InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ It All Comes Down To This ❯ Fate Intervenes ( Chapter 1 )

Author's note up here, for once. This is a collaboration with My Sweet Koinu, who said we should post it under my name. We've worked together on the plot, and the lemons are all hers, cause I suck at writing them. Just so's ya know. Ok, y'all can start reading now.

~Luv, Chokolatte and My Sweet Koinu

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Chapter 1 - Fate Intervenes

 

“You're doing very well, Kagome.” Sesshoumaru reassured her. “The baby is also fine and healthy.”

 

Kagome squeezed Inuyasha's hand reassuringly when the younger brother fidgeted again. She knew how much he hated being in the hospital, even though it had one wing entirely devoted to youkai, disguised as an experimental ward. He had adapted to her time and had even accepted the idea of his brother being their doctor, but he still felt a restless discomfort whenever he visited the hospital.

 

Kagome squeezed his hand again and he forced himself to clam down. The past 8 months had gone smoothly, hospital visits and all, and it looked like his and Kagome's pup would be a healthy young hanyou.

 

Sesshoumaru consulted his clipboard again. “I would say that you could go into labor any time in the next few weeks and safely deliver.” He handed her a paper with a number on it. “This number will always reach my pager. Call you when you go into labor.” His watch beeped and he glanced at it. “I have another appointment, I'll leave you two now.” With that, the youkai doctor strode from the room.

 

“Come on wench!” Inuyasha grabbed Kagome's arm and gently pulled her to her feet. They left the hospital and climbed into the small compact car Kagome had borrowed from her mama. Inuyasha had insisted at first that he could carry her anywhere and she didn't need to use the “metal monstrosity.” After the first trimester, Sesshoumaru had put his foot down, claiming that the jostling wasn't good for the pup. After a heated argument and Inuyasha's dire threats of limb-hacking, the hanyou had finally agreed to learn how to drive.

 

The irritating hanyou, however, had failed his test twice and scared off four different instructors, leaving Kagome the only available driver. “Stop anytime you feel like you can no longer drive,” Sesshoumaru had told her. That `anytime' might be right about now. Kagome thought ruefully as she eased herself into the driver's seat. Her belly twitched, as if in agreement. All right, I get the message, no more driving after today. Good thing I was so thin to begin with. Her baby twitched again. Laughing, Kagome started the engine and pulled out of the lot.

 

They were stopped at a red light only 2 miles from the shrine when she felt an odd movement low in her gut and grimaced. She hoped to hide both movements from Inuyasha, who was being too overprotective, but he caught them anyways.

 

“What's wrong?”

 

“Nothing. Your child is just kicking me again.”

 

“Feh. My pup's very active, just like his old man.”

 

“Riiiight. You just tell - oooh!” The last was a hiss of pain as her lower abdomen began stinging. The light turned green and Kagome jammed the gas, eager to get home and douse the fire in her belly. In the distance, Inuyasha was trying to ask her what was wrong, but the blood rushing in her ears drowned out his panicked voice.

 

“You… have Sesshoumaru's… number?” She panted between sharp pricks of pain. “I think… labor… aaaah!” Another burst of fire forced a cry from Kagome's lips and the wheel jerked under her frantic hands.

 

Inuyasha felt the jolt as the car behind them met with their bumper, pushing their car to a stop, tilted slightly sideways, but he ignored it in the face of Kagome's hurt and fear. He tried to grab her trembling hands only to have them jerked out of his grip and off the wheel as Kagome clutched her belly with another gasp.

 

Sesshoumaru's words came back to him and he repeated them to his wife. “Breathe, just breathe. In and out, come on Kagome!” He heard honking and looked up just in time to see the oncoming truck smash into the driver's side. The tearing of metal and Kagome's scream dimmed as the hanyou's vision faded to white.

 

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Ooh, spiffy new disclaimer. *points*

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Disclaimer: We don't own Inuyasha *pouts* or any of the other characters. We would like to thank the Academy *is thwacked* er, we would like to thank Rumiko Takahashi and company for creating such awesome characters for us to write about and torment. >:)