Chapter Three
That Night
Inu Yasha sat outside, looking out at the stars, kimono free. Who would have thought that him and Kagome would have ended up, having a strictly exclusive night together, in bed. Now she really was his. She wasn't quite as innocent anymore. He turned to see Kagome standing in the doorway with a slightly bloody blanket wrapped around her. Sitting down beside him, she tried not to look at his nakedness, so instead, she looked at the stars with him. Wrapping an arm around her, they shared a silent conversation.
"Why aren't you sleeping?" Inu Yasha finally asked. Kagome looked up at him, the stars reflecting in her eyes.
Smiling, she said, "I should be asking you the same thing." He smiled, looking down at her. "Too beautiful of a night to be sleeping." Surprising her, he ran a finger down her nose and kissed it. "Besides, who could sleep when you're so close?"
Kagome blushed and kissed him. "Still, why aren't you sleeping?" He asked. She sighed and laid her head down on his shoulder.
"I was a little sore." Inu Yasha felt a pang of guilt.
"I'm sorry." He said, getting up to walk back in the room. Kagome reached up, grasped his hand and let the blanket fall to her feet, not exactly caring.
"Don't be. This has been the most beautiful night of my life. I love you, Inu Yasha, and I wouldn't have had it any other way." Inu Yasha smiled, pulled her to him and lovingly kissed her in the moonlight.
Down the hall Shippo's head was peeking out the door. Why was there blood on Kagomae's sheet? And why was Inu Yasha sitting out here, naked? And why didn't Kagome have any clothes on either?
Sango yawned and Shippo froze. Rubbing her eyes, she looked at him.
"Shippo, what are you looking at?" Shippo jumped and shut the door.
"N-nothing. Honest." Eying him, she shrugged.
"Then go back to bed." Shippo decided that he must have been hallucinating and went back to bed.
One Month Later in Kagomae's Time
"Hey, Maria. Lets go get a burger. I've got a huge craving for one." Kagome said, pulling her friend over to the snack stand on the beach boardwalk.
Maria gave her a weird look. "I thought you didn't really like burgers Kagome."
Kagome shrugged after she ordered. "I don't." She said stuffing it into her mouth.
"There's something different about you now, Kagome." Maria thought for a minute. "When you came back last time, there was something really different about you. Did you and Inu Yasha do anything together? I mean, now that you guys are official." Kagome nearly choked on the big piece of the burger.
"Me and Inu Yasha?" Maria and a few other people outside of her family were the only people who knew about Inu Yasha and that they were an official item.
"Well, we you-know." Maria's jaw fell open. "You mean you're not a virgin anymore!" Kagome jumped and covered her friend's mouth. She looked around to make sure that no one had heard that before nodding. Maria caught herself before she screamed.
"You don't think that me and Inu Yasha made something, do you?"
"Well, lets look at the facts. You've been nearly biting everybody's heads off lately, you fell asleep on the couch at your house at flipping 7 o'clock last night and it was still light out, you've been eating really weird and now your eating a beach shack burger with the works."
Kagome paled and she made a mad dash for the nearest bathroom.
Maria was leaning against the outside wall when her friend came out. Without saying anything to each other, they grabbed their things and left for the closet doctors office.
Next Weekend in Inu Yasha's Time
Inu Yasha was at the well, ready and waiting for her when she came.
"Hey, Kagome." Picking her up and swinging her around, he kissed her.
"Hey. You ready?" He lifted his bag up, this time he was bringing his Tetsusaiga. Kagome looked at him.
"Your not honestly bringing the Tetsusaiga with you, are you?" Inu Yasha looked down at it. "Well, after what happened before when I went to your time." Kagome thought for a minute. "I don't suppose it would do any harm. We have to talk right now though." Inu Yasha felt his heart fall down to his feet.
"You remember our first night together." Inu Yasha felt slightly relieved. She wasn't going to break up with him. But what could she possibly need to talk to him so urgently about?
"Yes. What about it?" Kagome took a deep breath.
"Well, it turns out that we, um, created something." Inu Yasha stood for a moment, taking it all in. "Created something"? Then it hit him.
"You mean, your bearing my child?" Kagome just looked away. Inu Yasha let out a hoot and swung her around, bringing his mouth down on hers then setting her back on her feet.
"What are you so happy about? I'm pregnant!" For once, he was ecstatic with joy for something. "I know! But don't you see, Kagome? Now we can do it right!"
"What do you mean, 'do it right'?"
"I mean, we can make a family out of this. A loving family together. I'll stay here until the baby is born, then after our child is born, I'll move to your time."
Kagome stood there, shocked.
"You'll move to my time? You'll actually move there for me? And stay there?"
"Kagome, for you, I would go to the end of the Earth." Kagome threw her arms around him. "Oh, Inu Yasha!" He kissed her again.
"We should get going now, I'll leave the Tetsusaiga at your place." Just as they were about to leave, Inu Yasha picked up a not-so-welcoming smell. Stopping short of the well, Inu Yasha confirmed it and got in front of Kagome.
"Congratulations, brother dear." Sesshomaru appeared, walking to the crest of the hill, appearing to be carrying something.
"Sesshomaru." Inu Yasha growled. Kagome hid further behind him.
"Now, now. I have come to ask of a favor." The thing that he was carrying started making noises. Sesshomaru planted a kiss on the child's forehead and caressed its arm.
"What's this favor?" Kagome asked, following a very strong instinct, and moving closer.
"Kagome!" She turned around and motioned him to follow her.
Sesshomaru uncovered the infant. "I need someone to take care of Karmila. Something is threatening my family's lives and it will surely kill my precious daughter if it finds her." Turning to Kagome, he looked generally scared, concerned and hopeful. Inu Yasha was amazed. He thought his brother only knew hatred and anger.
"Kagome, I realize I haven't been friendly or even civil to you or my brother, but I am begging you to take her, keep her safe." Just as Kagome was going to take the child, Inu Yasha jumped between them.
"How do we know that this isn't a trick?"
"Inu Yasha!" Sesshomaru looked down at his precious daughter and smiled.
"No, Kagome. Inu Yasha is right, knowing how I was like before, this would be a trick, but it isn't. Karmila's mother is hiding out in your time, Kagome. She knows that I will find someone to take care of our daughter so she lives far from you, as not to risk bringing any danger to you." Inu Yasha stared at the child. She was so small, so fragile looking, yet as the daughter of Sesshomaru, she most likely wouldn't be.
Without knowing why, Sesshomaru handed Karmila to Inu Yasha. Kagome looked up at Sesshomaru and saw how he looked at the infant.
"Don't worry, Sesshomaru. She'll be safe."