Ooooooo, bai-bah! ^___^ This is what I've been waiting for since chapter 2! ^_^V
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Chapter 11. The Miracle of Birth
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"What do I do?? What do I do??" Inu Yasha watched horrified and clueless.
Kagome screamed again, and the rest of the group came running over from behind the boulder. Sumiko stopped and pointed at Kagome. "See! I knew it!!"
Sango, Shio, and Shippou ran over to her aid.
"She's really going into labor!" Shio said, surprised.
"It can't come right now!" Inu Yasha shouted, coming over. He knelt next to Kagome. "Shio said you have two weeks!"
Kagome gripped him by his shirt, pulled herself up a little and through her pain said, "I know that……you know that…….but the baby has it's own plans!!!" she howled in pain and let go of him.
"What are we going to do??" Sango asked. "She was supposed to go to her own time for this part!"
Shio looked at Kagome and shrugged. "I can deliver it."
Everyone looked at him freaked out. (Except for Sumiko that is…she was listening to see if the baby was doing okay)
Even Kagome blushed and looked at him freaked out. "Y-you??" she asked. "But – don't you have to look down…..there????"
He smiled at her and patted her hand. "Nothing I haven't seen before, Kagome!" ^_^
She blushed even deeper. Then Inu Yasha intervened. "There is no way you're going to do it, Shio!"
Shio shrugged again. "Alright, Kagome can have an unsupervised birth and have a higher risk of giving birth to a dead child – if that's what you really want, Man."
"NO!" Kagome shouted. She reached out and pulled Shio's face inches from hers with amazing force. "If you're all that I have," she said in a not very dipsy doodle voice, "Then you're going to do it." She pushed him away.
After his seconds of shock, Miroku and Sango helped Kagome to her feet and started to walk her down the road.
"Oh no you don't!" Inu Yasha suddenly shouted at them. He pushed Sango and Miroku away from Kagome, picked her up on his back and charged toward the nearest town or mansion.
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And so they found one. A little mansion on the outskirts of the last town they were at allowed for Kagome to give birth in one of their guestrooms. Sango ran in and spread a mat out on the floor. Kagome was led in by Miroku and Inu Yasha and they set her gently on the mat. She whimpered and cried in pain. Sango and Inu Yasha each held one of her hands. "It's okay, Kagome you're going to be fine!" Sango tried to reassure her. She looked up at Inu Yasha who was doing a horrible job of looking cool and confident. "You too Inu Yasha! Stay calm for Kagome!"
"CaLm?!" his voice cracked. "I am calm!!" ;;;;;;;
All of a sudden, Shio grabbed Inu Yasha and pulled him outside of the room. Sumiko, Naraku, Kirara, Miroku, and Shippou looked up when they came out.
"Hold on," Shio said before Inu Yasha could say anything, "I just want to warn you, if you're going to be there with Kagome while she's doing this…Well…she might say some….well, colorful not nice things to you…." Shio looked at him seriously, "Just remember to stay calm and not take it to heart, okay?"
Inu Yasha didn't really understand but nodded in agreement.
Shippou scratched his head. "I don't get it! Is giving birth painful or something?"
Inu Yasha glared down at him, "No, Shippou. Kagome's screaming because she's dreaming about roller coasters."
"Really?" Oo Shippou said in amazement.
Inu Yasha bopped him on the head.
"Dude!" Shio looked at Inu amazed. "You know what roller coasters are??"
"Ow!" T_T Shippou turned around to hold his throbbing head. But as he turned around, his tail sweapt a cloud of dust up into the air around Sumiko. She stood there innocently with Naraku hanging on her shoulder from behind when the cloud of dust passed in front of her eyes and nose. Her nose wrinkled, "Ah….Ahah….TIEU!!"
BLING!!!
Shio turned to look at her, but the only thing he was stars.
BONK!!
Sumiko brought her elbow down on his head, knocking him unconscious. Everyone in the hall stared at the seventeen year old Sumiko in amazement.
"What the f*ck??" Inu Yasha said.
Sumiko smirked at him and said in a deeper feminine voice. "Come on, Inu Yasha! We've got a baby to deliver!" She grabbed his arm and pulled him back into the "emergency room".
Sango looked at her wide eyed, "You!"
"You can freak out later," Sumiko said, spreading Kagome's legs farther apart. "How far apart are the contractions?"
Kagome screamed, "Kyaa!! Somebody kill me!!"
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Things went silent in the room.
"I guess you're not dilated enough." Sumiko said, examining the opening.
