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 have started 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 16
Kagome opened her eyes slowly and cringed in pain when she tried to sit up. She looked around and Inuyasha was kneeling in front of her with his back to her, his head lowered. What scared her was that the Tetsusiaga was no where near him and he was possibly still in his demon form. She moved back and suddenly his ears perked and she closed her eyes, waiting for him to attack, but when she opened them, he was attacking Akuma, who was up in the air.
He went straight at the demon and grabbed him by the throat. She looked around and saw Inu was looking up in the sky with the Tetsusiaga in his hands and Horoki standing next to him. She couldn't help but notice not only was the sword transformed, but so was Inu. His hair was silver and his eyes were golden. He looked exactly like Inuyasha at the moment and she could already feel the tears in her eyes as she stared at he and Horoki looking exactly like their fathers.
She looked back to where Inuyasha was fighting Akuma, just to see Akuma thrust his claws right through Inuyasha's chest. "INUYASHA!" she yelled and jumped up from where she was sitting. She stopped when the Tetsusiaga flew straight past her and into Akuma. She turned around and looked at Inu, then looked at Inuyasha. He grabbed the handle and pushed the sword deeper into Akuma, then sliced him into pieces. He then stumbled back and fell to the ground, leaning against a large piece of the blown up building and panting. Kagome ran up to him and saw he was back to normal, but badly wounded.
"Who knew that would be so easy." he said weakly. Kagome smiled at him sadly and shook her head.
"You shouldn't even lie to yourself. Look at you. You're a mess." She said. The others came up to her side and Inu dropped in front of his dad. Inuyasha smiled and ruffled the boy's hair.
"Looks like you've learned a thing or two, twerp. Good aiming back there. You'll need that when you're protecting your mother for me." Inu blinked and Kagome bit her lower lip, trying to keep any tears from coming.
"How come? Where are you going?" asked Inu. Inuyasha smiled and closed his eyes.
"No where too far. Inu, remember where I took you this morning?" he asked. The boy nodded. "Will you take me there?" he asked.
"When you die I will. I'll bury you and mom right with grandma, just like you did." Inu answered in a knowing way. Inuyasha chuckled.
"That may be a bit sooner than you waned, pup." He said weakly.
"Quit talking like that Inuyasha, You've had far worse wounds." Scolded Sango, holding Horoki up in her arms and giving the half-breed a stern look. He looked at her and smiled a bit.
"You believe I'll survive this?" he asked. Miroku chuckled.
"Don't you always?" he asked. Inuyasha shrugged and looked at Kagome.
"Listen up. I'm sorry I hurt Inu when I was transformed." she smiled and ran her fingers through his bangs, moving them out of his sweaty face.
"I know you didn't mean it, Inuyasha.." She whispered. He smiled at her and Inu suddenly went into ears that seemed as though they were never going to stop.
"I don't want you to die!" he cried and shook his head as if trying to shake something out of his mind. "YOU'RE NOT GONNA DIE!" he yelled and something in his hands began to glow. Kagome looked at her son and he opened his palm to show them the Shikon jewel, which was glowing, brightly. Kagome looked at Inuyasha and noticed his eyes were closed and he was glowing the same color of the jewel.
*~*~*~FLASHBACK~*~*~*
It was a late night with the stars shinning above the small house in which a small family lived, unlike any of the other families in the village. A young child about the age of five sat silently watching as his mother pulled out an arrow and focused on an area in a tree. When she let the arrow go, a demon fell out and disintegrated on the spot. "COOL!" The woman turned around and looked at the boy watching her.
"Inu, aren't you suppose to be getting ready for bed?" she asked. The boy grinned innocently up at her as she laid her weapons down.
"Dad said I could stay up just a little longer." He piped. She smirked and grabbed the boy into her arms, tickling him.
"And since when do you listen to what your father says, eh?" she asked and he grinned as she rubbed the tip of his nose with hers. "You know you're suppose to be meeting Kaede for your lessons tomorrow." She said gently and the boy nodded. He reached and touched the jewel around his mother's neck.
"Why do you have to keep this?" he asked curiously. She sat down in the hammock on the porch and began rocking back and forth.
"So no evil person takes it. We're suppose to purify it and then it will disappear forever."
"And we can live without worrying about demons trying to steal it." Inu finished.
