Chapter 21: A Wolf's Soft Side

Late in the morning, Rin started to open her eyes, looking around her surroundings, and saw Shippo sleeping next to her. She cuddled on to him from behind, Shippo started to wake up, and yawn after he felt Rin hugging him.

"Good morning." Rin said softly.

"Good morning." Shippo replied. Shippo turned around to bring his mate closer, and give her a kiss. After a moment Shippo started to stare into her brown eyes. "Shall we get dressed, I don't know how I would explain this if my brother and sister came in."

Rin giggled, "I guess so." They both got up, got dressed, and started to walk into the main room until Shippo stopped. "What's wrong Shippo?"

"Your scent...it's...different again." Shippo told her.

"You mean-!" Rin tried to say but getting cut off.

"I think so, but Inuyasha will definatly know." Shippo told her, and they both walked out of thier room into the main room.

"Hello love birds." Inuyasha said, laying against the same wall as last night.

"Inuyasha, we wanted to know if Rin-" Shippo tried to explain, getting cut off.

"Yeah yeah I know, asking me to know if Rin's carrying your pups." Inuyasha said.

"Yeah!" Rin exclaimed.

"Well, you did it..." Inuyasha said, "You'll be having your new baby in 180 days." Shippo, and Rin looked at each other with the brightest smiles, and ran to hug one another.

"Our child!" Rin said in excitment.

"Yeah, this is great!" Shippo exclaimed.

"Wait...did you say 180 days?" Rin asked, "Doesn't it take about 270 days for a baby to be born?"

"Well, your childs going to be half demon, it doesn't take as long as a normal baby to be born." Inuyasha said.

"THIS IS WONDERFUL!" Rin yelled, with both Inuyasha, and Shippo covering their ears.

"What's wonderful is if you didn't do that..." Inuyasha mumbled.

"Wait! We still have to prepare for the baby! Where's Kagome?" Rin asked, looking a bit paniced. Shippo held onto Rin.

"Calm down, we'll have enough time to prepare for the baby Rin." Shippo said comforting Rin. "Where is Kagome anyway?"

"She's off with Kumiko, and Kyuso in the village." Inuyasha said.

"Nothing to worry about Rin, we'll just wait for her to come back.

"Yeah, you're right, I'm sorry." Rin said, but still smiling.

"So how is this going to work Inuyasha? Are you helping us build a hut?" Shippo asked.

"Like I have a choice..." Inuyasha said.

"What about Miroku, and Sango?" Shippo asked again.

"They'll be here in about two days to help us out." Inuyasha replied.

"So they are helping us, that's good." Rin said.

"Well Sango will be here just to watch the three kids, Kagome's going to her time to get some baby stuff for you two, and Miroku, Shippo, and me will work on the hut." Inuyasha explained.

"Good idea." Shippo said.

"What about me?" Rin asked.

"You're having a kid remember?" Inuyasha said, "You should proabably take it easy for a while."

"Inuyasha's right, and I'm sure Sango will need all of the help she can get with three children." Shippo added.

"I guess your right." Rin said, "It would be nice getting to know Kumiko, and Kyuso better." Shippo wrapped his right arm around his mate, and she rested her head under his head.

"See Rin, seems like everything is going to work out for us." Shippo said.

"Yep, everythings going perfect." Rin said happily. Inuyasha started to act strange, and sniffed the air wildly.

"Uh...Inu-?" Shippo getting cut off.

"What the hell is he doing here?" Inuyasha yelled. Shippo started to sniff the air.

"Woah, I haven't seen him since we defeated Naraku!" Shippo yelled.

"What is it Shippo?" Rin asked.

"His name's Koga, he's the leader of the wolf tribe." Shippo said.

"W-w-wolf tribe?" Rin hesitated.

"Are you ok?" Shippo asked with concern.

"Do you remember when I told you about Sesshomaru resurrecting me on our trip here?" Rin asked, still a little shakey.

