lostmoonchild: Hey, everybody! Here's the awaited chapter thirty. I don't own Inuyasha or YYH or anything else unless I say otherwise.

Chapter Thirty

Kagome and Inuyasha waited patiently while Sango and Miroku gagged, both of them obviously not used to time travel. "I don't wanna do that again!" Shippo moaned as Hana rocked him a little.

"Believe me, Shippo, going through major portals is very sickening. I still get sick going back and forth between worlds." Hana said gently.

"Hana, why don't you and Shippo climb up the ladder then we'll follow?" Kagome suggested.

Hana nodded excitedly, grateful she'd get to be the first one out and started climbing the ladder. Inuyasha offered to get Kagome out by jumping but Kagome shook her head. "Kagome, it'd be a lot easier." Inuyasha said looking at the young miko.

"No thanks, Inuyasha." Kagome said as Miroku started climbing since Sango didn't want to give him something to look at.

When Sango started climbing Kagome climbed up the ladder, not bothering to be surprised when she felt a rush of air behind her. "Let me see if anybody's outside." Kagome said opening the well house door a little and looking outside. "Alright, coast is clear."

They left the well house and everybody who wasn't used to seeing Kagome's house looked amazed. "This beautiful, Lady Kagome." Miroku said looking amazed.

"Yeah. Beats the Makai by a long shot." Kagome said watching as Hana excitedly ran towards the God Tree. "Hana, leave the tree alone for five minutes!"

"I DIDN'T SAY GOOD MORNING TO THE GOD TREE!" Hana shouted. "IT'LL BE MAD!"

"And she still believes that stupid story Yusuke told her as a joke." Kagome said shaking her head. "HANA! THE TREE WON'T GET MAD!"

Everybody snickered as Hana hugged the tree and started talking to it. "Why does she do that?" Sango asked.

"Yusuke told her some stupid story that if she didn't say good morning or anything to the God Tree, it'd get mad and wouldn't offer her any protection." Kagome said shaking her head.

Hana grinned and ran back to them, throwing her arms around Kagome's waist. "I'm happy now." Hana said with a proud grin.

"Glad of that, sweetie." Kagome said. "How about checking where grandpa is."

"KAGOME!" A voice shouted.

"Nevermind." Kagome moaned as an old man ran towards them. "What's wrong, Grandpa?"

"I'm going to take down a demon!" Gramps said waving some sacred wards around.

"Alright, grandpa. I think I saw a terrifying demon trying to get out of the well house." Kagome said with a sigh.

Gramps took off towards the well house and Hana snickered a little. "Ka-ka, that was mean!" Hana said as they walked into the house.

"No, its called preserving dignity." Kagome said just as Souta jumped on her back. "Souta, you pain, get off!"

Miroku and Sango started laughing and looked shocked when Souta jumped on them. "Mama's in the kitchen." Souta said with an annoying grin.

"MAMA! I'm HOME!" Kagome shouted. "GOT SOME FRIENDS WITH ME TOO!"

"Kagome, pick up the phone and say hello to your father!" Mrs. Higurashi shouted.

"Think I'll pass. I don't feel like wasting energy telling him a bunch of stuff that ain't true!"

"Mom made me say hi to him." Souta said unhappily.

Kagome smiled and said, "When you're eighteen, Souta, you'll get granted rights. One of those rights is the right to turn down talking to a parent."

Souta pouted a little and said, "NOW you tell me."

"Six more years, squirt." Kagome said waiting patiently until Mrs. Higurashi got off the phone and came into the room.

Mrs. Higurashi smiled warmly and said, "Friends of yours, Kagome?"

"Yeah. This is Sango, Miroku, and my foster son Shippo. You remember Inuyasha."

"HI AUNTIE!" Hana shouted hugging Mrs. Higurashi.

"Hello, Hana. Don't shout in the house please."
"Guess who I got to meet!"

"Who?"

"GUESS!"
"Alright. Lets see, I can see your eyes are a beautiful golden color right now which tells me you've either met a fox demon or maybe a dog demon other than Inuyasha."

Hana giggled a little which resulted in Mrs. Higurashi smiling. "You wouldn't have had met Sesshomaru, would you?" Mrs. Higurashi asked.

"How do you know Sesshomaru?" Inuyasha asked looking surprised.

Mrs. Higurashi laughed and said, "I've met several demons in the time I've been married, Inuyasha."

Kagome nodded and started dialling a number. "Mama, I'm putting the phone on speaker, okay?" Kagome questioned.

"Go ahead, sweetheart. Then I want you to show everybody where they're sleeping."
"Okay."

Everybody was amazed as the phone started talking. "Hello?" A voice said.

