Chapter 12
"Everyone looks so happy." Izayoi said.
"Cause they are. " Inuyasha said picking up his three year old twins
"None of us have been like this in a very long time." Kagome said as she walked outside and took Kentaro from Inuyasha.
"Mama!" The twins called making Kagome smile and give each one a kiss on the forehead.
"Have you been good for grandma?" Kagome asked as Kaorii, Ran, and Mario stared at her.
"Yeah." Kaori smiled. Inuyasha smirked and put the boy down ruffling his hair.
"As long as ya ain't eatin stuff." Inuyasha smiled making Kagome laugh and looked at Taji and Toshiro as they walked over.
"Talkin bout us?" Taji asked.
"You and yer sister with eating Myoga." Kagome said with a smile.
"Hey, dad gave the orders." Taji smiled
"Taji let's play." Kaori said as he and his twin grabbed his hands and pulled him to collect the other children.
"Kaori, slow down!" They heard Taji call as Kaori pulled him along and Kentaro walked beside him.
"Who's that?" Kaorii asked.
"Kaori is the one doing the pulling. Kentaro is his twin." Kagome said watching her father watch the little twins as they ran off with the other children.
"How's Izzy?" Inuyasha asked.
"She'll be okay. Everything's stitched and bandaged. It seemed that it needed a little help mending." Kagome said.
"Mom!" Came a call making Kagome smile as she walked to find the person the voice belonged to with everyone following. "Mom, who are these people?" Sota asked as Hitomi stood beside him and the girls ran off.
"They're friends." Kagome said with a smile.
"Sis!" Sota called and hugged her tight. "I thought we were never gonna see ya again."
"You should know better, Sota. I'll forever and for always be here. Now tell me." She smiled and looked at Hitomi.
"It's a boy." Hitomi smiled and she and Kagome hugged.
"Congratulations!" Kagome said as Inuyasha smirked and came to her side.
"Ya did it now. " He told the young man.
"Why?" Sota asked confused.
"Cause you'll wind up like us." Shippo said and was hit in the side by Mizuki.
"Shippo! I think it's great you're having another one. And it's a boy." Mizuki said and Inuyasha started to laugh.
"What's so funny?" Kagome asked him.
"He doesn't know what the hell he's gettin into." Inuyasha laughed making Shippo join in.
"Inuyasha, sit!" Kagome yelled. "Shippo." She said as he gulped knowing he got her message.
"Kagome!" Inuyasha growled.
"My brother is having another baby and you and Shippo just make jokes. Remember what happened last time? When you can be nice to people then you can get up. Until then you can just sit there." She said making the spell pull him to the ground even more.
"Hey sis?" Sota asked getting her attention as he felt sorry for Inuyasha. "Why'd you bring your friends here?"
"They're family and friends. They're from the afterlife. Inuyasha and Izayoi managed to open a way for them to come help us."
"Family?" Sota asked and his mother looked at Kagome confused.
"Yeah." Kagome smiled and turned to the others. "These are Inuyasha's parents and uncle. These are Shippo's parents. The other people are Sango's village, Miroku's family's somewhere around here, and our family." Kagome smiled and looked at Sota and Keiko's confused and shocked faces when Kaorii and his sister stepped out into the open with his brother in law.
"K-Kaorii?" Keiko asked and her eyes went wide as she looked at the three and her sight stopped on her husband.
"Keiko." Kaorii smiled as Keiko rushed to him and wrapped her arms tightly around him and cried.
"Sota, you were really little when they died, but this is Aunt Ran, uncle Morio and that is our father." Kagome explained and saw Sota's eyes open wide and he looked at Kagome and back at the man his mother was hugging. She pulled back and smiled before turning and looking at her children.
"This is Sota. He was only a year old when you passed away." Keiko explained. "This is his wife Hitomi and their twin girls are probably off with the other children."
"You've grown into a man while I have been gone." Kaorii said and walked over to him and they hugged. "Kagome told me about you when we met the first time." He said and looked at Keiko who hugged Ran and was now hugging her brother. "You raised both of them wonderfully." Kaorii told his wife.
"Yeah, a stubborn, brave woman you raised." Morio said looking at Kagome. "Reminds me of someone." He said smiling at his younger sister.
"How long are you all staying?" Keiko asked the undead.
"Well as long as Inuyasha would like." Inu no Tashio said looking at his son.
"You mean that everyone can live again?" Kagome asked.
"Most of them. There are a few that need to go back." He told his daughter in law.
"How long do they have?" Shippo asked.
"A few weeks at most. They will disappear and wind up back in the afterlife." The great demon lord said.
"That's great!" Mizuki said.
"Yeah. That's wonderful that these people can have their lives back." Rin smiled from beside Sesshomaru.
"So who will be the ones that need to go back?" Kagome asked
"Some of the villagers, and servants of the afterlife." Izayoi said.
"What about the girls?" Inuyasha asked.
"They must stay there, but can come on visits and we can go and visit them there." Inu no tashio said looking sadly at his son as he hugged Kagome when a few tears slid down her cheek. "I am sorry but that is how it works."
"It's okay. They can visit and we can visit them." Kagome said as Inuyasha whipped her tears away. "How long can they visit for?"
"With their blood line, they may be able to last years at a time. But I think with their powers the least amount would be a few months." Izayoi said with a small smile as Kagome began to smile and she and Inuyasha hugged happily.
"Let's go get them." Shippo smiled.
"Inuyasha unsheathed his sword and used the black Tetsaiga and opened a whole to the afterlife with his father directing where it would open. Inuyasha, Kagome and Shippo ran through and the great dog demon kept the way open. Inuyasha, Kagome and Shippo ran and found the girls sitting with several servants. When they smelled their parents they shot up and began running with the servants behind them calling.
