A/N: First of all, I want you to know that the English is NOT my native language (it's Spanish), and the grammar is definitely my weak ankle; BUT I got a little help from Keiko, who was nice enough to check on my mistakes and fix them all. (By the way: THANK YOU VERY MUCH!)... I hope you enjoy this fic:

I'm not the owner of Inu-Yasha and his friends: they belong to Rumiko Takahashi and the others companies.

Oneshot 4:

"How Come?"

Rats!

I should stay quiet!

These five last years have passed very quickly: The Shikon no Tama, my parents' deaths, Kagome, Inuyasha, and everything else... Uf!

But, I honestly think that everything went faster and faster about a year and a half ago, when the last shard of the Jewel was at hand... don't ask me how or where, but Inuyasha swallowed all of his damn pride (and that's a lot), and told Kagome that he loves her, he didn't want her to go and leave him alone again... in front of everybody.

Kagome was speechless. She didn't expect it (probably).

Inuyasha was furiously red, like a tomato. Then he went pale (if that is still possible) because of Kagome's silence, who was pale also.

General silence. Insert Spoiler here. Naraku, came from Kami knows where, kidnapped Kagome and took her away. Just guess who got REALLY mad, and who went after them!

That was the way that the last adventure to gather the Shikon no Tama started. The most difficult, longest, bloodiest, and most dangerous... to make the tale short. A few vendettas were paid (Duh!) and nothing of Naraku remains... well, whole (It's better to be sure that the guy was well dead). Kagome was safe (ahem, ahem), as the last shard and... something that no one expected happened (at least, NOT so soon). Just like that, half dead as he was at the time, Inuyasha asked Kagome to marry him: I think that was because of the blows he received.

Kagome didn't say anything, even when everybody was expecting an answer. She didn't answer that week, or the next. In those days, she went from one side of the well to the other very often, always avoiding him, but as time went on she couldn't stand it any longer. She went to the Go Shimboku Tree, where the remains of a depressed Inuyasha were... Suddenly, and without a single tiny warning, she climbed up the tree, and she said yes. At least, that is what Sango told Kaede-baba about it (I wasn't hearing!).

Both of them are together since that day... From what I know, Kagome's family didn't give many problems, and the two turtle-doves travel very often through the well, but they spend more time on this side... We live in a little Den in the woods... Well, I don't live with them, but I liked to keep Kagome company. I spend a lot of time there, and from that point of view... (ahem, ahem). They look happy, but if you ask me, there is not much difference on the way they treat each other, but, of course, a few things have changed: They hug each other more often, Inuyasha hits my head just once a day... BUT sometimes, he drags me out of the den (I didn't, I don't and that is never going to like me!), and the only thing that Kagome does is wave goodbye to me!... And she never told me WHY!

At the beginning that happened almost every day, and when I saw them again, Kagome smelled a little like Inuyasha and vice versa. They both were sleepy and Miroku teased them about it. Once, I asked Sango why that was... She blushed a lot and told me that is was insomnia...

About five and a half months ago, when Kagome and Inuyasha were returning from the other side, sleepy and all... there was something different. Kagome smelled different... I mean, her very personal smell had changed drastically, Inuyasha noticed it, but he was clueless just like me, but he was specially complicated for it. He followed Kagome the whole day, and he almost made her mad... Then again, it happens.

That night, Kaede-baba invited us to supper. Sango, Kagome, and I were helping her when Inuyasha interrupted all of a sudden, stood just in front of Kagome, looked into her eyes (not the normal eye-contact if you ask), he surrounded her and smelled her for the hundredth time. Astonished, he smiled, picked her up, and took her out. Everything in a blink of an eye. A little while after that, we heard Kagome's laughter, a happy and loud laugh.

That day, we knew that Kagome was bearing puppies.

Everybody started to congratulate the new parents. Kagome, who was practically abducted by Sango and Kaede-baba, didn't notice that Inuyasha was the new perfect target of Miroku's weird jokes... and something inside my mind, picked up my Kitsune's curiosity.

And that 'something' was a couple of questions. Why was everybody bugging them? Why didn't I understand the jokes? Why were they congratulating Inuyasha? Think of it this way: It's Kagome who is doing the whole job, NOT him... anyways, the most important question to me needed to be solved... so, I asked!

"How come Kagome gets pregnant?"

Total silence. Everybody gave me that look of incredulity and astonishment, mostly the new parents to be. I made another question.

"Why is everybody looking at me like that? Did I say something wrong?"

Everyone looked at each others' faces, and started to talk all at once. The only thing I can recall from that, it's something about some bees, flowers, lettuces (or some kind of vegetable like it), and these big birds, who come from who knows where, with some kind of package. Just because I can't understand anything, nothing made things clear.

I repeat, that was five and a half months ago. Now, Kagome is very fat, sensitive, and a little bit tired. She is going to have twins, I heard they're very healthy; Kagome said that a medicine man from the other side of the well told her that her puppies are a boy and a girl... Maybe! I prefer to give the benefit of the doubt to that, just like Inuyasha. Yesterday, those pups kicked her. And that was a really good kick! The poor Kagome almost fell to the floor (well, being as big as she is now, that doesn't surprise me). Everybody turned very happy. Kaede-baba explained to us that the kick was a very good sign. I mean, by being such a strong one. Her explanations are a frequent thing these days: She always finds an explanation for everything.

Talking about explanations, from the day we knew that good news until this morning, I had that darn question about Kagome's good condition. None of the former explanations that they gave that day were acceptable...

… Even when I liked the one with the lettuce a little… or was it spinach?

Rats!

This morning I decided something that I never had to decide, to hell with my blessing curiosity! I looked for Inuyasha (since I couldn't find Miroku or Myoga), who I found sleeping on his branch of the Go Shimboku Tree. I woke him up and I asked him, ready to protect my poor little (and former innocent!) head from his bonks.

He opened an eye and looked down at me. Sighing, he sat up on his branch. I think cursing under his breath (obviously), and called for me to climb up. I started to regret it.

"Be afraid Shippo, be VERY afraid." I thought while I was climbing slowly.

I sat in front of him. He sighed again, blushed a little, another sigh and curse under his breath. After a few minutes of absolute silence, he cursed again and again. Finally, he took a deep, deep breath and asked me.

"Do you really want to know?"

I nodded.

I should have never wanted to know.

Rats!

Fin.

By
Misao-CG.