InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Do What You Have to Do ❯ Chapter 16: I Do What I Have To Do ( Chapter 16 )

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Title: Do What You Have To Do
Author: DeityOfDeath
Archive: Yes please...
Pairings: Inu Yasha/Sesshomaru mentions of Inu Yasha/Kagome and Inu Yasha/ Kikyo
Category: Drama, romance, slash, Mpreg, yaoi
rating: NC-17/R
Spoilers: Most likely.
Warnings: Yaoi, Lemon, Non-con, Mpreg, Incest, SPOILERS!
Disclaimers: I never have nor will I ever own Inu Yasha or its chars. They are property of Rumiko Takashi and major companies.

Note from Author: Thank You for reading and supporting fan fiction! Enjoy and please review!

The chapter titles are lyrics from the song "Do What You Have to Do" by Sarah McLachlan

Chapter 16: I Do What I Have To Do

I opened my eyes and felt exhaustion tug them once again closed. I blinked them open again and watched as my brother and mate stood by the bed and dressed himself in slow precise movements. Once he was fully dressed and looked once more the elegant lord of his lands he turned and looked down at me with a look of calm thoughtfulness.

“Continue to sleep, it is early yet,” he said and without a word I merely closed my eyes and snuggled into what had been his pillow, pulling it closer to me.

It felt as though those simple words had a power to them but I knew they didn't, I was merely exhausted and in no need to be awake. Let him leave and leave me to my own schedule.

As I began to drift back into sleep I heard the door to my bedroom open and softly whispered words before I felt my bed dip once again under someone's weight and then I felt the warm small hands of my daughter as she lifted the arm I wasn't sleeping on and crawled beneath it, allowing it to fall over her along with my sheet as she snuggled against my chest pushing away her fathers pillow.

I opened my eyes once more, just for a moment so that I could look down at her. I bent my head and placed a kiss upon her brow before closing my eyes once more and drifting once again into my dream filled sleep.

I awoke and found brunch on my dressing table and my daughter gone from my bed and room. I sat up and made an attempt to struggle from my bed an inch or so at a time until I was on the edge and then standing. I stretched until the cracking sounds that come with old age were no more. I ate my brunch and then threw on a robe and made my way to the baths.

I enjoyed a quiet day of wandering the castle, napping in the library after reading and then a quick snack of honeyed melon before playing with Chiouka and her now returned “Nisan”. I rested and relaxed as they played; Hotaru joining in along with two children who belonged to servants here at the castle. Dinner was served and not long after I made my way back to my quarters and fell asleep with my daughter snuggled at my front and my brother at my back.

That is how my days continued. It was a quiet happiness and for once one that I would not take for granted.

My Seventh month came and went and with it my strength. I could barely stand to be on my feet and more often than not found sleep a faithful companion. I found myself waking to worried stares and Aoiyuki's was no different. She was insistent when it came to checkups and constantly monitored my behavior and mood and any aches or pains were written down and catalogued.

I fear I worried my brother the most. I found myself too tired to argue or disagree with his words or actions and most of the time simply gave in to even the smallest and stupidest of demands he made upon my person.

It was on the day after my human night that I too began to feel concern for my health.

The transformation had felt rougher than usual, the pain sharper and the transformation slower. The same could be said for the transformation back, only multiply it ten fold.

No one knew of course and I preferred it that way. I didn't like others seeing me at my weakest and even though Ryusei had seen me transformed before it felt different with his newly acquired status as a grown male demon. It felt odd thinking it in my mind but my body and emotions agreed completely, my inner self panicking at the thought of having another full demon in my presence while human.

I found myself aching deep inside and my overly active pup pummeled my insides mercilessly causing me to stay in my locked quarters longer than I would have normally after the new moon.

The pain changed as sharp stabbing pain began to center itself in my back and then grew to an ache around my middle. I didn't bother keeping count; I knew what these pains meant. I was in labor and with labor it could be hours like with Ryusei or mere moments like with Chiouka.

I walked my quarters, alleviating some of the ache and when the pains became too intense I knelt on the floor on all fours and rocked my body, finding that it helped me concentrate on my breathing, which made it easier to get through the contractions. I did this until the sun was about to set and then I realized the pains seemed more intense than I had experienced with Ryusei. They weren't nearly as horrible or excruciating like those I had with Chiouka but they were odd enough that I thought it better to not handle them by my self.

