What Two Little Kids Can Do...
Chapter Six,
The Full Moon, Part One
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"Kawainu, Masako-chan, can I talk to you two please." Sango asked the twins as they made their way back from the hot springs.
"Yeah..." Kawainu answered carefully, unsure of what she wanted to talk about.
"Inuyasha, you guys go ahead, Kawainu, Masako and I are going to stay behind." She called up to the others as she started directing the children toward a tree that they could sit under.
"Whatever." Inuyasha answered in annoyance.
"Now," She started turning back toward the curious twins, "we are going to talk and I want you to be quite because I don't want Inuyasha hearing, okay?" She asked looking at Kawainu.
"Whatever." Kawainu huffed folding his arms over his chest and sitting down by a tree.
"Okay, we promise to be quite." Masako answered smiling at Sango and taking a seat next to her brother.
"Good, Masako-chan, will you please tell me about your self?" Sango asked in a cheerful but serious voice.
"Yeah what do you want to know?" Masako asked her still smiling.
"Well, um just tell me anything, like about your family and where you're from." Sango said trying to sound easygoing.
"We're from a village in the west that was attacked by demons and we're looking for a way to save our mother who was captured. That's all you need to know." Kawainu quickly told her before his sister could answer.
"Well, what is your mothers name?" Sango asked trying to keep her temper, which was hard when she wanted to know the answer to her questions so badly.
"Oh, our mothers name is Kago-" Masako started but was cut off by here brother who was glaring at her.
"Our mothers name is Kagomachii." Kawainu said quickly.
"Okay, what's your fathers name." Sango asked slowly, her suspicions now growing.
"His name is none of your business." Kawainu told her sharply.
"Really, are you sure about that?" Sango asked slightly losing her temper as she glared at Kawainu's left hand, which was shining as if it had a jewel shard in it.
"Yeah I am." He told her, his glare not faulting under her stern gaze.
"Onii-chan..." Masako said quietly not really sure what to say.
"What?" He asked slightly glaring at her.
"She knows." Masako stated slowly.
"What do you mean she knows? Did you tell her?" He asked furiously.
"No, but..." She started quietly glancing between Sango, who was very curiously eyeing her brother's left hand, and her brother who looked furious.
"Okaa-chan put a spell on the shards she gave us so that her past self wouldn't be able to see or sense them, but the spell doesn't work for Sango- obaa's past self, she can see the shards, she knows." Masako explained slowly as she looked at her lap.
"You do?" Kawainu asked in disbelief as he stared at Sango with a look of horror on his face.
"I'm figuring it out." She answered quietly.
"Okaa-chan gave me some herbs, she told me to put them on her's and Otou- san's past selves so that they would be very dense, but the herbs would only last so long, and I didn't have enough to put on Uncle Miroku and Aunt Sango too." She slowly explained remember how she had made sure to sprinkle some on Kagome when she ran up to her, and when she dropped some on Inuyasha when she was above him in a tree.
"You're from the future, I knew that the Shikon no Tama had that power, but its never been used for that before." Sango said quietly thinking to her self.
"Yeah." Kawainu answered in disbelief, he hadn't expected his sister to be so cunning.
"You're Inuyasha's and Kagome-chan's children aren't you?" She asked slowly as her eyes traveled to their ears, hair, claws, and eyes.
"Yeah," Masako answered looking slightly ashamed knowing that she had made her brother mad.
"Why did you come back to the past, why did your parents send you back to the past?" Sango asked not sure that she wanted to know the answer.
"In the future the demon, Naraku, is still alive, he's become very powerful. In the past he did something that prevented our Okaa-chan from killing him, that's all we know, our parents wouldn't tell us anything else, they just said that we had to change it, and that we'd know what to do when the time came." Kawainu answered his face becoming solemn.
"You won't tell Kagome-chan and Inuyasha-chan will you, if you do they might hate us." Masako asked franticly as a million thoughts went rushing through her head and the first one was that they would hate them for lying.
"No, if I told them right now then it could me you two would never be born, that would completely mess things up wouldn't it, because the past is the future and the future is the past, isn't it?" She told them quietly, smiling at them warmly, letting them know that she wasn't mad.
"Thank you, Auntie Sango." Masako said standing up and hugging her.
"Oh, your welcome. You called me Auntie..." Sango said hugging her back and smiling.
"Yeah, yeah, enough mushy stuff lets go back before some one comes looking for us." Kawainu said coming back to his senses and leaping into the trees.
"Okay, I wanna walk with Sango-chan though." Masako answered, she decided that it would be better to not call her 'auntie', because it mite look suspicious.
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"Oh, you guys back, bout time." Inuyasha said as Sango and Masako made it into the village.
"Yeap." Masako answered happily.
"Nice too see you too Inuyasha." Sango answered sarcastically, but couldn't help smiling at the hanyou.
"What are you smiling at?" Inuyasha asked looking at her with confusion.
"Oh nothing." Sango answered as she flowed Masako into Kaeda's hut.
"Whatever, you humans better sleep though because I wanna leave tomorrow to look for more shikon shards and you all always say you didn't get enough sleep." He huffed as he sat down against the base of the Goshinboku.
"Okay, good night then." She said trying to suppress a giggle. She found it quite funny to imagine Inuyasha as 'daddy,' the family man.
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"Onii-chan, wake up, I wanna play." Masako whispered as she shook her brother on the shoulder lightly.
"No, it's to early." He answered sleepily as he tried to shake her hand off.
"Oh come on, it'll be fun." She responded now trying to prod him up.
"No it wont, go away." He answered gruffly.
"Fine." She answered as she got up and walked out side.
