Disclaimer: No, I don't own Inuyasha. Rumiko Takahashi does. And how many of you are going to be angry if she doesn't make Inuyasha and Kagome end up together? Yeah...I can see the mob already! lol.

Author's note: Well, I've been without a com for a long time it seems. Sooo….Methods of Seduction is going to take a while to finish. Sorry for all of you who were waiting for me to update it. I can't simply get this idea out of my head, it's been in there for awhile, and I need to get it out! So, just bare with me now. I have a lot on my plate and it hasn't been emptying either. It only seems to be accumulating more problems and such… Sigh

Household Breeding

Chapter 2


Kagome suddenly blinked her eyes open, staring into the semi-dark room. She could tell from the streams of sunlight filtering into her room that the sun was just beginning to rise. She yawned lightly and stretched her muscles. Well, she tried to.

Kagome suddenly blinked her eyes open, staring into the semi-dark room. She could tell from the streams of sunlight filtering into her room that the sun was just beginning to rise. She yawned lightly and stretched her muscles. Well, she to.

The moment she moved, she felt the sensation of strong arms tightening around her and the warm, soft breath of someone breathing against her cheek, for she was lying on her back. She recognized it immediately as Inuyasha. He was still deeply asleep—though that wouldn't last for long since he normally got up when Kuno did—and his expression was peaceful and child-like. It warmed her heart that he could relax when he was with her, although he'd been relaxing more often with her since they'd mated; which was at least three years ago. He sighed heavily and pulled her closer to his naked chest, rumbling deep within his chest. He nosed her softly and then buried his face into the crook of her neck, exhaling loudly. She sighed peacefully also and wrapped her arms more tightly around Kuno who was nestled on her chest contently.

She hated lying on her back but she had to. It was the only way she could sleep, really. Kagome closed her eyes and moved one of her hands to the round swell of her abdomen. A soft smile crossed her face as she fondly rubbed her swollen tummy, dreaming of what her next child would look like. She was a little more than six and a half months pregnant and as swollen as ever. Even though she rarely gained any weight that she couldn't lose after birth, her tummy was gigantic—well to her at least—and it looked like a basketball. It seemed that all the weight she gained during pregnancy went straight to the baby, to her stomach. Though she wasn't complaining; she didn't want to be fat. But she always felt so heavy and weighed down as her stomach enlarged each passing month.

Inuyasha said it was normal for her to feel like this and he had pointed out that many women must've felt like that when they had been breeding. Irritated with his feeble efforts to sympathize with her condition, she'd sat him. When she had been pregnant with Kuno and in her third to last month, she'd been significantly larger than Sango, who had been in her last month—and with twins! She'd been alarmed, very alarmed that she had been harboring, maybe, at least three children—after all Inuyasha was an inu and inu gave birth in litters. She'd said as much to him, but he had just laughed softly and told her that youkai pups were bigger at birth than human children and especially since the pup was to be a boy. She had scowled and sat him promptly, but then afterwards she had been very relieved; though, she had noted, her already humongous stomach at seven months was going to get much larger still.

An insistent and rather hard suction at her breast brought her out of her musings. Kuno, it seemed, had decided to help himself as he latched onto her breasts for an early morning breakfast. She wondered briefly why she hadn't felt him shuffle away her top clothing. She gave no further thought to it though as she made sure he was correctly latched on to her nipple and that he was being supported enough so he could easily hold onto her, like he usually loved to do. Whenever she would feed him, he would grab onto her—his tiny claws lightly pricking the swell of her breasts—and lightly squeeze his hands, like a cat kneading against some, poor, unfortunate upholstery. She had shown Inuyasha and remarked that that was a neko trait and he'd stuttered embarrassingly and snorted, as if it were normal. As she later found out, it was. "Nursing pups," as he'd told her, "like to be close to their mother and to feel like they, 'have a hold on okaa.' It's also so they know that their mother is close and in general they do it for comfort." She had nodded and smiled knowingly at him, making him flustered while he was trying to uphold his 'dominant male figure stance.'

