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Kagome took hold of the railing as she waddled down the stairs with Shippou in tow.
"Kagome, are you sure you're alright?" Shippou asked concerned that his mother figure wasn't fit to go down the stairs alone now that her stomach had enlarged from her child. Kagome only smiled to the kitsune child and nodded as she made her way for the living room.
"Hey Shippou!" Souta called to the fox demon. Shippou spun around and smiled to his human friend and raced off to go play. Kagome grinned at the friendship that had blossomed between the two as she took a seat around the small living room table.
"Kagome would you like some tea?" Ms. Higurashi soft soothing voice cooed from the kitchen.
"Yes, please...and do me a favor and look out the window to see if InuYasha's here yet,"She answered.
She stared down to her reflection in the glass piece that was built in the small table and sighed. She couldn't believe she was going to have a baby with the man of her dreams. She delicately grasped the notebook laying at the corner of the table and flipped through the pages filled with baby names. She still hadn't decided which name to choose and it was even more difficult because they had not found out whether their child was a female or male. She frowned as she flipped through the pad but placed it back on the table when her mother came in with the tea. She thanked her then took the cup into her hands and sipped it.
"So I'm guessing he wasn't there," she asked sadly after the liquid traveled down her throat.
"Oh don't worry, honey, he'll be here," she consoled as she gently squeezed her daughter's hand. Kagome smiled to her but her gaze and her mother's was drawn to the loud noise at the door. Ms. Higurashi stood and exited the room for the door, leaving Kagome in anxiety. She could feel herself shaking but not in fear, but in excitement. She hoped with all her mite that it was her half demon mate who was the cause of the ruckus. She watched as her mother entered the room with a grin gracing her lips. And sure enough, there was InuYasha, following in behind her. Kagome's eyes glittered as she watched him come nearer to her. She stood up shakily then made her way over to InuYasha with her arms open. He embraced her and they shared a long kiss which was built on concern and patience.
"I'm so glad you're-," she started to speak but was cut short when she realized something very important...her water had broke.
"My water broke!" she shouted to her mother and mate. Kagome's mother ran for the kitchen and grabbed her car keys off the little hook by the door and shouted for the two to come with her.
"What is it, mom?" Souta asked with both him and Shippou looking dumb-founded. She smiled and told them that Kagome was going to have the baby soon. Shippou began to jump up in down in excitement while Souta went to go tell his grandfather. Ms. Higurashi opened the door for InuYasha who was helping Kagome through the door way and they went to the car. She opened the car door for Kagome and she took a seat in the passenger's seat.
"Ok, InuYasha, you go sit in the back," She demanded to the half demon.
"What is it?" He asked suspiciously while tapping on the window with his long demon nail. She rolled her eyes and opened the door for him. He jumped in and peered around at his surroundings while his mother-in-law shut his door and scurried over to the driver's seat. She stuck the keys in the ignition and started up the car with InuYasha jumping in fright at the odd noise the engine made. Kagome couldn't help but laugh through her painful grunts.
"InuYasha, put on your seatbelt," Ms. Higurashi instructed as she showed him with her own seatbelt and Kagome's.
"Keh, I don't need no stinking seat-welt," he replied stubbornly.
"It's called a seat-belt, InuYasha," Kagome answered (sweat-drop).
"Whatever," He muttered under his breath. He never did like to be corrected. She stepped on the gas and the car went flying down the streets of Tokyo. At every sharp turn, the car was swung around, which continuously banged InuYasha into the car window. He continued to scream words that no one could really make out clearly at every time he was thrown into a window.
"I told you to put on your seatbelt!" Kagome's mother bellowed in an 'I-told-you-so' voice to the injured half demon. Finally the car came to a stop in front of a building with hug red neon letters that read, 'HOSPITAL'. Kagome reached to the side and took hold of the red baseball cap and threw it back to him and his mother-in-law handed him a pair of sandals to where as well.
***
InuYasha sat in the chair in the waiting room as he waited patiently for the nurse to come out from Kagome's hospital room. As he waited anxiously, he peered over to his left to see a little girl with big brown eyes looking at him. She had light brown hair dun up in pig-tails and wore a pink jumper. InuYasha looked at her and wondered what it would be like to have a little girl of his own. Surprisingly, he wanted a female pup instead of a boy child. But knew he would be happy with whatever child Kagome bore.
"Hi!" The little girl exclaimed as she flashed a small childish wave to the half demon. He frowned and returned the hello. She crawled up on the seat beside him and continued to stare at his golden eyes. InuYasha jerked his head down to the floor from embarrassment at her stares and pulled his hat down more to cover his face.
"My name's Ai...what's yours?" She asked as she dipped under his cap and blinked her big brown eyes. He growled lowly in an annoyed manner, and sat up while crossing his arms replying,
"InuYasha,"
"That's a funny name," She retorted. He let his famous 'feh' ('keh') fly past his lips as his response to her ignorance. She lowered her gaze and turned away sadly at his, somewhat, hurtful semi words. He pulled his hat up a bit to reveal his demonic orbs to see what had troubled the young girl.
"What's wrong?" He asked with every little bit of curiosity surrounding his inquisitive remark. She turned back to him with the small puddles of tears resting under her eyes as she replied,
"You're mad at me,"
He scoffed and exclaimed that he wasn't mad at her.
"You know," He started to say, "My mate- uh I mean wife is in there having a baby," He said to her while pointing to the room Kagome was in, trying to make her feel better . Ai grasped his pants as her support as she leaned over to see the room. He smiled at her small little hands.
