So for any of you who were wondering Kagome is actually pregnant with Inuyasha, though there will be at least one other pup born in this story. And there will be quite a few time skips in this story just wanted to throw it out there! Anyways on with the story! I DO NOT OWN INUYASHA!
It had been two months since the panther tribe attacked, and things had settled back down afterwards. Though Touga had only become more crazy protective in the time following after. Though she supposed it was to be expected seeing as how hanyou pregnancies only lasted anywhere from six, to seven months instead of the traditional nine month ningen pregnancies. So she was already showing, and suffering from intense morning sickness, and fatigue. It was hard on her body, though Masami, and Touga were very supportive, and they both loved to fuss over her. But in all of the chaos of her pregnancy she still had not yet had time to go home and visit her mother to inform her of the pregnancy. And everyday it was put off tore at a little part of her mind until one day she could stand it no more.
"Touga I want to go and visit my mother." She informed him as he led her around the gardens. No one ever let her go anywhere alone anymore, even Chikako fawned over her. Though that was because she had quickly become good friends with the tora.
"Did you not say that you wanted to wait until my mother returned home?" He questioned pulling her aside to sit on a stone bench.
"Well yes but..." She started unsure of whether what she had to say would offend anyone. "I didn't expect your mother to practically move in for the duration of my pregnancy... With her here I feel guilty for making you take me home so I put it off but..." Her emotions got the better of her and her guilt had tears welling up in her eyes.
And of course her mate was quick to placate her gently to prevent her distress. "My mother will understand love. There is no need to feel guilty." He pulled her up into his lap and nuzzled her cheek. "We can go whenever you want."
A full mood swing took hold of her, and she did a one eighty. "Really?! Souta will be so excited! And mama too! Can we go today?" She bounded up from his lap and danced around excitedly.
"I did say that we could go whenever you wanted did I not? Now go and get your things while I go and inform my mother of our departure. Chikako?"
The tora was there in a second. "Hai?"
"Take Kagome and help her prepare for our trip. I will come and retrieve her soon."
"Hai Touga-sama!" Chikako bowed before she moved to usher Kagome to her rooms.
He watched them go before he too entered the shiro to find his mother. Gods knew that she was not going to be happy with them leaving... She had quickly become attached to Kagome, and even more so after she found out about the pup. Besides himself, she was the one that spent the most time with his mate. So this was one encounter he was not looking forward to.
Kagome fidgeted in excitement as Touga hovered over the well that led to her time, before he descended down into it. The warm blue lights easily accepted them into the timeslip, soothing all of her stress. Touga had seemed irritated during the flight, but he had informed her that his mother had thrown a fit that they were leaving. Needless to say she had felt bad about leaving, and she had even started crying, which had in turn made Masami feel bad for upsetting her. Long story short they had still ended up going to her time, after her mother in law had soothed her from yet another emotional breakdown.
They never even touched the dirt on the other side, with Touga being able to fly he simply shot back up out of the well before finally sitting down on the wooden floor of the well house.
As soon as her feet touched the floor she was scrambling out the doors towards the house. She yanked the door open and called out. "Mama!"
"In the kitchen dear!" Her mother called out cheerfully.
She quickly shed her sandals and wandered in towards the kitchen. Her mother was standing at the stove cooking dinner when she peeked around the corner. No one else was in sight so she took a hesitant step into the kitchen. "Mama? Could we talk for a minute?"
Ai spun around with a smile on her face. "Sure dear what did you-!?" She cut herself off with a gasp once her eyes landed on Kagome's stomach. "Ka-Kagome?"
Large hands came to rest across her swollen abdomen, while Touga's chin came to rest on the top of her head. "Yeah so Touga and I are mates... And well...as you can see I'm pregnant." She winced at how it sounded when she said it.
Her mother immediately pulled out a chair before slumping into it. "Okay dear sit down and explain all of this to me."
She sat down opposite of her mother, Touga following her motions and settling himself beside her. "Well when we left Touga decided he wanted to court me."
"Yes I remember that... And I am happy that you two have each other... But that does not explain why you look like you are five months pregnant! You should only be two months pregnant at most!"
She sighed in relief that her mother wasn't upset about her being pregnant, she was merely shocked at how pregnant she looked. "Well..."
Touga cut in before she could say anything. "I believe that I can better explain that Ai-san. You see youkai pregnancies only last for six months, so hanyou pregnancies last seven months. So Kagome is due to give birth less than five months from now."
