Chapter Ten
Miyu II
Disclaimer: I don't know why I bother with these things. Oh well … time for my speech –gets out a stack of paper- I do not own InuYasha nor do I … -blah blah blah blah-
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Inuyasha groaned a little bit, feeling his daughter crawling all over him. Picking her up by the back of her pajamas, InuYasha slowly opened his golden eyes, bringing her to his face. Miyu blinked, staring into her mother's golden eyes.
"It's too early to be playing, Miyu. It's time for sleep." He set her down set to him and closed his eyes again, soon drifting back off to sleep. It'd been a pain to keep his daughter in one place ever since she started crawling yesterday and quickly mastered it though she, thankfully, didn't seem to have grasped the concept of walking yet.
Miyu blinked again, staring at her obviously sleeping mother and grinned, rolling over and pushing herself up, beginning to crawl on InuYasha all over again. InuYasha growled at being woken up again and grabbed the girl, bringing her to his annoyed face. Miyu just smiled sweetly, latching herself onto her mother, her little hands grasping his clothes tightly. He sighed a little, yawning and rubbing his eyes.
"Are you hungry or something? Is that why you're moving around so much?" Miyu blinked but smiled and laid her head down on InuYasha's chest. Despite himself, InuYasha found himself smiling and he rolled over to his side, pulling his shirt up and exposing a breast for his child, who latched on eagerly.
The hanyou smiled a little more and yawned, closing his eyes, just letting Miyu eat her fill though he quickly fell asleep, the little girl following him into slumber. The pair slept on like that until Miyu woke again. This time, she was flatly ignored by her sleeping mother, a thing she wasn't too pleased about.
With a growl, she launched herself at her mother's ear, chomping down.
Kagome fell out of bed with the pained scream that shook the entire floor. Jumping up, she was instantly awake and she threw the door open to InuYasha and Miyu's room. There she found the hanyou on the floor, holding his ear and Miyu was watching him with interest and a sort of pleased look on her face.
Kagome blinked and she soon joined by the others who stared, just like her at the two.
"InuYasha … what … happened? Are you alright?" The hanyou removed his hand from his ear which was throbbing painfully.
"Does it look like I'm alright?!" Kagome blinked and knelt down, examining the ear closer.
"What happened?" She reached up and only slightly brushed the painful object before the hanyou flinched, covering it again.
"She bit me that's what happened." Kagome blinked and looked at the child. Standing, she looked at the others. She sighed a little bit and walked out of the room. InuYasha blinked, expecting something but not that.
"Hey! Kagome! Where are you going?!" Kagome shook her head.
"To get ready since it's obviously time to get up." Everyone agreed and left to go about their morning chores. The hanyou blinked, a little confused but he looked at Miyu, frowning.
"You think you're so tough now, little girl. Let's just see what you do on your own." Miyu blinked as her mother walked out of the room. Intent on following him, she stopped at the edge of the bed. She knew as much that it was a long way down and it would probably hurt to fall but … what other way could she get down? She couldn't really so she did the only thing she really knew how to do; cry.
InuYasha flattened his ears against his head, intent on ignoring her though something in him poked at him to go and tend to his daughter. He shook his head, crossing his arms. It was discipline for biting him just a few minutes earlier. Kagome frowned, looking at the room and then to her friend.
"InuYasha, aren't you going to go get her? She's crying you know." The hanyou just gave a 'feh'.
"So? If she thinks she so tough then she can find her own way down. It's not that high anyways." Kagome sighed.
"She's just a baby, InuYasha." The hanyou just steeled himself.
"All the more reason for her to learn now." Kagome shook her head and walked over, bonking him over the head with the tea kettle.
"Go get her, InuYasha." The hanyou rubbed his head, glaring at his friend but got up and walked to the room anyways. Stupid girl, didn't she understand what he was trying to do? Where the hell did Miyu learn that, anyways? She certainly didn't get behavior like that from him, he was a well behaved child so that only left one person who she could have possibly inherited that from … his brother and mate which made him Miyu's father; Sesshomaru.
"Oi, brat." Miyu stopped and looked at her mother, her cheeks tear streaked and her nose a little red. One look at his daughter told him that she wasn't crying to get attention and made him cave. With a sigh, he walked over and scooped her up, kissing her forehead and wiping her tears away gently.
"It's alright now. Don't cry, Miyu." Miyu sniffled and grasped her mother's shirt tightly, feeling secure in his arms. After a moment, InuYasha held her at arms length, ignoring the fact that she squirmed and whimpered as she reached out to him.
"Miyu, listen to me." Slowly she stopped and looked a little ashamed but paid attention anyways.
