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First lemon in a while ahead. You can skip it if you want.

Month 8 part 1

Rin was losing her mind.

Kagome had decided that it was official, her dear cousin had gone off the deep end. Lost it. Gone cuckoo. Nuts. Insane. Crazy. You name it.

"Rin, sweetie..."

"Oh, gods above!" She cried nearly pulling her own hair out.

"Rin. Calm down-"

"Calm down? Calm down! How can I!" Rin dropped onto her couch. "My wedding is less than a month away and I'm not even the slightest bit prepared!"

"Rin, you have nearly everything prepared." Kagome said soothingly, sitting next to her. "We have our dresses, you just finished the greatest shoe shopping spree in history. Jewelry, check. Priest, check. Church, check. Honeymoon, check."

"Those are all the things Sesshomaru is in charge of." Rin moaned. "I can't decide the cake, I can't decide what I want to do on my honeymoon-"

"I bet Sesshomaru has a few ideas." Kagome snickered.

"Kagome, this is not a time for giggles!" Rin said jumping up and going back to looking frustrated. "I think I'm losing my mind."

"Rin, it's already gone." Kagome pointed out. "If this is what happens when you're about to get married, I can't imagine what's going to happen when you have a baby."

"Oh, kami, children!" Rin moaned. "Do you think Sesshomaru wants one? How many do you think he wants? What if this is a bad idea? Kagome, I need some help here!"

Kagome stood back up and placed her hands on Rin's shoulders. "Rin, are you getting cold feet?"

"Freezing." Rin moaned. "What if that means we're not meant for each other? What if that means this is a bad idea?"

"Deep breaths." Kagome said patiently. "In through your nose, out through your mouth."

Rin did as she was told, she looked like a lost child looking for a direction.

"Now, Rin." Kagome said looking her dead in the eyes. "You love Sesshomaru, right?"

"Of course, but-"

"AH!" Kagome cut her off. "You love him. Yes or no?"

"Yes." Rin moaned.

"The very thought of living without him hurts. Yes?"

"Yes."

There is no doubt in your mind that Sesshomaru is your soul mate?"

"None." Rin said looking slightly more confident.

"Then these are just normal, run-of-the-mill, wedding doubts. This is going to work. I haven't seen a couple more suited for each other since Miroku and Sango."

Rin made a weird sound that was a cross between a hiccup and a giggle.

"Your cake has to be perfect and me and Sango will help you look for it." Kagome promised. "Sesshomaru will take care of his end, I have no doubts. Your outfit is complete, all we need to do is schedule you for a mani/pedi, wash and set, a facial, we might even have to take a day and go to the spa." Kagome winked making Rin laugh.

"You just want a chance to get pampered."

"Who doesn't?" Kagome laughed letting go of her shoulders. "As for your honeymoon, I'm sure Sesshomaru will keep you busy."

Rin blushed making Kagome laugh. "And when you two aren't busy, Tenseiga Hotels offers a bunch of services, including guides and tours. I'm sure Sesshomaru will take care of it. I can't tell you if he wants children or not but I'm sure you guys can reach a solution. Don't worry."

Rin nodded and took another deep breath. "I don't know why I was worried. You're the greatest bridesmaid every, Kagome."

"Maid of honor." Kagome smiled as Rin hugged her. "You know, I was thinking. How about a bachalorette party?"

"I don't think Sesshomaru would approve." Rin giggled.


Kagome stretched in bed. She really didn't want to get up.

She and Inuyasha had gone back to sharing a bed, but they only used it for sleep. She couldn't wait for that to change. She didn't know if he was nervous about the baby or just because they actually had a relationship now but she was willing to wait.

She was supposed to have gone out with Sango and Rin for cake shopping but Sango had bailed. She had sounded rather distracted over the phone and since Kagome could hear a few 'stop it's and 'hold on's followed by some husky male laughter, she was pretty sure of what was going on. Then after she had got dressed and was about to leave Rin had called canceling the trip entirely because on her way to work she found this 'cute, little cake shop' that agreed to make her wedding cake.

So with Sango preoccupied and the purpose for leaving fulfilled, Kagome had returned to bed and gone back to sleep.

She had woken up about three hours later. At first it was silent and she thought she had woken up because she was done sleeping.

Then, in the middle of her stretch, she heard the unmistakable sound of Inuyasha cussing.

