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Title: Kouga Baka!
Written by: Jazzy (1/22/08©)
Pairing: InuYasha/Kouga (SLASH) YAOI

Rating: Mature

Warning: Angst, Possible Non-Con, M/M Romance, Humor, Drama, H/C, Recovery, Mpreg. (SLASH) YAOI

Obligatory disclaimer: Do not Own InuYasha!

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Sorry it's taken me so long to update. Its still not as long as I was hoping for but at least I have it up in time, well a day or so late, for Valentine's Day! Happy Belated Valentines Day!

PART FIVE

Enter Lord Sesshomorou! Sesshomrou the reigning lord of the West and murderous older brother of InuYasha enters the scene.

Such a wretched night to be out in weather like this thought Sesshomorou though he showed a face of serenity even as he protected Rin from the rain and thunder and lightening. There was something eerie about it though. Something that made the hair on the back of his neck stand up and take notice. Instincts were telling him a demon was giving birth to a powerful child.

He scented the air and smelled his brother. His eyes narrowed. What could this mean?

Rin was hidden inside the little cave they'd come across in time for the storm to hit. Within its rocky depths the human child would be safe. Sesshomorou stood guard over the cave ducking in and out when danger presented itself.

Jaken was keeping the fires going as best as his magic allowed. But they were all still soaked and weathering the storm badly.

Sesshomorou continued to ponder the various meanings for his brother and for himself. Could it be InuYasha that is giving birth? Will his children be worthy of our clan? Will we be able to go home to the estates once more without wandering homeless among the human lands for all of their lives?

Would the birth of these children change things between himself and InuYasha? Would the Western lands at long last have heirs other than himself or InuYasha and would the old castle welcome those pups and their parents inside?

There was much to think on. Father had been a strange and powerful demon. He had wanted Sesshomorou to learn to love and cherish the people on their lands as much as he had but Sesshomorou had never felt love touch his cold heart, not for his brother and not for the humans. Well except for Rin. The changes in Sesshomorou were slow and would take time to come fully into metamorphosis. But he wondered were the changes enough now? Would the castle welcome them home?

The Birthing

InuYasha was highly uncomfortable. He didn't want so many humans looking at him while he was in this condition, let alone see him naked because these pups were going c-section. He whimpered and growled, snapping teeth at anyone who came too close. Hair a mess, sweat pouring down and soaking through his blouse.

"This is your fault." He growled, eyes burning embers of red as he stared into Kouga's repentant gaze.

"I'm sorry. I'm really sorry." Whimpered Kouga as InuYasha's nails bit in to his arms and tore him near to shreds.

"Jerk! I wish it was you giving birth."

"Breathe Yasha. Breathe." Ordered Sango.

Kagome still reeling from shock felt rather serene as she demonstrated the breathing technique passed down through three generations of Higurashi pregnant females.

"In, heeee, out heee, in, heee, out heee. In and out, in through the nose and out through the mouth." Kagome instructed gently. "Now do this."

She sounded like a mule or something. "E-e-e-e-, aaaa, e-e-e-e-, aaa."

InuYasha rolled his eyes. "I'm getting dizzy." He grumbled. "Are your sure this is supposed to help me? It feels more like I'm hyperventilating." He complained.

Then he turned burning eyes on Kouga. "This is your fault! I'm never letting you have your wicked, wicked, ways with me again! ARGH. I swear it! ARGHGGRR." He roared, fangs bit through and snapped at the next idiot to try to come too close to him.

Yelling really made him feel better a lot better than that stupid breathing thing Kagome wanted him to do.

"More water." Ordered Lady Kaede. "InuYasha, stop yelling, ye must. Harmony we need. Much quiet as well." She insisted. Kaede was aware the barrier was having troubles as well as the people inside the temple were having troubles with having demons inside hiding from the storm the same as them. But worst of all the demon pregnancy seemed to be intertwined with the storm's ferocity.

InuYasha howled as another contraction ripped through his abdomen. It felt more like the pups were trying to bite and claw their way out of his belly or jump out on their own. Kouga tried to soothe him and got another wounding for his efforts.

"This is all your fault."

"I know." Sighed Kouga.

"You should be the one to give birth not me. They're your pups!" he roared.

Kouga bowed his head and kissed InuYasha's ear. "I love you and I love our pups. I'm sorry I'm an idiot, but I'm here now ain't I? I remembered you didn't I?"

"Did you?" demanded the insecure hanyou.

"Of course I did!" growled Kouga. "I'm here aint I?" he repeated.

InuYasha glared at his mate and flashed some more fang at the fool. "Some alpha, you're a dimwit."

"I know. I'm sorry." Whimpered Kouga, worried for InuYasha's safety and health. The pups were starting to take a toll on their bearer. InuYasha was looking more and more frail with every passing moment.

"When will you cut him open? His power is waning." Growled Kouga, voice shaking with growing fear he clutched onto InuYasha as a worried mate does. He licked and kissed InuYasha's forehead and ears. Kouga whispered words of love, devotion, and encouragement.

Miroku tried to keep the shields up. The temple was being bombarded by rising winds and drenching rains. The storm was getting worse.

Kaede looked to Sango and Sango looked to the lady preparing the blades and sewing kits. "Not long."

"Now if yon InuYasha would not kill yon young nurse as she attends to him." Asked Lady Kaede.

"No promises." Growled InuYasha.

They all winced. Kouga looked to the timid nurse then to the holy lady.

