Fairest Flowers Sooner Fade

Chapter 2

Yawn. Kagome rolled over to see Inuyasha curled up around her and the baby. Inuyasha, feeling her move, woke up and smiled at her. Suddenly Inuyasha jumped up and covered them with his whole body growling loudly. Izayoi woke up to his growling, and immediately started to try to growl just like him. (A/N Kawaii!)

"Calm down boy." The voice came from right outside the door. Then she walked in, Kesneia, messenger of the tribe of Inu Black.

"What do you want you filthy demon?" spat Kagome as she untangled herself from Inuyasha's protective shell.

"Me? I want to raise that foul child of yours to become a sacrifice to the great Inu God Shigure."

"You are totally insane!" Kagome backed up against the wall furthest from the Dog Demon. As she backed up the tightened her hold on Izayoi, causing the infant to whimper.

"What right do you have to be here? Who invited you?" Inuyasha was never one to beat around the bush about things.

Just as bluntly Kesneia answered, "Don't you remember, you invited me as soon as that whore of yours gave birth to that mistake in her arms."

"Even though it may not have been our intent to have a baby, she is no mistake," he spat the word out like it was dirt, "and I happen to love that woman holding my baby, so you had better take that back."

"Trying to pick a fight with me?" Kesneia cackled, "Now this is getting interesting, you are going to regret the day that you were born."

"That is the same line that everyone who loses to me says! Gosh can't bad guys get some new material?" Inuyasha got in his favorite position with the tesuiga tightly grasped in his hands.

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"Can you guys leave us alone for a while? We need to talk."

"Sure talk about . . .. (You know what the scene is)."

Miroku and Sango headed out towards Inuyasha's Forest. Well, at least Sango did.

"Miroku!" Sango hissed, "What are you doing? Lets go for a walk so they can have some time alone, it has been eight months and I'm sure they need to talk about that little bundle of joy."

"No, not yet." Miroku replied, his head pressed up against the hut wall. "I can't hear a thing!"

WHACK "With me here you will not be hearing anything. Now LETS GO."

"Fine, Fine." Miroku had a submissive look on his face. Sango was surprised that he gave in so easily.

"Oh well, I shouldn't look a gift horse in the mouth." she started walking.

As she was walking along, Sango said over her shoulder, "You know Miroku, you have go to be the most perverted monk I have ever met."

"I can't take it any more!" Miroku ran to the window in the hut just in time to see Inuyasha and Kagome kiss, and Kouga pass out.

Sango sighs in frustration and grabs the Monk by his ear, and heads towards the forest. The two didn't even notice Kouga go crashing out of the window.

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Kagome walks to the window. "I thought that those two would be back by now. Hey Inuyasha! Hurry up so we can go look for Sango and Miroku." She gently stepped to the side when Kesneia went flying right passed.

"Busy if you can't tell!" Inuyasha said a little bit angry. At the same time he silently thanked the fact that he had someone that believed in him enough that he could finish a full demon in a matter of minutes.

"Tetsigua!" Inuyasha yelled, and Kesneia jumped quickly to the side just as a major blast of power came from his sword.

"I know that trick, and you can't beat me with that. We will meet again." Kesneia laughed and disappeared into the forest.

"Break a sweat?" Kagome said sarcastically.

"No, but I definitely sensed more power from her than she was exerting. We will see her again so we need to keep on our toes."

"That is fascinating." Kagome seemed really uninterested. Suddenly she stood up, "Oswari!"

Inuyasha slammed in to the floor. He looked up into the angry face of the woman he loves. "What did you do that for wench?" Inuyasha was totally confused.

"Don't take that demon lightly, if she has more power than she was showing then she is a major threat to our daughter, and if you hadn't noticed she is BOTH of ours. Now where were we? Oh yes we were going to go find Miroku and Sango, so Inuyasha GET UP!"

Now you don't tell a half demon to get up when it is your fault that he was thrown to the ground. Inuyasha was quite angry. He went charging at Kagome claws first, (only meaning to tickle her brains out mind you) only to be stopped by a swirling tornado smashing him to the floor.

