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CHAPTER SEVEN
"W-what?" InuYasha said stumbling backwards.
Kagome took a deep breath. She was about to tell the hanyou the biggest shocker of his life. One he wasn't even prepared for. "We have a son, InuYasha. His name is Keikan, and he'll be five in two months."
InuYasha starred at Kagome blankly, as his mind acknowledged what she had just told him. As it finally sank, so did something else, forcing his anger and frustration grew. He glared at her. "You mean to tell that you gave birth to my son, and you've been allowing that mental wolf raise MY PUP."
"Koga has protected us for the past five years." Kagome snapped back.
"I should have been the one protecting my family." InuYasha hollered back.
Kagome inhaled sharply. She now knew what had gotten under his skin. He didn't like the fact that Koga was playing the role that they had once discussed InuYasha would play.
~FLASHBACK~
They were laying under the stars, laughing. They were discussing the future.
"No way!" Kagome laughed. "We'll live in Kaede's village. That way I can easily go home if we ever fight and I try to pull out your hair."
"There's no way in hell I'm going to let any chid of mine run around with some human brat like its mother." InuYasha snorted.
Kagome grew serious, her right hand secretly sliding to her small bump. "Um, InuYasha?"
"Yeah?" He asked turning to look at her.
"Would you mind having a child sometime? With me at least?" Kagome quietly asked, while keeping her gaze on the shining stars in the heavens above.
InuYasha rolled to his left so that he was laying over Kagome, looking deeply into her eyes. "If I had to be a father, if I had to teach any pups of mine how to survive in this world. They wouldn't be anyone's child but your own. I don't want anyone but you, Kagome."
Tears welled up in Kagome's eyes. She smiled as she leaned up closer to him. "I love you, InuYasha."
"Kagome." InuYasha whispered as he leaned down and there lips met.
~FLASHBACK ENDS~
That had been the night that Kikyo had stolen Kagome away from the life she and InuYasha dreamt up. A life they were ready for. A life Keikan would have enjoyed. A life with both his mother and his father. All of it taken away within the darkness of one night.
"Oh, InuYasha." Kagome said. "Koga never took your place with Keikan, or myself." Kagome smiled slightly. "He actually told Keikan some stories of the battles we were in. He painted you to be quite the hero for our son."
InuYasha starred off into the distance where the hut rested. He was silent for several moments before he asked. "What is he like?"
Kagome smiled. "Lot like you, actually. He protects those he loves, those he would consider that belonged to him." She chuckled. "He's always in a hurry to destroy any threat that comes around. He maybe only a quarter hanyou, but he has the full strength of a full blooded demon. Sometimes he gets so out of control that it terrifies me that the bond I put on him will no longer hold."
InuYasha looked at her, "What bond?"
Kagome shrugged. "When Keikan was three he got upset because I wouldn't let him touch Koga's ax. He through a fit, took out half of a wall on the house just by throwing boulders barely the size of his head." She sighed, "I won't lie, InuYasha. He was so out of control, not even Koga could calm him down. It scared me. It still scares me that he could turn back to that."
"So you placed a bond on him?" InuYasha nodded his understanding.
"I didn't want to, but Koga told me what could happen with demons so young and so powerful. That night, after he fell asleep, I crept into Keikan's room and I bond his demon powers. Not all of them, of course, or he would look like your human self. But enough of them so that he couldn't ever lose control." Tears ran down Kagome's face as she looked at InuYasha. "It took so much out of me that I sleep for five days straight. Koga said he had never seen anything like it before."
"You sure do depend on that bloody wolf a lot." InuYasha growled.
Kagome nodded. " I do. He knows what's going on more than I do. Why Keikan is the way he is, even though he is only a quarter hanyou. He even knows more about what's happening to me that I do. Isn't that funny?"
"You? What's going on with you?" He demanded.
Kagome shook her head as the sun peeked out from the clouds. "Not today. There has already been enough for today. Keikan should be up from his nap soon, and I have dinner to start." She looked at InuYasha and smile. "Would you like to meet your son?"
InuYasha nodded as he watched Kagome walk away. She was different, of that he was sure. She seemed... He sighed. He couldn't put his finger on it but there was something very wrong about Kagome. He shrugged after meeting his son, he'll take that pathetic wolf out back and beat the living daylight out of him before he asked him about Kagome. InuYasha gulped.
Meet his son...
'Will Keikan like me? Will I be a good father? Am I ready for a kid?' He thought.
"InuYasha, are you coming or not?" Kagome asked from where she had stopped further down when she realized InuYasha was no longer following her.
InuYasha smiled at the vision before him. Kagome was wearing priestess clothing, her hair flowing loosely in the breeze down her back. Framing her body was a stream of sunlight, turning her into a mystic angel she used to talk about. It was than that InuYasha knew with Kagome by his side, he could conquer anything.
"I'm coming." He answered as he ran to catch up to her.
'I'm going to be the best father ever.'
A/N:
So this is REALLY short... I apologize. BUT (there is always a 'BUT' never forget that it will be important later on) it leave it open for what is about to come in Chapter 8, which might not get out until the end of the week so bare with me... Review if you like... If you have any questions... Or if you just feel like it... I love the reviews so far... Thanks for Reading!