"Her safety is assured. I will not allow my mate to take her life when she is helping him to give birth to our pups, my word as Alpha and as InuYasha's mate on it."

"Very well." Replied Lady Kaede. "Well girl get on with it. The longer we draw this out the less likely you or those pups or even Lord Inuyasha shall survive the birth."

"Ye must hold still InuYasha. Kagome, child, will the beads around InuYasha's neck to subdue him and keep him stilled. Do not say Owary, it will damage him and his pups if you do."

"I understand, Lady kaede. InuYasha stay still." She ordered and the beads began to glow. InuYasha's eyes widened in horror but nothing like the force of gravity hit him instead he felt his body, event he minute little tremors in his limbs come to paralysis at Kagome's will. Those beads were truly more terrible than any of them had ever imagined before. For those beads to have such a power over InuYasha seemed horrible.

Kouga scowled at the priestess. "When this is over you will release him from those bead's enchantment Kagome."

Kagome continued to have a mixed and confused reaction to the reality of Kouga and InuYasha as a mated couple. For the time being she knew that she had to do whatever it took in her power to help her friend. She didn't want him to die.

Birthing was such a tricky procedure and so very dangerous. While she desired InuYasha's continued health and life she couldn't help feel hurt that InuYasha and Kouga had lied to her all of this time. This wasn't right. Kouga had done something or some demon had done something to confuse both InuYasha and Kouga.

They were not gay. But they were demons. Demons can't have babies, well male demons anyway, so InuYasha must be female and yet as InuYasha's clothes were slowly unraveling there was no doubt this was the body of a male.

How was this possible? How did this happen? These two usually hated each other. This was not natural. How did this happen? How could she bare to lose InuYasha?

How could they do this? What came over them?

What about the shards?

What about her friendship with InuYasha? What about her own feelings?

She didn't want InuYasha to be harmed and yet what kind of hold would she have over him now without her beads?

Why had Kouga taken InuYasha away from her?

How did all of this go so horribly wrong?

She couldn't help feeling confused and betrayed. But she didn't feel that they had been lying to her all of this time. Neither demon was very complex nor very duplicitous. They were each in their own way very straight forward men who believed in fists and being pig headed males and each following their own code of ethics and instincts.

How could she just let them walk away from her?

Kouga looked at her and seemed to almost be reading her thoughts. "Please Kagome. This is about friendship and trust. If you really cared about InuYasha, if you trusted him at all you know those beads do no good instead they are a weapon to be use against him. Surely you must see that? Surely you must see how cruel it is to put a collar around my mate's neck? Think about it Kagome. Would you like to be encaged, ensorcelled, trapped and made to obey another's will other than your own?"

Kagome felt tears burn her eyes. "I love InuYasha." She gasped out in pain. "I don't understand this, not any of this. What's happened here? Why are you taking him away from me, Kouga? I don't understand? I thought we were friends. I thought you were in love with me."

Kouga lowered his head, sadness or shame?

"It's hard to explain Kagome. It wasn't that we were expecting this to happen between us. Things just happened. I was… things just happened."

"That's not good enough." Growled Kagome. "InuYasha was mine first. He was supposed to be mine, for always." She screamed.

InuYasha's cries of pain filled the temple as the nurse sliced into his belly and extracted his precious cargo, one by one. They were the most adorable pups he'd ever seen. Blood loss was turning dangerous.

"Quickly child, sew him up, staunch the bleeding." Cried Lady Kaede.

"I'm trying." Cried the nurse. "But something's not happening right."

Kouga's attention and Kagome's attentions turned directly back to the source of their argument. InuYasha's frail health. InuYasha was naturally pale but one would never describe him as bloodless. InuYasha's eyes were glassy, his breathing was rapid and shallow. He was in a lot of pain. Weakness was falling on him like an anvil or an order of "sit boy". The pups were so beautiful but he was feeling so tired.

"No, InuYasha, stay with me." Cried Kouga desperately. "We're mates. Do not leave me. I'll die without you. The pups will die without us. Stay with me InuYasha. Stay with me." Begged Kouga.

Kagome wept. "Yasha, oh Yasha. No, you mustn't die, InuYasha. You need to live. Live InuYasha." She begged. "Please live." Live for me so we can be together her heart whispered selfishly.

The beads glowed with their mistresses will and the will of the half demon and his mate's will and need. InuYasha felt the storm's power reach in through the barrier and boost his own flagging power and strength.

The nurse was sewing him up as swiftly as she could, her hands trembling as energy raced through the dying hanyou and reviving him. Demons even half demons were hard to kill everyone knew that. Yet this one was very frail.

Obviously the separation between his mate and himself had contributed greatly to his weakened state. However the pups seemed pretty healthy. They were quiet though, surprisingly. Babes usually let out loud yells of announcement to the world but not these three. They were just contented to nuzzle their parent's breast, eyes still closed but heart beats beating strong and healthy. These pups were going to make it and so it seemed would their mama.

"Even a demon after such a strenuous birth as this was will need at least a few weeks of bed rest." She said.

InuYasha was not paying attention his consciousness was slowly ebbing and what little bit he had of it was focused solely on his pups.

Shippou sat in awe watching InuYasha's pups. They were so cute and sweet and all wiggly and cuddly. InuYasha looked exhausted and too close to death for comfort. Kouga was holding his mate and pups protectively while now going back to glaring at Kagome and fighting a battle of wills with the young miko.

TBC
Chapter Six in the works... coming soon... xoxoxo