Inu 19

Inuyasha and Kouga were both baring their teeth as Naraku began to morph from a human like shape, to a more tentacle mass. Beneath Naraku was a seemingly endless supply of tentacles. The tentacles withered around beneath him pushing him higher and higher. From his back insect-like legs pushed through and helped to keep him on his perch.

Inuyasha drew his sword. The rusty piece of crap had never served him well. His father had given one to Inuyasha and one to his half brother. In Inuyasha's opinion Sesshomaru got the better end of the deal. At least Sesshomaru's sword looked nice, and wasn't falling apart. But he had to stay strong for Kagome, had to protect her and the child, even though it wasn't his. Then he felt the sword begin to vibrate. He looked down at it curiously. It then began to pulse.

"What the hell?" he pulled it in front of his face looking at it strangely.

"Inuyasha! What the fuck is going on!" Kouga hissed angrily. He had his full of surprises.

"I dunno…" Suddenly the sword stopped pulsing and was back to its original shape.

'Stupid sword… never been worth anything.' Inuyasha sighed heavily. Before locking his eyes on his opponent and charging at him. Inuyasha tried to hack Naraku to pieces but the sword just bounced back when it hit Naraku.

'Piece of SHIT!' Inuyasha was thoroughly frustrated by now. Kouga had now moved in and was punching and kicking Naraku, keeping him distracted while Miroku stood in the background mumbling prayers and chanting.

Suddenly a familiar scent swept through the air. Making Kouga hesitate for a second, and Inuyasha freeze up. They both whispered the same name at once: "Kagome."

Not even a full second later Sesshomaru arrived with Kagome on his back, Ayame and Sango arrived shortly after. Sesshomaru nodded at Ayame and both of them flew into the fray. Sango stayed back with Kagome, making sure she was okay. Inuyasha was about to head to her when he heard his name being called out.

"Inuyasha! The woman is fine, just tired now get your ass back into gear and help us!"

Inuyasha was unsure as to who that had been, but he nodded his head and held his sword ready.

'I have to protect Kagome, and the new life.'

His sword once again began pulsing. He looked down at it in curiosity. Then while Inuyasha was narrowing his eyes at it, it began to transform. It became wider and longer. Near the hit was a tuft of fur. Inuyasha sniffed it.

'Father.'

Inuyasha, feeling recharged dove into the fray sword leading and began to lash out at Naraku.

Kagome began to wake from her daze from the sound of metal hitting bone, quickly followed by the sound of blood splashing across the floor.

'Where am I?' Kagome's head throbbed and her nether regions were still so sore it hurt to try and move her legs.

'My girl! Where's my little girl!' Kagome began to search in a frenzy, trying to find her newborn baby girl. Kagome looked up and saw Sango with her in the crook of her arm. One hand still on her giant bone boomerang, wait a sec, giant bone boomerang? Sango and Kagome were going to have to have aloooooooooong talk after this was over.

Sango noticed Kagome was awake and gently handed her, her baby girl. Sango stood in a defensive stance, ready to let loose her boomerang in a second.

"Sango?"

"Yes Kagome?"

"Go and join them."

"But I'm supposed to guard you."

"Just grab me a bow and some arrows, I'll be fine."

Sango hesitated for about a minute and left. She returned shortly with a bow and a full quiver of arrows. Before leaving she leaned in and kissed Kagome's brow.

"Thanks for being such a good friend Kagome." With a small smile, she was off into the fray.

Kagome sat by herself, clutching her baby girl to her chest, bow and arrow ready.

Everyone was getting tired. Battling with Naraku was hard work. Even Inuyasha's new sword was having trouble keeping up with Naraku. Finally Naraku flung them all to the side carelessly. Only Sesshomaru, Inuyasha and Kouga were still standing, though barely. Miroku was off to the side, still conscious, though not very. Miroku looked back at Kagome, she looked so innocent in her wedding dress. Then Miroku noticed a tentacle lacing it's way towards her.

"Kagome! Watch out!"

Kagome quickly looked and noticed the tentacle; she drew back her arrow and let it go. Soft as if it was on a babes breath. It began to glow pink and tore through the tentacle, disintegrating it as it made its way to Naraku.

