Hmm, well, here are some review responses for some much appreciated
reviews!!
Crimson Hawk5313-hey, I will continue (obviously, or I wouldn't be writing
this). Thanx for reviewing!!
Pori-Pori-Cute name. Like I said before, I suppose I will continue. Yay for reviews! Thank you!
Kristine Batey-Wow, that was a long review. Very informative, though. You're right; this is another random rapefic that has gone out of my little typing fingers. No, you weren't ragging on me; it was constructive criticism. Believe you me, I would like nothing more than to touch an audience with the truths of a rape, but there are a few problems: 1) I don't know anyone who has been raped (so I can't really ask them...) 2) The 1st chapter was quick and broad because I don't like sad things like that, and I don't know what it would be like. 3) The baby will be teased, as sad as that may be. And no, Kagome won't be happy with him/her. 4) I am a happy, bubbly person and I have trouble writing sad things unless I am horribly sad (which is rare. Although I have had some rather good writing sessions when I was bloody half-asleep.) 5) Just thinking about sad things like poor deformed kids and having to bear them is making ME sad. I have a rather overactive imagination, as you might be able to tell. So I like to look on the bright side, because everyday life is like this: not happy. For me, reading a story is a way to ESCAPE reality, not go further into it. I suppose this world's just too darn sad for my taste, so I try and be happy and make it better my own way. As sappy as that sounds... You have a really good vocabulary! Sheesh, I'd never even heard of an amalgamation until I looked it up! And I had no idea that they had abortion at that time; I was actually intrigued. Hey, serves me right for not writing on what I know (creative writing 101, I suppose). On a complete other note, I had no idea that Kagome was 15. I could have sworn she was at least 18...oh well. Thank you, because this not only helped me with my story, it showed me a lot more that I didn't know. Don't ask me what that means, because I don't even know. And you get a special "teaser" thing! This is not really going to be a luvvy-fuzzy romance; dark and sinister things are coming. If you've ever read Ceres (manga, Yû Watase), think about volume 5's romance. It's almost subconsciously similar, but I didn't mean for it to be!! REALLY!!
I am back from my depths and have emerged victorious. Don't mind me, even I have no idea what I'm talking about. Well, anyway. The moment you've all been (patiently) (but not exclusively) waiting for! The third chapter of The Child Within!
Well, I also may have trouble with the pregnant/birthing facts. I have never been pregnant, so I wouldn't really know. Nor have I ever been or known anyone who has been raped, so that explains those problems (kind of sort of). Sorry for all those who might be mad because I'm getting the info wrong. This is why I'm skimping over these types of scenes.
DISCLAIMER: I, for the umpzillionith time, DO NOT own Inuyasha. Here are some other places you might see DO NOT.
DO NOT pass DO NOT take him home DO NOT insert quarters down your trachea DO NOT bother me when my eye is twitching, when I have a "lethal" weapon or when I have breached parallel construction, which I did not do here. DO NOT ever diss the following people: my friends, myself, my family, anyone Inuyasha-related (except Kikyo or anyone else evil), anyone Ceres- related (even Kagami is sexy, in his own special way), anyone Kodocha- related and anyone who I say you can't. DO NOT be daunted by the preceding DO NOT's.
I think you get the message.
The Child Within-Chapter Three
It was late afternoon, and Kagome had just gone through the well back to her own time. Now what am I going to tell my mom and grandpa? Or Souta? she thought.
She opened the door into her home and walked into the kitchen, where she expected to find her mother. Her mom was usually cooking or cleaning in there, and thankfully she was there now. Nothing ever solves your problems like a good talking-to with your mom, Kagome thought.
"Hey Mom."
Mrs. Higurashi (sp?) turned to look at her daughter. "Well hello, Kagome. It's nice to see you back from the Feudal Era." Smiling, she wiped her hands on a rag and hugged her daughter. "I missed you."
"I missed you too, Mom." Kagome pulled back to look at her mother, tears in her eyes. She just couldn't seem to hold them in. She thought she had gotten all her tears out with Inuyasha.
"Oh, sweetheart, are you okay?" Kagome's mom wiped away Kagome's tears and looked at her eyes. In said creepy, womanly ESP, the mom knew the general idea of what Kagome had been through. "Did something happen between you and Inuyasha?"
"Not with Inuyasha, no." Kagome proceeded to tell about her encounter with Naraku, which I won't type again because we already know what happened. She also had a good cry session with her mother, as well as a nice long talk.
