Sequel Chapter16
Kagome has been asleep for three days. Not waken up at all for food, water, or any other usually things. Shippo and the demon brothers were getting worried. Well, everyone else too, but they were the ones watching her a lot. Other than Inuyasha I mean. Right now though, Shippo was the only one keeping her company, Inuyasha was in the main room having some food as told. Sango and Kohaku decided to go on a walk and Miroku joined in.
(Hey… has anyone noticed that I always have Kagome hurt? Barely ever Inuyasha or the others, haha…)
"I wonder is she's under a curse…?" Tisane said as he was munching on some fish.
"Nah, Kagome just burned out on energy you idiot!" Yoshiro whacked his head.
"As long as she ain't in 'a coma' then I don't mind her sleeping." Inuyasha chewed on his food.
"A coma… what's that?" Akemi blinked a couple times.
"Uh… how did that human say it… something like sleeping… but it can take forever to come out of…?" Inuyasha explained.
"How annoying…" Akemi said a little confused.
Kagome started to wake tiredly and looked to the side and saw Shippo resting on the side of the futon. She sat up and leaned against the wall with a sigh. Shippo looked up and saw Kagome sitting up. He started to smile, but cry, both at the same time. She looked him curiously and picked him up and cradled him in her arms. He clutched onto kimono and nuzzled into her chest.
"Shippo, why are you crying?" Kagome asked softly.
"I'm sorry mama; I should've obeyed you and stayed in the village." Shippo cried.
"Shh, its okay... I'm sorry that I couldn't save Yukanasi."
"Papa told me that… that's what he wanted, so he can be with his own parents."
"That's right."
"Mama, if we didn't leave, you wouldn't have been exhausted three days ago."
"Don't think about anymore, it's all okay. Besides, I'm not tired anymore, watch and see."
Kagome sat him on her lap and she formed a ball formed three balls. One formed into Inuyasha, another into Kagome, and the last one was Shippo outlines. They turned into two dogs and a fox. The dogs ran around the fox in a circle as it jumped in the middle. Shippo cheered up almost instantly and hugged her. She hugged him back and placed him down.
"I'm going to sneak up on papa." Kagome winked.
Kagome quietly came out the room and saw Inuyasha eating fish. Akemi saw her from the corner of her eye but didn't say anything. Tisane and Yoshiro looked at her for a few seconds but the continued to eat. They knew that she wanted to surprise Inuyasha. She went behind him and nipped his ear softly. Inuyasha twitched his other ear and looked at her.
"Hello…" She kissed his forehead.
"Ah, Kagome!" Inuyasha said happily.
"Feeling well I presume?" Yoshiro asked.
"Yeah, you've been out for days." Tisane stated.
"Yeah I know, and I'm okay." Kagome smiled.
"Kagome, when we fought against that man, how did you get so much power?" Akemi asked.
"Oh, you noticed that too?" Miroku asked as he walked in.
"Hi Miroku…" Kagome said cheerfully.
"Hi Lady Kagome…" Miroku replied and sat down.
"Anyways, it, it wasn't my own power." Kagome stated.
"What, but… how?" Akemi asked.
"Eh, heh-heh, I think the unborn pup helped. I think it tried to keep me, Inuyasha, Shippo, and everyone else, safe." Kagome explained. "Oh, I'm sorry you guys, I need to talk to Sango, Miroku, please join me." She got up.
"Uh, yes of course." Miroku got up and walked away with Kagome.
"Listen, I need to talk to Sango; do you think you can stay with Kohaku?" Kagome asked seriously.
"Yes, of course. Lady Kagome, that was over whelming for Sango when you brought her brother." He replied.
"I know." She replied back nicely.
"Ah, Sango, there you are." Kagome said pleasingly.
"Kagome!" Sango said happily and hugged her.
"Hey Kohaku, let's go find Kirara." Miroku said cheerfully.
"Sure, okay, be back later sister!" Kohaku said cheerfully.
"Okay." Sango said sweetly as she and Kagome waved.
"Kagome, thank you so much for bringing my brother back to me, but what about the shard in his back?" Sango asked worriedly.
"What shard?" Kagome asked plainly.
"The shard, remember?"
"This?" Kagome showed her the shard.
"B-but, that was his life line!"
"I know, I… had to remove it, and Lord Sesshomaru revived him."
"Kagome… you're the best!"
"Hmm…" Kagome smiled.
"But what about what he did to the other slayers?"
"That's what I wanted to talk to you about…" Kagome paused.
