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only for entertainment purposes, (and an excuse to avoid my homework:). So
don't sue and enjoy the fic!
The Feudal Fairy Tale Begins Again... By: Msmelanie
Chapter Four: "Shippou, what in the-!"
Two months later at Kagome's apartment...
Kawayou furiously went through his drawers. 'Where is it?' he thought to himself.
"Hey Kawayou!" his friend Syaoran laughed happily as he placed a green baseball cap over Kawayou's head. "Don't forget your cap!" He loved to tease him about all his caps he hated.
Kawayou ignored him and kept the stupid cap on. "Where is it?!" he barked. Then, out of nowhere he suddenly started to cry out in pain and ran toward the living room. He instantly buried his head within Kagome's lap.
Kagome wasn't a rocket scientist, but she knew what was happening. She grabbed her nearby jacket and put it over his head, doing her best to cover up his ears. Even though she couldn't hear it, she knew something very loud was on it's way there.
After the wailing ambulance and police cars had come and gone, Kawayou took his head out from underneath the jacket. "OWW!"
Kagome rubbed his hair gently. 'Oh, if only demon's were still around today...there would be earplugs to fit all types of ears!'
Kawayou looked up at Kagome. "My ears are still ringing."
Kagome smiled down at her son, who continued to twitch his ears.
"How'd my dad handle real loud noises?" he asked out of the blue.
Kagome looked at her son, a little stunned. "Inuyasha? I don't know." She looked to the side of her and saw Syaoran standing in Kawayou's disheveled room. "What were you looking for?" she asked examining the scattered clothes. "Did a bomb go off?" she laughed.
Kawayou looked at his mom. "My Christmas present last year."
"Which one? The jacket?" she asked.
"Nah. The one grandma sent me." he replied.
Kagome looked down at her son. 'Oh no, not that...'
////"Who's that one from?" she asked Kawayou as he held his Christmas present.
Kawayou shook the box. "Grandma." he replied as his claws easily tore through the box and wrapping paper. Kawayou held it up and smiled. "Look mom! Ain't it cool?!"
Kagome stood stunned. There in front of her Kawayou was holding a bright red kimono. One that looked like a replica of his father's. She immediately grabbed it and handed him his next gift. "Open this." she said as she faked a pleased smile.////
"I think I must've lost it." Kawayou replied. "I searched everywhere and I couldn't find it!"
Kagome sighed. She knew he'd never find it.
"Think grandma'll be upset?" he asked.
Kagome shook her head no. "Don't worry. We'll tell your grandma it got misplaced." She looked down at her son. "You look good in your cute blue overalls. If you want to wear that, we can get going now."
Kawayou smiled and shook his head yes. Kawayou, Syaoran and Kagome all walked out of the apartment as she locked it up.
"Bye Kawayou!" Syaoran waved to Kawayou.
Kawayou waved back and smiled to his friend, then he grabbed his mom's hand as they slowly left.
Inuyasha looked down the well again. There were still no fresh scents. 'It's still not 'Christmas'?!' He thought back to Sango and Miroku's recollection.
///"I don't remember much, but I believe Ms. Kagome spoke of it when it was cold. When there was snow on the ground." Miroku looked over at Sango. "What do you remember?"
"Nothing except 'presents' and 'lights'." she replied.
"That's it?!" Inyasha barked.
"She said so much about her time, you should be surprised we remember that much." Miroku commented.///
Inuyasha looked around bitterly. "There's snow on the damn ground! Where is she?!"
Later that day Kagome and her son arrive at her mother's home...
Kawayou bounded up into his mother's arms.
"Well, it's nice to see you again too." his grandmother chuckled. She looked over to her daughter who bundled up in a coat. She sighed when she saw the briefcase in her daughter's hand. "It's a vacation Kagome. You need a suitcase, not a briefcase."
Kagome frowned. "The suitcases I have packed are in the car mother."
Mrs. Higurashi looked back at her daughter.'Mother? She always calls me mom. That means...' She looked down at her grandson. "Would you mind going to your Uncle Sota for awhile? He should be inside the house."