Kagome laid back whimpering. "I'll bet if god was a girl, he would have given the guy the pain during birth instead." She whimpered and said louder, "Damn you, Eve! T_T You just had to eat that f*cking apple!!"
"What the hell is she talking about?" Inu Yasha asked.
"I have no idea." Sango said and yawned. "What time is it?"
"I dunno." Inu Yasha said he sat against the wall next to her as they waited for the next contraction to happen.
Sango looked down at Kirara who was asleep in her lap. She sighed from exhaustion and looked up at Inu Yasha. Her eyes widened, "Hey!"
"What?" he asked. His hair started to turn black.
Sumiko watched as Inu Yasha changed from demon to human. "New moon, huh?" she asked. "Nice timing."
"I'll say." He would have growled that statement if he wasn't so exhausted.
"Ohhh!!" Kagome squirmed, "It's back!!" ;;;;
"Ready!" Sumiko said.
Inu Yasha and Sango came back over.
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Later out in the hallway…..
Shio: @__@ uggghhhhh…..
Shippou stood over the fox/dog eating a banana that one of the servants gave him, "What did he say?"
"I think he said, 'Boobs.'" Miroku said.
Shippou looked at Miroku with a sweatdrop. "That didn't sound anything like 'Boobs'!" ;;;;
"How do you know what boobs sound like?" Miroku asked.
Shio shook his head and sat up. "What happened?"
"Sumiko turned you off." Shippou said casually. "Then she went to go help Kagome have a baby."
"What??" he said sitting up.
All of a sudden, a blood curtling scream came from the delivery room, "AAAAAAAAHHHH!!!! YOU F*CKING BASTARD!!! THIS IS ALL YOUR FAULT!!! YOU AND YOUR F*CKING P*NIS, YOU F*CKING JERK!!! YAAAHH!!!"
"Uh oh." Shio said.
Shippou sweatdropped, broke the banana in half and mooshed them into his fragile virgin ears.
Naraku cringed but continued eating the banana given to him.
(AN: ^_^ Naraku is so cute as a little white monkey! That should be his fate someday! In here he's about the size of Ryo-ohki, or a kitten. ^_____^….whoops. Lost my train of thought..;;)
Shio went into the room to find exactly why he had told Inu Yasha: "I just want to warn you, if you're going to be there with Kagome while she's doing this…Well…she might say some….colorful not nice things to you…. Just remember to stay calm and not take it to heart, okay?"
Kirara sat trembling in the corner of the room covering her ears with her paws. Sumiko sweatdropped but kept her concentration on the baby. Sango kept her eyes closed tightly as if that would decrease Kagome's volume and profanity.
Kagome was far in labor and had become the evilest screaming wretch any of them had ever seen. She screamed at Inu Yasha, "DAMN YOU!!!! DAMN YOU TO HELL, MOTHERF*CKN' BITCH!!!! YOU ARE THE SCUM OF THE F*CKING EARTH!!! I F*CKING HATE YOU!!! I DON'T KNOW WHAT I EVER SAW IN A PLAYN' PUSSY LIKE YOU!!!"
Inu yasha cringed as she squeezed the life out of his poor hand. For a human girl, her hands were quite strong. Add the pain in his hand, and the fact that her screams and insults stabbed him as well, and you got an expression on his face that looked like someone had told him that he was a woman and Sesshomaru was his mother.
"Mercy!" Shio pulled handfuls of cotton out of the front of his pants and stuffed them in his ears. It didn't get rid of the screams but it brought them down to a sound level of 55 decibels. He came over, "My, what a potty mouth!" he screamed to Sumiko, "How long has this been going on??!"
"I don't know!!" Sumiko screamed back.
"What?!?!?"
"I DON'T KNOW!!!" She screamed again.
"WANT ME TO TAKE OVER??" he asked.
"YES!!" she moved over and he sat down in front of Kagome.
"Keep going, I think I see something!!!" he shouted to her.
Sumiko reached into the neck of her shirt, pulled out two handfuls of cotton and stuck them in her ears. She looked at Inu Yasha who looked like he couldn't decide which emotion to show; shock, horror, heartbreak, bewilderment, or horniness.
Sumiko went over to him and patted his other hand reassuringly, though he didn't seem to notice. "STAY CALM, IT'S GONNA BE OKAY…" she said to him as if he were the one giving birth.
"I see the head!!" Shio shouted.
"Does it have dog ears?!" Sango asked.
"I don't know!!" he shouted back. "It's covered in goo!!"
Inu Yasha and Sango leaned over to look at it.
"HOLY CRAP!! O0 Inu Yasha screamed, choosing bewilderment. "THAT'S A BABY!!!"
