in agreement. "Inuyasha and the others, you mean?"
"Yes, them." Miroku replied. "Would you kindly take me?"
Hachi gave a soft sigh, but nodded and said, "Of course..."
"Sango-chan, is something wrong?" Kagome asked, going over by Sango's side. Kirara, the neko-mata, exchanged laps when she jumped onto Kagome's lap. "You seem sort of down..." She gently started to pet the neko-mata which was now on her lap.
"I know he was kind of annoying, and definitely a lecher, but I still sort of miss him, you know?" Oh. Miroku-sama. "I feel sort of bad, because I think he meant it to me... I don't think he ever once asked me to bear his child... it was his way of telling me..."
"It's okay, Sango-chan," Kagome reassured her friend. "If he doesn't return, me and Inuyasha will go and find him for you, okay? How does that sound?"
"Thank you," Sango would never admit it, but Kagome knew. She loved him back, but didn't know how to show it. Everyone knew. Kagome could even tell that Shippou and Kirara knew. Definitely Kirara though. The neko had been Sango's companion for years.
"Ouch!" Kagome unexpectedly exclaimed. Kirara jumped off, and Kagome clutched her stomach. Sango looked over in worry.
"Kagome-chan! What's going on?"
"Bucket- please!"
"What in the world is going on in here! Why are you- holy crap, is it the baby?" Inuyasha shouted, barging into the hut.
"What are you, stupid?" Kagome shouted back. "Babies don't come a month early, but a bucket would h-h-elp!" Inuyasha, realizing what was going on, picked up a bucket Kagome brought that was nearby and put it in front of her face just in time.
"Oh, god, are you okay?" Sango asked.
"Y-y-yeah-h-h..." Kagome was kind of shaky at what just happened. "I-I'll-l g-o-o so-o-o y-you-u d-don't h-have to-to w-watch th-this..."
"No way, this is your and Inuyasha's hut, I can go over to Kaede's!" Sango told her, standing up and making her leave.
"T-t-hank-k-k y-y-o-ou-u," Kagome replied, before throwing up again. Inuyasha came and sat by her side, putting his right arm around her for comfort.
"Youn can get through this," Inuyasha told her. "It will come out fine and good in the end."
"T-this is-s y-your f-fault..."
"What...?"
"THIS IS YOUR FAULT!" Oh, yes. He'd gone two days without the trouble of mood swings, and forgotten about them.
"What did I do?"
"You got me pregnant! If it weren't for this, I wouldn't-"
"Wouldn't what...? Don't you want a kid...?"
"Yeah, I do! But I wouldn't be sick, I wouldn't be fat, I hate this!"
"Kagome, I know you, you can get through with this! you are a tough woman!"
"J-just help m-me get through this..." Inuyasha just thought: I'm the one who will need help, with those mood swings. They will kill me! The only one thing scarier than a youkai or something like Naraku!
"Oh my god, KAGOME!" Both Inuyasha and Kagome turned to see Sango, now stepping inside their hut.
"What?" Inuyasha asked for her.
"You'll never guess who is outside!" Kagome stood up with the help of Inuyasha, and he also helped her out the hut following Sango. "I was out here, on my way, and I saw this thing in the sky, well, look who it is! Isn't this great?" Sango excitedly pointed at Hachi who was now transformed to his normal state, and Miroku. "Houshi-sama, you've returned!"
"Me and Hachi-" - Hachi softly cleared his throat - "Okay, I wanted to come back and see all of you. I didn't expect Sango to be here, however. Have you found Kohaku? Is that why you have rejoined them?"
"Oh, you'll never guess how we went to actually get Kohaku...it involves Sesshoumaru and doing something nice." Kagome told him, emphasizing a lot to show how weird it was to have Sesshoumaru do something 'nice'.
"Sesshoumaru? We are talking about Inuyasha's brother, correct?" Miroku asked, "It sounds like you have a lot to tell me, huh?"
"HOUSHI-SAMA!" Sango shouted excitedly, running up to Miroku for once, and hugging him. "We missed you... I missed you..."
"My dear Sango, do call me Miroku." (I had to stop that Houshi-sama sometime) He didn't care that the world was watching - had he ever before? - and apparently neither did Sango, so he hugged her back. Some things... never change.
"Eep! YOU'RE STILL A PERVERT, NO MATTER HOW MUCH I MISSED YOU!" She shouted, jumping from Miroku's grasp and slapping him.
"Ugh, Miroku-sama, when will you learn...?" Hachi sighed under his breath.
"Seems I've missed out on a lot," Miroku stated, staring at Kagome's rather round stomach and that fact that her and Inuyasha were sitting next to each other. "Do tell me- ouch." Sango had done as always; stood up then hit him over the head with her Hiraikotsu. It was like a daily thing. Again, Kagome had to pull the bucket from her side - now empty, she'd disposed of the contents earlier after Miroku came - in front of her face. She grabbed some napkins from her piled of what she'd brought form her house and wiped her mouth off with it.
