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The Lucky Ones
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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
The driver
took them to the front entrance of a monstrous house that was more like a
castle than anything else in its scale and grandeur. It had a wide sweeping
front porch with the classic Japanese
roof and a huge wooden door. They got out of the golf cart and approached the
hous ths the driver putted off somewhere, presumably to the garage. Going up to
the massive wooden door with block carvings and giant metal bolts, she moved to
knock when it swung open more silently than she thought physically possible.
�Oh��
Inuyasha
stood leaning against the now open doorway, dressed in a cut-off gray muscle
shirt and a pair of low riding gray sweatpants, revealing most of his flat stomach.
He looked disheveled and yawned a bit as he blinked sleepily at them.
�Morning,�
he greeted, stepping back and allowing them to enter.
They
crossed the threshold into the magnificent dwelling and hastily removed their
shoes. Inuyasha, in his typical fashion, was barefoot.
�Sugoi! Sugoi!� Souta
breathed, taking in the wide hallway and high ceilings.
Inuyasha
just shrugged. �You should see our house in Ale>Alberta.
I built that one to look like a Northwestern hunting lodge. The front great room
is nine meters high.�
�You built
it? Did you build this house too?� Souta asked,
wide-eyed.
He nodded.
�I�ve built all the houses we�ve lived in. More or less.
I designed them too.�
�You design
houses?� Mama questioned.
�Yep. It�s what I do. I�m a whattdya
call it� architect.�
�An architect?!�
�Mmm hmm. Kinda fell into it like
Kagome fell into being a doctor. The Houjou clan saw
the work I did on the first house I built Kagome and wanted me to build theirs.
Then other daimyos wanted houses and it went from there. I have construction
crews and clients all over the world.�
�That�s
wonderful, Inuyasha,� she said, although architect was not a career she would
have imagined for him.
�It�s nice.
I like it.�
�Do you
design houses for youkais?� she asked.
�Youkai, humans, hanyous. You name it. If it lives
somewhere, I design it. I even designed a couple of animal habitats for zoos. Did one for Australia Zoo last year. That Crocodile Hunter
guy is as crazy in person as he is on TV.�
�Wow,� Souta enthused.
Inuyasha
led them to the huge eat-in kitchen and motioned for them to sit down.
�Yukio�s
already up. He�ll be down in a minute. Coffee?�
�Yes,
please. Thank you,� Mama replied.
He went to
the counter and stood in front of the cappuccino/coffee maker.
�Now if I
can just figure this damn thing out. Miroku, my �cosmopolitan�
son. Whatever the hell that means. He doesn�t own a simple
coffee maker. No, he owns this monstrosity. Why? Because he likes all that fru-fru coffee like latte, cappuccino
and chai. Wanna tell me
what the hell �chai� is? Never heard of it,� he
complained. �All I want is plain coffee without all that pansy-ass crap they
put in it these days.�
Mama
giggled and went over to the machine. �Here, let me see if I can help. I�ve had
some experience with these things, although never one quite like
this.�
She
inspected the appliance and thought she knew how it worked. Inuyasha had the
coffee already measured and in the unbleached filter, and he had the coffee
carafe filled for eight cups. She experimented with a couple of levers and
manago geo get the top off to pour the water into the proper side for plain
coffee, and pulled open an almost hidden door that revealed where the filter
and grounds went. Beside her Inuyasha snorted but nodded in approval and within
a few minutes the smell of fresh brewed Colombian
Roast was wafting through the kitchen.
�Ahhhhhhhh,� Yukio sighed as he breezed into the room
dressed in jeans, a royal blue T-shirt and his riding leathers. �Coffee. Coffee, coffee, coffee, coffee,
coffee. What? No espresso?�
�If you
want espresso go the Hell to Starbucks,� Inuyasha grumbled, sipping his own
coffee.
�Ooooohhh, testy. Did someone wake
up on the wrong side of the den this morning?�
�You�re
assuming your mother let me sleep with her in the friggin�
den.�
Yukio
hugged his father. �Awwww, poor
Otou-san. Did she make you sleep on the couch again?�
Inuyasha
just growled.
