The bet is still on! I so believe in you guys. Keh, my dear friend is going to have her mind blown when she sees how awesome you guys are. Thank you to everyone who has been reviewing so far! And reading, thanks for reading to. I hope that you're all still loving this as much as I am!

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She smiled a little. "Oh, Inuyasha. Stay, okay? Bond, or whatever. Get to know Aunt Amai."

"Why?"

"Because I want them to love you as much as I do." She answered, looking through her bag for her shampoo.

His arms were suddenly around her waist, his hot breath fanning over her neck. "Can't I join you instead?"

She blushed, little tingles of electricity running through her body. It was tempting. Really tempting… but… "No. Inuyasha, my whole family is home."

"So?" He asked, his voice husky. "We can be quiet."

"You don't even like the shower!" She argued, though she was extremely tempted to just say, 'oh what the heck! Sure!' she knew that wouldn't be a good idea. "Stay here. My aunt is going to show you how to make up a futon for a kid. It'll be good for you."

He made a little whining sound in the back of his throat.

She grabbed her soaps and stood, Inuyasha rising with her. She was facing the door, and about to take a step towards it. His hand around her waist stopped her though. Inuyasha's lips were suddenly at her neck, telling her to change her mind, as he nipped lightly at the junction of her shoulder and throat. Kagome bit back a bit of a moan and put one hand on top of his.

"No, Inuyasha." She said, though it didn't have much command behind it, as the hand on the side of her body not busy with her mate came up to feel behind her until she found his silky hair.

"Why?" He growled out, moving to lap and bite lightly at her jaw.

"Oh, my. Am I interrupting something?"

The hanyou and the miko both looked up towards the door, hurriedly detangling and jumping away from one another with furious blushed.

"Nothing at all!" Kagome rushed, bending down and grabbing her abandoned shower supplies and clean clothes. "Have fun!" She zipped from the room, leaving a bothered and embarrassed hanyou standing in the middle of the room.

Kagome's mother blinked, and then laughed a little. "You two sure are lively."

"K-keh." Inuyasha crossed his arms, sending out a Thanks for abandoning me, you stupid wench! to Kagome.

Sorry. Kagome replied, not sounding sorry at all.

"Are you sure you don't want to go join her?" Mrs. Higurashi asked, laughing a bit.

Before he could stop himself, he sadly answered, "She said no."

This made the lady laugh even harder. "Ah, I can not wait until I have grandchildren with your adorable ears!" She said, oblivious to Inuyasha's deep red blush. "Now you stay here, no going hounding after my daughter." She laughed a little again. "I'm going to go let my sister know she had better come up now." She said, smiling brightly before leaving the room.

Does your mother even care that you and I-

No. I'd say she's delighted.

It's weird that she encourages it, though…

If it was anyone but you, Yasha, she would have a fit.

Good. She knows you belong to me then. Smart woman.

He could practically see Kagome roll her eyes. I am so sure that's it.

Amai chose that time to enter the room, brandishing a ton of bags. Some big enough, to his surprise, to put Kagome's giant yellow backpack to shame. She looked up at his surprised face. "Oh, Inuyasha. Is it okay for us to put our bags in here? Since it'll just be you and Kagome sleeping in here, after all."

"Uh… I'll have ta' ask Kagome."

Hey, Kagome?

I was listening in. Yeah, they can put their bags in my room.

"Oh, okay, when-"

"Actually, yeah. You can put them in here."

Amai blinked. "She won't mind?"

"Keh. Wench has all the space she needs. She won't care."

Kagome's aunt smiled and nodded, putting her bags down. "Thank you, Inuyasha."

He shrugged. "It's not like it's a problem. Need help?"

"I have it, but thank you." She said, dropping a bag on the ground.

"That's what Kagome always says when she needs help." He said knowingly. "Where are the rest? I'll carry em' up."

The woman smiled. "They're all down stairs by the door." She turned to go get more, but Inuyasha stopped her.

"Stay here, I'll be right back."

"Are you sure? There's too many for just one trip."

"Watch the runt. You don't want her to fall."

Amai smiled tenderly. "Oh. Thank you."

A second later Inuyasha came back with, to Amai's surprise, the entire family's luggage. He wasn't shaking, panting, or breaking a sweat.

"My niece married superman." She mused; watching as he easily set everything down in the corner of the room.

Inuyasha didn't know what a superman was, so he shrugged. "Feh."

"Alright, Inuyasha. Let me show you how to set up a play-pin."

"A play what?"

"It's like a crib."

"Oh."

The woman took a rectangular bag from the pile in the corner, but she held the wrong end and a heavy blue thing slid out and hit the floor with a loud CLANG!

