Chapter 49: September of 1738
The beginning of the month was quiet. It was the middle of the month coming up on the full moon.
"Dad, can we go out for sword training now?" A 14 year old Muteki asked.
"Hold on Muteki." Inuyasha told him. "Kagome?"
"Yes?" She called to him. She came out to the courtyard.
"Do you know when it will happen?"
"No I don't. It only said in the 18th Century. Remember?"
"No, that's why I asked you."
She rolled her eyes. "Just go. Sesshoumaru's nearby, my father's just a call away, Sango and Miroku are always ready to fight, and Kouga will sense them."
"Sense who?" Muteki asked.
"Slayers. They're supposed to come in this century to over throw us."
"How do you know?"
"Remember all the stories I've told you and Reijin about? Like The Tale of The Miko and The Hanyou?"
"Yea?"
"They're true. All of them. They're stories about me and your father. Remember the pictures in the books?"
"Yea."
"Watch. Senmo Kengen Haburi Tenka." She turned herself into a human and Inuyasha into a hanyou. "This is the way me and your father were born. I was a miko and he was a hanyou. We wished on the Shikon no Tama in 1512 that we would be inu-youkais. The only reason I'm an inu-youkai is because I mated him as a hanyou and we needed more control over our blood."
Muteki was shocked. He had never seen his mother look… human before.
"MOOMMY!!" Inu Reijin called. "Who are you? And why do you look like daddy?" She was a 9 year old inu youkai with silver hair. She had black and blue streaks in her hair and blue dog ears. She also had a silver, purple crescent mark like Inuyasha's and Kagome's combined, like Muteki's. She had chocolate eyes as well.
"Because we are your parents. This is the way we were born." Kagome told her.
"No my parents are youkais! Not human and hanyou."
Inuyasha rolled his eyes. "We were born thin way Reijin. Deal with it. Your mother mated me and became a hanyou an then she wished us to become full blood on the Shikon on Tama so we could have more control."
"Are you my mommy and daddy?"
"Yes, look. Henjo Tenka Kengen. Oops sorry Inu. Henjo Tenka Kengen!"
"Its all right, you haven't done it in a few years."
He started to sniff the air. And his ears turned.
"What is it?" Kagome asked.
He jumped in a tree in the courtyard and fell out in a panic. "Call your father. Now!"
"Why?"
"Look." He said jumping in the tree with her. There was a massive army coming towards them. "I'll go get Sesshoumaru, you call your father and protect the kids."
She nodded and closed her eyes.
'Father?'
'Yes Kagome?'
'Its time. They're here.'
'I'll be there soon.'
"Reijin, stay in the castle unless I tell you to come out, ok?"
"Yes mommy." She said and ran inside the castle.
"Muteki, remember all the attacks I've taught you?"
"Yep. Want me to transform?"
"Only if you have to. And don't use your ultimate power until the very end. It'll drain you too quickly."
He nodded and the readied themselves. They saw a wind come towards them.
"Looks like you two are ready, where's the mutt?" Kouga said once he stopped running with Ayame.
"He went to go get Sesshoumaru."
"Hey don't call my father a mutt! He isn't one anymore!"
"Muteki, he's called your father a mutt since the day he saw him. The name just stuck, even after we transformed. And you still haven't gotten over me have yea Kouga?" She asked smiling at him.
He looked around and then glared at her.
"What I thought."
"Hey you-"
"Just shut up Muteki. I've told you enough stories about all of us for you to know by now. Sango! Miroku! Get your asses out here now! It's time." Kagome yelled.
They came running out. Sango was in her slayer uniform, holding the hiraikotsu while Miroku held his staff.
"Where's Inuyasha and Sesshoumaru?" Miroku asked.
"They're coming along with my father. Damn he should have been here by now. Muteki, you stay here, I'm going to check." She said and started jumping tree to tree, going South. She saw him, some of the army had surrounded him.
"Father! What did I tell you about going out in the open? Move. Infinite Aura Blast!" He jumped out of the way and she shot her beam at them, most that were surrounding him died. "Why don't you listen to me? Its for your own good!" She asked.
"I don't know."
"Come on, everyone but Sesshoumaru and Inuyasha are there."
They started jumping tree to tree and got there in a matter of minutes. Sesshoumaru and Inuyasha were just coming as well.
"All right, you know the rules guys. No true forms and no ultimate attacks until the end."
They all nodded.
"Surrender to us and we will not harm you." Called a general.
