InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Do What You Have to Do ❯ Chapter 24: A glowing ember ( Chapter 24 )

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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 24: A glowing ember

The sun shone brightly and everyone in the household was up early and full of energy. I tried to share their enthusiasm but I found it hard as my nervousness took over.

I probably had nothing to worry about but it had been over ten years since I had last seen my friends and travel companions and my nerves seemed to get the best of me at the moment. Tsubame made breakfast and I nibbled at it while the boys and Shippo ate heartily. Tsubame ate a small amount as well but from the look of her and the way she held her back I was betting we were going to meet the newest member of the family within the next two days.

I stood and stretched and watched Shippo and Hitomu as they headed outside to do whatever needed done this particular day while I quietly watched Tsubame bustle around the hut.

“Just let me know if anything needs done. I remember the days near the end of my Pregnancies like they were yesterday and sometimes a little help can go a long way.”

She smiled brightly at me and nodded, “Thank you InuYasha. I'm okay for now but if you wouldn't mind taking care of Kouichi while I finish cleaning and getting things ready it would be a BIG help.”

I smiled and knelt down holding my arms out, “Come on squirt, how about you and I go exploring?”

Unlike the first time I met him, this time Kouichi smiled and toddled into my arms. I stood up hugging him close and tickling his tummy causing him to giggle and wriggle as I did so.

Tsubame grinned at us and waved as we left the hut and made our way out front. I placed Kouichi on the ground and followed him as he toddled through the grass, stopping every so often to play with some bug he found or a pretty flower that caught his attention. His little ears flickered back and forth atop his chocolate locks as he took in every sound around him much like I did with my own ears.

We did this for a few hours until a scent all too familiar hit my nose and Kouichi's ears swiveled and his eyes grew wide. He turned and dropped his gathered flowers and ran and grabbed onto my leg just as the cream and black colored body of Kirara flew over us. She looked down and made eye contact before yowling and then turning around to land in front of us.

I leaned down and hefted Kouichi into my arms so he felt more secure and safe as I watched an older Sango and Miroku slide off of Kirara's back.

“InuYasha! It's great to see you. We had heard from Shippo that you and Sesshomaru had mated, we were a bit worried we'd never get to see you again,” Sango prattled happily.

I smiled and nodded, “It's been a rough few years but I can honestly say I'm happy.”

At that I watched both of their solemn faces turn into smiles, “Well let us head to Shippo's and you can tell us how you've been these past and how little Ryusei is doing.”

I grinned at Miroku and so we walked and talked and I started with when they had last seen me and what had unfolded. I told them of my beautiful daughter and my twin sons and how my oldest was now a young man who was being preened to be the heir of the Western Lands.

Sango smiled brightly at me, “It would be nice to see Ryusei and the others.”

“Well you can always visit or perhaps I can bring them to visit you. I would have loved for them to meet everyone but I kind of needed a break…”

Miroku gave me a genuine grin, “I can only imagine. We do on occasion get letters from Kohaku. He has said that we should visit. He and Rin seem to be quite happy working in the Inu household and he told me that Rin is expecting their second child.”

I was ashamed at the fact that I hadn't known that they were keeping in contact. It was apparent that I really had detached myself from my surroundings recently.

I was broken from my thoughts as Kouichi wiggled in my arms excitedly calling out to his father who grinned and made his way over to us.

“Seems you both made it just in time, Tsubame said her waters have broken,” Shippo said with a sheepish grin.

I rolled my eyes and handed Shippo his son who was about to be usurped from his throne of youngest child.

“Well now we begin the waiting game, shall we catch up on news,” asked Miroku as he and Shippo wandered off to the small barn near the hut.

I shook my head as Hitomu and Kouichi followed them and was about to follow them as well.

“InuYasha, you might as well come in with me. It's not like you haven't experienced childbirth yourself,” I shrugged and followed Sango into the hut. She had a point. I had birthed four pups and perhaps one day in the future I would birth a fifth.

As the thought tumbled around my mind I wondered why it had not crossed my mind to check after my many rounds of lovemaking with Sesshomaru but before that thought could go any further I heard Tsubame's moan and made my way to a place at her side.

It was different being at someone else's birthing, every thing was a waiting game. Wait and help. I wiped her brow with a cold rag and when she was sitting up I massaged her back in all the places I knew to be sore and throbbing and gave her sips of cold tea that Sango had prepared, that would take the bite off the birthing pains. We did this until the sun began to set and it was at that time that I made myself useful by helping Tsubame into a kneeling position while Sango went around the hut lighting candles and oil lamps.

Tsubame was ready to push and the kneeling position helped, in no time I watched as the rounding of a head appeared and no sooner had it appeared than I watched Sango holding a newborns full head with coppery hair plastered to its forehead along with two beautiful wet and floppy fox ears and with two more pushes and a little bit of help Tsubame held a bawling baby girl against her chest.

Sango brought a bowl of heated water and herbs over and handed Tsubame a towel so that she could wash the mucus and birth fluids from her newborn daughter as she explored every finger, toe, arm and leg and right down to her soft coppery red tail that matched her coppery red fox ears. It hadn't taken long for her to finish cleaning her little one and no sooner had she finished we made quick work of the afterbirth, cleaned her and the area and left her bedroom so that Shippo could enter to see his newest child.

We left them to their bonding and watched over their now sleeping sons while we sipped tea and talked into the late of night about all we had seen and witnessed.

I learned that Katsurou; Miroku and Sango's oldest son was now the head of the newly remade village of youkai hunters and that he had already found himself a wife and was well on his way to starting a family. Little Hitomi was no longer little and was much like her mother, traveling and fighting off the bad youkai and aiding with the not so bad ones who simply happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.

I was told that because of my presence their children and others they had gathered in the village had a new respect for youkai and hanyou alike. I wasn't too surprised to discover that their village now housed a handful of hanyou, a few we had met on our journey looking for shard pieces.

Sango and Miroku had three more children bringing their total up to five in all. Sango had a set of twin girls the same age as my Chiouka and a younger son who was six. Their son had been a surprise but you could tell he was a happy one. The two of them were still lovey dovey and even more so as they told me of their twin girls Nariko and Nuriko and their youngest son Hiroshi.

Nariko and Nuriko were working on becoming shrine maidens in a town near to the youkai village with the hopes of one day building a shrine of their own in the youkai hunter village with their youngest brother as the head priest.

Hiroshi studied and trained much like his father had in order to be a member of the cloth and according to both Miroku and Sango; he was an amazing monk already at such a young age.

I slept well that night as I thought of my friends. They were all happy and living great lives and though in the future I would lose them due to their mortality I wouldn't lose them completely…they would live on in their children and their life's work. I would have Miroku and Sango's children and their children's children. I would make sure to stay in touch and visit and make my presence known and if I couldn't do that I would at least watch them from the shadows.

Perhaps somewhere in Kagome's future there was a place I lived with my children and their children and perhaps I still knew my friends great great great grandchildren.

Thought warmed me through and kept me smiling through the week of Miroku and Sango's visit.

When it came to for them to leave I too packed my satchel, filled my water skein and said goodbye to Shippo, Tsubame, Hitomu, Kouichi and the newest addition; little Akabara. She was red haired as her father so Tsubame had named her “red rose”.

I left hopeful to see Sango's village and children once more.

To Be Continued….

Thank you for reading~!! Long work week…I was given overtime and I've been exhausted so I've only been working on this chapter for a half an hour each morning but I got it done. Please enjoy. More to come soon!

Kat