Kagome languidly closed her eyes, Kuno still feeding rather noisily at her breast, and she turned her head to nuzzle softly into Inuyasha's silvery mane of hair. She breathed in deeply the faint scent of her male hanyou. Inuyasha had a 'musky' smell to him and a 'woodsy' smell to him. Basically, he smelled manly and in Kagome's mind, that registered as something safe; someone loving and protective.

"Mmm…mate, what're you doing?" A groggy voice reached her ears. The voice was quite close in fact.

Kagome opened her eyes to see a smoldering pair of amber orbs staring back at her. She smiled warmly at him. "Ahh, I see you're finally awake. Your son decided to get himself breakfast."

Inuyasha, dazedly, looked to where Kuno was hungrily suckling at his mother's breast. He raised an amused eyebrow. "Did it again, did he?"

Kagome sighed. "Yes, he did. He's very impatient it seems, just like his Otou."

"Oi!"

Kagome giggled quietly at his protest. "He surprised me, but I had already woken up a couple of minutes before he did. Though, how he squirms underneath my top so fast is eluding me."

Inuyasha closed his eyes, listening to the soft suckling sounds his son was making. He chided the miko next to him softly, "You shouldn't be awake this early, koi. You need your rest for the developing pup inside you or did you just conveniently forget you were breeding again?"

She snorted, and he snickered briefly at her un-ladylike action. Apparently she was picking up his so-called 'bad habits.' "Forget? Are you kidding me, Inuyasha? How can I forget about this little guy here," she said, resting her hand over her protruding stomach, "when my abdomen is bulging out from the rest of my body like a giant ball."

He chuckled at her disgruntled tone and kissed her softly on the cheek. "You're not that big, Kagome."

She huffed. "Yeah, I am. I'm gonna get huge…" She moaned wearily, mentally picturing herself in the ninth month.

Inuyasha shook his head while laughing softly, "Well…you'll be my huge and impossibly round mate, koi."

"Inuyasha!" She said fiercely, smacking him in the chest while he laughed. "That's not comforting at all!"

He "keh'd" and snuggled up against her, a strong, muscled arm wrapping itself around her swollen tummy protectively. "You worry too much, Kagome. Everything will be fine, you'll see."

Kagome patted the arm wrapped around her stomach before quickly switching Kuno over to her other breast when he yipped, signaling that he was finished with the first one.

After Kuno had finished feeding, he'd fallen back asleep immediately, though this time in his father's arms. When Kuno woke again several hours later, when the sun was up, Inuyasha had gotten up with him so Kagome could sleep longer since she was technically resting for 'two.' Inuyasha had to go to the hot springs and give his boisterous and rather energetic son a bath. While he, himself, had not been planning on taking one, Kuno had had other ideas for his father. Both inu hanyous made their way back to their home, all washed up and clean.

Kagome still hadn't woken up and Inuyasha wasn't in the least surprised. He remembered that when she was pregnant with Kuno that she had slept quite often. He knew that if she didn't get enough sleep that she would be cranky. Very cranky. He was usually the target of her violent mood swings and more often than not, he'd learned the hard way about not arguing with your mate; especially when she was pregnant. As the Monk had told him: "The woman is always right. No matter what." He had tried very hard to counter that analysis of the female psychology but, to no avail did he come out the victor. So, he had learned to accept it as a dry sort of humor when dealing with Kagome. If he just kept his mouth shut, and let her think she was right, then he would be spared the very violent sittings he often got. Or…when he was refused from her bed; technically their bed…But Kagome was smart. Extremely smart. And she'd figured out—to his utter horror and slight amusement—that he'd been trying the lecher's logic on her, letting her win so she would shut up. The argument that had followed hadn't ended well for him, not at all. To say, it had been most painful.

