Chapter 3: More Kids
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"Kiyota! Getting less air here!"
"Shut up, Toisechi!"
A third voice interrupted the bickering of the previous two.
"Would you two shut the hell up?!?!" The other two were quiet while they tried to find a way out of the well. The other boy spoke up after a few minutes.
"Dikatu, tell her to GET THE HELL OFFA ME!" Someone hit him. "DAMNIT!" The boy jumped out of the well with the girl voice's owner on his back, hitting him repeatedly.
back at Kaede's hut... nighttime
Rishiyo's ears perked up at the sound of sibling bickering. She rolled her golden eyes and stood, going to the door.
"Where are you going, 'Shiyo?" Kagome sat up in her cot and looked at the girl.
"Pups. The other ones... they're here." She sighed loudly and went out into the dark with only her excellent eyesight to guide her.
Kagome slipped her shoes on and followed the hanyou girl. What she saw amazed her.
There, standing before her, were four hanyou kids, all with inu ears... like her InuYasha. There was a tall doy in a dark blue fire rat and matching kimono pants with silver hair... a younger version of InuYasha. There was another boy, but shorter, with black hair and silver-streaked bangs and tips of his hai and ears; a really young girl of maybe four with black hair, but no silver, that looked like a four-year-old Kagome. Then there was Rishiyo, who had lovingly been nicknamed 'Shiyo', who had silver hair with black bangs, black streaks in her hair and bangs and her left ear was black with a silver tip and her right ear was silver with a black tip. All four pups had their father's amber eyes.
All pups were also in fire-rats and baggy kimono pants, the younger girl wearing lavender, the youngest boy wearing deep hunter, the eldest boy in the navy haori top and pants previously mentioned and Rishiyo in a light magenta. Kagome felt as if her heart were going to burst with the instant love she had instantly possessed upon seeing them. She also got angry as she heard fighting coming from the three older hanyou pups.
"-Akita wouldn't've fallen down after Jinku, we wouldn't be here!" The boy wearing hunter huffed. 'Hmm... just like someone else I know...' Kagome thought.
"Screw your theory, Toisechi! It was your fault they fell down the damn well in the first place! If you hadn't been running around them, they would still be in our time!"
"QUIET!" Kagome placed her hands on her hips and squared her shoulders. "Watch your language, pup!" She looked the oldest hanyou boy in the eye and his ears flattened against his skull.
"Okaa-san?" The smallest of the four looked up at Kagome. The young miko stooped to her level.
"Let me guess... Kiyota, right, Shiyo?" The other hanyou girl nodded. Kagome lifted the little girl up and walked towards the hut, motioning for the pups to follow. Once inside, InuYasha's nose twitched and his eyes flew open.
"Kagome," was all the hanyou managed to get out before being tackled by the presumed 'Toisechi' and the boy chanting, 'otou-san, otou-san, otou-san' over and over again.
the next day...
It was a beautiful morning. The sun was shining, birds were chirping and twittering about, hanyou siblings were fighting. Okay, so the phrase, 'Good Morning' is an oxymoron, but hey! That's no reason for a beautiful morning to go to waste.
"Rishiyo! I wanted to help Kaede-Obaa-san with breakfast!" Toisechi tugged at his sister's haori. Rishiyo turned and handed the boy a bowl of some vegetable concoction that Kaede had made. Sechi, as Kagome had referred to him, took it gladly and ran to his mother's cot, sitting close to the young miko and waved the steam towards her face to wake her up.
The priestess-in-training's eyes fluttered open to be met with big golden ones staring back. She squaked ((not literally)) and sat up, startling the youngest, presently, hanyou up. Kiyota had decided it was safer to stay by her mother during the night, so she'd crawled into the sheets and clung to her mother throughout the whole noctural darkness. ((heehee... didn't wanna repeat so that's all I could think up... last minute kinda thing))
"Okaa-san? What smells so good?" The girl rubbed her eyes with a clawed hand and disentangled her other arm from around the miko's neck. She spotted the bowl and ran to Kaede to get her own, only to run into Dikatu's legs.
"Watch it, mini-wench!" Dikatu shook his leg to remove Kiyota's foot. Her amber eyes filled with tears and she scrambled back to her mother's loving arms with her ears plastered against her head.
"DIKATU! Apologize to your sister, right now," Kagome yelled at the boy. He 'feh'ed and sat down with his bowl of breakfast. He peeked at his mother and received a withering glare from her.
"Sorry, Kiyota-kun," he said. He reached over and touseled his sister's hair, making it more messy than it was previously.
