Chapter Twenty- Five
Family Time
InuYasha stared, slacked jawed, at this seemingly young female demoness who claimed to be his grandmother. He had never thought about what sort of family he may have had besides his mother, father and half brother. He had been completely shocked by the fact he had had two uncles and two aunts on his father's side. All of his family on his mother's side was dead and gone save for the few descendants that didn't even know anything about their half demon relative.
"You're my… my grandmother?" he asked as he stared at her mystified as if she weren't just his grandmother but a supernatural manifestation that had appeared before him.
Gobodō-sama smiled as she stood and walked gracefully to stand before the hanyo. She loving brushed the boy's bangs from his face.
"Yes my sweet puppy. I am your Sobo-san."
Sesshomaru watched the scene with the same expression he had always had but inside he felt as if something had finally fallen into place. His aunt Aiko had been upset that he had refused to take Izayoi and InuYasha in after his father's death but his grandmother had been furious but not so much with him as his actions though cruel in appearance where what were best for both mortal mother and hanyo child for without the Inu no Taisho's presence then Izayoi and her son would have been in danger of assassination attempts and possible death. Gobodō-sama had called him to come to her alone to speak of his hanyo brother.
"It's disgusting that a babe and widow cannot be brought to his father's home for fear of death." The demoness paced the room as if she were a tiger and not a dog. She then looked to him. She looked determined. "The boy and his mother are still in danger though. Demons don't look well upon children of mix blood. Sesshomaru you must claim your brother's life. Claim before the demons and his mother's family that only you shall end InuYasha's life then no one would dare harm him.
And so the demon Lord had done as he had been told. His grandmother had always been a source of great love and affection to both him and Emi and he knew that she would have been the same to InuYasha. He had known that even though she had had her two eldest grandchildren and her children with her she had always felt a sad emptiness in her heart that was caused by InuYasha's absence but she would not allow any pups of her family to be mistreated. Even here someone could not have always been with the hanyo and he could have been killed.
And now as the matriarch of his clan gazed at the youngest of her grand pups he could see the same bright loving smile that she had always had reach her eyes once more and not only would the clan regain the youngest son of the Inu no Taisho but also his first born child, her mother, and their strange, yet strong, pack.
Gobodō-sama's voice broke Sesshomaru from his thoughts as she spoke softly to the grandson that had seen so very little love in his life.
"I foresaw your birth you know." She whispered. "When your father realized he was falling love with your mother he came to me to seek my advice and my sight. I told him that I saw this princess that captured his heart bare him a son. A half demon son that had the strength of any full demon and the will and heart of a human. I told him you would have hardships, much more then the average hanyo, but would become stronger for it and that you would be the stepping stone for changing the demonic world."
InuYasha's heart was pounding as this woman, this demon sorceress, told him of this vision she saw concerning him. He had always just tried to live until the next day until he met Kagome. She had changed his life and he wondered if she saw him meeting his mate as well.
"Yes," she said as if reading his mind. "I even saw the undead woman, Kikyo, seal you away and I saw your mate save you. That's why I enchanted the bones eater's well, and I saw your daughter, your Izayoi." She kneeled before him. "She will do great things and she will change our word for the better."
"You enchanted the bone eater's well?" Miroku asked suddenly. They had always believed the well had been opened because of the jewel.
The grandmother nodded. "Oh yes, I just had to manipulate the demonic auras of the demons that had been thrown into it.
Miroku shook his head in awe. "Amazing." He said thoroughly impressed.
"Mother." Raiden finally spoke up as he sat between his two nephews with Miroku in the opposite side of InuYasha. The demon mother looked to her second born son giving the boy her full attention.
"Is Izayoi in danger?" he asked. The grandmother sighed as she looked at all of the young men before her. Her children yes even the monk she saw as her son now. From the moment InuYasha accepted the perverted monk into his pack she became his matriarch as well and as she contemplated her son's question she gently patted the monk's head like he were a small boy.
"I am afraid that the identity of the one who seeks to harm Izayoi is muddled. I cannot see his face or hear his voice but soon the bastard will make his move. She then turned to InuYasha and smiled. "I wish to meet you mate and the rest of your pack."
Miroku looked to his friend and wondered just what the hanyo would do. He knew InuYasha's overprotective nature especially when it came to Kagome and their unborn daughter. But the loving and protective aura this ancient demon woman projected made Miroku almost certain that the half demon would not deny his grandmother.
"Uh sure I guess." He said and Miroku felt that his friend had made a good decision.
Kagome
Kagome woke to the distinct feeling that someone was in the room with her. And it wasn't her husband. She could feel an unfamiliar, non-threating demonic aura. She sat up and looked around to find a shorthaired demon woman setting up a table full of breakfast foods.
"Good morning." Emi greeted as she looked to the young woman that was sitting on the futon staring at her curiously. "Here's breakfast, Lord InuYasha should be back soon."
Kagome looked around as the fact that her husband wasn't anywhere in the room dawned on her.
"Oh um, okay. Where did he go?" she asked as she got up and walked over to the breakfast table. Emi quickly made a plate for the pregnant miko and sat it down in front of her.
