Hi! Sorry I haven't updated for about 15 days.11 days ago it was my birthday, 7 days ago it was my grandmothers, and then through the whole week was hospital crap. Friday was movie night with my friends. Satuday was clean room, and today was uploading AMV of Inuyasha! So I have time to upload this chapter today:)
Sequel Chapter 17

It was late afternoon while two days passed and the next day would be the new moon. They finished the hut and there were nine rooms since they had enough room inside it with two halls. One was for Inuyasha and Kagome, one would be for Shippo and the pup to share, one would be for Miroku, another for Sango and Kohaku, and the others would be for injured or sick people. The rooms were on the left side, right side, also the middle, there was a hut at the end in between the middle and left rooms down the hall, and another one down the hall between the middle and right rooms. Last but not least was Inuyasha and Kagome's room which was separated from the others in the left corner near the entrance. There was a big front room (I prefer living room or something) with an inside bonfire.

Inuyasha and Miroku were watching the villagers passing by back and forth outside on the porch. Kohaku was playing chase with Kirara and Shippo. Everything was going fine and such a yell came from Kagome. Akemi ran to her and found out that it was finally time that the pup would come. She called for Sango to help Kagome and to be behind her. Inuyasha bolted up and charged toward the second floor Yoshiro stopped him.

"Inuyasha relax, she's in labor right now." Tisane said as he walked to the door because he was assisting their mother.

"Let me in, and that… is a direct order." Inuyasha said calmly.

"… Fine… but just stay at her side, and don't interfere." Yoshiro moved aside.

Inuyasha rushed to Kagome's side quickly. She was panting and had sweat all over her face. Tisane came back to Kagome's other side and removed her sweat with a cloth. Sango was still keeping Kagome in a somewhat 45 degree angle. Akemi was trying to bring out the pup.

(Okay, I'm seriously going to skip this part, it's kind of weird to type something while trying to imagine it.)

Few minutes after painful screeching, yells, pants, and pushing; a whining pup was finally released, with the embryo behind it. Akemi cut the cord with her claws along with the nasal bubbles. She then attended to clean the pup up while Tisane cleaned up the mess. Inuyasha traded places with Sango and Kagome lied against him. Yoshiro and Miroku came in; then Kirara, Shippo, and Kohaku came in too. Akemi brought the pup to Kagome and she held it; the pup instantly stopped crying and brought the tiny hands to Kagome's robe (She's wearing priestess clothing, well her robe, but not her hibakama –priestess pants-). She checked the gender and giggled tiredly and looked at Inuyasha then moved her head for him to see his pup.

"It's a girl, Inuyasha." Kagome said tenderly.

Inuyasha starred at it; well specifically 'her' now. He was stunned at the small creature, held in Kagome's arms. Nervously, he brought a clawed hand over Kagome's shoulder and started to go near the pup. Kagome helped him and placed her hand over his and touched the pups' soft hair.

The pups' ears were medium toned gray while her hair was four shades darker; slightly lighterthan Kagome's. The ears were folded back against her head as they should for a few days. Her eyes opened for a second and they were like Inuyasha's eyes. The pup closed her eyes and started to cry.

Inuyasha immediately jerked his hand away; softly though so he wouldn't hurt the pup. He was a little scared because she just cried for no reason he understood. Kagome laughed and nuzzled against Inuyasha's chest. Akemi sent everyone downstairs to leave the three alone. She told them that if they needed anything, all they had to do was shout.

"K-Kagome… why is s-she crying?" Inuyasha asked curiously.

"It's okay Inuyasha, she's just hungry." Kagome replied as she slid a side of her robe down and started to breast feed the pup.

"She needs a name…" Inuyasha whispered to her.

"Go ahead, you can think of one." She smiled.

"Hmm… it's so hard." Inuyasha nuzzled into Kagome's neck and looked at the pup while breathing in Kagome's scent.

"She's so cute, surely you can think of one for your own daughter?" She kissed her pup on the forehead as she was feeding.

"…" Inuyasha starred at the pup for what seemed the longest time ever.

