That Night At the Inn
Love
His demonic abilities, made that much stronger because Tessaiga wasn't around to suppress them, were healing his body faster than Kagome or he could guess. And, at that moment, those superhuman healing powers he had connected a broken path in his brain.
InuYasha gasped as the memories came flooding back.
"Kagome!" he turned to her desperately and reached for her. "Are you alright? Are you both...?"
"We're fine." Kagome smiled in relief that he had obviously regained his memories. "Both of us. We had a lot of shields."
Everything in front of her at the blast had protected her. Tessaiga took the brunt of the explosion, then InuYasha took the rest. The sheath picked up what slipped past him, then the robe protected Kagome completely. Kagome was sure that no one had ever survived so big an explosion with so little injuries before.
"How did we get here?" InuYasha asked, looking around the cave. He could have sworn they had landed somewhere in the open.
"I pulled you in here." Kagome told him. "We aren't that far but we needed shelter."
"You shouldn't have done that." InuYasha told her severely. "You shouldn't be carrying things with a baby in your belly."
Kagome, happy he was up, didn't bother to argue with him.
He crawled to his feet, stumbled a bit, leaned against the cave wall, groaning. He felt sore like he did after a really bad fight.
"Careful." Kagome stood and went to him and supported his weight on her shoulders.
"Stop trying to carry things." he told her unhappily as she steered him towards to entrance.
The cave she had picked was more for hiding than anything. The inner cave, she called it, was reached by an extremely sharp turn by the outer cave. The outer cave was more of a gaping hole at least three stories high that branched off into two. One branch led here, the other was the source of the river they had stopped at.
It was there that Kagome kept a fire going. Fire, she had discovered in her travels, was great for keeping predators at bay.
They turned out of the inner cave and stepped outside.
It was midday, bright and beautiful with no sign of the explosion in sight.
They had been thrown pretty far away. So far that Kagome hadn't felt safe leaving him alone to fetch Tessaiga that, to the best of her knowledge, was still embedded in the ground at the blast sight.
"Food..." InuYasha said thankfully looking at the fish that Kagome was roasting over the fire.
The river right next to her meant she had, at least, a source of food.
She had been catching enough fish for two these last few days in case he woke up. Good thing she had too.
The moment he sat down, he grabbed one of the fish and took a bite despite how hot it was from the fire.
Kagome, not very hungry, sat beside him and watched him carefully.
After the explosion, he had been in pretty bad shape.
There had been a gash on the back of his head that bled profusely, but that hadn't worried Kagome overmuch. She knew, again from her travels, that head wounds tended to bleed excessively. What had really worried her was how burnt his back had been.
The explosion had practically destroyed his kosode leaving only a few strips left that Kagome had used to start the fire. After destroying the cloth, it had wreaked havoc on his back. Luckily, Kagome had been learning herbology from Kaede and had found some plants by the river that worked wonders on burns.
It had only taken a few days for the burns on his back to heal and get his bleeding head to stop. But the concussion that he had took a bit longer to heal.
It was a miracle that he was okay. Ravenous, but otherwise fine.
"How are you feeling?" Kagome asked after he had finished his third fish, the last one on the fire.
"Fine." he said rotating his shoulders experimentally. He still felt like someone had beaten him with a bag of rocks, but it was fading fast.
Too fast. He needed to get back to Tessaiga before something else came along to threaten his life and excite his demon blood. He doubted he would harm the woman carrying his pup but he really, really didn't want to take that chance.
"Are you still hungry?" she asked. "I can catch more fish if you want."
InuYasha shook his head. He was still a bit hungry but he could wait until they got back to Kagome's time.
"We should get going." he tried to stand but his muscles, still a bit weak, protested.
"Don't force yourself." Kagome told him gently. "Are you tired? Do you want to go back to sleep?"
"Stop worrying about me!" InuYasha told her sharply. She shouldn't worry about him; she should only be concerned about herself and their baby. It was his job to worry and fuss and protect her, especially now.
