Baby Blues by Tamasha Toko

Cursed

Chapter 1 Cursed

"Kagome hold on tight," Inuyasha told her with a voice loud enough that Kagome could hear it as the wind whipped in her face while she was hanging on Inuyasha's back.

She looked across from her and seen Sango and Miroku riding on Kirara. They were in hot pursuit of a strange bird youkai that had a jewel shard in the middle of it's forehead. Kagome looked ahead and seen a large red dot. That was the bird. It seemed to get lower as though it was landing.

"Inuyasha the youkai is going closer to the ground," Kagome stated.

"I don't need to be a jewel shard detector to figure that one out," Inuyasha said as he started to go faster.

Kagome ignored what he said. She was used to Inuyasha's stupid little insults now. He did them rarely though and usually it was while something important was going on, because he knew that if it was during any other time Kagome would be ready to give her command and he would find himself crashed into the ground thanks to his necklace.

"It seems to have landed and is no longer running away!" Sango yelled across the air so Inuyasha could hear.

Inuyasha nodded and landed on the ground and started making smaller jumps that kept him from going above the trees. Kagome looked ahead and seen the red dot on top of a brown dot. As they got closer she seen the bird was just laying around on top of a cabin.

"Kagome pay attention and get ready to shoot!" Inuyasha snapped.

Kagome quickly reached for her arrow and used her bow to shoot it straight towards the bird. She was aiming for the head, but instead the arrow hit the wing. The youkai let out a terrible scream and Inuyasha stopped right during the high-speed run to cover his ears. Due to the force of him quickly stopping Kagome flew off of his back and hit the ground. The impact was so hard Kagome knew that her arm would be sprained for that was the first thing to hit the ground.

"Kagome are you okay?" Shippou who was hooked onto her backpack by his claws asked.

Kagome tried to get up, but it hurt. She had tried lifting herself up with her right arm which was the one that was injured. She used her left one to get up and then used it to hold her bad arm. She ran towards the bird so she could get a better shot. The bird was still screaming and flapping it's wings all over the place. She used her right arm to get another arrow and line it up with the bow even though it hurt really bad. It felt as though someone stuck a knife in her arm. Wanting to get the jewel shards really bad though she shot the arrow. She watched the arrow fly in the sky just to watch it end up crashing to the ground. Something hit it and caused it to fall down. It was a surge of energy.

Kagome looked around to find the source of it. Behind the bird she seen a figure wrapped up in a very muddy cloak. Kagome couldn't see any face to tell who it was.

"Miroku someone else is here," Kagome said once Kirara landed by her.

Miroku stood by Kagome and saw the person she was talking about.

"Who are you?" Miroku asked once the bird ceased it's screaming.

The figure didn't answer. It just walked up to the bird who lowered it's body so the figure was the same height. Whoever the person was they pulled the arrow out and through it to the ground. As that was going on Inuyasha joined the group.

"Inuyasha is that person a human or youkai?" Sango questioned Inuyasha.

"Whatever it is they have bathed their rags totally in mud or something else with a heavy earthy scent because I can't smell them," Inuyasha explained, "come to think about it this is weird because I can't even smell anything on this bird."

"It has to be youkai Inuyasha," Kagome told him, "she used some kind of attack to deflect my arrow."

"Well hurry up and shoot another one," Inuyasha demanded.

Kagome nodded as she strained to move her injured arm to get another arrow.

"Kagome stop!" yelled Miroku, "it appears your too injured to continue fighting so let us do it."

Kagome looked at Inuyasha as though she needed his permission to stop fighting.

"You heard the pervert," Inuyasha told Kagome, "you shouldn't be so clumsy next time."

"Oh so I am the clumsy one," replied Kagome, "its you who stopped all of a sudden and sent me crashing to the ground."

"Feh," Inuyasha responded as he went to slash at the bird youkai.

It was a direct hit. They watched as feathers, blood, and guts all flew into the air along with the jewel shard. Inuyasha grabbed the jewel shard as he landed on top of the cabin. Kagome walked to the cabin and used her left arm to catch the jewel shard as Inuyasha dropped it down to her. Kagome looked at the shard. There was something weird going on. It was a dark purple color and usually when she touched a shard it turned into a light pink. It wasn't purifying. She would tell Inuyasha later though.