"Oh." Kagome, and her mother both echoed each other.
"Huh well I was expecting it to be a little longer than that but..." Her hands once more took up residence over her stomach. A small fluttering responded from within causing her to smile a little. Inuyasha wasn't kicking yet, but she could still feel him move sometimes. A large clawed hand came to rest over hers and she looked up and met her mate's eyes, smiling at him before she turned to her mother. "So uhhh are you excited...?"
"Yes dear I am very happy that I am going to be a nana." Her mother smiled warmly. "Should we go get you some prenatal vitamins? Do they have things like that in that era?" She asked her motherly worry finally rearing its' head.
Well she hadn't even thought about it... "I don't know if I can take regular prenatal vitamins mama. The baby isn't ningen so prenatal vitamins made for ningen pregnancies might not work."
At that point Touga cut into the conversation again. "What is a prenatal vitamin?"
"It's a pill that pregnant women take to help strengthen the baby during pregnancy." She explained to her adorably confused mate.
"What is a pill?" Touga questioned confused by being answered, and then left with another question.
She giggled at how cute he looked before she stood and grabbed a bottle of tylenol from the cupboard. Quickly popping the top open she reached in and held up a hand to show him one of the small pills inside. "This is a pill, it's like a tonic that is in a solid form. This one is for pain, there are other pills for various illnesses, and ailments. Do you understand now?"
He nodded amd watched her as she returned the bottle to the cabinet before returning to her seat. "So these prenatal vitamins are good for pregnant women to take?"
"Yes but as Kagome said they may not be good for the little one because he is not ningen. The pills available in this time are made for ningens and not anyone else." Ai explained before standing and crossing the room to hug her. "Ohh Souta is going to be so excited! We will have to buy some baby clothes, and binkies..."
She laughed at her mother and hugged her back. "Ok mama we can go baby shopping tomorrow!"
Ai pulled back and kissed her on the forehead before she hastily moved to start dinner. "Ok we will go first thing in the morning dear. But for now why don't you go upstairs and rest? Being pregnant can be very tiring..."
"Don't I know it..." She sighed tiredly and with a wave at her mama she turned and moved towards the stairs. Before she got to them however she turned and drifted back towards the kitchen pushing Touga slightly out of her way so that she could get back in. "Mama where are Souta, and Grandpa?"
"Souta is at Hitomi's house, and grandpa is out playing bingo."
She made a face at that. "Since when does grandpa play bingo?"
Her mother turned and offered her a small smile, and a delicate shrug. "Who knows dear... But the better question is, do you want oden for dinner?"
"Sure!" She chirped though she doubted that she would be able to eat it, anytime she ate anything she got violently ill. Touga had even taken to rubbing her back to soothe her during meals, though that didn't stop her from being sick. "Mama I should probably eat in my room though."
"Morning sickness?" Ai questioned knowingly.
"Yeah...bad too. I can't even eat most of the time." She groused irritated that she was missing out on oden. A package being held up in front of her face startled her, and she pulled back to get a better look. "Saltine crackers?"
Her mother nodded and shoved them into her hands. "Saltine crackers a pregnant woman's best friend... Eat these if you can't stomach the oden."
"M'kay..." She shrugged and moved towards the stairs to go to her room. Her feet ached, her head hurt, and she was just tired. So when she did walk into her room she placed the crackers down and immediately sought out her bed and laid down in it. As soon as she was comfortable Touga took up post at her feet, seemingly intent to guard her from whatever came in the door. "Come here."
His head snapped to her and he eyed the hand she was holding out for him, before sighing and crawling up to lay next to her. "Sleep now, you have had a long day." As he said that his hand came down to cup her stomach protectively, while he nuzzled her hair.
She really was tired, more so than she had initially though, and she vaguely wondered if the fatigue would get better as the pregnancy progressed. The thoughts crossed her mind for a moment, before they eventually evaporated into nothingness as sleep claimed her.
A loud bang had him shooting up out of the bed and crouching over his mate protectively. His youki elevated at the thought that there as a threat to her, and their pup, and he cast his senses out to ascertain what kind of youkai it was. Not that he needed to because a second later a familiar figure opened the door to Kagome's room and peaked in.
"Sis?" Souta whispered and when he saw Touga he brightened up and hesitantly stepped into the room. "Hey Touga!"
"Souta." He greeted instantly calming back down. "Kagome is sleeping right now. Did you need something?"
