InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ The One-Night Stand ❯ Chapter Ten. ( Chapter 10 )

The One Night Stand.

 

Chapter Ten:

 

Kagome sighed heavily as she rolled over onto her side; the sky outside her window was bleak and grey, the complete opposite of what it had been like the day before. Obviously, nature was hell bent on reflecting her mood.

 

`I should be happy,' she thought, blinking once, then twice. `I had my baby girl last night, and Mitsukai is as healthy as a friggin' horse!'

 

Then she turned over onto her back a little, and her eyes began to tear up slightly at the sight of the closed door.

 

`But Inuyasha…'

 

Suddenly, the image of his smiling, sheepish face popped into her mind right then. He had this strange sort of charm to him that Kagome found very hard to resist. She found him to be rather enjoyable company on most occasions, and he had a very good, very witty sense of humor. Not to mention the fact that he was just as easy on the eyes as his father and half-brother.

 

Closing her eyes, Kagome expelled the breath she hadn't known she'd been holding when she heard the door suddenly creak open. Sango's head poked in through the opening, and the kickboxer's mahogany eyes zeroed in on her best friend immediately. “How ya feeling?” she asked as she pushed the heavy, steel door open further and came inside. She closed it behind her, then made her way agilely to the chair to the hospital bed's right.

 

Kagome turned completely over, onto her back, and sat up. She smiled weakly at her bestie, wringing her hands. “I'm okay, Sango,” she mumbled in a sweet voice.

 

Sango smirked at her wryly. “Sure thing, fast-talking lawyer-woman. Just remember the next time I ask you that question that your powers of persuasion do absolutely nothing for me.”

 

The new mother rolled her eyes. “I dread the day you have kids,” she shot back smartly. “At least, I will if they have your mouth.”

 

Sango snorted, crossing one leg over the other and sitting back in her chair. Her eyes quickly found the same window Kagome had been looking out just moments before, and she let herself drift just a little…

 

And then the door burst wide open again, and a nurse came into the room holding the new baby, swaddled in a thick pink blanket and closely followed by none other than Kagome's mother, brother, and grandfather.

 

“Kagome! My dear, she is just absolutely darling! I love her little puppy ears, I just love `em!”

 

“Thanks, Mom.” Kagome smiled as the nurse walked up and laid the bundle of joy in her arms. “She really is beautiful.”

 

“What's that you're saying about beautiful, Higurashi?”

 

Kagome's heart jumped and butterflies filled the pit of her stomach as her eyes snapped upward, meeting Inuyasha's as he stood, hands in his pockets, in the open doorway. He smiled at her nervously right before his eyes settled on the pink blanket in her arms.

 

He stepped forward very slowly. “May I…?”

 

Kagome smiled brighter than she had in a long time. “Yes, Inuyasha,” the lawyer answered, handing the baby over to him gently. “She is your daughter, after all.”

 

“My daughter...” he mumbled, parting the blanket to look over the tiny baby. She fit perfectly into the crook of his left arm, and she kicked and squirmed a little as he observed her. She was a real sight, and he knew that his father would be just as awe-struck as he was at that very moment; the Taisho had always had a soft spot for pups, especially ones as tiny and gorgeous as the otome Inuyasha had fathered.

 

“So… is her name Mitsukai?”

 

Kagome nodded, leaning back in her bed. “Yes, sir, it is.”

 

He shot her golden-eyed look. “Don't call me sir, Kagome,” he told her sternly before returning his gaze to his beautiful pup. “Inuyasha. We're family now, after all.”

 

Off to the side, Kagome's mother smiled a secret smile, while her two male companions were especially confused. She stepped forward suddenly and patted Inuyasha's arm. He looked at her, surprised.

 

“Welcome to the family, Inuyasha,” she told him with a bright, motherly smile. His cheeks flared a bright pink at her sweet words. `Keh,' Inuyasha thought right then, smiling back, `now I know where Kagome got that smile of hers.'

 

Looking down at Mitsukai, he thought, `I hope our pup has the same smile.'

 

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“You and the pup are coming to stay with me, you hear that!”

 

“No, Inuyasha, we are not!”

 

“You are too!”

 

“Are not!”

 

“Are too!”

 

Kagome growled loudly. “Mama!”

 

Ms. Higurashi didn't even look up from where she sat across the room, holding Mitsi in her arms and playing with the infant's tiny hands. A soft, content smile graced the older woman's lips, and she replied, “Don't fight him, Kagome.”

 

“But, Mama-!”

 

“No but's, young lady,” she shot back sternly, finally lifting her eyes from the beautiful sight in her arms. “Inuyasha is just trying to be an honorable man and take care of his child and the woman who birthed her. The least that you can do, my dear, is consider his idea. Who knows? He may surprise you with a good one someday.” At that, she winked at Inuyasha, who turned as red as a beet once again.

 

Ms. Higurashi giggled and returned her attention to the baby in her arms.

 

Kagome and Inuyasha put their argument on pause for a few minutes to watch the new grandmother with Mitsukai. They both smiled and smirked as Ms. Higurashi cooed and made faces at the newborn.