Disclaimer: I don't own Inuyasha; I do own Shimiko, Kiyoshi, Yori, Leiko, Yasahiro, Amaya, Suki and Little Iasha.

Chapter 21: Unprepared on the Moonless Night

By Tainted InuShemeeko

Kagome giggled as she watched Shimiko's three little one's cooing at each other. Suki, Amaya, and Little Iasha were just about two months old. The green leaves of summer had already begun to change into brilliant colors of orange, red and yellow. Kagome still couldn't believe how fast the days had gone by. Then again it wasn't like she got to think about it much. She rested a hand on her own abdomen, as she watched Iasha blow bubbles at Yori. Her eyes then fell on Sango as she held Suki, there were times that she couldn't get over the fact that Suki was Inuyasha's daughter. It made her wonder what the child that she was carrying would look like.

'Why am I even worried what it looks like? It's not like Inuyasha is going to disown it. Still I can't help but wonder about it.'

A pair of strong arms wrapped themselves around her waist, bringing her out of the recent thoughts.

"Hey what are you thinking about Kagome?"

The sound of Inuyasha's voice jarred Kagome out of her thoughts.

"Huh, oh nothing much really, just stuff."

Inuyasha raised an eyebrow as he looked at his wife.

"What kind of stuff?"

Kagome waved her hand at Inuyasha, as she tried to cover.

"You know the kind of things that you wouldn't be interested in."

However, there was no escaping Inuyasha.

"Like what?"

"It's not that important, so you don't have to worry about it."

Hearing Kagome talk like that wasn't helping him calm his nerves at all.

"Just tell me what the hell is bothering you."

Kagome couldn't stand it, why did it always feel like he was always yelling at her?

"I said it was nothing so stop yelling at me."

Inuyasha's right eye started to twitch as he tried to calm himself.

"There is something bothering you. So just tell me what it is, and I'm not yelling at you."

Near tears Kagome just looked at him before she spoke.

"You are too."

"I AM NOT."

After Inuyasha had spoke or should we say yelled those words he then regretted saying them.

"Kagome, I didn't mean it like...."

"SIT, sit, sit, sit, sit boy."

They others in their group, frowned at Inuyasha as they looked at the crater that now held Inuyasha's body. Shimiko just shook her head at him.

"I warned you about those hormones, but you just couldn't take my advice."

Inuyasha's right foot twitched as he moaned at the bottom of the crater.

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Kagome angrily stomped her way towards the well.

"Grrr, I swear sometimes I think he forgets that I even have feelings."

She continued on toward the well, when a sharp unsteadying pain shot up her back causing her to stop. Seeing the well come into view she smiled to herself.

'I'll just go back home for a few days. That ought to teach Inuyasha to think about how I feel sometimes.'

Kagome was inches away from the well when the strange pain once again flooding her back, stealing her breath away. It was then that she noticed that the sun had almost set, and the forest was almost completely covered with shadows. That's when she noticed a set of glowing gold eyes watching her. Without giving it a second thought she opened her mouth and screamed.

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Inuyasha continued to rub his sore back as his dark hair fell over his face. He wasn't that happy that Kagome had sat him, but the simple fact that she had forgotten what tonight was.

"Damn, you would think that after all the crap we've been through together, that she would have at least remembered when the new moon was."

Shimiko couldn't help but giggle at Inuyasha's words as she watched her three pups sleep. Even though Ayame looked human right now, Shimiko still called her a pup because she was. She then decided to speak with Inuyasha.

"Maybe you should go after her Inuyasha."

Inuyasha looked over at Shimiko with his violet eyes as he spoke.

"Feh, are you kidding? It's safer to stay here for awhile until Kagome's had time to cool off in her time for awhile. I'll go and get her tomorrow, by then may she'll forgive me."

Miroku and Sango stared at their hanyou friend, for awhile before the silence was stirred by Miroku's voice.

"Perhaps, if you weren't so insensitive all the time, you would put Kagome's feelings before your own. Especially, with Kagome being in the condition that she is in. Getting up set like that can't be good for her or the baby she is carrying."

Inuyasha looked away from Miroku once all of his words had sunk in. Neither, Miroku, Sango, or Shimiko, said a word when they saw the hurt on Inuyasha's face. One look at the hanyou face and they could see that he was taking every one of his friends words to heart.

'Damn it all, why the hell does Miroku always have to be right about things like this?'

The sound of Shimiko turning quickly toward the door; shook Inuyasha from his thoughts long enough for the ear splitting scream to reach his human ears, from the looks on Miroku's and Sango's faces they had heard it as well.

"Kagome."

Without out a second thought of being in his human, he sped out of the hut toward the source of the scream. Shimiko was neck and neck with him as he forced his human body to go faster.

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Kagome froze in her tracks as more glowing gold eyes started to appear in the forest around her. Suddenly she felt the familiar pull of a jewel shard.

'There's a jewel shard in one of those things, but where is it and what are these things?'

Her answer came quickly as two of the creatures came out of hiding.

"I just had to ask didn't I, but why did it have to be rats?"

It was then Kagome noticed a pair of red glowing eyes, staring start at her.

"It's that one over there it's the one with the jewel shard."

Without warning to of the rats decided to attack her. Panicking Kagome waited for their sharp teeth it pierce her skin but nothing happened. Instead the rats where thrown away from her by a bright pink shield.