Her
grandson turned to her and flashed her a brilliant
smile. �Good morning, Mama-baachan.�
�Good
morning, Yukio.�
�Good
morning, nephew,� Souta greeted.
�Ojisan!� Yukio replied, giving
the teen a hug. �You ready to go?�
Souta nodded. �Yeah!�
�Okay.
Let me grab a cup of coffee and we�ll get going. We�ll catch the 9 o�clock bullet train to Osaka.�
�Yay!�
Yukio
snickered and poured himself a cup of coffee.
�I think there�s danishes in the breadbox,�
Inuyasha offered.
�Ooooo!� Yukio said, going to the
breadbox
and rolling back the door. �Yeah!�
He pulled
out two danishes and tossed
one at Souta. �Want a danish?�
The boy
grabbed the pastry. �Thanks!�
�Mama-baachan, danish?
We�ve got cheese and raspberry.�
The thought
of eating a sugar-laden bread roll for breakfast made her stomach turn and she
declined.
�No thank
you.�
�Heh. Kagome won�t eat them for
breakfast
either. I�ve got miso and rice if you want it,�
Inuyasha said.
�That would
be perfect.�
Inuyasha
moved to the refrigerator, pulled out the miso and
rice, and set them to heat in the microwave.
�Damn, I
love these things. Best invention of the 20^th century. When I was
first here with Kagome and we were going through the well, I didn�t appreciate
them, but when we had to wait for them to be invented, I really missed it,� he
admitted.
Yukio scarfed his danish
and knocked back his coffee, then grabbed another pastry from the breadbox and
ate that too.
�He�s got his father�s sweet tooth,� she
thought.
�Okay,
ready,� he announced.
�Me too,� Souta said, finishing off his danish.
�Let�s go
then. We�ll be back late this afternoon.�
�Oi, Yukio!� Inuyasha called, halting Yukio in his tracks.
�You take good care of that boy.�
Yukio went
over to his father and nuzzled him. �You know I will.�
Inuyasha
shook his head. �No, he never did.�
Suddenly
his head came up and heffedffed, and she knew that his sharp senses had caught
something.
�Excuse
me,� he said and left the kitchen without waiting for her answer.
�Kagome must be awake,� she mused,
sipping her tepid coffee.
Sure enough Inuyasha returned a few moments
later escorting a sleepy Kagome. Mama was glad she had already swallowed the
coffee in her mouth otherwise she would have spit it all over the table when
she laughed at what her daughter was wearing. Kagome was dressed in a dark blue
terry cloth robe and a long red cotton nightgown that had a puppy face right
where her swelling womb was and the words �Big Dog To Be� in English. She also
had a pair of fuzzy white dog slippers with ears, black eyes and noses on the
toes.
She lost
her battle with laughter and chortled for several moments.
�Morning,
Mama,� Kagome greeted.
�Good
morning, Kagome.�
Inuyasha
sat his wife down at the table and Mama watched him fuss over her like a mother
hen. He closed her robe and tied it with the belt, then zipped around the
kitchen fetching Kagome a light breakfast
of white rice, a small bowl of miso and a cup of
green tea with mint. He did this all without direction or complaint, and soon
Kagome was sipping her unsweetened tea and nibbling at her food.
�How are
you feeling? Did you get enough sleep?� he asked as he set the meal down in
front of her.
Her hand
reached out to grasp his and gently squeeze.
�I�m
alright. Tired and sore from all the kickboxing this kid is getting up to
inside my body, but otherwise alright.�
He kissed
her on the cheek. �I keep telling you this pup�s a boy, Kagome. Only a boy
would put us through this.�
�You�re
just saying that because you want another son.�
He blinked
at her and Mama saw him flatten
his ears a little bit. �Have I given you any reason to believe that I want our
pup to be male?� he asked softly.