"Mom wanted me to tell her that dinner is ready. Do you want me to bring it up?" Souta questioned sparing a glance at his sister.
"No that will be alright Souta, I can come and get it." He stood up and sauntered out of the room to the kitchen where he could smell a tantalizing scent. Souta was trailing along after him talking his ear off about one thing, or another, not that he minded. When he reached the kitchen and stepped into it there was a sudden silence before he was pelted by faulty ofuda.
"YOUKAI BEGONE!"
"Grandpa stop it!" Ai chastised him with a threatening look, well as threatening as she could be. "Touga is going to be in the family from now on so you had better just behave yourself from now on! We don't need the new family member being afraid of you!" She continued her lecture even while she was fluttering around preparing two trays for him to take upstairs.
"What do you mean new family member mom?" Souta questioned hopping into his seat.
"Kagome is my mate, and she is pregnant with my pup." He answered before she could.
A clanging noise was heard as grandpa dropped his chopsticks, then silence for a moment before he finally erupted. "YOUKAI YOU HAD SEX WITH MY GRANDDAUGHTER?! HOW DARE YOU?!" And as if he had not learned his lesson the first several times he tried it, he reached into his haori and retrieved several more ofudas.
"GRANDPA CUT IT OUT!"
Everyone froze and turned to face a very upset looking Kagome. "Kagome love you need to take it easy." He cooed taking measured steps towards her.
"NO! I WANT GRANDPA TO JUST CUT IT OUT ALREADY! WHAT IF HE ACTUALLY HAD REIKI?! HE COULD HAVE REALLY HURT YOU! AND WHAT ABOUT INUYASHA? HE'S GOING TO BE TERRIFIED OF SPENDING TIME WITH GRANDPA BECAUSE HE'S GOING TO BE PELTED WITH OFUDA EACH, AND EVERYTIME!"
"Kagome calm down..." He tried placating her but she was having none of it. When she got into a good moodswing she was gone, and gone...
"NO I WILL NOT CALM DOWN!" She stomped her foot petulantly and brushed past him to stand before her grandpa hand held out expectantly. "GIVE ME THE REST OF YOUR OFUDA RIGHT NOW GRANDPA!" When he went to protest she growled and smacked her hand irate. "NOW!"
So he reluctantly pulled out the rest of his ofuda muttering and moaning the whole time before he slapped them into her hand. "Youkais...and miko granddaughters..." He muttered darkly before he slumped back into his chair.
For good measure she held the ofuda up and incinerated them with her reiki, watching with disinterested eyes as the ashes fell to the floor around her. "NO MORE OFUDA! AND IF I SEE YOU CHASING MY BABY AROUND WITH THEM I WILL BEAT YOUR BUTT WITH YOUR SHOGI BOARD!" And with that she turned and stormed out of the room muttering about senile old grandpas that she loved to death.
Silence fell over the room as everyone attempted to gather their thoughts, though he did so faster. "She tends to have horrible mood swings..." He explained unnecessarily.
Ai recovered quickly and finished up the trays of food before handing them over to him. "Yes well women do tend to have that problem... Just be supportive!" She encouraged warmly before she went to claim her own seat.
Before he could turn and leave the room Souta said something that had the entire meal stopping dead. "Did sis say that she was pregnant with Inuyasha?"
"I would like to know what that was about as well." Gramps muttered still sore about the whole episode.
"Well I am apparently this Inuyasha's father, so we believe that even though Kagome is not that Inuyasha's mother, his soul will still be placed into this pup thus making him the same being. It makes sense in a way because a body must match the strength of its soul, and this Inuyasha was a powerful inu hanyou, so his soul must have been quite powerful as well. That means that he needs a powerful body to inhabit, and there are no stronger inu males than I."
"So Inuyasha is gonna be my nephew?" Souta questioned nearly shaking in his seat from excitement.
"Yes if we are correct. Only Kagome can say for sure if it is actually him as she is the only one that remembers the feel of his soul." He smiled down at the boy who he was quickly warming up to. Many ningens were just not like the ones here, minus the grandfather of course.
"That is so awesome! I am so going to teach him how to play tekken!"
What was a tekken? He wanted to ask but the scent of sadness, and tears assaulted his senses and he bolted up the stairs without a second thought. Kagome was huddled in the corner sobbing quietly and he quickly sat the trays down near the window, and moved to pull her into his lap and comfort her. "Kagome why do you cry?"
"I yelled at my grandpa..." She whimpered hiccuping and burying her face into his shoulder.
