InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Decisions ❯ Four plus one equals disaster ( Chapter 21 )

Chapter 21: Four Plus One Equals Disaster.

Kagome flung the little stick at the bin and watched as it bounced off the rim and hit the wall and growled under her breath. She opened the door and stalked out into the longue cursing god and everyone else she could think of that would have a hand in this bizarre turn of events.

“Well?” Sango asked, she was sitting next to Ayame on the plush white sofa in Sesshoumaru and her apartment. Kikyo was sat opposite them.

There had been quite a few fireworks since the couple had started going out and their rows were legendary. There had been a huge argument over her moving in, but she had conceded. There had been an even bigger argument over him working weekends and he had conceded. The relationship was all about give and take, which basically meant neither wanted to give and they both wanted to take.

The tying ceremony had been basically the only thing that went according to plan and without argument. They had held it in Touga's oldest manor house and invited immediate family only. It had been a bizarre day and Kagome was still trying to cope with her non-human-ness

How they stayed together was anyone's guess but Kikyo who knew her cousin well pointed out that she was truly happy. When she was not murderously angry of course. Sango often wondered if there was a middle ground between the two emotions as Kagome always seemed to be either livid or on cloud nine.

“Positive” she snarled

“I don't know why you're so riled up” Ayame said

“You are a good mother to Ranmaru, you work with children all the time” Kikyo pointed out “You can handle having your own”

Kagome mulled this one over and the other women watched nervously waiting for her reaction.

“I suppose” she muttered grumpily but smiling a bit at the same time. She did love children and she was practically the mother of two children already, the only difference was that she hadn't given birth to them.

And that this baby would be half demon half human, a Hanyou. And all hers.

“You're what?” Inuyasha spat out the coffee he had just swallowed as they all sat down in Kikyo's living room. She had gone there with her cousin for coffee and a chat. But they had both forgotten about the presence of the Inu Hanyou. He was sat at a chair in the corner of the room rocking Kyo's baby rocker with his foot.

“Pregnant” Kikyo rolled her eyes

“You probably shouldn't have told him” Kagome was worried “I mean I should tell Sesshoumaru first right?”

“Yeah but you told Kikyo” Inuyasha pointed out

“She was there when I started throwing up” Kagome rolled her eyes “not really much of a secret”

“Keh” the Hanyou was dismissive

“What is with this?” Kagome demanded rubbing her stomach “I thought it was morning sickness not all day round sickness”

“It affects everyone differently” said Kikyo shrugging “I wasn't that bad with sickness”

“What she was bad with was her stomach becoming public property” Inuyasha reminisced grinning

Kikyo shot him her very best death glare and he rolled his eyes.

“What do you mean?” Kagome asked

“When it's obvious that you're pregnant old ladies at bus stops, women behind the tills at supermarket and shopping assistants to name a few grope your stomach” Kikyo shuddered at the memory and Kagome grinned. Kikyo had always been like that; she hated to be touched. She could stand Kagome and Inuyasha didn't even bother her anymore and of course Kyo was her child but to everyone else the Kikyo was off limits.

“Your stomach becomes public property” Kagome surmised

“Yep” Inuyasha patted Kikyo's stomach reminiscently and she bent said hand back on his wrist until it threatened to snap off and he yelped in pain.

They watched Kagome get into her car and pull out of their driveway.

“Will the baby be okay?” Kikyo was worried, uncharacteristically so

“The strength of a Hanyou's will depends on the strength of the parents” Inuyasha understood her at once and wrapped his arms around her shoulders. “The mother is one of the most powerful Miko still alive and the father is Sesshoumaru, enough said”

Kikyo nodded thoughtfully and Inuyasha thought of something else “If the mother is human and yet incredibly powerful then the pup could even be pure Yokai” there was a pause

Kikyo's eyes widened “Could Kagome do that?” she asked

“She's the strongest Miko I've ever met” Inuyasha shrugged

Kagome came out of the corner store with a new pregnancy test and a determined expression. She wasn't looking where she was going and walked straight into a broad chest, bounced off it and nearly fell over.

