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*Lily giggling* Ah. You know what? Inuyasha is so cute!
*Mirai narrowing his eyes at his mate* *Cute?!*
*Lily sweatdropping* I didn't mean it like that, Mirai sweatheart. *muttering under her breath* Even though he really is.
*Mirai frowning* What did you just say?
*Lily shaking her head.* I didn't say anything. *looking at the readers* Anyway, I just finished watching a new Yasha episode. *IT* was so cute. Inuyasha and Kouga. Gotta love dem wacky demons and their name calling.
*Inuyasha clone pops in* WACKY NAME CALLING?! THAT MANGY WOLF CALLED ME A MUTT, YOU STUPID WENCH!
*Mirai turning SSJ4* Wench?! No one insults *MY* mate and lives, you mongrel.
*Lily sighing* Boys! Boys! Enough! Mirai, calm down, and Inuyasha, you too. Honestly you two are so alike it scares me sometimes.
*Mirai and Inuyasha gap on in shock* WHAT?!
*Lily chuckling* Anyway, I have a story to update and a chapter to write. You too had better behave or you'll *both* be sorry.
*Inuyasha snorting* Keh! Who'd be afraid of a worthless wench like you?
*Mirai powering up*
*Lily* Relax, Mirai. I'm a big girl, I can handle this myself. Inuyasha? SIT!
"Inuyasha crashes head-first into the ground, muttering curses through the dirt in his mouth as Mirai sweatdrops at his mate*
*Lily smiling sweetly at her mate* See? Now to the rest of my story. Disclaimer first. Lily, that's me, doesn't own the characters of any anime show at all. Oh and for those of you who are wondering, check out chapter 5. It'll explain about how Kagome is pregnant, cause I did have a reviewer who'd asked about that. Ok, on with the story.
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Keiki de Niyati : Children of Fate
Chapter 16- " Discovery"
by Lily
"You've got to be kidding me!" Inuyasha cried as Sango rushed off suddenly towards some nearby brush, Kagome following after her friend, glaring at her mate as she looked at him.
"What do you expect, Inuyasha? She's pregnant, remember? You can be so insensitive sometimes!" Kagome shouted as Inuyasha opened his mouth in surprise.
"Insensitive? This is the seventh time in the last *hour* that we've had to stop, woman!" Inuyasha shot back.
Miroku smacked him with his staff.
"What'd you do that for, monk?!" Inuyasha snarled.
"You were asking for it." Miroku stated as Inuyasha clenched and inclenched his fists.
"Why you-" Inuyasha growled.
"Inuyasha. Enough. The human girl is with pup. I'd expect you'd show your own mate a bit more leanancy if it was her instead of the exterminator in the brush there." Sesshoumaru said as Kagome narrowed her eyes at him.
"Keh!" Inuyasha said, crossing his arms and whipping his head to look in the opposite direction.
"I'm fine, really." Sango said weakly, finally coming out of the brush, and wiping the corner of her mouth with the back of her hand as Kagome smiled at her.
"It'll pass. It may take a week, but it will. You'll see." Kagome said with a smile as Sango nodded.
"I hope so, Kagome. After all, I've never, well, I just don't really know what to expect. But I'm thankful that I have you here with me now to help me, Kagome. Thank you." Sango said as Kagome nodded.
"Don't mention it, Sango. But a bit of advice, when the time does come, make sure Miroku is there with you for *support*." Kagome said, smirking slightly at the pale faced monk.
"I'll do that, Kagome, you can count on it." Sango said.
"I'm beginning to think the Lady Kagome wouldn't mind seeing me dead, Inuyasha." Miroku said a bit weakly as Inuyasha raised his eyebrow at the monk.
"I'd be more worried about your own woman when the times comes, monk. I think it'll be her you'll be fearful of more than my own mate." Inuyasha said.
Miroku gulped.
"Anyway, I think we'd better keep moving, as long as Sango is ok now? Besides, I sense a jewel shard." Kagome said.
"What? Where?" Inuyasha asked suddenly looking around as Kagome pointed to the north.
"It's pretty close, just up there. But......wait a minute, it's moving." Kagome said, frowning slightly.
