Binas: Yes. It is nice to see Inuyasha running around in the present. There are not many stories that do that. Most have him either born in the present or he just visits but not actually have him live there. Oh don't worry, a lot of things WILL go wrong. Ultra sounds anyone?
And that Shadow Monster? That is not the villain. Good guess though.
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"There's more of those things?! Once I find where they live I will find a way to destroy them! They pose as a threat to us! Especially you since you have our baby!", Inuyasha said with a small amount of arrogance slipping out.
Kagome hugged Inuyasha, surprising him.
"I knew you would do that to protect me.", Kagome said.
"You did grow on me quite a bit. Can you let me go now? Your squishing me.", Inuyasha said.
Kagome's eye twitched.
"Oh so your saying I'm big, huh?", Kagome asked with her anger growing.
'Oh great... I set off another mood swing...', Inuyasha thought knowing what trouble he was in now.
"Uh Kagome that's not what I meant! I meant you were squeezing me and that your kindness rubbed a bit off on me!", Inuyasha said quickly.
"How dare you! SIT BOY! SIT BOY! SIT I SAY! SIT! SIT SIT! SIT!", Kagome yelled ignoring Inuyasha's explanation.
Inuyasha was now all battered up and in another hole in the cement.
"Thanks for nothing!", Kagome yelled and carried Aki back to the shire, leaving Inuyasha in the hole.
"Why does she take her mood swings out on me?", Inuyasha asked pitifully as he climbed out.
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Five months later...
Aki was now a little better in her new found wind and fire abilities. She sparred with Inuyasha a lot and practically asked him non-stop. Inuyasha was thinking about killing the brat for her begging and demeaning 'puppy eyes'. Inuyasha managed to reject sparring very often when Kagome was not around. Other than that, Aki was always covered in bruises and cuts and looking like a zombie from the moments where Inuyasha managed to shove her into the dirt.
And speaking of Kagome, she now looked over eight months pregnant. She was surprised how fast Hanyo babies developed. Must be the fact that the baby was part dog. She avoided Ultra Sounds to prevent bad things from happening to both her and Inuyasha. But now her mom was thinking she should get one just to be sure the baby wasn't dead or anything. That would lead to birth complications.
Once Kagome dragged Inuyasha to the car.
"Forget it Kagome, I am not sitting in the back seat! I am driving and that's final!", Inuyasha snapped.
"Please be careful. We don't need my water breaking too early.", Kagome said.
"Feh! The baby will be alright!", Inuyasha said.
Inuyasha floored it and went at ninety miles per hour. Kagome screamed as she held her seat for dear life as Inuyasha continued his reckless driving.
"LOOK OUT FOR THE TREE!". Kagome yelled.
"THEY SHOULDN'T HAVE PLANTED IT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE ROAD THEN!", Inuyasha snapped, "HEY MOVE OUTTA THE WAY OLD MAN!"
All that could be said, Kagome was glad they made it to the hospital a few hours later with thankfully, no tickets or Kagome's water breaking.
"I am driving us home.", Kagome said, "You are not allowed to drive ever again."
A few hours later...
"Let's have a look at our lucky winner.", The doctor said as she place gel on Kagome's stomach and smeared it around with what Inuyasha called 'a stupid looking blinking stick'.
The screen showed a pair of babies that looked like like they were full term, one was a girl, one was a boy. Both turning upside down and had dog ears to the doctor's surprise.
"That's weird. I never seen twins with those kind of ears.", The doctor said.
"Maybe your seeing things or their hair is playing tricks on you.", Kagome said.
"Wait... You are having twins?!", Inuyasha asked and fainted.
"I am sure this is no trick. I never seen a birth defect like this. Would you like an abortion?", The doctor said.
"No! I am not killing these babies! What are you?! A murder?!", Kagome shouted.
"I am not sure what an abortion is but I am sure not letting you kill them without going through me!", Inuyasha said cracking his knuckles.
"Okay, no abortion. Can I share this with my colleagues and have them put this in to the records for birth defects?", The doctor asked.
"No. Please don't. It's best if you didn't. It's not the best thing to share something you don't understand.", Kagome said.
