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~ Chapter Eighteen~

Struggling To Stand Still

By Inuyashas Youkai

Feeling the weight leaning against him, the child Inuyasha felt his miko mate snuggle further against him limply following the passing whisper glimpsing through her passive lips lazily , as the sentence breathed to him was left open at the very end without a continuation to her finishing thought.

"Mate, I love you . Know that I don't blame you for any of it ,sweet hanyou.. Don't -"

The last remnant given before she collapsed further against him, as everything that reminded him of her next to him was almost gone , with the exception of a murmuring tingle of a heartbeat slowing in its echoing melody to the life she brought for him inside of her , and her unmoving visage within his arms.

"Kagome , come on wake up and tell me .. Mate , I want to know what you said..Kagome? Kagome !" the young hanyou as he held his precious gift , had tried to rouse her , but had been unanswered in the end.

Quickly with a strength that wasn't his own , the child Inuyasha was oddly enough able to carry her awkwardly to the only one that he knew, against his own desire to help her , and hoping that what he felt inside of him, that his older self had not left yet, as he leapt somewhat unsteadily through the mist settling in the trees.

~Tying Up Receiving Ends~

Gliding through the cluster of trees , Inuyasha 's quickened pace had been halted , as his feet skidded to stop himself prior to colliding with the shadow breaking through quickly approaching bordering turn of trees within the shaped maze of shrubbery. Out of it came something unexpected as the hanyou now looked onto his younger self defined in the pale glow of the rising moon, and with the bundle held tightly now beside him , while sitting looking up at him with a hopeless plea..

"I'am sorry , I thought I was doing whats best for her , but as it seems even I can't stop it .So If I can have your word of what you said is true ,I will return her to you with your promise that mate won't die .."

Nodding gently towards his younger self , then trudging over where he held out his treasure , for him to take , Inuyasha then grasped a hold of her dying form into a loving embrace and before anything else could be said in thanks , his brother interrupted to remind them of the fact that time wasn't on their side, and then it was the younger version of himself stating the last of the words told stating farewell.

"The only thank you needed is for her to survive , for you know as well as I nothing else matters..."

Smiling in agreement towards the sentiment , then looking to voice such truth , but when his eyes came to meet the spot where the younger once stood, his image gone as if nothing was standing there to begin with. As the two brothers walked towards where it was were they entered a whisper came to flutter within the older ones ears.

"Take care of her , want her , need her , love her, for me . It is that , the only thing mate wants, desires of us to make her happy , and it'll become my happiness as well.."

On the other side , Inuyasha while ignoring the others presence when seeing as well as hearing the expected responses when he carried her limp form to somewhere to privately tend to his expectant mate without interruption, then laying her gently on the bed they at one time shared prior to the start of this hellish nightmare. After seeing that his mate was then clean by giving her a sponge-bath , and comfortable with a new set of clothing more fitting of her larger pregnant beautiful body , the hanyou then followed by climbing in bed with her pulled tightly against him, as his arms formed closely around her seemingly only slumbering appearance . Smiling softly as it was then heard of his mate's heartbeat slowing bringing itself about beating stronger in time with his , with the echoing following of the pups moving around inside her , and with the relived revelation , Inuyasha began kissing Kagome , splaying little love pecks where ever his lips can reach.

A gentle kick came then against his side , and coming from his mate's womb , as it was seen when the hanyou lifted a bit to unveil her stomach , then see the wondrous miracle gifting that of his eyes. With a hesitant but light , feathered graze of his hand , placed both of them upon both sides of her stomach to feel them once more, and almost as it would seem like the unborn pups wanted to let their father know they were still there, a few more kicks shown themselves through the outer flesh of her womb , where they continued to linger within until it was time. Tears stubbornly ran its course down his face, but only this time these were happy ones , and with a smirking grin , Inuyasha began to rouse his mate up , only to tell her to her face , the words that he wished to give to her in appreciation for everything she has given him , starting with her.

Although as her loving chocolate eyes unveiled themselves to come and grace their sights upon his adoringly relived ones , by the visage of her still healing form backing away in fright with her eyes joining them ,as they enlarged in size, to Inuyasha's dismay it became known as truth of his second most regret to almost losing her, and that was seeing it with his own two pained eyes that his mate feared him.

TBC..