"I want to pla-" She started but was cut short by a voice that came from the branches.
"What are you doing up?" Inuyasha asked from the trees.
"I don't like to sleep in." She answered peering up at him.
"Oh?" He asked as he dropped down landing next to her.
"Hey, do you wanna play?" She asked smiling brightly at him.
"What?" He asked completely taken aback.
"Do you wanna play?" She repeated her crystal blue eyes shining happily.
"What do you mean, play?" He asked carefully, not entirely sure what she would do next.
"You know, run around or something like that?" She asked gazing hopefully at him.
"No." He answered shortly as he leaned back against the base of Goshinboku.
"Why not?" She asked her smile fading and small tears developing in her eyes.
"Because it stupid and..." He started but stopped when he smelt her tears.
"Why are you crying?" He asked her franticly as he looked around afraid that at any moment Kagome would jump out of the bushes and sit him, even though he knew that she was still asleep in Kaeda's hut.
"Because you won't play with me." She answered quietly as she bit her bottom lip.
"Fine, I'll play with you just stop crying!" Inuyasha told her in exasperation.
"Yay!" Masako shouted happily as she began to dance around a very confused Inuyasha.
"What are you doing now?" He asked as a completely lost expression covered his features.
"Having fun!" She responded as she began running into the forest.
"Hey! Come back here, it's dangerous in there!" He shouted as he bound after her.
As her ran Inuyasha's feet grazed the wet morning grass as he quickly made his way into the forest. He pushed branches out of his way and occasionally sliced something in half. The wind was rushing in his face, but only for a moment because it didn't take him long to catch up to Masako.
"Hey, don't run off like that." He said grabbing her by the collar of her fire rat fur kimono.
"Okay, sorry." She said still smiling brightly.
"Now," Inuyasha started getting a mischievous glint in his eyes, "sense you wanna run so much then I'll race you to the rice fields." He said dropping her and then dashing off with Masako in tow.
As Masako ran she could feel the cool morning air against her face and limbs. She felt like she was flying as she reached the end of the forest and began running even faster on the flat ground that the villagers had cleared. She could feel the earth beneath her toes, though they only briefly made contact with the grass and dirt because she was gliding.
She opened her eyes to see that she had almost reached the rice fields and that Inuyasha was their waiting for her.
"Inuyasha-chan!" She yelled happily as she continued to run towards him.
"I win." He stated with an arrogant smirk placed on his face.
Masako ignored his comment and leapt toward him. She grabbed on to his bright red kimono and hugged him as she giggled happily.
"Hey, stop that." He said only half-heartedly. He wouldn't admit it but the small child had warmed his heart a bit with her innocence.
"Lets play some more!" She suggested as she jumped down from him and began to run through the rice fields.
"Whatever." He said as her bound after her.
"What do you wanna do?" She asked smiling at him as he caught up to her.
"Hey, do you know how to catch fish?" He asked her as he ran in step with her.
"No, not really." She answered still smiling but her cheeks flushed in embarrassment.
"I'll teach you then." He said thinking that he might as well sense the others were asleep and probably would be for a few more hours.
"Yay!" She responded in excitement.
"Okay then lets go to the river over that way." He said pointing in the northwest direction past the rice fields.
"I'll beet you there!" She shouted bounding off through the rice fields them selves.
"No you won't!" He shouted in slight annoyance. 'There is no way that pup could beat me!' He thought smirking, but oh, how wrong he was...
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"Hey, does anyone know where Inuyasha and Masako-chan are?" A sleeping Kagome asked as she joined her friends outside of Kaeda's hut.
"No, I haven't seen them." Miroku answered.
"I haven't either." Sango answered quietly as she let her thoughts wonder to her conversation with the twins last night.
"WHAT! THAT BAKA KIDNAPPED MY SISTER!!!" Kawainu shouted as he ran up to Kagome franticly as if about to demand she tell him where his sister was.
"That seems like something that Inuyasha would do." A voice from the bushes added.
"Shippou-chan!" Kagome shouted excitedly looking around for the small kitsune pup.
"Hi Kagome-chan, I'm back." Shippou announced jumping out of the bushes and jumping onto Kagome's shoulder.
"HENTAI!"
"Miroku why do you always what'd you call it, hit on Sango-chan?" Shippou asked from his position on Kagome's shoulder.
"Shippou, quite honestly, I can't believe that you would ever accuse me of doing anything of the sort." Miroku said in a good-natured tone as he rubbed the large bump on his head.
"WHO CARES?! THAT BAKA CAPTURED MY SISTER!!!" Kawainu interrupted loudly as he glared at every one around him except Kagome, something that Shippou didn't fail to notice.
"Hey, who are you?" Shippou asked only slightly affected by Kawainu's glare.
"That's none of your business." Kawainu stated in a tone that said he was madder than Inuyasha is when Kagome goes back to her time.
"Kawainu-kun! That wasn't very nice, please calm down." Kagome asked in a voice of calm annoyance.
"CALM DOWN? CALM DOWN! I CAN'T CALM DOWN, THAT BAKA KIDNAPPED MY SISTER!" Kawainu yelled in exasperation.
"Inuyasha wouldn't hurt Masako-chan. I know he doesn't seem very nice but he really isn't that bad." Kagome sighed as she bent down to Kawainu's level and Shippou hoped off her shoulder.
"How would you know?" Kawainu asked looking at Kagome with big innocent eyes.
"I've known Inuyasha for a long time and he has a soft side." Kagome responded smiling as she instinctively pet Kawainu's ears to comfort him.
"I still want to know where my Onee-chan is." Kawainu said calming down slightly.
"Okay, we'll look for th-" Kagome started but was cut off but a loud shriek of joy.
