Chapter 12
"Where am I?" He groaned slowly opening his eyes.
"I thought I told you I didn't want to see you." Said a deep voice that came from above his head. He shot straight up and turned around hoping that this was all a dream.
"Please let this be a dream." He said softly as he saw his father and mother walking towards him.
"No this is no dream, dear." His mother said.
"What have you done?" Asked his father. Inuyasha looked at both of them thinking.
"I fought some dragon ass and killed him. Shippo and I were heading back to get our wounds- Shippo!" He looked up at his parents. "Did he…?"
"Who is this Shippo?" Asked his uncle who came into the throne room. Inuyasha turned to see him.
"Shippo is my son." He looked back at his parents. "Kagome and I told you about him when we were here. He's the little kit we were telling you about."
"No, he has not come." Izayoi said as she sat at his side and watched as he sighed out of relief.
"Were your wounds that bad?" His father asked.
"No not really. Two holes in the gut, a whole bunch of cuts and gashes and a few broken ribs. Nothing that would do this…." He trailed off looking down at the ground thinking, as his mother grimaced at the thought of her little boy all beat up. Suddenly his head shot up. "The bleeding. It wouldn't stop, and I couldn't breathe when we were about an hour from home. Shippo half dragged me to the village."
"Is that all that you remember?" Asked his mother.
"No. Shippo was calling for Kagome, she saw me, and she and Sango were walking towards me when… everything went black." He looked from each face in the group. "So, am I…?" His mother was about to answer when a scream rang threw the hall.
"DADDY!" Inuyasha looked around and jumped to his feet.
"Izayoi?" He whispered.
"It seems you are not completely here." His uncle said. It went silent.
"What do you mean?" Inuyasha was confused. "I'm not dead?"
"Inuyasha. Love, come on please wake up. Please Koi. Come back to me, to our friends, to our children." Inuyasha looked around him.
"Kagome." He whispered her name like he did his daughter's.
"Apparently you are almost here." Inuyasha's uncle said, watching Inuyasha's reaction as other voices were heard.
"Dad, you gotta wake up. Please, mom is so sad, and Izayoi is in the tree and refuses to come down. Shiro and Taji don't know. We want to keep them from knowing until your better, but if you don't get better by tomorrow night…. Sango and Miroku… well let's just say you better wake up soon before the kids drive them nuts, they haven't even had them for a whole day yet. They're trying to help as much as possible. Please, come back, papa." Shippo said. Inuyasha heard the laughter in his voice when he was talking about Miroku and Sango, and he heard the desperation when he was talking about the others and begging him to wake up.
"Who was that?" His mother asked.
"That is Shippo." He said with his eyes closed. Inuyasha opened his eyes and looked at his parents. "How do I go back?"
"That is something for you to figure out." His father said looking almost straight across into his eyes. He had no idea what he was talking about.
"Come, think about it." His mother said and led him into the next room to sit on a very soft seat.
"How am I supposed to figure this out?" He asked, he was becoming frustrated.
"Think, it will come to you." His uncle offered as he and his brother sat across from Inuyasha and Izayoi. After what seemed like hours, they heard another voice.
"Come on. Don't be afraid. He's just sleeping. Go see them."
Inuyasha's family looked at him waiting for him to identify the voice.
"That would be Sango." He thought for a moment. "I wonder who it is she's talking to." He thought out loud.
"M- Mama?" Asked a tiny voice. There was a long silence as Inuyasha's family watched him close his eyes and think.
"Daddy. Mama and brother said you sick. Are you gonna wake up and play with us soon?" The voice said again.
"Is that little Toshiro?" Asked Izayoi. Inuyasha opened his eyes and turned to look at her.
"Yeah, that's him." He smiled. "You should see them now. They got so big. He's still the good twin." He laughed. "But not the good kid. No that would have to go to-"
"Poppy! Wake up. Time to play." Called a very loud cheerful child. Inuyasha chuckled.
"He may be loud but he's good." When his parents and uncle stared at him confused, he spoke again. "That voice was Taji. He's the youngest. Kagome was pregnant with him when we were here."
"What does he look like?" Asked Izayoi, curious about her new grandchild.