"Come back in." Kagome stood up and offered him her hand. "You should-"
"I'm fine." he insisted.
Kagome paused. "Well, I'm a bit tired. I haven't slept well lately." She knew him. He would resist sleeping until he died, but if she was tired he would give in. Sure enough...
"Alright. Just for a while." He stood up on his own but needed her help to walk back in. The fire would be fine without them looking over it.
There wasn't anything to lie on but rock, but Kagome had slept on worse.
InuYasha laid down first, then opened his arms and Kagome crawled into them gratefully. He was providing her a pillow and warmth with his body.
He took a sniff of her hair. He had wondered why his scent stuck to her so nicely. Even after they mated it should have dissipated after one of her baths. That it didn't could only mean it was coming from her instead of coming off her. And he still really liked it.
"Damn." he said unhappily.
"What?" Kagome asked.
"I wish my body wasn't so damn tired." he grumbled.
Kagome blinked, confused. Then understood what he meant and giggled. "Later, InuYasha." she promised. "We'll have lots of time later. A whole lifetime."
"Yeah." he smiled a bit stupidly. "I'm going to be a father."
Kagome smiled. She had been happy when she had found out.
She had bought the pregnancy tests at the drugstore on a whim. She knew where babies came from and thought it was probably safe to take a test. She picked the one that swore results earlier in your disrupted cycle than the other, not that they didn't all promise that.
When she got home, she had immediately taken it. It barely took a minute to scream that she was indeed pregnant.
She had felt kind of numb. She had spent about an hour in the bathroom, sitting on the closed toilet, a hand to her belly. Just sitting there as if she could feel the life growing in her. Old Kaede, in her teachings, had told her that when she got a good enough hold over her powers she would be able to sense the life in pregnant women. But she couldn't do it yet.
After that moment of disbelief, she had felt a sort of happiness. She loved knowing that she was carrying InuYasha's child. She adored the thought that she was nurturing a little life that they had created together. She hadn't been able to stop smiling all day.
Then she reminded herself that she had to tell him.
That was when her excitement nose dived.
She loved the baby, but would he?
She knew the reputation men from her time had gained for running from their responsibilities, but she also knew that he wasn't from her time. That didn't prevent her from feeling nervous about talking to him about it.
She had made a quick trip to the doctor to get herself checked out first.
Yes, she was pregnant.
Yes, she wanted to keep it.
No, she hadn't told the baby's father yet.
Yes, she would.
Things would be so much easier if she was surer about what to do.
Sure, she had sex ED just as everyone did. But sex ED really only covered how not to get pregnant. They barely broached the subject about what to do once you were. And yes she had skipped most of health while traveling through the past, but she still made it to a few classes. And really all that class covered was the diseases that you could get instead of getting pregnant.
There wasn't a single class on what happened after you were pregnant. No one ever told you what to do past taking a test and seeing the doctor. Which was highly irritating. Some one should really think about changing that particular policy.
Then again, it didn't really matter what the policies were for being pregnant in the future since Kagome fully intended on having her baby here, in the past.
InuYasha couldn't live in the future. Oh, she had no doubt he could try and would probably adapt very well. But the image of InuYasha working a 9 to 5 job, wearing pants, living with the hustle and bustle of a big city day after day was just laughable.
No, he was a man of the past and, after all this time in it, Kagome was a girl of the past. This was where they needed to set up their family, live their lives.
Of course, that meant Kagome was going to be giving birth without painkillers. She wasn't looking forward to that at all. But this was her baby.
She moved a hand and set it over her belly.
Her baby deserved the best.
InuYasha's hand moved over her own so that they were both holding their child.
Kagome smiled up at him. "I love you, InuYasha." she said. The moment was just so perfect she couldn't not say it.
InuYasha smiled a bit and said back, for the first time, "I love you too, Kagome."
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