Hey guys it me! Sorry I'm not updating as much as I should but I have finals to study for so this will the last update till maybe next Friday…sorry I'll try but I won't make promises!
Someone in a review brought something to my attention *cough* AM78 and I wanted to say thanks for pointing it out and that I will explain myself. The reason she needs to leave is so that Ryo won't have to grow up around a father that (or so Kagome thinks) wouldn't want him and she knew the well would close and she just couldn't part with that time and I will add the lines to help you know when there is time differences! This chapter will address her need to leave more than the others! Also thanks Amber, MadHatter'sLover, Kate and everyone else for your reviews!
Kagome just sat and looked at the man in front of her. She could feel that she was crying and by sheer will power she stopped the tears and stood up. She walked over to the hanyou and grabbed his cheeks and pulled them this way and that.
"Oi! Stop that Kagome that hurts!" He said and Kagome let out a high pitched scream that had both InuYasha and Ryo covering their ears.
"It really is you." Her voice was almost a wisper and then her eyes traveled to the little kit that sat bouncing up and down on Sango's shoulder. "SHIPPO!"
One moment the little demon was with Sango, the next, he was smothered by Kagome's hugs and kisses.
"Moooootherrrrrrr!" Cried Ryo, he never liked when the other kids got more of his mother's attention and he was starting not to like this little kit that seemed to like his mom.
"Ya I don't really like him ether…" InuYahsa shifted his weight to his other foot and Ryo's sharp eyes caught the slight movement. He shifted his weight to that foot too, he was going to be just as powerful as his dad is so that he could protect his mother.
"Oh Sango! Miroku!"Kagome moved Shippo to her hip and hugged to Slayer and Monk. She was so happy to see her friends well.
"KAGOME!" Sango said and threw her arms around her best friend and they both fell to the ground in a snotty, crying blob. "Why did you leave us?"
Kagome stopped rolling around and sat up. She stood up and walked slowly to the corner where she promptly sat down and looked at the wall and said the words that no one was expecting.
"You should go." Sango picked herself and stared at the miko.
"But you can't mean that! We just got here!" Sango said with hurt in her voice.
"Please just go…" She turned her head so all the three could see was the pale cheek with tears lightly streaming down it.
Sango, Miroku, and Shippo slowly backed out of the door, they knew it would take time for her to come to terms with the fact that they were here to stay. As they started walking they all froze and realized InuYasha wasn't following. They both understood that the half-demon would want answers about Ryo so they thought it was best to let them be.
InuYasha just sat down with his back to Kagome's back. Ryo slowly and shyly crawled into InuYasha's lap. Kagome heard Ryo shift around and settle into his lap and she began to slowly bring down the walls she had built up around herself. She thought about her reasons for leaving.
She did the right thing…right?
'Yes I did the right thing! InuYasha has Kikyo and I have Ryo. A kid would have been too much of a distraction for him when he needed to get stronger.' Her resolve wavered and for a second she asked herself a question that would shatter all of her five years of hard work 'What if he stayed with us?'
After that thought she shook her head and moved so she sat in front of InuYasha and he sleeping son. 'No our son' she thought.
"Why did you come back?" Her voice was stronger than Kagome expected.
"I was looking for you, only to find I had a son with the woman I lost five years ago." His eyes never wavered, even when his cheeks turned a little pink when he mentioned that he was looking for her.
"I was afraid he would meet you, then you would leave us." Her voice was so low InuYasha had to strain to pick it up.
"Oi! Have some faith in me woman!" InuYasha said and it was like she had never left.
"You are so lucky our son is asleep in your lap or help me…!" Only InuYasha caught the fact that she had called Ryo their son and not her son. He was strangely pleased about this.
Fighting with InuYasha had drained all of her energy, because they had stayed up till late at night arguing. Her son could see it as he looked at the complicated position he had gotten himself into.
His mother's torso was laying across InuYasha's stomach, and his legs had somehow entrapped Ryo. He tried not to squirm too much so his parents would not wake up. Then, as he tumbled out of his dads legs, he thought about his parents.
Mom had yet to purify his dad, so Ryo thought this was a good start. He walked out into the light and was greeted by a mob of kids from the village. Most were nice, all but a little boy who tormented him all the time. Sure, Ryo didn't know his name, and yes the only reason they fought was because he had a crush on some girl and the girl liked Ryo.
"Hey Ryo we heard your demon-daddy came back to take you away!" The little boy sneered.
"Oh shut it! You are just jealous that my daddy could beat your daddy up!" Ryo knew him mother would never approve of him fighting, but this boy insulted his family! His Pack!
"Go away. You are nothing but a nuisance." Ryo slowly turned around and was happy to see his father was up. His eyes looked hardly at each kid before they all fled like mice running from a man with a lantern. (A/N: Sorry if you don't get it, I'm from Nebraska what do you expect?)
Kagome then walked out with a slight blush still on her pale cheeks. She had woken up and had to untangle herself from InuYasha. It was quite embarrassing.
Kagome had made up her mind. She would have them stay. Really from the looks on their faces, they didn't expect to leave any time soon.
"So Kagome why did you leave?" Little Shippo asked. All eyes looked to Kagome except for InuYasha whose back was resting on a tree with his arms in his sleeves. Ryo had sat down beside him and both had their eyes closed. Ryo would often open on eye to make sure that his father was still sitting by him.
After a short explanation Sango was clinging onto the little miko like she might pop into thin air if she let go.
"Well we have to get home, but we will be back tomorrow." She stood very ungracefully and stuck her hand out so Ryo could take it.
The three watched the mother and son watch home before InuYasha stood and declared,
"Well if she tries to run with our son so help me." He didn't notice his slip up so Sango had to point it out.
"'Our son' huh?" She asked.
"What? That's not what I said! I said her son!" He muttered and hopped it was too dark out to see a small blush appear on his slightly tanned cheeks. I wasn't, but they didn't tell him that.
Kagome snuggled up to her son and as she breathed in his sent she smelt InuYasha all over Ryo. She just smiled and buried her head under her son's white mane of hair. And she thought of all the times she and InuYasha had been happy when they traveled. One particular night caught her attention and so she basked in the warm feeling that engulfed her when all she thought about was him.
"What do you want InuYasha?" Kagome asked, on her back on a hill not too far from camp.
"Why do you look at the stars so much?" He asked his voice was free of that obnoxious under tone that it almost always had.
"Because I think that this is something that few or none get to experience in my time, so I best enjoy it while I'm here right?" She asked like it was the most common thing in the world. But to Kagome it most likely was.
Done! I hope you like it and if you think of another problems you need worked out just tell me! Yes this Chapter is shorter than most but I finished it at 10:18 after reading My Antonia. God that book is boring! Any who… Review please! (If you do I will send to virtual candy canes and an invisible snowman!)
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