She raised
her eyes to him and looked a little guilty. �Don�t you want a boy? A son of your own?�
�I already have
fourteen sons of my own,� he insisted, his voice a little harsh.
She shook
her head. �That�s not what I meant...�
He cut her
off. �I know what you meant and don�t ever let any of our pups hear you talk
that way. It�s bad enough with Miroku being the way he is right now. We don�t
need any of the others joining him.�
She sighed.
�That didn�t come out the way I meant it to. I was trying to say that this baby
will be a blood related child...�
�All
of my pups are blood related to me. I�ve spilled my blood for them more than
once. That�s blood related enough for me.�
She sighed
again. �You aren�t going to let me make my point are you?�
He crossed
his arms and stared her down. �Your point makes no sense. Unless... unless you
think that this pup is more important than our other pups.�
She looked
down at her belly and placed one hand across the rise of her womb. �No, of
course not, but you have to admit that this one is different.�
�Only in how he came to us. We can�t ever let the pups think
we love this one more.�
�No,
never,�
she agreed.
He sighed
and knelt next to her, holding the hand she�d placed over her womb. �I know
what you�re trying to say, koi. You�re thinking that
because this baby was born of your body and my seed that he�s somehow more
special than the ones who came to us already in this world. They�re all
special, koi. All of them.
Do you think we could have asked for so many good pups if we�d borne them all?
Could we have gotten better ones? Think of Yukio, and Akihiro, and Sai. Would
you have traded any of our other pups for more like the one you carry now?�
Kagome�s
eyes teared up and she sniffed, shaking her head.
�No.�
He reached
up and wiped the tears away with his thumbs. �Then he, or she, will be no
different than the rest, right?�
She nodded.
�Right. When did you get so much older and wiser
than me?�
He lifted
up slightly and bent over her to kiss her on the cheek tenderly. �I was always
older and wiser. You just didn�t
realize it until now.�
She threw
her napkin at him and he snickered as he skittered away, grinning wickedly.
�And who�s
to say I don�t want a girl? Maybe I want fourteen daughters to give us an even
number.�
�If this
baby is a girl, I�ll feel sorry for her because she�ll have fourteen big
brothers and an over-protective father who will meet every would-be boyfriend
at the door with big swords in their hands.�
�Damn
straight one one comes sniffing around my girls.�
�Your girls. You should listen to yourself sometime, hm?�
He smiled
and put his arms around Kagome�s shoulders from behind and looked over at where
she was sitting, still sipping her coffee.
�What do
you think, Mama? Boy or girl?� he asked, calling her �Mama� for the first time
ever.
It shocked
her quite a bit actually. He�d always called her �Kagome�s mother� or �woman�
or �Higurashi� but never
�Mama.� She took another sip of her coffee to give her a moment to compose
herself.
�I think
I�ve never been more proud of you than I am right now, and the sex of the baby
isn�t important as long as it�s healthy, and both mother and baby come out of
labor fine,� she replied.
Inuyasha
smiled at her. �Spoken like a true grandmother.�
Mama just
chuckled, then looked up in alarm when Kagome
gasped
with pain.
�Kagome?�
both she and Inuyasha asked in unison.
�It�s... it�s okay. The baby just moved that�s all and he�s
putting... pressure... on... my... back,� she replied, teeth gritted in pain.
Inuyasha
immediately knelt down next to her and start rubbing her abdomen.
�Is he
moving, koi?� he asked.
Kagome
clenched her fists and squeezed her eyes shut. �No... not
yet. Ah!�
Inuyasha
cursed and rubbed harder. �Gotta be a fucking boy.
C�mon pup, come over to Otou-san and get off Okaa-san�s
spine.�
He began to
make barking noises at the unborn baby, yips and whines and a couple of growls.
�Inu...
Inuyasha, he�s moving!� Kagome announced with a heaving sigh.
�Heh, he came over to kick at my hands. I tell you, he�s
gotta be a boy, coz if this pup�s a girl she isn�t going to need
any of us to protect her. She�ll be born kicking ass.�
Mama saw
Kagome relax as the pain subsided, her eyes closing in relief. �Inu... thank
you.�
�Shhh, it�s okay. I love you. I�m glad I was able to help,�
he said in a soft, almost hypnotic voice.
