InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Hanyou and Miko ❯ Sango's Wedding ( Chapter 25 )

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Chapter 25: Sango's Wedding
 
A couple of weeks before the end of winter, Sango sat and looked down at her six months pregnant belly. It was hard squeezing into her wedding kimono, and she didn't know how but she and Kagome had managed it. The kimono was deep purple in color, lined on the hems with pink and white cherry blossoms. It was a little tight around the middle, but the dark color hid it fairly well. Kagome was behind her with her hair brush, fixing Sango's hair up for the upcoming day. Her hands were shaking as she sat waiting. Kaede hadn't allowed her and Miroku to see each other for the past two days, and she was really starting to miss the monk, and she was letting everyone know it.
 
“Kagome?”
 
“Hm?”
 
“Do you think you could get Kaede to let me and Miroku talk before this afternoon? I really want to see him.”
 
“I don't think so.” She giggled. “I know it's kind of silly with the circumstances, but Kaede seems determined that you and Miroku are not to see each other before the wedding. She even talked InuYasha into making sure Miroku stays away from the hut.”
 
“How did she do that?”
 
“She said something about enhancing the effect of my submission spell, and he agreed pretty fast.”
 
“I didn't think Kaede could enhance the submission spell.”
 
Kagome smiled. “I don't think she can either, but the threat got the job done, didn't it?” the two laughed. “Anyway, the wedding is only a couple of hours away now, so don't worry. You'll see Miroku soon enough.”
 
Sango sighed. “I know, but I want to see him now. It seems like forever since I've last seen him.” She laid her hands against her stomach. “And the baby seems to be missing him too. It's been kicking all morning.”
 
“The baby can probably sense your distress, so you should calm down a bit. Just think, after today you'll have the rest of your life to spend with him. And in a few months you'll have somebody else coming along too.” Kagome smiled. “Today is your day, Sango. Half the village has already started to gather at the shrine. The other half is running around getting everything ready for you.”
 
“Oh, do you think I should go and help? I'm mean, I should be doing something instead of just sitting here. I wish I could be doing anything other than just sit here worrying all day.”
 
Kagome laughed, pointing to Sango's belly. “I don't think you would be able to do very much even if you were allowed to help, Sango. Quit worrying about it and turn around were I can finish your hair!” she did. Afterward Kagome helped Sango to her feet and admired her hard work. She had to admit, she had never seen the exterminator look so beautiful. Sango smiled as she slowly turned for Kagome. “Miroku is not going to be able to take his eyes off of you.”
 
Sango blushed and hugged Kagome. “Thank you so much. I don't know what I would have done if you weren't here, Kagome.” The two stood there a few moments more before Shippou came running up in between them.
 
“Sango! Can I stay in here with you? It's getting too loud in the other hut with Miroku and InuYasha.”
 
“What do you mean by that?”
 
“Oh, Miroku keeps trying to leave the hut but InuYasha won't let him. He had Miroku thrown in a corner when I left.”
 
Sango gasped and Kagome just rolled her eyes and balled he hands into fists. “If Miroku's not conscious enough to make it to his own wedding, that hanyou is going to pay for it.” She sighed. “Shippou, will you please tell him that? Just tell him if Miroku has so much as one black eye when I see him at the shrine, that he is going to be the one that needs protection.”
 
“Alright!” the kitsune hopped out of the hut.
 
“Don't worry Sango, InuYasha won't hurt him.”
 
“No, it's not that. It's just I feel sorry for InuYasha if he does do something to Miroku.” They both laughed. “Oh, it just kicked again.”
 
“I think she's a girl, and she's going to take after her mother.”
 
“I don't really care if it's a boy or a girl,” Sango replied, “as long as it doesn't get Miroku's bad habits.”
 
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“InuYasha, I hate to do this to you, but you leave me with no other choice.” Miroku pulled out an ofuda and threw it toward the hanyou.
 
InuYasha blocked the ofuda using the hilt of his sword, the paper dispersing into tiny bits and falling to the floor. “What do you think you're gonna do with those monk?! I said you are not leaving this hut for another hour and that's what I meant! Keh! You act like I actually want to stay in here with you.”
 
About that time the kitsune came storming through the door.
 
“Oi! I thought you ran off.”
 
“I did. Kagome told me to come and give you a message.”
 
“Well, what is it?”
 
“Kagome said that if you hurt Miroku then she's gonna `sit' you big time, so you better not hurt him.”
 
“Keh. I'll just make sure the bruises are where she can't see them.” He cracked his knuckles. “
 
“Now InuYasha, this is my wedding night and Sango's bound to notice any bruising, and I don't doubt that she would tell Kagome.”
 
InuYasha growled, but put his hands to his side. Only one more hour. He kept telling himself. One more freakin hour.
 
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The hour passed rather slowly for everyone, but the time for the wedding finally came. Kaede stood before Sango and Miroku, who stood starring into each others eyes with their fingers entwined together. InuYasha and Shippou stood to the right with Miroku while Kagome stood to the left with Sango. The couple shared their vows, and as they did so Kagome glanced over to InuYasha. The sun was glistening off of his silver hair, causing him to glow in Kagome's gaze. His hanyou ears flicked back and forth, listening to everything that was going on around. He looked kind of nervous to Kagome. She guessed he wasn't use to being around so many of the villagers at once.
 
