Chapter Nine – Mother

Sesshomaru was pacing up and down his study as Rin watched him. He was as unsettled as one such as himself could be. There were few people he feared in this world and his mother was one of them. There was a reason that his father took to a human woman for comfort. He could try denying that the child was his, but the scent of the newborn would give him away. Maybe it was best for him to pretend Rin didn't tell him. If he didn't know then his mother wouldn't have to know.
"Lord Sesshomaru, are you happy you're going to be a father?" Rin enquired sadly watching his turmoil.
"No."
"Is it because she is human?"
Sesshomaru said nothing but his face gave it away.
"So they were right then. You would kill Kagome and your child which she carries. I came here to tell you, to prove them wrong when I overheard her saying you would wish them harm. Seems I wasted my time and it was better that you didn't know." And with that Rin walked out of the room tears running down her face.
Sesshomaru felt guilty for hurting her feelings but he wasn't going to lie to her. When he finally found a suitable mate with a good bloodline he would have got his heir that way. Not off a human priestess. But it happened, he had impregnated a human and now it was time to see his mother and face her wrath.


"Sesshomaru what do I owe the pleasure?" His mother said silkily from her throne chair in her audience room.
"I have some news."
"By the look of your face it looks like someone has died or is about to?"
Me. Thought Sesshomaru.
"I have.."
"Well spit it out son."
"I got drunk at Rins wedding and slept with my half brothers human ex wife and now she is pregnant."
Seiba's laughter filled the entire room.
"That's funny, now really what did you come to see me for?"
Sesshomaru remained silent and dropped his head.
"Are you being serious?" She whispered in shock.
He simply nodded, not daring to look at her and see the shame in her eyes. It was bad enough when she had saved Rin for him, but this he knew she wouldn't take well.
"Sesshomaru Tashio I can't believe your stupidity! A human? I will have a half breed grandchild. Our pure blood line mixed and tainted with a human! Your filthy brother's seconds no less!"
Sesshomaru winced at the last part of her rant. He didn't want to be reminded.


Kagome was sitting by the fire looking at the stars. She had managed the anniversary well until now. Sango had told her to stay the night so she sat in the living area on a mat watching the flames. A year since her son was born forever sleeping. Would the same fate happen to the child in her womb? Was she even ready? Kids weren't something she had thought of after losing her baby. Now she had no choice but to deal with it. Whether she was ready or not her child was growing and would need its mother. If it survived. Feeling suffocated she went outside and admired Sango's garden she didn't even hear him approach.
"A year today."
InuYasha. She turned and he was staring at her with a soft expression on his face.
"Yeah."
"Are you okay?"
"No."
"Look I'm sorry okay…"
"Just stop. I forgive you but I won't forget the hurt."
InuYasha pulled her into a hug she was resisting from and breathed her scent in deeply. Then pushed her away his face full of anger.
"Your scent is changing, why?"
"I'm pregnant InuYasha."
"Who has done this? How could you?" He was hurt. He knew they weren't together but he had hoped.
"Firstly, we aren't together so I can do what I want and second of all this wasn't my seeking it just happened."
"Who Kagome."
"Sesshomaru."

InuYasha began to see red. How could she do this? They were married and had a child together, shared the loss together and she went and had sex with his brother? Who he hated! Without realizing it he raised his fist and punched Kagome in the stomach winding her. He knee'd her in the face and he could hear the crack of her nose breaking and the smell of her blood. He swiped her legs and watched as she fell done and then he began kicking her. Getting out all of his frustration. Reason caught up with him and he tried to help her up but she wouldn't let him tears streaming down her bloody face. Rin who had returned on Ah-Un the fastest way to get around, saw what he had done and rushed to the crumpled woman's side.
The noise had awoken Sango and Miroku and the twin girls. When Sango saw her friend beaten and bloody she ushered them in side quickly then ran back out to get some answers. When she came back out Rin had Kagome who was now unconscious on the back of Ah-Un while Miroku was standing over InuYasha who had a bleeding nose.
"Miroku did you do that to his nose?"
"Sango she told him, and he lost it and beat her."
Sango slapped him and then hugged him much to Miroku's annoyance.
"What you did was unforgivable, but I know how much this would have hurt you especially tonight."
Miroku softened at that. Yes, his actions were wrong but tonight was painful enough for the half demon without the knowledge the woman he loved was carrying his brothers child.
Sango got up and headed to Rin and Kohaku's house and went to tell him Rin had gone to see Sesshomaru, because Sango knew that was the only place she would take Kagome. Sango just hoped her friend wouldn't be killed by her baby's father.


"Sesshomaru!"
Sesshomaru was ready to retire for the night when he heard Rin yell, she had dropped the honorific for the first time ever just calling him by her name. Then he smelt the blood, it wasn't Rin's but her's. Kagome. He rushed out to see her face battered and coloured by dried blood.
"Your half brother didn't take the knowledge well she was with your child and he beat her."
Then he could smell it, the faint smell of his pup. His mother had told him he would soon be able to smell the pup. When he had left his mother she had been crying at her misfortune of a half breed grandchild. She had threatened him with death if he harmed the pup, saying his punishment for mating with a human would be that he would have to raise this child and deal with the fall out. He had left beyond angry with his mother for what she had told him he would do. But smelling his pup brought out something within him. He felt the urge to protect the pup and the woman who carried the pup.

Please let the pup be okay, he found himself pleading.