Chapter 7: Mizuki

Kagome watched as her baby girl suckled at her breast…it felt so odd and a little painful as first, but then it felt wonderful. It was like a river of life flowing from her to feed her little girl, but she missed feeling her baby inside of her as well though. It seemed so odd to hold her child in her arms, but so wonderful at the same time…she never wanted to let her baby go. Kagome thought of how everyone had been whispering about her baby and it worried her when she thought of Sesshomaru’s reaction to their baby being a girl.

All of the Lords were gone and the midwives left with Sesshomaru’s mother to let her rest with her baby. But her mind was clouded with worry and fear for her baby’s future, gently moving some of her little girl’s beautiful silver hair out of her eyes…Kagome was overwhelmed by the love that she felt for her little girl. She wondered if her own mother had felt the same when she had giving birth to her, if her mother felt love in one of its purest forms when she held her for the first time. Kagome…didn’t care though as she watched her baby, because she would do whatever was needed to keep her baby with her.

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Sesshomaru walked calmly, though he was eager to see his child and Kagome, he was quite pleased that both had survived the birth. He looked forward to see his son for the first time as well as holding him too; he wondered if his son had silver hair or black hair. He thought back to that dream that he had had about his future children with Kagome; he thought of the boy and the girl…he wanted to create them with Kagome just like the child that they had just created together.

Standing outside of the birthing rooms, he opened the doors to see Kagome resting with their child in her arms. Walking quietly, his golden eyes watched his child in its mother’s arms…its scent was so faint that he could barely tell it was there. Looking down at his child, he saw silver hair and ocean blue eyes staring up at him, his mind instantly flashed to the little silver haired girl from his dream and his mind thought of the moon. Carefully and gently picking up his newborn, he sniffed his child as it did the same to him…he was shocked by what the smell revealed to him.

A daughter.

He stared at the little girl in his hands, so weak and delicate…it would be so simple to kill her in a heartbeat. He would kill anyone who threatened his child, he would protect his daughter and he knew the perfect name for his little moonlight. Sitting down, he stared at his daughter…feeling an oddly emotion that he remembered feeling for Rin when she was in his care. The thought of his daughter been harmed made him sick with such pain and rage that his eyes turned red at the mere thought of it. Whimpers from his little moonlight soon brought him out of his thoughts to let him see that Kagome was trying to get out of bed and that his little daughter had tears in her ocean blue eyes. The sight of tears pained him greatly…he had scared his little moonlight.

“Stay there, Kagome…our daughter seems to want you and I will not have you tire yourself as you get out of bed.” He told her as he handed the baby to her. She took their daughter from him and held her close to her, like Kagome wished to protect her. Their child stopped whimpering and the tears dried up, it wounded him that he could not do that for their daughter because he was the reason that she was scared.

Her mother was the person who she felt safe with…and he was the one that she feared.

“Her name is Mizuki.” He told Kagome as his mask fell into place and he walked out of the rooms, leaving his child and her mother alone. His mother waited at the door, “Go and get Mizuki for the introduction to the Lords.” Sesshomaru ordered as he went ahead, his mother glanced at him as he walked away. The mask on his face confused her greatly…he had been eager to meet his child, but now he looked displeased. She knew that he wouldn’t care for the gender of his child as long as it was healthy and a full demon.

Sesshomaru’s mother walked in to see Kagome holding her new granddaughter, the look on was that fear and worry played on Kagome’s face. Walking over, Sesshomaru’s mother planned to see what worried the new mother, “Kagome…what is wrong?” She asked, startling Kagome for a moment. Kagome looked at Sesshomaru’s mother, what was she to say that she was happy and upset as well as worried about her little girl? Kagome was happy to be able to hold her baby, but she was had been bottling up her upset of this life being forced on her, and she was worried about what Sesshomaru thought of their daughter.

She had seen the red eyes when the baby had started to whimper. Kagome wondered what Sesshomaru felt for their child; she remembered how he had been so sure that it was a boy. “Nothing…I’m just tired after having this little sweetheart.” Kagome lied; unaware that Sesshomaru’s mother knew that she was lying to her. Sesshomaru’s mother watched Kagome for a few moments before taking her granddaughter from her mother’s arms. “Don’t Worry, I’ll return Little Mizuki to you after the introduction party.” The demoness said before leaving with her perfect little granddaughter. Kagome watched them leave before she rested her head; sleep was quick to take her into its embrace. But her thoughts still plagued her in her sleep.

