1A/n Kaii so, I know I haven't updated in months, school started, just got back my report card, 3 interviews. PSH! There not even that bad of marks. So it's Saturday night and I have nothing else to do so I thought I'd finally continue to the next chapter. If I still have readers that is, let's hope I still do :S

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Chapter 22

Kagome slowly opened her eyes waking up the sound of pots and pans clattering around in the kitchen. She slowly got up so not to disturb Inuyasha and walked over to the crib that held Kaemon. He was still fast asleep. She quietly opened the door and walked through the hallway down the stairs to find her mother making some coffee in the kitchen.

"Morning mom" Kagome said.

Mrs. Higurashi jumped a bit by the sudden greeting, she hadn't notice Kagome coming down the stairs before. She smiled warmly. "Good morning honey, how did you sleep?"

"Fine thanks." Kagome went and sat across from her mother on the table. Mrs. Higurashi turned her gaze back to the window. They hadn't said anything, just sort of sat there, Kagome felt a little uncomfortable.

"So.." her mother started, "you heading back to the feudal era today?" She kept her gaze towards the window, not looking once at her daughter.

"That's the plan." Kagome sighed, she knew where this conversation was going, and she didn't want to be apart of it. The coffee was ready and Mrs. Higurashi got up and poured herself a cup.

"Would you like some?" She offered.

Kagome shook her head, "no thanks." She didn't care much for coffee, she always found the taste rather bitter. Her mother sat back down and continued to gaze out the window, this time taking a sip of her coffee.

Mrs. Higurashi sighed, "so what are you planning to do with your life?"

Kagome rolled her eyes, why couldn't her mother just be supportive? She used to always be there for her, and she still is, it just seems to her that ever since she found out about the baby she's been making this more difficult for her. It hurt her that her mother acted this way.

"I don't know." Kagome shrugged.

"Well you're going to have to think of something, because now that you have a baby it's going to make your life a lot more complicated than it already is." She took another sip of her coffee.

Kagome looked down focusing on her hands as if they were the most interesting thing in the world. "Why can't you just be a little bit more supportive? Maybe try to help, you're not exactly making this any more easier." she spoke quietly. Mrs. Higurashi looked at her taking another sip of her coffee, she sighed.

"Honey, its just.. I don't know.. I mean I had no problem with you going back and forth through times because I knew after you finished your journey you would be safely back home with us. Ever since you and Inuyasha... you know... it just made everything else more difficult."

"Mom.."

"And when Inuyasha had made that comment about Kaemon not being able to stay in this era because he was a hanyou I realized that, that may mean I would never be able to see you again.."

Tears formed in her mothers eyes. Kagome grabbed a tissue from the Kleenex box on the table and handed it to her. Than she got up from her chair and hugged her mother.

"That's not true, sure I may not be able to stay here, but I can still go back and for through the well and visit you, Souta and gramps. I know this is hard, and I'm sorry for any pain I put you through, but it is best that I stay in the feudal era."

Kagome let go of her mother and sat back in her chair still holding on to her mothers hands. Mrs. Higurashi continued to sniff and the odd tear or two would stream down her face.

"I know, it's just so hard to let you go."

Kagome smiled and squeezed her mother's hand.

"Well, you've got to get ready and pack up to go" she said quickly wiping away her remaining tears. "You wake up Inuyasha and get ready, I'll make something for you guys to eat." She continued as she got up and headed to the fridge.

"Thank you mom." Kagome headed upstairs to find Inuyasha up already feeding Kaemon some formula. He looked up at her and smiled.

"Hey" Kagome said as she walked towards Inuyasha and lightly kissed him on the lips, he returned the kiss.

"Morning"

Kaemon squirmed away from the bottle and Inuyasha pulled it away. The tiny pup raised his arms to Kagome and she gladly picked him up and held him to her.

"Well hey there, you been behaving?" She teased. He giggled and grinned a toothy grin. Inuyasha came up behind her and wrapped his arms around her resting his chin on her shoulder. She leaned into his embrace.

"So we're leaving today?" He asked quietly. She nodded. "How did you're mom take it?"

She turned to face him looking at him as if he'd been eavesdropping. He quickly defended himself.

