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Dissident Hope	By : inufan625 Category: InuYasha > Het - Male/Female > InuYasha/Kagome Views: 7760 -:- Recommendations : 1 -:- Currently Reading : 1
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InuYasha flashed his fangs and a low dangerous growl spilled from him as he sensed someone nearby. As he woke up fully he realized that it was only the monk. “Shit, sorry.”
“May I come in?” Miroku asked.
“Yeah, just try not to make any sudden moves,” InuYasha replied. “My youkai is still on edge and I might trust you, but he hasn’t known you long enough.”
Kagome stirred at his voice. “InuYasha?”
“S’okay,” he told her. “It’s just the monk.”
Miroku sat in the chair that had earlier been occupied by Shiori. “I’m so glad to you see you well, all three of you.”
Kagome smiled at her friend. “I hear I have you to thank at least in part for that, and for keeping Kikyou from destroying everything I’ve been working towards.”
“She’s an idiot,” Miroku said. “I’ve put the word out that you are not to be disturbed for at least a week due to the birth of your children and I’ve begun showing the scroll to those who most need to see it. There is some disbelief but the fact that Sesshomaru-sama himself has come out in support of the findings as authentic has been a great help. It will no doubt take time to convince everyone and to quiet the naysayers but it is a better start than I had dared imagine possible.”
“Would you like to see them?” Kagome asked. “I think you’ll be surprised.”

Miroku looked to InuYasha. “If it’s alright with you as well.”
InuYasha snorted but gave a quick nod. He helped Kagome to sit up and then handed her their son first. She turned and showed the little boy to Miroku. He squirmed and fussed a little but the jingle of Miroku’s staff captured his attention and he looked up at where the sound had come from with sharper eyes than you might have expected from a baby that was less than a day old.
“A true hanyou,” Miroku said. “His youki is strong for such a young one. He must take after his father in that respect, but I see your eyes looking at me from within his face. Perhaps it is a sign that he carries within him the best of you both.”
Kagome beamed at her oldest friend. “We’re going to call him Kazuki.”
Miroku nodded thoughtfully. “It seems fitting: harmony and radiance or harmony and hope.”
Kagome passed their son to InuYasha and then lifted their daughter into her arms. Again she turned so that Miroku could get a good look at her. She wasn’t surprised as the monk gasped. He reached out to touch her and InuYasha growled.
“Ignore me,” he said. “I can’t help it, but I know you won’t hurt her.”
Miroku studied him for a moment and then placed a gentle hand on the little girl’s forehead. “She’s miko already with a reiki of her own. It’s so similar to yours that I didn’t feel it before. How?”
“Keh, near as we can figure she takes after whatever there is of my mother in me,” InuYasha said. “She has my mother’s eyes.”
“This is incredible,” Miroku said. “I’m not sure either of you understand what this means, not completely. Out of all the objections anyone could have to your being together, the greatest was likely to be the end of Midoriko’s line of power. As remarkable as it is that a hanyou and a miko can even conceive a child together and that the miko could carry within her a part youkai child without causing it harm, you have also managed to produce a pure miko.”
Kagome’s eyes widened. “You’re right. I have continued the line of Midoriko with InuYasha. Surely if the Kami-sama objected to our union we wouldn’t have been so doubly blessed. Maybe this is part of what Shiori saw.”
“You have just given birth to the next generation of the most powerful youkai line and the miko one,” Miroku said. “His power undiluted by your being a miko and hers untouched by his being hanyou. I would not have thought such a thing possible. Have you chosen her name as well?”
“Emiko,” InuYasha replied.
Miroku nodded. “Perhaps this road will not be as difficult to travel as I had feared. No doubt there will be difficulties ahead for us all, but I can no longer find reason to doubt that though it may be beyond my understanding clearly what has come to pass was what was meant to be.”
Kagome smiled at her oldest friend. “Thank you. Now, if I can only manage to convince Sango and everyone else as easily.”
“If anyone can find a way, it will be you, Kagome miko-sama,” Miroku said as he stood and bowed. “I’ll leave you now to enjoy this time as a family, but do not hesitate to call me if you need something and I will keep you updated on how relations are progressing.”
Miroku left and Kagome returned Emiko to her brother’s side in the middle of the bed, between her and InuYasha. She looked at her two beautiful babies as they lay snuggled together and smiled. One miko and one hanyou but both absolutely perfect to her eyes. Now more than ever she had to end this war, to bring them back to a place of peace between the youkai and those with spiritual powers. She didn’t notice the way InuYasha was watching her as she stared at them.
“It’s going to be alright,” he told her quietly. “The monk was right. If anyone can find a way it would be you and they have us no matter what.”
