InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Intended Mate ❯ Arrival of a gift ( Chapter 22 )

You may notice the edited story summary describing this long saga. Yes, I realize this story is shaping up to end here and now. This chapter will not be action-packed as the recent others but will hopefully be enjoyed by all of you. If it hasn't been for your continued support I would have stopped writing a long time ago. The reviews and comments and emails have told me this story is worth being told. I thank you all deeply.

Do not despair, there will be something of a sequel sometime in the near future! I can't say when, but I have the characters in mind always.

 

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Doctor Sato makes another obvious appearance. You get to see more of Sesshomaru and Rin. Life continues on.

And one last smutty scene just for you smut fans out there. Oh yeah, the tripe.

 

Disclaimer: Penpaninu does not claim to own Inuyasha in any way, shape, or form, but does claim to be Inu. Does claim also to be a cheapskate. If I owned Inuyasha, I would have bought it for ten dollars off E-bay! That's about as much a lawyer would get if they decided to sue me for writing this.

Although the appearance of an obvious new character belongs solely to my imaginings.

 

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“Intended Mate” chapter twenty-two

Arrival of a gift

 

Inuyasha and Kagome were wed in a basic Shinto ceremony one weekend shortly after the bride's sixteenth birthing day. Inuyasha was still unsure to all of the human pomp and religion of his wife's family, but accepted their shrine's heritage with due respect he could afford and made sure she would not partake of the customary sacramental sake used for the rite. A carefully selected bowl of water touched his mate's lips and he sighed a mental breath of relief that his pup would be nourished with that only.

 

The weeks flowed by smoothly with fewer and fewer trips through the Bone Eater's well to their friends. Sango and Miroku waited for the birth of their own child avidly while Shippou adjusted to the change in his adoptive family. The kitsune had begun to date a tall girl who often came with her family to help the exterminator village. Kagome slowly saw her fox cub would be all right and she was content to stay in the future to wait for her ninth month to come.

 

Kagome grew rounder and rounder so that the school teachers, classmates and her own family gave her the joke she could be carrying more than one. It always amused Inuyasha to see his mate's old temper flare up and he had to hold her back to keep from leaping at her younger brother.

 

“Calm down, you know, you have the worst temper,” he would tease as he rubbed her back. Mainly that would earn him another smack from his frustrated mate, when he himself used to hold the most foul temper of anyone they knew.

 

Kagome, as she grew larger and more sensitive in her pregnancy, required new fittings of the school uniform so she would still be able to attend class around her nausea. She noticed pain would light in Hojo-kun's eyes when he would notice her rubbing her belly as she wrote notes. Her trio of girlfriends could only assure Kagome that Hojo would be all right, even if it were too early for her to have a baby. Kagome could get nauseous during a test and be unable to finish, after all! And what about college? And Inuyasha?

 

Kagome told her friends that Inuyasha had a job in their shrine and another family one in the countryside and would be content to be a `stay at home dad' while she attended college in Tokyo. Her friends were pacified with this information and swooned that Kagome had picked a good man to marry, even if she was too young.

 

Kagome could only reflect that while this was true, that Inuyasha still had rather doggy habits he seemed to be passing on to Souta. Coming home to watch both of them scratching at their backs by rubbing themselves against the carpet only confirmed this theory.

 

* * * *

 

Rin walked behind Sesshomaru, one step behind and to his left as always as they traveled ever onward around the lands of the West. Her legs indeed had grown lean and longer as she grew older. She was still a child, not even ten human years, but she was growing tall. She hoped one day she would come up to her lord's chest, maybe his shoulder, but that was hoping too much. She wanted to touch him without having to reach up too far.

 

By and by, Rin settled into her known emotions of love for her lord, and knew they would flame into something she knew adults liked to do. Would Sesshomaru-sama want to do those things with her one day, when she fully matured? She would like that. She would like to be joined to her lord completely. He wouldn't be using her. As far as Rin knew, Sesshomaru did not entertain other women, human or youkai even when he went off on his own to do his meat-hunting. He would care for her like he always did.

