InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ A Child's Wish ❯ Happy Family ( Chapter 4 )

DISCLAIMER: I do not own Inuyasha. While the plot and the lovely little Takara are my creations, everything else belongs to Rumiko Takahashi. I make no profit off this, and do it only for my own enjoyment and hopefully yours.

 

Chapter 4 - Happy Family

 

When the couple exited Kaede's hut, Inuyasha picked Kagome up and hurried off to Miroku and Sango's before anyone could spot them and ask questions. Like Kaede, he knew that Kagome's return would cause a lot of questions that could frankly wait. Today was going to be all about family only, everyone else could wait. It was time for Kagome to be reunited with her `brother' and `sister' and to meet her daughter for the first time.

 

“Inuyasha?” Kagome asked, as Inuyasha headed to their friend's house. “What's Takara like?”

 

“Like everything I wasn't when I was her age.” Inuyasha said happily. “Happy, polite, full of love. She looks just like you, you know.”

 

“Just like me?” Kagome asked happily, yet she couldn't quite keep the slight hint of disappointment out of her voice. She had been hoping their child would have her father's cute ears. And maybe his eyes too, they were simply gorgeous after all.

 

“Well, almost.” Inuyasha said, confused by the disappointment he could hear in his Mate's voice. “She has my eyes and my ears, but other than that…” He broke off when Kagome let out a happy laugh and hugged him around the neck as he continued to run. For a moment he was confused, but then he remembered how much Kagome had always loved his ears and he thought he understood.

 

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It was lunchtime, and Takara was sitting down with her Aunt, Uncle and cousins to eat. She wondered where her daddy was, but knew he was often out for hours at a time protecting the village and that he always came back, so she wasn't worried. He would come back when everything was okay again.

 

Miroku and Sango on the other hand were confused. Miroku had told his wife of the strange way Inuyasha had acted when he came into Kaede's hut with the woman found by the river, and they had both seen him running between his and Kaede's huts like a man possessed. Something was going on, but they didn't know what, and that bothered them. Ever since Kagome had died, Inuyasha had become closer to the two of them than ever before. Their children were practically raised under the same roof. Why was he deliberately keeping them out of something that was clearly bothering him so much? Granted, it had only been a couple of hours but still…

 

Just then, the mat covering the door was pushed open and Inuyasha entered. Takara was happy to see him, and only the fact that she knew her aunt didn't like people leaving the table until everyone had finished eating kept her sitting instead of jumping up and engulfing her daddy in a hug like she wanted.

 

“Inuyasha, good to see you.” Miroku said happily. “Care to join us?”

 

“In a minute, monk.” Inuyasha said, grinning broadly. Clearly whatever had been bothering him earlier was gone, because the Hanyou looked happier than Miroku and Sango could remember seeing him in a long time. “There's someone here I think you'll be happy to see again.” That said, he stepped out of the doorway and held the reed mat open for whoever was behind him to enter.

 

Sango was about ask who it was, when she felt her voice leave her in pure shock. For a moment, she forgot when she was. Pulling her eyes off the young woman standing in her doorway with difficulty, she looked towards Miroku as if to ask him to tell her if she was seeing things. However, he was staring at the woman with what she assumed as the same look she had just been sporting. Hope, fear and pure disbelief.

 

“Ka, Kagome?” Miroku managed to choke out.

 

“Hi guys.” She said softly, her voice just as they remembered it. “Miss me?”

 

Sango still couldn't speak, but she managed to squeal happily as she jumped to her feet and rushed over to hug her long thought lost `sister'. With a laugh, Kagome hugged her back with equal strength. After a moment, Miroku hurried over as well and made it a three-way hug. All three of them had tears of joy running down their faces, while Inuyasha watched them with a huge smile.

 

“But, how?” Miroku asked when they finally separated. “You were… How?” Sango had been wondering the same thing, though at that moment she honestly didn't care how this had happened, only that it had.

 

“We don't know exactly.” Inuyasha said softly. “But the Shikon No Tama is gone. Even though I never made a wish on it, Kaede thinks if I wanted Kagome back badly enough it might have sensed that and made it happen.”

 

Slowly, Miroku nodded as he processed this. It was possible, he and Kaede had only made the box to not let negative emotions in, he had never considered the need to keep out an emotion like love. The Jewel might have very well sensed Inuyasha's love for Kagome and brought her back to him.

 

“Daddy?” A small voice spoke up from the table. “Who is this?”

 

Takara was confused. Her aunt and uncle said it was rude to leave the table before everyone was finished eating, but they had both done just that. And who was this woman? Takara had never seen her before, why was everyone so happy to see her? The way the woman was looking at her daddy was like those village women, the ones that wanted Daddy for their `husband'. Takara didn't like the way her daddy looked at her either, so happy. Her daddy was only that happy to see her, and she felt a surge of jealousy rush through her. Would this woman be the one to succeed and take her daddy away from her? Well she wasn't getting him without a fight.

 

Kagome glanced over in the direction the voice had come from, and felt her heart instantly melt. Sitting there, looking right at her with a suspicious expression so much like Inuyasha's, was the cutest little girl Kagome had ever seen. And she was her daughter, her Takara, she had to be. Not only did her face look so much like her own had in all the pictures she had seen of herself at that age. The unbelievably cute puppy-dog ears on tope of her head, and her gorgeous golden eyes instantly made her stand out as Inuyasha's daughter. Inuyasha and her's. Oh Gods, she was so beautiful. Granted she looked suspicious right now, but then again why wouldn't she be, she didn't know her. Yet. That would all change soon, Kagome promised herself.

 

“Takara, sweetie, come here.” Inuyasha said happily. “There's someone you should really meet.”

 

Takara got up and walked over slowly, her eyes never leaving the strange woman. You aren't getting Daddy without a fight. Takara silently promised. He's mine!

 

“Takara, this is your Mommy.” Inuyasha said softly. “Kagome, this is our daughter, Takara.”

 

Takara was taken back. “My Mommy?” She squeaked. “But Aunt Sango said my Mommy went to Heaven! People don't come back from Heaven!”

 

Inuyasha looked at Sango and raised an eyebrow, to which Sango shrugged sheepishly. He knew under normal circumstances he would likely be mad at Sango for telling Takara that, right now he was too happy with the world to care.

 

“They can't, normally.” Inuyasha said softly. “But there were special circumstances this time. When you're older and can understand better, we'll explain it to you. This really is your Mommy, Takara, she came back. Aren't you happy to see her?”

 

For a moment Takara neither moved or said anything. Then all at once she ran into her Mommy's arms with such forced she almost knocked her over. She was so happy she was crying. This was what she had wished for, just last night. She had a Mommy, and now her Daddy would be happy too!

 

As she hugged her daughter back, Kagome found herself crying as well. She had been convinced she would never get the chance to even see her child, to be holding her now was unbelievable. She had missed the first five years of her daughter's life, but that did not matter, she would not let that matter. She now had a chance to experience the rest of them, maybe even the possibility to have more children. She wasn't going to waste this miraculous second chance at life. She was so happy, and didn't intend to let either Inuyasha or Takara out of her sight at any point in the near future, and from the looks on their faces, they felt the same way about her.

 

As she snuggled further into her mommy's embrace, thinking about how her wish had come true, Takara grinned to herself.

 

Now I wish I had a little brother or sister!