-1AN: Hey everyone! Happy Canada Day!! Time for booze and parties and all the good stuff. Unless your me and have to work later. Oh, well. Anyway all my exams are done and I'm off camping next week, so I thought I'd post this chapter before I leave. So enjoy and review.

Previously: Right now though he was trying to figure out how the two boys had convinced him to play hide n' seek. He loved being the seeker, especially when all he had to do was sniff the boys out.

Walking to the village in complete silence Sango and Kagome both kept thinking over what they were going to say to both the boys and their family. Kami that was a weird concept, they were family, the memories were there but they just didn't seem real. When was their life going to make sense again, probably when they talked to their mother. Upon reaching Kaede's hut Sango and Kagome had to bite back the giggles that wanted to be released. Souta and Shippou had somehow talked both Miroku and Inuyasha into a game of hide n' seek, right know it was Inuyasha's turn to be the seeker, what he didn't know was that all three boys were following right behind me as quietly as they could. Well that is until Souta tripped over a stick, Inuyasha whipped around with an evil glint in his eye and immediately lunged for the unsuspecting boys. Once Inuyasha had all the boys pinned underneath him, the girls could no longer contain themselves.

The laughter of the two girls was contagious and within seconds even the stoic hanyou was laughing. The laughter of the youths brought out a worried mother who was extremely glad to see her daughters.

"I'm glad to see you both in better spirits than before. Perhaps we should talk, all of us." Mrs. Hirgurashi said as she gently pulled both Souta and Shippou out from under Inuyasha.

Nodding in agreement the two women walked forward and into the hut followed by the men. It was going to be a long day and probably a long night as well.

He was having a hard time believing it. Sango and Kagome were sisters, Kagome never had to go through the well again in fact as he understood it the well had been sealed the moment that the entire family had returned to the feudal era. That would explain some things, like Kagome's wearing a kimono instead of her usual school uniform; he was going to miss that uniform although he'd never admit it.

"I still don't really understand. You knew when Kagome was a child that she carried the shikon no tama in her side. So, you split your family in two to protect her."

"Not just her, Miroku but all our children. Koji and I thought it was for the best, we were wrong. But I have to say in our defence that it did work for a short time." Mrs. Hirgurashi said as she continued to stir dinner.

Inuyasha was slowly getting the answers he needed to understand how to protect his family but there was still one question that he just needed the answer to.

"I hate to bring this up, really, but why are the girls and Souta suddenly remembering things you said that they wouldn't should you choose it?"

"Aye, Inuyasha that be a good question. One to which I have the answer, Kohaku. Naraku is constantly erasing his memory and Kohaku is constantly fighting him. With the two spells at war with each other, Kohaku began to have his memories of his mother return and in turn the rest of his family." Kaede explained passing her daughter some spices.

"I've known since she was born that Kagome would be a great miko one day, at a very young age she showed promise that my sister Kikyou never could. It was when Kagome was ten and Sango eleven that we discovered the shikon was in Kagome, marking her as Kikyou's reincarnation. That's when we made the plan to send Kagome to the future. Koji didn't want to leave said it was because there was just far too much to protect." Kaede continued.

It was almost time, soon his plan would come to fruition and Kagome would be his and with her the shikon no tama. Soon, very soon and all because he had been holding the trump card the entire time. Apparently Kohaku had so much more to offer than just his demon slayer heritage.

AN: Extra long for the holiday! Three pages, longest chappie yet! Hope you enjoyed, let me know what you think. Now, can someone pass me the beer and maybe some smores too! Time to get this party started!