'Did I just do that?'

Relaxing her self just a little when she realized that she was safe, a sigh escaped her lips. However more of the mind-controlled rats sprang at her once more to only have their lives ended as they struck the protective barrier. Fear flickered in her doe-like eyes, as a rush of water seeped from within her body.

"Oh, no I think my water just broke."

The demon rat with the blood red eyes seemed to be waiting from a moment like this. For seconds later it leapt out of hiding, its massive paw, turning part of the well wall into splinters. A strange glowing white light caused Kagome to look up at the sky. Dozens of souls seemed to appear out of nowhere. As new pain engulf her body, she watched as three of the souls seemed to take on human forms.

One was a man with short dark hair and eyes, and he was wearing clothes from her own era.

"Papa?"

How could that be her father had died when she was eight, her mother had still been pregnant with Souta. She then glanced over at the other two that now stood before her. The woman seemed familiar, while the other man had an uncanny resemblance to Inuyasha. She gasped as another pain surprised her, panting she watched has the large demon tried to attack her again.

"They must be Inuyasha's parents, but why can I see them?"

The thought then struck her like a bucket of cold water.

"Tonight is All Hallow's Eve, Oct. 31. I can't believe I forgot about it."

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Inuyasha heart seemed to jump into his throat as he saw, Kagome protective shield evaporate. Fearing the worse he and Shimiko took off in different directions. Shimiko went after the demon rat, while he went to Kagome. That's when he got a good look at the glow blue and white light that seemed to be around Kagome now.

In a protective stance in front of Kagome stood the ghost of his mother, followed by his father and a man Inuyasha knew had to be Kagome's father, because of the way he was dressed.

"Hm, tonight must be the night of the dead, one of the nights the dead can come and visit their loved one's that are still living."

Hearing Kagome say his name in desperation, he turned to see the woman of his dreams, panting as she looked at him, sweat beading down the sides of her forehead.

"Kagome, are you alright?"

Panting hard as she tried to hold her body up, she spoke in between trying to catch her breath.

"Inu...yasha, there's...a shard...in the forehead...of the...demon...rat."

Nodding in understanding, Inuyasha turned and yelled at his three friends.

"Hey, Miroku, Sango, Shimiko, Kagome said there's a shard in its forehead."

All three of them looked at Inuyasha before answering together.

"Right, we're on it."

Inuyasha then when to Kagome's side, his human legs felt like rubber as he knelt beside her. He then noticed that even though he was there now she seemed to still be afraid of something.

"Kagome, what is it what's wrong?"

She sighed tiredly as Inuyasha placed a hand to her cheek.

"It looks like you were right Inuyasha."

At first he didn't understand what she was talking about.

"Kagome, what are you talking about?"

"The baby Inuyasha, I'm talking about the baby, it's almost here."

Inuyasha's violet eyes widened in surprise as he glanced at Kagome's tired body. His heart cried out to her as watched her ball her hand into a fist. He then crawled behind her and laid her head on his chest as he gave her his hand to hold. His own raven hair fell forward to mix with Kagome's as her breathing came out in short pants once again.

"Inuyasha, I don't...think I...can do...this."

Inuyasha couldn't help but smile at his mate as she lay against him.

"Sure you can Kagome, I've never meet anyone as strong as you. You can do it, I know you can and I'm not going to go anywhere."

Four hours later Shimiko had left to get Kaede. Kagome was getting closer now. Inuyasha himself still had six more hours until sunrise. Both Sango and Miroku had questioned Inuyasha about taking Kagome back to Kaede's, but Shimiko had told them that it wouldn't be good to move her now until the pup was born.

Two hours after Kaede arrived; she was helping a tiny little being out from within her mother's womb. Seconds after it slipped from Kagome body, it filled the night air with its cry.

"It would seem that you two have a healthy little girl. Ye should be very proud."

Kaede then smiled as she watched Inuyasha and Kagome gaze down at the pup in wonder. Two small black wet ears sat on top of her little head. Soft silver strands of hair surrounded the two small ears, as strands of black tried to swirl up and mix with all of the sliver hair. Both parents giggled lightly as their daughter yawned and then blinked her eyes, revealing her own bright golden orbs before closing them once more.

"She's beautiful Kagome, just like you. So what do you think we should call her?"

Kagome gave it some thought before she answered him.

"How about the name Mika, from the looks of it our parents seem to like it."

Inuyasha looked over to his right to see his parents and Kagome's father watching them. Their eyes were dancing with pride and happiness as they looked at their granddaughter.

"I couldn't agree with them more. Mika is a perfect name for her Kagome."

After handing Mika back to Kaede, Kagome smiled as Inuyasha lifted her into his arms and followed Shimiko and Kaede back to the village. Miroku and Sango bring up the rear. Only a few seconds after shifting her in his arms, Inuyasha realized that Kagome had fallen asleep in his arms.

An hour before sunrise if one was to look above the hut that housed the two large families they would have seen three glowing orbs smiling down at the hut in happiness. For they had been there for their children during one of the times in their life when they needed them most, then again weren't they always with them inside their hearts?

(A/N: OK, one more chapter and then this story will come to an end.

For anyone who didn't already know, Mika means new moon.

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Ja ne!

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