"I didn't hear much just the odd bit." He smirked.

Kagome sighed. "She's a bit upset, but I told her we'd visit, but we should probably start getting ready." She set Kaemon back in his crib where he growled and whined. Inuyasha let got of Kagome and lightly tickled Kaemon's belly to show that he had not been forgotten, than went to Kagome's side and helped her get ready.

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Inuyasha walked down the stairs with two huge bags, one containing a couple of Kagome's own supplies and clothing, the other containing Kaemon's supplies they had just boughten yesterday.

Mrs. Higurashi laughed at the sight, he looked her than smirked. He set the stuff down by the door and went in the kitchen sitting down at the table.

"Where's Kagome?" She asked.

"Oh, she's upstairs getting Kaemon ready, he's a stubborn one." He smirked once again.

Mrs. Higurashi laughed, than sat down with him her expression growing serious. "You promise to take good care of her there?"

He looked at her as if she was stupid. "Of course, I would never let anything happen to Kagome, or Kaemon, I'd die for them if I had to."

Mrs. Higurashi smiled. "Thank you, Inuyasha."

Kagome came down the stairs holding onto a squirming Kaemon, he was growling and showing his barely grown in fangs.

"I don't know what's wrong with him, he's been doing that ever since I started to clean him up and get him dressed." She said as she struggled to hold him.

Both Mrs. Higurashi and Inuyasha looked up at her and Kaemon.

"Inuyasha is there something about half demons that I don't know about..?" She asked suspiciously.

"Naw," he replied, "he's just being bad that's all." Inuyasha said as if it was nothing to be worried about at all. I mean come on he should be worried the pup was barring his fangs and growling at his own mother.

"Well.. Is there anything we can do for him to stop?"

Inuyasha took Kaemon from Kagome who continued to growl, now even trying to scratch Inuyasha with his claws. Inuyasha growled at Kaemon barring his fangs also, though Kaemon didn't back down. Inuyasha than nipped Kaemon's neck causing him to yelp, but he also got the message and stopped misbehaving.

"Inuyasha!" Kagome yelled. "You can just bite him!"

Inuyasha shrugged, "he stopped didn't he?"

Kagome glared at him. "Why was he doing that anyways?" She asked.

"He's just upset because he knows we're leaving this place, for good." He handed Kaemon back to Kagome.

Inuyasha noticed Mrs. Higurashi tense when he had said "for good." She wasn't sitting in her previous position before when she and Inuyasha were talking. She must have went back to making breakfast when Kagome started to complain about Kaemon misbehaving.

Mrs. Higurashi turned around with two plates of food in both her hands. "Food's ready." She said with a huge smile as she set down the food. Inuyasha licked his lips forgetting about anything he had on his mind and wolfed down the food.

Kagome sighed and set Kaemon in the highchair that was still there from last night. She sat down in her own chair opposite of Inuyasha and began eating her own food as Mrs. Higurashi attempted to feed Kaemon. He was quite stubborn, he would barely accept anything she tried to feed him, but with his tummy growling he accepted the odd bits here and there.

After they had all finished their food, Kagome had put a small jacket on Kaemon they were all ready to say their goodbyes. Souta had come down from just waking up and when he saw his sister about to leave he ran towards her giving her a huge hug. She tightly hugged him back. Than he went and hugged Inuyasha, though Inuyasha usually never liked to show his affections he quickly hugged the kid back. Gramps had also just came in from outside and gave Kagome a hug. He didn't bother with Inuyasha, as always he's not very fond of demons. They all waved goodbye and Inuyasha, Kagome and Kaemon had headed into the well house down the well, where the blue light engulfed them all.

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Before Kagome could even feel herself touch the bottom of the well Inuyasha grabbed her by the waist and jumped out of the well. He set the bags down and sat down.

"Tired already?" Kagome teased.

He glared at her. "Keh, it's not as easy as it look carrying these stupid bags and both you and Kaemon."

"Inuyasha.. Sit!"

THUMP

Kaemon giggled, he always seemed to find it amusing when his father was slammed into the ground. Kagome started to walk with Kaemon in her arms back to the village, she knew this place well enough to know how to get back.

"Where the hell do you think you're going wench?" Inuyasha muffled still stuck to the ground.

