IT'S A WHAT!
I DO NOT OWN INU-TACHI (nor did I last chapter) BUT... I DO own Kaori! Him and all his spiffyness. CRAZY ENOUGH: I will let you use Kaori for your fanfiction, if you want. Just credit me for coming up with him and all his cuteness :3
READ: Umm. The below. ALLOFIT.
Special thanks to... EVERYONE!
Again.
Oh, and about the "retarded" comment. Who said Inuyasha was nice? Haha! Okay, so, anyway!
2nd movie stuff.. umm... yeah. Well, it's not like they know they are in a movie so I will put in parenthesis (1st/2nd/3rd/4th/etc. movie/episode/etc.)
If you just started reading this story, go and read The Flowers That Keep Us Alive FIRST. THIS IS JUST A SEQUEL!
HAHA so, anyway. I don't mean to be a rude one, but I don't like grammar corrections (unless its EXACT and something really hard to read). And I can't get a beta - I'm sort of a loner, I don't work well with people and I rarely give out my email address - but as for a program... I dunno.
And about the baby thing. I'm 13, alright. I'm not an expert on these things!
I'm also glad nobody asked about my spelling, lol, because if you did that would mean something is wrong with my spellchecker. I make loads of typos, so I use a spellchecker.
NOTICE: have I ever blocked a user, or gotten rid of a review? NO! Because I am NOT perfect, and I admit it. I don't want people to think I am. (but things that aren't true... well... let's just say I take care of those xD)
One month. Thirty days. The wait would kill. A month of boredom, sickness, and of course, the 'swings. Kagome just waited, but Inuyasha was always pacing around the hut. Thankfully, it passed quicker than they thought. Inuyasha tried his best not to get Kagome's 'swings to act up, so that killed some of that boring time. He would now allow her to take more pictures - though he regretted it, at times - and of course, she did so. The album was filling up quick, amazingly.
Days, weeks, seconds, minutes, hours, and so on passed. Eventually they got to twenty days. Inuyasha was pacing around the hut as usual. He did that a lot lately. It was about his... tenth time circling the hut.
"Inuyasha, please you-know-what down and just wait!"
"I can't stand going on not knowing if it will be now, tomorrow, or in three days! It could be in five seconds, for all we know!"
"Well, we'll just have to expect it, won't we? There's nothing we can do about it!"
"Keh, fine!" Inuyasha gave up - Kagome's 'swings do that to you - and sat down next to Kagome. "Now what! All it comes to is being bored!"
"Go see my mother, then!" Since Kagome could go back - she didn't want anyone seeing her, a seventeen year old getting pregnant? - Inuyasha went back every now and then to tell her mother how she was doing. Sango had also talked to her and Miroku ended up staying in the guest room. Sango had to explain loads to him, since he was always messing with things. And if she told him, he understood better. "If you go, get my video camera, please."
"A what?" Inuyasha snorted, standing up again. "What kind of monster contraption d'you want me to-"
"A video camera. Vi-de-o ca-me-ra. Remember that. Tell Sango, she will know what it is." Kagome sighed at Inuyasha. Sango had gotten used to things better than him, mainly because she trusted Kagome on certain things and just didn't think another thing about them. Why ask questions? You've got the luxury, maybe it's better not to know how.
"Feh. You and your stupid future items-"
"Stupid? Are you calling my time stupid?"
"No, not your time, just all the complicity-"
"Talk about complex! That's the first time in awhile I've heard you use a word with more than two syllables! You just don't try to get it! Sango actually does!" Kagome thought over it for less than a second, and said - or rather, shouted, "Ask her about it! She's form your time, she'll know how to explain it!" Inuyasha gave a nod to avoid further and more horrible 'swings. He then walked out of the hut, trying to look as cool as ever. Those mood swings would kill him before anything else, most likely. Just a few more days... just a few...
Meanwhile, Kagome was busy toying with her camera. It was digital, so she'd someday have to go back home and print them out (they have a computer now, likeitornot! LOL). But she still had five pictures left on the card. Maybe she'd get one of Inuyasha holding her video camera, that would be weird. For now, she made the camera face her, positioned it a certain way, and took a picture. She'd write on the back of it once it was printed, "Just a few more days, minutes, whatever to go!"
The day would be coming soon! Finally, her time was coming. Eventually, anyway.
"Yyaaaaawwwwwckkkkkk!" Spoke a bit... too soon. The pain was immense, somehow it felt like she wouldn't make it through the night. Yet she knew she would. It was so bad she passed out, and all she remembered next was Sango rushing into her hut. Inuyasha must have already been gone by then.
