No matter how much I love the Inuyasha series, as do us all, I have no ownership of anything Inuyasha.(sigh)
Chapter Five
The next day Sesshoumaru escorts Rin downstairs, seating her on the couch before retrieving her breakfast from the kitchen. Everyone joins her, setting for the softer seating of the living room. Glancing around mid-meal Rin notices that someone is missing.
"Where is your father?" Rin asks Sesshoumaru quietly. Sesshoumaru smiles slightly.
"He left early this morning to the south eastern border." Rin frowns.
"Why?" Sesshoumaru grins wickedly, his canine's showing.
"He's hunting down the demons that attacked the humans and you."
After breakfast Rin dresses for the day, slipping into her black kimono she favors so much. Sesshoumaru watches her, an expression on his face she finds puzzling.
"What is it?" He glances up at her then looks away.
"I was just wondering where your other kimono went to." Rin stares at him a second them smiles, heading back to her closet. Reaching into the back she pulls out her childhood kimono, holding it up for him to see. He stares at it, his eyes seemingly lost in thought before he smiles slightly, rising from his chair. Slowly he approaches her as Rin hangs it back in its place. His arms slide around her slowly, fingering the soft fabric near her chest slowly, his breath on the back of her neck.
"I think i like this one better." He says slowly, gently pulling aside her hair to plant slow kisses on the back of her neck. Her head falls back against his chest, tipping to one side as he nips at her skin.
"Can you?" He whispers against her ear. She sighs, turning in his arms.
"One more day, my love." He growls in frustration and she smiles, leaning close. "One more day for a night you won't forget." He stills, then chuckles slightly.
"Any night with you i won't forget." He whispers before reluctantly releasing her
Out on the shrine grounds Rin strolls casually through the gardens, constantly shadowed by Sesshoumaru. They talk occassionally, mostly enjoying each others presence and the beauty of the day. The cloudless sky overhead is a beautiful blue, the breeze through the trees bringing to them the scent of flowers and earth.
Rin pauses beneath the sacred tree, staring up at its high branches. Sesshoumaru does as well, slipping his hand from hers slowly and positioning himself behind her, wrapping his arms around her middle gently. Rin smiles, leaning back against him.
"What are you thinking about?" She asks him quietly. He sighs, not answering for a moment.
"All those centuries alone." She turns toward him slightly, waiting for him to continue. "After the well was destroyed on our end, inuyasha went mad. It took him a while to calm down. He refused to leave the well for days." He chuckles slighlty. "Now that i think back, i didnt' really either. I always stayed close."
"It took some time to convince inuyasha to leave the well. With the Shikon Jewel gone Inuyasha had no reason to continue in the village. Miroku and Sango ended up settling in the village and i brought inuyasha with me back to our father's realm. After a few adjustments to his attitude and cracking a few heads of some of the more vocal human lords inuyasha managed to settle." He sighs, a slight smile on his face before he looks down at her.
"These past five hundred years i have been so worried about you. The thought of never getting to see you again nearly tore me in two. Not knowing if you were all right nearly drove me mad." He pauses, looking down at her. "Do you know what kept me sane?" He asks quietly. Rin shakes her head. "The thought that some day, maybe not soon but some day, i could be with you here, like this. The chance of doing what i was unwilling to admit to myself at first."
"What was that?" She asks quietly.
"To live with you forever. To have children with you. Even if they were hanyou's, i didn't care. As long as they were ours." At saying this Rin goes still in his arms, turning to put her back against him.
Curious now he glances down at her. "What were you thinking about?" He asks quietly.
"Our children." She says quietly. Sesshoumaru looks down at her but he cannot see her face. Slowly her hand takes his, drawing his palm from her ribs lower, just below her belly button and holding it there. "I was wondering how wonderful it would be to have our child born here, to watch our child play and grow under the sacred tree, the three of us together."
Sesshoumaru dips his head down, his nose brushing her shoulder and catching her scent. As always she smelled of wildflowers, but just beneath it he could detect the change in her scent.
For the first time in his life a full smile spread across his face and he knew he was grinning like a fool. His other hand slid down to join the first for a brief moment before clasping her firmly around the small of her waist and spinning her wildly around in a circle. Thier laughter ringing out through the shrine grounds and up into the boughs of the sacred tree.
Inuyasha and Kagome stand at the corner of the house, peeking around the edge and watching the couple beneath the tree. Inuyasha frowns slightly, watching his brother before glancing down at Kagome.
"What's got him so hyped?" He asks Kagome quietly. She smiles, grabbing Inuyasha's arm and pulling him toward the front door.
"Rin's pregnant." Inuyasha stops short, tugging his hand from Kagome's.
"Really?" Kagome nods.
"Rin told me earlier." Inuyasha suddenly looks cross, glancing back at the corner of the house. Kagome stares at him, confused. "Why do you look upset?" She asked, approaching him. Inuyasha glances at her and Kagome swears he is blushing before he turns away.
"I was kind of hoping..." His voice dies away and Kagome slides her arms around his waist from behind, clinging to his back and resting her head against his shoulder.
"Hoping what?" Inuyasha mumbles something and Kagome frowns.
"What did you say?" Inuyasha huffs slightly, turning to her and blurting it out.
"I was kind of hoping that we would have a kid first." Kagome's eyes widen slightly and her arms fall to her sides.
"Oh." Inuyasha guages her expression critically, his dog like ears falling slightly to droop to the sides.
"So does that mean you don't want to?" He says quietly. Kagome smiles at him slowly, reaching up to tweak one of his ears. She leans in close, so close that Inuyasha blushes again.
"If you really want to, we should hurry up and get to work on that." Inuyasha's eyes widen slightly as Kagome releases his ear, turning and walking into the house, her hips swaying just a bit more in invitation. Glancing back at the corner of the house he smiles slightly following Kagome inside.
Hint hint...lol. again, sorry for the short chapter but it sounded like a good place to end. a bit of happy calm before the storm should we say. And it's gonna be a category five hurricane (at least that's what i'm shooting for). If i start slacking off in any departments, feel free to let me know!