"What do you mean, Lady Kagome?" Kouga asked.
"She is right. I sense it as well. It's heading in our direction......no......it's to our left." Kikyo stated, turning to the left and drawing her bow and arrow.
"It's coming towards up really fast too. Everyone, be ready." Kagome said as Inuyasha unsheathed the Tetseiga and stepped infront of her.
"I want you to go hide, Kagome, and take the pups and Rin with you." Inuyasha said as Kagome narrowed her eyes at him.
"Inuyasha, this is not Naraku, it's just some other demon with a jewel shard. I can handle it. Besides, you may need me. Sango can watch the pups and Rin. They'll be fine." Kagome said.
"Do as your mate wishes, milady." Sesshoumaru suddenly said, as both Inuyasha and Kagome stared at the older demon in shock, Inuyasha snapping out of it first.
"Go, koi, now. Or I'll make you myself." Inuyasha said as Kagome looked at her mate bewildered.
"Make me? Inuyasha-" Kagome started a bit irrated before Inuyasha growled, turned around and seized her gently by the upper arm and pulled her towards him until her face was even with his as he looked intently into her eyes.
"I'll only ask you nicely once, Kagome. Go, now. And don't make me ask you a second time." Inuyasha said as Kagome narrowed her eyes at him.
"Inuyasha, I don't know what's gotten into you all of a sudden, but-" Kagome was cut off as a huge snake demon suddenly tore into the clearing.
"Damn it all to hell!" Inuyasha snarled as he looked at the demon that was already being attacked by Kouga, Sesshoumaru, Miroku, and Kikyo. He turned back to snarl at his mate.
"Are you going to leave, or do I have to make you, Kagome?" Inuyasha asked again as Kagome opened her mouth to snap at him.
"Inuyasha, you're crazy if you think I'm going to just let you take on this overgrown worm by yourself and possibly get hurt! I'm not moving!" Kagome said as Kaori and Kaiya looked back and forth between their parent, wondering what was going on.
"I thought as much. Damn mate. You're so stubborn!" Inuyasha said, before sheathing his sword as Kagome looked at him in surprise.
"What are you doing? You need the Tetseiga, Inuyasha!" Kagome said as Inuyasha ignored her and instead turned to look towards where the others were engaging the snake demon.
"Miroku, one of you is going to keep an eye on Sango and Rin. I'll be right back!" Inuyasha shouted as Kagome's jaw dropped in shock.
"Be sure to hurry, if you *don't* mind, Inuyasha." Miroku called back, and tried to strike the snake in the head with his staff again, before being knocked a few feet back by the large scaly tail.
"Be right back?! Where the hell do you think you're going at a time like this, Inuyasha?!" Kagome cried as Inuyasha turned back to her, narrowing his eyes in concentration for a moment as he looked at her carefully, before nodding to himself, and picking her up bridal style before she could stop him, and looked down at the pups.
"Follow me, you two. And I want you both to try your best to keep up with me, understand?" Inuyasha asked as the twins nodded at their father.
"Inuyasha! What the hell are you doing?! Put me down this instant! I'll say 'it' I swear I will!" Kagome threatened as she struggled to free herself from her mate as he looked down at her and raised an eyebrow.
"You wouldn't, you'd follow with me, koi. Just hold on." Inuyasha said, and he was instantly dashing away with the angry Kagome in his arm, the pups trying their best to keep up. Inuyasha continued running, clutching Kagome protectly to his chest as he ran, looking briefly over his shoulder ever few moments to make sure the pups were still with them, and slowing his pace a bit when he noticed they were lagging only a bit.
A few minutes later, Inuyasha finally slowed to a stop and set Kagome on her feet, and was rewarded with a rather strong shove as she glared at him furiously.
"What the hell was *that* for?! How dare you! I thought I told you that being my mate doesn't give you the right to do whatever the hell you please, when you please Inuyasha!" Kagome snarled at him.
"And *I* told *you* I wasn't going to let anything happen to you! Or the pups! Any of them!" Inuyasha snarled at his mate.
