Chapter 26: Father, A New Ally

"Father?" Kagome asked.

"Yes?" Inunan replied.

"I am sorry this is late, but we are the Alphas of The Eastern side of The Western Lands now. We need some allies for the future and-" Kagome tried to say.

"I know where your going with this, and yes. I will be your ally. I can not say no to Inu no Tashio's second son and say yes to his first. So now The Southern Lands are allied with The Western Lands once again. Do you two need a place to stay? You are welcome here since you are, I guess family." Inunan told her.

Kagome looked at Inuyasha.

"Thank you, that would be good. Only for a few days though. We will need to go back to the village that our friends are at soon." Inuyasha replied.

Four days pasted. Nothing really happened. Now that Naraku is gone, rarely anything happens. Kagome and her father caught up a little. Inuyasha was starting to realize that his mate was getting bigger since she was with a pup.

"You'll have a grand child soon father." Kagome told Inunan at dinner one night.

He practically lost it.

"Did I hear you right? You're with a pup?" He asked confused.

"Yea, you heard me all right. We can't tell the gender yet though." She replied.

"What are you going to name it?" He asked.

"Muteki for a boy, and Izyaoi for a girl." Kagome told him.

"You'll give it a human name?" Inu Heki asked.

"Well, I decided on that, that was Inuyasha's mother's name, do you remember?" Kagome told him.

He thought for a moment. "Ah, yes. Izayoi was a foreign beauty. She was almost too beautiful for this world." Inunan said.

"Hey, no doting on my father's mate." Inuyasha told him.

"Sorry, but she was."

"I know she was. I grew up with her."

"And you looked like her when you were human too."

"How do you know what she looked like?"

"Sesshoumaru brought her back from the dead supposedly, but in the end it was a demon that looked exactly like her."

"I never got to see your human form, how much did you resemble her?"

"Well, he had black hair and violet eyes. That much I know, ouch!" Kagome said and slapped her cheek feeling something bite her. The something floated into her hand and popped up.

"Myouga, I'm gonna kill you if you don't stop doing that! I don't care if my blood tastes good to you, you gotta stop!"

"But… I'm a flea." He said and saw Inuyasha motion him over. Inuyasha covered his mouth and told Myouga to ignore it because she was pregnant. He let him suck his blood for once to make him feel better, thinking Kagome was a little harsh on him.

"Myouga, long time no see."

"Inu Heki! What have you been doing with these two for so long?"

"Kagome is supposed to be my daughter from the future. The crescent mark is the same, so she isn't lying."

"Yes, and her blood tastes somewhat like yours as well."

"Wow, I didn't think I would taste like my father."

"Well you do Madam Kagome, you very much do."

She blushed and smiled. It was a complement in Myouga's own little way.

"So what have you come here for Myouga? You rarely ever come just for a conversation."

"I came to find you. The others got worried and I came instead."

Kagome rolled her eyes. "Well they can deal with it. Maybe I felt like spending some time with my father who died before I was born and I never got to meet. Don't worry Dad, I was born in 1981. You've got a good 470 years until you die. Long enough to kill off all the slayers that will come around in a few centuries."

"Slayers?"

"Yea, they'll come and try and take over all of the lands. We will kill them. I can count on it since we were still alive in my era. Or will be under my human spell, whatever that is."

"Kagome, that is a very powerful spell." Myouga told her. "It can give you the appearance you are human."

"Like we were forever under the New Moon?"

"Yes. If its strong enough you can even take away the powers and senses of youkais too."

"Wow, it can't shorten the life span of youkais can it?"

"Heavens no, because you only give the appearance of being human."

"Thank god! I want to live for centuries."

"The only bad thing is that, even though you have your senses taken away, you can still turn into a dog, or if you are a hanyou you can still turn into a youkai, if you are riled up."

"Gosh, that means I have about 300 years to master it."

"I believe it will take that long to do multiple people. One is hard enough from what I've heard. But being able to relinquish one's abilities but keep another's will be tough. Especially if you plan for all of the youkai Lords, and their mates, and their children."

"Oh god. Too much… uhhhh." Kagome said while falling onto the floor. Inuyasha scampered up and tried to wake her up.

"I don't blame her." Inu Heki said.

"It doesn't look like she's waking up. I'll go put her in bed." Inuyasha said as he picked Kagome up and brought her into their room and laid her down. Then he came back out and sat down. Inu Heki's crescent was glowing. Inuyasha raised a brow at this.

"I'm calling Kagome, you know about the mark's work with inter-communications between the people with the mark right?"

"Yes."

"Watch, I can feel she's getting up."

Inuyasha turned to see their door. Sure enough Kagome's mark was glowing from behind her bangs when she opened the door.

"What did you want Dad?"

'I wanted to make sure you were ok.'

"Well of course I'm ok."

"Wait… how did you… huh?" Inuyasha said, confused.

"I'm using the mark to talk to her."

"Ok. So I could talk to Sesshoumaru that way if I wanted to?"

"Yes, but you have to be trained. But, I don't think you should try it without him knowing your trying it. He might get a little mad if he's in the middle of something."

"Right. I wouldn't want to rile my brother up." He started to snicker.

"What is it mate?" Kagome asked. Inuyasha was now in a full laughter.

"I - I can - just see - his face - he- he doesn't know - what's going on. - He thinks - I'm there."

Kagome shook her head. "You can think up more things to do to your brother in one second than anyone else I know."

"Is that bad?" Inuyasha said once he calmed down.

"What do you think?" She said with a slight attitude. "I bet your glad those beads are gone right now, because I'd sit you if they weren't."

"I have been. Now come sit down. Ges."

"Just watching you two makes me think about what your Mom taught you Kagome."

"You'll know soon. You will. And I swear, I'll probably have the spell on you too. And be there when you see my Mom to make sure my grandfather doesn't kill you first."

"Why?"

"Do we have to talk about that?" Inuyasha murmured.

"Yes, anyway. He doesn't like youkais too much. He even tried to do things to me. He thinks he's a priest, but if he was he would make sutras correctly and they would hurt other than being just sticky and annoying. I'm like the only real priestess in my time. I haven't seen one that can make sutras that hurt or call on the spirits to kill us. Only annoy us."

"You have a messed up family."

"Yes I do, but I love them."