"Hi Kouga" Kagome's relief was genuine (she didn't know that Inuyasha was only meaning to tickle her.)

"Hey Kagome!" Kouga grabbed her hand, causing a slight growl to come from Inuyasha.

Kagome looked passed Kouga and said in the sweetest voice she could muster "Oswari. Please go on Kouga."

Kouga, still holding onto Kagome's hand knelt down. "If that BAKA of a dog-turd won't take responsibility for his –ahem- actions, then I will bear the burden gladly." At the idea that her daughter was a burden, Kagome frowned slightly.

"WHAT?" The holding spell had worn off of Inuyasha, and now he was quite angry. "You think that I am incapable of raising my own child?"

"Yes, pretty much." Inuyasha went crashing to the floor from the shock.

"Inuyasha please let me handle this." Kagome went over to Kouga, "So you are willing to give me all the space that I want and you will take care of Izayoi's every need and never let any harm come to her?"

Koga sweat dropped at the thought, then straightened up and announced that he intended to do just that.

Inuyasha just sat on the floor in deep deliberation with himself. Didn't Kagome love him? Didn't she want him to help her raise their child together? It was a startling realization for the guy.

Kouga was just gloating. He turned to Inuyasha and simply said, "Ha, I win, because according to what Kagome just said, you aren't man enough for her, and can't do the job, so I will be taking your job over."

Kagome during this little speech seemed to get a little bit madder. "Inuyasha," she said softly, "please come here." Inuyasha didn't know what to do, so he just did as he was told, lining up with Kouga in front of her.

"Now close your eyes both of you." Kagome's tone was not one that said that they had a choice in the matter. Kagome then checked to see that both their eyes were closed, and took off Inuyasha's rosary. Then she promptly put it on Kouga's neck. Inuyasha looked up as soon as the awful necklace was off. He started to chuckle until Kagome placed a bracelet on his wrist.

"Okay Kouga, open your eyes." As soon as Kouga's eyes were open Kagome smiled and yelled as loud as she could "OSWARI!" Kouga went face down in the floor. "That my dear," said Kagome in a patronizing voice, "is for calling my daughter a burden, and for telling the man that I love and want to spend the rest of my life with, that he is not man enough for me. Because that is a truly false statement." As soon as she had finished with this little statement she turned to Inuyasha, and said in a soft voice, "Inuyasha, come."

Inuyasha didn't need the bracelet to send him to her side, but now he knew what the bracelet was for. If Kagome was ever in trouble or she just wanted to be with him, all she had to say was "come" and he would rush to her side. She happened to have the same bracelet on as well, so it worked both ways.

Kagome then straightened up and handed Izayoi to Kouga, reminding him of the promise he had made just moments before, then took Inuyasha by the hand, and led him out to the forest to find Sango and Miroku.

As soon as they got out of earshot, the couple started to laugh.

"Did you see the look on his face, when you handed him Izayoi?" Inuyasha was practically rolling on the ground with laughter.

"Inuyasha," Kagome looked into his face looking very serious herself, " why didn't you ever come for me? I mean you never even came to see me." Kagome was looking deep into his face, the hurt clearly showing in her eyes. Inuyasha looked away and said nothing.

"You know what?" Now Kagome was angry, "You are just a child, you need to grow up and realize that other people have feelings too! You are just a. . . a . . . . BAKA!" Kagome was so angry she could have said "oswari" about 900 times, but at this time it would prove useless.

So, she walked away.

"Kagome, COME!" Suddenly Kagome felt a tug on her wrist and was taken immediately back to where Inuyasha stood. "BAKA, you didn't even let me answer! I did go back!" He turned away just in time to realize what he just said.

Ah HA! A cliffhanger, I'm sorry this is all my friend wrote! I'm working on making her write chapter 3 but she just won't finish, she has writers block. Thank you to my TWO reviewers, I think that maybe next time I should wait until I get 3 more reviews, FROM DIFFERENT PEOPLE before I post the next chapter.