Kagome's mother looked a little worried afterward, but mostly sympathetic. "It sounds like you handled yourself very well, Kagome. You aren't overreacting." She dropped her voice to a whisper. "Do you know if it'll be a boy or a girl?"
"I'm not sure, but I hope it will be a boy. It'll be kind of like having a baby brother, only with more maternal feelings." She paused. "But of course, with Naraku as the father..." She shuddered briefly, and then her eyes blazed. "That bastard thinks he can cow me, I suppose, thanks to this episode of his. Well, this just deepens the hatred."
Mrs. Higurashi nodded. "Maybe we should tell Souta, but...we won't say you are involuntarily pregnant." She walked into the den, where Souta had ignored them by playing Soul Caliber II (hey, I like that game).
"Souta, Kagome's back and she has something to tell you," said Mrs. Higurashi.
"Hmm," said Souta, knocking Link over with Ivy's sheer womanly power.
"Souta...will you pay attention, please? It's important." Mom was getting more annoyed with that game and her son by the second.
"Mmm hmm." Obviously, as long as he was playing SC II, he was never going to come back to reality. Mrs. Higurashi quickly strode over and pressed the reset button right as Link was about to keel over. "MO-OM!" he said. "I was about to kick Link's a-"
"I don't care, Souta, Kagome has big news that she wants to share with you." Souta pouted, but was quiet.
"Souta, I'm pregnant, so I won't be coming home again for a while." Kagome picked at her nails behind her back and studied Souta.
"Oh. Well," he said, perking up a bit, "Can I name it?"
Kagome chuckled, and then tousled Souta's hair. "You can help, I suppose."
Souta grinned slowly. "Can we name it Ivy?" Kagome cringed. Oh great, she thought, he's going to list all the SC II characters. "No? Then can we name it Link? Cassandra?"
"How about not naming it after a video game character?"
Souta frowned and crossed his arms. "Then I have no idea." He sat down to the running SC II and began to play again.
Shaking her head, Kagome led her mom out of the den and to the front door. "Listen, will you not tell Grandpa about this? He would have a field day at my school, and I-"
Mrs. Higurashi rested a finger to her daughter's lips. "Duly noted. I will not tell your grandfather." Pulling her daughter into a hug, she smiled tearfully. "You've grown so much, Kagome. I know you'll be fine." She released Kagome and allowed her to leave through the door.
"Bye Mom. I'll bring him around sometime, okay?" Seeing her mother's nod, she walked past the God Tree and jumped into the well.
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
"So? How'd they take it?" Sango asked Kagome, who was helping Kaede crush plants for medicine. Inuyasha and Miroku were off bathing. They had only left when Kagome assured them they would be fine and wouldn't do anything stupid.
"Rather well, in my opinion. They-well, Souta-tried to name it, but nothing really clicked. He just listed off video game characters."
Sango nodded, having no idea what Kagome was talking about. "Do you know what the child's name will be?" she asked to change the subject.
Kagome looked up thoughtfully. "Well, I wasn't sure, but it seemed theme- appropriate to name him-or her-Saru. You know, it's sort of a coed name, so the name will work for either gender."
Sango jerked up from her herb. "Saru?" She shrugged. "All right, if that's what you want. Personally I wouldn't want any reminder to my child's lineage if it involved Naraku." She began to grind the herb again.
"I don't know why I would ever want to remember, but I suppose it keeps me in check so that if it's evil or something, the name will remind me who the father is and I can fix it without as much pain."
"That is some twisted psychology, Kagome. I'd just get rid of it."
"Well, I-I just don't really want to. I'm not sure why. I'm a little pro- life, I guess." She studied her plant with vigor as well as a little confusion.
Kagome just sighed and ground away. "Hey Kaede, why haven't you said anything yet?"
"There's nothing more to say." She hadn't even looked up.
"Oh." Kagome looked momentarily stunned but shrugged it off easily enough. "No, um, tips then?" She forced a smile.
"Only one. Since the father's a baboon demon, there gestation period is shortened from the human one. Rather than nine months, you have about five or six (a/n: I actually don't know the gestation period for a baboon, so if somebody knows please tell me!) until little 'Saru' is born."
Kagome nodded and didn't look up. She just wished this hadn't happened, but what could she do? Her only option was to cope and move on, as hard as that may be.
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
"Kagome, you know as well as I that this thing's gonna be evil." Inuyasha was having a 'discussion' with the mother-to-be outside. Sango, Miroku, Shippo and Kaede had kicked them out of the hut since they were being so noisy.
