Taking a Page out of Harry Potter and the Deathly Gallows…okay I was but the story was like "no way hose-head."

Five Years Later.

Shigure straightened his Kimono and called out to Yuki, Kyo and Tohru to hurry up as they were running late. The former cat came waltzing into the living room feeling out of sorts in the confining tuxedo. Tohru entered the living room next in a black dress holding onto a bouquet of white calla lilies and a picnic basket. Moments later Yuki joined them in a pressed dark grey tux, his gaze traveling over the couple and Shigure before he walked ahead towards the car where they were going to meet the other members of the Zodiac.

Once everyone had entered the car Yuki turned the ignition starting the car and slowly drove everyone towards the cemetery. Kyo just frowned and stared out the window watching the overcast sky with some trepidation. He was hoping it wouldn't rain.

Tohru reflected silently, she couldn't believe that it had been five years since the curse had broken. Also it had been five years since the day that she died. That was where they were heading now, her gravesite.

Yuki pulled into a parking spot at the compound and everyone piled out of car and closed the doors before heading to the small gathering of former Zodiac members. Rin and Haru were standing side by side holding hands while keeping an eye on the grown rabbit who was currently harassing the 17 year old Kisa who hiding in Hiro's embrace. Yuki's eye brow rose at that, he was unaware that they had made their relationship official.

Tohru spotted Uo-chan with Kureno, the rooster, happily holding onto his fiancée. Then her gaze went over the people and she noticed that Hatori and Ayame were missing.

She jumped slightly when she heard a female voice call out to her and she saw Hatori's wife carrying two large picnic baskets and a bouquet of white roses, ignoring her husband's worrying around her. Ayame was trailing behind them with his assistant and girlfriend, Mine.

Kyo looked at the one who broke the curse, "Damn, you look like you swallowed a beach ball."

She looked at him dryly, "How astute of you to notice." Shoving the larger of the two picnic baskets at him she continued, "If you can make smart ass comments take this and be useful for once."

Kyo stumbled a bit under the surprising weight of the basket before he headed towards the other members. Hatori wrapped his arms around his wife and said to her, "You didn't have to come, Anata. After all it is rather close to your due date and I wouldn't want all of the excitement and stress to cause you to go into labor early."

"Hatori, you've been saying that since I was four months pregnant. Please relax and lets pay our respects to her. After all it was my fault she's dead."

Hatori shook his head his mouth opening ready to deny that when Momiji spotted the group and with bounding steps scooped up the woman reveling in the fact that he had managed to grow taller then this very important person to their family.

She squeaked under his glomp but returned it full heartily. Momiji realizing the bump and looked down, "You're going to be a Mommy! Is that why we haven't seen you for a while?"

The woman smiled at the blond and shook her head, "I'm sorry, I've just been incredibly busy."

Momiji nodded, glad that she hadn't been trying to hide from them. She led everyone towards the tombstone where she and Tohru set up the flowers and incense. Through the pleasant smelling smoke the words

"Sohma Akito

July 21, 1983 - June 20, 2004

Head of the Sohma family"

could be read.

Kagome sighed as she pushed herself to her feet, she knew that Hatori didn't feel that it was her fault that the Jade Emperor had died.

Turning to Shigure, she watched the dog stiffly look upon the grave and Kagome's heart broke, she was the only one he had confided in during their high school days about the fact that he was in love with the head of the Sohma household. She embraced the brunette and whispered her apologies.

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"Code Blue in room 412, need a crash cart for 412. Code Blue."

Hatori and Houjo both stiffened as the room announced was Kagome's, before they came to their senses and turned around running back.

Yuuki returned drawn by the large noise and activity surrounding Kagome's room. "What's going on?"

"Time of Death 8:07 pm"

As the medical personal began to pick up their supplies, The faint sound of the heart monitor began anew. The doctor watched the interaction puzzled, "Well I've never seen that before. Heart rate is a little slow but it's going strong."

Houjo sighed relieved that the crisis was adverted. Hatori watched the miko breathe for a few moments before he had to excuse himself. Once he was in the hallway he leaned against the wall and slumped to the ground.

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Kagome stumbled as Shigure jerked away from her, but recovering her balance before she became friends with Mister Ground. Wincing at the sharp sensation the sudden motion caused, she turned her attention to Tohru, the two of them setting up the picnic lunch they brought along.

The Sohma's began to group together and chat amongst themselves leaving the girls to the task at hand. Tohru watched Kagome worried, she had kept wincing and pausing during the straightening out of the blanket. "Are you alright, Kagome-san?"

Kagome nodded slowly, but winced in the middle of it. "I think so."

At that moment, red blossomed down the front of her dress. Leaving Tohru to call out for Hatori. The former dragon hearing the panicked cry, spun and sprinted to his wife who had slumped to the ground. "What the hell happened?!"

Ayame gingerly made his way to Hatori, "Shouldn't you take her to the hospital. Worry about the whys after we are sure she's okay."

Hatori nodded and scooped his wife up and jogged towards his car. The others just hovered unsure how to proceed when they head Kagome call back to stay that they should hopefully come back shortly. And the others should at least get to eat her hard-cooked food.

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Hatori and Yuuki remained in the room long after the doctors filed out. Hatori, stubbly and wrinkled, was sitting next to her his hands holding one of hers tightly, while Yuuki was leaning against the wall, his father had told him to stay there 3 days ago, until she woke or passed away.

"Wake up this instant. I still have to give you a verbal thrashing for doing something so stupid. It's not worth breaking the curse if I can't be with you. I have already lost Hana do to it and I won't lose you as well. I…I can't lose you, Anata." Hatori's voice breaking towards the end.