Kawayou complied and jumped down, dashing into the house. "Uncle Soda?!!"
Kagome's mother looked back at Kagome. "What's wrong?"
"Huh? What do you mean?" Kagome asked.
"You called me 'mother' Kagome. I know something's wrong." her mother replied.
Kagome sighed. How she wanted to jump into her mother's arms and cry out all her troubles....but she couldn't. She wouldn't. She had changed so much in the past five years. She faked a smile and replied. "Everything."
Mrs. Higurashi walked up to hold her daughter. Kagome didn't hold her back.
"It's all falling apart." She looked at her mom. "I wanted to get away with saying Kawayou had a strange disease that caused his appearance, but every school keeps rejecting him. I even had help from Hojo's relative who was a doctor.
"You mean, to find a disease that doesn't exist?" Her mother sighed. "That was risky Kagome."
"I know. He even explained that he was in no way contagious or dangerous, but no will except him!"
Mrs. Higurashi looked down at her daughter. "And since it was a conjured up lie, you can't fight them in the courts."
Kagome fell silent. "It's not fair." she whined softly. Then she caught herself. She wouldn't whine, she had to stay strong. She looked at her mother with an unreadable expression. "He is so intelligent too. His I.Q. compared to others is astounding mom. But his ears and his claws...and his fangs..."
Her mother sighed and held her daughter closer.
Kagome pulled away from her mother as she started feeling weakness emerge. She couldn't let it emerge. She looked up at her mom. "I love my son for who he is. Why can't others too?"
Her mother didn't reply. Kagome didn't expect her to. It was the world's stupidest question. Even in a world that was used to demons, acceptance was very rare.
"He is too good to end up in someone's circus act..." She looked back down at the ground. "...or worse." She suddenly started to walk toward the house. She didn't like the atmosphere she had currently led herself to be in. She pulled out of her dreary thoughts as her son pounced up to her.
"Kawayou, I was only gone for a few minutes." she said rubbing her son's head.
Her son looked at her.
"So, what did you do with your Uncle?" she asked plastering on a fake smile.
Her son still looked at her, now with a touch of annoyance.
She sighed. Yes, with his ears she knew he heard every word. "I'm fine Kawayou." She looked over at her brother. "So? What did you two do while I was gone?"
"Please?" Shippou pleaded to Inuyasha. "One more time?"
"I already looked." Inuyasha growled. "It was cold and there was snow inside the well."
"But you could've been early!" Shippou rebuttaled pulling on Inuyasha's kimono. "One more look?"
"Just go. He won't give up." Miroku reasoned.
Inuyasha frowned and grabbed Miroku's wrists. "Fine, you're coming too!"
Mrs. Higurashi watched as everyone had gathered around the television set. She looked over at her daughter. The cruelness of the world was turning the girl who burned with a desire for passion and adventure...into a cold woman. The fire that had always burned brightly in her eyes was slowly withering away. She knew that the only thing that had kept her daughter sane was the little dog demon that was sitting in front of the T.V.
Mrs. Higurashi went to her father's study to talk to him...
"What is it?" he asked eating some leftovers.
Mrs. Higurashi pulled up a chair next to him. "Dad? Kagome....she's losing the battle."
Her father didn't reply.
"Do you remember when she was younger? Such a passion for life. Then, when she went through the well? Her grades had dropped, but her heart had never been happier." she finished, her eyes becoming blurry. "Why did her happiness stop? Why did that well stop?"
Her father looked at her with gentleness. "That my dear, is a question I wish could be answered." He leaned back in his chair. "-but if the adventures had continued, you know she probably never would've passed those exams or got good grades. She never certainly would've landed that wonderful money-making job of hers."
"The excuse of exams that kept her distant. The good grades she earned by becoming distant and cold and the job that sucks the life out of her. Yes..." a tear glittered in her eyed. "All those we should be thankful for." her hoarse voice said sarcastically.
Her father sat back up. "Yes well...at least as you said, her son keeps her from going over the edge."
