InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Child Birth Complications ❯ Deliberations ( Chapter 48 )
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By: landofthekwt 
Anime/Manga: InuYasha Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Drama | Type: Divergence | Uploaded On: 09.14.2009 | Pages: 2 | Words: 1.8K | Visits: 227 | Status: Work In Progress
Anime/Manga: InuYasha Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Drama | Type: Divergence | Uploaded On: 09.14.2009 | Pages: 2 | Words: 1.8K | Visits: 227 | Status: Work In Progress
Title: Deliberations
Author: landofthekwt
Rating: PG-13
Prompt: Deliberate (Dokuga One Shot #26)
Word Count:1659
CU
Genfic
Warning: None
Summary: Sesshoumaru and Inuyasha consider their options
Child Birth Complications Chapter 48
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4876205/1/Child_Birth_Complications
Where do you start when you had nothing in common, but your hate for each other and your love
for Kagome? Can you discard the feelings on which you had built your life? Rivals for power
rivals in love, rivals for their father's heart.
They were brothers only because their father's blood flowed through them. The blood that made
one master and other servant. One a great demon. The other a monster, an abomination. They
might not be able to kill each other, but it made them wish the other was dead.
It was this imbalance that their father had sought to remedy with Tessaiga. All he had done was
to make them hate each other. It made one hate him for not giving the power he wished for. It
made the other hate him for not being there for himself or his mother.
Kagome had exacerbated their hate by loving both of them. Both thought that they had won her
heart. Both felt betrayed by the fact that she continued to love the other. The agreement had
satisfied neither. Each had to spend six months alone knowing that the woman they loved was in
the arms of another.
Now the woman they loved was asking them to put all of this aside for her. The alternative was
what they had faced when the agreement had been forged in the first place. She had been ready to
return to her world and leave them alone forever. That choice was just as unacceptable as it was
then.
The problem they faced was stopping the war that they had been waging for more than two
hundred years. Neither was willing to give an inch. Both wanted Kagome for themselves. Neither
wanted to share her any longer. Maybe that was the common ground. Neither wanted the family
that Kgaome offered if the other were included.
Kagome would never agree to such a solution. She loved them both, but she was prepared to
abandon them both if they could not settle their differences. They stood facing each other and
their future without a great deal of hope for accommodation.
Maybe they should just admit to themselves that it was hopeless after all. Maybe their hate for
each other was just too much for their love of Kagome to overcome. Maybe in the end that was
all they had and all they deserved. Finally, Inuyasha spoke.
"Well, what is it going to be bastard?"
"You heard my last offer."
" I will never trade my daughter for Kagome. She belongs with me. Kagome has already told you
that she will never agree to something like that. It is your fault that we are in this predicament.
The message she wrote is clear. If you intend to continue to be a bastard you are going to ruin it
for both of us."
" I only did it because I want Kagome all for myself. Now that Kagome is bearing my child I no
longer need your daughter. I have never wanted you as part of my family. If Father had been able
to restrain his sexual desires around a mortal woman you never would have happened. You
destroyed my family. Now you are the reason that Kagome will not see me. This is all my fault."
"Kagome would never have come here if not for me. She came to revive me.and destroy the
Jewel. She was my wife first. It was your sexual desire for a human woman that destroyed my
family and put us in this position. Now because of what you did, she has gone and taken my
daughter. This is your fault and you are going to fix it."
"I believe the scroll said that we must find a way or we will never be part of her family again. I
am not prepared to give up Kagome. All my plans and all my schemes have been for her. I think
about nothing but her. The West is going to hell because of it. Every six months I am lost. I
might as well turn it all over to Jaken."
" I guess we do have some common ground. We hate each other. We love Kagome. We love our
children. During the six months that she is away it is like our hearts are being torn out of our
chests. So what are we going to do. Neither of us is happy with present state of things. Neither of
us would be happy if Kagome was gone from our lives forever. I had to wait for her for three
years, yet every six months the waiting kills me all over again. Neither of us is willing to give her
up to the other. Where does that leave us. ?"
Sesshoumaru pondered all that Inuyasha had said. He had never agreed to the contract, yet he had
suffered the consequences of it. The agreement had to go. The question was what would replace.
Kagome spoke of her family as including them and their children. That would mean living with
Inuyasha year round. Sharing Kagome year round. He was not sure that he was prepared for that.
Why couldn't they just admit that she was his? Everything would be so much easier. He would
have what he wanted. He could give everything else to Inuyasha. Kagome was where the line was
drawn.
" I don't suppose that you would be willing to give up Kagome?"
7
"Never!"
"So we are no closer to a determination than we were at the start. Maybe Kagome would choose
if we force her to do so."
" I think that you are headed for trouble if you go down that road. I think Kagome was trying to
tell us that she has already chosen. If we wish to be a part of her family, we have to come to some
sort of accommodation. Since we both agree that we cannot live with the present agreement and
we cannot live without Kagome, we must find another way"
" I am willing to consider an alternative so long as the monk is not involved in drafting it."
