A/N: briefly I'd like to point out how easy it would have been for me to add the begining of this chapter to the end of the last and leave a cliff hanger, but like I said I'm not very good at leaving you hanging, so here you go... I hope you still like it and thanks for your reviews. I'd like to say that there will be atleast 19 chapters now instead of the 15 I said before. I am trying to decided where to end this. I may ask for your suggestions in a chapter or two...
InuYasha got worried as her face paled and the smell of blood hit his nose. It was wrong. It wasn't the smell of birthing, but the smell of her life's blood flowing out of her. Sango took the other baby away to clean it and Yuriko began working on Kagome. She handed him a cup of something. "Have her drink it." she said. InuYasha did as he was told.
"What else can I do?" he asked, near panic.
"Set your pups to nurse. It will help." she said. He nodded as Sango returned with the other baby. Kagome didn't stir as they put the babies to her breasts. A few a few tense moments Yuriko stepped back. "I have managed to stop the bleeding, but she has lost much blood."
"Can't you do anything?" he asked.
"I have done all I can, but there is something you can do." she told him. "Share your Youki with her as when you mated." He tore into his wrist with his fangs and put it to her lips. When Yuriko nodded, he took his arm away. Kagome slowly opened her eyes. She looked at InuYasha and then at their two beautiful babies and smiled.
"You did it." he said softly, pushing the hair out of her face.
"What are they?" she asked. InuYasha realized that he didn't know.
"You have a beautiful daughter and fine strong son." Yuriko said. "Almost too strong."
"Well there's your one boy." she laughed. InuYasha smiled. If she was laughing then she had to be all right. "So tired."
"Rest." Yuriko said. "You have earned it."
Kagome drifted off to sleep and so did their pups. Sango closed her Yukata and left her with her babies nestled against her. "Sango will you stay with her, so I can go tell the others?" he asked.
"Of course." she said.
InuYasha stepped outside and leaned against the wall. He looked up at Miroku's approach. "You look terrible." Miroku said. "How are Kagome and the child?"
"She going to be fine and so are our pups." he said.
"More than one?" Miroku asked.
InuYasha nodded. "A boy and a girl." he replied.
"You don't do anything half way do you InuYasha ?" Miroku laughed. InuYasha went back inside, followed by Miroku. Miroku looked in the corner and saw the blood soaked blankets. He looked at InuYasha. "It was that serious?" he asked. InuYasha nodded.
"I will go inform Lord Sesshomaru." Yuriko said, and she left. Sango and Miroku followed soon after.
InuYasha laid on the bed beside Kagome and he looked at his pups. The little girl may have had his ears and hair but he could see so much of Kagome in her. He sat up when Sesshomaru came in. He strode over to the bed., and looked at InuYasha, who nodded. He picked up the little boy, who opened his eyes and scowled.
Sesshomaru almost laughed. "Yes he is your son." he said. "Have you named them?
"Not yet. I was waiting for Kagome to wake up." he replied.
Sesshomaru nodded. "Very well. I will leave you now." he said.
When he was gone InuYasha went back to looking at his family. It was strange to him to be able to say those words. He had a family and the heart of it was Kagome. The girl started to cry and it woke her. He didn't notice her eyes on him as he held their daughter, rocking her slightly, and growling softly trying to sooth her.
She knew in that moment she had been right. He was going to make a wonderful father. "Shhh." he said softly. "You'll wake mama and she's tired."
"It's all right." Kagome said, startling him. "I barely got a chance to look at them earlier. I'm glad to be awake now."
She held out her arms. "I think she's hungry." he said. As if on cue the boy started to cry as well.
Kagome sat up some and began to feed the babies. "What will we call them?" she asked. "We never did get a chance to pick out names."
"I thought Mika and Taro. If that's all right with you." he said.
"How about InuTaro?" she asked. "He looks just like you." He nodded. "I guess none of our children will look like me."
"Mika looks like you." he told her. "I bet she looks exactly like you once a month."
"I suppose you're right." Kagome laughed.
The next day Yuriko came an advised that Kagome not do anything for a month, to recover, which meant that Sango and Miroku would have to return alone, or stay until after their baby was born. Yuriko offered her services should they chose to stay. She did not preform human births, but was able to since hanyou's almost always had human mothers. Sango and Miroku decided to stay, rather than risk traveling.
When Sango was a week over due Katsuko gave birth to a son. He had not inherited poison abilities from his father and the birth was relatively easy. The little boy called Keiji. He had a crescent on his forehead like Sesshomaru.
When she was two weeks over due Miroku started avoiding her. She cursed him every time she saw him. She said it was probably his fault the baby wasn't coming, because it didn't want a pervert for a father. InuYasha laughed every time he heard that.