"Mama!" Katsumi called as she ran into Kagome's arms.
"Papa!" Takara ran into Inuyasha's arms "Brother! Why are you here?" Takara asked her parents and her brother.
"We came to take you with us for a bit." Kagome smiled.
"Really?" Takara asked. She couldn't believe it.
"Yeah, now let's go. Your grandfather is holding the way open.
"My lady's!" A servant called as they all stopped in front of Inuyasha. "My lady's where are you going?"
"Mama and papa and brother are takin us home." Katsumi smiled and grabbed Kagome's hand with Takara grabbed Inuyasha and Shippo's hands and the five walked back the way they came and ran through the hole to come out with the girls amazed.
"This is where your mother's from." Inuyasha said.
"Mom, this is Takara and Katsumi." Kagome said with a bright smile.
"Now everything is perfect." Sango smiled as she and the others walked over to them.
"Yeah, perfect. This is how it should have been from the beginning." Miroku smiled.
"So what do we do now?" Shippo asked. "Last time everyone was gone and the well was sealed. Now we have everyone back and the well is wide open."
"I think my village would like to reset up." Sango said and got a questioning look from Kagome. "My father told me."
"I think we'll go back to our house, and visit every one once in a while." Kagome said.
"Father, your room is still the way it was, if you would like to take your position back." Sesshomaru said and saw inu no tashio look at lady Izayoi.
"No I think we will find a place and visit the castle. It seems you have been doing a good enough job."
"We're gonna go back to the den. With a few less people." Koga smirked.
"If you really loved yer son I think it would be better to take him with you, before dad makes him fly to ya." Shippo laughed making Koga smirk and Inuyasha growl.
"What are you talking about?" Keiko asked.
"The kids seem to take a liking to each other. Izayoi and Taro have gotten close lately." Katsu said.
"Their intendeds" Inuyasha said. Everyone who didn't know about mating was confused.
"Soon to be mates." Kagome explained.
"So when…." Keiko asked.
"When they're ready." Ayame smiled.
"Well let's see what I have to feed everyone." Keiko said and went off to look for food while everyone stood around and talked about what they would be doing now that there was no threat.
Five months later Kagome and Inuyasha brought Keiko, Sota, Hitomi and Gramps through the well. Eri, Ayumi, Yuka, Hojo and their children and husbands came a few days later and discovered something that Inuyasha and Shippo weren't laughing at.
"Oh my! Kagome!" Eri cheered and hugged her friend when they found her in the village that night. The villagers were having a celebration of the death of Masaru and the end of the pain and suffering.
"Kagome! I can't believe you didn't tell us." Yuka said.
"How long?" Ayumi asked placing her hand on Kagome's swollen belly.
"Four months. And you think its bad I didn't tell you wait till you hear….." Kagome smiled and made them all follow behind her.
"Oh my!" Eri said looking around. Sango, Rin, Hanna, Ayame, Mizuki, Hitomi, Izayoi, Akia, Nori and Kagome were pregnant and sitting by themselves.
"Where's the guys?" Hojo asked.
"They ran off like always." Mizuki smiled and the women watched Hojo wander off to find the men.
"So everyone…?" Yuka asked.
"Yeah. Seems the men have made buddies with the younger guys. Inuyasha and Miroku had a hard time dealing with their daughters being mated." Kagome laughed.
"Ya shoulda seen all of them when we told em we were all pregnant together." Ayame said making all the women laugh.
"So when are you all due?"
"I'm next month." Hitomi said.
"Two months." Kagome said
"Me too." Mizuki said.
"Yeah. Me too." Rin said.
"Me three." Hanna said
"I have six more to go." Nori said.
"Me too." Sango said
"Next month." Ayame said.
"We're not too sure about Izayoi and Akia. Because Izayoi is half demon and Taro is full and Akia is full demon and Toshiro is half, we really don't know how that works. They'll be the first three quarter demons ever." Sango said.
"Wow." Yuka smiled at them.
"This is so exciting!" Eri squealed.
"I know. Nieces, nephews, aunts, uncles, cousins, they might all have the same birthday!" Yuka said.
"Yeah, I think that's the way it works with us. All our children were born in groups." Kagome laughed.
"So wanta bet on who's the first to go into labor?" Eri asked.
"Kagome will." Inuyasha said as he walked up to the women with the other men behind him.
"What makes you think that?" Asked Sango.
"Cause she doesn't listen and is gonna push too hard and wind up in labor." Inuyasha explained. Kagome crossed her arms and looked at him angry.
"The last two times I was one of the last, thank you very much." Kagome said and looked away.
"Yeah, yeah." Inuyasha said and sat next to her on the ground only to have her lay her head on his shoulder as the other men made themselves comfortable with their mates and wives.
"How bout bets on what it is?" Yuka said looking around as everyone smiled.
"That wouldn't be much of a bet. We all know what were having." Ayame said.
"Oh? What are the babies?" Ayumi asked.
"I'll leave it up to you four." Kagome said.
"Girl." Sango said
"Girl." Rin said.
"Girl." Mizuki said.
"I think I'll leave it a surprise." Izayoi said with an evil smirk.
"Everyone else might know but I think I'll let those that don't guess at it until it comes." Hanna smiled.
"You can guess." Nori said.
"Boy." Hitomi smiled.
"I'm not telling." Aki said and glanced at the smiling Toshiro as he started a quiet conversation with his brother in law.
"Wow. You guys are really gonna have fun." Ayumi giggled.
"Yeah. Now we can't wait to see what they look like and who they act like." Rin said.
"I can't wait." Hanna smiled.
"We can." The men said at the same time, making everyone laugh.
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