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The final chapter is here! I hope everyone's enjoyed this fic and like the ending!

Kaoru, who was heavily pupped, lay on the couch, her wings spread so they wouldn't go numb. After five hundred years, she had so many pups she didn't know what to do with them. Most of them were grown, since their tenshi genes helped them mature as quickly as a ningen did. She didn't say a word of protest as her mate pupped her year after year, just accepting that he was there for her as she gave birth to them. This new one was sure heavy for her, but she endured it as she kept herself still until her mate came back.

I still think this sucks. This baby feels like an elephant is sitting on my stomach. If I ate, I'm sure I'd be barfing repeatedly by this sensation alone. At least Inuyasha and Kagome visit every once in a while, they have a pile of kids of their own, even though they're far more moderate instead of crazy like Sess is with making babies. The instant I go into heat that year, he jumps me. You'd think he'd want to have some alone time instead of it filled with raising child after child after child. I mean, seriously?! Damn it, I want to stop having heats so I don't have to think of a brand-new baby name each time! Sure there are endless possibilities, but I'm sick and tired of how I never can be with him without getting pregnant. I wonder if tenshi go through menopause. If so, I wish that it would start after I give birth to this baby.

Her eyes turned to the door as she heard Sesshomaru enter the house, a servant take his coat and he removed his shoes. He came into the living room where she lay, stroking her stomach as he bent down to kiss her. She scented ningen blood on him and asked, "Who did you kill?"

"Someone who'd crossed me far too many times."

"Oh, if it's important that you take the punishment that far, Sess. I don't like it that you do that, even now."

"When you were a yokai you seemed to understand better."

"Of course, but now I'm a tenshi again. I don't like it."

"Well, I do it far less often now."

"It's only because that most people know better than to piss you off."

She sat up and he seated himself behind her as he began rubbing her back. She sighed and placed a hand on her huge stomach. "It's time, Sess."

He nodded and she took a deep breath, closing her eyes as her body went through the motions, only for the parents to be surprised. He lifted the twin pups with a proud look on his face, both girls. They whimpered within his hold, but settled down as he purred. He nuzzled his mate and showed the twins to her. She smiled and thought, This is the part I like the best, seeing my babies' faces for the first time, but I'm done with having them. Having over five hundred of them is quite enough for me. Sorry, Sess. I know you enjoy this, but unless you become the carrying parent, I'm finished.

So, when the appointed time of Kaoru's heat came, she felt nothing out of the normal. She watched as Sesshomaru glanced at the calendar over and over, counting in his head and then sniffing the air to see if he was missing her heated scent. She watched this with mixed feelings, knowing he'd just pounce on her tonight just to get rid of some frustration.

Sess, I know you're not mistaken, but my heat will never come again unless I want it. I want to have an empty nest so I can enjoy just the two of us, as short as it was at the beginning of our relationship.

Kaoru saw a few of her younger children watch as Sesshomaru paced around like a caged animal. One whispered, "Otou-sama's not happy."

"Why?" a younger one asked.

"He's waiting for Oka-sama's 'special time', but it doesn't seem to be happening."

"Oh. So we're not gonna have anymore younger brothers or sisters after the twins?"

"It seems not."

Sesshomaru's eyes went deep red and the kids scurried away as he slammed Kaoru into a wall, growling, "Why isn't your scent changing?"

She shrugged. "Maybe my time for having pups is done."

"I thought because tenshi didn't age further than their prime that they never stopped having the ability to get pupped."

"I suppose this is it."

He heaved a deep sigh and grumbled, "But I will have you, no matter if your heat doesn't come or not."

She smiled and ran her fingers through the hair on the nape of his neck. "I can live with that."

And here marks the end of this story! It makes me so sad when a project is done, but for the last time...

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