It was Inuyasha and Kagome's very first pup. Inuyasha now had a little girl; a little girl that he could call a daughter. This was the second proudest moment of his life; the first one was making Kagome his mate. He brought his hand slowly to the pups' cheek and stroked it once softly. Kagome could feel the joy coming off him. She was happy to see him reach out to their daughter and touch her. The pup opened her eyes again slightly as she stopped feeding and looked at the blobs. (When creatures are born, they can't really see anything and color hasn't really come into sight. But I'll make that only last a few days o soonly.)

"Hikari…" He whispered. "That sounds good, right?" Inuyasha looked at Kagome for approval.

"It's perfect Inuyasha." Kagome sighed tiredly. They looked at the pup.

"You hear that pup? Your name is now Hikari." Inuyasha touched Hikari's cheek again.

"Come on Inuyasha, I'll go make you some ramen." Kagome was going to get up but Inuyasha stopped her.

"No, you're tired from labor; you and Hikari should get some sleep Kagome." Inuyasha informed. "How about I take you to our hut?"

"Kay…" Kagome put her lower clothing back on difficulty with Hikari in hand.

Inuyasha put his haori and the two females then picked Kagome up with Hikari in her arms bridal style and walked down stairs. Shippo jumped on Inuyasha's shoulder and looked at the pup. Hikari had already fallen fast asleep in Kagome's arm. Kagome had her eyes closed, but she was somewhat awake.

"I'm going to take these two to sleep." Inuyasha informed.

"What's her name?" Yoshiro asked.

"Hikari…" Inuyasha replied.

"Light, is it? That's a beautiful name." Sango smiled.

"It sure is." Tisane added in.

"Are you going to your hut?" Akemi asked.

"Yes, I am." Inuyasha answered.

"That would seem best anyways, after all, she did give birth not long ago." Miroku stated.

"I'll bring some food for you and Kagome." Akemi nicely.

"Alright then." Inuyasha walked off.


(Skipping to a few hours later)

Kagome woke up with Hikari in her arms, curled on Hikari's futon. She yawned and got up, leaving the pup to sleep with Inuyasha's haori as a blanket. Speaking of Inuyasha, Kagome went out of the room to find him in their room asleep. Smiling tenderly, she walked over to him and nipped his ear. He stirred awake and looked at Kagome then sat up.

"Kagome, you're awake, where's Hikari?" Kagome kissed him on the lips to stop his talking.

"It's okay; she's sound asleep in the other room." She stood up and walked out of the room to a door frame that led to outside. "Where's Shippo?" She asked calmly, smelling the cold night air.

"He's with Tisane and Yoshiro taking a bath with Miroku. Here Kagome, eat this, you must be hungry." Inuyasha gave her a roasted fish from their inside bonfire. Kagome's stomach growled.

"Oh, I guess I am; I've only been asleep for a few hours." Kagome was about to eat the fish but stopped. "Did you eat though Inuyasha?"

"Yeah, don't worry about it; you're the one that needs to eat."

"Okay." Kagome ate the fish and looked at Inuyasha. "That was good."

"Glad you liked it."

Inuyasha came toward her and started to smell Kagome's hair as embraced her. She smiled and embraced him back. He nuzzled his way to her neck and started to kiss their mating mark. Kagome started to melt in his arms and groaned softly in pleasure. Trying to make him stop was out of the question as he brought his lips to hers. Inuyasha placed her against a wall and licked her lips for an entrance. She allowed him to explore her mouth as he placed his hands on her waist sides. He deepened the kiss and growled with pleasure as Kagome started to do the same. The kiss was cut short because Hikari started to cry. Kagome walked into Hikari's room and Inuyasha followed her.

Hikari was crying with her soft little voice and Kagome picked her up. They went into Akemi's hut to the second floor to change Hikari and she stopped crying a little. Kagome and Inuyasha walked down stairs where the others (besides Ti, Yosh, Ship, and Mir.) were and sat down to talk a little. Sango looked at Hikari and adored her. Akemi touched Hikari's tiny hand with a smile. Kohaku only starred at the little one. Kirara brushed her head against Hikari's and you could see a small smile on the pups' face from the soft fur.

/Kagome, you should feed her now.\\ Akemi said softly.

/Okay.\\ Kagome replied and lowered a side of her robe so she could again breast feed her.