She lifted her head. “They do don’t they? We’ll protect them and find a way to see to it that they never have to feel like they are on opposite sides.” She sighed. “InuYasha, do you think, would be you up to letting Sango come by? She’s not going to be happy to see you here, but I know I can convince her. I just, I miss my friend. She stopped talking to me after people started to suspect Miroku fathered my baby and I want to show her the truth.”
He looked at her and knew it wouldn’t be easy for him, but could tell she needed this. “I’ll be fine. If you’re sure you can convince her and that she won’t hurt our pups then I trust you.”
Kagome smiled at him and reached for his hand. “Thank you. I’ll call her now.”
He ignored the youkai as he listened to Kagome trying to convince her taijiya friend to come over and see their pups. Instead he picked up his daughter and held her close, memorizing everything about her. She might be human and a miko but she was his just as much as their son. It was a connection he felt with his youki, one older and more primal than anything he could remember feeling before. He would protect her, protect all of them. He was vaguely aware of it as Kagome hung up the phone.
“She’s coming now,” Kagome said.
He just nodded as he admired his little girl. He couldn’t get enough of her scent and of the softness of her skin. It was almost unbelievable to him that he’d had any part in creating something so fucking amazing so innocent and beautiful.
“You are going to spoil them rotten, aren’t you,” Kagome teased with a smile.
He looked at her. “Maybe, but hell, look at her at both of them. How the hell did I have anything to do with this? They’re so perfect and I’m… so not.”
“Says who?” Kagome asked.
He snorted. “Only you would think an asshole like me was perfect. I’m still not sure you aren’t suffering from sort of head injury.”
Kagome rolled her eyes and picked up their son. “Jerk. You are perfect for me and will be the perfect father for our babies.”
“Most people, including your friend wouldn’t agree,” he said. “So how do you want to play it when she shows up?”
Kagome considered it for a moment. “Maybe it would be best to ease her into it.”
“I can’t leave the room,” he told her. “I trust you and I know you’d never let her hurt them but it’s too much. The youkai will never allow it, not after everything that’s happened.”
“I understand,” she said. “I wasn’t going to even suggest it because truthfully I want you close, need you with me. I was thinking more along of the lines of you standing guard for me near the wall or something, just until I’ve had a chance to tell her everything, to show her.”
He took a slow breath. “That I can manage. You are absolutely sure she won’t try to hurt him? I’m not doubting you, I just...”
“You are just doing your best to protect us,” she finished for him. “I know that and I can promise you that no matter how she feels about youkai she would never harm an innocent child or one of my children. It’s not her fault how she feels, not really.”
“How do you figure?” he asked.
“A few years ago something terrible happened to her family,” Kagome told him. “Before she was just sort of indifferent to youkai who didn’t cause problems for humans, but after… A youkai did something to her younger brother and forced him to attack her entire unit. You know taijiya train and fight as families, right, and that they rarely train anyone who wasn’t born to it?”
“Yeah,” he replied.
“Well, she was the only one who survived her brother’s attack,” Kagome said. “She lost her whole family except for the little brother who was forced to kill them in one night because of a youkai.”
“Shit,” he breathed. “That is rough. I take it they never caught the bastard?”
Kagome shook her head. “No, and that makes it worse, knowing he’s still out there doing who knows what. “
“Give me the details later, like when and where it happened and I’ll call Sesshomaru and see if he knows anything,” InuYasha said. “He’ll definitely want to get the bastard that would use a pup to slaughter his own family. Maybe with us working on it too, we can take him down for her.”
Kagome smiled brightly at him. “You really are such a good man, no matter what you might think. I hope our son grows up to be just like you, though maybe without the ubiquitous use of swear words.”
He chuckled. “Keh, where’s the fun in that.”
~ * ~

Sango sat in a chair next to the bed. She frowned as she looked at the hanyou who the untrained eye might have appeared to be leaning casually against the wall, but she knew better. The hard set of his jaw and the way his eyes scanned the room told her that it was all a façade. He was a natural born predator primed to strike in the blink of an eye.
“Kagome, what is he doing in here?” Sango asked.
Kagome glanced at InuYasha. She knew just how hard this was for him, but he was doing it for her. “He is protecting me and the babies.”
“You really trust that, that hanyou in here with your children?” Sango pressed. “What about that perverted monk? Surely he wouldn’t approve of him in here with them.”
“Their father trusts me and I trust InuYasha,” Kagome replied.
“He’s a youkai,” Sango protested. “They are worse than animals; vile and without honor.”
Kagome sighed and turned her body so that Sango could get a good look at the baby in her arms. “Look at him Sango, my beautiful little boy.” She then removed the hat that had been hiding his silver hair and tiny puppy ears. “Do you think he’s vile? Worse than an animal?”
