Chapter 4
Foxgem: Now…here it comes…INUYASHA! Boo yah! Look I know…Hojo's character is a little cruel. He will lighten up when he come for a visit okay? But right now I can only wait for you guys to see Inuyasha!
Chapter 4 Mess
Inuyasha sat in the Airplane seat and sighed. He was really nervous. He was going to attend Sess (his half brother) wedding and see his High School Sweet heart for the first time in what…7 years? He had no way of knowing how she would react. Especially with all the things she had to deal with.
Sess had told him little about what happened to Kagome when he left. All Sess would tell him was that Kagome did get married to Hojo and they had two kids. Hojo divorced Kagome, and left his dirt work on her doorstep. Other than that Sess wouldn't tell him a thing.
Inuyasha again sighed as he thought of Kagome and how he tried to warn her. He had told her that Hojo was only using her but she…pushed him and threw him out. Now after 7 years…would she take one look and run into his arms back to where she belonged or…would she toss him out again and go back into her own world again?
So many possibilities but…if was anything like she was 7 years ago…he wouldn't dare let her go again. He loved her. After everything that happened to both of them he had always known in his heart that it was she that he loved. He was not going to let her slip through his fingers. Not again.
Inuyasha looked down next to him to see his son staring intently into a blue Game Boy©. Shippo had a yellow baseball cap that had blue lettering on it. It said "Khool" on it. Shippo had turned his hat around so that the hat was now backwards. Shippo wore a similar yellow shirt and baggy jean pants. He also had matching yellow shoes.
Inuyasha smiled. Shippo had insisted that he wore that outfit when he found out about Kagome. His 'new' mommy, Shippo called her. Of course he would have to approve of her. But who wouldn't? Inuyasha almost laughed out loud. This was really weird. He was almost ready to plan the wedding and he hadn't even seen her yet! Much less him proposing to her! He didn't even know if she was going to be interested at all. But…just thinking of them together…finally…seemed too real to be true.
Inuyasha forced himself to look back at his 2 former wives. The first one he had married was named Isendre. She had been a full white wolf demon. Beautiful. They had first met in a club in New York and they automatically hit it off. She was rich and loveable. He had droned out his pain from Kagome with her. They had gotten married just two months after they met. But…a year later she had died giving birth to 2 stale born pups.
After that Inuyasha had forced himself to cope with it. It took a year to finally move on. He then met his second wife. Nynaeve. She was a full fire fox demon. They met at her father's business Christmas celebration. 4 months afterward…she asked him to marry her. Who can refuse a gorgeous hot-tempered demon?
So they got married and a year and 7 months later they were expecting 4 pups. Inuyasha had watched over her like a hawk. She didn't get out of bed and she didn't do a lick of housework. But at her 8th month she had tripped down the stairs and 3 pups died. The doctors couldn't tell if the last pup was dead or not. Nynaeve and Inuyasha were very worried. Inuyasha quit his job and spent his whole time with his wife in the hospital. But Shippo was born healthy and strong. Nynaeve, on the other hand grew sickly. The baby had taken most of her strength. But as the next 2 years went by she seemed to get better and better. After the 3rd year everything seemed to go perfectly. Inuyasha was beginning to think that everything was going to be just fine. Little did he know.
One summer day Nynaeve took Shippo to play in a meadow that was 4 miles away from their home. Nynaeve had been playing with Shippo and teaching him demon tricks when the accident happened. Shippo, by this time had grown the technique of crawling around really fast, was running away from Nynaeve when it happened. Nynaeve's heart burst from all the excitement. Nynaeve died instantly. Leaving Shippo alone in the meadow 4 miles from home.
Inuyasha gripped his hands on the seat's armrest as he thought of how close it had been. Inuyasha had came home late that night to find the servants all in a panic. Nobody had seen Nynaeve or Shippo in the last 6 hours. The police were everywhere. Inuyasha had almost gone mad that night.