�That...
that�s the first time he�s actually answered you, isn�t it? All the other times
he just moved away from your hands. This time he actually went towards
you.�
�Yeah.�
�He responded
to you,� she stressed, her eyes opening and focu on on him as he stopped
rubbing and stood up.
�Yeah, he
did, didn�t he?�
�That means
he�s starting to have consciousness, doesn�t it?� she asked, her eyes wide with
wonder. �That�s just... wow. I mean, I know it happens. I�ve read about it, but
this is the first time we�ve ever experienced it.�
Inuyasha
tenderly brushed a tendril of hair away from her face and gave her a pleased
smile. �Yeah.�
Kagome let
out a deep breath. �Whew. That...
that was pretty exciting but now I�m wiped out again.�
�Finish
your breakfast. I�ll get your
vitamins,� he said, pointing to her soup and tea.
�Okay,� she
agreed, picking up her teacup.
Mama
watched as Inuyasha brought her daughter two pills and a tall glass of water
with three slices of lemon.
�Thank
you,� Kagome said as she took the pills with her water.
�So what
are your plans for today, Kagome?� she asked.
�She�s resting.
Isn�t she,� Inuyasha answered firmly for her.
�Inuyasha
thinks I overdid it too much yesterday so he wants me to rest today.�
�That�s
probably not a bad idea.�
�Feh, see your mother agrees with me.�
'> Kagome
huffed. �Fine, but I�m not spending the day in bed.�
Did not!�
�Did to! I saw you slip!�
�Inuyasha
you saw me stumble because the baby decided to kick me in the spleen!�
�And then
you slipped!�
Kagome
looked up to heaven and prayed, �Oh Kami-sama, please save me from this
over-bearing, over-reacting man who jumps to conclusions faster than Paris
Hilton jumps into bed.�
�Who�s
Paris
Hilton?�
She sig hea heavily. �Never mind.�
�Feh.�
�I�m going
to get dressed.�
�I�ll help
you up to the room,� he offered.
Kagome put
up a warning finger. �No. Mama can help me. I�ll be fine.�
Inuyasha
lowered his ears and looked dejected, and Mama had to stop herself from
giggling.
�But��
Kagome took
one look at his face and gave in. �Oh alright.�
She offered
him her arm and he took it, standing beside her and supporting her as she
walked from the kitchen.
�Mama, go
to the sunroom. It�s down the hall to the left. You can�t miss it. I�ll be down
in a few minutes,� Kagome said.
Mama did as
asked and made her way to the large sunroom. Her daughter was right and it was
impossible to miss the large solarium full of plants. It was an obvious
addition to the house, and a recent one to boot, and it looked out over the
sprawling backyard with its garden and the trees beyond. The floor was made of
blue-gray stone that served as a thermal mass and was tastefully furnished with
a simple wrought-iron glass topped table with 4 matching chairs, and two
heavily cushioned wrought-iron chaise lounges with small matching tables next
to them. In one corner a little fountain bubbled noisily as it spilled its
water through a series of cupped brass fern leaves.
She�d
brought her refilled coffee mug with her and sat down to watch the birds
feeding from the birdfeeder and taking baths in the birdbath until she heard
movement behind her. Turning her head, she saw Inuyasha escorting a dressed
Kagome into the room. She had put on a loose denim jumper dress, a white
T-shirt and a pair of tabi socks, and had pulled her
hair back into a ponytail. Inuyasha had dressed as well, and he was now in a
pair of faded jeans and a black T-shirt that said �Your village called. Their idiot is missing� in English.
�Over here,
koi,� Inuyasha said, ushering her over to one of the
chaise lounges and helping her to lie down on it. He put extra cushions
under her feet to elevate her ankles.
Kagome went
willingly and Mama moved her chair to sit next to her once she was settled.
