Family Life

Author's Note: This is the second part to Summer Days. There will be a new character that will show up in this chapter and the Inuyasha gang has stared new lives. Basically, a few things will happen involving the Shikon jewel and will involve Inuyasha and Miroku possibly endangering their families.

Disclaimer: I don't own Inuyasha or the characters, but I do own the ones that will appear that aren't IY characters! Please read and review this! *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ *~*~*~* Chapter 3

"Get back here!" yelled Inuyasha angrily. Both he and Miroku were now chasing after some demons who had just attacked the village. Miroku looked at Inuyasha who was running up in the trees. They probably weren't even going to catch them, but with how determined Inuyasha seemed to be at the moment, Miroku didn't doubt anything. Inuyasha jumped off the branch he had been on and grabbed the Tetsusauga at his side, slicing at a demon. They all stopped when their companion began stumbling.

"Ever hear of never hitting a man while his back is turned!" the demon growled. Inuyasha smirked and held the sword to his side.

"I couldn't do you that favor, friend." He said. Miroku came up to Inuyasha's side.

"So, what are going to do with this bunch?" he asked. Inuyasha smirked and cracked his knuckles.

"Well I'd be adding to Kagome's job if I didn't finish them off for her." He answered and raised his sword.

"Kagome. your village priestess?" asked one of the demons and Inuyasha narrowed his eyes at him.

"What do you know about him. Miroku quickly got ready to hold back Inuyasha back in case his temper decided to suddenly flare.

"We know there was a girl by the name that was in the group of people that defeated Naraku." Answered one demon. A smirk crossed his face. "And that a half demon by the name of Inuyasha put a spell on her to get her to be his mate." Miroku quickly held his arm out to stop Inuyasha.

"What do you care where she is right now?" he asked.

"Well for one, she contains the Shikon jewel, two-she is a powerful human according to what we hear, and third- our master is very interested in her." Answered the second demon."

"Well he's just going to have to keep dreaming because I'm not letting him any where near her." Growled Inuyasha. The demon he had injured looked at him and smirked.

"So you're the famous Inuyasha, huh? I heard you wanted to use the jewel to become fully demon. What happened? The girl made you lose all your nerve?" he asked. Inuyasha glared at the demon and with out warning, he attacked them, killing them all in one swipe. Miroku blinked.

"Man Inuyasha! We could have got some real information from that group!" he announced. Inuyasha cracked his knuckles and looked at Miroku.

"They were just looking for more time to stall and plan their escape." He said and began to walk back to the village. Miroku let out a sigh and followed Inuyasha, not noticing that someone was watching them the whole time.

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Kagome clapped her hands together happily as Inu took two steps toward her and stood in his spot, wobbling, then tried to step again before falling on his butt. Inuyasha had just came up from behind her when he spotted her helping the baby stand up and then moving away from him, cheering him on. Come on Inu! Make mommy proud!" she piped. The baby giggled and fell to his butt once again. Kagome let out a sigh and shook her head.

"You don't really expect to each him anything that way do you?" Inuyasha asked. Kagome looked up at her mate from where she was sitting and grinned happily before getting up and kissing him, catching him completely off guard.

"Hello to you two, handsome." She said and pointed over to their son, who was now preoccupied with a caterpillar crawling past him. "I was trying to each our pup how to walk." She said.

"He's only jus turned one." Said Inuyasha and Kagome raised an eyebrow at him.

"And this is coming from a man who use to think that once he turned seven he was a grown man." She said sarcastically.

"My mother died when I was six and I was basically raising myself, so I was basically a grown man by seven." Said Inuyasha knowingly and Kagome rolled her eyes before turning to Inu.

"Inu, let's show daddy how much we accomplished today, hai?" she asked.

"Yea!" cheered Inu and Kagome grinned before bending over and having Inu taking her hands (or fingers) and helped hi up. She slowly took her hands from him and backed away, the one-year-old wobbling toward her. Inuyasha watched from behind Kagome with crossed arms. She turned to him with a grin and Inuyasha smiled back at her before Inu fell to the ground. Miroku was right about how women are about their first born. The baby was practically Kagome's life.

"He didn't fantastic, didn't he Inuyasha?" asked Kagome. The half demon blinked and then nodded.

"Yeah, soon enough he'll be hopping through the tree tops with me." Kagome grinned and rubbed the tip of her nose to Inu's causing him to giggle. Inuyasha let out a sigh and looked at the sky.

"Kagome, where's the jewel at?" he asked. She looked at him from where she was playing at in the grass with their son. She looked up thoughtfully before reaching in her shirt and pulling in out.

"Here you go." She answered. He blinked and blushed a bit before clearing his throat.

"Do you always keep it down there? I mean, what if a demon attacked you for it?" he asked. Kagome looked away, blushing a bit as well.

"I doubt I'm going to let some guy attack me and then throw his hand down into the front of my shirt with out putting up a fight, Inuyasha!" she informed and turned to Inu. "Can you believe daddy, he's beginning to think like Uncle Miroku!" she said and Inu giggled.

"Please." muttered Inuyasha and sat down in the grass, placing his arms behind his head and resting against a tree. Kagome rolled her eyes and got up, going into the house. Inu sat in the grass and a butterfly landed in front of him.

"Fly-fly!" cheered Inu and Inuyasha opened an eye to see what his son was cheering about.

"That's right Inu, a butterfly." He said and was about to close his eyes when he noticed the by starting to pick himself up off the ground as the butterfly decided to take flight again.

"Fly-fly!" called Inu and once he go to his feet, he began wobbling after the butterfly. Inuyasha stared wide-eyed as the one-year-old went wobbling after the insect. Kagome had just returned out side with some baby toys when she saw him.

"He did it!" she cheered, dropping the basket of toys and bouncing up and down. Inuyasha got up and ran over, grabbing the boy before he could go stumbling into the lake. Kagome came over and pulled the boy out of his arms, hugging him tightly. "I told you he could do it Inuyasha." She said, sticking her tongue out at him He rolled his eyes and then ruffled Inu's hair. His ears witched a bit and he looked up in a tree nearby, expecting to see something, but nothing was there.

"Kagome, where's the jewel?" he asked quietly. She looked up at him happily and smiled before patting her chest.

"Who cares, its safe." She answered and threw Inu up in the air, catching him once again. "We have to go celebrate my baby boy's accomplishment." She answered. As Inuyasha followed her back into the house, he looked over her shoulder once again before entering.

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"So, what do you have for me?' asked a man sitting in a chair, looking over all at a small demon in front of him. He had long dark hair and eyes that glow red. His claws were long and he had tiger stripes on one of the cheeks on his face that was blue. The small demon gave a quick bow before clearing his throat.

"The others were killed while trying to get the jewel, me lord. by the half breed Inuyasha." He said. The taller demon narrowed his eyes at the smaller demon. "I followed him around all day sire! He has a mate and a pup he seems very fond of. his mate holds the Shikon jewel."

"Was Inuyasha not the one who defeated Naraku?" The small demon nodded. "And his mate contains the sacred Shikon jewel?"

"Yes sire. what shall we do? She keeps the jewel close to her at all times." The demon stood up and smirked, one of his fangs showing.

"Simple, observe them for a while. I'll need to know all their strengths and weaknesses before I go off and kill Inuyasha and take the Shikon jewel. Maybe even get some help from that pup of his." He said, flexing his claws with delight at his master plan.

"Yes lord Akuma." Said the small demon and walked off quickly.