Well I have sent a team of highly trained ninja reptiles to retrieve the copyright for Inuyasha, but they haven't returned yet so I don't own it.

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This chapter does not add to the plot, but it was a lot of fun to write.

Once Inuyasha had gotten his head together Kagome decided to look around as they may never have the chance again. Shippo jumped up and said he'd go with her. "Well there is no way in hell I am letting you three out of my sight." Inuyasha informed them getting to his feet.

They had just reached the gardens when they heard a voice behind them, "So you're the hanyou, huh?"

"You got a problem with that?" Inuyasha barked turning around in a fighting stance with a hand on his sword.

"Not at all. Do you have a problem with being a hanyou, Inuyasha?" Kin asked walking toward them with Kiyoshi on his shoulders. Spotting the child Inuyasha released his sword, no man would fight with his son on his shoulders like that.

"What's a hanyou, Pa?" Kiyoshi asked.

"That's a good question son. Inuyasha, would you mind letting him see if he can work it out for himself?"

Inuyasha blinked in surprise. Not at the question but at the tone. This youkai was speaking to him as though they were peers. He wasn't used to that. "Uh, sure. I guess so."

"Thank you, my names Kin, by the way. This is my oldest son, Kiyoshi." Kin told him placing his cub on the ground.

"This is my wife, Kagome, and our kids, Shippo and Izayoi." Inuyasha replied before kneeling and holding a hand out for the young feline to sniff.

Kiyoshi took Inuyasha's hand and sniffed intently, his tiny brow furrowing in concentration. "He smells like Sesshomarusama, does he know him?" He asked his father.

"Ask Inuyasha."

"Do you know Sesshomarusama?" the little one asked Inuyasha.

"Yeah, he's my half brother."

Kiyoshi looked closely at Inuyasha, clearly confused. "Half? But- But you're both whole!"

All the adults laughed then Inuyasha explained "It means we have the same father but different mothers."

The little on continued to sniff his hand, frowning in confusion. "You smell kind of like Sesshomarusama, but kind of like Merissasama too."

"Good, son. Now, how are Sesshomarusama and Melissa different?"

"Well, Sesshomarusama is a boy and Merissasama is a girl. But Merissa is also a human... Is he human, Pa?"

"Ask him, Kiyoshi." Kin instructed, smiling with pride at his little boy.

"I'm half human. My mother was a human, like Merissa. My father was a Youkai, like my brother."

"So a hanyo is a human and a youkai's baby? Does that mean Merissasama has hanyos in her belly?"

"She may soon, whenever they do have a child it will be a hanyo."

"She's going to have a baby soon! She has a baby in her belly because Sesshomarusama kissed her! I saw him do it, they didn't know I was there and he kissed her to put a baby in her belly!"

All the adults chuckled again. "Now just why do you think kissing someone makes a baby, son?" Kin asked.

"Because I asked Sesshomarusama if she was having his pup last summer because everyone said so and he said she couldn't because he hadn't kissed her. Now he has so she will."

"There is a little more to it than that, I'll explain it when you're older."

"It takes more than kissing? You need to tell him right away, Pa! You know how to make babies, you need to tell Sesshomarusama how!"

Shippo jumped down at this point, to calm the little tiger. "Don't worry, it just takes a lot of kissing and hugging. Inuyasha and Kagome were married for months before they kissed enough for Izayoi to start growing in Kagome's belly"

"Anyway, Inuyasha, I have heard a lot about you through the grapevine." Kin stated changing the subject. "Rumor has it you've even managed to send Sesshomaru off with his tail between his legs once or twice. He denies it, of course, but I do wonder if there is any truth to it. Now it just so happens that my usual sparring partner is stuck in the henhouse looking at flower arrangements today, would you be up to filling in for him?"

"Sounds like fun." Inuyasha grinned with his arms crossed, "Since you usually spar against Sesshomaru I'll even take it easy on you." As it turned out Kin won, but he had to agree the rumor might just be true. After that he became their unofficial tour guide.