"Exactly." Said Kagome. The boy was leaning in her lap with his head on her shoulder and playing with her hair, beginning to get tired.
"How do you purify it?" asked Inu.
"Someone has to use it for something good."
*~*~*~END OF FLASHBACK~*~*~*
Kagome blinked as the jewel in Inu's hand slowly began to fade, as if it were vanishing, and when she looked at Inuyasha, the hole in his chest was vanishing as well. "The jewel. it's being purified isn't it?" she asked quietly. The light around Inuyasha began to fade and the jewel vanished from Inu's hand. The small boy blinked in confusion and Inuyasha opened his eyes.
"I'm not dead?" he asked. Kagome began crying and threw her arms around his next.
"You insensitive jerk!" she cried, and buried her face into his chest, crying happily.
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
Inuyasha looked at the tree his mother was buried under as Kagome kneeled in front of it and prayed for her. It was the second day of the Festival of Souls in which families would visit the graves of their ancestors. They had just came from Kagome's time after visiting her father's grave, as well as her grandmothers and a few other, and now they were honoring Inuyasha's mother, seeing she was the closest person in his life before Kagome (if you read summer days you know what I'm talking about). Inu was bouncing happily around with a balloon and wearing a new Kimono that Kagome's mother had bought him. Kagome lifted her head and smiled. "I'm taking good care of your son.." She whispered and stood up, turning to her mate, wiping her eyes. Inuyasha raised an eyebrow at her.
"What's wrong with you? What's with the tears?" he asked. She smiled and shook her head.
"I always cry on this day. This is the first time we came here after all. I felt it was right to shed a few tears for your mother. she was a beautiful woman." She answered. Inuyasha smiled at her gently. Kagome had only seen his mother a few times when they were younger and once when Sesshomaru used a Nothing Woman to take her form to trick Inuyasha into telling her where their father's tomb was.
"Yes, she was a lovely woman wasn't she?" Kagome and Inuyasha turned around.
"Toutousai!" piped Inu and ran over to the old man. He knelt in front of the tree, did a short prayer and stood up, facing Inuyasha and his small family.
"You survived Akuma just fine I see." He said. Inuyasha blinked.
"How do you know about him?" asked Kagome curiously.
"Akuma was a quarter demon who wanted to become full demon of course." Toutousai answered. Kagome noticed Inuyasha's jaw drop and she put the tip of her finger under it, closing it once again.
"So that's the main reason he wanted to kill Inu and Horoki? Because there was a possibility that Inu would be stronger then him and he's a quarter demon as well?" asked Kagome and the old man nodded before placing a hand on Inu's head.
"Did you hear that I helped dad out by tossing him the Tetsusiaga!" Inu piped. Toutousai nodded his head.
"I would have come to congratulate you earlier. but there was the possibility Akuma had people after you. I had to wait a day." He answered. Inuyasha gave the old man a look and Kagome shook her head. He smiled and looked at Inuyasha. "The boy learned to handle the sword faster than you did." he said. Inu grinned proudly up at Inuyasha.
"We're heading back home to prepare for the festival that will be held in the village, but we're going to eat dinner first. Would you like to join us Toutousai?" asked Kagome cheerfully.
"WHAT!" announced Inuyasha, but she ignored her mate.
"That would be nice." Said the old man and they started making heir way back home, Inu bouncing around Toutousai requesting the old man make him a sword just like his dad had. Inuyasha let out a sigh and looked at his mother's grave and smiled. He knelt in front of it and pulled a flower out of the ground and placed it on the spot in front of him before saying a prayer of his own and following his family back home. Inu ran up to Inuyasha and began tugging on his sleeve.
"Guess what! Toutousai is gonna make me a sword just like the Tetsusiaga!" he cheered. Inuyasha smiled and picked his son up on his shoulder.
"And you'll probably be wanting one of my fangs for yours like my father did for me?" he asked, Inu grinned.
"If its not too much trouble." Inuyasha snorted and pulled his son off of his shoulder and into a headlock, burying his knuckles playfully into the boy's hair. Inu grinned and pointed a thumb at himself proudly, announcing that he would some day be known as the strongest quarter demon alive. Inuyasha chuckled and nodded his head at his son's child like innocence. He enjoyed the way his life was going now that he had a family. He had to admit- he wouldn't give up his life for anything in the world.