"You see, I untainted his memories, but… I noticed how painful it was for him, to know that he killed his kin. So I tampered with it slightly…" Kagome paused again. "He thinks Naraku attacked them along with spider demons, you saved him from them but Naraku stole him. Naraku slaughtered your people after that, and left you stranded. You and the gang gave your people a proper burial. That's what he remembers…" She looked at Sango. "I'm sorry that I changed it, but I can bring it back, if that's what you want?"
"Kagome…" Sango started to cry and hugged Kagome tightly but carefully. "THANK YOU SO MUCH!" She said happily.
"Eh… so you're really happy about it?" Kagome blinked.
"OF COURSE!" Sango cheered as she released Kagome.
"Hmm… I'm glad you're happy."
"Was that all?"
"Uh huh…"
"So, are you having fun?"
"What do you mean Sango?"
"Being pregnant, haha…"
"Oh… I guess its okay, lots of kicking though." Kagome rolled her eyes but then sighed.
"Is something wrong?" Sango looked at her curiously.
"Huh oh, no… I was just thinking."
"Thinking about what?"
"Well, um…" Kagome got cut off.
"Priestess Kagome, you're all better!" A girl cheered and more children started to come.
"Uh-huh…" Kagome patted her head. "I guess it's nothing, you can attend to Miroku and Kohaku, I'm glad you're happy about my decision." She smiled at Sango.
"Sure, and thank you so much!" Sang hugged her again and walked away.
"No problem." Kagome replied and was being dragged away.
"Priestess Kagome, we missed you!" Three kids said at the same time.
"We heard that you used so much energy during the celebration that you didn't have much energy to fight!" A boy whined.
"It's okay; I'm stronger already because I had a lot of rest." Kagome grinned at them.
"How about we all make sure she doesn't over exert herself though." A male voice said as it came near.
"Hmph, I can if I want to." Kagome pouted and the children laughed.
"It's Lord Inuyasha!" A little girl said happily.
"He's going to take me away, get him!" Kagome pretended to sound scared.
"No! He can't!" All the kids laughed and went after Inuyasha.
"Ah, no!" Inuyasha was clung ontony the kids. "Kagome, call them off, I want to talk to you!" He whined.
"They just want to play, you can't blame them." Kagome stated.
"That's not what I want to talk about." He replied seriously.
Kagome sighed. "Okay, kids, why don't you go find Tisane and Shippo to play with?" She asked sweetly.
"Okay!" They shouted and ran to the hut.
"Good." Inuyasha sighed in relief. "Let's go." He said seriously.
Inuyasha grabbed Kagome's hand and they started to walk through the outer village. They walked in silence. Kagome knew for sure that it was something important. She wondered if it was about Naraku. He felt her nervousness and decided they could stop there.
"What do you want to do when the pup is born?" Inuyasha asked in a soft serious voice as he sat down in grass.
"Huh, what I want to do?" She repeated him.
"This is your normal era, isn't it?"
"Yes, it is." She sat down slowly next to him.
"Where do you want to live?
"Huh?"
"We wouldn't really have to travel from place to place; the shards have been gathered now that Naraku is destroyed. Not to mention, that we can leave till the pup would be able to walk and talk a little." Inuyasha looked to the sky. "So… where do you want to be?"
"…" She looked down and leaned against Inuyasha shoulder.
"You want to live here… don't you?
"This… this was my birth place. But… what do you want?"
"I want what makes you happy."
"I love you." She nuzzled into his shoulder.
"Kagome… stop changing the subject and answer." He smirked.
"Well… we can go to our northern castle in a few years."
"Castle…?"
"Inuyasha, can you not play dumb, of course, but I don't want to live there really. I'll show you soon sometime."
"Kay… hey, wait Kagome, where do you want to be till then!" He growled.
"I don't want to pick, it's so hard." She whined. "I love this place a lot, but then at the village where Kaede is; I love too, and the well is there."
"You still want to travel through that thing?"
"You still want ramen?"
"Feh, I can deal without it. We don't need the well."
"It seems like YOU want to stay here." She grinned.
"Uh, heh-heh, well, we've been here for quite a while, I mean sure; we hide on the day of the new moon since the beginning."
"I have no clue why… I just don't want the… humans… to see me… like that."
"Don't worry, now you know why I didn't want you to see me like that the first time."
"Well… Sort of, I've known why, for I don't know how long, seeing a hanyou turn into a human, well, brought back memories."
"You know we keep getting off topic."
"Hello." Kagome grinned.
"Okay, okay, I get it, we'll stay here. Till the pup is old enough so we could head out." Inuyasha chuckled.
"You do like it here; do you like Ti and Yosh?"
"Tisane is energetic and Yoshiro is kind of smart."