Naraku began to notice the power and turned just in time to see it lodge itself in his chest. Suddenly his breaths became laboured.

"Foolish girl" he spat the words out, as well as some blood. "She'll die along with me."

With one final burst of energy the walls began to shake. Inuyasha ran over and scooped up Kagome. He looked back to see Kouga carrying Ayame, and Sesshomaru carrying Miroku and Sango.

'Show off.' Though it didn't bother Inuyasha much at this point, he then began to tear through the mansion, trying to find where they had entered. Finally his nose caught the faintest scent of a hot dog vendor. He quickly ran in that direction, Sesshomaru and Kouga at his heels. After arriving safe out of the mansion he turned around and watched as it crumbled, folding into and onto itself as it hit the ground.

"He's gone." As he held Kagome in his arms, he noticed how tired she was.

"Kagome, are you alright? I lo-"

"Shhhh" she put her finger on his lips to silence him. He looked down at her with a questioning gaze. She pointed to the little bundle of white on her stomach, where faint deep breaths could be heard. Inuyasha's face was quickly covered in a smile.

"Come Inuyasha, let's go to the hospital, I have already had a group room put together for all of us. I've called ahead, they'll ask no questions."

After arriving at the hospital they had all been put under the care of Dr. Sesshomaru. He even checked Kagome's child. She was perfectly healthy. But it still didn't answer the question of why the child was a full demon. He had done blood work and it proved his assumptions. She was indeed a full-blood demon. The little girl Kagome had delivered into this world, Tenkei was her name.

Sesshomaru had been up late many nights, trying to figure out how the child was a full demon. He had done many examinations on the child, but these yielded no results. But when Sesshomaru was casually glancing at some x-rays on Kagome he noticed a strange circular shape in her right side. He talked to Kagome about it, and she said there had been nothing strange about it. Except that she had glowed pink, and had been able to produce that pink arrow with all of that power.

Sesshomaru decided he needed to do some research, though not on any modern books. It was time to consult those old scrolls his father had given him, a long time ago.

After several days of searching he made a hypothesis, that Kagome had the shikon jewel inside of her. The shikon jewel, or jewel of four souls, was forged by a priestess of many lives gone by. She had taken it from her soul and bound three demon's souls with hers. But how did it end up inside of Kagome? Maybe this is one of those things we'll never know.

A few days later when Sesshomaru was checking he felt no power from where the jewel was. Perhaps it was only activated when Kagome's life was in danger? He'd leave it at that for now. In the meantime he had to return home to Rin.

Kagome lay in the hospital bed, letting Tenkei suckle. She was so engrossed that she didn't notice Kouga enter.

"Well, this must be my darling daughter." Kagome looked up in shock. When she saw who it was she relaxed.

"Yes Kouga, this is your daughter. Say hello to Tenkei." She gently handed Tenkei over to Kouga, who looked at her in curiosity, took a deep sniff and had a shocked look on his face.

"Kagome, you told me you're not a demon right?"

"Yeah, I mean I'd know if I was."

"Then how is our daughter a full blood?" Kagome's jaw dropped.

"W-what! How can this be? Oh well, I'll still love her all the same."

Inuyasha stood in the doorway, feeling like an intruder. Little Tenkei would love both of them, Kouga loved Kagome, and he was unsure as to how Kagome felt. Now that she had the child, it only seemed to draw them closer. They were a perfect family, and all he was, was someone watching them. Kouga had noticed Inuyasha's presence and decided that Kagome and Inuyasha needed to have a talk. He knew they loved each other, and knew that Kagome would only love him as the father of her child. They would never be lovers again, and anyways Ayame was getting a lot more friendly with him than usual. Most women love children, so he might as well see what would happen.

"Kags, I'm gonna take Tenkei for a walk okay?" he kissed Kagome's brow and left the room, where he found Inuyasha sitting against the wall. He gave him a solid kick, though not too hard.

"Hey, Dog-Turd, go talk to Kagome, you guys need to talk."

Inuyasha merely nodded his head, stood up, brushing himself off and headed into the small hospital room where Kagome was staying.

A/N I'm soooooooo sorry for the obscenely late update. School work totally sucks. But I'm going to try every night from now on to write at least a tiny bit. Then we'll have an progressing story on our hands!