"Laugh" - InuKag Week Day 6
A/N: Ya'll must be getting tired of me writing Inuyasha and Kagome "after-story", especially considering we have a whole prompt centered around it today, and yet here I am…consciously using it for all the other prompts lol. This is purely meant to be a humor fic, and I decided to throw in an awkward set of characters for the funny scene. I think it works somehow. But you let me know.
word count: 1400
rating: K+
After a very long time of patient waiting, nine excruciating months, and ten unpleasant hours, Inuyasha and Kagome had a daughter. And she was treasured, and small, and precocious as can be.
Somewhere around the same time, Koga and Ayame had a litter of children, one after another, and ending most recently in a pair of boys that were polar opposites in every way.
But much before that, Miroku and Sango had a son, and he was more his father than he was his mother, and it showed.
"Sessomau!" The baby smiles, holding up a stone and wiggling around on her toes. "Seasell! Dor you."
Sesshomaru glances at it passively, takes it from her grip, and turns it over carefully. "This is a rock."
"Seasell."
"Rumiko, this is a rock. Seashells are by the sea."
"Sea?" The baby parrots back eagerly.
A few days ago, while Inuyasha was traveling the countryside in search for a demon, and Kagome was taking care of a broken-out epidemic at the village, he had explained to her that there was something called the sea, and that when she got old enough he'd take her. It took about twenty different whats and ten variety of whys, but she seems to have finally grasped the idea of it.
And that was a mistake, because now she wouldn't stop talking about it.
"You take me now?"
"No," he shot down fluidly, "You would get overwhelmed by the waves and drown."
A shadow appears and Sesshomaru resists the urge to crack his green energy whip because he knows the shape of that shadow far too well for his liking.
"Where'd you learn about the sea, Butterbean?" A giant glorious smile eclipses the sun.
"Daiki!" The four-year old waddles over to the teenage boy with a light chuckle. He's missing his usual demon slayer training clothes, and has opted for a lazier pull over instead. Which Sesshomaru thinks is a perfect reflection of his personality.
The boy is going through a growth spurt and has to kneel low to the ground to take the baby into his arms for a short hug. He repeats his question.
"Sessomau!" Rumiko dances in place and points all her fingers at the demon aside them, "Lessons!" The demon in question scrutinizes the encounter with something akin to disgust. Or annoyance. Or apathy.
To be completely honest, Daiki could never tell.
He flashes Sesshomaru a look of shock before a smirk overtakes his features, "Lessons, eh Sesshomaru? Wanna teach me some? I'm always up for a good learnin'."
The audacity of this insolent human parasite.
Sesshomaru is just about to tell him exactly what kind of lessons he can expect to get- when the baby squeals and runs happily across the open sunlit yard with arms wide open.
"Papa! Mama!"
The two of them are coming up the hill slowly, with arms full of wolf-demon children.
The wolf tribe's leaders were fortunate enough to give birth to six children so far- and with no intention of stopping, Sesshomaru was already making good note to steer clear of their section of the country.
The last two born happened to be the twins; and thankfully the one perched peacefully on Kagome's shoulders was a quiet thing- only causing trouble when his silence aided in his knack for escaping. He never purposely tried to upset anybody, and he was often good at staying out of any terrible messes.
His name is Kota and he is the spitting image of his mother.
The one squirming for release under Inuyasha's arm (with what just might be every bit of strength he has)- is a dramatically different story.
And his name is Riku.
It's particularly hilarious because where his brother mimicked his mother in every feature (from the hair, to the skin, to the eyes), Riku looks exactly like his father, seems to hate Inuyasha with every last ounce of his being, and has an adorable affinity to Kagome that disturbs the half-demon to no end.
So in reality, this is a fight that has been going on for quite literally- generations.
"Kagome, I'm going to kill him."
"Don't talk to my wife!" The boy kicks and shouts, "You stupid head!"
"She's my wife!" Inuyasha yells back and flips the child upside down, "You short insufferable-"
"Inuyasha." Kagome scolds, "He's a child."
"He's a piece of-"
"I hate you, Inuyasha." Riku spits out morosely.
Sesshomaru knows what's about to happen because he had already seen Rumiko zeroing in on her target from a few seconds earlier, but he did nothing to stop it because he was becoming increasingly bored with the scenario and could use some theatrics.
It's important to point out: Rumiko hates the boy almost just as much as her father does.