"Now for you," Inuyasha growled as he jumped on to the ground in front of the strange figure.

"You will pay dearly," the figure said in a female voice, "you killed my precious son."

"It appears all we have here is some old crazy hag," announced Inuyasha, "what did you do create this stupid bird youkai?"

"That I did," she replied, "it was all I had and you murdered it."

"Well maybe we did murder it, but at least we didn't go slaughtering villages like your son here was doing," stated Inuyasha, "next time you create a youkai try putting it on a leash."

The woman was no longer looking at Inuyasha. She was facing and walking closer to Kagome.

"It was you who killed my son," the woman said to Kagome, "you will pay wench."

"Hello stupid old hag!" shouted Inuyasha, "I believe I was the one who killed it."

The woman wasn't listening she was still facing Kagome. The woman bowed her head and began chanting something.

"Now girl," said the woman once the chanting was done, "thanks to my chant the jewel shard will create the spell and you won't be able to ever purify it."

Kagome looked at her hand where she was holding the jewel shard. It wasn't there anymore.

"What did you do?" Kagome asked the woman, "the shard is gone."

"Its simply in your stomach," she said, "its carrying my curse. Once you bear a child that jewel shard will become a part of it and kill it once you truly love it. Just like you have done to me."

"Do as you wish witch," Kagome told her, "I just won't have any children."

The woman began to laugh.

"That isn't all of my curse. I will make sure you become pregnant. While you find yourself around men the jewel shard will be seeing if they are a suitable father are not. All you have to do is touch them and the jewel shard will use it's power too make a little copy of the man inside of you and you will be pregnant. You have no choice in whether you have the baby or not and the funniest part of all you have no choice in the father."

"You better be making this up old woman," Sango told her as Kirara began to growl.

"No I am not," the woman chuckled, "I wouldn't be surprised if Kagome spits out a baby by next month. Thanks to the jewel shard things will go faster."

She continued to chuckle as it looked like she was fading away. Soon Inuyasha and the others were all alone in the middle of the forest. The bird youkai and cabin was gone too. ------------------------------------- Kagome fell to her knees.

"What did that woman do to me?"

Inuyasha quickly came to her side.

"She did exactly what she said probably. We can take you to Kaede and she could probably fix the problem though. Until then lets worry about your arm. You shouldn't have been trying to shoot arrows with it and now it could be worse."

Kagome tried to move her right arm. It hurt really badly.

"Yeah I forgot all about my arm."

Inuyasha looked at her with an annoyed face.

"What do you mean you forgot about your arm? This isn't good, because without full use of it your useless and stand no chance in any fights. Come on I will take you to Kaede's and then maybe you should go home until you have full use of your arm."

Inuyasha put his arm on her shoulder, but she quickly moved away.

"Inuyasha you idiot don't touch me. Didn't you hear what that witch said? Just by touching a man I can become pregnant."

Inuyasha took his arm away.

"We heard what she said I just forgot for a second. Why do you think Miroku is hiding all the way over there? Its because he is afraid that you will bear his child and he would get nothing out of it."

Miroku poked his head out from behind Kirara which is where he was sitting.

"That is not all true. You heard what that woman said. Kagome's child will die when she is really happy about it."

Inuyasha let out a growl.

"We will find her Kagome and she will pay." -------------------------------- The strange hooded woman arrived in a misty area along with the body of the bird youkai. The body started to disappear and it changed to what it really was. Two soul gathering youkai. The flew around the figure and were soon joined by my others that appeared. It looked safe so the cloaked woman revealed herself. It was Kikyo. Kikyo thought about what she had just done. Of course Kagome's baby wouldn't die like she said it would. She hoped the baby would have a nice healthy life. That was why she created this curse. Everything else about what she said was true except for one detail she left out. Kagome could get pregnant by anyone except Inuyasha.

The jewel shard was suppose to only make Kagome pregnant when there was a suitable father around hopefully meaning it would be someone the girl could get along with. Then those two would have to be together because they had a child and Inuyasha couldn't care for the wench anymore. Then in all of his sadness he would leave Kagome and come to her. Then they could finally go to hell together forever.

