A/N: The reviewers bullied me into it…I swear! YOU AIN'T GETTIN ANY MORE SEQUELS AFTER THIS, GOT IT!

Anyway, this one is different than the first two. The man characters will not be the Inu-tachi, but instead their children. It mainly focuses on the Kuro/Suki paring (If you haven't figured it out yet, yes they ARE a couple. I hadn't intended it, the whole "girlfriend" thing was just a joke, but people took it literally. And after all, it does seem to make sense…), with some Kiri/you'll find who out later. Inu and Kag are hardly in this one, same with Miroku and Sango. After all, it's about the children finding their purpose, and how would they do that if mommy and daddy hung around all the time?

To conclude, please read and enjoy the story!
(A note for people who are confused on the characters:
Kuro: Inuyasha and Kagome's son. Black hair, brown eyes, dog ears. 5 in this chap. Very VERY cute! (And not just as a kid! )
Kiri: Inu and Kag's daughter. Silver hair, amber eyes, human ears. 4 in this chapter.
Suki: Miroku and Sango's daughter. Looks like Sango, except she has indigo eyes. 5 years old.
Yume and Hana: Miroku and Sango's twin girls. Both look like Sango, with freckles. 1 in this chapter. )

Chapter 1: The Decision

"Kiri, Kiri, look what I can do!" the small, black haired, brown eyed hanyou yelled, waving his arms around in the air, trying to kill the butterflies.

"Baka! Why are you trying to kill the butterflies anyway, what have they done to you?" a silver haired, amber eyed hanyou answered, watching him with distaste. She wore a children's yukata, with two grass stains from where she was kneeling down.

"Because," he said, placing his clawed hands at the sides of his small red haori and hakama, his black dog ears twitching. "Daddy likes it when I kill bugs. Why did you call me a baka?"

She stuck her tongue out at him, revealing fangs. "Because mommy always calls daddy a baka, that's why, baka."

"You're the baka, Kiri!" he said. "You're just jealous because you don't have my ears!" he said, his hands flying to the pointed black ears perched on his head.

"No I'm not Kuro!" she said, her silver hair parting to reveal two human ears. "Why would I want big triangles on top of my head?"

"Mommy likes them. She says mine and daddy's are cute!"

"Well, I think they just look stupid, like you!"

"No you're the stupid one, Kiri!" he yelled.

"Oi! What's with all the ruckus out here!" Yet another hanyou said, emerging from a hut. He sighed as he saw the two small children fighting again. "Reminds me of me and Kagome when we first started out…" he muttered, remembering all their fights.

"Daddy, daddy!" the boy said, running towards him. "She started it!"

"I did not!" she yelled, pulling on his black hair, "he did!"

"Quiet!" he yelled, silencing them with a single word. The one they had called "daddy" had obviously had a rough day. His silver hair was ruffled, his amber eyes slightly bloodshot, and his ears where drooped as if sound pained him. "Listen," he said. "your mother and I have had a rough day, having to deal with your Aunt Sango and Uncle Miroku and the twins, not to mention having to watch Suki, so can you please be quiet? For TWO minutes?"

Slightly intimidated by him using the word "please", a word that their mother practically forced on him whenever she had the chance, they nodded. "Yes, daddy." Kuro said.

"We promise." Kiri replied.

He sighed. He knew they wouldn't keep it, but it was enough to get them to promise. "Good. Just, don't fight, okay?"

He had just went back into the hut when Kiri and Kuro turned and looked at each other. "You started it." Kuro said.

"I did not!" Kiri replied. "You did!"

"No, you did!"

"You did!"

"You!"

"You!"

"You!"

"You!"

"YOU!"

"SHUT UP!" the word rang out the window. The two children stiffened. It was bad. SHE was mad again. And when SHE was mad, all hell broke loose. If there was one person who could be scarier than their father at worst…it was their mother.

"Y-yes, mommy." Kiri said.

"W-we'll be good." Kuro said, shaking.

They heard her grumble. Of course she was in a foul mood. Last night, Inuyasha and Kagome had volunteered to watch Miroku and Sango's children; Suki, and the one year old twins, Yume and Hana, plus Kuro and Kiri. It took quite a lot out of them.

The two hanyous decided to be quiet. They didn't want to get their mother angry now. They knew how scary she could be…and they dearly wanted to live a long life.

"Inuyasha…I can't thank you enough for helping me out with this." Miroku said, carrying a baby girl into Inuyasha and Kagome's hut.