Later Kin joined Sesshomaru and all the guest for dinner in their lady's private dining room. After a lavish meal Kimiko invited the adults to stay for a night cap while Ume offered to take care of the children for the night. Inuyasha was reluctant to let her have them, but everyone insisted she would protect his kids and Kagome assured him that the baby wouldn't need to nurse again until morning, she'd been giving her rice before bed for weeks. Finally he gave in with the condition that Kohaku stay with them.

The night we rather enjoyable with drinks and banter. Someone suggested playing a drinking game and Melissa suggested 'Never Have I Ever'. it was a good way to learn more about one another. The alcohol lowered inhibitions and provided the possibility that the juiciest tidbits would be forgotten by morning, therefore the players were honest and unabashed, asked rowdier and juicier questions as the night wore on.

Kagome's turn came around and the tipsy woman swirled the cup in her hand thoughtfully for a moment. "Never have I ever stolen anything."

Inuyasha took a sip, it was common knowledge he'd been an orphan. He'd stolen for survival, to eat. However everyone was a little shocked when Melissa took a sip too.

"When I was young girl there was shirt I want. All other girls had it, so I want it to. I ask father for it but he say no, look like whore. So I ask grandma, she say no, to expensive, that it would be time before I could fill anyway. So I steal shirt. Keep it hidden, change shirt at school.

"Later I feel bad. I tell store owner I steal shirt. She let me watch her children to pay back for shirt. After shirt paid off I make money watching children."

A few uninteresting questions were asked then it got around to Kumiko, Kimiko's usual drinking buddy who was beside her making sure her cup stayed full. She topped off Kimiko' cup as she informed them "Never have I ever killed a human."

Inuyasha swallowed hard and lift his cup along with Sesshomaru, Kimiko, and Kin. Melissa lifted hers too but Sesshomaru placed a hand on top and pushed it back to the tabletop. "Sesshomaru, I kill man. You see me kill man."

"I saw you stab a man, Melissa. The wound you inflicted would, indeed, have proven fatal had I not killed him when you turned away to be sick. But I did kill him, your hands remain unsullied."

"You never tell me!"

"I was unable to at the time as you did not yet speak Japanese. This is the first time it has come up."

Melissa was sitting next to Kumiko so it was her turn now. She thought hard for a moment then, blushing slightly she stated "Never have I ever had three way."

"Never had what three ways?" Inuyasha asked and Melissa, turning redder yet, explained a three way was sex between three partners.

Kumiko turned so red even her hair seemed to blush as the skin below gave the roots of her blue hair an indigo tint and meekly raised her cup to her lips. Kin drained his cup and slammed it down with a proud smirk as if to say "I'm the man." And Sesshomaru gaped in horror as his mother lifted her sake to her lips with a smile.

"Mother?" he exclaimed then speech failed as he did a wonderful impression of a stranded fish.

"Oh my dear sweet son," she replied smiling sweetly. "You will one day find that however much you care for your beloved things can become a little boring. It then becomes necessary to do something outside the norm to keep passion alive. I have always found beauty in both forms, so when your father suggested we bring another woman into our marital bed I did not protest."

"Another woman?!" Inuyasha choked! "Not my..."

"Izayoi was a beautiful woman. I certainly would not have turned her away, but she was not the sort to branch out in that way. She was only ever with your father, Inuyasha."

Many players felt they had learned more than enough for one night so the game broke up and they drank freely. They grew rowdy as they joked and drank ever more sake.

Kagome was first out. She went to use the outhouse and was unable to find it hidden in the shadows right before her. So she hiked up her kimono and wet the grass then staggered back in and curled up in a corner. Melissa was next, leaning more and more on Sesshomaru until she ended up draped haphazardly across his lap.

Kin began to sing a drunken warrior's song about battle and glory. Soon Inuyasha joined in, singing along badly off key and out of time. Then Sesshomaru, giddy from excessive alcohol, lent his rich baritone to the tune. Another war song followed and soon gave way to a bawdy ballad about a woman's 'charms'.

Kimiko rose to her feet and Kumiko followed. Holding on to each other for support they staggered into Kimiko's sleeping chambers and closed the door behind them, leaving the men alone.

