The next day after Naraku's attack in the early afternoon Kagome and Sesshomaru where in their shared bed room. It was peaceful for the time being and they were taking it up as much as they could. They were sitting on the bed. Though it was more like Kagome was sitting up and Sesshomaru was leaning on her as they sat there.
Sesshomaru was happy just sitting there with Kagome as she played with his hair. Though Sesshomaru would never admit it out loud he enjoyed the feelings he got when Kagome did this.
"Kagome what is the next step to this ball? You never told me anything after the first night." asked Sesshomaru making Kagome stop her playing with his hair.
When Kata announced that they would proceed with preparing Sesshomaru for the mating he was shocked. He thought that after that one night it would be over and he along with Kagome would have their night together. But apparently he was wrong on that part.
"I didn't? Sorry…" Kagome apologized in shock. Sesshomaru shook his head to indicate that it was nothing. Kagome sighed knowing it wasn't just nothing.
"Each Lady and Lord get to ask you a question." she told him.
"Like what?" asked Sesshomaru.
It slightly worried him about these questions that he was suppose to answer. What if he said the wrong thing and they deny him the right to mate? Sesshomaru shook his head mentally to get rid of those kinds of thoughts.
"Really anything…" she told him. "Though I'm certain that they will only ask you about your heritage or background, your future ideas in this world and your feeling about this world and if you love me. It really is easy. The trick would be to not give what they want but answer to what you feel. Trust me, they will know if you're giving the answers they want to hear compared to the answers you want to say and feel." Kagome said giving him wise advice.
"Thank you." Sesshomaru said to her and Kagome nodded her welcome.
They went back to just sitting there when there was a knock at their door. Sesshomaru and Kagome looked over at it and were trying to decide if they should answer it or not. It was decided when another knock hit the door. Kagome sighed and gently removed herself from behind Sesshomaru.
"You stay there. I'll get it." told Kagome to Sesshomaru. He nodded and laid back down on their bed waiting for Kagome to be done with however was at the door and come back to him.
Kagome walked over to her door and waited for a second before opening it. She was not surprise when she opened the door to reveal Lady Sakuya with her mate Lord Ryoko.
"Hello Lady Sakuya, Lord Ryoko." Kagome greeted them and they nodded back.
"May we come in Kagome? I hope that we aren't interrupting something but I wish to ask Sesshomaru my question now, if you don't mind?" Lady Sakuya asked Kagome her permission to question Sesshomaru.
Kagome looked back to Sesshomaru. She saw that he was now sitting up as he had heard Lady Sakuya's voice. Sesshomaru had also heard her question and nodded to Kagome saying that he was ok with it.
Seeing that Sesshomaru was ok with being questioned Kagome opened the door wider and stepped aside so that Lady Sakuya and her mate could get in. She closed it once they were in all of the way. Lady Sakuya nodded her thanks and walked in. She saw Sesshomaru not far away as he was still on the bed.
"Hello Sesshomaru." greeted Sakuya. Sesshomaru nodded in return his greeting. "I would like to ask you a question if you don't mind? I am sure that Kagome went over this with you at least once?" Sakuya asked and Sesshomaru nodded.
Sakuya gave him a look. "You do know that you can talk. I am speaking to you directly. When someone does this you can speak." Sakuya told him. Kagome was furious at the side lines. Did she take her or Sesshomaru as a person that was dumb or something? Of course he knows but that is just how he is.
"I know." stated Sesshomaru. He was just as mad as Kagome was but he hid it well from the two in front of him. Sakuya was taken back by the statement. Even though it was a two word statement but it had an edge to it. Sakuya cleared her throat as she restarted her phrasing.
"Well my question is simple. Do you love Kagome?" asked Sakuya. Sesshomaru's eyes widened at the question. He didn't think she would ask something like that. He expected hard questions that would kill his chances to be on the good sides of the Ladies and Lords.
"Lady Sakuya I love Kagome so much that I don't think my heart could hold it all." Sesshomaru said with kindness in his voice as he voiced his love for Kagome.