"Yeah, you said you were...killed by...oh no..." Shippo said with his eyes growing wider.

"What?" Inuyasha asked, completely clueless. Just then, the door of the hut was opened, and appeared a person with black hair, and a long pony tail with wolf fur clothing, armor, and a sword attached to his waist.

"Yo." the person said.

"Oh great, the wolf..." Inuyasha mumbled.

"What was that mutt face?" Koga yelled. Before anyone could react, Koga was staring at an angry fox demon.

"Who the hell are you?" Koga asked staring at the fox demon.

"You probably don't remember me because I was as tall as your knee," Shippo said, "but I believe you tried to feed me to your wolves once until Kagome stopped you"

"What?" Rin yelled.

"Oh yeah, you're that fox kid, you've really grown since then." Koga said, "No hard feelings right? I've changed since then."

"Yeah, I forgive you for that. But I found out that you've killed my mate once." Shippo said, looking angry.

"Say what?" Koga said confused.

"Have you ever met Sesshomaru?" Shippo asked.

"Mutt face's brother? Yeah." Koga replied.

"And that girl that was traveling with her?" Shippo asked again.

"Uh...oh yeah, I remember her." Koga said, "I helped her that one time."

"Wait what?" Shippo asked confused.

"When I crossed paths with Inuyasha's brother, a demon came out, and it was after me, which he attacked, which was unessissary, then another demon came out for the little girl, and I saved her from the demon, and yeah, thats about it." Koga explained. Shippo turned back at his mate, and she was nodding her head.

"Well...uh...hmmm..." Shippo said holding his chin.

"Now what?" Koga asked with a raised brow.

"Uh...well I found out that wolves killed her along time ago, before she met Sesshomaru, by your wolves." Shippo said.

"What? That's impossible!" Koga shouted.

"The girl was resurrected by Sesshomaru." Shippo said.

"How did he do that?" Koga asked.

"His sword, the Tenseiga, have's the power to resurrect one hundred creatures in one swing." Shippo said.

"Why are you telling me all this? About that girl, and Sesshomaru?" Koga asked.

"Well I was mad at you because your tribe killed her once, but then when I found out you saved her once, I wasn't really sure how to react..." Shippo explained.

"What did you know about this girl anyway?" Koga asked.

"She's right over there, and she's my mate." Shippo said pointing at the sitting girl behind him.

"Thats her?" Koga asked loudly "She's your mate?"

"Yep. The perfect one too." Shippo said grinning.

"Well uh, good job?" Koga said, walking over to Rin.

"I'm sorry about that if my wolves harmed you." Koga said.

"Um...ok." Rin said still kind of shakey.

"I was different back then, but now I don't even attack humans. I haven't done it ever since I met Kagome." Koga told her.

"That's good." Rin replied, "because I'm a demon slayer now, if you would of been harming humans, I would of have to slain you."

"Like you could..." Koga thought, instead of blurting it out and causing a fight. "Uh-huh." was all he said.

"So uh, friends? As long as you don't try to kill Rin, or me." Shippo asked.

"Whatever, I guess..." Koga said staring at Inuyasha.

"What?" Inuyasha barked

"What's your problem? It's not like I'm after Kagome anymore." Koga said.

"Whatever." Inuyasha replied. "So what's your reason here?"

"Just visiting mutt. Got a problem with that?" Koga said.

"Quit trying to pick a fight..." Inuyasha said.

"Fine, I'll just go see Kagome." Koga said running out of the hut.

"What the...Hey you damn wolf!" Inuyasha said chasing after him.

"Well...that was different..." Shippo said.

"Yeah..." Rin agreed.

"So how come you never told me he saved you?" Shippo asked.

"I don't know, I didn't know it was him, and I forgot about that until he told his story." Rin said. Shippo sat next to Rin, and cuddled her.

"I don't think we'll have to worry to much about it." Shippo said.

"Yeah." Rin replied.

And there's chapter 21, see yaz for now.