Chapter 36: Newborn Parents
Shippo ran as fast as he could to the castle home, and charged into the door. The doors flung open and each door banged against a different wall with a loud slamming noise. Shippo ran inside the castle until he was right in front of Rin.
"Rin, are you alright?" Shippo said moving beside her and grabbing her hand.
"Shi.. Ship.. po.." Rin moaned once again after trying to say Shippo's name.
"Rin you have to take deep breathes now, you shouldn't speak." Kagome said. "We need to get her on to a bed, it seems she's having contractions now." Shippo bent down on his feet, and put his arms underneath the pregnant Rin. He lifted his arms, and stood up holding Rin in his arms. He carefully walked over to the guest bedroom, and set down Rin on one of the beds.
"Okay, now we need at least a large bucket of water, and many towels. Inuyasha can you go get them at the hut, please?" Kagome asked.
"I guess." Inuyasha said walking out of the room.
"Is there anything else you need Kagome?" Koga asked walking in the room.
"Actually there is Koga." Kagome said, "Can you please make sure no one else gets in this room; I don't want the children to be seeing this." Kagome said.
"Can do." Koga saluted, and ran out of the room.
"Kagome, how long does this take when she's like this?" Shippo asked.
"Well, being in labor could take anywhere from hours to days for humans, but in this kind of situation as Rin is giving birth to a half demon, I really have no idea how long it takes. Her water started to flow earlier today, and this happened a bit faster than a humans water breaking, so I really couldn't tell you Shippo." Kagome explained, "If I had to give an estimate, I would say anywhere from a few hours to maybe a day tops."
"Oh..." Shippo said sinking his head still holding Rin's hand.
"Don't feel bad Shippo, Rin was aware that this would happen." Kagome said.
"I feel bad that she has to go through this much pain." Shippo said.
"What you have to understand Shippo, is that this is how a child is made." Kagome said.
"It doesn't seem very fair to the women." Shippo said. Shippo turned his head at Rin right when she moaned again. Kagome walked to Shippo and rubbed his hair.
"You probably shouldn't think too much about it." Kagome said, and walked over to Rin.
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"Alright kids, I think it's better if we stay out here." Koga said leaning up against the doors on the outside of the castle.
"Did something happen to sister Rin?" Kumiko asked.
"No, nothing bad happened, but we think today's the day the baby's comming." Koga explained.
"New Baby!!" Kumiko and Kyuso yelled.
"Did you say the baby's comming?" Sango exclaimed running to the castle with Miroku.
"It seems Rin's in labor." Ayame said appearing by Koga.
"I should go see her." Sango said. Koga moved away and let Sango into the castle.
"I take it Kagome asked you to not let the children in." Miroku said and sat down, "I'll stay out here too."
"Why can't we go inside, we wanna see baby!" Maru protested.
"The baby's not here yet Maru, but soon the baby will be here." Miroku said.
"What's the baby's name going to be?" Kyuso asked.
"We're not sure yet." Miroku said.
"Is the baby going to be a girl or a boy?" Maru asked.
"That again, we're not sure." Miroku said.
"Is there anything known about the baby?" Kumiko asked.
"Well, you don't know anything about a new born baby until the baby's actually born." Miroku said, "The only thing that we know is that the baby will be half demon."
"I hope the baby's going to be a girl; theres already enough boys." Kumiko said. Inuyasha was running through the feild, carrying a large tub of water in one hand and arm, and a load of towels in the other arm.
"Koga, open the door; I have to get this to Rin!" Inuyasha shouted running toward the entrance of the castle. Everyone moved out of the way to make a path for Inuyasha to run to, and Koga opened up one of the doors to the castle. Inuyasha ran past everyone, and into the castle. Koga shut the door once he was inside.
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"I got everything." Inuyasha said running into the room. He set down the tub of water near the bed, and the towels near the tub.
"Thanks Inuyasha." Kagome said, and grabbed one of the towels. She soaked one of the towels in the water, and placed it over Rin's forehead. Shippo was still holding Rin's hand, looking at his mate as she layed on the bed.
