InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ A Lifetime Loving You Part 1; Seasons in Owari ❯ Mountain Cave ( Chapter 12 )

Chapter 12; Mountain Cave

(Kagome POV)

Little could be done about the situation both Inu-yasha and I were in. I wanted to just make it out of this alive, but at the same time I didn't want him to know the truth about what I wanted.

Inu-yasha was free to live out his own life the way he wanted to, and my destiny was chosen for me. Why does he stay beside me? I didn't understand any of it.

The horse was abandoned at the base of the mountain range, and Inu-yasha began out hike up the mountains with our blankets, food, and water supply on our backs. (Inu-yasha obviously carried more since he could support the weight far better than I could.

Inu-yasha often led me up steep areas of the mountain, but he always held his hand out to me to guild me along the rock and earth. He stayed beside me through it all, and I still didn't know why. I was carrying his brother's child of all things. He should have looked at me and then ran into Kikyo's arms. I wouldn't have cared, I would have deserved just as much. At least I'd have a child to care for and love.

Through out the journey, Inu-yasha and I talked very little. However, there was one night in a mountain cave that Inu-yasha and I shared many things with each other.

The part of the mountain pass we were going through was hard on me and Inu- yasha sot shelter without me asking. He pulled me into a cave and dropped the things he carried on the stone ground. I made my make shift bed and Inu-yasha made a fire in the middle of the cave.

I spread over my blanket and got ready to rest when I smelled something cooking over the fire. I ignored it and tried to sleep when I felt Inu- yasha's body heat at my side a moment later. I opened my eyes slowly and watched as he knelt beside me, and I sat up. He handed me a cup of herbal medicine.

"Here, take this. It will help with the morning sickness."

I took the cup and let the warm liquid run down my throat and even though the taste wasn't the best, my stomach made quick work of its remedy. I felt better and looked at Inu-yasha who had suddenly gotten to his feet slightly and crawled around back of me. "Can you remove your kimono?"

I turned my head to the side and questioned his motive. "What are you going to do?"

Inu-yasha removed his red kimono and handed it to me. "I need to look you over and make sure everything is developing normally."

I sighed heavily but began to strip my top garments. Inu-yasha wrinkled his nose. "Will you just trust me for once?"

I removed my light blue kimono and then began to un-tuck my white kimono. "It's not that," I said, "Why are you so worried about the baby's survival?"

Inu-yasha looked at me with a cold look in his eye. "It's still a baby, Kagome."

I placed his red kimono over my chest as he looked over my back. I looked into the fire. "I don't know how you deal with this. I would think you'd be disgusted with being around me."

Inu-yasha's hands touched my middle and he examined me. "Why would I think that?"

I closed my eyes and didn't respond to his question. I didn't want Inu- yasha to worry about another life, he had enough on his mind...and in his heart.

He wrinkled his nose again and came around front of me. "Lay back."

I took a double take before wondering what the motives were. He blinked a few times. "I need to check for a heartbeat and to see if there's any growth. Just relax!"

I clutched the red kimono over my breasts and slowly leaned back at an angle and stopped. Inu-yasha rolled his eyes and groaned as he pushed me all the way back and lifted the kimono off of my stomach. "Inu-yasha?" I whined, but he ignored me and gave me a look.

I'll never forget the look in his eyes. They were warm and I felt more comfortable in my condition as he placed his fingers over my stomach. "You've got some growth, but not enough to make it visible. You've got at least a month behind you now. It will most likely really become apparent when you're at the end of your second month."

His hands pushed tiny areas to feel my belly. "What are you looking for?" I asked, with the hint of hesitation in my voice.

Inu-yasha's eyes drifted over my middle and he watched his hands. "I'm making sure nothing is abnormal. Your body is unfamiliar with what is inside of it. If the child is male it will be more fragile than a human male."

I looked at him as he continued to touch me. "Is it the demon blood?"

Inu-yasha nodded without taking his eyes off his hands. "You're body isn't familiar with it, and males generally have a more difficult time growing because the mother's body is not familiar with the male child's blood."

I arched one of my brows and gave him a rather strange look. "Something tells me you don't know this from experience."

Inu-yasha finally looked up at me from his work. He closed his eyes for a moment. "It was in one of those school books you tote around in your pack."

Thought as much!

I rolled my eyes and smirked as I looked down at Inu-yasha's hands that now where lying limply on my stomach. His hands were warm, and I liked it. Even though it was a simple examination, the touches were making my skin tingle.

I closed my eyes and relaxed enough to enjoy the last few moments of his examination. I turned my head to the side and felt myself get dizzy again. "Inu-yasha?"

He looked up from his hands and saw that my eyelids were getting heavy. "Hmm?"

I blinked slowly and opened my eyes again, still looking to the side. "Do you think it's a boy?"

Inu-yasha's hands lifted a little leaving his fingers touching my skin. "I don't know what to think."

I closed my eyes. "I want it too survive, in someway. I don't want to loose my first child to nature or Naraku."

Inu-yasha crawled over to my head and leaned over my head a few inches away from my ear, but I was too dizzy and tired to mind. "What do you think it is, Kagome?"

I mumbled as sleep started to take me. "My baby...that's what it is. No matter the sex, it's still mine."

I moment later I felt Inu-yasha coil his body around me and I felt his claws in my hair. His breathing was calm and soothing, and it helped me to fall into a deeper sleep. "A girl! That's what it is."

I moaned, "How can you tell?"

"I don't!" he whispered, "I just know that Naraku will have a harder time bringing your baby under control if it is female."

I opened my eyes halfway. "What makes you think being female will give it a chance?"

Inu-yasha closed his eyes and put his nose in my hair and sighed. "She'd take after her mother."

I smiled and hummed a small laugh. "You forget, Dog boy. She would be half demon, too."

"So?"

I nuzzled into his neck as I fell into a deep sleep without answering his question, but I said the answer in my head. 'She'd be more like you, too.'

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(Inu-yasha's POV)

I would not forget the smell that covered the cave that night. Kagome's sweet scent sent my head into swirls of warmth and dizziness. Even though she wasn't covered completely as she slept, Kagome clung to my kimono even in her sleep.

I could smell the scent of the child growing in side of her, and it was getting stronger with each turning day. Yet, that night seemed to alter the scent of the tiny life inside of her. The scent became sweeter suddenly and easier on my nose. The demonic scent seemed to keep its strong sense of demon, but it was at ease. It was calmer and seemed to bring comfort. It was almost as if the demon blood had settled.

Female? If it were female, would Naraku truly still want her? Still, the thought of seeing a female half-demon was something completely new. It wasn't completely possible most of the time. Female half-demons were unheard of. Males were usually in the majority because a human mother could handle a male half-breed better. Perhaps the weak state of a male made that possible.

However, Kagome was no ordinary mortal woman. Could she handle a female half-demon?

Female? I wonder...what would it be like to raise a female half-demon?

It was that night that I began to dream of teaching Kagome's the joys of demon blood. I fell asleep with dreams of gliding through the air with Kagome's child at my side. So many possibilities, and yet at that moment they only seemed like dreams that wound never come true.

The child wasn't mine! Yet...why did my heart break when I told myself that it could never be possible, and yet sore at the though of holding Kagome's baby in my arms?

Female? What a joy it would be if the child were female?