Tales From The Guild
Summary: Fairy Tail was well known for attaching the odd and the powerful. So it should be no surprise that they now have a resident miko. A one Kagome Higurashi. A series of InuYasha/Fairy Tail drabbles, oneshots, and snippets.
Title: Reasons
Pairing: Kagome/Macao Conbolt
Summary: There were two reasons he had joined the guild and took such hard missions. His son. And her. They were all that he had. Every drop of blood, sweat and tear was worth it. If it was for them.
His whole body was tired, muscles were sore with dull pain from being over worked, his magic was almost depleted and his body was littered with various wounds. None of them life threatening but they still hurt like a bitch. Stupid monsters...ganging up on him! That mission was so not ranked properly but damn if the pay wasn't worth it.
His wallet was bulging with the money, he would be able to pay rent for the next two months as well as have a lot of food for his son to eat. Not like he had even gone without. Even when they were low on money and food he always made sure his son ate before he did.
He was a growing boy after all.
He grunted as he rounded the corner of the large beaten down fence that surrounded his house. He walked slowly up the pathway towards his door. More than ready to just go to bed. He paused mutely and collected himself. He stood taller and wiped away any sign of his fatigue. He didn't like it when his son worried about him.
With a large grin he threw open the door.
"I'm home!" He more then expected to be greeted by his son running into his arms and hug him ask him about his mission.
What he didn't expect was the shrill scream and the blast of magic thrown at him. He fell flat on his back far to tired to avoid the surge of magic. He hissed as the world danced around him his gaze looking up to meet bright blue eyes.
"Oh god! Macao are you okay?" Soft feminine hands were running over his form and he could only grunt and lean into her touch.
Hard to believe such soft hands could deal out such offensive magic…
"Dad?!" He hissed in pain but nodded towards his son and raised his hand to pull his sons head towards him.
"I fine…" He let out a rattling sigh as his world faded to black.
Pearly white teeth worried a plump pink lip as small hands twisted in the cloth she had in her hands. Her whole body was slumped in guilt as she looked over the resting form of Macao as he laid in the bed. After she had blasted him with magic, not knowing it was him that had thrown open the door, she and his son had gotten him into his bed.
She had dressed his wounds and haled the more painful looking ones before settling him in to let him rest. She felt horrid, here he was coming home from a week long mission injured and tired and she blasted him in the face with some magic and knocked him out.
"He'll be fine Kagome, he's had much worse." She smiled down at his son and ruffled his hair as he looked up at her a cheeky grin on his face. She knew he worried about his dad when he went on missions. He often had fitful dreams and talked in his sleep. Yet here he was trying to cheer her up, he was such a good boy.
It was no wonder he had wormed his way into her heart, she cared for him like he was her own. Which was why she was in his house when Macao came bursting into the kitchen. She had become his unofficial babysitter? No, care taker. Yes, she liked the sound of that. She made sure he, and at times his father, were well feed washed and clothed.
Being two males living alone in a home without a woman around to keep them in line had made their house and their manners decline into the gutter. She had been appalled at the state of their house the first time she had visited and had turned it around. It was now clean and homely and she often found herself wishing to be here when she was at her own one bedroom apartment.
She was pulled from her thoughts by a small hand interlocking their fingers with hers. She glanced down at Romeo and gave him a small smile. He titled his head a bit, she knew he prided himself on trying to be a 'grown up s-class wizard', molding himself after Natsu, but he was still a growing young boy. With a smile she pulled him into her lap and hugged him to her laughing as he grumbled but settled on her lap.
"I'm not a baby." She shook her head yet didn't loosen her grip.
"Nope you're not, but I can still love you can't I?" She smiled as he grumbled but let out an embarrassed grumbling.
"Yeah…love you to 'Gome." Her heart filled with warmth as he settled against her.
His head resting on her shoulder as he loosely wrapped his arms around her back and settled in. She ran her hands through his hair a bit before rubbing his back. She knew he loved these small moments, as much as he tried to hide it he missed the motherly affection his mother used to shower on him before running away with her lover.
Why any woman would leave behind her child and her husband for a fling she would never understand. While she had no children of her own and had very little dating experience, a fling with Loke and a small short lived romance with Gray, she knew that she would never put a child through what Romeo's mother had put him through.
Ever.