"What you did to me this morning was very bad." Miyu's ears fell a little but InuYasha continued his face serious.
"You must never do something like that ever again." After a minute, InuYasha sighed and brought her back to his chest, figuring she understood enough. Carrying her back to their group, Kagome smiled.
"See, that wasn't so hard. What do you want for breakfast?" InuYasha shrugged a little.
"I don't know. Whatever's fine with me."
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Later, everyone was riding on the train, going back to Kagome's house. It was such a long ride that most of their group had fallen asleep, including Kagome. InuYasha looked down at the two sleeping girls in his life and smiled softly, moving some of Miyu's hair out of her face and looked over at Kagome who was leaning against Sasuke.
At first, the boy had looked uncomfortable at having her against him but now, he looked like he was really enjoying it. Naruto had fallen asleep with Shippo and Kelala on him and Miroku wasn't far behind him. The only two that were awake were Sango and Sakura who were talking some girl nonsense.
Sighing and sitting back, he closed his eyes, eventually falling asleep himself, his ears twitching at the shift of fabric beside him. Opening his sleepy eyes, he noticed that Sasuke had put his arm around Kagome. He didn't really care but he'd rip that boy apart if he hurt Kagome in any way. Closing his eyes again, he was confidant that the boy had received his silent warning because he put his arm back to his side.
He slept peacefully for some time until hushed voices woke him from his slumber. Slowly, InuYasha opened his eyes and yawned, rubbing them a little before looking around, things slowly coming back in focus. Kagome looked over and smiled though she looked a little worn out. InuYasha sleepily wondered why before his ears caught the sound of his unhappy baby girl.
Looking at Kagome, he spotted Miyu who looked positively angry.
"She started getting restless a little while ago and nothing seems to help." InuYasha smirked a little and shrugged.
"Well, let her crawl around. It's not like there's anyone else in this car." Kagome made a disgusted face.
"That is so gross, InuYasha. The floor is so disgusting it's not even funny." InuYasha thought on it for a minute and nodded his agreement. It would probably be for the best that he didn't let Miyu crawl on the floor, it did look a little … questionable.
Miyu whined loudly, squirming in Kagome's arms, obviously getting tired of being held all the time. InuYasha frowned and took his daughter from Kagome and she quieted some but not by much. Looking around, he spotted the still sleeping Kelala and smiled, depositing Miyu on the seat beside him and then depositing the sleeping cat youkai. Miyu instantly quieted, her attention completely drawn to the soft, furry kitty cat in her lap. She looked up at InuYasha and he nodded.
"Gentle, Miyu." She looked back at Kelala and slowly put her hands on her soft fur, talking baby talk. Everyone who was awake looked on in amazement and Kagome smiled, going over and crouching down in front of the girl.
"Soft, isn't she?" Miyu nodded with a smile and Kagome looked up at InuYasha.
"That was quick thinking, InuYasha." The hanyou grinned in pride and sat back.
"How long until we get there?" Kagome thought for a minute and then looked at her watch.
"We should be getting there soon. I don't know if you want to stay with my mom and leave tomorrow. We won't be getting there until after dinner so we'll have to eat out." InuYasha nodded and sighed a little bit.
"Well, at least we'll be getting there soon." Kagome nodded, taking her seat again.
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Finally arriving, InuYasha picked up his and Miyu's bag and then his daughter, much to her disappointment at losing her soft kitty friend. The hanyou arched a brow at his sulking daughter in his arms and chuckled, patting her diapered bottom as they stepped off the currently non moving train.
Kagome set her bag down and stretched, her shirt rising up, exposing all of her stomach and making Sasuke blush and look away. Letting her arms fall to her sides, she smiled at their group.
"Alright, I don't know about you guys but I'm starving." InuYasha nodded, shifting Miyu and the bags.
"Yeah, food sounds good." The rest of the group nodded and Kagome lead the way to a slightly near by pizza place. It was good and cheap, the perfect combination. InuYasha looked around inside the pizza building, weird smells assaulting his senses.
"This place is really good." Kagome told them, walking up to the counter. InuYasha followed Kagome slowly, taking everything in. It was small but if Kagome liked it then it must have been alright. He turned his attention to the person tapping on some kind of weird box that looked like a smaller and weirder version of Kagome's TV.
After a few minutes, everyone was carrying paper plates with two or three pieces of pizza on it. They pushed two tables together and grabbed a few extra chairs before everyone sat down. Miyu sat in her mother's lap, looking curiously at the food in front of her.
InuYasha lifted a piece and sniffed it, the action making his stomach growl. Slowly, he took a bite and his eyes went wide. This was better than the ramen Kagome used to bring him! Miyu was watching her mother curiously. The food smelled good, really good. InuYasha looked down at his daughter and smiled.
