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Taisho's Conception

They found Rin curled up under the tree trunk of a tall camaphor tree. She was a disheveled wreck of a young girl. It had just started to rain and she had been on her own for several days. She woke up rubbing her eyes just as driblets fell and Inuyasha and Miroku knelt down next to her. "Well you led us on a chase," Inuyasha touched her arm. "Come on, it's time to go back." She had laid false trails, washed her clothes at least twice and crossed through a lake to lose him. He had taught her well, but not well enough. She made enough noise crying to shake a house and forgot to cover her real tracks.

She shook her head. "I don't want to go to back. I'm twelve. It's old enough to be on my own."

"No it's not," Inuyasha pulled her off the forest floor and brought her over to Kirara. "Get on."

"You only watch me, because he made you. It's okay Inuyasha." She said distantly. "You don't have to pretend you care."

"Rin," Miroku gave her hand onto the fire-cat. "We both care. You came to us an eight-year old little girl. You delivered my wife's babies. Satsu is worried about you and so is Kaede-sama. He climbed up next to her. It's time to go home."

She snorted. "it doesn't feel like home."

Kagome and Sango sat with Rin inside her hut. The girl had been quiet since returning with Inuyasha and Miroku. Rin held six month old Sota in her lap rocking him while Sango sat behind her brushing her hair out. She was filthy when they found her. Kagome and Sango had taken her to the lake and helped her wash up. Now she sat with Kiseki, Hana and Kenshen who played around them. She wiped her eyes, "Inuyasha-sama said I was a liability."

"He did?" Kagome poked the fire in the hearth checking the water in the kettle. She sauntered over to the door where Miroku and Inuyasha spoke quietly and said through clenched teeth, "if you ever call her a liability again, I'll make you sit for a week."

His eyes dilated in terror. Despite their relationship, she still hadn't removed the beads from his neck. They served their purpose. He practically ran off the porch with Miroku.

"He won't do it again. You aren't a liability," Kagome smiled at her and started mixing the drinks. She had fresh cocoa powder from her time, sugar and powdered milk to make Hot cocoa with. She made five cups and set them to cool. She put a bit of cold milk into Rin's and handed it to the young girl, "chocolate, it sooths the soul." Kagome took Sango's place and finished combing out Rin's hair before she started braiding it into two french braids. "We all have strange lives Rin. Maybe you don't know how lucky you are, not every girl has a dai-yokai looking out for her."

"The dai-yokai thinks I am still that little girl he found in the forest. I'm twelve! When Kohaku was my age," she stopped, seeing the hurt in Sango-san's eyes, "Sorry, Sango-san."

"Don't be," Sango whispered while holding her new daughter, "you're right. Kohaku began training when he was younger than you. You've done well learning what you have. If it's truly what you want, then I will teach you be a Taijia like me and Kohaku." She nuzzled the nose of the new baby she had only weeks before.

"I don't want a hiraikotsu…" Rin complained, it was a bulky weapon, powerful but she wanted something lighter. "If he found out…he won't let me."

Kagome hugged Rin from behind, "then we won't tell him. She finished off the braids. "We won't tell him. When you're ready you'll tell him."

The only hitch in the plan of Rin saying something was that the night of the fullmoon came and he did not, then the next came and he still didn't show. Two weeks later under the new-moon Kagome and Inuyasha sat in their small hut while their baby slept in the crib. The hanyou was in human form with his eyes on Kagome's back as she stared at the moon. "It's so dark outside." Kagome said quietly.

He came up behind her and held her around the waist. His lips fell on her cheek, lovingly, stroking her cheek. "These nights are easier now that I have you with me. Come to bed." He pulled her arm back into their hut, closing the flap and easing her onto their bamboo mats. He had tried to find some comfortable cushions that didn't get lumpy for them and wasn't able to. He slid himself over Kagome, enjoying her eyes dilating as he leaned over her kissing her lips, slowly and luxuriously. He cupped her chin while he rested on her, pecking her chin, then down her chin.

"I thought you didn't like doing this during the new moon?" Kagome giggled as he pulled the kimono off her shoulder.

"We have nothing else to do to pass the time," he reached in front of her to remove her obi, bearing her body to him. He pulled her red hikama off and then tugged the ties out of hair. "I liked it better when you didn't tie this back."

Their lips met again as his hands explored her body. They roamed over her sides, down to her downy curls, then back over her breasts, gripping her nipples and suckling them. "Inuyasha," she sighed arching into his mouth.

