Chapter Six
Changes
"Get the fuck away from me!" InuMusuko yelled, scrambling away. "No! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!"
Cold water hit him like a wall and he sat, glaring off into the distance. Ooooooooooooooooh… how he was beginning to hate the words 'Bath Day'…
Kagome grabbed a sponge and began to scrub his head, moving it in circular motions as InuMusuko's growl slowly rose. The sudden urge to gut the woman washing his hair was really strong… but, of course, he wouldn't.
Sighing, he looked up as Kagome pulled away to get some more into the sponge she was using to wash him. He began to think about a couple of days ago…
Flashback
"I… What?" InuMusuko asked, blinking and taking a step back.
"You heard me, pup. Me an' Kagome gave our kid this locket… and you said that your parents gave you this locket… Naraku's a sick and twisted bastard… It all sorta… falls together, donnit?"
"But I can't… I… My parents… Naraku-sama… I-" InuMusuko was rambling, unsure of what to say. This was impossible! His parents… were InuYasha and Kagome!? … NAH! This had to be some sort of joke…
But the locket…
InuYasha had noticed that one too. He showed the contents to InuMusuko again. "Yeah, well fucking explain Kagome's and mine's pictures in your locket!"
Damn… they both knew he had a point…
End Flashback
"Stop squirming! Kami, your worse than InuYasha!" Kagome growled, rubbing behind InuMusuko's right ear.
InuYasha snorted from a tree branch as Miroku sat underneath, watching with ever perfect calm. "Ah, but Kagome-sama," the monk began, grinning. "That's only because InuYasha-"
"Stuff it, lecher, if you want your Kazaana to be your only problem!"
Miroku lifted his hand and pressed his fingers against his chest in a mocking surprised and hurt gesture. "InuYasha, you wound me! I was only going to say that it was because you liked it when Kagome-sama-"
"WOUNDING YOU WILL BE THE LEAST OF YOUR WORRIES!" InuYasha yelled, launching himself from the tree and chasing Miroku away from the laughing Kagome.
She looked up as she realized InuMusuko was dead silent. "InuMusuko? Daijobu ka?" she asked.
"Ew," was all he said. "Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeew!"
Kagome grinned.
Flashback
Kagome bit her lip. InuYasha and she had decided to tell Miroku and Sango about InuMusuko that night, and the tension around the campfire was so thick, you could cut it with a knife.
She cleared her throat. "Miroku-sama… Sango-chan… Ano… you've met InuMusuko…" She jerked her head in InuMusuko's direction where he sat at the farthest end of the campfire, staring dejectedly at the dancing embers.
Sango nodded. "Hai, Kagome-chan, we have. Though, if memory serves, we were in a short battle."
Kagome nodded. "Ah… yeah. I… er… remember." She coughed. "Well… ano… Remember InuYasha's and mines first child… the one Naraku took?"
Both nodded.
"And how we thought that Naraku had killed him?"
Both nodded again.
"And that InuMusuko is from Naraku…?"
Miroku's eyes widened. "Kagome-sama, you cannot possibly believe-"
"Kagome-chan, he can't be-"
Kagome held up her hands. "I know… it sounds insane but… it's true… 'Son of the Dog'? The locket? His 'dead' parents? It all fits!"
It would take a few hours later that everything, every little detail they could worm out of Kagome and InuMusuko (InuYasha had gone off to check out a rumor of Naraku), until they were finally quiet.
'So, that's that then…' InuMusuko thought, his eyes fluttering shut. 'Well then… all we need to face is Naraku, ne?'
End Flashback
"And I need to do this why!?" InuMusuko growled, glaring up at Kagome who just grinned down at him.
"Because, you smell, you need a hair cut, and this way, I might be able to tell the difference between you and InuYasha!"
"Fuck that!" InuMusuko muttered, but let himself be cleaned (clothes still on ya perverts!!!)Finally, he let Kagome cut part of his mess of hair that grew to his waist, up to his lower back. She pulled back part of it and put some of it into a, surprisingly enough, attractive ponytail.
He ran his fingers through his untangled hair and stared at his reflection in a mirror. The bags that had always resided under his eyes from years of getting up before the sun showed her head and going to bed an hour or so before he woke up were gone. The bruises and cuts from his fight with InuYasha were gone, and his eyes were… they looked…
Happy.
"So," Sango asked, leaning against the side of Kaede's hut, bouncing Okimi in her lap. InuYasha watched his daughter move up and down, not so much that he didn't trust Sango, but more the fact that she was his five year old daughter. "What do we do about Naraku?"
InuYasha's lip slowly rose. "We can't let that slime live! Not after what he did and after everything he's done…"
Kagome nodded. "Hai. But… how?"
InuMusuko bit his lip. "I've got an idea."
They all turned towards him, expectantly. He coughed, unused to the pressure of their eyes focused on him. "Ano… I know where his heart is… I can lead you to it."
(A/N: Well… how is it? I think this chapter did a fair amount, ne? I'm not entirely happy with it, and its rather short but… still…
And I'm just LOVING the ideas I'm getting for when the Inu-tachi meet Naraku again…. Oooooooooh, its gonna be goooooooooood!!!!!!! --. Until then, ja ne!
The Kikyo Hater/Fluffy Muffin Queen (obey my fluffy goodness and golden-brown authority!)
