My Reason for Living
Epilogue
Seven Years Later…
The light was filtering through the branches of the large forest named after himself. The branches swayed gently in the breeze and the sun shown brightly.
The world was peaceful, with soft birds chirping and the wind whistling softly, blowing silver locks away from his face, golden eyes staring blankly ahead.
He stood quietly, just contemplating his life.
'Kagome,' he thought to himself softly, a small smile graced his lips as he looked up at the sky, 'you gave me a reason to appreciate this.'
He smiled as he listened to the birds' sing, when they suddenly all stopped and flew away in a furry. He raised an eyebrow and sniffed the air. A delicate scent of pine and lavender filled his scents. He knew who it was.
He heard shallow breathing behind him and he shook his head slightly. Feeling the person drawing nearer he sidestepped just in time as someone pounced towards where his head had been moments before and collided with a tree that Inuyasha was currently staring at.
Chuckling to himself he walked over to the collapsed figure and looked down at them, "Kichiro, you should be more careful." The faint smell of pine and lavender assaulted his senses. The child's scent.
The child looked up, his black dog-ears twitching, black bangs pressed against his forehead as his cat-like eyes stared up at them. The eyes were golden near the pupils; pupils like a cat, and became a purplish blue the farther the irises distanced from the pupil.
Blushing slightly the child stood up and stared at the older inu hanyou, his braided black hair swayed softly in the wind, blinking a few times he grinned sheepishly.
He lifted his hands above his head; the hands had slightly pointed nails, too short to really be claws, though.
Taking the hint, Inuyasha picked the child up, taping his nose lightly he said, "You almost had me."
The child pouted, "But, I didn't get you, you always dodge me."
Inuyasha looked as if he were in deep thought as he stared at the top of Kichiro's head, "You were upwind," he said calmly, as if that solved everything, at Kichiro's pointed glare he added, "You scared away the birds, and you were breathing too loudly."
The child pouted again and crossed his arms across his chest, "I can pounce mommy."
"Well that's because mommy doesn't have any demon blood, remember?" the little child nodded and Inuyasha began walking towards the village, "Speaking of your mom, we've been gone a long time, she'll probably get mad...."
The little child looked frightened and he clutched Inuyasha's top, "You won't let her be mad at me, will you Daddy?"
Inuyasha shook his head and ruffled his child's hair, "Nah, she'll probably only get mad at me...besides you were with me, so you weren't causing much trouble."
The little boy smiled and jumped out of his father's arms, skipping ahead, but not to far ahead, "Do you think mommy will make me some food?"
When the two finally reached the hut, twins, one girl and one boy greeted them. They both lit up excitedly as soon as they saw Kichiro, both jumping to there feet they ran over to the little child.
"Kichiro!" they both said in unison.
"Hi Minako! Hi Taro!" Kichiro waved shyly at Minako, who smiled back at him in return, skipping over to him, Minako grabbed his hand and pulled him towards her brother, Taro.
Taro grinned and started to run off, "Come on you two! Let's go to Kaede's!"
Kichiro smiled his cute little smile and ran off with the two children, who were obviously his friends, his father watched him go with one of his rare smiles on his face.
'He has Kagome's smile,' he thought, as if only now realizing it. He smiled lightly and turned to find his mate.
The hut that he and Kagome lived in was only about fifty meters away from Kaede's, the old hag had convinced him to live in the village, and protected it whenever stupid youkai decided they wanted to bug his peaceful life.
With no Naraku around, his life had been peaceful, only peaceful...and somewhat boring, but he didn't mind looking after Kichiro or Kagome, they were both his saviors from going insane.
Walking into the hut he found his mate sitting on the futon mending one of Kichiro's kimonos, him being the little seven year old that he is, he got dirty and tattered pretty quickly.
Inuyasha crept up to her and kissed her softly on the neck, smiling when she jumped in surprise, "Inuyasha!"
His grinned only widened when she turned around slightly to knock him in the head, rubbing his head absently he sat himself next to her, she rolled her eyes and continued to mend her son's clothes.
Kagome gave him a pointed glare when he began to pout from lack of attention.
Soft crying was heard and Inuyasha and Kagome both looked up, looked at each other, and got up at the same time.
Walking to the other end of the hut Kagome leaned over and picked up her second child, the little girl blinked up with her purple eyes before grinning at being in her mother's arms, snuggling into the warmth she sighed her little baby sigh.
"Shush, I have you Keiko," she whispered to her tiny daughter as she rocked her in her arms. She leaned back into the chest of Inuyasha, already knowing he'd be standing behind her, trust was no longer an issue: it was just there.
Wrapping his arms around his mate and daughter he carried her back to the futon.
Kagome soon fell asleep, leaving Inuyasha to feed Keiko, and putting her back to sleep. Watching the sunset on top of the hut Inuyasha listened as the bird stopped chirping and flew away, sighing he dodged his son's pouncing again.
"Still upwind, runt," Inuyasha stood and scooped his son up before hoping into the hut, much to his son's dismay, "Now go to sleep."
Kichiro pouted but nodded, trotting over to his bed in the other room he paused and then decided to pull the charm.
Inuyasha was about to climb into the futon with Kagome when Kichiro started pulling on his pant leg and looking up at him with big innocent eyes, "Daddy?"
"What is it now, Kichiro?" Inuyasha asked sighing, just wanting to sleep.
The little boy gave him puppy eyes and then grabbed his father's hand, "Can you tell me a story?"
"What story?" Kichiro smiled gleefully and pulled his father towards his bedroom, tripping over his own feet slightly.
Kichiro hoped into his bed and then looked back at his dad happily, "Tell me how you and Mommy met."
Inuyasha smiled and ruffled his son's hair. It figured that his son would pick the longest story imaginable. He sighed and shook his head, "Well, it all started when your mom was pulled through the well by a large demon..."