If You Could Only See
Chapter 35: Last Chapter.
Modern Day Tokyo: Seven years after the well closed.
She ran around the small kitchen of the house, trying to keep the various food items from burning or spilling. It wasn't an easy task, and more often than not, it resulted in an hour or two of work. Its hard work, filling the stomach of three men everyday.
Not that she minded. In fact she loved it. She loved the way Takao would play with the little animals she took so much time to make out of the food. She loved the way Inuyasha would inspect the edible creatures and scoff before popping them in his mouth. And she loved the way Shippo simply inhaled whatever was his plate, not caring what it looked like so long as it was food and was in his stomach.
It was her favorite time of the day.
She glanced out the window to where her son had been playing moments before, only to find he wasn't there. Quickly turning off the stove, she ran outside, searching for the little boy.
"Takao! Where are you?" she called worriedly when she couldn't locate her son.
A sudden movement in the direction of the old well house caught her eye, and she saw her young son running towards it.
"Takao!" she called, quickly catching up to the boy. "How many times have I said it? I don't want you playing this far from the house by yourself! Dangerous things can happen!" she said, scooping him up in her arms and kissing his cheek.
"But Mama, I want Papa!"
She staring at him in confusion. "Papa had to work late tonight, remember? But He'll be home before you know it!"
"But Mama, I wanna show Papa my charm!" Takao said, holding up his wrist with a braided black chord tied around it.
"And he'll see it when he gets home," he said, tweaking one of his slightly large, human turned ears.
"But Mama -"
"Come on you," she said, starting back for the house. "I need help making dinner for you, Shippo and your Papa."
She didn't know why, but getting a strange feeling from the well, and she didn't like it. She hadn't been in the well house in nearly four years now, and the feelings she was getting from it scared her. Some instinct in her told her to keep her son away from the bone eaters well.
So she took her pup back into the house, reassuring him that he did indeed have same color eyes as his Papa when they both had their charms on, and that he did look handsome with his human ears.
犬夜叉
As they reached the top of the stairs, the two men were greeted by the voice on a young inu hanyou.
"Shippo! Papa!" Takao yelled as he ran to his brother and father. He ran strait into Inuyasha's arms, who lifted his son up to sit on his shoulders.
"What's up, squirt?" Shippo said, messing with Takao's long hair.
"Look'it!" he said excitedly, pulling back his hair and wiggling his human ears for the world to see. "I gots ears like Mama!"
"What's wrong with havin' ears like mine?" Inuyasha said, frowning at the little boy.
"Rei called them cute…I don' wanna have cute ears," he said, pouting a bit.
"Trust me, kid. Cute ears comes in handy when you wanna pick up girls later," Inuyasha said, smirking. "First time I saw your Mama, she went straight for my ears."
"Really?" Takao said in wonder. He quickly unsnapped the bracelet and stuffed it in his pocket, allowing his ears to turn back to normal and his eyes' brown hue turn to its normal shade of gold. "I'll just keep this safe for a while," he said, patting his pocket.
Inuyasha and Shippo were still laughing as they entered the house. As soon as they were through the door, the smell of food hit all three boys, making their stomachs grumble and their mouths water.
"Its about time your home! We were about to start without you!" Kagome said, walking out of the kitchen to meet them.
"Sorry," Inuyasha said, pecking Kagome on the lips. "Lets eat, I'm starving!"
Takao jumped down from his father's shoulder and ran after Shippo to the dining room.
Inuyasha started to follow, when Kagome called him back.
"Inuyasha, something odd happened today," she said nervously.
"What happened?" he said, turning to face her.
"Well, earlier while I was making dinner, Takao was playing outside, and when I looked up, he had run off to the well house," she said timidly. "And when I asked him what he was doing, he just kept saying how he wanted to go see you. Something's been off, all day. I can feel it."
"I'll be right back," he said, and quickly tore off towards the well house.
He carefully pushed back to the door and stared inside. Memories flashed in his head of all the times he'd come through this spot, sometimes chasing after Kagome, and sometimes dragging her in behind me. He remembered coming out of it after they destroyed the sacred jewel, only to be sucked right back in. He remembered coming through one last time, only to have his world crushed.
He inhaled deeply, taking in the scents that surrounded him. The smell of the wood of the well, the earth floor the well was built into, the dust in the air from the place being ignored for so long. And covering it all was the scent of an inu hanyou.
His scent.
He froze, staring at the well. Had he really disappeared through that well mere hours ago, his hopes burned away like paper in a fire? It was odd to think about. What he had seen that day…this day…had made his life a living nightmare, when in reality, it was a preview to the happiest times he would ever have in his life.
He quietly closed the door, without going inside, and made his way back to the house, where his wife and mate was waiting worriedly for him.
"Did you find anything?"
"Yeah," he said, distractedly. "I think…today was the day I came to when the well let me through one last time."
Kagome gasped and put a hand to her mouth, her eyes filling up with tears. "That's why…Takao could smell you, and thought it was you in the well house…oh kami Inuyasha!"
"Keh, whatcha cryin' for, wentch?" Inuyasha said, wrapping his arms around her waist and holding her close.
"Inuyasha, it must have been so terrible for you…to live with that for so long, kami, I'm so sorry!"
"Don't be," he said firmly, "because I'm not." His words caught her off guard, and she looked up, shocked, into his smiling face. "I'm not, because in the end, what was meant to happen, happened. If things hadn't played out the way they did, there's no guarantee that we'd be here together like this right now. I've got everything I ever could have dreamed of, and so much effing more. Kami, Kagome, you've made me the happiest damn man in the world, and I don't want to sulk in the past anymore, and I don't want to live in fear of the future. I want to fully enjoy the time I have, right now with you. And," he leaned in and took her lips that were slightly salty from her tears in a kiss. "I fully plan to."
"Mama! Papa! Hurry up I'm hungry!" came Takao's impatient voice from the next room.
Inuyasha sighed in impatience. It wasn't often he could come up with pure genius like that, and recently, whenever he did, something always seemed to ruin the moment.
"Inuyasha, one last thing," Kagome said, stopping him once again. "Myoga gave me a message for you when he dropped of Takao's charm earlier today."
"Hm? What'd he say?"
"He told me to tell you congratulations…Papa."
He stared at her in confusion for a moment. Then he noticed it, the small change in Kagome's scent…
"And this time," Kagome said with a wide smile on her face as she lay a hand on her belly, "I'm positive its going to be a little girl."
The End!
I…I can't believe it. Its finished. Wow.
Depressing.
Well, it had to end at some point, ne?
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