Chapter 18

New Legacies

Previously on The Pure Soul

Sesshomaru rushed forward and caught her before she fully hit the ground. "Kaeda!" he yelled. Before the woman could make it to them a powerful white light blinded them all and forced them to shut their eyes before opening them moments later. They all looked around in wonder at the meadow.

The bodies of all the demons were gone and their wounds all healed. Sesshomaru looked down at his mate who was still in his arms unconscious but breathing evenly.

Now

Sesshomaru lay beside Kagome in their bed staring at the doorway that used to connect to Kagome's first room in the Mansion but now was her surprise for him after they brought their pup home from the hospital.

It had been close to two months since the battle in the meadow and just as he had predicted Kagome's stomach was swollen, she complained that it made her look like an oversized elephant but to him it only made her even more beautiful. But his mate was being stubborn and keeping secrets from him, like what was behind the door that now contained the nursery and also she continued to use the barrier around the pup so that he couldn't sense what gender it was. Hell he didn't even know if they were only having one! With the size she was growing to he would say at least two were with in her.

Sighing he looked down at his beautiful mate as she slept the early morning hours away burning through her day more often than not sleeping, sometimes for over twelve hours at a time. When she wasn't sleeping she locked herself inside that room only letting Eliza and Syria in to help her with what she planning. He couldn't even threaten Inuyasha to get the information out of his own mate because Kagome had sworn her to secrecy and damn Kikyo she was sticking to the oath.

Brushing a strand of hair out of her face he remembered the first day he saw her on their porch laying a verbal smack down on Jaken one hundred percent pissed off and one hundred percent human at the time. Fate had a fucked up sense of humor in his opinion but he couldn't bring himself to hate it.

Without fate and legacies he would have never seen Kagome that day when her heart was in shatters trying to get back to her friends apartment, and he would have never had the chance to love her and the pup(s) that grew within her to the extent he did, if at all. Before she came into his life he hadn't known anything about love outside of his family, to him everyone that wasn't with in his family were power hungry thieving backstabbers.

Something warm inside of his chest, that he had just grown used to, enlarged again until he was sure it would burst from his chest in a burst of light leaving him cold and without it.

"Are you watching me sleep?" Kagome asked in a husky whisper with her eyes still closed.

Smiling Sesshomaru pushed her hair out of her face again "Yes."

A smile tugging at her lips she asked "Am I drooling?"

"A little."

"Liar I bet it's a lot." She accused finally opening her azure eyes to glare at him half-heartedly. Stretching out beside him on her back she placed her hands on her swollen midsection smiling down as if she could already see their pup. "Maru can you get me some banana honey cake please? My love bundle down there woke me up and now I'm in the mood for cake."

Kagome looked up at him her eyes shining with happiness as she took his hand and placed it where hers was feeling his strong pup moving around. Leaning down he kissed her belly "Little one your keeping your mom awake and making her send me on errands cut your dad some slack and settle down." He muttered as Kagome sighed in relief.

"It likes your voice, every time you say something it settles down just to listen to you." She whispered running her fingers through his hair when he looked back up at her.

"Can you give me a hint about what gender it is?" he asked when he sat back beside her.

Shaking her head Kagome laughed and half-heartedly push him off of the bed. "No, now go get me some cake Kiarila promised me last night that some more would be done by now, Please my love?" she pouted and hugging him around his chest.

With a sigh Sesshomaru rolled off the bed and slipped his sweatpants back on over his boxer briefs, "How can a man resist such a beautiful woman when she looks at him like that?" he asked her before he leaned down and gave her a soft kiss. "I'll be back shortly." He told her as he walked out of their bedroom.

Making his way down to the kitchen where he was sure to find Kiarila just pulled a loaf of Kagome's favorite Banana Honey Cake out of the stove he found Eliza headed in the opposite direction with something in a bag from another maternity store.

"Good Morning Fluffy. Is your wife awake yet?" She asked stopping him just before he reached the stairway.

"Why else would I be up this early Eli? She must have smelled the cake being pulled from the oven and had a instant craving." Sesshomaru told her without asking about what was in the bag, knowing that he wouldn't get an answer.

Laughing her bell like laugh Eliza shook her head in feigned disappointment. "She has changed you so much Sesshomaru, if I hadn't seen it myself I wouldn't have ever believed that your heart could be warmed so quickly by such a small unimposing woman." She said softly.

"HEY! I object to that woman!" they both heard Kagome yell from behind the doorway indignantly. "I'm taller than you." She muttered before she started to move toward the bathroom.

