InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Bundle of Joy ❯ The Surprising Arrival ( Chapter 4 )

Author's note= I came across a writer's block trying to make another chapter before this one, the final one. I've decided to go ahead and post this. If I ever get a ch 3 done , then I'll either repost the entire story or post it by itself

This is it! This is the chapter I reveal who they really are! I'll state disclaimer at end of story.

I'll say this much, it is a I/K pairing

The characters so far=

Name - person

? - the girl, the young lady, wife to a son of a youkai

? - the girl's husband, a youkai

? - the baby, a hanyou

Benjiro - The girl's father

Kioshe - The girl's grandfather

Anda, Machiko - a priestess and midwife

Bundle of Joy

The Surprising Arrival

After 12 hours of labor, the young lady was in a foul mood. That was to be expected, but can never be prepared for. As her poor husband was finding out. He should listened to Benjiro's warnings about how some women will get a little hostile as labor progresses.

"You Damned DEMON!" Her shriek was heard all over shrine. Benjiro and Kioshe winced in sympathy for the father-to-be. They both had their turns to be in the young father's position.

`You call this a little hostile?' He automatically covers his family jewels as she once again threatened to cut them off. `Castration is more that a LITTLE hostile!' His thoughts were cut off as he heard her call his name.

As he looked at her face, he saw she was trying to hold back the pain as she raised her hand. As she crooked her finger to beckon him to come closer, her father saw this age-old move. He remembered his own beloved wife making the movement. And he answered his wife, as his son-in-law is doing now, moving closer.

Kioshe looked on as well, remembering when his wife gave birth to Benjiro. Kioshe ended in to the same trap as his son did and now this grandson in law is falling into. Kioshe looked at Benjiro, smiled and whispered "This is it! We should have warned him, son."

With the most evil of grins, Benjiro responded to his father. "Feh, the boy said he didn't need our warnings, dad. We once were in the same position, now it's his turn. Just wait, we'll get something to tease him about yet!"

They watched in silence as the proud youkai fell into the almost instinctive trap that many human mothers perform during childbirth.

He answered his wife's wishes for him to come closer. He was surprised when she grabbed his throat and started to scream.

"If you ever touch me again, I'll kill you! Don't you look at me! THIS IS YOUR FAAAAAAAAAAAUUUUUU!" She let him go as another contraction hit her, leaving her breathless.

--- 1 hour later ---

"Well, Anda-sama? how much longer is my wife going to suffer?" He was nearly at his wit's end, he hated to see her in such pain. 'She was right. It's my fault. It's all my fault that she's like that.'

Machiko was surprised when her old friend, Kioshe, told her that his granddaughter was pregnant and her husband was a youkai. But she accepted Kioshe's word that this youkai was not evil. Why should she doubt his word? Their families have worked together for the past 40 years. The Higurasi and the Anda families both have a tradition of priests and mikos in the bloodlines.

Besides as Machiko glanced at the youkai, all she saw was a nervous father awaiting the birth of his first child.

"Yeeaaaaoooooooo" As another contraction hit and the young mother whimpered, Machiko called to the father. 'Come here, and look. She is crowning. The child is ready to be born. PUSH now Kirei!

As he looked between his wife's legs, he saw what the priestess meant by the crowning. As his wife's birth channel widened, the babe's head started to leave her body, his jaw dropped and his eyes got wide as saucers as she screamed.

"ARRGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! You damn KISTUNE! I'LL KILL YOU FOR THIS!" Thud!

Benjiro looked over at Kioshe. "Well father, you owe me 500 yen. I told you he would faint at the crowning."

"*sigh* Let's wake him up before he misses the birth." Never in his life did Kioshe thought that a youkai would faint at their child's birth.

---soon after that---

As Benjiro wrapped the newborn in a blanket, Kioshe turned to the new parents, with a grin. "Congratulations, Granddaughter you gave birth to a fox!" As he chuckled at their looks, Kioshe went onto say "I've waited to say that for months now. Actually you got a beautiful daughter. But she looks like a youkai, I thought you said she would be a hanyou?"

The Kistune father turns to his in-laws to reply. "She is a hanyou. When most hanyous are born there's no telling what the child will look like. Both parents can be quite beautiful but produce a hanyou child that looks monstrous. Or the child could look like a combination of the parents with a feature of the youkai parent's true form. That's why normally only youkai with strong magic can breed with humans. IF they are strong enough, the youkai parent can … "influence" the child's form when conception occurs. Minimizing the bizarre formations.

" For instance, around 60 odd years ago (in my time) the great Lord Inutaishou took a human hime for a mate. When their hanyou son was born, he looked like a youkai for the most part. He had his father's golden eyes, the claws, fangs, and the pure white hair. The only feature that showed he was a hanyou was his ears. The hanyou prince Inu-Yasha had doglike triangular ears on top of his head. But kistunes are the exception to the rules."

Laughing at his son-in-law, Benjiro jumped at the chance. "Since when did kistunes follow the rules?"

