Our Little Secret
Chapter 2: Meeting Father
Previously: Blue-pink lights engulfed their surroundings taking them 500 years into the past.
Kagome leaped out of the well so she could help her daughter out of the old well. Kagome blinked looking around. Everything was the same, since she left. The lush grass swayed in the light breeze. She could smell an old scent that made her stomach turn from her nerves. 'What would she have for an excuse?' Sakura noticed how tense her mother was acting. Kagome reached far enough into the well to pull her daughter up and once Sakura was out she put a reassuring hand on Kagome's shoulder.
"Mom, don't worry." Sakura felt her mother's tense shoulders loosen.
"Thanks." Her mother replied. "Sakura, please when we see him, don't go and hug him right away."
The girl looked up and frowned. "I understand what you're trying to say."
Kagome smiled softly. When they walked past the sacred tree, they stopped. "Hey, this is the same tree we have back home." Kagome looked at the tree. 'So many years have passed, since I saved him.'
Flash Back
Kagome ran into Inuyasha's forest. 'Thanks Miroku. I promise someday I will come back. Inuyasha how could you do this to me.' Tears made her eyes become blurry. She went to take a leap for the well, when she tripped over an uprooted tree root. She got up with weak arms, 'please keep them safe, Kami. I won't be here to restrain Inuyasha with the prayer beads.' As she got up, she felt a heavy weight drop on her to make her fall down again. She looked up, Inuyasha?
"You thought you got away, wench. However, you failed the attempt. You shall pay!" Inuyasha drew back his arm then slapped the girl in the face. She cried in pain. His claws scratched her smooth skin. "Get off of ME!" She cried. Blue lights exploded out of her hands, sending the hanyou across the clearing and into a sturdy tree. Kagome got up in a hasty leap then jumped into the well still holding onto the jewel shards.
End of Flash back
The words kept repeating in her head, 'You thought you got away, wench. However, you failed the attempt. You shall pay!' The tears threatened to drip down her jaw, but were wiped away before they had the chance to. 'He raped me. He deserves to go to hell!' Of smelling the salty smell on Kagome, Sakura embraced her mother trying to comfort her from the pain and sorrow her father brought upon her. They kept walking until they reached Kaede's hut. Everything there was the same as well.
Kagome sniffed the hanyou's scent in there, before she stepped in. Inuyasha beat her to it. His eyes widened in surprise not noticing the sixteen year old behind Kagome. "Ka-Kagome..." He was surprised to say the least as he stared at the woman who was once his best friend long ago.
Kagome's face stayed impassive, revealing no emotion to the man clad in his usual red haori and hakamas. Inside she wanted to run and cry, but she had to do this for Sakura. She needed to stay strong.
His hair had grown longer and duller. Nevertheless, he's still that selfish, rude, arrogant, hotheaded, loud mouth, ruthless hanyou she met when she was fifteen.
"It's about time you showed up, after I tried to break through the spell you cast on the well."
Kagome narrowed her eyes. "You haven't changed one bit I see! They say time changes people, well that's a load of shit isn't it?"
"Feh." Inuyasha crossed his arms and looked away in disdain.
"Mom, is that him? Is that father?" Sakura peeped up from behind Kagome to stand beside her.
Inuyasha was surprised to hear another female voice in the room and one that was quiet and sweet. 'Just how Kagome's voice used to be.'
'Me? Her father? Impossible!' Inuyasha's mind reeled at the possibility of this girl being his.
"Yes." Kagome's eyes met Inuyasha's in an instant. Inuyasha's mouth gaped open. How could this be?
Inuyasha stepped back scared to think that was his daughter. 'She looked so much like him!' The silver hair, eyes and ears, there was nothing that resembled Kagome.
Sakura looked up at the tall figure. She still stayed at bay from him. She had to admit, she was scared. Scared of her father, and scared of this place!
'What do I say?' There was complete silence for five minutes. No one dared to move. Kagome noticed the tension hang thick in the air. Sakura fidgeting with her two index fingers. Inuyasha got annoyed when both females kept there gaze on him.
