Inutori: Hey everyone out there!
Sagi: 'Bout time you came back.
Inutori: I just moved, as I stated in my bio, and so the computers and internet had to be hooked up. These things take time, you know.
Sagi: So what?
Inutori: I don't own Inuyasha...there was a person who reviewed another one of my stories and informed me that my author's notes before the stories were annoying and that I shouldn't do them. Well, if that person is reading this, I'll just tell them that they really don't have to. They can just skip it and go on to the story, it won't break my heart too badly. But by the time you finish reading this sentence you'll be at the beginning of the chapter already, so it's your loss.

Chapter 1
Happy Times

Sango laughed lightly as Jinu tripped and dumped an armload of apples at the front entry to the house.

"Shush up, mom. Like you could do better." Jinu collected herself and brushed her long, dark brown hair over her shoulder to get it out of her way. She began collecting the spilled apples off the floor with indignity.

The retired taijiya laughed again. "You'd be surprised what this mother of yours can do." A brief flash of the fighting she had done in her younger years crossed her mind. It was much more peaceful nowadays…in this village at least. Inuyasha insured them of that.

Jinu sneered. "Yeah right, I bet you couldn't even make a decent stew if you wanted to." Those familiar magenta eyes flashed at Sango. Though being familiar was seeing them when looking at your own reflection as well as on your daughter.

Sango just shook her head and went on repairing Takuske's pants.

Conversation obviously over, Jinu stumbled past her mother and into the kitchen near the back of the house. She heard a loud noise and a small yelp a few seconds later, signifying that Jinu had tripped again.

That girl was so clumsy.

Sango took a deep breath and looked at the front door, reminiscing on the times when she still waited for her houshi to return to her. Those times were gone. He hadn't come in nearly two years. Normally he was only gone for a couple weeks or only a month. What was taking him?

She had given up the hope that he would come home to his family once again. Everyone was waiting for him.

Jinu, their oldest, just turned eighteen and was still not married off. The girl claimed she didn't even want to consider marriage until her father returned to approve of a guy.

Then there was Takuske and Hankui, the twins. They had been a handful since they were infants. Now they were about to turn 17. Takuske was courting Kagome's daughter Chisa, but Hankui was footloose and fancy free. Hankui's real problem was following far too closely in his delinquent father's footsteps.

Hotaru was twelve now. He was a sweet little angle compared to his two older brothers.

Then came Yuuka, still nine, who was Sango's little helper. She loved to do everything for anyone if it would make them smile.

Going on down the line, five-year-old-menace Chaos tore up everything in sight if only to see his mother's reaction to the disaster.

The youngest was Namise, a three-year-old girl who still refused to speak to anyone.

Sango smirked. When Miroku had said ten or twenty children, he wasn't joking. Jinu, Takuske, Hankui, Hotaru, Yuuka, Chaos, and Namise.

They were already at seven. However, from the looks of things, it was going to stay that way.

"Mom, can I get a little help here?"

Sango turned toward the kitchen, where the voice had come from. She didn't bother to move at all. "What do you need, Jinu?"

The frustrated scream that followed was Sango's signal that now was not the time to test her daughter. She set the material that was in her lap on the floor and stood up, allowing her kimono to fall into its proper place.

With a soft sigh she entered the kitchen to find a disaster. Used to this sort of thing after eighteen years of raising children, Sango looked around to see if the guilty party was still around.

To her luck, everyone but Takuske was there. He was probably out and about somewhere with Chisa.

"Who did this?"

Sango looked at all of her children, eyeing each carefully for a little insight into the clockworks of each of their little minds. The mess they sat in was made up of rice, wheat, dried fruits, and many other foods that had been stored in the cupboards for meals.

"It wasn't me, mama." Yuuka looked over from where she was coloring on some paper that Kagome had given her.

Sango nodded, awaiting everyone else's responses. "It wasn't me," suddenly blasted at her in unison from everyone else present.

"If it wasn't any of you, who made a mess of my kitchen?" Sango pursed her lips, giving her children the evil eye.

Jinu crossed her arms. "One of them knows something."

"Really?" Sango looked at Jinu sarcastically then back at the younger children.

"Hankui! Takuske caught him!"

A voice came from outside. The young male voice of Kagome's oldest. Taishou.

Sango looked at Hankui. "Caught what?"

Hankui didn't say anything, just kept his violet eyes trained on the disaster known as their kitchen floor.

Taishou ran in, his black-streaked hair flying behind him. "Come on! Hankui! What are you…oh." The dog-eared boy shrank back when he met Sango's glaring eyes.

"What is going on around here?" The firm demand left no room for avoidance, and the boys were forced to fess up.

"Hankui tried summoning a demon and this nasty looking slime ball showed up-"

"It was not a slime ball!" Hankui jumped up, glaring at Taishou.

"Fine, this fuzzy thing that looks like an oversized cat shows up and starts running around the village messing everything up." Taishou just shrugged like it was no big deal. "Takuske and Shippou caught it and so all's well now."

Kagome rubbed her temples then looked up at her only son. He was as frustrating as his father, unfortunately. Why couldn't he have been tamer like Chisa?

