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The WishChapter 7
Kagome and Inu-yasha are lying naked in their pile of blankets. They have just woken up and Inu-yasha has just noticed that Kagome's scent has changed slightly. He sniffs again and he realizes what has happened. 'Oh fuck! She's gonna be pissed at me. How am I going to tell her? Well, I guess the best way would be to just come out and say it. I don't think that she has noticed it yet, otherwise I would already be eating stone.' He looks at her, a guilty expression on his face. Kagome looks at him with a confused expression on her face. "Um...Kagome" Yes, Inu-yasha? What's wrong? You look like you feel guilty about something" She turns over so that she's facing him, but still wrapped in his arms. Oh fuck. Here it goes. "Um...How do you feel about pups, Kagome" She looks even more confused and kisses him lightly. "I love kids. Why do you ask, Inu-yasha" He looks a bit relived, but still has a guilty expression on his face. "Kagome, have you smelled yourself lately? No, that didn't come out quite right, but I think that you get what I mean." She looks even more confused, if that's possible and sniffs the air hesitantly.
She smells quite a few different scents, but concentrates on her own. She looks like she understands. "My scent, it has changed slightly, but why" He looks even guiltier and refuses to look her in the eye. "Um, have you smelled Sango" "No, why would I" Her brow furrows and she's worried because Inu-yasha won't look at her. "Um...well, you'rewithpups." He says it so fast that she can't understand what he had said. Her ears flatten. "You said that too fast, my love. Say it slower this time." She nuzzles him with her head, but he still doesn't look at her. "You're with pups." He still says it fast, but she can understand what he said this time. His ears flatten and he looks like he's trying to hide himself. She sits up really fast. "WHAT! I...I...I'm preg...nant" He nods glumly and she pales. She's in shock and Inu-yasha starts to get worried when she doesn't say anything else.
He nuzzles her slightly and she starts to come out of her shock. "H-how did this happen? N-never...mind, I know how...but w-when" She's stuttering and she's still really pale. "I'm not sure. I only noticed it today." He has his head down and still doesn't want to look at her. "Oh." He's really nervous and he doesn't get why she isn't saying anything. "Why aren't you saying anything? We're going to have pups and all you can say is 'oh'" She doesn't like him yelling at her, but she understands why he's doing it and decides not to get mad. "I'm not saying anything because I don't know what to say. I've never been a mother before and I didn't think that I was going to be one this young."
He looks at her and sees the tears in her eyes. He starts to panic. "Please, Kagome! Please don't cry" He horridly tries to disentangle himself from her, but she won't let him. She is holding onto his hair and he has a helpless, panicky look on his face. She stops crying and he calms down a bit, but he still looks helpless. "I don't know anything about pups, Inu-yasha. What are we going to do? I don't even know how many it's possible I might have. I like kids, but I don't know anything about them! And what about school? I can't go after I start looking like Sango..." She hiccups. "Calm down Kagome, I'll be here." 'Let me see. What should I tell her? There's a lot of differences between humans, youkai, and hanyous...'
"I don't know much about female inu-hanyous, but I know something about female inu-youkai. I can tell you that if you'd like." Kagome looks at Inu-yasha and nods. "Okay, I can probably guess about most things from that. I know about humans, at least." She lets go of his hair, finally, and he puts his arms back around her. They lay back down and he starts talking, with an occasional hiccup from Kagome. "Inu-youkai go into heat around every eight months, except when they've recenty had a pup, or are with pup already. They stay with pup for about five to six months and it takes about a hundred years for them to get to about Shippo's age. Um, for the most part you can't tell that an inu-youkai is with pup except by their scent and I'm pretty sure that it's the same for inu-hanyous. They normally can have anywhere from one to six pups at a time, but most just have two or three. Um...I don't know what else to tell you, but just ask and maybe I answer." He looks a little embarrassed when finishes.