At last in the middle of the night Miroku came running into their room. "Oi lecher, what do you think you're doing?." InuYasha growled, waking both babies and Kagome in the process.
"Sango said she's having the baby." he breathed.
"All right." Kagome said. "Let me get Mika and Taro back to sleep and I'll be right there."
InuYasha growled softly. "Why couldn't she wait until morning?" He complained. He wouldn't be able to go back to sleep without Kagome beside him.
Kagome laughed at her pouting hanyou. "The baby chooses when it comes not the other way around." she said. "You'll have to come get me when they get hungry again." He nodded. When the twins were asleep once again Kagome put one in each of InuYasha's arms and got up. She dressed quickly and he frowned as she disappeared out of their room.
Kagome entered Sango and Miroku's room. Miroku was pacing back and forth. Kagome laughed. "How are you?" she asked Sango.
"I'd be better if he's stop moving around like that." she laughed.
Kagome went to Miroku. "Relax." she said softly. "Why don't you go see InuYasha?"
Miroku nodded and left the room. A few moments later Yuriko came into the room. She examined Sango. "You are progressing quickly. Your body is well suited to childbirth. You should be able to deliver many children." she said.
Kagome laughed. "Miroku will be happy to hear that." she teased.
"Don't encourage him." Sango warned.
As couple hours later InuYasha appeared at the door. "Where's Miroku?" Kagome asked.
"Knocked out on the floor of our room." InuYasha replied, making sure to keep his pups close to him, so she couldn't sit him.
"You didn't." she said.
"He wouldn't stop walking around. It was driving me crazy and upsetting the pups. Don't worry I didn't hit him too hard." InuYasha said.
"We're going to discuss this more later." Kagome told him. She took the pups and fed them and once they were sleeping again she gave them back to InuYasha. "Go wake him up. It is almost time."
Sango was ready to push. The baby was born just as Miroku returned to the room. Kagome cleaned the baby and wrapped it in a blanket. Miroku went to stand beside Sango. She handed the baby to Sango. The looked at her expectantly. "It's a girl." she said.
"A girl." Miroku mumble before crashing to the floor in a faint.
Sango and Kagome ignored him. "She beautiful." Kagome said. "I'll send InuYasha to come pick him up." Sango nodded.
By the next evening Miroku seemed to have recovered and was smiling. He brought his daughter with him everywhere. Sango had to fight him, just to get the baby long enough to feed her. They named her Kimi and Kagome thought she looked just like Sango. Kagome thought Miroku was secretly pleased to have a girl because it meant he and Sango would have to have at least one more baby to get a son.
When Kimi was a month old and Taro and Mika were two they made the journey home. Of course their was some work to be done, cleaning and making minor repairs on their homes, after such a long absence, but they were all glad to be home.
As Kagome settled into bed their first night back she snuggled up close to InuYasha and sighed. It was good to be home. She had InuYasha and their two beautiful children. It wouldn't be long before the well would open and she would be able to take her children to meet her mother and Souta.
InuYasha heard Kagome's soft sigh and recognized it as a sound of contentment. He felt the same. He had a family, and it was all because of her. He nuzzled her neck and kissed her softly. All the things he never thought he would have, especially after what happened with Kikyou. Had come to him, and he was grateful.
A week at home and Kagome had settled into her routine as a wife and a mother. She had been worried at first that she wouldn't be able to get used to life in this era. In the past the kind of life she was leading had become boring, but now she enjoyed it.
Even InuYasha whom she had worried would feel too confined seemed to be happy. He spent part of his days patrolling, protecting the village from demons. He had tried to help the village men with the fields, but they had refused his help. At first he had been hurt, though he refused to admit it. He thought they had accepted him. Kagome went to them without his knowledge.
"Why did you turn InuYasha away?" she asked. "He only wished to help. He wants to do his share of the work for the food we are given."
A man stepped forward to speak for them all. "His job is to protect the village from demons and you help Lady Kaede." he said. "You both contribute enough already for your share of the harvest."
Kagome watched the other men nod in agreement. "So it is not that you don't want him here then?" she asked.
"Of course not. It is because of him that we all live safe from the fear that we will be attacked." the man told her hurriedly. "He is not angry and planning to leave us is he?"
"No of course not." Kagome replied. "Thank you. I will leave you to your work."
Kagome found InuYasha waiting for her. "Where have you been?" he asked.
Kagome could tell her was upset. He still hated for her to go off alone. "I just went to the fields." she replied.
"What'd you do that for?" he asked.
"To find out why the men didn't let you help them." she replied.