"Okay. But if this proves to be fatal, I will share it cause we need to keep everyone safe from potentially deadly diseases and defects.", The doctor said.
"Understood.", Kagome said.
"Feh!", Inuyasha muttered.
"I would say that you will be giving birth soon, possible by the end of the week by their positions.", The doctor said, "You may wipe off the gel now."
Once Inuyasha and Kagome got home, Mrs. Higurashi and Sota came rushing to them.
"So how did it go you two?", Mrs. Higurashi asked.
"It was alright.", Inuyasha grumbled wanting to get rid of the picture of the doctor's happy attitude.
"So is it a boy or is it girl?!", Sota asked.
'Please be a brother!', Sota thought.
"Twins.", Inuyasha grumbled wondering how much of a headache they will be.
"That's how many, not the gender! I want to know the gender!", Sota exasperated.
"What I think he means to say is one's a girl and the other is a boy.", Kagome snickered.
Sota jumped around.
"Thank goodness! I always wanted a younger brother!", Sota said in victory.
Mrs. Higurashi giggled a bit herself at Sota's excitement.
"Well I got lunch set up, why don't you come in and help me get it served?", Mrs. Higurashi asked.
Everyone sat at the table, eating their lunch. Aki was snickering.
"What are you laughing about now, brat?", Inuyasha asked.
"Oh just something I saw today!", Aki said and told them about what she saw on Japan's Stupidest Partiers.
Kagome did a spit take. Inuyasha's eyes widened. Sota looked disgusted. Mrs. Higurashi was startled.
"I don't think you should watch that anymore...", Mrs. Higurashi said.
"Aw man!", Aki said and started eating he lunch again, "Why am I the only one who thinks naked people are funny?"
Later that day...
Inuyasha had Kagome's eyes blindfolded, guiding her through the shrine grounds.
"Where are you taking me?", Kagome asked.
"Just shut up and let me guide you.", Inuyasha said.
They soon stopped. Inuyasha undid the blindfold and what Kagome saw made her heart melt.
"SURPRISE!"
Sota, Mrs. Higurashi, Ayumi, Yuka, Eri, and Aki were standing there with hands in the air as they yelled that magical word. Kagome smiled brightly and hugged everyone.
"Thank you everyone! This is so special!", Kagome cried in joy.
"It was Inuyasha's idea.", Sota said.
"Who knew that bad boy would end up loving you in the end.", Yuka said snickering.
"You must have done something to him.", Eri said.
"I think it's when reality slapped him in the face.", Ayumi said, "Or was it the wedding cake?"
"Must have been the Wedding Cake. His expression was more cheerful afterwards.", Yuka said.
"Ah. Romance near it's peak! It's so dreamy!", Eri said, "This is just like Romeo and Juliet without the suicide and family feuds!"
"You know I am right here!", Inuyasha said with slight annoyance as he carried the gifts for Kagome to the table.
'Why is gifts needed to celebrate for a baby in this era?', Inuyasha thought, 'I will ask Kagome about this 'Romeo and Juliet' thing later.'
"Oh, Kagome, here have this. It is something that your dad told me to give you when the time was right, and I think right now is a very special moment for me to give it to you.", Mrs. Higurashi said and gave Kagome a silver necklace with the kanji for daughter hanging from it.
Kagome held it before putting it on.
"Thanks mom. I love it. Only if I could tell dad that.", Kagome said hugging Mrs. Higurashi.
"Go enjoy yourself hun.", Mrs. Higurashi said.
Aki was dashing through the old leaves from last year, laughing in joy. Her arms were spread out as she fell to the ground making a leaf angel. Her long golden brown pigtails collected leaves rather quickly. When she got up, she looked like she was wearing a leaf hat. Everyone laughed with her at how silly she looked. Well Inuyasha wasn't, all he did was roll his eyes at how stupid she looked.
'I am wondering if whoever had her had dropped her on her head more than once. If so, I am so annoyed at those lousy parents to let their little brat run around with no common sense.', Inuyasha thought.
"Hey everyone, I got to go get something.", Inuyasha said remembering what was coming up next week.