"Kaori and Kaiya are fine!" Kagome cried as Inuyasha snarled at her as he stepped forward and pressed his palm to her abdomen and growled at her as he looked into her eyes.
"And what of the pup you're carrying?! Would you risk harm to it as well, you foolish girl?!" Inuyasha asked as Kagome's eyes widen in shock.
"But how-?" Kagome asked stunned as Inuyasha dropped his hand, and wrapped it around her waist and pulled her towards him slowly, his eyes softening as he stroked the back of her head with his hand, Kaori and Kaiya looking on in confusion.
"I've known for a while, koi. You really thought you could keep it from me?" Inuyasha asked as Kagome looked at her mate in confusion.
"But last time......with the twins, you never noticed. And you didn't say anything this time, until now." Kagome said in confusion.
"Actually, I knew there was something odd with your scent last time, but I didn't know exactly what at the time. At least until Sesshoumaru informed me-" Inuyasha began.
"But you said you fainted when he told you." Kagome said.
"Out of shock. I knew there was something odd, and when he told me exactly what it was, I guessed it had been what I had already smelled. I fainted because the idea of *me* being a father overwhelmed me at the time." Inuyasha said.
"But how could you have known now? I don't understand it. You didn't say anything about it to me." Kagome said.
"I saw you and Sesshoumaru talking. He smelled it once after all, didn't he? He put my suspicions to rest, basically." Inuyasha said.
"Why didn't you tell me before now?" Kagome asked as Inuyasha raised an eyebrow playfully at her.
"I could ask you the same thing, koi. I don't recall you taking me aside to share this bit of news with me, either." Inuyasha said with a smirk as Kagome blushed, before she narrowed her eyes at him.
"I thought you'd start acting like this, completely overprotective of me, and unrational." Kagome said.
Inuyasha sighed deeply as he closed his eyes, before opening them and staring intently into his mate's.
"Kagome, listen to me. I'm your mate. And I don't want anything happening you or our family. I *know* you can handle yourself, but I still worry. I have that right as your mate and father of our pups. I know I tend to overdo it sometimes-" Inuyasha began as Kagome raised her eyebrow at him.
"Sometimes?" Kagome asked.
"*But* the reason I do is because I care so much for you. Can you at least promise me you'll be more careful, of yourself and the pups? *Especially* now that you're pregnant again? For me, koi?" Inuyasha asked.
"You're not going to make me go back to my time?" Kagome asked as Inuyasha shook his head.
"You're right. I don't have the right to tell you what to do. So no, but I want you to watch yourself, at *all* times. Naraku will eventually figure out you're with child and be after you and the pups, now more than ever. It's even more dangerous than before, but we still need you if we're going to destroy him once and for all." Inuyasha said.
"What about Kikyo? I mean, not that I'm not thrilled that you're agreeing to let me stay, but with her fighting *with* us now, you could use her to locate the jewels, right?" Kagome asked as Inuyasha frowned at her.
"First of all, if it wasn't for *you* she may not even be fighting with us. Second of all, I've been away from you for three long years, I don't plan to make it any longer. And besides, I still have a lot I want to teach the twins. And lastly," Inuyasha said, placing his hand on her stomach again "Unlike last time, I intent to be there throughout your pregancy and for the birth." Inuyasha said as Kagome smirked at him.
"I don't know. Twenty hours of labor last time? What if it's longer this time? I do plan on sharing every *bit* of my pain with *you* when the time comes. Are you sure you can last?" Kagome asked.
"Don't worry about me, koi. I can handle just about anything you throw at me." Inuyasha smirked.
"We'll see, Inuyasha. You may be eating those words several months from now though. Don't say I didn't warn you. But what about the others? Didn't you say you would return?" Kagome asked.
"They can handle the snake demon for now. Now that I think about it, I don't want you leaving my side under any circumstances, from now on. Unless I ask Sesshoumaru to protect you for me, ok? Promise me, koi." Inuyasha said as Kagome sighed in playful frustration before smiling at her mate and nodding.
"I promise, Inuyasha." Kagome said.