They had been together for a year and a half and he was still learning what she liked. It took more time since having Sota for her to get where he wanted her to go. They had to bring lubrication from her time, because she was often dry and sometimes she had pain since having the baby, but she still felt tight when he made love to her. In his human form, taste wasn't as strong as it was in his hanyou form, so he avoided licking her. But he still took his time with his fingers, toying with her clit until she was moaning. His fingers ambled down between her legs. She opened for him so gracefully and so innocently. His fingers found her inside and pumped lightly over and over, while his thumb flicked against her clit.

"Oh that feels so good," she reached down as he helped her get where she wanted and pumped his erection in her hand. "Inuyasha!" She cried when the heat began pooling in her stomach, dipping into her nether regions and shooting back up. She felt the first pulse, then the second, then her body lit into a symphony as she gripped his shoulders.

He rolled onto his back with a smirk on his face. "Come on. Get on me."

She lowered herself over him, hovering her breasts over his face as she pumped her hips back and forth. "Oh that feels good. Kami Kagome, harder," he shoved his hips up to meet hers.

All that was left on that night were the moans and groans of the two lovers, lost in each other's arms.

"Where the hell are you?" Kagome asked Sesshomaru as she sat across from him at a booth in Osaka. Jinenji had not been able to help her find what she was looking for, which left her still searching for a cure to his inevitable demise.

He sat primly sipping his hot cup of water, cutting the raw meat he had ordered. Raw was an understatement, it was just barely browned on either side and squirted blood when his fork jabbed into it. "How old is she?"

"Twelve," Kagome said rubbing her stomach uncomfortably, feeling slightly nauseated.

"Are you alright Miko?" His face softened gazing on her. "You reek of acid."

"I think I'm pregnant again," she said quietly. "I thought you couldn't get pregnant if you were nursing."

"If you were from back then," he started laughing with a big grin on his face. "Human bodies are much different than they were five hundred years ago."

"Is it a boy or a girl?"

"Why would I spoil that for you?" He lifted the water to his lips again. "I left her for quite a while. I don't remember if it was one year or two. Where is my brother?"

"In the Feudal Era. I told him I wanted to visit some friends in Osaka. He had an exorcism to perform, so he stayed back," she rocked the stroller next to her as the baby began to kvetch.

"Let me see this baby," he stood up and removed the baby from the pram. "Hello little one," he nuzzled his nephew's nose.

"You look better," Kagome said drinking her soda and staring at the soup she had thought smelled wonderful, but now made her want to puke.

"The seizures have abated somewhat for now. They come and go, depending on how much I wear myself out. I used to be able to sleep only once a month. I sleep almost every night now. He's grown," he tickled the baby's chin.

Sota's hair was as white as his uncle's and he wore a hat to hide his pointy ears. Yuki, Eri and Ayame had swooned over the little boy when they met him and how he looked just like his father, down to his slightly pointed claws. "These will become sharp soon. You'll want to be careful."

"Why won't you tell me more? What if there's some herb from five hundred years ago that could help you?"

"Actually there is one. If you can at least find me the seeds to cultivate here," he said quietly. "Thousand year berries. They bloom once in a thousand years. Their seeds have many of the same components I'm looking for and I have a contingent of fox-demons that increase production and speed the germination process."

"Where do I look?"

"In the mountains in Jinenji's home, or what was his home before he moved permanently to the village."

"How long will it take the fox-demons to make them bloom? You won't even tell me how much time you have!"

"I don't know how much time I have. I have lasted longer than I should have already. Find the berries for me. Did you tell my brother that you're expecting again?"

"Before I left. It's half the reason he wanted me here. I'll find them."

"It's dangerous there Miko. I wouldn't suggest going while you are in your current state."

"I'll get them," she said firmly. "Please tell me how long?"

He shook his head.

"You said soon when Sota was born."

"Soon to someone who has lived for fourteen hundred years?" He laughed to himself. "Maybe a decade, perhaps too. Depending on when my organs begin to shut-down. You needn't worry about me Miko. If you can bring me the berries, perhaps I can extend my life until I can find a more permanent solution. He's beautiful. You know I never really saw him as an infant. I saw when he was newborn but he was already three when I saw him again."

"You really abandoned her?"

"It wasn't abandonment. I had hoped by not paying attention to her that my enemies would leave her alone. They didn't. Their memories were long and eventually I will miss her smile, the way she was happy and carefree."

"You sent her a katana. I sense your yoki in it. But it doesn't do anything."

"You know I can't spoil everything for you," he laughed smiling at the baby.

"You are so different than you were then Sesshomaru. You never smiled then. I mean, I think I have never even seen you smile."

"Back then, my smiles were reserved for her and her alone. Bring him to visit me again sometime. If you can get away."

"I'll try."

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The next chapter will be baby Taisho's birth. I'm excited for that one :)

Other projects I am working on is Kiss of Fate with Kimmigirl9. It's an awesome AU.