"So kid, got a name or what?" Inuyasha spit out.
Sakura looked up into his identical amber orbs. "…"
Kagome looked down at her as if reminding her that she still hadn't said anything. Sakura gave a deep breath before answering her father. "Saku-r-r-a."
Inuyasha nodded, approving the name. She didn't get it, her father was nothing like her mom mentioned.
"Now you know that you have a daughter, we're going!" Sakura looked at her mother frightened.
"What you can't just leave! I won't allow it!" Inuyasha stepped forward to protest.
Kagome frowned. "We only came here to make sure that both of you knew that the other existed. We didn't come here to have tea and talk about old times." Kagome grabbed Sakura's arm and walked out of the hut, pushing the fabric that hung on the door.
Inuyasha ran up to Kagome and grabbed her by the arm, "Kagome, wait..."
Kagome froze. Dropping her hold on her daughter, she turned around to glare at Inuyasha. "Get your hand off of me," Inuyasha bore his gaze into her dark blue ones. "Now."
"I can't let you go, not yet. Not after waiting for you for sixteen years. I-"
"You waited for what Inuyasha? For me to come back crying to you? For me to come back like I used to, bringing supplies and food. You waited for me all this time thinking that things would just go back to normal after what you did to me!" Inuyasha's ears drooped down to his head, ashamed of himself he released his grip on Kagome.
"You know that I wasn't in control." Inuyasha clenched his fists in frustration.
"That's besides the point. I warned you, I was your best friend and you didn't listen. You never cared and you still don't!" Kagome looked over to her daughter, but Sakura wasn't there. Kagome whipped around searching for her daughter and caught her running into Inuyasha's forest.
"Oh now look what you've done!" Kagome accused at the male half demon.
"Me? I wasn't the one was shouting!" Inuyasha yelled, defending himself as Kagome scoffed and ran after her daughter.
"Sakura!" Kagome was steadily catching up to her daughter, following her scent into the depths of the forest.
"Leave me alone!" Sakura pumped her legs to move faster as she looked behind her to see her mother catching up. She wasn't looking where she was going though as she ran into something solid, making her lose her balance and falling to the ground.
She rubbed her head from the impact. "Ow. Must have ran into a tree or something." She got up to dust herself off when she felt something pick her up by the back of her shirt. "Ah, let me go!"
She glared at the thing that dared to pick her up like some doll. She caught the sight of what she thought was a demon, and started screaming. "What is that thing?"
"Sakura, hold on!" Kagome panicked as she watched her little girl being picked up by a porcupine demon.
"A half demon, not what I wanted, but it will have to do." The porcupine demon growled and sniffed the girl, his red eyes looking over Sakura in hungry anticipation.
"What! You're going to eat me?" Sakura shouted as she tried to squirm away from the demon's face.
"Let her go or I'll purify you into an oblivion!" Kagome threatened as she took her fighting stance in front of the demon.
"It must be my lucky day! Two female half-breeds. I will make sure to devour you both!" Kagome ran at the demon as he was about to strike her daughter with his claws. Kagome rammed her body into the demon causing him to lose his balance and to drop her daughter on the ground unceremoniously. The demon roared in rage and picked himself up, launching himself at the older half demon. "You'll pay for that, bitch!"
She scrambled to her feet as she saw her mother fall from a back hand attack to the face. "Mom!"
"Sakura...run!" Kagome struggled to get herself off the ground as she felt her body being picked up by a clawed hand.
"No, not without you!" Sakura was about to charge at the porcupine, but the porcupine turned around and shot its quills at her in a fury. "Ah!"
She waited for the attack to pierce her, but a red and blue blur blocked the attack for her. When the blurs stopped moving they revealed a tall, handsome demon with long auburn hair in a high ponytail and a sleek tail that whipped aggressively as he moved. He wore blue hakamas and a black haori. A black sash was tied firmly around his waist with a strapped katana to his hip. His azure eyes flickered to the demon holding Kagome.