“Sorry” she apologised

“Kagome!” Ayame said appearing at the side of the owner of the broad chest who was looking down at her with his blue eyes.

“Hi, Ayame” Kagome smiled

“This is Kouga, the guy I was telling you about” said Ayame beaming so hard it looked painful

“Pleased to meet you” Kagome held out her hand to shake. He took her hand and brought it to his nose sniffing the skin inside her wrist and then he flipped back her hair from her neck and examined the pale crescent moon mark on her pale skin.

“What the” she snatched her hand back and stepped away from the demon

“I thought so” the wolf demon said “you are the woman of Sesshoumaru-san”

“You know Sesshoumaru?” she asked

“We go way back, around three hundred years or so” Kouga nodded

“What are you doing here Kags?” Ayame asked waving her hands to dispel the strangely tense atmosphere

“I bought another” she said subtly leaving out what exactly she had purchased in front of company she didn't really know that well.

“Another?” Ayame rolled her eyes “Isn't that the fifth one already?”

“Seventh” said Kagome smiling “well I have to go and pick up Rin-chan and Ran-chan, Sango was looking after them but I said I'd pick them up at six and it's half past already”

“Sure” Ayame smiled

“Nice meeting you Koga” she nodded to the wolf “Ja ne Ayame”

“She's pregnant” Kouga said as they watched Kagome walk away

“How'd you know?” Ayame nearly fell over in her shock

“She the smell from her is more than just the smell of contact, she smells of fusion” Kouga nodded at his explanation

“I wonder how Sesshoumaru will handle it” Ayame mused

“I'm not sure” Kouga was kind of concerned for the unknown girl “Sesshoumaru has always hated Hanyou's. I wonder if he can make an exception for his own child”

Ayame realised what he meant and her eyes widened in concern, he noticed and rushed to quash it.

“I'm sure it'll be fine” he said grabbing her hand in his and dragging her down the street “Come on Ayame-chan I thought we were going out!”

She laughed as his unbridled enthusiasm rubbed off on her and she followed him through the pressing crowds.

Kagome opened the door to Miroku and Sango's house and was nearly knocked over backwards by the onslaught of her two small children as they hurled themselves against each leg.

“Okasan!” they chorused happily

“Hello Ran-chan, Rin-chan where's Sango?”

“I'm here” Sango appeared from the living room with a twin propped on each hip. Megumi was holding a plastic block with a number and a letter on it and waving it happily whilst staring at Kagome with her huge violet eyes and Kei was as usual simply holding onto a strand of his mother's hair. The small child was the quietest and most serene baby anyone had ever known, he rarely cried and was so laid back it was laughable. But Kei was always watching with attentive violet eyes.

“You look overwhelmed” said Kagome smiling at the slightly harassed mother.

“I've been looking after four children and Miroku has vanished” she rolled her eyes. Her husband had a knack for vanishing whenever they were overwhelmed with children or chores.

“I'll see you at school tomorrow” said Kagome smiling at her friend and walking to her car awkwardly due to the two children attached to each leg.

Sesshoumaru was in a foul mood as was the norm for him. However recently the employees at his work were even more jumpy around him as some mornings he came into the office mildly scornful which is the equivalent of euphoric from Sesshoumaru and then other mornings the look on his face indicated the coming of the next apocalypse.

Today he was doing his least favourite thing. He was doing his own filing. He hadn't had much luck with secretaries recently, some fell in love with him, some were afraid of him and started crying and one had even left to live in convent to keep him away from her. It was his entire fault that he was in this predicament but he insisted on blaming it on other people. It was more his style.

His phone rang and he sighed with happiness as he was given a genuine excuse to stop with the dreaded filing.

“Speak” he ordered picking up the phone

“Hello Sesshoumaru” it was Naraku, Sesshoumaru grit his teeth and slammed the phone back down onto the receiver. His bad mood worsened and a temp who had been walking past his office felt a shiver go down her spine as she detected something off in her surroundings, she scurried off quickly.

The phone rang again and he snatched the phone off the hook.