It was night and as I opened the door to my quarters I found the halls empty. Not a soldier or guard in sight nor the hint of a servant, most likely my doing. I had practically begged to be left alone on my human night every time it came upon me. I was pretty sure that Sesshomaru pulled all guards from my quarters and the surrounding areas on my behalf.

I walked a ways down the hall, stopping every few inches to gather my strength after another energy sapping contraction would strip me of any I had gained or regained.

I found myself outside of one of the largest doors I had ever seen and knew I had found Sesshomaru's quarters. I leaned against the door and rapped lightly on it.

No answer came so I opened it and found well decorated and empty quarters. I could have wept in frustration but pain took hold of me once again and I found myself sagging against one of his high-backed chairs.

As the pain lessened once again, I made my way to his bed in the next room. I collapsed on my side on his soft mattress and struggled to find a comfortable position as I thought on my next move. I lay there as another contraction took over my body and gasped, fisting Sesshomaru's sheets hoping for some sort of release. It eased and I lay there sweating debating on whether I should scream and be done with it. I was pretty sure my agonized screams would bring someone.

Another contraction took hold and took the decision out of my hands as a scream was tore from my throat.

I heard the partially opened door slam against the wall and hurried footsteps as the pain ebbed away. I felt a hand on my enormous belly and blinked a few times, clearing away tears of pain before I could finally see Sesshomaru's worried face.

“Summon Aoiyuki! I have found him,” he commanded to whoever stood in his bedroom doorway.

His hands held my stomach rubbing soothingly; my back now fully on the mattress, as if it would somehow keep the pup within from abusing my body so. I couldn't fault him for trying but I could dislike him a bit for once again putting me in this position.

As his hands rubbed I gasped again, arching up off the bed this time. I grabbed at his hands stilling their movements, finding their movement even more uncomfortable during the contraction. It ended and I turned onto my side gasping into his blankets, letting go of his hands in favor of clawing up the fine material atop his bed.

The shuffling of feet filled the room and Sesshomaru's hands completely left my body as a smaller softer pair took their place. I looked down my body and found Aoiyuki standing over the bed and my lower body.

“I am beginning to believe what your brother says about you always finding yourself in trouble, intentional or not,” she said in an almost serious and joking tone.

I nodded with my head against the blankets and bed and let out a breath as my anxiety lessened with her arrival, “Couldn't make it much farther, hoped someone would be on the same floo……..arrrrrrrrr.”

I gripped the blankets, my nails tearing little holes into them as another wave of pain rolled over my body.

“Lord Sesshomaru, if I could ask you to leave the room for a moment. I would like to examine your mate,” Aoiyuki said politely.

“I suppose, even though you have taken over my bedroom.”

As the pain ended I gasped and forced myself to sit up and leaned against the bed posts, using them for support as I stood up. I took steps towards the door and almost made it past my brother before he grabbed my shoulder stopping me.

“Where in the world do you think your going,” he asked looking down into my wavering eyes.

“Going to my quarters, wouldn't want you to be inconvenienced by the birth of YOUR pups!”

I hunched over in pain and felt him lean over his hands trying to sooth my pain as much as my pain hindered it me I harnessed it along with my anger and I growled and stood up enough to start punching and slapping at any part of him I could touch until the pain worsened and then I allowed him to lift me into his arms and carry me back to his bed.

I was sweating and fighting for breath and through half lidded, tear filled eyes I watched him take a seat beside me.

“Why must you take every comment to heart,” he asked in frustration.

“Why must you be…….such…an assssss…………,R 21; I arched up off the bed again fisting his sheets and felt another pair of hands at my hips slipping my hakama off before I saw and felt two pairs hands divesting me of my outer kimono layer.

“I need you to spread your legs Master Inu Yasha,” I heard Aoiyuki ask as I finally felt the pain dissipate.

I did as asked and found my fundoshi removed and my kimono adjusted, the cool breeze on my body somewhat comforting; the hands that began to prod and poke and delve inside me not so much.

“You are not fully dilated just yet but you are close,” she said patting my sides letting me know that I could close them if I chose.

“I am going to have to ask for my lord's help in not agitating him further. The more agitated and stressed he is the worse the labor pains.”

I turned on my side trying to find some sort of comfort, putting my back to both Aoiyuki and my brother.

“If my lord wishes to help, massaging his back would alleviate some of his pain,” I barley heard her hushed whisper.

I closed my eyes and heard the rustle of clothing and couldn't keep from jumping slightly when he placed his hands on my waist and worked his hands along my sides and then my back which his hands seemed to knead delicately and as pain once again assaulted my body his hands admittedly helped to ease it some. I relaxed against his hands as he stole the bite off the pain.