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Hatori violated probably every driving law on his way to the hospital, ending with illegally parking. He picked Kagome up, who was currently lightheaded from the ride and the blood loss and rushed his way into the hospital, "Someone help my wife!"

A nurse seeing the massive amount of blood, quickly flew into action getting the miko strapped into a gurney and led off to the OR.

Hatori wanted to follow her but he was made to wait in the waiting room. Where the clan arrived 40 minutes after his abrupt arrival.

Momoji sat down, "We figured this would be the better place to be at the moment. We haven't always been the best family to one another but thanks to Kagome we are able to overcome that. Family doesn't leave each other behind. Besides we figured you might want to eat with us."

The doctor glanced his hands which were stained red with Kagome's blood and then looked at his family, the members who were cursed to possess the spirits of the zodiac all surrounding him. His hands clenched into fists and he stood abruptly heading towards the restroom to wash his hands. He stared at the sink watching the pink water swirl down the drain, when a knock on the door brought him out of flashbacks from 5 years ago.

"Sohma-san, I wanted to ask you a few questions about your wife."

Hatori opened the door, and composed himself, "Yes?"

"Is there any medical concerns we should be aware of?"

"No blood, she can't have a blood transfusion."

The doctor nodded and noted that down. "But what happened to my wife? What's wrong with her."

The doctor motioned that he would have a nurse with him and returned into the OR.

Hatori growled but returned to his family, Souta and Shippo having joined the group since his absence. Kagura spoke up, "I thought they would like to be here since they are family also."

Souta took Kagura's hand and directed her to his lap where he held onto his girlfriend. Pressing his face into her back, he breathed her scent to calm his nerves.

Tohru began to lay out the blanket, and set the food out, "I'm sure Kagome-san wouldn't want us to be hungry while we wait for news."

Yuki and Kyo both helped her while the others slowly settled around the blanket.

The somber lunch quickly livened up as they began to share stories with one another. They did not have to worry about their volume because they were the only ones there. After an hour of sharing stories, Houjo stepped out, "Well I know there should be a nurse to do this but I offered seeing as its Kagome-chan. We managed to save both mother and baby. Apparently what happened was the placenta tore somehow and was bleeding out. So we performed an emergency cesarean section and removed the child and scrapped off the placenta so that Kagome-chan wouldn't continue to bleed out. Thankfully we managed to save Kagome's reproductive organs. But there may be scarring making it difficult for her to conceive again.

"Only 3 people can visit her at a time. The others I'll take by the neonatal intensive car unit so you can see her daughter."

Hatori, Shippo and Souta were the obvious first choice in visiting Kagome while the others followed Houjo towards NICU. "Now the baby has lost a lot of blood and is a month premature so we put her in here to make sure that the baby is safe and prevent her from catching anything that could possibly be life threatening."

The group looked through the window where they saw a pale baby, resting in an incubator, needles providing her with the nutrition and fluids she needed to re-volumize her blood. "She shouldn't need to be here more than a week or two. Personally, I believe Kagome's powers helped save the baby. Because according to what the other doctor's told me the baby should have bled out in the amount of time from the incident to when we managed to stop the bleeding. No worries. I swore the doctors and nurses who attended to her to secrecy after Kagome started glowing."

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Yuuki winced as his breast started getting hot. Pulling out the offensive jewel it glowed a bright white and flew, slamming into her chest where the Shikon jewel entered her not so long ago.

Kagome gasped and sat up suddenly. Wincing at the IV needles that shifted within her veins. Kagome looked around. Hatori was staring stunned, his hands still clasping hers, "I knew I heard you speaking to me, Hatori-kun."

Kagome looked towards where Yuuki was only to find him missing. Turning her attention back to Hatori she pressed a kiss to his forehead, "Sorry for worrying you. But I removed the curse right?"

Hatori blinked dumbfounded before he started laughing.

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Hatori looked at his wife who was resting unconscious. Her pale features bringing out the natural red of her lips. The nurse bit her lip, she knew she signed a confidentiality agreement but she wanted to let the husband know about what happened. "Sohma-san, a word?"

"These are her son and her brother what ever you need to say can be shared in front of them"

She nodded, "Um, while we were attending to your wife and daughter, something strange happened. Whatever it was it saved the baby's life. But your wife started to glow pink. We had almost lost your daughter because the amount of blood that was lost would have been enough to kill an adult much less a newborn."

"Of course she did, she is a priestess those must have been her holy powers trying to save a life."

Hatori then proceeded to ask her about every doctor who operated on his wife, making a mental list of everyone whose memory he would have to modify in order that they forget about seeing her miko-ki in action.

Pressing a kiss to his wife's forehead, bring about a moan and an attempt to roll away and stay asleep. He had the nurse lead him to NICU where he entered and held his baby's hand through the incubator, informing the Nurse at the station that the baby girl's name was Sohma, Midori Aki.

Returning to his family, he let them know that Kagome was fine and merely resting.

When he said that, he heard Kagome's indigent yelp from the ward over. Laughing at his energetic wife, he led the group to her room, ignoring the nurse's protest.

Done. And of course the group lived happily ever after. Of course, after Shigure apologized because he felt guilty about shoving Kagome. A note in case it wasn't blatantly obvious Midori Aki Sohma, Midori for Midorik and, Aki from Akito

12 chapters. Not to shabby. Thank you to the hundreds of people who have read and reviewed my story and this chapter, finally getting it up is my gift to you. May you keep reading my fics in the future (Also I promise to start on Discoveries and Revelations; the more than awaited sequel to my story Revelations and Discoveries [wha, I'm not creative] I hope you all enjoy this batch of updates)

Oh and side note all of you have my boyfriend to thank for my posting of this chapter today. I wanted to wait until Saturday but he said I should do it today to give you something to savour.