The Flowers That Keep Us Alive

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i am ending this story on chapter 15... then i MIGHT make a sequel :)

"Girl,"

"Boy,"

"GIRL, I swear."

"BOY, I &&$ (bad word heheh)!"

"Inuyasha!" Kagome hadn't meant the 'swear' part to be literal... at all. But Inuyasha was like that. Things had finally moved along... well, obviously, a lot happens in a month. Their hut had been built, and Inuyasha helped them make it. Only because Kagome threatened him with 'the' word. At the same time he seemed eager to help and get it done. Either way, it was built and Kagome was confirmed pregnant. She'd bought a test in her time, but... she decided it would be best not to go to the doctors. If her child was hanyou... who knows what would happen.

And she definitely hoped for a hanyou. The only thing better than Inuyasha was... well, nothing, but another one would be cute.

Unless it was a girl, then maybe it would be a smudge better than having two Inuyashas.

"Either way, let's think of names... so we aren't confused when we actually GET the child. What will we name her if it's a girl?" Kagome was a bit rounder than usual... but it didn't seem too obvious. The villagers around got used to it and stopped giving stares because they saw how angry she got when people stared. At first they hated the idea of having another filthy hanyou, but Kagome was able to convince them. With a little bit of her convincing them that she HAD, indeed, made Inuyasha nicer.

"Feh. I don't care about names if it's a girl." They were both sitting on the ground on top of blankets Kagome had brought. Their hut looked like utter future to everyone else... since she had brought loads of things they'd never even seen before.

"Be positive! What do you think about Sakura?" When Inuyasha didn't respond because they were talking about girl names, Kagome started shoving out ideas into the open. "Keiko? Miya? Naru?"

"I guess Miya is fine, it sounds the best out of all of them," Now seeing that he'd finally said something and thinking they'd agreed on a girl name, headed of to boy names. "Now what if it's a boy? You got any ideas over there, Kagome?"

"Oh, I don't know!"

"Kuro?"

"What's our kid have anything to do with black!"

"I dunno, it just sounded cool."

"Taro?"

"Doesn't sound right."

"Umm..."

"Hey! Stop stealing the spotlight!" Kagome lifted her head up from thinking and stared at Inuyasha who suggested, "Kaori!"

"Fine, that is suitable then," Kagome agreed, then remembering old times got an idea. "D'you want to go get some flowers?"

"Don't you still have those ones that saved your life on more than one occasion?"

"'Course, but it never hurts to add more to my bouquet," in an attempt to get him to come again, she added, "Pleeaassee come with meeee? To get some flloowweerrss? You enjoyed it before and you know it, so don't try and deny it-"

"I'll go, okay? Will it makes you happy if I do?"

"So now you only want to go because it will make me happy?" Uh-oh. He should have known the dangers.

Mood swings.

"No, I would like to go with you anyway-"

"So then you lied when you acted like you didn't want to go?"

"No, of course not, I wouldn't lie to-"

"You're so mean! Lying to me like that!"

"No, Kagome, I just meant-"

"You just meant that you didn't want to go! Now you're only going to make me happ... wait. You'll go even if you don't want to, to make me happy?"

"Of course. I'd do anything." Ahh. Joy. Mood swing intermission.

"Then I won't force you to go, if you really don't want to."

"No, I want to now, let's go, Kagome..." He stood up, her following, then he grabbed her wrist and walked out of their hut at a slower speed than normal for Kagome. Heh, for once... getting flowers sounded nice. Maybe because he was doing it with Kagome, that's why.

He'd bound himself to her, and now she was expecting a child! That meant he'd be a father... oh, god, a father! It would be like Shippou all over again, only worse. As for Kagome, being a mother, she'd have Sango to go through it with her since she decided to stay with them with Kohaku. Kagome's mother let Sango stay there at nights in Kagome's room, since she'd told her mother about the hut they now had.

What she hadn't told her is that she was pregnant. Thank god her mother didn't really know... Kagome didn't go home all that often anymore, but she'd go sometime soon to tell her mom the news. The BIG news.

Sango was there with her, and Kohaku. But would they ever see Miroku again? She also kind of missed Hachi, he was nice.

"Okay, Kagome, you decide where you want to get flowers, okay?" She turned from her thoughts and paid attention to where they were to see that there were flowers everywhere! How come she never noticed this before? Had she even been here before? They never really explored the forest so often that she saw a lot of it.