"Picking on woman are we, demon?" He accused roughly in a deep voice.
"A fox demon comes to the aid of two inu half demons? How noble." The demon roared in laughter at the display of heroics.
"Let her go and maybe I'll spare your pathetic life!"
The demon chuckled. "What makes you think you can defeat me, the Great Rishu?"
"This." The handsome demon smirked and took out two leaves from his haori.
"Multiply!" He shouted and a series of blasts popped into the air. Before the smoke could clear in the area, three identical versions of the red headed demon sprinted out of the smoke and attacked the porcupine simultaneously.
Rishu growled as he cast his 'lunch' away to defend himself. He curled up into a ball and transformed into a larger demon. Rishu grew until his body was taller than the trees. His head craned back as he laughed at the surprised look on the fox demon's face. Rishu jumped into the air and curled back into a ball. Before his large body dropped to the ground, the clones raced to the girls and carried them away. Rishu's body collided with the ground in an earth shattering 'boom' as he started to roll after the trio. Taking down trees and leaving behind rubble as he chased them.
Shippo ran in the middle as his clones were carrying the girls on either side of him.
"What do we do now?" Sakura asked as she looked behind the clone to see that Rishu was gaining on them.
"Haven't thought that far yet!" The fox demon didn't look at her as he kept running.
Kagome stared at the fox demon, she had a feeling she knew him, but she couldn't quite put her finger on how she knew him.
Meanwhile, Inuyasha heard the 'boom' from his perch in a tree in the village. He scanned the area he heard it from and growled when he saw a large prickly ball tear down the forest.
Inuyasha unsheathed his sword and began to run in the direction of the demon. He couldn't help feel like Kagome and Sakura had something to do with this.
When he noticed Kagome and Sakura carried by two clones of a fox demon he mentally sighed in relief. "Oi, can't even kill a porcupine demon, runt?"
Kagome gasped. It was Shippo. "Shippo?"
"Hey Kagome." Shippo smirked at her. "I can see you're still attracting trouble like always!"
Kagome crossed her arms, and playfully hit the clone in the arm. "I hope you felt that."
"Haha, nope." Shippo looked back to Inuyasha, who stood at the edge of the forest with his sword on his shoulder. "Looks like we gotta split for a moment, Kags." Before she could protest, Kagome was being carried towards the well and away from the oncoming demon. Sakura was carried to the left far away from Rishu and Shippo jumped high into the trees to take his fighting stance beside Inuyasha.
Inuyasha wasted no time after he made sure everyone was clear from his path. Before Rishu was able to get any closer to them, Inuyasha brought down his sword and shouted, "Wind Scar!"
The attack engulfed the enormous demon and blasted him into pieces with a final roar of anguish.
"What do they teach you at that place? How to dance with demons?" Inuyasha laughed at Shippo.
"I was doing fine until you came along." Shippo looked at Inuyasha crossing his arms.
"Yeah I could see that, you were leading that thing straight to the village." Inuyasha shouted, shaking his head at the young demon.
"Whatever, at least Kagome and the other girl are safe." As if on cue, the clones appeared with Kagome and Sakura in their arms and set them down. Once Kagome and Sakura were safely on the ground, Shippo summoned the two leafs back into his hands as the clones disappeared with a 'pop'.
"Shippo! I can't believe it's really you! You've grown so much! Look at you!" Kagome ran over to the fox demon in glee hugging him tightly.
"Good to see you back, Kagome!" Shippo grinned as he returned the embrace.
Inuyasha looked on in jealousy. That was supposed to be him getting the hugs, not the damn kit. He looked over at his daughter who was watching the scene with confusion and amusement. He was glad she was safe and out of harms way at least.
"Would someone explain what's going on here?" Inuyasha demanded.
Kagome and Shippo broke from their friendly hug and looked back at Inuyasha.
"It's my fault, I ran away and got us into trouble. That demon wouldn't have attacked if I hadn't run away in the first place. I'm sorry for causing chaos." Sakura apologized, her ears flattened against her head as she kicked the ground awkwardly.
