Chapter 16

The family returned home, grateful that the fight was over. Ai brought back Kohana, Jasmine and Tanaka from their former village. The family was together again.

The days that followed had the Inu-family deciding what should be done about the oracle, the jewel, and the mirror. The mirror was returned to the stone from whence it came and the jewel and oracle were disguised as before. Inuyasha figured it had taken 200 years for a foe to determine where the jewel was and that foe was a dragon, one of the toughest foes to defeat. He decided since it had taken so long to discover the jewel before, that a disguise was all that was needed again. Kaori, bound to the jewel it appeared, was assigned as it's protector. The jewel was transformed into a seashell. The oracle was disguised as a simple pebble. Both were placed in and around Kagome's koi pond and zen garden.

Jiro had been courting Kaori for nearly 200 years and finally made his move. He asked her father if he could wed Kaori and he announced that Jiro would be welcomed in his family, even if he was pure wolf and smelled like Kouga. The wedding was huge and every wolf in the vicinity was present. Inuyasha had commented to Kagome that he never in his life felt more like wolf bait then he did on the night of his daughter's wedding. Because Kaori had to remain to protect the jewel, she and Jiro moved into a house he built on Inuyasha's property, instead of moving back to the demon wolf tribe, as was tradition.

Later that spring, to everyone's shock, Shiori announced her pregnancy. The months went by slowly as everyone waited to see if the new pup would even survive the pregnancy let alone the birth. Inuyasha was the first known half-demon to produce a pup, let alone a live one. Now the question was, what would a half-dog demon and a half-bat demon produce, and the shock that they were able to produce at all. Kagome tended to her daughter-in-law carefully and when Shiori made it to the seventh month, Kagome urged her to rest more often to not risk early labor. 9 months later, a beautiful baby girl was born. The baby had bluish-silver hair and golden eyes but that was as far as her demon blood went. Yasha could smell his daughter was mostly human, with traces of her demon blood heritage. It would be interesting to see how she fared and what other demon qualities she would develop through the years. Being clever, Yasha named his daughter ShirYashi after he an his wife. Her nickname soon became Shi-Shi.

Tetsu returned to Inuyasha's home about a year after losing his sister in battle. Kohana greeted him happily. He asked to stay on as a helper, and Inuyasha, seeing his daughter's affection for the young half-dragon, allowed it. Kaori became pregnant soon after Shi-Shi was born and after about 8 months, a handsome, precocious wolf/dog boy was born. They name him Taromaru.

Even Sesshoumaru and Ai decided to have a second child, and about a year after the dragon war, they had another son. Their first son, Taisho, eagerly welcomed his new little brother, Hakaru.

Not to be outdone, with all the babies being born, Kagome began feeling empty-handed. Coming on to Inuyasha one night, she purred her willingness,

"But you're in heat.", Inuyasha said, remembering the lumps he took when he came onto her whenever she was in heat and he was a little too willing.

"So make a puppy.", she cooed seductively as she played with his ears, a sure win for her. Sure enough, Inuyasha produced again ... only this time he over produced (as did she). Born early at 7 months, Kagome gave birth to a litter (literally) of 5 pups (yes, quintuplets!). Inuyasha though the pups would never stop coming out of his wife's body. Even though Shiori had her own child and Kaori was pregnant at the time, Kagome and Inuyasha still had a lot of help with the 5 hungry, squirming, crying pups. 3 boys and 2 girls - Shinobu, Toki, Yukio, Asame & Kadiri. It took Inuyasha longer to come up with enough names then it did for him to create them, he commented. Kagome swore off pregnancy for at least 300 hundred years because of how fat the pups had made her. She had been bedridden since her 4th month.

The family of the Inu no Taisho was growing happy and strong. Inuyasha and Kagome had overcome alot of obstacles to get where they were now. Sesshoumaru had made alot of sacrifices along the way to becoming Ai's spouse and a father and accepting his little brother (although he never let Inuyasha know that).

But, you know, this story may be ending but there's another story you don't know about. You see, Sesshoumaru didn't accept Inuyasha's offspring easily in the beginning. But that's another story, that maybe I'll tell you about if you'd like. Just let me know. No.. not InuyashaPuppyDog ... me .. me.. down here ... on your keyboard. Yes, it's me ...Myouga the flea. And I know everything there is to know about Inuyasha and Sesshoumaru. That's why I took over for InuyashaPuppyDog. She's busy right now, so I'll be your next storyteller. That's if you want it. The more reviews I get ...ahem ... we get ... asking about that story, the more likely I'll dictate to the Puppy out there. Ok ... bye for now! And remember, InuyashaPuppy Dog doesn't own Inuyasha and Kagome and all those other people. She just borrows them. So don't sue her ...OK? Great.

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