Chapter 25: Yume
He was so beautiful that the pain that filled Kagome seemed to just melt away for a moment. But the tears still fell down her cheeks as she touched her baby’s cheek, he was so prefect to her that her arms ached to hold him. “Let me hold him.”
Sesshomaru gave her their son without a moment of hesitation and then she was holding that little life that they had created together. She begin to check that he had all his fingers and toes when another contraction started again. She gave their son back to Sesshomaru, scared that she would drop the baby if she didn’t as the contraction was stronger than before and she suddenly remembered that she had more babies that were not yet more, and were endanger for it.
Sesshomaru was suddenly between her legs again, but she didn’t care as she worked towards pushing out the next baby.
“I can see the head!”
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He was smiling, he couldn’t stop himself as he saw the head of another of their children. The son that she had just had was wonderful, with her black hair and his golden eyes…he looked just like the boy from his dream.
It was still such a shock that he had a son that the joy he felt rivaled the joy he had felt at being told he had a daughter. Another cry ring out as another baby was pushed into the world and into his hands. It was another daughter and when he brought her to show Kagome, he gave into the urge to kiss her. He forced all the emotions that he felt in that moment, wanting her to feel it all like he did. He wanted her to feel the joy and hope that their children filled him with.
When he pulled away from her, she didn’t look happy about what he had just done but she did not look upset either.
Kagome just turned her attention to their new little girl and again, he was struck by how wonderful this moment was. Their bloodline was growing before his eyes with each child that she pushed out of her beautiful body. She reached out her hand, touching the cheek of their new daughter with a smile on her face again. There was such emotion with her eyes as she looked at their crying newborn. He felt such envy and then suddenly dread as he thought of the danger beyond the doors.
He tried to push the thoughts away but with his new daughter crying in his arms, Sesshomaru found it almost impossible to do so. Takashi had demanded a female for an insult that had never been given to him and now Sesshomaru had to decide on what to do about the matter. It was too soon for his armies to be ready for battle against the other grand lords like himself. His armies were too few in numbers even if he joined in the battles like he planned to do so. The gasp of pain bought him out of his thoughts and he looked at Kagome for a moment before turning to place their little girl beside her sleeping brother.
Returning to be between her legs, he wondered if it would be wise to have Kagome join him in the defend of their family. It wasn’t something that he wanted to do, in fact, he was…scared at the thought of having Kagome at his side on a battlefield even though he knew of her skills. She was powerful both mentally and emotionally that he had not seen many others. She was more his equal then the demon lords that were on the same standing as himself, yet he feared losing her.
He thought of the times that he had saved her and how her presence alone seemed to make him more merciful. She had been weak with her human body until he had bound her life to his, he had only made her stronger for it. Yet she still didn’t feel for him as he did for her.
If she were to join him on the battlefield, he questioned if she would stay. She loved their children and would die for them, but he did not know if she would sat for them.
Oh he knew that she would return for them after it was safe to and likely with her friends as well as her allies. But would she bring his brother along?
Sesshomaru’s eyes turned blood red at the thought of Kagome return to Inuyasha, of her bring his brother with her when she would try to take their children away from him. He was suddenly tempted to leave and go to his brother. To finish what he had started; to maim all of his brother’s limbs like he had done with Inuyasha’s hand until the threat of his brother was gone.
“Oh!…Sesshomaru!” Kagome chocked out as the contraction ended. His eyes changed back to gold and he look between her legs to see how she was doing. But what he saw squeezed his heart with dread.
It was a head with dog ears just like his brother and even the smell told him this baby would be the dreaded half demon beyond the smells of blood, birthing liquids, tears and the other newborns.
Though the law of the demon nobility would demand that he see to the death of this child and any like it to preserve the power of his bloodline…he knew that he would never be able to do it. This was his child and though it was almost assure that it would die soon after the birth, he would do everything in his power to see that his child lived and thrived. Wrong as it was, this was something he and Kagome had made together and it was as important all his other children.
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Inuyasha stared at the moon a moment longer before jumping down, his body twitching in pain as he did so. His body was still recovering from the attack Sesshomaru had unleashed upon him, but he could not wait any longer. He needed to get to Kagome, to save her and to kill his bastard brother for all the horrors that he had done to Kagome.
He would have to kill all of his brother’s children as well.
