InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Silver Tears and Puppy Ears ❯ Shippo's Deception ( Chapter 12 )

Shippo's Deception

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Shippo begins to wonder if the jewel could make him human.

Kagome and Inu Yasha went downstairs; the smell of breakfast had woken them up since they skipped dinner the night before. There was a lot of talking going on down there and they both froze when another smell met them. Kagome looked over at Inu Yasha, she thought maybe that she had just made a mistake.

"Inu Yasha, do you…. It can't be"

"I think it is"

"Oh my god…"

"Kagome, the jewel, where… is it still"

"Yes, it still here, and it's still pure"

They both sighed in relief and headed down the stairs, afraid for what they were about to find. As soon as Kagome and Inu Yasha walked into the kitchen everyone stopped talking and just stared at them.

"Where is he?" Inu Yasha growled

"Shippo?" Kagome called sweetly. Kagome gasped as the same transformed Shippo walked back into the kitchen, the only difference, was he had black ears identical to Kagome's and his youki had changed.

"How… why…" Kagome questioned.

"To be like you, to be able to stay"

"Oh Shippo" Kagome lifted the little boy into her arms and held him. She knew she should be angry, she knew he had to learn, but now wasn't the time. She placed him back on the ground and knelt in front of him.

"Shippo, where is the jewel"

"I put it back in your bag"

Inu Yasha rushed over to the bag and pulled out the jewel and quickly handed it to Kagome and she put it around her neck, whatever Shippo wished the jewel hadn't been tainted.

"Shippo, what exactly did you wish"

"That I could be like you and Inu Yasha so I could stay with you, and that the jewel didn't disappear because of my wish"

Kagome looked at ground and sighed. Inu Yasha stepped forward and placed a hand on Kagome's shoulder.

"Do you notice something?" He asked.

"Yes, I don't think it as intentional" She replied

"Shippo sweetie, when you wished to be like Inu Yasha and me, the jewel interpreted it as you wanted to be ours" Kagome said as she took Shippo's hand. His eyes widened when he realized what she meant.

"You have the same mind, but a completely different body, you're an inu-youkai, and what's more, the jewel made you exactly like us, the jewel gave you our blood, our traits, everything." Kagome paused.

"So basically pup, you are our pup" Inu Yasha said gruffly.

"I'm only going to say this once, do you understand me Shippo" Inu Yasha continued. Shippo nodded his eyes still wide.

"When we found you, you were, 4 years old 5 years old-"

"6 and a half" Shippo interrupted

"Ok, in the time you have been with us, you began to see Kagome as a mother and apparently myself as a father, and you were very much like our son in recent years, now we are your mother and father, we wont know what other effects the wish you made will have, but this is permanent, and there is no going back. I accept you as my child and will love and treat you as if Kagome bore you herself" Inu Yasha said to Shippo, he found it hard to be angry right now, in all purposes, Shippo was his and Kagome's first child. He looked at Shippo carefully, his eyes were dark brown like Kagome's, he had his facial structure and body structure, and he had Kagome's smile. His hair and ears where the same as Kagome's except his hair was straighter and reached just past his shoulders. Shippo was definitely younger than when he made the wish. He took a deep sniff of his pups scent and was surprised at how much younger he really was.

"By the way Shippo, your only 5 now" Inu Yasha added as he finished studying him. Kagome stood up and looked at Inu Yasha. Shippo ran off to look in mirror.

"Do we punish him?"

"I don't think so, I think whatever consequences of his wish arise, will be enough, there is always a downside, I don't think his wish is complete, his age, decreased by 3 years at least, I don't think that's the only thing"

"How long do you think it will be before the wish completes itself?"

"Why don't you tell me" he answered nodding at the jewel

Kagome closed her eyes and squeezed the jewel in her hand focusing all her energy on reading it. She could see the fight inside the jewel in her mind, the youkai and Midoriko. Their souls seemed frozen, mid fight, energy swirling around them. She studied what she saw and the answer finally came to her.