“Speak” he snarled

“It's rude to just hang up on me” Naraku chuckled “I was simply going to tell you that I've become an investor in your company, so there will be many more times when we cross paths. Maybe I'll even get to see your tasty girlfriend again hmm?”

Naraku smirked as there was a loud bang and the tone sounded signifying that the phone had conversation was over.

Sesshoumaru was seething and having problems keeping his Yokai in check, his eyes were flashing from amber to red as he tried to control himself. He usually had no problems holding in his demon but sometimes when he got this incensed his demon would rear its ugly head roaring in its restraints as it desperately tried to take charge.

The phone rang again and he nearly crushed the phone as he picked it from the cradle.

“WHAT?” he was livid

“...um...” the terrified receptionist forgot how to speak for a second “Your car is here Sesshoumaru-sama” she murmured

He was embarrassed at getting so mad at her “Thank you”

“Okasan!” Rin ran into the kitchen and grabbed the leg of Kagome's black jeans

“Yes?” she asked looking down at the little girl who had flushed cheeks and a stubborn expression.

“Ranmaru-kun will not let me play with his paint!” she exclaimed “he says I'll ruin it!”

“Because you will ruin it” Ranmaru called from his bedroom

“Okasan!” she moaned in distress

“I'm sure Ran-chan won't mind if you do a different painting next to him or something” Kagome tried to be a peacemaker but to be honest she was on edge expecting Sesshoumaru home.

“I don't mind that!” Ranmaru called “but this painting is special so Rin isn't allowed to help, is all”

“Okay” she was a little down trodden but accepted the solution and scurried off back to his room. To give the two children credit they had adapted from being only children to having an instant sort of sibling pretty quickly, they very occasionally had arguments and Ran tried to placate Rin most of the time.

The door opened and slammed shut and Kagome walked to greet Sesshoumaru and then stopped dead when she saw his livid expression, a second later his Yokai rolled over her senses like a cloud of noxious poison and she gasped at the sheer power of his aura.

“Damn that Hanyou!” he snarled to himself. “This Sesshoumaru will kill him and eliminate the Hanyou scum from the earth”

She would have found his crackling rage funny if she hadn't had a terrifying epiphany. Sesshoumaru hated half breeds or Hanyou.

So that meant he would hate the child growing inside her too.

Her brain tried to convince her it was just Naraku; after all she hated Naraku too. But then she remembered how he had acted to his Hanyou brother at Christmas and at other times. Whenever the two were in the same room together trouble ensued.

Sesshoumaru was oblivious to his chosen's inner turmoil as he kicked off his shoes and walked up to her hugging her and burying his face in her hair to let her summer scent warm him and calm him down. There was something slightly different about her scent today, it smelt somehow more fragile.

He noticed that she stood stiffly in his embrace and pulled back to study her face.

“What's wrong Kagome?” he asked in concern brushing her hair back from her face, now that he was focusing he could feel the fear, apprehension and dread emanating from their bond and it was making him worry.

“Nothing” she shrugged out from his arms and walked into the kitchen to check on the dinner she was cooking. She had gotten the recipe of Kikyo and she didn't want it to burn.

Rin sighed as she accidentally dropped her paint brush and it bounced off the desk giving her a green stripe across the back of her hand. She padded down the hallway and into the bathroom of Kagome and Sesshoumaru's room and washed her hands in the sink back over turning the bin and standing on it. She went to place the bin back in it's original position and noticed a small white stick on the floor that someone had obviously attempted to throw away. Picking it up she turned it over to read a word that she had not yet learned in school.

She walked into the kitchen and pulled on the jean leg of Kagome's jeans again with the plastic stick in hand.

“Okasan” she said

“Hai, Rin-chan?” Kagome asked not really looking at the little girl but instead searching through the drawers for a wooden spoon.

“What's this?” she waved the stick through the air.

Sesshoumaru came out of their room changed into normal clothes and frowned at the small stick Rin was waving at her mother.

“Where'd you get that?” Kagome asked flustered she snatched it from the young girls hand and held it out of reach. Only to find it snatched from her hand as Sesshoumaru appeared behind her.

He read the small word written in pink, it said positive.