"Yes." Mrs. Higurashi said turning to leave. '-but for how long?' She went back downstairs and walked over to her daughter who was already working on her laptop she had brought in her briefcase. "Dear?" 'Look at her. If I had known this would've been her future...I would've told her to stay in the past and the hell with the consequences.'
"Yes mom?" Kagome answered still not taking her eyes off her laptop screen.
Her mother picked up Kawayou. "Kagome, you and Kawayou should go to the well."
"Well?" Kagome backspaced on her laptop.
Her mother placed her hands on Kagome's keyboard. "Yes, the well."
Kagome frowned at her mother. "Mom-"
"Trust me Kagome." Her mother interrupted. She smiled at Kawayou. "Don't you want to see the well?"
Kawayou grinned. "See it? Screw that, I wanna smell it again!"
Mrs. Higurashi looked down at her granson with confusion written all over her face. 'Smell?'
Kagome saved her work, closed her laptop and stood up. As she had expected Kawayou jumped from his grandmother to her. "Alright mom, I'll go. Besides, Kawayou would probably run off to it again soon anyway." She headed for the door. "I'll be back."
"It's freezing out here!" Miroku complained as he rubbed his shoulders.
Inuyasha ignored him and looked at the well ahead of them. "Alright runt, sniff to your heart's content then come back. Miroku here can't stand the cold."
Shippou smiled and jumped into the well.
Kawayou wriggled out of his mom's arms as they approached the shrine.
"Kawayou, what's the matter?!" she shouted as she watched him dart down the stairs and sniff the well anxiously.
"That funny smell's back!" he shouted.
Shippou sniffed and sniffed. He couldn't stop smiling or sniffing. "It's her! It's Kagome's scent!" he shouted happily.
Before he had even uttered a word, Inuyasha was already sniffing by the well. Miroku just watched in amusement as his half-youkai friend moved his nose and twitched his ears.
Suddenly, Kawayou's expression turned grave and his ears lowered against his head
Kagome looked at her son. "Kawayou? What's wrong?"
Kawayou looked at his mom. May emotions were visible upon his face, but fear and anger were the most profound. "Something's wrong!"
Shippou and inuyasha kept twitching their ears but they couldn't hear anything.
'There's still no voice.' they both thought sadly.
Kagome looked at her son. "What's wrong? What is it?"
Kawayou growled and looked around. He moved closer toward his mom and extended his claws.
Inuyasha jumped down into the well. "Nothing?" he asked Shippou with an annoyed look on his face.
Shippou looked back at him. "No. Even the scents dissapeared again."
Kagome looked nervously at her son. His claws were extended, his ears were still pressed against his head, and he was now baring his fangs. She suddenly became afraid that somithing really was after him. 'I don't see anything. I don't sense anything. What is going on?!' As on reflex, she looked around for a bow and some arrows, but there were none and she knew it. 'I gave up archery years ago. And even if I could shoot, my powers are probably long since gone.'
Kawayou looked all around the shrine. Then, his eyes darted to the well. "That's it!"
Before Kagome knew what was going on Kawayou had grabbed her and jumped into the well.
Inuyasha stopped sniffing the air. Shippou reluctantly stopped too.
"Their gone." Inuyasha stated.
Shippou shook his head. "I wanted to hear her voice on more time."
Inuyasha looked at Shippou. "Let's get out of here. It's getting colder."
Shippou looked up at him. "That doesn't bother you though."
"Yeah, but it does the perverted priest." Inuyasha replied.
Shippou looked at the ground one more time. "Okay, but we come back together tomorrow!"
Inuyasha muttered somthing under his breath as Shippou jumped on his shoulder.
Then, Inuyasha smashed to the ground. "Shippou, what in the-!"
Then it hit him. He looked at the face next to his.
"It's..." he sighed. She seemed older than before, but it was her. Her face, her hair, her scent. Inuyasha breathed it in and was about to reach out for her when he heard a yelp from below him. He lifted his right arm and saw Shippou's face smushed down into the snow. Shippou got up and instantly saw her. His face lit up and he looked at Inuyasha with tears in his eyes.