"Look monk, I'm not doing this out of charity. I already watched 'em yesterday. But Kagome threatened me if I didn't help ya." Inuyasha replied, carrying a baby, while he was followed, by Kuro, Kiri, and Suki. As she grew up, she started resembling her mother more than ever, except she had the dark shade of indigo eyes that her father had.

For the past two days, Sango hadn't been feeling well. She suspected she might be pregnant again. They both received this news with sheer terror. They already had three children…another one would be too much. She and Kagome were going to Kaede's to know for sure if a child was expected. With this news, Miroku was suddenly very religious.

"Inuyasha…you don't think fate would be so cruel as to bestow on me another child, do you?" He said, while putting the sleeping Yume down in her basket.

Inuyasha rolled his eyes, also putting the baby to bed. "Keh. You probably deserve it. But, with any luck, it will be a son."

Miroku muttered something to the effects of, "I'd rather have my sanity than a son at this point…"

"Keh." Inuyasha said. "If you had just kept your—"

Miroku cut him off, "The children!"

"To yourself, then you wouldn't be in this mess, now would you?" The hanyou finished.

"Like you're one to talk." Miroku said. "4 months after you two get married, Kagome-sama is already pregnant, and not six months after Kuro is born, she was pregnant again!"

"The difference between me and you, monk, is I don't brag about it every day." He muttered.

"Yeah…well…" He glanced over at the children, playing near the door. "Inuyasha, there was something I had been meaning to speak to you about."

"What?" the hanyou demanded.

A glare was etched on the monk's face. "About your son and my daughter."

"What about them?" Inuyasha asked. "They're fine."

"I am talking about your son's and my daughter's…carrying's on." The glare deepened.

It took the hanyou a second to figure it out. "Are you talking about that whole 'girlfriend' thing? I mean, he's just joking!"

"Oh, really?" Miroku asked, "Then how come Suki came home from playing the other day saying that she wanted to marry him when she grew up?"

Inuyasha snorted. This was new to him. It seemed highly amusing, rather than alarming, that kids were already deciding who to marry at five years old. "Look, they're just playing, its not anything serious—"

"Look, Inuyasha, I will allow no man to court her until she is eighteen, including your son." He ended this remark seriously.

"All this…coming from you." The hanyou rolled his eyes. "I suppose some of those emperors who's daughters you…pursued…said the same thing."

"Leave me out of this!" He said. "All I'm saying is, I don't want her associating with men until she is—"

"I heard what you said, but I think you're overreacting a little bit!" Inuyasha said. "They're kids, they're just playing—"

"Inuyasha—"

All of a sudden, Inuyasha noticed something was wrong. A scent that should have been there was missing…no, three scents were missing. That's odd…let's see…we got the twins, me, that damn monk… "The kids!"

They both turned. The children weren't in the hut. They must have wandered off. Inuyasha jumped up, in front of a stunned Miroku.

"Miroku…when we get back…I am going to hurt you." And then he took off after them.

The children giggled as they ran into the forest. While their fathers were arguing, they had run off. After all, they couldn't be good every day!

"Where are we going, Kuro?" Suki asked.

He pointed through the forest. "Up here! There's a stream or something!"

"Why did you drag us all the way out here to go to a stream?" Kiri asked. "It's stupid."

"It's not stupid, Kiri!" Kuro yelled.

"It is too!"

"Is not!"

"Is too!"

"Is not!"

"IS TOO!"

"Stop!" Suki yelled. She pointed a finger into the bushes. "I heard something!" At that moment, there was a rustle in the bushes.

They all jumped together, and cringed in fear. "It's a youkai!" Suki screamed.

The very frightened children tried to run away, but at that moment, the youkai jumped out from behind them, cutting off their path. It was an ugly mud brown snake youkai. It's red eyes glistened with blood lust as it looked upon the three shaking children.

"Well…what do we have here?" It said, its long tongue licking its fangs. "A hanyou…no, two hanyous, and a human." It gave a small laugh. "A tasty meal indeed."

Kuro knew there was no way they escape from it. That left only one option, to fight. He remembered the fighting techniques his father had taught him when he thought Kagome wasn't looking. He stepped out in front of them, a determined look in his brown eyes. "Suki, Kiri, stay back." He ordered.

"What's this?" the snake youkai asked. "You wish to fight, puny hanyou?"

Kuro placed his claws in a fighting stance Inuyasha had shown him. "I'll show you puny!" He yelled, running towards it with his tiny legs.

The snake youkai lunged, and Kuro jumped out of the way. He may have been young, but the speed of inu youkai gave him an advantage. He jumped and ripped off a piece of flesh.

The snake turned around and stared, amazed that a young hanyou could contest him. It lunged again, only to be met with Kuro's claws as he yelled in a small voice, "Sankontessou!"

