Chapter Nine
Kohana's Hut.
"Takeo?" Kasumi suggested while playing a game with Satoru and Shippo.
"No."
"Morio?" Shippo questioned.
"Hell no! He ain't a damn tree demon!"
"Takumi?" Kohana added in as she prepared dinner for everyone.
"Nah."
"Benjiro?" Aiko said quietly sewing a patch in an old yukata.
"That's nice." Kagome commented while busying the baby in her lap.
"Keh!"
"Mareo?"Kasumi guessed again.
"No."
"Sachio?" Shippo slipped in while swatting Satoru's hand away from his game piece.
"I like that!" Kasumi commented.
"You would," Satoru snickered as Kasumi blushed and childishly stuck her tongue out at him.
"Renjiro?" Shippo murmured rolling his green eyes at Satoru.
"Keh, yeah right!"
"Mamoru?" Kohana offered quietly.
"I like that one," Kagome replied smiling at the black hair hanyou.
"Jomei?" Satoru yawned.
"You gotta be kiddin' right?"
"Akeno?" Kasumi smiled.
"Keh!"
"Joben?" Satoru wondered.
"That's Kagome's nickname." Shippo snickered as Kagome rolled her eyes.
"Yukito?" Aiko proposed softly.
"I like that one, too." Kagome smiled at Aiko.
"Yoshiro?" Kohana yawned quietly.
"Pfft! He's hardly that unless he's with Kagome!"
"Keitaro?" Shippo put forward with a raised eyebrow.
Inuyasha pinched the bridge of his nose; 'blessed' a hanyou life is anything but. Although, a life with Kagome as the pup's mother would be just that, but still a hanyou life was difficult.
He raised his head and glanced toward Kagome and the baby; she was looking at him peaceful expression resting on her features and then smiled at him.
"I like Mamoru and Yukito," she offered with a smile.
He was going to have to pick between those two. We would be traveling soon, and Yukito would suit the soon-to-be traveling babe, but then again it didn't seem right. Mamoru, it was strong name and it seemed to fit the pup much more than Yukito. He wanted to protect the pup and the reasons were because of Kagome. He could see that Kagome was becoming attached to the pup more every day and he wanted to protect both of them because of the family the three of them were becoming. He wanted to protect them.
He looked up at Kagome as he straightened up and said, "Mamoru, his name is Mamoru."
She smiled.
Inuyasha and Shippo's hut~~
She did not know he snored. It was not loud by any means, but it did get louder at times. It was soft and light when the sound reached her human ears, but it still surprised her that Inuyasha snored while he slept. She tried to hold her amusement inside when his snores suddenly became loud and when they became almost non-existing she combed her fingers through Mamoru's black hair and stared at her two hanyous.
She noticed his silver ears twitched if the wind slightly blew the reed door opened making the smallest of noise, if there was soft noises from outside, or if Shippo, her or the baby moved around too much.
She liked these quiet little moments. It allowed her to think and become organized, and she thought of the past and future. Her thoughts moved to the conversation they had last night; trying the well. She was nervous, it was the reason she was awake in the early morning and how she stumbled upon Inuyasha's snoring.
They were going to try the well today and she was nervous, but anxious. She had decided that they would because she didn't want to put the village into anymore danger, they had another attack yesterday evening. Inuyasha had said that they would go to Kohana's and tell everyone before heading off to the well; however, Kagome wanted to go straight to the well when he woke. Although, she understood that Kasumi would like to see her off if the well was working.
She had pondered what she would do if the well did work and what she would do if Mamoru couldn't get through. Shippo had said that he could be in the well to catch him if time wouldn't let him pass, but she desperately hoped the old well would be gracious enough to give Mamoru passage through time.
That was one problem down, but what would she tell her mother about her long absence or if she was even alive when she returned. Tell her the truth, she had died and 75 years later she was resurrected? And how would she explain Mamoru, Inuyasha had tried to save a pregnant woman and she had died giving birth to a hanyou child; as a result, she had taken him in as her own?
She let a small exasperated sigh escape and Mamoru turned in her arms and Inuyasha's fingers twitched around her waist.
A smile crept on her lips as she felt Inuyasha's fingers twitch around her waist again, he was waking.
All at once the emotions rushed through her, it would be a long day even if she couldn't pass through time, but she realized that would be okay as she smiled at older, sleepy, golden eyes opening to gaze at her.