Moving through this as quick as possible before I lose the drive to do any of it.

Disclaimer: Not the owner of InuYasha or the franchise.

Left to Worry/ The Final Battle

Kagome paced the hut floor, her belly full as her contractions come and go. Keade sat patiently by the fire sipping tea as Shippou and the midwife watched from the wall. She was furious, they had been gone for far too long and she was beginning to feel the fear roll into her heart as much as she tried to keep it at bay. Another contraction causes her to double over in pain, looking at the midwife then to Keade she murmurs that she feels the need to push.

"Come let me examine ye first." Keade waves her over, hobbling to her she braces on the elder miko's shoulder while she is examined. "I believe that ye are indeed ready to push Kagome. Come lay down and we can start." She rests on the mat, as Keade pulls her small dagger from the fire, with a quick slice the passage opens and Kagome screams with the first push. "Good, just one more." Another scream and another push before she tosses herself onto the mat exhausted, the baby yelps as he is cleaned.

Kagome cuddles the newborn to her sweaty chest as he feeds, rubbing at his white hair, tracing a pointed ear, even letting his small white tail curl to her finger as he sleeps. Shippou smiles rubbing the soft hair, knowing that he might never see the pup again once the battle ended. They sleep while Keade keeps watch, their hut protected by the best sutras.

He felt it, the moment his pup entered the world and Kagome's heart beat echoed into his ears. He heard her singing to it, calming the worried cries for his presence. Turning to face Naraku he growls loudly, watching Sango being slapped to the ground. 'This ends now.' He lifts into the sky quickly, feeling the hum of his father's fang on his side.

Tossing the demon blade in his grasp down he pulls the healing sword from it's sheath, moving quickly he circles the dark hanyou while he attacks InuYasha, with one slice he sees demons and underworld imps vanish. Taking the chance InuYasha cuts the remaining demons down, smoke bursts from the main body as the jewel flies through the air. Catching it lightly Sesshomaru feels the pulse eminating from within.

The smoke settles, revieling the twisted body of Onigomo laying amongst dead demons. "Finish him InuYasha so we may return to Kagome." Sesshomaru helps the humans onto the fire cat, they turn, walking toward Edo. Looking over the body of Onigomo InuYasha howls into the sky.

"This is for what you did to Kikyo, you bastard!" The fang pierces the human's mangled skull, sending pieces across the battle field. Turning and propping the sword onto his shoulder he walks along side his brother for the first time on good terms. "I bet Kagome is about to pop… she probably can't even see her feet."

"She delivered the pup not more than an hour ago," Sesshomaru's voice declares for them to hear. "If I am correct she suffered no mortal injury in the delivery and the pup is completely healthy."

"Are you sure?" InuYasha stops causing the others to stop as well.

"The pup and I share a certain connection… you would have felt such a bond had our father not passed the night of your birth." He looks to the sky with anxiety. "I would like to reach the village tonight InuYasha, I long to see my heir."

"Fine, but I don't see how a hanyou can rule the West…" They move once more, a coherent system through the sky toward town. "Who would have thought, my brother the hater of humans and hanyou's has a pup by a human… a miko no less."

"She is powerful for a human miko." They land, Sesshomaru speeding into the house to find Kagome asleep, her back to him with the pup curled against her stomach. Lifting the blanket from it he freezes when he finds a full demon pup. Rubbing her cheek lightly with his face he gives a soothing rumble to bring her from sleep. Yawning she opens her eyes to find Sesshomaru staring at her with emotion filled eyes.

"Welcome home." She murmurs while rubbing his cheek. "He is beautiful…"

"I am pleased to find him untainted by your human blood." Kagome's faces sours at the statement, tears building in her eyes. "I would have been pleased to have him as a hanyou as well miko. The greatest advantage to being full-blooded is the immunity to illness."

"That better be true." She giggles, causing the pup to wake and squirm. Reaching down Sesshomaru rubs at the tip of his ear to calm him. He gives a rumble and the pup becomes silent. "He knew you were alive, I could feel him calling to you."

"Indeed… I have a proposition for you miko, one that can alter the life you will lead."

Kagome hugged each of her friends, kissing them on the cheek and murmuring best wishes to each before straightening next to Sesshomaru, their pup pressed in his sling against her chest. Turning the pair leave, the small human girl and toad running ahead with Shippou as the group wave them off. They traveled great distances, until they came to the ocean, where Kagome rested on a rock, nodding to Sesshomaru that they had found the place.

Happily he sent forth orders for the best of workers to build their home there on the edge of the world. It went up within a year, rooms on top of rooms, a collection of hot springs inside for their bathing needs. A massive kitchen where Kagome could move about and cook. Sesshomaru watched all of this, as his first pup grew and he gave Kagome one more, he had melted, he had found his place…

He had found his life.

Short I know, but the other will be along before the night is out… I am going to class but I will write the last chapter on paper and type it when I get home.

Pleasant Readings;

Addy Eli