Summary: Inuyasha learns the concept of a birthday, and how close Kagome's is from now. He doesn't know what else to give her, other than one thing. InuKag.
Rated M for past lemon content.
Birthday Gift
Chapter 8: 8 Months
"What do you want to ask me?" He asked. Kagome looked at him then looked away.
"Well…" She said quietly. She was hesitating on her words. Inuyasha could tell it.
She took a deep breath then decided to ask her bundle of questions now. "I've taken a class on how this works. How long it takes for kids to be conceived and how long side effects kick in. Why are these so much earlier than what I've learned?" Kagome asked him. Inuyasha stared at the water. He didn't know what all those words meant, but he had a basic understanding of what she wanted to know.
"Demons grow faster than humans. When you're pregnant with a demon baby, then it grows faster in you than a human baby would. Even if the baby is a human, it will grow faster from my traces of demon blood." He said.
"Oh…" She said slowly. "How long will it take for me to have the kid?" She looked at him in urgency. He was so calm about the subject. It was strange.
"8 months." He replied simply. She thought nine months sounded okay, but 8 months was too soon for her body to adjust to this thing inside of her.
"Okay…" She said. Her vision had sunspots in it. That was strange. She leaned back to lie down and closed her eyes. Her mind spun as she digested this information. 8 months of the worst side-effects of pregnancy. This would be worse than a normal human's birth.
-8 months later-
Kagome groaned as she sat on her bed. She went home for the pregnancy after she had a craving for chocolate fish milkshakes. No one knew what a milkshake was, so she left.
Inuyasha hadn't minded, of course. He visited her one a week or more often. He was still looking for any traces of Naraku and any jewel shards he could find.
"Mom!" Kagome called. Having a kid in her was complete agony. She didn't like having it in her any more than she liked being strapped to her bed. Then again, her mother had convinced her the torture of it now would be well worth it when a little one was running around the home.
Kagome hoped she was right. She didn't want to endure all this to have her child yelling at her like it hated her. She sighed then leaned forward. When Inuyasha came by today, he'd take her back to the feudal era.
She had decided to stay there with the kid. If it had any obvious traces of demon – like dog ears – she didn't want it to be running around Tokyo. She told her mom, and her mother eventually came to accept her decision.
Thankfully.
Now all she had to do was wait for her hanyou. That could take a while since time passed slower nowadays. Probably because she'd been counting off the days. She heard footsteps approaching her door before the door swung open.
"Sorry dear… I have your tea. It's still warm." Her mother said sweetly. Kagome smiled then sat up slowly. Getting up and down was a lot harder with this huge stomach throwing her off balance and getting in her way.
"Thanks mom… If Inuyasha comes while I'm asleep, please tell me." Kagome said quietly. Her mother nodded then began to tidy up the clothes from around the room. She was almost like a maid more than a mother. Kagome loved the help, but a part of her told her it wasn't right to depend on her mother so much.
"Sure, dear…" She said kindly. Kagome smiled softly at her mother before turning her attention back to the cup of tea she'd been given. She didn't like the taste, but the doctor said that tea would help her baby develop or something like that. If he had said something bad about tea, it didn't matter. Kagome understood one thing only out of what he said. She thought tea should help her kid, so she drank it.
She could only hope she was right.
Kagome set the tea down beside her after drinking half of it. She gently slipped down on her back and sighed. It was a long day and she was very tired. Not that she did much of anything. Having a kid wiped her out a lot easier than normal. That was a pain in the butt on it's own.
As she began to sleep, something inside her kicked. The bump against her abdomen made her smile. She began to relax before the bump came again.
"You're feisty today." She told her stomach.
"What, Kagome?" Her mother asked. Kagome looked over to her mother, realizing she was there the entire time.
"Oh, sorry mom. I forgot you were in here. I was just saying that the kid is active today… It just kicked twice. Most days it doesn't even kick." She said. Her mother walked over to Kagome and kissed her head.
"You rest. I don't want Inuyasha coming to pick up a sick mother-to-be." She said. Kagome smiled then began to slip into a sleep. No kicks from her kid to interrupt her at all.
She was awoken after what felt like five minutes later. Her mother smiled at her and she saw Inuyasha leaning against the doorway. "Inuyasha's here." Her mother reported.
"It's still the morning. How can he be here?" She asked. She glanced over at her clock and sighed. It wasn't the morning like it had been before she went to sleep. It was 5 in the evening. But, she had thought she was asleep for just five minutes. How could seven hours of sleep feel like only five minutes?
Inuyasha walked towards Kagome and extended a hand to her. She gently grasped his hand and he pulled her up with his strong arms. Kagome smiled as she stood there, straitening out the loose dress she was wearing.
"You're getting stronger." She pointed out. Inuyasha just smiled and kissed her forehead.
"And we're about to have a child." He replied. Kagome sighed then looked down at her stomach.
"Hope it comes soon, I'm tired of carrying it everywhere." She said. Inuyasha smiled, showing one of his fangs.
Inuyasha took Kagome back through the well and then to Kaede's hut. Kagome was surprised to discover that he had added an extra room to it. It was made for the kid and them. Kagome had thanked Inuyasha a million times for the extra room before going into it. She took a while to sit on the extra comfortable futon, but did after a while.
When she was drifting to sleep, the kick came again. Three times in one day was odd. Especially for this particular baby. She had never felt it kick so many times. And only when she was going to sleep. She ignored the feeling and began to drift asleep once more. The kid had another week to come out, so what was she worrying about?
In the middle of the night, something woke her up. She looked behind her to see the hanyou gone. He went to bed by her, so had he known what was going on before she did?
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