Daises in my Hair and Butterflies in my Stomach: Ch 9
Beautiful

Inuyasha was calmly exploring 'Clear Water' with Rin attached to his back as she road piggy back. Ashia had departed earlier that morning to announce Lord Sesshomarus return to the ether vassals that had given him up for dead in his absence. They had been here for a week now and each day Inuyasha would wonder the halls exploring with Rin and Shippo. Inuyasha had to admit that Oba Ashia was quite the tuff little woman, while Oji Talka was just as kind and sweet as Ashia.

Inuyasha stopped. Some one was fallowing him and Rin but who. He turned around and looked behind him. No one was there just the empty hall behind him. He turned back around and jumped four feet into the air, he landed grabbing his heart. Rin laughed as she clung to his back.

"Oji Talka!" she squealed. Inuyasha gulped as he got his heart to settle down as he look up at the silent tiger that stood relaxed, smiling broadly at them. Inuyasha let Rin slip down so she could run and embrace her grate uncle. He gave his chest a nice thump with the palm of his hand before addressing the silent one.

"I really wish you wouldn't do that." Inuyasha barked. Talka held Rin on his hip as he tilted his head to the side with a curious look that spoke for him. 'Not do what?' it asked childishly. Inuyasha shook his head.

"So did you need me or something?" Talka straitened and shook his head gently. Inuyasha looked directly into Talka's eyes. This tiger seemed to be able to talk threw those liquid jade pools just as well if he had a voice.

"Sesshomaru wants me." Inuyasha stated. Talka nodded simply.

"And you're going to go take Rin to play with Shippo and the babies?" Inuyasha asked, making sure he understood. Again Talka nodded gently with his soft fathering smile. Talka turned and strolled down the corridor bouncing Rin on his hip and getting her to laugh happily. Inuyasha smiled and turned to go back to the main chamber where he had left Sesshomaru napping in the pile of pillows he had sat in when they had arrived. He found Sesshomaru still lying on his side but Inuyasha could hear light sniffs. He made it quickly to Sesshomaru's side. He knelt in front of his love and pushed the silver strands that covered Sesshomaru's face back behind his ear.

"Sesshomaru what's wrong?" Inuyasha cooed sadly as he tried to comfort his lover.

"I . . . . I don't know, I just missed you when I woke and you weren't here." Sesshomaru hiked. Inuyasha heard a soft gentle chuckle from behind him and he turned sharply to see Ashia removing her traveling cloak and handing it and her weaponry to a ferret. She walked up and sat behind Sesshomaru and gently rubbed his back.

"It's the mood swings. Sesshomaru will be very emotional sometimes as the pup matures within him. But it will pass once the child is born." She cooed gently as she petted Sesshomaru's hair out of his face. Inuyasha gave a sigh.

"So he's ok?" Inuyasha asked calming down again. He crawled closer and placed a gentle kiss on Sesshomaru's forehead.

"Yes, he will be fine, just a little more sensitive when it comes to his emotional being." She said gently as she rose up.

"I'm going to go and check on my own offspring and tend to them, Sango, Miroku, and Kagome have gone to a place called 'Bone Eaters Well'." She said.

"They said that they will return in a few days. They took off on Kirara." And with a twitch of her tail she retreated to find her children and husband.

Inuyasha scooped Sesshomaru up and took him to their room. There he laid Sesshomaru down on the feather bed. Inuyasha walked around the bed and sat down, swing his legs up, he turned onto his back and let Sesshomaru cuddle to his side. Inuyasha gently threaded his fingers threw Sesshomaru's silver locks.

"You should try and sleep some more. You didn't get much sleep last night." Inuyasha cooed.

"I know." Sesshomaru said his tone soft and quiet.

"Your having night mares aren't you?" Inuyasha asked sternly. Sesshomaru merely nodded. Inuyasha's mouth became a grim line.

"What do you want, Sesshomaru, a girl or a boy?" Inuyasha asked changing the subject.

"I don't know, maybe another girl, one that I can raise from an infant. One that Rin could big sister." Sesshomaru smiled and Inuyasha watched as Sesshomaru's eyes seemed to sparkle.

"Another little angel." Inuyasha sighed at the thought. A little white heard girl running threw the halls, laughing and smiling. Then Inuyasha remembered, she might not have white hair, she might have shiny stark raven hair. Her eyes might be just as dark as her hair and like a human, not the golden slits. Just because of the pain Sesshomaru was put threw. Inuyasha pulled Sesshomaru closer with the arm he laid upon. Taking his free hands, Inuyasha, sat it on Sesshomarus round stomach, splaying his fingers in a protective gesture.