"The results of the wish will be done 24 hours after Shippo made the wish"

"We'll have to stick near him for the next 24 hours then"

It became very clear during the day exactly what the effects of the wish were, every few hours Shippo looked younger and younger. They had postponed their plans for the day to stay with Shippo. He sat there in silence watching his parents. They were worried about him, and Kagome looked very sad every time she had to find smaller clothes to fit him. What was worse was Shippo's mind was changing as well he was beginning to forget who he truly was. Kagome felt her mind changing, as did Inu Yasha, Sango and Miroku walked into the room and mentioned that they felt something pulling at their minds. After 15 hours passed Shippo appeared to be 3 years old and was taking a nap.

"What's happening to us?" Miroku questioned.

"From what I can tell, Shippo changed his identity, and the jewel is making sure we see him as who he wanted to be, and not who he is, I can feel things being stolen from my mind, memories of Shippo, I think it will happen to everyone who has ever encountered him. I've been fighting to hold onto everything, but it's becoming difficult. Its as if the jewel is changing time itself." Kagome responded, she looked down at the little boy sleeping in her lap, her son. Kagome carefully handed Shippo to Inu Yasha, and went into the kitchen and made dinner. Luckily her family was out doing other wedding things since the plans they had for the day had been changed. She returned to the den with a package of ramen for each of her friends. They sat and ate in silence, they were all focused on thinking about Shippo, and they were slowly losing all of their memories. They could remember things that happened that perhaps Shippo was there; the only difference was Shippo wasn't there. Kagome felt like there was someone going through her mind raking out her memories of the kit.

"I think I know how old Shippo will be when he finally stops aging." Kagome spoke up.

"Inu Yasha, how long after giving birth to a baby could I essentially get pregnant."

"Maybe a week"

"I wonder how much the past will be different"

"Kagome, Inu Yasha, Miroku, look outside!" Sango called. Inu Yasha put Shippo down on the couch and looked out the window. It was impossible to explain exactly what they saw. It was as if the rest of the world was on fast forward. Kagome looked out the window and held her hand to her mouth, the people were essentially frozen outside of the shrine but the sky was blurred and it was changing from night to day in minutes. It was as if the world outside was blurring and mending. It had been 18 hours since Shippo made the wish. Kagome and the others felt their minds getting foggy and the room around them spinning. Kagome looked over at Inu Yasha when she felt the magic over-power her and passed out.

Kagome looked around at a very familiar place, it was as if she was there, but wasn't, she looked down and realized she was floating above her own memories. She sat in the clearing with Inu Yasha, she was yelling at him about eating basically in a graveyard filled with kitsune corpses. Suddenly the air gets dark and a large bubble like demon pops up demanding the shikon no tama. `Is that Shippo, no it's not what am I thinking'

The big bubble tried to bite Inu Yasha's head and he punched it. When they looked down at it, it was a young kitsune, a little boy. Inu Yasha picked him up by the tail and looked at it calmly, the little kit was furious flailing his arms yelling at Inu Yasha. Everything blurred and Kagome felt as if she was spinning. She remembered that the little boy said during the battle when Maten and Hiten destroyed their clan he was separated and lost his parents, and wanted revenge for the destruction of him pack. Inu Yasha was chasing him and smacked him on the head. The little boys name, it was…

"I'm Satoru"

For a brief moment all of Kagome's memories of Shippo and Satoru seemed to blend and for a moment Satoru and Shippo were one. Kagome blinked and watched her life on fast forward from the moment she met Shippo no Satoru…. Everything that Satoru did was identical to what Shippo did, except wait, Satoru's parents never died. She tried to focus on Shippo but couldn't remember anything about him.

