Sorry to leave you guys in suspense! I posted this one right after the last one. Enjoy!

Chapter 4: Would You Love Another?

Kagome looked at his panicked face and frowned.

"What's wrong?" She asked her mate.

"There's a demon trying to brake through our barrier. Make sure you stay here." Inuyasha went in the room and put on his haori and ran back to Kagome. She was now trying to calm to crying children. They seemingly sensed their parent's stress. She brought them into the main room. "Where the hell is Tetsusaiga!" He asked as he walked around looking for it. "Shut up!" Inuyasha yelled at the crying twins. They only cried louder. Inuyasha walked up to them and gave them to smacks on the hand. Their hands started turning red. Kagome saw and was now quite angry.

"Inuyasha!" She said placing her hand on his arm to try and calm him down.

"Get away." he said moving his hand a lot harder than he meant. Kagome fell to the ground as he hit her. He didn't even notice and when he did his was to caught up in his thoughts to realize it totally. He found Tetsusaiga on the floor where he had left it last night and left to go and get the demon away.

Once he left Kagome rubbed her arm, in which he had pushed when she fell to the ground. She couldn't believe it! Inuyasha hit her.

She fixed her eyes on the crying twins. She got up and immediately tried to help them. She looked at both of their red, slightly swollen hands.

"It's okay." Kagome said as she picked them up and rocked them slowly. "Everything is going to be okay." She kissed each of their foreheads and walked into her room. She placed them on the bed. They still cried though not as hard.

She rummaged through her things and pulled out some bandages and ointment for stings.

She walked over and sat on the bed with her two children. She grabbed Uchuu's hand as he cried and lightly rubbed the ointment on it and than wrapped it with a bandage. Normally a bandage wouldn't be necessary, but she didn't want him to try and lick the ointment off. Next she did the same to Umi.

"Come on now. Enough crying. See all better?" She kissed a hand of each baby and they stopped crying slowly. "That's better." She ruffled the hair on both of their heads.

Meanwhile

Inuyasha was fighting a normal boar demon. The demon was simple pray, yet was definitely stronger than a normal boar demon if it had caused the barrier to budge, even if only the slightest.

Inuyasha hacked at it, yet no body parts fell. A simple wind scar would rid Inuyasha of the pest, but he was working off some cranky steam.

Once Inuyasha was ready to slash the wind scar down at the boar he stopped with his hands and sword in the air as images went through his mind.

The images of him hitting the twins way harder than necessary and pushing Kagome to the ground are what he saw. He felt a large surge of guilt. 'I hit her..' He thought, but had no more time for thinking as the boar demon charged into him and sent him flying. Inuyasha landed with ease. 'I hit them.' He decided to think about that after the demon was defeated.

"Wind scar!" He yelled as five bolt of energy came from his sword and devoured the demon. Inuyasha sheathed his sword.

Meanwhile

Kagome finished nursing the twins and kept them on the bed as she got up. She looked at them. They looked tired again. She figured she could leave them for a moment.

She went and got herself some water. As she drunk it she thought. 'It's not that big of a deal. I mean he's pushed me before... yeah, but only when he wanted me to get out a demon grasp. Would he have pushed me if he knew I was pregnant? Probably. I don't even think he was paying attention to what he was doing.' She finished her drink. 'It's better to just forget about it.' She sighed and walked back into the room and saw Inuyasha there holding the twins. His face was extremely guilty and he looked sad as he rubbed their little hands. She was a little surprised that she didn't see him come in, but decided to ignore it.

He looked up at her and his gaze clearly said 'Sorry'.

"Are you alright?" Kagome asked. After all he did just kill another demon.

"Are they? Are you?" He asked.

"They're fine Inuyasha and me too. You're the one who just fought a demon." Inuyasha admired Kagome. She was worried about him when she should be mad at him.

"I'm sorry." He apologized. He looked at the two children in his arms. Both of their little fist were against there own chest as they cuddled as close as they possibly could to his own chest.

"Just forget it. You were cranky." Kagome smiled and walked over to him and the twins she sat beside him. "Do you love them?" She asked.

"Yeah, of course."

"If.. if we had another would you love it just the same?" Kagome asked trying to approach the real problem. Inuyasha gave her a quizzical glance.

"Do you even have to ask? I would."

"Do you want another?" She asked. Inuyasha was of course to dense to see what she was getting at.

"Not now." He said. "It's to soon." Kagome's heart sank.

"Would you ever?"

"Yeah, probably." he continued looking into her eyes trying to figure out what she was trying to say. "Do you want another?" Kagome looked down.

"I wouldn't mind." She said.

"What the hell are you trying to say?" He asked.

"Inuyasha last time we 'mated' was I in heat?" She asked knowing the answer perfectly well. Inuyasha's eyes went wide as he hit realization.

"Kagome.. you're not... are you?" he asked. Kagome examined his stare. He didn't look happy - the was bad. He didn't look mad - the was good. He looked shocked - Kagome didn't know what that was.

"I.. I... would you rather I say yes or no?"

"Kagome!" Kagome put her head down in shame.

"I'm sorry.. I didn't keep track of my cycle and I didn't know I was in heat." That was plenty an answer for Inuyasha. He took a deep breath and looked away. How was he supposed to go about this? Three pups.

He would have definitely liked to wait till Dayu was killed before they had another pup and maybe waited for the twins to grow up a little. He frowned. So this was what Kagome was hiding. Why didn't she tell him sooner? Did she think he would be mad? No, he wasn't mad in the least and if he was he would be mad at himself for letting this happen.

Inuyasha was cut off from his thought when he heard Kagome's cries. They were light as she was trying to hide them. He turned and looked at her. She was covering her face from his view. He put the sleeping children beside him and then used his hands to grab Kagome's hands. He pulled them away from Kagome's eyes.

"Stop." He said. "Stop hiding things from me. Don't hide your tears. Don't hide your secrets." He said and than pulled her to him. He kissed her lips lightly and pulled away and looked at her. "It's going to be okay. We already have two, one won't be much harder. Right?"

"Inuyasha having one is hard, having three is very.. complicated."

"Kagome we've been through a lot. We can handle another pup. You'll see. Not that we have much of a choice anyway." He smiled trying to encourage her. She nodded.

"But.. are you mad at me?"

"That's the stupidest question you've ever asked." He scowled. "Like I'd be mad at you for something like this." Kagome let lose a giant breath. 'That's a load off.' She thought happily. It was easier than she thought it would be.

"Okay than. When should we tell the others?"

"Next time we see them."

"Which is when?"

"Whenever you want." He said. He kissed her forehead and grabbed the two sleeping children and started heading to their room to put them in their bed. Before he left the room he turned to Kagome. "Can you make me some ramen?" he gave her pleading eyes. She sighed dramatically.

"Yeah, sure." She said and got up to make his breakfast.

That's the end of another chapter! This one isn't a cliffy though.