Kagome's vision had blurred slightly, but once it came into focus she couldn't believe it. 'Sh-Shippou? I-Inuyasha?!'
"Inuyasha?!!" she suddenly yelled out in disbelief.
Inuyasha and Shippou automatically reached out to her. Inuyasha had grabbed her hand and Shippou had jumped on her head.
"Kagome!!" Shippou cried out with tears of joy.
Then, she suddenly looked around desperately. "Kawayou?!" she shouted.
That's when Inuyasha felt a claw brush on the back of his heel. He instantly got up and grabbed her, his claws extended and ready to fight.
Kagome watched Inuyasha's expression as he slowly started to take in the little strangers appearance. His claws suddenly dropped and it looked like he might too.
Shippou looked at the unconscious boy, then to Inuyasha, then back to the boy. Then he stared at Kagome.
Kagome slowly went over and picked her son up delicately. She looked around at her companions nervously.
No words were needed. Inuyasha was smart and it was apparent to Kagome that 'he knew'. Even Shippou could easily recognize the truth.
But nevertheless, the obvious was stated from above.
"Well, well, well!" Miroku shouted happily from the top of the well as he looked down at them. "I may not have been able to convince Ms. Kagome to bear my child, but I see you had no problem doing that!"
Next time on The Feudal Fairy Tale Begins Again...
Miroku grinned widely. "It seems your 'little' Inuyasha will be just fine."
Confusion, worry, anger and frustration raced through her mind. She had so much to say, so much she wanted explained but all she could blurt out was "He's yours."
Kagome laughed nervously as she tried to pull her jacket from Kawayou's face. he was fighting equally hard to keep it into place. "Sorry. I guess he's feeling a little shy."
Then he lost his air for a second as something new caught his eye. "A necklace with teeth on it? Who's teeth?!"
Author's Note: Even though this is my first Inuyasha Fanfiction I've already written well-done fanfictions for other series. No real beginner here, but comments always help. For anyone reading this on Fanfiction.net who's worried if I will drop this if there aren't many reviews, I won't.:) I even plan on putting this on my site when it's completed on paper. I hope you enjoy the story and I hope you do review. It helps.
The Feudal Fairy Tale Begins Again... By: Msmelanie
Chapter Four: "Shippou, what in the-!"
Two months later at Kagome's apartment...
Kawayou furiously went through his drawers. 'Where is it?' he thought to himself.
"Hey Kawayou!" his friend Syaoran laughed happily as he placed a green baseball cap over Kawayou's head. "Don't forget your cap!" He loved to tease him about all his caps he hated.
Kawayou ignored him and kept the stupid cap on. "Where is it?!" he barked. Then, out of nowhere he suddenly started to cry out in pain and ran toward the living room. He instantly buried his head within Kagome's lap.
Kagome wasn't a rocket scientist, but she knew what was happening. She grabbed her nearby jacket and put it over his head, doing her best to cover up his ears. Even though she couldn't hear it, she knew something very loud was on it's way there.
After the wailing ambulance and police cars had come and gone, Kawayou took his head out from underneath the jacket. "OWW!"
Kagome rubbed his hair gently. 'Oh, if only demon's were still around today...there would be earplugs to fit all types of ears!'
Kawayou looked up at Kagome. "My ears are still ringing."
Kagome smiled down at her son, who continued to twitch his ears.
"How'd my dad handle real loud noises?" he asked out of the blue.
Kagome looked at her son, a little stunned. "Inuyasha? I don't know." She looked to the side of her and saw Syaoran standing in Kawayou's disheveled room. "What were you looking for?" she asked examining the scattered clothes. "Did a bomb go off?" she laughed.
Kawayou looked at his mom. "My Christmas present last year."
"Which one? The jacket?" she asked.
"Nah. The one grandma sent me." he replied.
Kagome looked down at her son. 'Oh no, not that...'
////"Who's that one from?" she asked Kawayou as he held his Christmas present.
Kawayou shook the box. "Grandma." he replied as his claws easily tore through the box and wrapping paper. Kawayou held it up and smiled. "Look mom! Ain't it cool?!"
