Disclaimer: I do not own these characters they belong to Rumiko Takahashi and Masashi Kishimoto.
"Mommy! Mommy!" Sukayu shrieked happily as she picked him up and twirled him around.
"Good morning, Sukayu. I'm guessing you slept well?" Kagome smiled softly as her son nodded enthusiastically.
"Uh-huh! And I even checked on Daddy like you do me!" The hanyou beamed proudly.
Kagome raised an eyebrow as her former lover entered the room. Sasuke shrugged. "I see, that was very kind of you Sukayu. Now, why don't you eat your breakfast while your father and I talk."
Sukayu whined at this, but complied when his mother told him that they would all go outside together later once they were done.
"Follow me." She motioned for Sasuke to follow her further into the house.
Once they were far enough in the house, she placed a sutra on the wall and concentrated. It glowed a faint pink for a moment before molding into the wall.
"There, now Sukayu won't be able to hear us." She told him and settled down into one of the chairs near her bed. She motioned for him to do the same. The Uchiha complied and waited for her to speak.
"In all honesty, I…I'm not sure where to began." Kagome said, suddenly finding her clasped hands fascinating.
"Why not start with why you left? Was it because you knew about Sukayu? Did I do something?" Sasuke snapped, irritated at his lack of information and the hurt he felt.
"No, it wasn't you, Sasuke." She whispered, peering up at him with a sad smile playing on her lips. "It was your Hokage."
Sasuke flinched back, surprised. "Lady Tsunade? What does she have to do with this?"
"Everything." She smiled again, bitterly this time, as she recalled the memories that had sent her far away from the one she loved. "It was your Hokage that sent me away."
Sasuke's eyes widened, "You're lying!" He accused as he hastily stood up, shoving back his chair in the process.
"No, I'm not." Kagome gazed up at him. He searched through them for any hint of a lie and raked his hand through his hair when he found none. "But why would she do such a thing? You helped to protect the village, damn it!"
"But I was also the reason that it was in danger in the first place, remember?" She placed her hand on his arm and sent a wave of her energy to calm him.
When he relaxed slightly and sat back down in his chair, she continued. "After she told me, I was devastated. I wanted so badly to see you one last time that I stalled the guards assigned to me and escaped to you." She paused and took a deep breath.
"You have to believe me when I say that it wasn't my intention to sleep with you or get pregnant for that matter. It was just….I was just so happy when I found out you loved me that I didn't think anything of the consequences of my actions." She flinched slightly at the memory of his heartbroken and betrayed eyes and took another moment to collect herself.
This time, her voice quivered when she spoke, "I found out I was pregnant a few months after I left, while I was staying with an old woman in the Land of Earth. She was nice enough and took care of me when Sukayu was born. When she saw him though….anyway I ended up coming here and finding this abandoned house. I fixed it up and we've been here every since."
Sasuke, struck speechless by her, simply stared at her agonized face. Finally, after several minutes, he spoke, "Why did you call to me after so long? Why not sooner?"
Kagome flinched again and clenched her hands into fists, "I thought that I could do it on my own and that a child would only be burden to you. I didn't want to cause any problems for you and I definitely didn't want you to hate him." Or me. She let the sentence hang with the unspoken ending. He was also grateful that she didn't mention what happened when he originally met Sukayu.
"What changed then?" He questioned, curious and more than a little hurt.
"Sukayu changed. He developed your kekkai-genkai and I knew that he would need you. I hardly know anything about it. Besides he'd been asking when he would get to meet you." She looked into his eyes and smiled at the pride she saw there. "I take it he showed you the sharingan then?"
"Yes, he showed me last night when he came in to 'check' on me." Sasuke chuckled lightly.
"I see." She laughed with him for a moment, then saw the curious look in his eyes and stopped. "What is it?"
"Sukayu told me about what happened when he developed the sharingan, but he could only tell me his side of the story. What really happened?"
Kagome clenched her fists, a look of pure unadulterated anger crossing her features. "They were people I knew a long time ago. They were trying to take Sukayu away from me because he was a hanyou. I fought with them and then, they saw that Sukayu had powers from you as well as me and they ran to regroup." Her eyes pleaded with him not to ask anymore questions about it.
Sasuke glared at her for a moment before nodding.
She nodded to and stood up. She stretched her arms above her head and popped her back.
"So, do you have any more questions about anything else? Because Sukayu is probably done eating and getting restless."
"I just have one more question." He answered and stood as well. He crept closer to her and placed a hand on her cheek. He smirked at her blush and leaned closer. "After all this time, what is it you feel for me now?"
When her blush deepened, he swept forward to capture her lips.
"Daddy! Mommy! Can we go outside now?" Sukayu crashed through the door in a rush of excitement.
Kagome jerked back, her blush still staining her features. Sasuke cursed inside his mind, but kept careful control of his facial features.
Kagome collected herself and smiled at her son, "Of course, love. Just let mommy put her hair up."
"Okay!" Sukayu beamed and rushed out of the room, dragging his father with him.
Kagome sighed and picked up an elastic band and brush from her dresser. It took only a moment for her raven hair to be swept up into a less than elegant ponytail and then she was ready.
"All right, I'm ready." She greeted them at the door.
"Yay!" Sukayu exclaimed and happily escaped from the house.
Kagome shook her head and moved to follow him. Sasuke stopped her with a hand on her arm and leaned forward so that his mouth grazed her ear. "Don't think that you can leave my question unanswered or that we are anywhere near done." He whispered, his mouth brushing the sensitive pointed tip of her ear and causing her to shiver.
"Come on! Let's go play!" Sukayu showed up at the door again and grasped both of his parents' hands to lead them outside. Both ravens smiled and allowed their son to pull them out into the bright sunlight.
A/N: Well, I finally updated. It took me forever to get my uninspired brain into working order and type it. I hope you enjoyed it and don't forget to review.
-SesshyLover132