Questions

InuYasha was in the woods surrounding the Western Palace with a six year old Izayoi riding on his back the way pups often did when traveling with their parents. InuYasha had begin to feel suffocated playing the part of Prince of the West and Izayoi had begun to get hyper and in need of a good dose of adventure so the proud father opted to take his daughter, his pride and joy, for something like those camping trip things Kagome had told him her father use to take her on when she was small.

"Faster Daddy!" Izayoi squealed as the older hanyo ran a little faster happy to make his daughter laugh. The sound of Izayoi's laughter was one of his favorite things in the world. Had InuYasha known that being with Kagome would have resulted in the little angel currently clinging to his back under his momoko he would have mated the priestess sooner.

Izayoi laughed in delight as her father leapt into the air and for a split second he flew above the canopy of the forest giving the young princess a beautiful view of what would one day be her lands.

Finally the hanyos found a place near a pond and once the overprotective father was certain there were no dangers near by he went about teaching his pup how to set up camp. Izayoi was always eager to learn and was always asking questions. Sometimes the girl's constant flow of 'Why' and 'how' would drive her father up the walls unlike the rest of his family who would only smile and answer the child.

How in the hell do they have such patience? The ill tempered hanyo often wondered but even though sometimes he had to tell the child enough already he liked knowing that he was the first one his pup came to when she wanted to know something.

Unfortunately he was about to regret that.

"Daddy?" Izayoi asked as she tilted her head to one side, her long silver hair falling over her right shoulder as she looked at her father with curious golden eyes. Her puppy ears twitched much like her father's did when he was curious.

"What is it pup?" InuYasha asked as he bit into one of the fish he had caught for dinner.

"What does rut mean?"

InuYasha's eyes widened as he choked on his food. What the hell kind of question was that! He was positive he had never said rut around the child, he had learned his lesson when she had repeated his favorite curse words when she was a baby.

Once the hanyo was sure he wasn't about to die he turned to his daughter and pulled her onto his lap.

"Izayoi," InuYasha said very seriously. "Where did you hear that word?"

Izayoi's ears lowered as she began to think she had said something wrong. "I'm sorry daddy, I didn't mean to say a bad word."

InuYasha smiled as he kissed her between her ears. "Its alright pup I know that you didn't mean to say a bad word but daddy really needs to know where you heard it."

Izayoi blinked innocently as she answered her sire.

"Uncle Fluffy told me." She answered. "I asked uncle Fluffy where babies came from and he said when a boy ruts a girl. What does that mean?"

InuYasha face palmed himself when he realized that his brother, the cold heartless bastard he was, had probably not realized that his niece had required a less… graphic answer. He had probably merely been answering the pup's question truthfully without thinking.

"Its something only mated adults do Izayoi, I'll explain when you get a little older okay?"

Izayoi's ears wilted in disappointment in not having her question answered.

"Okay daddy."

A week later the duo returned to the castle after their seven day father daughter trip and as Izayoi happily cuddled into her mother's warmth and her great grandmother, step grandmother, and aunts fussed over the child InuYasha went in search of his brother.

He found him in his study.

"What the hell is wrong with you?"

Sesshomaru eyed his brother then went back to reading the document again. It was yet another demon lord seeking to arrange a betrothal between his eldest son and Izayoi. Many of the minor lords and nobles that had lusted for the West were looking to gain it through mating the female heir.

Fools as if I would allow any pup of my family to be given into a mating so carelessly.

"Sesshomaru!" The demon lord sighed as he sat back.

"What is it InuYasha?"

"Did you tell Izayoi that pups come from rutting?" the father asked annoyed and his elder brother lifted his eyebrow. "So I told the child the truth."

InuYasha banged his head on the desk and the looked up glaring at his big brother.

"You can't tell kids that Sesshomaru! They don't know what that means and it sure as hell ain't something a six year old needs to know about!"

Sesshomaru honestly couldn't figure out why humans were so secretive about mating. It was a natural part of life, a vital part that resulted in young that could carry on their family's bloodline. The fact that it was pleasurable was merely a perk. For demons such things were instinctual. Izayoi already had the instinct of mating, though it lay dormant in her subconscious since she was yet of rightful mating age. It was why the pup avoided her parent's room on nights when they were… active. She may not understand why but her Yokai instincts told her not to bother her mother and father on those nights.

"InuYasha you've spent too much time with the mortals." The elder demon said as he stood. "But if it cause you such stress I will refrain from answering the girl's questions so bluntly."

InuYasha nodded. "Thank you that's all I ask."

Once the conversation was over said girl came skipping in holding the hand of a fifteen-year-old Rin.

"Sesshomaru-sama, Izayoi-chan wished to see you."

"Uncle Fluffy!" the pup laughed as she threw herself toward her full demon uncle who caught her in his arms and nuzzled the child's temple then allowed her to place a sloppy kiss on his cheek.

"I missed you uncle Fluffy." She said and the demon chuckled.

If someone had told him that he would become so attached to his brother's spawn he would have sliced them in half for uttering such nonsense.

"And I you, Izayoi. Did you have fun with your otou-san?"

the puppy smiled as she nodded. "Yeah me and daddy ran all around the forest and we caught fishes and ate them for dinner! And then daddy let me sleep in momoko-sama!"

"I see." He said as he sat down and allowed the child to tell him about her time with her father. InuYasha also took a seat and the two demons sat in silence as the apple of their eye talked their ears off.

It was amazing how two brother who hated each other once had been brought together completely by one small child's innocent smile.

A/N: Originally I was planning on Izayoi asking InuYasha where babies came from but I wanted to have a sweet uncle Fluffy moment in here somewhere so I figured, Sesshomaru being the kind of demon that didn't care for deception, would have just told her straight out babies come from sex. In my story demons do have certain animal instincts, like in the anime when the group met Koga for the first time and he ran away because his instincts told him that Tessiga was dangerous. So it makes sense that Izayoi would also have instincts that told her to not intrude on her parents at night. The beauty of having a demon side. So basically, though demon parents don't do anything where their children can see them, they still wouldn't see any problem saying this is how it is, no storks don't bring babies and no they don't come from a cabbage patch. But InuYasha being raised among humans would have some of the same feelings about intimate things.

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P.S. I am working in the next chapter of Times of Change but with work an all It'll take a little longer then normal.