A/N: This one was one of my first fic here on FFN. :sigh: Na'atz revised this for me, so the grammar is fixed. BTW… THANK YOU VERY MUCH, NA'ATZ!

… and the legal stuff… I own nothing except the clothes I'm wearing. No way Inuyasha belongs to me.

Oneshot 5:

"His First Night"

Inari peeked inside the mansion carefully. The room was empty, so, he slid inside, using all of his skill, looking around with wary. In the floor were 3 futons, with thick blankets each one, waiting for their respective owners, kids he presumed. A huge blizzard howled outside, and it was freezing like hell too, but it was Inari's happiest day of his life...not even the improvise shelter that he find could ruin it. Just a half an hour ago, his firstborn child had seen the life... and for heaven's sake, he needed a blanket right away! Certainly it was no proper time to born!

He took one of the blankets, folded it and put it (by force) inside his pack. He was about to take another, but soft footsteps coming closer and closer, made him change his mind. He took a step to the window, and saw a little child's shadow projected across the shoji door, thanks to a candle in his hands; the child stopped right there, hesitating. Inari jumped out to the damn cold at the time that the child chose to open the door. A shriek made him ran into the snow and wind. What a foolish mistake! Being discovered by a little human child! He almost could hear his father's voice scolding him... but that voice shut down when he felt the sudden need of coming back to Kei's side.

Not too far away...

Kei was literally exhausted, but happy. She sat against the cave's walls, with her tiny cub cradled in her arms, which just have a little more then an hour living. The baby was feeding and already dressed.

While thinking about a proper name to her cub, Kei heard a noise outside the cave, which worried her. She stared at the entrance of the cave that was by bushes and reached a leave with caution, ready to defend her baby-cub at all costs... Inari made his entrance in that moment, through the wall of bushes, and quickly get to her side without shaking himself. Kei smiled at him widely and tenderly.

"You made me nervous for a couple of seconds!" She said.

"I made YOU nervous? What? You didn't smell me?" He asked, hugging her.

"It is Cold! And my nose is freezing!... By the way, look who is here!"

"Yeah, this tiny little thing! He has your green eyes, Koi… Are you sure that this is the right size? He seems too small."

"It looks to me that he has the right size! I tell you!" She declared without taking her eyes off her puppy. Inari took his trophy out of his pack. "And he has your fluffy tail!"

"I brought you this." He said, spreading the blanket over his family. Kei looked at him.

"Get that cloth dry, Inari! You are soak and it is very much cold!"

"Later…"

"Now!" Kei oddly ordered him. Inari got close to her.

"Something tells me that you are going to be bossy." He said mischievously. Kei's face softened a lot.

"Please Inari, I don't want you to freeze."

"Don't worry 'mom', I'll get dry." Inari kissed her.

With a single move of one of his hands, Inari casted a spell to dry himself. When he finished, he sat again by his wife and tiny cub. Kei made him a space inside the blanket, and covered him with it. Both of them look at their newborn, fascinated.

"What a day!" Whispered Inari.

"Yeah, what a day…!... even when you didn't feel any pain at all!"

"As a matter of fact, I was hysteric beyond reason... how you are going to name him?"

"I don't know… isn't this the most cute little baby-cub we ever seen, and it's all ours!… and… I don't know how I'm going to name him. Any suggestion?"

"Hmm… let me see… what about Shippo?"

"Hmm… I like it… he is going to kill us for that when he turn fifteen, but whatever, until when Shippo is fine!" Something inside Inari's heart disturbed him.

"I wish that we see him turn fifteen." Inari said in a whisper. Kei felt some sort of 'Déjà vu'.

"Don't say that again in my presence." She said seriously. She closed her eyes.

The young couple felt some warning bells inside their hearts. They look down at their pup, which was ready to sleep after its meal: to get born was a really hard job for someone that little, especially when you have received a clumsy help from novice parents. Inari and Kei smiled.

"Shippo is going to have a lot of good of friends, he's going to be handsome like his papa when he grows up… and if we can't take care of him until then… I really, really hope that a good woman and a good man take care of him in our place… I hope that will never happen." Kei say with a knot in her throat. "That will NOT happen!"

"Don't worry Kei… I'll never allow that something bad will happen to any of you both, you'll see… I'll protect you both with my life and in the after life if I have to, I promise!" Inari hugged her tighter.

Kei answer him with a smile and a kiss. They didn't talk for the rest of the night; they stay just there, hugging each other tenderly, while little Shippo sleep his first night, having baby-dreams...

Fin.

By

Misao-CG.

PS: Thank You Na'atz!