Back In The Forest
Inuyasha was still in the same spot he was in when the lord of the southern lands and everyone else left him to take Kagome to the southern castle.
"Why did I have to stay here for other then to get the shards that Naraku has?" Inuyasha turned around to see Sesshoumaru get knocked backwards and landing on the ground. Inuyasha walked over to his half brother who by now was getting to a crouched position. "Come on, Sesshoumaru. Don't you give up not now when Kagome is fighting at this moment to give birth to your pup!" Inuyasha yelled at his brother.
"Shut up, Inuyasha! If I don't make it she know's what to do and what is to happen!" Sesshoumaru voice growled out as he breathed heavy.
"So you're just going to let a lowly hanyou like Naraku beat the 'MIGHTY' Sesshoumaru are you! What happened to half breed's as well as hanyou's being weak and you being stronger then them? If so PROVE IT!" Inuyasha said.
"Grrrr, Inuyashaa!" Sesshoumaru stood up and went after Naraku and got in some good hits before getting knocked back again. That's when InuTaisho walked up to his eldest son.
"Son!" InuTaisho said.
"Father! But how?" Sesshoumaru blinked his eyes.
"Your mate prayed to have me personally to come and help you; that Kami to give you strength to finish this battle and for me to bring you home back to her. So here stands your father now to help my eldest son to fight this battle. So let's both father and sons fight together to destroy this enemy and get you back to your mate." InuTaisho said as he held out his hand to his eldest son to help him up.
Back In The Southern Lands
"Come on, Kagome, push you've got to." Sango said.
"I'm trying, Sango. I'm just so tired. Could I just lay back and rest awhile?" Kagome asked between breaths. Sesshoumaru's mother moved behind Kagome and laid Kagome against her chest.
"Here, rest against me, but you must push. Your pup must come out. Now take a deep breath and push hard! I know how it is to have your first child. Sesshoumaru took a long while to be born and by the time, I gave birth to him, I was tired as well." Sess's mother said. Kagome started to push.
"More, M'Lady. Your pup is getting closer." The lady in the Burgundy kimono said.
Meanwhile out in the hallway the monk was leaning against the wall as lord Toru was pacing the floor in front of his chamber which Kagome was in. While both Rin and Shippou sat by each other.
"I hope, Lady Kagome is doing alright! After all, I was to watch after her and get her to my castle and to safety." Lord Toru said while he paced back and forth. When out of the silence came a high-pitched wailing of a baby through the door, which made lord Toru stop in his pacing and look towards the door and so did everyone else. Rin who was back to looking her normal self without the concealing spell, smiled at the sound of the baby.
"Well at least, the wail of the pup sounds healthy. Just hope, the mother is as well!" Miroku said.
Inside The Bed Chamber
"You've done it, Kagome! You may rest a bit now." Sango said smiling.
"Lady exterminator, take the pup over to that vanity and clean the pup up while I clean the mother up." The woman said as she handed the crying pup to Sango. "There are clean wrappings over there as well.
"Where's my pup? I want to see my pup!" Kagome tried to sit up but Sesshoumaru's mother gently kept her down.
"Lady Kagome, just rest your pup is fine. The female exterminator is cleaning up the pup then she'll bring your pup to you. You must rest and gain back your strength." The mother of Sesshoumaru said.
"Oh Kagome, you and Sesshoumaru have a beautiful baby boy." Sango finished cleaning the pup then wrapped the pup in a aqua silk cloth and brought the pup back over to Kagome and Kagome raised her arms to receive her pup then brought her arms back closer to her and looked down at her son. She saw that her son had a blue crescent moon and had three stripes on each cheek. The layout of the stripes on his cheeks are top and bottom stripes are straight and the color is magenta while the middle stripe on both cheeks were jagged and was purplish-blue color. The color above his eyes were a purplish-blue as well. His eyes were violet. His hair was pure silver. Kagome opened up the silk wrapping and saw on both wrists, hips, and ankles there were the same stripes as were on his cheeks. He had a cute little tail that went from shoulder to shoulder Like Sesshoumaru's and Inuyasha's father in movie number 3.