Sesshomaru stared back at his bedroom door with an affectionate smile spread across his face, "I wouldn't have believed it either Eli, but she is a person that is hard to resist." He told her turning back toward the staircase. "Do your secret meeting quickly I will only be but a few minutes more before she comes to hunt me down."

Laughing quietly again Eliza walked past him "Don't worry I won't let her get farther than the door, you should hurry or else you'll miss something very important." She chimed in before disappearing in Kagome's bedroom.

Taking Eliza's word Sesshomaru rushed into the kitchen grabbed a whole cake for Kagome and returned to their bedroom within minutes of the conversation. Both women stopped talking as soon as he came into the room, and he knew they had been talking about the baby(s).

Kagome's eyes widen in appreciation "Ooo you know me too well Maru," she said reaching out for the plate and fork Sesshomaru held for her. But stopped short and gasped letting both of her hands drop to her rounded belly "Oh!" she whispered.

"Kagome?" Sesshomaru asked as she fell back into the pillows. Setting the cake on the bedside table he quickly went to her side.

"The baby is coming Sesshomaru," Eliza said in a voice close to a whisper her eyes round with shock, "this isn't supposed to happen another week though!" she said to herself forgetting about Sesshomaru and rushing to the doorway.

"KAEDA!" she yelled down the hallway franticly while Sesshomaru knelt beside the bed pushing Kagome's hair out of her face, her face was pale and her breathing shallow.

"Kagome? Baby? Look at me," he whispered to her, waiting for her to do so before speaking again, "everything is going to be fine just stay awake for me okay?" he asked her, relieved slightly when she nodded her head slightly and kept her eyes locked with his.

"Why is Eliza yelling? Our baby is coming why aren't we leaving?" she questioned weakly as Kaeda walked quickly into the room with her medical bag in hand.

"Kaeda needs to have a look at you before we leave do not worry my love," he told her as Kaeda pulled the sheets and comforter away from Kagome's lower body. Sesshomaru had to keep himself in check as he saw the sheets were covered in blood and stifle a growl. "What is happening Kaeda?" he asked between clenched teeth.

"The baby is coming we don't have time to get to a hospital I'm going to have to do this here." She said calmly before Kagome gasped in pain and her arms flexed around her abdomen. Turning to Eliza she smiled as the girl handed her several cloths and walked into the bathroom with several other cloths to wet them.

Syria and Toga came to the end of the bed and smiled at both Sesshomaru and Kagome. "My Lord, Lady, I'm sorry but you have to leave I need to concentrate on this without so many people in the room." Kaeda said pulling the top sheet and comforter all the way off the bed. "Kagome, I'm going to have your mate move you to the end of the bed so that I may make the delivery move quicker alright?" she told Kagome.

Looking up at Kagome when she only respond with a pain fill growl Sesshomaru saw her eyes were fully blood red and looked at Kaeda questioningly. Sighing Kaeda explaining "When a female Inu-youkai goes into child birth the mother has no control over their youkai and it takes almost of the control over stopping just short of transforming to their natural form, the edge of the bed now please?" she told him calmly as Eliza came back into the room with a tub filled with water and towels soaking in the bottom of it.

Gently Sesshomaru picked Kagome's ridged form and settled her on the edge of the bed, "Kagome I need you to prop your legs up on the edge the bed, the baby's head is just starting to crest," Kaeda guided her legs up to the position that she needed "just like that, Eliza those rags are going to be needed soon, Okay Kagome I need you to push as hard as you can, its going to hurt but you need to bring your baby into the world."

Kagome gasped in pain and pushed until she couldn't any longer "Babies, two at the least," She panted as her youkai receded slightly.

Sesshomaru stared at her, "Two?" he asked dumbfound staring down at his wife in amazement, Kagome nodded again as she pushed, sweat sparkling on her brow and wetting her hair.

"It's to early Kaeda," Eliza whispered to the elderly woman "I don't think they are ready."

"I realize this Eliza, but they are coming anyways," Kaeda said calmly as the head of the first baby pushed through making Kagome scream in pain, "one more time Kagome and- he's out. Eliza give Sesshomaru the scissors."

Eliza handed Sesshomaru the cleaned and sharpened utensil sighing she smacked him on the head "Come on get with it Fluffy we have at least one more of your children to birth!" she told him handing him the baby boy that had started to wail in protest.

OOOOOOOOO

Four hours later.