"What do I care if they don't want my help?" he said turning away from her. "Who cares if a bunch of lousy villagers want me around or not?"
Kagome went to him and put a hand on his shoulder. "InuYasha, it isn't like that. They said you do your part by protecting the village and with that and my helping Kaede that we do enough. It isn't because they don't accept you." she told him.
He turned. She was telling him the truth and he knew it. He hugged her. "Don't go off without telling me again." he scolded softly. He kissed her. "Thank you." She smiled.
Most demons stayed away for the village and forest of InuYasha. Word had spread that he and the powerful miko he had chosen as his mate had defeated Naraku, and that the Lord of the Western Lands no longer looked the other way when demons came after his brother. Occasionally one would be foolish enough to come, but they always met with the same fate.
Late one night during their second week home InuYasha woke with a start. Kagome woke as well and looked at him. "There are youkai coming." he said. She nodded. He growled. "They're wolves. Get the pups and keep them with you. Stay inside."
He went outside. "Don't try to run half breed." One of the wolf demons said.
"As if I'd run from the likes of you." InuYasha growled.
"You've been running since you killed our leader. I am the new leader Haku, and we are here to avenge our brother." he said.
"Damn it wench. I told you to stay inside." he growled at Kagome without turning. He had heard her come up behind him.
"Sister." the familiar voice of one of the wolves who always followed Kouga called. "Why did you let him kill Kouga?"
Kagome was torn between doing what InuYasha told her and trying to defuse the situation without InuYasha having to fight. "InuYasha," she whispered. "Let me talk to them, please." Grudgingly he nodded. "InuYasha only killed Kouga because he attacked me." she told them. "He found out that I had chosen InuYasha as my mate." She moved close to the two wolves who had been her friends. She showed them the side of her face. "This is what he did to me."
"Kouga did that?" one asked. She nodded.
"I didn't want him to die, but InuYasha was only protecting me." she replied.
"Why do you listen to her lies?" Haku yelled.
"She would not lie. It seems Kouga made his own choice. He was defeated fairly when he threatened her. He has the right to protect his mate." he replied. Kagome smiled and put her hand on his shoulder. "I'm leaving."
Most of the other wolf demons followed. They had accepted what Kagome said, but there were four who did not. They started advancing on Kagome. She backed away. InuYasha was growling furiously and she could sense him fighting the change. He was holding their pups. She ran to him and took the babies. He didn't bother drawing his sword.
Kagome watched as InuYasha went after those that threatened their happiness. The four were no match for him and his desire to protect his family. She had known the instant they refused to believe her that their lives had ended, and that the already broken wolf demon tribe would once again need a new leader.
Only because they outnumbered him and had the aid of several wolves did they even manage to touch InuYasha. One though to sneak up and attack Kagome while InuYasha was busy, but he was met with Kagome's purifying energy and became no more. Soon the wolves had fled and their demon masters were no more.
InuYasha came to her. He looked at her with glowing red eyes. She reached up and rubbed his ear to soothe him. Slowly he calmed and his eyes returned to their amber color. "Are you all right?" he asked.
"Yes." she replied. "Let's get you cleaned up and we can go back to bed." InuYasha had long since given up arguing with her when it came to his injuries and he followed her inside.
The end of the month came quickly and in the early morning hours of the second day of February InuYasha, Kagome and their pups went through the well.
Out on the other side Asami was waiting. She hugged Kagome. "Where are they?" she asked. "Let me see them." InuYasha stepped forward and proudly showed off his pups. "Their adorable. Let's get inside."
Souta came out of his room to see what the commotion was. "Mom, what's all the racket about." he said.
"Souta don't just stand there, come welcome InuYasha and your sister. You also need to say hello to your niece and nephew." Asami said.
Souta had forgotten that Kagome would be coming today. "Why didn't you wake me?" he complained, coming to sit by his mother on the sofa, where she was holding Mi and Taro.
"I wanted a few minutes with them to myself." he mother said. "Just be glad you aren't going to school today."
Most of the day InuYasha sat quietly off to the side happy to let Kagome's mother fawn over how perfect his pups were. He naturally thought everyone should be as impressed with them as he was. After all they were exceptional. He was sure that they were going to be the strongest and smartest pups ever born. Kagome said that every parent felt that way about their child, but he knew his were special. Asami seemed to agree with him.
After dinner Asami took them to Kagome's old room and opened the door. "I have been buying things for you to take back." she said. "I may have gotten carried away."
