Don't own Inuyasha... crys .o.o.
"talking"
'thinking'
After her long awkward bath that morning and Inuyasha threatening Maru's life again, Kagome was trying to relax around the village and just enjoy the day. She spent the rest of the morning helping Keade gather much needed herbs for both her stock and anything they may need to heal wounds after the battle. While she was in the herb garden near the hut she couldn't help but notice Inuyasha was hovering a lot more than he normally would; she didn't mind however because she wanted to spend as much time with him also. The children, more like the girls, were running around the fence Inuyasha was sitting on while Maru was relaxing under a tree near by.
"Why are you doing this... gardening wench, you've never done it before." Inuyasha watched as her delicate hands reached out for a weed close to her, pulling it up by the root she tossed it in a basket beside her; when she came across an herb she needed she pulled it up and put it in the other basket opposite the one with the weeds.
"I have helped Keade garden before, you might not have been around at the time. And I figured I should learn how to keep a garden... for future knowledge." Kagome never took her eyes off the task she was preforming except at one point when she looked up at him through her bangs... she didn't miss the smirk that came to his lips but he seemed to be deep in thought about her answer.
"Keh, what do you mean by future knowledge?"
Kagome sat up from her haunched position to fully look at him while wiping the dirt on her hakama she borrowed from the older priestess. Since she hadn't been home in nearly two months all of the clothes she brought were beyond repair which resulted in her having to wear miko robes of this time. Inuyasha was always uneasy when Keade suggested the dress but he never voiced his dislike about it; knowing because Kagome would think he thought she looked like Kikyo... which is what he didn't want her to think. He had yet to speak to the dead priestess since he last saw her more than a week prior; but the longer time out of her presence the more confident in himself that he made the right choice to tell Kagome of his love for her.
"Well... you like pickled raddish don't you? The raddishes have to be grown here where as momma buys them in the future."
"Keh... yeah but I like your mother's pickled raddish better."
Kagome wanted to sit him right off the fence but she held her tongue. "You know the last batch I brought back with me?" A devilish smirk crossed her face as his eyes lit up.
"Yeah... that was the best group you've ever brought!"
Kagome stood, dusting off her pants and approached his relaxed form someone still balancing on the fence. "Well... I'll let you in on a little secret," her voice lowered to barely above a whisper.
"Yeah... what wench?"
Kagome watched as his eyes glazed over and she had to bite back her giggle when he licked his lips. "I was the one that made that batch." She loved how his eyes grew wide, and his ears were straight up, "... just for you Inuyasha."
With what she needed to say said, and knowing the half demon that normally opened his mouth without thinking was realizing he just put his foot in it with what he said before, Kagome turned picked up the basket of herbs and headed into the hut. Inuyasha tore his thoughts away from his second favor food, ramen being the first, to see that his woman was gone; realizing she left while he was day dreaming caused him to growl.
"Keh... well if you did make 'em... that's probably the only time they'll be any good... cause your cooking is-"
"SIT BOY!"
"W-whaa!"
'Thump!'
"Dad... can I ask you a question?"
Inuyasha peeled his face out of the ground to look up at his boy; while his mother was teasing his father, who was completely dense it seemed, Maru had moved away from the tree he was resting under and was now leaning on the fence that his father just fell off of. "What..."
"Okay first growling at me because you're mad at mom for yanking your leash... ain't cool. And you know she's going to sit you every time you make her mad... which is basically every time you open your mouth so my question is... why do you continue to do it?"
Maru's cheesy smile wasn't cute in Inuyasha's opinion, and for once the older half demon didn't open his mouth; he stood from the ground and went in the direction Kagome headed a few minutes before... however he wasn't out of hearing range before his son's last comment.
"Unless you purposely anger mom to sit you... never knew you had a fetish father."
"Don't you have some place to be boy?"
"Nope... none that I can think of at the moment," Maru scratched the back of his head thoughtfully, but nothing of importance was coming to mind.
