InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Yellow Brick Road ❯ You, Me and the Baby Makes Three ( Chapter 8 )

DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN INUYASHA AND COMPANY, NOR DO I OWN WIZARD OF OZ.

AN: Thank you to SleepingChickenNugget and ktshabatie for beta-ing.



Chapter 8: You, Me, and the Baby Makes Three

Was she a whore? The question kept running through Kagome’s head. He had asked her that question not more than five days ago. Well, at least, she thought it had been five days; she really had no memory after being in the cave with…. nope, not going to think about that. That was her problem; the cave was all she could think about. Sesshoumaru had taken from her the only thing that she had managed to keep pure.

This truly was some fairy tale, a Grimm fairy tale. Yet, again, she got a nice mental picture of pulling Fate’s head bald. She would use tweezers so that, when she pulled the last hair from Fate’s wicked head, she could start all over again. With a few hundred years of that therapy, Kagome felt she might be willing to forgive the bitch for what she had done. The smile on Kagome’s face faded when she noticed the presence at the edge of the room.

“Get dressed, miko. We have much that needs to be discussed.” Sesshoumaru was waiting for her to comply, but she did not make any move to acknowledge his order.

“Miko, do not try my patience.”

“I am not your whore.” She faced away from him, towards the wall, so that all he could see was her back.

Sesshoumaru wished for her blood for her defiance; however, his beast would not allow it. Sesshoumaru was not sure if it was the female his beast was protecting or the unborn pup. He hoped it was the latter, as it would prove troublesome if it was the former. He silently stalked forward, until he was right behind her.

Leaning down, he whispered in her ear, “This Sesshoumaru does not repeat himself.”

With unknown speed, she shot from the palate to huddle in the far corner. “Do not touch me.”

She reminded him of a wounded animal. “Do not flatter yourself.”

Suddenly all of her fear was replaced with self-righteous furry. “Then why did you?! You took something that was not yours to take.”

She denied that he saved her. She claimed independence. If she continued on this path, then even the beast would not be able to stop his retaliation. “This Sesshoumaru did what was necessary to protect what is his.” The low rumble of his voice would have given Kagome fair warning to back down had she been thinking beyond her anger.

“What is yours? I am not yours. I am not some tree you can pee on to mark your territory. I have played the bitch to too many beings. I WILL NOT BE YOURS!! You have more than enough concubines to sate your urges; this Kagome will never be your whore.”

“BITCH, LEARN YOUR PLACE!” His eyes were shading with red; an internal war was raging between him and his beast. There was a reason why he was the master.

All of this Kagome ignored; she was done with arrogant dogs. “I have always known my place, you over- grown mutt. My place was never and will never be beneath you. You have no idea what you have done. The required price of victory was one soul to spend eternity in the purgatory of self-made sins. The one to be sacrificed was not you, but NO!” her voice dropped to do her best impression of him, “This Sesshoumaru has not given his permission for such.

“Kami-sama, you are not above the Kami. It was my burden to bare, mine to atone for. I was willing to pay. Do you not see that it would have completely eliminated the threat of the Shikon no Tama? No, of course you do not see such a trinket as a threat. You have never been touched by the ancient evil that ensured its creation. All you know is your pride.

“You, you arrogant son of a bitch, took from me the last of my purity. I had managed to hold onto it without corrupting it, without tempting it. That purity was the reason I would have been able to finish the war. I knew my place, until you ripped me from it.”

Her chest was heaving, her aura pulsating. The raw power that resonated around her called to him to challenge her back. “This Sesshoumaru grows annoyed by your tongue; you would be wise not to speak to your betters in such a manner.”

Sesshoumaru’s statement was hissed through clenched teeth. If he had been in any mood to reflect on irony he would seen it in the fact that he pupped the one female he knew to be more insufferable than both his brother and mother combined.

“You are not my ‘better’.”

That single comment allowed Sesshoumaru to overcome the beast’s need to protect. Kagome suddenly found herself pinned face down on the floor, underneath a growling and snarling tai-youkai. This had not been one of her more intelligent moments. However, she would not let him win. Her powers started to swirl around her.

Sesshoumaru was actually enjoying having her beneath him once again, until he realized that he was deriving pleasure from it. Immediately, he became worried about what this girl, wait….woman was doing to his sanity. He then noticed that his skin was starting to burn. The beast within him became frantic, and he knew instantly the beast worried for the pup.

“You will cease this, before you harm the pup.”

“What are you talking about? I would never harm an innocent.” When had a pup entered the room? There were only the two of… “Sesshoumaru, what pup are you referring to?”

The burning had already eased on his skin; she was backing down. Sesshoumaru changed his position so that he straddled her, his legs pinning her arms to her side. “The one you carry, this Sesshoumaru’s heir.” He was not willing to accept the possibility that the pup might be female.