They finally found them half an hour later in the meadow. Shippo was wailing and holding onto his dead mother. Blood ran from her lips and her nose. Inuyasha had been the only one to be able to pry Shippo from his grasp on his mother. That night Inuyasha had held his baby and cried right along with him.
So after that he had raised Shippo all by himself. Sure…there was a few women here and there but…they were all looking for a guy with a little money. Not a half demon with a little pup. Sure he wanted a mother for Shippo but none of the ones that he met, had met his standards. That is…until now. Kagome.
Inuyasha chuckled thinking of the irony. They always say that if you screw that you should go back to the drawing board. In a way Kagome was the drawing board.
Inuyasha felt a tug on his coat sleeve. "Dad? What are you laughing about?" Shippo asked curious.
"Oh nothing." Inuyasha said with a smile. Shippo looked at him for a second and shrugged. Shippo looked back at his game and was once again absorbed by it.
"Ladies and Gentlemen. We ask for you all to put your seats in the upright position and fold up your trays. Please put on your seatbelts. We will be arriving shortly." The intercom lady said in a warm cheery voice.
Inuyasha sighed. Here it goes…
2
Miroku sat in one of the waiting chairs drinking a Sprite form a nearby vending machine. Sess stood patiently and erect searching for something.
"Sess? Would you please sit down? You are making me nervous." Miroku asked staring at Sess through the light green bottle.
"I can't help it. My half brother always manages to get into trouble or screw things up." Sess said in a calm voice.
"Okay first off…your BROTHER has a name. It's Inuyasha. Please try to use it…well…in front of Kagome at least. Second…Inuyasha doesn't manage to screw everything up." Miroku said taking a drink.
Sess just sent a dangerous glare at Miroku. Miroku gulped and then hurried and drank the whole thing of Sprite before Sess had any idea to take the bottle and dump the drink on is head.
"His plane landed 6 minutes ago! Where is he?" Sess growled impatiently.
"Right behind you." Inuyasha said with a smile. Miroku jumped up and laughed at the look Sess gave Inuyasha. Inuyasha just smiled and held onto Shippo's hand.
Shippo was looking up at Sess with wide eyes. He had imagined a kind-hearted person by the way Inuyasha had talked about him. But this guy was a MONSTER! AHH!
Shippo still held his Game Boy in his left hand his red book bag was slung over his left shoulder. Inuyasha gripped his right hand tightly.
"Who is this young man?" Miroku said as he leaned down to look at Shippo.
Shippo jumped behind his dad as the Dark haired man came closer.
"This is Shippo. Shippo? This is your godfather, Miroku." Inuyasha said pulling his son out from behind him. Shippo gulped as he looked at Miroku. Shippo sniffed the air. Miroku smelled like a nice person…he didn't smell of anything but happiness. Well there was a little sent of being worried but that was about it.
Shippo smiled at Miroku before he jumped behind his dad again.
"Now that we are done introducing ourselves can we go? Rin is not going to be happy with me if we don't get home soon." Sess growled as he walked away.
"But the introductions are not done yet!" Miroku protested taking Shippo's book Bag from him and swinging it over his shoulder. Then like a flash Miroku had taken Shippo's Game Boy and slipped into the book bag. "You haven't met Shippo!" Miroku said taking Shippo's other hand.
"I was one of the first people to greet him when he came into the world thank you!" Sess said in a huff still walking away.
Miroku sighed and they headed after Sess.
"Sess is really an okay guy once you get underneath his mask. It's just the wedding right now. Everyone is stressed right now." Miroku sighed as they all walked to the luggage pick-up area.
"Is it that bad? I mean I helped prepare for 2 weddings and I was never that bad." Inuyasha asked Miroku.
"Well, Everyone is worried about Kagome too. We still don't know if she…how she is going to react to everything. So far she has been holding up quiet well." Miroku sighed sadly.
"Was she that in love with Hojo?" Inuyasha asked. Miroku missed a step.