"Feh well go busy yourself with something while I talk to Kagome."
'Yeah right dad... talk to mom,' Maru rolled his eyes and went off to find his sisters who were took off farther into the village.
Inuyasha threw open the reed flap at the door way, quickly scanning the room for the wench. She was over at Keade's small stationed table with many herb jars placed on it, restocking the ones that were low.
"Oi wench, stop using the damn command, I ain't a dog!"
"You might not be one but sometimes you act like one," Kagome was still mad about the comment he made about her cooking, she spent a lot of time trying to perfect her culinary skills for him and all he does is criticize her.
"I act like one! Well if that's what you think then maybe I should! And since this is my pack and I'm the alpha, that means you submit to me!" Inuyasha moved across the room in a flash and lifted her body from its' sitting position and held her to eye level against the wall. "And submitting means you don't degrade me in front of our pack or anyone else... especially the pups understand!" He was livid, his demon blood coming to the surface despite how close to his human night it was.
Seeing him so upset over her unthoughtful actions caused Kagome to burst into tears. Inuyasha's blood boiling rage and alpha male dominance over his woman completely vanished seeing her tears. "Ka-Kagome? Why are you crying? St-stop it... I was just doing what... I didn't mean... please don't cry," he released his grip, putting her back on the floor but not letting her out of his grasp for long as he pulled her tight to his chest.
'Why is it that everything I say causes her to cry, this is like the third time today.' Inuyasha really wished one of the other women was here to handle this, but Keade had gone to a neighboring village with Shippo for safey; not knowing what tomorrow would bring Inuyasha wanted them to be safely away from the village for the next few days. He had also wanted the pups to go to, but they flat out refused to listen. And Sango and Miroku hadn't been seen since early that morning, Inuyasha knew they wanted the day to be together so he wouldn't disturb them... which meant he was left to do the comforting.
"Kagome... I'm sorry if I upset you, but when you sit me in front of the pups or the others you are degrading me, stripping me of my rank as alpha. If another male like Koga sees this they will try and challenge me for my title... and my claim to you."
"Your claim to me?"
Inuyasha sighed knowing it was now or never, everything needed to be out in the open. "When we were in the cave... I meant what my demon said back there. You are my mate... and it's proven, and when this is over and if I survive..."
"Inuyasha..."
"... IF I survive... may I take you at my mate?"
When she first asked the question, Kagome expected him to just brush it off all together and try to change the subject... not ask her to be his; hadn't Sango said it was like what humans thought of as husband and wife... so he was really asking her to be his wife! "Inuyasha."
"Yes Kagome?"
She smiled and buried her face into his chest feeling the calmest she's ever felt in his arms. "You must promise me you will not be reckless in this battle, if you know you can't beat him I want you to run away... I want you to live so you can take me as your mate," Kagome giggled slightly seeing his cheeks tint slightly.
"S-so... is that a yes?"
"Yes Inuyasha."
Feeling as if a weight was lifted from his chest at her words, Inuyasha pulled her close as physically possible, burying his nose into her neck taking deep breaths of her scent just make sure this all wasn't a dream.
"Hey dad you think could... you know you should give a kid a warning before you two go at it, you're lucky Yuki wasn't in here or else you'd be explaining the 'birds and the bees' with her."
Hearing Maru's voice in the once quiet hut caused both the couple to split a part, hearts racing and minds frazzled... though Inuyasha was trying to figure out what birds and bees had to do with hugging your soon-to-be mate. "What do you want pup?" he growled out through clenched teeth.
"Wow dad, really don't have to be snippy." Inuyasha ignored the comment, grabbed Kagome's wrist and dragged her out of the hut, passed the laughing teenage boy. "Hehe... hey dad... where you going?"
"Away from here so we ain't disturbed while talking! Stay here with your sisters, just because I ain't your old man yet don't mean I won't punish you."
