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Chapter 71

"You're right. I'm sorry."

Wait, what?

Are we still on about this?

"Come again?"

"I said you're right and that I'm sorry."

Oh hold on now! Am I actually gunna win this one?

"For...?"

"You're right. The girls need to be trained."

Okay...this is...weird...

What's happening right now?

"You feeling okay?"

"I'm fine Inuyasha. What I'm trying to say is that ever since the well opened, I've...I guess I've been in denial. That I keep thinking my children are growing up in my...in the modern era and they're not. I've been dreaming of going back to school and maybe working but that's not my life anymore. It hasn't been my life for quite some time."

Oh god, is she regretting coming back?!

"Don't look at me like that. I'm not going anywhere. I'm just saying I've been stupid. This is my era. This one right here. I'm a miko, you're a hanyou, our children are hanyou. This is our era and I need to start thinking like this is my era instead of reverting back to thinking my era is in the future."

"So, no bracelets?"

Gotta ask. Gotta be sure.

"No bracelets. Get them swords. Train them to fight like you. To survive."

Oh please, like you really expect me to actually...

And I mean you had a point...

"I won't get mad if they come home bloody or telling me about how they slayed a demon. Okay, I might. Actually if you take them out, just tell me first. I know you'll bring them home safe. But...no big demons? Just baby demons. No, not babies but..."

"Okay, okay, I get your point. So swords then. You're really okay with this?"

"Yes. Its time I start living in the present. Here."

I bet you my right arm she still wants to go to the hospital for painkillers.

"So, with the new baby, are you gunna want to go to the hospital or are you gunna have it here? You're gunna have it here, right? Right? Eh?"

Yeah, I know that look. Woman, after all this time you don't know when I'm fucking with you? Well, she is about to pop so...

"I could...I could have it here. This is my..."

"Woman, I'm joking. There's no reason we can't do both. Bracelets and swords. They'll still go to school and learn all your future shit and they'll learn what they need here too. You can go to the doctors in your time and if you want to go back to school, do it I guess. I ain't stopping ya. Damn woman, you get so dramatic. Everything is an extreme for you. And you act like I'm the unreasonable one."

"Excuse me! Everything is not an extreme."

Damn, she's so beautiful when she's angry.

Wait, focus.

"Says the woman who nearly got herself killed trying to save me when she didn't hafta. You just make these decisions and they're always some drastic thing. We can do both."

There's my girl. Look at that smile.

"I am sorry though. I'll do better."

"I get it. I do. You gave up everything to come back and I won't hold a grudge against ya for thinking that way. But if you say train them, I'm gunna train them hard. Don't get mad if they come home banged up."

"Oh bull, I bet you'll come home crying you had to hit them before they come home crying that you hit them."

"Oi! I don't cry!"

"Sorry! Sorry! I know. Just teasing. Now who can't take a joke?"

God, we're the most dysfunctional thing but I love it.

"So swords and hospitals, huh?"

"Swords and hospitals."