"Well I should get Kagome back to our room so she can feed the baby in the morning." Inuyasha stated rising to his feet and swaying slightly.

"Will the alcohol not taint her milk?" Sesshomaru asked with mild concern for his nieces well being

"Nah, she'll make fresh milk by morning."

"What of the milk she already has?"

"Oh I'll take care of that!" Inuyasha stated waggling his eyebrows suggestively.

Sesshomaru stared at his brother in drunken confusion for a moment, then it dawned on him. His eyes widened and he began to laugh even as he informed his brother "That's disgusting!"

"But it's not." Kin told him.

"You'll learn," He told Sesshomaru as he gestured to the woman across his lap, "When the woman you love is mewling in pleasure below you and you take a pull off a swollen knocker, nothing in the world beats that!"

"I can think of one thing that does." Inuyasha replied picking his wife up.

"What's that?" Kin demanded incredulously.

"When that baby is laid in your arms for the first time."

"I stand corrected." Kin replied standing to open the door for Inuyasha then rejoining Sesshomaru for a few more rounds before attempting to find his way home.

Sesshomaru growled frustration at the birds making all that racket. His head was pounding and the sun was poking him in the eyes even through closed eyelids. He reluctantly opened them and sat up, his bladder forcing him to act. Melissa was still strewn across his lap, head lying at an awkward angle against the floor as her drool pooled beneath her face.

He eased himself out from under her and stood, his stomach turning unpleasantly as he did. He managed to get to the out house to empty both his belly and his bladder. He went back inside and gazed down at Melissa, in a matter of hours she would be his wife. Though they really needed to get rid of their hangovers first.

The medicine that his mother gave them last time had worked well. He decided to wake her up and ask what was in it so they could get their day started. He entered her sleeping chambers, the first time since he was a puppy, and looked around. Her futon was at the far end of the room, concealed by a painted silk screen. As he walked around it his headache stopped. Indeed every thing in his head came to a screeching halt.

He knew Kumiko slept in his mother's sleeping chambers, it was not unusual for a maid in waiting to sleep in her lady's chambers incase she was needed in the night. It was quite another story, however, for a maid to sleep in her lady's bed. In her arms. Naked.

Sesshomaru stared, not quite comprehending what he was seeing. Above his mother's arm a mismatched set of breasts met his gaze. One was perky and pale nippled. The other was more mature with a magenta nipple, one from which he'd once drawn nourishment.

Sensing her son's presence Kimiko stirred and peered up at her little boy with drowsy eyes "Sesshomaru? Have you had a nightmare dear?"

Her voice broke him out of his stupor and he frowned at her. "I am far too old to be bothered by such nonsense." He replied, lifting his hand as his headache returned full force.

"Well that was the issue the last time you appeared at the foot of my bed." She replied bringing a hand to her own head as Kumiko, awoken by their conversation, gasped and pulled the covers up to her nose. "I see, you need medicine. I do not know what is in it, but if you will step out so Kumiko can dress I am sure she would be happy to fetch some for us all."

He exited his mother's sleeping chambers and found a painting on the wall to focus on as he heard Kumiko scurry by. A moment later he heard his mother's footsteps approach. "Did you truly love father, mother?"

"I still do love him my son. Sesshomaru, one day you will learn that there is more than enough room in the heart. I love your father, and I love Kumiko as well. She loves him as well. We both miss him, but life goes on."

"I had no idea."

"I know. You were to young to understand when it started. She feared you would not take it well later, especially after he died. You did idolize him so. However we can talk more on the subject later if you need, right now we have a wedding to prepare for." Kimiko told him as Kumiko came back in.

Sesshomaru nodded and turned to see Melissa had woken up and was watching them. He sat by her at the table while Kumiko busily set up the cups and poured the medicinal tea in each one. She nervously sat down when Kimiko asked her to, avoiding everyone's eyes.

Kimiko reached over and placed a hand briefly over Kumiko's. "It's ok, I talked to him. He understands. Don't you son?"

Sesshomaru nodded, not trusting himself to speak just yet. He wasn't angry, but he needed time to get used to the idea. As soon as the medicine was drunk he returned to his own chambers to change.