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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 Twenty-Seven
Autumn
progressed and all the signs pointed to a particularly harsh winter. As Kagome
studied and dealt with the added stresses of her senior year of high school,
Inuyasha and the village men prepared for the coming lean season. Much of the
village’s winter firewood needs were already taken care of thanks to Inuyasha’s
tree cutting spree that summer, but larders and root cellars still needed to be
filled with food that would last the winter.
When she
wasn’t studying, Kagome was helping Kaede gather and dry herbs that would soon
no longer be easy to find. She also stocked up on medicines from her time,
preparing for the winter cold season, although the villagers rarely became ill
with something like the common cold. Infection was the worst fear most of the
time and Kaede’s poultices and tonics usually cured the minor cases, but her
modern medicine was always welcome, especially her bandages and treatments for
burns. Kagome made sure the old miko had plenty of gauze and anti-bacterial
soaps and creams, plus her medicines for poisons and venoms.
Yukio had
been with them almost nine months and soon he would be a year old. It was hard
for her to believe that so much time had passed because it seemed to her that
it was only yesterday that his mother had come staggering into the village with
her hanyou infant. At the same time, she couldn’t imagine her life without the
giggling bundle of mischief the baby was turning into. Mobile and
communicative, Yukio was getting into all the trouble a toddler almost twice
his age would find, and both she and Inuyasha were having trouble keeping up
with him. He was almost completely weaned now, with her down to nursing him briefly
once a day before bedtime.
With
weaning well under way, she’d tackled the chore of potty-training him, only to
find that he practically did it himself. Inuyasha explained that Yukio knew
instinctively not to soil whee sle slept, or as the adult hanyou had so
colorfully put it, “Pups know not to shit in the den.” Instinct or no, he was
ridiculously easy to house-train, and was now just about off diapers. She had
him in the walking pull-up diapers that served double-duty as underwear just in
case he had any ‘accidents.’
It was a
cool late autumn day and Kagome and the others were all sitting outside of
Miroku’s hut, when she suddenly felt the familiar tingle of a shikon shard. She
and Inuyasha both snapped to attention at the same time.
“Kagome-sama?”
Miroku questioned.
“Shikon
fragments. Two of them, coming closer.”
Inuyasha
began to growl loudly, making Yukio hide behind his mother.
“It’s that
damn wolf. I can already smell his stink. And he’s brought friends.”
“Kouga?” ‘But Kouga usually approaches so fast…’
Gripping
Tessaiga, the hanyou was off to face the challenge before Kagome could stop
him.
“Inuyasha!”
“Kagome-sama,”
Miroku said and she turned to see the houshi and Shippou on the transformed
firecat.
“I’ll stay
here with Kohaku and defend the village if something gets past Inuyasha,” Sango
offered, moving to put Miyoko into their hut.
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