He settled down with Kuno in his lap in front of the small fire he'd made. He had Kuno's food ready and began to feed it to him slowly. He and Kagome had been trying to get their little, silver-haired son to eat foods now, since he seemed to never want to stop nursing. They both had tried to wean him, but the times they had tried to get him to eat solid foods only—with no nursing—it hadn't been a very pleasant experience. He had bawled and refused to eat anything but his mother's milk. He'd ended up getting sick and Kagome, in the end, had had to nurse him again. So they had agreed to do both: feed him solids and breast-feed him. They'd have to stop nursing him since another pup was on the way though. And soon.

He gingerly fed his son small pieces of cooked rabbit meat—there was no way Kagome would let him eat it raw—and Kuno readily accepted it and munched on it slowly as he, himself, ate several pieces. It wasn't long before he smelt a familiar scent that began to approach him. His ear twitched as the figure spoke to him.

"Ah, Inuyasha, I thought I might find you out here. I trust you are doing well?"

Inuyasha snorted as Miroku sat down next to him. "Keh, I'm fine. Aren't I always?"

Kuno squirmed in his father's lap before craning his neck to look at his 'uncle.'

"So it seems you always are, Inuyasha." Miroku replied with a sly grin as he shifted his own two children in his lap. The two little twin three-year olds, a girl and a boy, looked at their surroundings and immediately realized where they were and just who exactly was sitting next to them. A chorus of happy, childish cries echoed forth, making Inuyasha and Kuno's ears flatten back against their heads, "Unccy Inu!" Inuyasha abruptly felt two pairs of arms wrap around his neck as he felt the tiny bodies of his nephew and niece collide against his side. He carefully shifted Kuno into his lap as he embraced the black-haired twins. "How ya'll runts doing?"

The both giggled back a reply, "Good!"

He chuckled in response and let go of them. The two children quickly scrambled to occupy his opposite sides, both latching on to him eagerly.

He heard the monk chuckle and he shook his head, not willing to belay his embarrassment. Miroku chided his children softly, but sternly. "Hiroshi, Sana, don't be too loud or you could hurt Uncle Yasha's and Kuno's ears." Both children chorused back a soft, "Hai!" Before snuggling back into the sides of their inu hanyou uncle.

Inuyasha sighed and looked at the monk. "Where's Sango? If you're here, who's with her and the newborns?"

Miroku nodded, understanding where the concern was coming from. "Local village neighbors as well as Shippo are taking care of her. Hiroshi and Sana wanted to come visit and Sango said she wouldn't mind if I brought them over. Surely you have no qualms about me visiting…?"

Inuyasha snorted. "As if I could stop you!"

Miroku grinned knowingly, "Thank you, my friend."

"Keh!"

Miroku looked around before asking, "Where's Kagome-sama?"

"She's still sleeping."

Miroku nodded understandingly. "She's very tired, ne?"

Inuyasha nodded, half-listening to the monk and half-listening to the babbling twins. "Yeah, she's tired all right."

Inuyasha completely missed the sly grin that crossed the monk's face. "My! Inuyasha, you sly dog! You must've exhausted her ou—"

Inuyasha found his brow ticking dangerously and his fist found the lecher's head quick enough to silence his lewd thoughts. 'And with his own damn children around no less!'

Miroku rubbed his abused head, while snickering to himself. Inuyasha was very easy to goad. "I meant nothing serious anyways, Inuyasha. You walked into that one."

Inuyasha, face the color of a tomato, snorted. "Don't presume to know my sex life, monk." Miroku's eyebrows shot far up beneath his bangs in wonder and surprise. 'Since when does Inuyasha use such forward words? And around me no less! He has certainly changed…'

Miroku smiled innocently, too innocently. "Of course not. But you are an inu youkai and inu youkai love to get lost in the all consuming passion to mate and seek—" The sound of the hanyou's deep growling cut short his choice of words and he grinned lecherously at the red face hue to Inuyasha's face. Once again, he found that he could simply not stop himself. "Inuyasha…I'm surprised! I thought that only Kagome-sama could make you flush that red..!"


