"So let me get this straight. You are my daughter yet you are not the same daughter that just left the house a couple of hours ago. You are actually over five hundred years old and are a demon now, married this young-ah… to this man here. You were unable to cross back over once the jewel you had shattered had been completed and… what was the word you used…?"

"Purified."

"Right, purified… so you've had to wait until now before you could reveal yourself to us so that you didn't upset the cosmic balance of the universe or something of that matter, is that about how it goes then?" The question was asked by Kagome's mother as she and Ichiri, Kagome's grandfather, were seated across from Kagome and Sesshomaru at the kitchen table.

Kagome offered a cheerful smile. "Yep, that about sums it up," she stated with a laugh, watching her mother and grandfather. She shifted her hand over so that it was resting on top of Sesshomaru's gently, squeezing it to offer him a bit of support, she knew that he was uncomfortable.

"Well what happened to InuYasha?" Nakoda asked, looking at her daughter as she placed her hand on her friend's – ah – her husband's – hand. She wasn't entirely sure that she was going to be able to absorb this completely, after all, she'd only just said goodbye to her 18 year old daughter a few hours ago and now she was expected to believe that the woman in front of her not only was her daughter who was over 500 years old, but also a demon married to a demon!

"He's still around. He's actually the vice principle over at Hitomi High where Sesshomaru and I have a son who is in his senior year there. They'd taken great lengths to be sure that Mika had not gone to the schools that Kagome had attended, that would have been far too close for comfort, and they'd told InuYasha not to work at the same school for the same reason. Kagome may have recognized him, because she had seen InuYasha's human form before on nights of the new moon.

Kagome smiled slightly, watching her mother. "InuYasha actually mated to a little kitsune demon. Her name is Kira and she's actually the daughter of Shippo. You remember the little fox demon I told you about?" She had been happy when InuYasha had fallen in love with Shippo's oldest daughter, though Shippo hadn't been to keen on it at first. She smiled faintly at the memory of her little Shippo. Sometimes, Nira reminded her so much of him.

"You have a son!" Nakoda demanded, watching her seriously. "A son that is in his last year of high school and I've never met him?" That disturbed her probably more than anything else. She had a grandson running around somewhere who had probably been born around the same time as Kagome! She wondered if she and Kagome had been in the same hospital giving birth to their children at the same time.

Kagome winced, looking towards Sesshomaru before looking back at her mother. "Actually, Mika is the youngest of our biological children," she said softly. "Nira is younger, but she's technically adopted," she said simply.

"You have more than one?" Nakoda was getting paler by the moment. Her baby had babies. And Mika was the youngest? At 17 or 18? "How many?" she asked softly, not sure if she wanted to know.

Kagome looked back at her mate before returning her gaze to her mother. She winced again before answering. "We have 20 children, counting Nira."

Her mother's eyes widened for a brief moment before suddenly, she fell towards the side. Kagome cried out and rose, though before she could even get around the table, Sesshomaru was there, catching her mother and stopping her from hitting the floor. "Thank you so much, sweetie," she exclaimed to her mate. "Come on, let's take her into the living room and lay her onto the couch."

Sesshomaru easily lifted the smaller woman and carried her out of the kitchen, following Kagome to the living room and laying her down on the couch gently. It was around this time that Nakoda came around, groaning softly.

"Oh, my, what happened?" she asked, holding a hand to her head as she sat up on the couch, looking around at everyone, including her own father who was standing in the door and noticed they were in the living room. "How did we-?"

"Mom, you fainted," Kagome explained, sitting on the table in front of the couch, looking at her worriedly. "Are you alright?"

"Oh, yes… I-I'm fine. I guess I was just surprised. Kagome, you have 20 children that I've never even met?" She could have cried. "20 children! That's so many!"

Kagome blushed slightly, looking away. "Mom, it's only like… 1 kid ever 25 years or so…" she said softly. "And Nira isn't even mine by birth. She's really my granddaughter that we adopted." She brought her lower lip into her mouth, feeling suddenly very nervous.