"Kagome says he looks just like me with a purple strip on each cheek. He acts just like Kagome's little brother. Always curious, loud, playful but he listens and does what he's told. Izzy is as rebellious as ever. I'm told I'm the only one that she'll actually listen to, but it takes a few times for her to actually listen. Toshiro is still just like Kagome. Although we did find out that the miko power she passed on to him does nothing but help control his demon side." Izayoi smiled hearing the news of her grandchildren. Inuyasha looked at the ground remembering little Izayoi's fights.
"Izzy isn't so lucky though. We found out that she can use the miko power but her demon is triggered more easily than her brothers are. After the last one she almost killed someone and was fighting with his brother, she got scared when she saw what happened."
"What do you mean?" Izayoi asked.
"One of the Koga's pups jumped on her and she attacked him, he was pretty beat up, but that what he gets for picking a fight with my daughter." He chuckled and continued, "When his brother tried to save him, they got into a huge fight. We broke it up but when she came around she saw what she did, and took off." He said remembering that day. "She has my eyes now too."
"Inuyasha, you really must wake up." Miroku said.
"You need to listen to everyone dog shit. This is enough; I had to come all the way here to try to get Kagome to leave your side. You better get up before I take her with me when I go home." Inuyasha growled loudly.
"Like hell you will." He said. Everyone looked at him.
"Who was that?" Asked his uncle.
"The first one was Miroku. And the second would be the flea bitten, mangy wolf, Koga. If he thinks he's taking Kagome he's got another thing coming."
"Why would he do that?" Izayoi asked her son. She did not understand what was going on.
"When Kagome first came to the feudal era and we started out on our task. He took her and Shippo. For a year, he used to show up randomly trying to convince her to go with him. She always said no, he never really got the hint that she did not like him. Every time he would show up we would fight over her and it would always end the same." He smirked remembering the old days.
"What happened?" Asked his mother, seeing the smirk on his face.
"Kagome would try to break it up; if that didn't work she would sit me and tell Koga he should go. I got sat a lot because of him. But everyone joined up and fought Naraku and before the battle Kagome and Koga had talked it out and he had come to terms that he would never have her."
"Then why would he say that?" The king asked.
"Because he likes to bug me and get under my skin. Like Kagome would even go with him, besides the fact that Ayame would be so pissed."
"Inuyasha, you really have to wake up. I've never seen Kagome like this, it's killing her. The kids seem ok but I can smell that their upset. Your daughter refused to come down from the sacred tree. I even wet up and tried to get her…. That turned out to be a bad idea. I had to hobble back and get Kagome to patch me up." There was a long period of silence. Before he spoke again. Inuyasha laughed softly thinking of what Izayoi would have done to him. "You gotta wake up, so that brat of yours will calm her ass. You desperately need to get up for her sake, for the other two, for Kagome, and the runt. You know he thinks it's his fault you got so banged up. Dog breath, I'm only going too asked nicely once. Please wake up, your family and friends need you." Inuyasha stared at the floor. He didn't know what to make of what he had just heard.
"I need to get back to them." He said and closed his eyes raking his brains again trying to find a way.
"Inuyasha, I wanted to see how you were doing today. Miroku said he stopped by with Koga earlier. He said Koga said something's he shouldn't have." Sango said.
"Yes, you won't have to worry 'bout him. I'll take care of his little idea. If he thinks he is going to get away with that…" Threatened a woman's voice.
"I told you Ayame was going to be pissed." Inuyasha chuckled.
"Have you figured it out yet?" His uncle asked. Inuyasha looked up at him and closed his eyes.
"No, I don't know what I am supposed to do, I can't think of anything." They sat in silence for a long while. Inuyasha kept his eyes closed praying to every Kami he could that he would get back to them. Suddenly he heard Kagome again. Now when she spoke she sounded a little happier.
"Koga came by this morning. He had me fix up some nasty cuts Izayoi gave him when he went to get her to eat and come down from the sacred tree. After he told me to go relax, I went to see her. She got her self-stuck all the way up in the tree and won't come down. I heard she hasn't eaten either. She is so scared she is going to lose you. I tried to talk to her but it didn't do anything, and I left her be and went and sat with Sango and Ayame as the children all played. Shippo joined in but I could tell he was still upset. He has been sitting and talking with Mizuki a lot. The boys are as active as ever. Taji doesn't really understand what was going on but I think Shiro does. He seems a little moppy but he is still out there playing and doing what he does every day. Shippo has done his best to take care of them and me and be strong for everyone, you should be very proud of him. I haven't seen him shed on tear or look sad and up set in front of anyone except Mizuki. Me on the other hand…." She paused for a little while.
