Author's Note: Yes, yes, poor Kagome, too. ; Let's just say I torture them both. And the Japanese translation site isn't showing? –sigh- Well, if you need it, or just the translations, just e-mail me and I'll give it to you. Don't love this chapter for the visit to Kagome's world, love it for the hilarious way her family reacts to everything.

"Do we hafta?" The hanyou pouted, holding his three-year-old daughter in his hands, standing near the Bone-Eater's Well, with his mate. "If you don't remember the last time we went to visit…"

"How could I forget!" Kagome yelled at him, placing her hands on her hips as she stood there. "You and Jii-chan wouldn't stop arguing about the most trivial things. It was terrible. I swear InuYasha, if you argue with him again, you are going home and Hanaharu is staying with me."

"Fine…" The hanyou breathed, grabbing his mate around the waist with his free hand. "But you owe me."

"Owe you what?" She looked at his face a moment, letting out a sigh. "Fine, I'll go shopping for more ramen, but I swear, if you eat it all in a day I'm not going back to shop for another month."

He kissed his mate on the cheek, pouncing into the well back to her era. This would be the first time ever that Kagome's family would ever hear of Hanaharu's existence. Kagome could only imagine her mother's reaction.

"Nyujii!" The elder woman grabbed Hanaharu from her father's hands, almost squeezing the girl. "Kagome! Why did you keep her a secret from me?" This made her mother so happy that she had a grandchild, and better yet, a grandchild with the dog-like ears she inherited from her father. "And she's so adorable!"

Hanaharu giggled as her mother just stood there next to InuYasha, a nervous laugh as she took in what was happening. "Gomen… Okaa-san..." She thought her mother would be mad at her for hiding such a huge secret from her, guess not.

InuYasha just stood there. There wasn't really much he could do since the old man was staring at him, making him feel nervous. He could just imagine what he would say if Kagome weren't there. 'You did WHAT to my granddaughter! And my first great-grandchild had to be related to YOU! Just my luck! You've shamed this family and taken my only granddaughter away from me!' …InuYasha didn't want to stay for long, but he knew he needed to lest he want his daughter to be mauled by Kagome and her family.

"Kagome, you and your husband must stay the night, I insist. I want to get to know my grand daughter more." She handed the baby over to Kagome's younger brother Souta, who was now about thirteen.

"That's awesome. I'm an uncle." He beamed, the young girl clinging to him around his neck. "InuYasha, why did you and my sister keep her a secret from us?"

"That's complicated, Souta." Kagome sort of interrupted, InuYasha only standing there next to her. She took her baby back from the young teenager. "You see, InuYasha…"

"That's enough, Kagome. We don't need to give out our life's story." He just didn't want her grandfather to know that he was afraid of showing him the baby. He really didn't like her grandfather, even though he had to put up with the old man. "I'll tell you later," he cupped a hand towards the boy, whispering to him. He may not get along well with Kagome's grandfather, but that hanyou and her brother got along just fine.

The boy nodded, "Come on, Jii-chan, let's get you inside." He led Kagome's grandfather indoors, leaving InuYasha and Kagome outside near the Go-Shinboku.

She smiled, kissing the hanyou on the cheek. "See, this isn't so bad"

InuYasha took his daughter into his arms, letting out a sigh. "Not yet."

"Kagome, how old is Hanaharu?" The older woman placed cups of tea in front of their guests.

"Three years." InuYasha took a sip of the tea, eyes closed and Hanaharu playing with a sippy cup that she had brought with them, banging it against the table and trying to make it spill.

"When is her birthday?" The woman sat next to her father and son, wanting to learn as much as she could about her granddaughter. "I want to know so that I can get her things and you can all come over and visit."

"I'Gomen ne, Okaa-san, it was about three months ago." She opened her mouth to say more but InuYasha interrupted.

"We don't have time to visit the day of her birthday, anyway. Our friends and their four year old come over to visit, and then there are the people of the village."

Kagome looked over at her husband; just more excuses to not go to her home. "But I'm sure that we could visit the day before or after."