"Sweetie, it's not your fault! It's mine, I shouldn't have argued with Inuyasha in front of you." Kagome walked over to her daughter sweeping her into a hug and kissing the top of her head.
"So, who's this, Kagome?" Shippo asked curiously as he quickly looked the newcomer over quickly.
"Oh, forgive me, Shippo. This is my daughter, Sakura." He caught Sakura's honey eyes gazing into his own and he had to look away before blushing like a lovestruck teenager. Sakura had a similar reaction, except she preferred to look down at her shoes and blush. Kagome noticed their reactions and couldn't help but giggle inwardly.
Inuyasha felt like he wanted to tear the kit's head off. That was his daughter. "What the hell are you doing here, Shippo?"
"Inuyasha!" Kagome snapped at his rudeness.
"I was coming back for a visit when I came across Kagome and Sakura being attacked. And it's a good thing I did or else these two would have been lunch." Shippo countered back at the male hanyou.
"Feh." Inuyasha sheathed his sword and retreated to sit up in one of the trees that weren't knocked down from the battle.
"Come on, Shippo let's go to Kaede's place and you can tell me what you've been doing for the past sixteen years." Kagome urged as she dragged the fox demon back towards the village with her daughter.
It was getting late when they arrived at the front of Kaede's house. Kagome peeled back the fabric to see if Kaede was inside. She noticed the back of an old woman and knocked lightly. "I'm sorry to intrude, but is Kaed-" Kagome didn't get to finish as Kaede turned her body to look at her. She looked a lot older. She looked over the elder woman, her face wrinkled and worn from years of experience and maturity.
"Aye, child what ails you?" Kaede stood slowly from her seat on the floor.
"Well, nothing really. I'm just dropping by after sixteen long years." Kagome smiled warmly at the elder woman, hoping that she could jog her memory.
Kaede was taken back as she squinted her eyes at Kagome. This half demon claimed to be the Lady Kagome? "It's me Lady Kaede. Kagome!" Just as she said this Shippo and Sakura entered the hut beside Kagome.
"Ah, Kagome…and Shippo as well!" Kaede smiled at the now older form of Kagome. She looked different from Kikyo now, especially now that she was a half demon.
"Long time, no see!" Kaede managed to finish before Kagome rushed over and squeezed the day lights out of her. "Ca-n't br-ea-th, Ka-go-me…"
Kagome widened her eyes and quickly apologized to the elder woman, "Sorry Kaede, forgot my own strength." Kaede just shook her head, chuckling her hoarse voice.
"So how are Miroku, Kirara, and Sango?" Kagome glanced around the room. It was just how she left it. The memories of sitting around the fire and talking with her old friends made her smile, but when she looked back at Kaede, she wasn't smiling. Kagome panicked, 'Oh no! What happened?'
Kaede looked at Shippo, sharing a look of sadness before glancing down at the floor after feeling Kagome's attention on her.
"Miroku was killed by the wind tunnel a few years after ye left. He was eaten alive by the curse Naraku cast upon his family!"
Kagome crumpled to the floor smashing her fists against the floorboards. "Miroku…I prayed for all of you to stay well in this era, please forgive me!" Kagome cried. When they had killed Naraku, the curse was not lifted off of the poor monk. They had all thought that he would be set free from Naraku at the time, but they were once again fooled. 'Poor Miroku...'
"We had a proper burial for him. He was at his Master Moushin's when this occurred." Shippo informed as he consoled Kagome.
"Sango and Kirara are at their demon slayer's village recruiting new members of demon slayers as well as villagers." Kaede poured each of them and herself some tea while Shippo spoke.
"As for me, I'm living not too far from here. I'm at a training institute for fox demons. I cannot say exactly where it is because it is forbidden for outsiders to know the location." Kagome frowned and wiped away the tears, but was glad that Shippo was able to carry on with his wishes to become stronger.
"Well before we leave, we will go see Sango and Kirara." Kagome finished off. Kaede set the last cup of tea down in front of Sakura and gave a curious expression. Sakura tensed, she didn't like all this attention anymore.
