lostmoonchild: I don't own Inuyasha or anything else unless I say otherwise.

CHAPTER THIRTY FOUR

"Anti-venom?"

"Check."

"Full strength knock out gas?"

"Duh."

Kagome sighed and leaned against the couch, looking at the various items scattered on the floor. She could feel her head already beginning to hurt, a sure sign that a trip to somewhere in the country was needed. Her eyes wandered around the room before resting on a picture that had been taken a few months ago. "Ka-ka, can we go visit grandma Genkai?" Hana questioned crawling on her older cousin/foster mother's lap.

"Who?" Shippo questioned.

"Genkai. She's an old psychic that lives in a shrine outside of the city." Kagome answered wincing when she felt her wound open up again.

"Can we, Ka-ka? Please?" Hana questioned.

Kagome sighed a little and nodded. "Alright. I'm pretty sure everybody who isn't used to the city air would like to be in the fresh air again." Kagome said as Hana crawled off her lap. "besides, I need to see Yukina about this damn bullet hole in my side."

They looked at Kagome and watched her try changing the bandages around her waist. "Smells nasty, Ka-ka. Maybe you'd better have grandma Genkai look at it too."

"Ugh, I can just hear her nagging me." Kagome said as she put a new bandage around her waist. "She'll be asking me why I wasn't paying attention then she'll have Yukina heal my wound before sending me to float on the spike."

"Do what on the what?" Inuyasha questioned.

Kagome shrugged and said, "She claims it's a spirit energy training thing. I claim its punishment."

The phone started ringing causing everybody to jump but Hana quietly got up and answered it. "Moshi moshi… Hi, Auntie Yukina! Yeah, she's here. Hold on a sec." Hana eagerly said before throwing the phone which Kagome caught without any problems.

"Mental hospital for youkai, ningens, and hanyous, how may I be of service?" Kagome said unable to keep from laughing. "Head crazy person speaking… yeah, I know. Nah, you should hear what I tell Yusuke when he calls… for the sake of preserving whatever innocence my kids have left, I dare not repeat it."

Hana giggled a little and sat down on Inuyasha's lap. "We're gonna go to the country." Hana said happily making sure to hide her shoes incase Kagome told her to put her shoes on.

"Yeah, I need you to look a wound I got last night… I tried but you know how screwed up my blood is. Doesn't like to do what I want it to do when I want it done… Okay, tell Yusuke and Chuu not to beat each other senseless until I get there. I wanna see if the drunk will beat Yusuke up this time around or if the results are gonna be the same… Yep, talk to you later. Bye." Kagome said before hanging up the phone.

"What'd auntie Yukina want?" Hana questioned settling herself on Inuyasha's lap again.

"To know if watching a bunch of full grown demons knock each other senseless sounded like fun." Kagome answered putting the stuff in the bags they had bought.

"Is Rinku going to be there this time around?" Hana questioned.

"I guess. The whole lot of them is there today."

"LET'S GO!"

"What do you guys say? It'd be a chance to get out of the city for a few hours." Kagome said with a smile.

Everybody nodded and grabbed their stuff as Kagome wrote a note telling her family where they were going. "There. Now we can go."

Travelling in a car had to be the strangest thing anybody from the Feudal Era had ever experienced. Kagome had opened a window since Hana was beginning to complain that the smell of Kagome's blood was beginning to make her sick and the smell of the city had given way to the sweet smells of the country. "This place is beautiful." Sango said commenting on the area.

"Oh yeah, just wait until we get to Genkai's. Then we're gonna have to walk up the stairs of death." Kagome said not sounding thrilled.

Stairs that the group later felt had been properly named.

Half an hour later they got to the stairs and were surprised to see a little girl with silver ears wearing a pink dress sitting on the stairs. "Inuko, what are you doing here?" Kagome said getting out of the van.

The silver haired girl jumped up and threw her arms around Kagome as if afraid. "I was told to wait for you here, mama-Kagome! You're supposed to take me to my new Mommy when you're done with whatever you gotta do here." Inuko said looking afraid. "But I don't wanna go to my new Mommy yet! What if she doesn't like me because of my ears?"

Kagome smiled and rubbed the small girl's ears before saying, "How could your new mother not like you?"

"Because of my ears! They don't look like yours or anybody else's ears."

"Are you sure? Look at Inuyasha's ears and tell me who's ears they look like." Kagome said.

Inuko looked at Inuyasha and her eyes widened. "I HAVE EARS LIKE HIM!" Inuko shouted happily.

"Uh huh."

"But what if my new Mommy doesn't like me? What if she's mean?"

Kagome picked the small hanyou up and said, "Honey, I know your new mom. She has two children of her own, a son and a daughter. Her son is coming close to being thirteen and loves soccer just like you do while her daughter is eighteen and has two adopted children."

"Will I have a daddy?"

"Yes. But your new big sister and your new daddy don't get along too well."

"Why?"

"I'm not sure. But you wanna know a secret?"

"What?"

Kagome smiled a little and whispered, "You're gonna have to stop calling me "mama-Kagome" since I'm going to be your big sister."

Inuko's eyes widened and she squealed with excitement. "Your mommy's adopting me?!" Inuko shouted excitedly. "Out of everybody else, I'M the one being adopted by YOUR mom?!"

Kagome laughed a little and nodded as she put the small hanyou down. "So no more "mama-Kagome" stuff, got it?"

"HAI! I UNDERSTAND!" Inuko said running around in circles.

Sango smiled a little when she saw the joy that the orphaned and abandoned children Kagome took care of showed when they found out that their dreams of a real family would be coming true. Maybe she could bring herself to consider adoption one more time. She had seen the files that Kagome had brought home and even her friend's tears as she admitted that there weren't enough human families who willingly adopted demon children. In desperation, the Reikai had to make the children forget their youkai heritage and make them think that they were humans all their lives which caused trouble later on for everybody.

Obviously pleased with what was happening, Kagome smiled at everybody and said, "C'mon. Yusuke and Chuu aren't going to hold their fight off forever."

Making faces, they started up the stairs silently wondering who made it a rule for stairs to have to be so long. But all their questions were quickly abandoned when they got to see some very interesting sights, otherwise known as some not too bad looking demons sparring and one miko tackling whoever crossed her path.

lostmoonchild: I was planning on the whole "let's go visit Genkai" thing for I dunno how long but didn't know where exactly to put it so yeah. This works. Anyway, read and review, flames are accepted.