Sesshomaru blinked in slight surprise before wrapping his arms tighter around Inuyasha and curling tighter to his side, nuzzling his face into Inuyasha's chest. He felt safe and warm. Nothing was going to make him move. That is till a little, still developing foot gave a kick to the side of his abdomen. Sesshomaru snapped up quickly. His hands resting on his stomach and eyes shifting back and forth quickly as he tried to figure out what had just happened. He heard a happy, light laugh as Inuyasha came up and wrapped his arms around Sesshomaru and pulled him agents his chest, Inuyasha's own hands caressing the bulge that was Sesshomarus abdomen.

Inuyasha's smile widened as another small tremor came from Sesshomaru's stomach, creating a little lump to appear quickly on the surface of Sesshomarus stomach.

"Inuyasha, go get Oba Ashia, something is wrong!" Sesshomaru stated, fearing for the life that was growing within him. Inuyasha just laughed lightly and hugged Sesshomaru as tightly as he would let himself.

"Don't be silly Sesshomaru, nothing is wrong. It's the baby moving. Oba Ashia said this would start to happen soon, remember. She said that the baby would start to kick and would move a lot more. There's nothing to worry about, every thing is perfect." Inuyasha cooed, caressing the bulge of Sesshomarus stomach. Sesshomaru gave a sigh and leaned back agents Inuyasha's chest.

"Only three more months," Inuyasha breathed. He was going to be a father. No one was going to tell him different. And ABSOLUTELY no one will harm them. No one. Sesshomaru shifted uncomfortably, which was odd, this was his favorite way to sit.

"What's wrong?" Inuyasha asked concerned before Sesshomaru got up. He was blushing quite profusely and mumbling about the second thing he hated about being pregnant. Inuyasha was confused till he saw where Sesshomaru was heading. He snickered; it must be hell having something sitting on your bladder.

Sesshomaru sat at the edge of the lake that was at Clear Waters entrance. His feet wading in the cool water as he tossed small bits of his lunch to the koi, (the giant gold fish, not the word love). He gave a sigh as he simply let his mind drift.

So far in the past three months and one week, he had managed to go into heat with out noticing until it was too late, that had been bad, him having attracted that evil bastard who had been watching him since their first meeting. Then he had found himself in his brothers company and instead of waking up to fined himself hogtied and them waiting to question him, he found himself wrapped safely in a thick warm blanket and Rin sitting safely in Kegome's lap, Inuyasha making him sip warm broth.

Only a few days after he had began to really recover did they find out that he was going to have a child, Narakus' child. He gave a heavy sigh and looked up into the blue sky and watched as a streak of cloud pass by. Thankfully Inuyasha seemed not to care what linage the child would have. He only hoped that Inuyasha could love the child just as much as if it were his own.

Sesshomaru bowed his head and watched his feet as he wiggled his tows in the water. He should have been nicer to Inuyasha when they were children. He sniffed. He groaned and buried his face in his hands as another mood swing gripped him and made him feel like shit for being such a bastard to Inuyasha. How the Inu could love him considering how he had treated the boy and that the child he carried was the production of rape was beyond him. And that was without mentioning that the child's blood father was Inuyasha's sworn enemy and the enemy to the entire world.

His sobs shook his shoulders. He nearly jumped into the lake when two sets of strong arms wrapped around him, one set around his waist and bulging abdomen, the other around his shoulders. A hand came up and petted his head to calm him as the arms shifted and pulled him back into the two body's that always where there when he needed them the most.

"O. .Oba,. . . O. . O. . .Oji!" he sobbed as he buried his face into his Oba's chest. His Oji's strong, gentle hands wrapped around both him and his Oba as the gently stroked that bulge he called his abdomen. His Oba's arms wrapped around him, one arm holding his head to her as the other wrapped around his torso.

"Shhh, shh, shhhhh. It's alright my little Oi." Ashia cooed as her and Talka began to rock their dear nephew. He let his sobs out, he new better then to surpass them, that only lead to the outburst to be worst.

"You shouldn't muse such thing Sesshomaru," Ashia gave a knowing twitch of her lips, "They are not good for you or the baby. Inuyasha loves you no matter your past and he loves this child just as much as he dose you." She soothed, her voice a gentle purr. He should have known that his Oba would have picked up on his emotional outburst with her telepathy.

From one moment to the next he found himself pulled gently from his Oba and Oji's arms to being cradled in those of Inuyasha. He turned his tear streaked face up and blinked in surprise at the site he saw. Inuyasha's eyes where looking at him softly and he had a gentle smile upon his face, he bent his head down and gently kissed away Sesshomaru's tears. Pulling away only to rest his brow agents Sesshomaru's.

"You never need to be sad as long as I have you." Inuyasha whispered gently.

"Even when I'm like this?" Sesshomaru asked shyly. Inuyasha's face turned stern and almost menacing.

"You are nothing but beautiful. Never let me here you say different." His face softened as he held Sesshomaru closer as he began to walk inside.

"Your beautiful." Inuyasha whispered again.