Chapter 4

A month later, everyone was back at the village getting everything set for the entire nation to join in the celebration of the end of the war. Izayoi woke up feeling sick once again. It was the eighth day in a row. Taro ran after her as she ran down the hallway and outside to get sick.

"Iz…" Taro said as he knelt beside her rubbing her back gently. She sat breathing heavy before his eyes went wide. "That scent…." He whispered as he pulled her to him and held her as she tried to calm her stomach.

"Taro, what's wrong?" She asked feeling how tense he was.

"You're scent. It changed. Like… when my mom, your mom, and the others when they were pregnant." Her head shot up and she looked at him with wide eyes.

"You mean?" She asked looking at him as he took another sniff before nodding. "I'm… we're gonna have a baby?" She asked as she saw a small smile on Taro's face before they both stood up look at each other. "I can't believe it!" She smiled as he wrapped his arms around her and spun them both around as they both laughed. Toshiro, Akia, Shippo and Jiro ran out of the house to see what was going on only to see Taro set Izayoi back on the ground.

"What the hell are you two doing out here so early?" Jiro asked looking at his brother. Taro smiled brightly as he looked at them.

"We're gonna have a baby!" He said with a bright smile as Shippo smirked shaking his head before he went back in the house leaving Toshiro, Akia and Jiro to talk. "We're gonna have a baby." He said again as Akia ran to Izayoi and they hugged tight with a bright smile and the two men looked at Taro before smiles broke across their faces and they gave their congratulations to both.

"Now we have to wait for mom and dad to get back." Toshiro said as he hugged his sister.

"Mom's gonna kill you." Jiro laughed at Taro who looked at his brother for a second before a smile broke back across his face.

"I couldn't care less what mom does. I'm gonna be a dad!" He laughed twirling Izayoi around again making her laugh.

"What's all the celebrating for?" Inuyasha asked as he landed with the others. Akio and Taji carried the still unconscious Saburo to a guest room to be take care of. Taro set Izayoi back down and they looked at Inuyasha as his smile dropped quickly as he looked at his mother and Inuyasha.

"Don't care eh?" Jiro laughed as he shook his head.

"Oh, mom, dad you guys are back?" Hanna asked as she and Ryuu walked up to the group.

"We wanted to make sure we were able to have enough time to set up."

"Especially with you women not being able to do anything." Koga added with a smile.

"Can't do things?" Izayoi asked looking at her mother and the other women in the group.

"What do you say the girls go to the hot springs?" Kagome smiled making Inuyasha roll his eyes as he led the way for the men to go into the house while the women grabbed their things.

"Be good." Izayoi smiled kissing Taro's cheek making him chuckle before the women left.

"So what was the celebrating for?" Katsu asked making Taro look at Toshiro and Jiro. "What? Is it some secret?"

"You tell me why the women can't do anything, first?" Taro said narrowing his eyes slightly, making Katsu narrow his.

"You seem very sly." Inu no Taisho said making Taro smirk waiting for Katsu to answer. "You seem beyond your years."

"When he wants to be." Koga laughed as he saw his son with a bright smile. "Why do you have that silly little grin?" Taro looked at his father and shook his head.

"Tell me first."

"Kagome, Sango, Rin, and Nori are pregnant." Katsu told him making him look around the room blinking. "Now spill it." He smirked as Taro smirked and looked to Shippo.

"Mizuki's pregnant," He said making Inuyasha chuckle.

"Didn't learn your lesson the last two times?"

"Can't help it." He grinned "Besides, I'm not the one you should be lecturing." Taro's eyes went wide. His brother in law wouldn't throw him to the dogs….. Would he? "Talk to Taro." Everyone turned looking at the young demon as he looked shocked.

"I…um…"

"Thought you didn't care what they did." Jiro laughed at his brother making him smirk and look back at the others. He stood up getting may looks from the others making him chuckle.

"I can almost guarantee I'm gonna have to run."

"The only reason you would have to run is if you got Izzy pregnant." Koga chuckled before he saw the grin return to his son's face as Jiro, Toshiro and Shippo went silent looking around. "You mean…?"

"Yeah." Taro said keeping an eye on Inuyasha as he narrowed his eyes. "I caught the scent this morning." He said before he jumped out of the way of Inuyasha charging. Toshiro and Shippo jumped to their father pulling him back.