Inuyasha jumped, wincing, and looked over at the toddler on the bed. "She's still asleep." He noted in surprise.

"Ha! Akira? She can sleep through anything!"

"Keh. I wish that the same for Shippo."

"Who?"

"Kagome's runt. He wakes up if ya' blink to loudly."

Amai laughed lightly. "Maybe he'll grow out of it."

"Doubt it. If anything it's gotten worse."

"Shippo. Hmm, is he adopted? I would think I would have at least heard if you got Kagome pregnant."

He blushed. "Uh, yeah. He's not really my kid. Kagome's the one who took him in."

"Where is he now?"

"Off at some 'academy' thing his friends convinced him to join."

The lady started to set up some sort of weird box thing she had gotten from the bag. "Oh yeah? Does he like it there?"

"The brat loves it. He's always braggin' about bein' the best of his class. He keeps bringing Kagome his marks to show her how great he is so that she'll give him more candy."

"Aw, how cute! How old is he?"

He shrugged. "Never asked."

"Guess."

"Uh… well, he acts like a two year old. But he's been tagging along with us for almost three years. So I guess he's about eight or seven years."

"That is so sweet! Is that were you learned to play?"

"Huh?"

"I saw you rough housing with the boys and Akira. Did you learn by playing with Shippo, or did you have siblings?"

Hey, Kagome, why does she care?

Just talk to her! You were doing great! For once you weren't all closed off!

What do I get if I keep this up?

An ear message?

Deal.

"I don't play with Shippo. He's just a furry pain in the butt." Amai laughed. "And as for siblings… hell no."

Amai ignored his language. "You don't have siblings, or you don't play with them?"

"Feh, I've got a half-brother. But he's a bastard."

"Oh, come now. I'm sure it's not that bad."

"He's tried to kill me. Multiple times."

She looked over her shoulder at him. "Really?"

"Just ask Kagome. She's there most of the time."

She furrowed her brow. "Inuyasha, is Kagome safe…"

"With me?"

She nodded.

"I would die before I saw her get hurt. Don't worry, she's safe."

The woman nodded with a slight smile, but still looked unsure.

Feeling the need to reassure her, because she might tell Kagome's mother that she believed that he was a mistake, he rushed on. "I've never let her get hurt. I promise, she's safe with me, so please-"

"Oh, I believe you Inuyasha. I just don't like to think that you could get hurt."

"Huh?"

"I don't want you hurt anymore than I want to see Kagome in pain. You are part of the family now."

"…Really?"

"Of course!"

He would never understand Kagome or her family. How could they be so… accepting? If it was his daughter who brought home the worthless hanyou… If I had a daughter and she brought home any worthless male, actually. I wouldn't care if he was a hanyou, youkia, or ningen. Any guy gets their guts spilled. IF I had a daughter, which I don't. Keh, Shippos enough as it is…

Aw, you're so sweet. Kagome's voice said in his head. But if we had a daughter we would let her date who ever she wants.

Like hell we would!

Yes, we would.

But Kagome!

We would just stalk her on her dates, of course!

He suddenly smiled. Now you're talking.

"So, Inuyasha, where did you and Kagome meet?" Amai sat down on the bed, mindful of her sleeping daughter, as she was finished building her crib.

To Inuyasha, it looked like a padded box. "At the goshingbuko."

"What were you doing there?"

He smirked a little. "Sleeping."

"So how did you meet? What was she doing there?"

"She came up and started messin' with my ears while I was sleeping. But I didn't wake up, so she left, and then some creepy centipede-woman came after her because she wanted the Shikon no Tama."

"The sacred jewels they sell here at the shrine?"

"… sure."

"What did you do?"

"She grabbed my hair and started pulling it, and I thought she was someone else so I was pretty pissed off. But-"

"Who did you think she was?"

He frowned a little. "A woman I thought I loved."

"Oh… well then why-"

"The woman tried to kill me."

"Oh." Her tone filled with sorrow.

"Anyway, I was stuck to the tree, and she freed me, and I fought off mistress centipede." He skipped the part about him trying to kill her. "She put this on me as a reward-" He pulled up the beads around his neck. "And I got stuck with her."

"Stuck with me? Are you sure that's how you want to word it?" Kagome stood in the doorway, her wet hair pulled up in a ponytail, wearing sweatpants and a T-shirt. She wore an awful scowl that told of future sits based on Inuyasha's next words..

SO... has this been too OCC? I've been trying to keep it realistic but you know how that goes... By the way, if anyone was wondering about the rating, go watch Twilight Breaking Dawn. If THAT'S pg13, then my work is fine! So there. XD