Rishiyo brought two bowls over to her past mother and younger sister. She got up again and pounced on the feudal-ish era version of InuYasha. She tilted her head to the side and started to poke him in various places.
His eyes peeked open and his arms flew to Rishiyo's sides, tickling as much as his arms would allow, it being the first movement of the day.
"Otou-tou-s-san! I c-can't b-breathe! The little hanyou girl was laughing so hard she had tears dripping out of her eyes. InuYasha stopped and ruffled the girl's hair. He looked up at Kagome and in those endless orbs of sun-colored light, Kagome saw a love that was just as endless.
later, after breakfast
Kagome had taken Kiyota and Rishiyo with her and Sango to the hotsprings to get clean. Akita was there to keep an ear out for peeping houshi's/hanyou-boys.
Kagome was lathering up Kiyota's head when realization hit her. 'These aren't my pups,' she thought furiously. 'They're the future me's pups. I have to get them all home. Akita and Jinku too.'
"Kagome-san?" Akita's voice jolted her out of her thoughts.
"Nani?" Kagome plugged Kiyota's nose and dunked the bubbled-up inu-miko-hanyou-girl.
"When do we have to go back?" Kagome brought Kiyota's head out of the water as she sighed in half-answer to Akita's question.
"Today. I's love to keep you all around, but you have to go back. I know how much the future me is worried about Rishiyo, Toisechi, Dikatu and Kiyota. I can only imagine what the future fathers are going to do." She rinsed her own head, then instructed Rishiyo to do likewise.
"Alright. Whatever you say, Kagi-Obaa-san." Akita jumped out and ran for a towel. She started drying hersel foff and her red hair got poofy, worse than Shippo's -or her- tail. She slipped her clothes back on, then went over to the eldest hanyou girl and handed her the towel as 'Shiyo got out.
after the girls were done... no peeking half-demons or monks
Rishiyo was practicing with her Reitsuseiuga, made from InuYasha's fangs, and she spun and sliced three Sakura trees into pretty shapes. She let out a primal growl and stalked to the trees. She inspecte them before uprooting them and carrying them, all in one hand, to outside of Kaede's hut. She set them leaning against the aged miko's house and made shallow holes in the shade of an oak tree, planting the three blossoming trees in the holes. They were short trees in their prime and wouldn't get any taller or hit any low-hanging acorn-filled boughs.
Kaede came out and nearly dropped a basket of assorted vegetables when she saw the trees. One was a much skinnier, wooden replica of Kagome; another was of InuYasha, with a happy smile on his face... for once; and the third, shortest tree resembled -perfectly- a younger, smirking version of Rishiyo herself. The priestess veteran nodded approvingly, then looked at the Kagome tree.
The hands were clawed, the smile had fangs and she had little inu ears on her head.
"Child, why have ye made this Kagome carving a hanyou?"
"She is. In my time anyway," the young half dog-demon girl muttered. "I'd better go help out Dikatu and Miroku-san with rebuilding the gates to the machi. ((town)) Ja ne, Kaede-sama." With that said, she bounded away to her brother and Miroku to help get the spike-topped gates upright.
"She is your child," Kaede confided to the wooden hanyou.
"What about my child?" InuYasha looked down at the woman from the roof of her hut. He was fixing a hole in it that had been made by the one repairing it, not wasting time by going through doors to kill a large snake youkai by jumping through the roof. The snake had knocked down the gates in the process of looking for babies to eat. Basolisk-type demon. Even though Kaede had been angered by her new, unexpected sunroof and InuYasha's 'I jump out the roof or you get killed, hag!' attidtude, she appreciated that he was fixing it.
"Rishiyo, the child hanyou. She acts like ye, if ye were a hormonally challenged hanyou female." The shriveled woman shrugged and headed to the fields to garden some more.
When she left, InuYasha placed the last piece in place on the roof before hammering it in with a rock. He refused to have any help from the humans that not so long ago had deemed him unworthy of even their 'hardly therte' glares.
His nose killed his pride for his hard work when he caught wind of Kagome's scent. He smiled when he saw her carrying Kiyota on her back... like he had done to her so many times before.
'I think I love her...' the inu-hanyou thought. It didn't surprise him, but what he wanted to know was... would she accept him?
((M'kay, I'll make this short since this fic chappie was EXTREMELY long... I found a new inu fic site... visit! http : www . queenofswords . com /... only w/o the extra spaces... dunn let ya type in hyperlinks... Ja ne! -Risho))