Kagome groggily woke to the sound of shrill yelling. Well, more like manly shrill yelling. If that made any sense. She sighed and stretched her limbs—as far as they could go with a gigantic stomach weighing her down and rolled out of the bed with a protective hand on her belly. She knew at once, as she approached the reed door to her hut, whom exactly was outside of her home.

Pushing the flap out of the way, she walked outside in the bright, warm sunlight and was greeted with the sight of Inuyasha—his face so red it looked like all the blood had settled there; and Miroku—who was running at breakneck speed away from her hanyou. It was a comical situation but considering the circumstances, she was just too hungry and still too tired to bring herself to do anything but sigh at their immature behavior. Quite suddenly she felt two pairs of arms wrap around her swollen middle and she immediately knew who they belonged to. "Sana, Hiroshi, how are you two?"

The twins replied happily, "We're fine, Aunt 'Gome!"

She giggled and ruffled their heads lovingly. She noticed Kuno in his little baby crib—the one that she had brought back with her from her world—and she began to make her way towards him, already hearing his happy mewls and soft little growls.

Inuyasha, as soon as he heard the monk's children call out, "Aunt 'Gome!" stopped his vicious pursuit of his lecherous friend for more important matters as he made a beeline for his mate. He reached her just in time to help her sit down and situate his son in her arms. He sat down immediately right next to her, and the monk—who looked out of breath—came and sat down around them again, his twins climbing into his lap.

"Kag, how're you feeling?" Inuyasha gently put his hand to her forehead—feeling for any abnormal heat—before placing his hand on her swollen abdomen. "Are you alright?"

Kagome, used to his over-protective ways, nodded simply. "Yes, I'm fine Inuyasha. I'm just hungry is all." Inuyasha made a grunt and turned to the small fire they had going and began to cook two fishes.

Miroku eyed Kagome carefully, also mentally examining her for any signs of discomfort. She was, after all, like a blood sister to him. "How are you holding up, Kagome-sama?" Kagome directed her attention to Miroku instead of the food. "Ah, I'm doing ok. I'm not quite as big as last time, so maybe I'm carrying a girl this time. Still, I'm huge and I'm only going to get larger."

Miroku laughed good naturedly. "You are a wonderful mother. I'm sure you'll do fine. Sango, after all, had twins each time and even though she was always complaining about…well…everything, she did well and managed just fine."

Kagome smiled warmly and unconsciously rubbed her stomach. "Thanks, Miroku-sama. I guess I'm just anxious. I can't wait to have the pup, but yet…I can." Miroku nodded in understanding. "Having a child or even in the stages of developing one can be very overwhelming for both parents, especially for the woman since she's the one carrying it. I can in no way comprehend and understand the pain you woman go through to bring a child into the world. I would not be doing justice by saying it was just "merely painful" and nothing else."

Kagome laughed. "I think you're the first man to actually get that whatever pain you may suffer—however horrible you claim it to be—it can't compare to the pain of childbirth." She and Miroku both laughed heartily, and both nearly doubled over at hearing Inuyasha's grouchy, "Oi!"

Kagome leaned into Inuyasha and wrapped an arm around his back soothingly yet jokingly. "Oh Inuyasha, I wasn't referring to you in that statement! I know you know that it's very difficult and painful for the women in childbirth."

"Keh!"


After they had eaten, Kagome invited Miroku and his twins into the hut to talk and to spend time with each other. The twins ran around the hut, dodging into rooms and such while they chased each other as the adults watched and talked amongst themselves.

"So Miroku-sama, how's Sango-chan?"

Miroku tore his eyes away from the site of his rambunctious children to Kagome. "Ah…she's doing quite well for a woman who has just birthed twins, I would say."

Kagome smiled brightly. "That's wonderful! Do you have any idea what you're going to name them?"

Inuyasha grunted from his position behind Kagome. While she had insisted on sitting on the floor because she was okay with it—he had not entertained the idea of Kagome, nearly six months pregnant—sitting on the hard floor of the hut. So…immediately upon entering the hut, he had snatched her up and plopped her into his lap while wrapping his arms around her distended abdomen. The bouzo hadn't seemed to have minded his abrupt actions—simply acting as if they were normal. In his mind, they were.