"It isn't exactly fun, but," she looked at Inuyasha, then turned back. "I'd kind of like to have a kid. You've already noticed the hut, too, I take it..."
"This hut belongs to you two?" Kagome nodded her head in response to Miroku. "I really have been gone a long time, then."
"Yes, try around eight months!" Inuyasha added.
"The baby is due in a month or less," Kagome told him. "I haven't gone to a doctor in case it's a hanyou, but I've been keeping track of the average time."
"Wow, Sango, I never expected this out of you," Inuyasha commented, seeing that it was her turn to lean up against someone, this being Miroku.
"Oh, I don't want to hear it, get-your-seventeen-year-old-girlfriend-pregnant boy." Sango said in defense against Inuyasha. He gave a glare at her, and Sango gave him a death glare.
"Hachi, you're rather quiet," Kagome said.
"Sorry," Hachi spoke up. "I am not quite sure on what to say." (Sorry from me-- I'm not the expert on Hachi's character! So he may be OOC!)
"It's okay," Kagome spoke up, and she stood up rather suddenly, holding the bucket. "I am going to go empty this..."
"Might I ask where you empty it, so I know where not to go..." Miroku asked.
"It's somewhere deep in the forest, I doubt you'd find it unless you really tried." Kagome replied, walking out of the hut again.
"She's not doing so good, Kagome-chan," Sango told Miroku. "Pregnancy isn't helping her at all. But I think she'll be happy once she actually has the baby."
"Maybe that will be us, someday." Miroku said with a tone of lechery.
"Don't think so! Kissing is as far as we'll ever get! I don't want to be like that..."
"At least we'll get somewhere..." Miroku said, trailing off, and there was soon a red mark on his face. Sango had stood up quickly and slapped him again.
"Well, you don't seem to note these things, I on the other hand-" At the same time as he was talking, his hand reached for Sango's behind, but she turned, blushed, and slapped it away.
"YES, THE OTHER HAND PLEASE!"
"Woah, Sango, You aren't even pregnant and you have mood swings." Inuyasha commented.
Kagome awoke to face Inuyasha, who was still sleeping. Of course, Sango stayed at her house again - when they went she swore she could hear her grandfather mutter "Does that girl have a home or what?" - and Miroku stayed at Kaede's for the night. Sango said she would talk to Kagome's mom and try to work something out with her so Miroku could stay. Maybe even on the couch, or in the guest room. Kagome took Miroku and Hachi through the well last night, too, so they could see her house. Since Sango was now staying there every night it was easier for her to explain and for them to understand since she was also from their time and knew how to explain it.
"Inuyasha..." she murmured softly, which was enough to wake him up. His ears were so sensitive and aware of things like that. He slowly opened his eyes to face her now, sort of surprised she had gotten up before him. She'd been doing that a lot lately. Kagome's chance was tempting... soooo tempting... taking the advantage of him still needing to wake up, she edged a bit closer, lifted her hands up, and rubbed his ears. "Gotcha."
"Ugh," Inuyasha sighed, but he showed no signs of protest. "It's time like this I wish you had dog-ears so I could do the same to you and see how you like it."
"You know you like it,"
"No, actually, I don't,"
"Then why are you letting me do it?" Kagome asked. Then... unexpectedly... some kind of weird sound was in her ears. Where was it coming from? It was some kind of... of... purring noise. Dogs don't purr, so it couldn't have been-..., but it was. It was coming from Inuyasha. "Dogs don't purr! ...Do they?"
"Shut up! They don't!"
"Then... tell me... why are you purring...?"
"I'm no- oh. That's me...?"
"Who else would it be?"
"Well, I dunno... I'm not the expert on youkai and hanyous, you know." Kagome stopped tweaking his ears, and it stopped. Apparently... he wasn't controlling it. But it was her little way of figuring out if he liked what she was doing or not. Now he couldn't deny a thing he liked, but said he didn't. If only he had a tail... no, that would look creepy. No, correction. It would look really creepy, if Inuyasha had a tail. Kouga looked weird enough with one already.
"I just feel like lying in bed..." Kagome said with a sort of musical tune to her voice.
"Not feeling well again?" Inuyasha asked, worried.
"No, no, I just don't feel like getting up, that's all," Kagome replied, stretching her arms up into the air. "Getting up for school normally is horrible... oh... school... guess I'm not going to school anymore, am I? Hahah. I'd rather stay here anyway."
"Don't they have those 'missing report' things or whatever?"
"Yeah, what of it?"
"Won't they make one for you?"
"Not if I go back every so often... Jii-san will probably make some kind of disease excuse anyway," Kagome said, watching Inuyasha as he stood up slowly. "I'll have to wait until after the baby, and until my extra weight goes. If I go before the baby, people will know, if I go after without waiting to lose my weight, I'll be called fat."
"Hmm... are you hungry?"
"Kind of."
"Maybe I can get something from your mother at home, breakfast in bed, how's that sound?" Inuyasha was acting rather nice lately. Was it the 'swings?