 

“You sure are quiet today, Rin,” Jaken grumbled to her left and Rin smiled prettily at the toad. She was already taller than he was, and growing taller still.

 

“I was only thinking, Jaken-sama! But I could sing if you like,” she suggested happily. Jaken groaned and rolled his eyes. That child held the appearance of a cocoon in hibernation, ready to burst and show forth the real being within. It did not escape the retainer's shrewd attention that Rin was growing, and would continue to blossom in this way. Nor Sesshomaru-sama's still glances her way when he thought they wouldn't notice.

 

Something was growing between Master and Follower and he wasn't sure if he liked it or not. Oh well, if it kept Rin from trouble being under Sesshomaru-sama's ever watchful eye day and night, so be it! Far less work for him, really.

 

Sesshomaru strolled amiably onward as his ward dared move up to his side. His eyes flicked downward at the inspiring smile on his child's face. His heart had felt more at ease in this leg of their travels and he hoped it would continue to be ever so, around the small battles and fights he was engaged in for his title. Rin would continue to grow into a desirable shape and she loved him.

 

Perhaps this Sesshomaru could find it in him to pursue his ward at the appropriate age when she would be ready to bear his child and he would be ready to share his heart. It was a possibility in his keeping and Sesshomaru would not rule it out. Rin touched his claws gently and Sesshomaru's golden eyes looked down at her, taking in her bright smile.

 

Sesshomaru had not smiled in return, but his eyes were very warm. Rin's voice lifted in song and Jaken groaned loudly.

 

* * * *

 

 

Inuyasha stumbled inside from the shrine courtyard, sweaty and exhausted from his exertion. “Where the crap does Jii-chan keep getting these crates from?? He's prolly making me do all this to get back at me!” the hanyou grumbled, opening a cupboard and pulling out a glass. He padded to the fridge and pulled out a pitcher or ice cold water, shook his head at the glass and drank half the pitcher's contents in two large gulps greedily. Water trickled down his chin and down his bare chest, running with the residues of sweaty labor.

 

“What are you doing, Inuyasha?” his mate's lilting voice reached his ears and the hanyou twitched, setting the pitcher down from his face. His eyes bugged out for a second, noticing first his mate's lovely legs, still smooth and desirable in her sixth month. All that had changed thus far for her advancing pregnancy was a rounder belly and larger breasts. Which he was not going to deny, far be it!

Nor was he going to deny her apparent half dressed look. Was she doing laundry or something? She was wearing only a short t-shirt that barely covered the necessities!

 

“I could ask you the same!” he grinned, leaning insolently against the counter dressed only in his hakama. His cock twitched under her careful scrutiny as the bow rested low on his belly. Kagome licked her lips hungrily and tugged on a lock of his hair.

 

“Come over here,” she commanded, pointing to a kitchen table chair. Inuyasha sighed raggedly, sure she was going to kiss him.

 

“What?” he demanded, hands clenched into fists. Kagome snapped her fingers.

 

“In the chair! Don't make me say the `s' word!” she commanded, eyes flashing fire. Inuyasha gulped as his beads cooled around his neck, indicating a build up of her miko powers, and plopped his ass into the nearest chair.

 

“What's this all about now??” he whined, but his attention got dragged back really quick when Kagome's hands ran up his thighs and spread his knees.

 

“Ka…Kagome??” he panted, his head dizzy from a possible tease. If she was going to leave him this way…

 

“Shut up,” she murmured, untying his hakama while nipping at his neck and lips. “I need you so don't move….”

 

Inuyasha sighed as her fingers stroked the sides of his stiffening arousal, his hands tracing her shoulders as she stood before him. Sharp realization ran through his mind and the hanyou yelped, looking around wildly.

 

“We're in the kitchen! Your grandpa's right outside!” he protested, frowning. Kagome smiled and licked the side of him, making him shut up.

 

“Then you had better be quiet, Inuyasha!” she grinned and the only thing that came from Inuyasha's mouth was a loud gasp as she took him in her mouth deeply. His hands clutched at her shoulders.

