Title: Hope for the Hopelesss
Author: landofthekwt
Rating: PG-13
Genre: Hopeless hanyous
Universe: CU
Word Count:448
Prompt: Hope At First Tweak
Warning: Baby at breast
Summary: Inuyasha reflects on how his hope had rewarded by Kagome
He gazed at her in wonder. The flickering firelight added a golden glow to her skin. To him she seemed almost like a kami. Watching the infant suckling at her breast in his mind she was the nurturing earth mother feeding all of the world's children. How was such happiness possible?
He had always assumed that it was his doom to be forever alone. His experience with Kikyou had only reinforced this feeling. If they had never met, she never would have died and left him alone again. His guilt over her had only increased every time she died.
Yet he had found hope. This woman who had released him from his bonds. She had come back to him even though he had tried to prevent her return. She had asked to stay even though he told her that he owed his life to Kikyou. He had promised to protect her with his life. In turn she had promised to always be with him. It had been this promise that sustained him through her three year absence.
The rest of them had given up hope. Sango and Miroku had raised a family. Shippou had become a high level kitsune. Even Kohaku had found a calling. But he had hope. He believed her promise. He had been ever vigilant in his watch on the well returning to it every three days even though Shippou told him it was foolish.
He had told Kaede that he was happy for Kagome if she stayed in her era with her family where she was loved and safe. But he dared to hope for more. He had told the youkai in the jewel that he was destined for her and she was destined to be with him. This had been his hope and his dream.
Now his dream was in front of him. It was all that he had hoped for and more. She was here in the flesh. He would never be alone again. A woman who loved him and was willing to bear his child.
He had been willing to do anything to change his life. Become a human for the woman he loved. Become a youkai to be powerful like his brother. Instead, hope had come to him in the form of a fifteen year girl who had fallen down a well. She did not ask him to change. She loved him as he was. She asked nothing more than that he let her stay. She had given him life and given him hope. She could stay forever.