Kagome and InuYasha stepped inside. There were cases of ramen and pocky as well as a few toys and some clothes for the babies and some modern items for Kagome. Kagome doubted that even InuYasha and Shippou could go through all that her mother had bought. InuYasha would have to go through the well a hundred times to carry all that back. She looked at him. He was gaping at all the ramen. It had been a long time since they had run out. She laughed. I guess he won't mind carrying it all through the well after all.
"I guess I better get started." he said. "It will take me half the night to carry all this stuff." He grabbed a couple of cases of ramen and headed out the door. It's a good thing we have an extra room to store all this food.
"He doesn't have to take all of it." Asami said.
"Don't worry mama." Kagome replied. "I swear he dreams about ramen. I could probably convince him to do anything right now."
They stayed long into the night. InuYasha finished bringing all the supplies to their home. Kagome and her mother cried softly and said their goodbyes. They left with the promise of returning next year. InuYasha faintly heard her mother mention more grandchildren as the leapt into the well.
Taro and Mika were nearly two and they were inseparable. Since they started walking at nine months Kagome had been constantly on the move. They could disappear in the blink of an eye. Their first words had come at one. Kagome asked InuYasha if it was because they were hanyou that they were developing so quickly, but he hadn't really been sure. His answer had been that maybe they were just smarter than other babies. She laughed and realized that it didn't matter.
Three months before their second birthday Taro had come asking her about Sango, who was pregnant with her second child. She and Miroku were hopping for a boy, but InuYasha had told her it was another girl. He seemed to find it very amusing. When she told him that they were having a baby, he asked when he could have a little brother.
Kagome hadn't really thought about when they would have another child. She and InuYasha had never even talked about it. She didn't even know if he had changed his mind about more after seeing what a handful the two they had could be. She smiled. She wouldn't mind having another one soon, and her mother would be pleased. She had seemed disappointed when they had gone through the well the last time with no sign of when the next was coming.
She had asked her mother why she didn't just read the book again and find out. Asami said that several small things had changed since the first time she read the book and that she didn't want to ruin the surprise.
Kagome decided to talk to InuYasha about it as soon as she had a chance. Better yet, maybe I'll just show him instead.
Inuyasha was standing in the doorway. He had been silent most of the day, only speaking to her when she asked him something directly. It had been a while since he had acted like this. Kagome figured it had to do with tonight being the full moon. She made her way across the room to stand beside him. The only notice he gave that he was aware of her approach was a slight twitch of his ears. Kagome ran a hand under his shirt and across the bare skin of his chest.
"Don't." he growled. He grabbed her hand and pulled it away from him. "You know how had it is for me to resist you on the full moon."
"What if I don't want you to resist?" she said playfully returning her hand to his bare chest.
"Damn it Kagome. I said stop." he yelled.
She looked at him with wide hurt filled eyes, trying to fight back her tears. "Fine." she said and retreated to their room. She knew he would hear her crying, but she didn't have to let him see it.
"Kagome?" he said softly. "I'm sorry."
"What's wrong with you today?" she asked. "You always said that we would have another baby when I was ready. Do you not want any more?"
"Of course I do." he told her.
"Then what? You've been distant since I woke up this morning." she said.
"I had some things to think about. Kagome, how often do women in your time die in childbirth?" he asked.
"Almost never." she replied. "Why?"
Inuyasha looked like he was considering something. "Kaede came by while you slept. Kichi died last night giving birth."
"Why didn't you tell me?" she yelled. "I could have gone and helped with the baby."
He shook his head sadly. "Kagome, the baby died as well."
She started to cry. Poor Hiro would be devastated. With that thought she understood InuYasha's dark mood. He was worried about what could happen if they chose to have another child. Her first birth had not been easy. "You should have told me." she said through her tears. He took her in his arms. "So you don't want us to have another baby then, not really."
"I do, but I want to wait until the well opens again." he told her.
"Why?" she asked. "It is only open for one day."
"I thought that if it was all right with Asami we would stay with her for a year, so you could have our pup in your time." he replied. "Of course if Shippou can't come through the well, we will have to see if Miroku and Sango will look after him."
Her tears stopped and she looked up at him. "Do you really mean it?" she asked.
"I couldn't bear it if anything happened to you. This way if something goes wrong you will be all right." he told her. "I also thought you might like your mother to be there when our pup is born."
She smiled. "I guess waiting a few more months won't hurt. Mama is going to be so happy." She leaned up to kiss him. "I guess this means you are sleeping outside tonight."
"After that kiss I'll have to." he sighed.
"Then kiss me again before you go." she said.
When it was three months until the well would open Kagome and Inuyasha agreed that if her fertile time coincided closely with the new or full moon that they would go ahead and try to produce a child, to be sure that they would have time for the baby to be born in the future.