"Well, if you back off, we won't kill you!" Inuyasha called back.
"Ha! You can't kill us! Just because you are youkai doesn't mean anything?"
"How come you think we haven't been over thrown yet by other youkais? We are the most powerful youkais in Japan!"
"We will give you one last chance to back down. Now surrender or suffer the consequences."
"Let me take care of this little brother." Sesshoumaru said unsheathing his Tokujin. "Everyone behind me. Dragon Strike!"
All of the generals screamed in pain. A few were left standing but most died.
"And so it begins. Infinite Aura Blast!" Kagome yelled pointing at one of the armies and knocked them down and killed them.
"Fang of Evolution!" Muteki yelled pointing a finger at the armies. A bright blue blast of blades came out of his claw.
"Inuyasha, use the Tetsusaiga!" Kagome called.
He nodded then unsheathed it. A general backed down. "Wind Scar!" He yelled and an army was knocked out.
"This is taking too long. I don't care what I said, use your true forms at your own will. I'm transforming." Kagome said and transformed after she stepped out of the courtyard. Her mane started to glow the she opened her mouth and everyone saw her fangs were glowing. She blasted a white light at an army and it killed them all.
"Your right mate, this is taking too long." Inuyasha said; sheathed the Tetsusaiga and transformed outside as well. They had grown at least 18' since 1512.
Sesshoumaru walked out, but didn't transform. "Poison Claw!" He said and hit a general with it.
Inu Heki started to walk out as well and Kagome saw it. "Father, unless you're transforming you stay in there. You're not getting hurt yet." She barked.
"I am transforming darling. I can't do it in the courtyard!" He yelled to her and transformed. She was just about as tall as he was.
"Muteki, transform. Now!" Inuyasha barked.
"Yes father." He said and transformed in the courtyard. He was only about 17' tall.
"Stay and protect the castle Muteki. You're the only one big enough to fit in the courtyard anymore besides Reijin." Kagome barked.
"I will." He barked back and growled at a general that was coming closer to the castle. He shot a beam of light at the general and it killed him.
Kagome and Inuyasha started blasting their attacks at the armies. Inu Heki stayed at the entrance of the castle helping guard it. Kouga started knocking down the armies men one by one with Ayame and Sesshoumaru. It went on for a few hours. Then Kagome finally got tired and transformed back. She jumped into a tree and used her bow from there for a minute.
Then there came a scream from the castle. Kagome and Inuyasha looked that way and found out it was on fire. Kagome jumped out of the tree and rushed over. Muteki was already transformed back. "Is Reijin in there?"
He nodded and she put her bow away.
"You stay here."
She ran into the building. "Reijin!… Reijin!" She called.
"Mommy! Where are you? Mommy?"
"Reijin! Can you get out? Where are you? I'm at the front."
"No, there's something blocking my path! AHHH!"
"Reijin! Cover your face and get as low as possible." Kagome yelled pulling her katana out and transforming it into a sword. "Sapphire Blaze!" She yelled crashing the sword down. It blew a path in the castle for her to get out. "Reijin! Reijin? You can come out now! Reijin!"
She saw a little head poke out and then a girl came running towards her. "Mommy!" Reijin yelled. Kagome picked her up and hugged her.
"You transform and stay with Muteki. Do what he says, ok?"
"Yes mommy!"
Kagome ran back to battle. There was only one large army left and her father was taking on the general.
"Father! Get outta there! Now!" She said transforming her bow and materializing an arrow. He looked and saw the arrow, the transformed back and jumped out of the way. "Go!" She yelled. It hit the general and some other men. Inuyasha transformed back as well and took the Tetsusaiga out.
"WIND SCAR!!" He yelled and it took out most of the army.
"Hiraikotsu!" Sango yelled throwing the over sized boomerang.
"Sango!" Miroku yelled.
"Huh?" She said and looked the other way. A man was coming towards her with a spear.
"Go!" Kagome yelled and pinned him to a tree.
"Thanks Kagome!" Sango yelled.
"No problem." She yelled back. "Lets finish this once and for all mate." Kagome said.
"Yea. Sesshoumaru, you're up."
He nodded and took out the Tokujin again. He looked around to make sure everyone was behind him then, "Dragon Strike!" He killed off the rest of the army in one blow.
"Thanks Sesshoumaru." Kagome called.
He nodded to her. They all met up in a clear area.
"Since your castle burned down Kagome, you all can stay with us." Ayame told her.
