"This is taking to long." Inuyasha complained. "Where are those two?"
"Women." Miroku said. "There always late."
"Who's late this time, Miroku?" Kagome asked coming up the hill. "Us, or you coming to your senses like Inuyasha?"
"Kagome!" Shippo yelled before he ran to her as he always does. "I thought that you wouldn't come back!"
"Of course I'd come back, Shippo!" Kagome told the little fox demon. "We've got a wedding to do! Uh!"
"Kagome!" Inuyasha yelled as he ran to catch her fall. "Kagome what's wrong?"
"I think that I was wrong on how many weeks I had left." Kagome explained as she was grimacing in pain.
"What's going on?" Miroku asked. He was never told that Kagome was pregnant with Inuyasha's pup.
"Sango, let's get her inside out of the cold." Inuyasha said ignoring the monks' question.
"Alright." Sango said taking a hold of Kagome. "While I do that, you explain to Miroku what Kagome is going through."
"Fine." Inuyasha said carefully handing the miko to her. "Just take care of Kagome."
Over the next few days, Inuyasha, Miroku, Shippo, Kohaku, and Sango waited for the birth of Inuyasha's pup. Sango stayed by Kagome's side during her time of confinement. Men weren't aloud in the birthing room. They were severely punished otherwise. On the fifth day of her confinement, she gave birth at last. The baby, a girl, was named Tora. After Kagome regained her strength, she returned to her home to show her family her newborn pup.
When Kagome, Inuyasha, and little Tora got to Kagome's home in the present, everyone was surprised to see an infant in Kagome's arms.
"Who is that, Kagome?" her little brother, Sota, asked his big sister.
"Sota, be gentle." Kagome warned him. "This is your niece, Tora."
"I… I'm… I'm an… Uncle?" Sota stuttered taking in the news.
"What was that Kagome?" her mother asked her. "I didn't catch the name."
"Her name is Tora." Inuyasha replied with his hands crossed in front of him. He hated going to the present to see Kagome's family. They made him feel, old, like he didn't belong in their shrine. Technically he didn't. He only comes with Kagome to protect her.
After a pleasant time explaining things to her family, Kagome decided that her friends needed an explanation for why she was gone from school all the time. It was a Saturday morning when Kagome decided to call her friends, Eri, Ayumi, and Yuka to come over for the day. They all agreed, and within a half an hour all three friends were at Kagome's house confused at why their friend wanted them to come over when she was "supposedly" sick. Kagome's grandfather had said that Kagome had a horrible case of the flu.
"Good. You guys came." Kagome said when all of her friends come through the door.
"Why are you up Kagome?" Ayumi asked concerned.
"We thought that you were sick with the flu." Eri put in, looking for a place to sit.
"Don't worry." Kagome said. "I'm feeling much better." As if on cue, Inuyasha came out from the hall into the kitchen to meet Kagome's friends.
It might be a bit more comfortable around the table." Inuyasha said poking his head from the kitchen.
"Why did you need us to come over, Kagome?" Yuka asked.
"Well, I wanted you to meet my fiancé, Inuyasha." Kagome said. "Yuka, Eri, Ayumi, meet, Inuyasha. Inuyasha, these are my friends that I've been telling you all about."
"What have she been telling you about us?" Eri asked Inuyasha.
"Only good things I assure you." Inuyasha said. He had been training with Kagome on what to say when her friends came over. It took him at least three days to remember everything that he was supposed to say!
"Cool." Yuka said nodding her head looking over Inuyasha from head to toe. She didn't leave any spot unchecked from her eye.
With most of the questions out of the way Kagome excused herself from the table to 'go grab something' from her bedroom.
"Here we are." Kagome said bringing Tora into the nook of her arm.
"Who is that Kagome?" Eri asked seeing the infant in her friends' arms.
"This is my little girl." Kagome explained.
"We named her Tora." Inuyasha finished seeing the look in his fiancé's eye's that meant that she wanted to be silent for a minuet.
"I get it." Yuka said shaking her head at Kagome.
"Get what?" Kagome asked her friend clearly confused.
"You trapped him." Ayumi said blankly.
"I didn't." Kagome said looking offended by the idea of it.
"That was my fault." Inuyasha said.
"As the old saying goes, 'it takes two to tango'." Kagome said looking at Inuyasha apologetically.
"She's right Inuyasha." Kagome's mother said coming into the room.
"Mom, you forgot our promise." Kagome said reminding her mom of their earlier promise.
"Sorry Kagome." Her mom said backing out of the room.
"Where there's mom, there's Sota." Kagome said looking at the hall. "Come out you brat."
"Dang." Sota said coming out from the other side of the wall. "You know me to well."
"Well, I did change your diapers when you were a baby." Kagome said reminding him again of her old job.
