Okay everyone! I am reconstructing my fast paced, confusing story. My review flow is terrible and it's probably because of this nonsense. So here is my effort to revise and take things a little slower. Bare with me, I'm chaging the deadline though. New Years, I'm sorry! I have finals and my boyfriend is demanding all B's (stupid boyfriend) so I have to do this in between half doing my homework, sleeping, eating, and entertaining that weird boy. Anyways. I'm sorry I'm trying I love you all! Reviews please! :)

Chapter 1: Santa Baby

InuYasha POV

The wind blew and a slight chill ran through me. After our battle with Naraku, I was left with another gut hole that itched like hell under these bandages. For that very reason, I wore no shirt and was probably going to die out here if I stayed outside too long. I slowly began to walk back, my feet felt numb against the frozen terrain and I groaned, picking up my pace enough where no one would realize I was freezing, but then I wasn't just strolling either. It took me about ten minutes to get back to the hut we all shared, there were three seperate rooms one for Miroku and Sango, one for Kagome and I, and one we stuffed all the kids in. There was also an open room with a pit fire in it, to keep us from all freezing to death. Our hut was fashioned after the ones in Kagome's time for the most part and it gave us all a taste of her time. I pushed the rice doors aside and was met with my girl and my pup. I gave Kagome a kiss immediatly and ruffled the hair of young Shippo. He bounded up and down with excitement and I was forced to listen to what he had to say. He was talking so fast I waited until he was done then looked for a translation from Kagome. She giggled and took the boy in her arms.

"He's excited about Christmas," she explained, "he wants Santa to bring him a toy." I blinked at her repeatedly until she sighed and explained to me about the reason and origin of Christmas.

"Ohhh..." I turned my attention over to the boy before me, "this sounds like one of those things that confuses me. What's the catch? First insure world peace? Feed the needy, kill some poor villages demon night mares, whatever it is tell me now, 'cause this Christmas thing sounds expensive." she laughed at me and rolled her eyes.

"All Christmas is, is cheer and good will toward others just be a kind person and Santa will bring everyone presents." she told me.

"And who the hell is Santa?" I grouched. She rolled her eyes at me.

"He's a jolly old man who comes to deliver presents to every boy and girl of the world, and just to say thank you you leave out milk and cookies for him," she explained.

"So some old geezer is going to come to our hut because Shippo has been good? Why has he never come before? I was a good kid to a point, is he a demon?"

"No, he never came because you never- uh believed in him," she stammered, I raised an eyebrow and she made a face telling me she'd tell me later and I rolled my eyes this time. Shippo ran off to play with Sango and Miroku's three pups.

"So what's really up with this whole Santa thing?" I asked her in hushed tones.

"Okay so ya Santa's not real, but it's a way to keep kids in line with the hopes of Santa bringing them a present or two." she whispered.

"I knew this sounded expensive," I grunted, "do Sango and Miroku know? They'd have to help keep up the charade now that you've went and told him about it,"

"Yup, already briefed them on it," she told me and Sango walked in, in that moment smiling from ear to ear. She jumped when she saw me and I sniffed the air, the smell was familiar.

"What are you sniffin for dog boy, mind your own buisness," she scoffed rushing into the room she shared with Miroku.

"What is it?" InuYasha Kagome asked me watching her walk away quickly.

"She smells like ...dog demon, I don't know maybe she was in my stuff earlier I'm not sure. Whatever," I mumbled. Shippo ran out side and grabbed a handful on my pants.

"Dad, can you take us on a walk to the bone eaters well?"

"Ask Kagome and if it's okay," I told him and he chased after her retreating figure. I stretched and plopped down on the floor until he came racing back with permission from both women.

"Miroku and I were planning to take a walk anyways so I can just take them," Sango offered. I looked at Shippo.

"Can Sango take you,"

"I kinda wanted you and mom to take me," he muttered. I rolled my eyes.

"Looks like we'll all be going together," I muttered, "hey Sango where you in my stuff or something?"

"No,"

"Did you come across Sesshomaru?"

She froze up a little and I raised an eyebrow.

"Why are you asking me all these questions,":

"Because you smell like dog demon,"

"Well if it soothes your nosey soul, yes I did see you brother. He asked me a few questions and kept going,"

"But how are you drenched in his smell if you spoke and left, Sango...are you telling us the whole truth."

She glared and Miroku stepped up to interject.