"He went to see Gobodō-sama." The demoness said and left it at that. Kagome figured that she wasn't about to get anything more from the pretty demon.
"I'm Kagome by the way, what's your name?" she asked trying to start a casual conversation.
"I am Emi daughter of Lord Raiden and I know who you are." Emi then bowed low to show respect. "It is an honor to have you with us at last my Lady.
Kagome blushed at the woman's bow and her words and felt herself shake her head. "Oh no please don't do that I'm not…"
Emi smiled and nodded as she interrupted the miko's rambling protests. "I understand Kagome-chan."
Kagome sighed as she looked around the room. It was beautiful the soft colors where defintly the touch of a woman. Emi seeing the young woman's intreast smiled.
"This use to be Lady Izayoi's suit when she stayed here in the beginning of her pregnancy with lord InuYasha."
Kagome's eyes widened as she looked to Emi.
Before Kagome could reply about the room the door slid open to reveal InuYasha and another Inu demon woman.
InuYasha's eyes instantly found her.
"You're awake." he stated with a smile to which Kagome smiled in return. "Yeah where have you been?" she asked as he kissed her sweetly before turning to the demon woman who had followed him.
"I went to see her." He said as he helped Kagome to her feet. "She's my grandmother."
Kagome's eyes widened, as she looked back to the noble woman who had moved into the room and was approaching them leisurely.
"Grandmother would you like breakfast as well?" Emi asked as she bowed her head to the matriarch of the clan. "No child, I've already eaten, besides a whelping female needs all of the food she can get." She then gestured for Kagome to sit and eat which the miko did happily.
As Kagome was busy feeding herself Gobodō-sama kept her eyes on the unborn child. She stretched out her aura to brush against the baby's and encourage it to brush her own.
The child's answering surge of power was calm and almost lazy indicating that the pup was only just waking up herself. Once Izayoi was aware of the stranger currently brushing their aura against her, the child reached out with her own to test the foreign power.
Gobodō-sama smiled in approval of the child's incentive to protect both herself and her mother.
Once she's old enough to be trained this puppy will be a force to be reckoned with.
"Is everything alright?" Kagome asked with her chopsticks holding rice to her mouth. She had noticed the demon's gaze on her belly and had the sudden urge to shield her round stomach from view. Gobodō-sama smiled lovingly as she answered simply. "I'm just acquainting myself with my first great grandchild is all. Everything is fine child."
At the sound of the demon woman's voice Kagome could feel the baby in her womb wiggle as if she were excited. That in and of itself made the young other to be feel a little more comfortable. The fact her baby wasn't in any kind of distress assured the mother that this strange woman was not doing anything to harm the child currently in her womb.
After about ten minutes the room to InuYasha's doors slid open once more to reveal Sango, Shippo and Kirara. The small fox happily scampered over to his surrogate mother and leapt onto her shoulder.
"Kagome how are you? Did you eat already? Is Izayoi kicking yet?" Kagome giggled as the fox tyke rambled off his questions and when he finally stopped Kagome answered with practiced ease.
"I'm fine Shippo, yes I already ate, and no Izayoi is not kicking but she is wiggling around."
Sango came to sit next to her heart sister and eyed the miko carefully. Kagome had been exhausted the day before and had promptly fallen asleep in InuYasha's arms before they had gotten to their rooms so she had wondered if Kagome would even be getting up this morning. Thankfully the young woman from the future seemed perfectly happy and healthy.
"You must be Sango." The demon slayer looked to the new demoness in the room.
Sango had noticed her when she had walked in but since InuYasha or Kagome, let alone Sesshomaru, were agitated or tensed and ready for battle she assumed the woman's presence was a peaceful one.
"Yes I'm Sango." She said as she bowed respectively.
"I am Gobodō-sama, I am InuYasha and Sesshomaru's grandmother." Sango smiled.
"Its an honor to meet you."
"Wow! You're InuYasha's grandma?" Shippo asked as he jumped on to the woman's shoulder.
"Yes little kit," Shippo then looked to InuYasha with an evil smirk.
"Then I think you should know that InuYasha his me all the time! And that he doesn't share the yummy ninja snacks that Kagome brings us!"
InuYasha glared at the kit as Gobodō-sama laughed at the child's eagerness to tale her how her grandson behaves.
"Why you little -" InuYasha lunged for Shippo but the fox scurried around the room as the hanyo chased him down.
By this time Aiko and Megumi and even Dai came into the room to see what the noise was all about.
Kagome smiled as all four of Gobodō-sama's children ended up in the late Lady Izayoi's rooms and for the first time ever her husband was able to be together with his family without the anger and violence that he had always known.
The mother to be smiled as she rubbed her belly happy that her daughter already had such a bright future.
A/N: Just a little filler chapter basically. The next chapter will be a time jump to Kagome's seventh month. Thanks for reading and please review.
I have begun a companion story for this one as well called Times of Change one Shots. Since the next story won't have much of Izayoi's early years I've decided to write a series of one shots about the Royal family as InuYasha and Kagome's daughter grows.