"Lady Kagome, you have a wonderful looking son. My son, Sesshoumaru will be very pleased. Your son has two stripes that match the straightness and color like my son, has the jagged purplish-blue stripes of his grandfather as well as having the tail that goes from shoulder to shoulder like his grandfather, as he has my violet eyes." Sessho's mother said as she watched Kagome wrap her son back up. "Your son will be hungry." She watched as Kagome who was wearing a sleeping kimono nodded and slid the sleeping kimono off one side and brought her son up to her breast to feed him. By this time the woman who helped with the birthing had left and a light knock sounded at the door. Sango walked to the door while Sesshoumaru's mother who was standing by the right side of the futon smiled down at her grandson.
Sango was standing by the door "Yes, who is it?"
"May we come in to see Kagome and the baby?" Came the little voices of Shippou and Rin.
"Kagome is nursing her pup, right now." Sango stated.
"It's alright if they come in, Sango." Kagome said as she looked at Sango.
"Come in but don't make that much noise!" Sango opened the door wide and walked back over and stood by Sesshoumaru's mother as Shippou, Rin, Toru, and Miroku entered the room then shutting it.
"Lady Kagome is the child a male or a female?" Miroku asked.
"Sesshoumaru and I have a son." Kagome answered.
"What name did you give him?" Toru asked.
"His name is Kichiro, which means lucky son!" Kagome answered yet again.
"Can we hold him, Kagome, please?" The children asked in unison.
"Yes, but Shippou, Rin, you must sit down and be still. But the first person to hold my son other than myself is Sesshoumaru's mother who is my son's grandmother." Kagome covered up her breast and burped her son then handed Kichiro to his grandmother. After Sesshoumaru's mother held her grandson she passed Kichiro over to Sango whom Miroku was standing by.
"Miroku, look how precious he is! He sure looks like his father but with some features that are not like his father. His eyes are like his grandmother and his tail and jagged stripes, I hear are like his grandfather." Sango then handed the pup to Miroku who in turn handed the pup to lord Toru.
"Yes, Lady Kagome, your mate will be very pleased. Very pleased indeed." Lord Toru said as he handed the pup back to Kagome. "Here M'Lady, is your little one back." As Kagome took Kichiro back into her arms.
"Shippou, hold your arms out and I'll lay Kichiro in your arms." Kagome told Shippou as she helped Shippou hold her son.
"He's so cute, Kagome!" Shippou smiled just before he leaned his head over and kissed Kichiro on the forehead. "Okay Rin, can hold him now." So next Rin held him. But as Rin held him Kichiro yawned.
"Look Kagome, he has fangs too!" Rin said. "Here Kagome, you can have your son back now."
"Lady Kagome and her son needs to rest for she had to labor long and hard." Sesshoumaru's mother said. "Here Lady Kagome, let me take him while you get up." Kagome handed her child to Sessho's mother as lord Toru helped her off his futon and helped her walk to the door with everyone following. When they walked out into the hallway lord Toru looked to a guard.
"Please take the monk, exterminator, and the kitsune to the royal guest chambers and have a servant bring them food." Toru said. "Put the monk in his own chamber and the exterminator and her neiko and the kitsune in another chamber."
"Kagome, could I sleep in the same chamber as Shippou?" Rin asked.
"If you do you must mind Sango and be good. You'll have to ask Sango as well and if she says yes then it will be alright with me." Kagome said to Rin.
"Sango, could I please?" Rin asked sweetly.
"Sure you may, Rin." Sango answered. So with that lord Toru helped Kagome to her bed chamber with Sessho's mother carried Kichiro. Once at the chamber they walked over to the futon Kagome got under the blankets sitting up as the child's grandmother placed Kichiro next to Kagome. When a knock came to the door. Lord Toru went to answer it.
