"How did you not smell them?" Kagome asked through the link they shared. It was something that they had developed after they had officially mated.
"That candy messed up my nose!" He answered frantically. His eyes darted between all the curious faces looking at him.
"They definitely heard us arguing. Oh boy, this isn't good" Kagome began to panic.
"So I'm just gonna go, have fun at home!" Inuyasha tried to leave but Kagome grabbed his hand and tightened her grip.
"You are not leaving me here all by myself to deal with this!"
Finally, someone had broken the awkward silence. "Kagome!" a tiny, cheerful voice sang. A tiny pair of legs came running towards her after abandoning a teddy bear in the kitchen. Akira latched onto Kagome's leg, hugging the appendage with a huge smile.
"Aww", Kagome bent down and picked the little girl up, hugging her. "Hello, Akira! I didn't know you were going to be here!"
Inuyasha stood behind her awkwardly, not knowing what to do. "Kagome," he wined silently.
She looked over at him with a smile, their fight was already forgotten. " Can you take my bag upstairs?"
"Uh, sure Kagome, but who…" He looked around the room of staring people.
"Family" she answered simply before spotting his ears. "Inuyasha, your ears!" she said through their link.
His eyes glanced up at his ears and then at the open door. "Dropped something!" He announced before darting out, grabbing the bandanna that was in Kagome's room, and then jumped back down to Kagome's side in the doorway. Without saying a word he quickly grabbed Kagome's bag and rushed up the stairs, avoiding the gazes of her curious family.
"Oh, Kagome! Who was that with you?" Her aunt, Amai Kaikatsuna, was looking at her with an expression that reminded her of her prying friends when they asked her about boys.
"Oh..he's uh.." she struggled with an explanation.
"Sis!" Souta came running down the stairs interrupting her conversation with their aunt. "You"re back! Is Inuyasha oniichan with you?"
Kagome blushed slightly, knowing that her family was going to get a kick out of that. "Uh yeah, he just went upstairs to put my bag down".
"Cool!" her brother went thundering back up the stairs, yelling to the other boys waiting patiently is Souta's room, awaiting the news about the awesome new brother Souta wanted them to meet.
Kagome laughed nervously, shifting Akira in her arms. "Uh, yeah so that's my," she thought for a moment, wanting to go with something realistic. "Fiance!"
Suddenly the room was filled with whispers from her family, mostly out of curiosity and surprise. "Oh, Kagome! That's great!" Amai came bouncing over to her, hugging her with excitement. "When are you two getting married?" She couldn't contain her excitement.
"Well..I, uh.." Kagome was at a loss once more.
"Oh, Kagome there is no need to be shy!" Kagome's mother finally stepped in, Kagome looking at her mother in gratitude and curiosity as to what she was going to say. "They all deserve to know that you two have already been married!"
Kagome simply stood there in shocked silence, wondering why her mother would do this to her. Meanwhile, her family looked on in surprise.
"Oh wow!" Amai sang. "I have another nephew!"
"Hehe, yeah…" Kagome felt like it couldn't get more awkward than it already was, but she knew not to get ahead of herself.
A second later a troop of boys came down the stairs, tugging Inuyasha behind them. "Come on man!" Her eldest cousin, Otoko, pleaded.
"Yeah come one!" The twin boys, Ichibu and Pisu, yelled in unison.
"Please Inuyasha, it'll be so cool!" Souta added, being the leader of the squad requesting something of him.
"Uh, is your sister okay with this?" He shot a glance at Kagome, his eyes pleading for help.
She looked at them wearily, "Boys, what are you up to?"
Souta had somehow managed to drag a reluctant Inuyasha to the kitchen. "We all want to see the tetsusaiga!" he announced.
"Is that okay Kagome?" The twins asked excitedly.
"Uh, I don't know boys."
The four boys looked at her, their pouty faces begging. The fifth, who just so happened to be Inuyasha, looked at her begging for her to say no. In her mind it was four to one, how could she say no? "Alright".
"Yes!" the boys all cheered in unison, high fives ringing in the air.
"What? But Kagome!" Inuyasha protested, his tone uncomfortable.
She smiled. "You better listen to them Inuyasha, but…" she lowered her voice as they passed. "Only show them the rusted sword, no swinging around a…".
Before she could even tell him not to pull out a fully transformed Tetsusaiga the boys had pulled Inuyasha outside. The adults watched in fascination as Inuyasha reluctantly pulled out tetsusaiga from it sheath, the sword fully transformed.
"Oh my," Her other aunt, Rume, who was married to her mother's brother, exclaimed. "Is that really safe for the children to be around?"
"Wow!" Akira cheered. "Down! Down! Gome I wanna see! I wanna see!" Kagome let the little one down, watching as she immediately made her way towards Inuyasha and the boys while giggling.
Kagome looked over her shoulder at her family, their worried eyes shifting to look at her. "I'll go tell him to put that away," she told them apologetically.
"You had better," Rume said, her tone was very disapproving.
She ran out into the yard to put a stop to the boys who were jumping around, begging Inuyasha to let them hold it, but she could help but stop and smile. She saw Inuyasha scoop Akira up and let her hold the sword, him doing most of the holding. "Playtime is over boys!" She looked at Akira. "And ladies."
Akira bubbled with laughter, all the while the troop of boys let out a disappointed "Aww!"
"I know, I know" she smiled up at Inuyasha, who was still very unsure as to what was happening.
Inuyasha put his sword back in its sheath and handed a very happy Akira over to Kagome with a smile. After doing so he leaned down and placed a soft kiss on his mate's forehead, letting his hand slip down and rest on her hip.
"Ewwwww!" the boys all cried. "Gross!"
Inuyasha smirked at the boys, it somehow resembling that of Miroku's perverted smirk. "One day you'll all be jealous!"
AN: And here is chapter 3! I'm having so much fun writing this for you guys, so I really hope that you enjoy it! Please let me know what you think! I have so many fun things planned for this story :)