Author's Note: I do not make any claim to any of Rumiko Takahashi's characters or works. This fic is labeled as M for swearing and some suggestive and lemony scenes.

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Stuck with Us

Part I

Kagome and Inuyasha had been married one whole month and the young priestess decided to make a special dinner to celebrate. Inuyasha had hunted a few tender young rabbits in the forest nearby. It was early spring in Edo and they were easy to find, but more difficult for the human hunters in the village to catch. It would make for a wonderful celebratory dinner.

Kagome was padding barefoot around the house making dinner in a light golden yukata, distractedly humming a tune. Inuyasha was shadowing her, settling near her wherever she went, touching and drawing her closer. He kept playing with her hair and sniffing at her neck. Her eye was beginning to twitch at his constant fondling.

"Do you wanna make dinner? Cause you're certainly not letting me do it, Yasha. What is going on with you tonight?" She swatted him away to move around him back over to the table across from the fire.

"Me? What's going on with you? You smell amazing." He growled the last word.

"I know you like my scent, and I accept it, but I need to make dinner and you're being weird!"

"No, it's weird… like you but stronger. Sweeter. Gods, it's powerful."

He gave up caring about dinner right then and untied his black yukata, shuffling shoulders out of it and letting it fall to the floor. Using swift hands to spin her around to face him, he untied her sash, and pressed himself flush against her with another deep rumble she could feel in her chest.

"Inuyasha, what the hell?!" she gasped, already responding to his touch.

His mouth was instantly at her neck, licking the column of her throat. Her scent amplified as his hands ran over her waist and down to the flare of her hips. He grasped them roughly and growled when the scent of her arousal hit his nose. Strong arms slid back up from her hips, up her back to grab the collar of her yukata and pull it away to give his mouth more room to explore her. To taste her. He needed to.

"Please, Kagome. Just… please." he whispered into her ear, licking the delicate shell after his request. He nuzzled his cheek against hers and his strong hands kneaded her ass beneath the thin cloth.

"O- Okay, Inu. Are you okay?" she grabbed the attention of his red-stained and hooded golden eyes with her own and searched for something there within them. Seeing only love and need, she took his warm mouth with her own and gave herself over to his desperate hands.

Hours later, both spent from their lovemaking, she questioned him again as they laid by the fire. She was stripped bare and stretched out fully on her back, head turned toward him as he laid on his side facing the fire, gazing lovingly down at her as his head rested in a clawed hand.

His tanned skin glowed darker in the firelight, and he loved the way her blue eyes danced with the flames. Sapphires glittering in the sun. Gods, she was beautiful.

"Sorry about being so rough. You okay?" He stroked the lines of her stomach and his hands ghosted over the light pink scar that fated their meeting. She shivered then propped herself up on her elbows.

"I'm fine. Now can you please explain what that was? Other than amazing, I mean?" she laughed and stroked one finger slowly along the inside of his exposed hip, tracing the lean muscle leading up to his abs.

"Don't start something you don't intent to finish, woman." Inuyasha's golden eyes locked on her under teasing eyebrows.

"You mean 'finish again,' don't you? We have to eat something at some point."

Kagome let her head fall back to stretch her neck and he laughed when her stomach punctuated the statement with a well-timed growl. He sat up with a warm smile and leaned over her, caging her in his toned arms, resting his nose in the crook of her neck again and inhaling deeply.

"It's still there but not as strong. It was the same the night we got married. Some days, your scent is ten times stronger than others and I don't know why. It's makes me feel drunk and…" he licked a long line from her collarbone to her ear, finishing the motion with a rough nip, "incredibly horny."

"Mmm hmm, I'm listening." Small hands reached up to grasp his hair and traced the base of his ears.

"I feel like I could keep you here all day just taking you over and over and it wouldn't be enough. I know it's weird. Is it freaking you out?" He pulled back and considered her. She looked thoughtful but pleasantly happy.

"No, not really. Some days, you said… Like the wedding. Hmm. What's today? Go look outside and see where the moon is, would you?"

He obeyed and she watched his firm shoulders and arms strain to lift himself from the floor, biting her lip. She also watched his perfect ass retreat to their bedroom where the view of the moon was best.

'You're a lucky girl, Higurashi.' she thought.

