InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Kagome and The Silver Hanyou ❯ Chapter 17

After Kagome's parents left, Kagome remained on the shore, watching over the ocean. Now, all that she wanted had been accomplished: she remained with her friends, her father had accepted her heart's choice, but…She must find Inuyasha! Without thinking, she ran into the forest, ignoring her friend's shouting.

In his mother's garden, Inuyasha was beside her grave, with his head in his hands. He looked in deep pain.

-“Why…? Why did she come?! Why did I have to see her?! I hoped not to see her again! Now that I saw her, I can't forget her! Her eyes…her smell…her touch. All of this made it harder!”

He punched a near by stone that made her crack. He retreat his bleeding fist.

-“Why did I have to leave her the necklace? If I would take it, she wouldn't come back, and it was better for the two of us! She remained in safety, with her own.” Then he remembered Houjo. “On how it looked, that man was for her. I sensed that I could trust him. And now I understand why Kagome chose him to be her husband…He was a nice person and he could give her all that she needed and also for…” Se swallowed the pain. “…their child.”

Suddenly he heard a scream coming from the forest:

-“Help!!!”

Inuyasha perked his ears.

-“But…This is Kagome!”

He ran in the direction from where the noises were coming.

-`How…Why is Kagome still here? She should have left with her parents' long time ago! I saw them leave!' he thought as he ran through the trees.

Kagome, who had run in search of Inuyasha, was cornered by two youkais. She crawled in a corner, looking horrified at them. One had drawn his claws and liked his lips.

-“What is a girl like you doing all alone in the forest?”

-“I think she's lost,” said the other. “What luck! I haven't eaten for a week!”

The first one came closer and took her chin and liked the tender flesh of her cheek. Kagome cringed at his touch. Her heart was beating wild. She prayed for Kami to save her.

-“I'm sorry to eat such a beauty, but I heard that the flesh of young maiden makes miracles.”

-“Yeah, it's a pity,” the other continued. “But who said that we must eat her now?” he approached Kagome and took her face in his tentacle. “Why don't we have a little fun?”

Kagome froze, knowing what they were thinking. The first one observed her belly.

-“It looks like she had been used…She's pregnant.”

-“Surprise present, ey?” The other one liked his lips. “What are we waiting for? Get her!”

Kagome screamed terrified as the two youkais jumped on her. But before they could touch her, she heard a voice which cleared her hearing:

-“SANKON TESSOU!!!”

Then, in the next moment, she saw pieces of youkai flesh falling at her feet. She lookeda t the silver-haired person before her. Her eyes filled with tears. Inuyasha gave her a fast gaze and turned to leave, but, before he could leave, he was caught in an embrace.

-“Please, Inuyasha! Don't leave!” Kagome cried accentuating the embrace. “Don't leave me alone!”

Inuyasha turned around, letting her to hold his shirt. He watched her sobbing form.

-“Kagome…” he whispered.

Kagome raised her teary eyes to his amber ones. He saw pain, regret but also something else. Then, in a burst, Kagome glued her lips on his. Inuyasha needed a few moments to realize what was happening. Those lips, that taste, that touch…it was Kagome! He embraced her tightly, deeping the kiss, holding one hand between her shoulders blades, and one on her back. Kagome now knew that this was her place and she will always be beside him. They bad to break apart for air, and they looked each other in the eyes. Inuyasha couldn't resist seeing the same forgiving gaze, even after what he did. He hurt her, he mocked her , he insulted her, then he nearly killed her, he put her in danger, he left her, and now, when they reunited, he told her foul things, when she tried to make something good for him. He couldn't forgive himself, but why did she do it? He never understood.

-“Inuyasha…I…” Kagome began.

-“Kagome, no,” Inuyasha interrupted her. “I don't deserve your love! I do not have any right to deserve your love! I always did you wrong! I have put you in danger! Why did you return to me?! Why didn't you remain at your home?! In safety!”

Kagome bean to have tears in her eyes, from his words. Inuyasha felt like an ass. He knew that his idiotic words affected her.

-“Sorry…I didn't want to say it so directly. But, I was worried for your safety. If I knew that you were home, I would feel better knowing that you were safe. I wouldn't forgive myself if something happened to you.”

-“I know that you were thinking of my safety, and you wanted my protection, Inuyasha, but…” She took a deep breath. “I had to see you, to touch you, to hear your voice!”

Inuyasha gasped. Kagome continued.

-“After you disappeared without trace, I thought I would never see you again! I cried for days, thinking of you!”

-“Kagome…”

-“But…there was something else that bind me to you.”

Inuyasha remained puzzled.

-“What? Was it the ring?”

Kagome shook her head.

-“No, I had hid the ring, not to see it, to remember you. Neither the necklace, I also hid it with the ring.”

-“But…what then? What made you come back to me? What didn't you remained home, with…your husband?”

Kagome looked at him. She saw the pained look in his eyes. He still believed that. She had to clear everything.

-“Inuyasha, Houjo-kun isn't my husband!”

-“But I saw you with him!” Inuyasha burst. “I saw him how me almost hugged you and kissed you! I also saw the engage ring on your finger!”

He took her hand to show her the ring, but stopped when he saw their engagement ring.

-“But…how…” Inuyasha stemmed.

Kagome began to explain:

-“It was true that Houjo-kun would have been my husband. My father was the one who prepared this, again. But my heart remained closed, despite Houjo-kun's wish to gain my love.”

Inuyasha continued to listen.

-“After you left, I went back to the ship, but Houjo-kun saw what I felt.”

