Mr Brightside
by TheMadKatter13
SUMMARY~Unrequited love is always difficult. Especially when she's in love with your brother. AU. Sesshoumaru/Kagome.
DISCLAIMER~The rights to Inuyasha reside with Takahashi Rumiko and I receive no financial gain from the writing of this story.
AN~I'm so going to post this, and then going to go take a nice, hot shower. You probably didn't need to know that nor do you care. But it is a plan. Also, I haven't been pregnant, so my comments about cravings below are to be taken lightly and with laughs.
09 Let Me Go
After the Mating, Sesshoumaru moved into Inuyasha and Kagome's home, to be there to care for Kagome in her pregnancy. She, at least, was overjoyed to have his company. His brother, less so. But then the hanyou soon realized he was a benefit as he would do things for a pregnant, craving Kagome that Inuyasha wouldn't do. In that first month back, the fourth month of her pregnancy, she needed ice cream no less than eight times, every time a different flavour.
In the fifth month, she craved American fast food burgers, which he obtained for her at all hours of the night, holding them away from his sensitive nose at arm's length, a sight she always greeted with a smothered giggle. But the look on her face when she bit delicately into the greasy mess was worth it, that one look of bliss one gets from food, was beautiful on her face.
In the sixth month, it wasn't so much food as it was watching sappy movies. Sometimes she would snare Inuyasha into watching them with her, and sometimes Sesshoumauru. When her hormones went into overdrive, and she broke down into tears because of the movies she forced upon herself, Inuyasha would awkwardly pat her back, begging her to stop crying, while Sesshoumaru would pull her into his lap, calmly rocking her and rubbing soothing circles onto her back, releasing a comforting growl. It was moments like these that he treasured.
In the seventh month, she became an exuberant shopper, tiring long after whoever accompanied her. It was as if the child was an extra battery as she puttered around maternity shops and baby stores, ignoring requests from Inuyasha, Touga, Izayoi, her own mother or brother, and even Sesshoumaru to slow or stop. She would just smile or laugh and claim that babies, or pups, slowed for no one, and neither would she.
It was in the eighth month, heavily swollen and looking ready to pop any moment that she was put to bed rest despite the mother's heavy, loud complaints. Her friends and family often stopped by to keep her entertained, and she started many projects, laying them out over a rolling table that straddled the bed, which had brought in at her request. One of her new favourite hobbies was to knit, as it gave her both something to do and something to look forward to on seeing those clothes on her pup.
Sesshoumaru watched over her carefully as the months passed, touching her stomach as often as he could, growing concerned that the child was taking so long to come out. As the child of a human and a youkai, the pup should have been born after six months. The only variable was Kagome being a miko, which could be affecting the pup's growth, or it could be keeping the pup past the time it should have been born to let it grow further inside the human mother's womb. But both Kagome and his child remained healthy, facts kept solid by doctor's appointments and his own senses's assessments. The birth was imminent and his excitement grew.
TBC
Eh...I was ok with the chapter up until that last paragraph... -.-|l| Don't forget to REVIEW! :D
Update next week.