Curious, she stood up, with no little amount of difficulty, and followed the sound of his dirty mouth.

It led her out of their room and across the hall.

"Kami! Fuck! Damn! Ow! Ow! Fuck!"

"Stop being such a baby, master."

Kagome blinked. That was Myoga.

"Stop yacking and help me! Ow! Fuck!"

"Pardon me, sir, but you are beginning to sound like a broken record."

"Myoga, I have a nail in my foot. Now either help me or go away!"

"It is bleeding an awful lot. I'll go get the first aid kit."

Before Kagome could move Myoga was opening the door, his head still turned talking to Inuyasha.

"Kagome!" Inuyasha cried making Myoga turn.

"Lady Kagome. I thought you were out with your friends."

"It was canceled." Kagome said slowly, looking into the room.

The ugly furniture had all been removed and the even uglier mustard yellow paint had been re-painted white and half of the room was covered in wallpaper. Baby blue wallpaper with cute little alligators on it. The wood floor was covered with paint splattered tarp, the blinds on the window was gone and the window itself was open to keep the fumes from gathering. The only thing inside was a large bucket of white paint that was closed, rolls of wallpaper, glue, a roller for the wallpaper, and Inuyasha sitting on the floor in a pair of paint splattered sweat pants with no shirt and a nail driven deep into the heal of his foot.

Kagome giggled and walked around Myoga. "Inuyasha, what is this?" she turned around and took in the half finished room.

"Nothing." he mumbled turning his head away as Myoga left to get the first aid kit.

"Is this what you've been doing that you wont tell me?'

Inuyasha scoffed. "...Maybe."

"You know you could have got a professional to do this." Kagome pointed out wanting to kneel down beside him but unable to.

Inuyasha mumbled something she couldn't hear and his face turned red.

"What was that?" Kagome asked.

"He said he wanted to have a part in the baby's life." Myoga said coming back with the first aid kit. "Said he wanted to do something real and solid for the child."

Kagome giggled as Myoga knealed in front of his master's foot. "Inuyasha, your his father. What bigger part could you play?"

Inuyasha mumbled something, his head turned to the side, but Kagome didn't hear it. "What?"

"He said that since you've given the baby a place to live before he was born, he wanted to give it a place to live after it was born." Myoga said smiling as he opened the box and got out the things he would need to patch up Inuyasha's foot.

"Shut up, Myoga!" Inuyasha growled then hollered when Myoga yanked the naik out.

"I don't think you'll need a tetanus shot." Myoga laughed looking at the shiny, new, though blood covered, nail.

"Inuyasha, that's so sweet." Kagoem said, stars in her eyes.

"It only looks better than it is because he's bleeding." Myoga said cleaning the wound.

"Can it, old man!" Inuyasha growled then hissed as the anti-septic hit the open wound.

Myoga laughed as he finished cleaning the wound then put a band-aid on it. He looked completely undisturbed by Inuyasha's threats of firing him.

"There you go, master. I'll go put this up." he said closing the box then leaving the room.

"Inuyasha." Kagome said, smiling. Inuyasha was still turned away from her, his face red. "Inuyasha, did you do all of this for me?"

"No." he scoffed again. "I did it for Inumaru." He stood up and tested his weight on his injured foot. He only winced once as he put it down.

"Inuyasha." Kagome said again walking around so that she was face to face with him. Or she would be had his face had not still been turned to the side, a flush tinging his cheeks pink. "You did all of this for our son even though you could have just hired some professionals." It wasn't a question.

"So?" he said trying to shrug it off.

She put her hand against his cheek and turned his head toward her. He looked so embarrassed but mostly he looked nervous. Like he was afraid of what her judgement would be of the room he had so painstakingly worked on.

The sweetness of it, the absolutely adorable way he turned his eyes from her, afraid of what she might say, made her heart fall for him all over again. She thought she had been in love before, but it was a pale, wisp of a thing in comparison to what she was feeling now.

This man, a man who had grown up in riches and had never needed to do one bit of manual labor, had moved out all the heavy furniture, painted the walls, and put up wallpaper in a room for the son he was waiting so impatiently for. He worried about how she would judge him, was actually concerned about how well he did at something he was in no way prepared to do.