"You want to try some, too, huh?" Miyu nodded and InuYasha cut off a piece, licking his fingers afterwards.
"Open." Miyu eagerly complied, opening her mouth wide and closing it when InuYasha's fingers were out of range of her sharp fangs. InuYasha chuckled when he saw her golden eyes widen with the new sensation.
"Don't get too used to it, kid. I'm not feeding you this stuff everyday." InuYasha told his daughter strictly though with kindness. Miyu looked to her mother and reached forward towards her mother's plate, growling when it was pushed just out of her reach. InuYasha quieted her growls with another piece that was held in front of her nose. The infant quieted and opened her mouth obediently, wary of her own fangs.
Everyone was chuckling, being held captive with watching Miyu's exploration of one of the less refined food groups. After nearly devouring an entire piece of pizza, InuYasha put a stop to it.
"That's enough for you." He easily ignored his daughter's protests though he gave her a pizza crust to gnaw on. It was quite entertaining to watch the little girl explore the new textures. Finishing off his pizza, InuYasha found himself craving more but he shook it off. He wouldn't be much of a role model for his daughter if he indulged in it more than he was allowing her.
Kagome smiled at him, putting her other piece on his plate. "I'm not too hungry right now." A smile came to InuYasha's lips and he gratefully took the piece, nearly choking on it as he all but rammed in his mouth. The girls giggled at him, including Shippo.
"You make more of a mess than Miyu, InuYasha." Shippo commented with a smirk but he didn't say any more, being wary of the hanyou's fists. InuYasha glared at the fox kit but looked down at a giggle that came from his lap. He arched a silver brow at his daughter, a smirk playing on his features.
"Oh so you think he's funny, squirt?" Miyu just giggled again and InuYasha began attacking his daughter's sides with his fingers, making her squirm and shriek with laughter. Soon the laughter died down to contented chuckles and Miyu yawned, curling up against her mother. InuYasha smiled softly, his heart warming as he cradled his young against his chest.
"We'd better get going." Kagome told everyone with a smile. InuYasha nodded and stood up.
"Yeah, knowing your mom, she's probably up and waiting for us." Kagome nodded and smiled an image of exactly that coming to her mind. Oh how she had missed her mother, her brother Souta and even grandpa with his crazy antics and old stories. Sasuke watched Kagome's face and he smiled a little bit, tugging on her hair playfully.
"Hey, don't be spacing out on us now. You're our only guide." Kagome blinked and then looked at Sasuke and smiled with renewed radiance.
"Yeah, you guys would be so lost without me." InuYasha just rolled his eyes as they began packing up, clearing their garbage.
"Feh, keep that up Kagome and you'll end up being worse than Sesshomaru." Kagome laughed heartily, along with everyone else.
"No one could be worse than Sesshomaru." Kagome stated with a chuckle. Sasuke arched a brow with a smirk.
"Oh, I don't know about that. You seemed pretty full of yourself just now." Kagome put on her mock shock face and gently swatted him, well, attempted to. Her hand was captured by his and a blush rose on her cheeks though she didn't try to pull away. He lowered his hand, hers still in his and smiled a little, enjoying her blush that warmed her cheeks.
InuYasha smirked a little bit, sighing quietly when he felt the cool breeze of the night. It had gotten hot and muggy in the later evening and the coolness in the breeze was much welcomed. Looking down at his sleeping daughter, InuYasha smiled, silently wishing Sesshomaru was around to see everything that he'd seen.
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Souta was just falling asleep, though not without a fight, in front of the television when he heard the tell-tale sign of his sister and InuYasha yelling at each other. He jumped up and ran out of the house so fast that his and Kagome's mother only caught a glimpse of him.
"I'm telling you it was an accident!! I haven't used it in months, InuYasha, you know that!" A growl came from the half demon.
"That still doesn't change the fact that you did it!" Souta came upon a much larger group than he was accustomed to though seeing his sister and InuYasha face to face, glaring daggers at each other was nothing new.
"Sis!!" Kagome blinked and turned just in time to catch her younger brother and she instantly remembered just how much she'd missed him.
"Souta!" Hugging him with a smile that threatened to break her face, she nearly squeezed the life out of him before setting him down. Souta looked behind his sister at the new comers. Kagome blinked, looking behind her, a smile spreading across her face.
"Souta, these are my friends from school. Sakura, Naruto and Sasuke and these are my other Feudal Era friends, Sango, Miroku and Shippo." A whimper caught her attention, as well as her brother's as she watched the boy's eyes widen to saucers.
