lostmoonchild: Okay, I decided to update after a little over a week since I want to knock down the amount of chapters that need to be posted. I don't own Inuyasha or anything else unless I say otherwise. Shouldn't have to say what I do own cause its kinda obvious since they're either complicated beyond belief or if its a song, very shitty.

Chapter sixteen

"NYAAH!" Hana shouted as best as she could trying to push Kagome's hands away from her.

Kagome smiled faintly as she watched her younger cousin crawl towards where Kirara was. "She refusing to try and walk?" Sango asked watching the small girl.

"I managed to get her to stand and walk a few feet when we were at the well but I think she'd rather crawl around unless of course she gets water therapy."

"What's that?" Miroku asked.

Kagome smiled a bit and handed her friends packages. "I didn't know everybody's sizes so I had to make guesses." Kagome said watching as each of them unwrapped a bathing suit. "Hana… do you want to go swimming?"

Hana smiled happily and raised her arms up showing she was ready to go swimming. "Nuh!" Hana said when Miroku picked her up. "Muh."

"Feh, is this one of your era's ways of helping kids…" Inuyasha growled slightly.

"Its one of the most effective ways." Kagome answered as they headed towards a hot spring. "okay, everybody, get your swimming stuff on."

They all retreated behind trees except Shippo who had to have some help since there wasn't a hole for his tail. Within five minutes they were all in the hot springs watching Hana swim around in a one piece swimsuit. "Hana, don't dog paddle." Kagome said. "Try kicking your legs."

Hana pouted a little and started kicking her legs. Sango laughed when she got splashed and managed to keep Hana from going underwater. "There we go." Sango said with a laugh as Hana protested loudly.

Shippo laughed and tried showing Hana how to swim. "Come on!" Shippo said excitedly.

Kagome laughed and watched as Hana tried standing up in water. She looked unbalanced and ready to fall over but Kagome knew that stubbornness ran in the family and there was no way Hana was going to give up without trying. "Good job, Hana." Kagome said half an hour later when they were heading back to Kaede's hut.

They had changed back into their normal clothes and were heading back to Kaede's hut since Shippo and Hana were both exhausted from their swim. "How was this 'therapy' for her?" Kaede asked watching as Kagome carefully dressed Hana in a shirt that was several sizes too big.

Hana mumbled something and smiled when she could feel the pillow. "Gyah." Hana said tiredly.

"Don't worry, I'll wake you up in time for supper." Kagome said with a gentle smile.

"Shipa." Hana mumbled.

Kagome gently set Shippo down next to the small ten year old. "Hush, my love, oyasumi.." Kagome sang gently watching as the two children fell sound asleep.

"ye take good care of them." Kaede said with a smile. "Ye will make a fine mother."

"I'm not sure about that, Kaede." Kagome said with a grin. "I have a hard enough time trying to keep an eye on one kid, let alone two or more."

"More?" Kaede questioned.

"yeah. I'm going to have a couple kids in a while." Kagome answered. "Then there's the kids I take care of back home. Trying to find the lot of them good homes but there's very few humans who will knowingly take in a demon or hanyou child so often times we have to lock the child's memory somewhere in their mind and let them think that they're human."

"But does that not harm the child when they find out that they are not human?"

"Scares them and makes them angry mostly. Sometimes they're grateful to learn that they aren't human at all. Those ones I usually watch closely to see if they'll show any signs of trying to wipe out the human race."

"And if they try?" Miroku questioned.

The look on Kagome's face told them that she had a few kids who had tried to wipe out the human race before. "I'll usually be the one to take care of them but sometimes my cousin and his friends or somebody else will." Kagome answered softly, looking at Shippo and Hana. "So when the kids first fall into my care, I teach them not to kill unless necessary."

"How?"

"Show them what jail looks like. Scares the crap out of them but it shows them what'll happen to them if they do decide to go killing humans."

"You shouldn't do that. What if it messes them up?" Miroku asked.

Kagome shrugged before answering, "Doesn't screw my kids up. Simply makes them see that actions have consequences."

"Feh, let them learn the hard way." Inuyasha said.

"Inuyasha, things are obviously different in my era for youkai. Some people are trying to get youkai to live among ningens again but we have to be extremely careful. If the demon population increases dramatically, the human race could possibly attempt to kill every youkai and that would result in the youkai attempting to kill ningens. The Reikai doesn't want anything to happen like that."

"So why exactly didn't the youkai and ningens stay together?" Inuyasha questioned.

"Both sides started killing each other." Kagome answered as if it was the most obvious thin in the world. "After about half the ningen population and three fourths of the youkai population were killed, the Reikai simply had all the youkai go to a world just for them."

"Why?"

"Youkai had their time, it was time for the ningens to simply assume that youkai were stories." Kagome answered with a shrug. "Back home my life is divided. Sometimes I have to pretend that youkai are stories just to keep from being sent to a mental hospital. Then there's knowing demons exist and working with them. There's also the occasional having to pretend I'm a demon just to shut the Reikai up about some demon group."

"Don't they ever clash?"

"Once or twice a month."

"And you've never gotten caught?"

Kagome smiled and said, "Remember, I'm a mixed breed. I can get out of trouble without trying. Besides, since I'm such a rarity the Reikai likes keeping a close eye on me."

"How close?"

"Lets just say that they would check to see if I'm a virgin still if I didn't keep constant watch."

Inuyasha suppressed a smile knowing that if she did get checked, they'd get a surprise. He thought it a bit much though, that Kagome had to be watched closely. What would they do when they found out she was going to wish to be a full inu-hanyou? Would they somehow manage to reverse the miko's wish so she was a mixed breed again?

Honestly, Inuyasha didn't care if Kagome was a mixed breed, a hanyou was still a hanyou. But he was worried that they'd take Kagome away from him and force her to have children that were also mixed blooded when Kagome wanted to be with him. Kagome wouldn't agree to have anybody else's child…

Would she?

Kagome already had two children, both adopted, and several more children back in her era that technically weren't her children but she called them hers. He knew that Kagome was going to adopt two little boys, one an inu-hanyou and the other a Forbidden Child but what was stopping her from having children of her own? From having Inuyasha's children?

Mentally sighing, Inuyasha sat in the corner and watched as his future mate started helping with supper, the questions in his mind never ceasing even for a minute.

lostmoonchild: Now honestly, who thinks I'm gonna make this story all happy and not throw in some poor character having doubts? Next chapter I think people are going to like if you're the kind of person who loves seeing Inuyasha act like a dad. Anyway, read and review flames are always going to be accepted.