That Night At the Inn

Reunion

The sun had just rose in the sky, blanketing the earth in the warm rays of dawn. InuYasha and Koga had run through the night. The half-demon was anxious to get back to his pregnant wife and unborn child. He was still unsettled about that ambush Naraku had set up for him and he could only pray that it had not been so the evil hanyou could hurt Kagome.

A village appeared over the horizon and the closer he got InuYasha began to smell a familiar scent. The hanyou stopped at the eastern gate of the village, trying to sort out the scent. He knew who it belonged to but his mind couldn't place it. "Hey mutt," Koga said as he halted next to InuYasha. "Isn't that your monk friend's scent? Smells like he took a beating." Then it clicked the scent was Miroku! Why was he so far from the village and where was Sango? Without another word InuYasha ran into the village following the scent of his wounded Beta.

Finally, he came to the large house of the headman. Figures that the bouzo would manage to get the headman to take him in. InuYasha thought with an affectionate grin. Miroku was truly like the brother he had always wanted, you know not like the psycho big brother he already had. InuYasha stepped onto the porch and knocked near the doormat with Koga coming up behind him.

Soon an older woman with grey flecking her black tresses came to the door and gasped at the creature before her. InuYasha ignored her shocked reaction to seeing a hanyou on her doorstep he was use to it.

"Is there a Buddhist monk here?" InuYasha said, getting straight to the point. "He might be injured." The woman's expression went from shock to outrage. "Are ye the monster that wounded the good monk?" she demanded of him, a look of disgust in her eyes. "Be gone from my home monster." Then she spat at InuYasha's feet. InuYasha glared at the mortal woman as his pack instincts kicked in. Miroku, his pack brother, was inside that house and he was injured. InuYasha wasn't going anywhere. "Look you old hag," InuYasha said as he tried to hold his temper in check. "The monk is my friend, and if he is injured I wanna see him. NOW!" the woman cringed as the hanyou hollered at her angrily and when her husband came out to see what was going on she darted back inside.

"What is the meaning of this?" the man demanded. InuYasha growled he was losing his patients and he wanted to return to Kagome, but if Miroku was injured he couldn't abandon his friend.

"You have my friend's pack brother here." Koga stepped up so InuYasha wouldn't lose it."

The headman looked shocked. "We have no demons or hanyou's here, my good man." InuYasha shook his head in exasperation. "He ain't a demon, he's a monk, a Buddhist monk in black and purple!" the headman stared at the hanyou. Then he bowed his head. "On moment please." Then he returned back into the house. InuYasha was about to bash his own head against a wall but the headman returned before he went that far.

"Forgive the misunderstanding my Lord." He said as he bowed low. "The monk wishes to see you, if you will follow me." Then he led both demons into his home and led them to a guest room.

He opened the door for both men and left without a word.

"I thought that was you I heard InuYasha." Miroku greeted from the futon near the back wall. InuYasha and Koga sat in front of him.

"What happened to you monk?" Koga asked as he took in the scent of stale blood and sweat. Miroku nodded in greeting to Koga. "Sango and I were separated when we were attacked by twin incarnations of Naraku." InuYasha stiffened. "The one I fought is now dead but she got a good shot or two in at me."

"What about Sango?" InuYasha asked. Miroku bowed his head in shame. "I don't know."

InuYasha took a deep breath. "Ok, come on monk, let's blow this joint."

Miroku looked up, "But InuYasha, I'm injured. I can't travel right now." InuYasha scoffed. "You think you're gonna walk?"

Then the half demon grabbed his friend's arm and swung him on his back. "I'll carry you, besides who better to treat you old Keade?" then they left the room

"Lord Monk!" the headman's wife said as she saw the three men.

"I'll be leaving now, my Lady, thank you and your house for you hospitality, but I must return home." Then InuYasha walked out of the house with Miroku on his back and Koga behind him.

OOOOOOOO

The three men made it back to the village by early evening.

InuYasha felt a smile come to his face at the thought of Kagome and the daughter she carried for him. He couldn't wait to hold her again. InuYasha had planned to drop Miroku off with the old hag and runt, go see his mate, then return and look for Sango.

InuYasha stopped short when to things happened. First; the most horrible and nauseating stench reached his nose and apparently Koga and Miroku smelled too, because both men began to gage. Second; InuYasha saw Sesshomaru standing near Keade's door with his two headed dragon and Jaken right beside him.

