Michiru and Sango's Children Ch. 6

Kagome's Unorthodox Solution to Michiru's Affliction

The next morning, Michiru headed to the inn's lounge. It was a small place with nothing more than a small table with daisies in a pot. But it was here that InuYasha and the others had agreed they would gather. So he waited for a little while until Kagome came in.

"You're up early." Kagome stated.

"Yes," Michiru sighed. "Not much desire to sleep considering yesterday."

"I understand." Kagome nodded. "By the way, I'm sorry."

"Huh?" Michiru pondered. "For what?"

"For misunderstanding what you meant when you said you planned to use your Shikiga on your children." Kagome answered.

"Oh, that." Michiru said. "Don't worry about it, it was partially my fault for not making clear my true intentions there."

Kagome looked at the solemn expression on Michiru's face and suspected something was wrong. So she asked him, "Michiru, something else is bothering you I can tell. What's wrong?"

Realizing he had been found out Michiru grimaced and said, "Kagome, Naraku said the reason he returned was because of a curse he placed on my loins. That when I impregnated Sango, that allowed him to return."

"Yes we know," Kagome nodded. "And let me guess, you feel guilty for it. You're thinking like, 'If only I hadn't impregnated Sango then the greatest evil of all time would never have returned.' That it's all your fault he's back."

"Yeah." Michiru sighed. "And it's true isn't it?"

"No." Kagome answered. "First of all you didn't know that Naraku had placed the curse on you. If anyone should have known about that it would have been ME. After all I can sense demonic auras. Secondly you love Sango I know. And you two wanted to share your love with babies conceived by you and there's nothing wrong with that."

"But there's something else." Michiru said. "Something more...heartbreaking."

"Hmm?" Kagome asked.

"This curse is probably still very much in me." Michiru told her. "What if Sango and I want to have more children after we kill Naraku and this is still in me? Will they bring him back? Will they too be possessed by Naraku's influence?"

Kagome gasped realizing Michiru had a point there. If Michiru and Sango had more children, Naraku could return and possibly mobilize an army of Shikigami Users at his very wasteful disposal. In fact this in itself brought on another horrible thought: What if Naraku captured Michiru and Sango and, using his evil powers, forced them to breed nonstop and create children that Naraku would have grow up into his own personal slaves forced to wreak destruction and chaos upon all mankind? Or even worse, Naraku could force Michiru to breed with numerous females and even female demons and create an army of half-demon Shikigami hybrids which could even include...Kagome shuddered thinking that Naraku might force Michiru and Kagura to concieve children, but then realized something she said just now that could find out for sure. But the thought of having to do what she was thinking could cause controversy if the others took it the wrong way.

"We can find out if the curse is still in you." Kagome informed him. "But first we should wait until Sango and InuYasha arrive."

"Why?" Michiru asked.

"Because what I'll need to do, could be taken the wrong way unless I explain it to them." Kagome answered.

So they waited and after a few minutes Sango and the others arrived. Michiru and Kagome told them all about what they had just talked about, and Kagome then began to explain her plan on how they could be sure if Naraku's curse was still in Michiru.

"How can we do that?" InuYasha asked.

"Well, I can sense demonic auras as you know InuYasha." Kagome explained. "So if I were to use my powers in proximity to Michiru's loin area, I can sense the presence of Naraku or lack-there-of and can tell whether or not the curse is still within him."

"WHAT?" InuYasha screamed. "Are you seriously saying you want to put your hand near Michiru's 'private area' just to see if he still has a curse?"

"It's not just that InuYasha!" Kagome shot out. "It's the thought of Naraku using this curse to plague the lives of Michiru and Sango's children. It's the thought of him using them to cause chaos for all mankind. Not to mention it's to see if we can be sure once we kill him, we can make sure he stays dead this time! Didn't you say you'd stop at nothing to kill Naraku?"

"Then don't have anymore children then, it's as simple as that!" InuYasha stated over to Michiru and Sango.

"What?" Kagome glared. "Since when is it your business how many children Michiru and Sango have InuYasha?"

"Oh, and I suppose it's just the fact that you can sense the curse that's the only reason you'd be willing to do this?" InuYasha mocked. "How do I know you're not interested in Michiru? That you want to steal him away from Sango and have relations with..."

"InuYasha..." Kagome interrupted angrily with veins bulging from her forehead.

InuYasha grimaced realizing he had gone too far as Kagome finished.

"SIT!" Kagome yelled. InuYasha then crashed to the floor.

