Twilight of Memories

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"Go away!" I moaned.

The knock came again.

"Grrr fine! I'm up, I'm up." I grumbled and got up. I jumped down the stairs and landed gracefully at the bottom. Strolling to my door, I opened it and answered with my nicest words in a while. "What the hell do you want?"

"Hello I'm Tam - Kagome?" The lady said in confusion.

I shrugged. "Well, if I've known you before you either survived wars and stuff from the feudal era and lived until now… or you've read my book."

"Both, Kagome I was the maid for Sesshoumaru." She replied.

"Tamie? No way, it is you. What are you doing here?" I asked.

"Well," Tamie said. "Sesshoumaru called and appointed me a midwife for you."

"I'm sure you have a lot of practice with birthing children."

"No not really. I was only supposed to help Sesshoumaru's 'mate', which he never had."

I giggled. "That's hard to believe, he's sorta like a major hunk."

"You should know, you're pregnant with his child." Tamie said rolling her eyes.

"Umm… No I'm not." I said furrowing my eyebrows.

She stared at me with confusion written all over her face. "You smell like him."

"I might smell like him because I was in a car with him and stuff." I muttered. "He couldn't be the father. I can't smell him on me."

"You can't smell him on you because you are used to the scent. I can though, because it's a different smell then the ones I've smelled before I came here." She replied.

I huffed and beckoned for her to come with me to the living room. Tamie and I settled on the couch and continued our conversation.

"So how long has it been?" Tamie asked.

I shrugged. "About three months."

"Well," she said shaking her head with a smirk, "the baby will be good and ready."

"What do you mean?" I asked.

"Inu pups are normally born at two to three months. Two months is the average, three is fine too... most of the time."

"Are you trying to make me nervous?" I asked uneasily.

She shook her head again and grinned. "Nope."

"Oh. Well, that's good."

She stood up and started to wander around the house aimlessly, looking into rooms and other places trying to figure out the house before yelling to me. "Where are you going to put the nursery?"

"I don't know. Do you think that my children would be better off in the Feudal Era than here?" I inquired not even caring if it gave me away.

"Well… They would be better off there because they will be able to grow naturally and not have to hide away every second of their lives, and because there are fewer threats to them even though some of them are more dangerous than cars and such here."

"So that's a yes?" I asked.

"Yep, pretty much," She replied lazily.

"So what do I do? Just lie around and wait for the baby to pop out?" I asked.

"Uh-huh, I'm getting the nursery set up and knowing Sesshoumaru he'll be back in about… now."

Ding-dong.

"That's consistent." I noted.

I got up and answered the door even though Tamie said she would. Just as promised, Sesshoumaru stood in the entryway.

"Good evening or morning or whatever Mr. Taisho," I greeted, stepping aside to let him through.

"Hi Kagome," Sesshoumaru muttered looking around.

"Let me show you around." I said more then asked. Taking his wrist, I showed him all the rooms in my house. "What do you think?"

"Big, but nice." He answered.

"Great." I said rolling my eyes.

He rolled his eyes right back at me and said, "You were always so challenging."

"What?"

"Nothing."

"Okay… Tamie need any help?" I asked as I saw my guest bedroom being transformed before my very eyes into a nursery.

"Nope." She replied, lifting the bed up easily and turning it to make more room. Sesshoumaru said he would help. Tamie had no reply to that so he went in and helped.

"Okay…" Seeing that I didn't need to do anything, I went back to the living room and sat on the couch. The word Couch Potato had a new meaning to me and it was, I.

I, Couch Potato of the Couch hereby decree, watch a movie.

I put a comedy movie in the player and sat back down. After two hours of laughing at even the stupidest jokes and falls, I needed a change of pants and underwear.

I turned off the TV and went upstairs to the bathroom, did my business, then changed into a different pair of underwear and pants. Once I was out of my room I went to go check out the nursery.

To my surprise, they were done with it, cribs and all. I hadn't seen them leave the house. Then again, I was a little occupied with the movie so maybe I just didn't notice.

