Author's Note: Thanks for all of the reviews! Chapter ten got the most out of any chapter I posted. I'm so happy! -does happy dance- 'Stupid wench. What the hell are you doing?' None of your business.

ANYWAY… Sydney, I've already thought about one of your suggestions, so, I have it handled… but the other one… I don't plan on going that far, at least in this story… maybe, if you're all lucky, I might do a sequel.

I'm soooooo sorry about the delay, it's not my fault. Lately, I had been saving stuff on a floppy disk. Thing is, our computer broke and my dad bought a new one... without a floppy drive. He can be such a dumbass. "You don't need a floppy drive" my ass. AND he threw away the packaging so I don't know the friggen code thing to get Word to start working. Keru, I loff you.

"I don't like it." The hanyou snorted, crossed arms as he sat on the floor in the front room, Kagome, on the other side of the table sipping tea.

"InuYasha, they're friends, and they've known each other since they were born. Don't worry… and besides… why were you spying on Hanaharu?" She smirked, placing the tea down on the table. She'd got her husband there, listening to him swallow hard.

"I wasn't spying!" He looked away, glaring into space.

"Sure, InuYasha. Besides, you would know if anything was happening between them, right?" The former miko stood up and walked around the table to his side, sitting down next to him on the floor on her knees.

He stared at the ground, looking away. "I guess you're right." He wrapped his arms around his mate, laying his head against her shoulder as they both sat there. "But you know I can't help it."

Kagome ran her fingers through the hanyou's hair, moving the bangs out of his face for only a second before they seemed to pop back into place. It seemed she could never do anything to change his hair, even a little. She remembered one time when she actually put some sort of sleeping pill in his tea and brought scissors to his hair… just to get rid of the split ends. All of the hair grew back in less than five minutes. Of course, the only thing InuYasha was mad about was her making him sleep. Even though nothing really attacked anymore, he acted as though something would come after them randomly and threaten his territory. It hadn't happened for quite a while.

"You won't have to worry about it, InuYasha. I'm going to take Hanaharu to visit my mother for a few days, and I don't want you to even think about coming to that side of the well." This got his attention, making him sit up and glare.

"Then how the hell am I supposed to protect her?"

"You don't. She won't even leave the shrine, so it's not like anyone can see her if we don't want them to." This time she leant up against him, her head on his chest as she stared off into space. "Besides, I need you to stay here and watch over things."

His expressions didn't change much, but he understood… though… he did want to go with. "Let me at least make sure you make it over there."

"InuYasha, I've gone back and fourth a million times. It's the same every time we pass through and you know it. I'll be fine on my own." She closed her eyes, at least until she felt the hanyou nip at her neck. "Don't make me punish you, InuYasha." She smiled, feeling her being tugged away by him towards their bedroom. "Too late, now I have to." With that, the former miko and hanyou disappeared into the darkness. Hopefully, this time not to be disturbed.

"You're such a klutz, Hanaharu." The young ningen boy had the girl on his back, she was awake, with her arms around his neck and she seemed to be blushing.

"I swear some one put that rock there as soon as I looked up. It wasn't there a minute ago." She looked away for a moment; the village wasn't too far ahead, and his home was even closer. "Say, Kurra, why don't we go to your house for a while?" She said it quickly, but as if she was a bit nervous.

"Why? Are you just avoiding going back home?" He looked up back over his shoulder and let out a sigh. "You're going to have to face your dad sooner or later."

"Well, yeah… I'm avoiding them, but not for the reason you think." She looked off to the side for a moment, trying to think of a way to put it. "Let's just say that if you don't want to be mentally scarred for the rest of your life, we should go to your house."

The boy practically choked on his own spit, almost dropping the inu-youkai hybrid from his back. "You're not serious!" It took them both a moment to calm down before continuing on towards his own house. Maybe sometimes it wasn't the best thing to have advanced hearing and such.

