Another Feudal Fairytale

Summary: After the defeat of Naraku and the Jewel, Kagome and InuYasha are separated from one another. InuYasha becomes the Prince of his father's lands and Kagome embarks on an adventure she never considered. Will the lovers be reunited and what kind of problems will arise?

Chapter One

Reunited

InuYasha stood at the bone eater's well. It had been ten months since the well closed with Kagome on the opposite side. That day was the day he lost the woman he loved more then life, his mate, his wife. Since that fateful day he had resided in the West. He had grown strong during the shard hunt and Sesshomaru had come to him offering him a place in the West as his heir.

A hundred years ago he would have been delighted to have his elder brother come to him and offer him a place in his father's lands but now he felt as empty as he had when his mother died.

He was having trouble getting use to being a prince in more then name. He needed Kagome. She was his light and strength and she was the person who made him feel accepted.

He had gotten a message from Kaede a few days ago. One night nearly dusk the old miko had sensed a change in the dormant well's aura. Something had changed that had forced the well to reopen and so InuYasha had a way to his beloved once more.

InuYasha swallowed hard. It was strange this fear. He had mated Kagome the night before the final battle when a sudden fear that he would die having never told Kagome he loved her had sot through him, making him desperate. There was no chance that Kagome would loose her life, he would never allow it just as he would never allow Naraku to live to harm Kagome ever. It had devastated him to be parted from her and now he was faced with a chance to be reunited.

InuYasha took a deep breath before letting his body fall forward and was relieved when the flow of time took hold of him.

"I'm coming Kagome!"

When the glow from the well faded the hanyo looked up to see not the night sky of his home era but the wooden roof of the well house that resided in modern Tokyo, Kagome's home.

"Kagome." he whispered as he leapt out of the well.

The half demon lifted his nose into the air and sniffed the crisp air. It was late winter and the snow was as heavy on the shrine grounds as it had been in the feudal era. InuYasha didn't waist much time on his surroundings when his woman was so close he could smell her on the air.

Without another thought InuYasha jumped up to Kagome's window and eased it open, specks of snow blew into the room on the late night breeze. Quickly as to not disturb the young woman resting within InuYasha's booted feet stepped softly and closed the window.

For a minute InuYasha stood at the window and looked out then he turned to the bed and smiled softly at the woman that resided there. She was dressed in a white long sleeved nightgown and her hair was loose and fanned out over her pillow.

As he came closer her scent teased his sharp nose but there was something different about it. It was sweet and reminded him of something he couldn't name.

He stood at the edge of the bed and looked down at Kagome before he reached out to touch her when a soft sound pierced the silence of the room and had InuYasha on alert. It took him a minute to pinpoint where the sound came from before he eased toward it. The hanyo's ears were perked and his eyes refused to blink as he approached the cradle at the end of his mate's bed.

"What in the name of the gods?" InuYasha whispered when his eyes landed on an infant that looked less then a moon cycle old. The baby was suckling its small fist and was wrapped tightly in a white blanket that seemed to be made of some kind of wool or fur. The pup's eyes were closed and its ears were still wilted from birth, proving not only was the infant only a few weeks old but it was also an Inu hanyo.

With his heart beating fast in his breast InuYasha reached into the cradle and gently lifted the whelp up into his arms, careful to support the child's head as he did so.

InuYasha looked at the infant in shock before he brought it to his chest so there would be no chance that he'd drop the fragile being.

The pup nuzzled the older hanyo's armored chest searching for its mother's milk but finding nothing it began to whimper before it cried.

Kagome was roused from her deep sleep by the cries of her newborn.

"He must be hungry again." She thought as she stiffly sat up in bed but before she moved to get up to collect her son she caught sight a man standing at the end of her bed, cradling her son lovingly in his arms.

For a moment fear gripped the young mother that a stranger was in her room holding her child but then she recognized the man for who he was.

"InuYasha?" She asked and the hanyo's grip on the child tightened, as he looked toward her it took him a moment before he could speak.