"Well, what do you think?" Tamie asked, looking slightly bothered by something.

"Looks great! Couldn't have done it better myself!" I said gleefully.

"You wouldn't have been able to do it at all." Sesshoumaru said, not even bothering to consider my feelings.

I didn't really care, so I shrugged. "I dunno, maybe I could have. But we'll never know now."

Tamie said she would make dinner and went to go make it. I shrugged and looked around the room again, touching some things to make it more real.

My eyebrows furrowed slightly as I tried to remember, but nothing would come up. The best picture I had was one of the mystery sire of my children with a limb freshly gone and a sword swinging down to kill me. I sighed thinking it was so stupid to try and remember when I can't. But yet I want to remember.

I glanced up at Sesshoumaru to see him staring at me with a thoughtful expression. Instantly my eyes veered away to the suddenly awesome floor.

"Have you tried to remember what you cant?" He asked me.

"Sometimes." I admitted.

"Have you," he said pausing slightly, "figured it out yet?"

"No." I replied.

"He still loves you Kagome, he always has even though he's never been good showing it." Sesshoumaru murmured taking a step closer to me.

"Well the bastard is pretty retarded then." I muttered.

He chuckled softly. "Yeah he must be. He must be a real big ass."

"Wait don't tell me it's Inuyasha?" I said pretended to gasp in horror.

"No, the half-breed is too retarded to be the father." Sesshoumaru stated.

"How nice," I returned.

"Yeah, I know." Sesshoumaru muttered taking another step closer.

"So your friend… Please tell me he's not an ugly-ass son of a bitch?" I said trying to at least unlock a little bit of the mystery baka's picture and such from in my mind.

"I don't know. Do you think I'm, as you say, an 'ugly-ass'?" He asked, now that he was basically standing an inch away from me, his face leaning towards mine.

"Well… it depends…" I murmured, blushing as his face seemed to hover just mere inches from mine. And then realization took over. "No way, you can't be the father of my children."

He raised an eyebrow. "How do you know?"

"Um… because… you're… he… kill… us…?" I said trying to complete at least one of the many sentences running through my head.

"Do you remember an arm?" He asked digging his right hand into his pocket.

"Arm…? Oh wait, he had a missing arm… Because I used my miko powers and destroyed it…" I muttered. "But you have both your arms."

"Looks can be deceiving." He said and pulled his right arm out of his shirt. Or what was thought to be a right arm. It was a piece of metal with a weird life-like look to the hand and wrist.

"That must have been expensive." I said. "And you have a missing arm just like him… But he killed me… or hurt me or something…" Suddenly I started poking him in the chest roughly. "If you were the person who killed me, how could you? You selfish, evil baka!"

"I think I liked it better when people called me Icicle Ass. It was less words." He said to himself.

"Shut it." I demanded, and stormed out of the nursery with the very confused youkai standing there.

"Dinner is ready!" Tamie called.

I rushed to the table and took a seat only in time to stiffen as a smell and sensation put me on high alert.

"What's wrong?" Tamie asked as she set down raw meat of different assorts in front of me.

"I think my water just broke." I said.

/ \ 3rd Person POV after a few hours… / \

"SESSHOUMARU, GET IN HERE YOU LYING BASTARD!" Kagome screamed as another wave of pain coursed through her.

Sesshoumaru sat in the hall with his head against the wall and trying to cover his elfin ears. Why was it female youkai's had to be so temperamental during birth?

"YOU SAY YOU ARE THE FATHER, SO GET IN HERE AND I'LL LET YOU EXPERIENCE THE WONDERFUL EXPERIENCE OF GIVING BIRTH!" Kagome shrieked louder.

Tamie kept encouraging Kagome to keep going, Kagome would, and then Sesshoumaru got to go deaf over and over again.

/ \

Kagome held a little bundle in her hands. All her memories started coming back as the last of the triplets finally came into the world, and Kagome couldn't have been happier.

"So you were the little stinker keeping my memories away." Kagome cooed at the little girl.

