Names

Naraku watched Kanna's mirror as the image of a sliver haired hanyou and his raven haired, pregnant mate walked to through the forest surrounding the village that he had once resided near many years ago in a cave.

His red eyes narrowed in the miko heavy with child as she walked next to the young man. Naraku smiled as he watched the way InuYasha stayed close. Soon InuYasha would know the ultimate pain of loosing everything that he held dear.

It'd be even more amusing if InuYasha himself killed his mate and unborn child.

Naraku then looked to Kagura. The wind demoness leaned casually against the door frame as she glared hatefully at her hanyou master.

"What are you up to Naraku?" Kagura asked. Now Kagura didn't necessarily like InuYasha and his little pack but even she loathed the thought of attacking a pregnant woman. It was just low, she may be an incarnation of Naraku but she did have the maternal instincts that all women possessed.

"Kagura I want you to pay InuYasha and his pack a little visit." Kagura lifted an eyebrow but when he gave her no other orders she took a feather from her hair and threw it in to the air. It grew in size and she landed on it and flew in the direction to Keade's village.

Kagome sat around the hearth in the middle of Keade's hut and showed her baby's ultrasound picture to the others. Kikyo and Sango each leaned over the young woman's shoulder as Kagome pointed out the baby's head and her thumb which she was suckling.

"Wow Kagome, that is inside you?" Shippo squealed from a top the Miko's head. Kagome smiled happily as she nodded. "Yup, that's my baby."

"Humhum," InuYasha cleared his throat to draw the attention of his pack.

"Kagome I think we had an agreement before." Kagome rolled her eyes but didn't move.

"You want the beads off the you're gonna have to come to me because I really don't want to get up." The half demon gave a halfhearted growl of annoyance but got up and walked to his mate. Once her husband was sitting in front of her she gently lifted the beads of subjugation from around his neck.

"K-Kagome! What are you doing!" Shippo screeched as he saw his mother figure taking the beads off the hanyou's neck. This was not good. Kagome gave a soft look to the kit as he gave small shivers behind her. "InuYasha won the bet Shippo, we're having a little girl, so I have to take his beads off."

"BUT HE"S GONNA KILL ME KAGOME! YOU KNOW HOW MEAN HE IS!"

InuYasha then snatched the fox demon up by his tail. "Stop yelling in my mate's ear you little runt!"

Shippo stilled his struggling and went silent as he began to sweat beads of sweat.

Then InuYasha's face took on an evil look. "And just so we're clear. You try anymore of those damn pranks on me I'll pound you, you got that?"

"InuYasha…" Kagome started with a tone in her voice that made the young man freeze up. "You know our baby will be just as much of a handful as Shippo, you should be nicer to him. I won't have you knocking our daughter on the head when you get irritated."

By now the other occupants of the hut were looking between their friends.

"You think I'd hit my daughter!?" he shouted in outrage.

"Probably not as bad as Shippo but you know I remember what you did to Asagi from Hori Island."

"She was being a brat!"

"She was trying to be responsible."

InuYasha then folded his arms and huffed. Kagome smiled then kissed his cheek. "Just keep that temper in check and you'll be a wonderful daddy." She said causing the Inu hanyou to blush lightly.

Suddenly the InuYasha heard the sound of approaching footsteps recognizing his elder brother's and his charges' footsteps.

InuYasha looked toward the door as Rin came through the door happily with Jaken not far behind.

"Oh Lady Kagome! You're back!" Kagome smiled as she greeted the young child.

"Yes Rin, it seems InuYasha was right, we are having a daughter." Rin then took on a serious face that on a child always brought on giggles of adoration from adults.

"Lord Sesshomaru says that Male Inus are always right."

Kagome cocked her eyebrow up as InuYasha chuckled.

"Damn right."

Then Sesshomaru entered. "You should not allow a mere fact to blow you head any bigger as it already is."

Then the elder dog looked to his pack sister and explained.

"Inu demon males tend to already know what their mate will birth before it is born. No one knows how or why. Father knew that I would be a son just as he knew that InuYasha would also be born male. It is only right that even a half breed would know that his pup was female."

Kagome smiled as she looked to the ultrasound again. Then she looked to InuYasha. "So what do you want to name her?" Kagome asked. InuYasha was somewhat surprised. It was common that fathers named their sons while mother named their daughters.

"Why you asking me?" he asked. "Well you've had more time to think on it, you knew she was a girl from the beginning and you are her father after all."

InuYasha went silent as he thought hard on a name for his daughter. by this time Kouga had also entered and watched the pack silently as InuYasha thought.

"I-I guess I like the name Kanari." Kagome smiled as she watched her husband. Then she smiled.

"How about this. In my era a person has three names, they have their first name, which is what you go by, then they have a middle name sometimes the name of a relative, and the surname."

InuYasha flicked his ear. "Ok?" Then his wife smiled serenely. "How about we name her after your mother? How about Izayoi Kanari Higurashi?"

InuYasha looked shocked. She wanted to name their child for his mother? He had never thought he'd have a child to carry his mother's name. Then he looked to his mate's belly and smiled as he put his hand to her stomach.

"Izayoi, my precious Izayoi." Kagome smiled but before she could say anything else her husband, Brother-in- law and Kouga all turned to the door letting out a blood-curdling snarl. Kikyo, Sango, and Miroku then jumped up as well.

"What's wrong?" Miroku asked as the demons mad their way out of the hut.

Once everyone made their way out Kagome came up behind them with Shippo on her shoulder and Kirara at her feet. Standing before them was Kagura just like a few months back.

The demoness looked directly at the pregnant miko then to her snarling hanyou lover.

"What do you want here?!" InuYasha growled as he put his hand to the Tessaiga's hilt ready to rip the threat to his mate apart.

"I'm not here to fight." Kagura said as she lowered her eyes from the hanyou's going for submissive. "Then what do you want?" Sesshomaru asked as he put a restraining hand on his younger brother's shoulder.

"Naraku is up to something I don't know what but it's making my stomach turn."

InuYasha then narrowed his eyes to the wind demoness. "Why is that?"

"Because whatever he has planned for your child it's bad."

So Sorry for the long delay. But I haven't forgotten any of my stories. I plan to update what fate may bring next then ordinary miracles. So again I ask for reviews and thanks for reading. And for everyone that sent in reviews thank you so much. J