Sango looked at the baby who yawned and blinked his eyes as he put his fist in his mouth and sucked on it. She shook her head in disbelief as her eyes darted to the hanyou and then back to the baby. “Kagome, how could you?”
Kagome set her son down beside her and picked up her daughter. “Now look at my daughter. She’s human, a miko, and yet InuYasha is her father as well.” Kagome smiled sadly. “Do you think I would give my heart to a man that was any of those things you said? I love him and he loves me.”
“Tell me you don’t actually believe that,” Sango said in what was nearly a shout. “Gods, Kagome you are so naive.”
InuYasha growled and it was only his promise to Kagome that kept him from going to the slayer and demanding that she get the hell out as his son and daughter started to cry at having been so startled. He watched as Kagome soothed their pups.
“Sango, take a moment and think with your head instead of your heart,” Kagome said. “We’ve both heard the lengths that male youkai will go to for their mates and children, how they will fight past the point of death to defend them and yet there he stands allowing a demon slayer within arm’s reach of his mate and his newborn children, on my word that you would never harm me or them.”
“Of course, I wouldn’t hurt you or your babies,” Sango said.
“Even though one of my babies is a hanyou?” Kagome asked her friend. She could see that Sango was struggling, her hate for the horror visited upon her family by a youkai warring with her love for her friend. “Sango, I told InuYasha what happened to your family. He’s going to talk to his brother to see if he knows anything.”
Sango looked to InuYasha and then back at Kagome. “You really think they would help us?”
“Keh, you might think we are all without honor, but I will personally put down any youkai who would do something as evil and cowardly as forcing a pup to murder his own family.” InuYasha said. “We might not live by your rules slayer, but we do have our own.”
“I’m sorry,” Sango offered quietly. “It’s just hard, after… I’ll try, Kagome, I will, for you.” She looked again at the babies and then at InuYasha. “May I?”
Kagome turned to him, making it clear that she was willing accept his decision and he sighed. He didn’t really believe the taijiya would hurt his pup, but even so his youkai didn’t like the idea. He ignored his youkai and nodded.
Kagome carefully passed her son to Sango, who took him into her arms just as gently. “He is adorable, Kagome.” She ran a finger over one of the tiny folded ears on top of his head. “Just like a puppy.”
InuYasha snorted and Kagome flashed him a smile. He managed to relax a little, but it wasn’t until his pup was safely back in his mother’s arms that his youkai quieted.
“Oh no,” Sango said quietly.
“Sango, what’s wrong?” Kagome asked.
Sango wiped at the tears spilling down onto her cheeks. “Miroku… Oh I said such horrible things to him. I thought that he had… What am I going to do?”
“An apology is usually a good place to start,” Kagome offered. “You should also remind him that you wouldn’t have been so upset thinking that he had been with me, even if only to father a child, if you didn’t have such strong feelings for him. It has been hard for him as well pretending. He will understand.”
“I hope you’re right,” Sango said. “I was just so angry with him. I thought he cared about me and then… I would have thought one of you would have at least said something to me before to see how I felt about it and when you didn’t…”
Kagome nodded. “I know and I’m sorry. Neither one of us wanted to hurt you, not ever, but he did it for me, to protect me. I hope you can come to understand why we couldn’t tell anyone, even if I know you wouldn’t have used it against me.”
“I do understand,” Sango admitted. “It’s like that saying that three people can keep a secret only if two of them are dead, I think it goes. The more people who knew the bigger the risk would have been and more than that if I hadn’t been upset then I guess that would have made people question Miroku being father too, huh?”
“I really am sorry,” Kagome told her.
“It’s okay,” Sango said. “I know what it is to want to protect your family at any cost. I can’t blame you for that, but I am glad it wasn’t true, even if I don’t understand why you would be with a half demo-” Sango stopped herself short. “Why you would be with him considering you were raised with even more prejudiced against youkai in your life than I was.”
Kagome just smiled a little and shrugged. “I guess that just makes the fact that both of us were able to look past what we were taught even more remarkable. I knew from the first moment I laid eyes on him that there was something between us. Call it fate, or destiny or anything else, but I know that we were meant to be together, to love each other.”
Sango looked at her and then at InuYasha. “You really love her?”
“More than my own life, enough to risk everything and to take on the whole fucking world to keep her, if I have to,” he replied. “I was born to meet her, to love her and she was born for me too.”
“I don’t want to believe you, but I do,” Sango said. “But if you break her heart then I’ll kill you myself.”
InuYasha smirked. Just like with the monk, maybe he and the taijiya could come to a place where they were okay with each other. “If I ever did that I would want you to.”
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