Chapter Nine:

Five Weeks Later (A Month and Seven days Later)

InuYasha was woken up in the early hours of the morning just before dawn. He wasn't sure what had woken him until he reached for Kagome to find she wasn't in her usual spot. The half demon instantly jumped up from his spot and looked around the hut for his wife.

Sango was asleep with Kirara curled next to her and Miroku was on the other side of the hut from the slayer. Shippo was laying haphazardly near where Kagome had been before she disappeared.

And Kaede was asleep in her usual spot.

Where did Kagome go?

InuYasha sniffed the air as he quietly left the hut in search of his miko. Lately Kagome's scent had been different. It was still the same, like sweet fruit in the spring but now it had an almost tropical floral undertone to it. InuYasha was sure what the change meant but he knew he liked it.

It didn't take him long to find her.

Kagome was hunched over the shrubbery behind Kaede's hut and if the sound of it was any indication she wasn't feeling well.

"Kagome you alright?" InuYasha asked as he came up behind the young woman and pulled her hair back. She finished and sat back on her knees as InuYasha kneeled down behind her with his hands on her shoulders to support her.

"I... yeah." Kagome closed her eyes and took a deep breath to calm herself and continued. "I'm okay I don't know what's wrong with me lately. This is the fourth time this has happened."

InuYasha's ears stood straight up and he was looking at her in shock and a little angry. "This has been happening? Why the hell didn't you tell me?"

Kagome looked at him. She looked tired and pale and that scared the hanyo.

"Its probably just a bug InuYasha I'm fine." Kagome said as she climbed to her feet. InuYasha shook his head, his silver hair flying around his face. "No way wench I want Kaede to look at you when she wakes up."

Before Kagome could protest InuYasha snapped his fangs in her direction. "Don't argue with me on this woman, Kaede will look you over to make sure you're going to be okay."

Kagome relented when she saw the pure determination in InuYasha's eyes. He wasn't going to let this go.

"Okay."

InuYasha then lead Kagome back to the hut and to her sleeping bag and after she was tucked in he sat against the wall like sentinel intent on keeping her safe and healthy.

Later That Morning

InuYasha sat nervously as Kaede examined Kagome inside the hut after breakfast. He sat against the wall his arms crossed in his sleeves and his knee nervously bouncing. He didn't like the thought of his Kagome sick. Demons he could kill, he could beat the crap out of human men, but diseases he couldn't do anything about that and it scared him.

He was glad the others were off doing their own thing and weren't there to witness his anxiety.

He was abruptly brought from his thoughts when Kaede walked out of the hut without Kagome.

"Is she okay?" InuYasha demanded as he got his feet swiftly.

Kaede chuckled as she nodded toward the hut. "I believe the lass would like to tell ye herself."

With that the hanyo walked into the hut to see Kagome sitting on her knees in the middle of Kaede's hut her belly exposed and her hand placed gently, almost protectively over her abdomen. She looked dazed and had a tiny smile on her face as if she were lost in a daydream.

"Kagome?" InuYasha asked causing Kagome to look up as if she had forgotten where she was. The hanyo walked over toward her hesitantly as he looked her over. Her color seemed to have come back and she didn't seem sick anymore.

"Are you okay?" he asked. Kagome smiled and nodded. She then reached for him and he quickly knelt next to her and took her hand. She then put his hand where her's had been and InuYasha looked from her stomach to her face in confusion. But she only smiled and said something that turned the half demon's world upside down.

"I'm pregnant."

InuYasha blinked at her then he stared at his hand as if he could see the child that his beloved told him was there.

"InuYasha, did you hear me?"

"Yeah," he whispered. "I heard you. Are you okay?" he looked into her eyes and saw nothing but love and a little fear. "I'm fine. We're fine."

When she said 'we're' it finally sunk in that Kagome was with child and that meant that he was going to be a father. InuYasha wrapped his arms around her and held her close as if he could keep everything evil away from her and their baby.

Kagome giggled as InuYasha clutched her to his chest.

"InuYasha I should probably go home and tell my family."

InuYasha gulped slightly. "I don't think that's going to go well for me."

Kagome giggled as she kissed his cheek. "You'll be fine."

Kagome got up and walked to her bags.

As InuYasha watched his lover get her things together he remembered a major threat that he had to get rid of in the near future, preferably in the next few months.

Naraku.

That piece of filth won't get near my mate and pup!

For once we completely agree.

A/N: Now the story is really getting started. Hope you all liked the chapter please review!

Disclaimer: I Do Not Own InuYasha or Co.