"Sango isn't here, apparently... I'll have to get that video camera thing later," Inuyasha said to himself after a short talk with Kagome's mother. "Maybe I sh-" he stopped in his tracks outside of the Higurashi Shrine and sniffed the air. He swore he could have somehow heard Kagome... even if she wasn't in that time. Something was up. But did he really want to go? Well, yeah, of course, but if she as having the baby... did he really want to see it?
Oh, who cared what he wanted. He was going. This was Kagome he was talking about here! Without a second thought he ran at full speed in the direction of the well-house, then jumped, landing right in front of it. Inuyasha threw the mini-shrine's door open, and stepped inside. This time it was like he dived into the well, he was in such a hurry. Kagome probably needed him. What if he was late? What if she wasn't having the baby, what if it was really something attacking her-
Stop it. You'll worry yourself. Just get to her, and FAST! On the other side he wasted absolutely no time on jumping out of the well and heading in the hut's direction. I hope Kagome's okay, I hope nothing happened, I hope everything will be fine.
"Kagome, hang in there, for me..." He kept on running, occasionally jumping, until he finally reached their hut first. He opened the door to find blood... not a good sign. It never is. He sniffed the air, and it was Kagome's blood. Mostly, anyway. There was a small bit of Sango's there too. Without another thought again, he backed out, and all but one jump was what it took to be at Kaede's hut. Before stepping inside he sniffed the air and thought for a moment about what was there.
Kagome's blood, mostly. And her scent, which was now stained with blood.
A new, mixed, and confusing scent, with blood too.
Only a hint of Sango's blood.
Kaede's weird scent.
He stepped inside, now not knowing what to expect. What he saw was a miracle of life itself. Sango and Kaede were sitting around Kagome - who was in the center - and after taking it all in... he realized that unfamiliar and oddly confusing scent. It was like a new scent, mixed with his scent and her scent. It was the baby in Kagome's hands, which was wrapped up in a blanket now. She'd done it, but he was late. He'd missed it.
Maybe that was a good thing?
"Inuyasha," Sango said, looking over at him. Kagome lifted up from looking at the child in her hands and at him. Kaede also turned. "You missed it!"
"Of course, just my luck!" Inuyasha shouted. "Once I leave, the baby comes! What lucky I have! Oh, yeah, I couldn't figure out what that video camera thing was, since Sango is here." The video camera was the last thing on Kagome's mind. She was kind of surprised Inuyasha wasn't going something along the lines of 'WHAT IS IT! A BOY OR A GIRL?'
"Um, Inuyasha..." Kagome started.
"Sango, why did I smell your blood too?"
"Inuyasha, um..."
"Yeah, I cut myself, and just as I was bandaging it up I herd Kagome scream," Sango lifted up her finger to show that it was now bandaged. "So I didn't finish it until now. I just finished wrapping it up when you stepped in."
"INUYASHA!" God, the girl could scream. Even without the swings. Inuyasha still didn't move an inch from his post (not even a millimeter! LOL).
"What?"
"It's a boy!" Oh, yeah. He'd totally spaced that one. He was more concerned as of how Kagome was doing for once... "So, as I've told them, that means his name is Kaori, remember..." Kagome added the 'remember' part not really as a question. More like just an add-on. Or a question, but one of those you don't really have to answer. Inuyasha was... speechless. They'd had the kid now. More importantly, they'd had a male kid. But on top of all of it...
...Kagome was safe, and fine.
It was then Inuyasha took the time to notice the details. He thought it probably looked like him as a baby, meaning... it was hanyou, wasn't it? He had the same silver ears... and as Kagome had obviously noticed - Inuyasha watched as she toyed with Kaori's little ears - they were just like his. The baby was cute, he had to admit. And this... this was the miracle of life. They had created this. Together. It seemed to install some kind of not normal pride in Inuyasha.
"Are you going to come over here, or what?" Kagome asked him. Inuyasha flipped back to reality, then slowly made his way to the baby Kaori in Kagome's hands. He'd expected the child sometime... it was just like every time he thought about it, it was such a long time off. But now... it was... passed! The months of 'swings, pacing the hut, sickness... done. All over.
"It's... I never... it seemed so far off-" Inuyasha stopped himself. What mattered... was now. What was happening that very moment. He got down on his knees, and began to sniff the air to take in everything again.
Kagome's scent, mostly. It was the best.
A little bit of Kagome's blood.
Sango's blood, but not that much now since it was wrapped up.
Kaede.
And this new scent, Kaori. It was like a mix of his and Kagome's scent, plus another one all combined to make Kaori. He was kind of scared to touch him, for some reason. Some unknown reason. But none the less did Inuyasha poke - not hard - then start to play with Kaori. Play? Inuyasha? Strange, but... Kaori seemed to find joy in messing and inspecting Inuyasha's fingers and claws. Kaori had little short claws, sort of like rats. (by the way... I HAVE PET RATS! RATTIES! They are so cute)
Kagome couldn't help but watch, and started to get another idea... Inuyasha's attention was set on Kaori, so...