"Thank you." Kagome said picking Inu Reijin up and smiled. "That would be great."
"Now we'll have some time to catch up. Reijin, the pups back at the den have been wanting to see you too."
Inu Reijin smiled and did a happy dance in her mother's arms. Kagome chuckled.
"Is anyone wounded? Are you father?"
"No, I am thankfully not this time." He said and turned around and walked towards a tree.
"Father wait." Kagome said and put Reijin down. She came up to her father. "Turn around a second." He did as he was told, and she slid off his haori and gasped. "How did you not feel this father?" She asked moving his hair out of the way.
"Feel what?"
"Inuyasha, come here. Look at this."
Inuyasha walked over and his eyes widened. Inu Heki's back had a massive blow to it. It was bleeding badly.
"Father, lay down on your stomach for a minute."
He did what he was told and the others came over. Kagome healed him up and he sat up.
"How the hell did you get that?" Inuyasha asked him.
"Get what?" Inu Heki asked sliding his haori back on.
"Do you not have feeling? There was a huge wound on your back! It was bleeding heavily too."
"You're not sitting in any trees today father. You may have lost too much blood. Everyone, you might want to look. Just to make sure that you don't have anything taken out of you." Kagome said.
Everyone started looking at each other, making sure there were no more wounds. Inu Reijin, was the only other person who had a wound, it was a burn. Kagome healed it quickly and got up.
Everyone except for Sesshoumaru went to the den. He went back to his castle.
When they got there the children played and the adults rested.
Kagome was in Inuyasha's lap; Sango laid on Miroku's lap; Kouga and Ayame just sat next to each other; and Inu Heki sat outside on a rock near the opening of the den.
"How have you two managed to have four pups already, and us only two?" Kagome asked Ayame.
"Two were twins. So we're actually pretty close."
"I better go check on my father, he looks depressed." Kagome whispered and got up. She walked quietly over to her father and sat on the rock with him. "What's wrong dad?"
He was shocked because he didn't hear her come up. "Nothing."
"Then why do you look depressed?… Come on tell me."
"Its nothing."
"Yes it is. I can tell."
He sighed. "I've just been thinking. Maybe I should move back to The Southern Lands."
"No! You'll get killed! I know how you are. You will get killed if you go back and stay there."
"Yes, I most likely will but… its just… I can't win with you. Why do I bother?" He said looking at her smiling.
"I don't know why you bother, but I love you."
"I love you too Kagome." He said and hugged her.
"I need you father. Not just for me but my family. You are my family and I can't let you go."
He smiled at her and kissed her cheek. "Come with me outside for a minute." He told her.
She nodded and walked with him. She glanced back to make sure no one was following her. They walked out to a tree and she helped him jump up into it. She sat it his lap and looked up at him.
He was quiet for a minute.
"You're not going to ask me to bear your child are you?"
"Heavens no darling! Why would you ask something like that?"
"Because this sort of reminds me of when Miroku asked me that. Except he was holding my hands like I was marrying him. Then Inuyasha got all over him for it."
He chuckled. "No, we decided 200 years ago that we would only do that once."
"I know."
"I've built a castle in The Southern Lands and I wanted to know if you and your family would like to live there with me."
She got wide eyed. "Of course father!"
He smiled and she turned around and hugged him.
"What are you two doing up there?" Miroku asked.
He growled at him. "Golden Blessing Whip!" She yelled.
"Hey!" He said rubbing his side.
"Do you have to ruin a father - daughter moment?"
"No but-"
"I am your soul keeper. I can take you off this world if I want. Sango wouldn't like that now would she?"
He sighed. "No."
"Then get! Now!" She told him.
He walked away. Kagome smiled at her father. "I've learned how to get rid of him through out the years."
He chuckled.
"Father?"
"Yes?"
She sighed. "When you do into battle in 300 years that day, do you want me to let you die that way?"
"No. I've decided I want you to help save me that day. I don't want to die that way. Your new self will have a father to look up to."
She smiled. "Thanks dad."
"But that might affect if you go down the well or not."
"If I don't go down the well, I'll push myself down the well. It won't be some centipede that pulls me down."
He smiled again at her. "This will be odd raising two daughters who are the same person."
She got wide eyed.
"What is it darling?"
"That means Souta will never be born. But I have two lives. One in that era and one here, so he has time to live. That's ok."
"Are you sure that's ok?"
"Yes. He is living now. That's what counts."