 

“Come on, you don't hafta…. I'm hard for you,” he panted. Kagome's eyes flashed and she whipped her shirt off, gloriously nude underneath. Inuyasha's hands grasped her breasts as she got comfortable on his lap, then angled down to help her rest on him. It was a short but sweaty ride on the kitchen chair. Kagome left Inuyasha exposed, pants around his ankles as she went to wash up in the bath.

 

“Inuyasha! Darn that demon…where are you?” Jii-chan called outside the house. Inuyasha rolled his eyes and pulled his hakama up without care and ran a hand through his bangs.

 

“Just taking a break! I'm coming…” the hanyou smirked and staggered outside for more shrine-induced labor.

 

* * * *

 

Winter began to close in after a slow and lengthy fall. Kagome fell into her last months of pregnancy with waddling grace and round beauty that never failed to make Inuyasha's mouth drop or his heart to swell in pride. She had passed her previous year with last minute flying colors and was taking double courses this semester to ensure good marks for college consideration.

 

Finally understanding all of her need to study and continue going to her `skool', Inuyasha fell into a steady routine of shrine care, maintenance and housework to ease his mate's workload at home. Shortly before dawn he would rise, check on Kagome, help Mama cook the morning meal, go back upstairs and help Kagome up if she needed it. He would boister Souta around to get up for school as well, and the whole family would settle down to break their fast.

 

Inuyasha would either walk Kagome to school, or start sweeping the shrine walk depending on who wanted him to start what early on. The day would start with cleaning and would move to organization and lifting. Jii-chan despite his irate attitude towards Inuyasha for impregnating his only granddaughter far too early in her young life, was grateful for his strong limbs and stout back. He had gotten almost all of the Higurashi family artifacts categorized and sorted in the storage rooms and he could only begrudgingly thank Inuyasha.

Inuyasha only cared about laying his head to Kagome's large belly and listening to his child kick against his sensitive ears when she sat studying at night in her room.

 

Inuyasha tugged on the uncomfortable bandana Jii-chan made him wear while he was working on the shrine grounds. That seemed to be Kagome's grandfather's only harsh rule, to keep his ears a secret from the people coming to their shrine to pray and buy talismans. Inuyasha loved the easy life his Kagome had here, and he would adhere to the one rule he hated. Hats and bandanas pressed his ears flat to his head and he wished he could flex them in the afternoon breeze. The constrictions muffled the sounds of the world, but maybe that was just as well in this future world. It was so blasted noisy.

 

“Inuyasha, aren't you sure you shouldn't be wearing shoes?” Jii-chan asked, carrying a pile of scrolls carefully in his wide sleeves. Inuyasha leaned on his bamboo broom and shook his head as the approaching winter finally began to show its presence, nipping through their clothes with an icy hand. Jii-chan shivered against the strong breeze and Inuyasha just stood still, inhaling deeply.

 

“Nah, I'll be okay. I don't think anyone will notice,” he offered, going back to sweeping the fall leaves scattered all over the grounds.

 

“Or care,” Jii-chan shrugged and continued to the shrine office to sort through the ancient parchment with care. Inuyasha frowned at his back then shrugged and collected all of the leaves up to toss in with the garbage cans.

 

Mrs. Higurashi made a small lunch for the men, which they ate quietly.

 

“It's getting colder outside, Grandfather,” she said, looking out of the kitchen window. “Are you sure you don't want a coat and hat?” Jii-chan nodded in agreement.

 

“Will you be all right, Inuyasha?” Mama asked as Inuyasha stood up, tying his long hair back loosely.

 

“The cold doesn't bother me, Mom. Don't worry!” he flashed a winning grin. He continued cleaning up the shrine grounds as the afternoon wore on and on. The sun seemed to setting earlier, as the sky filled with dark gray clouds. Inuyasha kept working in the false light as the weather gently welcomed in the winter.

A mental eternity later, Inuyasha wiped the chilled sweat from his brow and looked up into the white sky.