"Dad, it's not like you can kill him." Shippo said making Inuyasha growl. "You know Izzy wouldn't be too happy about that either."

"Yeah imagine what Izzy and mom would do if you kill Taro." Toshiro said pulling his father back as Taro stood behind the couch.

"So, Izzy what was the celebration about?" Kagome asked her daughter as she smiled at her.

"What was that about you not being able to do anything?" Kagome smiled at her daughter shaking her head.

"Out of all the women Sango, Rin, Nori and me all found out we're pregnant." Izayoi smiled at her mother before she hugged her. "Now are you going to tell us?"

"Well Mizuki's pregnant too." She said making Kagome raise an eyebrow. "We shouldn't be too long. Don't want dad killing Taro." Kagome looked at her daughter.

"Why would your father kill Taro?" Ayame asked her daughter in law as she smiled.

"Well, cause… I'm gonna be joining you guys." She smiled as Kagome's eyes went wide.

"You're…?" Kagome asked as she and Izayoi stopped.

"Yeah, Taro caught the scent this morning right before you got back." She smiled as Ayame stopped and stared at her shocked. "Hopefully Shippo and Shiro will stop dad before he does anything."

"Well this should be interesting again." Rin said making Nori and Kagome laugh.

"Just gotta make sure we all don't go at the same time. That was crazy." Nori smiled.

"Yeah." Kagome smiled as they all reached the hot springs.

(Where For Ever and For Always left off)

"That party was awesome!" Kagome heard one of her nieces call as she ran around with the other children. The adults smiled watching the children play before they looked at the grown up children. They missed when they were all babies, but was glad that they were all given the life spans of demons by Midoriko all those years ago.

"You guys gonna all go at once this time?" Asked Eri looking at Kagome and the other women.

"We have our fingers crossed we all go at different times." Kagome laughed. "As long as it's nothing like last time we should be alright." The group sat together late into the night all talking about the old days and what the future would hold. Slowly the party started t die leaving the main group and their relatives all talking about what they would do in the future.

"What is everyone planning on doing? I mean there are a lot of people who came back." Yuri said looking around.

"Well I think the demon slayers who can stay are going back to the slayer village." Sango said looking at her father.

"I think we'll go back to life in the modern time." Kaorii said looking at his sister and brother in law. "We can help out around the shrine and come help here when you need it." He smiled at his daughter.

Inuyasha held Kaori and Kentaro in his arms as Naoki, Anzu, and Aki cuddled in Shippo's lap, Koga held Akina, while Keji and Tomeo cuddled in Sesshomaru's lap and Katsu sat next to Inuyasha holding Tamotsu. Lady Izayoi sat looking at all of the children asleep and smiled. She had first met the twins when they were but two years old and now they sat having children of their own. Izayoi laid her head on Taro as he instinctively wrapped an arm around her as he continued talking to his Brother and Brother in law.

"Sleepy?" Taro asked softly as the others all began to talk even more as she gave a nod. "Why don't we go to bed? The baby takes a lot out of you." He said softly as he put his one hand gently on her swollen belly to feel his child moving. He smiled as felt a kick and Izayoi giggled softly. He stood up and held out a hand to help her to her feet before they announced they were going to bed. The two walked slowly to the large hut Taro had built with Inuyasha and Toshiro when they were making huts for each of the new families.

"Taro." Izayoi said waking up in pain. "Taro." She hissed. "Flea bag!" She yelled making him jump awake.

"What? What's wrong?" He asked before he saw her wince as sweat began to form on her forehead. "Iz."

"Go get my mom." She said making him jump to his feet and running to Kagome and Inuyasha's house in nothing but his pants. He ran as fast as he could and banged on the door to have it opened by Taji followed by several others including Koga and Ayame.

"Taro, what's wrong?" Taji asked as he saw Taro's frantic look.

"Izzy… She needs Kagome…." He said quickly.