"Aye, Kagome. This young half demon, she is ye daughter?" Kagome smiled and nodded her head, "Yes, Sakura is my daughter." Shippo listened intently as this new information now answered some of his questions. 'So that's why she looks and smells like him.'
"Inuyasha told me what he did the day you left. Forgive me for speaking about this, but what do you plan to do now that Inuyasha knows about Sakura?"
Kagome sighed as she took a sip of her tea, "To be honest Keade, my daughter has the right to know who her father is and why she is a half demon. We've spent sixteen years in my time, covered with concealment charms. The concealment charms could not take away the essence of what Sakura was because I was and I'm still not strong enough." Kagome clenched her fists, "However, I can't stay. Not with Inuyasha here."
Kaede nodded in understanding. "I respect ye wishes child."
"Thank you, Kaede. I'm glad I was able to see you again!" Kagome gave Kaede another hug, but this time she was careful to be gentle.
"Oh and Kagome, ye may ride our trained horses for the journey." Kagome tensed. Last time she rode a horse, she was bucked off!
"Um…I think I'll just use my demonic powers instead, but thanks for the offer."
"You accompanying them Shippo?" Kaede questioned him. Shippo smirked and nodded triumphantly,
"Someone's gotta look after these troublemakers." Sakura rolled her eyes at his last remark.
"Coming from a troublemaker himself, hardly." Inuyasha interrupted as he walked over to them. "Feh, you're going to see them aren't you?" Kagome froze. Kagome looked at him with no interest in continuing the conversation.
"Inuyasha leave!" Kagome sneered.
"No I will not, wench. You are not going to visit Sango! You're staying here with me!"
"What an idiot..." Shippo muttered to Sakura.
Sakura only giggled. "Were they always like this?"
"I want to say yes, but Kagome looks far scarier now than she did sixteen years ago." Shippo whispered back.
"Is that so?" Kagome asked. "SIT!" Kagome ran off followed by Shippo and Sakura in the direction of the demon slayer's village. Inuyasha on the other hand was out cold in the huge crater.
Kaede watched this from her hut then shook her head at the unconscious hanyou.
"So, how long is this going to take to get to the village?" The girl asked.
"A couple of days, but we'll rest along the way when we get tired." Kagome kept walking with her eyes closed. "It's been sixteen years since I've been here. I'm surprised that I haven't gotten lost yet." Sakura smiled.
"Tell me about the adventures you had here!" Sakura insisted. Kagome sighed, most of them were with Inuyasha. She did not want to talk about him. "Well, I'll start with how we met Sango…"
Before long, Shippo came back from scouting the area for danger and informed the girls that he had found a safe spot to set up camp for the night. They built a fire quickly using Shippo's fox magic and laid down the mats that Kaede supplied them with before they had left the village. Once Shippo was sure that Kagome and Sakura had fallen asleep, he stationed himself against a tree and closed his eyes to meditate.
The next morning came by fast as Shippo felt a nearby presence assault his senses. He nudged the girls awake as he felt the demon heading for them at a fast pace.
Kagome growled, she could also smell the scent of a demon. In the distance, a miniature tornado headed there way. Kagome sighed, 'uh oh.' The tornado dissipated as the wind settled down around them. Kagome could feel herself lifted into the arms of Kouga. Kouga looked down at the grown woman, she had dog ears on top of her head, fangs, and claws. "You smell like Kagome, you are…"
"A half demon, I know. If you're wondering how, it was after an incident occurred." Kagome spoke truthfully. Kouga was confused, 'What incident? Did Inuyasha do this to her?'
"What incident?" Kouga questioned.
"I'd rather not talk about it! If that's okay." Kagome hid her face behind her bangs. Kouga clenched his fists in anger. "It was that mutt, wasn't it Kagome!"
"…uh…" Sakura just stood there dumbfounded.
"Anyone mind telling me what's going on here?" When two men came running up on the dirt path huffing and puffing, Sakura remembered her mom telling her about the wolf demon tribe yesterday. Kouga was their leader and Hakkaku and Ginta were his comrades.