"I think that we can both agree on that."
Kagome stared at the setting sun. Doubts and fears crept into her mind. What if they decided that
they could not live together. What if they killed each other. Where would that leave her? She had
been the driving force behind the agreement. It was her love for them both that made her want to
have it all. Yet all it had done was to cause pain and unhappiness. It caused a child not to know
whom his father was. It caused one to desperate measures to ensure that she would not leave him.
She had done it all out of love yet she had caused so much pain and hurt. Her children had grown
up in divided homes. It was almost as if she was a child whom each parent had custody of for six
months. None of them could endure this situation any longer but could any of them survive
without the other. She would have her answer soon. Why did that prospect cause so much dread?
She felt a hand on her shoulder and looked up to see the Lady of the West.
" I thought I might find you here. Men can be so difficult I never had the problem you had of
being in love with men at the same. My problem was that my mate loved both Izayoi and I. He
tried to keep us separate by dealing with me in the demon world and her in the human world.
Eventually it caught up to him."
" I had to deal with it once. Inuyasha loved both Kikyou and me, but in different ways. She stood
between us for a long time until I finally realized that I was just as good as her. Unfortunately, I
am in your husbands and Inuyasha's position. I love both Inuyasha and Sesshoumaru. I hate the
thought of losing either of them. I want a family. I would like to include them in my family, but
until they stop fighting each other, I will not take them back."
" It has occurred to you that you are the reason they are fighting?"
"I know that and it does bother me. If you were me, would you have given either of them up?"
"I would never have put myself in your position."
"I did not intend to do so. I came back intending to be Inuyasha's wife. Somewhere along the
way I fell in love with Sesshoumaru without falling out of love with Inuyasha. That is how we
arrived here. "
" If they tried to force you to choose, would you?"
" I think that I would rather live without both of them than choose one or the other. I have offered
them the opportunity to be part of my family. All they have to do settle 200 years of fighting.
That is not much to ask?"
The Lady laughed. At least Kagome still had her sense of humor. She was not sure that she could
be so understanding and forgiving under these circumstances. Oddly enough even though she
might like Inuyasha more than Sesshoumaru personally, Sesshoumaru was her son and she would
never have met Kagome or her children if Kagome had not mated her son. There was a lot to be
said for grandchildren. At least Kagome was talking kicking her out of her family. The boys were
facing hard choices. She just hoped that the boys did not do something that Kagome would come
to regret as result of her ultimatum. Her mate's relationship with Izayoi had ended with his death.
Hopefully, nothing so drastic would happen to either her son or the little one.before the triangle
sorted itself out.
Author: landofthekwt
Rating: PG-13
Prompt: Deliberate (Dokuga One Shot #26)
Word Count:1659
CU
Genfic
Warning: None
Summary: Sesshoumaru and Inuyasha consider their options
Child Birth Complications Chapter 48
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4876205/1/Child_Birth_Complications
Where do you start when you had nothing in common, but your hate for each other and your love
for Kagome? Can you discard the feelings on which you had built your life? Rivals for power
rivals in love, rivals for their father's heart.
They were brothers only because their father's blood flowed through them. The blood that made
one master and other servant. One a great demon. The other a monster, an abomination. They
might not be able to kill each other, but it made them wish the other was dead.
It was this imbalance that their father had sought to remedy with Tessaiga. All he had done was
to make them hate each other. It made one hate him for not giving the power he wished for. It
made the other hate him for not being there for himself or his mother.
Kagome had exacerbated their hate by loving both of them. Both thought that they had won her
heart. Both felt betrayed by the fact that she continued to love the other. The agreement had
satisfied neither. Each had to spend six months alone knowing that the woman they loved was in
the arms of another.
Now the woman they loved was asking them to put all of this aside for her. The alternative was
what they had faced when the agreement had been forged in the first place. She had been ready to
return to her world and leave them alone forever. That choice was just as unacceptable as it was
then.
The problem they faced was stopping the war that they had been waging for more than two
hundred years. Neither was willing to give an inch. Both wanted Kagome for themselves. Neither
wanted to share her any longer. Maybe that was the common ground. Neither wanted the family
that Kgaome offered if the other were included.
Kagome would never agree to such a solution. She loved them both, but she was prepared to
abandon them both if they could not settle their differences. They stood facing each other and
their future without a great deal of hope for accommodation.
Maybe they should just admit to themselves that it was hopeless after all. Maybe their hate for
each other was just too much for their love of Kagome to overcome. Maybe in the end that was
all they had and all they deserved. Finally, Inuyasha spoke.
"Well, what is it going to be bastard?"
"You heard my last offer."
" I will never trade my daughter for Kagome. She belongs with me. Kagome has already told you
that she will never agree to something like that. It is your fault that we are in this predicament.