“You got me pregnant?!”

Sesshoumaru had thought the encounter with Inuyasha was tedious, but once again, this miko was proving him wrong.

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The sun was just setting behind the great stone walls of the Western Citadel as the travelers approached. Immediately, the Regent was informed that the Lord had returned. The lord proceeded into the main complex, while the others headed about their business. It was decided that Tadashi would be responsible for the kit until the miko could regain the role of his protector.

Tadashi was not sure if this meant that he had the kit until she regained consciousness or if it would be as long as until the miko had weaned the pup. He was not going to question. Overall, he liked the kit, and could think of several pranks to play on friends that would make his time that much more enjoyable.

Sesshoumaru was approaching the entry to his private chambers when Inuyasha found him.

“Sesshoumaru, how have you not killed your mother yet? I swear the bitch has more lives than a fucking cat.” Inuyasha noticed something was off. “Why are you carrying Kagome? What the hell happened?” Inuyasha kept coming closer, ignoring his brother’s warning growl. His approach stopped when he noticed that Sesshoumaru’s eyes were bleeding red. Inuyasha decided to test the air, attempting to find some explanation for his brother’s behavior.

He sniffed again. Could his hanyou sense of smell really be that poor? There was no way that scent could be correct, but it was still there.

“Sesshoumaru, what did you do to Kagome?”

“That is none of your concern.”

“Bullshit. If I had wanted her pupped I would’ve taken her to Prince Kouga of the Eastern Wolf Tribe for protection. What the hell is wrong with you? You hate humans and despise half-breeds even more.”

“You will stay out of matters that are not your concern.” The beast had receded in its protection of the breeding female. The other male was no longer approaching.

“KAGOME is my concern.”

“YOU, dear brother, handed her protection over to this Sesshoumaru. You no longer have any rights to her.” If Sesshoumaru’s hands had not been occupied holding a certain pupped miko, he would have strangled Inuyasha.

“Why her?” The utter defeat in the hanyou’s voice convinced Sesshoumaru that maybe his brother deserved some sort of answer.

“She left this Sesshoumaru no choice, but to force a rapid bonding. Unfortunately, the miko also happened to be in heat at the time.” There was no way he would admit to anyone that his beast pupped the bitch without his consent.

“Does she even know?” Sesshoumaru was through answering the annoyance’s questions. He turned to walk into his private rooms. He needed time to think things through without any distractions.

“What of your mother? When she catches wind of this, fuck, who knows what she’ll do. Whatever the bitch will come up with, it ain’t gonna be fair to Kagome.”

“Hn.”

“You bastard, don’t you ‘Hn’ me! You swore you would protect her. Now you’ve gone and put her and her pup in one the most dangerous situations possible.”

Sesshoumaru’s back went rigid, ‘Kagome’s pup.’ NO. The pup was his.

“Inuyasha, the pup is mine. The miko is just the breeder.”

“You ASSHOLE! You would take that pup away from her?” Inuyasha was having a hard time reigning in his demon blood, even with Tessaiga strapped to his hip. Then, suddenly, a flash of a memory came to him: it was him trying to convince Kagome to leave Shippo behind right after they had met the kit. If Sesshoumaru thought he had seen her obstinate before, his brother was in for a rude awakening. “Good luck with your ‘breeder’ when you tell her.”

Sesshoumaru did not acknowledge what his brother had said; he just kept walking towards his sanctuary … his sanctuary that would now be invaded by a breeding female. He would have hung his head in shame if such an action were not so far beneath his station.

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Kagome waited for his response, but the tai-youkai seemed quite content to smash her into the floor with his body.

“Okay, so I cannot call upon my powers, but is it perfectly healthy for the baby if you lay on me like the Great Pyramid of Giza?”

Sesshoumaru knew he was nowhere near that heavy. She would learn not to …. Wait, how did she know about the Egyptian Pyramids?

“Miko, where did a lowly human, such as yourself, come by such knowledge?”

‘Shit, shit, shit, shit, double shit.’ Kagome blamed lack of oxygen for her impaired brainpower. However, this was not helping. What were you suppose to say when you could not tell the truth and the person questioning you was a walking lie detector? Answer: nothing.

“Miko, you will answer.”

Kagome shook her head no. Sesshoumaru nipped her ear. If she wanted to act like an unruly pup, he would treat her like one.

“Now!”

“No.”

Sessho umaru’s growl could be described as nothing other than deadly. His left hand wrapped around the front of her throat. He allowed his claws to prick into her flesh.