Kagome looked around and smiled. He had missed a few spots and the paint was thicker in some ares, even falling down the wall in drips. The wall paper was slightly crinkled, one spot was ripped and someone had tried to tape it over to make it look natural, and there were bubbles everywhere. Despite all of that, it was still the sweetest thing she had ever seen.

"I love it." she said looking at him, her face practically glowing. "It's perfect, and Inumaru is going to love it as well."

"You think so?" Inuyasha asked looking at his shabby work. He didn't see the rip or the drips or the bubbles, he saw the hours of work he had done secretly while Kagome was out and the extra hours he had put into work because of it. He saw himself hurting his back and his arms getting sore as he painted the higher part of the wall and got paint on the ceiling. Kagome looked and saw it as well. She looked at him and saw a man who was nervous about being a father, wondering at this marvel that he had taken so casually at first and that was still changing his life.

"I love you."

Kagome didn't realize she had spoken the words out loud until Inuyasha looked at her in surprise. Still she didn't want to take them back. She couldn't think of a more perfect time to say them than here, in the room where their son would sleep, her belly heavy with his child and a little bit of wallpaper glue on his nose.

Inuyasha blinked at her, for the first time in his life completely dumbfounded.

Sure he knew Kagome liked him. After all, he was the father of her child and she had gone through all that shit just to get a 'real' relationship with him.

But love? Love was an emotion he hadn't even considered. It's not that he didn't want love it was just that the thought of love never really entered his mind.

And the words were still there, floating in the air. They weren't heavy and ugly. In fact, they seemed to make the sunshine streaming through the window all that brighter and the air blowing in all that sweeter. The words floated around him whispering things he had only dreamed about in his deepest sleep.

Then they settled and it all seemed so natural. Of course Kagome loved him. Of course she did.

She was still looking at him, unafraid and smiling. She felt it too. The rightness of the words, how they fit perfectly here.

"Kagome." he said in wonder.

"Kiss me." she whispered.

He did so, slowly, without any hesitation.

He groaned the second his lips touched hers. He had missed this so much. He hadn't kissed her, really kissed her, since they got back together. Little kisses for a welcome home, that first night they spent in each others arm, they hadn't really kissed.Not like this. Even before they hadn't kissed like this. Before their kisses were passionate but mostly hurried. Their slow kisses were still usually fiery.

This kiss, this sweet, slow, kiss was something different. He took his time. re-memorizing lips he knew nearly as well as his own. His tongue danced with hers. It wasn't a battle, not this time. This time is was a dance, a slow, seductive dance.

Kagome's hands were by her side and Inuyasha had his cupping her face as he bent over her, tasting and re-discovering the unique flavors of her mouth. This was what he had missed most while she was gone. The way she kissed him. She made him feel like a king, like he was on top of the world and nothing could bring him down.

It was the way she submitted to him. So naturally. She placed all her trust in him, letting him lead her where ever he wanted to take her and following him loyally. That faith, that trust was so humbling he almost felt like, in submission, she was dominating.

She broke it off, just by leaning backwards slighty. He let her lips leave his but kept his hands encasing her face.

"Let's go." she whispered, grabbing his hands in her own.

"Where?" he asked. following her as she lef him, backwards, out of Inumaru's room.

"Our room." she said simply, turning around and walking across the hall.

(A/N: Lemon ahead. Skip if you wish.)

Inuyasha closed and locked the door behind him as Kagome waddled over to the windows and drew the curtains shut, casting the room into shadows.

Then he was at her back, his hands on her shoulders, his breath on her ear.

"I don't want to..." he trailed off, unsure of how to say it.

Kagome turned and stared lovingly into his face. "You wont hurt the baby. We'll be gentle."

He was nervous as she took his hand and led him back to the bed. Almost like it was his first time all over again.

What if he did something wrong? What if he hurt her? What if he hurt his son?

A thousand 'what if...'s ran through his head as Kagome turned around at the edge of the bed and faced him. She saw it on his face.

"Don't worry." she said taking his hands and kissing the fingers. "It will be alright. We'll take it nice," she sat down on the bed, "and slow." he knealed before her.

He wasn't feeling like a king at that moment. He felt more like a knight before his queen, unsure of her desires but willing to do anything for her. She smiled at him and it was the most precious reward he could ever receive.

"I know you wont hurt us." Kagome said as she began unbuttoning her blouse.