"Catch up when you can." She spoke calmly.

He growled, and as soon as the spell wore off he was up on his feet, and ran off towards her, with the bags of course.

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"Kagome! Inuyasha! You're back!" Sango greeted them with a huge smile. She than noticed the bundle of joy being held in Kagome's arms.

"Kagome is that.."

Kagome nodded.

"He's so adorable!! May I?" Sango asked. Kagome nodded and handed Kaemon to Sango where she gently held him.

"What's his name?" She looked down at him.

"Kaemon." Inuyasha spoke.

It was than that Shippou and Miroku came out of the hut and greeted them also. Shippou ran and jumped up to Kagome giving her a big hug where she warmly hugged him back. He than jumped from Kagome's shoulders to Sango's to look down at the pup.

"Ah, quite an adorable baby you have here. Anymore coming along the way Inuyasha?" Miroku asked with a lecherous grin.

"Shut up!" Inuyasha punched him in the head where he fell unconscious.

After the monk had regained consciousness they had all headed into the hut where Kagome talked to Sango about her experience having the baby.

"So what are you going to do with Kaemon when we continue on our journey go for Naraku, is he coming along?"

Kagome looked down at Kaemon that was now asleep in her arms, she didn't know the answer to Sango's question. It would be dangerous to bring him on the journey, and with the extra burden, it might just slow down the whole journey, but she couldn't bare to keep him here away from both her and Inuyasha. This is what her mother had been trying to tell her, and she wouldn't listen.

"Umm, well.." Before Kagome could continue Inuyasha and Miroku had interrupted when they both came into the hut arguing about Miroku's lecherous ways. Kagome breathed a sigh of relief.

"We should all head to bed, it's getting late and we have to get up early tomorrow to start searching for Naraku again." Kagome suggested. Sango agreed and laid herself on a futon in the hut with Kirara. Miroku sulked at the fact that he still had to sleep by himself and not with Sango while Kagome and Inuyasha were about to get a cuddly with each other.

Kagome set up the small crib near her to lay Kaemon in where he quickly fell asleep. She looked down on him and smiled, than she felt a pair of strong arms wrap around her and pull her down on the ground with him as he leaned onto the wall. She smiled once more as he kissed the top of her head.

"Inuyasha..?" She whispered so not to wake the others.

"Hmm?"

"What are we going to do with Kaemon, is it safe to bring him along with us on the journey, or should we keep him here with Kaede where he'll be safe? I'm not sure what to do.."

Inuyasha shifted a bit.

"He'll be fine coming with us I'm sure." He brushed the subject off aside.

"Well yea... but wouldn't it be a bit of a burden, and what happens if a demon attacks, or worse Naraku?"

"We'll be just fine Kagome, don't worry so much about it."

Kagome sighed but just decided to drop the subject, he didn't seem to want to talk about it very much. Though she acted as if she let it go, it still bothered her. She quickly found herself drifting off to sleep in the arms of her protector and mate.

Kagome woke up to the sound of Kaemon's whimpering, she quietly got up so not to disturb Inuyasha and went to his side. She pulled him up from the crib and held him and she looked for some formula in her bag. She quickly fed him than decided it was time to change him as well, maybe even a bath would be good. Kagome looked back to find everyone else still sleeping.

'Hm, I guess it wouldn't hurt to just go out for a little bit.' She thought as she grabbed a couple supplies and walked her way to the nearest spring with Kaemon.

Inuyasha woke up with a start, he grabbed his head and shook it a bit. He had a horrible nightmare about Naraku kidnaping both kagome and Kaemon and killing them. All night all he could think about the conversation him and Kagome had last night. He wasn't sure himself about Kaemon coming with them, but there was really no other option. He just hoped they found and killed Naraku soon before anything bad happened to anyone.

He looked around his surroundings and noticed both Kagome and Kaemon were gone, he quickly got up panic washing over him. He could still smell both of their scents, he followed it bringing him to a hot spring. When he looked he found Kaemon giggling hysterically while Kagome was trying to clean him up. He laughed at the scene.

"Da-ad" Kaemon had said pointing his tiny claws towards where Inuyasha was hidden. Kagome looked up at Kaemon.