Kagome, a bit agitated that Inuyasha hadn't let her sit on the floor because of his over-protectiveness, jabbed him in his ribs to silence his rude noises. She heard him emit a tiny, unexpected yelp and she chuckled inwardly, her smile brightening.

"It's ironic that you should ask me that question, Kagome-sama, for I have no idea as to what to name the newborns." Miroku stated with an embarrassed laugh, his hand behind his head as he smiled sheepishly.

Inuyasha scoffed, "Feh, if you're running out of names now, how're ya gonna have twenty pups if ya can't come up with names for 'em?" Kagome glared heavily at Inuyasha before twisting her head around to talk to Miroku. "Miroku-sama—"

However, Miroku interrupted her before she got a chance to apologize for Inuyasha's blatant rudeness. "Have no worries Kagome-sama, your mate did not offend me at all," a 'Feh!' from Inuyasha was heard, "Me and Sango have discussed what Inuyasha so blatantly implied and we figured that the names would come to us eventually." He smiled warmly, his eyes traveling over towards his energetic children.

Kagome smiled at him. "I think that's a good idea, Miroku-sama." Her eyes too, traveled towards Hiroshi and Sana chasing each other. She was glad that they were mainly staying in the main part of the hut and not running towards her and Inuyasha's bedroom, where Kuno was napping. Suddenly she gasped loudly, and all various movements in the hut redirected their attention towards her as she grasped her enlarged abdomen. Inuyasha was the first to react, he being attuned to her physically, emotionally, and spiritually.

"What's wrong, Kagome? Is it the pup? Are you okay?" He grabbed her chin gently and directed her gaze towards his, demanding an answer. Miroku's concerned voice echoed into her ears as she stared into Inuyasha's golden depths and she could distantly hear the twins chattering worriedly, asking if she was going to be alright. Kagome, snapping out of the trance, suddenly smiled softly, pulling her chin out of his grasp. "Did you not feel it, Inuyasha?" Inuyasha sent her a confused gaze, his hands rubbing her abdomen slowly.

"Feel what? What's wrong?" He asked worriedly. She still hadn't told him what was wrong.

She laughed lightly, surprising everyone around her. "Nothing's wrong. It's just the pup—"

Inuyasha's eyes widened fearfully. "I knew it! Why didn't you—"

"—moving, Inuyasha." Kagome finished, totally acting as if she hadn't been interrupted by her mate. "It surprised me how forceful the kick was! It caught me off guard."

Inuyasha stared at her blankly, before blinking a couple of times to understand the situation. "So…the pup just moved inside you is all?"

She nodded, telling him he was right.

"And…it didn't hurt you at all? Just caught you off guard?"

She smiled, nodding again and she caught Miroku smirking out of the corner of her eyes.

"So…that means that you and the pup are alright and nothings wrong?"

She nodded once more, leaned into his embrace and kissed him softly—ignoring Miroku's whistles—and pulled back. She heard him growl softly.

"Yes Inuyasha, I'm fine."

He huffed and positioned his hands on her stomach again—presumably to feel his pup's movements—though acted as if he were staking a claim on what was his and making sure everyone knew that it belonged to him and only him. "I have to make sure a clumsy bitch like you is kept safe or else you and my pup will be in danger, Kagome."

Kagome fumed silently and she could feel Inuyasha's smirk. She knew that he had said what he did because he was embarrassed, but it still aggravated her. And he knew it did too. 'Baka-yasha…'


Japanese Vocab:

Kaa-san – Mother (for young children)

Okaa – Mother (for older children)

Koishi – Love (term of endearment)

Koi – Love (shorter version)

Onegai – Please

Koinu – Puppy

Inu – Dog

Hentai – Pervert (very perverted; having perverted thoughts)

Bouzo – Insulting term for a monk