He grinned as he went back to his explanation. "Because all kistunes are shapeshifter with strong magic, it affects the kistune hanyous, stabilizing their forms. A kistune hanyou looks like a pure blood kistune except the paws and tails. They have the pointed ears, claws and fangs like a youkai. But they do not have the hind paws of a fox, but human feet…with claws.

All kistune hanyou's have more than one tail. The average is two to five…"

At this Kirei's eyes got big, but not in horror. The excitement in her eyes was obvious to all as she interrupted her husband. "How many does my baby have? Let me see! Father, Grandfather, please let me see my baby girl's tails…"

All the gathered men chuckled at Kirei's begging. With a warm smile, Benjiro opened the blanket so the new father could pick up his daughter to show to his wife.

Kirei shot her arms out to hold her babe. "Awww, How adorable, two tails! My little girl has two tails!"

Sure enough, looking down at the newborn hanyou you can tell she was not human. For now she only had the pointed ears like her youkai father. As a newborn she did not yet have fangs of claws. Her hair is the same midnight hue as her father's as was the two tails that are as long as her legs.

As Benjiro noticed that, he realized something else. "Those tails may cause some hassles when it's time to potty train her. I remember that Kirei would often forget to move her hair out of the way when she was young."

"That's part of parenthood, I fear. We'll cross that bridge when we come to it." Kirei laughed.

"Ahem" Kioshe cleared his throat, looking serious, he turned to face the kistune. "I asked this before and all you said was wait and see. Well, I've waited and we all see what my adorable great-grandchild looks like. So I ask again, what are you going to do about her looks?"

Benjiro looked at his daughter and granddaughter. He was worried for them. "After all, it's not like the modern world has seen hanyous running around. The world outside this shrine may not acknowledge that demons exist. But they will still see her as different. She may not get teased for being a half-breed but she will still get teased for being different."

The kistune father looked at Kirei, his beloved wife as she nursed their daughter. "Kistune parents have a degree of control over their kit's shape shifting. Even as newborns, kistunes can shape change. Mind you, its not conscious shape shifting, it's instinctive to survival, like a form with fur when it's cold. The kistune parent has a strong link, a bond, with the child that allows the parent to influence the child's shape. The bond also allows the parent to hold the child in the form as well. After all it's a matter of concentration."

Kneeling down to pet his daughter's head, he went on to say "I can make our daughter shift to look fully human. With my own will, I can maintain the form as long as she is near. See?"

Everyone gasped as they looked at the child that no longer has pointed ears or two black tails. Instead the newborn looked like any other human babe… as long as that babe was born with an inch long, thick, black hair. As they watched , it appeared that her ears stretch up into a point as two fuzzy black tails popped into existence. It only took a second it seemed for the child's true form to reappear.

Kioshe gathered enough of his wits to ask. "What will we do when you can't be around her? You can't stay at her back all her life, you know."

Kirei smiled at her grandfather, then at her husband. "My husband and I have talked about it before. Ishin, go ahead and explain to them."

The kistune known as Ishin grinned. " That's a simple matter to tend to. There is a spell I know that can help. The form-locking spell actually seals a person into the form they are currently in. It is broken by the one who first cast it or another being of very strong magic."

"Any time we need to take her out at extended times or if you need to take her somewhere and I can't go, then I can place the form-lock on her. Especially once she starts to go to school."

Smiling towards the new parents, Machiko asked the next question on everyone's mind. "So what are you two going to name her?

Ishin looked at his wife and then the baby. "Well, Kirei, do you think that name fits our daughter?"

Kirei looked at the kistune that has brought her so much love. "Yes, it's perfect for our precious baby girl."

" We will call her Kagome."

~FINI~

LOL I said there was some I/K hehe I never said it was Inu-Yasha And Kagome! Instead it was Kagome's parents, Ishin/Kirei

I made the stuff about kistune hanyous having more than one tail up. I didn't want to make the kistune hanyous to become a dreaded `Mary-Sue", the hated near perfect character. They needed one feature, like other hanyous (Inu-Yasha and Jinenji) , marked them as different than full bloods.

At least now we know why Kagome's mom had a fascination for furry appendages ;)

Disclaimer= I do not own Kagome, her mother, and grandfather .Rumiko Takahshsi does. I only gave names to the mother and grandfather.

I created Ishin, Kioshe and Michiko.

The run-down=

Name - Character

Kierei- The girl, young lady; Kagome's human mother

Ishin - a kistune, Kagome's youkai Father

Kagome - the baby

Benjiro- Kagome's grandfather,

Kioshe - Kagome's great-grandfather

Machiko -Priestess that delivered Kagome

Yes there is chance that will do a sequel. I already have an idea of what to write. I'm not certain what I will call it, but it will deal with the following=

1-What happened to Kagome's father?

2- Do Kagome and Souta have the same father?

3-Why doesn't Kagome know she is a hanyou?

4- Will she regain her Kistune powers?

5- How will the others react to her being a hanyou? Inu-Yasha? Kouga?