"Okay Inuyasha. Be right back!", Kagome said.
Thirty minutes later...
"Where is he? He said he would hurry!", Kagome said in annoyance.
"He must be a tardy boy.", Ayumi said.
Yuka and Eri were about to say something when they saw something.
"Uh Kagome, something's behind you...", Eri said.
Kagome felt something touch her shoulder. She felt it and it felt bony. She turned around and saw a skeleton of a demon. Kagome, Ayumi, Eri, and Yuka screamed. They then heard laughter and saw a certain Hanyo behind the skeleton laughing his butt off. Kagome breathed heavily.
"INUYASHA!", Kagome yelled, "What were you thinking?!"
Ayumi, Eri, and Yuka calmed down realizing Inuyasha wanted to mess around.
"I wanted to get back at ya for all of those sit commands!", Inuyasha said still laughing, "No wonder why Shippo loved pranking so much! You get to make a fool out of almost anyone!"
Inuyasha then realized he would be in for it now. He saw Kagome's raging face.
"Uh... Sorry?", Inuyasha asked sheepishly.
Kagome then doubled over in pain as she held her stomach. Ayumi, Yuka, and Eri rushed to her aid.
"What's wrong Kagome?", Eri asked.
"The babies are coming. You had to scare me Inuyasha!", Kagome said.
"I will go get your mom!", Ayumi said and rushed to go find Mrs. Higurashi.
Due to all the commotion, they forgot all about Aki.
Aki felt something disturbing fill the air. A rush of memories once more came, some from several months ago. The feeling implanted itself into the ones that had large black blurs. Whatever it was, it was telling her it wasn't a friendly face.
The shadows of the trees started twisting and turning as they became Shadow Monsters. They lugged at her and started strangling and gagging Aki. Aki kicked and tried screaming. She was now super terrified.
'Someone, please HELP ME!', Aki thought.
A few Hours Later at the Hospital...
"I see a head! PUSH!", One of the nurses said.
Inuyasha was long passed out on another bed, being watched over by Mrs. Higurashi, Sota, Ayumi, Eri, and Yuka. Kagome's screaming wasn't helping the situation out.
"PUSH!"
This went on for a few more minutes when the first baby came out crying. They were too focused to notice the floppy dog ears.
"It's a girl! Keep going! I see another head!", The nurse said and another nurse rushed to the crying baby to clean it and go over the APGAR Checklist.
For thirty minutes, Kagome was pushing and her friends and family were worrying. Soon another cry filled the room. Again, no one noticed the floppy dog ears.
"It's a boy! Keep pushing, the Placenta has to come out now.", The nurse said handing the baby to another nurse.
Later...
Eri, Ayumi, and Yuka left the hospital bidding farewells to the luck family, heading home for the afternoon.
Inuyasha woke up and saw Kagome resting on a bed with two wrapped up clothes with two little babies. The boy had black hair and ears with gold eyes. The girl had white hair and ears with dark brown eyes. Both were giggling at the silly faces Kagome was making. They already had one of the milestones of a three month old baby but still had a lot of newborn stuff to accomplish.
'Must be because that I am a Hanyo. I guess I get to boost about them behind Kagome's back! Only if Koga was around then the boosting would be really interesting cause he would be moping on the floor that I had kids with Kagome and he didn't!', Inuyasha thought.
The newborn Hanyos fell right to sleep, Kagome smiled.
"So what should we name them or are you going to be a jerk again and name them 'Wench' and 'Stupid'?", Kagome asked.
Inuyasha blushed furiously.
'She knew what I was thinking! GAH! DANG IT!', Inuyasha thought.
"Uh no...", Inuyasha lied.
"Inuyasha... Sit boy.", Kagome said.
Inuyasha face planted into the tiled floor. The babies woke up crying.
"Kagome! Do you know how to shut them up? Their crying is hurting my ears!", Inuyasha said getting up.
"Don't worry, daddy's just being stupid.", Kagome told the babies, "Hopefully he doesn't do anything stupid around you guys!"
Kagome bounced them a bit, making them calm down. They fell back to sleep. Inuyasha's eye twitched.
