Stir-Fried Inu

A/N- Alright then, this chapter did have a lemon I had planned, but I took it out. If you wish to get the full version then let me know in a PM then I shall send it to you. I hope you all like this chapter as well.

Disclaimer- InuYasha would be sooo much crazier if I owned it, but hey no worries. That's why I wrote this!

'Thoughts'

'Youkai Thoughts/Talking'

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Chapter 4:

Cause and Effect

"Spread your legs."

It wasn't a request it was an order and InuYasha wordlessly obeyed. She felt a bit embarrassed but after the realization she'd just had she didn't care nearly as much as she would have.

She loved him. She had fallen in love with the most annoying, biggest pain she'd ever known and all was right in her world.

It really surprised her how much loving someone could change how you felt about them. Instead of being annoyed at all his previous behavior, she now found the cute side to it and it made her care for him even more.

She watched as Kouga moved to place himself between her legs bracing himself on his arms above her. She took this moment to look him over and felt her own body coming even more to life as she took in all the details. Especially the fact that it seemed his tail was really there, because it was waving in the air behind him.

She found it very mesmerizing.

-Lemon Omitted-

InuYasha hardly noticed the prick of his fangs, she was completely drained and already she was fading into the black oblivion of sleep. She faintly remembered Kouga whispering 'thank you' into her ear before the blackness overtook her and she was finally out.

Kouga gently moved her into a spooning position against his chest before he followed her into sleep, content for the first time in his life with a choice he had made.

The birds were chirping.

This was the first noise that InuYasha heard as sleep finally faded away to wakefulness. Stretching InuYasha realized he was back to normal now, that his female form was gone for another month. He was about to get up to go about the day when the memories of the previous night finally dawned on him and he froze.

Hoping he was wrong and it had all been some strange dream he turned his head and swore silently, the previous night had happened all right. Kouga was laying there, his mouth open a bit as he let out a soft snore.

Sighing when he felt his body reacting as he looked over the wolf's sprawled form, InuYasha knew he had to leave. He could feel his inner youki growling at him, telling him he couldn't leave their mate. He knew what would happen if he didn't leave though, so after struggling with himself for a few moments he finally had made up his mind.

Bending his head he pressed a soft kiss to Kouga's forehead even as he got to his feet, after gathering his scattered clothes and dressing he looked back at the wolf, his wolf. "I love you Kouga."

He then turned and left, feeling as if he'd left a large part of himself behind.

*Four months later*

He couldn't do it anymore. Oh he'd tried but he couldn't continue like this, especially after the most recent development.

He rubbed a hand over his belly and sighed. It had been a surprise, at first. Now he was content with the thought that not only would he continue his line, but he would give his love a great gift.

He was pregnant.

He hadn't been sure of it until recently though, he'd only gotten a few days of sickness and an occasional relapse, but it was more that he could feel the change in his body. Even his youki was being more muted, more focused inwardly. Although it hadn't failed to continue yelling at him for leaving and staying away from their mate.

So he'd made a choice, he wanted to keep helping Kagome with the jewel shards and of course he still wanted Naraku's head on a plate. But now there was more to consider and right now he needed Kouga.

He rubbed his belly once again; their child needed its father. Besides, Kouga deserved to know the truth, all of it.

So he'd decided to go and seek out Kouga, but first he needed to speak with his brother. He owed Kaede and her village a lot and if he went to Kouga he'd be leaving the village unprotected. So he hoped that he could somehow convince his brother to help out, after all he'd recently offered to help destroy Naraku.

This left only one more problem.

His friends. He'd said nothing about that night away from camp, not to mention he had avoided even any conversation mentioning Kouga. He knew he couldn't keep things like that though, after all...they had accepted his female side.

Sighing he looked up at the sky and decided there was no time like the present. So he leapt down from the tree he was in and approached where everyone sat around the fire. Shippou immediately leapt to his side and InuYasha smiled at him softly.