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 have started 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 16
Kagome opened her eyes slowly and cringed in pain when she tried to sit up. She looked around and Inuyasha was kneeling in front of her with his back to her, his head lowered. What scared her was that the Tetsusiaga was no where near him and he was possibly still in his demon form. She moved back and suddenly his ears perked and she closed her eyes, waiting for him to attack, but when she opened them, he was attacking Akuma, who was up in the air.
He went straight at the demon and grabbed him by the throat. She looked around and saw Inu was looking up in the sky with the Tetsusiaga in his hands and Horoki standing next to him. She couldn't help but notice not only was the sword transformed, but so was Inu. His hair was silver and his eyes were golden. He looked exactly like Inuyasha at the moment and she could already feel the tears in her eyes as she stared at he and Horoki looking exactly like their fathers.
She looked back to where Inuyasha was fighting Akuma, just to see Akuma thrust his claws right through Inuyasha's chest. "INUYASHA!" she yelled and jumped up from where she was sitting. She stopped when the Tetsusiaga flew straight past her and into Akuma. She turned around and looked at Inu, then looked at Inuyasha. He grabbed the handle and pushed the sword deeper into Akuma, then sliced him into pieces. He then stumbled back and fell to the ground, leaning against a large piece of the blown up building and panting. Kagome ran up to him and saw he was back to normal, but badly wounded.
"Who knew that would be so easy." he said weakly. Kagome smiled at him sadly and shook her head.
"You shouldn't even lie to yourself. Look at you. You're a mess." She said. The others came up to her side and Inu dropped in front of his dad. Inuyasha smiled and ruffled the boy's hair.
"Looks like you've learned a thing or two, twerp. Good aiming back there. You'll need that when you're protecting your mother for me." Inu blinked and Kagome bit her lower lip, trying to keep any tears from coming.
"How come? Where are you going?" asked Inu. Inuyasha smiled and closed his eyes.
"No where too far. Inu, remember where I took you this morning?" he asked. The boy nodded. "Will you take me there?" he asked.
"When you die I will. I'll bury you and mom right with grandma, just like you did." Inu answered in a knowing way. Inuyasha chuckled.
"That may be a bit sooner than you waned, pup." He said weakly.
"Quit talking like that Inuyasha, You've had far worse wounds." Scolded Sango, holding Horoki up in her arms and giving the half-breed a stern look. He looked at her and smiled a bit.
"You believe I'll survive this?" he asked. Miroku chuckled.
"Don't you always?" he asked. Inuyasha shrugged and looked at Kagome.
"Listen up. I'm sorry I hurt Inu when I was transformed." she smiled and ran her fingers through his bangs, moving them out of his sweaty face.
"I know you didn't mean it, Inuyasha.." She whispered. He smiled at her and Inu suddenly went into ears that seemed as though they were never going to stop.
"I don't want you to die!" he cried and shook his head as if trying to shake something out of his mind. "YOU'RE NOT GONNA DIE!" he yelled and something in his hands began to glow. Kagome looked at her son and he opened his palm to show them the Shikon jewel, which was glowing, brightly. Kagome looked at Inuyasha and noticed his eyes were closed and he was glowing the same color of the jewel.
*~*~*~FLASHBACK~*~*~*
It was a late night with the stars shinning above the small house in which a small family lived, unlike any of the other families in the village. A young child about the age of five sat silently watching as his mother pulled out an arrow and focused on an area in a tree. When she let the arrow go, a demon fell out and disintegrated on the spot. "COOL!" The woman turned around and looked at the boy watching her.
"Inu, aren't you suppose to be getting ready for bed?" she asked. The boy grinned innocently up at her as she laid her weapons down.
"Dad said I could stay up just a little longer." He piped. She smirked and grabbed the boy into her arms, tickling him.
"And since when do you listen to what your father says, eh?" she asked and he grinned as she rubbed the tip of his nose with hers. "You know you're suppose to be meeting Kaede for your lessons tomorrow." She said gently and the boy nodded. He reached and touched the jewel around his mother's neck.
"Why do you have to keep this?" he asked curiously. She sat down in the hammock on the porch and began rocking back and forth.
"So no evil person takes it. We're suppose to purify it and then it will disappear forever."
"And we can live without worrying about demons trying to steal it." Inu finished.