"Granddaughter?" So not only did she have grandchildren, she had great-grandchildren. This shouldn't all be so very surprising to her, after all, Kagome had been blessed with 500 years, it was only logical that she had started her own family and then when they had grown up that they had their own children. She sighed, leaning back against the couch.

"And… how is it that you met, um… I'm sorry, I can't remember your name," Nakoda replied softly as she looked at Sesshomaru.

"His name is Sesshomaru, Mom. And," Kagome bit her lip again, looking back at Sesshomaru for a bit of help. How could she tell her that the first time she'd met him had been when he'd tried to kill her because she'd been able to pull the Tetsusaiga from the pedestal that it had been embedded in within his father's tomb.

Sesshomaru, sensing his Mate's distress, answered for her. "I am actually InuYasha's older brother," he stated before frowning slightly. "Well, his half-brother. We have the same father, but where InuYasha's mother was human, mine was a full demon, like my father." Something he still took great pride in lording over InuYasha.

"InuYasha's… brother? But honey… that hardly seems, um… fair to InuYasha. Weren't you two an item?" Nakoda asked, watching her daughter.

"Well, we kind of were, but then InuYasha was a bit of a jerk and I left him, and it wasn't long after that when I started dating Sesshomaru." She refused to tell her mother that InuYasha had nearly raped her. That would not have gone over very well, she was sure. As laid back as her mother was, she doubted that Nakoda was that laid back.

"I see, well, it would appear that you have a lot of time to fill us in on then, Kagome," Ichiri finally spoke up with his own opinion as he moved to sit in one of the chairs in the living room, clasping his fingers in front of his face, pointer fingers raised into a steeple formation just over his nose.

"Oh my, is that really the time?" Kagome exclaimed, looking towards her watch after the family grandfather clock chimed three times. She looked to Sesshomaru. "We need to go pick up the children! And Souta will be home soon as well," she stated. She'd gotten lost talking with her mother about her children and her grandchildren, about her friends and their children.

Kagome still kept a watchful eye on the descendents of her dear friends Sango and Miroku. She'd been unable to find a way to keep them alive with her, and their loss had been difficult. Their descendents knew almost nothing of their ancestors, which hurt Kagome a bit, though she made sure that they never wanted for anything. Telling her mother about losing them had been hard though Sesshomaru's comforting arms around her had kept her strong.

And then when she'd told her mother about Shippo and Rin, it had nearly reduced her to tears. Had it not been for Sesshomaru's presence, she had no doubt she would have ended up curled up against her mother. She had missed her mother so much. Though technically, she was now older than the woman, she still made Kagome feel as if she were that 15 year old girl who had first gotten lost in feudal Japan.

Kagome slowly rose from her perch on the couch beside of Sesshomaru. "So… I'll see you later, right, Mom?" she asked, wondering if she'd freaked her mother out so completely that she wouldn't want her coming around Souta.

"Of course, Kagome! Why don't we all have dinner tonight? You come over tonight with, ah Mika and Nira… and Sesshomaru of course. We'll have a nice family dinner. I want to meet my grandkids!" Nakoda explained, leaning in to kiss Kagome's cheek gently. "Go on ahead dear. We will see you tonight, I daresay Souta will be pleased to meet Sesshomaru," she said softly, smiling slightly.

Kagome smiled brightly and with Sesshomaru's hand on her lower back, they moved out of the house and towards the car. She looked up at him as they reached the car, wrapping her arms around his neck as his arms came around her waist gently. "Thank you, Sesshomaru," she whispered softly.

"I told you everything would work out, didn't I?" Sesshomaru smiled faintly as he kissed the top of Kagome's head. "Now come on, let's go get the kids ready to meet your family," he stated before moving to get into the car.

Kagome smiled and nodded, getting into the passenger side of the car. Everything was working out just perfectly. For the first time in centuries, Kagome felt that her life was completely and totally perfect.

A/N: Sorry I didn't get this up yesterday. We're doing some remodelling around the house, and then we lost power, so I lost the entire document. Stupid me for not saving it. But anyway, hope you enjoy!