Wake up my princess
It had been months since that battle and Kagome still slept. InuYasha visited her everyday but he was starting to forget why he did. Kagome's smile was no longer in his memory let alone her voice or the color of her eyes. Sango's baby was due any day the excitement in the house was unimaginable. Kyo still came to visit sometimes and letters arrived at least every other week from Seimei and Sora. They were married now and were about to start their own family soon.
InuYasha enters Kagome's room once more and gazes at her sleeping form. Miroku's sleeves are still firmly held in her grasp. She hadn't said a word to anyone since that day and her voice was all but forgotten in the house.
"You know Sango is going to have her baby soon and she would love it if you could be there. But I suppose you won't wake and you probably don't even know that I'm talking to you. I miss you so much but I can't place why I do." InuYasha says bluntly looking out the window instead of at the girl.
Once again as it was with every day she said nothing and continued in her steady breathing. InuYasha slides open the door and slips out into the hall. A scream echoes down the hallway and InuYasha rushes to Sango and Miroku's room.
"The baby is coming!" Miroku stammers so excited that it is amazing he could even form a sentence. Sango lies on the floor in what appears to be excruciating pain so InuYasha goes to her aide.
"Did you already summon a doctor?" InuYasha asks her knowing that no one here could do any good in the delivery. Sango nods and InuYasha hears a knock on the front door.
He rushes to the door opens it and lets in the strange person. The smell of medicinal herbs clings to their very being and he escorts them to Sango. Everyone is shooed out of the room so that Sango can be alone and maybe breathe. Miroku freaks out even more once he is separated from Sango. InuYasha sits down on the floor and Shippo plants himself next to the man clad in red.
Shippo now reaches InuYasha's shoulder with ease! When had the boy gotten so tall? InuYasha couldn't believe how fast kids grew these days.
In all of the excitement down the hall no one heard a window break from a room with a girl who wasn't even conscious. A figure slips into her room and slinks over to the sleeping form.
"Looks like I came at just the right time. They're all too busy with the baby coming to even notice that I have come back to finish what I started all those months ago." Whispers the voice of Arisa. She lowers herself down to the floor and leans over the girl named Kagome.
"This time I'll make sure you die! Not that you have much choice you're practically dead already." Arisa hisses unsheathing her claws slowly.
Suddenly Kagome's eyes snap open and she shoves Arisa off of her. The cat demon girl looks surprisingly at the one she thought for basically dead. Kagome glares at Arisa and tries to speak but months of no use have taken her voice from her. She slowly brings herself to a standing position and glares at Arisa.
"So you are alive! Good I do so hate to kill a corpse!" Arisa hisses slashing at Kagome. Kagome still weak from months of not doing anything but lying on the floor can't dodge the attack. Arisa's attack makes a direct hit to Kagome's chest.
The long haired girl lies on the floor once more unable to force herself to move at all. The other woman glares down at her ready to pounce and kill the vermin lying on the floor. Arisa places one foot on Kagome's chest and steps down hard. Cracks echo through the air menacingly, and a look of pure delight plays across Arisa's face.
Kagome attempts to howl in pain but nothing comes out of her mouth. Another forceful stomp lands on her fragile rib cage and more bones break like twigs underfoot. Again she attempts to try and cry out from the shear pain of her bones breaking but once again nothing emits from her mouth.
"Any last words before I break your soul and then snuff out your life? Oh wait that's right you can't talk anymore thanks to these past months where you never used your voice. I think one more blow ought to kill you." Arisa says maliciously as she lifts her foot as high as it can go.
"NO!" Screams Kagome barely forcing herself to roll out of the way of what would have been a fatal blow.
InuYasha bursts in after hearing Kagome's scream and attacks Arisa. Kagome blacks out due to her recent injuries. InuYasha manages to injure Arisa to a point where she can't move.
"Well should I kill you or let you suffer like Kagome had to?" InuYasha asks her unsheathing his claws some more.
"If you hadn't interrupted me last time she wouldn't have suffered so much. She would be dead! So it's your fault she's been laying here for months on end not mine." Arisa hisses clutching one of the many cuts on her body.
"Your trickery won't fool me this time. I know that it was you who inflicted all those wounds on Kagome and she doesn't deserve to die for killing Chikaramaru. But maybe for trying to kill her you do." InuYasha snarls slashing open her face.
"Then kill me before I heal and kill you instead along with that stupid girl." Arisa hisses letting the blood drizzle down her face.
"Fine!" InuYasha yells before dealing the fatal blow. Arisa falls to the floor dead. InuYasha glares down at her making sure she actually is dead. When he sees she is no longer breathing he decides it's over with.
"Kagome now she can't hurt you." InuYasha says turning his gaze to the unconscious Kagome.
As he watches all her wounds heal quickly as if they had been waiting for Arisa's death. Kagome's eyes snap open and she sits up quickly.
"InuYasha!" She says almost confusedly. She looks at him then to the dead girl on the floor.
"She's dead!" Kagome announces as Shippo, Kirara, Miroku and Sango appear in the doorway.
"This truly is a joyous day." Miroku comments looking to the baby in Sango's arms.
"Sango you had your baby!" Kagome squeals before sliding over to inspect the new born.
"Yes it's a girl and we named her Haruhi!" Sango says proudly allowing Kagome to hold the small child.
"Haruhi! What a pretty name!" Kagome says cradling the child lovingly.
"So InuYasha when are we getting married and starting a family?" Kagome says never taking her eyes off of the baby in her arms.
"Well anytime… wait what?" InuYasha snaps in surprise.
"You said you loved me and I love you so we have to get married sometime. I don't care if we ever have kids but I do want to marry you." Kagome says finally looking at him in the eye.
"Well I suppose that we could get married but it will have to wait for a few more months because I need that time to be alone with you." InuYasha says looking Kagome directly in the eye.
"I'd like that a lot! So when do we leave for this trip?" Kagome asks handing Haruhi back to Sango.
"You should leave tomorrow!" Miroku, Shippo and Sango all say together.
"That good with you InuYasha?" Kagome asks standing up to look at InuYasha better.
"Yeah!" He says plainly while looking Kagome over to make sure she's okay. She rushes forward and kisses him and he returns the kiss.
They part and Kagome laughs slightly. InuYasha looks at her quizzically but decides not to ask her what could possibly be funny about a kiss. That night everyone ate together at the table for one final time before the lovers left the next day. Shippo looks teary eyed but never voices his concerns for them. He is way too old now to be such a baby about things. Sango and Miroku smile happily at one another and clutch hands under the table. Haruhi looks around inquiringly while Kirara sits beside her crib. Kagome and InuYasha keep looking at each other as slyly as possible but the other always catches the one. All is happy and good in the world now.
Author's Note:
Well that's the end! I didn't want to leave it off that they left the house because that meant I'd have to continue and I'm done with this series. This way I leave it up to your imagination or if you want to continue off of it just tell me and I'll let you continue Kagome's and InuYasha's lives together. Demon and half-demon in love for all time! Well thanks for reading and I'll be writing other fanfics in the future but they probably won't be InuYasha ones.