So now it was the sadness after the storm... His female was so rich in emotion that even he had trouble keeping up sometimes. "It is alright." He cooed rubbing soothing circles across her back.
"No it's not! I was so mean to him!" She protested the sound rising in volume, as did her emotions. "I burned all of his ofuda! And I threatened to his him with a shogi board! I'm such a bitch!"
"No you are not a bitch, you are just pupped." His words fell on deaf ears though because as he said earlier, when she went into a full mood swing she was gone... So he held her while she sobbed as if she had actually killed someone, all the while he continued rubbing her back, and growling soothingly. It would pass soon, it always did, and then she would be happy as could be. So he rocked her, and soothed her for an amount of time that he did not even try to keep track of, until she finally did settle down. "Do you feel better now?" He asked after the room had fallen silent.
"Yes...can I eat now?" She sniffled wiping her nose with her shirt sleeve.
He just nodded and reached for the trays containing their food, before placing hers into her lap, and his onto his own lap. "What about those cr-ck-ers?"
She paused in eating her oden to giggle at him. "Crackers. Umm I can have them after I throw this up. I'm sure that they'll go great with white rice...Soon Kagome will have a diet of nothing but white rice, and saltine crackers..." She groused less than pleased about it.
Shaking his head at her moodiness he quickly dug into his own food. Being inu youkai made for a big eater so Ai had given him extra food, which he quickly stuffed down his throat, with proper etiquette of course. When he finished he noticed Kagome glaring at him heatedly while she stirred the soup with her chopsticks. "Is there something wrong?"
"I hate you..." She muttered darkly. "You sit there and eat like that when you know I can't! Can't you at least turn around so that I can't see you doing what I can't do?!" She started viciously stabbing her pork chop with her chopsticks.
"Love do not play with your food!" He admonished completely ignoring what she said. She was pregnant and she was frustrated with the changes in her body. When she proceeded to stab at her food even more viciously he held out a hand to stop her.
"I HATE YOU!"
"No you do not."
"Yes I do! You got me pregnant and now I can't eat my oden!"
"Just sip it slowly and see if you can stomach it." He placated hoping to soothe her mounting frustration.
She huffed and brought the soup to her mouth and sipped at it slowly gulping several small mouthfuls down. When she pulled the bowl away she sat there quietly for several moments before the inevitable happened. Her hand shot up to clamp across her mouth before she shot to her feet and streaked into the bathroom.
He followed her and held her hair back while she emptied her stomach of its contents once more. He remembered when she had first gotten ill like this, he had thought that she was dying or something. Youkai females did not become ill as ningen females apparently did during pregnancy, instead they became aggressive, and territorial. He had nearly torn the shiro apart to find the court healer to look at Kagome, only to feel silly when his mate explained that pregnant ningen females suffered from something called morning sickness, where they became ill oftentimes in the morning after they had woken up, and during mealtimes when they had eaten. That did not mean that he was not still worried about her, she did not seem to be getting enough sustenance, and that concerned him. Their pup was inu, and as such he needed nutrients that came from meat to be healthy, and she was unable to hold down anything but white rice, and that was only occasionally. If something was not done he was concerned that the pup would not be at optimum health when he was born. At that point she pushed back and he allowed her to slump back against him. Instead of saying anything he simply rubbed her stomach soothingly while he released a deep rumbling growl.
"Ughh vomit breath..." Kagome moaned miserably before she forced herself up with effort. She retrieved what she called a 'toothbrush' and proceeded to cleanse her mouth of the vomit.
While she did that he hovered behind her in case she became ill again, as she had a tendency to become so even after she felt that she was finished. He kept hovering even after she finished and put her toothbrush away, and all the way back to the bedroom where she hurriedly plopped down onto the futon. His eyes roved the room and landed on the cracker box sitting on the dresser and he hurriedly grabbed it and ripped it open. "Here try and eat a few of these." He pushed several of the squares into her hands before sitting the box off to the side of the futon.
She glared at the small squares before she hesitantly brought one to her mouth and nibbled on it. "It's still not oden..." She whined staring wistfully at the bowl of her favorite soup. The pout on her face instantly vanished, a smile replacing it as she reached over and dipped her cracker into the salty soup before bringing it to her mouth and popping it in. "Mmmm much better!"
He sweatdropped at her sudden change in demeanor but otherwise left her to it. Females were so strange...