I sighed and closed my eyes. I was comfortable at the moment but I knew all that would soon change.

“How long does one usually labor,” he asked as I felt the bed give under his weight as he joined me on it.

“Depends on the babe my lord or in your case the pup. Chiouka was a quick birth because it was hastened by our young lord's fall and we had to force a quick birth or risk a still birth. I was never told how long our young Lord Ryusei's birth took,” she said in an educational tone.

“I had pains for about two days before other signs showed. I probably hurried his birth along by taking a walk,” I responded.

“Did that walk take place down by the Bone Cutters Well,” asked my brother.

I stiffened a little but nodded,”It did. If it hadn't been for the mangy wolf Kouga I probably would have found myself in a bit of trouble.”

“So it was you birthing in the hut,” he stated more than asked.

Why bother answering, he had pieced together what had happened that day. I struggled to sit up and felt his hands on me stilling my movement.

“I'm not leaving, I've got five pounds or more of pup trying to find its way out and I'll be damned if we sit around a day more waiting for me to birth it.”

He removed his hands reluctantly and I moved so that I could come to stand beside the bed, “I'm going to pace your quarters a bit, please do me the favor of shutting the door to your quarters so that my nakedness is not displayed for all to see.”

I watched as he stood and did as asked and I proceeded to pace his quarters. I went from his bedroom to his sitting room, back and forth stopping every so often to ride out a contraction and repeated it as hours flew by. His bedroom curtains remained closed so there was no way to tell the hour in the day, not that it mattered anyway. I was just waiting for the next pain to roll through and then end.

A contraction rolled through me and left me kneeling on his floor atop a soft plush carpet made of some now dead animals pelt. It was then that I felt a gush of liquid between my thighs.

“I think its time to check my progress again, Aoiyuki. My waters have just broken.”

No sooner had the words left my mouth that her hands were raising my kimono and her hands were once again on the most intimate of places.

“Not yet lord, but you are progressing. I'd say within the next few you'll hopefully be fully dilated.”

I growled in frustration, “I want this done and over with!”

I pulled myself into a kneeling position on that plush rug in the hope that gravity would pull the pup farther down and widen my birth canal. I knelt there and took deep breaths as I rode pain after pain. Aoiyuki watched me from a distance and I appreciated that. I didn't feel panicked anymore and I wanted to be in control of this birth, I wanted their hands on me only if I asked and I wanted to be where I was comfortable and right now I had both wants catered to. I was pretty sure Aoiyuki sensed as much, and just as sure that Sesshomaru was unsure of what to do and just as fascinated by the happenings.

The pressure suddenly doubled and I felt my opening strained as an intense contraction rippled across my body, I reached down felt a slimy haired surface and couldn't stop the grin that bloomed on my face.

“It's crowning…,” I said a bit breathless.

I watched Aoiyuki approach and once again place her hands where one of mine now was. She smiled and nodded.

“You can start pushing now,” she said as she stepped back a few inches.

I did just that. I felt the pain leave giving me a small respite and as the next crested I breathed with it and pushed with any and all strength I had. I felt more wetness seep down my thighs and legs and knew it was nearing the end from what experiences I had with Ryusei and Chiouka.

“I hope you thought of some names Sesshomaru….I believe we should have a new pup in another set of pushes,” I said happy to have this pup and the weight gone from my body once more.

I looked up and found him staring at me a few feet away watching me and my body as I pushed to birth our newest pup. I felt my body expand almost painfully so and as I brought my hands below my body I was just in time to feel the head of my pup slide right into my open hands. To say I was shocked was beyond words but excited and surprised were closer to reality. I pushed and bore down and felt flesh slide from my body and shoulders and arms take form in my hands. With a few final pushes it slid from my body and I now fully held a slime and mucus covered pup in my hands.

I felt hands below my own and looked to find Aoiyuki with a towel wiping at my pups face and nose and she helped me turn it over so that any fluids could be cleared and as she did so a busty wail was let loose. I turned my pup over and looked down to find that I had another healthy son. I stared at his fine pale hair and tipped ears before looking down to watch as Aoiyuki cut the cord.

I took the blanket and wrapped him fully in it and held him close. I took a deep breath, enjoying the scent of new born once again. I felt another contraction take hold and remembered that I still had the after birth to deliver. I held my son out to his father and watched as he gently took him into his arms.