InuYasha skidded to a stop. "What the hell are you doing here, you bastard?" He growled. Sesshomaru gave him a bored stare as he turned to the younger man.

"So you finally return." Sesshomaru said. "You best show some gratitude seeing as I have acted in your stead."

InuYasha growled. "What are you talking about?" Sesshomaru rolled his eyes.

"Your pupped female, she was by the old well, defenseless waiting for you I believe."

InuYasha felt his heart stop. Kagome was here? Alone? InuYasha glared at his brother. "What did you do to her?"

The demon rolled his eyes and pointed to the hut. "She's in the hut with the slayer, elder miko and the undead one as well. Also that stench you smell is the scent of Naraku's newest incarnation."

"WHAT?!"

"He's rather harmless, a mere child. But his scent was designed to cripple me and also you I suppose to get to your female."

InuYasha's face paled. "Well where is he? Why isn't he dead?!" Sesshomaru showed no emotion as he answered the distraught hanyou's questions. "Your mate would not allow me to deliver a single blow to the child."

InuYasha allowed Miroku to slide from his back and lean on Koga. Then stormed into the hut to find Sango, Kikyo, Keade and Shippo sitting around a fire and sweet incense burning, probably an attempt to cut the foul smelling stench in the hut.

"InuYasha, Ye have returned." Koga stumbled in, tears in his eyes at the stench, dragging Miroku along.

"Where is she?" InuYasha asked as he looked around.

"In the back room." Sango said as she went to Miroku's side happy to see him alive. InuYasha nodded then started toward the back room only for Kagome to come out and meet him with a pale purple haired demon child in her arms.

"InuYasha!" Kagome said happily as she made her way to him. "I was so worried, I missed you." InuYasha put a hand to her cheek then looked to the boy sleeping in her arms.

"What are you doing with that thing?" He asked softly as he looked in her eyes. He had missed her so much.

"He hasn't done anything wrong InuYasha. He's just a baby." InuYasha shook his head. "And what about our baby?" he asked not caring who heard him at he moment. He noticed Kagome's eyes shift uneasily toward Kikyo.

Kagome felt InuYasha pull her face to look at him by her chin. "Kagome I can't smell anything but that kid's disgusting smell, do you know how dangerous that is for you and the baby?"

Kagome sadly looked down at the child in her arms. "But what about him, InuYasha?" Kagome asked with tears in her eyes. "We can't kill him, and he's just a baby, how can he survive on his own?" InuYasha shook his head. He didn't like it either but his daughter and her mother came first. "I'm sorry Kagome, but I refuse to risk your life or our daughter."

"May I offer another alternative?" asked Myouga as he appeared out of no where.

"HEY!" InuYasha growled. "Where have you been until now?"

"Lord InuYasha keep your voice down the child is sleeping!"

then the old flea turned to Kagome. "Now my Lady, there are marsh demon to the south that owe allegiance to Lord InuYasha's father and your child's grandfather, they have a pungent odor much like this little one's. I'm sure I could find a female to take the child in." Kagome glanced to InuYasha who merely nodded.

"Ok," Kagome relented.

"Excellent!" then the flea looked to Kirara.

"Kirara will you carry the child please?" the cat demon gave a depressed mew but agreed. Kagome gave the child, who had woken up by now, to the fire cat and watched as they flew away.

"Finally," Jaken squawked. "That dreadful thing is gone."

InuYasha glared at the imp but it was Rin who smacked him in the back of the head. "That is not nice master Jaken, Lady Kagome really cared for him."

InuYasha took Kagome in his arms and lead her back into the hut followed by his brother and his companions.

Kagome sat by Keade and then reached into her jacket pocket. "Here," she whispered as she handed the picture of his daughter to InuYasha. "What's this?" he asked as he looked at the black and white ultrasound.

Kagome pointed to the little dots that made up their baby.

"It's our baby InuYasha, this is how big she is right now. It's her first picture."

InuYasha stared at the picture, his hand nearest Kagome going to her flat stomach of it's own will.

"She's so tiny." He said. Kagome smiled then yawned. InuYasha gave her the picture back. "You're tired." He stated. "Go take a nap, we'll go through the well when you wake up."

Kagome nodded then went to the back room with Shippo and laid down.

OOOOOOOOO

As she watched Kagome go to the back room Kikyo stood.

"InuYasha," the silver haired hanyou looked up to her. "May I speak with you outside please?" the hanyou uneasily stood and followed his past lover outside.

Hopefully she wasn't going to pin him to the sacred tree again over this.

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