He didn’t want to do it but the thought of Kagome and all she had endured at his brother’s hands. She would likely love the children but be tormented by the memory of their father whenever she looked at them. It also wasn’t fair, he should have been the one to be the father of her children. He was the one that she loved and cared for, it had been that love that had allowed them to purify the jewel. Didn’t that mean that they were meant for each other? They were destined to be lovers and partners in this life as well as the next?
So why was the gods been so cruel to them?
The questions chocked him and his still healing lungs found it hard to breathe for a moment until he forced the questions away from his mind and were locked away. He needed to leave and find her, nothing else mattered then that.
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Nori sat, waiting, thinking…and dreading what was to come. The future had suddenly become so unsure for her family and she wished what would be the right thing to do. It was out of the question that Kagome be given to Takashi since Sesshomaru would mostly likely go mad from the loss, however brief that would be. And it would be brief since Sesshomaru and Nori would put great pressure upon the land to have the armies ready to battle so that they could retrieve Kagome.
Looking down at her granddaughter asleep in her arms once again, Nori knew that it was out of the question to send the sweet little girl or any of the new baby girls away with Takashi. She knew that Sesshomaru had named Mizuki his heir and the future ruler of their lands as well as their clan. But that wasn’t even important…the little girl sleeping in her arms deserved a future of choice and freedom.
“Nori! Is it finally happening?” Rie said as she appeared in the hall, her mate following at her side. Relief filled Nori at the sight of her friend as a possible answer appeared before her.
“Yes, Kagome has gone into labor. I can’t wait to see the babies…I really should had more stuff animals made though. A hundred thousand just does seem enough for only six babies, don’t you think?” Nori asked seriously as she got up and walked over to her friend, she really did need to have more made for her newest grandchildren. Rie and Hotaka just stared at her as if they didn’t understand that it was a truly serious matter.
Almost as serious as the danger her family was in now.
“Takashi was here…what happened?” Hotaka asked, no doubt smelling Takashi and Sesshomaru’s stand off that happened hours ago.
“Takashi demanded to watch the birth as Sesshomaru saw to Kagome’s care. When things did not go the way he wanted them, he threatened me an-”
“He threatened you? When Sesshomaru is tending to the birth of his offspring?” Hotaka snarled in outrage and even Rie looked as if she was suddenly out for blood, which was a rare sight for the sweet demoness. Rie had always left the blood and violence to her mate then would lick the blood off him during sex…Nori had always found it amusing to watch just like they found it pleasurable to have an audience now and then.
“He did…but that wasn’t the worst part of it all.”
“He did more? Where is he? Tell your son that he has our support! I’m going to go and bloody my fucking claws on the bastard!” Rie snarled as she turned to follow Takashi’s scent. Hotaka was quick to wrap an arm about her and have her slung onto his shoulder before she was even a few steps away from him.
“Behave Rie.” Her mate ordered with a light slap on her ass, Nori smiled at the growl her friend made and the returning slap upon Hotaka’s ass. Rie could act like the prefect lady when she wanted to just like Nori but both demonesses were vindictive bitches when they wanted to be…it was why they were the best friends since they had been children.
“Seems I should put another pup in you soon. You always calm down when you have a pup in your womb or a pup at your breast.” Hotaka announced with another slap on Rie’s ass.
“Oh please! You just want to drink my breast milk again, Hotaka.” Rie shouted before giving another slap to her mate. Nori bit her lip as she smelled the lust and anger growing between the mates and felt herself getting wet for it. If not for the situation going on in the other room and the fact that her family was in great danger, she would suggest that they all get a room together.
“Alright you two…leave this argument for your bed at another time.” Nori interrupted.
Hotaka simply turned his attention from his mate to look at her before ripping the skirt of Rie’s kimono with his claws. “Hotaka! Stop, we’ll finish this later…right now we need to go and kill that fucking bastard!”
“We will do no such thing until I have talked with Sesshomaru. We will support him but only if I find him worthy of it,” Hotaka informed. Nori smiled at his words and looked down at her granddaughter with hope shining in her eyes. If they got support from Hotaka then Rie’s brothers would likely throw in their aid as well, with Sesshomaru growing his armies still…they would have enough allies and troops to be a very real threat to the other lords.
