Chapter 27: In The Hot Spring
"Goodbye Father!" Kagome yelled from the court yard.
"Goodbye Kagome! I hope you'll be safe!" Inu Heki yelled from the porch.
"We will, I love you!"
"I love you too."
Kagome and Inuyasha started to run. They got half way to the village when they stopped. Kagome wasn't feeling good.
"You want me to carry you?" Inuyasha asked.
"No, I'll be fine in a little bit. Just let me rest. I think I'm just getting into the second stage of my pregnancy."
Inuyasha came and sat down beside her. She was sitting on a tree trunk. He started to sniff then he smiled up at her.
"What?"
"It's a boy."
"Oh my god!" She said and jumped on top of him and hugged him.
"Hey, don't do that. You nearly killed me!" Inuyasha said pulling his mate off him.
"Sorry, I'm just excited!… I think I'm ready to run again. Let's go."
They ran for a hour before reaching the village. Shippo was out playing when he saw them.
"MOMMY! DADDY!" Shippo said jumping onto Kagome.
"Shippo don't do that!" Inuyasha told the little fuzz ball.
"Inuyasha, he's not gonna kill me. He barely weights anything." Kagome told him
"Still." Inuyasha said.
"Hey, where have you guys been?" Sango asked.
"With my father." Kagome told her.
"You're father? How is he in this era? I thought you were born human." Miroku said.
"I was. But he is my father. I have the mark to prove it." Kagome said pulling her bangs back.
"So, who is you're father?"
"The Lord of The Southern Lands, Inu Heki."
"Oh my god! You are royal!"
"Yea."
"I was just on my way Kagome to the hot springs, you want to go?"
"Sure, it might make me feel better. Are you coming Inuyasha, I don't want you scarring me again."
"Yea, I'm coming. Monk, you're coming too."
"Fine, fine."
They were all in the hot spring. Even the men. Inuyasha was sitting next to Kagome; Miroku next to Sango. The men kept their hands to themselves to stay on the Earth.
"So what did you talk about with your father?" Sango asked.
"Nothing, mostly I just told him the story about me and Inuyasha. Myouga said I tasted like him! It was amazing how much I look like him, almost exactly the same!" Kagome told her. "He knows how to use the mark thing too."
"What mark thing?"
"It's like where I can talk to him if I wanted to through the mark. Inuyasha could talk to Sesshoumaru through it if he wanted… I think Sesshoumaru is starting to like me in a family kind of way."
Inuyasha quickly turned and looked at Kagome that read 'You can't be serious!'
"He is?" Sango asked.
"Well he walked straight up to me and touched me sort of." Kagome told her.
"That don't mean nothin!" Inuyasha said.
"How do you know? He's never been nice to you until now!" She said pulling on part of his hair. "You better be glad you don't have youkai ears. Because if you didn't have these dog ears I'd rip them of the side of your head with my claws and you would be left with holes on the side of your head!" Kagome told him with an attitude.
"You wouldn't." He muttered.
"Oh yea, in one fail swoop too."
He growled.
"That isn't scarring me. You couldn't scare me if you tried!"
"I command you as alpha to shut up wench! Before I turn into a dog and bite your head off!"
"Oh, threatening your mate now, scary! You don't have the nerve anyway!"
"Watch me." He muttered jumping out of the spring and transformed.
"This is when I wish I had the beads on him."
He growled.
'What's this feeling? It's like… telling me to back down. I won't! He can't control me!' "You wouldn't hurt your mate would you?"
He took his paw down to her, she jumped onto it. He brought her up to his face and growled deep.
She growled back.
"Hopefully it'll just be this." Sango whispered to Miroku.
Inuyasha barked something that meant, "You better shut up wench. I'm gonna loose it, give in!"
"No! Make me!" She barked back. He grabbed her hair with his teeth lightly, just enough to raise her off his paw. "You bite my ear off, you're dead!" She barked again. Miroku and Sango were just confused as heck, but they stayed in the spring.
He barked at her again, "As alpha, I command you to stand down now! I will kill you if not."
She whimpered and gave in, knowing he was serious. She started to cry. He put her back down and transformed back. He hugged her once he transformed back.
"I'm sorry, Kagome but you have to give in no matter how much you hate it. My youkai will keep demanding it. And eventually hurt you if you don't. I know you feel the need not to give in, but I don't want to hurt you. When I said I wanted to kill you, that wasn't me. It was my youkai. It demanded submission from you." Inuyasha told her.
She nodded.
"I'll try not to give in as easily as I did this time, but you have to acknowledge the rules of inu-youkai mating. It is one of the rules that the male is in control. Not female, before I've let you be in charge against my better judgment. Sooner or later if you don't learn to give in I'm afraid I'll hurt you. I don't want to, you know that."
She nodded again and stopped crying.
"It's gonna be ok Kagome, I won't hurt you. I love you."
"I love you too Inuyasha." She said and got back into the spring with him.
"You two both think you're the alpha, but Inuyasha is the real alpha. I understand you Kagome, not wanting to give in because you were once human and have never had that feeling and you're not used to giving into it. But unless you want to be hurt or killed I suggest you give in." Miroku informed her. "I have heard storied of inu-youkais killing each other because of it. I don't want that to be you two."
"I don't either. You've never commanded me as alpha before. I did feel slight temptation to give in, but more to over power you." Kagome said.
"See, those were your inu-instincts telling you to give in. You should of." Inuyasha told her.
"I know that now thank you."
"I'm sorry that happened Kagome. I couldn't hold back. My instincts are killing me as well. I've never felt it this strong before."
"It's all right. At least I know now to give in when I feel it."
Inuyasha smirked.
"I command you as alpha to shut up!" He yelled, she squeaked and shut her mouth tight. She sunk farther down into the spring like she was afraid.
"I was kidding! It's ok. I was just testing you." Inuyasha said. She sat back up and leaned against him and purred.
"Oh, that's cute Kagome!" Sango squealed.