A blood-curdling scream split the air, echoing throughout the cave of the Eastern Wolf Demon Clan.

Koga leaped to his feet automatically and headed straight to the side cavern where the scream came from.

"Stop!" a female wolf demon blocked his path, glaring at him. "We already told you, you can't be in here until she's done giving birth."

"But she—" Koga started.

"I said no! I don't care if you're the leader or not! You being in here is just going to make her more nervous! Now scat!"

She swiped at Koga, who leaped back to dodge. Once he was out of the way, she turned back into the cavern and stalked in.

'Lousy heartless hag!' he thought with anger, glaring daggers into the wolf demon's back.

"Come on, Koga." Ginta slunk up to Koga and patted his shoulder. "Just come and sit. Have something to eat."

"Not hungry." Koga sat down on a rock a few feet in front of the entrance, staring intently into the darkness.

"Come on—"

"Shut up."

"I told you to scat!" the female returned, this time lunging at Koga with an angry glare. Koga's eyes widened as he fell on his side with the female on top of him.

She bit his neck. It was a warning, nothing more than a nip. But the speed of it surprised Koga, making him yelp.

Koga scrambled away and ran down to the main cavern of the cave, scuffling up the dirt, all eyes on him.

"Now I don't want to see you anywhere near this cavern till Kagome's done giving birth, you got that?!"

Koga just glared at her, holding his neck.

She huffed and turned around.

Then spotted Ginta.

"You too!" she yelled, connecting her foot to Ginta's rump. "Scat!"

"Waah! Why me too?! I wasn't doing anything!" Ginta yelled as he ran down to the main cavern.

The female humphed then disappeared back inside the cavern as another scream split the air.

"FFUUCCKK!"

Koga's eyes widened when he heard the shrillness of Kagome's voice before his eyes going even wider from hearing her curse.

"Damn." An elder male wolf said, resting his head on a propped up arm that rested on his knee. "I never knew human's were so loud when they give birth."

"I've never heard a female scream from just child birth." Hakkaku said, looking at the ground. "Are they doing it right?"

"Don't let the female's hear you doubt them or you'll lose the little crop of hair you have."

Hakkaku gulped.

"Anyway, they're not doing anything different. Human's probably have a lower tolerance to pain than wolves."

"Well, the fact that their half-breeds probably makes it more painful than usual." A younger male said.

"Why do you say that?" another elder male questioned.

"Well, aren't half-breed's usually deformed in some way?"

"Depends on the type of demon." A middle-aged male said.

"That half-breed, Inuyasha wasn't that deformed." Another young male said.

"All he had were dog ears."

"Who was the half-breed's father?"

"I heard that it was that dog demon, Ino No Taisho."

"Ino No Taisho? Didn't he terrorize the west?"

"That's what I heard."

"He's a pretty powerful individual. You sure it wasn't a lesser demon?"

"No. I'm pretty sure. Cuz that half-breed is half-brothers with Inu No Taisho's son, Sesshomaru."

"Oh?"

"Mm-hm."

"Well, if it is true and a powerful demon like that produced a lowly deformed half-demon, then Koga shouldn't have anything to worry about. I mean, he's basically on the same level."

"Yes, but that was a dog. This is a wolf. There may be crucial differences."

They fell silent as another curse split the air. Koga looked up from where he sat—having been listening to the tribesmen's conversation with a mixture of anxiety and unease—as more curses split the air.

An elderly wolf sighed. "We're not going to get any sleep tonight, are we?"

"Probably not. It took a female wolf a couple hours for her to give birth but Sister Kagome's been at it since dawn this morning."

"I heard human's can go into labor for days before the baby is finally born."

"Really?"

"Days? But I've only seen a male and female human with one child."

"They usually can only have one."

"Why would it take them days though?"

The elder shrugged.

Koga snorted and stood. Holding his arms behind his back with his head tilted down, he began to pace quickly back and forth across the cave.

"Well, we have a back-up cave anyway so we can always sleep there." The elder said.

"I'm in agreement with that. I have dawn patrol tomorrow."

"So do I."

The elder stretched then stood. "Koga, we're heading out."

"Do what you want." He muttered as he paced past them.

"GYAARRHH! KOGA, I FUCKING HATE YOU!"

Koga's eyes widened and took a step to the cavern only to stop when he remembered the females' threat.

"What'd I do?!" He yelled up.

"YOU DID THIS TO ME!"

Koga's eyes widened more and he shrunk back as guilt engulfed him and a blush crossed his face.

"We-we-well..."

"Hey, it's okay." An elder wolf placed his hand on Koga's shoulder, smiling down at him reassuringly. "Most female human's say that. They tend to say worst things then that, like, 'You're never touching me again'. Or something like that."

The pep talk didn't really reassure Koga but he nodded, dumbly, anyway.

"Come on, boys. Let's get some sleep." The elder turned to the cave with the other's already heading out. He stopped a moment and turned back to Koga. "You coming with?"

"Uhm, no. I'm fine here." He looked back up to the cavern.