"It took Koga to force me to leave and go out today to realize that I can't lie around and cry wondering when you'll wake up and hug me, and yell at me," She laughed. "And kiss me and love me. It just doesn't work. I was just so worried and I want you to wake up so bad." she stopped and he felt moisture on his forehead rolling down his brow.
"Inuyasha, you are my love, my only love. You hold my heart forever, and you always have. I love you with everything in me. Please, koishii, please come back to me. Love me the way you used to. I love you so much, and don't even think Koga would be able to drag me off with him, dog boy." She giggled.
Inuyasha concentrated on Kagome and felt her shift and move to lay her head on his shoulder and slowly fall asleep. He listened to each breath and he slowly started to feel the pain that came with his injuries. The sudden pain made him loose his concentration and he opened his eyes to see his mother, father, and uncle still watching him.
"I found out what I was looking for." He said happily. They smiled and nodded.
"Good." His uncle told him.
"I told you, you would." His father said.
"What was it?" His mother asked. He looked at her and smiled.
"Kagome…. I can hear her breathing as she sleeps, she moving to get comfortable with her head resting on my shoulder…" He smiled and closed his eyes. "Her sweet scent everywhere, calming all the pains of my wounds. It's Kagome. Kagome is my way out." Slowly he felt himself become heavy he hear his mother call out to him then he saw nothing but darkness and tried to open his eyes, but could only open them a crack. "Kagome." He croaked and slowly moved his arm that felt like lead to wrap around her.
She heard her name whispered harshly in her ear and felt an arm move to wrap around her. Her eyes fluttered open, what's going on? She wondered before lifting her head and seeing golden eyes looking at her through slits. Her eyes went wide and her breath caught in her chest.
"In- Inu- Inuyasha?" She asked afraid that this wasn't real. She saw a small smile spread across his face.
"So you didn't leave with the wolf, and I thought I had gotten rid of you." His voice was scratchy. His throat was dry and hurt. Kagome moved to get a better look at him.
"Oh, Kami, Inuyasha. I was so worried!" She cried and laid her head in his chest.
"Easy wench. Not so hard. I know you were worried, I'm sorry." He said smoothing her hair. She sat up and looked at him.
"I'm just so happy you're okay. Izzy will come down now and eat. I've been worried about her too, and Shippo, I think you should talk to him. He thinks that if he was better in the battle of was by you to help you block, this wouldn't have happened." She paused then sat completely up and moved to get out of bed. "I'll be right back; I'm going to get you something to drink. Are you in pain?" She asked all at once. He smirked. She was very worried, he could tell by how she was rambling on.
"Not as long as you're with me." She smiled and left to get a drink of water and a very mild pain reliever. She was back by his side in a matter of five minutes. She helped him lift his head and take his medicine and some water. When he was done, she laid his head back down and put the cup away before returning to bed.
"Sleep, I'll be alright now." He told her, wrapped his arm around her as she lay down, and put her head on his shoulder.
"Inuyasha…" She said.
"I don't want to hear anymore. We'll talk in the morning, Kagome."
The morning came quickly and Kagome woke up in Inuyasha's arms. She looked up to see his golden orbs opened and looking back at her.
"Good morning, Koi." He said and kissed her forehead. She smiled and moved so that she could kiss him on the lips.
"I thought it was a dream. I was worried that I would wake up and you would still be like that." She said then leaned in and placed a soft kiss on his lips. He kissed back and relished in the feel of her lips on his.
"How long was I laying there?" He asked.
"Two days." She said as she went to the closet to get her kimono for the day. She quickly got dressed and then turned to get Inuyasha settled again. She could see he was still in bad shape. His eyes were closing again and his breathing still wasn't back to normal.
He had a coughing fit and winced at the pain the wracked threw his body. A drop of blood slipped past his lips as his breaths came to him in gasping breaths for a few minutes until he caught his breath and he looked up at the frightened Kagome who had moved to sit beside him again. Once he caught his breath she cleaned the blood from his lip.