She turns her head and looks at him, then at her naked belly. She blushes slightly, then pulls a blanket over them. "How long does it take for a pup to grow up" "Um, I'm about 258 if you count the time that I was pinned to the Goshinboku tree. I'm only around 17 if you go by how humans count time. I was only around 15, 16 when I was pinned. Shippo's about 102, 104 and he'd be about 4 if he was human, I think. I hope that helps." Kagome pales when she hears his age, but now she understands why he sometimes acts like a high school boy from her time. 'By how he counts time, he is a high school boy. I wonder how it feels to live that long and have it go by in the blink of an eye? Well, I guess I'm going to find out.' She looks at Inu-yasha and a little bit of color comes back into her face. "I didn't realize that you were so much older then me." He looks at her and kisses her lightly. "When I was really young, I aged at about the speed of a human, but after awhile I started to age slower. I don't exactly know why, I just did." Kagome kisses him and they stop talking for quite awhile.
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'I wonder when we should go home. I don't exactly relish another trip through that well, but we have to go home eventually.' Shayne kisses Evea. 'I understand how you feel, my love, but we can't leave yet. I have a feeling that we're going to be needed sometime soon.' Evea smiles at her mate and starts to take off his shirt. When it's off, she kisses him. 'I know, my love. I feel it too. We're going to be needed her soon. Let's stay for a couple of weeks. Each day in are world is about a month here. So if we stay about 4 months, then we would have been gone four days. That wouldn't be very much time, and nobody would notice that little an amount of time going by.' Shayne smiles, then kisses her.
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"They moved" Sango sighs and moves Miroku's hand a little bit lower. "Of course they moved! They're children." He moves his hand and is rewarded by feeling their children move again. He smiles brightly and they lay down. Miroku puts his arms around Sango and they fall back asleep.
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"How many" Kouga is pacing and Ayame is nursing her pups. "Three, Kouga. Two males and one female." Ayame is in her true form and lying down. She raises her head and tilts it slightly to the side. He stops pacing and smiles brightly. He walks up to her, crouches down, and she nuzzles him.
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"Yuki? Are you asleep" Yuki opens her eyes. "I was. What is it" "Kagome was never sick, was she? She always here." "Yeah, how you'd guess? Of course she's been here. She knows everyone here well enough to have been coming here for a while." Euri is undaunted by the 'don't-ask-anymore-questions' tone in Yuki's voice. "Kagome's fiancé is really cute and those ears of his, they are so kawaii." Yuki rolls her eyes and sighs then sits up. "Yes, he is really cute, but he's still a jerk. I wouldn't go out with him. I actually feel a little sorry for Kagome. She's going to have to put up with him for the rest of her life."
Euri looks Shippo and Rin, who are sleeping in a corner of the room. "I wonder where Kagome and Inu-yasha are." Yuki closes her eyes and counts to 10 before she answers. "They're probably off somewhere getting Kagome pregnant." Euri gasps. "Kagome wouldn't do that, would she" Yuki rolls her eyes again. "I don't know. We didn't think that she would lie to us either, yet she did. How do we know that her and Inu-yasha aren't going like rabbits somewhere" (A/N: How right she is, but she doesn't know that, yet. lol.)
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"I know. This is what got me pregnant in the first place." He looks a little confused, but quickly tries to hide it. "What does that word mean" "Oh, whoops. It means with child, with pups, I guess you could say." Her cheeks are a bit pink and he kisses her. "Thanks." Inu-yasha sits up and pulls Kagome to him. "Inu-yasha" He starts nibbling lightly on Kagome's neck, licking her when he bites a bit too hard. "Hmm" She moves her head so that he can reach her neck easier. "What's in the other tunnels? I've never been down them. Oh, and I want...to...bathe...mmm." She stretches her neck and starts purring a bit."
All of a sudden Inu-yasha stops nibbling on her neck and picks her up and walks down the tunnel. He turns and goes down a different tunnel when they reach the place that they came in through. They come to a medium-sized cavern and Kagome sees the small beach, pool, and stone ledge. Inu-yasha walks into the water. Kagome grabs him around the neck and tries to keep herself out of the water. Inu-yasha half-drops her and she gets splashed. "It's hot" She slowly lets go of his neck and he lets go of her. She lands in the water and splashes Inu-yasha. "Eeep" He smirks. "Here's your bath. The water always stays clean and it's always hot." She splashes him and he splashes her back. They end up getting in a water war. By the time they finally get out, they are both completely soaked and smiling. They walk back to the other cavern and dry off. They stick their clothes in a small pouch because Kagome has decided to leave her backpack.