"Kagome…" he then looked down at the baby crying in his arms. "This is… is it… mine?"

Kagome smiled before she reached for her child.

"He's hungry InuYasha, please hand me our son."

Stunned all that the half demon could do was hand the boy to his mother who smiled happily at him. Kagome couldn't seem to take her eyes off of him. It had been so long and so hard since the well sealed and she discovered she carried InuYasha's son in her womb.

Tearing her eyes from her lover Kagome looked down at her crying babe and cooed to him as she pulled the collar of her nightdress to expose her full breast.

Smelling the sweet scent of his mother's breast milk, the whelp latched onto her nipple and his small hand came to lie on the swell of her chest and his golden eyes stared at his mother's face.

"That's it my sweet boy. Mama's here."

InuYasha shook himself from his stunned stupor and knelt down at the side of Kagome's bed.

"He's my son?" InuYasha asked timidly. Kagome nodded when she glanced to her lover.

"Yes InuYasha, he's your son." And as if he were trying to reaffirm his mother's words the baby kicked his leg out of his blanket and grunted as he continued with his meal.

"But how?" he asked dumbly, never taking his eyes off of the boy. "I mean we only… it was only once…!"

Kagome giggled. "Sometimes that's all it takes."

InuYasha reached out toward the baby and gently held the pup's foot as if he needed a physical reminder that the boy was real and not a dream sent to torment him.

Kagome smiled lovingly as she gently switched her son from her now empty breast to the full one before she studied InuYasha who was now stroking his son's fur like silver baby hair as he continued to nurse.

InuYasha wasn't dressed in his usual fire rat robe but instead he wore a kimono and hakama made of demon silk died red and black and on is feet he wore boots like his older brother. He still had Tessiga at his waist but on his chest he wore armor like Sesshomaru except he had two spike pauldrons on both shoulders and his hair was worn in a tail.

"You look different." Kagome said interrupting InuYasha from growling softly at his son.

"Oh uh yeah, Sesshomaru and I have kind of come to an agreement and he has accepted me as our father's son and as of now his heir."

Kagome smiled as she fixed her clothes since their son was finished eating.

"That's wonderful." She said as she settled the fussy baby who didn't appreciate being jostled.

"It's annoying as hell. Not only do I have to go to more meetings then there are hours in a day but apparently I'm expected to secure my right to Sesshomaru's throne by producing an heir, Sesshomaru had me, a younger brother, already so he wasn't pressured to have a pup yet but since I don't have that luxury I have females throwing themselves at me and it pisses me off more then I can even…" InuYasha stopped before he started ranting and raving and instead looked to his son. He looked up at Kagome and held his hands out toward him silently asking his mate if he could hold their child.

Kagome nodded and gently placed her son in his father's arms. The baby was already asleep with a full belly and only nuzzled his father's chest and yawned as she drifted into a deeper sleep only an infant could enjoy.

"I guess I don't have to worry about that now," InuYasha said, as he looked Kagome in the eyes. "If you'll come home with me."

"Of course InuYasha." The half demon warrior and now father smiled and kissed the mother of his son on her mouth happily before she settled back into bed. InuYasha, still cradling his sleeping son, settled himself on the floor next to his mate.

Before Kagome fell asleep again InuYasha quietly asked. "Kagome our son, what's his name?"

Kagome sighed. "He doesn't have one yet. I have been having trouble coming up with one."

InuYasha glanced back at her over his shoulder then down to his son. The boy's fist was in his mouth again and he felt his heart lighten even more.

"Keitaro," InuYasha smiled up at his sleepy mate. "Our son's name is Keitaro."

Kagome smiled as she drifted to sleep and InuYasha stayed up through the night watching his son.

"Keitaro, my blessed son."

A/N: I do not own InuYasha! I am rewriting this story it just started out as a random paragraph that came to mind and I just started typing. I am also writing another story at the moment so updates may be a bit staggered. Please let me know what you think.

Story takes place in early February and Keitaro was born on January 22nd. Thanks for reading and once more review!