Sakuya nodded seeing Sesshomaru was telling no lies and was indeed telling the truth of how much he loves Kagome. With her questioned answered Lady Sakuya got up and turned to leave the room. Kagome opened the door for Sakuya and Ryoko as she saw them start to leave. But before they did Kagome had a question for them.
"Lady Sakuya?" Kagome called out to her causing Sakuya to stop her walking.
"Please Kagome call me Sakuya when we are alone. How many times do I have to tell you this? You make me sound old." Sakuya whined to Kagome making her giggle at her whining.
"Ok Sakuya. Tell me though how is Ryoko doing and how is the baby? I understand that you had to see our healer. How long is he?" asked Kagome as Sakuya nodded to confirm Kagome's thoughts.
"He did. Ryoko here is about two weeks in. Not much but enough for him to have a bulge at his stomach area." stated Sakuya. "For your other questions I think Ryoko should answer them."
Ryoko looked at his mate with a surprise look. Normally she would do the talking and not involve him even when it was something like this. Usually even if the subject is him she would answer all of the questions. It wasn't as if he couldn't but he was shy. More so than most and had asked to not talk. He didn't have a commanding voice like most of the other males did.
No he had a small one and when he did speak it sounded like a whisper than regular talking. To most females he was a gift from the heavens; the perfect mate. Being he was quiet, shy, he would rather remain silent than to talk.
But even with his behavior Sakuya loved him anyway. Not for his quietness but for him. Sakuya saw her mate looking at her and she nodded her head giving the ok that he could speak. Ryoko swallowed hard trying to get the knot in his throat to go down.
"Well the baby is fine just fine." he told her while putting a hand over his stomach. In response the baby moved slightly. It wasn't noticeable but to Ryoko it was and he smiled at the movement.
"What about you?" asked Kagome with her own smile. She saw the action the Ryoko did and she knew that the baby had moved from within him. The sound of Kagome's question broke Ryoko's train of thought about the baby.
"I'm fine. A little tired but I'm fine. The real work is in the later months that still have yet to come." Ryoko said with the same smile of his face. Kagome nodded understanding and she herself couldn't wait until Sesshomaru was with child of her own. Sakuya looked at her mate in shock.
"You're tired?" she asked him surprised. "Way didn't you tell me?" Sakuya asked her mate. Ryoko started to stutter as Sakuya pulled him close to her as she turned to take leave.
"Sorry to cut this short Kagome but we have to go." Sakuya said to Kagome then she turned to her mate.
"You should have told me. Come, we are leaving and you are going straight to bed when we get to our room." You could here Sakuya's voice done the hall as she scowled her mate for not telling her about being tired. Kagome giggled and closed the door to the room Sesshomaru and her share.
Kagome turned back to Sesshomaru once she closed the door. He was looking bewildered at the couple that had just left. It shocked him that people here acted like the people in his world. It was just turned around. He also started to wonder back to pregnancies once again. How long exactly were the pregnancies anyway?
He also wondered what it was going to be like when it was his turn to be with child. Would Kagome be like that if he said he was a little tired? Sesshomaru secretly hoped so but then another part of him didn't. That would mean that if he would be in bed when he didn't want to. Kagome would be there next to him, not that he mind but she would want to control his every move.
It warmed him that she cared about the child's well being and his own but if she was like any of the other guys that he knew of when their mates got pregnant he shuttered. The men wouldn't let their mates do anything and I mean anything that they thought would harm them of the pup that they were carrying. Sesshomaru looked up to see Kagome inches from his face. He jumped back in surprise make Kagome jump back too from his sudden movement.
"What?" asked Sesshomaru. Kagome stared at him for sometime making Sesshomaru nervous to what she was thinking of.
"What were thinking about, Sesshomaru? You were in such deep thought that you didn't even hear me getting close to you." asked Kagome with concern laced in her voice. Sesshomaru didn't say anything. It wasn't that he had nothing to say. It was just he didn't know how to put it in words.