"I promise I'll be here Rin, and to prove it, I'm not going to let go of your hand once until you've given birth to our child." Shippo said.
"Rin smiled, and tried her best to nod, "Thank.. you.. Shippo.." Everyone looked over at the door when it opened, and Sango walked in. She immediatly walked over to Rin.
"Rin, how're you doing, are you alright?" Sango asked.
"I'm.. Fine.." Rin said heavily breathing.
"What the hell, Sesshomaru comming!" Inuyasha said looking at the door ready to run out.
"Inuyasha, he's not our enemy anymore ever since Rin and Shippo got together!" Kagome protested.
"Plus he never once tried to attack and or kill you in any way at all." Shippo said. Inuyasha walked for the door and opened it.
"Feh, whatever." Inuyasha replied walking out and closed the door.
"I'm almost sure they won't fight." Kagome said.
"Yeah, almost." Shippo sighed.
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"Do you feel that?" Koga asked.
"Yeah, a demon is comming." Ayame replied.
"I don't think you'll have to worry about Sesshomaru." Miroku said.
"Inuyasha's brother?" Koga questioned.
"You've seen him before?" Miroku asked.
"I've met him only once a long time ago I remember." Koga said. The opposite door Koga wasn't standing in front on opened and Inuyasha ran out and stopped by Miroku.
"Sesshomaru's comming." Inuyasha said to everyone.
"We already figured that out mutt face." Koga said.
"Who's Sheshomoru?" Kumiko asked.
"That's right, they've never met your brother before." Miroku said.
"You have a brother!?" Kumiko and Kyuso exclaimed.
"Feh, believe me, he's the farthest thing from being a brother that's for sure." Inuyasha said. Sesshomaru walked out of the forest and continued walking to the castle.
"This is the home you built for Rin?" Jaken asked, being once again ignored by Sesshomaru as he continued walking toward the small castle. "Lord Sesshomaru hasn't even said anything about where or what Rin has been doing...All I know is that Rin got together with that fox child, and tey live in this castle that Lord Sesshomaru made for them. Does this mean my lord has gone soft, impossible!"
"I suppose you're here to see Rin." Inuyasha said. Sesshomaru continued walking to the castle entrance, and walked past Inuyasha.
"Were you able to figure that out on your own." Sesshomaru said still walking toward the castle.
"Well aren't you the funny one." Inuyasha mumbled crossing his arms.
"Wha? Does Sesshomaru have no intrest in fighting Inuyasha anymore? Maybe he has gone softer..." Jaken sighed, "It must be because of Rin and that fox demon."
"Are you Uncle Sheshomoru?" Sesshomaru looked down to see Kumiko and Kyuso looking up at him.
"How come we never met you before?" Kumiko asked. Kyuso was staring down at Jaken.
"Froggy?" Kyuso wondered.
"I'm not a frog insolent child!" Jaken squaked. Sesshomaru grabbed Jakens staff.
"You stay with the children Jaken, and you better not harm them." Sesshomaru said. He put away the staff next to his Tokijin and walked at the entrance of the castle. He opened the doors of the castle, walked inside, and the door closed behind him.
"Well that was different." Inuyasha said.
"Are you a toad?" Maru asked poking at him.
"Quit touching me you stupid human child!" Jaken shouted.
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"Did you hear something just now?" Kagome asked Sango.
"Um, I thought I heard unusual yelling." Sango said.
"That sounded a lot like that imp that's with Sesshomaru." Shippo said. The door opened once again to the room, and the one who walked in was Sesshomaru. "So you decided to come, good timing." Shippo said. Sesshomaru walked over to Rin, ignoring Shippo.
"Fa.. father.." Rin said turning her head the best she could to see Sesshomaru.
"You've been holding up well I assume." Sesshomaru said, and Rin nodded.
"How long.. will you be.. staying..?" Rin asked breathing in between every few words.
"I am unsure." Sesshomaru replied still looking down at the pregnant woman.
"Can you.. please stay.. until the child.. is born.. I want you.. to see him.. when the.. time comes." Rin asked breathing faster.