Kagome had given birth to two boys and one girl. The boys had the same silver hair as their father, but the oldest had lapis lazuli eyes like his mother and the youngest like his fathers'. All of them had mark on their forehead that looked like waves, but a crescent moon wrapped around it. The only girl out of the bunch was an exact replica of her mother, with bluish hair with white tips.

Sesshoumaru held his eldest son and smiled, yes smiled, while Tamie held the youngest of the three.

"So what are you going to name them?" Tamie asked quietly not even acknowledging Sesshoumaru as the father at the moment.

"Well… I would like the name my little girl after my mother, Suki." Kagome said smiling softly. "InuToga for my oldest son and for the youngest… Ryoku."

Kagome didn't know why she wanted to name my youngest son Strength. But it just seemed right. He would have to live up to that name someday, and she knew it. Therefore, he deserved it.

Kagome added an afterthought after a moment of silence. "What do you think Sesshoumaru?"

He shrugged. "Perfect."

"Sesshoumaru, I think you should leave so she can get some rest." Tamie said before she set Ryoku in the large crib and left giving us some time alone.

"She's right, I should go. You used a lot of energy up today… and vocal cords." Sesshoumaru said setting InuToga in the crib along with Ryoku. "May I?" He asked looking towards Suki.

Kagome nodded and handed Suki to him. As soon as she was in Sesshoumaru's arms she started crying and started to glow blue.

"What the-?" Sesshoumaru forgot whatever it was he was going to say and pretty much everything else for that moment and gave me Suki again. His memory rushed forth again and he was as confused as ever. "What was that?"

Suki stopped crying and fell silent as she fell asleep in Kagome's arms. "She took Naraku's curse and turned it into a power. She can make you forget, and do things."

Kagome got off the bed slowly with Sesshoumaru helping and put Suki in the crib. All three of the children cuddled together and Kagome had the hold back the urge to woo and aw at the cute sight.

"Bye Kagome. I must go." Sesshoumaru said and was about to walk out the door before…

"Please don't go." Kagome practically moaned.

Sesshoumaru paused outside the door while a war was going on in his head. Should he? Or shouldn't he? "Why?"

"Because I'll miss you, I don't want to be alone anymore." Kagome replied.

"Very well," Sesshoumaru said, coming back into the room closing the door behind him.

Kagome scooted over in the bed giving him some room and motioned for him to come. Sesshoumaru came and sat on the side of the bed slowly as Kagome watched him, Sesshoumaru the gentleman he was took off his shoes. Kagome just rolled her eyes and wrapped her arms around his neck and made him lay on the bed next to her. Sesshoumaru turned over so he was looking at Kagome.

Kagome closed her eyes as relief and exhaustion swept over her and kept her arms locked around Sesshoumaru's neck. She fell asleep after a while and Sesshoumaru tried to climb out of the bed quietly but Kagome's iron choke-hold said otherwise.

"Don't leave me." Kagome murmured her eyebrows coming together making a single line in her half-dreaming state.

"I won't…" Sesshoumaru said trying to make whatever that was bothering Kagome disappear.

Kagome smiled and released her hold on him, turning her back to him and he automatically wrapped his arm around her waist and pulled her to him.

They both fell into a beautiful dream not knowing what was in store for them.

/ \ Kagome's POV next morning/ \

I woke up at dawn and lay in the bed with Sesshoumaru's arm still wrapped around me. I could tell he was awake and watching, but I didn't say anything.

I sat up and ran a hand through my hair that was perfect already. Getting out of the bed was the challenge. I didn't really want to leave it but I knew I had to.

I walked over to the crib to see all of the babies sleeping still. I raised an eyebrow and wondered if there was something wrong with them. I knew I wasn't going to find the answer written on their faces, so I left the room and headed downstairs.

Tamie was already up, surprisingly, and making breakfast too. I sat in a seat and watched with a bored expression.

"When can I go back?" I said trying to get a conversation going.

"Go back where?" Tamie asked absently.

"To the Feudal Era." I responded.

"Not yet."