"Let me guess you're Kouga, and those two are Ginta and Hakkaku?" Kouga looked up at the girl not noticing she was there before.
"Who's that?" He asked.
"She's not a thing, Kouga." Struggling out of his arms to go introduce Sakura. "She is my daughter, Sakura." Kouga just about fainted, 'daughter?' 'Did Kagome, his intended, have a mate?'
"Kagome whoever dared to mate you without my knowledge will be ripped to shreds!" Kouga flexed his claws ready for the person to appear. However, there was no person to pop out for him to kill. Kagome shook her head in protest. "Was it you, runt!" Kouga grabbed the front of Shippo's shirt and glared at him accusingly.
"He's not my mate, Kouga." Kouga sighed inwardly in relief, but that could only mean...
"Did he force you?" Kouga asked concerned.
"I told you I don't want to talk about it!" Kagome said.
Kouga took that answer as a 'yes'. "Sorry Kagome. I am just concerned." His eyes flared. "I told you that you're my woman and I will always protect you!"
"Kouga, I'm sorry I just can't talk about this right now. We're off to go see Sango if you want to come along."
"Sorry Kagome, but I'm heading back to the den. I haven't seen them in a week. They'll think I ditched my duties as leader if I don't get back to them by tomorrow."
"Oh, ok. I guess i'll see ya around then Kouga-kun!" Kagome smiled kindly as Kouga grabbed her hands in his and kissed them before running off. Ginta and Hakkaku groaned in unison as their leader was once again running off without warning.
Sango sat down on the steps of her hut examining the person's movements. This guy was out of his mind to be trying out to be a demon slayer. He had no swordsmanship or experience with any other weapons. No tricks, or back up plans for battle. He's plain useless. When she told him 'next', he sighed in defeat.
She got up from where she presently sat, hearing a lot of commotion at the front gates. "You are not allowed here, demon!" Sango heard this and got her boomerang ready. When she was able to see who was there she screamed and dropped her weapon.
"Kami...Kagome! Shippo!" Kagome looked in the direction of her name being screamed. She pushed everyone out of the way and hugged Sango. "Oh my god, you've grown! Look at you, you're beautiful." Sango examined the girl.
Kagome blushed. "Thanks, you too! You don't look a day over twenty-five!" Sango smacked Kagome's arm jokingly as she hugged the girl once more.
"Who's this?" Sango asked. Kagome smiled. "That would be Sakura, my daughter."
Sango realized. "Inuyasha..."
Sakura was confused. Her mother and Sango were talking in incomplete sentences and it was giving her a headache. "Mom. Please talk in complete sentences, you are giving me a headache." She pleaded. Kagome apologized then started to talk about other things with Sango.
"It is very nice to meet you, Sakura!" Sango embraced the younger girl. "Shippo you better keep an eye on this girl. If she's anything like her mother, she'll be attracting the attention of a lot of men out there!"
Sakura blushed a deep red as her mother's friend just embarrassed herself and Shippo. Shippo blushed as well as he averted his eyes, trying to look at anything but Sakura.
"I did not attract the attention of the men here!" Kagome pouted.
"Oh, don't give me that, Kagome!" Sango laughed.
Sango led them away to her hut to go see Kirara. As Sango walked into the hut, she called to Kirara. "Guess who's here, Kirara!"
Kirara soon came running out from a hall into the main room. She immediately pounced onto Kagome's shoulder's licking and nuzzling her face. "Haha, I missed you too, Kirara!"
"Oh my, she's adorable!" Sakura cooed, as she petted the demon neko on her mother's shoulder.
"Well I'm sure glad Kirara misses me too." Shippo muttered, but soon he was attacked playfully by Kirara. "That's more like it!"
Kirara gave a soft 'mew' in response as she also licked Shippo's face.
"Well, you heard about Miroku right?" Kagome sensed the hurt in Sango's voice.
