A/N: I know, I know, this chapter is a little late. I'm sorry but I have been exrtemely busy these last four weeks. But for now, here you are with chapter three of Cowboy Mine. Please enjoy and don't shoot the author! .
Legal disclaimer: Sorry but I do not own Inuyasha, because if I did I'd be living somewhere where the rain is constant and the air fresh, and with some ocean waves, in a small seaside villa. I have better chances at winning the lotttery.
Cowboy Mine
Chapter three
A little over a week had passed since the majority of the ranch's hands had left. Only the old and the young were left behind, as well as a few of the cowyboys injured in a cattle loading incident a few days ago. Jenna Tama stood on the front porch with her daughter,Rin, in her arms as they looked over grounds the homestead was built on. It always enchanted Jenna when the suns early morning or late evening rays caught on the grass and the old barns making them appear to be visionary. No, nothing could ever make Jenna happier than she was now, than she was when she married Sesshomaru. Now her two friends were together with her again and pure joy radiated off the pregnant woman.
"Mommy?" a small voice called, barely audable if one wasn't used to such quiet tones. The auburn headed woman turned her face to looke at her daughter. A smile graced Jenna's face as big questioning gray blue eyes gazed up at her. "I'm hungry." Said the child.
"Well then I guess you'll just have to starve. Unless you can give me five reasons why I should feed you." Jenna teased her daughter just as Kagome walked outside to join them.
"Jenna! You're horrible! I can't believe you'd think of not feeding the precious angel in your arms." Kagome smiled down at Rin as she pretened to scold her friend."Don't you worry Rin, I wont let her starve you."she siad as she took the little girl from her friends arms, "why don't we go make some cookies." That seemed to just enlighten the young child as she hugged Kagome tighter about the neck.
"Of course, we'd have to make chocolate chip. I think between me and you, we could eat a lot. And we don't have to leave one crumb for your mean /old/ mother." Kagome said as they made their way into the house to make some cookies.
"Hey!" Jenna called after them. "I'm not old!" Jenna smiled as the two seemed to ignore her. Kagome seemed to handle Rin well enough, Jenna thought, but she knew Kagome always had a special way with children. What surprised Jenna the most was her own daughter. Rin had never been real talkative as a younger toddler. She had been quiet and reserved except around herself and Sesshomaru. Rin barely even talked to her uncle, but since Kagome came Rin wouldn't leave her alone and even dubbed her 'Aunt Gome'.
Two more weeks had passed since the cookie extravaganza. And now the skies had decided to rain yet again. Three weeks in all had passed, three weeks of rounding up and branding calves. Mud splattered and drenched from the downpour that continued to fall down upon them, the group of twenty five men and women continued to take care of their livestock.
Jenna Tama sat behind the work desk in the den. Taking a quick look at the clock she saw it was nearing ten. Rubbing her temples, as if to ward of sleep, she caught sight of a few cowboys in the flash of lightning. The sight of the cowboys quid her to get up from her chair and head to the front porch to see her husband and brother-in-law treck through the foyer.
Not caring about the mud and water that covered her husband, Jenna took three large steps and wrapped her arms around the tall man. Sessshomaru quickly enveloped the small and plump woman before him in a warm and loving embrace and kissed her gently on the brow when he pulled back just enough so his sodden clothes wouldn't be touching her. "Wouldn't want to rick getting you and the baby sick now, would I?"
Jenna nodded and her frown of displeasure suddenly dissapeared when Inuyasha let out a grunt. It was still awkward for him to see his normally unaffecionate and semi-cold and heartless half brother to show such tenderness. But then again, he did adore Jenna and she seemed to bring out the best in Sesshomaru and just about anyone else whom she knew.
"Why don't you two go and get changed? I'll make you both couple of sanwiches for when you get, if you're hungry." Jenna's soft voice broke Inuyasha's train of thought. Both brothers nodded when their stomach growled. As they turned to the stairs the Tama brothers exchanged their own version of sheepish looks before making their way up the stairs.
Inuyasha turned left and started pulling his shirt off over his head as he shut his bedroom door. Grabbing another set of pants and a clean pair of boxers, Inuyasha left a small mud sodden trail of clothes to his small bathroom. Fifteen minutes later he emerged, a cloud of mist following shortly after him, ruffeling his short ebony locks. He stopped mid ruffle when he heard a soft sigh come from his bed.
