CHAPTER 7

It had been three weeks since the last time Izayoi had seen Inutaisho. She had been on potential 'lockdown' after her confession to her uncle. She had been unable to leave her chambers be herself without a strict placement of guards around her. When out in the courtyard she never had time for herself, while at night guards had been placed around any openings of the room so they she could not have snuck out.

It had been especially hard on Inutaisho. With Izayoi so close, she was out of reach. It would have been a simple task for him to take down every human in the mansion and take Izayoi with him far away, but he had respected the world she came from. And feared the worst if he were to try and do anything to anger them. He didn't want them to take Izayoi from him forever. All he could do was look from afar on his favorite spot; watching his woman. Wishing he could touch her once more.

Inutaisho had found out that the humans knew something was up when he found himself unable to enter the mansion grounds. There had been a large quantity of guards. This did not scare him, but made him irritated.

It was going on week four and Izayoi was not feeling her best. She had been feeling sick the last couple of days. And fearful that they were going to lose the lady of the house to an unknown disease, her uncle had called upon a doctor to come and check on her. The doctor did come and began to examine the young lady. He asked her questions on how she was feeling, if she was hurting anywhere, and all of this led up to him telling her only one thing.

"You're pregnant, congratulations," The doctor said as he arose from kneeling next to Izayoi. Izayoi thought she had been hearing things for a moment and asked the doctor to repeat himself.

He smiled at her, "You're pregnant, please give my condolences to your husband," The doctor said as he formally addressed himself out of the room and went to speak with the 'man' of the house. Izayoi was in complete shock at first, getting shivers down her arms and spine. She put her hand on her stomach and then smiled. She knew who the father was, the only man she loved. A wave of tears had begun to pour from her eyes. Her happiness was overflowing, she had always wanted a child, and now she had gotten her wish. But the sad part being that she had no way of telling Inutaisho, but she knew somewhere in her heart that he already knew, since he was one to sense something when things were different in the air. She looked out her window and smiled at the forest. The wind would carry the message for her; to her lover no matter how far he was.

Takemaru stood with the spear in his hand. He was trembling as his grip upon the weapon had begun to slip. His rage had built to its max; He had truly heard more than he could have handled. The case must have been the same for her Uncle; for after hearing what was wrong with her he had come straight through the doors, disturbing the peace once more.

He looked at Izayoi and she looked at him back. He didn't need to bother to ask who the father of the child was. His face had twisted with a look of disgust, his back turned, and that was the last that Izayoi had seen of him. It was like she was an outcast now. The petty part was she could overhear him talking to the soldiers and the maids of the house.

Her uncle had badly wanted to see her dead. He would have rather had her dead than to give birth to a bastard child.

"once the princess has given birth to the…the thing! You are instructed to kill it and then bring her home to the proper domain." His tone was serious. He would not have her killed in the process, but have her be ripped away from the land she was living in now once the child had been slaughtered after birth.

Takemaru was there for the whole thing. He had not once disagreed to anything he had been saying. He would have gone up the cliffs himself to tear apart the beast if he had been given the choice.

A wave of aura had flown by him. Inutaisho sensed it, there was a distinct scent in the air. It was almost like the same one Sesshomaru's mother had when she was pregnant with his son. His hear t had to have skipped a beat for Inutaisho knew there was only one person down there that could give off the pregnant scent, as well as the mixture of the flower she had that long ago.

But alongside that wave of purity had come an impure one. The other wave that he felt had to have been coming from the soldiers. There had been some sort of tension going on between all of them that it had built into this large ball of negative energy. He hoped it would not affect his love in any way. He was worried by this point, at what might the battle crazed humans would do to Izayoi and his child.

With all of the instruction given Izayoi's uncle had left the grounds; only when Izayoi had been cleansed of the devil that was growing inside of her. Izayoi did not see it as a monster child; whatever the baby turned out to look like she had planned to keep it safe from anyone who would try and touch it. As sad as it was though, Takemaru had to make his lady suffer only to save her from the evil of the demons. He had no other thoughts in his mind but that.

The maids on the other hand, did and would not have anything to do with the murder of the lady's child. Whether the child were to be born demon or human, their belief that a life was a life, and an infant child would not have brought any harm to them. They gathered together and made a pact that they would try everything in their power to keep the guards from killing the child once it was born.

Now it felt like time was running out. That by the time her child were to be born, all hell would break loose. Was this really a good thing?

its all jumbled inside of my head now. there is way too much stuff to say that if i just wrote it all down the story would have been done in four LONG chapters. well i will be seeing ya!

~~KAZU~~