Sango looked over at Michiru and considered Kagome's words. She knew Kagome could sense if something was wrong with Michiru if it involved a demonic presence, but at the same time she didn't know about having a close friend do something like that to her own husband. Michiru looked over at Sango.

"Sango, I'll leave it up to you whether or not Kagome does this." Michiru told her. "I mean I know this might bother you, but we have to be sure to make sure anymore children we have won't be infected."

"Michiru," Sango began. "It's not that I don't want to know for sure, it's just that..."

"I know." Michiru answered. "But think of it this way, Kagome's a doctor and I'm a sick patient." Michiru joked but Sango didn't laugh or smile. Michiru then said, "Look Sango, I understand how you feel and we just had two children and we have Kanna. InuYasha may be right, I'm sure that we have enough children as it..."

"Do it." Sango said to Kagome upon hearing this. "If there's one thing I won't have on this journey it's you Kagome complaining about InuYasha being right over you." She then turned to her husband. "Besides, I trust you more than anyone Michiru and truth be told I do want to have more children someday. In fact I want to give you a son one day. But still I want to be present while Kagome does this"

Michiru blushed and sat down while Kagome positioned her hand until it was hovering three inches away from his loins. She studied what all she felt.

"Anything?" Miroku asked fully understanding of having a curse in one's body that was the doing of Naraku.

Kagome stood silent for a few seconds more and then took her hand away and smiled. "No." She stated. "There's nothing there." Everyone's eyes lit up at this declaration. "Apparently this is a once-in-a-lifetime curse. Naraku must've not had enough time to make it permanent before he died.

Michiru then hugged his wife happily and said, "Do you hear that dear? We can have all the children we want now and Naraku can't use them!"

"Yes." Sango whispered her eyes filled with tears of joy. "I'm so happy! Now I won't have to go through this again!"

InuYasha then looked over at Michiru and glared at him. Then he smiled and said, "I'm happy for you Michiru. Why don't you get started making it right now?"

"Sit boy!" Kaname called out. InuYasha crashed again.

"Ow! What did you do that for Kaname?" InuYasha complained.

"For being such a nosy little jerk about my brother and sister-in-law's love-life." Kaname grumbled.

"Honestly!" Kagome nodded. "How insensitive can you be InuYasha?" she asked rhetorically.

The group then gathered everyone together. Michiru then spoke to his daughter Kanna.

"Kanna, Mommy and I are going to go away for a while." Michiru told her.

"Take me with you Papa?" Kanna asked.

Michiru chuckled. "If only I could Kanna, but the truth is what we're going to be doing is very dangerous. Your monther and I love you so much and don't want you to get hurt."

"But Papa," Kanna griped. "I just lost my baby sisters. I don't want to be alone."

"Don't worry about that Kanna." Michiru whispered as a brown pentagram appeared below his feet.

"Papa?" Kanna began, "What are you doing?"

Just then Michiru whispered in his hand, "Oh, great earthly blessings...let loose the sands that are infused with the desire of deep peaceful slumber. Dream Dust." Then Michiru opened his hand and blew in it letting loose a gentle dust onto Kanna's face.

"No...Papa." Kanna yawned tiredly knowing this particular spell. "Not...your...your...sleepy sand..."

"Shhh." Michiru gently shushed her. "It's alright Kanna. It won't hurt you, you know that. Just go back to sleep dear. Shhh. Go to sleep."

"I...I don't want to..." Kanna whispered feeling herself drift more and more. "go to...sleep."

"Sleep Kanna..." Michiru continued. "Drift away to the peaceful desire of deep sleep. And when you awaken you'll be greeted by the faces of your two little sisters."

Finally Kanna closed her eyes, yawned one last time, lay down on the ground, and drifted away to sleep. Michiru shook his head at having to do that, knowing full well that the dosage of Dream Dust he just gave Kanna would make her sleep until another Shikigami User woke her with the Rain of Revival. But at the same time he knew that sleep was the best defense against Naraku for Kanna, which was why Michiru also planned to do this to Kohaku as well. But Michiru knew that Kohaku knew the risks and was perfectly willing to let his brother-in-law do this. Michiru then turned to his sleeping daughter, knelt down, kissed her forehead, and whispered, "Sweet dreams, my little white rose." Just then Sango came in.

"You're here to kiss her goodnight as well?" Michiru asked.

"She's our daughter isn't she?" Sango answered. She then bent down and kissed Kanna's forehead. Then they told Kaede to contact Tsuzumi Village and order supplies to rebuild Kaede's Village. They also told her to use the Bone-Eater's well, contact Michiru's parents, and have them look after Kohaku and Kanna until they returned. Then the group left Akebi Village and set out to find Naraku.