The Forbidden Child

Ch.11

I snapped a picture with the camera when my mother kissed InuYasha (I still couldn't say the word dad yet). I might be able to later, when I was still convinced this wasn't a dream.

Mom yelled at me a bit, but I told her to not have and aneurysm while I scrolled through the pictures I'd just taken. I saw a photo of my mom and...what's his name...on the small lamp table. I quickly put the picture face down, when mom grabbed the camera from my hands.

I yelled in protest but she ignored me as usual. She kept talking about the Well but zoned out while I thought about this guy that my mom had starting seeing just to make my grandmother shut up. My grandmother kept on saying how I needed a fatherly figure in my life, and even though she knew the feelings my mother still had for my father, she needed to put them aside for my sake. I didn't know much trouble that would be until now.

"You smelled her blood?! Kiriyai what have you been-"

"Does it really matter now mom?" I said cutting my mom off. I did not want her finding out about me getting shot, that would be even more trouble. "After all, I did bring him back home."

Mom sighed and I heard InuYasha say something, but I ignored them as usual until they started talking about going back to the feudal era. My ears perked up. "So we're going back AGAIN? Fun, let's go."

I jumped off the table and was the first one running to the Well, and I had already jumped in before they walked outside. I was halfway to Kaede's hut when my mom and InuYasha climbed out of the Well. I watched how he held his hand out for her, helped her up, and smiling like an idiot the whole time. It was really sweet, in a gross way. I waited for them and they chatted for awhile, leaving me to have some peace and look around.

When we approached the small house, Kagome immediately ran up to a woman carrying a baby on her back. She smiled warmly as they chatted animatedly and walked into the house. I stood beside InuYasha and looked up at him.

"So it used to be like this all the time?" I said, rolling back on her heels. "My mom usually isn't this happy."

"This is the only Kagome I've known..." InuYasha said. I didn't notice until he said something, but someone was spying on us. "Shippo! You brat get out here!"

I watched as a tall, slim teenage boy walk from behind the house into view. He has very orange-red hair, and a big smile. His teeth were slightly pointed, which immediately make me look at his head which had bright orange ears atop it. To my surprise, he had a fox tail that twitched every now and then.

Shippo spotted Kagome and ran over to her. "Kagome!" Shippo said smiling, hugging the freaking life out of her.

"My, Shippo have you grown! You're voice, it sounds like a man's!"My mother smiled maternally. "I am very proud of you, I'm sure you've been doing great honorable deeds around here."

"Honorable my ass..." I heard InuYasha mutter and I laughed a bit.

Shippo spotted me and looked back and forth from InuYasha then to me a few times. I heard InuYasha scowl. I looked at Shippo.

"No way..." Shippo said then laughed. "That's seriously your daughter?"

"Got a problem with it?" InuYasha and I snapped at the same time. We looked at each other and blinked.

"Oh yeah." Shippo said still laughing. "That's definitely your kid."

He kept smiling at me. It was a little unnerving, mostly because I liked it.

"Let's go inside Kiriyai." InuYasha said rolling his eyes and motioning me towards the door. I went in with Shippo behind us.

"Kiriyai how good to see you again!" Miroku said motioning for us to sit down. I sat on a mat beside InuYasha, my mother on the other side. "This is my wife Sango, and our children are in the next room..."

"Hello, it's so good to finally meet you. Miroku said something of the sorts but I didn't believe him." The woman named Sango said and smiled. "How old are you, may I ask?"

"Fifteen..." I said messing with my hands. I never liked being the center of attention.

"I didn't know you two-"

"MIROKU!" InuYasha yelled. I tried not to laugh. Mom calmly sipped some tea.

"I didn't know I was going to have a child until after I went back home." My mom said calmly. Everyone was quiet for a minute. "As soon as I found out, I wanted to come back...but you know the rest."

"Mysterious isn't it?" Miroku said picking up his own cup of tea. "After fifteen years, just like that it opens."

"Yes we have no idea what caused it either." Mom said taking one of my hands that I was trying to keep still. I exhaled.

"It's remarkable how much she resembles both of you." Sango said, her hands still resting behind her supporting her own child.

Shippo kept glancing at me throughout the conversation, and InuYasha would growl when he caught him doing so. So instead of the traditional protective father with a shotgun, mine came with claws and a very bad temper.

This could get ugly.