It was already kind of dark, but not late. Hanaharu wanted to rest some more, but it seemed since they were going over to Kuma's home, they'd have to deal with eight annoying little kids as the two parents and eldest children attempted to get them to sleep. "How much you want to bet that they haven't gotten even one of them to sleep?"

"I'm not betting on that, we both know that it takes all four of us to even try and get them down." He laughed, trying to imagine what pandemonium was going on in that house. It was a bit larger than the other houses in the village, but only because they had so many children. He didn't mind, though. Every day in that house was an adventure, though he vowed never to have any more than two kids of his own. Ten was crazy… even if his father had originally asked his mother for twenty.

"I know, but hey, if I can get something out of it, I'd try, ya know." She looked off to the side, her ankle was sprained and she wouldn't be walking home on her own. Of course, it wouldn't even be two days until she was back on her feet again.

He knew how Hanaharu's mind worked, and he agreed, bringing her up towards the front door to the house. Inside there was a bunch of kids running around, laughing and basically giving their parents a hard time.

"Kuma, why weren't-" The woman turned around from rallying up one or two of them, smiling when she saw Hanaharu…. She must've hurt herself if Kuma was carrying her on his back. "You come to help us, Hanaharu?"

The fourth-dog smiled and nodded, it was always easier for them to get all of the kids down when she was around for some reason… well, maybe it was the fact that about three of them used her tail as a pillow, and she really didn't mind as long as they didn't drool on it or something. "I guess so, not like I can go home right now." She blushed. "Otou-san and Okaa-san are busy."

This only made the monk smirk, holding the rowdy twin and another girl in his arms, both of them struggling; only thinking to himself. 'InuYasha, you dirty dog.'

Immediately after Kuma put her on the ground, the six-year-old daughter ran up and hugged her. "Hanaharu, how long are you staying this time?" She beamed; the inu-girl was an idol to some of Sango and Miroku's kids just because of her tail and ears.

"I guess until Otou-san comes to get me," she smiled the best she could. Even though it was HER father, Kagome would always be HIS wife, and as much as she loved both of her parents, she was always a bit jealous of her mother, if only because she would spend the rest of her life with InuYasha. Either way, Hanaharu knew her mother was mortal, and she would die long before Hanaharu reached the age where she would appear to be twenty. That thought made her sad, but at least she knew that her father would live a long time, he was only two hundred and five she was born, and that was really young for a demon's standards. But she was happy for her parents, they'd found true love, all she could wish for was the same.

Already two of the kids had fallen asleep against her tail as she just sat there blinking. This happened whenever she was over around bed time. Once they were asleep to the point where they wouldn't wake up if they were moved, Sango and Miroku had to pry them off and put them in bed.

After another half hour of the four running around and Hanaharu sitting quietly in the corner with three of the eight kids sleeping against her in some way, it was finally quiet in the house of the youkai taijya and the houshi.

"Domo Arigatou, Hanaharu. You've made today a bit easier for us." Sango smiled weakly. Every night was a fight to get the children asleep, and some nights the couple got barely any sleep at all. The taijya had sworn if she were going to have another kid, she'd murder Miroku.

"Don't thank me." She handed off one of the smaller children in her arms to the houshi. "All I did was sit here."

A moment later there was a rap on the doorframe, the crimson-clad hanyou walking in. He didn't need permission to walk into the house if there were people in the front room, unless he and Kagome were notified beforehand. "Yo." He waved slightly, looking down towards Hanaharu for a moment. "Why didn't you come home?"

She looked away for a moment, grabbing carefully at her lower leg near her ankle. "Well, I tripped…and you and Okaa-san were busy."

His eyes widened as he looked back towards the monk. "What hentai thoughts have you been putting through my daughter's head!"

With that said, Miroku's eyes widened themselves. "I didn't say anything!" And then he ran out the door being chased by the hanyou.

"What the hell were you telling her you perverted monk! She's too young to know about anything like that!"

"I told you! I didn't say anything!"

"Bull shit! She WAS innocent until you opened your big mouth!"