"Okay, #1- now that you are here…you are not allowed to say that name. That is the curse of all cuss words. #2- Kagome never really loved Hojo. She is just still hurt that he would go behind her back and- Never mind." Miroku quickly shut up.
"What? What did Ho-I mean HE do?" Inuyasha asked.
"What did Sess tell you?" Miroku asked slowly.
"Well…that they had gotten married and they divorced and Kagome is stuck with his two kids." Inuyasha said helplessly.
"What! My new mommy has two kids? AWSOME!" Shippo yelled happily. Inuyasha put a hand over his son's mouth as they caught glares.
"Remember I told you not to say it out loud?" Inuyasha growled at his son. Shippo smiled a wicked grin. Inuyasha sighed. His son was hopeless.
"Wait…you want to…holy cow. I have got to sit down." Miroku said holding his head.
Inuyasha was about to open out his mouth and explained but Sess hurried over.
"Inuyasha! Where is your stuff? All I could find was Shippo's." Sess held up a big bag that had Shippo's name written in black.
Inuyasha practically threw Shippo in Sess' arms. Then Inuyasha headed for the Pick-up area. Inuyasha found the right one but there was no other baggage left. Inuyasha felt his mouth hit his chest. WHAT? Inuyasha sniffed the air. There was not a trace of his bag's sent. ARG! They lost it!
Meanwhile…
Sess held Shippo a foot away from him. Sess stared at Shippo, and Shippo stared back. "Um…hi…I'm Uncle Sessumaru." Sess said feeling weird.
"Sesssumaro?" Shippo tried to say his name.
"Sessumaru." Sess said again.
"Seshmaru?"
"Sessumaru."
"Sheshmaru?"
"SESSUMARU!" Sess was really annoyed. This had to be his brothers son. It only took two minutes to get on his nerves.
"Sumaru?" Shippo tried again.
"S-E-S-S-U-M-A-R-U!" Sess almost yelled.
When Shippo was about to open his mouth again Sess covered it with one hand.
"Just call me Sess, okay?" Sess gave up. Inuyasha always said his name was hard to pronounce but he didn't think it was that hard! But then again…this was Inuyasha's son. Sess took away his hand and Shippo bit his lip thinking. Then very slowly he said, "Sess? Uncle Sess?"
Miroku jumped up from behind them and said, "Hallelujah!"
Just then Inuyasha came back. "They lost it! They freaken lost my luggage! Kuso!"
"Well go to the front desk and they should help you locate your luggage." Sess said handing Shippo back to Inuyasha. Inuyasha set Shippo down. "Miroku? Can you take Shippo to the car?" Inuyasha asked handing Shippo's hand to Miroku. Miroku took it and asked. "To my car or to Sess'?"
"You are not getting in my car!" Sess growled.
"Fine. Look I will just take him back home and have him meet everybody that way I can tell everyone what happened." Miroku said with a smile.
"But I can just call on my cell?" Sess said holding his cell phone in his lap.
"I know…but…I really miss Sango. And I don't think Shippo wants to sit in the same car as you two. Knowing you both the way I do I know that in 2 minutes on your way home and you two will be fighting again." Miroku said with a smile.
"Fine. Take Shippo to the girls. We will be along shortly. Have Rin give a call if she needs anything." Sess said dragging his brother off to the front desk.
Miroku led Shippo out the doors and into the parking lot.
40 minutes later…
"Where are they?" Sango said worriedly as she looked out the window in Kagome's house. The rain was coming down hard.
"I don't know and I am worried sick!" Rin said crossing her arms looking over her plans for the dresses in case she forgot something.
"Kagome? Do you need some help cooking the dinner?" Kikyo asked as she sat knitting some baby shoes.
"No. I got it!" The door muffled Kagome's voice. "How is Kara and Nathan doing?"
"They are doing fine!" Kikyo said staring at Kara and Nathan quietly playing together.
