The sun's slow descend of light crept in InuYasha's room that next morning. Kagome was sitting on her back calves currently, staring wide eyed at the crinkled consent letter in her hands. Her head was throbbing, you could almost see the slight pulse through her temple. She read over the words at least five times slowly and still wasn't sure if she comprehended it. She couldn't remember much about last night no matter how much she wished she did. She wiped the dry goop from her eyes carefully and rubbed at her nose. She was no longer in her dress from the night prior but a nightgown she had refused to wear outside of her bedroom until now apparently. The satin material cupped her breasts perfectly, her perky nipples peeking through slightly. She grew frustrated with herself immediately. Why couldn't she remember? Kagome slipped off the bed, landing softly on her feet. InuYasha wasn't sleeping soundly in the room as she had hoped. She retreated from the bedroom and found the living room InuYasha-less as well. She made her way to her room and turned on her shower, texting Sango in the meantime.

I think we had sex last night, but I barely remember. '_'; Today 11:53 AM. Sent

She hoped in the shower, washing away the grimy feeling she felt. It hurt her head to even blink, she was glad she was off for the next two days.

She spaced out for quite some time til a gentle knock on the bathroom door. InuYasha poked his nose through the door slightly.

"I just wanted to let you know I'm home and make sure you're alive, you've been in there forever."

Kagome shoved out her hand from the curtain, giving him a thumbs up. She couldn't explain why she felt so awkward around him. They were together now right? He could just open the bathroom door whenever he wanted? He could pull back the shower curtain and see her in a steamy damp state? She shut off the water, the soapy suds chilling on her body now a mile down the drain.

()()()

"….InuYasha. What are these-"

"They're babies." He said excitedly.

Kagome stared down at the couch, a travel bassinet upon it holding three sleeping infants. She was fresh out of the shower, her hair wrapped up tightly in a towel. InuYasha was behind her now.

"Yeah….I got conned into baby duty." He admitted. "My parents are on a trip and Rin is against leaving them so young with a stranger. So, babies!"

Kagome looked up at him and smiled. "That was nice of you to do for your brother."

"It was the least I could do after what he did for me."

"They're so tiny." Kagome placed her hand over her heart, not realizing how utterly fascinated she was with babies until now. Their mere presence alone was enough to help ease her hangover.

"I'm a terrible uncle, I forgot who's who so I've just been calling them baby one, baby two, baby three." InuYasha pointed from left to right.

"Wait until I tell their father." Kagome rolled her eyes and gently rubbed at the middle baby's cheek with her thumb. "It's easy. Aiyama has a birthmark on her left pinky. Hyacinth is the smallest; she's my favorite, shhh. Pelosia looks the most like Rin." She lightly pointed out the features to him. His expression made her chuckle.

"How in the hell? I thought you've only seen them once?"

"They're not identical, InuYasha." She placed her hand on her hip. "It's not that hard."

"Anyways, according to Sesshomaru,…. baby 1,2,3 should sleep the entire time. But I don't want you to feel like you have to help me, I know you have a hangover."

"And what about yourself?" Kagome crossed her arms, tilting her head slightly.

InuYasha looked over his shoulder at Kagome, flexing his bare arms. "I'm fine; back to my old self. My human form is a light weight."

Kagome grabbed a water from the fridge and began to head back to her room to dry her hair. She was glad he didn't mention last night. She sort of wanted to keep it at bay.

"Hey Kagome?"

"Yeah?"

"You look cute with towel head." He smiled to himself. "I can finally say that to you after all these years."

Kagome blushed and proceeded to her bedroom.

()()()()

"Psst. Kagome."

A whisper.

"Psst."

Kagome lifted one of her eye lids, a blurry image of InuYasha's face at the side of her bed came into focus. It was nearly three in the afternoon at this point. Her migraine was just about finished with its parade in her head . She lifted up her head slightly, wiping away the drool that threatened to take a leap of faith from the corner of her lips.

"What's the matter?" She said groggily. "What time is it?"

"Almost three. There's three pairs of eyes just staring at me in the living room. They're awake. They're all awake." The look of horror on his face caused Kagome to chuckle, who didn't believe that was possible after being in a dead sleep just a couple minutes prior.

InuYasha created his own invite to lay next to Kagome, he buried his face in the nape of her neck, causing her to squeal at the ticklishness. He hummed, making it worse.

"Help me." He begged.

"I'd stay back, I'm sure my breath smells awful." Although she said that, she still reached up to play with his ears. He turned to look at her, his nose just inches from her own. Seriously, was he never not handsome. Kagome tried to picture him bald. Kinda weird, but still had a handsome face.

"Oh god I know, it makes me want to puke." He closed his eyes and kissed her softly. She kissed him back shyly, still constantly having to remind herself the surreal idea that InuYasha was finally hers and hers alone. The sound of a crying symphony from the living room interrupted their sweet kiss. "So will you help me?"

Kagome grinned, sliding past him off the bed and sneaking a quick peck on his cheek. "Come on uncle Yasha."