"Would you be like that?" he asked and it confused Kagome for a minute not quite understanding for a moment. Then she got it. He was talking about the behavior of Sakuya. Kagome nodded.
"When you are with child, yes, I will be, why?" Kagome answered him and tilted her head slightly. At that action Sesshomaru found Kagome absolutely cute.
"I was just curious. That's all." he gave her a cut answer. Kagome gave him a suspicious look.
"No that's not all. I can tell you want to talk more about this." Kagome told him. Sesshomaru gave her a look but deicide to give in and tell her.
"I am curious of the methods taken to take care of a mate that is with child." Sesshomaru told her. Kagome gave him a small smile to try and reassure him that everything was alright.
"Don't worry, Sesshomaru. Now what do you want to know?" Kagome asked him with the same smile on her face. At the smile on her face Sesshomaru relaxed more.
"How long am I going to be with child?" asked Sesshomaru. Ever since he heard about him being the one to bare the pup he had always wanted to know how long he was going to be pregnant.
"Mmm…that's a good question." Kagome thought out loud as she put a hand on her chin to think. "Well an Angel's pregnancies are usually around three months long but because you are a demon it may be longer or shorter. How long are demon pregnancies?" asked Kagome looking at Sesshomaru.
"Dog demon's pregnancies last around five mouths but I don't know about other demons." Sesshomaru told her.
"Well if Angels are three and dog demons are five then you should only be with child for around four mouths. I honestly don't know but that is my guest." inform Kagome. Sesshomaru nodded agreeing with her. It is the best they could come up with.
"Anything else you want to know." Kagome asked him fully ready to answer any more questions that Sesshomaru could come up with. Sesshomaru dropped his head a little in thought. When he came up with another question he raised it.
"How many did Lord Ryoko have?" asked Sesshomaru and Kagome was taken back be Sesshomaru question. Why would he want to know about that? It was odd.
"I don't know why you want to know but this is his fifth child." Kagome answered him and she watched his eyes widen slightly at the new information.
"So many…" he mumbled. Kagome nodded in agreement.
"Yes it is a lot but what can you do? When the male body calls out to his mate she can't do anything but to give in." Kagome said out loud while shaking her head with her eyes closed. With her eyes closed she didn't see the curious look claim Sesshomaru's face.
"The male body will call out to his mate?" Sesshomaru asked uncertain. Kagome opened her eyes and looked at her soon to be mate.
"Yes, it is like what your body is doing now." Kagome told him and he looked down at his own body as if he could see what was different about. "It is not calling out to me yet but by the time this is over your body will be calling out to me and I can't help but to give in and give it what it wants. The thing I worry about is that I doubt Naraku would be dead by that time. But don't worry I won't let that bastard near you." Kagome said to him trying to make him understand.
That even though Naraku would be alive by the time their pup would be born that she would protect them with her life if she had to. At the thought of Naraku still being alive when his pup is born he rapped his arms around his stomach area. Kagome put a hand on one of his arms. "I won't let him near you or our pup if it comes to that." she reassured him in a firm tone. Sesshomaru nodded believing in Kagome.
"Tell me Kagome." Sesshomaru started at and Kagome nodded for him to continue. "Your mother said that I will be going there for the mating and birthing but why is Lord Ryoko here and not at some place where he is safe." asked Sesshomaru and Kagome nodded at such a good question.
"Well the first for anyone is the hardest and just in case we place our mate where it is safe for them so they don't have to worry about anything. After the first one your body will recognize the baby should you have a second. When the first one is over with, your body will not get as weak as bad as your first one thus you will be able to birth your next one here." Kagome explained to him and he nodded excepting the explanation. Than Kagome jumped up from the bed onto her feet. Sesshomaru stared at her wondering what she was doing.
"Come on Sesshomaru. It's a beautiful day out. We shouldn't be in here but outside." Kagome told him and he nodded in agreement. He got up and they left the room together.