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Sesshomaru looked at his mother and his little moonlight as they came towards him before they entered the garden that the Lords had gone to enjoy the day. The Lords turned to them and bowed when they saw the little baby in her grandmother’s arms, whispers filled the garden as they do so. Sesshomaru raised both his hands to silence the Lords before he spoke. “I thank you all for witnessing my daughter’s birth and wish to introduce you all to my firstborn, Mizuki.”

The Lords went up to Sesshomaru’s mother to get a look at Mizuki again.

“It’s wonderful that your concubine produced a daughter, Sesshomaru. I hope that you will be so kind as to let me breed with her, we can discuss the trade tonight.” The Lord of the North said and walked away before Sesshomaru could tell him that he would be breeding with Kagome as soon as her body was ready for it. He was not pleased that others wished to be in between of Kagome’s thighs, spilling their seed into her sweet flower, but he felt rage boil in his blood at the thought of Kagome’s abdomen swollen with another’s child…no, he wouldn’t allow the other Lords to touch Kagome.

“Sesshomaru! Have you thought of whom, you will give your daughter to? I have a son that would be looking for a female in a hundred years or so.” Another Lord said as he appeared at his side. Sesshomaru turned suddenly red eyes at the Lord; he didn’t want any male to touch his little moonlight. She was not even a month old, but it looked like the Lords were turning to take his daughter from him already.

Will he would not allow it.

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Kagome awoke to see Sesshomaru in bed with her, their little girl asleep in his arms. Sesshomaru noticed that Kagome was awake and watching him and their child, he wondered what she was thinking. “Are you upset that she’s a girl?” Kagome asked, starling Sesshomaru with the question. He looked at her to see that she was waiting for his answer, but it amazed him that she thought that he would be upset with having a daughter instead of a son. He looked at his child, asleep in his arms…his daughter, Mizuki was too perfect for him to ever be upset with.

“Your question is foolish-”

“How is my question foolish when I remember that having a girl, would frowned upon? I want to know if I have to worry about my daughter being upset about her father not loving her?” Kagome asked, her voice harsh, but quiet solely because of her sleeping daughter. Kagome didn’t want her little girl to feel unloved because of her gender or feel that she was weaker because she was a girl. Kagome would do her best to see that her little girl was happy and free from this damned cage that they were in. Kagome was beginning to feel like there was no escape for her from this place, but that didn’t mean that her daughter couldn’t from here if she was unhappy.

Sesshomaru stared at Kagome, he had no idea that she had these kinds of worries…he was a fool for not see it and that he wondered what his mother had been teaching her. “Kagome, our daughter is something astonishing and I’m proud that we were able to produce her. Female demon births are far and few in between, but she is even more precious because she was born from your womb.” He told Kagome before caressing Mizuki’s little face, causing the baby girl to smile in her sleep. “Why is that?” Kagome asked…watching the interaction between father and daughter.

“Because she will be as fertile as a human, though she is pure demon to her core,” he said; Kagome looked at him and frowned, fertile…did that mean that her little girl would share her fate with another when she was old enough. “But that will be her choice to make…truthfully, I hope that the other Lords don’t see fit to try and make her to choose or I’ll be dealing with many wars ahead.” Kagome stared at him as she wondered if she heard him right.

With her thoughts spinning in her mind, she watched as Sesshomaru be a loving father to their daughter. The future played in her mind what Mizuki’s life would be, but Kagome pushed the thoughts away when her little girl awoke with a hungry belly. Sesshomaru handed Mizuki to Kagome when she had moved her Kosode so that their little girl would be able to take her meal.

Sesshomaru watched as his child latched onto her mother’s breast hungrily, he smiled as he realized that their little girl was a bit of a noisy eater when the loud sucking sounds reached his ears. But he also envied his little moonlight to enjoy her mother’s breast and the sweet milk within; he would love to taste her milk again since it had been awhile. But he watched content that his little girl was enjoying her meal and was healthy despite her early birth. Though a fear gripped him that she would take ill because of her early birth, he didn’t want to lose his little moonlight because of his mate’s stupid actions and he would have to punish her further when her brother was gone.

But he watched Kagome’s face as well, the look of love and peace that fell upon her face as she watched their daughter nurse from her breast…filled him with that odd emotion that he had felt before when he had first held Mizuki…it worried him and made him wonder if he should not sleep in Kagome’s bed as he had planned to. Or it may have been time for him to have a heaven session with Sakura again, though the thought of doing so made him…discontent.

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Sesshomaru sat down in front of his mate’s brother, the Lord of the North, Takashi. Sesshomaru was well aware that his mate’s brother wished to take his concubine and fill her with his seed. Thought filled him with anger that was a silence beast within him, waiting to attack its prey and feast on the blood, and flesh of the prey.