"Now I want you to lay back down and rest for a little while longer. I'll be back in a little while." She kissed his forehead as his eyes closed and he went to sleep. "Rest easy now love." She whispered before she got up and left.
Kagome walked a little ways into the woods to end up at the sacred tree. She looked up to see her daughter still up in the high branches. She knew Izayoi had climbed to high and Kagome would have to get Koga or Shippo to get her.
"Izayoi!" She called up. There was no answer; it was the same answer that everyone got when they came to talk to her. "Izzy, I brought you some food!" Still nothing. "Come on, why don't you come down and eat and talk with me?" She waited and was answered this time.
"No! No! No! I don't want food! I don't want to come down! I don't want to talk! And I DON'T want YOU!" She screamed down at her mother. Kagome stood still; she didn't know what to say. She knew the girl was upset and scared she was going to lose Inuyasha. She opened her mouth to talk to her when a voice came from behind her.
"Don't talk to your mother like that!" A deep voice called. Kagome turned around to find Sesshomaru walking into the small clearing.
"Why should I listen to you? You're not my daddy!" She yelled at him. She started to cry when she started to think about Inuyasha again. Kagome looked at Sesshomaru and found he was starting to get upset with how she was acting.
"Sesshomaru, she's just upset with everything that happened with Inuyasha. She'll come down when she wants to." She said sadly then turned back to her daughter still crying in the tree. "I'm going back home if you want to come see your father! I think he would like to see you!" She called and turned and started home. Sesshomaru followed her and once there Kagome lead him up to the bedroom. Inuyasha was still sleeping when they arrived. Kagome walked over to the bed and sat on the side. Sesshomaru sat in a chair beside the bed.
"He's still very weak from the wounds, but he is getting a lot better. He woke up late last night and again this morning but he went back to sleep shortly after." She told her brother- in- law. He nodded and looked at his little brother lying in the bed, helpless. Kagome tried hard to hold back a few tears as she thought about how sad and hurt Izayoi was.
"What are you crying for?" The old dog demon asked. Kagome looked up at him and whipped the tears away.
"Izayoi is so hurt and worried. I hope she will be alright." She said and looked back at the sleeping Inuyasha.
"Don't worry about her; she'll come out of it. Beside she needs to learn that she can't go yelling at you like she did. She may be hurting at what happened to her father but she can't yell at you like that. Things will happen; she should learn to deal with it." He said sitting back in the chair. Kagome nodded and smiled looking up at him.
"Would you like something to eat?" She asked. He nodded.
"Yes, thank you." He said. After being with Rin for so long, he had grown to like some of the human foods that they made. Kagome nodded and left the room. Once the door shut, Sesshomaru looked at his brother. "She's gone you know." Inuyasha's golden eyes opened slightly and he turned his head slowly to look at his older brother.
"Yeah. Who yelled at her, and has to deal with what?" He asked.
"Your daughter seems to take after you a lot more than I previously thought." Inuyasha looked up at him confused. "Kagome went to get her to eat and come out of the tree and she screamed back at her."
"What did she say?"
"Kagome asked if she would come out of the tree and eat and talk. The girl screamed no and said that she didn't want food, to come out of the tree, to talk or Kagome." Inuyasha's eyes opened a little more. "Kagome tried not to be upset at her words but it was clear she was. I had come to the clearing in time to hear everything, when I told your daughter not to yell at her, she yelled down why should she listen to me I wasn't you…. She is very upset with what happened, Inuyasha." Inuyasha was trying to sit up; Sesshomaru moved and helped him lean his back against the headboard.
"Sesshomaru, would you do me a favor?" Inuyasha asked out of breath. His brother looked at him; Inuyasha had never asked him for anything before. He nodded wondering what it could be.
"Go and get her, I don't care what you have to do, get her out of that tree and bring her here." Sesshomaru nodded and headed for the door. "And get Kagome to leave too" He turned and nodded again understanding and left leaving Inuyasha sitting up against the back of the bed. Once down stairs he walked to the kitchen to find Kagome making food.
"I'll be back in a little while. Why don't you go see Rin in the village? We brought Hatsu with us this time. I'm sure Rin would be happy to see you and Hatsu would love to see her aunt again." Kagome smiled thinking of the little half demon she hadn't seen since she was a few month old.
