Summary: It is several hundred years after the ending of Single Father InuYasha and we follow Kouga, Tamako, InuYasha, Sesshoumaru, Rin and InuTaisho into the future of Tokyo.
A/N: This is a sequel to my other story Single Father InuYasha set in a more modern-day Tokyo. With demonic lifespans all of our heroes have lived through to the Tokyo that Kagome Higurashi was born and raised in. This story begins in 1983.
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Chapter 1: The Struggle
It was the morning rush, everything felt like it wasn't going to get done. Juggling a toddler on her hip, a set of twins at the table and a teenage boy trying to get his lunch into his lunch box, all the while the stove was going, trying to get breakfast made and done.
"Haru! Would you please get out of my way? I'll get your lunch ready in a minute."
"But mooom! I've got to go! I've gotta be early for track practice!" the teenage boy whined back.
A glare from her golden eyes made him pause. "HARU I said enough. Go sit down this instant."
He pouted as he shrunk back from his mothers voice, nodding a bit. "Fine. But dads not up yetttt." he said as he walked around the kitchen island to take a seat at the table with his two younger siblings.
Tamako sent a glare towards Haru, shaking her head. "That man isn't up yet? Holy gods in heaven..." she said with a sigh. Shifting the child on her arm, she moved to spoon eggs onto three separate plates, adding bacon and sausage to each one. Picking up one in one hand and a second one in her other hand carefully. Walking over and sitting both plates on the table in front of the younger two.
"There you go. Eat up, we've gotta get you guys to school." she said. Walking and grabbing the third before sitting it in front of Haru. Putting the child on her hip in a high chair before she walked back towards the cabinets. Taking a childs bowl and cereal out. Pouring the bowl of cereal and milk, getting the baby spoon and then sitting it in front of the child on the high chair.
Leaning down, she kissed the girls head and smiled. "There you are Eri. Eat up." she said, glancing at Haru. "Watch your brother and sisters please."
Haru grinned as he ate his eggs. "Okay. Dads in deep shiiiit." he said with a chuckle.
"Haru! Watch your language in this house. You are sixteen years old, grow up." Tamako warned, and the other two children giggled at that.
"Haru introubleeee." the other boy said.
"Shut up Riku!" Haru said, shoving his brothers shoulder.
"HEY! Mommy! He shoved me!"
"TADDLE TALE!"
Taking in a deep breath, Tamako rubbed her temple. "All of you. Stop it. Before you all are grounded." she said, rolling her eyes as she started to walk out of the kitchen. She'd been up since five in the morning, the kids had just gotten into the kitchen at seven to get ready for school. And Kouga couldn't even get out of bed.
Stalking up the stairs and down the hallway to their bedroom, opening it and looking in at the lump still laying on the bed. A growl formed in her throat as she walked over. She'd woken him up at six thirty, he'd said he was awake, but apparently not.
Reaching out, she pulled the pillow out from under his head. "Kouga. You have two minutes to get out of this bed."
He yelped a little as the pillow came out from under him. Pulling the sheets over his face and shaking his head. "But I don't wanna." he said with a small yawn. "Five more minutes..." he murmured. These modern beds were so much more comfortable than the beds they'd used in the caves, and ever since they'd gotten real beds it'd been almost impossible to wake him up.
Grabbing the sheets, Tamako pulled them down and looked at his face. "And how would your employees love seeing this? Their big, strong boss begging his wife for five more minutes of sleep? Hm? Come on Kouga I'm down there with the kids all by myself and I've been up since five this morning. I woke you up once already."
Looking up at her, he grinned and snaked his arms around her waist, yanking her down into bed with him and smiling. "Play sick with me. I think you are entirely too sick to go to work. Stay in bed with me.." he said. Leaning to nuzzle his nose against the side of her face, pulling her flush against his bare chest.
She blushed deeply as she felt his bare, hot skin against her. She was already dressed and ready to go, the only thing she was missing was her shoes. Sighing a little and shaking her head, rubbing the back of his neck. "You know we can't do that. Man up and get out of bed. I've got to get the kids to school. And you've got to get to work."
Rubbing her back, he looked up at her face with a sigh, shaking his head. "I can skip a day if I want." he said stubbornly.
Chuckling a little, she leaned to kiss him gently. "You could. Love, you say that every single morning."