The youkai taijya stormed outside, Kuma supporting Hanaharu over his shoulder. She was mad, a bit more screaming and they'd wake up one of the children, which would lead to all of them walking up again.

The houshi came back around, hiding behind Sango as if she were going to protect him. InuYasha, when mad, was scary. And since he didn't have any way to protect himself at the moment… the best thing was an angry woman.

BIG MISTAKE.

A moment later, both men were sitting cross-legged in front of the hut with numerous large lumps on their heads, Sango cracking her knuckles as she stood in front of them scowling.

"Your mom's scary." Hanaharu whispered as she stood against the side of the hut standing next to Kuma.

"Not as scary as your mom gets." The both laughed quietly, trying not to attract attention to them; even if they knew that InuYasha could hear them.

"InuYasha, why don't you take Hanaharu home now? All of this noise is sure to wake one of them up and that'll mean they all have to get up. You remember what happened last time, ne?" The woman let out a sigh, watching as the hanyou stood up and looked over at Hanaharu.

"Don't remind me." He reached up and grabbed his ear just reminding him of the pain he went through from that time.

It had happened the last time they woke the kids up when InuYasha was there, eight screaming kids tackling and grabbing at his ears, pulling as hard as they possibly could while everyone else attempted to pull them off… which actually didn't help.

The girl looked over, staying supported against the hut as her father walked over. Like many times before, climbed up onto his back and wrapped her arms around his neck as they both looked back, him supporting her so that she wouldn't fall off. "Arigatou, jamatane, Kurra."

The boy mumbled under his breath before waving good-bye. He still considered her childish for calling him that… then again, she was ten…

Hanaharu decided to drop what had gone on earlier, knowing that her father was ticked off enough to know that she understood what sex was... she was ten, for crying out loud. She lay her head down on the back of his neck, closing her eyes. "Otou-san? What was Okaa-san making for dinner tonight?"

"I dunno." Walking between the houses of the village, they couldn't see the sun at times, but he knew that it was pretty close to setting. "Hanaharu.. were you with Sesshoumaru when you changed?" His expressions showed that this was serious, of course it was. He didn't know, but most likely.

"Hai." She tightened her grip, knowing that InuYasha would be mad. It was obvious that Sesshoumaru had plans for Hanaharu in the future. Her mind skipped back to what Sesshoumaru had said, the vision of him imprinted in her mind as it had happened:

"InuYasha, your daughter is more youkai than you'll ever be, and you know that; even if she is mostly human." Sesshoumaru's face stayed cold, but there was a bit of a smirk. "I will leave her to your for now, but expect me to drop by sometime in the future, otouto." The youkai lord turned around, long, ivory hair flowing in the light with that was always in his presence, fallowed by the toad like imp that was also always there.


Well, Sesshoumaru knew what night she changed now, it was inevitable to take that back. This would be bothering her for a while. What had Sesshoumaru meant when he said that? The hanyou didn't want to scare his daughter, so he wouldn't say anything more, finally reaching the hut that they had made their home.

Hanaharu let out a sigh as she watched her mother in the doorway, she had obviously been a bit worried, but at least this time the fourth-demon girl had come back home. "Okaa-san, did you make dinner tonight? Or are we having ramen again?" She personally didn't care what they ate, as long as she had food. She was tired, but InuYasha was exhausted. He probably was going to go to sleep as soon as he was inside.

"Ramen tonight, Hanaharu." She showed a weak smile, watching as InuYasha let the girl onto the ground.

"I get dibs!" Hanaharu scrambled over her father's shoulder, pushing him to his face on the ground as if trying to stop him... or just by accident.

With his face shoved into the ground, the hanyou mumbled, gripping the grass beneath his claws as he pushed himself off the ground, cursing under his breath. He wasn't used to this sort of treatment, then again, he hadn't been shoved face-first into the ground for a long time. He sat up, dusting the dirt off the red fire rat kimono as he sort of growled to himself under his breath.