"I know, I know! But it's also possible that it WON'T be evil, too. It's not right to kill something for no reason at all." Her eyes were watery and her voice was cracking, but she wasn't backing down.
Neither was Inuyasha. "I do it all the time; how do you think we get Shikon shards? I just wish for them?"
"No, that's a reason! Look, if I have it we can see if it's evil."
"By then it'll be too late! You won't let us, most likely! You'll be too bloody attached to the thing!"
"Have my emotions ever gotten in the way before?"
"YES, WITH KOUGA! YOU SAT ME SO I COULDN'T KILL HIM!"
"The shouting match is a draw! Go to sleep!" said Miroku's voice inside Kaede's hut.
"You shut up, monk!" Inuyasha said, eyes bulging and fists clenching and unclenching.
Kagome took a deep breath. "Look, I don't want to fight. I'm going to have it, it's my choice since it's mine and you can't convince me otherwise."
Inuyasha roared into the night air. "Dammit, Kagome, you can't have it! If you think you can and that everything'll turn out roses, then you're more of a woman-idiot then I thought you were!"
"I don't think everything'll be roses! I know it'll be hard! But just because it's a little hard doesn't mean I should just give up!" She moaned, slumping to the ground and clutching her stomach.
Inuyasha picked her up and set her on the wooden fence. "You okay?"
Kagome nodded her sweat-soaked face. "Yeah, but it feels like it's fighting in my stomach."
He watched her for a few moments, then, deciding she wasn't going to faint or something, he sat down next to her. "Sorry. For that and for me shouting and the bastard-father. I just don't want another Naraku wandering the world and ruining it for people like us." He rubbed his head with a clawed hand, looking at the ground.
"I can see where you're coming from. I think the same thing too, and I can't bear it. But I just have to have it, and I don't know how to explain it anymore than that." She smiled faintly, barely swinging her legs.
Inuyasha sighed. "I don't know what else I can say. It is your choice; I just hope it's the right one, for all our sakes." He hopped off the fence and walked into the hut, Kagome following soon after.
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
Well that was a short chapter. Sorry almost NOTHING HAPPENED except something intangible. I can't say just yet. But for an explanation, I just had to make a smooth transition from now to five/six months for now (the next chappie will occur then), and this seemed to be the best way to do it. I'll have to continually to this, I suppose. Just bear with me. I luv you guys (in a friendly manner, so don't get any ideas)!
**bazooie
Pori-Pori-Cute name. Like I said before, I suppose I will continue. Yay for reviews! Thank you!
Kristine Batey-Wow, that was a long review. Very informative, though. You're right; this is another random rapefic that has gone out of my little typing fingers. No, you weren't ragging on me; it was constructive criticism. Believe you me, I would like nothing more than to touch an audience with the truths of a rape, but there are a few problems: 1) I don't know anyone who has been raped (so I can't really ask them...) 2) The 1st chapter was quick and broad because I don't like sad things like that, and I don't know what it would be like. 3) The baby will be teased, as sad as that may be. And no, Kagome won't be happy with him/her. 4) I am a happy, bubbly person and I have trouble writing sad things unless I am horribly sad (which is rare. Although I have had some rather good writing sessions when I was bloody half-asleep.) 5) Just thinking about sad things like poor deformed kids and having to bear them is making ME sad. I have a rather overactive imagination, as you might be able to tell. So I like to look on the bright side, because everyday life is like this: not happy. For me, reading a story is a way to ESCAPE reality, not go further into it. I suppose this world's just too darn sad for my taste, so I try and be happy and make it better my own way. As sappy as that sounds... You have a really good vocabulary! Sheesh, I'd never even heard of an amalgamation until I looked it up! And I had no idea that they had abortion at that time; I was actually intrigued. Hey, serves me right for not writing on what I know (creative writing 101, I suppose). On a complete other note, I had no idea that Kagome was 15. I could have sworn she was at least 18...oh well. Thank you, because this not only helped me with my story, it showed me a lot more that I didn't know. Don't ask me what that means, because I don't even know. And you get a special "teaser" thing! This is not really going to be a luvvy-fuzzy romance; dark and sinister things are coming. If you've ever read Ceres (manga, Yû Watase), think about volume 5's romance. It's almost subconsciously similar, but I didn't mean for it to be!! REALLY!!
I am back from my depths and have emerged victorious. Don't mind me, even I have no idea what I'm talking about. Well, anyway. The moment you've all been (patiently) (but not exclusively) waiting for! The third chapter of The Child Within!