"May, we speak to you?" A voice was heard.
"Sure, hold on." Toru turned to look at Kagome "I'll be right back, Lady Kagome." As Toru stepped out into the hallway. A few minutes later Sessho's mother looked at Kagome.
"Lady Kagome, I'll be right back I'll see if anyone has heard about your mate!" Sessho's mother said.
"Okay, thank you!" Kagome smiled at her pup's grandmother as she walked over towards the door and opened it and walked out. Kagome sat there for a bit then pushed back the coral pink blanket making sure her pup who was still wrapped in the aqua silk wrapping was not covered by the blanket and then slowly stood up and walked over to the door and listened.
Out In The Hall
"Greeting InuTaisho as well as Inuyasha and welcome to my castle." Toru greeted them.
"Thank you, old friend." Taisho voiced.
"How is Kagome? Is the health of her pup and her alright?" Inuyasha asked.
"Lady Kagome is well and so is the pup. She had a healthy full blooded son. They are both resting at the moment in the chamber behind me." Toru told them. "Was the battle to destroy the hanyou Naraku finished? What is the outcome of this battle?"
"Where is Sesshoumaru?" His mother asked.
"The battle went long and the battle was not a easy one to fight. But we destroyed Naraku." Then there was a long silent pause. During the pause they did not hear Kagome open the door.
"What about my son, Sesshoumaru? What are we going to have to tell his mate who has just fought with giving birth?" His mother asked. That's when Inuyasha looked down at the floor.
"Our son fought hard and well but..." InuTaisho did not get to finish before they heard a 'THUD' behind them. Which they turned around and saw Kagome on her knees and slumped by the wall with tears in her eyes as the sudden noise woke up the sleeping pup which in turn started to cry.
"Kagome!" Inuyasha went to her.
"Inu-ya-sha!" Kagome voiced with shock.
"Kagome, you should not be out of bed so soon should you? So come it back to bed with you." Inuyasha picked Kagome up and carried her back to the futon and sat her down and pulled the blanket back over her lap as she reached over and picked up her son.
"Sshhh it's alright, mother's here!" Kagome rocked back and forth to get her son to stop crying. After a little while Kichiro stopped crying. Inuyasha knelt down on the left side of the futon.
"Kagome, I would like you to meet mine and Sesshoumaru's father. Remember the tomb we went to and got the tetsusaiga? Well meet the man ah youkai that tomb was made for. His name is InuTaisho if you don't remember." Then Inuyasha looked at his father "Father, this is Kagome. She's the one who drew tetsusaiga and handed it to me in the tomb!" Inuyasha watched as his father walked over to the left side of the futon to where Inuyasha was standing so Inuyasha stepped back and when he did InuTaisho sat down on the futon next to Kagome.
"Yes son, I remember her pulling out the sword while you and your brother were fighting each other. I have seen and heard much about this young woman. Many of both hearing and seeing of what was done to her I would cared not to seen or heard son." Then he turned and looked at Kagome while picking up her hand and brought it to his lips and kissed her hand. "I am pleased and honored to meet you, lady Kagome, mate of my eldest son and mother to my grandson." Taisho said.
"Here, why don't you hold him and see what he looks like." Kagome held out her pup to his grandfather and he picked Kichiro up and put him in his arms and looked him over.
"He has traits from his grandparents and father. He's a great boy." He continued to hold Kichiro for a while longer. "Lady Kagome, you must listen to me about your mate. You see, the battle was long and not very easy to fight. By the end of the battle both my sons and I were very tired. But your mate fought great but in the end..." Taisho was cut off again.
"So when do I have to go back and rule in my mate's place till our son is of age in youkai society to take over as lord of the western lands since my mate is dead?" Kagome asked.