"Onii-chan! Inuyasha-chan and I played all morning, I even beet him racing, and he taught me how to catch fish!" Shouted a very excited Masako as she bound up to her brother.
"Yeah, whatever, I only let you beat me that's all." Inuyasha said as he jumped down landing next to Kagome who had stopped petting Kawainu's ears and stood up.
"That was nice of you Inuyasha." Kagome whispered to him once he had stood up.
Inuyasha's cheeks flushed slightly but he hid it by looking down and shoving his hands into his fire rat kimono.
"Whatever." He muttered not meeting her gaze.
"HENTAI!"
"Miroku do us all a favor and stop being so perverted." Inuyasha said as he looked in the direction of Sango and Miroku just in time to see Miroku being given another large bump on the head by Sango.
"We should get going, I heard some rumors of jewel shards in the west." Sango told them as she repositioned her boomerang on her back.
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"Fluffy-sama, Rin-chan wants to know where Fluffy-sama is taking Rin-chan and Jakken-sama." Said a little girl as she peered up at a tall inu-youkai with a long white tail over his shoulder.
"Don't bother Sesshoumaru-sama with your stupid questions you silly human girl!" Yelled a toad demon as he bobbed his seven headed staff up and down in exasperation.
"We're going to find the wielder of this useless sword of mine." Sesshoumaru answered glaring at the Tensiuga.
"Why does Fluffy-sama wanna find him?" The child asked him smiling brightly.
"Mind your own business you little wench!" Jakken yelled angrily.
"So that he will wield me a sword with enough power to defeat Inuyasha." Sesshoumaru answered in a deathly calm and cold voice.
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"I'm Shippou, what's your name?" Shippou asked the inu-youkai pups that were walking next to him.
"I'm Masako, it's nice to meet you Shippou-kun." Masako answered smiling brightly at him.
"Kawainu." Kawainu grunted in response to Shippou's question.
"Don't mind him, Onii-chan's always like that." Masako told Shippou happily.
"That's okay, I've been hanging around Inuyasha for two years so I'm used to people acting like that." Shippou said still smiling at Masako.
"Oh, Inuyasha really doesn't seem that bad, I think he's funny when he gets grumpy." Masako told him in a cheerful tone.
"You do?" Shippou asked in disbelief.
"Yeap." Masako responded. She positioned her hands on the back of her head and closed her eyes smiling up in the direction of the sun letting its warm rays fall onto her face.
"Yeah, I guess." Shippou responded starring at her.
"Fox, don't stare at my Onee-chan unless you want me to ensure you'll never be able to again." Kawainu said in a calm voice as he glared at Shippou.
"Gees, you sure act like Inuyasha." Shippou told him as he folded his arms over his chest defensively.
"AH! DON'T COMPARE ME TO THAT BAKA AGAIN!" Kawainu yelled angrily as he jumped at Shippou.
"EEP!" Shippou yelped as he turned around and jumped up onto Kagome who had been walking behind him.
"COME BACK HERE YOU LITTLE WUSS!" Kawainu yelled as he jumped on to Kagome's head in an attempt to catch Shippou.
"Shut up, you brats are annoying." Inuyasha mumbled under his breath as he grabbed Shippou's tail with on hand and the collar of Kawainu's kimono in the other.
"Hey, put me down you jerk!" Kawainu yelled trying to hit and kick Inuyasha who just them in front of him and kept walking.
"Inuyasha thank you for making sure that they didn't start a war on my head, but please put them down." Kagome asked smiling at Inuyasha but not hiding the fact that she was annoyed form her voice.
"Fine." Inuyasha said as he dropped them in front of him and stepped over them.
"Inuyasha! That wasn't what I meant." Kagome told him as she rubbed her temples in frustration.
"You never said I had to be nice bout it did ya." He said smirking at her.
"That's not the point." She told him in with frustration in her voice.
"Keh." He huffed.
Inuyasha grabbed Kagome around that waist and jumped up into the trees.
"AH!" Kagome screamed from the shock of suddenly flying thirty meters into the air.
Inuyasha landed gracefully on the branch of a tree and set Kagome down next to him. Kagome, who wasn't used to being in trees, quickly lost her balance causing her to bump into Inuyasha. When her body came in contact with his he instinctively wrapped his arms her waist and he pulled her against him to keep her from falling.
"Inuyasha why did you do that?" Kagome asked with fear in her voice from being thirty meters off the ground.
"Listen Kagome, if I hadn't grabbed the brats the-" Inuyasha started but was interrupted by Kagome.
"They have names, and it's not 'brats'." She told him an annoyed expression covering her features.
"Whatever. What I was saying was that if I hadn't grabbed them than the pup would have ripped the fox apart." Inuyasha said, he was thoroughly displeased a being scolded for name-calling.
"Inuyasha that's an unfair assumption! Kawainu-kun wouldn't do that to Shippou-chan, he'd have no reason to!" Kagome argued as she twisted around to face Inuyasha.
"He did have a reason! You don't know what you're talking about!" He argued back annoyance present in his face.
"Oh really?" She asked equally annoyed with him.
"Yes! Masako is the Brat's sister, he's being protective of her, he thinks that Shippou-baka is looking at her as a potential mate!" Inuyasha responded in exasperation.
"That's silly! Shippou and Masako are just little kids!" Kagome argued back.
"I know that but the Brat doesn't care!" Inuyasha responded still very annoyed.
"So Kawainu-kun thinks that Shippou-chan has a crush on Masako-chan?" Kagome asked her anger and annoyance being replaced by innocent curiosity.
"Yeah." Inuyasha answered his frustration leaving him to be replaced by calmness.