"Is it because you're worried my children won't survive there?"

"No, with you as their mother they would have pretty good protection. Heck, you'd probably kill every youkai in a three hundred mile radius." Tamie said rolling her eyes.

"Maybe…" I admitted.

"The reason I say you can't go is because you need to get your strength and energy back. Also you probably should sell the house and quit your job."

"Wait, how did you know…?" I said surprised she even knew.

She tapped her head. "That you weren't going to visit but stay?"

"Yes…" I stopped talking about the subject and waited quietly for my breakfast.

Sesshoumaru joined us in the kitchen a moment later and it was still silent.

Breakfast was served and I devoured every morsel on my plate in mere seconds. I got up, put my plate in the sink and washed it. After that, I walked out of the room and picked up the phone I called Mr. Maroon.

"Talk to me." His voice answered.

"Hey Maroon, I'm not coming in today." I said.

There was a pause and then he replied, "Why?"

"Because I'm resigning."

"What? You're the best reporter we have! You can't quit!" He said quickly.

"I'm leaving," I responded, "here forever."

"What?"

"Nothing."

"Goodbye Mr. Maroon." I said and hung up the phone.

The rest of the day went by pretty slowly. I put the house up for sale and took care of the kids. Sesshoumaru stayed around the house but disappeared sometimes.

I got bored of the house and started to day dream of the crisp air and the danger from the Feudal Era. I knew I couldn't go yet, I needed to be ready for everything. When life hands you lemons… Yeah? They're lemons, so what?

In the end though I went to bed not at all satisfied with the day.

/ \ Two Weeks Later / \

The house was sold, and I was currently at Sesshoumaru and Inuyasha's house with all the kids. Even though they were just two weeks they all looked like toddlers.

"Ryoku, stop pulling on your brother's ears!" I yelled at my youngest son.

He let go quickly and looked at me with large innocent eyes. "Sowwy mommy."

"Mommy, Inuyasha is being mean to me!" Suki yelled from somewhere upstairs.

"INUYASHA!" I yelled. "SIT!"

BAM!

I ran up the stairs and to find Inuyasha on the ground twitching with my daughter laughing at him.

"Suki," I said with warning written in my voice.

Her face flushed red with anger as she said. "He called me a Memory Stealing Witch!"

"You're not a witch. He's just an idiot." I said taking her hand and leading her to the boys.

Even though Inuyasha had seemed grown up at the doctor's office, he still acted like the same old Inuyasha I always knew.

"The boys are so boring, and when there is anything fun, they fight like idiots over it and I end up getting blamed by both of them." She grouched. "Why couldn't I have been born with a sister? Wait, mommy could you get me a sister?"

I blushed. "Maybe in the future… But for right now let's just relax."

The day carried on slowly and of course Ryoku and InuToga got into little skirmishes. Suki always got the toy or whatever they were fighting over in the end though, and called them off on the fighting. I watched, and told them all to not fight but sometimes I didn't stop it because I wasn't there. Secretly, I wanted Suki to stop them, if it took my daughter making them look bad to make sure they never turned out how Inuyasha and Sesshoumaru were, I wasn't going to stop it.

I did draw the line if she started rubbing it in their faces and or they all started fighting fist to fist.

Sesshoumaru came home from work at five o'clock and I greeted him with a kiss on the cheek as always.

"Sesshoumaru, I need to go home." I murmured into his ear. I had said the same thing every day ever sense I decided to go back to the Feudal Era.

And I would get the same response, "This is your home."

"You know what I mean." I said running a hand through my hair.

"But then you'll be gone."

I smiled. "No I won't. If it goes well, you might not be living here all alone with Inuyasha."

"If I agree," he sighed, "you know you'll have to take Ryoku, Suki, and InuToga with you."

I nodded. "I know, they are old enough now that they will be able to defend themselves."

"Alright, go pack and I will take you to the well tomorrow." He said in defeat. "Just don't die on me in the Feudal Era."

/ \ A/N / \

Yay chapter 17! Thank you all who are reading!