"Where'd you even get that idea?"
"The only thing you really let me do at your house is have me watch that weird box 'TV' thing..." Inuyasha replied. "So I have to frikkin' watch that soul stealing thing and on this one 'show' thing of yours this midget guy brought his midget wife breakfast in bed!"
"Oh, well, that's nice of you, Inuyasha," Kagome said, mentally laughing at Inuyasha's use of the word 'midget'. "But don't make my mother cook, I can do it..."
"Not like this, you aren't," Inuyasha told her, taking every precaution. "I don't want a retarded son or anything."
"Inuyasha! No son of yours is going to be retarded!"
"I just don't want anything to happen, okay! I'll get Shippou to watch the hut, since I am going." Oh, yeah, Shippou's protection makes me feel SO much better. Inuyasha exited the hut, and Kagome sat there staring at where he had last been for awhile.
Apparently he hadn't gotten Shippou to watch her. She didn't expect him to, anyway. She doesn't want to be mean, but seriously... Shippou isn't exactly one of the best protectors in the world. Inuyasha was always the best, and in first place for now and forever. Curse all the people or youkai who call him pathetic and underestimate him just because he's a hanyou. He'd be the most ferocious, killing, awesome hanyou they've ever met. They'd never make it out alive to tell everyone else about this guy.
He'd definitely kill Sesshoumaru one day. If he didn't she'd somehow find the willpower to do it. Sesshoumaru was... an idiot. Plain and simple.
Now, as for her boredom.
"There has to be something around here that will cure my boredom... out of everything I've brought..." Kagome looked around the room, then stopped when her eye caught something very special to her. A photo album. But not just any photo album. One where she put pictures she'd taken of her and Inuyasha when she brought her camera. Usually he was always like "GET THAT UGLY THING AWAY FROM ME!" but in the end, she made him change his mind and let her take the picture. She sat up just enough to lean over and grab it, then brought it back over to her and looked through the pictures.
The first was when she'd convinced him the photo booth wasn't some kind of youkai trying to kill her, after the first incident before they caught up with Kaguya. In the first he was in the back pouting, the second she was grabbing his arm trying to make him get a real picture, the third he was standing next to her but not smiling, the fourth she was forcing him to smile, and finally, in the sixth, she got him smiling with her at the camera. All 6 of these little pictures were crammed in the picture slot and taped shut.
She turned the page. The next picture was one she caught of Inuyasha in the corner. She tried getting him, but he shoved the camera away, pouted, but then she turned it back and clicked really fast, only getting half of him in it.
The next was a picture she had Sango take, after hours of explaining it to her. It was a picture of Kagome osuwari-ing him, but not really. She told him if he didn't get on the ground and pretend to be osuwari-ed, she would would osuwari him. So he did it, then she pointed at him, looking all angry, like she was osuwari-ing him, and Sango took the picture.
She flipped the page again to get to a picture she'd taken of Inuyasha sleeping just recently. Proof she was now waking up earlier than him.
She flipped through the rest of the pictures, remembering certain things from each one. Almost all of them from the past seven months or so. Inuyasha never really let her take very many pictures before they got close. Even now he didn't enjoy it, but he knew she did... so, he let her.
"What are you looking at?" He asked, coming inside the hut. She turned to look after shutting the book, and saw that he was balancing the plate for her perfectly on his left hand.
"Pictures," she replied, shoving the book away. Not even he knew that she made an album... especially ones full of just him, and sometimes him and her.
"Oh, okay, well, here..." He got closer and set the plate on her lap since she was still sitting. "I managed to catch your mother right as she was making it, so it's here a little early."
"Here, let me show you this book," Kagome said, picking it up, careful not to drop the plate. "It's a special one." She handed it to him, and he sat down right next to her, looking through the pictures.
"These are only of you and me," he commented, looking at a few more. "How come you never showed me this before?"
"Well, knowing you... I thought you'd call it stupid, because I made it especially for us," she said, then carefully pointed him to the first pictures. The small ones from the photo booth. "Remember? Do you realize how long ago this was? How long I've had this?"
"I-I'm sorry... I didn't realize, I didn't see that you..." he felt kind of bad, now knowing that she'd had this for this long. And she probably wanted pictures earlier, but he always told her to get that ugly thing away from her face. "I was still confused, you know. But... you, remember the pendant with the pictures in them?"
"Uh, yeah..." She said, before taking a bite of toast. She watched Inuyasha pull something from out of his haori. It was that same pendant she'd given him so long ago.
"I still have it..."
"But you didn't even want it then," Kagome said, after swallowing what she'd bitten off. "We weren't even... thanks, Inuyasha..."
"That was... kind of like the first kiss, wasn't it?"
"Aside from the fact that you didn't want to, yes,"
"Yeah, well, I can lie too," Inuyasha replied, setting the book down. "I returned it, didn't I?"
"Yes. You will always be my protector."
One day intermission! LOL! Okay, well, that's an up. The down is that it will be a long time in between updates.