Day 4. First kiss

Things were slowly falling into place. Their hut was restored to its past beauty and comfort. Her family was once again together. Their old friends were coming to visit from time to time, along with their new friends. Kagome was content to resume her work as a priestess in Kaede's village, aiding the aging woman in her duties. Inuyasha and Moroha took up youkai pest control when their daughter was at home and life seemed back to what it should have been.

Presently, Kagome was sorting her herbs under a tree while her two reckless puppies went through a hand to hand training in the field right in front of her. Their daughter was capable and strong, just like her daddy, but a bit of training in spare time never hurt anyone. Besides, Kagome realized that was a part of their peculiar bond. Trading blows they were more relaxed to talk. Otherwise they would be too embarrassed and awkward to talk, still shy and uncertain in their new roles as father and daughter.

Thanks to Kirinmaru and his sister they had been deprived from growing into those roles over years. But that wouldn't prevent them from having a family now. They would make up for the lost time. She worked listening to the sounds of a friendly fight filling the field, fast feet fists hitting blocks and feet dancing lightly on the grass as the two trained.

Kagome sighed and tied a few herbs in a bunch to hang for drying later. She picked another handful when Moroha's question reached her ears.

"So, uh, just curious, how did you two… I mean… Can you tell me how was your first kiss?"

Kagome's heart skipped a beat when she heard that. Her little girl was so curious about them, asking little cute questions, so sweet and adorable;e/ And she was the right age to start wondering about kisses and stuff, right? A normal girl thing to ask her parents about, something innocent and cute. It was something a normal girl at her age would wonder about, first kisses and crushes, and such.

But - why was she asking that Inuyasha of all people? Wasn't that a question a girl should ask her mom or older sister?

Kagome looked up and saw the pair standing facing each other not even five meters away from her, their hands poised to strike or block, their bodies ready to resume the effortless and swift motions of their fight.

Inuyasha's ear twitched when the wind blew past them, tousling the silver hair falling wildly over his shoulders and down his back. Moroha looked at him expectantly, her eyes sparkling.

And then… The hanyou opened his mouth. Kagome found herself holding her breath when she waited for his response. Would he sputter? Demand to know why she was asking such questions? Tell her to ask Kagome instead of him?

"Oh, that was a badass first kiss."

…He answered.

He actually answered, a smug smirk playing in the corners of his lips.

"Oh!" Moroha lowered her guard, but Inuyasha didn't immediately go for a strike.

"Yeah! We were in that fucked up castle of the celestial bitch with freaky robe," he elaborated. "She used that bloody mirror of hers to turn me full youkai. You know what it is when a hanyou goes full youkai?"

"Yup, I've seen that. Setsu went all kinds of bat shit crazy when she went full youkai," the quarter youkai nodded.

"Yeah? You hafta tell me one time," he nodded. "Anyway, I was totally feral, lashed out at Miroku and almost clawed the idiot in two."

Moroha looked impressed. Kagome just looked, too stunned to do much more.

They hadn't spoken about that time.

And there, right in front of her, Inuyasha was telling her little daughter all the bloody details.

"And your mom got in front of me and started yelling at me. And then kissed the full youkai out of me,"the hanyou cocked one ear Kagome's way, his voice all shades of smug. Miko realized that he was perfectly aware of how stunned she was and was quite pleased with himself. "Totally forced that kiss on me."

"Hey!" Kagome rose to her feet. "I totally didn't! You kissed me back, dog-boy!"

Moroha grinned when her father turned his head to smirk at her mom and say.

"And why wouldn't I?"

Her mom's scowl was immediately replaced by a soft smile.

"I had a crazy chick kissing me and that seemed a better choice than to let you try to subdue me by using the beads." Inuyasha added.

Moroha, looking between them, couldn't help but laugh when her mother ran in circles around her, chasing futilely her father, who danced around the field until she actually used thew beads and brought him down in a path of thick grass. She looked at them fondly when her mom jumped on top of her dad and tried to wrestle a handful of sage and rosemary into his mouth.

Of course their first kiss had been badass. They were her parents after all.