"Mama I don't want Inuyasha wearing that!" Kagome protested as her mother held out a pink, yes a pink footy. Honestly she was wondering if her mother had forgotten that her pup was a boy, and he was going to possess the soul of her one time best friend. But even if her mother had conveniently forgotten that, she had not! And there was no way that she was going to make her son wear a pair of pink footy pajamas. "Touga help me out here!"
"I think...not..." Her mate responded eyeing the garment questionably.
"Why not?! Do you want your son wearing that? And are those unicorns?" She gaped just now noticing the small horse like creatures adorning the garment.
"Now Kagome whoever said that this was for Inuyasha? What about when you have a daughter?" Her mother argued refusing to relent on her choice at all. "You had a little unicorn nighty when you were a baby...so cute..." She gushed with a twinkle in her eyes.
"MAMA WE ARE SHOPPING FOR INUYASHA NOT ANY PUPS THAT WE HAVE NOT YET CONCEIVED! PICK SOMETHING OUT FOR HIM!" She screeched at her wits end with her mama. When the other patrons stopped to stare at her oddly she was quick to snap. "WHAT?! WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING AT?! AND IT BETTER NOT BE HIM CUZ HE'S MINE!" She snarled scaring off several other females that were eyeing her man.
"Calm down Kagome...if you keep this up you will go into premature labor." Her mother joked before she turned back to the racks and pulled out a small red footy pajama with small white puppies on it. "What about this? This way he can be reminded of daddy all of the time!" She smiled cheekily and held up the garment for them to view.
"I like that actually!"
"I do not..." Touga grumbled irritably.
"Shut it Touga or else!" She chastised him snatching the garment from her mom and shoving it into the basket. She could just imagine how cute Inuyasha would look running around in it...
"You two do realize that the pup is not coming for at least another four months right?"
Both women froze and turned menacing eyes on him. "Yes...but ningen females like to do pointless things! So be a good boy and let us shop, and then after we get home I'll give you a present!" Kagome chirped with a lecherous look in his direction. Thank gods for ningen women having an increased libido during pregnancy.
Touga made a small sound that was like a mix between an excited whine, and an exasperated grunt. "Fine but would either of you like to explain what these are?" He asked holding up a small plastic package containing pacifiers.
"They're binkies." She answered him distractedly while she rooted around in the racks some more. "Babies like to suck on them, they're soothing to them."
"But the pup will have fangs love...he will just tear these."
With a frustrated growl she snatched the package out of his hands and shoved it onto a nearby shelf. "Ok so no binkies! Is there anything else you want to shoot down?" She growled in the midst of another mood swing.
"No continue."
"Do you even care that you're being a jerk?! Inuyasha's gonna grow up without binkies because of you!" And with that she took off crying into the back of the store, leaving one stunned male staring after her, and an entire store of pregnant women staring at him accusingly.
"Did I say something wrong?"
"No dear you didn't! She's just pregnant." Ai answered as if that answered every single question he was going to ask during Kagome's pregnancy.
"Kagome we can come and see them again soon so there is no reason to act as if it is the end of the world." Touga tried to placate her when she broke down while saying goodbye to her family.
"Touga is right dear, you can come back anytime you want." Ai soothed her while she shot him a look that clearly said he was in for it, and she felt sorry for him.
"But I don't know if Inuyasha will be able to come through the well this time! What if you guys never see him until he's like seven hundred?"
"It accepted him into the time slip before dear, and I'm sure it will accept him again! So stop crying you're worrying your mate."
"I'M NOT CRYING!" Kagome shouted stamping her foot and stalking off towards the well house.
"Will she be like this the entire time she is pregnant?" In a way he was almost afraid of the answer that her mother would give him.
"I'm afraid so...ningen women tend to become very uncomfortable when they are pregnant...which they tend to take out on those around them." Ai responded while she handed him a large bag filled with baby items. "You should go after her though before she tries to jump through the well on her own." And right on que a large burst of magic lit up the area. "Oh well you had best catch up..."
With a nod and a wave in their direction he was off through the well after his troublesome mate. She was actually starting to run him ragged with all of her mood swings, and random dizzy spells. He comforted himself with the fact that she was at least as safe as she could be with him. He caught her trying to climb up from the well using the vines on the other side, and with a sigh he jumped up, grabbing her to take her with him as he vaulted from the well. Of course she was none too happy with that, and it started up another pregnant Kagome fit. Which he proceeded to ignore the entire way back to the shiro, much to her irritation and anger. It was going to be a long four months...
R&R!