Kagome took the lead, picking up Hyacinth and held her out to InuYasha. "Remember, this one is my favorite, don't drop her and careful with those claws." InuYasha scooped up the baby from Kagome's arms with caution. It was a little scary how light she was but it was also very tempting to see how high he could toss her up in the air and see how many jacks he could pick up from the ground before she fell back down. Before he knew it, Kagome was placing another baby in his other arm despite his obvious objection. "There's only two of us and they all want to be held." Kagome reached down to cradle the final baby.

He looked back and forth between the two babies in his arms like a scorekeeper watching a tennis match. He watched as Kagome gently bounced the crying baby in her arms; she was a natural. It wasn't a huge surprise for him though, Kagome's mother was always known to be very nurturing so naturally Kagome took after her.

He did what any guy would never admit to doing, daydreaming of seeing the woman before him as a mother one day. The putrid smell of dirty diaper smeared away his fantasies almost instantly.

"Holy shit!" InuYasha scrunched up his face, his sense of smell was too keen for some of the world's natural scents.

"Yeah no kidding." Kagome nearly gagged. "Which one is it do you think?"

"Is it possible for triplets to poop in unison?" InuYasha looked panicked. "Cause I seriously think it's coming from all three of them."

Kagome started laughing, the smell was killer but InuYasha's expressions made it all in good fun. InuYasha placed the two babies back in the bassinet and rummaged through the diaper bag that Rin left for him. He didn't think bags came any bigger than Kagome's huge ass yellow backpack but this one made hers look like a bug. He flung out three diapers and a pack of wipes onto the ground. He paused for a second and dug further, pulling out a box of gloves made exclusively for clawed youkai and surgical masks.

"Holy fuck, my brother does love me. Thank god." InuYasha punctured the box of gloves and slid them on immediately. He ran to grab a towel and layed it on the ground to change the infants. Kagome watched him in fascination. She was shocked he wasn't at her knees begging for her to take over while he dug his grave. She seemed to find something new she liked about him every day.

Together they set the babies on the towel side by side. They both had surgical masks on brought to them by the lovely couple brave enough to produce three babies at one time.

"Okay here's the plan." Kagome had her game face on. "One of us wipes, the other one follows with a fresh diaper."

"Okay, I'll do the wiping. Not quite sure the mechanisms of a diaper but pretty sure I can wipe some asses." The seriousness in his voice caused Kagome to burst out laughing, she placed her head on his shoulder and kissed him as close as she could with their masks on.

"I don't know if it's the aftermath of drinking last night but you are on a roll today." Kagome shook her head with a smile and successfully tossed aside diaper number one.

Their rhythm was perfect: diaper off, wipe, pass, diaper on, diaper off, wipe, pass, diaper on…

"it's not so bad with our get-up" InuYasha muffled through the mask, impressed with their work.

Kagome scooped up the tiny dirty diapers and tossed them into the garbage. As she washed her hands in the kitchen sink she said, "Yeah soon you'll be unfazed and not even need gloves. See you again in about 2-3 hours."

"These little monsters can poop that often?"

"Especially at that age." Kagome nodded. "I swear when Sota was born that's all I ever saw my mom do; change his diapers."

InuYasha reached in the diaper bag once more, pulling out a can of formula and three bottles. Luckily there was a cute sticky note from Rin on how much to portion out of everything. As he prepared the bottles, Kagome gently buttoned the babies back up in their pajamas. She never expected to spend her weekend like this but it was surprisingly nice. It showed her a side of InuYasha she didn't see all the time.

"How's your head feeling?" He asked from the kitchen.

"Feeling alright now I suppose." Kagome paused. She couldn't take it anymore. "Did we….?" She dragged on.

InuYasha took the three bottles now filled with formula back to the living room. The contents still swirling from the vigorous shaking. InuYasha shook his head, which eased her mind.

"Almost." He laughed slightly. "You fell asleep though so I changed you into pajamas and crashed on the couch."

"Oh." Kagome shifted her gaze to the ground. "You slept on the couch?"

"I wanted to avoid any chances of you throwing up on me in the middle of the night. I'm proud of you that you didn't though." He grinned.

"I wasn't sure. I woke up and saw the paper I signed. I don't remember signing it." She sounded nervous and a little embarrassed.

"Which is why I had you sign it. You failed the consent test. You misspelled your name." He teased, sticking his tongue out. "Pretty sure 'Kagome' has an A in it." Kagome blushed.

"You're the only person in the entire world willing to draw up a consent form for a girl who practically threw herself on you." Kagome stated matter-of-factly.

"My mother has studied way too many cases of date rape in her field, I did not want to be in any sort of position like that."

"I was just going to say you were a nice guy, but…"

"That too." He winked.

"Well I'm sorry anyways. For being a tease."

"There's no need to apologize." He offered her a genuine smile. "It'll happen when it's meant to. We're both still getting used to 'us' anyways."