"Oh." Kagome responded not sure of what else to say.
"Inuyasha, why did you bring me into a tree to tell me this?" Kagome asked starring up at him with a puzzled expression.
"Because I didn't want the brat to get all defensive on me." He responded truthfully.
"Okay, just warn me next time, you scared me a bit." She admitted as she glanced from the ground below her and back into his eyes.
Kagome suddenly became aware of how close they were. She realized that they were in such a close proximity and that his arms were wrapped around her waist and that her body was pressed against his. She felt her self begin to blush and try to look away from him but found that once again she had gotten lost in his golden eyes.
"Hey Inuyasha, are you and Kagome-sama done up there yet?" Miroku shouted from below them.
"Huh." Kagome said as Miroku's voice knocked her out of the trance Inuyasha's eyes had put her in.
Inuyasha hadn't been any better than Kagome but he quickly regained his senses. He took his one of his hands from Kagome's back and positioned it under her knees. He then leaped down from the tree and landed gracefully on the ground with Kagome grasping onto his robes as if her life depended on it.
"Inuyasha, next time you do that warn me." Kagome told him still clinging to him in fear.
"You scare to easily." He said smirking at her.
"Ow! Lets get going! The demon with the jewel shards is getting further away from us!" Kagome told him in exasperation as she detangled her self from his arms and stomped off.
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"I'm tired, can't we rest?" Shippou complained from his position on Miroku's shoulder.
"You got a free ride on the houshi's shoulder Fox, why are you complaining?" Kawainu huffed as he glared at Shippou from his position walking next to Kagome.
"Yeah, but it's hot, that's all I meant!" Shippou defended.
"It is not, and we've only been traveling for five hours, and the sun isn't even that high in the sky!" Kawainu argued angrily.
"Please stop fighting." Masako squeaked from Inuyasha's shoulder.
"Ah! Masako-chan, why are you crying?" Shippou asked as a panicked expression crossed his face.
"Because, you guys are fighting and I hate it when my friends fight!" She whimpered as a tears slid down her cheek.
"AH! You baka you made my Onee-chan cry! I'LL KILL YOU!!!" Kawainu shouted as he run toward Shippou knocking over Miroku in the process.
"AH! Kagome-chan, help!" Shippou yelled as he ran toward Kagome.
"Come back here you wuss!" Kawainu called trod over Miroku's face while trying to catch up with him.
"Now where does this seem familiar?" Inuyasha asked sarcastically.
"Shippou-chan, Kawainu-kun, stop fighting now!" Kagome said sternly.
Both boys faltered under her stern gaze and both stood quietly in front of her knowing that they were going to get into trouble.
"Now, Kawainu, there was no reason for you to make that sarcastic remark when Shippou commented on the heat." Kagome said gazing at Kawainu.
"Shippou, I know that it's hot, but it will be sunset in a few hours and we can rest then, okay?" She said turning her gaze from Kawainu to Shippou.
"Okay." Shippou responded looking at his feet guiltily.
"He made my Onee-chan cry!" Kawainu argued in exasperation pointing an accusing finger at Shippou.
"No, you both made her upset." Kagome corrected as her gazed shifted back and forth between the to boys.
"But I would never try to make Onee-chan upset." Kawainu said suddenly losing his angry expression and looking up at Kagome innocently.
"I know you didn't mean to, but it takes two people to fight." She told him bending down on her knees to his level.
"But I wasn't trying to." He argued quietly looking down at his feet very guiltily.
"It's okay." Kagome told him as she instinctively wrapped her arms around him.
"Onii-chan, I'm not mad at you." Masako said hopping off of Inuyasha's shoulder and over to where Kagome and Kawainu were.
"I'm sorry we made you cry Masako-chan." Shippou said walking over to her and standing next to her.
"That's okay, I know you didn't mea-" Masako started but was cut of by a snickering sound from behind her.
"Inuyasha, what's so funny?" Kagome asked as she let go of Kawainu.
"What we talked about earlier." He said laughing louder.
"What's so funny about that?" Kagome asked an annoyed expression crossing her face as she put her hands on her hips.
"Shippou and Masako! HAHAHAHA!!!" Inuyasha started but burst out laughing.
Inuyasha clutched his stomach and dropped to the ground rolling around in a fit of laughter.
"Wait, Inuyasha, you don't mean... HAHAHAHA!" Miroku asked but soon burst out in laughter at what Inuyasha meant.
"You two are idiots, that isn't the case." Sango said as she stepped over them and walked over to where Kagome and the three children were standing.
"Come on Kagome-chan, if we don't hurry we won't be able to find a village before night fall." Sango told her looking up at the sun, which was setting in west.
"Okay," Kagome said looking over he shoulder at Inuyasha and Miroku who were still laughing hysterically on ground.
"Onii-chan, what are we going to do, it's the full moon tonight?" Masako asked her brother in a hushed voice as they walked off with Kagome and Sango in the lead.
"I don't know Onee-chan, I don't know..." Kawainu answered her looking up at the moon in the west.
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Konnichiwa Minna-san,
This chapter was extra long and took me forever to type so I hope you like it. I'll have the next chapter out as soon as possible. Thank you to every one who reviewed, I appreciate it. Oh, so many people have been asking about the Onii-chan Onee-chan thing. Masako was born first, but because her brother is so protective of her and everything she doesn't think of him as a little brother so she calls him Onee-chan, I hope that's not to confusing. The next chapter will be The Full Moon Part Two, and probably the most exciting one yet, so I'll try to have it out soon.