“How is my sister? I hope you were not too hard on her with what happened since your daughter and your concubine survived the birthing.” Sesshomaru did not like how Takashi acted like his sister had done no wrong when Kagome and their daughter could have died from the early birth. He would not be like this if it had been his sister in Kagome’s place. “You have no place to ask me that. Your sister stopped being your sister when she became my mate and as for my concubine-”

“I would like to buy her from you instead of merely borrowing her to using her to breed my children from her body.” Takashi cut in, with a sharp smile that would scare a less demon or human. It made Sesshomaru more determined to not let Kagome go; he knew that Kagome would never be content to be with this dangerous fool. “Oh! Why do you wish to but her from me, and how much would you pay for her as well?” Takashi smiled became even shaper with the question, Sesshomaru that his mate’s brother want from Kagome was more than a bed warmer and womb for his children to grow in.

“I would buy around forty chests of jade and another forty chests of gold for her, and as to why I want her…what can I say, watching her give birth to your child simply turn my flesh hard for her touch. The pain on her face was so sweet and the scent of it…I want to be the cause of her pain and I want my children to grow from her fertile body.”

Sesshomaru stared at his mate’s brother for a moment with his mask in place, but inwardly he was disgusted by the demon before him. It was beneath noble demons like them to wish to see their females in pain and to be the cause of it. Females were fragile and mean only to give demons of high status pleasure and offspring, to want to cause them pain was too…pitiful and showed that the demon was a weak male.

“You must be thinking that I’m weak…right?” Takashi asked with that smile still in place; he was no fool, he knew that noble demons would see it as a weakness, but in truth it was a strength that needed to be used. Their world was not so different from the mortal world of the nobles; the noble men would trade their daughters for power and strength. The human nobles would act as they were superior until night fell, then they would do as they wished with their women…Takashi found it to be funny in a way. Demons were in many ways no different than humans, but humans hid their true nature, where demons did not…though they were beginning to do so.

Takashi saw no reason as to why he should do that when others did.

“What I think is other little importance to you. I will think on your offer though.” Sesshomaru said…though it was true. What he thought of him was of little importance, Sesshomaru though…instantly knew that he would never leave Kagome alone with Takashi unless he was willing to allow his daughter’s mother to disappear from their lives. But he knew that his little moonlight would be upset with him, just as his mother would be and the thought of letting Kagome go was…disheartening to him as well.

“I see…well, I’m sure that you will think on it and I’m sure that my sister will be seeing to your needs since you likely will let your concubine rest until her next pregnancy is to begin…when you do you plan to start working on your next child by the way?” Takashi asked…a plan forming in his head.

“I plan to plant my seed in my concubine in a hundred days from now.”

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Sesshomaru’s mother sat at Kagome’s side, holding her little granddaughter once again. Mizuki was awake, but silent as she watched her grandmother, her ocean blue eyes held a clear fascination within them. Sesshomaru’s mother was reminded of what Sesshomaru was just born and held the same fascination within his own eyes, it made her wonder if this little girl would be like her father when she grew older.

The demoness glanced at her granddaughter’s mother, who slept silently, still tired from the birthing. In the demoness’s heart, she knew that her granddaughter would be like her father in mind, but would be like her mother in heart. She didn’t know how, but everything inside of her whispered that little Mizuki would be strong like both of her parents. Looking back at her granddaughter, she moved some of her lovely silver hair out of her face and felt some guilt at the trick that she used to see that this precious little life had been created.

She didn’t guilt forcing Kagome to become her son’s concubine, but she did guilt that she had not been able to make the young woman become happy with her new role in this life. Sesshomaru’s mother realized that she needed to work harder at making Kagome’s life a happy one here.

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Sesshomaru groaned as he spilled his seed within Sakura. He had not enjoyed the Heaven session as he should have, but it was a tradition to have only Heaven sessions with his mate or concubine as the mother of his offspring rested from the birthing of a new child. He pulled out of Sakura, happy that knotting only happened during Breeding sessions as a failsafe to allow his seed to have time to take root in the womb.

He quickly got his clothes on, seeing no reason to stay now that the Heaven session was over and he wished to sleep in Kagome’s futon with her. He wanted to help her with their new daughter with the nighttime feedings that would take place; he also did not wish to sleep in Sakura’s bed with her.

Sakura watched as her mate left, but she didn’t stop him from leaving. What was the point when the Whore would soon be out of the way in their lives.