"Wretched hanyou!" It screamed in frustration, whipping its tail around and hitting the small inu hanyou off his legs.

"Kuro!" Suki screamed as he fell on the ground, his black hair falling into his eyes.

The snake loomed over him. "Heh heh, you're about as weak as you look, hanyou. You need to be taught your place."

"I already know it!" He said, standing up wobbily. "I may be a hanyou, but I'm better than you!"

"You need to be taught a lesson!" It said, it's tongue whipping out and grabbing Kuro by the ankle before he could jump away, it held him upside down while Kiri and Suki whimpered.

The snake bared its fangs, ready to bite the small hanyou in half—

When a red and silver blur jumped through the forest. "Damnit, how many times have I told you not to wander off!" It yelled, as it stopped, claws raised.

"Daddy!" Kuro and Kiri said at the same time.

"Who is this? Another hanyou?" the snake asked. "Although, you may prove to be a better fight than these tasty morsels—"

"That's enough out of you!" Inuyasha yelled, jumping forward and giving the youkai a swift kick beneath its jaw. Kuro went flying, and Inuyasha caught him.

"You're in trouble BIG time, runt!" Inuyasha yelled, depositing him rather roughly on the ground. "You could have gotten killed by this thing, be glad I came after you!"

"S-sorry, daddy…" He said, truthfully as Suki came to comfort him.

"I told you not to come out here." Kiri said. "I told you."

"Hanyou!" The youkai yelled, coming back again.

"Let's finish this, I got more important stuff to do here." Inuyasha said, unsheathing Tessaiga. He yelled "Kaze no kizu!" and it was all over in an instant.

He glared at his son while sheathing Tessaiga. Kuro cringed, not knowing what to expect from his father. "Come on." The silver haired hanyou said, trudging out of the forest. The three children followed silently.

"Daddy?" Kuro asked, a bit afraid.

Inuyasha sighed. "Listen, Kuro. You have to learn when to be careful. You still don't know much about how to fight. Don't EVER run off into the forest alone like that again until you can protect yourself, all right?"

"Yes, daddy." He said, staring at the ground. "Are you…are you going to tell mommy?"

"Are you nuts!" he said, frightened. "Kagome'll kill me for letting you run off like this!"

Inuyasha pulled back the bamboo curtain to enter their hut. "Found 'em." He said, to an anxious Miroku.

"Good." He said, looking very relieved. He had also been worried about what the women would have said if they had found out their children were missing. "Anything happen?"

"Nah." Inuyasha said. "Just an annoying youkai as we left. No big deal."

"No big deal?" Miroku asked, looking worried. "I take it that it was some thing we had forgotten to exterminate a while ago? Did it attack them?"

"Look at 'em." Inuyasha said. "They're fine. No bastard of a youkai will get to them when I'm around."

"Even so, we'd better keep this a secret from our wives." Miroku said, his eyes looking over the five children in the hut.

"I'm with ya there." Inuyasha replied.

They hadn't been in the hut five minutes when Sango and Kagome walked back in. Miroku jumped up, with a look of terror on his face. "Well?" he asked, even though he didn't want to know the answer.

"Miroku…I'm…I'm…" Sango said, with a look of shock on her face. "I'm NOT pregnant! It's just the fish I ate the day before yesterday!"

It took a second for the monk to process this information. "That's WONDERFUL!" he said, hugging her.

Inuyasha and Kagome rolled their eyes. The moment was too melodramatic anyway.

Kagome looked over at her two children. "Inuyasha, how come Kuro has this large scrape on his face?"

He cringed. He decided perhaps it was a good moment to suddenly become religious…

As Sango and Miroku left for the day, they took Yume and Hana with them, and Suki was following behind. But Kuro came to see her off.

"Bye, Suki." He said, with a small smile on his face.

She giggled. "Bye, Kuro. And…" She planted a small kiss on his cheek. "Thanks for saving me!"

He blushed a bit as she kissed him. And he waved back as she followed her parents home.

That's when he decided. "I'm going to marry Suki one day." He said to Kiri.

She rolled her eyes. "Yeah, right, Kuro. Like Suki-chan wants to marry you."

"No!" he said, thinking of the future. "I know it, I know it! One day, Suki and I will be married! You'll see!"

And with that, they walked back into the house where their father was surely getting a beating from his furious mate.

A/N: Well, this was originally supposed to be a one-shot, but I extended it. I think It'll be a little shorter than my previous stories, but we'll have to see, won't we? I might not get to update as often, but don't worry, I won't let this fic down!

So for now, read, and REVIEW!