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Chapter 15: Changes

Inuyasha sniffed the air as he entered the room.

"What is it, Inuyasha?" Kagome asked nervously.

"She smells different," was all he said.

"Different how?" Kagome asked looking at her sleeping daughter.

"Like she's changed," Inuyasha said quietly. "Like she isn't human any more."

"Wh-what?" Kagome stuttered, she immediately reached out for Saphira's aura. Kagome saw what was different immediately. The pinkness in Saphira's violet aura was gone. The pink that represented her humanity.

"How...how did this happen?" Kagome sobbed.

"Mom?" Saphira said waking up. "Mom, what's wrong?"

She climbed out of bed and raced over to her mother, but her mother just cried harder.

Saphira looked at Inuyasha. "What's wrong with Mom?"

"Can't you feel the changes?" He asked softly. "You aren't human anymore."

Saphira blinked at him dumbly. "What?"

Suddenly the room was spinning and her vision blurred. Inuyasha caught her when she fainted.

"What's wrong? What's happened?" Sesshoumaru demanded bursting into the room.

"It's Saphira," Inuyasha said motioning to her.

"Why did she faint?"

"What did you DO to her?" Kagome screamed pounding her fists onto Sesshoumaru's chest.

Inuyasha pulled her away, but couldn't silence her screaming.

"You just HAD to have a full blooded youkai mate, didn't you, Sesshoumaru?" Kagome screamed making him and Inuyasha cringe in pain.

"What are you talking about?" Sesshoumaru asked.

"You CHANGED her! She's isn't hanyou anymore!" Kagome screamed. "She was just fine the way she was! Were you too good for her? Is that it? Well, let me tell you that SHE's too good for YOU!"

"What?" Sesshoumaru exclaimed.

"Kagome! Sesshoumaru couldn't change her!" Inuyasha reasoned.

"I don't care! I'm leaving and I'm taking Saphira with me!" Kagome exclaimed.

"You are not taking my mate anywhere!" Sesshoumaru said icily.

"He's right, Kagome," Inuyasha sighed. "You have no authority over her."

"Like hell I don't!" Kagome stated stubbornly. "She's my daughter, and if her husband is incapable of taking her then I will!"

"Will you at least see what Saphira wants first?" Inuyasha asked. "Maybe she knows something we don't."

Kagome looked from Sesshoumaru to Inuyasha and then to Saphira.

"Fine." She stormed out of the room with Inuyasha at her heels.

"Mom?" Kagome's screaming had roused her daughter.

"You fool," Sesshoumaru said looking at Inuyasha. "She hasn't changed at all, except for the fact that she's conceived a child."

"No way!" Inuyasha exclaimed.

Kagome stormed into the garden, her tears were blinding her and she bumped into someone.

"Oh! Hello, Kagome," Doragon said catching Kagome before she fell over.

"Sorry, I bumped into you, Doragon," Kagome said rubbing her eyes.

"What is it, Kagome?" Doragon asked seeing her tear streaked face.

"Saphira's a full blooded dragon!" Kagome blurted out. "And it's all Sesshoumaru's fault!"

"Wha-" Doragon started and then laughed so hard he clutched his sides.

"Kagome! Saphira's with child!" Inuyasha yelled running into the garden. "What's up with him?"

Doragon doubled over with laughter again after Inuyasha's statement.

"Her...scent...changed...didn't...it?" Doragon asked in between the choking laughter.

"Yeah, so?" Inuyasha answered.

"You dog demons are a bunch of morons!" Doragon laughed.

"Hey! I resent that!" Inuyasha said his temper flaring.

"You think that just because her scent changed she was pregnant?" Doragon asked the laughter dying down.

"Well, we first thought she had transformed into a full blooded dragon," Inuyasha said scratching his chin thoughtfully.

"Stupid!" Doragon laughed again.

"What are you getting at, Doragon?" Kagome prodded.

"It's a false pregnancy," Doragon explained. "She isn't old enough to conceive yet."

"What do you mean 'false'?" Inuyasha asked.

"It's something that her body did because she mated before she was fully mature," Doragon explained. "It lets her know that she isn't ready to conceive yet."

"Oh," Inuyasha and Kagome said simultaneously.

"But what about her aura? It changed color," Kagome asked.

"It's just Sesshoumaru's youkai crowding out her colors," Doragon shrugged.

"Well," Inuyasha said, "you're going to break the news to Sesshoumaru."

"What?" Doragon exclaimed but Inuyasha ran off dragging Kagome behind him.

"So, when will she be able to conceive?" Sesshoumaru asked after Doragon explained Saphira's new scent.

"A little eager aren't we?" Doragon grinned.

"When?"

Doragon sighed at his failed joke. "When her body is ready."

"..." Sesshoumaru growled.

"Two, or three years!" Doragon exclaimed. "Jeez, lighten up, huh?"

"My brother will have a pup before I do," Sesshoumaru complained.

"It's okay, I would have beat you anyways," Inuyasha said grinning.

"You've mated already?" Sesshoumaru asked turning to his younger brother.

"Yup."

"..."

"So I'm not pregnant," Saphira said looking at her mother. "And, you are?"

Kagome blushed, which Saphira would have sworn was impossible.

"Mom, why didn't you tell me?" Saphira whined punching her mother's arm.

"Well, you were about to die and all," Kagome said furrowing her brow in concentration.

"Mom!" Saphira exclaimed in mock disgust.

"Well, you asked!" Kagome said crossing her arms.

"So, Dad said I wouldn't conceive for a couple of years, huh?"

"Yeah."

"How did Sesshoumaru take that?" Saphira asked looking her mother in the eyes.

"He'll deal with it!" Kagome huffed.

Saphira grinned. "Boy or girl?"

"Definitely boy," Kagome smiled. "Who wants another whiny girl?"

"Mom!"

"Just kidding," Kagome laughed and leaned closer. "Inuyasha really wants a boy."

"Oh?" Saphira grinned evilly. "Are you going to name him Oswald?"

Kagome gasped. "Hell no!"

"But," Saphira said innocently sniffling. "What about Grandpa's memory?"

"Grandpa was a great man," Kagome admitted. "But, he had a crappy name. I was thinking about the name Inutenshi."

"What! That's worse then Oswald, Mom!" Saphira cried. "You should name him Inumaru."

"Well, I might as well just name him Harold for all the help you are!" Kagome exclaimed.

"Ooh, then we can call him Roldy!" Saphira said delighted.

Kagome huffed in frustration.

"Call who Roldy?" Asked Inuyasha coming into the room.

"Ah, Inuyasha, talk some sense into Saphira!" Kagome said getting up.

"Come on, Mom! Roldy is a cute name!" Saphira said.

"Just wait until you have kids!" Kagome huffed out of the room.