"Come on, Inu-yasha. Everybody is probably worried by now." She ties the pouch to the rope and they walk into the tunnel. They get to the water in the other cavern and jump in. They swim back to the surface and get the pouch. They put their clothes on, drop the rock back into place, and run off towards the village.
"Everybody, we kind of have to tell you something." Inu-yasha is blushing and won't look at anyone. Kagome waits until everybody is paying attention, then continues. "I'm pregnant. We're not exactly sure when it happened, but it did. I'm going to have pups." Sango runs up to Kagome and hugs her. Miroku walks up to Inu-yasha and raises an eyebrow. "I didn't know that you had it in you." Sango walks up to Miroku and knocks him unconscious. "Sorry 'bout that, Inu-yasha. You know how he is." She walks back over to Kagome, and dragging Miroku along. "I'm back. I had to go punish a pervert. So, when are you due" "Um, we're not exactly sure. We didn't even notice until last night. Um...We were kind of too busy to check what I smelled like." Her face is bright red and she looks at everybody else. Evea and Shayne are smiling. Yuki and Euri are pale and look like they don't believe her.
"Kagome? Are you really pregnant" Kagome nods and Euri goes a little paler. "But what about school, Kagome? If you have a kid, then you'll never finish school. You only just barely made it as far as you have. You won't be able to hide it forever. You'll eventually start to show, and if that happens..." "Its okay, Euri. Inu-yasha says that scent is the only way that you would be able to tell that I'm pregnant. Inu-hanyous don't show, and that's what I am now." For once, Euri is speechless and Yuki looks like she is till in shock. Kagome starts to sway a bit and looks queasy. All of a sudden, she runs out of the hut and into the forest. Inu-yasha goes after her and finds her puking what little she has in her stomach. He holds her head, even though he just wants to run away. They walk over to a small stream and Kagome rinses her mouth out.
"I hope this isn't what it's going to be like for the whole time that I'm with pups. I really don't like puking up everything in my stomach." She stands up and he hugs her. "I guess that my simple wish isn't so simple anymore. All I wanted was for everyone I care about to be happy. And now, so much has happened because of my wish that I don't know what to do anymore. She grabs two pieces of hair and starts crying. He's panicky, but he puts his arms around her anyways because he knows that she isn't going to let go of his hair. After a while, she calms down and they walk quietly through the forest.
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"I guess you were right Yuki. They were off getting Kagome pregnant, but they aren't married yet are they" Sango walks in and looks at the two girls. 'I better tell them a little bit about youkai. Otherwise, they're going to get themselves into trouble. "I can answer that question. I used to be a tajiya, a demon exterminator, so I know a lot about youkai."
The two girls look up, a surprised expression on their faces because they hadn't heard Sango come in. "Youkai don't marry, they mate and most of them mate for life. Inu-youkai will die when their mate does. Kagome and Inu-yasha are both inu-hanyous and are mated. It's a bit like a human marriage, but with one major difference, it's for life. If you ask me, I can tell you quite a lot about youkai. So, is there anything else that you would like to know" Yuki and Euri look at each other, then at Sango. "Please, tell us everything you know about inu-hanyous. I want to know more about what Kagome has become, and what Inu-yasha is." Yuki looks determined to find out all Sango knows and Euri looks a little bit interested.
"Okay, Yuki. By the way, I'm Sango, if you haven't caught my name already." Yuki and Euri nod their heads and Sango begins. "Inu-hanyous are half-human, half-inu-youkai. Depending how strong their youkai blood is, they can act like humans, or full-blooded inu-youkai. Inu-yasha's youkai blood is very strong, as is Kagome's, so they will act more like inu-youkai then humans. Inu-youkai are extremely possessive of their mates and get jealous easily. They can't stand to smell other males on their mates and would kill anyone who showed the least bit of romantic interest in them. This is a bit tempered in Inu-yasha, so as long as Kagome's with him, he won't kill them, but he would still hurt them. Inu-yasha is very strong and fast, but I'm not sure about Kagome."
