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The Lucky Ones
By Terri Botta
Disclaimer: I don’t own
Inuyasha. Sole copyright belongs to Viz and Rumiko Takashi. I’m poor so don’t
sue.
Rating: R for later chapters.
Pairing: Inuyasha/Kagome,
Miroku/Sango
Summary: Sometimes Fate hands
you a gift you never thought you’d ever get, and it’s up to you to accept it
for what it is.
Feedback to:
tci100@psu.edu
Website: http://www.wordsmiths.net/Botta
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Chapter Two
The baby screamed himself hoarse, proving that there was absolutely nothing
wrong with his little lungs. Kagome rocked him and cried along with him,
feeling utterly helpless to ease his pain. There was nothing anyone could do
for him. His mother was dead, but she had died so that he would live. At one
point during his screaming fit, Inuyasha took him and held him, pressing his
teeth very very gently on the pup’s throat in
a mimicry of a bitch grabbing her pup by the scuff
of its neck in an attempt to still him. It worked to lower the din from full
screams to gasping whimpers, but only until
Inuyasha eased up, then he would scream again, his face almost purple from the
effort.
Finally, Inuyasha and Kagome
took the wailing baby out of the village so he wouldn’t continue to disturb
everyone within hearing distance. They took turns walking with him and rocking
him. Inuyasha showed her how to take him by his neck, cautioning her not to
even press hard enough to leave a mark, but after a while not even that worked
anymore because the baby figured out how to squirm out of such a light hold.
Kagome resorted to cooing and singing softly, bouncing him the way she’d seen
mothers do, all to no avail. Ultimately, they had no choice but to wait until
the baby screamed himself unconscious- which he eventually did, after making
sure they would both have hearing troubles for the next several hours.
They returned to the village
with the restlessly sleeping baby. Every now and then he would whimper and
squirm, and they would cringe, expecting him to awaken and start crying again.
They entered Kaede’s hut to find that the
miko and Miroku had seen to the preparation of the
body.
“Was there anything of the
mother’s that wasn’t bloodstained?” Inuyasha asked.
“Only her head scarf and the
baby sling,” the monk replied sadly.
“Give them to me,” Inuyasha
said.
Miroku gave the
hanyou the items he wanted. He took the baby,
wrapped his dead mother’s head scarf around him and placed him in his baby
sling. Surrounded by something that smelled familiar, the infant finally
settled down and they all breathed a sigh of relief.
“Why didn’t we think of that
sooner?” Sango remarked.
“I think… we were all too
shocked and hurt to think clearly,” Miroku answered.
“I just thought of it myself,
but I didn’t want to put him in anything that had his mother’s blood on it. It
could have made things worse,” Inuyasha explained. “Kagome…”
“Hai?”
He handed her the sleeping baby
in the sling.
“I’m going to go dig a grave,”
he said quietly.
She nodded and put the sling
around her neck.
“Take the scarf from your
uniform and put it in with the pup. It’ll mingle with his mother’s scent so he
starts to associate you with a familiar smell.”
Kagome nodded and took the blue
scarf from the collar of her high school uniform, tucking it into the sling
next to the baby.
Inuyasha gave her an approving
glance and left. Miroku followed, saying he would help the
hanyou prepare the woman’s resting place.
Shippo came to perch on Kagome’s shoulder as she
sat down next to Sango and Kaede.
“I have such a headache,” she
admitted.
“I’ll prepare a pain killer tea
for you, child,” Kaede offered.
“Thank you,
Kaede-obachan.” She looked down at the sleeping
infant. “What are we going to feed you, baby?”
“We can make
a soft rice gruel with water and milk. It won’t be
the best, but it will do. That’s what we used to do for infants whose mothers
died if there was no woman with a nursing baby who could feed two,” Sango
replied.
Kagome nodded. ‘I could go
to my time and get bottles and baby formula. I’d have to keep it from my mom.
She’d think the wrong thing for sure…’
She looked down at the baby’s
sleeping face, still discolored from all his crying, and felt a stab of pain
right through her heart.
‘Poor little lost baby…’
“I wonder what we should call him.”
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