“Um...” Kagome flushed; busted! “It's not mine”

“Don't lie” he said softly wondering why in god's name she was trying to keep it from him. “This Sesshoumaru can smell you on it and no one else except Rin; and it isn't hers”

Rin frowned from one adult to the other as she tried to figure out what was happening and Ranmaru appeared behind her and joined her in watching the adults.

“Yeah” she hid her face in her hair

“Why did you attempt to hide it from this Sesshoumaru?” he asked carefully, he was incredibly happy at the fact she was pregnant with his child but he couldn't figure out what the hell she was thinking.

“You hate Hanyou” she stated in a whisper and he watched a solitary tear make it's way down her cheek.

He sighed heavily at how unpredictable she could be; why did she jump to these weird conclusions all on her own. He smoothed a hand threw her hair and put his other on her shoulder bringing her towards him so he could embrace her.

“This Sesshoumaru did not know that you could be stupid, perhaps words are necessary again to alleviate the doubt ” he smiled into her hair “I love you and I will also love the child, regardless of what it is”

“B-but...” she stuttered

“But nothing, this Sesshoumaru loves you and Rin does he not? And you are both humans, the things this Sesshoumaru does not tolerate very well”

“Really?” she asked softly and he felt her fists grab hold of his shirt

“Really” he said

She hit him around the head with her hand “Then tell me before I freak out idiot!” she yelled

How quickly her moods changed, he thought as he smiled wryly.

“How was this Sesshoumaru supposed to realise the foolish thoughts going through your mind?” he asked “This Sesshoumaru knew not that you were capable of such idiocy”

She was about to hit him again when she noticed the copious amounts of smoke billowing from the oven.

“This is your fault!” she snarled

They ordered in for tea after studying the charred remain of dinner and deciding it wasn't worth risking their lives. They ordered take out instead.

Kagome hung up the phone and turned back to Sesshoumaru who was gazing at her thoughtfully.

“What?” she asked

“This Sesshoumaru just remembered something” he told her “there is a rule that if the mother of a pup is human and yet a powerful Miko then the baby can sometimes be full Yokai”

“Seriously?” she was sceptical “because the biology lessons I took don't really support your hypothesis”

He snorted “Human science has nothing on Yokai magic”

She hit him with the oven gloves and accused him of being species-ist.

After dinner they cleared up a few things with the children.

“So Okasan is going to have a baby?” Ranmaru surmised nodding his head

“Yep” said Kagome

“The baby will be a Hanyou then, like Inuyasha-ojisan” Ranmaru said he knew that Inuyasha's parents had been a demon and a human.

“That is right” Sesshoumaru nodded at the young boy deciding not to mention the possibility of it being pure as he wasn't sure how his adopted pup would cope with the news “but hopefully being a Hanyou will be where the similarities between them end, I do not want my pup to be as ridiculous as that dog”

Kagome chuckled “Dog? Let me tell you a little tale about a pot and a kettle” she grinned

He rolled his eyes in a perfect imitation of her and she stuck her tongue out.

Then they all turned to Rin-chan who had remained silent throughout the discussion chewing a strand of her hair absentmindedly; a bad habit she had picked up from Kagome.

“Okasan” she got Kagome's attention “Sesshoumaru-sama,”

“Yes Rin-chan?” Kagome asked

“Where do babies come from?”

They all stared at Rin for a while before Ran piped up “Yeah, Okasan where do babies come from?”

Kagome and Sesshoumaru looked at each other in horror and then at the two curious children. Then Kagome collapsed onto the table laughing so hard she thought she might be sick.

Sesshoumaru glared at her and then smirked and stood taking the dinner plates with him “You tell them” he said

She stopped laughing abruptly and her eyes widened as she saw how perfectly serious he was.

“Nooooo!” she wailed “Sesshoumaru don't make me do this on my own!”

His reply was a smug chuckle.

“So, Okasan” Ranmaru said

“Where do babies come from?” the two children chorused

“Oh god” she thunked her head on the table.

A/N: I don't own Inuyasha. One more chapter is all you get before this most epic quest is finished! Please review, reviews keep me writing.