Well, I also may have trouble with the pregnant/birthing facts. I have never been pregnant, so I wouldn't really know. Nor have I ever been or known anyone who has been raped, so that explains those problems (kind of sort of). Sorry for all those who might be mad because I'm getting the info wrong. This is why I'm skimping over these types of scenes.
DISCLAIMER: I, for the umpzillionith time, DO NOT own Inuyasha. Here are some other places you might see DO NOT.
DO NOT pass DO NOT take him home DO NOT insert quarters down your trachea DO NOT bother me when my eye is twitching, when I have a "lethal" weapon or when I have breached parallel construction, which I did not do here. DO NOT ever diss the following people: my friends, myself, my family, anyone Inuyasha-related (except Kikyo or anyone else evil), anyone Ceres- related (even Kagami is sexy, in his own special way), anyone Kodocha- related and anyone who I say you can't. DO NOT be daunted by the preceding DO NOT's.
I think you get the message.
The Child Within-Chapter Three
It was late afternoon, and Kagome had just gone through the well back to her own time. Now what am I going to tell my mom and grandpa? Or Souta? she thought.
She opened the door into her home and walked into the kitchen, where she expected to find her mother. Her mom was usually cooking or cleaning in there, and thankfully she was there now. Nothing ever solves your problems like a good talking-to with your mom, Kagome thought.
"Hey Mom."
Mrs. Higurashi (sp?) turned to look at her daughter. "Well hello, Kagome. It's nice to see you back from the Feudal Era." Smiling, she wiped her hands on a rag and hugged her daughter. "I missed you."
"I missed you too, Mom." Kagome pulled back to look at her mother, tears in her eyes. She just couldn't seem to hold them in. She thought she had gotten all her tears out with Inuyasha.
"Oh, sweetheart, are you okay?" Kagome's mom wiped away Kagome's tears and looked at her eyes. In said creepy, womanly ESP, the mom knew the general idea of what Kagome had been through. "Did something happen between you and Inuyasha?"
"Not with Inuyasha, no." Kagome proceeded to tell about her encounter with Naraku, which I won't type again because we already know what happened. She also had a good cry session with her mother, as well as a nice long talk.
Kagome's mother looked a little worried afterward, but mostly sympathetic. "It sounds like you handled yourself very well, Kagome. You aren't overreacting." She dropped her voice to a whisper. "Do you know if it'll be a boy or a girl?"
"I'm not sure, but I hope it will be a boy. It'll be kind of like having a baby brother, only with more maternal feelings." She paused. "But of course, with Naraku as the father..." She shuddered briefly, and then her eyes blazed. "That bastard thinks he can cow me, I suppose, thanks to this episode of his. Well, this just deepens the hatred."
Mrs. Higurashi nodded. "Maybe we should tell Souta, but...we won't say you are involuntarily pregnant." She walked into the den, where Souta had ignored them by playing Soul Caliber II (hey, I like that game).
"Souta, Kagome's back and she has something to tell you," said Mrs. Higurashi.
"Hmm," said Souta, knocking Link over with Ivy's sheer womanly power.
"Souta...will you pay attention, please? It's important." Mom was getting more annoyed with that game and her son by the second.
"Mmm hmm." Obviously, as long as he was playing SC II, he was never going to come back to reality. Mrs. Higurashi quickly strode over and pressed the reset button right as Link was about to keel over. "MO-OM!" he said. "I was about to kick Link's a-"
"I don't care, Souta, Kagome has big news that she wants to share with you." Souta pouted, but was quiet.
"Souta, I'm pregnant, so I won't be coming home again for a while." Kagome picked at her nails behind her back and studied Souta.
"Oh. Well," he said, perking up a bit, "Can I name it?"
Kagome chuckled, and then tousled Souta's hair. "You can help, I suppose."
Souta grinned slowly. "Can we name it Ivy?" Kagome cringed. Oh great, she thought, he's going to list all the SC II characters. "No? Then can we name it Link? Cassandra?"
"How about not naming it after a video game character?"
Souta frowned and crossed his arms. "Then I have no idea." He sat down to the running SC II and began to play again.
Shaking her head, Kagome led her mom out of the den and to the front door. "Listen, will you not tell Grandpa about this? He would have a field day at my school, and I-"
Mrs. Higurashi rested a finger to her daughter's lips. "Duly noted. I will not tell your grandfather." Pulling her daughter into a hug, she smiled tearfully. "You've grown so much, Kagome. I know you'll be fine." She released Kagome and allowed her to leave through the door.