"Yoshiro is like Sesshy; Tisane is like you."
"Why are you calling him Sesshy?"
"I don't know; its fun!" Kagome smiled.
"When I was young once, I call him Fluffy; boy was he mad."
"Hey, that sounds cute! I want to call him that!"
"Haha Kagome, its wise not to…"
"Aww… fine, I'll tell Rin to call him that!"
"Sesshomaru's human ward…?"
"Nope, Sesshomaru's adoptive daughter, hehe."
"WHAT!"
"Ow, my ears…" Kagome whined. "When I saved Rin that one night, I asked him, and he said yes."
"Feh, I can't believe he touched you without trying to kill you."
"Well, he IS technically my brother now too." She huffed. 'What I can't believe is him hugging me…' She thought.
"So… was that all you wanted to talk about Inuyasha…?" She looked at him curiously.
"How were you able to use my Tetsusaiga?" Inuyasha asked in the same tone.
"Eh-heh, the blade works for hanyous and despises demons but disables for humans. Since we're mate, I understand the power of you so basically we both wield each other; better yet 'tame' as Miroku put it a while back. But none the less, it made it easier."
"…" He didn't understand
"It's because you and I are mates."
"Okay… but why was it spiraled with red?"
"I added my powers to it for the second." She pouted. "Tetsusaiga is heavy."
"Why can you transform into a demon and not lose yourself?"
"You can too, but see, it kicks in. Like during our ceremony, you transformed into demon, and even talked demon." She giggled and looked to the sky. "If you or the pups are endangered, I transform; if my life is at the brink of death, then I begin to lose myself." Kagome's face cringed.
"What's wrong?"
"The pup punched me." She laughed.
"Hey you…" Inuyasha poked Kagome's stomach. "Stop hurting your mother so much."
The pup inside of Kagome stopped punching till Inuyasha place his finger there again. It decided to kick and it scared Inuyasha so it caused him to fall over. Kagome laughed lightly and then rubbed her stomach. Inuyasha glared at her and she could only smile.
"It's a mothers' touch?" Kagome assumed.
"Maybe I'm not cut out to be a father." Inuyasha sighed.
"You know that's not true, Shippo and the village children all love you, you'll do fine."
"You're use to this stuff, I'm not."
"I'll help you, you'll get use to it, I promise."
"Kay…" He said nervously.
"Don't worry about it Inuyasha, there's nothing to worry about."
"What about this village, won't it have a problem with it?"
"No, if they can accept me and you, then it'll be fine. This village pretty much keeps everyone as an equal, now that I'm back."
"Are you the dog god here?" He laughed.
"Oh shut up…"
"No, make me bitch." He grinned.
"Big mistake…" Kagome brought her hand to his inner thigh and moved upwards then began massage him there.
"Mmm… Kagome…" He groaned out with pleasure and lied back down more relaxed.
"You're so easy to melt." She giggled and stopped to remove her hand.
"Damn… you…" He smirked.
"Did you want more attention?" Kagome teased.
"Feh…" He growled.
Kagome scooted back and went behind Inuyasha. He placed his head on her lap and closed his eyes. She brought her hands to his shoulders and massaged him. He felt like a stiff board; from stressing no doubt. Inuyasha could feel himself loosen up from the muscle he's been straining. Her touches soothed his body from all its aches and started to relax.
"Kagome really didn't leave the village, did she?" Tisane asked his brother.
WHACK
"Idiot, use your nose." Yoshiro demanded.
"Kagome shouldn't have though; she hasn't even eaten yet, Shippo, can you call for her?" Akemi asked sweetly.
"Sure!" Shippo crawled up on the roof.
/MAMA…! AKEMI WANTS YOU TO EAT, I THINK!\\ Shippo howled difficulty.
/OKAY, BE THERE IN A FEW!\\ Kagome howled back.
"Huh, who's that?" Inuyasha asked obliviously.
"Shippo…" She giggled.
"What did you guys say?"
"He says Akemi wants me to go eat, so I said okay."
"So let's go then." Inuyasha got off Kagome's lap.
"Okay Milord." She teased.
"You want to be like that?"
"I don't know what Milord is talking about." She started to walk away.
"Feh, should I carry you to the village, Milady?" He played along.
"No, that's quite alright; not necessary."
"Too bad…" Inuyasha picked her up bridal style and started to walk to the village.
"Kagome, you know you shouldn't go out of the village now, you're due any day." Akemi sighed.
"But Akemi…" Kagome whined.
"I was with her damnit." Inuyasha said with a tint of anger.
"It would be dangerous moving her around to get back here." Akemi said in the same tone.