"Hey, brat, let me talk to your brother." Kagome said with a grin.

"What makes you think he's here?"

"Please?"

"Alright. SHUICHI! YOUR GIRLFRIEND IS ON THE PHONE!"
"Congrats, fox-boy, you're on speaker phone." Kagome said with a grin.

"I'm honored, Kagome. What do you need?"

"You wouldn't happen to have a pair of jeans and a t-shirt Miroku could borrow, would you?"

"Why?"

"Because you love me so much you're willing to do anything I ask?" Kagome offered hopefully.

"I don't think that's the reason…" Kurama said with a teasing tone.

"Pretty please with a sundae and lots of sugar and even a cherry on top?"

"I thought dog demons didn't beg?"

"Don't make me come up with a way to strangle people over the phone."

Kurama laughed and said, "Alright. I'll be over in about half an hour with some clothes. Do me a favor and don't rip them off."
"Honey, there are things I couldn't fit even if I tried and your clothes are among the things I couldn't fit to save my life."

"What about Sango?"

"Um…" Kagome puased a minute and looked at Sango carefully making mental measurements. "I'm guessing she's about Shizuru's size. I'll call her unless of course you want too…"

" NO!"

"Alright, geez. Thanks, foxboy."

"How long are you borrowing the clothes?"

"Until I can drag everybody to the mall. Hey, I gotta let you go, babe, somebody's on the other line." Kagome said.

"You realize that's what you said when we broke up?"

"We'll talk about it later on. Gotta run." Kagome said before switching the lines. "Hello?"

"Kagome! You're home?"

"Yeah."

"Oh my God, Inuyasha actually let you come home. I'm shocked."

Kagome started laughing at the look on Inuyasha's face and she said, "Inuyasha is in the room, Keiko."

"Oh my God, sorry!"

Kagome laughed harder and said, "So what's going on in your world?"

"Not much. My parents are having me work all this week and your stupid cousin isn't helping out any. Just leaving me frustrated."

"There's an easy way to deal with that. Its called self gratification."

"KAGOME! You are about as bad as Yusuke."

"I am not. I'm just telling you a good way to relieve all forms of frustration that doesn't deal with self harm or the harm of others." Kagome answered unable to keep from grinning.

"Anyway, changing the subject. What's going on?"

"Trying to remember why I haven't hung myself yet." Kagome answered lazily. "My stupid father called and you can imagine how much I look forward to his talks."

"right… the "why in the hell haven't you killed those damned demons yet" talks."

"Exactly. Besides, I didn't exactly want to listen to him going on and on about how demons and humans should stick with their own kind which would obviously turn into him saying something about how hanyous should just fall over and die which will obviously result in me asking why in the world he married mama if she's a hanyou by blood."

"Lucky you. You get the king of bastards."

"C'mon, its times like those I'd go for Sesshomaru as a dad… Hell, I'll even put up with Kouga as a dad if I had to."

"That's sad, Kags."

"Yeah, but that's my life."

"I suppose you want something now?"

"Well… I got a kid here who needs some modern day clothes…"

"How old? Translate into human years."

Kagome looked thoughtful and she said, "Well, he's about as big as a kid around one…"

"You'd better be grateful my cousin thought that I was pregnant."

From the look on Kagome's face, that was a favorite memory of hers and she was trying desperately not to laugh but was failing miserably. When she had finished laughing, she wiped the tears from her eyes and said, "Thanks, Kei. I needed a good laugh."

"Are you stopping by or am I going to deliver them myself?"

"The baka kitsune is coming by in a bit. Give him a call and he'll pick up the clothes to drop off here."

"So what do you want me to pack?"

Kagome looked at Shippo and quickly made list. "Well, obviously no skirts or dresses seeing as Shippo is a boy. Nothing pink or orange, although orange would probably go with his hair…"

"Okay, I see where this is going. I'll pack along something comfortable."

"Arigato. Do you know if Shizuru is home?"

"Yeah. She and I were talking about five minutes ago. She said something about sticking around her house since her brother is supposed to be home soon and she needs somebody to pound."

"My, my… such violent friends we have and are." Kagome said laughing. "Pound on boyfriends, cousins, friends, little brothers, and whoever else pisses us off."

Keiko laughed and said, "Hey, I gotta run. I'll make sure to save some hot and spicy ramen for you."

"Love you, Kei." Kagome said with a grin. "better tell your parents to cook up a ton of ramen cause I plan on bringing everybody down there."

"Oh God…"

"I'll pay this time, I swear!"

"You'd better."

"I got money this time since I'll be getting my paycheck along with a few other items in about five minutes."

"Okay. See you later."

"Yep. Bye."