Ja ne,
Winged Angel
Chapter Six,
The Full Moon, Part One
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"Kawainu, Masako-chan, can I talk to you two please." Sango asked the twins as they made their way back from the hot springs.
"Yeah..." Kawainu answered carefully, unsure of what she wanted to talk about.
"Inuyasha, you guys go ahead, Kawainu, Masako and I are going to stay behind." She called up to the others as she started directing the children toward a tree that they could sit under.
"Whatever." Inuyasha answered in annoyance.
"Now," She started turning back toward the curious twins, "we are going to talk and I want you to be quite because I don't want Inuyasha hearing, okay?" She asked looking at Kawainu.
"Whatever." Kawainu huffed folding his arms over his chest and sitting down by a tree.
"Okay, we promise to be quite." Masako answered smiling at Sango and taking a seat next to her brother.
"Good, Masako-chan, will you please tell me about your self?" Sango asked in a cheerful but serious voice.
"Yeah what do you want to know?" Masako asked her still smiling.
"Well, um just tell me anything, like about your family and where you're from." Sango said trying to sound easygoing.
"We're from a village in the west that was attacked by demons and we're looking for a way to save our mother who was captured. That's all you need to know." Kawainu quickly told her before his sister could answer.
"Well, what is your mothers name?" Sango asked trying to keep her temper, which was hard when she wanted to know the answer to her questions so badly.
"Oh, our mothers name is Kago-" Masako started but was cut off by here brother who was glaring at her.
"Our mothers name is Kagomachii." Kawainu said quickly.
"Okay, what's your fathers name." Sango asked slowly, her suspicions now growing.
"His name is none of your business." Kawainu told her sharply.
"Really, are you sure about that?" Sango asked slightly losing her temper as she glared at Kawainu's left hand, which was shining as if it had a jewel shard in it.
"Yeah I am." He told her, his glare not faulting under her stern gaze.
"Onii-chan..." Masako said quietly not really sure what to say.
"What?" He asked slightly glaring at her.
"She knows." Masako stated slowly.
"What do you mean she knows? Did you tell her?" He asked furiously.
"No, but..." She started quietly glancing between Sango, who was very curiously eyeing her brother's left hand, and her brother who looked furious.
"Okaa-chan put a spell on the shards she gave us so that her past self wouldn't be able to see or sense them, but the spell doesn't work for Sango- obaa's past self, she can see the shards, she knows." Masako explained slowly as she looked at her lap.
"You do?" Kawainu asked in disbelief as he stared at Sango with a look of horror on his face.
"I'm figuring it out." She answered quietly.
"Okaa-chan gave me some herbs, she told me to put them on her's and Otou- san's past selves so that they would be very dense, but the herbs would only last so long, and I didn't have enough to put on Uncle Miroku and Aunt Sango too." She slowly explained remember how she had made sure to sprinkle some on Kagome when she ran up to her, and when she dropped some on Inuyasha when she was above him in a tree.
"You're from the future, I knew that the Shikon no Tama had that power, but its never been used for that before." Sango said quietly thinking to her self.
"Yeah." Kawainu answered in disbelief, he hadn't expected his sister to be so cunning.
"You're Inuyasha's and Kagome-chan's children aren't you?" She asked slowly as her eyes traveled to their ears, hair, claws, and eyes.
"Yeah," Masako answered looking slightly ashamed knowing that she had made her brother mad.
"Why did you come back to the past, why did your parents send you back to the past?" Sango asked not sure that she wanted to know the answer.
"In the future the demon, Naraku, is still alive, he's become very powerful. In the past he did something that prevented our Okaa-chan from killing him, that's all we know, our parents wouldn't tell us anything else, they just said that we had to change it, and that we'd know what to do when the time came." Kawainu answered his face becoming solemn.
"You won't tell Kagome-chan and Inuyasha-chan will you, if you do they might hate us." Masako asked franticly as a million thoughts went rushing through her head and the first one was that they would hate them for lying.
"No, if I told them right now then it could me you two would never be born, that would completely mess things up wouldn't it, because the past is the future and the future is the past, isn't it?" She told them quietly, smiling at them warmly, letting them know that she wasn't mad.
"Thank you, Auntie Sango." Masako said standing up and hugging her.
"Oh, your welcome. You called me Auntie..." Sango said hugging her back and smiling.
"Yeah, yeah, enough mushy stuff lets go back before some one comes looking for us." Kawainu said coming back to his senses and leaping into the trees.
"Okay, I wanna walk with Sango-chan though." Masako answered, she decided that it would be better to not call her 'auntie', because it mite look suspicious.
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"Oh, you guys back, bout time." Inuyasha said as Sango and Masako made it into the village.
"Yeap." Masako answered happily.
"Nice too see you too Inuyasha." Sango answered sarcastically, but couldn't help smiling at the hanyou.
"What are you smiling at?" Inuyasha asked looking at her with confusion.
"Oh nothing." Sango answered as she flowed Masako into Kaeda's hut.
"Whatever, you humans better sleep though because I wanna leave tomorrow to look for more shikon shards and you all always say you didn't get enough sleep." He huffed as he sat down against the base of the Goshinboku.
"Okay, good night then." She said trying to suppress a giggle. She found it quite funny to imagine Inuyasha as 'daddy,' the family man.
~*~*~*~*~
"Onii-chan, wake up, I wanna play." Masako whispered as she shook her brother on the shoulder lightly.
"No, it's to early." He answered sleepily as he tried to shake her hand off.
"Oh come on, it'll be fun." She responded now trying to prod him up.
"No it wont, go away." He answered gruffly.
"Fine." She answered as she got up and walked out side.
"I want to pla-" She started but was cut short by a voice that came from the branches.