Violet eyes opened wide when he moved the towel that had obscured his sight. For a brief moment Inuyasha could have sworn a goddess was before him, lying on his bed. Then his sight made him think it was Kikyo, his ex-wife. Then, after much though on how Jenna would never allow that 'tramp' as she put it, back into her house, he realized thi figure on his bed looked nothing like his lovely ex. In fact he swore she was lovelier.
Dark raven locks floated over the small of the girls back. Delicate fingers gripped the pillow she laid upon. Her shoulders gently rose then fell back down with each breath she took. Her ivory skin shimmered in the light released from the bathroom.
Inuyasha quickly picked up his things and went downstairs to put some edible food into his ravaging belly. His peeved feelings soon disappeared as did his hunger when he bit into his roastbeef sandwich. After he had demolsihed the sandwich he grabbed a blanket and went to try and get some sleep on the couch.
The cold winds that followed the rain storm soon had Kgaome up. Shifting slightly, Kagome felt some added weight and warmth clinging to her stomach. Looking down she met a pair of big brown green eyes staring widely up at her. "A'nt Gome, I couldn't sleep; the thunder woke me up and I was scared. And why isn't Uncle Yasha sleeping with you and on the couch?" Rin continued her endless banter which was tinted with sleep Kagome's face heat up when she heard she was sleeping in some man's bed, a man who had been sleeping on the ground for the past three weeks.
Thinking of this and other things that the man named Inuyasha evoked in her made her almost miss the little girl's request for a song. "Mmm, alright Rin," she replied while thinking of how Jenna would owe her one. Softly she began to humm a ballad that she had listened to repeatedly since her divorce. "Losing emotion, finding devotion. Should I dress in white and search the sea? As I always wished to be on with the waves..." Nightwish's Ocean Soul wrang soflty through the room emerging from Kagome's pink lips. While her voice wasn't unpleasant to listen to, her true talent was found in the stories she made up and told.
As soon as Rin was asleep Kagome exited the bedroom and headed downstairs. Her mind pounded and blared as it screamed for a beverage, preferably alcholic. Opening the fridge Kagome caught the familiar tunes to a video game. Grabbing a Bud, Kagome headed towards the noise. A smile caught her lips as she leaned against the doorway frame to the room that contained the music, in which sat Inuyasha playing March Madness basketball on the PS2. "Win yet?" asked Kagome as she flipped the top on her can, starteling the man before her.
"Oh, it's you." He said as his head turned to look at her. "Why aren't you asleep?" he asked as he turned his game off and got up off the floor.
Kagome took another swig of the beer then raised her eyes to the ceiling. "The wind has many voices and tonight it chose one I'd rather forget and never have to hear again." Looking back down she met the eyes of Inuyasha, "I'm sorry you didn't have a bed to slep in. I didn't know it was your room till Rin came in a few minutes ago demanding a song. You could have tried to waken me. I would have woken up, eventually."
Inuyasha grinned, "What makes you think I idn't have a warm bed to sleep in? You just made it all the more warm."
Kagome's eyes flaed and her can crunched in her hand "You wouldn't have dared Inuyasha Tama!" her voice had risen with anger and any idiot could catch the quiver of frightenedness in her voice.
Hodling up his hands Inuyasha mad an attempt to calm her nerves down. "Relax, I was sleeping on the couch. If you you count that as sleeping. I had only noticed you in my bed when I walked out of the shower."
"You mean to tell me you were only koing?" her voice now had taken a dramatic fall and was now quivering. Inuyasha's eyes lit with fear as tears started to pool in the eyes of the young woman before him. He then watched in alarm as she slunk towards the floor.
"Hey! Don't do that!" he demanded.
Kagome's head shot up, tears trailing down her cheeks. "I'm not crying!" she said, sounding much like a two year old would.
The pair of violet eyes turned soft but the softness immediately dissapeared. "Then what are you doing? Washing your face?"
Kagome got to her feet and out of the blue she delt a quick blow to Inuyasha. "You jerk." Her voice croaked as she exited to room leaving a stunned Inuyasha behind.