They watched together as the babies nestled beside each other as they lightly suckled on the bottles. Now that Kagome thought about it, InuYasha focused so much of his youth of being a full demon like his father and brother that the natural tendencies of guys his age didn't phase him. She was so used to the stigma that guys needed sex and constantly thought about it that InuYasha's behavior took her off guard. She was sure that when he was dating Kikyo, they were a highly active couple but he never once disclosed any of that information to his friends, it was all Kikyo. Did Kagome just not sexually appeal to him as Kikyo did? If he was genuinely attracted to her, how did he have so much restraint?

He snaked his arm around her waist. "What'cha thinking about?" He sang.

"Just when I think I have you figured out, you knock me off course."

InuYasha raised a brow at that, not really sure what she was referring to.

()()()

InuYasha and Kagome spent the remained of the day snuggling up on the couch watching TV, the babies hadn't made a peep until Rin and Sesshomaru arrived to pick them up. Rin hugged the two of them for a good five minutes, thanking them that they had watched her babies. Sesshoumaru didn't banter much with InuYasha, the day had long exhausted him and he knew on top of all that he and Rin would be juggling three crying babies for the night.

InuYasha was fighting to stay awake, he was positioned perfectly on the couch that made it very difficult to get up. Kagome was scrolling on her phone, using his arm propped up as a head rest. She felt bad for leaving Sango hanging. Sango had sent a chain of messages to her, yelling more and more of 'how dare you leave me hanging!' Kagome just responded back. 'False alarm. Put the popcorn down.'

She was currently doing a career search, knowing full well her retail job wouldn't sustain the life she wanted to live. Majority of her friends were in college now, slowly finishing up their degrees. Kagome couldn't quite put her finger on it but something in her heart told her to stray from that path. The shallow people in her life always asked her why she even bothered having a career knowing that InuYasha was in her life but it was never about the money when it came to their relationship.

InuYasha moved slightly, slowly stirring from his sleep. He instinctively reached out for Kagome and drew her closer.

"I didn't tell you this yet," He cleared his throat, still webby from the grogginess. "And I know it might affect whether or not you want to stay with me."

Kagome pulled her eyes from her phone, her heart starting to race again for the thousandth time. His voice sounded seriousness.

"It's about my enlistment contract." He had avoided talking about having to go back in the short time that he was able to visit his family. He knew how Kagome felt about it the first time he left so he was hesitant. Despite the initial threat being resolved, InuYasha had to abide by his enlistment contract. Kagome was tracing circles on InuYasha's arms as they lied together.

"I knew." She whispered. "I was trying not to think about it." He lightly grazed his lips over her forehead as they both pondered at the thought of him leaving. She sat up slightly. "You thought I wouldn't want to be with you because of that?"

"It's asking a lot for you to wait for me." He shrugged.

"You left once, and here we are." She stated. "You rescued me for heaven's sake." She caressed his face. "You really think I'm going anywhere?"

"I guess your anxiety was rubbing off on me." He smiled nervously.

"Rude." She slapped him lightly on the arm. "How long are we talking?"

"My contract was for two years." He waited for Kagome's reaction but she surprisingly did a great job at not showing concern. "The only semi-bad part is there was talk about stationing me in the States. Their youkai force isn't as strong there as it is in Japan."

Kagome never took her gaze off of him. Things were different now. She wasn't afraid anymore, she felt proud. Her smile of encouragement made his heart flutter.

"You've more than enough proven to me you can handle yourself in combat. I know you'll do great. I'll just pretend you're Mormon and going on a mission to the US."

InuYasha shook his head, "Whatever helps."

"Just don't fall in love with a cute American girl. I'll be really sad."

"Not a chance, the girl I love is laying right here with me." He pressed his lips against hers, making her melt. "And I'll be counting down the days til I can kiss her again."

"You mean that?"

"I love you, Kagome." His amber eyes were beautifully accented by the dim light coming from the stove top in the kitchen.

"My god, have I ever told you how handsome you looked?" Kagome laughed at her own boldness. Even she didn't understand how she was able to contain herself all these years.

"I could only guess by the way you look at my sometimes." He smirked. Their legs were intertwined now, their touches getting more bold. They felt like they were under a spell whenever they were alone together.

Kagome had slid on top of him now, trailing kissing on his face. She felt like a newlywed couple, you could smell the constant arousal a mile away. She knew she was being bipolar about the whole thing, bold one minute and shy the next.

"Remember what you said to me before you were drafted?" She asked in between kisses, lightly grinding her hips against his. His smug expression only encouraged her.

"I remember." He nodded. "I meant every word."

"Then I have one request before you go."

He paused for a second, looking up at Kagome's dominating face. His heart was slamming against his chest. There was no alcohol to blame this time. She knew how to make him feel like a puppy sometimes.

"Anything, Kagome."

Kagome knew that in youkai tradition, consummation of a romantic relationship was taken very seriously and to some was more binding than that of marriage.

"Make me yours."

The look in her eyes told him everything. At that instant their hearts pumped together in rhythm. The sexual nature of her beg made his ears warm to the touch. There was not a second of hesitation, this was the woman he wanted. This is the woman that his inner demon had told him he had wanted long ago.

Next chapter will be the finale/epilogue! Not sure how long it will be but I will not post til it is PERFECT. Thanks for reading.