"Exactly." Said Kagome. The boy was leaning in her lap with his head on her shoulder and playing with her hair, beginning to get tired.
"How do you purify it?" asked Inu.
"Someone has to use it for something good."
*~*~*~END OF FLASHBACK~*~*~*
Kagome blinked as the jewel in Inu's hand slowly began to fade, as if it were vanishing, and when she looked at Inuyasha, the hole in his chest was vanishing as well. "The jewel. it's being purified isn't it?" she asked quietly. The light around Inuyasha began to fade and the jewel vanished from Inu's hand. The small boy blinked in confusion and Inuyasha opened his eyes.
"I'm not dead?" he asked. Kagome began crying and threw her arms around his next.
"You insensitive jerk!" she cried, and buried her face into his chest, crying happily.
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
Inuyasha looked at the tree his mother was buried under as Kagome kneeled in front of it and prayed for her. It was the second day of the Festival of Souls in which families would visit the graves of their ancestors. They had just came from Kagome's time after visiting her father's grave, as well as her grandmothers and a few other, and now they were honoring Inuyasha's mother, seeing she was the closest person in his life before Kagome (if you read summer days you know what I'm talking about). Inu was bouncing happily around with a balloon and wearing a new Kimono that Kagome's mother had bought him. Kagome lifted her head and smiled. "I'm taking good care of your son.." She whispered and stood up, turning to her mate, wiping her eyes. Inuyasha raised an eyebrow at her.
"What's wrong with you? What's with the tears?" he asked. She smiled and shook her head.
"I always cry on this day. This is the first time we came here after all. I felt it was right to shed a few tears for your mother. she was a beautiful woman." She answered. Inuyasha smiled at her gently. Kagome had only seen his mother a few times when they were younger and once when Sesshomaru used a Nothing Woman to take her form to trick Inuyasha into telling her where their father's tomb was.
"Yes, she was a lovely woman wasn't she?" Kagome and Inuyasha turned around.
"Toutousai!" piped Inu and ran over to the old man. He knelt in front of the tree, did a short prayer and stood up, facing Inuyasha and his small family.
"You survived Akuma just fine I see." He said. Inuyasha blinked.
"How do you know about him?" asked Kagome curiously.
"Akuma was a quarter demon who wanted to become full demon of course." Toutousai answered. Kagome noticed Inuyasha's jaw drop and she put the tip of her finger under it, closing it once again.
"So that's the main reason he wanted to kill Inu and Horoki? Because there was a possibility that Inu would be stronger then him and he's a quarter demon as well?" asked Kagome and the old man nodded before placing a hand on Inu's head.
"Did you hear that I helped dad out by tossing him the Tetsusiaga!" Inu piped. Toutousai nodded his head.
"I would have come to congratulate you earlier. but there was the possibility Akuma had people after you. I had to wait a day." He answered. Inuyasha gave the old man a look and Kagome shook her head. He smiled and looked at Inuyasha. "The boy learned to handle the sword faster than you did." he said. Inu grinned proudly up at Inuyasha.
"We're heading back home to prepare for the festival that will be held in the village, but we're going to eat dinner first. Would you like to join us Toutousai?" asked Kagome cheerfully.
"WHAT!" announced Inuyasha, but she ignored her mate.
"That would be nice." Said the old man and they started making heir way back home, Inu bouncing around Toutousai requesting the old man make him a sword just like his dad had. Inuyasha let out a sigh and looked at his mother's grave and smiled. He knelt in front of it and pulled a flower out of the ground and placed it on the spot in front of him before saying a prayer of his own and following his family back home. Inu ran up to Inuyasha and began tugging on his sleeve.
"Guess what! Toutousai is gonna make me a sword just like the Tetsusiaga!" he cheered. Inuyasha smiled and picked his son up on his shoulder.
"And you'll probably be wanting one of my fangs for yours like my father did for me?" he asked, Inu grinned.
"If its not too much trouble." Inuyasha snorted and pulled his son off of his shoulder and into a headlock, burying his knuckles playfully into the boy's hair. Inu grinned and pointed a thumb at himself proudly, announcing that he would some day be known as the strongest quarter demon alive. Inuyasha chuckled and nodded his head at his son's child like innocence. He enjoyed the way his life was going now that he had a family. He had to admit- he wouldn't give up his life for anything in the world.