The message she wrote is clear. If you intend to continue to be a bastard you are going to ruin it
for both of us."
" I only did it because I want Kagome all for myself. Now that Kagome is bearing my child I no
longer need your daughter. I have never wanted you as part of my family. If Father had been able
to restrain his sexual desires around a mortal woman you never would have happened. You
destroyed my family. Now you are the reason that Kagome will not see me. This is all my fault."
"Kagome would never have come here if not for me. She came to revive me.and destroy the
Jewel. She was my wife first. It was your sexual desire for a human woman that destroyed my
family and put us in this position. Now because of what you did, she has gone and taken my
daughter. This is your fault and you are going to fix it."
"I believe the scroll said that we must find a way or we will never be part of her family again. I
am not prepared to give up Kagome. All my plans and all my schemes have been for her. I think
about nothing but her. The West is going to hell because of it. Every six months I am lost. I
might as well turn it all over to Jaken."
" I guess we do have some common ground. We hate each other. We love Kagome. We love our
children. During the six months that she is away it is like our hearts are being torn out of our
chests. So what are we going to do. Neither of us is happy with present state of things. Neither of
us would be happy if Kagome was gone from our lives forever. I had to wait for her for three
years, yet every six months the waiting kills me all over again. Neither of us is willing to give her
up to the other. Where does that leave us. ?"
Sesshoumaru pondered all that Inuyasha had said. He had never agreed to the contract, yet he had
suffered the consequences of it. The agreement had to go. The question was what would replace.
Kagome spoke of her family as including them and their children. That would mean living with
Inuyasha year round. Sharing Kagome year round. He was not sure that he was prepared for that.
Why couldn't they just admit that she was his? Everything would be so much easier. He would
have what he wanted. He could give everything else to Inuyasha. Kagome was where the line was
drawn.
" I don't suppose that you would be willing to give up Kagome?"
7
"Never!"
"So we are no closer to a determination than we were at the start. Maybe Kagome would choose
if we force her to do so."
" I think that you are headed for trouble if you go down that road. I think Kagome was trying to
tell us that she has already chosen. If we wish to be a part of her family, we have to come to some
sort of accommodation. Since we both agree that we cannot live with the present agreement and
we cannot live without Kagome, we must find another way"
" I am willing to consider an alternative so long as the monk is not involved in drafting it."
"I think that we can both agree on that."
Kagome stared at the setting sun. Doubts and fears crept into her mind. What if they decided that
they could not live together. What if they killed each other. Where would that leave her? She had
been the driving force behind the agreement. It was her love for them both that made her want to
have it all. Yet all it had done was to cause pain and unhappiness. It caused a child not to know
whom his father was. It caused one to desperate measures to ensure that she would not leave him.
She had done it all out of love yet she had caused so much pain and hurt. Her children had grown
up in divided homes. It was almost as if she was a child whom each parent had custody of for six
months. None of them could endure this situation any longer but could any of them survive
without the other. She would have her answer soon. Why did that prospect cause so much dread?
She felt a hand on her shoulder and looked up to see the Lady of the West.
" I thought I might find you here. Men can be so difficult I never had the problem you had of
being in love with men at the same. My problem was that my mate loved both Izayoi and I. He
tried to keep us separate by dealing with me in the demon world and her in the human world.
Eventually it caught up to him."
" I had to deal with it once. Inuyasha loved both Kikyou and me, but in different ways. She stood
between us for a long time until I finally realized that I was just as good as her. Unfortunately, I
am in your husbands and Inuyasha's position. I love both Inuyasha and Sesshoumaru. I hate the
thought of losing either of them. I want a family. I would like to include them in my family, but
until they stop fighting each other, I will not take them back."
" It has occurred to you that you are the reason they are fighting?"
"I know that and it does bother me. If you were me, would you have given either of them up?"
"I would never have put myself in your position."
"I did not intend to do so. I came back intending to be Inuyasha's wife. Somewhere along the
way I fell in love with Sesshoumaru without falling out of love with Inuyasha. That is how we
arrived here. "
" If they tried to force you to choose, would you?"
" I think that I would rather live without both of them than choose one or the other. I have offered
them the opportunity to be part of my family. All they have to do settle 200 years of fighting.
That is not much to ask?"
The Lady laughed. At least Kagome still had her sense of humor. She was not sure that she could
be so understanding and forgiving under these circumstances. Oddly enough even though she
might like Inuyasha more than Sesshoumaru personally, Sesshoumaru was her son and she would
never have met Kagome or her children if Kagome had not mated her son. There was a lot to be
said for grandchildren. At least Kagome was talking kicking her out of her family. The boys were
facing hard choices. She just hoped that the boys did not do something that Kagome would come
to regret as result of her ultimatum. Her mate's relationship with Izayoi had ended with his death.
Hopefully, nothing so drastic would happen to either her son or the little one.before the triangle
sorted itself out.