"No, no, lady Kagome, it's not like that. You see your mate is not dead he is very much still alive but extremely wounded. His wounds are so extensive that his youkai blood is not healing him as fast as it normally would. So it is going to take a long time to heal. When myself and my youngest son took Sesshoumaru to the western castle my eldest son's general who was once was mine informed us that there were orders for the general to come and get you upon my son's death or extremely wounded so you would step in duties. But since you were rushed here due to the battle and forced labor the general will go through and get all the very important documents that must get done and and send them here to be signed and will have them picked up and he'll then use the western seal which he knows where it is and stamp them then have them delivered to where they need to be. So your mate will not die so be at rest." Then InuTaisho handed Kichiro back to Kagome and stood up. "Now, M'Lady since the things, I and Sesshomaru's mother were summoned here has been taken care of we must bid you a farewell. Take care of our grandson and may your life be fruit-full." InuTaisho bent and kissed Kagome on the forehead. "Honor to have of met you." Then both InuTaisho and Sesshoumaru's mother disappeared.
"Poor Sesshoumaru! He was unable to see his mother!" Kagome looked down to see Kichiro slowly moving his head as to look around.
"Lady Kagome, I'll be right back I'll go and have some food along with fruit brought to you so you can have your nourishment. For you should be hungry for not eating anything this morning or all day then having your pup you must lay down and sleep." Toru walked and opened the door and left closing it.
"Oh Inuyasha everyone else has gotten to hold Kichiro but you, I'm so sorry. Would you want to hold him?" Kagome asked Inuyasha with a kind heart.
"Feh! Nothing doing, it's no big deal and no, I don't want to hold him." Inuyasha looked away.
"Okay if your sure. In that case since you don't want to hold your nephew then I'll rock him to sleep after I see if Kichiro needs to nurse." She saw a slight look of sadness but turned to lay her son down.
"No wait. I mean sure why not." Inuyasha sat down on the futon close to Kagome as Kagome leaned over and placed Kichiro in Inuyasha's arms. Inuyasha lightly trailed the back of his fingers down Kichiro's cheek when Inuyasha went sad. "You know Kagome if I did not let my stubborn self and pride get in the way as well as trusting Kikyo like I did this pup would of been ours even though it would of been a hanyou!" A tear welled up in Inuyasha's eyes. Then Inuyasha did something that shocked Kagome. He brought Kichiro up and kissed his nephew on the forehead then spoke "Hello Kichiro, I'm your uncle Inuyasha. I failed at protecting your mother by hurting her but I'll do my best to help protect you. This I promise." Then he kissed his nephew's forehead once more then brought the pup away from his face and went to hand Kichiro back to his mother and started to cry. So Kagome brought her pup to her chest and while cradling her pup in one arm she opened her sleeping kimono and moved it to one side and brought Kichiro to her breast to nurse. Inuyasha watched how the pup nursed. As the chamber door opened and in walked Toru.
"Sorry, it took so long to return M'Lady." Toru said.
"No problem. Say lord Toru was the youkai council keeping track about Naraku?" Kagome looked up at him.
"Yes, I and your mate being members of that council were keeping track. Why do you ask?" Toru asked.
"Would it be wise to let all of the other council members and committee members know that Naraku was destroyed? But in the same thought they don't know that Sesshoumaru has taken me as his mate!" Kagome voiced as she brought her son away from her breast and laid him down next to her and then closed her kimono.
"Indeed, we should. I'll send out a short notice to have all council and committee members to have a short notice meeting here at my castle. To be here in two days. There will be no problem in regards to why they were not informed when lord Sesshoumaru took a mate and to why he would not be their at the meeting when it comes. As well your friends, I will assume will still be here during that time, so they can sit in the council meeting. But it is getting late so, I'll take your mate's brother to his chamber and I bid you a good nights rest and see you in the morning. I'll put this tray of food over on the vanity, for you." Toru walked over and placed the tray down then walked to the door and opening it so Inuyasha could walk out then he followed shutting the door. After Toru and Inuyasha left Kagome laid down next to her son and fell asleep.