Kagome turned the speaker phone off before looking as if she was trying to remember something. "401-2393." Souta said automatically.

"Quit reading my mind or else." Kagome threatened dialling the number and putting the phone back on speaker.

"Moshi-moshi?" A voice said.

"SHIZURU!" Kagome said happily.

"I'm hanging up."

"Aw, c'mon. I'll cut back on the happy if you'll listen."

"Cross your heart?"

"Listen and I'll try to get Botan to stop telling you stories about half the people she took to the Reikai."

"Deal."

Kagome silently did a stupid dance before saying, "Shizuru, can I borrow some of your clothes?"

"Why?"

"I have a friend, Sango, who doesn't have any clothes that will fit her and the way I see it is that you two are basically the same size so I thought that…"

"Fine."

"What?"

"I said fine."

Kagome looked surprised and said, "Wow, thanks."

"No problem. Now I gotta go, my baby brother is back and you know what that means."

"Tell him I say hi and that he's seriously gotta stop fighting like a fifth grader. Souta and Shippo could probably take him down separately."

Shizuru laughed and said she could do that before hanging up. Kagome looked relieved and fell backwards on the couch, determined to try to sleep for a few minutes. "Did you get the arrangements?" Mrs. Higurashi asked.

"Hai, mama. Kurama, Keiko, and Shizuru are giving up some clothes for a couple days."

"Okay. Inuyasha, you have clothes in Kagome's closet."

Inuyasha looked slightly embarrassed but nodded when Mrs. Higurashi looked into the room. "Thank you." Inuyasha said obviously not used to thanking anybody.

Mrs. Higurashi smiled a little before looking at the door. "Kagome, Botan's here."

Groaning, Kagome got up and opened the door revealing a girl with blue hair. "How do you do that?" Botan asked.

"Mama."

"Should have known."

"Come in, come in." Kagome said stepping to the side.

Hana sqealed with excitement and jumped into Botan's arms. "Botan! I missed you! Guess what! I saw Sesshomaru-sama! Ka-Ka talked to him!" Hana said excitedly.

"Five hundred years ago." Kagome said lazily. "But of course there was that time last month…"
"Kagome…" Botan said her voice warning.

"Okay, okay. Geez, you act like I'm gonna go revealing top secret information. King Enma will murder me if I go revealing any of that high priority stuff."

"King Enma would be the least of your worries."

"Bring back Naraku and I'm not promising anything nice." Kagome answered falling back onto the couch and covering her eyes with one arm. "Now what's going on?"

"Koenma-sama wants you to take care of the kids tonight."

"I told him that I'm off this week."

"He isn't requesting."

"And I'm not moving from this couch."

"We can always revoke those permission forms. Then some Spirit Detectives will have to come and…"

"Alright, Gods. You don't have to start threatening." Kagome said uncovering her eyes. "Is that all?"

"Pretty much."

"Thanks. My day has been officially made because of you telling me who I get to watch."

They looked confused when Botan vanished suddenly and Hana looked up at Kagome with tearful eyes. "Can't you say no, Ka-ka?" Hana whispered.

"I'm sorry, baby, but you know how important this job is."

"Every job you have is important!"
"I know. Somebody has to help keep food on the table though."

"I can go without eating!"

"No, you're going to eat. Look, I'll be back before the sun comes up tomorrow morning."

"Why does he always do that?"

Kagome sighed and looked like she was tired of explaining the situation to Hana. "Because Koenma doesn't have kids and doesn't understand that children need attention from their mommy and daddy. He especially doesn't understand that I'm a single mom and have to be around so nobody gets screwed up."

Hana shook her head rapidly as if trying to deny what she knew was true. She needed Kagome around to help her do things but she also knew that Kagome needed her. Why the miko needed her, Hana never always completely understood but she guessed that she helped Kagome keep some sanity. "…okay, Ka-ka." Hana whispered closing her eyes.

Kagome smiled and hugged the small girl gently. "I'll check on you before I go to sleep, okay?" Kagome said with a gentle smile. "Besides, you'll be okay. You and Shippo will have Sango sleeping in your room."
"And Miroku and Inuyasha?" Hana questioned eagerly.

"No, they'll either sleep in Souta's room or out here." Kagome answered leading them upstairs. "C'mon, guys, I'll show you all where you're gonna be sleeping."

lostmoonchild: Okay, first off, if somebody who's reading this fic has the phone number in this fic, I apologize. That number was the first one that popped into my mind so I hope you won't be too upset. This chapter will be divided into two parts, second part holds some interesting parts (I think). Read and review, feel free to review in the next part if you want.

Laughing, Hana ran up the stairs with Shippo on her shoulders as everybody followed.