"Now InuYasha, leave her alone. They probably shook hands or something of the sort, you know how easy it is to transfer your scent,"

"I guess," was all I had to say. Kagome came from the back room bundled in modern clothing she'd brought with her and I laughed at her, "it's not THAT cold 'Gome," I told her secretly admiring the way the down jacket didn't swallow up her curves. Cute...very cute.

"At least put on a shirt InuYasha, it's literally like 8 degrees outside," she told me flicking the thermometer. The red fluid dropped a little lower. She glared at me and I pulled on the top to my kimono to keep her rath elsewhere. After she adequatly bundled Shippo we set out walking behind the kids who ran and played ahead of us. We made it to the clearing and took a seat along the edge of the well. Everything was fun and games until the human pups ran off into the woods and before I could even chase them they returned all yelling and vying for Sesshomaru's attention and affection. I stared at him like he had a squid on his face for a good 30 seconds before I cleared my throat.

"What are you doing here," with his daughter 11 and looking for a suitor he had been on edge and rather decent to me and my family, just in case we knew anyone. It'd been next to impossible since she was such a strange girl and she began to take after Kagome in terms of personality and spirit.

"Just taking a stroll with my young Rin," he muttered waiting for the girl to reappear. Apparently she'd come into womanhood last month, I remember because Sesshomaru had shown up and practically begged for Kagome's help in explaining. Her chest was still flat as a board, but it was whatever. She ran into the clearing stretching and putting a flower in Sessho's hair. He kept a straight face and returned the three children to Sango. I watched intently as they're interaction seemed to be so much more than just a passing of children.

"Daddy, are you going to marry Lady Sango?" Rin asked obliviously. He turned and shot a deadly glare toward the girl. She gasped and turned to run away and he followed her. That was until time stopped all together, his lightening speed was slowed to a sluggish crawl and a blue light spanned around us all, as it tugged we followed, falling, against our will completly.

"What's happening?" Kagome cried out. How the hell should I know? As we were sucked in I made a split second choice and gave my robe to the children. Like I needed. Sesshomaru managed to grab the terrified Rin and throw her to me. We were able to move within the blue light and so I caught her and forced her under the fire rat and gave her the sheath of my sword to make sure they five would be okay. I held Kagome to my chest and as if it was waiting for us to finish, it sucked us in.

I opened my eyes before anyone else, they all lay unconcious in the pit of the bone eaters well. The kids seemed to be fine, they stirred, and I checked on them. Rin had done just as I told her to and kept the Tessuiga firmly in her grasp and kept the other kids covered too. She opened her mocha eyes and seemed fine along with the other children who awakened moments later. Somehow another Sango ended up in the arms of Sesshomaru, and while I was glad she was safe, it was weird. Kagome woke up and looked upwards.

"InuYasha where are we?" she asked me, once again I had no idea so I bound from the hole to find out. It looked like Kagome's old house and I opened the wooden shrine door to investigate further. Kara, Kagome's mom knelt in front of the tree praying too it. In that instance she looked just like her daughter. She wore the same shinto preistess outfit as they wore in my time and she prayed to the God's (or maybe just that tree, not sure) and I used my hearing to pick up on what she was saying.

"...please bring home my baby and her protecter they need to be here!" she begged, "her grandfather is dying and it's all he wants is to see his granddaughters face."

So that's why we were here. I went to help Kagome who's woken up everyone else and was begining to climb from the well with the aid of some growing vines. I pulled her up and helped every other human over the edge before turning to tell Kagome what was up.

"Kagome your mom brought us here, she needs you. Well, your grandpa needs you," I told her. She raced out the shrine calling out to her mom.

"Mom! Mom I'm here!" she yelled. Her mother turned into her direction and beamed stumbling up and running to her daughter. They hugged in a 'touching' display of affection and I watched keeping the children behind me.

"Oh InuYasha thank you for letting her come back her grandfather-"

"I didn't do anything you literally dragged all of us here, and I heard you praying what's the old geezer got anyways?"

"Well InuYasha since you're a good four hundred years older than him you can't call him old," she giggled. She hada point, "but he's sick with pneumonia, we've done everything we can but I just don't know how to help him anymore...he's really dying and he won't go to the hospital for more than a week and..." Shippo slipped past me and she squeaked.

"Wha-who is this?" she asked putting on her motherly face. She was one of those people who wouldn't burden a child with an adult's problems.

"This is Shippo, a very DISOBIDIENT child," I told her she smiled at him.