"I think I will. Inuyasha will probably be asleep most of the day anyway." She turned back to the food and handed him a plate with a sandwich on it. "Take it with you." She smiled. He took the sandwich and left to do what his brother had asked, while Kagome ate and left to find Rin.
Sesshomaru came up to the tree again and called up to his niece.
"Come down here now." He barked. He heard he adjust to look down at him.
"Feh!" She snorted. "I'm not coming down for no one but daddy!" She yelled.
"If you don't come with me then I'll have to do it the hard way." He said jumping into the tree, landing in front of her. "Come on, if you don't come peacefully I have permission to do what it takes to take you home." He said and reached out for her. She narrowed her eyes and barred her fangs and claws at her uncle.
"No! I won't go with you, or mama, or no one! Only daddy!" She screamed and made to jump. Sesshomaru needed to get her home, he could see she hadn't eaten in several days and she had bags under her eyes that suggested she hadn't slept either. He reached out, grabbed her by the neck, and held her for a moment as she scratched and twisted trying to get free.
"You will not bare your fangs at me, pup. You are going to come with me and you will keep your mouth shut." He growled threateningly. She settled and stared into his golden eyes with her own. He watched as she relaxed and tears came to her eyes. She threw her ears back and cried. He pulled her closer and held her to his chest. He always felt the need to hold and sooth her, and do what she said, ever since he first saw her shortly after she was born. She cried into his chest as he jumped down from the tree and started home.
"Uncle? Why do you smell like daddy? Did you see him?" She asked after a few minutes. He looked down at her.
"Yes I saw him; I talked with him for a little while too. He is very upset when he heard what you did earlier." Her ears drooped when she heard that but then it all sank in. She looked up quickly.
"You talked to daddy?" He smirked and nodded. She was a smart girl; she must get that from her mother.
"Yes, he is awake but still very sick." She smiled and jumped out of his arms and ran up to the room her father was in. Sesshomaru followed her in to find her standing in the doorway looking at the sleeping Inuyasha. He was still sitting up when they arrived. Sesshomaru looked at his brother.
"Inuyasha." He said and watched as he took a deep breath and his eyes slowly opened. He turned his head and saw his brother standing in the doorway behind a wide eyed Izayoi. "Go on." Sesshomaru told his niece. Inuyasha smiled as his daughter ran to him crying and threw herself on him.
"Daddy!" She cried as she collapsed onto his lap. As she landed, she hit one of his wounds and made him wince.
"Easy, Senshi." He said softly before turning to look at his brother. "Thanks, Sesshomaru."
"It was no problem; she is just like you in every way you know, just a little smarter." He smirked and turned to leave but stopped when he heard a small voice call to him.
"Uncle?" She asked and saw him turn to face her. "I'm sorry." She said as the tears dried and the glanced back at her father.
"I am not the one you should be apologizing to." He looked at his brother, "And she admits when she's wrong." He smirked and left. She turned around and looked at her father. He looked down at her with a frown.
"I heard what you said to your mother." He told her. Her ears went flat and she looked down.
"I didn't mean it."
"I know, but you really hurt her. You need to think before you say and do things." He pulled her up to sit in his lap and lifted her chin. "Things like this will happen. Your mother will always save me. Do you think you were the only one scared and afraid?" He asked. She looked at him while tears fell down her cheeks. He whipped them away with his thumb.
"Daddy don't leave again." She said softly as she moved forward and hugged him. He hugged her back and kissed her head. "Please daddy, don't go away again."
"I will try my best. I promise." He told his six-year-old daughter in his arms as she cried. "Little one looks at me." She looked up at him "It's alright now. Okay?" She nodded and whipped her tears on the back of her hands. "Good. Now get up, we are going to get something to eat, you go get changed and I'll meet you down stairs." She smiled and jumped up and ran out of the room closing the door behind her to run into her room and change. Inuyasha threw back the covers and slowly put his feet over the side of the bed and stood. He stood for a moment catching his breath. Slowly he walked to the closet and found his fire rat harkamas and haori and his white kimono. He smiled.
"Kagome must have cleaned it." He said to himself, and slowly got dressed. As he got dressed and moved around it became easier to breath and use his muscles. He went down stars and found Izayoi waiting anxiously for him.
