Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha or any of its characters.
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Month 7 part 2
"Miroku, is that...?" She reached forward and took the ring box from him.
"I think we're ready Sango." Miroku reached under his chair and picked up the box. "I think we can do it."
"Miroku, this is...this is...it's beautiful." she reached in the ring box and stroked the shinning silver.
"This goes with it." He said handing her the box.
Sango put down the ring box and took the one from Miroku.
"I'm guessing it's a..."
"Open it and see." he smiled happily.
Feeling excited, she took of the lid and cooed.
"It's beautiful." she said reaching and and grabbing it.
"It's a her." Miroku took to the box away as Sango stroked her new kitten. "I hope you like the name Kirara."
"I love it." Sango giggled taking the name tag from the ring box and attaching it to the kitten that was just waking up.
She had wonderful, soft, beige fur with black tipped ears and feet and a ring of black around her fluffy tail. Her eyes were red but she didn't look evil, in fact she looked so much like an adorably kitten that Sango found herself wanting to squeal as she wrapped it in her arms.
"How did you know I was a cat person?" she asked stroking her kitten who was snuggling into her arms, obviously planning on going back to sleep.
"I don't know." Miroku admitted putting the ring box in the larger box then stowing them under his chair. "You just didn't seem like a dog person."
At that moment their waiter showed up with their desert. "Enjoy." he said placing the slice of cheesecake down with two little forks.
Sango laughed and took a bite as Kirara started purring.
"Miroku, you are amazing. You know that?" she smiled at him and he smiled back, picking up his own fork.
"Only when I'm with you." he whispered.
"So, you got her...a cat." Inuyasha clarified though he had heard his friend quite clearly.
"I did. Yes. She loves her and is forcing me to go shopping after work for cat paraphernalia." Miroku smiled at him across Inuyasha's desk.
"Incredible. I bet she thought you were going to ask her to marry you." Inuyasha stretched, tired already and it was only lunch.
"From the look on her face I would say she did." Miroku agreed eating the Chinese take out they had ordered for lunch. "But she told me she wasn't entirely ready for marriage so I'll wait."
Inuyasha rolled his eyes and fiddled with his chopsticks.
"So, Sango tells me that you've been distracted at home lately." Miroku said trying to be nonchalant about it while digging in his take out box.
Inuyasha's eyes sharpened. "Yeah. Who told her?"
"Why, Kagome of course." Miroku smiled at him, he looked like he was completely innocent.
Inuyasha mumbled incoherently for a second then said, "Yeah, I've had a few moments where I've been out of it. I'm tired from work, okay?"
"Too tired to pay attention when Kagome is listing potential baby names?" Miroku raised his eyebrow.
"Hey! I heard her! She said she wanted our son's name to start with inu and I'm all for that." Inuyasha defended himself.
"Yes but you rejected the names without really listening." Miroku pointed out. "Kagome is worried. She wonders if something is wrong?" the way he said it made it sound like a question.
Inuyasha sighed. "Nothing wrong! And she needs to stop worrying and focus on baby making!"
"That sounded so sexist." Miroku said then continued as Inuyasha opened his mouth. "I know what you meant! But Inuyasha, it's not like something she can control. The baby making happens without her supervision."
"I know that! You think I don't know that?" Inuyasha grumbled putting his food on his desk. "I just don't want her to worry about anything. Especially not this close to her due date."
"A little worry wont send her into labor." Miroku said. "And if you want her to stop worrying stop doing whatever it is that's making her worry. And by the way, what are you doing that's making her worry?"
"Oh no!" Inuyasha exclaimed glaring at him. "I'm not telling anything! Somehow everything I tell you ends up in Kagome's ear! No way!"
"Your faith in me is insulting." Miroku said sadly.
"And yet Kagome will still hear about this conversation." Inuyasha crossed his arms. "I'm not telling you shit!"
"So there is something?" Miroku asked calling on his lawyer skills. "Something you're not telling her?"
"I never said that." Inuyasha said recognizing what he was doing.
"You never denied it either." Miroku pointed out. "What are you trying so hard to keep secret?"
"If I tell you it wont be a secret." Inuyasha said.