"Hello Shippo, you know...disobidient children don't get presents from Santa," she warned. He nodded quickly.

"I know, I know, but I was curious," he said sadly. She chuckled and rubbed his hair.

"Listen to what InuYasha tells you too, he'll never intentionally lead you astray and he'll always protect you,"

He nodded and she instructed him to go inside her house.

"We'll all talk once we're inside," she said after noticing I don't wear shoes. I pushed the shrine door open farther and showed the others.

"Small issue, when you sucked the three of us in you sucked them in too," I told her rolling my eyes as the children rolled on the cold floor. She gasped they were each like three and one of the three was pretty young and couldn't even talk yet. They were running around in their mini kimonos except the baby who was wrapped in a blanket. She smacked me on the side of the head and lifted the three children.

"InuYasha I promise you these better not be your children running around with no clothes on!" she yelled, I backed into the wall and pointed to the respective parents.

"Nu uh, that's theirs," she glared at them and gave me the kids.

"Everyone, but you two get inside," she demanded, I didn't argue with her just took off toward the house.

"Uncle InuYasha, why are you running away," Rin asked, she had my jacket top wrapped around herself.

"Cause that wench's scary when she's mad," I told her opening the door and letting everyone else in. Kagome came in behind us and took the baby from me while I let the older ones go.

"Why's mom yelling at Miroku and Sango," she asked me. Then she looked to see what the children where wearing, "oh...never mind." I laughed and thanked God Kagome had Shippo properly dressed before we left. The three returned finally and looked a little broken. Ms. Higurashi on the other hand went into the kitchen and told us she was making a stew.

"Is anyone here allergic to anything?" she asked. We shook our head no and she went back to what she was doing. We sat on the carpet in a circle in the living room all talking about stupid stuff until I remembered what Rin said earlier.

"Rin,"

"Yes uncle?"

"What did you mean by 'are you going to marry Sango' when we were at the well, don't you know Sango is already married to Miroku?" I asked. She blushed and looked away.

"I'm not supposed to say anything..." she stammered.

"And you won't," Sesshomaru growled. I glared at him, if he wanted to go we could go.

"Rin, tell me-"

"InuYasha stop pressuring the girl," Sango chastised.

"It's probably the invention of a young girls mind, she see's every possibility as a couple. She's just trying to understand the worl she is begining to enter, the world of courting and love..." Miroku told me.

"All girl's do it," Kagome assured me. I raised an eyebrow, did they all know something I didn't? I didn't have a chance to ask because Ms. Higurashi came bearing food. She paseed out the bowls to all of us and left to bring us all fizzy brown stuff to drink.

"So, since I only know a few of you, let's play a game," she decided sitting on the couch beside our circle, Kagome scoot into me so her mom could squeeze in and Sesshomaru also shifted accordingly.

"What kind of game?" Piku asked. He was the oldest of the twins and he was excited, he didn't get fizzy stuff, but milk in a cup with one of those tops on them, same with Shippo and Sakura, Sango and Miroku's little girl.

"An icebreaker game,"

"Uncle InuYasha broke the ice with his fist," Sakura giggled. I covered my face and shook my head.

"Shut up Sakura,"

"He got mad cause he kept slipping on the frozen lake so he punched the ice and it cracked, we're lucky uncle Sesshomaru was there or we probably would've all died of frost bite!" Piku finished.

"Shut it Piku," I growled, I caught Shippo and covered his mouth before he could finish the story. I hadn't counted on Kagome.

"Then he fell in and almost froze to death, so Sesshomaru had to save him too and run his little brother back to our home so we could get him dry,"

I put my head down and burned so red the tips of my dog ears felt warm.

"Oh shut up!" I barked in irritation. Her mother bit back a laugh and I sneezed. It only happened yesterday so I still had a cold. Stupid cold. Everyone burst into a round of laughter and I growled.

"Anyways, what did you mean an icebreaker?" I asked, assholes. She cleared her throat and everyone quieted down.

"I meant when we go in a circle and say who we are, what we are, our age, if we have any kids and what we like to do," she explained. I nodded and nominated Sesshomaru to go first. He rolled his eyes and went ahead.

"I'm Sesshomaru Taisho, in human years I'm like I don't know 759...760? I forgot, but in demon years I'm 26, I have one daughter...Rin. And if you haven't guessed I'm a demon, there's not much I like, except killing people really, oh and reading. Reading and studying herbs and animal life are my only normal hobbies." he said thinking, he passed it to Sango who was chewing a piece of beef.