"Kagome didn't you say that the future era had milk formulas that you can give babies?" Sango asked curiously. (I'll make humans say baby, and demons/hanyous say pup.)

"They do, why do you ask?" Kagome questioned.

"Well, would it be better to give Hikari the formula?"

"No, breast feeding is better because it's already prepared and because it gives her the calcium that's best."

"You're never going back there, are you?"

"…" Kagome looked at Inuyasha and he sighed.

"We're going to that era in a week. Kagome wants some things done with the pup." Inuyasha answered.

"Thanks Inuyasha." Kagome kissed him on the cheek.

"Feh…" He snorted.

/Inuyasha may be cute, but he lacks on giving you attention.\\ Akemi grunted.

/It's not always like that.\\ Kagome giggled. /He doesn't like being a softy in front of others. He tries to act so tough when others are around, but sometimes I'm lucky if he doesn't. It's his pride.\\ Kagome snorted slightly in a way to mock Inuyasha.

"What are you two talking about?" Inuyasha glared at Kagome.

"Oh… um… nothing… we're just talking about Hikari." Kagome explained nervously.

"We were talking about how I should go to a village clothing hut so Hikari here can have some." Akemi added.

Tisane and Shippo ran inside from a result of racing each other. Shippo saw Kagome and lunged at her for a hug. Inuyasha grabbed Shippo by the collar of his shirt and brought him up so that he would be face to face with him. Kagome stopped breast feeding and fixed her white robe.

"Don't jump on Kagome when she has the pup." Inuyasha bellowed.

"Inuyasha, don't be mean, he didn't know better." Kagome sighed.

"Either way, some one is bound to be hurt." He growled at.

"Be nice Inuyasha." Kagome said in a warning voice with a low growl.

"Kagome!" Inuyasha shouted.

Shippo started to cry because Inuyasha was hurting his ear. Kagome's demon wanted to protect Shippo so she got up and snapped at Inuyasha's hand. He automatically pulled his away which made Shippo fall out of his grasp. She caught him with one hand and placed him on her shoulder while holding Hikari in the other arm that started to cry. When Shippo stopped crying, Kagome glared at Inuyasha and walked out of the hut to the other one. Inuyasha was going to stop her but instead, stopped himself.

"Inuyasha, you should take it easy on her." Akemi sighed.

"But Shippo was…" Inuyasha was cut off.

"You're not the one who has been doing most of the work." Tisane informed.

"…" Inuyasha growled.

"We know you were being protective, but you shouldn't really argue with Kagome for a while. I doubt she would want to fight after a tiring day." Sango explained.

"Shut up, all of you!" He growled and walked of the hut in the same direction Kagome went.

Inuyasha walked to the hut feeling a pain of guilt. He entered the hut and heard whining and walked into Hikari's room. Kagome was in corner with the pups in her arms; Hikari crying and Shippo was whining. She started to hum a soft song and the pups complaints died down. Inuyasha watched from the door frame, he knew that the commotion was caused by him. Shortly, he left to his and Kagome's room which was the first room on theright (his p.o.v. side)and lied on the futon to reflect on his actions.

Ten minutes passed by and the hut became pure silent. Hikari fell asleep and so did Shippo. She figured that they could sleep in the same futon so she placed them together and wrapped Inuyasha's haori over them. A guilt emotion started to flood her and knew it was Inuyasha. After giving the pups a kiss on their foreheads, she walked out and went to the other room that was next to the one she was in and saw Inuyasha lying down. She walked over and lied on the futon with Inuyasha.

His eyes shot open and turned around to find Kagome lying down next to him and now face to face. He immediately turned away from her and faced the wall. Inuyasha didn't want her angry with him so that's all he could do. Kagome already knew he would do that so she wrapped her arms through his arms and around his chest. Then she nuzzled her head into his back. This shocked Inuyasha, but knew that he had to talk.

"Kagome…" He started to whisper.

"I'm sorry about earlier." Kagome whispered.

"What?" Inuyasha turned around in Kagome's arms and looked at her but she was against his chest.

"I shouldn't have been angry at you, but my demon kicked in."

"Kagome, I was giving you a hard time and wasn't thinking."