"How come I never saw this place? There's so many pretty flowers!" He let go of her wrist and she immediately ran over to the nearest patch of flowers, got down on her knees, then started to look at all the different flowers.

"Ah, I always knew it was here, I just never took anybody here, in fact... I think I was the only one who knew about this place, until now." He went by her, but still stood by her side and watched her pick a whole bunch of different flowers of different colors and smells.

"Wow, this is so cool! How'd you find out about this?" After getting at least one of every color she stood up again and faced him.

"I used to pick flowers for my mother here," he said, kind of embarrassed that HE, Inuyasha, picked FLOWERS for ANYONE, even his mother. "Now it can be your little spot."

"ONLY mine?" Kagome said, angrily. "Don't you know that it's nice to share!"

Mood swing intermission: terminated. Gone.

"Yes, yes, I know, I was just saying, it's yours and if you want anybody else to come here, you can show them where it is-"

"What, will you be too lazy to take me and whoever it is I'm bringing?"

"No, I'd take you, all you need to do is ask-"

"So now I have to ask?"

"No, I'll do it voluntarily then-"

"Only because I am asking you to now!"

"No, Kagome, please don't-"

"Don't what? Am I being too harsh?"

"Sorry, sorry, sorry-" Usually, Inuyasha wasn't the type to apologize. Ever. But now he was scared... he was actually scared of mood swings, compared to some giant youkai! It was just something about Kagome's mood swings that set him off...

"Ok, well, let's stop hanging around and go back then, I want to add these to the collection." (If this was in the show, Inuyasha would be going "OO") Kagome seemed to walk off as if nothing just happened.

If just Kagome was like this with her mood swings... imagine their child... crying to no stopping point!

"Kagome, when are you going to tell your mother?" Sango questioned. Being there every night, she realized how worried Kagome's mother had been. Sango could tell she didn't want to ask because of what the possibilities could be, and she didn't say anything because Kagome's business was Kagome's business, not hers.

"Should I go now?" Kagome asked Sango. They were both in Kagome's new hut - Inuyasha being who knows where - talking. For a moment they were talking about when they thought Miroku would show up, and then Sango started telling Kagome how her mother thought Kirara was so cute. Then it came to this.

"Probably," Sango said, then once Kagome stood up Sango mentioned to her, "Bring Inuyasha."

"Will do," Kagome replied with a smile, then she left the hut to go find her 'mate'. Her first thought was the well, but once she arrived there he was no where around and she was out of ideas on where in the world he could possibly be. Then a sudden thought got to her head. He could already be at her house... goodness knows why, but it was a possibility. She decided to take her chances and jumped into the well, half expecting him to see him there too if he had really just been watching her, but then decided to follow her.

He didn't arrive beside her, so she took her time climbing out of the well and heading towards her house. Had he gone to her bedroom?

"...anyway, I will just wait for her here then." Oh, crap.

Houjou. She decided to go back into the well-house since she hadn't been out of it for long and just listen. He was nearby, but apparently not close enough to hear or see her get out. She immediately ran back in, also being careful not to catch his attention.

"Oh, there will be no need, I am afraid it may be awhile before she can come out to see anyone or let anyone in," her grandfather told Houjou, since he was actually paying attention and had noticed Kagome. "This new cold she has is very contagious."

"Okay, well, please be sure to tell her I stopped by," Houjou handed him the basket full of fruit he was holding and walked off, saying, "Those fruits are very healthy and should help her!" Once she was sure he was a good distance away, she came out of the well-house again and started walking toward her house/shrine, without hearing a word from her grandfather. She wouldn't tell him for awhile, or else he'd probably cover her with so many sacred sutras, spells that don't work, and other things like that that she would suffocate!

She just wondered how her mother would end up taking it. She always acted like she approved of Inuyasha, but who was she to know that maybe it was only because they never really got together. Not very many people ever liked hanyous, and maybe her mother was like it.

All she hoped was that she wasn't like that.

"Mmaammaa! Inuyashaaa?" Kagome ran up to her room first, since she'd expected he'd be in there, and right she was. Once she stepped in his ears twitched and he turned to face her.

"Kagome, you are finally here."

"What are you doing here! Did you tell her!"

"Tell me what?" Kagome's mother asked as she appeared at the doorway. She gave a little bit of surprise when she saw that Kagome looked a little bit bigger than... normal. Kagome silently prayed that her grandfather hadn't noticed like she did. "Um, well..."

"Sorry," Kagome said, giving an apology. "I know, I'm only seventeen! Sorry, sorry, sorry... it's just..."

