Chapter 21

Author's Note: I don't own Inuyasha. So from now on the story will be switching between the Past and the future every so often. I will clearly mark which time period the chapters are taking place in from now on when the switches occur. I hope you are still enjoying yourselves :). Here you go.

*Future*

Kagome pulled up to the shrine and parked her SUV in on the side of the road. How many times had she wished to come home in the past 500 years? She had often come close once her family had built the shrine. She had watched it being built, observed several sets of her grandparents come and go until finally her grandfather had given the shrine to her mother and father. Kagome remembered when her parents had brought her home from the hospital and had longed to step in the day her father had died to warn him not to get into that car but she couldn't. She watched from the side as her still pregnant mother clung to her younger self and wept. At that age she didn't understand what had happened. She wiped tears from her eyes crying now more for her mother's pain than the unshed tears she carried as a child.

Kagome had been there the first day she went down the well nostalgia seeping into her core. She missed everyone deeply. Rin had passed away at age 83 soon followed by her husband Kohaku. Songo and Miroku had also passed a few years before that. Shippo had lived for a few hundred years but had passed away recently in his sleep at 467. Inuyasha had stayed in the future at least for a while. Kagome knew that a day was coming when she would have to send him back for the good of everyone. She didn't know the specifics of what happened because her older self hadn't explained much. She just said, "You'll know when the time comes." Inuyasha fell in love again with another half-breed and got married. He took her back to the feudal era with him and they lived together happily for many years until they were killed in the bombing of hiroshima in World War 2.

The young miko still looked after the descendants of her friends and family members and had even created a shelter for those that were too noticeable, or who where unwanted by their more modern families, in her home. Inuyasha would stay there for many years where he met his mate before they left for the feudal era.

Kagome sighed looking into the back seat where her newest son was looking at her and babbling. She smiled at him. Now that it was time to return to her family and she was scared. In 500 years she hadn't changed much physically. After mating with Sesshomaru her aging process slowed down to the same rate as his and she took on a few other qualities he possessed. She was faster, stronger, and had developed into an Empath due to the combination of her own powers and the new senses Sesshomaru had given her. She could feel the anxiety from the house already and it was putting her on edge.

Opening the car door and retrieving her son and hiss diaper bag Kagome made her way up the familiar steps to the shrine and her awaiting family. They stood in a row outside of the house and fell silent as they saw her approach. Kagome's mother started crying tears of joy as she walked to meet her daughter. Inuyasha's jaw had dropped. If his mouth had been any wider his chin would have hit the ground. Souta was staring at the wiggling bundle Kagome was carrying. He had been an uncle all this time and had never known it. Grandpa just stood there with a crazy grin on his face.

Mrs. Higuraishi reached her daughter and embraced her as if she would disappear if she let go. The baby in Kagome's arms let out a small cry as he did not like being squished into his mother by this new force. Kagome's mother pulled away and looked lovingly at her grandson.

"Mom I would like to introduce you to Milo your youngest grandson." Kagome said smiling as she handed her baby to her mother. The blanket he had been wrapped in fell away exposing his head. He had short white hair like Inuyasha and Sesshomaru. A small tail wrapped around the outside of his clothes and wagged as his grandmother coddled him. He reached up to touch her face and giggled merrily as his grandma made funny faces at him.

The rest of the family gathered around all trying to get the baby's attention. Inuyasha just stared wide eyed for a few minutes until Souta handed Milo to him. He sniffed his nephew just to make sure. "Kagome." Inuyasha said looking at the child's mother. "How is he a pure blooded demon?" Inuyasha held Milo tightly as he tried to crawl up to play with his ears. Milo was intrigued much like his mother had been the first time she had seen Inuyasha and was determined to get his uncle's ears.

Kagome smiled, "It's rare but Sesshomaru and I are true soul mates. That is why we have lived so long and why all of our children are pure bloods."

"What do you mean 'all' of your children?" Kagome's mother asked raising an eyebrow.

"Well mother Sesshomaru and I have been married for 500 years so we have quite a few children, and grandchildren, and great grandchildren, and we just had our first great grandchild last month." Kagome said, "I won't overwhelm you with how many and all of their names now but it is quite a large family without including the children we have adopted from friend's decedents." Kagome's mother looked like she was about to faint. Souta sat down right where he had been standing. Kagome took Milo from Inuyasha, before he dropped him from shock, causing him to cry as he once more attempted to grab his uncles ears.

Kagome smiled as her family came to grips with the information she had just dropped on them. "I would like you all to meet them some day but figured for now I should just bring Milo since he doesn't like me to leave him for long." Kagome kissed her son on the head as he cooed at Inuyasha really wanting another chance to complete his mission of getting those ears.

Grandpa chimed in, "Well I'm ecstatic! I never thought I'd live to see any great grandchildren and all this time I've had great-great-great-great grand-kids not too far away." He began to laugh as he ushered the mostly shocked family into the house. "I can't wait to see all the whippersnappers and tell them everything I know."

Kagome laughed, "Grandpa you realize that most of your great grand-kids trump you on age by a couple hundred years right?" Grandpa puffed out his chest.

"Well even so everyone looks up to their grandpa."

Everyone laughed as they entered the house excited to hear everything that Kagome had to tell them.

Author's note: So Sesshomaru and Kagome have a LOT of kids. I will not be naming them all for the obvious reason that it will take too long and dull the story experience. I will name a few but only the ones that are relevant to the story and its progression.

Sess: What have you done!? I don't want an entire country size amount of kids.

Me: It's logic dear. In the story you and Kagome have been married for hundreds of years, you're not aging rapidly, You both have the hots for each other, Birth control wasn't created till this century not that it would work for demon pregnancies anyway, and sex makes babies. Honestly I'm giving you less offspring than you should have by these terms.

Sess: *rubs his temples trying to relieve a blossoming head ache. So how many kids do I have.

Me: Ah now that would be telling now wouldn't it. ;)

Sess: Well going by the math I should have around 325 but that's not including multiples. *Pales and sits on the couch.

Me: OMG Sesshomaru get a grip it's just a story you don't have any kids in real life.

Stampede of small feet: DADDY! *several children jump onto Sesshomaru at once.

ME: WTF *glares at cassie

Cassie: *On the floor laughing.

Me: What did you do? Sesshomaru just passed out!

Cassie: Oh that. I just went to the local children's home and offered them all candy to jump on Sesshomaru while yelling daddy. Serves him right for the shower incident.