"Bye Mom. I'll bring him around sometime, okay?" Seeing her mother's nod, she walked past the God Tree and jumped into the well.
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
"So? How'd they take it?" Sango asked Kagome, who was helping Kaede crush plants for medicine. Inuyasha and Miroku were off bathing. They had only left when Kagome assured them they would be fine and wouldn't do anything stupid.
"Rather well, in my opinion. They-well, Souta-tried to name it, but nothing really clicked. He just listed off video game characters."
Sango nodded, having no idea what Kagome was talking about. "Do you know what the child's name will be?" she asked to change the subject.
Kagome looked up thoughtfully. "Well, I wasn't sure, but it seemed theme- appropriate to name him-or her-Saru. You know, it's sort of a coed name, so the name will work for either gender."
Sango jerked up from her herb. "Saru?" She shrugged. "All right, if that's what you want. Personally I wouldn't want any reminder to my child's lineage if it involved Naraku." She began to grind the herb again.
"I don't know why I would ever want to remember, but I suppose it keeps me in check so that if it's evil or something, the name will remind me who the father is and I can fix it without as much pain."
"That is some twisted psychology, Kagome. I'd just get rid of it."
"Well, I-I just don't really want to. I'm not sure why. I'm a little pro- life, I guess." She studied her plant with vigor as well as a little confusion.
Kagome just sighed and ground away. "Hey Kaede, why haven't you said anything yet?"
"There's nothing more to say." She hadn't even looked up.
"Oh." Kagome looked momentarily stunned but shrugged it off easily enough. "No, um, tips then?" She forced a smile.
"Only one. Since the father's a baboon demon, there gestation period is shortened from the human one. Rather than nine months, you have about five or six (a/n: I actually don't know the gestation period for a baboon, so if somebody knows please tell me!) until little 'Saru' is born."
Kagome nodded and didn't look up. She just wished this hadn't happened, but what could she do? Her only option was to cope and move on, as hard as that may be.
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
"Kagome, you know as well as I that this thing's gonna be evil." Inuyasha was having a 'discussion' with the mother-to-be outside. Sango, Miroku, Shippo and Kaede had kicked them out of the hut since they were being so noisy.
"I know, I know! But it's also possible that it WON'T be evil, too. It's not right to kill something for no reason at all." Her eyes were watery and her voice was cracking, but she wasn't backing down.
Neither was Inuyasha. "I do it all the time; how do you think we get Shikon shards? I just wish for them?"
"No, that's a reason! Look, if I have it we can see if it's evil."
"By then it'll be too late! You won't let us, most likely! You'll be too bloody attached to the thing!"
"Have my emotions ever gotten in the way before?"
"YES, WITH KOUGA! YOU SAT ME SO I COULDN'T KILL HIM!"
"The shouting match is a draw! Go to sleep!" said Miroku's voice inside Kaede's hut.
"You shut up, monk!" Inuyasha said, eyes bulging and fists clenching and unclenching.
Kagome took a deep breath. "Look, I don't want to fight. I'm going to have it, it's my choice since it's mine and you can't convince me otherwise."
Inuyasha roared into the night air. "Dammit, Kagome, you can't have it! If you think you can and that everything'll turn out roses, then you're more of a woman-idiot then I thought you were!"
"I don't think everything'll be roses! I know it'll be hard! But just because it's a little hard doesn't mean I should just give up!" She moaned, slumping to the ground and clutching her stomach.
Inuyasha picked her up and set her on the wooden fence. "You okay?"
Kagome nodded her sweat-soaked face. "Yeah, but it feels like it's fighting in my stomach."
He watched her for a few moments, then, deciding she wasn't going to faint or something, he sat down next to her. "Sorry. For that and for me shouting and the bastard-father. I just don't want another Naraku wandering the world and ruining it for people like us." He rubbed his head with a clawed hand, looking at the ground.
"I can see where you're coming from. I think the same thing too, and I can't bear it. But I just have to have it, and I don't know how to explain it anymore than that." She smiled faintly, barely swinging her legs.
Inuyasha sighed. "I don't know what else I can say. It is your choice; I just hope it's the right one, for all our sakes." He hopped off the fence and walked into the hut, Kagome following soon after.
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
Well that was a short chapter. Sorry almost NOTHING HAPPENED except something intangible. I can't say just yet. But for an explanation, I just had to make a smooth transition from now to five/six months for now (the next chappie will occur then), and this seemed to be the best way to do it. I'll have to continually to this, I suppose. Just bear with me. I luv you guys (in a friendly manner, so don't get any ideas)!
**bazooie