A buzzer went off in the kitchen. "Oh, that's the fish." Mrs. Higurashi stood up from her chair, walking into the kitchen.

Hanaharu giggled, taking a sip from her cup and spit it on the table and looked up playfully at her father. She didn't know it was wrong; InuYasha never scolded her for such things, but only cleaned up after her and got on with whatever he was going.

Kagome let out a sigh as she watched her husband set the girl on his lap, pulling a small white cloth from inside the flap of his kimono and wiping up the juice. "You can't spill something, so you're gonna spit it." He tucked the cloth back into his kimono, a light smile on his face, as he knew Hanaharu was going to grow up to be smart, or, at least manipulating. He then wiped off her face with his kimono sleeve, pulling his daughter closer smiling.

The old shrine-keeper just sat across the table glaring at InuYasha and his daughter the entire time, the hanyou not even noticing due to the small girl banging her cup against the table again. 'That dog…'

"Jii-chan. Stop staring, onegai." Kagome whispered under her breath, knowing that her grandfather didn't approve that she and InuYasha were married let alone have a child together.

"Kagome," her mother called from the kitchen, "could you help me bring out dinner?"

The former miko stood up. "I'll be back in a minute." She looked to her grandfather, as if knowing that he was going to cause problems, but finally left to help her mother.

The old man just sat there glaring across the table as InuYasha coddled the girl, finally taking her cup away from her and placing it on the table after a moment. He looked up to Mr. Higurashi. Watching that glare on his face made his own turn into a frown. "Nani? You got a problem?"

The old man shook his head. "Not at all, dog. Only that you keep your dirty paws off of Kagome."

The hanyou growled, standing up so fast that the chair he was sitting in fell over, making a loud banging noise. "Shizuka ni, old man!"

Hanaharu just hung there in his arm, looking up to her father confused. "Daddy mad.."

"InuYasha!" The miko yelled as she walked in with two platters of food on either arm. "You just couldn't go a day without trying to pick a fight with someone, could you?" She set the food on the table, glaring at her husband.

The hanyou only glared back, picking up his chair and sitting down again. "Hey, he started it. Don't blame me." This got a giggle out of Hanaharu.

"I don't give a damn who started it!"

The small girl's jaw dropped. These were the kind of words she knew she couldn't used, and they occasionally came out of her father's mouth when he was angry. Never her mother. "Mommy gets a time out!"

This stopped Kagome in her tracks... did she just…? She looked down to the small girl, hands over her tiny mouth and eyes widened. It was custom that whenever InuYasha said a "bad word" in front of Hanaharu that he had to sit in the corner for a few minutes. It was all a way to teach Hanaharu not to curse, and even to help InuYasha to learn not to be so rude. It seemed to have been working, also. "What?"

InuYasha smirked. The one time they had caught Kagome saying a "curse word" it had to be in front of her mother and grandfather. He pointed towards the corner of the room, still holding Hanaharu in one arm, and in Kagome's own words she had used on him many times: "Time out."

Kagome's family looked shocked that their once innocent girl had said such a thing, let alone have and keep a baby behind their backs. The former miko let out a sigh. "Fine." She walked over to the corner of the room sitting down in a chair. Unlike at home whenever InuYasha let one of these words slip, there were chairs, and she didn't have to sit on the floor.

Dinner went well, besides InuYasha and his daughter making mess of the table around his plate. It wasn't really his fault. Babies and toddlers were just messy. The hanyou used that same handkerchief he used for the juice incident to clean up around the plate. Trying to feed Hanaharu small pieces of fish with chopsticks was a chaotic job to do.

Mrs. Higurashi stood up, smiling as she walked over to InuYasha, as soon as the dishes are done and put away, would it be okay for me to give Hanaharu a bath?" She seemed so innocent about it, only wanting to spend time with a relative she never knew she had. Ever since her daughter and son-in-law brought home a granddaughter, the elder woman was just ecstatic.

The hanyou only looked up to her, holding up Hanaharu to the woman. "Go ahead and do it now. Kagome and I'll take care of the dishes." Hanaharu was a mess, bouncing in her father's arms and reaching out towards her grandmother.