"Mama? Daddy? What are you talking about?" Kaori asked, looking up at his parents curiously as Kagome and Inuyasha exchanged a look, before Kagome squatted down to eye-level with her pups.
"Well, sweetheart. Mommy and Daddy were talking because Daddy was just worried about Mommy and the two of you, that's all." Kagome said.
"But why, Mama?" Kaiya asked as Kagome smiled at Inuyasha before looking down at her daughter again.
"Well, because Mommy's going to have another baby, and Daddy didn't want anything bad to happen to us." Kagome said.
"What does that mean.....?" Kaori asked, looking at his father.
"It means, that you two are going to have a new baby brother or sister soon, and as its older siblings, you'll have to look out for it and protect it when you grow older." Inuyasha said.
"Really?" Kaiya asked her mother as Kagome smiled and nodded.
"Yay!" The twins cried, before hugging their mother around her waist, since she was still squatting down so low to them, and nearly knocked her over as Inuyasha swiftly reached down and caught her before she toppled over, and gently detached the twins, scowling softly at them as he did so.
"*And* it also mean you'll have to be more careful around your mother until she has the pup." Inuyasha said.
"Why?" Kaori asked as Kagome smiled down at her son.
"You may accidently hurt the pup, sweetie." Kagome said.
"Oh, I'm sorry Mama. We didn't mean to." Kaori began as Kagome smiled at him.
"I know, pumpkin. You'll just both have to be more careful, that's all." Kagome said before looking over at Inuyasha.
"So what will we do now? We can't really just wait for them, can we? They may need you, Inuyasha." Kagome said as Inuyasha stood quietly, thinking to himself for a few moments, before looking at Kagome.
"We'll go back, but I still don't want you fighting. Can you just stay as far away from the battle as possible?" Inuyasha asked as Kagome nodded.
"If that's what you want, then yes." Kagome said as Inuyasha nodded.
"Good." Inuyasha said, and immediately the four headed back to the clearing, with Inuyasha and Kagome both carrying one of the twins.
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*Lily* Ah ha! I hope you all appreciate that REALLY LONG chapter I wrote for you. Ja ne.
*Lily giggling* Ah. You know what? Inuyasha is so cute!
*Mirai narrowing his eyes at his mate* *Cute?!*
*Lily sweatdropping* I didn't mean it like that, Mirai sweatheart. *muttering under her breath* Even though he really is.
*Mirai frowning* What did you just say?
*Lily shaking her head.* I didn't say anything. *looking at the readers* Anyway, I just finished watching a new Yasha episode. *IT* was so cute. Inuyasha and Kouga. Gotta love dem wacky demons and their name calling.
*Inuyasha clone pops in* WACKY NAME CALLING?! THAT MANGY WOLF CALLED ME A MUTT, YOU STUPID WENCH!
*Mirai turning SSJ4* Wench?! No one insults *MY* mate and lives, you mongrel.
*Lily sighing* Boys! Boys! Enough! Mirai, calm down, and Inuyasha, you too. Honestly you two are so alike it scares me sometimes.
*Mirai and Inuyasha gap on in shock* WHAT?!
*Lily chuckling* Anyway, I have a story to update and a chapter to write. You too had better behave or you'll *both* be sorry.
*Inuyasha snorting* Keh! Who'd be afraid of a worthless wench like you?
*Mirai powering up*
*Lily* Relax, Mirai. I'm a big girl, I can handle this myself. Inuyasha? SIT!
"Inuyasha crashes head-first into the ground, muttering curses through the dirt in his mouth as Mirai sweatdrops at his mate*
*Lily smiling sweetly at her mate* See? Now to the rest of my story. Disclaimer first. Lily, that's me, doesn't own the characters of any anime show at all. Oh and for those of you who are wondering, check out chapter 5. It'll explain about how Kagome is pregnant, cause I did have a reviewer who'd asked about that. Ok, on with the story.
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Keiki de Niyati : Children of Fate
Chapter 16- " Discovery"
by Lily
"You've got to be kidding me!" Inuyasha cried as Sango rushed off suddenly towards some nearby brush, Kagome following after her friend, glaring at her mate as she looked at him.
