Disclaimer: I don't own Inuyasha, which I'm sure you've figured out before you entered the realm of the story.
Chapter 1: Three Years Later
Three years...three years has passed ever since that time. That time when Shippo became more adult, and more grown up, and started living on his own in the wilderness. That time Shippo and Rin met again after a seven year departure to become protectors for the humans. That time when Takatoshi disrupted the peace, searching for a challenge from the demon lord of the west with his mysterious black bladed sword. That time when Shippo and Rin became one after Shippo's death experience, and agreed to become mates after they found out their feelings for each other. That time the element sisters sought out the Sacred Jewel for as greedy reasons as any other demon, power, and Souten being free from the clutches of the Sisters thanks to everyone, even Sesshomaru. That time when Rin later on, gave birth to their beautiful baby girl, Shiria, who they would always love, take care of, and protect forever; even at the risk of their life.
A lot has changed over the past three years. Kumiko and Kyuso were both more involved in training, and fighting, learning how to become just like their father. Of course, Kumiko was the stronger of them both; her being more experienced in training, but Kyuso was getting there, and getting stronger at every training session Inuyasha would give them. Even Maru was becoming more skillful. Miroku taught him the uses of sutras and other demon offensive skills, while Sango taught him about the art of demon slaying, and the use on different kinds of demon poisons and other demon defenses. Of course Maru wasn't strong enough to bring out the full holy powers within passed by his father, him being a child, but he was strong enough to ward off weaker demons. Even being taught at a young age by his parents, they still had a lot more to teach him that they would wait for when he was older. Akio has also been taught multiple fighting techniques from his father, and his mother. Due to his age, he wasn't given any kind of weapon yet.
Even thought Inuyasha has been training Kumiko and Kyuso, he spent most of his time training Shippo. Inuyasha knew that Shippo would have to be stronger now for his family's sake, and his children still had their childhood, and much longer to learn fighting, and more. Shippo has indeed improved significantly in strength and speed. He now might even be able to outrun Inuyasha. As for strength he was maybe even, to almost surpassing Inuyasha's strength. As for his sword, he was getting closer and closer to unlocking the level of power he desired, but Shippo wasn't the only one training. Rin would occasionally go visit her father to learn more about her sword, and how to use the attack power. The healing power she seemed to perfect a few days after receiving the sword, and it only took her a few training sessions to learn how to unlock the attacking energy of the sword.
Besides Shippo getting stronger and faster, he also received new clothing from Kagome. He wore a blue kimono, similar to Inuyasha's, and it had a large leaf print right in the middle of his top. His pants were as baggy as Inuyasha with the only difference being a darker blue color than his kimono top. His Kimono top, and his pants all had pockets to carry his fox magic items, and he tied his sword and sheath to his left side on the inside of his belt that held up his pants, and tucked in his kimono top. Shippo's physical appearance was also a little different. His hair was no longer held up in a bow, and he let his hair grow long. His hair was not as long as Inuyasha's, his hair was about shoulders length. Shippo's tail was also much longer, and less puffier than it was long ago; it also displayed the same coloring as his hair, with a little white at the end of his tail.
Shiria has grown little by little in the past three years. She was about as tall if not a little taller than Shippo was when he was a child. She had medium brown hair that covered the top of her head only down to the top of her cheeks, but the back of her head, her hair reached only just above the back of her neck. In her hair, she also wore the bow that Shippo has always used as he was a kid, and as an adult. She was given that bow when she reached her age of three years old, which was not too long ago. Even though the bow didn't hold up a lot of her hair, she always thought it was cute, and always wanted to wear it knowing that it was once her fathers. Her fox ears were nearly the same size as she was born with, since her fox ears were already pretty big. In the summer all she wore would be a long sleeveless light blue summer dress with different flower patterns that went down to her knees, and with the dress she would also wear sandals.
Shiria was at the moment learning to walk, talk, potty training, eat without assistance, and much more as time passes on. Walking she was getting the hang of, but would occasionally lose balance and fall down, but it didn't happen all that often; so of course she wasn't ready to learn running yet or she would most likely lose balance more often. Talking, she was doing good at, and knew how to form decent understandable sentences, but mostly would say a word that would sound a little off, but it's normal for someone her age. Potty training she seemed to get the most, but in some cases there would be accidents, but also in most cases normal if not above average for her age. Eating she knew what she was doing, and she would know not to do anything like throw food, but a lot of the time her face would result in a mess. Like her father, she seemed to have a thing for coloring and drawing. She would draw and color a lot in her free time, or she would be playing with Kyuso and Kumiko games that their mother taught them when they were younger. None the less, Inuyasha and Kagome's children were still young, and still had much fun with the games they were taught.
The flower field that everyone has worked on for a long time has paid off. There was possibly even more flowers than there were before demons started destroying them. There were very little spots that they couldn't step without being next to a flower. They made a path from the forest to the castle so no one would have to trample the flowers to get to the door of the castle.