Nodding slowly, he ran his fingers down to cup her ass, pulling her up closer to him. "Mm, yeah, but if I could get you to stay in bed with me than I would indeed stay in bed all day."
Slapping his shoulder, she pushed to sit up, shaking her head. "Nuh uh. Nope. This is how we got those monsters downstairs that are taking over my kitchen. No bed play for you. Besides, I've got to take Eri to the doctors for her checkup, and I've gotta meet dad...I've got things to do." she protested, straightening her shirt.
Kouga let out a sigh before he sat up. "Finee, party pooper. And you so don't mean no more bed time play. You always love bed time play." he said, moving to start getting out of bed, rubbing his face and walking towards their connected bathroom.
Laughing, she nodded as she blushed. "Maybe. Then again maybe you should pick up some condoms if you want bed time play." she said, moving to stand up and walking to the door of their bathroom, leaning against the frame.
Looking up at her with wide eyes, he shook his head. "Nuh uh. Those things suck babe! Ain't gunna happen. If I want my mate I'mma have my mate with no rubber bullshit." he said, looking in the mirror and starting to move to shave his face.
Slowly she moved behind him, hugging him from behind and kissing the back of his shoulder. "Mm, sure you will." she said, looking up at his face. "Don't forget the concealment ring. I'll keep breakfast warm for you." she said as she leaned back from him.
"Yeah yeah, I gotcha." he said, lathering the shaving cream onto his face before he started to shave. "Be down in two shakes."
"You better." she said as she walked out with a sigh. Walking downstairs again, she looked at the table. "Riku! I saw that, give your sister back her bacon right now." she said as she walked into the kitchen to finish cooking Kouga's breakfast.
"But mooom she stole mine first!"
"Did not!"
"DID TOO!"
"NOT!"
And then it was a screaming match. Riku and his twin sister Naomi were quite the hand full. They fought like cats and dogs, like many brothers and sisters did. It was quite different from the first set of twins she'd had, Sayuri and Koichi, who got along perfectly.
Tamako let out a sigh, shaking her head and walking over to the table. Picking up the piece of bacon they were fighting over and taking a bite from it, looking at them. "There. No bacon for either of you." she said with a nod.
Both kids looked up at her with a horrified expression. "MOM!" they both yelled simultaneously.
"What? Its what you get. Now, eat. The bus will be here soon." she said. Walking into the kitchen, she lined up three lunch boxes on the island, packing each one with a sandwich, apple, pudding cup, granola bar and juice pouch, keeping an eye on the stove to make sure she wasn't burning the rest of the food.
Naomi was the first one done, standing up and walking her plate into the sink, looking up at her lunch box and pouting. "Mommy, I don't want an apple."
Tamako looked down at her daughter with a sigh. "Alright then, what do you want? You can either have an apple, banana, pear or orange."
The little girl thought about it for a minute, looking at her lunch box. "Mmm...PEAR!"
Laughing a little, Tamako nodded. "Alright, pear it is." she said. Taking the apple from Naomi's lunch, putting the pear in before closing it.
Haru was the next one to come up to the sink, putting his dishes in and looking at his mother. "Do we really have to take the bus? Can't you just drive us?" he asked. It was so uncool being on the bus, especially when his parents were rich.
Looking at him, Tamako shook her head. "You are not too good for the bus, Haru." she said. Picking up his lunch box and handing it to him with a smile.
He looked at her for a second and rolled his eyes. "Packing lunch is so uncool too, mom, jeeze." he said.
"You will eat your lunch and like it. Enough now Haru, go on with your brother and sister out to the bus stop now." she said, handing Riku his lunch next, smiling a little.
"Come ON mother, you are trying to ruin my social life." Haru said, taking his lunch box and pushing past his siblings and into the living room. Grabbing his back pack, he stuffed the lunch box inside along with his books.
Pouting a bit, Tamako sighed. "Haru...being a brat isn't cool either." she said. Looking at Eri and chuckling a little as she saw that cereal and milk were all over the place on her high chair. "Oh Eri look at you.." she said.
Walking over, she moved to take the tray of the high chair off, sitting it on the table and taking Eri's bib, wiping her mouth and picking her up. "You will need to change. Good gods." she said to the young girl.
"Mama I messy!" Eri said with a grin on her face.
"Yeah honey, messy." Tamako said. Bringing Eri close to her with a sigh, she walked out into the living room, looking at the other kids. "Alright you three, go on now before you're late."