"What do you expect, Inuyasha? She's pregnant, remember? You can be so insensitive sometimes!" Kagome shouted as Inuyasha opened his mouth in surprise.
"Insensitive? This is the seventh time in the last *hour* that we've had to stop, woman!" Inuyasha shot back.
Miroku smacked him with his staff.
"What'd you do that for, monk?!" Inuyasha snarled.
"You were asking for it." Miroku stated as Inuyasha clenched and inclenched his fists.
"Why you-" Inuyasha growled.
"Inuyasha. Enough. The human girl is with pup. I'd expect you'd show your own mate a bit more leanancy if it was her instead of the exterminator in the brush there." Sesshoumaru said as Kagome narrowed her eyes at him.
"Keh!" Inuyasha said, crossing his arms and whipping his head to look in the opposite direction.
"I'm fine, really." Sango said weakly, finally coming out of the brush, and wiping the corner of her mouth with the back of her hand as Kagome smiled at her.
"It'll pass. It may take a week, but it will. You'll see." Kagome said with a smile as Sango nodded.
"I hope so, Kagome. After all, I've never, well, I just don't really know what to expect. But I'm thankful that I have you here with me now to help me, Kagome. Thank you." Sango said as Kagome nodded.
"Don't mention it, Sango. But a bit of advice, when the time does come, make sure Miroku is there with you for *support*." Kagome said, smirking slightly at the pale faced monk.
"I'll do that, Kagome, you can count on it." Sango said.
"I'm beginning to think the Lady Kagome wouldn't mind seeing me dead, Inuyasha." Miroku said a bit weakly as Inuyasha raised his eyebrow at the monk.
"I'd be more worried about your own woman when the times comes, monk. I think it'll be her you'll be fearful of more than my own mate." Inuyasha said.
Miroku gulped.
"Anyway, I think we'd better keep moving, as long as Sango is ok now? Besides, I sense a jewel shard." Kagome said.
"What? Where?" Inuyasha asked suddenly looking around as Kagome pointed to the north.
"It's pretty close, just up there. But......wait a minute, it's moving." Kagome said, frowning slightly.
"What do you mean, Lady Kagome?" Kouga asked.
"She is right. I sense it as well. It's heading in our direction......no......it's to our left." Kikyo stated, turning to the left and drawing her bow and arrow.
"It's coming towards up really fast too. Everyone, be ready." Kagome said as Inuyasha unsheathed the Tetseiga and stepped infront of her.
"I want you to go hide, Kagome, and take the pups and Rin with you." Inuyasha said as Kagome narrowed her eyes at him.
"Inuyasha, this is not Naraku, it's just some other demon with a jewel shard. I can handle it. Besides, you may need me. Sango can watch the pups and Rin. They'll be fine." Kagome said.
"Do as your mate wishes, milady." Sesshoumaru suddenly said, as both Inuyasha and Kagome stared at the older demon in shock, Inuyasha snapping out of it first.
"Go, koi, now. Or I'll make you myself." Inuyasha said as Kagome looked at her mate bewildered.
"Make me? Inuyasha-" Kagome started a bit irrated before Inuyasha growled, turned around and seized her gently by the upper arm and pulled her towards him until her face was even with his as he looked intently into her eyes.
"I'll only ask you nicely once, Kagome. Go, now. And don't make me ask you a second time." Inuyasha said as Kagome narrowed her eyes at him.
"Inuyasha, I don't know what's gotten into you all of a sudden, but-" Kagome was cut off as a huge snake demon suddenly tore into the clearing.
"Damn it all to hell!" Inuyasha snarled as he looked at the demon that was already being attacked by Kouga, Sesshoumaru, Miroku, and Kikyo. He turned back to snarl at his mate.
"Are you going to leave, or do I have to make you, Kagome?" Inuyasha asked again as Kagome opened her mouth to snap at him.
"Inuyasha, you're crazy if you think I'm going to just let you take on this overgrown worm by yourself and possibly get hurt! I'm not moving!" Kagome said as Kaori and Kaiya looked back and forth between their parent, wondering what was going on.