"What are you doing up?" Inuyasha asked from the trees.
"I don't like to sleep in." She answered peering up at him.
"Oh?" He asked as he dropped down landing next to her.
"Hey, do you wanna play?" She asked smiling brightly at him.
"What?" He asked completely taken aback.
"Do you wanna play?" She repeated her crystal blue eyes shining happily.
"What do you mean, play?" He asked carefully, not entirely sure what she would do next.
"You know, run around or something like that?" She asked gazing hopefully at him.
"No." He answered shortly as he leaned back against the base of Goshinboku.
"Why not?" She asked her smile fading and small tears developing in her eyes.
"Because it stupid and..." He started but stopped when he smelt her tears.
"Why are you crying?" He asked her franticly as he looked around afraid that at any moment Kagome would jump out of the bushes and sit him, even though he knew that she was still asleep in Kaeda's hut.
"Because you won't play with me." She answered quietly as she bit her bottom lip.
"Fine, I'll play with you just stop crying!" Inuyasha told her in exasperation.
"Yay!" Masako shouted happily as she began to dance around a very confused Inuyasha.
"What are you doing now?" He asked as a completely lost expression covered his features.
"Having fun!" She responded as she began running into the forest.
"Hey! Come back here, it's dangerous in there!" He shouted as he bound after her.
As her ran Inuyasha's feet grazed the wet morning grass as he quickly made his way into the forest. He pushed branches out of his way and occasionally sliced something in half. The wind was rushing in his face, but only for a moment because it didn't take him long to catch up to Masako.
"Hey, don't run off like that." He said grabbing her by the collar of her fire rat fur kimono.
"Okay, sorry." She said still smiling brightly.
"Now," Inuyasha started getting a mischievous glint in his eyes, "sense you wanna run so much then I'll race you to the rice fields." He said dropping her and then dashing off with Masako in tow.
As Masako ran she could feel the cool morning air against her face and limbs. She felt like she was flying as she reached the end of the forest and began running even faster on the flat ground that the villagers had cleared. She could feel the earth beneath her toes, though they only briefly made contact with the grass and dirt because she was gliding.
She opened her eyes to see that she had almost reached the rice fields and that Inuyasha was their waiting for her.
"Inuyasha-chan!" She yelled happily as she continued to run towards him.
"I win." He stated with an arrogant smirk placed on his face.
Masako ignored his comment and leapt toward him. She grabbed on to his bright red kimono and hugged him as she giggled happily.
"Hey, stop that." He said only half-heartedly. He wouldn't admit it but the small child had warmed his heart a bit with her innocence.
"Lets play some more!" She suggested as she jumped down from him and began to run through the rice fields.
"Whatever." He said as her bound after her.
"What do you wanna do?" She asked smiling at him as he caught up to her.
"Hey, do you know how to catch fish?" He asked her as he ran in step with her.
"No, not really." She answered still smiling but her cheeks flushed in embarrassment.
"I'll teach you then." He said thinking that he might as well sense the others were asleep and probably would be for a few more hours.
"Yay!" She responded in excitement.
"Okay then lets go to the river over that way." He said pointing in the northwest direction past the rice fields.
"I'll beet you there!" She shouted bounding off through the rice fields them selves.
"No you won't!" He shouted in slight annoyance. 'There is no way that pup could beat me!' He thought smirking, but oh, how wrong he was...
~*~*~*~*~
"Hey, does anyone know where Inuyasha and Masako-chan are?" A sleeping Kagome asked as she joined her friends outside of Kaeda's hut.
"No, I haven't seen them." Miroku answered.
"I haven't either." Sango answered quietly as she let her thoughts wonder to her conversation with the twins last night.
"WHAT! THAT BAKA KIDNAPPED MY SISTER!!!" Kawainu shouted as he ran up to Kagome franticly as if about to demand she tell him where his sister was.
"That seems like something that Inuyasha would do." A voice from the bushes added.
"Shippou-chan!" Kagome shouted excitedly looking around for the small kitsune pup.
"Hi Kagome-chan, I'm back." Shippou announced jumping out of the bushes and jumping onto Kagome's shoulder.
"HENTAI!"
"Miroku why do you always what'd you call it, hit on Sango-chan?" Shippou asked from his position on Kagome's shoulder.
"Shippou, quite honestly, I can't believe that you would ever accuse me of doing anything of the sort." Miroku said in a good-natured tone as he rubbed the large bump on his head.
"WHO CARES?! THAT BAKA CAPTURED MY SISTER!!!" Kawainu interrupted loudly as he glared at every one around him except Kagome, something that Shippou didn't fail to notice.
"Hey, who are you?" Shippou asked only slightly affected by Kawainu's glare.
"That's none of your business." Kawainu stated in a tone that said he was madder than Inuyasha is when Kagome goes back to her time.
"Kawainu-kun! That wasn't very nice, please calm down." Kagome asked in a voice of calm annoyance.
"CALM DOWN? CALM DOWN! I CAN'T CALM DOWN, THAT BAKA KIDNAPPED MY SISTER!" Kawainu yelled in exasperation.
"Inuyasha wouldn't hurt Masako-chan. I know he doesn't seem very nice but he really isn't that bad." Kagome sighed as she bent down to Kawainu's level and Shippou hoped off her shoulder.
"How would you know?" Kawainu asked looking at Kagome with big innocent eyes.
"I've known Inuyasha for a long time and he has a soft side." Kagome responded smiling as she instinctively pet Kawainu's ears to comfort him.
"I still want to know where my Onee-chan is." Kawainu said calming down slightly.
"Okay, we'll look for th-" Kagome started but was cut off but a loud shriek of joy.