'Did he just speak..?' She thought with a huge smile on her face, her smile soon disappeared when she realized what he had been trying to tell her. She looked over at the place that Kaemon was pointing at but didn't see anything, though that didn't mean he wasn't there.

"Inuyasha, you can come out now." She said with a smirk.

Inuyasha quietly came out from his hiding spot and walked over to Kagome and kneeled down beside her. Kaemon laughed and splashed his arms in the water causing tiny droplets to get on Inuyasha. He smirked and putting two clawed fingers in the water he lightly flicked water at his pup.

"Hm, do you mind continuing to bathe him while I go and bathe myself?" She asked Inuyasha.

"How about we leave him here and we both go bathe together? He smirked and scooted closer to her wrapping his arm around her waist.

She looked up at him,"I'm sure you'd like that wouldn't you." she said in a seductive tone. She than brought her lips up began to kiss him passionately. Inuyasha was starting to like this... a lot. He went hard and kissed her back as passionately as he could swiping his tongue on her bottom lip to ask for entrance but he didn't get a reply and he growled. Kagome pulled back.

"Well I'm going to go bathe, here finish Kaemon, I'll be on the other side of the spring." she smiled and handed Kaemon to Inuyasha as she grabbed her stuff and walked off.

"Damn tease" he growled. He looked down at Kaemon who continued to splash around and sighed. He found this "soap" stuff that Kagome had brought from her time and scrubbed it on Kaemon having great difficulties when Kaemon was trying to pry his fingers away laughing uncontrollably finding this feeling rather ticklish.

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Kagome slipped her toes in first in the spring her legs, hips, stomach and chest following behind. She took in a breath feeling the hot water consume her skin. She pulled her head down in the water to wet her hair and quickly came back up for air. Kagome than grabbed her shampoo that sat in the grass beside the spring and rubbed it in her hair soothingly.

'Ah this feels so good' She thought to herself as she continued to pleasure her scalp with the sweet shampoo. After she figured it was rubbed in well enough and dunked her head back in the water to wash it out. She proceeded to do the same with the conditioner. After she had completely washed her hair she swam some ways around the spring and saw Inuyasha still washing Kaemon. She hid herself behind a large rock but quietly still peeked around it to watch.

Inuyasha held Kaemon and was rubbing his belly with the soap while Kaemon was trying hard to contain his laughter. After Inuyasha finished that he pulled Kaemon out of the water and dried him off with the towel that was left for him. Kaemon extended his arms out to Inuyasha to be held and Inuyasha did just so as Kaemon rubbed his head on Inuyasha cheek while purring. Kagome smiled, if only she had a camera.

Kagome quickly swam back towards her clothes and towel and dried herself off, than proceeding to dress herself in newly fresh clothes. She pulled on some jeans she had brought back from her time and a blue tank top. It was warm enough in this era to wear it. Than she made her way back to Inuyasha.

"Hey, how did he behave?" Kagome asked as she put her dirty clothes back in her yellow bag.

Inuyasha just shrugged. "He was good. Come one let's get back to the village, they're probably wondering where we are." Inuyasha suggested as he got up with Kaemon in his arms and took the yellow bag from Kagome and walked back towards the village. Kagome followed in unison, entwining her fingers with his.

They entered the village where they found everyone up and eating breakfast.

"Oh we saved some for you guys, where did you two run off to anyways?" Sango had asked as she continued to eat.

"We just went to bathe Kaemon, that's all." Kagome replied as she sat down and took some food for herself to eat. Inuyasha sat down beside Kagome with Kaemon in his lap and began to eat as well, though of course not forgetting about Kaemon he fed him some food as well.

They all soon finished eating and were ready to continue on to their journey to find the remaining jewel shards. Sango grabbed her Hiraikostu and Kagome grabbed her bag of supplies which Inuyasha took hold of wile Kagome held Kaemon and they were off, on the same journey with a new companion.

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A/N Kaii so sorry about that huge long wait, this chapter wasn't as long as the last one but it works. Anyways hopefully you enjoyed it. Thanks for reading, the next chapter will be up in a while as well. Seeing as I have school this week AND it's my sixteenth birthday this coming weekend! Yay!

Kaii well byye. :