"Ah-ha! So there is something."
"Damn it!" Inuyasha flinched. "Don't you dare tell Kagome!"
"Tell Kagome what?" Miroku grinned. "That you're up to something? She already knows that."
"No, she just thinks that! Don't you dare confirm it!" Inuyasha growled.
"Just tell me it's nothing bad so I can put her fears to rest." Miroku looked at Inuyasha but he was being stubborn.
"I am telling you absolutely nothing!" He said slowly as if Miroku were deaf.
"If you keep this up she's going to start thinking your cheating on her. And you two are together now so it would count as cheating."
Inuyasha looked off to the side, his expression dark and Miroku gasped.
"Are you cheating?"
"Of course not!" Inuyasha declared, glaring at him. "I just...Forget it."
Miroku sighed heavily." Well I can at least tell her you're not cheating. It's not anything bad right?"
"Don't you have a judge to go pester?" Inuyasha grumbled no longer hungry.
"Not for another 10 minutes." Miroku said looking at his watch. "Look, Inuyasha if it's really important I'll keep it secret. Just let me know you're not having seconds thoughts or something."
Inuyasha sighed and looked his closest friend in the eye. "Swear you won't say a word other than to tell her it's not bad?"
"Cross my heart." Miroku said making the action on his chest.
Ten minutes later, Miroku left the office, their trash in his hands, a smile on his face, and his lips firmly sealed.
"Okay. I think that's it." Dr. Sholtz said handing over their latest sonogram picture. "You are keeping up on your vitamins, right Kagome?"
"Of course." Kagome said showing Inuyasha the picture though he had already stared for five minutes at the sonogram.
"Good, good. Eating three square meals and some snacks?"
"I find myself raiding the fridge at midnight." Kagome said as Inuyasha put the picture in his pocket. She swore he was framing them or something.
"How about exercise?"
"She bought a pregnant lady yoga tape that she watches and works out to religiously." Inuyasha said kissing her cheek.
"Hey, I'm not losing my figure." Kagome said thinking of her latest conversation with Izayoi. She had decided to warn Kagome, now that she and Inuyasha were official, about the dangers of rich men and gold digging bimbos. It had scared the hell out of her and since then she had been doing exercises to keep her butt in good shape and trying to find ways other than surgery to keep her breasts as they were and not have them go flappy after pregnancy. She probably would have done it had Inuyasha been as poor as her but the dangers of mistresses had made her work at his harder than she normally would have.
As Izayoi said, she trusted him, she didn't trust the bimbos.
"Oh, Kagome, one more thing." Dr. Sholtz said as Inuyasha helped her to her feet.
"What is it?" she asked.
"Now that you're further along in your pregnancy I want you to start coming in twice a month instead of only once."
"Alright, but why?"
"Well, we've reached the point where the baby has a good chance of surviving if born prematurely and we need to keep an eye on him. The longer he stays in there the better chance he has of survival." the doctor explained. "So we want him to stay there for as long as possible and boys finish developing slower than girls so it's particularly important that he stays in."
"Okay. Thank you." Inuyasha said placing a hand on her stomach. He loved petting his son. It made him feel so close to him, close as they could get before he was born.
"So, I've got the caterer, I've got the band, you booked that beautiful place for the reception, the flowers, check, you got your tux right?" Rin asked Sesshomaru as she went down the list she had created.
"Yes. I already have three. I picked my best one." Sesshomaru was getting dressed for work and Rin was sitting on his bed, her shoes off still in her night clothes..
While they weren't sleeping together yet, Rin enjoyed staying with him through the night though she detested the house.
"Great!" Rin smiled checking it off. "All that leaves is deciding where we're going to get married, getting a priest, I sent the invites, um...my dress. Oh, yeah. I totally forgot about Kagome and Sango's dresses." She added 'bridesmaid's dresses' to the list. "Mom needs her dress. The cake. Oh, kami I still need shoes. There's still so much left!"
She was biting her lip in worry when Sesshomaru grabbed her chin and tilted her face to look up at him. "I'll get the church and the priest, don't worry. Just get your dresses and their dresses and the cake. I'll take care of everything else."