Inuyasha disappeared for a few moments and returned carrying a glass of ice water
(with the requisite 3 slices of lemon) and a little hand held Motorola
transceiver. He had the transceiver�s bright red twin clipped to his belt.
�I�ll be in
the garage seeing what I can do with Miroku�s hunk of
scrap metal. If you need me, beep me,� he said, placing the glass and the
transceiver on the table beside the lounge.
�Don�t let
Miroku hear you call his classic Aston Martin a hunk of scrap metal,� she
warned.
�Feh. It�s a piece of crap. He
should have bought the Delorean if he wanted a fixer-upper.�
�James Bond
doesn�t drive a Delorean.�
�James Bond
is a womanizing asshole.�
�Yeah, but
Sean Connery is soooooo cute.�
Inuyasha
just growled jealously, making Kagome giggle and give him a little push.
�Go. Before
you go all alpha-male on me. I don�t want Sean Connery. He doesn�t have your
cute, fuzzy ears,� she teased.
�Feh. Nice to know it�s my ears
that do it for you.�
She gave
him a sly smile and slapped his backside lightly as he turned away.
�It�s a lot
more than your ears.�
�Don�t
tease me,� he quipped back, kissing her forehead sweetly. �If you need
anything��
�I�ll beep
you. I promise. Now shoo. Mama-daughter time, remember?�
He sighed
and acquiesced, but not before fixing Mama with a look that spoke volumes.
�Don�t
worry, Inuyasha, I�ll take good care of her,� she promised.
He nodded,
gave Kagome one more kiss and a pat to his unborn child, and left her alone
with her daughter.ome ome sighed with relief the moment he was gone.
�Ah, finally. A moment�s peace without my
Great Protector hovering over me and flipping out every time I sneeze.�
Mama
chuckled. �He�s only looking out for you, Kagome.�
�There�s
looking out for me and there�s smothering me. He passed the point of looking
out and went over to smothering a long time ago, Mama.�
�Being that
you�ve had four miscarriages and this baby is your last chance, can you blame
him?�
She sighed
again and rubbed her abdomen. �No. I suppose not, but it is annoying. Pregnancy
is difficult enough without having to fight him on every little thing.
Honestly. He�s so worried about stressing me out that he doesn�t realize that
his worry is stressing me out.�
�True. But
men rarely see that side of things. All Inuyasha sees is you in discomfort and
danger. He�s always been vicio pro protective of you.�
�I know.
Believe me, I know.�
They grew
silent and Mama sipped her coffee while Kagome stared out of the sunroom, her
face pensive.
�I�m
scared, Mama,� she finally said. �I�m so scared.�
�What is it
that you are so afraid of?�
Kagome
placed a hand on her abdomen and looked down at the swell of her womb.
�Failure. So much is riding on this baby. If he, or she, is
born alive and lives, it will be the first successful birthing of a hanyou
sired child. So many others have tried and failed. So far we�ve gotten the
closest to doing it. If we do, then we prove that hanyous can have children- at
least some of them can. So many youkai bloodlines would be saved from
extinction if that could be true for other hanyous. So many others have a vested
interest in seeing my baby born alive. I feel terrible pressure��
Mama
covered Kagome�s hand with her own. �Don�t. You�re doing the best you can. That
is all anyone could ask for. Don�t let their anxiousness make you more nervous
than you already are. All you need to do is concentrate on staying healthy and
bringing this baby into the world. Let everyone else worry about the rest of
it.�
�I can�t. I
pushed Inuyasha into this. He kept telling me he wanted to stop. After I
miscarried the third baby almost halfway into the second trimester, I had to
try that much harder to get him to agree to another attempt,� she replied.
�Seeing you
in pain was very hard on him.�
�I know,
but I wanted another baby, and I wanted it to be his baby. His
and mine. I know he said that this one will be no different than the
others, and in some ways he�s right, but in others he�s wrong. This baby is
different. Not because it�s more important or special than our adopted
children, but because��
�This one
you carried,� she finished for her.
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