"Wow...so what do you want? A girl or boy?" she asked with her teary eyes dry once again. He smirked and said,
"A girl,"
She grinned from ear to ear with not even a handful of teeth backing up her smile. She gazed over to her mother who's grip was placed firmly on a wheel-chair with a young boy with a patch on his arm. She quickly turned back to InuYasha as she got down from the chair and told him that the little boy was her brother. He smiled and waved goodbye to her as she took her mother's hand and left the hospital.
"Goodbye Mister InuYasha!" Her hollers were heard through the quiet hospital halls. He smirked and knew that it would be great to have a child just like Ai. He stood and followed the nurse who had called him to Kagome's room into the hospital room. He rushed to Kagome's side and smiled as she lay on the bed, still flipping through the pad of baby names.
"I think I finally have a name if it's a girl: Kaede,"
He frowned and replied,
"Why would you want to name her after that ol' hag?"
"InuYasha! Don't say that about Lady Kaede!"
"That's another thing..how come you're pronouncing the name for the baby kay-ay-day?"
"Well first thing: I love the name and thought we could distinguish each one by the pronunciation. Secondly, I love the meaning and love that kind of tree,"
"Well..I do have to say, it is a nice name,"
She smiled at his smirk as he took her by the hand and waited by her side and discussed other names for a boy until she gave birth.
***
"What a beautiful little girl," The nurse exclaimed through clenched teeth. InuYasha glared over his shoulder at the nurse as she handed the baby to Kagome and screamed at the disgusted nurse,
"Hey! If you have a problem with my daughter, take it up with me!" She just rolled her eyes and made her way out from the room in an effort to avoid the angry new father.
"InuYasha, look," Kagome cooed and her mate spun around and gazed down to his daughter.
"She's beautiful," He whispered.
"Yes...our little Kaede," She whispered back with a spark of contained glee, "Would you like to hold her?"
He nodded and took the newborn gently into his arms. Kaede smiled up at him and he smiled back. Suddenly ruining their father-daughter moment, the doctor came in a rush.
"Hello again. Now I don't mean to alarm you, but as you must have noticed, there is some deformity in the child," He warned while pointing to her small dog ears and tiny fanged teeth.
"Listen, doc, if you think you're just going to hand our daughter over to those bunch of scientist people out there you better think twi-," InuYasha started but was interrupted by Kagome's pleas,
"I know this is no deformity. It was to be expected. Can you please just let us go without any further study on her?"
The doctor smiled at the new mother and nodded in agreement,
"You can leave tomorrow night,"
InuYasha smirked then looked back to his yawning daughter.
***
Kagome solely sipped her tea as her eyes were constantly glazed over with tears. Without warning, her mother stepped into the kitchen to catch her daughter on the verge of tears. After keeping her own input in for so long, Ms. Higurashi finally gave in and let her voice bellow throughout, which shook the whole household,
"How could he do this to you!"
It had been 3 years since Kagome had spoken to InuYasha, but she had refused looking for him since she trusted that he would return to her with the rest of the shards.
"Mom," She said as she took in a deep sigh, "He said he would come back, and I believe he will," Kagome knew her mother wouldn't buy into her fake sincerity since she herself didn't even believe what she had said. She knew she should have, but it was so hard. Especially since he had been gone for so long.
"I knew he was going to leave you!" Her mother hollered one more just to irritate Kagome.
Kagome slammed her hand on the table in aggravation then stood, heading for the stairs with her excuse leading behind her,
"I'm going to go check on Kaede and Shippou, goodnight!"
Ms. Higurashi frowned while leaning on the counter and sipping her tea.
Kagome walked in to see thirteen-year-old Shippou fast asleep in a small bed with little three year old Kaede in the next. Shippou had finally grew and was now up to her ribs. He was a handsome young boy who was always looking out for his little 'sister'. He had shaggy rust colored hair, as always, and a smile that would one day, drive girls wild. As for Kaede, she had jet black hair just like her mother as well as her mother's deep brown eyes. She cared for things as much as her mother did as well. But her personality was most like her hanyou father; a huge temper and very impatient. She had dog ears like her father, except hers were black, and tiny dog fangs as well as long dog nails. Her feature that mostly reminded everyone of InuYasha, were her eyes which turned honey golden when she was upset or felt very strongly on one particular emotion.
Kagome stroked her sleeping daughter's cheek then made her way over to the window to ponder for a while. She thought deeply on all the adventures her and InuYasha had embarked on, and smiled. But the sneaky suspicion of something gone wrong on his lone journey was starting to elbow her in the head. She finally decided that she wasn't going to sit there like a nervous wreck, and finally took hold of a blanket for Kaede and decided to go when she was to awake.
She woke up and glanced over to the clock which read 4:15. She shot up and left a note for her mother and family to read so that they wouldn't try to stop her from leaving. She made her way over to Kaede and took her into her arms then silently woke Shippou. She grabbed her strap-on-baby-carrage, and strapped her daughter inside. Shippou yawned and rubbed his dull green eyes and asked Kagome where they were going.
"We're going back to find InuYasha," She answered in a light whisper trying not to wake the others.
"At this time of night?" He continued to question as they tip-toed outside to the well house. Shippou pulled open then pulled it closed as the pair stepped in, with Kaede asleep and strapped on to Kagome's back, with total silence. She grabbed hold of Shippou's hand and they both jumped in. While beginning to be engulfed through time, Kagome eagerly thought to herself,
'I'm coming for you InuYasha,'