Coming to a stop he cleared his throat, once everyone was looking at him he took a deep breath before he spoke. "At first light I want you guys to head back to Kaede's, I am going to find Sesshoumaru." Immediately Kagome was on her feet and giving him a confused and hurt look.

"What's wrong InuYasha? Why are you going alone and why Sesshoumaru?" Her voice sounded sad and InuYasha knew they had suspected something all along. Sighing, InuYasha dropped his hands to his sides. "Alright, I am going to ask Sesshoumaru for help watching the village and you guys. I have to leave...I...I have to find Kouga."

Shippou gasped at that and InuYasha knew that the kit had guessed exactly what was going on, after all, why else would he be staring at InuYasha's belly the way he was. "Why? You told us he was tricked by your female side and left. So why seek him out?"

Narrowing his eyes at the clearly knowing tone in Miroku's voice, InuYasha figured the monk had guessed that something 'else' had happened. InuYasha was starting to feel cornered and right now with how his hormones were all over the place, that wasn't a good thing.

Feeling suddenly overprotective of his unborn pup, InuYasha wrapped his arms about himself and growled at Miroku before he spoke angrily. "Because I'm pregnant and Kouga's the father! That's why!"

The silence that had fallen was enough to have InuYasha losing a bit of his anger, but he still felt cornered. Kagome was gaping at him with wide eyes, Miroku looked sick, and Sango was smiling happily.

It took Shippou excitedly spouting his thoughts to snap everyone out of it. "I knew it! I knew something had to have happened between you two. I saw how you kept sighing that first week back and I remember smelling Kouga on you when you returned. This is awesome!"

InuYasha smiled warily at Shippou, glad someone was excited. He was just worried about how Kouga would react to being told the truth, let alone being told he would be the father to a Hanyou pup.

But as he turned to look at Kagome he saw something he'd never thought he'd see, she was smiling at him. "Kagome?" She deepened her smile at the tone in his voice even as she walked over to stand right before him.

"Three things InuYasha. One, don't ever keep something like this from me or any of us again. I could have used 'that' word and killed your child; after all you can't be that far into your pregnancy. Two, someone goes with you when you go to see Sesshoumaru, just in case. Finally, number three."

Kagome paused as she reached out to place her hands on his shoulders; she gave them a squeeze before she continued. "We are going with you when you confront Kouga. We are your friends InuYasha, heck; after all we've been through together. I'd say we are closer to family, so do you agree?"

He blinked, unable to believe what he'd just heard. Looking around at the others he saw that not one of them looked upset or ready to yell at him. They were all practically beaming at him, which had him nodding his head. "Yes I agree and thank you, all of you. This means a lot to me, it really does."

"So then, who's going with you then?" Sango was the one to pose this question and it had everyone looking at everyone else. All of them wanted to go but they all knew that for them to venture with him later they had to put certain things into motion first.

Shippou started jumping up and down at this point a hand in the air as he cried, "Me! Me! I'll go!" InuYasha smiled and patted Shippou's head as he chuckled, "thanks brat." Looking at the others and seeing that they approved as well, InuYasha knew that it had been decided.

"Alright then, Shippou and I will leave in the morning. If all goes well, we should be back in a couple days, and then we will set out for Kouga's den and hopefully...well. I hope I can figure out what to say to him by then." InuYasha felt really dejected thinking about the oncoming confrontation.

His brother he could handle, hell even Naraku he could deal with. But Kouga. The very thought of trying to tell him everything, it scared him shitless. He didn't want Kouga to abandon him, or their unborn. He just wanted a chance and he hoped to heaven, hell, and anywhere else that was listening that he would get that chance.

So they all packed things up and got ready for bed. By the time InuYasha was finally able to lay back and succumb to sleeps allure he felt bone tired, happy, but tired. He just hoped tomorrow went alright and that was his last thought as he finally gave into sleep.

A/N- Well, that is it for this chapter.

I hope I cut that right. Anyway, I am going to try to keep all the lemons out of my stories when they are posted on this site.

May the Fluff Be With You!

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