Kagome stood stunned. There in front of her Kawayou was holding a bright red kimono. One that looked like a replica of his father's. She immediately grabbed it and handed him his next gift. "Open this." she said as she faked a pleased smile.////
"I think I must've lost it." Kawayou replied. "I searched everywhere and I couldn't find it!"
Kagome sighed. She knew he'd never find it.
"Think grandma'll be upset?" he asked.
Kagome shook her head no. "Don't worry. We'll tell your grandma it got misplaced." She looked down at her son. "You look good in your cute blue overalls. If you want to wear that, we can get going now."
Kawayou smiled and shook his head yes. Kawayou, Syaoran and Kagome all walked out of the apartment as she locked it up.
"Bye Kawayou!" Syaoran waved to Kawayou.
Kawayou waved back and smiled to his friend, then he grabbed his mom's hand as they slowly left.
Inuyasha looked down the well again. There were still no fresh scents. 'It's still not 'Christmas'?!' He thought back to Sango and Miroku's recollection.
///"I don't remember much, but I believe Ms. Kagome spoke of it when it was cold. When there was snow on the ground." Miroku looked over at Sango. "What do you remember?"
"Nothing except 'presents' and 'lights'." she replied.
"That's it?!" Inyasha barked.
"She said so much about her time, you should be surprised we remember that much." Miroku commented.///
Inuyasha looked around bitterly. "There's snow on the damn ground! Where is she?!"
Later that day Kagome and her son arrive at her mother's home...
Kawayou bounded up into his mother's arms.
"Well, it's nice to see you again too." his grandmother chuckled. She looked over to her daughter who bundled up in a coat. She sighed when she saw the briefcase in her daughter's hand. "It's a vacation Kagome. You need a suitcase, not a briefcase."
Kagome frowned. "The suitcases I have packed are in the car mother."
Mrs. Higurashi looked back at her daughter.'Mother? She always calls me mom. That means...' She looked down at her grandson. "Would you mind going to your Uncle Sota for awhile? He should be inside the house."
Kawayou complied and jumped down, dashing into the house. "Uncle Soda?!!"
Kagome's mother looked back at Kagome. "What's wrong?"
"Huh? What do you mean?" Kagome asked.
"You called me 'mother' Kagome. I know something's wrong." her mother replied.
Kagome sighed. How she wanted to jump into her mother's arms and cry out all her troubles....but she couldn't. She wouldn't. She had changed so much in the past five years. She faked a smile and replied. "Everything."
Mrs. Higurashi walked up to hold her daughter. Kagome didn't hold her back.
"It's all falling apart." She looked at her mom. "I wanted to get away with saying Kawayou had a strange disease that caused his appearance, but every school keeps rejecting him. I even had help from Hojo's relative who was a doctor.
"You mean, to find a disease that doesn't exist?" Her mother sighed. "That was risky Kagome."
"I know. He even explained that he was in no way contagious or dangerous, but no will except him!"
Mrs. Higurashi looked down at her daughter. "And since it was a conjured up lie, you can't fight them in the courts."
Kagome fell silent. "It's not fair." she whined softly. Then she caught herself. She wouldn't whine, she had to stay strong. She looked at her mother with an unreadable expression. "He is so intelligent too. His I.Q. compared to others is astounding mom. But his ears and his claws...and his fangs..."
Her mother sighed and held her daughter closer.
Kagome pulled away from her mother as she started feeling weakness emerge. She couldn't let it emerge. She looked up at her mom. "I love my son for who he is. Why can't others too?"
Her mother didn't reply. Kagome didn't expect her to. It was the world's stupidest question. Even in a world that was used to demons, acceptance was very rare.
"He is too good to end up in someone's circus act..." She looked back down at the ground. "...or worse." She suddenly started to walk toward the house. She didn't like the atmosphere she had currently led herself to be in. She pulled out of her dreary thoughts as her son pounced up to her.
"Kawayou, I was only gone for a few minutes." she said rubbing her son's head.
Her son looked at her.
"So, what did you do with your Uncle?" she asked plastering on a fake smile.
Her son still looked at her, now with a touch of annoyance.