It amazed her that Macao had stepped up to the plate and shouldered everything his wayward wife had left in tatters. She had heard stories of him drinking a bit to much with Cana before getting put on the up and narrow by old man Makarov. She didn't think any less of him, she herself had been a drinking partner wit Cana when her two short lived romances had ended in failure. They were all friends now but damn if it didn't sting at first.
The fact that he was able to bounce back so quickly and do what needed to be done for his son…it amazed her. He was such a good father, a good man in general and she had no illusions. She knew that she was in love with him and she was okay with that.
He might not know or if he did and didn't return her feelings that was fine by her. She was happy just being able to help him and Romeo. She had found in them the family she had been looking for since she had been orphaned by a demon attack on her village.
She loved her guild very much, she really did and they were her family as well, but here in this small house sitting with Romeo on her lap and at the bed side of Macao she felt at home and loved. She smiled and let out a sigh as she settled in on the chair.
Romeo's breathing had evened out and she knew he had fallen asleep in her hold and while she knew she would have a sore back in the morning she still settled in on the chair and let her eyes slide shut. In little to no time she herself had fallen asleep, her magic blast taking lot out of her…
Macao hissed as he came to and glanced around. He blinked when he realized he was in his bed and shot up. He winced in pain yet rubbed the crisp white bandages across his chest and blinked. Bandages? He glanced to his left and blinked at the site that met him.
Kagome was sitting in a chair with his son on her lap. Leaning back with her warms locked around him so he wouldn't fall. His heart fluttered in his chest at the sight and a small smile wormed its way onto his face.
His body relaxed as he just took in the sight of his tow most important and precious people in his life in such an intimate position. If he didn't know for a fact that there were bo blood ties between the two he would have assumed they were mother and son.
Sadly they were not, no. His wife had run out on him and their son, not content to be the wife of a lowly wizard. At first he had been so bitter, so full of hate but now he was just numb. It was her loss.
She was the one missing out.
She wasn't there for their sons first day of school. His first fight. His first crush. His first successful spell. She wasn't there for any of that and it was her loss.
He was there, well mostly. He had to work very hard to keep a roof over their heads and food in their stomachs. He was comforted by the fact that he at least had Kagome. She had wormed her way into their life so seamlessly that it almost felt like she had always been there.
It was odd, he had taken little notice of her while she was dating Gray and was surprised to find out she had also had a fling with Loke. They had first met as drinking buddies with Cana and from there they had just kind of always hung out. It had somehow budded into more…not even he was sure when it had happened.
The first time she had helped him stumble home drunk?
The first time she had met his son and they bonded?
The first time she came over and cleaned their home?
The first meal she made for them?
The first time she stayed with his son while he was gone?
The way she smiled at him, sitting in his kitchen like she belonged there, his son next to her eating a bowl of freshly made stew?
He didn't know when it was or how it had happened but he had fallen for her.
Hard.
She was ten years his junior, her magic abilities were far stronger this his, and he didn't care.
He loved her and he knew his son loved her…
He shook his head, thoughts of wedding rings and babies being shoved to the back of his mind and groaned as he stood up. His body screamed in protest but he fought through it and with a grunt he bent down and lifted both Kagome and his son into his arms and awkwardly shuffled them into his bed. He winced as their combined body weight pulled on his stitches.
With a pained groan he settled them in, watching as they both moaned in protest and shifted to get comfortable again. With baited breath, not wanting to wake them, he watched as his son curled into Kagome's back as she faced him and let out a shuddering sleepy sigh.
Bleary blue eyes met dark brown.
Kagome was barely awake when she looked up at Macao and frowned. "Come to bed." Her voice was thick with sleep and she was confused as to why he wasn't in bed with her and their son.
He smiled as she pouted up at him, looking so damn cute and scarily so right laying in his bed with his son curled into her back. With a soft smile he sat down on the bed and let out a low chuckle as she snaked her arms around his waist and pulled him down with her. He let out a content sigh as he breath puffed out over his neck and her body molded into his.
"Love you Macao…" He words were muffled by his back but he still heard them and it made his heart soar. With a content smile on his face he relaxed fully in his bed, with his family, and held her close.
"Love you to Kagome."
AN: Yes, I'm back, er well I have been writing just on other sites and accounts, but decided to come back here because its such a hassle to have so many e-mails and passwords to remember.T _T I hope you guys don't mind! I will stick to the guide lines of this site so my more...mature stuff will still be over on A03, I hope you guys enjoy having me back on this account! Much love!
-Kage