As Kikyo studied her stitches she thought about Hojo. How dare he suddenly call her up? When Naruku heard about this he would seriously do him in for good! First he had to get visiting rights. Then plopping Nathan on her. Now he was actually coming to visit. If only she wasn't pregnant! Then She could personally take Hojo out for her sister. Kikyo cursed under her breath and undid a stitch. What she wouldn't do to get a chance to kill Hojo!
Just then Kikyo felt the babies begin to kick her stomach. Kikyo quickly suck in a breath and automatically Sango and Rin were at her side.
"What is it? Did your water break?" Sango asked putting a hand to Kikyo's head.
Kikyo shook her head and took their hands and put them on her stomach. All of a sudden their hands were 'attacked' by little kicks.
"Oh no. There they go again! Kagome? Can we get Kikyo into the Hot tub?" Rin called to Kagome.
In an instant Kagome was there leading them down the stairs to the Hot tub. Kagome turned the Hot tub up and in seconds it was bubbling steam. While Kagome had gotten the hot tub ready Sango and Rin helped Kikyo into a swimsuit thing.
Then they slowly lowered Kikyo in the warm water. Kikyo gasped in pain. It was war! But as soon as her stomach went beneath the surface of the water the babies began to slow down. Kikyo sighed in relief. Sweat was now on everybody's face.
"Thank…thank you." Kikyo breathed.
Kagome nodded and backed out of the room with Sango and Rin on her heels. When they got back upstairs they all collapsed on the couch.
"Man…looking at that…I think I will want to wait to have kids when I marry Sess." Rin said with a shudder.
"Just make sure you are by a hot tub 24/7 and you wont have any problems." Kagome said smiling.
"I'd better call Naruku. He said he wanted to know when it happened again." Sango said getting up.
"Rin…will you take a break and set the table for me? I have just a little more to do on the dinner." Kagome asked also getting up.
Rin sighed and got up. "Why not? It will be nice not to think about the wedding."
Kagome and Rin headed off to the kitchen.
Meanwhile Sango had dialed Naruku's work #.
Naruku was in the middle of a big project and he had no answers for the questions that his boss had asked. Just then his phone rang.
"Hello, This is Naruku. How may I help you today?" Naruku said in his fake happy tone.
"Oh Naruku….you sound so happy to hear from me." Sango laughed.
"SANGO! What's wrong? What happened to Kikyo? Is she-" Naruku began on a series of worries.
"No! Hold on! I'll tell you everything if you will just hold your horses!" Sango laughed interrupting Naruku.
"Okay…what happened." Naruku asked tense.
"World War 4 happened." Sango said dryly.
"But…what about World War 3?" Naruku asked wondering if Sango had hid one of Kikyo's 'attacks'.
"This was way too big for World War 3. Instead we went onto 4. She is in the Hot tub now resting but they didn't completely stop." Sango told him honestly.
"Oh. Are the guys there?" Naruku asked tapping his pencil on his desk.
"No. They went to pick up Inuyasha but they didn't return." Sango said looking out the window again in hopes of seeing them drive up.
"All right. Look…can you have my wife stay in the hot tub till I can get there? I'll leave now." Naruku said standing up.
"I don't think I could pry her from the hot tub!" Sango laughed.
"You're right. I don't think you could. Well, I will be there as soon as I can. Bye Sango." Naruku said hanging up. Great. Another Session of fighting. Naruku didn't know if Kikyo could handle anymore. Naruku slowly began to pick up his stuff.
He couldn't juggle work and Kikyo. It was just too much. He went to work at 7:00 in the morning and came home at 8:00 in the evening. Then he would spend all night trying to make Kikyo feel better. He would end up getting 4 hours of sleep…that was…if it was a good night. Usually he spent all night rubbing her back, her feet, and her stomach.
Naruku couldn't keep this up for much longer…besides…when they finally did come he would have to stay at home to make sure everything went okay. Kikyo wouldn't be strong enough to handle all of them. Sure Kikyo was powerful but…4 pups would conquer her. He had to be there to make sure they understood who was the boss.