 

“It's beautiful,” were his first thoughts as he looked around at the separating groups of shrine-visitors heading for the steps. It must be time for Kagome to come home from `skool' already. Inuyasha carried the bamboo broom over to the tool shed and deposited it back in its place, heading for the house to grab an overcoat. He tucked it over one arm instead of putting it on, confusing Mama Higurashi.

 

“Aren't you going to be wearing it?” she asked. Inuyasha shook his head and took off his bandana, ears twitching in the open air.

 

“It's for Kagome. The snows going to start soon,” he commented. Mama found Inuyasha's ability to smell out weather more reliable than the news station and nodded wisely.

 

“All right, go on then,” she smiled. Inuyasha padded out into the shrine courtyard, as fluffy white flakes began to descend slowly from the heavens. The snowflakes layered along his ears and hair, and piled onto his shoulders as he slowly walked along in the stillness of winter's heart. Men, women and children hurried to get home and close shops to get in from the opening of the cold season but Inuyasha didn't care. It was so still and so wonderful to look at and touch. Life was finally peaceful for him and he felt content. For the first time in his two hundred plus years of life as a half demon. He had taken a mate and was waiting for the birth of his first child.

Inuyasha sighed and looked up into the skies. `Would you be proud of me, Father?'

 

He met Kagome halfway home. She held her books clutched to her chest, her shoulder bag around her side and tender breasts, a short coat tugged tight around her torso. Her cheeks were rosy pink in the new cold and her breath steamed before her. But her eyes lit up as bright as summer as he stopped before her, both silent in the chilled evening.

 

“Hi,” Kagome blushed, tucking a lock of hair out of her eyes. Inuyasha reached forward and tucked the hair behind her ear tenderly, and draped the extra coat around her shoulders. Kagome sighed and shivered until he put an arm around her back, his long fire-rat's sleeve draping down to her thighs.

 

“How was the learning today?” Inuyasha asked as they walked along, content with sharing warmth as everyone else beat feet to get indoors. Kagome giggled and pressed a hand to her large middle.

 

“It went fine until this little guy started to protest,” Kagome said. Inuyasha's eyes took in his mate tenderly, a small smile stretched across his lips. Kagome loved seeing Inuyasha look this way. He was finally at peace. There were no more wars or battles. She touched one finger to his lips as they walked and Inuyasha grinned.

 

“He was kicking again? All right…. I hope it didn't hurt though,” he smiled all the same. Kagome laughed, her face and chest warm from his closeness. The most minute of frozen breezes ruffled their bangs against their foreheads, and stirred their longer locks of hair against each other. The two continued home to the shrine.

 

Stopping before the first step, Kagome squeezed Inuyasha's hand, looking up into his eyes.

 

“I really am happy…. that I met you,” she whispered. Inuyasha smiled softly down at her, his eyes tender in happiness. Snow blanketed the earth around them and settled along their hair and shoulders.

Together they walked up the shrine steps.

 

* * * *

 

“Inuyasha…” Kagome's voice came to the hanyou's ears muffled and far away as he tried to sleep. The hanyou grimaced and pulled his pillow over his head.

 

“Stoppit, I dun hafta work til noon today,” he moaned. Silence reigned and Inuyasha sighed, burrowing deeper in the warm covers. Back to sleep now…

 

“Inuyasha!!” Kagome shrieked near his sensitive ears. With a startled yelp, the hanyou fell out of the side of her tiny bed, jarring his shoulder and hip into the carpet.

 

“Kagome! What the HELL??….” Inuyasha began to grouse. While not as effect as a sit command, that was still dangerous and unexpected! He stopped frowning taking in the calm façade of his mate, perched on her thighs seiza-style.

 

“My water just broke. I think I'm going into labor,” she said calmly, her eyes shining. Inuyasha gaped and sniffed the air around her.

 

“Huh?” he asked intelligently, rubbing sleep from his face. Kagome's smile was tender and patient.

 

“The baby's coming soon, Inuyasha. We should go to the hospital,” Kagome said. Inuyasha took a second to stare at her, his jaw open before he bounded to his feet, dragging on hakama and haori over his undressed form, hightailing it to the hallway.