"Alright, soot yourself."

The tribesmen walked through the waterfall, out into the night.

Only Koga, Ginta, and Hakkaku remained.

"You two should go get some sleep." Koga said.

"You sure?" Hakkaku asked.

"We're here for you." Ginta added.

"No, just go get some sleep."

"…Okay…"

The two stood and went to the entrance way.

"See you in the morning, Koga." Ginta said.

"Yeah." Koga didn't turn to look at them as he continued his pace.

The two lackeys left.

Hours passed. Night turned into the glow of dawn. The buildup of dirt and wolf fur on the cavern floor had been cleared away in a straight line from Koga's pacing feet. Kagome's screams hadn't lessened in the slightest during that time.

Then finally, as dawn was erupting over the horizon, Koga heard the distinct sound of an infant's cry. His eyes widened and he automatically ran up to the cavern.

Only to be chased away by the female wolf demon once again.

Koga stared up at the cavern as he sat on a rock, out of sight of the cavern entrance but close enough to be chased away if the female had noticed.

Not even three minutes later, another, separate infant cry surfaced.

Then it was silent. It made Koga uncomfortable to hear nothing. So, even though he knew the female wolf demon would most-likely chase him away, he stood and slunk up to the cavern.

He peeked in.

The females in the cavern turned to him.

"You are so persistent!" the female that was always chasing him away growled.

He slunk back, his posture speaking the words he'd never say aloud: "I'm sorry."

The female looked at him then sighed. "It's over now anyway. So go ahead."

Koga stared at her wide-eyed, wondering for a brief moment if it was a trick then took a tentative step into the cavern.

The other females exited.

Koga was left alone, staring down at Kagome, who had two infants lying next to her shoulders. She looked worn out, covered in sweat and naked except for the wolf-pelt blanket that lied over her body. Her face was flushed but the rest of her skin looked ghostly white.

Koga squatted down and slunk over on all four over to her. He cautiously wriggled under the blanket and experimentally wrapped his arms around Kagome. When there was no rebuke, he pressed his front against her back and embraced her from behind.

Kagome groaned, making Koga flinch. She opened her eyes and lazily looked over her shoulder at Koga. Koga felt as if he should retreat but held his ground. Kagome placed a weak hand on his cheek.

"Oh, Koga. Hi, honey."

'Honey? She's not mad?'

"Are you okay, Kagome?" Koga asked.

"Yeah, I'm fine now. Just tired." She said.

Koga stared down at her, feeling the shake in her hand. He held her tighter.

"I'm…um, sorry, Kagome."

"Hmm?" Kagome opened her eyes and looked at him. "For what?"

"For…getting you pregnant."

Kagome blushed and her eyes widened. "That-that—I um, Ko-Koga, I didn't mean that, what I said earlier. It was…just the heat of the moment."

"So, you're not angry?" Koga asked.

"Yeah. I'm not. Not at all."

Koga smiled and rubbed his head against her shoulder. "Good."

Kagome exhaled in exhausting and happiness, hearing the small coo of the infant next to her head, and closed her eyes.

She let sleep take her over.

"Mother! Look, look!" a little boy ran up to the human wolf demon tribe member, his long wavy black hair up in a pony tail, tan skin half covered by a wolf-pelt kilt and a breast plate, blue eyes wide with excitement, bare feet pattering against the dirt, pointed ears protruding from his hair.

Kagome smiled and looked down at the boy, who held an insect in his hand.

"I found a moth!" he yelled.

"Where at?" she asked, hunkering down to look at it. The fact that it hadn't flown away made her assume it was dead but she was quite surprised when she saw that it actually wasn't.

"In the cavern up there." He pointed at the cavern. "There's a whole bunch of them. But they all flew away except for this one."

"Oh?"

"We're home." Koga called as he rushed through the water fall, a girl squeal saying it was cold following.

"Father!" the little boy turned around to stare at the tribe leader with wide, excited eyes.

The boy ran to him, abandoning the moth.

"Hi, Kaname." Koga said as the boy wrapped his arms around Koga's leg in a hug.

Koga looked at the boy as he placed down the little girl in his arms. The little girl looked up at Koga with wide, cerulean, pupil-less eyes, her straight black hair resting against her shoulders, wolf pelt lacing her body in a feminine/masculine matter, a brown tail flicking over her rump.

Kagome smiled and walked over, picking up the little girl.

"Did you have fun patrolling the territory, Kei?"

The little girl nodded, staring at Kagome with dull eyes and a bent hand over her mouth.

Kagome smiled up at the wolf demon leader then leaned up and kissed him. Koga looked down at his family, smiling happily while thinking that he was the luckiest demon alive.

I know I said I was done but I couldn't help but do this. So I wrote down a little omake. I really only wrote this chunk cuz I wanted Kagome to say, "I hate you! You did this to me!"

Oh, and a couple of people have asked me this so I'll put it here, if you want to know where Inuyasha disappeared to, read my first story The Dog Caught In a Spider's Web (good ending).

Hope to see you again.

Kittycatkyla