She reached her arms up over his head, and started to mess with his ears. Inuyasha paid no attention to it, but every now and then his ears moved a bit from being touched.
"Umm... what... is that?" Sango asked. Kagome hadn't realized it, being so wrapped up in what she was doing, but Inuyasha was making the purring noise again. He stopped playing with Kaori, and just stared. Next thing they knew... there was an unusual noise for a time like this... something was breaking the silence.
Laughter. From... Kaori!
"Is that a purring noise?" Sango asked.
"Um, yes," Kagome replied.
"From who?"
"Inuyasha," Kagome said, wondering what would come next. Kaori stopped laughing as she stopped rubbing Inuyasha's ears, since he stopped... purring, or whatever that was.
"Dogs don't-" Kagome interrupted Sango's speech.
"Yes, I know, that's why its... um... strange. Listen, I'm just going to go back to our hut, and, um-" Kagome realized something as she stood and looked around. "Where's Miroku-sama?"
"Houshi-sama isss..." Sango sat for a moment, remembering what he'd told her, then said, "Him and Hachi went out somewhere, I don't remember where though..."
"Oh, okay," Kagome said, carefully holding Kaori. Inuyasha stood up beside her and helped her for support. "If you need me, you know where I'll be, okay?"
"Okay," Sango replied, watching Inuyasha hold Kagome out of the hut. "Now, Kaede-baba (I think I got that right...?)..." Sango pulled Kagome's flowers out from behind her. "Would you please finish telling me what you were saying before? You know, before Kagome-chan, and all..."
"Oh, right... the flowers... you are positive they blocked my sister Kikyou's attacks?"
"That's what Kagome-chan said,"
"Do you know where Inuyasha got the flowers?"
"I'm not quite certain, but I remember a village nearby..."
"Did there happen to be a neko-mata sort of like Kirara at the village?"
"Yeah, I actually mistook her for Kirara once-"
"That explains it," Kaede said, calmly. "That is the holy village. The flowers Inuyasha got were nearby, I take it most likely in their garden..."
"I wouldn't know,"
"Well, they must be, to be able to do that," Kaede replied. "The flowers in the garden of the Holy Land can do just about anything, but only if given by a certain person to another. They will protect their owner if they were given to that person by the other person they are fated to spend their life with. In this case, Inuyasha gave them to her. You see, if Inuyasha had given her those, but wasn't really destined to be with her... we'd have a dead Kagome on our hands."
"So, let's say Kouga gave them to her. Since Kouga isn't really her true love and the person she's supposed to stay with, she'd have died?"
"Yes, exactly. The people of the Holy Land rely on magic for their flowers and only believe in what they think is true."
"Kaede, do you know any more about this place?"
"Yes, I do..."
"Would you tell me more about it?"
Sango's plan was good. After long lessons with Kaede, she had her idea on what to do for the two. They deserved it, after all. It also turned out the Holy Land could do way more than just that. According to Kagome - she'd told her what Kaede said, leaving out the details of her plan - it was like a resort. Whatever that was. But Sango believed Kagome, since she had said that resorts were good, and she'd enjoy it. Other than that, they were good with weapons, clothing, and some more. Sango had suggested to Kagome she get some Sengoku Jidai clothes like them, she already had a hut. Getting weapons would be a good idea, too, and Sango knew how to get out of paying for it all. Kaede had also told her that right now was a time of chaos there, since youkai were invading. They'd easily rid of the youkai and in return, get clothes or whatever.
Maybe she was getting more like Miroku. But what else could they do? According to everyone, they had zero in their bank account... whatever that was. Another Kagome thing.
"Inuyasha, now would you go get my video camera? I'm sure Sango will go with you."
"Keh. Must I?" Inuyasha was normal again, alright. He didn't have to worry about the 'swings.
"Please? I want to get you, me, and Kaori on tape!"
"What does that mean?"
"Just go and get it with Sango, then you'll see."
"Why don't you go with me? Don't you want to show your mother Kaori?"
"Oh, looks like I do have a reason to go... then, let's go later when Souta gets home from school, I want him to see too."
"You know... this may sound stupid, but... do you think Kaori will be able to go through the well?"
"Hmm... most likely, he is our child." Kaori was sleeping in a bundle of blankets over in a corner of the room. "You know what I want to do?" Kagome asked.
"Ugh, what?" Inuyasha replied, with a tone of disgust in his voice. Kagome turned to face him... then... she jumped at him.
"This!" She attacked and began to toy with his ears again. "I like to listen to you... um... purr..."