Euri looks a little bit confused. "You said they can't stand the smell of other guys, right? What do you mean by that" "Sorry, I forgot that you don't know anything about the basic abilities of youkai. Well, in the case of inu-youkai, they have very good hearing, can see in the dark, and have a better sense of smell then a dog. Um, let me see, I think that Inu-yasha should be around 207, 208 years old right now if you don't count the fifty years that he was pinned to the Goshinboku tree." Both Yuki and Euri blanch. Sango looks a little bit confused, but continues. "If he was human, he would be about 18, 19 right now. He's aging slowly for a hanyou, but compared to a demon...Well, lets just say that he might as well be a human. Shippo is a kitsune and he should be a little bit over 100 right now. If he was human he'd be about 4 or 5. Is that all you want to know"
"What about pregnancies" "Female inu-youkai normally can have anywhere from one to six pups at a time. The average is two or three, though. Pregnancy lasts about five, six months, but I'm not sure about hanyous. They go into heat about every seven or eight months, unless they're already pregnant, or have recently had pups. They normally nurse for about the same amount of time as a human. Inu-youkai females are very protective of their young and won't normally let anyone but their packs and mates near them." "So that means that Kagome won't let anyone, but her family near her kids, right" "No, it means that she won't let anyone except the people she considers her pack near them. And they're called pups, not kids. They would be kids if she was a goat-youkai, but she's an inu-hanyou, not a goat." Euri blushes at the reprimand. "Sorry. That's what we call children in our time, kids."
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'I guess we know what we are needed for now, but how long does a hanyou pregnancy last?' 'I don't know my love. Maybe the monk's wife, Sango can tell us. She was a tajiya. She would probably know.' Evea smiles. "Okay my love, tomorrow. That is what we will do." "Why not right now? I'm pretty sure that she's not busy." "Okay let's go." They walk off to find Sango, hand in hand.
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"We should probably tell my family. Momma will be happy, so will Souta. Should we go now" "I don't want to, but I guess we have to." They both get up and take off for the well. When they get there they jump in and come out the other side. "Hi, Momma! Um, we kind of have something to tell you." Kagome's mom looks at her daughter, then at Inu-yasha. 'I wonder why he looks so guilty. That's not like him. I should probably listen to what they have to tell me.' "You should probably sit down, Momma." She looks confused, but sits down. "Um...You're going to be a grandmother. I'm pregnant." Inu-yasha flinches as Kagome's mother looks at him.
"When are you due, Kagome" "Um, we're not exactly sure. It's going to be longer them a youkai pregnancy, but shorter then a human one." Kagome's mother smiles and Inu-yasha looks slightly relieved. "Well, can take you to a doctor so that he can tell you how far along you are." She hugs Kagome. "This is really wonderful. I'm going to have a grandchild to spoil, and Souta will have a little niece or nephew. I'm so happy for you two." She hugs Inu-yasha too and he looks a little embarrassed. "So is my grandchild going to be raised here or back in the feudal age" Kagome blushes. "We haven't really thought about it. Probably on the other side of the well, but we'll come visit you often. You don't have to worry about that."
"MOM! I'M HOME" Souta runs into the kitchen and sees Kagome and Inu-yasha. "Hey, sis! What's up" "Kagome's going to have a baby" "Mom! I wanted to tell him." She turns to Souta and tries to hug him, but he squirms away. "We should probably get back, Kagome. The others are going to be worried, especially your two snoopy friends." Kagome looks a little disappointed, but hugs her mom good-bye. "Bye Momma. We'll come tomorrow for school and we'll bring Yuki and Euri too. Euri's ankle is healed enough for her to walk now." "Okay, honey. You better go before your friends get worried." "Wait, what about Grandpa? He's not going to be very happy." Kagome's mom smiles and makes a shooing motion with her hands. "Don't worry about your grandpa. I'll talk to him. Now go, 'kay. Bye, I love you." Kagome and Inu-yasha go outside and jump into the well.