For the first time in her life, Kagome feared for her body. It was not the pain. It was not the threat of death. It was that Kagome had suddenly realized that it was no longer just her body. Another being was completely dependent on her body. Another being was growing within her, a being that was her child. She did not care about how it was conceived. Right now, she cared even less about its father. The being was her child, and she would do anything to protect this new life.

“The child.”

“You would hide behind a pup?”

“No.” Kagome released purifying energy from her hands, scorching Sesshoumaru’s inner calves. “I will not allow your temper to harm my child.”

Sesshoumaru refused to move from his perch above the miko. He pulled her back towards himself, bending her back painfully at an awkward angle. “Miko, your insolence will not go unpunished.”

“You ass. There are far bigger problems than my refusal to tell you where I learned of ancient Egyptian architecture.”

“This Sesshoumaru’s need to know of your origins is paramount.”

“My origins are beyond your grasp.”

“You call your alpha weak?”

“No, I never called you weak. I did not even imply such a thing. It was you who inferred it.”

“BITCH!”

“NO!! I have a name. Do you even know it?! You can rape me, impregnate me, hit me, question me, dominate me; all of this, but you cannot even show enough respect for another being to learn the name of the one who is carrying your child.”

Kagome was done. She had wallowed in pain; no result. She had carried the burdens of others; no peace. She had chosen the noble path; no home. She had learned from past mistakes; no respect. She had maintained her virtue to the point where her body was unknown even to her own hand; no release. She had forgiven any transgression; no solace. She had done everything that was asked of her; no love.

Love had eluded the miko with a heart the size of all of Japan. Kagome was now pregnant with the child of a man who saw her as something lower than dirt. Throwing her into a society with rules she did not understand, a society that would never recognize her as anything, a society that would never recognize her child, a society that would never be ‘home.’
She knew what her name would be here and that was what hurt the most.

“I am not a whore.” She said it under her breath. It was not meant for him, but to convince herself.

Sesshoumaru removed himself from his position on the miko. Kagome immediately curled into a ball on the floor. Sesshoumaru noted that this was the second time in so many days that he had caused this strong female to curl into the fetal position. Breaking her would be no accomplishment worthy of pride.

Sesshoumaru gathered Kagome to him once again, carried her over to the palate. As he laid her down, he noted the added tension in her body. She was aware of what was going on and now she was trying to hide in fear.

He felt annoyance and shame. His beast was in a near frenzy to calm the female down. The creature feared that the female would harm the pup, and its fear was not completely unfounded. Kagome had the power to purify; the pup had at least some demon blood in its veins. Sesshoumaru almost shook his head in order to rid himself of such thoughts. This woman before him would never harm an innocent.

Sesshoumaru realized that Kagome would endure an eternity in hell for beings she did not even know. She would never choose her pride and ego over the life of their pup. Yes, the pup was partially hers, Sesshoumaru would admit to that fact, but only in his head.

This was the individual that continually made the correct decision, not because it was easy, but because it was right. She had fought to save as many as possible. When salvation was possible, she offered to take their hate, fear, and self-incrimination, so that they could find peace in death. She would smile with the promise of hope, when others could see none, for the simple reason of not letting those around her to fall into despair.

Inuyasha may have been an idiot, but even his simple mind saw that she was to be protected. Sesshoumaru never stopped to think about how much it hurt Inuyasha’s ego to come to him and ask for help. This woman was worth burying centuries of hate in order to ensure she was safe.

Sesshoumaru realized that the only thing he had ensured was that she was bound. He watched her eyes, sealed shut from the world, her face turned as far away from him as possible. One of the few, who had never faced him with her fear visible, was now absolutely petrified of what he might do to her and cowering away from him.

This was wrong. The girl stands courageously against countless foes, but she cowers from her alpha’s touch. No, this was not acceptable. What he had done was not wrong. She left him no choice. Sesshoumaru recognized how far humans could carry their grudges. His pup would not resent him. Then the thought came to him that she did not understand the necessity of the act. He would explain it to her, before others had the chance to manipulate her fear.

Sesshoumaru lowered his head to her lower abdomen, nuzzling his face into where his pup was safely nestled within the mother’s womb. He had waited too long to have an heir. He had been denied too long a family. This was his pup, this was his family. It would not be ruined because his breeder was afraid of him.

Kagome had opened her eyes and turned to see the terrifying western lord, kneeling to worship her stomach. Not knowing what to make of her current circumstances, she tentatively reached one hand down to place it on his shoulder. He made eye contact with her, and when she was about to speak; he silenced her.

“Kagome, you are not a whore. There is much we have to discuss.”

Sesshoumaru stood and walked to an adjoining room where there was a sitting area. There were many things to be said, but he was unsure, for the first time in his life, how to begin.

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AN: Thank you for reading, please review.

Emily