“Things are looking up, my little moonflower…now we just have to wait for all your new little brothers and sisters to get here.” She whispered happily to her granddaughter as she moved to sit back down and wait for when her son appeared. She truly was proud of how good a father he was to his children; regret suddenly pieced her as she thought of the few times that she had allowed her mate to play with Sesshomaru when he had just been a child. She had kept him at such a distance that she now wondered if that was why her son had become cold like her.
Sesshomaru had passion and fire just like his father but she now wondered if she had been chocking it from him by keeping him with her constantly instead of letting him be with his father and allowing him to play with others. Staring at the doors, she knew that she had never been the kind of person to look at her mistakes and feel regret for them. But thinking of her son and his difficulties with Kagome, had her thinking all the things that she had done wrong with her only surviving child.
Suddenly the doors opened and she watched as Sesshomaru left the room. She saw the red of his eyes and the pain upon his face as well as the blanketed budle within his arms…he needed her to take over for him. With a nod to him, she stood and walked towards her child. Nori kissed his cheek before entering, knowing that he would leave to take care of what he needed to and that all the people that had waited with her would enter the moment that he was gone.
She glanced at the two newborns lying on a futon, wrapped in a blanket but otherwise uncared for, Nori would leave her grandchildren to the servants to care for and continued to walk to Kagome’s side.
Kagome was covered in sweat and red from head to toe, and clearly in the throes of laboring to bring another child into the world. Nori felt ready to give aid however possible.
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Takashi fucked the little servant under him brutally in victory of his win. The little demoness screamed in pain and begged him to stop but it only made it sweet for him as the high of winning over Sesshomaru ran through his veins. He smiled cruelly at the little servant under him before bit into her breast, loving the bloodcurdling scream she released as the pain hit her system.
He rammed his cock into her harder and harder, wanting her to remember every moment that he tormented her body. He would do the same with Kagome but unlike the little bitch that was crying in pain under him, he would make Kagome love the brutal fucking that he would do to her.
He knew that Sessshomaru had been unable to break the little human and bend her into what he wanted her to be. But Takashi was sure that he wouldn’t fail where Sesshomaru had, he would break Kagome then build her up again before breaking her all over again. It would be such fun as he broke her and fix her over, and over until the woman that Sesshomaru had fallen in love with was gone all together.
“Master? There is a problem.” He glanced over to one of his servants as he started to come.
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She was healthy…A healthy half demon baby. She was asleep in his arms, beautiful and prefect as Mizuki had been when he had first seen her despite the fact she looked similar to his brother because of her ears. Sesshomaru was so thankful that he hadn’t needed to use the Tenseiga to bring her back like he had feared. Sitting in his rooms, his new daughter in his arms…he wondered what would be his next move. He had left his mother to tend to Kagome and her needs as he had taken this little one away to save her life if needed.
But he knew that had not been the right move to make. His clan and lands had already been weakened because of Inuyasha being allowed to live, the knowledge of him allow his own half demon child being allowed to do the same would only make him weaker in the eyes of all. Yet when he looked down at the slumbering newborn within his arms, his heart bleed at the thought of allowing harm to happen upon her.
Still unnamed and yet so dearly loved, he knew that he would have to keep this beautiful child secret to all…secret even from Kagome. The sweet little girl that he held would be hidden from the world and from her mother to keep his strength, and power. Yet as the loving father that he was; Sesshomaru wondered if it would be fair for his daughter to be isolated away from others.
He knew that demons alike would stun his child with the exception being their family. Sesshomaru knew that Kagome would love their daughter with all her heart just as she would with all their children. Looking over his rooms, he found himself wondering what it would be like to not have all this pressure and expectations thrust upon his shoulders. What would it have been like if he had just been a simple demon when he had met Kagome? Would they have fallen in love? Would they have all these concerns and fears as they did now? He imagined that they would have had a home and their children, loving the lives that they had created together and loving one another as he seemed to always dream of.
A little cry brought him out of his thoughts and he returned his gaze to the newborn.
Black hair like her mother’s but with his golden eyes…she could have been twin to her brother if not for her ears. She whimpered rubbed her wrinkled face against her blanket, telling him of her hunger. He would need to have her feed soon, but first she needed a name.
With that in mind, he thought of Kagome’s mother’s name and felt that might just be the name for the little in his arms. “Welcome to the world, Yume”