"Yeah, listen to your mother." Kouga's voice came from the stairs as he walked down. He was actually shaved and dressed impeccably in his black suit pants, white button up shirt tucked into the pants with a black belt, his tie hanging loosely around him, having not tied it yet and holding his suit jacket.
Haru looked up at his father when he came downstairs. "DAD, can you drive us to school?"
"Haru..." Tamako said in warning, glaring at him.
Stopping at the bottom of the stairs, Kouga looked at them and laughed. "Kid, you're trying to get me in the wolf house huh? Nope, you're on your own on this one." he said as he walked towards Tamako, leaning and kissing her cheek. "Is breakfast ready?" he asked as he laid his suit jacket over the couch.
At that, her eyes widened. "Oh hell!" she said, pushing Eri into Kouga's arms and then quickly walking back into the kitchen. Great, she'd burnt the bacon a little. Well, it wasn't that bad. Picking it off the skillet and putting it onto a plate along with the sausage, she let out a sigh and put two new eggs into the frying pan.
Kouga took Eri and blinked, looking at her. "Good gods kid, what did you do? You've got milk everywhere..." he said, holding the girl at arms length. "Why is your mother carrying you around, huh? You're freakin' two.." he said with a sigh.
Eri gave him a grin. "Papa! I messy papa. Mama let me eat all by myself!"
"She did huh?" he asked, shaking his head.
"Dad, can I at least get lunch money or something?" Haru asked, looking up at his father.
Glancing at his son, he sighed and nodded. Moving to sit Eri down on her feet and taking his wallet from his pocket, handing his son some cash. "There. No word to your mother about this, okay?" he asked.
Haru grinned as he snatched the money, nodding. "Sure thing dad!" he said before rushing out the door.
"HEY no fair!" Riku yelled after him, running after his brother, followed by Naomi.
Putting his wallet back into his pocket, Kouga moved to pick up Eri again and walk into the kitchen, taking a seat at the table and sitting Eri down on the chair next to him. Looking up at Tamako slowly as she went around in the kitchen. "The monsters are gone. Well, all but one."
Nodding a bit, Tamako sighed as she poured the eggs onto Kouga's plate and walked to sit it down in front of him. "Good. Peace at last." she said, starting to take each empty plate to stack it on top of one another.
Taking his fork, Kouga ate at his food, looking up at his wife slowly. "Babe, don't you want me to get you a maid or something? You work way too much...have you even eaten yet?"
Glancing back at him, she pouted. "Don't you dare. This is my house and I'll be damned if anyone takes care of it but me." she said. Blinking and shaking her head a little. "Well...no, but I'll eat once you're headed to work." she said.
And with that, Kouga wound his arm around Tamako's waist, pulling her into his lap and taking some sausage onto his fork, offering it to her. "Eat." he commanded.
She gave him a small glare. "I am not a dog."
"Well...technically..." he said with a grin.
Smacking his shoulder, she moved to take a bite off his fork with a happy sigh. She really was hungry, but she hadn't had a meal for herself in years, not since Haru was born. Her and Kouga had many children, it seemed as though they had a new child every few years, with some breaks in-between that. But, all in all, they were happy. She loved having kids to take care of, and Kouga loved being a father to each of them.
Rubbing her back, he took a bite and then fed her the next one, looking up at her. "What are your plans for the day?" he asked in-between bites.
"Well.." she said, taking a bite and chewing slowly as she glanced at Eri. "Eri has a doctors appointment in an hour. And then we're going to my dads house for lunch and training."
Kouga's nose wrinkled a little, shaking his head. "Training? Come on babe, we don't need that kinda stuff anymore..."
"You never know." she said with a shrug. "Besides, its quality time with my dad. I really feel for him being all by himself. I keep begging him to come stay with us, we have the room, the kids would love having him around, but he refuses."
Kouga scoffed, shaking his head. "I'd rather not have him under my roof."
"Now Kouga you promised you'd get along with him..."
"I promised no such thing." he said, looking up at her. "I am civil."
"You are, but still, this is my house too and if I want to invite my dad here, I will." she said defiantly.
"Granpa!" Eri said, bouncing in her seat with a grin, looking up at them a little.
Tamako grinned and nodded. "Yeah, grandpa. See Kouga, your daughter loves her grandpa."