"Feh…" Inuyasha started to growl.
"Inuyasha, stop, she's right." Kagome told him softly.
"Have something to eat Kagome and continue on, around the hut only now." Akemi ordered.
"Okay…" Kagome stretched.
Kagome finished eating after about ten minutes. There was nothing to do inside the hut, so she sat outside on the flooring; watching everyone going somewhere. She saw the normal things. Kids were playing around with Shippo and his fox magic, Miroku was being a letch and Sango watching him. Inuyasha was inside but Kagome didn't know why. Tisane and Yoshiro were talking to their mother about something she couldn't really hear. Last but not least, Kohaku was chasing Kirara around the village. Kagome couldn't help but smile at everything. She later on, did she decide to ease drop on a conversation.
"So have you two ever decided on where you're going to stay?" Tisane asked.
"Yeah, we'll stay here, seeing how people are okay with hanyous now." Inuyasha said sternly.
"We should make them their own personal hut then, so they could have their own privacy." Yoshiro told his brother.
"Yup, is that okay with you Lord Inuyasha?" Tisane asked.
"Sure, I'll even help out." Inuyasha cracked his neck. "When would we start?" He asked.
"It's only mid day, so, if we started today and just did the flooring, we could be finished in two days without including this one." Yoshiro stated.
"We could get some of the stronger human men to help us also." Tisane added.
"Sure, let's go then." Inuyasha stood up and followed the two outside the hut. "Kagome, we're going to make a hut okay? Maybe we'll be lucky to have it done before the pup is born."
"Okay, but, don't over do yourself, okay?" Kagome kissed his bottom lip.
"Don't worry; we'll be back later tonight." Inuyasha walked with the other two males.
Tisane went to some villagers asked for some assistance and they accepted. Inuyasha and Yoshiro went to gather material to make a hut. A villager grabbed a stick and made a design of what it should look like. They were thinking of having it to be two stories tall, but figured it wasn't wise, so they decided to make it as long as six huts and as wide as three huts and so there was about eight room. They had a feeling that it would have to big, that way injured people could be help. Not to mention that Miroku and Sango could join in.
Hours passed by and the sun died down as the moon began to rise. Tisane dismissed the village men at sunset so it left himself, Inuyasha, and Yoshiro to continue on. Around a half hour later, Shippo came out to retrieve them.
"Mama wants you guys to come back now, she made some stew for you guys too." Shippo said as he watched the three working.
"Guess it's time to call it a night." Yoshiro stretched.
"Hell, I bet we can finish this hut tomorrow if we wake up at sunrise." Tisane wiped off his sweat off.
"Kagome is going to kill me." Inuyasha chuckled and cracked his back. "She's already mad probably."
"Eww, you guys need to take a bath." Shippo plugged his nose.
"Haha, I guess we DO smell." Tisane laughed.
"We'll eat first and then we'll go bathe." Yoshiro stated.
"Right, let's go." Inuyasha demanded.
The guys came in and heard Sango, Kagome, and Akemi upstairs talking but didn't bother to listen to the conversation. Miroku was still eating his stew quietly with Kohaku. Shippo walked upstairs and asked to come in the room. The three girls smiled and Kagome allowed him to come in. The three others decided to start eating their dinner.
"Mama, they said that they were going to eat and then go take a bath at the hot springs. They smell bad." Shippo's face cringed.
"Okay, thank you Shippo." Kagome smiled.
"Are you going to teach Inuyasha a lesson?" Akemi smiled mischievously.
"Yup…" Kagome smiled demonically.
Kagome started to get angry and Inuyasha felt it in his heart. It started to grow more till it hit his mating mark. The mark started to feel like it was burning as it pounded hard. Inuyasha grabbed the left side of his neck.
"OW! DAMNIT KAGOME STOP! I GET IT, I'M SORRY ALREADY!" Inuyasha growled.
She smiled in victory and stopped being angry which released Inuyasha from his pain. The girls smiled evilly as did Shippo. Tisane and Yoshiro snickered at Inuyasha until they heard a growl from their mother.
"Sorry mother, we were trying to get as much as we could get done." They said at the same time.
"You're lucky that neither Kagome nor I had to come and retrieve you." Akemi stated.
"Yes mother…" They sighed.
"I'd rather face our mothers' fury than Kagome's." Tisane whispered to the guys.
KONK
"You knocked him out Kagome!" Miroku chuckled as he shouted to Kagome.
"Oh well, serves him right." Kagome stated after throwing a rock at Tisane's head.