Kagome only let out a sigh, standing only feet from the whole spectacle. "You know, InuYasha," she began, "We only have one more cup of ramen left before I have to go shopping again."

The hanyou looked at her with wide eyes, jumping up as he let out a loud growl and ran in, almost throwing the tarp off the door frame as he made his way inside. Too late. Hanaharu was sitting at the low table slurping the instant noodles up, using her chopsticks. He crossed his arms, sitting on the pad next to her as he glared, seeing the smirk on her face. He mumbled, looking towards the ground. Kagome only went shopping in her time maybe once a month, and they were already out of ramen. He figured she had already known, the reason why she ran off like that and shoved him face into the ground. "Fine," he snorted, leaning against the wall, "but we're all going back tomorrow."

The woman came in as she had been standing outside, looking to her husband, who was still glaring at her daughter. "You mean I am. There's no chance the manager will let you back in that store, and even if you do stay at the shrine, Mama and Souta have been busy lately. They don't need you two to entertain."

"Just because he's training to become the next priest..." The hanyou looked away, knowing that he would have to find something else among the ninja foods until tomorrow... unless Kagome decided to cook just for him.

"Who else could do it? If it weren't someone in my family, the tradition would be broken and I wouldn't be allowed to go back for food. InuYasha, you need to consider everything before opening your mouth. He's doing this for us." She was pretty sure that a shrine priest wasn't the thing that Souta had really thought of becoming when he grew up, but he loved his sister and her family, and he wanted to keep seeing her, besides, his mother couldn't take care of the shrine alone. Their grandfather had died of old age over a year ago, and now someone had to take over.

The hanyou let out a sigh, arms crossed as he looked towards the floor. "Fine, but-"

"InuYasha, I know what you like. Don't worry." She sat down on the ground next to him, smiling as she tugged at his ear, getting a low growl coming from him and then letting go.

Hanaharu laughed as she placed the bowl on the table, causing InuYasha to reach over and pull on hers. "Think it's funny, huh?" he growled playfully, pulling her to the ground as she tried pulling him off.

"Otou-san! Let go!" She giggled, pulling at his strong hand to get him to let go. Great, he wasn't going to. She had to go to her last resort.

"Itai! She bit me, damnit!" He tried pulling his arm away, but she kept a firm hold, gnawing on his wrist. He then reached for her ear again, this time not pulling on it, but rubbing it at the base.

"Dang it." Her eyes grew heavy as she let go, falling asleep in his lap a moment later. As good as it felt, both she and InuYasha hated getting their ears rubbed. It made them fall to sleep because it was so soothing.

"She needs her rest," Kagome wrapped her arms around his neck, looking down at their daughter, but brought her hand up to his ear again, doing the exact same thing he had done to Hanaharu.

He leant back up against her, still holding Hanaharu in his lap. "Damn you. Why did I ever tell you about the ear thing?" He closed his eyes, waiting for an answer from her.

"Because," she started, "this was one of the ways you got Hanaharu to fall asleep when she was a baby, if you hadn't told me she'd have been crying half the night." Then again, when she really thought about it, InuYasha was already up in the middle of the night taking care of the baby before she even cried. He was like that, he could feel what others around him felt, and even if he pretended not to, he did. Besides, whenever he could take care of it, he didn't even wake Kagome up, and that meant more sleep for her. It wasn't long until she had the hanyou snoring lightly in her lap, leaning up against her as their daughter was against him.

She let out a sigh, knowing that she was stuck here until InuYasha woke up, which wouldn't be more than an hour. He never stayed asleep long when he was put to bed like that. Oh well, she was going to have to deal with it. Fine by her, now if only she could get to her camera.

Author's Note: Good chapter? Bad Chapter? I really don't know... AND YES! I KILLED OFF JII-CHAN! 0.0! I really find him annoying... Don't want to write as him again. X.x Review! My god people, I know more than 6 or 7 people read this thing. X.x