Inuyasha watched the movements of her fingers hungrily. There was something special about it when they followed the curve of her stomach, unsnapping the tiny white plastic buttons as they went.

He didn't move. He sat there on his knees and watched her. Her eyes were on his, watching his reaction, but his eyes were following her hands.

Her hands were so graceful, he wondered how he had never noticed. They moved with a kind of elegance as she removed her top and threw it gently to the side.

The swell of her belly was somehow even more arousing then her beautiful hands. Knowing that it was his son, the life he had helped create, growing in there was stimulating in a way the sexiest lingerie had never been.

"Stand up." she whispered and he obeyed. He would always obey.

She stood up with him, tracing her hands up his shirtless chest. For a business man who sat behind a desk all day he was very buff.

"Touch me." she said, as she moved her hands to unhook her bra.

He was captivated. That was the only way he could describe it. Her hands, her fingers, the way her lips moved; they were all so captivating.

Bewitched, he reached his hands up and allowed them to follow the curve of her belly, then further up to the curve of her breasts as she threw the bra to join the shirt. Her lotions and creams were doing their job well, as his fingers covered every inch of skin he could touch, he couldn't find a single stretch mark.

She turned from him, for only a moment, to crawl into their bed.

When she looked back, he was just as she left him. Standing there, his hands outstretched as if he were still touching her and looking at her as if he wasn't sure what to do.

"Come here." she smiled.

No sooner did she speak than he was following after her.

She lay down on her back and pulled him into her arms as he climbed over her. He kissed her again as her hands worked on her jean button.

"Take off your pants, Inuyasha." she said next.

The way she said his name, he shuddered, she might have been describing a particularly pleasurable sex act.

He did as he was told and threw his pants and boxers to the side then helped her get her own pants off.

His hands were unsteady, cautious to the point of almost being hesitant.

But not Kagome's. Her hands were sure and steady when he climbed back above her. They were completely sure when she dug her hands into his hair and pulled him down gently for a kiss.

His shook when he pulled her legs up so he could have easier access to her. They trembled when he began caressing her soft skin.

Kagome wrapped her arms around him and pulled him close. She turned her head towards his neck and whispered in his ear, "Love me."

He needed no more encouragement and then he was inside her. She moaned and tilted back her head.

It felt good.

More than good.

Amazing.

This meeting of flesh that had been too long denied to them. A sweetness about it that came from their reunion.

Inuyasha was her slave. Helpless against her, only living to obey her commands. Even as he began moving, he didn't do it for him.

He did it for her.

He leaned back and watched her eyes go misty. He watched her lips part as she began panting. Her finger nails dug into his shoulders, begging in a way her voice did not.

He had no choice but to oblige her.

To build her pleasure, to take her to her peak. And when she climaxed, her walls closing around him, he followed her, gaining pleasure from her pleasure.


Kagome lay in Inuyasha's arms. Happier than she had been in months.

Her head was nestled in his chest and on of his arms was around her while the other stroked her enlarged stomach.

"Who do you think he'll look like. Me or you?" Inuyasha asked breaking the silence.

"You." Kagome said certainly. "He'll be a big strapping man like his father.

Inuyasha's face clouded briefly before he covered it up, trying to appear as careless as he had been a minute ago.

But Kagome caught the slight change in expression. "What's wrong?

"Nothing." he said not taking his eyes away from Inumaru's bulge.

"Inuyasha, just tell me." Kagome said placing her hand on top of his, stilling its movements.

Inuyasha sighed.

"Do you think..." he looked her in the eye. "Do you think I'll be a good father?" Before she could speak he went on. "I mean, how do you be a good father? How will I know I'm being one?"

"I know you will be." Kagome said firmly, smiling at him through the darkness. "You're going to be a great father. You'll make some mistakes and so will I, but we'll work through them together. All three of us."

"But-"

"And, if you need to." Kagome cut him off. "You can always ask your father. He raised two excellent sons and I'm sure he wouldn't hesitate to help. I've been asking both my and your mom for advise for months now." she admitted thinking of all the times, big and small, she had relied on those two women.

"But how will I know what to do?" he asked, still looking concerned.

"Don't worry about it." Kagome told him, leaning up to place a tiny kiss on his lips. "When the time comes, you'll know what to do."