Inuyasha swerved back and forth between the trees, Kagome still being forced to follow him since he had yet to release her hand, he just wanted to be as far away from the village as possible so no one bothered them. 'How come the monk gets a day undisturbed with his woman, and yet I can't! Keh, I have half a mind to go find them and have them deal with all this!'
"Inuyasha... can we slow down a bit, my arm is starting to get sore," Kagome pleaded, she didn't know why he was so anxious to leave civilization for the seclusion of the forest.
"Keh, sorry wench... I just wanted to get away from everything that was interrupting us."
"And apparently instincts never die out seeing as we always whined up here," she smiled seeing the confusion on her half demon's face, pointing out in front of them to show her meaning.
Inuyasha's golden orbs followed her dainty little finger in the direction it pointed and came face to face with the well, "Feh old habits... this place use to be safe from everything... but now," his ears drooped slightly thinking about the beast in the well keeping Kagome from going home... and how that monster was actually him.
"That's strange."
"What is wench... hey what the hell you doing? Get away from there!" Inuyasha panicked seeing Kagome approach the well.
Kagome ignored his pleas and cautiously approached the wooden structure, peeking inside. "I don't sense the demonic aura that was around the well the last time Maru was close to Izayoi; and that is another thing... with four of the kids so close to each other, why hasn't their father been trying to break the barrier trapping him in there?"
"Keh I don't know woman... maybe he's weakening, a demon can only survive so long being trapped by spiritual power."
"I would never try to hurt you Inuyasha and I know my older self wouldn't do that either; you're in there for protection. I can't sense your aura but I can sense Inu's... maybe he came by and strengthened the barrier."
"Yeah... maybe."
Feeling his uneasiness, Kagome turned back to see him staring at the ground, "Is something wrong Inuyasha?"
He was silent for a few minutes before looking at her with a hard stare, "We still haven't talked about him Kagome."
"T-talked about him?" Fear spread throughout her body but she tried to push it away knowing he would be able to smell it.
"Why didn't I know about him Kagome? How long have you known... did you find out the same time you knew about Anna? And when I asked if there was anything else you needed to tell me... you lied!"
"You don't understand... I did to protect both of you," Kagome back up slightly to put space between them; she knew he was still mad at her when the topic of their oldest child came up.
"That's what you said when you thought I would attack Anna, I thought you believed me then when I told you I wouldn't lay a hand on our pups... I meant that!"
"It's different in this situation, I didn't want him to have to hurt you; whether you want to admit it or not he is stronger than you are now."
"And why exactly do you think that woman? You don't think I can protect you now?"
"No that's not it... Inu has to do something that you won't like and you will try to fight him and he won't have a choice but to protect himself and you will get hurt!"
Inuyasha took a deep breath, needing to calm himself down before speaking, he took a step foward and gently grabbed her shoulders. "Kagome... our pups could never do anything that would anger me to the point I would attack them, that would never be possible my basic instincts wouldn't allow it... just as your instincts are telling you to protect them. Whatever he needs to do I will help him in anyway I can... I prom-."
"Don't! Don't say that Inuyasha, you don't even know what it is."
"Then just tell me Kagome... please."
"Reduced to begging the miko now half breed?"
Kagome looked over Inuyasha's shoulder and stiffened seeing who was at the edge of the clearing, she then flinched feeling the rumbling in his chest from his growl that was slowly increasing in volume. "Can't we get a minute to ourselves at all today!" Inuyasha turned around and whipped out Tetsusaiga on the intruder to their private conversation, without thinking he charged forward in anger for being interrupted again.
"Inuyasha wait!"
Note: Everyone should know who is there... there's only one person that calls Inuyasha that, and it seems like they can't just get a moment of peace to themselves today... poor things. This will be the last chapter for about a week... I'm going on vacation to the Bahamas starting to tomorrow and can't bring the computer with me sorry; won't be back till the beginning of April so you're just going to have to wait... like I have to to watch the last episode of Inuyasha the finale act... no one tell me what happens... though I already know what does lol.
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