Chapter 10

Inuyasha never had a chance to share a single thought before the phone rang. It was Eri, Kagome's friend from school, calling from her home in China,

"Hi, Kagome?", Eri spoke.

"Hi Eri. What's up?"

"I have a BIG BIG favor to ask of you and Inuyasha.", she said.

"Oh, what favor?"

"Well, the orphanage in China where I work has 14 abandoned Chinese girls raging in age from newborn to about 4 or 5 years old. The workers are treating them very badly. Worse than the other babies.", she started.

"That's horrible, Eri.", Kagome spoke.

"Yea, it is. Well, the reason I'm calling you is, well, these girls are special. They're different. I believe they are Chinese demons. Or half-demons.", Eri whispered the last part.

"Say nothing more, Eri. I'll be in touch with you very soon.", Kagome said, as she hung up the phone. She then dialed another number, as Inuyasha asked,

"What is it?"

"I'll fill you in soon.", she said.

The person she was calling was Sesshoumaru, who had powers in areas Inuyasha could only dream of. Inuyasha heard her explain about the plight of 14 small Chinese girls in the Kaifeng province of China and that they were possibly demon or half-demon. He heard her requesting Sesshoumaru to find a way to get these girls out of China and into Japan without the Chinese government finding out and without Eri being involved. She then called Eri back and told her to stay put until she called back with more information.

After Kagome hung up the phone she sat back down with her husband,

"So I guess Kohana and Tetsu are going to be having more children.", he said with a smile.

"I guess so. I know they'll be pleased. They miss having a house full of children."

Hugging his wife, he said,

"Remember the reactions we got from your friends when we told them about me and the pups and your time-traveling school days?"

flashback

Kagome was working around the shrine, helping out her grandfather and Souta. She remembered how all the sentimental items in the shrine had meant nothing to her until she started time-traveling through the well and she had met Inuyasha and her feudal era friends. Now, she had been married to the tempermental hanyou for nearly 500 years and had given him pups. He had a family now and he was ever so proud of that fact. And he had worked hard to be able to provide his family with whatever they needed or wanted.

As she finished putting away some ceremonial jars, she brushed the dust off her hands. Heading out of the storehouse, to the front of the shrine, she was surprised to see 3 young women standing there,

"Eri. Yuka. Ayumi.", Kagome said, shocked.

"Kagome!", the three chorused together, "It's been so long!"

"How have you been?", asked Yuka.

"Fine. Fine.", she replied, thinking, 'Please leave. Before my pups come outside.'

"How was America?", asked Eri.

"Huh?"

"America. Your grandfather said you were finishing high school in America. So how was it?"

"Oh, it was ok. Not as good as Tokyo though.", Kagome said, lying.

The girls began making small talk as Kagome kept switching from one foot to another nervously. Then, her fears were confirmed as little Shawn came walking out,

"Hi Mommy.", he said, walking up to her, with arms raised to be picked up.

The girls just stared. Because they were on the shrine property, she hadn't put Shawn's normality necklace on and here he was, silvery hair, silver-white dog ears, fangs, claws and all standing in front of her friends. Before her friends had a chance to comment, out walked Inuyasha with the quints following behind,

"Hey, Koshii, did you forget to pick up ramen at the store when you went with your mom?"

The girls stared at Inuyasha, the 5 dog-eared teenagers beside him, Shawn and then Kagome. What was going on?

"Kagome?", Eri started.

"Uh ... yea?", Kagome said.

"First off, why are they all wearing Dog-ears?", Eri asked.

"I remember you.", said Yuka, "You're Kagome's violent two-timing boyfriend."

Inuyasha's eye started to twitch, "I'm WHAT?", he said, "I'm her husband."

"HUSBAND?", the girls chorused together again.

"Kagome. Why didn't you invite us to the wedding?", Aymui said, "It must have been so romantic!"

Suddenly the girls were clamoring her with questions about what had been happening. And about the weird dog-ears. Finally, Kagome waved her hands in front of her and said,

"Wait! Wait! First things first. This is my husband, Shinwa, Inuyasha..."

"SHINWA?", the girls chorused again.

"Not THE Shinwa-sama of Shinwa, Inc.! Kagome - you're rich?", said Eri.

"Yea, well ... why don't we go inside and I'll explain everything. You need to be sitting down when you hear it.", Kagome said, as she led her friends inside, while Inuyasha whined,

"Kagome, I'm hungry. Where's the ramen?"

"Asame, the ramen is in the pantry off from the kitchen. Please feed your father before he starves to death.", Kagome asked her daughter, sarcastically.

Her friends stayed for hours, drinking tea, munching on cookies and hanging onto Kagome's every word as she explained about why she missed classes all that time after her 15th birthday, all about Inuyasha, her living in the past and her having children and grandchildren that were technically older than she was. They found some of it hard to believe, but they couldn't deny the existance of Inuyasha and the dog-eared children, especially since they were sitting right there in the shrine with them.

The girls couldn't help but giggle whenever one of the pups (or Inuyasha) had an itch and they sat on their rump and scratched like dogs. Kagome often chastised the giggles,

"That's them. Accept them or leave."

"Well, Kagome. I can see why you didn't want to date Hojo. Inuyasha is much cuter.", Ayumi said.

"And richer.", said Eri.

"He wasn't always rich, guys. When I met him he had nothing but the clothes on his back."

"This has got to be the weirdest story I have ever heard,", said Yuka, "But, I have to believe it, because of what I see in front of us."

After that day, the old friends got together more often as they got to know Kagome's children and grandchildren (and, in actuality, many great grandchildren from the numerous human children that Tetsu and Kohana had raised and now were numerous generations in the future.)

end flashback

"And now look at them,", Inuyasha said, "Eri works at an orphanage in China and keeps an eye out for demon children there and Yuka and Ayumi work for me at the company."

"And Ayumi is dating Koan and Yuka is dating Toki.", Kagome added.

"And I know that Ranma has his eye on Eri. He likes her dedication to saving demon children."

Kirara jumped up on Inuyasha's lap as the phone rang. Kagome picked it up. It was Sesshoumaru. The conversation was very short, with Kagome merely nodding and saying "Ok." and "Got it.". She then phoned Eri and advised her that the children would be ok. Hanging up the phone, she turned to Inuyasha,

"I had better talk to Tetsu and Kohana and let them know what is happening.", she said, as she got up and went up the stairs. Soon, Tetsu and Kohana joined her and Inuyasha, the two of them very excited,

"I can't wait to meet them.", Kohana clapped happily.

"What did Sesshoumaru say, Koshii? You left so fast I didn't have a chance to ask.", said Inuyasha.

"He said that his people would have the girls out of China by tomorrow night and that no one would be any the wiser.", said Kagome, happy at the thought of more children being in the house.