"You were being protective."

"Yeah, and so were you." Inuyasha brought himself over her body on all four though so he wouldn't put weight on her and kissed her on the lips softly.

"You're such a softy." Kagome brought her hands to his ears then softly rubbed them.

"Mmmm… Kaaaagoooomeeee…" He groaned tiredly and lied on top of Kagome now because he couldn't support his weight when she massaged his ears. Inuyasha started to kiss her lips and stopped himself. "You should sleep on the wall side tonight, tomorrow is the day of the new moon and so on." He rolled to left side so she could be in the middle of him and the wall.

"Kay…thank you…" She snuggled into him.

"Mhmm, now… go to sleep." He ordered her.

"Good night Inuyasha."

"Night…"

Kagome started to fall asleep with Inuyasha arms wrapped around her waist. Much to Inuyasha's displease; Hikari woke up and sounded like she was trying to move around a little. Kagome gave Inuyasha an apologetic look and squirmed out then went to the other room and picked Hikari up and went into the other room. She would've brought Shippo too but he looked sound asleep and she didn't want to wake him. Hikari quieted down once she was in her mothers' arms.

Inuyasha was sitting up on the futon and watched Kagome come over and sit next to the futon. She was only cradling Hikari in her arms, nothing unordinary. He scooted closer to be next to Kagome and looked at Hikari. Kagome tried hard not to giggle at Inuyasha's face. He looked like he was a clueless pup starring at a younger pup like he wouldn't know what it was. Then she got an idea and put it into motion.

"Inuyasha put your arms out how I do." Kagome demanded.

"Huh…? Uh… okay…?" Inuyasha made his arms mimic Kagome's.

"Here…" She smiled and placed Hikari in his arms.

"No... wait Kagome... I-I…" Inuyasha was stunned; he got to hold his child for the first time. Kagome knew his expression would be something like this. He looked at her in a surprised way. "S-She's so s-small…" He stuttered.

"She's a pup, what did you expect?"

"Uh…"

"Hmm…" Kagome kissed his cheek. Hikari tried to snuggle into Inuyasha a little and he stiffened. "Relax Inuyasha, you're not making her upset; she is only getting a little comfortable so she can go back to sleep."

"Kagome…?"

"Huh?"

"What were you saying earlier, with Akemi?" His voice was soft, calm, but serious no less.

"You're lucky I can't lie to you…" She sighed. "Akemi wondered if you ever showed affection for me. I told her you did but not always in front of people usually."

"Feh, all they do is watch at us."

"That's because you never show any affection when their around, well Sango, Kohaku, and Miroku at least."

"Are you blaming me?"

"No, just your pride…" She teased and placed her head on his shoulder, looking at Hikari. Then she looked around the room and sighed. "This looks so plain…"

"Well sorry that I and the others worked our butts off for nothing." Inuyasha said sarcastically.

"That's not what I meant." She glared at him. "When we go to the future era, can I bring my stuff from there to here? We can borrow a wagon thing for transportation of it." A sweet smile came onto her face.

"Heh, if that's what my mate wants, I have no problem with it."

"You're the best; I'm glad that you're my mate."

"Now, go to sleep, your probably still tired."

"But what about you and Hikari, surely you're tired too?"

"Feh, I'm a hanyou…"

"So am I, so that excuse is old." She stuck her tongue out at him.

"Hikari is already asleep, you know that I can sleep in this position, and you should get on this futon and sleep."

"Fine then…" Kagome crawled to his other side and placed her head on his thigh. "Can I bring my bed here too?" She asked.

"Mhmm…"

"I love you." She sounded tired but her voice was tender.

"I love you too, now go sleep." Inuyasha chuckled lightly.

Kagome fell asleep against Inuyasha's right leg. Hikari was asleep as she was snuggled into Inuyasha's warmth. Inuyasha was getting drowsy and fell asleep as well. Akemi was against the outer wall of the door side listening to them. She only wanted to make sure that they weren't arguing still. Since they weren't and the fact that they were a sleep, she went to check on Shippo. She slowly grabbed him and brought him into the other room and he automatically curled up with Kagome. When Akemi was satisfied, she left their hut and went back to her own where the others were.