InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Love ❯ Golden Slumbers ( Chapter 13 )

[ X - Adult: No readers under 18. Contains Graphic Adult Themes/Extreme violence. ]

Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha...just the ideas of this story.


Authors Note: Just a few more chapters...I don't think it will be eighteen like I was originally thinking. Maybe somewhere around fifteen, this'll be chapter thirteen.


Now on with the story!



Love



Chapter Thirteen: Golden Slumbers



"Come on...sing for us!" Miroku was giving Kagome a puppy dog face while he had his hand over her quite large stomach, she was now seven and a half months pregnant almost eight....give her till the end of next week and she would be eight months. Though she looked like she could pop at any second now. He was too cute, she almost couldn't resist, but like she had told him earlier she just wanted to go to bed. Not to mention her day had been rough with having to turn in her final paper of the year before she was off for the summer and she just felt like she had done horrible on it, even though Miroku promised her that she did wonderful. Luckily though she hadn't heard from Inuyasha or Kikyo lately, for a while she was worried that they were going to make her go to court to get custody over one or both of the children.


"Please! Come on, they want you to sing to them!"


"No, they want to kick the inside of my uterus until they burst out."


"That's them telling you to sing to them."


Miroku had been bugging her to sing the twins to sleep ever since they had climbed into bed, sometimes when he would speak over the past five minutes you could hear the shivers in his voice. He had turned the air conditioner on high for the sake of Kagome, because with all the extra weight she had to carry around she was always so hot.


"Fine...but it's going to be a short one, probably something that I'll sing to them when they are born too."


With a smile Miroku sat up and huddled close to Kagome while wrapping some blanket around his shoulders.


"But you have to allow me to be able to go to sleep right away as soon as I am finished okay?"


"Agreed."



Miroku had let out a loud yawn interrupting her singing, she smiled. Maybe this lullaby would even put him to sleep.


Kagome herself yawned when she had finished and looking over she noticed that Miroku was situating himself to go to sleep. She was surprised, she didn't think that he would actually leave her alone after she had sung for the kids and here he was about to go to sleep. So, she decided that she was going to be mean and out of no where she just kind of kicked him and then pretended like nothing had happend.


"Hey! What was that for?"


"What, oh that kick? It must have been some type of muscle spasm, I am so sorry baby."


Kagome smiled at him, and blew a kiss to him then rolled over on her side and closed her eyes.


Then suddenly she was opening her eyes to the sound of a beating at the front door downstairs, rolling over the best that she could she noticed that Miroku was gone and the clock read ten o'clock in the morning. With that she knew that her future husband was at work, making some dough. Smiling she stretched the best that she could and managed to sit herself up on the side of the bed, and looking down she realized once again that she couldn't see her feet. Her mind was taken out of it's day dream and brought back to reality by the rapid knocking on the front door again.


She managed to get herself off of the bed and she stuck her feet into her bed slippers next to the bed and shuffled her way into the hallway and down the stairs to the front door. Opening the door stood a man that she had never met in her entire life yet something told her that he knew somebody that she knew.


"Are you Kagome Higurashi?"


"Yes I am."


"This is for you." He handed her a folded piece of paper and she opened it up, it was a subpoena.


"You are being ordered to show in court, here in town of course considering the stage of pregnancy you are at, a month from today."


"What for?" She needn't ask though because she knew what it was about, not to mention the slip of paper explained all the details.


"Well, Mr. and Mrs. Tama, want to go to court for custody of your unborn children."


She was angry and instead of saying goodbye she shoved her foot behind the door and pushed it shut with a shove of her foot. The door slammed in his face and she locked it, before she was able to think about what was happening the house phone rang. For some reason anytime someone wanted to talk to her now, they called the house phone and not her cell phone, she was seriously thinking about just cancelling her service and recycling the phone.


"Hello?"


"Kagome, it's Rin."


"Oh great, I need to talk to somebody, just wait until I tell you what just happend."


"Well it can wait, Kikyo has talked Inuyasha into taking you to court and she doesn't just want one of your twins now, she wants them both...."


"Yea, I know, I just got the subpoena...this really ticks me off. I'm huge, I can't see my feet and now my sister is trying to take away my children!"


"I think that if you were to talk to Inuyasha he would drop it, I don't think they would stay married long enough to raise their children. Kikyo left town the other day, she's out in France doing a photo shoot and he kind of met a girl."