Kouga rolled his eyes. "Of course, because he doesn't spend his time trying to chop their heads off."
Standing up, Tamako nodded. "Perhaps, but still." she said, looking back at him. "Finish eating so I can clean up." she demanded. Taking the other dirty things to the sink and starting to load the dish washer and clean up the kitchen.
Eating the last bit on his plate, he looked down at Eri, leaning to kiss the top of her head and moving to stand up. Walking behind Tamako, he put his plate in the sink and leaned to kiss her cheek. "Well, I'll see you when I get home. Don't over do it today."
"I won't." she said with a smile, glancing back at him. "Love you." she said, leaning and kissing him slowly.
"Mm..love you too." he said, returning her kiss and walking out of the kitchen to leave Tamako to her day. And Tamako had quite the day ahead of her.
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Tamako sat quietly in the waiting room of the doctors office as she waited to be seen by the doctor. Sitting in a chair with her legs crossed, a magazine in her lap as Eri played with the blocks that was set up in the waiting room for the children. Humming quietly to herself, not paying attention as another woman sat next to her, sitting her child down.
"Here you go Kagome, why don't you go play with the other kids while we wait?" the other woman said.
Hearing that voice, Tamako sat up straight in her seat, her eyes widening as she glanced to look at the woman sitting next to her. And then her heart skipped a beat. There she was, her own grandmother, and her mother, Kagome Higurashi, stood on the floor just in front of her.
"Okay mommy!" Kagome said happily, letting her mother take her jacket and running to play with the other children.
Tamako stared at her grandmother with wide eyes. Was it really that time? Was her mother really born? Turning her eyes from the woman to the child, Kagome, her eyes softened. "Mama..." she whispered just softly so only she could hear. And it tugged at her heart. Her mother was dead, her mother was gone long, long ago, and there she was.
Mrs. Higurashi turned to look at Tamako with a smile. "Hello, my names Akane Higurashi and thats Kagome."
Swallowing a lump in her throat, Tamako nodded slowly. "I'm Tamako Roukan...and that...thats my daughter Eri..." she said, motioning towards Eri.
Looking up, she saw Kagome walk up to her daughter, starting to talk as the two girls played. "Seems like they're hitting it off..." Mrs. Higurashi said with a smile. "Good, Kagome needs good friends."
Nodding a little, Tamako bit her bottom lip. "Y-Yeah...yeah so does Eri. Well, her own age anyway..."
Mrs. Higurashi smiled and nodded, looking at Tamako. "Hopefully they'll be friends. Kagome is my first and I have no idea what I'm doing half the time." she said with a nervous laugh.
Closing her eyes halfway, Tamako looked up at her grandmother and nodded. "Eri definitely isn't my first. I have...four, including her. Sixteen, two seven and her, she's two.."
"Goodness you have a sixteen year old? You don't look old enough for that at all!" Mrs. Higurashi said in shock.
Laughing a little, Tamako nodded. "I suppose not. I'll take that as a compliment." she said. If only she knew how old she really was, and that she had way more than four children. Those four were just the ones living with her at the time.
"Mrs. Roukan! The doctor will see you now." the nurse said.
Tamako nodded, looking at her grandmother and swallowing. "If you...want to set up a play date or something..." she said, fishing a business card from her purse, jotting down her house number on the back of it and offering it to Mrs. Higurashi. "Feel free to call." she said with a smile as she stood up.
Taking the card, Mrs. Higurashi's eyes widened at the name. "T-Tamako Roukan? Of Roukan Industries?" she asked. Roukan Industries was a pretty successful company that her and Kouga ran, along with members of their pack. They bought up businesses, financed places and traded in things like stock. They owned a little bit of everything, and they owned a lot of Tokyo really.
Nodding slowly, Tamako smiled. "The very one. I hope you'll call me so the girls can get to know each other." she said. Stepping up to Eri, she moved to pick her up slowly. "Come on big girl, lets get this over with."
Eri looked down at Kagome, waving slowly. "Bye Kagome!" she said happily, smiling.
And Tamako had to get over the shock. The shock of meeting her grandmother, of seeing her mother again after so many hundreds of years. What possessed her to try and make friends with the woman? This would definitely be hard.
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A/N: Chapter one, Fin! :-). Let me know what you think. I wanted to do a little something different with the gang.
Can anyone figure out who Eri is? :-p...