"Ready?" He asked as he walked towards her. She nodded. "Alright then let's go." The two of them walked out of the house to see Kagome coming towards them, she had had no luck finding Rin and decided to return to Inuyasha to see if he needed anything. She looked up from the road and saw Inuyasha and Izayoi walking out of the house. She smiled and ran to them. Izayoi saw her mother an instant before her father did and took off running to her. Inuyasha smiled as the little girl jumped into her mother's arms and hugged her saying she was sorry for earlier.
"It's alright little one." Kagome said as she hugged her tight. Inuyasha walked up to them and smiled.
"Where's my hug?" He said. Kagome and Izayoi let go of each other and looked at him with smiles. Kagome stood up and wrapped her arms around his neck and Izayoi grabbed his waist. Inuyasha wrapped his arms around Kagome's waist, pulled her closer, and kissed her. They pulled back and smiled when they heard their daughter.
"Ewww." She said letting go. They looked at her and laughed before Inuyasha spoke.
"We were on our way to go get something to eat, you coming with us?" He asked Kagome.
"Yeah, I'll come. Sango, Rin, Ayame should be making lunch now. Let's see if they have extra." Inuyasha nodded and the three started towards their friends' house.
Once there they found Miroku hanging the laundry, the women were making lunch, Koga, and Shippo were playing with the children a little ways away and Sesshomaru sat by the hut watching them. Sango looked up to see Inuyasha, Kagome and Izayoi walking towards them. She dropped everything and stared.
"Sango…." Ayame said and was about to ask why she dropped everything when she saw them as well. And had the same reaction as Sango.
"Inuyasha?" Sango asked softly as they got closer. She smirked at their reactions.
"Who else would I be?" He asked sarcastically. Sango ran at him. She jumped up and wrapped her arms around his neck, while he wrapped his arms around her waist laughing and when he fell from the extra weight, he still didn't have all his strength back yet.
"Oh, Inuyasha, I'm so glad you're alright." She smiled.
"Miss me that much, huh? Maybe I should do that more often…" He said and acted like he was thinking about it till Kagome and Sango looked at each other and hit him in the chest and made him fall backwards.
"Oye, what was that for?" He asked sitting on the ground holding where they had hit him, apparently they had very good aim because they hit right next to each other, and next to a broken rib.
"If you even think of doing that to Kagome and your children again, I'll do worse than just hit you by a broken rib." Sango yelled at him.
"Sango, you're gonna have to wait your turn because I'll kill him for sure." Kagome said as Miroku laughed as he walked up to the group of women and helped Inuyasha stand back up.
"I'm glad to see you are feeling better." He told him. Inuyasha was still rubbing where they had hit him.
"Yeah, well I was…" He glanced at the women who had moved off to the side to finish lunch. Sesshomaru had gotten up and walked over to where his brother and the monk stood. The wind blew a gentle breeze and Shippo, Taji, Toshiro, Koga and his children all stopped and turned to see if their noses were telling the truth. Toshiro and Taji saw their father and took off running at him.
"Ooff" Inuyasha went back to the ground from the force that hit him when the two boys ran into him.
"Papa, you're all better?" Toshiro half asked half yelled.
"Yeah." He said smirking at his son when his youngest pulled on his haori.
"Poppy, you play now?" He asked.
"Maybe later squirt." He said ruffling his hair after they had stood up next to him. Miroku offered his hand again and helped his friend up once again. Sesshomaru moved to stand behind him as he noticed the other children running at his brother.
"Uncle Inu!" Miroku and Sango's children, and Sesshomaru and Rin's girl screeched and hit him all at once. He went backwards to be caught by Sesshomaru. Koga's children ran up and hugged him saying they were glad to see him up.
"Hey there." He said as Miroku and Koga pulled them off of him and Sesshomaru held him up. Once all the children were, off they decided to get Izayoi to play with them and they all ran off.
"So you woke up mutt face." Koga smirked.
"Yeah, well someone had to stop you from taking the wench." He smirked at Koga's shocked face.
"You heard?"
"Yep, each one of ya."
"What do you mean? What exactly did you hear?" Miroku asked, he was curious. He had heard Kagome tell the kids that he could hear them, but he didn't really believe it, until now.
"I heard, Izzy scream first."