Rin leaned into his hand and smiled. "Why re you so good to me?"
"I don't know." he answered honestly with his head tilted to the side.
Rin giggled. She stood up and walked into his arms, looking up at him, smiling. "Sesshomaru, I love you so much. I really, really do."
"Good." he said bending down and kissing her.
She laughed against his lips as his arms circled her waist to bring her closer.
"Where do you want to go on our honeymoon?" he asked, still not removing his lips from hers.
"Oh, I forgot about that part." Rin said smiling not moving back either.
"Really. That will be my favorite part." He told her laying his forehead against hers.
"Well, I heard about this great hotel chain. Tenseiga Hotels. Maybe you've heard of them? I hear their best work is the hotel in Paris. It's supposed to be the greatest hotel ever built, a true work of art."
Sesshomaru couldn't stop the small smirk from gracing his features. "I'll see what I can do."
"You're going to be late for work." Rin chastised but she tightened her grip on his shoulders like she planned to never let go.
"I own the company. My work day starts when I want it to." He said but he leaned back and looked down at her. "I love you as well, Rin."
She beamed up at him, knowing he wasn't good with emotions and so happy he was trying to express them.
"I'm never going to find a dress." Rin despaired looking forlornly through the dresses on the rack.
"You could always suck up your pride and look at the designer dresses." Sango suggested.
Rin growled. Though it wasn't as obvious as it was with her beloved, Rin had a very large ego as well and when she swore to find a dress off the rack that would be as good as if not better than the designer stuff Mrs. Bitchy-wedding-planner was planning on using then she was damn well going to find that dress!
"Hey, Rin!" Kagome called sticking her head out from behind a different rack of expensive white gowns. "I think I found something!"
"Really?" Her and Sango walked around that rack to where Kagome stood.
"Look! It's the one they're preparing for the window display." Kagome said pointing to a sales girl who was draping a viel on the head of a dummy that was already wearing it's dress."It even has orange." Rin said walking forward to look at it.
The gown was low cut, with a very simple and yet elegant design. The straps fell delicately off the shoulder in a pleasing way. The train fell behind the dress gracefully but the best part, in Rin's opinion, was the orange sash that wrapped around the waist then fell down the back of the skirt along with the train. It looked like an obi from a kimono. Sort of a combined western and eastern dress.
"I want it." Rin said firmly.
"You haven't even tried it on yet." Sango laughed.
"So I'll try it on then buy it." Rin said walking toward the sales lady. "Excuse me, can I try that on?"
The woman who was standing on a stool so she could set the veil without disturbing the dress looking down at her, puzzled. "Oh, but this is only a window display. It's our last one."
"I want it." Rin said to her in the same way she told her friends.
"We have plenty of other fine gowns-" the sales lady tried to say because it had taken forever to get the dress on and she really didn't want to remove it.
"I don't want those I want that one." Rin demanded just as a manager showed up.
"What seems to be the problem?" she asked looking at her employee then at Rin.
"She wants to try on the window display-"
"And what's the point of displaying it if I can't have it." Rin cut her off.
Seeing a potential bridezilla on her hands the manager looked at her employee, "Let the miss try the dress on."
"Yes, ma'am." She said but inside she growled at the thought of taking off the dress.
Rin smiled at her victory and the sales lady looked at her. "We have bridesmaids dresses and a flower girl dress to go with it. Would you like to see them?"
"Oh, that would be great." Rin smiled. "But uh, my maid of honor is kind of pregnant so the dress will have to be big."
The manager looked at Kagome who waved happily at her.
"Of course. Any other bridesmaids, the flower girl, are they here."
"They will be in a minute." Rin said taking out her phone.
Thirty minutes later Rin came out of the dressing room, a small audience gathered to see her.
Kagome, the maid of honor.
Sango, Rin's sister Karin, and Rin's other best friend, Sakurako, the bridesmaids.
Rin and Kagome's other cousin Shippo, the ring bearer.
Rin and Kagome's other other cousin Amori who was 5, as the flower girl.
"She's pretty." Shippo said as she looked herself over in the mirror. The cute little child that Kagome had adored at first sight had flaming, bushy red hair and a mischievous little face, like a fox.
