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Inu Speak: My pup!

Chapter 38: Gomen, my Son

"I HATE YOU SESSHOMARU!"

Yuugao pressed her ears to the sides of her head as Tsukiko once again began screaming to the male outside the den.

"Tell that Fluffy Bastard to come in here so I can tear out some vital organs!"

"Tsu, calm down! I know it hurts, but its not Sesshomaru's fault..."

"Like hell its not his fault! How the hell do you think I got here!"

"Musume, calm, please. The pups are almost here."

"I can feel that! Damnt... SESSHOMARU GET YOUR FLUFFY ASS IN HERE, INU no BAKA!"

Sesshomaru snarled as he heard his mate yelling yet again, and spun around to land a poison filled punch into a tree.

"Did the tree really deserve that?"

He turned back around, red eyed, to glare at the only other male in the area.

"Remind me Uncle, why I'm allowing you to be here."

"Boy, were I not here to stop you, you would have given into your mates taunts and entered the den, and you mate would have tried to kill you."

Sesshomaru narrowed his glare, not willing to admit that the older male was right.

"Unless you wish to end up like me" The older male help up his right hand, which was missing two fingers. "You don't want to go in there."

"This Sesshomaru does not understand why."

"Boy, when a bitch is in labour, she goes into a blood rage aimed solely at the male who impregnated her. Had my mother and my mates mother not pulled her off me, I have no doubt that my dear mate would have killed me. Of cource, she would have regreted it afterwards."

"Plus, for females birthing litters fathered by members of our family, it can be even worse."

Sesshomaru eyed his uncle warily.

"How so?"

The older dog placed a hand on Sesshomaru's shoulder.

"Not only will she have to deal with the pain of birthing the pups, but more than likely, she will also have to deal with the grief of loosing one or more of them."

Sesshomaru snarled, and grabbed his uncle by the collar.

"You lie! Our pups are fine!"

"Why do you think I, your mother, my pups, and yourself have no littermates?"

Sesshomaru snarled again, dropping his uncle. He had asked his mother why he had no siblings, and the answer had always been that he would find out when the time came.

"Why did none inform this Sesshomaru!"

"Would you have pupped her if you would have known?"

Sesshomaru snarled again, and went back to destroying the forest around the den.

"Oh kami..."

"What's wrong, Leiko-sama?"

"Why isn't he crying? What's wrong!"

Leiko looked sadly up at Yuugao, and shook her head, before clutching the wrapped bundle to her chest, and turning around.

"Hold her down; the next should come soon. I'm going to tell my son."

Yuugao nodded solemnly, and held Tsukiko's wrists down.

"Where are you taking my baby! GIVE HIM BACK TO ME HE NEEDS ME!"

Leiko left the den in tears, her ears filled with the hysterical screams of her daughter-in-law.

"Sesshomaru, Ginumi."

Both males turned to the entrance of the den, and watched as Leiko slowly walked towards them, with a silent bundle clutched to her chest. Her sad aura, and the mournful wails coming from the den told both what was wrong. Sesshomaru's heart felt like it was going to explode, ad he hardly noticed his uncles hand come to rest on his shoulder.

When Leiko reached them, she offered Sesshomaru the wrapped bundle.

"Gomen, my son. Gomen."

Sesshomaru took the bundle gently, and cradled it to his chest. He gently pried away the fur wrappings, and stared at the pup. he stroked the pup's mop of black hair, and ran his fingers over the red stripe over its cheek, and the crescent moon identical to his own.

He leaned down and kissed the moon, before covering the pups face again.

"My son, please forgive your father. We will meet again in the next world."

"I shall go dig the grave."

"Arigato, Uncle."

Leiko gently stroked her son's cheek, before heading back towards the den.

Leiko had come out twice more with tiny, stillborn pups. The first had been a silver haired female, and the second, another black haired male. The tortured wails from the den had become wails of despair. Sesshomaru now stood before three tiny graves, praying to any kami that would listen to let his pups live, and not make them have to go through this again.

"Come on Musume, just a little more, push!"

"no more... my babies, my pups, their dead... its all my fault..."

"Its nobodys fault. They are with the kamis, you can not blame yourself."

"No more, please, I cant loose another"

"There is a live pup, you must trust me! If you give up, you will kill it and yourself!"

Tsukiko waited with breath held to hear any sound from the forth pup she had birthed. For what seemed like eternity, she waited. Just as she had given up hope, a hand gently patted her shoulder.

"Your son would like to meet you."

"He's alive?"

"Hai, he is."

Tears of relief ran down her cheeks as she took her son from his grandmother. She hugged the now whimpering bundle, and buried her nose into his mop of silver hair, before pulling away to look at him.

He had stripes like his father's over his cheeks, and another pair like one of hers behind his eyes, all a dark blood red, as well as a crescent over his brow that was the same colour as Sesshomaru's, but much thinner. She traced her fingers gently over the dark stripes over his shoulders, wrists, and back, before running his claws through his fluffy white tail.

"My son."

"You must rest now, musume."

Sesshomaru sat with a large rock in his lap, using his poison to carve it into a gravestone. Ginumi sat to the side, watching.

Leiko came back out, and both males looked up in despair, then noticed that she carried no bundle.

"Well?"

"Sesshomaru, go to your mate, and do not provoke her."

Sesshomaru nodded, and slowly, hesitantly, began to walk back to the den.

Sesshomaru quietly pushed aside the Noren curtains hanging in the doorway, and peered into the dark room where his mate lay. He silently entered, and carefully approached her, still wary of his mothers and uncles words.

"Tsukiko, mate?"

He paused as Tsukiko's head snapped up, and her eyes bled red, casting an eerie light around the room. She growled a warning to him, and he lowered himself down, whining low.

"May I, mate?"

"My pup, you cant take!"

"Wont take away pup, mate"

Tsukiko narrowed her eyes sceptically.

"What you do then?"

"Protect our pup, protect mate"

Sesshomaru watched as Tsukiko's irises returned to a gold colour, showing that she was regaining control of her beast. She glanced back down at the pup in her arms, back to Sesshomaru, and sniffed. Hesitantly she nodded, and curled tighter around the pup. Sesshomaru slowly moved forwards, and laid down beside his mate and pup.

He lay for hours, studding the tiny bundle in his mates arms, watching as his mop of silver hair was blown around by his mates soft breath. As he drifted off to sleep, he entwined his fingers with Tsukiko's, so he was hugging both her and their son, and thanked whichever kami had listened to him for his son.

And I'm crying!

Poor Sessh and Tsu! *cries* It was so hard to do that.

The new OC, Ginumi, is Leiko's older brother by 40ish years. I needed someone there to stop Sessh from having an arm removed prematurely X3

rostfire613: Ooooh, nice ^^ And yep, you cant feel sorry for Sessh in the last chapter... but in this one, you kinda can.

KatiechanXoxoXSesshoukun: Thanks!

I hope you all enjoy this chapter!

Again, I'd like to ask for any ideas for the next chapter, with the pup. And the pup already has a name (LightningRip is the only other one who knows it X3), so I don't need help there X3 But Ideas for what the pup can get up to in the... 7-8ish years, before Kagome falls through the well are welcome!

Thanks for R&R!