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Title: A Message for Inuyasha
Author: landofthekwt
Rating: M
Prompt: Message (Dokuga One Shot #20)
Word Count: 1437
Genre: General
Warning: Birth
Summary: Kagome gives birth
" Where is he? He should be here. It is his child. He held my hand when Ouji was born. Surely,
he would want to be here. Sesshoumaru, have you told him. Honored Mother, you must have
known that I was nine months along when you came here. Why didn't you bring him here with
you?"
Mother and son stared at each other. She had come as soon as she received the message from
Sesshoumaru. It had said simply. " Come. The baby will be born soon. Do not bring him"
So she came. She felt like she had betrayed both of them. Yet, she understood the clear
implication of her son's message. Inuyasha was to be excluded. His mate and child would be in
Sesshoumaru's hands, hostages against anything Inuyasha might do. Bargaining chips to force
Inuyasha to yield his claim to Kagome. She wondered if Inuyasha would ever forgive her.
Knowing all this, she had still come. Kagome was giving birth to a daiyoukai. The first born in
the Western Shiro since Sesshoumaru. Kagome would need all of her strength to survive.
Sesshoumaru and his mother stood by with Tenseiga and the Meidou Seki to revive her and the
new born in case the unthinkable happened.
It was times like this that she wished the youkai had a kami to pray to and watch over Kagome.
But the kami had specifically excluded the youkai. They were considered unclean and unpurified.
Only the humans could worship the kami. The youkai had paid for their pride. It was only a
matter of time before the tide of humanity swept them all away.
She had come in the nick of time. Sesshoumaru's physicians and midwives had never birthed a
daiyoukai. She remembered every painful minute of the experience as Sesshoumaru sucked her
life blood and her youki from her in order to stay alive. If she had not been a poison user herself,
she would not have survived the dokkasou which had dripped from her claws.
Some of her mate's advisors had advised cutting her open and removing the pup. Her mate had
stood by her that day and not allowed her to bleed to death. He had forged Tenseiga after this
experience. Never would his mate and son be placed in such perils again. After all this time it
still warmed her heart to remember that her mate loved her.
Kagome's cries shook her from her reveries. The girl had amazing lungs for a human. They had
given her little for the pain. She must remain awake and alert for the delivery. It would take all

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of her strength to see this through. Cutting the pup from her womb would surely kill her.
Somehow, the pup would have to come into the world in the same manner as ordinary human
beings.
" Inuyasha. Inuyasha. Where are you?" screamed the miko.
Sesshoumaru ground his claws into his flesh. Dokkasou hissed on the floor. He had forbidden
that name from being spoken in the Western Shiro. Not even his mother was allowed to mention
him. He had made sure that Inuyasha would not be present at his own pup's birth.
This son would be his. He would be raised in the Western Shiro. The pup would look to him as
father. He would be raised correctly. Not as his own father had done. There would be no tests
Father had taken given Tessaiga to Inuyasha and left him to fight his battles. He had taken Rin
from him just to teach him the lessons of fear and mercy. Luckily, Mother had saved Rin. He
would have had nothing to live for if she had not. Even the Meidou which had perfected was to
be given to the little bastard.
He had shown him. In the end he did not need anything from Father. He had fought on his own as
daiyouki and received his own weapon. He had taken his brother's wife as his mate. Now he
would take his brother's child and reclaim his mate. Side by side they would stem the tide of
humanity as they were meant to be.
Kagome had told her about Ouji's birth. The girl had endured the longest labor that the Lady was
acquainted with. Her cervix had already endured the birth of a hanyou. She was better prepared
for what was to come. Kagome had tried to interest Sesshoumaru in coaching her through the
birth. He would have none of it. The birthing room was for women.
That at least was a comfort to the Lady. She would not have to fear his intervention in the birth
which was not needed or wanted. Her mate had been of similar bent. It was only the threat to cut
the pup from her that had brought him to her side when she needed him most.
She was frankly amazed at Kagome's story about Inuyasha's assistance in the birth of Ouji. It
must be her influence on him. Males did not enter the birthing room in youkai or human society.
The little one had always been susceptible to wiles of females. It had cost him his life and his
wife. Was she guilty of losing his pup?
Kagome again screamed for Inuyasha. The physicians and midwives stared at each other in
terror.
What would Lord Sesshoumaru do to them? They were touching his mate. His mate was
screaming his hated half brother's name. Soon blood would fill the air and it would be all over.
His poison would be turn them into puddles of green liquid. The Lady shook her head.
" Do your job or I will kill you myself. I will not have my daughter-in-law or her pup put at risk

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because you are all afraid of him. If you cannot do it move aside and I will see that she and the
pup survive."
With those words, the Lady swept to Kagome's side. She entreated the miko to tell her what to
do. Amazingly, Kagome was coherent enough to impart what she knew of Lamaze between
contractions. Soon, she and Kagome were breathing together. Kagome's hand gripped her clawed
one like a steel vise. The Lady now saw that Kagome had the strength to make it through this
ordeal. It was too bad that the little one was not here to be with her.
Finally, the contractions reached the critical point. If the pup was going to come, it had to be
now.
Everything depended on Kagome's will at this point. The Lady tried to remove calm, but even
she was beginning to panic. Kagome squeezed her hand between breaths and smiled.
" We are going to make it."
This reassurance calmed the Lady. She was now able to take charge of the last push. Kagome
could only breath and push. Nature would take its course and the pup would be born. Her cervix
was now fully dilated. The pup was ready to be born.
She remembered this part so well. Her labor had lasted 12 hours. She had shivered and, vomited.
The physicians had walked her around and around the room. The pacing had helped with her
nervousness and it did finally bring about the birth of Sesshoumaru. She did not envy Kagome.
The only good thing would be if it was over and mother and pup were resting comfortably
With one final scream of Inuyasha's name and a last push the pup emerged. One of the midwives
licked the sac from the pup, cleaned up the after birth and placenta and chewed through the
umbilical cord the umbilical cord. She paused and looked to the Lady for guidance. She nodded
and a midwife placed the blind fur ball where it could reach Kagome's nipple. The pup took the
hint and latched on. Everyone in the room let out a sigh of relief.
The Lady shuddered. She could feel the gateway to hell being opened. Just when she thought that
the worst had passed, conflict reared its ugly head. Sesshoumaru felt it too. He had trained the
Meidou which had been passed to Inuyasha before he had made it his own. The hanyou had
arrived. He must depart to greet his half-brother.
The supposedly invulnerable gate which the Inu no Taisho built to last forever disappeared into
Hell. What remained collapsed raising a cloud which shrouded the Western Shiro. Inuyasha
walked toward the entrance to his late father's home. The dust began to clear. There standing in
the door way was Sesshoumaru.
" I have a message from your mate."
" Spit it out, bastard."
" It is a bitch."

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