Sesshomaru took a moment of silence, and responded, "As you wish." He looked down at Rin face to see a smile appear.
"Thank.. you.." Rin said.
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Several hours have past since Rin was first put on one of the beds in the guest room. Inuyasha, Kagome, Sango, Shippo, and Sesshomaru were all in the room watching over Rin. Well, Inuyasha wasn't really doing anything but laying in the other bed with one leg crossed over the other, and his hands behind his head; staring at the ceiling. Shippo, not once, moved from the spot of the bed he was sitting on, and continued to hold Rin's hand. Shippo noticed that Rin's grip was a lot more stronger than it was earlier. Shippo was starting to worry he lost complete feeling in his hand. Kagome and Sango were at the end of the bed, waiting for the moment of pushing out the baby. And Sesshomaru was standing against the wall, not saying a single word since he talked to Rin earlier.
Miroku, Koga, Ayame, Akio, Maru, Kyuso, and Kumiko moved from outside to the main room a few hours earlier when it started getting dark out. Miroku was sitting against the door making sure none of the pups would go in. Kumiko fell asleep after waiting for the baby, sitting up against the wall in her slumber with her little brother Kyuso laying his head on one of her legs as a pillow, also in a deep slumber. Maru's head was rested up against his fathers shins, as like the other children, sleeping as well. Akio was laying against his mother's shoulder sleeping. Ayame and Koga both sat up against one of the walls in the castle. Koga and Ayame didn't seem very tired at all; they had little problems of falling asleep. As for Miroku, his head would occasionally start to tilt from the tiredness he felt, but would fling his head up whenever he caught himself nearly sleeping. He was determined to stay awake to see Shippo's child. All of a sudden, breaking through what seemed was a long period of silence, an incredible scream came from Rin in the room of the door Miroku was sitting up against. Miroku nearly jumped to the ceiling when he heard the cry from Rin. Following Rins cry, was then a cry comming from Shippo, almost as loud as Rin's cry of pain. All of the children started to wake up from the loud screams of pain. Maru was more forcivly awoke when his father jumped at the sounds of screaming.
"Ugh...what's going on?" Kumiko asked and yawned. All of the children started to get up stretching and yawning.
"I think the baby's going to be here very soon." Miroku said.
"Really!?" all of the children but Akio shrieked. They heard another loud cry comming from Rin in the guest room. Miroku leaned against the large door and put his ear against the door. After a moment Miroku leaned back away from the door. He could hear Kagome and Sango saying the word push consecutively.
"Any time now, we just have to wait now." Miroku said sitting up against the guest room door.
"Hey, where's the froggy demon?" Kyuso said running around the room.
"I believe he's outside with Ah-Un." Miroku said, "We probably shouldn't bother him if he wants to be outside." Kumiko and Kyuso sat down together next to the guest room door, and Maru sat down in his fathers lap. Akio sat back down by his parents. They all began to wait on the arrival of the new child.
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Minutes upon minutes upon minutes, until eventually an hour has passed since they've started waiting. Everyone was still awake, probably due to all of the screaming. Everyone was still sitting in the same spot, except for Akio and Ayame, who moved to the upstairs to avoid hearing the on and off screams.
"We've been waiting for a long time.." Kumiko said breaking the very long silence.
"You can't rush these kinds of things Kumiko, you just have to be patient; that's all you can really do now." Miroku said.
"Can't... sleep... don't... wanna... sleep." Kyuso yawned, "Must... see... baby..."
"I think you should move around Kyuso, it would probably help you be more awake." Kumiko said. She got up enough to bend down beside Kyuso; she grabbed his right arm with her right and brought it around to the back of her head. She took her other arm, and placed it across her brothers back, and started to lift him up on his feet. She got him up to his feet, and let him go once he stood up. The first thing he did when he stood up was yawn. He started to walk around the room in a daze. He shook his head to try and be more awake. He continued walking around the room. "How are you feeling now?" Kumiko asked.
"Still tired... but I should probably... keep moving around." Kyuso replied and continued walking. Everyone jumped when they heard another cry from the other room. This cry was different. It wasn't as loud as Rin's screams; it wasn't even really screaming, it was crying.