"My name is Sango Ryuuji and I'm 20 years old. I'm married to Miroku and have three kids. Piku, Sakura, and Huney, my pass time is making clothes for the kids, and ocassionally fixing rips in Miroku's robes. Oh and I'm human," she said bouncing Huney to keep him happy.

"Okay, I'm Rin Taisho Sesshomaru is my daddy, I'm 11 and a human and sadly I'm not married yet-"

Kagome's mom choked, "sadly? Darling you don't even have chichi's yet. You need to be worried about school not boys!"

"Mom, did you forget they live five hundred years in the past?"

Silence, "oh ya...sorry doll," she giggled. Rin laughed and continued.

"I don't have much of a hobbie, I just like flowers," she giggled. We did this until it came around to me.

"Do I really have to do this, you know who I am-"

"InuYasha don't be a sour sport," Kara laughed reaching and rubbing my kneecap. I laughed and did as she asked.

"Fine whatever, I'm InuYasha Taisho, Sesshomaru's younger, half brother. I'm 20 in demon years and like I don't know 260 in human ones I got this adopted squirt of a kid and he's five, in human years, like a month old in demon ones. Hobbies? I don't know fighting, I draw on the back of Kagome's papers and she yells at me then keeps the drawings so I guess that's my hobby...getting yelled at," I laughed. Kagome laughed.

"They're amazing mom!" she pulled one out her kimono pocket and passed it to her. I raised an eyebrow and her mom gushed over it just as she had. I peered to see which one it was and found it was the one I drew of her mother for her. She'd been so upset and sad, missing her mom so I drew a photo from memory.

"This really is good," her mom gushed. I rolled my eyes and took a bite of the soup. Why couldn't Kagome cook like this, sad curel fate why. Kagome and her mother passed the picture around until everyone had seen.

"Okay Kagome, you go then we'll be done," Kara told her. She nodded and put to picture back.

"I'm Kagome Higurashi, I'm 19 and I'm dating InuYasha, who has YET to propose, my hobbies are shopping and hanging out with my friends and...ya...Shippo's my kid. That's it," she laughed. Ms. Higurashi stood up and stretched.

"Well, it's about time I'm hit the hay, you can all talk amongst yourselfs, I'll go into the town and get you clothes tomorrow. If you want to say hi to grandpa be very quiet, but you can. Good night," she called walking away and up the stairs. Kagome finished her food and waited quietly for me to drink the bubbly stuff. It tasted AWESOME but it made my nose itch. She laughed and watched me trying to find a way to make this work out for me. Finally she gave me the straw she was using and it made things easier, making it completly possible to finish it off. I burped and she slapped my wrist.

"Eww InuYasha say excuse me," she chastised. I rolled my eyes and stood up.

"I'd rather go pass out on you floor," I admitted taking my stuff in the kitchen and washing it like how Ms. Higurashi taught me.

"Let's go say high to gramps," she suggested. I knew she wanted to see him, but I wasn't exactly suer if it was a good idea. Pnemonia was deadly back in the feudal era and my instinct told me to keep her away from him.

"Kagome no, you're not catching it and dying too." I told her. She giggled at me.

"InuYasha it's not that bad, there's a cure-"

"If there's a cure, why's he dying?" I asked.

"Because he's old, he can't get over it as easily." she explained. I watched her and slowly let her arm go meaning I'd allow it. We went up the stairs and into the room where the old man was hacking up a storm. It smelt like death in there and I was careful with how close she got. She slipped from my g'rasp and hugged the man.

"Oh gramps...please get better," she begged. He simply wheezed, he was asleep.

"Kagome, let's go..." I urged. She kissed his old wrinkled forehead before leaving the room. I waited until she was gone before I crumbled a leaf I'd found in the forbidden fields, in his tea. Kagome might hate me forever...but it would end his misery all together. With that I slipped away out the room and followed Kagome down the hall.

"Sleep tight Gramps," I muttered.

There you go updated chapter one I'm sorry if that little cliffy makes you crazy, but it's what you needed. Hahahaha I've been too nice to yall so now I'm going to be desperate and demand 6 reviews per chapter...please? I'll try finishing up editing these last four but after that 6 reviews got it? But since I'm already late to my sisters orchestra concert you will have to wait for chapter 2's updated version. :) luv my awesome. Okay byeeeee