That was the thing about demon babies. From the very beginning you had to teach them your sent and who was boss. Not to mention all the teaching that they had to go through.
Naruku sighed as he shut off his office lights. He would have to petition for him to be able to work at home. Besides…even if he had to quit, they had enough money to last them a lifetime. Work was just away form to free his mind and to escape the real world.
Naruku put a hand on his head. Another blasted headache. They came regularly now. He had no idea why. His doctor told him it was just all the stress from Kikyo and the pups. Naruku hoped that that is what it was.
3
Sango hung the phone and stood there looking out the window. The sounds of Rin and Kagome talking and laughing floated across the room and called to Sango to join them. But Sango just stood there.
Sango thoughts were all in a jumble. She thought about the wedding, Hojo, Kagome, Kikyo, Naruku, and most importantly Miroku. Sango sighed as she tore her eyes away from the window. It did no good to worry about everything but...she did. She couldn't help it.
Just then the doorbell rang. Sango bolted from her seat and ran down the stairs to the door. Sango threw it open to see a newspaper boy soaking wet.
"Here you go Ma'am!" The newspaper boy said handing it to her. Then with a nod he went back out into the rain.
Sango called a thank you to the boy and shut the door with disappointment. She had hoped it was Miroku. But no. Again life played with her emotions.
As Sango was climbing the stairs slowly the doorbell rang again. Sango turned and walked down the stairs slowly. It was probably someone else giving the mail or milk.
Sango opened up the door to see a soaking Miroku holding a soaked and unhappy demon child.
"Miroku!" Sango threw her arms around him and kissed him for all the neighbors to see. Miroku had to stumble backwards to catch his balance.
When Sango finally pulled away Miroku smiled down at her. "Sango?" "Yes?" "Can I get in the house?" Miroku asked feeling as if his arms were about to come off.
Sango blushed and hurried them inside. Miroku put down a red book bag along with a very large suitcase. Then Miroku put the little boy down. Sango immediately went to work to take off the kids jacket.
"Kagome? Rin? Miroku is here with a little present!" Sango called up the stairs. Two seconds later Rin and Kagome appeared on the steps.
"Oh my! Who is this?" Rin said looking at the boy.
"This is Shippo. Shippo that is Rin your Aunt to be." Miroku said getting out of his wet Jacket.
"Oh! So this is Shippo!" Rin said picking Shippo up. Shippo stayed quiet and just looked at Rin. "My! He is so big! I can barely hold him!" Rin laughed. Rin set him down.
"Where are the other guys?" Rin asked looking at Miroku. Miroku put an arm around Sango and kissed her head.
"Something went wrong. Inuyasha's plane was late and his luggage was lost-" The conversation was lost to Shippo and Kagome.\
When Miroku had said who this pup was, Kagome had frozen on the steps.
Inuyasha's ChildKagome felt a pain in her chest. Inuyasha had a child…and it wasn't hers. But then she did have a child without him. Kagome knew right then and there…she wanted that pup to be hers and Inuyasha's. Oh how she wanted Inuyasha's child. Why did she ever let him go?
When Rin had held him up Shippo had locked eyes with her. His eyes made her gasp softly. They were intense and held the same amount of power that Inuyasha's eyes had. Kagome had gripped the stair case.
Rin put Shippo down and Shippo slowly made his way to Kagome. Their eyes were still locked. When Shippo came the steps he stopped and just stared. Kagome stared back. They stayed that way for a long time.
Shippo smelt the peach blossoms that he told Shippo about. It was fresh and clean smell. He was surprised at his Dad's descriptions and her photos. They didn't do her justice. She was an absolute goddess. He had to have her for a mother. Sure he had a mother when he was small but…he barley remembered her.
Suddenly Shippo asked quietly, and Kagome was sure that no one else could hear, "Will you be my Mommy?"
Foxgem: Okay…next Chapter is when Kagome and Inuyasha will meet. Don't worry…REVIEW!