PLEASE NOTE THAT ALL THESE CHAPTERS ARE SIDE STORIES TO SANDS OF TIME, MY KURAMA/HIEI/KAGOME/GAARA FIC I'VE BEEN WORKING ON. THEY MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS.

Raito Kurama turned to watch his brother, Shippo Higurashi, wave a hand to the -ahem- company he was keeping.

"I'll be back after dinner ladies!" Shippo called out as Raito smiled at them as well.

A squeal erupted from the three women's lips in the form of Shippo's name.

"Shippo, do you have to go? Why can't you just skip out on dinner with your mother for once?" A fourth woman asked and both brothers narrowed their eyes at her. Turquoise eyes turned away with a soft 'tch'. A habbit taken from Father.

"My mother is more important than a fool who doesn't know when to back off." Shippo said a bit harshly, and the three first women nodded.

"The Kitsune brothers love their mother dearly, you should appologize, Matoko!" A blonde snapped and Raito rolled his eyes.

"Whatever, come on, Ship, Mom may be fine with us playing around but you know how she is if we're late for dinner."

"Hai, hai, Rai, you're right. Bye, ladies."

A few moments pass and they find themselves at the Shrine between worlds. Slowly they enter.

"Tadaima!" Shippo called out and rushed into the kitchen like a child. Raito rolled his eyes and followed at a much more subdued pace.

"Good evening, father, papa, daddy, mother." Raito said as he sat down smiling fondly at his siblings across the table. "Ikijii." He greeted his elder sibling--the oldest other than Shippo. He looked like a miniture version of Papa Gaara, only with their mother's ebony tresses and deep blue eyes. He's always wished he'd inherited those eyes, but he had turquoise eyes instead. He assumed it was a mix of Daddy Shuuichi's and Kagome's, but he was technically Daddy Kurama's son.

"Inori, Isamu." He nodded to Father Hiei's eldest twins. Inori smiled brightly, a smile reserved for family alone, for she was too shy to really do much more than a tiny curling of the lips in public. Inori and Isamu both had odd coloring, since both Kagome and Hiei had dark hair. They had both come out with silver-blue hair. Inori's hair ended up darkening to a blue color, matching her aunt Yukina's. Isamu's hair, however, changed colors with his blood wars. Sometimes it would seem a little on the red side, other times verging on blue, but when his blood settled it was a silver color with a very light lilac sheen to it. Isamu had inherited a combined temper of both his parents, and with him extremely attached to his sister his anger sometimes caused...problems.

"Yuui." Yuui and Raito had...issues together. Yuui was skittish like Inori, but had not the explosive Isamu to protect him as she did. Ikijii did to an extent, but had felt Yuui needed to man up on his own. As a child Raito had picked on the red headed blue eyed boy, and often, even though he was the youngest of them all.

-----TBC (names of other kids have yet to be chosen.)