"Yeah go figure, tell babies that their dad is stupid when he saved your hide several times.", Inuyasha said.
"Just help me name them already!", Kagome said.
"Feh!", Inuyasha snorted in irritation and grabbed the baby name list from the nurse.
"I looked through them and crossed out the ones that didn't seem right.", Kagome said.
"So I get to choose from the non-crossed ones. You really know how to make this easy.", Inuyasha said and spotted a bunch of dirty words and the words 'Wench', 'You', and 'Stupid' crossed out, "Is this some kind of joke?"
"Inuyasha, we will get sent to court if you name a child any of those crossed out words, especially that one.", Kagome said pointing to the worst of the seven dirty words that no one should ever say.
"Fine.", Inuyasha mumbled and started reading the list again, "I guess Hiro for the boy."
"I choose Gina for the girl.", Kagome said.
They looked at their kids, wondering what the twins will bring. Kagome then realized something.
"I think we left Aki back at the shrine by herself.", Kagome said.
"Uh oh... Knowing that little brat she's causing trouble.", Inuyasha said.
Later...
After getting home Inuyasha, Kagome, Mrs. Higurashi, and Sota searched the house and shrine for Aki. She was no where to be found. Inuyasha could pick up her scent but it wasn't on the shrine grounds at all.
"Someone must have kidnapped her!", Sota yelled.
"And it doesn't seem like a normal one, the remaining energy around me is making the fur on my ears stand up.", Inuyasha said.
"Come on Inuyasha you are coming with me to go save her!", Kagome said and handed the sleeping babies to Mrs. Higurashi before picking up a bow and some arrows, "Mom, please watch over Hiro and Gina while we are gone."
"Why do I have to come?!", Inuyasha asked.
"Are you stupid? You can track her scent!", Kagome said.
"Am I your terrier again? Forget it!", Inuyasha said.
"Inuyasha...", Kagome sang.
"Hm?"
"SIT!", Kagome yelled and dragged him out of the shrine, "You are going to help me find Aki, she is in serious trouble because of how she barely has any memories!"
"If it will get you to stop sitting me.", Inuyasha grumbled and started sniffing around for a nice trail to follow, to bad it drew attention.
Eventually, Inuyasha picked up Aki's trail and followed it, with Kagome on his back.
Later, with Aki...
Aki was still tied up and gagged. Her captors roared at each other as if they were arguing about directions in their own language.
'Maybe they didn't really care about me. Looks like I will have to find my own way out of this, despite being super scared.', Aki thought.
Aki started concentrating very intensely on heat and fire, hoping it would summon some sort of flame to undo the binds. That failed.
'Maybe it has another trigger. I remember being super angry before accidently setting something on fire.', Aki thought and focused on everything that has ever made her angry that she could remember.
Her anger was mostly directed at Inuyasha's stupidity, arrogance, and ignorance. That made a small spark of fire on her bounds, gag, and the Shadow Monsters. They were forced to release her. Aki then realized, she herself was on fire and screamed.
"I'M ON FIRE! PUT IT OUT! PUT IT OUT!", Aki screamed and did what she could do, stop drop, and roll.
That didn't help. The fire seemed to not burn her own body but did burn the Shadow Monsters drastically.
'For some reason, I must be fireproof. What joy will that bring? Couldn't it have been flying or teleporting?', Aki thought and made a mad dash in a random direction and the fires retreated from her body.
The Shadow Monsters high tailed right after her. One of them was suddenly shot by a Sacred Arrow and disintegrated. Then a few seconds later, it too got disintegrated by a Sacred Arrow. Inuyasha grabbed Aki and Kagome put her bow on her back and grabbed the arrows she used.
"You are a lot of trouble, ya know that?", Inuyasha asked as he held Aki upside down by her left leg.
"I thought you guys abandoned me! I was kidnapped by those Shadow Creeps!", Aki shouted as she struggled to get out of Inuyasha's grip.
'When will those two get along? It seems like he's arguing with Shippo all over again.', Kagome thought as she remembered every little brawl between Inuyasha and Shippo, 'Some familiar things just reappear as something different.'