"I thought as much. Damn mate. You're so stubborn!" Inuyasha said, before sheathing his sword as Kagome looked at him in surprise.
"What are you doing? You need the Tetseiga, Inuyasha!" Kagome said as Inuyasha ignored her and instead turned to look towards where the others were engaging the snake demon.
"Miroku, one of you is going to keep an eye on Sango and Rin. I'll be right back!" Inuyasha shouted as Kagome's jaw dropped in shock.
"Be sure to hurry, if you *don't* mind, Inuyasha." Miroku called back, and tried to strike the snake in the head with his staff again, before being knocked a few feet back by the large scaly tail.
"Be right back?! Where the hell do you think you're going at a time like this, Inuyasha?!" Kagome cried as Inuyasha turned back to her, narrowing his eyes in concentration for a moment as he looked at her carefully, before nodding to himself, and picking her up bridal style before she could stop him, and looked down at the pups.
"Follow me, you two. And I want you both to try your best to keep up with me, understand?" Inuyasha asked as the twins nodded at their father.
"Inuyasha! What the hell are you doing?! Put me down this instant! I'll say 'it' I swear I will!" Kagome threatened as she struggled to free herself from her mate as he looked down at her and raised an eyebrow.
"You wouldn't, you'd follow with me, koi. Just hold on." Inuyasha said, and he was instantly dashing away with the angry Kagome in his arm, the pups trying their best to keep up. Inuyasha continued running, clutching Kagome protectly to his chest as he ran, looking briefly over his shoulder ever few moments to make sure the pups were still with them, and slowing his pace a bit when he noticed they were lagging only a bit.
A few minutes later, Inuyasha finally slowed to a stop and set Kagome on her feet, and was rewarded with a rather strong shove as she glared at him furiously.
"What the hell was *that* for?! How dare you! I thought I told you that being my mate doesn't give you the right to do whatever the hell you please, when you please Inuyasha!" Kagome snarled at him.
"And *I* told *you* I wasn't going to let anything happen to you! Or the pups! Any of them!" Inuyasha snarled at his mate.
"Kaori and Kaiya are fine!" Kagome cried as Inuyasha snarled at her as he stepped forward and pressed his palm to her abdomen and growled at her as he looked into her eyes.
"And what of the pup you're carrying?! Would you risk harm to it as well, you foolish girl?!" Inuyasha asked as Kagome's eyes widen in shock.
"But how-?" Kagome asked stunned as Inuyasha dropped his hand, and wrapped it around her waist and pulled her towards him slowly, his eyes softening as he stroked the back of her head with his hand, Kaori and Kaiya looking on in confusion.
"I've known for a while, koi. You really thought you could keep it from me?" Inuyasha asked as Kagome looked at her mate in confusion.
"But last time......with the twins, you never noticed. And you didn't say anything this time, until now." Kagome said in confusion.
"Actually, I knew there was something odd with your scent last time, but I didn't know exactly what at the time. At least until Sesshoumaru informed me-" Inuyasha began.
"But you said you fainted when he told you." Kagome said.
"Out of shock. I knew there was something odd, and when he told me exactly what it was, I guessed it had been what I had already smelled. I fainted because the idea of *me* being a father overwhelmed me at the time." Inuyasha said.
"But how could you have known now? I don't understand it. You didn't say anything about it to me." Kagome said.
"I saw you and Sesshoumaru talking. He smelled it once after all, didn't he? He put my suspicions to rest, basically." Inuyasha said.
"Why didn't you tell me before now?" Kagome asked as Inuyasha raised an eyebrow playfully at her.
"I could ask you the same thing, koi. I don't recall you taking me aside to share this bit of news with me, either." Inuyasha said with a smirk as Kagome blushed, before she narrowed her eyes at him.
"I thought you'd start acting like this, completely overprotective of me, and unrational." Kagome said.
Inuyasha sighed deeply as he closed his eyes, before opening them and staring intently into his mate's.
"Kagome, listen to me. I'm your mate. And I don't want anything happening you or our family. I *know* you can handle yourself, but I still worry. I have that right as your mate and father of our pups. I know I tend to overdo it sometimes-" Inuyasha began as Kagome raised her eyebrow at him.