"Where are you planning to go with this curse?" asked the eerie voice that Kikyo was now use too.

"You will get your jewel shard back Naraku so don't be so paranoid," said Kikyo, "It will need to be in the child's body for only a year or so. It needs to glue the DNA of Kagome and the father together so it can be stable then we should be able to remove it without killing the kid."

"I thought you only needed the shard to create the curse; I didn't know you would need it for a few years," complained Naraku.

"Naraku this plan is worth a shard," Kikyo assured him, "Kagome will have to leave group because of the safety of her baby. And I am hoping that the father will be the monk so that way he will be forced to leave also to be with Kagome. If that happens then simply make it so the demon slayer will have no choice but to kill her brother meaning she will kill herself. The whole group will be gone making Inuyasha vulnerable. I will take care of Inuyasha myself so once the jewel shard is ready to be separated from the child of Kagome the jewel shard will be all yours."

"Why can't I just kill Kagome now and take the shard."

"Inuyasha will protect her. So you might as well wait for the shard."

"I know. I will just kill the child after you and Inuyasha are gone that way I can have it faster."

"Naraku you have no soul do you? You cannot just kill a child who has done nothing just to get a shard of the shikon no tama. That I cannot allow. And to make sure you don't do it me and Inuyasha will not leave this world until that shard is safely taken away."

"Fine whatever Kikyo." ----------------------- Naraku decided he was done talking with Kikyo for the day. She told him she had away of bringing Inuyasha's group and all she needed was one jewel shard. He gave it to her, but he didn't think it would take years until he would get it back. It didn't matter he would get it faster. He wouldn't kill Kagome though. He loved to mess with people and seeing Kagome have to bear a child from a man other then Inuyasha would drive her crazy. He then wanted to see her face after he killed her son or daughter to take the jewel shard. It didn't matter to him what Kikyo did about it.

Naraku would simply just kill Inuyasha himself once the monk and demon slayer was out of the way. He didn't need Kikyo to do that. He only told her that she could bring the hanyou to hell just so she would help him in his plans. Kikyo was the problem though. If he killed Inuyasha then she would attack and he didn't know how to kill the already dead miko. He would figure that out later. Until then he would get a thrill out of watching Kagome suffer. ---------------------------

Kagome was asleep on the back of Kirara while Sango sat in front being awake and alert and looking across her at Inuyasha who was carrying Miroku on his back like he would usually do with Kagome.

"Do you really need to do this Inuyasha?" asked Miroku.

"As much as I would enjoy getting you off of my back monk I can't allow any of us to get too close to Kagome," explained Inuyasha, "you don't want to make her pregnant do you?"

"I have often thought about it, but not like this."

"Not funny Miroku!" yelled Sango, "be lucky she is not awake and her arm is almost broken or I can see an arrow going right through your heart."

"It was just a joke," stated Miroku, "it sounds cruel Inuyasha but I think we should make her bear one of our children."

"What are you saying Miroku?" asked Inuyasha.

"Well we need Kagome with us to find the sacred jewel and we need the power of her arrows. If she has a baby with another man she will feel compelled to leave for the child's safety. If it was for example your child Kagome would feel to guitly to leave because it would be your son."

"We can't just do that Miroku. You keep forgetting some key things. Kagome is from a different world for all we know she could be in love with someone there and want a child from them. Not to mention the child is suppose to die. Before Kagome decides anything we should take her to Kaede maybe the old lady can fix the curse and remove that jewel shard, which let me remind you we need for our collection."

"If we can't do anything there might be no choice but to get her pregnant then kill the baby."

"Thats easier said then done. Lets say Kagome had a baby because of you and it was a son. You have always wanted a son more then anything since I met you would you really like to finally have that just to kill it."

"Well the solution to my case is simple. I would just keep the baby away from Kagome because once she is happy that is when it is suppose to die."

"You have to think about the child," interrupted Sango, "lets say it was Miroku's kid and he ran off with it. Don't you think the kid would someday ask Miroku who their mother is."

"Well in Miroku's case he could just easily fall in love with a woman and convince the kid that the woman is their mother. If it were mine though I don't think I could leave Kagome and like Sango said you have to think about what the kid wants."