"It's okay, I already know what happened." Kagome rubbed Sango's back in comfort.
"I guess Kaede told you right?"
Kagome nodded her head. "Yes."
Kirara then grabbed hem of Sakura's jeans and pulled her to the hall where she came from.
"Kirara?" Sakura questioned. She let the neko demon pull her into the hallway towards another room.
"Kirara had kittens. I want you guys to have them. I wasn't sure who to give them to, or if I should just keep them. I'm positive Kirara would be glad to see that her babies are going to live with her friends."
"Sango that's very sweet of you, but I won't be staying very long in this era."
"I thought as much, but keep them anyway. Not many people like demon cats as companions." Sango reassured.
"Thank you." Kagome smiled as Shippo, Sango, and herself followed Sakura and Kirara.
In the room, Sango had warm blankets arranged on the floor to accommodate the kittens and Kirara. Kirara's padded over to her babies and laid down behind them. Four kittens huddled close to each other to keep warm as the four of them peered over them.
"Kirara, they're beautiful!" Shippo commented as he picked up one that was black and had yellow paws and yellow stripes on its tails. He stroked the fur of the small kitten that just managed to fit in his palm perfectly. "I like this little guy, I'll call him Hayate."
"He's the only male in the litter." Sango watched as Shippo cradled Hayate to his chest. Hayate purred in contentment as he snuggled closer to Shippo.
"Aw, he likes you!" Sakura giggled. She was holding one of the kittens that was stark black with only a yellow star on its forehead. "I think I'll call this one Miyu." Sakura watched as the little kitten opened its ruby eyes to stare into her own amber ones. Miyu mew'd happily, seeming to have liked the name itself.
Kagome held the third kitten, but something wasn't right. The kitten was hiccuping every ten seconds.
"I haven't been able to figure out why she's hiccuping like that. She's been hiccuping since she was born."
"I'll take her back to Kaede's and see what she says. I'm not sure what she has either." Kagome petted the kitten gently as she felt the little tremor of its hiccup against her skin. Its fur was identical to Kirara's except instead of black ears, Kibou's ears were plain yellow. Kibou also had black spots instead of stripes for markings on her legs and tails.
"What are you going to name her, mom?" Sakura asked as Miyu started to climb onto her right arm.
"Kibou." Kagome replied. Kibou tried to nuzzle her head deeper into Kagome's hand. A soft giggle escaped Kagome's lips as Kibou opened her eyes slightly and then closed them again.
"That leaves this little one for me to take care of," Sango picked the last kitten up and instead of this cat having different markings, it was identical to Kirara. The only difference that could tell them apart were the eyes. While Kirara's were ruby, the kitten's were icy blue.
"You little one, should be named Aoi." Sango cooed. "What do you think, Kirara?"
Kirara purred in agreement. After holding the kittens they all put them back with Kirara so that they could be fed. Hayate, Miyu, Kibou, and Aoi all gathered towards their mother to be fed.
"Where's Kohaku, I'll go help him with the training." Shippo said as he got up to leave.
"Kohaku, is in the courtyard." Sango retorted. She looked over to Kagome, smiling. "Kohaku is helping me train our warriors that we've recruited. We have a good size group of them since we've been recruiting for nine years now."
"I'm going with Shippo to watch." Sakura said before running to catch up with the fox demon.
"Okay, Sweetie." Kagome waved. "That's amazing! We should go see them all later on today," Kagome praised, returning to the conversation with Sango.
"We should, but you still have to tell me what you've been doing for the last sixteen years." Sango prodded. Kagome laughed and began telling her friend of all the events that happened in her time.
Second chapter done...way more to go! Yeah! I hope you all enjoyed this chapter. I think there might me some loose ends that I haven't found yet, but one thing that must be on some of your minds is, Why is Kagome a half demon? And that has something to do with Midoriko in the next few chapters.
To those who have read the other version of this story, it is quite different, just because I need to make sure everything makes sense this time haha.
Hayate means smooth
Miyu mean superior beauty
Kibou means hope
Aoi means blue
Please review!