She looked back to Sango and Miroku. They both looked so happy just to be there with each other, just to be holding the others hand. Kagome knew that feeling. She knew how they felt because she felt the same way every time InuYasha held her close. But would they ever be a couple like their friends? Could they become that close? She loved InuYasha. She loved InuYasha with all her heart, with everything she had. She loved InuYasha so much she was willing to give up her home and her family in her world, just where she could have a chance to love InuYasha.
 
Kagome wanted to be with InuYasha forever. She would do anything to stay with InuYasha, but it was never a certainty. It was never a certainty that InuYasha would want to stay with her, and love her as she loved him. Maybe one day she would know, and they would be together like Sango and Miroku. Happy. Together. Maybe even settle down with a family of their own. She smiled at the thought. A family with InuYasha. It wasn't that hard to picture, now that she's seen the other side of him. He tried to put up a strong, indestructible front, but it was just that, a front. Inside he was so much kinder and loving. Kagome would have to find a way to bring out that side a little more often.
 
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InuYasha looked at Kagome through the corner of his eye. She was looking over at him with a wide smile spread across her face. He almost lost it right then. He almost just got up and ran over to her and pulled her into his arms. Seeing all day to what lengths the monk would go to get to Sango made him think more of him and Kagome. She had gone the ultimate length to be with him. Gave up her family, her home, everything. To know that much made him want to be with her even more. He loved her unlike he had ever loved anybody else. Being with her made him smile, and even laugh sometimes. Nobody had ever made him feel that way before.
 
The monk and exterminator said their final vows and kissed. Everyone there clapped for the newlyweds, and Kagome ran up to hug them both. InuYasha fidgeted, not feeling too comfortable in the scene at all. He really didn't like being in a crowd of humans, unlike the kitsune who was busy flirting with a little girl, swishing his bushy tail back and forth behind him. InuYasha sighed and walked away, finding a comfortable spot in the branches of Goshinboku and waiting for all the excitement to die down. The monk and exterminator left for the exterminator's village a couple of hours later, but the villagers continued their celebration. Drinking sake, some of the men passing out from drinking too much, the women gossiping about who knows what, the children running around, playing with each other. InuYasha watched it all from his place in the tree.
 
InuYasha had always been prepared to live out his entire life alone. But now, the possibility of starting a family with someone her loved wasn't all that far out of his reach. He would have a real life, a real home. That's something he hadn't had since his mother was killed so many years ago. She would have liked Kagome, that was no doubt. Kagome reminded him so much of his mother, both too trusting and kind for their own good, both falling in love with creatures that could never deserve their love. Maybe it was time he told her how he felt. Sure, he had shown it to her, but that somehow didn't seem like it was enough. He wanted her to know for sure that he was never going to leave her, and that he loved her. He wanted her to know for sure that maybe one day they could be as close as Sango and Miroku were.
 
“InuYasha?” Kagome called from the base of Goshinboku. InuYasha hopped down, gather Kagome in his arms and leaped back into the tree. “I didn't know where you had gone, I turned around and you weren't there.”
 
“Keh. I'm not that into celebrating like those men.”
 
“I didn't think you were, but I would at least want you to tell me before you run off like that.”
 
“It's not like I was going anywhere.”
 
Kagome sighed. “I know, but I still would have liked you to tell me. I guess it's just a wench thing.” She smiled at him.
 
“Yup. Wenches always worry too much.” He smiled back. The sun was just starting to set behind the tree line, leaving a sky full of stars and a full moon behind. InuYasha lowered his hands to rest on Kagome's hips. She leaned back against his chest and wiggled her head into his haori. He looked at the woman who was now willingly held in his arms. She was looking into the sky.
 
“Beautiful, isn't it?” she asked.
 
“Yep.” He replied, still looking down on her features. He cleared his throat. “Kagome? There's something I need to say to you.”
 
She turned in his arms to face him. “What is it?” she asked with a smile.
 
He almost lost his control again. It took every bit of self control he had just to keep himself from pulling her lips to his at that moment. Her smile controlled his every move, which only made what he had to say mean even more. “Kagome,” he lowered his mouth to her ear, speaking in a soft whisper, “I love you.” He could feel her muscles tense under his arms. For a moment he was afraid of her reaction.
 
A moment later she had her lips pressed firmly against his and held him in a tight embrace. He had said it. He had told her the three words every woman dreams of hearing from the guy they've fallen for. He told her that he loved her. “I-I love you too, InuYasha.” This time he pulled her lips to his, cupping her cheek with his hands as she leaning into his palm. This is where they wanted to be, forever in each others arms.
 
 
A/N: I would like everyone to know that this chapter is very special, and not just for the obvious reasons. I wasn't going to write about Sango's wedding, and I wasn't going to have that `intimate' moment between InuYasha and Kagome, but reading through everything today I decided to bump up a chapter and write this one, so I hope you enjoyed it!!
 
Oh, by the way, Sesshomaru isn't done yet. He still has a few major appearances. And just FYI, this chapter happens a few weeks after the last one, so it's almost spring and Sango is 6 months along. Just wanting everyone to know before I get reviews about it.