The guys went to the hot springs to get cleaned up. Tisane and Yoshiro were against the same boulder soaking in the water. Inuyasha was lying against the same boulder he shared with Kagome. Miroku was against a rock near Inuyasha and Shippo was swimming around.
"So, you guys were working on a new hut, how is it going?" Miroku brought up a subject.
"It's going good; we could manage to finish tomorrow if we have enough men and get up early." Yoshiro stated.
"Tisane, when is the new moon coming?" Shippo asked curiously. Inuyasha's eye twitched; those two didn't know he transformed on the new moon. Tisane and Yoshiro looked at each other.
"In three days, man… that would suck for Kagome." Tisane replied.
"Yeah, she would be human when giving birth… let's not get into the subject seeing there's a kid here." Yoshiro pointed out Shippo.
"How come it would 'suck' for mama?" Shippo asked curiously.
"Um… nothing…" Tisane waved his hands around.
I'm telling mama your being mean to me. Shippo pouted.
"No, no, no Shippo, don't do anything rash now." Tisane gulped.
"Shippo, for once, listen to the idiot." Yoshiro didn't want to feel any wrath of Kagome.
"What are you planning to do Shippo?" Miroku asked curiously.
"He's going to call Kagome on us!" Tisane panicked.
"Cool, go ahead Shippo; I want to see what happens." Inuyasha grinned.
"NO!" Tisane and Yoshiro yelled.
/MAMA, TISANE AND YOSHIRO ARE BEING MEAN TO ME!\\ Shippo cried out in a howl.
"Ow, shit!" Inuyasha instantly grabbed his mating mark.
Kagome gave a deep and dangerous howl around the area. Shippo's eyes brightened with a grin towards the brothers. They immediately jumped out of the water and quickly clothed their selves. Suddenly, a couple seconds late, nine black dogs came forth; growling and snarling. They turned their attention to Inuyasha and Shippo.
"Why are they looking at us?" Inuyasha asked curiously.
"Tell them to chase those two, papa!" Shippo whined.
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/Get them, chase them to the village.\\ Inuyasha ordered.
The dogs nodded and stated to chase them. Tisane and Yoshiro ran for their lives. They weren't allowed to kill them because they were Kagome and Inuyasha's loyal subjects. Miroku chuckled.
"Whoa… I just… but…" Inuyasha was getting confused.
/SHIPPO, TIME TO COME IN NOW!\\ Kagome shouted.
/KAY MAMA!\\ Shippo shouted back.
"Who was that Shippo?" Miroku asked.
"Mama wants me to come in now, so let's go papa." Shippo got clothed.
"Yeah… alright, come on Miroku." Inuyasha ordered.
"Why are you listening to Shippo? I mean sure; he's your pup, but he's supposed to listen to you." Miroku was curious.
"For one thing; Kagome wants him to go back, so it means it's time to go back. She doesn't want him to get hurt as much as I don't so I have to take him. Would you want to face your mate's fury?" Inuyasha asked as he clothed himself.
"Yeah… Lady Kagome can be quite scary at times." Miroku's face cringed.
"You mean like that time you said Kikyou might be beautiful and mama gave you a death glare?" Shippo laughed.
"Don't remind me." Miroku got the shivers.
"Imagine her if she was hanyou form during that time." Inuyasha smirked.
"It's bad enough to witness her reaction as a human!" Miroku replied nervously.
Shippo was sound asleep on the futon where Kagome placed him. Inuyasha kept tossing and turning; trying to find a comfortable way to sleep. Kagome on the other hand was wide awake and not tired so she sat next to the futon near Inuyasha's head. She watched Inuyasha moving a lot and knew he was awake, but trying to sleep.
"Inuyasha… try to sleep." Kagome whispered.
"For some reason I can't find a good spot that's good." He replied.
"That's why I didn't want you to work so much." She checked his head. "You're exhausted Inuyasha."
"Feh…" He said tiredly then groaned. "Kagome…?"
"Yes?"
"You said that you turn demon if the pups (Shippo and the soon to be born pup) and myself are endangered, right?"
"Uh-huh, did something happen?"
"You called for the dogs, and when Shippo whined for me and I commanded them to chase after Tisane and Yoshiro."
"Your demon senses came in." She brushed her bangs out of his face. "It's nothing to worry about, now get some sleep."
Kagome sighed and felt sorry for him. She brought her hand under his haori and white robe. He felt her soft; gentle touch, and started to relax. Knowing that helped, she moved up to his collar bone and his eyes started to get heavy. Soon, he fell asleep and Kagome kissed him on the forehead. She brought Shippo to sleep beside him and she kissed him to. After that, she walked out the room and out the hut to sit down and listen to the winds that calmed her eased mind.
