Chapter 18 – Happy
In the morning, the sun was beginning to rise; in the forest area, a ray of light was tickling Inuyasha's sensitive nose, making him wrinkling it as if it would make it go away.
He tried to hide from the sun rays to stay in this wonderful sleep, but it seemed that the Sun had decided other way.
Inuyasha was getting really annoyed by it and decided to turn from the side he was lying on; slowly, he took notice that Takato was in his arms, so he tried not to squeeze him when he turned on the other side, because something was blocking his way. But that 'something' was rather cozy and warm, so Inuyasha didn't bother much. He snuggled into the nice 'thing' deeper and deeper.
After a couple of minutes, Inuyasha couldn't go back to sleep. Frustrated, he decided to slowly open his eyes. His surprise was far than what he had expected; the 'cozy thing' was actually Koga! Inuyasha's first reaction was to blush a red so deep, he was almost the color of his clothes.
Inuyasha tried to get out of where he was, but it was almost impossible because the wolf had an arm around the half-demon's mid-body and one of his legs entwined with Inuyasha's. The half-demon felt trapped so he did what came to his mind first: "Koga!"
The wolf woke up in panic and jerked his upper body up, certain that they were being attacked. Although when he opened his eyes, he saw a slightly angered, but also very blushing, half-demon facing him, a few inched separating them. Koga could feel Inuyasha's wind on his face.
The wolf blinked a few times, analysing his surrounding. It took a moment for him to realize what he had done during his sleep; he had rolled from his side to where he was encircling Inuyasha.
The wolf immediately removed himself from the hanyou and they both blushed deeply.
"I- Huh- No, that's not what happened" Koga said, trying to find an explanation to all this, without looking too weird to the other demon.
The dog demon thought for a second and then spoke up with a shy voice: "Okay, let's pretend that we never woke up like this, right?" Inuyasha suggested.
The wolf prince nodded vigorously to agree.
Inuyasha sighed, knowing that this wouldn't go public. Replacing Takato in his arms correctly, he got up, dusting his clothes.
"Hey where are you going?" the wolf asked hastily.
"Feh, I'm going back to the village, that's all. Is there something wrong with that?"
Koga was a bit sad, but he didn't let his show, in case Inuyasha would ask another question. "No, everything's fine… you're right, you should go back. Everyone must be waiting for you at this time" he said, trying to sound as natural as possible.
"Yeah. Huh, thanks again Koga, for everything. I… liked the moment we… passed together. Feh, if someone would have said that one day I was going to need protection against demons, and that Koga the wolf demon would be this person to defend me, I would have laughed at them" Inuyasha said, chuckling. "Well, I'd better go now. Good-bye Koga and see ya next time."
The hanyou shifted the baby again, to be able to support it with only one arm and turned away.
Koga hesitated, but he held back Inuyasha's available arm: "Wait- I wanted to give you this."
"What do you want to give me, Koga?" Inuyasha asked, very curious to see what it was.
Then Koga did what Inuyasha never expected him to do; he kissed the hanyou on the cheek.
Inuyasha was a bit stunned from what just happened, so Koga took the opportunity to run away.
The kiss had been quick, but Inuyasha felt warm on the inside after; by the time he realized what had happened, Koga was already gone.
The half-demon smiled; Koga could be so puzzling at some times.
"You see, Takato, there are some times, I would just want to fight him 'till one of us drop, but then again, I don't want to lose him. Don't ya think all of this is weird?"
The baby answered in gibberish talk.
"Feh, thought you'd say somethin' like that."
So, Inuyasha finally got back to the others after a few minutes of walking.
To his surprise, Chikara was already back; everyone was talking to her, trying to know how she was and other things like that.
If it hadn't been of Takato's want of his mother, nobody would have noticed Inuyasha's arrival; the baby was giggling and had his two arms in the air, wanting to be taken by the goddess.
She turned around when she heard her son giggling: "Inuyasha, dear, I'm glad to see you. So, I hope your travel back here wasn't too lonely" Chikara said.
Inuyasha blinked, not sure if he heard correctly. 'Did she see us?' he thought in the first place. Well she did look suspicious. He answered quickly: "No, I wasn't alone, I had Takato with me. Ya know, when he wants to, he can be one big talker."
Chikara laughed at his comment. She approached him and took Takato in her arms.
But before doing anything else, she hugged Inuyasha with her available arm; while she was close to him, she whispered in his ear: "You know, I'm happy that you and Koga are getting closer. It was sweet of him to follow you and protect you."
'Damn, she did see us. But how?' Inuyasha thought.
She pulled away a bit and added: "I'm sorry I left you alone like this. I didn't knew feeding Takato was taking you so much energy" she smiled sadly.
"It's okay, Chikara. Heck, I had my prince charming to watch over me constantly" , he said sarcastically, trying to reassure her at the same time and he immediately blushed at the word 'prince charming' he used.
She smiled and he answered her with a smile of his.
THE END
Oh by all gods, I think I'm gonna cry: I finished my first fanfiction ever! I must say that I appreciated everyone's commments on the story, as specially to Eleonara1, which made me realize some things that were a bit off in the story. Also, I have to say that you guys mustn't worry, I have the intention to write a sequel that will be called "Mended Illusions" (almost sure at 95). Anyways, this one will focus more on the InuKou relationship. But I must warn you, it's gonna be a bit hard as there will be... yeah right, as if I would say it... LOL
Also, if ever someone didn't understand why I called this story "The Love of a Mother", well here's my explanation:
Firstly, Chikara is the mother of Takato. But, she also loves Inuyasha as a son. Also, although Inuyasha doesn't love Takato like a mother would, he still protect him and plays a bit the role of a mother. I know, I'm insane.
After this chapter, I will update the first chapter, because I've become a slightely better writter than I was before, so if ever you see updates, it will only because of this. If someone didn't notice, I already edited the first chapter, which was a prologue before, but I did this a long time ago.
So until next story... have a nice time. Feel free to e-mail me if you want to talk more
Demain Matin -xxx-