"I'm out of here." Sota said running out of the room.
"He always runs away when I say that I used to change his diapers." Kagome said shrugging her shoulders and rubbing Tora's chin making her daughter coo.
"Did you really have to change his diapers?" Yuka asked.
"Unfortunately." Kagome said.
"That sucks." Eri said.
"When did you guys meet?" Yuka asked after a few moments of an uncomfortable silence.
"Should we tell them?" Kagome asked Inuyasha.
"They have a right to know as your friends." Inuyasha replied still using the dialog that Kagome gave him to memorize.
"We 'have a right to know' what Kagome?" Eri said confused.
"You know the well in the shrine out back?" Kagome asked.
"Yeah." Yuka said also confused. "What about it?"
"Well, about three years ago I fell into it trying to get my cat out of the shrine." Kagome explained. "When I climbed out of the well, I realized that I wasn't at home anymore."
"How can that be?" Ayumi asked. "You fell into the well here, but when you got out of the well, you weren't at home. Right?"
"Exactly." Kagome replied. "That's when I ran to the Old God Tree. We have the same one in our backyard. I thought that I was still at home and that I would always find my way home by just looking for the God Tree."
"Hurry it up, Kagome." Inuyasha said losing his patience.
"I'm getting there, Inuyasha." Kagome said giving him a stern look. "When I got to the tree, I then realized that I really wasn't at home."
"How was that, Kagome?" Yuka asked.
"Well, Inuyasha was stuck on the tree with an arrow in his shoulder." Kagome replied.
"Yeah, and it still hurts." Inuyasha said rubbing his shoulder.
"Who put you there?" Eri asked Inuyasha.
"A priestess named Kikyo put me under a sealing arrow on the Sacred Tree 50 years before I met Kagome." Inuyasha explained with a frown on his face. That wasn't his most happy memory of Kikyo.
"Why did she place you under a sealing arrow?" Yuka asked Inuyasha.
"Because Kikyo thought that Inuyasha had betrayed her." Kagome explained. "They were gonna meet that morning to change Inuyasha into a human."
"Isn't he, a human?" Eri asked confused again.
"No." Kagome said. "Go ahead and take off the cap Inuyasha."
"What the…?" Yuka said looking at Inuyasha's ears.
"A youkia!" Eri exclaimed pointing at Inuyasha.
"I am not!" Inuyasha said losing his temper even faster than normal for him.
"He's a hanyou." Kagome explained to her friends. "Meaning that he had a human parent and a youkia parent."
"Which was which?" Eri asked calming down.
"I had a human mother, Izayoi, and a youkia father, Inu no Taisho." Inuyasha explained.
"Izayoi was also a princess." Kagome added.
"Nice." Yuka said nodding at Inuyasha.
"Cool." Eri put in.
"Where did you get that?" Inuyasha asked Kagome with a questioning look.
"Your brother." Kagome said shrugging her shoulders.
"Half-brother." Inuyasha corrected her.
"What's his name?" Ayumi asked with a glint in her eye.
"Sesshomaru." Kagome replied.
"How is he your half-brother?" Eri asked.
"We share the same father, but his mother was a youkia." Inuyasha explained. "He's a full youkia and he hates my guts."
"That's for sure." a voice said outside the door.
"How did you get here, Sango?" Kagome asked as Sango walked into the kitchen.
"Don't ask me." the youkia slayer said taking a seat next to Kagome.
"Or me." another voice said from the same spot that Sango came in at.
"Miroku?" Kagome asked getting confused.
"Yeah." the monk said coming into the kitchen.
"What are you two doing here?" Kagome asked looking up at her friend.
"I'd like to know the same thing." Miroku said taking a seat next to Sango.
"Oh where are my manners. Sango. Miroku. These are my friends from here, Eri, Yuka, and Ayumi." Kagome said introducing each group to the other. "Eri. Yuka. Ayumi. These are my friends from the past, Sango, and Miroku."
"Nice to meet you both." Yuka said nodding her head at Sango and Miroku in approval.
"Nice to meet you three as well." Miroku said with a glint in his eye.
"Don't even think about it Miroku." Kagome said knowing that little glint.
"What?" he asked innocently.
"Don't mind him." Sango said. "He can be perverted most of the time."
"What are you taking about most of the time?" Inuyasha asked with a smile on his face. "He's always perverted."
"That's true." Sango said agreeing with Inuyasha.
"Nock it off you guys." Kagome told Sango, Miroku and Inuyasha. "They don't understand what we had to go through."
"Then, why don't you tell us Kagome?" Eri asked.
"It's a long story." Kagome said.
"It's a long day." Her friends said together.
"I hate it when they gang up on me like that." Kagome said to herself. "Alright, but prepared to be bored out of your wits."