A/N: Yeah, another chappy, well enjoy.

Disclaimer: I'm sooo tired of saying this…

Chapter 5 Houjo and the Legend?

On the phone

"Hi, Houjo… A movie tomorrow? … Sorry, but I'll be busy… Yeah, bye." Kagome hung up and went back to the kitchen.

"What was that all about?" asked Inuyasha impatiently even though he had already heard the whole conversation.

"It's Houjo."

"I know, but what is he doing here?"

"Akitoki Houjo?" at this point, Miroku cut in.

"No, this one is actually his descendant," Kagome replied while trying to hold back a laugh. "Although he still shares almost all of the other's characteristics." (You know, the whole health thing.)

"Still, what does he want?" Inuyasha apparently was a little over possessive of Kagome.

Kagome having recognized the tone replied with a smile, "Don't worry Inuyasha, he won't be competing against you."

At this Inuyasha blushed violently and try as he might, he was at a total loss for words. (Poor pup must feel sooo embarrassed.)

"Well, now I know who my Kagome wanted." Mrs. Higurashi joked. At this Kagome's face also turn a deep shade of red.

"Kagome, is it true that you have chosen the evil hanyou?" of all the time, grandpa chose this moment to speak.

Now Kagome's face turned from its embarrassed red to an angry red, "Grandpa," she scolded, "he's right here listening to your every word, besides I don't think 'evil' is a wise word to use!" The said Inu still hasn't gotten over the shock of his little embarrassing moment, so he simply remained silent for once. Grandpa, of course, having been scolded by his own granddaughter, pouted. (I wonder how that would look like, if anyone knows, please tell me.)

Seeing the old man pout, Souta decided to comfort him even if it meant that he'll get annoying again afterwards, "Come on gramps, she's just a little over protective of Inuyasha, you don't have to get so upset."

"Souta," being the oh so easy to be contented grandpa, he went into another legend telling. "Do you know that a long time ago, this place was surrounded by forest?" he stated more than asked and Souta just nodded. "Well, this forest is called the Inuyasha forest."

"Wow, Inuyasha is that amazing?" this time Souta cut in eagerly.

Inuyasha having heard this snorted loudly from in the living room. (The group having finally finished dinner decided to leave the two alone since their so called legends was actually everyday life for them.) "That was nothing, my half-brother owns the entire Western Lands!" Inuyasha for once decided to praise his brother uncharacteristically. (Had Inu been here, I probably would've been smacked for calling Sessh his brother instead of half-brother.)

Grandpa looked slightly annoyed at the interruption, but shrugged it off since he still has Souta as an audience. Thus he went on babbling about how everything and everyone in the forest fears the 'evil' hanyou and how a powerful priestess named Kikyou was finally able to tame him by pinning him to the Goshinboku for fifty years until finally a girl from the future who is Kikyou's reincarnation mistakenly freed the half-breed.

This is what actually happened

At the mention of Kikyou's name, a growl was heard coming from the living room. (And no, it's not Inu who growled, instead it's Kagome who growled, because the pup looked a bit dreamy when he heard the mention of Kikyou's name.) The other four just stared at each other while silently sweat-dropping at the duo's reactions. When the word reincarnation was mentioned however, the sound of loud stomping honed in on the two in the kitchen. Souta naturally shrank from it while muttering softly, "Please don't hurt me sis." Than the following could be heard bellowed out, "Why can't everyone stop calling me a reincarnation! I have a name you know! It's Kagome, Ka-go-me."

Inuyasha actually winced and flattened his ears from the loudness of Kagome's shrieking. Shippou was the one who decided that he should be brave and got on Kagome's shoulder and whispered, "I love you Kagome, for who you are and not who you're weirdly connected with." Kagome calmed down instantly and smiled at the Kit.

"Wow sis, the way you two acted it's like you're mother and son." Souta admired the interaction between the two.

"I think it's fairly safe to say that Shippou is my adopted son." Kagome probably already forgot the whole reincarnation thing.

Grandpa obviously decided that he has not finished yet, "Kagome, I never said I was talking about you, anyways," he turned back to Souta, "now where was I?"

Kagome narrowed her eyes, "Grandpa, I'm the girl from the future who has decided instead of mistakenly freed Inuyasha."

The rest of the group now listening intently on the conversation all exchanged glances with each other as if to say "can he actually connect one thing with the other?"

"Kagome, will you listen?" grandpa is getting annoyed with all the interruptions, "Now as I was saying, the sacred tree still bares the scar of the evil hanyou's fifty years of imprisonment."

A/N: This chapter is probably the longest I've ever wrote, phew. (Wipes away sweat.) It really isn't long at all, but for my writing, it is. Review.