"You have to give the curse some credit though," said Miroku, "the jewel shard will only create a baby if Kagome comes in contact with a suitable father so we know she won't be getting pregnant by a thief."

"Think the jewel shard would recognize you two as suitable?" asked Sango.

"Well I know I would be a good father, but for Inuyasha I don't know," stated Miroku, "He would just be yelling at the child and be careless when a battle comes. After all Inuyasha because of you not thinking during a battle you were going too fast and Kagome could have had fatal damage to her arm. Then you expected her to use her arrows anyways."

"You a suitable father? All you do is womanize all day long you hentai. You aren't the best influence in the whole world. And it isn't my fault that Kagome hurt herself. I can't control the sound that goes in my ears. Also why are you interested in being the father Miroku? I thought you liked Sango."

Sango quickly began to blush as though Inuyasha just released some type of dark secret. Miroku didn't know how to respond to that because of the way Sango would take it. So he said the first thing that came to mind.

"I thought you liked Kikyo."

Inuyasha was growling.

"Inuyasha I didn't mean to upset you," Miroku quickly said.

Inuyasha wasn't listening. He was too busy sniffing the air before he had a response.

"Sesshoumaru."

"Your older brother?" asked Sango, "what about him?"

"He is close."

"Inuyasha you aren't planning to fight him are you?" questioned Miroku.

"I have too."

"Inuyasha remember that thing I said about running into battle without thinking? Well fighting Sesshoumaru would be doing exactly that. You might have no choice but to become the father of Kagome's child and you got to learn to quit putting others in danger. Me and Sango will be fine, but Kagome won't. She is asleep and she won't be able to defend herself with an injured arm."

Inuyasha simply looked at Kagome's good arm where Shippou was sleeping.

"Shippou will protect her," he said, "speaking of which Sango get that stupid little fox off of her the last thing we need is Kagome giving birth to an annoying kitsune just like Shippou."

"Shippou doesn't have to protect anyone because we are not going to bring Kagome into this battle," stated Miroku.

Kagome heard her name so she awoke, but no one knew she did.

"Well you know what Miroku," started Inuyasha, "why don't you take Kagome with you and hope she bears you a son, because after all you think I don't want her since I have Kikyo."

Tears came to Kagome's eyes. If she heard right that meant Inuyasha didn't want her anymore.

"Inuyasha just please lets get moving we can still avoid Sesshoumaru," Sango told him, "we need to find a cure for Kagome before doing anything."

"No if Inuyasha is going to be childish then let him. We will bring Kagome to Kaede's village ourselves," Miroku responded right before giving Sango a wink that meant he had a plan, "Inuyasha won't have our help so he will probably just die and if Kagome fails to get pregnant by me I guess we will have other option but to ask Kouga for help."

Inuyasha stopped at that moment. If he wasn't around Kagome then Kouga could easily come around and really claim her as his. He wouldn't allow Kouga to have Kagome.

"Fine we will go to Kaede's village," replied Inuyasha.

Inuyasha was ready to go the other direction, but then Miroku fell off his back and Inuyasha crashed to the ground after being hit with something. It was Sesshoumaru charging through the area.

"Sesshoumaru," growled Inuyasha as he got off the ground.

"I couldn't be anymore lucky," stated Sesshoumaru, "I was just walking through the woods when I caught your scent and decided things would be easier if I had the Tetsusagia."

"I will never give you Tetsusagia Sesshoumaru."

"Let me guess you are going to fight me with it instead of letting me take it."

"You guessed right."

"You can't even wield it right, oh but I forgot you will get help from that monk, demon slayer, fox cub, and your usual wench who is crying. This is getting old."

Inuyasha looked at Kirara too see Kagome sitting up and crying.

"Kagome?" asked Inuyasha, "what's wrong?"

Kagome just shook her head and got up. What was the point in answering somebody who didn't even want her around. Kagome began to walk away. She heard Inuyasha yell a lot of things that sounded like 'why are you crying?' and 'where are you going' but she didn't listen. She blocked out everything he was saying which was a bad idea considering it would have helped if she heard the last thing he said which was 'Kagome watch out!'.

(End of Chapter)