Other than all of this, pretty much everything stayed the same. There were some cases were demons tried to attack, giving Shippo and Rin a good opportunity to use their improved fighting skills in action. For the most part, Rin and Shippo are always with Shiria unless Shippo's training, then Rin is always with Shiria. None the less, Shippo and Rin loved little Shiria very much, and would always protect her, and raise her to become a mature and strong adult.
Right now at the home of Shippo's family, where Inuyasha and Shippo's families seem to meet all of the time; Kumiko, Kyuso, Maru, Akio, and Shiria were all outside of the castle playing. Kumiko and Kyuso were teaching Shiria how to play the games that they were taught. Rin, Kagome, Miroku, Ayame, Sango, Koga, and even Kirara were all sitting up against the front of the castle watching the kids, and having somewhat of a conversation; Koga saying how it's too quiet all the time, and not really much demons picking a fight anymore, Miroku telling the tale of having his wind tunnel and saying how useful it could be if he could keep it without it eventually sucking him in, Kagome about Kumiko and Kyuso, Sango on how the demon slayers of her village have improved, and can stand without the watchful eyes of Kirara, Ayame about where and how she grew up in her wolf tribe, and Kirara just resting in Sango's lap. Inuyasha and Shippo were currently in the forest training once again as they always did. They were doing just as they did for the first few months of Shippo's training: having a fist fight, but this time it was different. Shippo grew more and more of a challenge for Inuyasha; about half of the time Inuyasha would be found with most of the bruises and hits. Even thought Inuyasha kind of expected this, it still made him a little irritated to know the annoying little fox kid he once knew was now nearly stronger than him.
Inuyasha and Shippo were standing face to face with a large gap between them, both ready for their fight. Neither of them held up their fist, both of them stood as still as a statue as the wind blew past them.
"Let's start." Inuyasha said and ran straight toward Shippo. Shippo bent his knees and clenched his fist ready for Inuyasha. Inuyasha held up his fist and swung it at Shippo as he ran right up to Shippo. Shippo ducked avoiding the punch, and swung his fist at Inuyasha's stomach. Inuyasha quickly moved his hand, and caught Shippo's fist near his stomach. Inuyasha swung his other fist at Shippo attempting a hit, but just as Inuyasha did, his fist was also in Shippo's grasp. Shippo got up and attempted to push back Inuyasha, but he was doing likewise, trying to push Shippo back. Shippo held one of his legs to the side of Inuyasha's legs, and pushed him over his leg, causing Inuyasha to fall to the ground. Shippo and Inuyasha were still holding each others fist, as well as one of them being held, causing Shippo to go down with Inuyasha. Shippo was bent down on his feet low to the ground, nearly pinning Inuyasha. Inuyasha bent, and moved his knees up to his stomach, aimed his feet at Shippo, and kicked off Shippo. Shippo back flipped in midair, and landed on his feet with his knees bent, and his hand on the ground. Inuyasha swung back with his shoulders and upper back on the ground with his legs bent with his knees near his stomach, and feet pointing in the air, and then jumped back up to his feet. Shippo charged for Inuyasha once he was back on his feet. Inuyasha starting running for Shippo as he was running at Inuyasha.
"Hi daddy! Hi brother Shippo!" Kumiko yelled. Inuyasha and Shippo both stopped running and both ended up in front of Kumiko.
"Kumiko, what are you doing here?" Inuyasha asked.
"I wanted to see you and brother Shippo." Kumiko said.
"How did you get here without mom seeing you, I thought she was watching you and Kyuso." Shippo said.
Kumiko scratched the back of her head, "Well, uh-"
"Kumiko!" Kagome yelled running and stopping right behind her daughter, "You shouldn't run off like that Kumiko."
"I'm sorry momma, but I just wanted to see daddy and brother Shippo." Kumiko replied.
"I already told you that you shouldn't bother them when they're training." Kagome said.
Shippo leaned down on one knee and patted Kumiko's head, "It's all right, I've been training a lot lately; I wouldn't mind taking a break."
"Alright, let's go!" Kumiko exclaimed, and grabbed Shippo's hand and ran him back to the small castle.
"What the heck was that; first were in a training session, then the next moment Kumiko comes and snatches him back to the castle." Inuyasha griped.
"You have been training him for a long time now Inuyasha." Kagome contemplated, "He just needs to be with family you know? I'm sure he also wants to spend time with Rin and Shiria too."
Inuyasha sighed, "Yeah yeah, I guess."
"Come on, let's go back." Kagome said grabbing and holding his hand. And they both began to walk back to the small castle.
Yay, chapter one completed. Now I have a goal for this story and that is to pretty much type every chapter at a 2,000 word minimum. My first story the minimum of words was 1,400 - 1,500. For this story I actually kind of planned on some of the events that will unfold and all that, my other story I kind of just went with the flow. I guess we'll see how that works out eh? Alright that's it for now see yaz.