Sango gave him a frustrated look, "NO DUH, INU YASHA!! WHAT DID YOU THINK CANDY AND PARTY FAVORS WOULD COME OUT OF HER?!?"
Sumiko left Inu Yasha to go help Shio pull it out.
Kagome screamed again and gave one more push. She gasped for breath and relaxed, still in pain. After the buzzing sound in everybody's ears went away, they heard the sound of a baby crying.
Kagome opened her eyes which filled with unshed tears and her heart melted just at the sound. Inu Yasha sucked on his injured hand but his eyes were filled with emotion. Sango fell backwards with swirly eyes. "Oh gawd!" @_@;;; She groaned.
"Yay!! You did it!" Sumiko congratulated Kagome as she went to work cleaning the new mother up.
Shio's job was to clean the baby and check it for any problems before handing it over.
Sango finally sat up and wet a rag and cleaned off Kagome's face. "That was amazing Kagome. I don't think I would have been able to do that."
Kagome panted and nodded. "Thank you." She turned to look at Inu Yasha with large watery eyes.
He saw her and his bewilderment toned to confusion. "Huh?"
"Inu Yasha." She said in such a passionately happy way that it made him jump.
"Huh??" he said again.
"I love you." she said smiling brightly.
"WHAT?" he went between horror, horniness, confusion, and bewilderment again.
She continued to look at him that way. "Inu Yasha?"
"What?" he asked softly.
"Can you get me some pillows?"
"Uh huh." He darted out the door.
They heard Shippou ask, "WHAT HAPPENED?" then they heard Inu Yasha step on him without really noticing.
Shio rubbed the goo off of the baby, checked it's natural reflexes and washed it thoroughly. The baby stopped crying and squirmed as he got the spaces behind its ears.
Inu Yasha came back with some pillows and propped Kagome up.
Sumiko finished cleaning and pulled the blanket over Kagome's legs. "Well Shio?" she asked. The other characters came in to watch Inu Yasha's demise.
He sat facing away from them and said, "Seven and a half pounds, 20 inches, reflexes: normal, startle reflexes: also normal, disabilities none." He smiled back at them, enjoying their suspense. "Sex: female…and quite healty too." ^_^
"We don't care!" Sango shouted. "Just tell what it looks like!"
"A girl!" Kagome looked up at heaven with stars in her eyes.
And with enough suspense given, Shio wrapped the baby up in a blanket, turned around and held her up for everyone to see.
She was small; about the size of Naraku, with little chubby arms and little chubby feet and tiny little toes and fingers. She had a little round head that was covered with a full head of feathery black hair. As Shio turned around and held her into the light, she rubber her eyes from the light and looked innocently at everyone in the room with large brown eyes.
Everyone: O O
Shio, "Ah, I love suspence! ^_^ Congratulations, Kagome!" he handed the baby to her. "It's a human!"
Kagome squealed with joy and hugged the baby which looked at her wide eyed. "She's so beautiful!" she gasped happily.
Inu Yasha felt incredibly happy yet at the same time, heartbroken. But he decided to act cool as always and show his happiness. "HA! I knew it!" he exclaimed.
Almost everyone looked at him as he said triumphantly. "I knew it wasn't my daughter! ^_^ And you all doubted me!"
"What??" Sango said.
"Actually, Inu Yasha," Kagome interrupted his victory dance. "You're half human, and I'm full human…which means there's a fifty percent chance that I'd have a half demon baby!"
"Oooooooh! Kagome's SMART!" Shippou cheered for her and Inu Yasha bopped him on the head. The baby looked up at Kagome in awe.
Inu Yasha smiled. He sighed, shook his head knowingly and placed a hand on her shoulder. "Ah, Kagome, Kagome, Kagome."
"Yes?" she asked.
"I know that you're smarter then that!" ^_^ he extended a hand to the baby, whom looked up at him and smiled. "Really, does this kid look a thing like me?"
She looked down at the baby who reached up to grab her own human ear. "Hmmmm, I'm not sure." She said.
"It looks a lot like Kagome." Shippou said taking a look for himself.
Sumiko sat nearby and smirked mysteriously at Inu Yasha.
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The lord, his servants, and his family all came to see the baby that night. (Couldn't wait till morning.)
They brought Kagome food that she refused to eat because she couldn't even look at food without getting sick.
And the women servants and members of the house would smile at the cuteness of the baby and say, "She's beautiful! The father must be very pleased!"
Then Inu Yasha would take that time to come over and tell them, "Sorry, but we all don't know who the father is!" ^_^
Then the ladies would look shocked for a second. Then they would give Kagome and her baby a sympathetic bow and say, "Bless her sweet little heart." And they would walk away.