Mrs. Higurashi was even more overjoyed, taking her granddaughter into her arms. "I don't want to feel like I'm throwing chores on you, you and Kagome are only visiting."

"Okaa-san, it's okay." Kagome smiled, already starting to pick up a few of the plates. "We've got it. You, Souta and Jii-chan visit with Hanaharu."

"Hai. Just don't use hot water. She's used to bathing in cold." InuYasha had obviously been the one to give his daughter the baths, seeing that he was so protective and knew more about it than Kagome did. But, then again, in the Sengoku Jidai it was a pain to heat water for baths.

The woman took the baby towards the bathroom, going up the stairs as she went into the bathroom and closed the door behind her, placing Hanaharu on the ground.

The restroom was an interesting place. As soon as she was put down, Hanaharu already showed curiosity for the bathtub, standing on her toes to look inside. "Tub!"

"Hai, bathtub." Mrs. Higurashi smiled, lowering the chair on the toilet to sit down on it. She turned on the hot water faucet, but remembering how InuYasha said she was used to cold water, didn't turn in on too high.

"Bath!" She smiled, watching the water rush into the rub, making a strange noise as it hit the bottom of the tub.

"Yes, you're getting a bath."

As soon as the tub was filled about half way with water and suds, the woman undressed Hanaharu, placing her into the tub. This was new for the baby; she had never taken a bubble bath before. She looked at a large bubble, poking at it with a little claw, watching it pop right in her face, making her cry before she even got her shoulder-length hair wet. "Otou-san!"

Not even a moment later, InuYasha rushed in to see Mrs. Higurashi coddling his daughter in a towel. He wasn't about to let a cry for her father go unheard. Suds. He remembered them oh too well. Not only did they hurt his keen nose, but they also took forever to get out of his hair.

"She popped a bubble and started crying." Mrs. Higurashi explained, only trying to soothe the whining child.

InuYasha took his daughter from his mother-in-law, holding the almost naked baby close to his chest. "I don't think it's the suds that are the problem, Higurashi-san. I think it's just the fact that I'm always the one to bathe her."

The woman nodded, "Well then, I'll let you finish it." With that, the woman left the room, closing the door behind her to leave the man bathe his daughter.

A few moments later she came back through the door, carrying a stack of towels for the hanyou to dry off his daughter with. "InuYasha I brought you- Oh my god!" The woman dropped her towels, coming to find InuYasha actually IN the tub with his daughter, hakama and kimono hanging over the toilet seat. She had heard of parents giving their children baths, but bathing with them?

"What do you think you're doing!" The hanyou stood up, suds covering the lower fraction of his body for the most part, but he was still without clothes.

The woman's eyes widened, standing there in shock for a moment before she just walked away.

Kagome rushed up the stairs, standing in the doorway looking disgusted. "InuYasha! Sit before you scare someone!"

Without knowing what she had said, the bluish beads around InuYasha's neck pulled him down into the tub, the young girl had already climbed out and avoided being smashed under his father's weight and clinging to her mother's leg with suds covering her body and the water weighing down her tail. "Osuwari!"

Later on that evening, the hanyou held his daughter in his hands, Kagome at his side as they stood near the well house, facing Kagome's family. "Jamatane, Okaa-san, Jii-chan, Souta!" Kagome waved to her family, looking at InuYasha as they turned back towards her husband, smiling.

Then hanyou looked to his mate, a confused look on his face. After all of that confusion and embarassment, why was she all happy? "What are you all happy about?"

The miko leant up against him as the door was closed, a bit of red flushed across her face. "Well, my mother got to see one reason why I love you."

The hanyou almost choked, glaring down at her. "Kagome!"

"Not like that." She smiled. "You're so good with Hanaharu."

Well, at least she wasn't speaking about something else. "Oh." He still flushed red, grabbing Kagome around the waist, jumping up and down into the well.

Author's Note: Did I mention I luff Hanaharu? Next chapter I might skip to where she's ten years old, depending on whether or not you guys tell me you want me to do something else. I take ideas from reviewers if I like them! Read, review and suggest! Jamatane!

Sara-chan