"You guys summoned a demon?" Kagome was just repeating what Taishou had told her. It got even less intelligent in her eyes as the minutes passed. What person in their right mind would summon a demon?

Oh yeah, adolescent boys.

"Yes, mother." Taishou shrank back against the wall, his embarrassment obviously building. "We just wanted to train."

Kagome buried her head in her hands. "By summoning a demon." She was stuck on that summoning a demon issue. It was just so stupid.

A high pitched scream resonated through the village.

Both Kagome and Taishou jumped to full alertness and listened silently. Everything was quiet.

The flap over the entrance flung to the side and Sango stood there with her boomerang in hand. Kagome hadn't seen Haraikotsu in nearly fifteen years; this had to be serious.

"Namise is gone." Sango's eyes were wide and fearful. Just as quickly as she had come, Sango was gone again.

Kagome dug out her bow and quiver of arrows without thinking and rushed towards where the scream had come from: Inuyasha's forest.

Speaking of which, where was he? Kagome ran as fast as she could, but she was no where near as light on her feat as Sango.

Through the cool night air they heard Inuyasha's yell as he released his Kaze no Kizu at something.

Kagome ran deep into the woods, getting closer and closer to the Goshinboku. Memories danced across her mind as she ran down the well-worn path.

She stopped in the clearing where the god tree stood, tall and proud. At its roots Kagome could make out the crouched forms of what must have been some demons. Their tails swayed behind them in warning and they were looking at Inuyasha. Behind them lay the still form of a small child

The hanyou held Tetsusaiga tightly in front of him and was growling at the pair of demons. His teeth were showing and so were those of one of the demons'; the one closer to him.

"Leave us be, monster." The one that seemed to be the dominant of the two stood up straight, revealing a small frame and female figure. "Do not mingle in the affairs of the Forest Fox."

I
Do
Not
Sleep

Typing blooper: She loved to do everything for anyone if it would make them smell.

Inutori: I figured my blooper was amusing enough to include. It got me laughing.
Sagi: Yeah, but you're crazy.
Inuyasha: How come I'm not a big part of this fic?
Inutori: You don't know if that's true…yet! I only just finished the first chapter! Honestly! I'm just trying to introduce the confusion that Miroku and Sango brought to us in having seven children. Let's see if we can keep track of them all…Below I'll include a little profile on her kids and Kagome's. The oldest ones are the ones you really need to know about.

Sango's children:
Jinu
Age: 18
Gender: Female
Hair: Dark brown/down to mid-thigh in braid
Eyes: Magenta
Height: 5'2"
Weight: 117 lbs
Likes: Cooking, learning from Kagome, and picking on Hankui
Dislikes: Cleaning, being the butt of jokes, getting harassed about being single

Takuske
Age: 16
Gender: Male
Hair: Black/worn like his father's in a rat tail
Eyes: Violet
Height: 5'10"
Weight: 158 lbs (a little on the chubbier side)
Likes: Chisa, swimming, pulling pranks, picking on Jinu about being single
Dislikes: Getting caught in a crime, cleaning, sushi

Hankui
Age: 16
Gender: Male
Hair: Black/braid down his back like Jinu (to his waist)
Eyes: Violet
Height: 5'10"
Weight: 149 lbs
Likes: Running, fighting, flirting, making sarcastic comments
Dislikes: Being forced into something, demons (except Inuyasha & his kids), failing

Hotaru
Age: 12
Gender: Male
Hair: Brown
Eyes: Brown
Height: 4'11"
Weight: 92 lbs
Likes: Reading, writing, inventing things, fishing
Dislikes: Noisy people, brown nosers, cleaning, being treated like a child

Yuuka
Age: 9
Gender: Female
Hair: Black/to shoulder blades in a low ponytail.
Eyes: Brown
Height: 4'5"
Weight: 86 lbs
Likes: Making people smile, flowers, butterflies, listening to Jinu sing
Dislikes: Seeing someone be sad, winter, monsters, the idea of Jinu going away

Chaos
Age: 5
Gender: Male
Hair: Dark Brown
Eyes: Violet
Height: 3'9"
Weight: 57 lbs
Likes: Tearing things apart, attention, demons, jumping
Dislikes: Getting disciplined, being ignored, sitting still, not being able to fight

Namise
Age: 3
Gender: Female
Hair: Black
Eyes: Magenta
Height: 3'2"
Weight: 38 lbs
Likes: Seeing new things, hugging people, playing in tall grass
Dislikes: Being held upside down, people yelling, being told "no"

As for Kagome's kids…

Taishou
Age: 16
Gender: Male
Hair: Silver w/black streaks/down like Inuyasha's
Eyes: Blue
Height: 6'
Weight: 164
Likes: Fighting, proving he's stronger, getting other people into trouble, running fast
Dislikes: His pranks biting him in the butt, girls, anything sweet, tight spaces

Chisa
Age: 15
Gender: Female
Hair: Silvery black/pulled back into ponytail and goes to waist
Eyes: Amber
Height: 5'6"
Weight: 131
Likes: Takuske, dancing, hearing about her mother's world, training to be a priestess
Dislikes: Standing for hours on end, having to wait so long to marry, fighting, crying

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