-“Kagome…”

-“And…” she looked at him. “He let me come back to you! To be with you! He let his happiness for my own! And, for this, I should thank him. He was a good man, but…”

Inuyasha's eyes got bigger, waiting for the answer, and then he gasped as Kagome jumped on him, with tears in her eyes.

-“The one I truly love is you!”

Inuyasha remained numb. How could she be so forgiving, so loving? He hugged her, resting his chin on the top of her head, inspiring her sweet smell. Oh, how did he miss it! Kagome was crying in his shirt, wetting it with her tears. How did she love to feel his warmth, his aura. Inuyasha pushed her slightly to look her in the eyes.

-”Kagome…I still have a question. And please tell me the truth.”

-“What is it?”

-“Tell me the truth. Something else made you come back.”

Kagome gasped at his question. She knew that it will get to this sooner or later. She would tell him. Even if she likes it or not. Inuyasha has the right, he also being a part of it. Kagome looked aside, a slight blush coming to her cheeks. Inuyasha observed that. Kagome began:

-“Inuyasha?”

-“Un?”

-“Do you remember that night, after you had transformed demon?”

Inuyasha painly remembered that night. In that day, he hurt her with his own claws. He had wounded her! And after, Kagome remained forgave him, remaining by his side, healing him, bodily and spiritually. In the same night, Kagome showed him hoe much he means to her. For the first time, they free their emotions and made love. This soothed his pain. He answered:

-“Of course, Kagome. In that night I was the saddest person, knowing that I hurt you despite the fact that I promised you that I would never hurt you again, but at the same time, I was the happiest person, because of your presence beside me and of the fact that you showed me how much I meant to you.”

Kagome smiled. Inuyasha was still confused.

-“But why do you ask?”

Kagome push it. She got to tell him. She couldn't pass it anymore.

-“Because that night had a following. A following that I couldn't pass it with my eye. It bonged me to you. And now I have to tell you that…”

-“That?” Inuyasha repeated waiting for her answer.

Kagome turned her gaze to him, her eyes shimmering.

-“Inuyasha…I'm pregnant…”

Inuyasha's face saddened for a moment, knowing this, but his ears perked in wonder when he heard:

-“…with our child.”

The news got him like thunder. Did he hear well? Kagome saw that he didn't respond.

-“Inuyasha?”

-“Kagome? Did I hear well? You're pregnant? With our child?”

Kagome smiled at his puzzled face and answered:

-“Yes, Inuyasha. I'm pregnant with our child. The fruit of our love in that night.”

The bangs covered Inuyasha's face. Kagome froze.

-“Inuyasha?”

Inuyasha fell, his head being on her chest. Then, Kagome felt something wet. Inuyasha, in her arms, was crying at her chest.

-“Inuyasha?” she asked slightly. “I'm sorry…I didn't know…I…” her voice fainted. “I'm sorry I made you sad. Maybe it was better if I didn't tell you.”

He backed and raised his tear-stained face to look her in the eyes.

-“You think that I am sad?”

Tears filled her eyes as she nodded.

-“I thought that you would be happy…I swear that I didn't plan it…I…well…”

-“ Kagome, I never understood when you cried because you were happy. Don't you understand? I never thought I'd have a friend I could trust, much less someone like you to love me. I never dreamed I'd one day have a child. You've given me so much.” He moved his hand to place it on her belly. “And now you're giving me this.”

Kagome smiled but her face turned to shock when she felt a slight push in her belly. Inuyasha worried as he saw her face.

-“Kagome? What is it?”

Kagome smiled and put her hands on her belly.

-“It had pushed. Our baby had pushed, Inuyasha!”

-“Are you sure, Kagome?” Inuyasha asked not believing.

Kagome smiled, she took his hand and put it on her belly. A great happiness colored his face as he too felt a slight push in Kagome's belly. Kagome smiled again at his reaction. Then, Inuyasha hugged her tightly.

-“I love you, Kagome. I love you more than anything else on this world. I love you for coming and lighting my life, until now, dark.”

-“I love you too, Inuyasha. I love you for changing y life, for showing me what freedom means.”

They backed to look each other in the eyes. Both saw in the other's eyes the eternal love. As the sun started to hide beyond the horizon, the two closed the space between them, their kiss lighting the night that followed

 

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*-“Congratulations, Kagome-chan!!!”

-“Congratulations, Captain!!!”*

These were heard from the Meeting Hall of the island. Inuyasha jut gave them the news of their child. Sango hugged her best friend.

-“Kagome-chan, I'm so happy for you! Finally you'll stay with us! You will finally have a family with us!”

-“I am also happy, Sango-chan! Never did I think that I will be a mother so early, but it doesn't bother me. It is the fruit of my love for Inuyasha, and I am happy that I can stay with him for the rest of my life.”

-“Same to me, Kagome,” said Inuyasha embracing her. “I don't think that I can be happier than this! Finally, we will have a family of our own.”

-“But, Captain,” Kaoru bugged in. “Maybe you are together, but, what about the marriage? You can't have a real family without the marriage.”

-“I know that, you flea-brain!” Inuyasha yelled at him, but calmed himself. “It won't last long until that.”

All whistled happy. In a corner, Riku, Hikaru and Sango were whispering.

-“It won't last long until we have baby hanyous with white and black hair running around here,” Riku chuckled.

-“You forgot that one is on the way!” Hikaru reminded.

-“But they have to marry first,” Sango reminded.

All chuckled and giggled enthusiastic at what will follow, watching the Captain and Kagome, which were with their head in the clouds.

 

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