"He's having an affair in Minnesota!"


"No, they haven't done anything, they just are becoming good friends, I mean with you and Inuyasha I could see it coming from a mile away. Her name is Kagura, and if things keep up I think he would leave Kikyo to just be able to go on a date with Kagura."


"Well, I think I will give Inuyasha's secret cell phone a little ring."


"The thing is...Kikyo found his secret cell phone and crushed it."


"Well then what am I going to do now?"


"Talk to him the day of court, before you two go in."


"I will try...but I need to go, I have to go tell my mom about this, I'm sure Kikyo didn't confide in her about this."


"Alright, I'll talk to you later Kagome."


Without another word Kagome hung up the phone and returned to the room upstairs that she and Miroku now shared so that she could change. All of her maternity wear now consisted of maternity dresses that she swore she could use as a tent once she had popped, she had to go that way because when she tried to find any maternity jeans...it just didn't work. Unfortunatley she had gained a lot of weight during this pregnancy, she could only say that is what happens when you become pregnant with twins.


Once dressed she managed to slip on her flip flops, she hadn't bothered to try getting socks on since she was unable to see her feet. Right now she was just so upset with being challenged for custody of her unborn children, she was going to pay a visit to Miroku.


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"No, you have to sign it today if you want any part of this deal. Hold on..."


"Mr. Houshi?"


"Yes?"


Miroku responded to his assistant while holding the reciever to the telephone to his chest.


"Your wife is here to see you, she said that it is urgent."


Nodding his head, signaling for her to go ahead and send her in, "Listen, call me back in about an hour, I need to go, my fiance is here."


As Miroku hung the phone up a huge Kagome walked into the room with a smile on her face, to him she looked radiant even in a tent of a dress with her hair pulled up into a sloppy bun. Though he could see in her eyes that she was sad, she had plastered a smile on her face to greet him. He stood to meet her half way and pull out a chair for her while he sat in the chair next to it.


"What's wrong hunny?"


"Well, you remember how Kikyo had asked me if she could possibly adopt one of the twins?"


"Yea, and you did the right thing to say no."


"Well, she wasn't very happy about that, and she convinced Inuyasha to go to the courts to try and force me to give them custody of one, maybe even both of them."


He was speechless, he couldn't believe that his friend would actually do such a thing.


"Rin said she's not too sure if it will be a solid case though, because Inuyasha he works a lot as it is and it seems that Kikyo has already fled to France for a shoot, she seems to think that there will be a divorce here soon though. Apparently, he has met a really nice girl, and she seems to work with him, nothing is happening or so Rin says but she feels that he would leave Kikyo for the chance to go on a single date with this woman."


"When is the court date?"


"At the end of July early August, really close to my due date, what if this is too much. I don't want my water to break at a very inopportune time."


Miroku couldn't help but chuckle at the thought of Kagome's water breaking while she was on the witness stand. Though he was quiet for a moment, because he was thinking, but he could see how stressed she seemed to be, she was fidgeting and pulling her engagment ring on and off.


"It'll be okay, I promise. They won't get the children, and if I have anything to do with it Kikyo won't be a part of our lives ever again."


"I'm just so scared, I don't want or need all of this trouble...."


"Well for now let's just take our minds off of this, how about we get you a baby shower put together...I know you didn't want one since we have basically everything already thanks to...me and your mother...but get your friends from school, Rin and Sesshomaru to come and visit you and just focus on the wonderful life WE are going to have with these babies ok?"


Kagome wiped away her tears that had started to fall from her eyes and nodded with agreement.


"How about in three weeks? That'll be the middle of my eighth month, and we'll go ahead and put on the invitations that they are a boy and a girl for if they feel the need to bring a gift for them."


"That'll work fine, now I think you should go home and start writing up these invitations and pay a visit to your mother, she'll help you out more than I can right now considering I have a deal to close before five o'clock today."


"Okay." The both of them stood and held each others hands and kissed each other on the cheek.


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"This is not how I raised her....I can't believe her. I always knew that she was very selfish, I see more of me in you than I do in her. She takes after her father, she acts like him in every single way."


"She's a model Mom, and a quite famous one, Inuyasha makes great money and with her modeling career she could have everything set for her. They have a pretty good chance to win."