"Onii-chan! Inuyasha-chan and I played all morning, I even beet him racing, and he taught me how to catch fish!" Shouted a very excited Masako as she bound up to her brother.
"Yeah, whatever, I only let you beat me that's all." Inuyasha said as he jumped down landing next to Kagome who had stopped petting Kawainu's ears and stood up.
"That was nice of you Inuyasha." Kagome whispered to him once he had stood up.
Inuyasha's cheeks flushed slightly but he hid it by looking down and shoving his hands into his fire rat kimono.
"Whatever." He muttered not meeting her gaze.
"HENTAI!"
"Miroku do us all a favor and stop being so perverted." Inuyasha said as he looked in the direction of Sango and Miroku just in time to see Miroku being given another large bump on the head by Sango.
"We should get going, I heard some rumors of jewel shards in the west." Sango told them as she repositioned her boomerang on her back.
~*~*~*~*~
"Fluffy-sama, Rin-chan wants to know where Fluffy-sama is taking Rin-chan and Jakken-sama." Said a little girl as she peered up at a tall inu-youkai with a long white tail over his shoulder.
"Don't bother Sesshoumaru-sama with your stupid questions you silly human girl!" Yelled a toad demon as he bobbed his seven headed staff up and down in exasperation.
"We're going to find the wielder of this useless sword of mine." Sesshoumaru answered glaring at the Tensiuga.
"Why does Fluffy-sama wanna find him?" The child asked him smiling brightly.
"Mind your own business you little wench!" Jakken yelled angrily.
"So that he will wield me a sword with enough power to defeat Inuyasha." Sesshoumaru answered in a deathly calm and cold voice.
~*~*~*~*~
"I'm Shippou, what's your name?" Shippou asked the inu-youkai pups that were walking next to him.
"I'm Masako, it's nice to meet you Shippou-kun." Masako answered smiling brightly at him.
"Kawainu." Kawainu grunted in response to Shippou's question.
"Don't mind him, Onii-chan's always like that." Masako told Shippou happily.
"That's okay, I've been hanging around Inuyasha for two years so I'm used to people acting like that." Shippou said still smiling at Masako.
"Oh, Inuyasha really doesn't seem that bad, I think he's funny when he gets grumpy." Masako told him in a cheerful tone.
"You do?" Shippou asked in disbelief.
"Yeap." Masako responded. She positioned her hands on the back of her head and closed her eyes smiling up in the direction of the sun letting its warm rays fall onto her face.
"Yeah, I guess." Shippou responded starring at her.
"Fox, don't stare at my Onee-chan unless you want me to ensure you'll never be able to again." Kawainu said in a calm voice as he glared at Shippou.
"Gees, you sure act like Inuyasha." Shippou told him as he folded his arms over his chest defensively.
"AH! DON'T COMPARE ME TO THAT BAKA AGAIN!" Kawainu yelled angrily as he jumped at Shippou.
"EEP!" Shippou yelped as he turned around and jumped up onto Kagome who had been walking behind him.
"COME BACK HERE YOU LITTLE WUSS!" Kawainu yelled as he jumped on to Kagome's head in an attempt to catch Shippou.
"Shut up, you brats are annoying." Inuyasha mumbled under his breath as he grabbed Shippou's tail with on hand and the collar of Kawainu's kimono in the other.
"Hey, put me down you jerk!" Kawainu yelled trying to hit and kick Inuyasha who just them in front of him and kept walking.
"Inuyasha thank you for making sure that they didn't start a war on my head, but please put them down." Kagome asked smiling at Inuyasha but not hiding the fact that she was annoyed form her voice.
"Fine." Inuyasha said as he dropped them in front of him and stepped over them.
"Inuyasha! That wasn't what I meant." Kagome told him as she rubbed her temples in frustration.
"You never said I had to be nice bout it did ya." He said smirking at her.
"That's not the point." She told him in with frustration in her voice.
"Keh." He huffed.
Inuyasha grabbed Kagome around that waist and jumped up into the trees.
"AH!" Kagome screamed from the shock of suddenly flying thirty meters into the air.
Inuyasha landed gracefully on the branch of a tree and set Kagome down next to him. Kagome, who wasn't used to being in trees, quickly lost her balance causing her to bump into Inuyasha. When her body came in contact with his he instinctively wrapped his arms her waist and he pulled her against him to keep her from falling.
"Inuyasha why did you do that?" Kagome asked with fear in her voice from being thirty meters off the ground.
"Listen Kagome, if I hadn't grabbed the brats the-" Inuyasha started but was interrupted by Kagome.
"They have names, and it's not 'brats'." She told him an annoyed expression covering her features.
"Whatever. What I was saying was that if I hadn't grabbed them than the pup would have ripped the fox apart." Inuyasha said, he was thoroughly displeased a being scolded for name-calling.
"Inuyasha that's an unfair assumption! Kawainu-kun wouldn't do that to Shippou-chan, he'd have no reason to!" Kagome argued as she twisted around to face Inuyasha.
"He did have a reason! You don't know what you're talking about!" He argued back annoyance present in his face.
"Oh really?" She asked equally annoyed with him.
"Yes! Masako is the Brat's sister, he's being protective of her, he thinks that Shippou-baka is looking at her as a potential mate!" Inuyasha responded in exasperation.
"That's silly! Shippou and Masako are just little kids!" Kagome argued back.
"I know that but the Brat doesn't care!" Inuyasha responded still very annoyed.
"So Kawainu-kun thinks that Shippou-chan has a crush on Masako-chan?" Kagome asked her anger and annoyance being replaced by innocent curiosity.