"Sometimes?" Kagome asked.
"*But* the reason I do is because I care so much for you. Can you at least promise me you'll be more careful, of yourself and the pups? *Especially* now that you're pregnant again? For me, koi?" Inuyasha asked.
"You're not going to make me go back to my time?" Kagome asked as Inuyasha shook his head.
"You're right. I don't have the right to tell you what to do. So no, but I want you to watch yourself, at *all* times. Naraku will eventually figure out you're with child and be after you and the pups, now more than ever. It's even more dangerous than before, but we still need you if we're going to destroy him once and for all." Inuyasha said.
"What about Kikyo? I mean, not that I'm not thrilled that you're agreeing to let me stay, but with her fighting *with* us now, you could use her to locate the jewels, right?" Kagome asked as Inuyasha frowned at her.
"First of all, if it wasn't for *you* she may not even be fighting with us. Second of all, I've been away from you for three long years, I don't plan to make it any longer. And besides, I still have a lot I want to teach the twins. And lastly," Inuyasha said, placing his hand on her stomach again "Unlike last time, I intent to be there throughout your pregancy and for the birth." Inuyasha said as Kagome smirked at him.
"I don't know. Twenty hours of labor last time? What if it's longer this time? I do plan on sharing every *bit* of my pain with *you* when the time comes. Are you sure you can last?" Kagome asked.
"Don't worry about me, koi. I can handle just about anything you throw at me." Inuyasha smirked.
"We'll see, Inuyasha. You may be eating those words several months from now though. Don't say I didn't warn you. But what about the others? Didn't you say you would return?" Kagome asked.
"They can handle the snake demon for now. Now that I think about it, I don't want you leaving my side under any circumstances, from now on. Unless I ask Sesshoumaru to protect you for me, ok? Promise me, koi." Inuyasha said as Kagome sighed in playful frustration before smiling at her mate and nodding.
"I promise, Inuyasha." Kagome said.
"Mama? Daddy? What are you talking about?" Kaori asked, looking up at his parents curiously as Kagome and Inuyasha exchanged a look, before Kagome squatted down to eye-level with her pups.
"Well, sweetheart. Mommy and Daddy were talking because Daddy was just worried about Mommy and the two of you, that's all." Kagome said.
"But why, Mama?" Kaiya asked as Kagome smiled at Inuyasha before looking down at her daughter again.
"Well, because Mommy's going to have another baby, and Daddy didn't want anything bad to happen to us." Kagome said.
"What does that mean.....?" Kaori asked, looking at his father.
"It means, that you two are going to have a new baby brother or sister soon, and as its older siblings, you'll have to look out for it and protect it when you grow older." Inuyasha said.
"Really?" Kaiya asked her mother as Kagome smiled and nodded.
"Yay!" The twins cried, before hugging their mother around her waist, since she was still squatting down so low to them, and nearly knocked her over as Inuyasha swiftly reached down and caught her before she toppled over, and gently detached the twins, scowling softly at them as he did so.
"*And* it also mean you'll have to be more careful around your mother until she has the pup." Inuyasha said.
"Why?" Kaori asked as Kagome smiled down at her son.
"You may accidently hurt the pup, sweetie." Kagome said.
"Oh, I'm sorry Mama. We didn't mean to." Kaori began as Kagome smiled at him.
"I know, pumpkin. You'll just both have to be more careful, that's all." Kagome said before looking over at Inuyasha.
"So what will we do now? We can't really just wait for them, can we? They may need you, Inuyasha." Kagome said as Inuyasha stood quietly, thinking to himself for a few moments, before looking at Kagome.
"We'll go back, but I still don't want you fighting. Can you just stay as far away from the battle as possible?" Inuyasha asked as Kagome nodded.
"If that's what you want, then yes." Kagome said as Inuyasha nodded.
"Good." Inuyasha said, and immediately the four headed back to the clearing, with Inuyasha and Kagome both carrying one of the twins.
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*Lily* Ah ha! I hope you all appreciate that REALLY LONG chapter I wrote for you. Ja ne.