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"Oh my gosh! She's so adorable!" Kagome exclaimed holding on to Rin and Shippo's newborn baby. Kagome wrapped the crying baby in one of the towels Inuyasha brought earlier. Rin and Shippo both let go of each other's hand for one, Rin wanted to hold the baby, and two, Shippo's hand was possible crushed to oblivian. Shippo immediatly grabbed his hurt hand.
"I'm so sorry Shippo, I couldn't really control myself; I didn't mean to hurt your hand." Rin said.
"Oh... heh, it's nothing... don't worry about it..." Shippo said his attention completely focused on his red hand.
"Kagome should probably check on it, your hand is nearly as red as my fire rat clothing." Inuyasha said. Kagome walked over to Rin and Shippo, and handed the baby girl to Rin.
"Our little Shiria." Rin said softly.
"Shiria?" Sango asked.
"That's what we decided to name our baby if she came out female." Shippo explained. Kagome was attending to Shippo's wounded hand.
"Does it hurt when I touch your hand?" Kagome asked taking hold of his hand with one of hers.
Shippo brought his head down baring his teeth, "It.. hurts.." Shippo said, and Kagome immediatly let go of his hand.
Rin was still looking at their little miracle. Shiria had small, almost head covering medium brown hair. Also comming out of her head were little fox ears, similar to Inuyasha's but a bit bigger and more flat. She also had little green colored eyes just like her fathers. She even had little claws on her fingers resembling to Shippos, but smaller. The baby stopped crying a moment after Rin was holding the baby girl. Shiria was looking up at her mothers face, looking as if she was wondering who she was. Shippo walked over to Rin and his daughter, and kneeled down by the bed Rin's laying in.
"Wow." Shippo said holding his unbroken hand over Shiria. Shiria was looking at Shippo's face for a moment, then looked at his hand above her. Shiria held out her arms, and started waving her hands against Shippo's. Sango gave everyone outside the okay to come in and see the newborn baby. The children came running in and ran immediatly to where Shippo was kneeling, and where Rin was laying.
"Is that the baby, can we see the baby pleeease sister Rin?" Kumiko asked. Rin nodded, and turned the baby a little to the left so everyone there could see the face of the baby.
"Is the baby a boy or a girl?" Maru asked.
"She's a girl." Rin answered.
"She's so cute!" Kumiko exclaimed.
"Her ears are like daddys." Kyuso said.
"What's her name?" Kumiko asked.
"Shiria." Shippo answered.
"Shiria." Kumiko repeated looking at the baby girl. Sesshomaru was pretty much ready to go now, and walked over to Rin.
"I am leaving now Rin, I will see you another time along with your family." he said and walked away.
"Thank you for staying father, I'll see you later." Rin responded, and Sesshomaru was not out of the room.
"I think everyone should stay here tonight." Shippo said, "After all it's pretty dark out, and I'm sure we'll figure out where everyone can sleep for the night."
"Yeah we won't mind, if you don't mind risk hearing the baby's crying." Rin added.
"I suppose we should probably stay for tonight." Miroku said, "What do you think Sango?"
"I agree, we'll stay." Sango said.
"How about it Inuyasha?" Kagome asked.
Inuyasha took a moment before answering, "Alright, I don't think we have much choice anyway." he said. He got up from the bed, and started walking out of the door, and Kyuso and Kumiko followed.
"Our little girl." Shippo said to Rin.
"Yeah, she really is." Rin said.
"Thank you so much Rin, for all that you had to go through to deliver our child, for the pain you had to go through, thank you Rin." Shippo said.
"It was alright, but I did have some pains, but I'm fine." Rin said, "I'm sorry it costed you hand though."
"Nah, don't worry about it, it's all right. It's worth it." Shippo said. Both of them looked to their newborn child, both of them feeling like the luckiest parents in the world. They now had a child, to take care of, to teach, to love.
Eh, eh? Shippo and Rin's newborn baby Shiria, I thought this was a pretty good chapter, and a long one might I add. But I had fun writing it. See yaz.