She sighed. Yes, with his ears she knew he heard every word. "I'm fine Kawayou." She looked over at her brother. "So? What did you two do while I was gone?"
"Please?" Shippou pleaded to Inuyasha. "One more time?"
"I already looked." Inuyasha growled. "It was cold and there was snow inside the well."
"But you could've been early!" Shippou rebuttaled pulling on Inuyasha's kimono. "One more look?"
"Just go. He won't give up." Miroku reasoned.
Inuyasha frowned and grabbed Miroku's wrists. "Fine, you're coming too!"
Mrs. Higurashi watched as everyone had gathered around the television set. She looked over at her daughter. The cruelness of the world was turning the girl who burned with a desire for passion and adventure...into a cold woman. The fire that had always burned brightly in her eyes was slowly withering away. She knew that the only thing that had kept her daughter sane was the little dog demon that was sitting in front of the T.V.
Mrs. Higurashi went to her father's study to talk to him...
"What is it?" he asked eating some leftovers.
Mrs. Higurashi pulled up a chair next to him. "Dad? Kagome....she's losing the battle."
Her father didn't reply.
"Do you remember when she was younger? Such a passion for life. Then, when she went through the well? Her grades had dropped, but her heart had never been happier." she finished, her eyes becoming blurry. "Why did her happiness stop? Why did that well stop?"
Her father looked at her with gentleness. "That my dear, is a question I wish could be answered." He leaned back in his chair. "-but if the adventures had continued, you know she probably never would've passed those exams or got good grades. She never certainly would've landed that wonderful money-making job of hers."
"The excuse of exams that kept her distant. The good grades she earned by becoming distant and cold and the job that sucks the life out of her. Yes..." a tear glittered in her eyed. "All those we should be thankful for." her hoarse voice said sarcastically.
Her father sat back up. "Yes well...at least as you said, her son keeps her from going over the edge."
"Yes." Mrs. Higurashi said turning to leave. '-but for how long?' She went back downstairs and walked over to her daughter who was already working on her laptop she had brought in her briefcase. "Dear?" 'Look at her. If I had known this would've been her future...I would've told her to stay in the past and the hell with the consequences.'
"Yes mom?" Kagome answered still not taking her eyes off her laptop screen.
Her mother picked up Kawayou. "Kagome, you and Kawayou should go to the well."
"Well?" Kagome backspaced on her laptop.
Her mother placed her hands on Kagome's keyboard. "Yes, the well."
Kagome frowned at her mother. "Mom-"
"Trust me Kagome." Her mother interrupted. She smiled at Kawayou. "Don't you want to see the well?"
Kawayou grinned. "See it? Screw that, I wanna smell it again!"
Mrs. Higurashi looked down at her granson with confusion written all over her face. 'Smell?'
Kagome saved her work, closed her laptop and stood up. As she had expected Kawayou jumped from his grandmother to her. "Alright mom, I'll go. Besides, Kawayou would probably run off to it again soon anyway." She headed for the door. "I'll be back."
"It's freezing out here!" Miroku complained as he rubbed his shoulders.
Inuyasha ignored him and looked at the well ahead of them. "Alright runt, sniff to your heart's content then come back. Miroku here can't stand the cold."
Shippou smiled and jumped into the well.
Kawayou wriggled out of his mom's arms as they approached the shrine.
"Kawayou, what's the matter?!" she shouted as she watched him dart down the stairs and sniff the well anxiously.
"That funny smell's back!" he shouted.
Shippou sniffed and sniffed. He couldn't stop smiling or sniffing. "It's her! It's Kagome's scent!" he shouted happily.
Before he had even uttered a word, Inuyasha was already sniffing by the well. Miroku just watched in amusement as his half-youkai friend moved his nose and twitched his ears.
Suddenly, Kawayou's expression turned grave and his ears lowered against his head
Kagome looked at her son. "Kawayou? What's wrong?"
Kawayou looked at his mom. May emotions were visible upon his face, but fear and anger were the most profound. "Something's wrong!"
Shippou and inuyasha kept twitching their ears but they couldn't hear anything.