"They are so beautiful Sesshomaru," Aidan whispered as he entered the nursery closing the door with a soft click. Sesshomaru was standing the center of the room staring at the multiple cribs in front of him that contained his newborn baby's. "Triplets, you must have been a busy man." He said with a low whistle causing the three newborns to stir slightly until they all settled into a unanimous slumber.

Sesshomaru's lips twitched as he suppressed a smile, the man had no clue just how busy. "You should try with Eliza you know, you two would make decent parents," he said quietly glancing at the man at his right who was also looking at his three children with an affectionate smile.

Before Aidan could respond Eliza entered the room with a knowing smile on her face, though she did not make a comment about his statement. She looked at the three cribs with warmth gleaming in her eyes and spoke in a whisper "Aidan? I would like to speak with you, Sesshomaru Kagome asked for you she just woke up."

Unwillingly he tore his gaze away from his newborn children and turned to the connecting doorway to his and Kagome's bedroom. When he entered his gaze was immediately to his mate, who was abnormally pale and smiling at him. Within a blink of an eye he was beside her and pulling her ice cold hand into his own, warming them.

"How are they?" she asked her eyes wondering to the doorway in which he had just come from.

"Asleep for the time being," he said quietly studying her face "how are you?" he challenged noting the dark circles under her eyelids.

Kagome breathed a laugh "I am fine just tired, better than fine I'm absolutely blissful." Her eyes shining as she looked back at his face, withdrawing her hand from his and placing it on his cheek. "Two boys and a girl, how do you feel about that Mr. Tashio?"

"You wouldn't be able to find a man alive happier than I am," He told her kissing her gently on her forehead then her lips. The two boys, Akari the oldest and Arata the second eldest, had the same hair coloring as their mother, while the youngest Akina had the coloring of her father.

Kagome sighed as her eyes drifted close again "I don't understand how I can still be tired, I've done nothing but sleep for the past half month." She whispered

"Your only gathering your strength back my love, don't push yourself you'll need to be rested for the coming nights," he chuckled as she pouted with her eyes shut. "They should be awake already but it seems that we will have some quiet children."

Kagome's eyes snapped open with panic, "Do you think something is wrong? Is them sleeping a bad sign?" she asked as she struggled to sit up and get off the bed.

"Whoa now love," he reprimanded her gently pushing her shoulders back into the pillows, "I didn't say anything was wrong they are perfectly fine, calm yourself or else they will feel your worry, their souls are still closely tied with yours."

Kagome sat back reluctantly in the bed willing herself to calm again, "I'm sorry I just don't know what to do here," she said waving her hand making a weak gesture above her now flat stomach. "And its not just our pups, I can't hear any one now, their thoughts are their own again. Not that that this a bad thing, I didn't particularly enjoy that gift, but I feel some what weaker from the loss of it though."

"Shhh Koi, I know you are not weak from it, your youkai is just as strong as it was yesterday just relax," Sesshomaru said kissing the crest of her head, inhaling her sweet scent.

In the nursery they both heard stirrings and then a moment later a synchronized wail went up by all three of the infants, making their parents laugh. "Guess I will have to rest later, my public demands me," Kagome said as she got up and walked into the room with her mate following close behind her. "Hello my handsome boys," Kagome cooed as she picked the eldest up from their matching cribs and Sesshomaru lifted Akina settling them almost instantly. Two sets of striking blue and one pair of molten gold eyes blinked up at their parents as they again settled into silence.

"Odd that Akina would have coloring like you but such blue eyes like Akari," Kagome murmured as she sat in her blue rocking chair in the corner of the nursery settling both of the boys on her arms with Sesshomaru sitting at her feet with Akina looking up at both of them.

Sesshomaru said nothing as he stared at his youngest pup who stared right back, a spark of intelligence in her eyes. Then she erupted in a peal of giggles and not a second later her brothers joined her. Tipping his head back he looked at his mate, "Now I'm sure that your talent wasn't lost, I think they might be communicating with each other."

Kagome's eyes opened in shock as she looked at her three legacies that were still giggling and squirming in their blankets. "Well I wonder what new chapters this will lead to then," she whispered as they settled again studying both of their parents with and almost solemn looks on their tiny cherub faces.

The End

Okay so it's been a very loooonnnngggg time, and I'm sorry for that.

I kept coming back to this chapter and trying to finish it but I had major writers block, but today I had a spurt of inspiration and I sat down at my computer and started to write and ended up with this, I might make another story out of this last one but that is still undecided.

Also I went back and revised and even changed some parts during my very long writers block so if you fancy yourself bored you should go back and see if I made it somewhat better.

I hope you liked The Pure Soul and I am grateful for the reviews that I have gotten so far.

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