*Group Flashback*

They all sat around the fire it had been three weeks since they rescued Sango from Naraku. Kagome had just returned from her time explaining the entire situation to her family. They weren't keen on her staying in the past while she was pregnant, but Kagome had explained she had to stay with Sango and help her. She promised to return to her time as soon as possible so her mother let her go. Sango had woken up a little over a week ago and Kagome was very surprised at how well she was coping. However if Inu Yasha or Miroku went to close she would get very nervous. Every day she was better, right now she was sitting with Satoru and Kirara. There had been a rumor about Satoru's parents and he really wanted to go look. Sango had volunteered to go with him and the rest of them didn't want her going alone. So they had left the village in search of Satoru's family. They managed to find his parents after 3 weeks of searching. It was very sad seeing him go, but they knew he belonged with his real family. Kagome had begun to see Satoru almost like a son, and it was very difficult to see him go. She managed to hold it together and waited until they had left and were far away from the kitsune family when she broke down and sobbed in Inu Yasha's arms.

The group sat with Kaede talking about the encounter with Satoru's parents, and how they got the impression it would be years before they saw Satoru again. Sango had begun to really recover after letting Satoru leave realizing there were more important things in life than dwelling. Life began to return back to normal, despite the absence of Satoru. Kagome's pregnancy moved along smoothly. She was about 2 weeks away from giving birth to the pup and Inu Yasha was obnoxiously over-protective. It had been over 3 months since the Naraku incident and Sango seemed to have made a complete recovery with Kagome's help. She even began to warm up to Miroku again. With the birth drawing near everyone was on edge. Sesshoumaru even came by the village and requested a truce between he and Inu Yasha the day before the birth. It had been an odd thing it was almost as if Sesshoumaru was admitting Inu Yasha back into the family. After he left Inu Yasha made Kagome lie down and get some sleep, informing her it should be tomorrow. As Kagome slept her friends were all on edge for the birth the next day.

Inu Yasha walked into the hut where Kagome was resting, he had brought her some soup that Kaede had made for them. Kagome smiled as he sat next to her and handed the bowl to Kagome and moved behind her to support her while she ate the soup. She barely finished the soup when she felt a cramp. She gasped and held her hands to her side. Inu Yasha could smell that she had gone into labor and quickly took the bowl from Kagome and helped her lay back down. He called for Kaede and Sango as he held her hand, he winced as another contraction hit Kagome and she squeezed his hand so tight he thought she would break it. Sango and Kaede rushed into the hut, they had already prepared for the birth so they didn't have to go and get anything. It was tradition for the father to not witness the birth in the past but when they tried to get Kagome to let go of Inu Yasha she growled at them. She screamed as a powerful contraction hit her. Kaede instructed Kagome to push as the contraction came. Kagome pushed and Kaede kept encouraging her while Sango wiped a damp cloth over Kagome's forehead. Kaede told Kagome she could stop pushing now as the baby's shoulders came into sight. Kagome signed in relief and exhaustion as Kaede cleaned up the baby and handed her to Kagome. The after birth was quick and Sango and Kaede cleaned up Kagome while the new parents looked at their son.

"Inu Yasha, what do you think of the name Shippo" Kagome said softly

"I love it" he replied as he touched his pups nose.

"He looks just like you" Kagome said

"Yeah but he has your hair and ears" Inu Yasha smiled as he tweaked the baby's ears and he smiled up at them.

"And your smile" he added.

A week later Kagome and Inu Yasha were able to intimate again because Kagome was no longer sore and Shippo was finally sleeping through the night. They hadn't been careful because it had been so long since they had been together and Kagome ended up getting pregnant again. Two weeks after the birth Kagome and Inu Yasha went to her time. When they returned they explained the situation to their friends that because she missed the birth of her first grandson and that Kagome and Inu Yasha were not officially married, Kagome's mom told them they would have to stay in her time until the pup was born and the group returned to her time.

Kagome woke up to the sound of Shippo crying, she rushed out of bed and ran to his basinet and lifted him from it.

"Shh baby Okaa-san is here" Kagome told her baby. Inu Yasha lazily stood behind her.

"So is Otou-san." Inu Yasha added as he scratched behind Shippo's ears.