"It's fine," her mother surprisingly said, but her tone changed just a little. "I do not approve of you getting pregnant this early, but, I do, however, approve of who you chose." Inuyasha seemed to lighten up a little, but not much since he wasn't the happy type, and Kagome felt relieved.

"See, Inuyasha? It's okay!"

"Does your grandfather know?" Kagome's mom asked unexpectedly.

"I don't know, I past him coming here, but I don't know if he noticed or not-"

"Just be careful," Her mother stated before exiting the doorway. "You know how he will get!" Kagome turned her attention back to Inuyasha again.

"Now, why are you here?"

"To get you to come, of course!" He shouted at her. "I figured if I was gone you'd come here to find me!"

"Oh, okay, well... you thought right. I was talking to Sango and she asked when I'd tell my mother, so I decided to go and couldn't find you. Once I didn't see you at the well I kind of figured you were here."

"Well, do we have any other business here?" Inuyasha asked, twitching his ears.

"Okay, I'll get you some ramen, Inuyasha, you go on ahead and I will get you a lifetime's supply of ramen to make at the hut."

"No, you go, I'll get the ramen... after all, I'm not pregnant."

"I would hope not," Kagome said with a smile. "If you were, something would be wrong here."

"It would be easier on me to carry them anyway."

"Are you calling me weak?"

Two dreadful words entered his mind: Mood. Swings.

"No, you're very strong, really, you are-"

"There you go lying again! One moment I'm weak, the next I am strong, when will it end?"

"I don't lie-"

"Then what was that? There you go again!"

"Kagome, you know I wouldn't lie to you, when I said it would be easier on me I didn't mean it that way-"

"Then how did you mean it! Oh my god, you must think I'm fat, that's it!"

"You aren't fat!"

"Oh, so what is this, invisible?" Kagome asked, patting her stomach. "See, lying again!"

"Okay, whatever, but no matter what size you are I still love you!"

"See, you do think I am fat-"

"Technically, you aren't fat, because that's the baby-"

"What a lousy cover-up!"

"Kagome, would you shut up and listen to me!" Inuyasha shouted at her, standing and grabbing her wrist, then pulling her and making her face him. "Even if that was fat, I'd still love you! I don't give a care what you look like, its your personality that matters to me! Not how you look!"

"I love you too, Inuyasha!"

"Mood swings?" Sango asked Inuyasha, after Kagome left the hut to go and get Shippou from Kaede's. "I am sooo glad I am not you, I heard you two talking while she had those mood swings-"

"Yeah, well, you don't need to rub the salt in the wound," Inuyasha stated. "Doesn't help."

"Where'd you get that phrase from?" Sango asked (I'm not sure exactly, but I don't think they know what salt is...). "Salt is a future thing, isn't it?"

"Kagome told me. seriously, I've been with her for two years, I think I'd know-"

"Oh yeah!" Sango exclaimed. "What'd you do for her birthday? You know, other than getting her pregnant. You insisted I stay behind while you two go off who-knows-where..."

"We went to her time, and I took her to dinner after asking her mother what some good places were for food, and, of course, Kagome had to 'drive' there," Inuyasha gave Sango a look like 'don't-ask' and continued. "She got me normal clothes and I had to wear that stupid hat..."

"What about your hair? People would stare at your hair... did they?"

"Yeah, and there was this one kid we saw who whispered something to his mother about me, I wanted to punch him so hard, but Kagome wouldn't let me..." They both heard Kagome's steps outside and stopped talking, then she entered with Shippou on her shoulder. Kagome made her way and sat in between Sango and Inuyasha. Shippou stayed onto her shoulder, and they talked about some random things until...

"Hmm? Where did Shippou go?" Kagome asked, now noticing an empty spot on her shoulder.

"I think I found him," Inuyasha muttered, and Sango and Kagome turned to see Shippou in his pink balloon form chewing on Inuyasha. "Stupid brat!" He punched Shippou - causing him to turn to normal - and gave off that anime veinpop.

"Inuyasha, be nice to Shippou!" Kagome shouted.

"You saw him, he was chewing on me! Do you know how annoying that gets!"

"What, now Shippou is annoying! Do you think I am annoying too!"

"No!"

"You already think I am fat, so it wouldn't be surprising!"

"I do not think you are fat!"

"Yes you do!"

"...mood swings." Shippou and Sango whispered to each other.

Holy crap, this one is ALSO ALMOST 3k words... umm... no wonder my hands hurt LOL