'There's still no voice.' they both thought sadly.
Kagome looked at her son. "What's wrong? What is it?"
Kawayou growled and looked around. He moved closer toward his mom and extended his claws.
Inuyasha jumped down into the well. "Nothing?" he asked Shippou with an annoyed look on his face.
Shippou looked back at him. "No. Even the scents dissapeared again."
Kagome looked nervously at her son. His claws were extended, his ears were still pressed against his head, and he was now baring his fangs. She suddenly became afraid that somithing really was after him. 'I don't see anything. I don't sense anything. What is going on?!' As on reflex, she looked around for a bow and some arrows, but there were none and she knew it. 'I gave up archery years ago. And even if I could shoot, my powers are probably long since gone.'
Kawayou looked all around the shrine. Then, his eyes darted to the well. "That's it!"
Before Kagome knew what was going on Kawayou had grabbed her and jumped into the well.
Inuyasha stopped sniffing the air. Shippou reluctantly stopped too.
"Their gone." Inuyasha stated.
Shippou shook his head. "I wanted to hear her voice on more time."
Inuyasha looked at Shippou. "Let's get out of here. It's getting colder."
Shippou looked up at him. "That doesn't bother you though."
"Yeah, but it does the perverted priest." Inuyasha replied.
Shippou looked at the ground one more time. "Okay, but we come back together tomorrow!"
Inuyasha muttered somthing under his breath as Shippou jumped on his shoulder.
Then, Inuyasha smashed to the ground. "Shippou, what in the-!"
Then it hit him. He looked at the face next to his.
"It's..." he sighed. She seemed older than before, but it was her. Her face, her hair, her scent. Inuyasha breathed it in and was about to reach out for her when he heard a yelp from below him. He lifted his right arm and saw Shippou's face smushed down into the snow. Shippou got up and instantly saw her. His face lit up and he looked at Inuyasha with tears in his eyes.
Kagome's vision had blurred slightly, but once it came into focus she couldn't believe it. 'Sh-Shippou? I-Inuyasha?!'
"Inuyasha?!!" she suddenly yelled out in disbelief.
Inuyasha and Shippou automatically reached out to her. Inuyasha had grabbed her hand and Shippou had jumped on her head.
"Kagome!!" Shippou cried out with tears of joy.
Then, she suddenly looked around desperately. "Kawayou?!" she shouted.
That's when Inuyasha felt a claw brush on the back of his heel. He instantly got up and grabbed her, his claws extended and ready to fight.
Kagome watched Inuyasha's expression as he slowly started to take in the little strangers appearance. His claws suddenly dropped and it looked like he might too.
Shippou looked at the unconscious boy, then to Inuyasha, then back to the boy. Then he stared at Kagome.
Kagome slowly went over and picked her son up delicately. She looked around at her companions nervously.
No words were needed. Inuyasha was smart and it was apparent to Kagome that 'he knew'. Even Shippou could easily recognize the truth.
But nevertheless, the obvious was stated from above.
"Well, well, well!" Miroku shouted happily from the top of the well as he looked down at them. "I may not have been able to convince Ms. Kagome to bear my child, but I see you had no problem doing that!"
Next time on The Feudal Fairy Tale Begins Again...
Miroku grinned widely. "It seems your 'little' Inuyasha will be just fine."
Confusion, worry, anger and frustration raced through her mind. She had so much to say, so much she wanted explained but all she could blurt out was "He's yours."
Kagome laughed nervously as she tried to pull her jacket from Kawayou's face. he was fighting equally hard to keep it into place. "Sorry. I guess he's feeling a little shy."
Then he lost his air for a second as something new caught his eye. "A necklace with teeth on it? Who's teeth?!"
Author's Note: Even though this is my first Inuyasha Fanfiction I've already written well-done fanfictions for other series. No real beginner here, but comments always help. For anyone reading this on Fanfiction.net who's worried if I will drop this if there aren't many reviews, I won't.:) I even plan on putting this on my site when it's completed on paper. I hope you enjoy the story and I hope you do review. It helps.