Miroku had been wrong, the day had gotten worse, it was probably because of her hormones that had gone haywire since the end of her sixth month.


"You're in school to be a doctor, and Miroku is more than financially stable to take care of you and the twins until you are finished with school and your residency and you start making real money with you becoming a doctor. Besides money isn't everything, it's about what is best for the children which means an emotional environment. They are never home, at the same time. They are almost like empty shells and Inuyasha has had one affair who's to say he won't have another, that is a very unstable environment."


Kagome was crying now, she just couldn't help it and it wasn't just the emotional pain something felt wrong, she had a dull pain going on in her abdomen. Not to mention she had started to become quite dizzy, but she didn't want to say anything to her mom to scare her. Then out of nowhere she became nauseas and she needed to go to the restroom, so she tried to stand up and unfortunatley that just made everything worse. Before she knew it she was falling, but luckily her mother caught her and she was able to grab onto the side of the table.


"Oh my gosh, Kagome are you alright? Come on let us get you to the couch."


With that her mother escorted her to the couch where she layed down on her side, but she felt weird from her abdomen down and as her mother left the room to call the doctor she felt around down there to see if she could find something wrong. But she found more, she felt wet and pulling her hand up to her face she saw bright red blood on the palm of her hand, and with that she passed out.


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She wasn't pregnant anymore, instead she was lying in a field of Sunflowers with her husband lying next to her. She looked at him and she felt almost complete but there was an empty feeling in her somewhere, but she barely noticed it. She smiled at Miroku, she loved him so much and was so happy that he was there with her at that moment.


"Don't worry sweetie, we'll try...we will have kids."


That didn't sound right to her, and it hit her then that she really wasn't pregnant anymore, she put her hand on her stomach...it was flat.


"What happend, why...?"


"It was probably for the best, if they would have survived all the stress Kikyo and Inuyasha had put on you, they probably would have won custody over the twins. It's probably best that we just start over, and we have our own kids together, then no one can take them away from us."


She couldn't and wouldn't believe it, there was no way she could have just been pregnant, very pregnant from the last memory that she could recall and now just have a flat stomach, laying in a field with her now husband talking about having children together to replace the one's that she lost. If she had lost them, there would have been bodies and they would have had to bury them, and she didn't remember a funeral. She knew that if it had really happend she would remember the funeral, she would feel the sadness, but she felt nothing.


"Kagome..."


Looking around, it sounded like Miroku but he wasn't moving his lips and there was no one else around yet she heard it again.


"Kagome...wake up, please."


Kagome opened her eyes and it was bright, it was as if a fluorescent light was shining directly into her eyes, and in reality there was. She was in a hospital in a hospital bed, and feeling her stomach, they were still there...she could feel a light flutter. And there right next to her bed was her fiance, Miroku. Thank God, that was all she thought to herself, thank god it was just a dream. But, what happend. She could have sworn she was at her mother's house just a moment ago, but then she remembered she had started to not feel well, and then the blood.


"I was bleeding, are they okay....I can only lightly feel them fluttering around..." She began to cry, she didn't want to lose them she had become way too attached.


"No you're fine, they are fine...the doctor says that it was just stress overwhelming you and it did affect the babies but not much, they'll be fine. I promise you."


In the corner she saw her mother asleep in the chair closest to the window that looked out into the city streets below, smiling she was thankful that everything was okay again. It was then though that she saw her doctor come in through the door.


"Ms. Higurashi...you stress way too much. You need to really relax."


"I know, it's just my sister is trying to well...it's complicated."


"Don't worry, Miroku has already explained it all to me, and the only thing that I can tell you is that you will be fine and so will your children, as long as you stay in bed for the remainder of your pregnancy. I know it seems like a long time to you, but it'll be worth it I promise you. Especially when you get to first hold these bundles of joy."


Kagome nodded and Dr. Boo smiled at her and Miroku and then left the room but before she did so she looked back at them one last time and said something.


"You can go ahead and sign her out in an hour if you would like, we will take her downstairs in a wheelchair, and we will even let you keep it. But Miroku you have to promise me that you will keep her off of her feet as much as possible. She has to stay in bed, she can only get out to go to the restroom okay?"


Kagome was about to open her mouth to object but Miroku stopped her and nodded.


"Will do."


"And Kagome, get some rest!"