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Your Lady Fractured Moonlight

An Inuyasha and Kagome love story for………

Jessica Baker

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Chapter 3- Morning Sickness

Inuyasha awoke early to hunt. The suns rays had barely pierced the hut before he took to the forest searching for fresh game. He spotted a wild boar that would in all likelihood do them about a day if he was lucky taking into account that he didn't just need to provide for his mate. No he need to provide for the six wait seven children they had taken in plus Kagome and the baby. A major undertaking if you asked him. He only hoped that their home would be completed before the baby arrived.

The boar seemed to be paying greater attention to chewing the grass than protecting itself from predators such as himself which would bode well for him. Taking slow calculated steps careful to avoid giving away his position as his grip tightened around his homemade spear.

As he approached the boar gave little indication that it had sensed him at all. Prey in sights he released his weapon. Watching as it speared through the animals chest killing the beast instantly. Now all that remained to do with this kill was to clean it, gut it, and cook it.

Kagome awoke to the smell of meat cooking. A smile pulling on her lips as she woke to the children surrounding her. She had missed them terribly since her scare. She missed her sisters company and the company of her nieces and was glad to have her family with her once again

It was a type of frustration when both Yoshirou and Inuyasha had insisted that she stay where Yoshirou could have easy access to her. However she put up little complaint considering it would have been the equivalent to bed rest in her era anyway.

She wanted to laugh at the sight that greeted her but dared not too. A decision that was proving harder by the minute to achieve. Ai had placed a wreath of sakura blossoms both pink and white around Inuyasha's head. Somehow managing to loop it around one ear while leaving the other free.

It proved to be a silence she couldn't maintain as she burst out laughing holding her gut as tears came at the image before her of Inuyasha, cooking his catch while wearing the wreath of blooms. It was too funny and she couldn't help but laugh.

She knew she would be on the receiving end of one of Inuyasha's death glares but knowing this didn't stop the laughter that continued to rise in her throat. It wasn't until Shion asked him what he was cooking with the meat that made her stop.

'Liver' at the mere mention of it she felt her control over her stomach waver as she stood to loose control of it completely. Making a mad dash for the outside air she nearly didn't make it before she felt the bile rise in her throat with its bitter spice before leaving her completely. Before he could move to go to her Yoshirou's words stopped him.

"The right balance has been achieved. There is no need to worry."

'Right balance' his mind echoed after him but before he could make any attempt to clarify Asagi's familiar voice chimed in for him.

"Does that mean that both she and the baby are going to make it?" she asked.

"Are they okay?" Ai followed in behind Asagi sweetly waiting for Yoshirou to answer with baited breath.

"They are both going to be fine." His smile deepening upon the completion of his sentence as relief flooded the room especially Inuyasha. Out of the corner of his eye he watched as Sango took it upon herself to follow after Kagome.

Sango stepped through the shoji screen and into the light of day its rays dancing throughout her thick strands. The heat of the sun weighing down on them as she moved to rub Kagome's back in a soothing manner. Her fingers grabbing the hair that had fallen over her shoulders so that it wouldn't fall in the way of her throw up.

Relief flooded her as she helped another woman work through the first sign of a soon to be healthy pregnancy. Or at least they could hope for it. She relaxed as Kagome moved to sit instead of being hunched over like she was. Her slender fingers wiping the remnants of her morning sickness on her kimono sleeve.

She noticed her tears well up as they threatened to fall down her cheeks as her realization dawned. Sango's slender arms wrapping around her as a means of consoling her as she cried. Her emotions over the past few days coming to a head. Kagome's fingers clawing at her back as she pulled her closer with no protest. Her tears spilling more freely now as she felt her fear pass.

"I was so scared, Sango I was so frightened when I felt it but I couldn't, I couldn't," Sango's eyes fell on him as he approached them. Kneeling down beside them as she passed her along to her mate.

Her tears falling in an endless cascade down her cheeks as her grip tightened on his back. Her emotions radiating through the blood tie that now bound them. The emotions which she had not allowed herself to feel for the longest time.

"I couldn't stop it, I felt the blood but I couldn't stop it……I couldn't do anything but watch as it faded from my body" he voice thick and cracked as her saliva thickened as he emotions came.

His fingers running through her hair and down her back in a soothing manner as he tried to gather the words that he needed to say.

"I couldn't bare to loose either of you and it terrified me at the thought that I might just stand to loose everything I care about it. You are my world and nothing will ever change how much I love you." His grip on her tightening as his sentence completed. Her tears continuing to fall as she felt all that she hadn't allowed herself to feel before.

Sango stood to give them their privacy when her daughter's voice caught her attention. She asked with the innocence of youth if her auntie Kagome was safe. An odd question but one she answered with a resounding yes as she then director her soft brunette head towards her father.

With a soft smile she watched as she bounded toward him, her joy showing in every joyful bound. She hesitated momentarily looking over her shoulder seeing the silent reassurance in his amber gaze she moved towards her brothers home.

As she entered through the shoji screen and into the company of her nieces and nephews she couldn't help but notice that Yoshirou was smoking the meat as Mika stirred the soup. She watched as her face became crimson as he whispered something I her ear. Yokai or no he probably shouldn't have said it as it gave a certain hoshi an idea.

The familiar though unwanted sensation of having his hand grope her rear left her fingers twitching with a desire they could never pass up. A resounding 'smack' echoed off the walls in the tiny space as her hand left a warm pink imprint upon his cheek.

The soft giggles that came from their daughters told all was well as the breath the room had been holding in exhaled in a giant sigh. Though Yoshirou would pay for his slip later. That much Sango was sure of.

The room fell silent as they entered the room. Inuyasha more or less carrying Kagome inside depending on how you looked at it. His tenderness towards showing in every move as he gathered her bowl, handing it towards her. She took it more of less eager to eat its contents than she seemed.

The sorrow that had once shone in her eyes was slowly fading away with each passing moment. A joy surfacing as she was able to look towards the future that was almost taken from her.

Sango took note of Inuyasha's change as she watched the same sorrow fade and joy surface. She felt her fingers absentmindedly run along her abdomen proving to herself that life still remained. She wondered not for the first time if she would have been able to survive if what had happened to Kagome had happened to her. She wondered how Mika had survived the loss of her baby, she thought about the pain it had inflicted on both of them.

She knew by the way his arms wrapped around her shoulders that he had felt her pain. That he had seen her fingers as they ran over her abdomen. Despite his perverted thoughts at times he was a real sensitive soul. She welcomed the touch as it connected him to her.

Her eyes settling on them as she felt her prayer escaped on a silent exhale, as she felt the soft glow of joy in the moment of this morning. And who would have thought that the joy of this moment existed on such a thing as morning sickness.