"Sis … I didn't know you were pregnant … "Kagome stifled a laugh and pushed a blush down, taking the infant from InuYasha.
"Souta, this is Miyu, InuYasha's daughter." Souta looked from the infant to his half demon hero, definitely seeing the resemblance but … he didn't see any of his sister's features in her.
"She doesn't look anything like you." Kagome sighed lightly but smiled.
"Well, she shouldn't. Miyu is InuYasha and Sesshomaru's daughter, as in, InuYasha was pregnant." The child's eyes widened impossibly large and he looked at InuYasha, realizing washing over the boy.
"Is that even possible? I thought guys couldn't have kids." He then turned to his sister, fear embedded in his eyes.
"I'm not going to get pregnant am I, sis?" The group could barely contain their laughter and Kagome wasn't faring much better since she had an up close look at her brother's reaction. Biting her lip hard enough to make it bleed to try and contain her laughter, she hugged her brother tightly.
"No, Souta, you're not going to get pregnant. InuYasha was just a special case, normally, guys can't get pregnant." Relief washed over the young boy and Kagome couldn't help but laugh a little.
"Well, let's get inside, it's been a long day." Souta nodded and led everyone into the house, rolling his eyes the instant his mother spotted the squirming baby. A gasp caught their attention and Mia Higurashi tentatively reached out her arms, InuYasha handing over his daughter easily, knowing that of everyone he knew, this woman would probably be the most gentle out of all of them.
Miyu stilled and looked up at the woman who smelled considerably like her favorite female caretaker. The older woman smiled softly at the child, gently tracing her fingertips around her features, ignoring the nips she received.
"InuYasha, you lucky mother, she's the most beautiful child I've ever seen. Oh you're going to have to fight off the boys with this one. She's going to be a handful when she gets to be that age. Aren't you, sweet thing?" She received a delighted giggle from the infant in her arms.
Finally noticing the white silk fur that hung behind the child, the woman lifted her up a little higher, gasping at the tail.
"Oh and she's even got a tail … it's … so soft. Oh, Kagome, why didn't you tell me that InuYasha and Sesshomaru were having a child?" Kagome blinked a few times.
"How did you know she was Sesshomaru's?" The question just earned a wink from her mother.
"Well, even as a baby, she just feels like her father. Plus she looks like him." A smile spread wider on the older woman's features.
"Kagome, be a dear and go fetch me a box from the attic, would you? It's labeled baby clothes." Kagome sighed and nodded, obeying her mother and soon returning with a very large box of clothes.
The on lookers gaped at the size of the box.
"All these clothes were yours?" Sakura asked Kagome, holding up an adorable little sundress. It had a yellow and pink checkered pattern on it with a tiny pocket and cherries on the pocket. Kagome looked at it and smiled, recalling pictures of herself in the dress in her family's photo album.
The older Higurashi woman knelt down and pulled out an adorable looking pair of pajamas, holding them up to Miyu and looking to InuYasha who nodded, trying to hold back his feeling of glee. A guy shouldn't want to dress up his daughter like a doll, he told himself sternly though one look at the clothes and then his daughter, he sighed, crumbling like dry mud.
"Oh yes, dear. Every day, Kagome was dressed in something different and, believe me; I had much trouble finding space for all of it. I finally had to stop buying so much after giving up a good portion of my closet and having three dressers just for her clothes." Miyu looked curiously in the box, finding the box itself especially entertaining.
InuYasha picked something out of the box and marveled at it. It being a baby sized summer kimono with soft summery colors, earning a smile from Kagome's mother.
"Kagome wore that to her first ever summer festival and she was the most adorable baby there." Kagome blushed a fine shade of red at all the talk of her as a baby.
"Mom …" Mrs. Higurashi looked up and laughed lightly.
"Oh, I'm sorry. You all must be tired from all that travelling. Well, come come, I've prepared a guest room for those who cannot fit into Souta and Kagome's room." The group smiled, graciously following Kagome's mother to their rooms.
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A/N: No cliffy this time but I think it's a pretty good chapter. Sorry not much for romance since it mainly focused over the incredibly adorable Miyu!! God I love her, she's SOOOO cute!!!
The picture of her is like this:
Silver hair like her daddy (Sesshy)
Golden eyes like her parents
Silver tail (Sort of like Kouga's tail but it's silver and, of course, smaller)
She doesn't have any markings as of yet but … well, we'll see about that, maybe I'll have her inherit her daddy's crescent moon or something. We shall see!
Kaede comes in the picture in the next chapter and I'm so incredibly excited to write it! Little Miyu in the Feudal Era!
Thanks To:
MuppyPuppy
Valinor's Twilight
kagome gal 20