In the other dresses Rin had looked beautiful, in a few she had even been stunning, but in this one, she glowed. The cut of the top pushed her otherwise small breasts up and forward, making them look larger. The long train gave her the illusion of being taller and the orange obi brought out the color of her eyes.
"It's perfect." Rin said grabbing her hair and pulling it up in a makeshift bun with her hands. "What do you think? Up or down."
"Up. With hair picks." Karin said already seeing it so clearly in her mind. "The ones that have things dangling from them. Maybe like butterflies."
"Or jewels." The young Amori said running her tiny hand down the train.
"Yeah. A little traditional and a little western." Rin smiled. "Now how about those other dresses? Sango, Kagome, Karin, Sakurako, and Amori. Time to try on your dresses.
The other dresses were opposites from Rin's. The tiny flower girl dress was orange with a white obi that trailed down her back. The dress stopped halfway down her shins because at her age she wasn't ready for a floor length dress yet. Rin imagined cute little white Mary Janes on her feet Her shoulder straps were actually short sleeves and the cut wasn't so low. It was just adorable.
Sango, Karin, and Sakurako's dresses were nearly identical to Rin's yet the color scheme matched Amori's. Their dresses didn't have the long train that flowed behind them like Rin, but the cute and style were identical.
Kagome's dress took a little longer to iron out the details with. The manager advised a dress slightly bigger than her so she would fit into it perfectly by the time the wedding came.
She still tried it on and she had to admit that the obi around her large stomach made her look slightly thinner. She had a train unlike the bridesmaids, but it was not as long as Rin's.
"They're perfect." Rin giggled happily. "We'll take them. All of them." She told the manager.
"Yes, ma'am. We have excellent payment plans for-"
"No, I can pay for them upfront." Rin said walking over to her purse, still in her dress. "Sesshomaru gave me his credit card." She said holding up the tiny piece of plastic.
Kagome laughed as the manager's jaw dropped. "Sesshomaru Takahashi?"
"That's the one." Rin said handing her the card. "Charge the dresses for me while we change back."
"Yes, ma'am." the manager said taking the card and smiling like Christmas had come early.
"Inuyasha, you're home." Kagome said waddling over to him as he walked in the door.
"Kagome." he smiled tiredly at her. He leaned forward, one hand caressing her stomach, and kissed her. "How was your day?"
"Wonderful." she said leaning forward and stealing another kiss. "Yours?"
"Tiring." he said putting his briefcase by the door and stretching. Myoga would take it up to his study. "Miroku talk to you already?"
"Actually he talked to Sango who talked to me." Kagome laughed knowing exactly what he was talking about as she led the way into the living room. "As long as you say you're not doing anything bad, I trust you."
He smiled gently and sat down on the couch next to her and she leaned onto his shoulder.
"Your trust in my is astonishing sometimes." he said lifting his arm up and putting it around her shoulder.
Kagome snuggled in happily. "Well, I do trust you. And besides, Miroku practically swore in blood it wasn't anything bad."
"Oh! So you trust Miroku?" Inuyasha looked down at her, glaring playfully.
Kagome stuck her tongue out at him and smiled. ""No, I do trust you. I'm just saying Miroku confirmed your story."
"What exactly did he tell you?" Inuyasha asked.
Kagome shrugged. "Not much. Just that you weren't doing anything wrong, I should trust you, and wait and until your ready to show me to find out."
"Good." Inuyasha said thinking that he was glad he wouldn't have to kill his friend.
"About our son's name," he said looking down at her.
"What?" she asked.
"I kind of liked...Inumaru."
"Inumaru?" Kagome asid rolling the name around her tongue.
"Yeah. Inu for dog and maru means circle of perfection. What do you think?'
"Inumaru." Kagome said again. "I like it."
"Rally?"
"Yeah." Kagome nodded. She looked down at her baby and placed her hand on her belly. "What do you think baby? Do you like Inumaru."
Inuyasha looked at the baby and saw a faint movement across her shirt.
"Was that...?"
"Uh-huh." Kagome said beaming in surprise.
Inuyasha blinked as his son did it again. He was moving inside her belly. And he could see it!