I closed my eyes and pushed into the contraction which seemed to gain in strength. I gasped as I felt pressure below that was not what one would expect of afterbirth and a bit more fluid poured from my body. I gasped and rocked so that I knelt on my hands and knees.

“Inu Yasha, what's wrong,” Aoiyuki asked she came closer to investigate.

“I think there's another pup…,” I said as the pain grew and I found myself pushing once again but barely making the impact I had with my first.

“Lord Sesshomaru, have the guards or servants call for Rin. I'm going to need your help.”

I leaned on my forearms as I labored through another contraction and watched his feet shuffle past. I gasped as the pain sharpened and pushed with all the might I had into the next contraction feeling a deep ache in muscles that were barely used. I pushed hard into contractions twice more before I heard Rin's entrance and heard the bedroom door close giving us privacy.

“I need you to help him into a kneeling position again and help hold him there. He is exhausted and it isn't healthy to have him laboring so long with the second pup.”

I felt his hands go under my under arms as I was lifted into kneeling position and held there by his strength alone, mine diminishing by the minute.

“Concentrate Lord Inu Yasha! Push now, you can do it. Keep going. Good good…..”

She coached and I tried my hardest to do as she asked as I felt another head crown and begin to slide from my body. It was Aoiyuki who caught this pup and helped to ease…ahh his body from mine. She cleared his mouth and nose while he attempted to force a wail out from around her hands, his squalling much louder than his brothers.

I felt my body fall back completely against Sesshomaru's and fought to keep my limbs from shaking.

Aoiyuki had already snipped the cord and was laying my second…no third son, in a basket of towels, wrapped in a blanket. He hadn't approved of that at all and let her know quite loudly.

Sesshomaru smiled, “He takes after you, just born and already quite irritated with his station in life.”

I would have replied but I was far past exhausted and I couldn't get my limbs to work let alone my mouth.

“Lift him once more my lord so that he can birth the placenta.”

I must be out of it, I wasn't even aware that he had sat down so that I was laying in his lap which I was now being vacated from as my body was painfully jostled into a kneeling position once again.

I managed a few weak pushes before Aoiyuki assisted me by pressing on my only slightly extended belly causing my body to finally expel the afterbirth. She pressed a few more times making sure to expel anything large before nodding in my brother's direction.

I felt my body lifted and woozily watched as a blanket was laid over my body and then as scenery passed us by. I found myself laid against a tiled wall and heard rustling clothing. I was lifted from my soft blanketed cocoon and laid across my brother's lap by himself as warm water was poured over my body. I hissed as it washed away blood and other fluids from my nether regions. He took his time in bathing me and although his ministrations were needed and felt good I found myself antsy at having left my sons in his room.

He set me atop a stool momentarily, returning with a folded cloth and a clean fundoshi. I couldn't hide my embarrassment as he placed the folded cloth between my legs to staunch the bleeding that came with childbirth. He helped me to stand and with the tying of my fundoshi before wrapping a clean yukata around me and lifting me into his arms once more.

I was a bit more conscious now and was surprised to see my door pass us as he continued walking. He entered his quarters again and entered his bedroom.

Aoiyuki had already placed extra towels on his bed where the covers had been pulled back. I was lowered onto his bed and the added towels and once I was tucked in I was handed a clean newborn. I knew it was my firstborn because of his scent and state of cleanliness. I opened my yukata and brought him to my chest which was already beginning to leak in anticipation of my nursing pups. He took a moment to latch on and once he did he wasn't greedy, he took his time to slowly nurse and enjoy the moment until he had fallen asleep.

I saw a nest of covers beside me and set him in them. It was Sesshomaru who brought me my youngest and watched with fascination as I switched to the other nipple and yelped as my youngest took to my chest and feeding with much gusto.

He drank more than his share before I burped him and handed him to his sire that placed him in another nest on his bed made of blankets. He turned and looked down at me after he was done and I blinked blearily up at him.

“Rest for now. I will watch over them. When you have rested I will have Ryusei and Chiouka brought up to meet their newest siblings.”

I nodded and closed my eyes. I felt his hand wipe my bangs from my face and lips brush my forehead and I felt an ache fill my chest at the sentiment as a slight pride and another emotion I wasn't quite certain of filled me.

Such emotions usually kept me from sleep but I pushed all others aside and allowed sleep to claim me.

To Be Continued….

Sorry it took so long. I am going to update MOST of my stories. My next is Don't Speak. So keep reading and hopefully I'll have this updated by sometime next week if I can keep up this momentum.

Kat