She marches angrily over to them and when she arrives in front of her father and the little demon in his arms, she reaches her chubby arms into his black jet hair, grabs, and yanks.
Hard.
The child screeches something so shrill that Sesshomaru almost silences him permanently there on the spot.
But he lets his niece take pleasure in hearing the child suffer instead.
Riku struggles so wildly that his leg jolts out and knocks Inuyasha straight on the nose. They all fall over backwards into a pile- the demon, the half-demon, and the quarter-demon.
The whole ordeal startles the little girl, and she starts to cry.
Sesshomaru moves forward like lightning to pluck her from the ground, but her mother is faster- putting Kota on the floor smoothly, she scoops up her daughter.
Rumiko wails into her mama's shoulder, making tiny sobbing noises, and nearly breaking his frozen heart.
"You alright, baby?" Kagome murmurs, trying to hide her amusement.
"Mamaaaaa," Rumiko cries miserably.
"Now listen." Her mother jostles her lightly and plants a kiss on her head, "You can't just pull hair like that. This is what happens when you do, people get hurt."
"Papa?" Rumiko hiccups. Any concern for Koga's son is noticeably absent.
"I'm okay, squirt." Her father stands up at attention, with the wolf child hanging by his tail savagely swiping at the air. "Kagome, we're not having any sons," he spits out venomously. "No fu-freaking sons."
"Inuyasha, language!" Then she turns over to the retreating white back of her brother-in-law, "Sesshomaru, you're leaving?"
He plays with the idea of replying, but he knows better than to encourage bad behavior, and his number one pet peeve was answering rhetorical questions.
Not only that, but he was not about to be privy a pseudo conversation of his brother and his wife discussing procreation possibilities.
But then he hears the half-demon mumble an expletive under his breath, and returns in a blur to push him back onto the ground.
"You stinkin' bastard! I was going to fucking thank you for watching the girl-"
"Inuyasha," Kagome begins threateningly.
"Wait, Kagome, it was an accident-"
"Haha," Riku chortles and points to the ground, "Sit!"
"Sit-" A resounding thump echoes out to Kagome, "Indeed."
"Ah," Daiki sighs with relief, throwing his arms back to rest them on the back of his head. Almost entirely forgotten about until now. "These fleeting moments are always such prime entertainment."
"Brat," Inuyasha calls out from his pit in the dirt, "Wasn't your mother looking for you?"
"Oh yeah," Kagome turns a small knowing glare to the boy, "Sango said you ditched your laundry duty today."
"Emphasis on the fleeting," he laughed dryly and then ran away with a two finger salute.
Sesshomaru disappears, so the couple is left alone with the three children.
Inuyasha gestures to Miroku's boy with his free hand, "Add that to the list of why we won't be having any sons."
Kagome would love nothing more than to lecture her husband on the scientific impossibility of choosing the gender of your child, but she decides to leave that for another day. For now she has more pressing questions to attend to.
"Did you have a good day with your uncle today, sweetie?"
The baby nods enthusiastically, "I love Sessomau."
Kagome watches her husband roll his eyes from the corner of hers.
"That's beautiful, baby." She reaches behind her for the telling hand of Kota, but makes purchase on nothing but air.
And that's when she realizes that one half of the wolf-demon twins has gone missing.
"Inuyasha, get up."
"You just sat me-"
"Kota is missing again."
"I swear to fu-freaking- this is the last goddang time we watch over these terrors. How did Ayame even rope you into doing it this time? I thought we had decided this already."
"They were on our doorstep this morning."
"This family has no godforsaken shame. They have a whole freaking tribe, and we end up being the ones watching their as-butts."
"Inuyasha-"
"I'm going, I'm going." He makes move to turn Riku over to his wife, but the child has already wrapped himself around the priestess's legs. The boy looks up at the woman lovingly with his father's handsome megawatt smile.
"I would have many sons with you, Kagome."
"Oooookay," Kagome pats him on the head and steers him back to their hut. "Time for naps."
A/N: The wolf-demon twins caused such chaos when the other tribe members babysat them, that Ayame and Koga felt for now it was better that InuKag take care of them and that's why they were dropped on the door step that morning. :) Also, Kagome gets pregnant a second time and has a son. To the surprise and fascination of Inuyasha. (I typically write InuKag having three children (Kenta, Kaede, and Kameko), but for this fanfic I played on the idea of them having a daughter first from one my earlier fics.)