 

“Mom! MOM! Wake up! “Inuyasha hollered, pounding on Mama Higurashi's door. A yawning Mama opened the door, clutching her nightgown close to her form.

 

“What is it, Inuyasha? Calm down, son,” she suggested. Souta and Jii-chan poked carefully out of respective bedrooms, staring in confusion at the hopping hanyou.

 

“Kagome! She's having the pup…she's having the pup!” he yelped, his eyes wide in love, hope, anticipation and sheer panic. Mama Higurashi woke up instantly and assumed her mantel of household authority.

 

“Get her, get her hospital bag and go sit in the kitchen while I call the ambulance!” she ordered, turning back into her bedroom to dial.

 

Inuyasha's eyes crossed. “Kagome…bag…kitchen…right!”

Ten impressive seconds later, he ran for the stairs with the overnight bag tucked under one arm like a football.

 

Souta yanked on the ends of Inuyasha's flying hair, stopping him. ”Bring Kagome with you!” he complained. Inuyasha cursed and sprinted back for her bedroom, guiding her out with one arm around her back, stammering loving nonsenses as they went. Kagome only smiled brightly and walked downstairs.

 

* * * *

 

“Push! Push hard now, Kagome….” Doctor Sato instructed, perched between Kagome's thighs. Kagome bit her lip, and shrieked as a wave of pain rippled through her body.

 

“Inuyasha!” she grit between clenched teeth. Inuyasha, scrubbed down and wearing a hospital gown over his clothes, held her hand and let her squeeze as hard as she liked. Mama Higurashi guarded Kagome's other side as the doctor and his assistants worked with tools and other shiny implements around her nethers that hanyou nor mother felt safe with seeing.

 

“You're doing great,” he crooned, face breaking out in a sweat as Kagome clenched his hand in her fingers. “Just great! You're so strong, Kagome….”

 

“Keep pushing, Kagome, he'll be here soon!” Mama guided. Kagome beamed lovingly at her mother, then shot daggers at her husband.

 

“You're-not-touching-me-after-this!” she growled. Inuyasha wilted under her patented Look of Death but kept a tiny smile on his lips to get through the moment.

 

“Hehehe! Okay, if you say so…” he murmured adoringly. Kagome hit his shoulder and bore down under the doctor's instructions.

 

“Head….shoulders….waist…we have a boy!” Doctor Sato announced, sliding the infant from Kagome's thighs into his gloved hands. An assistant cleaned out the boy's mouth as the parents and grandmother watched, heart in their throats waiting for the first breathe.

 

All sighed in relief as the baby wailed, tiny fists clenched in indignation.

 

“Oh….” Kagome breathed as he was held up carefully in two gloved hands and perched atop her belly for inspection, the center of her attention so to speak. Her finger touched one small fist and Kagome cried when the hand opened to clutch at her digit imploringly. Doctor Sato snipped the cord and worked on the afterbirth. Kagome was cleaned up as the baby was properly cleaned and returned to the trio of expectant adults.

 

Inuyasha's eyes never moved from his child during all of this. His inu protective instincts threatened to lash out at the nurses for taking the boy to be cleaned, but he bit back his unspoken shouts, feeling they had a job to do and it would help his pup in the long run.

Now, his pup cleaned and wrapped in a fluffy blue blanket, he let a grin shine from his face as he leaned close to inhale the scent of his heir. Kagome cradled her baby in her arms under the nurse's instructions while Mama beamed happily.

 

“He's so precious!” Mrs. Higurashi stated, gently stroking the fine white hairs along the infant's scalp and around his small puppy ears. The boy rooted around in his blanket, whimpering and Kagome crooned softly to him.

 

“He's perfect,” Inuyasha rumbled and Kagome's tired smile made his heart swell harder and he was glad for his choice of words. He leaned to kiss her sweaty cheek tenderly. Kagome moved to meet his lips simply and the two kissed gently.