"Yeah." Inuyasha answered his frustration leaving him to be replaced by calmness.
"Oh." Kagome responded not sure of what else to say.
"Inuyasha, why did you bring me into a tree to tell me this?" Kagome asked starring up at him with a puzzled expression.
"Because I didn't want the brat to get all defensive on me." He responded truthfully.
"Okay, just warn me next time, you scared me a bit." She admitted as she glanced from the ground below her and back into his eyes.
Kagome suddenly became aware of how close they were. She realized that they were in such a close proximity and that his arms were wrapped around her waist and that her body was pressed against his. She felt her self begin to blush and try to look away from him but found that once again she had gotten lost in his golden eyes.
"Hey Inuyasha, are you and Kagome-sama done up there yet?" Miroku shouted from below them.
"Huh." Kagome said as Miroku's voice knocked her out of the trance Inuyasha's eyes had put her in.
Inuyasha hadn't been any better than Kagome but he quickly regained his senses. He took his one of his hands from Kagome's back and positioned it under her knees. He then leaped down from the tree and landed gracefully on the ground with Kagome grasping onto his robes as if her life depended on it.
"Inuyasha, next time you do that warn me." Kagome told him still clinging to him in fear.
"You scare to easily." He said smirking at her.
"Ow! Lets get going! The demon with the jewel shards is getting further away from us!" Kagome told him in exasperation as she detangled her self from his arms and stomped off.
~*~*~*~*~
"I'm tired, can't we rest?" Shippou complained from his position on Miroku's shoulder.
"You got a free ride on the houshi's shoulder Fox, why are you complaining?" Kawainu huffed as he glared at Shippou from his position walking next to Kagome.
"Yeah, but it's hot, that's all I meant!" Shippou defended.
"It is not, and we've only been traveling for five hours, and the sun isn't even that high in the sky!" Kawainu argued angrily.
"Please stop fighting." Masako squeaked from Inuyasha's shoulder.
"Ah! Masako-chan, why are you crying?" Shippou asked as a panicked expression crossed his face.
"Because, you guys are fighting and I hate it when my friends fight!" She whimpered as a tears slid down her cheek.
"AH! You baka you made my Onee-chan cry! I'LL KILL YOU!!!" Kawainu shouted as he run toward Shippou knocking over Miroku in the process.
"AH! Kagome-chan, help!" Shippou yelled as he ran toward Kagome.
"Come back here you wuss!" Kawainu called trod over Miroku's face while trying to catch up with him.
"Now where does this seem familiar?" Inuyasha asked sarcastically.
"Shippou-chan, Kawainu-kun, stop fighting now!" Kagome said sternly.
Both boys faltered under her stern gaze and both stood quietly in front of her knowing that they were going to get into trouble.
"Now, Kawainu, there was no reason for you to make that sarcastic remark when Shippou commented on the heat." Kagome said gazing at Kawainu.
"Shippou, I know that it's hot, but it will be sunset in a few hours and we can rest then, okay?" She said turning her gaze from Kawainu to Shippou.
"Okay." Shippou responded looking at his feet guiltily.
"He made my Onee-chan cry!" Kawainu argued in exasperation pointing an accusing finger at Shippou.
"No, you both made her upset." Kagome corrected as her gazed shifted back and forth between the to boys.
"But I would never try to make Onee-chan upset." Kawainu said suddenly losing his angry expression and looking up at Kagome innocently.
"I know you didn't mean to, but it takes two people to fight." She told him bending down on her knees to his level.
"But I wasn't trying to." He argued quietly looking down at his feet very guiltily.
"It's okay." Kagome told him as she instinctively wrapped her arms around him.
"Onii-chan, I'm not mad at you." Masako said hopping off of Inuyasha's shoulder and over to where Kagome and Kawainu were.
"I'm sorry we made you cry Masako-chan." Shippou said walking over to her and standing next to her.
"That's okay, I know you didn't mea-" Masako started but was cut of by a snickering sound from behind her.
"Inuyasha, what's so funny?" Kagome asked as she let go of Kawainu.
"What we talked about earlier." He said laughing louder.
"What's so funny about that?" Kagome asked an annoyed expression crossing her face as she put her hands on her hips.
"Shippou and Masako! HAHAHAHA!!!" Inuyasha started but burst out laughing.
Inuyasha clutched his stomach and dropped to the ground rolling around in a fit of laughter.
"Wait, Inuyasha, you don't mean... HAHAHAHA!" Miroku asked but soon burst out in laughter at what Inuyasha meant.
"You two are idiots, that isn't the case." Sango said as she stepped over them and walked over to where Kagome and the three children were standing.
"Come on Kagome-chan, if we don't hurry we won't be able to find a village before night fall." Sango told her looking up at the sun, which was setting in west.
"Okay," Kagome said looking over he shoulder at Inuyasha and Miroku who were still laughing hysterically on ground.
"Onii-chan, what are we going to do, it's the full moon tonight?" Masako asked her brother in a hushed voice as they walked off with Kagome and Sango in the lead.
"I don't know Onee-chan, I don't know..." Kawainu answered her looking up at the moon in the west.
~*~*~*~*~
Konnichiwa Minna-san,
This chapter was extra long and took me forever to type so I hope you like it. I'll have the next chapter out as soon as possible. Thank you to every one who reviewed, I appreciate it. Oh, so many people have been asking about the Onii-chan Onee-chan thing. Masako was born first, but because her brother is so protective of her and everything she doesn't think of him as a little brother so she calls him Onee-chan, I hope that's not to confusing. The next chapter will be The Full Moon Part Two, and probably the most exciting one yet, so I'll try to have it out soon.
Ja ne,
Winged Angel