"That was when she got around Sango. She saw you and she went nuts. I had a hard time holding her back." Shippo told him.
"Was it that bad?" He looked at Miroku and Shippo.
"You looked pretty bad when Kagome and Miroku took over. I took Izzy away to calm her down." Shippo said remembering when he laid him down on the ground.
"Inuyasha, you pretty much died. Kagome saved you." Miroku told him. The group of men glanced at the woman who was smiling and laughing for the first time in three days. Inuyasha smiled knowing that she was his and he was hers.
"So what else ya hear?" Koga asked.
"I heard Kagome telling me to wake up, then Shippo." He looked at the young demon in front of him. They locked eyes before Inuyasha went on leaving what Shippo had said a secret that only they knew. "I hear Sango tell the kids that it was alright and to go see me and Kagome, then I heard Shiro and Taji."
"You didn't hear anything in between?" Miroku asked. Inuyasha shook his head.
"No, I heard them, and then the next thing I hear was you telling me I had to wake up. Then I heard you, ya mangy wolf." Koga smirked.
"Yeah, well you woke up." He glanced over at his mate. "Just don't tell her."
"I think it's too late for that, after you I heard Sango talking about she wanted to see how I was, then Ayame said basically she would take care of you." He chuckled at the look on the wolf's face. "The next thing I knew I heard Kagome again and was waking up. I went back to sleep till this morning, but I want to sleep and woke up to Sesshomaru and Kagome talking."
"Kagome had told the boys that you could hear them, but I didn't think it was true." Miroku told him. Kagome walked over to stand by his side.
"That will show you to doubt what I say." She laughed. "Lunch is ready and if you guys want any, you better get it before the kids." Kagome smiled watching as the group of children came running towards them.
"They have really good noses." Miroku said as he went over to get what he could. The others following him laughing as the children pushed him back and got what they wanted. Izayoi and Taro Wound up in a fight and Koga and Inuyasha had to break it up.
"You're so stupid." Taro told Izayoi.
"You're just being a sore loser." She shot back.
"Take that back, half breed"
"No, because it's true you lousy excuse for a flea bitten, mangy, little know it all a-" She was cut off by her father and Koga.
"Oye!" Inuyasha yelled standing up from his spot between Kagome and Koga. They had heard a little part of the argument and yelled for them to stop. When they didn't and Koga heard his son call the girl a half breed he got up to get his son. Inuyasha rose almost instantly and was going to get his daughter. He heard her start to run off names and he quickened his pace. Before she could go off cursing, he covered her mouth and picked her up. Koga grabbed the back of his son's neck.
"What is going on?" Koga asked.
"Can't even be civil for a few hours?" Inuyasha asked the two and removed his hand from Izayoi's mouth.
"Dad, she started it." Taro said pointing at Izayoi. Before either father could open their mouth, Izayoi was yelling.
"Nuh uh. He started it, we were playing tag and I caught him and he called me stupid, and then he called me a half breed!" She rushed all her words together but the fathers understood it, and once again before either one could open their mouths, this time Taro started.
"You're lying! You cheated and were being stupid, stupid. You called me a sore loser, and then started to call me a bunch of other names!" He yelled back at her. Koga slapped him upside the head.
"That is no reason to say those things." He growled at his son as Inuyasha looked at his daughter with a frown. Her ears dropped. He set her on the ground and knelt in front of her.
"Because he called you that is no reason to call him what you did. That is the best name you would be called if you were to go to other villages. You need to try to let it all go. So what if he wants to call you that. You know you're not a half breed so why let it get to you?" She looked down at the ground. "Now go say sorry and then come sit with me." He told her and she started to walk over to Taro.
"Taro, I'm sorry I said those things." She said looking away. Koga smirked and looked at Inuyasha who rolled his eyes. She really was just like him.
"I forgive you. You can't help being a half breed." He said, and the moment it left his mouth her head snapped forward and Inuyasha grabbed her and pulled her away as Koga hit him hard on the back of the head.
"Go apologize. And don't let me hear you say something like that again." He growled and shoved him towards Inuyasha and Izayoi.
"The old man says I have to say I'm sorry. So there." He said and stormed off. Koga shook his head and walked towards Inuyasha who had put Izayoi down and started to walk back to his seat.