 

“May I offer my profound congratulations,” Doctor Sato smiled warmly. “However we were wondering about the irregularities of the child's ears, Kagome.” The doctor took off bloody gloves and rechecked his clipboard as the assistants cleaned up.

 

Inuyasha stiffened, and tugged the brim of Souta's Angels caps further over his forehead. Mama looked agape at her son in law as he all but growled at the doctor.

 

“They aren't irregularities, Doctor! It's something passed from Inuyasha's family,” Mama Higurashi threw in hurriedly. Kagome relaxed visibly and Inuyasha wound down slowly.

 

“Is this true?” Doctor Sato asked distractedly, writing and finishing up paperwork for the family.

 

“Course it is! They aren't nothing to be worried about,” Inuyasha stated proudly. Kagome whispered to him softly and he smiled protectively to her.

 

Mama left the room to inform Grandpa Higurashi crouched outside of the child's arrival. Grandpa yelled in happiness, thrusting his arms to the ceiling thrice.

“My first great-grandchild! A fine boy! Banzai! Banzai! BANZAI!” Mama and Grandpa hugged as nurses stopped to look at them strangely.

 

After finally convincing the doctors and nurses they did not want any surgery done to their son's ears, and after Souta had come in to meet his nephew, Kagome and Inuyasha sat alone in her hospital room. The nurses had just instructed the new mother on the fine points of breastfeeding and left them to it as the baby suckled eagerly.

Inuyasha watched in fascination and touched his boy's ears.

 

“Are you happy?” Kagome asked softly. Inuyasha looked up in wonder and smiled. The light of the world gleamed in his golden eyes.

 

“I never thought I would ever be happy,” he confessed. “But I finally am, with you Kagome….”

 

“And our precious boy. Inutaro….” Kagome whispered, rubbing his small back. Inutaro wrinkled his nose and hiccupped against his mother's breast. Kagome moved to burp him gently and Inuyasha laughed at the small groan from his boy.

 

The world moved on around the hospital but time stood still for the new parents. Their lives would not stop moving forward, but for now they sat in a cocoon of joy, blanketed from turmoil. Their happiness was without an end in sight.

 

Except for the story, which did end.

 

The End

The Intended Mate series is over. I dearly hope you all enjoyed and cheered or screamed along with the rest of us. I certainly did my share of that with each responsive and nice review I received that inspired me to continue onward with my plot.

The scene in the snow with the line “I really am happy that I met you” is taken directly from the archives of Rumiko Takahashi's “Maison Ikkoku” in the second to last chapter. As that manga ended with a final resolution, I wanted mine to have the same air, although I intend to visit the characters again sometime.

Inutaro came partly from my love for the Maison manga, as a boy in the boarding house was named Kentaro. InuKen sounded too much like RyuKen (Street Fighter 2 anyone?) so I opted for the other mix. And Kenyasha was already taken and I didn't want to copy.

 

And contrary to some radical beliefs of some who have read my entire story, this inu does not find the subject of rape funny. I realize I could have left it out of my fic. I very much wanted to, and find no pleasure in writing about the act, even though I tried to make the scene fast and clipped. I thought to myself, how else would Sessh and Kagome know Inuyasha was still alive? I thought it would have worked to show them his touch still lingered even after that attempted marking. I don't mean to bitch, but I didn't find reviews all but labeling me a horrible person to humanity very kind or very accurate. I stated my reasons above, and while I thought the story would have worked better with the scene, I tried not to glorify the act as some writings I have read. Rape isn't funny, sexy, or tolerable.

My last soapbox for this fic. I apologize.

(shut the fuck up, pen! Lol)

 

Otherwise I so tried to find angles to finish for everyone, although Miroku and Sango weren't given much fic time at all. I hope you Sango and Miroku fans don't make it a point not to have read the fic for that. Otherwise, was it enjoyable? Was it all right? Above all else, please review. They dearly find a place of honor to me.

 

It has been a pleasure, an honor, and almost a duty to finish this story. Thank you all for reading. (bows deeply)

Most sincerely yours, penpaninu 10/18/05