Then Kagome would glare at Inu Yasha and say, "Osuwari."
And he would hit the floorboards.
When babies are born, they are supposed to want to sleep. But not this baby! Heck no. She was laying on her back laughing and giggling at almost everything around her.
Shippou laughed, "She's awfully cute!" ^_^ He had almost completely forgotten that he had wanted it to be a boy.
"She sure is!" Kagome said, holding the baby's hand as it laughed happily.
Shio and Sumiko sat against the wall talking about Sumiko's changing appearance.
"I really don't get it – Again!" Shio said a bit frustratedly. "You can change age, you communicate with babies? What's going on?"
"Actually, I asked Sashimi." Sumiko said, "She said it has to do with the way I was brought back to life. Simply because they changed my age, and put spells on me – I'm still a bit unstable."
"You are?" he said worriedly. "When are you going to stop being unstable?"
"Whenever," She said. "I'm really eleven in demon years…..but because of that spell, I'm going to keep reverting back to the age of seventeen along with the part of the spell that gave me a power increase. As for the speaking to babies thing…well I'm very versatile with the light, and when a baby is inside of her mother, it is so pure that he or she is actually a pure source of light." She looked upward ponderously. "Hmmm….Maybe that's how Mother discovered Pure Light Power….intriguing!"
(An: If what she just said confused you, it's either because of compound sentencing, or because you didn't read the one before this….or I just forgot to re-read this and change confusing sentences around.)
Miroku sat near Inu Yasha who sat in his usual position, far away from the baby with his eyes closed and a smile spread across his face. The monk rolled his eyes and asked, "Well Inu Yasha?"
Inu Yasha opened one eye to look at him. "Hm?"
"Aren't you going to go over to see the baby?" Miroku asked.
After a moment he heard Inu Yasha give a "Feh" and say, "Why? It's not my daughter. It's not like I have to."
Miroku suddenly sensed painful feelings coming from the poor human. "Inu Yasha?"
Inu Yasha, turned his head to look at Miroku. It was sad. Inu Yasha was smirking like he was the happiest man alive, but his violet eyes were so filled with sadness, Miroku was silent.
"It's not like it matters anyway." Inu Yasha said. "What does matter, is that I'm free!" He turned his head away and his long black hair hid his face.
Miroku sighed. Poor Inu Yasha. His pride would destroy him someday.
Sango sat nearby as Kagome played with the baby. Kagome noticed her smiling at them and asked, "What's up, Sango?"
Sango smiled at the baby. "I sort of envy you, Kagome."
Kagome blinked, "Really? Why?"
Sango shrugged and said, "You have the most beautiful baby I've ever seen." Then she glanced to over at Miroku to make sure he wasn't listening and whispered to her friend, "I hope that I can have a baby someday."
Kagome thought about what she said, then nodded. "That would be great, Sango!" then she looked upward dreamily. "Maybe someday, our children will play together!"
"Both girls you think?" Sango asked fantasizing with her.
"Of course!" Kagome chimed. ^_^
Shippou went to the window. "Hey! The sun's coming up, everybody!" he announced.
"Perfect!" Inu Yasha said. "I hate being a human."
The dark blue sky faded into a rich color of rose red. A sliver of light glittered in the horizon and light from Amaterasu's Necklace of light flowed across the land like a wave seawater on shore. (AN: Amaterasu was the goddess of the sun in Asian culture, fyi! ^_~…..crap..lost my train of thought again! ;;;)
Then the sun rose into the sky, turning the ever red sky into the lightest shade of baby blue. Inu Yasha's aura illuminated and slowly changed back into his half demon form, complete with claws and fangs.
Suddenly Shippou pointed at the baby. "Look!" he screamed.
The baby suddenly began to glow with a halo of light. Her little brown eyes widened as if she knew that there was something happening to her. Her hair fluffed out, becoming a bright and shiny silver color. Her wide eyes turned yellow gold, and finally her ears traveled to the top of her head, where they became pointed and fuzzy – just like….dog ears.
Kagome stared, wide eyed. She knew the baby was Inu's from chapter one, but somehow she was still caught offgaurd.
Sango grinned and her eyes became large and watery, "Kawaii!"
Shippou whispered, "Cool…"
Sumiko hugged Shio's arm and they snickered to each other. ^________^
Inu Yasha looked pale. Oo ;;;;;;;;;;
Miroku smiled brightly and went to go get a better seat.
Shio cleared his throat and looked at Kagome, "If I may reverse it , Miss Mom? ^_^ Congratulations, it's a hanyo!"