"Waxing… full? I dunno." he guessed from the other room, remembering some of her words. "Coming up to the full moon but not quite all the way there yet?"

He peeked back in to see his wife laying on her back with her knees propped up, stark naked with a hand grasping her chin in thought. He grinned at the sight.

"So it's been, what, nine days since…"

Kagome covered her mouth, gasping, when the realization hit her. It was her turn to blush. She drew her knees up over her tummy and crossed her ankles in her anxiety.

"Iknowhatitis." she managed. He only cocked an eyebrow.

"Demon hearing is good but it ain't that good. What did you say?" He pried her hands away from her face and leaned over.

"I'm ovulating."

He only blinked owlishly down at her. "Is that bad?"

"I'm… It's my fertile time of the month?" she trailed off, waiting for him to get it.

"What? Do you mean like…?" He pointed at her stomach. She nodded quickly.

"Oh shit."

"Mm hmm." She covered her whole face again as she nodded.

"So we just… Did we?"

"I don't know. Maybe?"

"Are you mad?"

"No? Nervous? A little excited? But we only just got married. I wanted you to myself for a while yet." She ran hands through her bangs and looked pleadingly up at him.

"What you've already seriously thought about it? About kids? With me?" He sat up and cross-legged on the floor next to her, and was seriously assessing her emotions as they played in her eyes.

He was scared. She was loving, wonderful, and she was his wife but hanyou children were rarely desired. Old wounds came to the surface more quickly than he'd admit out loud. If his own experience was any indication, their children's lives would be hard even with two loving parents. Logically, he knew it would happen one day but marital bliss had just set in and he hadn't honestly given their children a thought yet.

"Well, yeah dummy. We had that talk before we got married, remember? And I'd thought about it long before that, believe me."

"You did? When?"

"Oh, please don't make me say it." When he only cocked his head to the side and waited, she admitted the embarrassing truth. "All the time. The whole quest. Once I knew I loved you, my daydreams were of you and tiny, puppy eared babies with gold eyes. Gods, that sounds way cheesier than I meant it to be." She cringed at herself. He only scooted closer and reverently ran a gentle finger along her face.

"Really, Kagome? You thought about kids with me even after you saw how everyone treated hanyou?"

Kagome raised a hand to cup his cheek lovingly and sat up to kiss him.

"Of course, I had, silly. I love you."

"I… I love you too, Kagome. Gods, what if we- Just- Oh, I've screwed it all up again." His ears flattened against his head and he flopped backward onto the floor.

"Nuh uh, mister. Don't do that. You didn't do anything- Well, you did technically do things, but I was there too, and I agreed so none of that martyrdom from you, Inuyasha. Not now."

Kagome crawled over to straddle him on the floor of their home and grabbed his face with both hands. He avoided her eyes and closed his own to wallow in self-deprecation. Kagome wasted no time pinching a fluffy, white ear.

"Ouch! You know they're sensitive, woman!"

"Precisely why I pinched them, husband." She sarcastically drawled the last word for effect. "Inuyasha, look at me."

He did but sadly.

"If it happened, and that's a big 'if,' do you want to spend the day we conceived our first child avoiding me? Or would you rather help me make dinner and celebrate being married and maybe being parents?"

A big sigh escaped the half-demon beneath her. He sat up and cradled her like something precious. To him, she was and always would be.

"When did you become so fucking wise?" He nuzzled her cheek and deeply inhaled at her shoulder again. "You still smell amazing… Mmm."

"Do I?" Kagome closed her eyes and leaned into his lips, already losing the battle against his libido.

Her hands reached into his hair and grasped the back of his head, bringing him closer, telling him what she wanted. Her lips found his neck, too, and when she nipped the sensitive skin there and held it between her teeth, she felt him twitch beneath her and heard his groan. Not wasting any time, Inuyasha reached a hand between them and slid clawed fingers between her sensitive folds.

"Ah, Yasha! What.. oh… Don't stop."

"I told you not to start something you didn't intend to finish… You're stuck now, Kagome."

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Author's Note: This is a four part fic I just couldn't hold back. My other, longer one is a bit angsty so this is meant to be fluff to tide me over. And it is. Tooth-decaying sweetness. You were warned.