"Taji go get your mother and tell her Izzy's in labor." Ayame said before looking at Koga who nodded and she took off leaving Taro confused. Suddenly Kagome ran through the house giving Taro a smile before she ran to the house with the other women. The men stood as Inuyasha joined them worried about his daughter. Even if Shippo's children were his first grandchildren, nothing compared to being worried about his daughter being the one giving birth. Taro looked towards the house worried making Inuyasha walk over putting his hand on Taro's shoulder making him flinch.

"Relax, it will be over soon." He said and saw Taro take a deep breath and nodded. "Let's go tell Shippo, Shiro, Miroku and Sango."

"Better tell Hanna first. You know she will freak out if you don't." Taji said with a smirk making Inuyasha smile and nod.

"I'll go tell everyone Taro stay here with yer dad." Inuyasha said before he and Taji took off.

"Taro." Koga said looking at his eldest son as he started to get jittery. He turned and looked at his father making his father smile. "Relax, pup. All of the women are going to try to be there to help, so you have nothing to worry about."

"I know, dad. I just…" He trailed off as all of his emotions swam free in his bright green eyes. "I can't believe it and then I don't want anything to happen… I…" He trailed off as Koga chuckled.

"Let's sit and wait." Taro shook his head and Koga sat and watched his son pace. "Yer lucky I'm the one who was left with you. Did you know that when Izzy and Shiro were born Izzy and Kagome almost died?" Taro's head snapped to look at his father even more worried. "Sango and Kaede apparently were able to save them but they basically died. Now just two of those women could bring both of them back, imagine what all of them can do." Koga smirked as his son smiled and nodded.

"Dad, I know all about them. I…"

"Just can't wait?" Shippo added as he walked up with all the men. "It's hard sitting and waiting but it's well worth the wait." Shippo smiled carrying his three year old Naoki as she slept on his shoulder.

"It gets easier with time too." Miroku said as Taro continued to walk back and forth. "And you better watch yourself. Inuyasha has a habit of knocking guys loopy."

"What do you mean?" Kaorii asked looking around as Inuyasha crossed his arms and sat.

"Inuyasha knocked Miroku out a few times, from what I hear he took Koga out when the boys were born, and almost had to do it again with the twins, he never did anything with me, but then again I didn't freak too much."

"Well all that's left is to wait for it to be over." Koga said as they all watched Taro standing in place staring in the direction of the house.

Late morning the men were getting antsy and Taro was losing his control over his patients when they heard Kagome call for Inuyasha. The entire group moved as fast as they could to get to the house where they saw the women all but Hanna, Ayame, and Mina standing outside with smiles. Kagome smiled as she led Inuyasha, Koga and Taro in first. They walked through the house to the bedroom where Ayame stood holding a baby and off to the side sat Mina and Hanna holding a second baby. Taro froze looking at the two before his eyes fell on the sleeping Izayoi. The women walked over to the men as Taro took the baby from his sister as she smiled brightly. He looked at the baby his mother was holding as a smile slowly started to spread across his face.

"How's Izzy?" Taro asked looking back to his mate.

"She's really worn out, but she's fine. Everything went better than I could have hoped for." Kagome smiled standing with Inuyasha as he looked at the two babies.

"We should go check on the others." Hanna said with a smile to Kagome and the others making them nod and leave but not before Koga and Inuyasha stood a moment longer looking over Taro's shoulders at the two babies before they followed the women leavening Taro to hold his twins. His son wrapped in a soft blanket with black hair lay sleeping in one arm and his daughter wrapped in a warm blanket with brownish gray hair and fur covered dog ears, sound asleep in his other. He couldn't believe he was standing there holding his very own children.

"Ta…ro….." He heard making him look at his mate as she turned her heard and looked at him. He moved to her side with a bright smile as she started to wake up. "Twins…. It figures." She smiled as she took her son into her arms.

"Well now they can be like their mother and uncle." Taro smiled. He looked down seeing his daughter start to open her eyes to look up with honey colored eyes. They saw the boy starting to fuss as he opened his eyes to reveal the same color his sister had.

"What do you want to name them?" She asked looking at the two.

"Katara." He said looking at the little girl.

"Kenta." Izayoi said with a smile at her twins with a small yawn.

"Get some more sleep." Taro said

"I'll be fine." As Kagome walked back in and smiled seeing her daughter sitting with her mate and their children.

"You should listen to your mate." Kagome smiled making her daughter smile. "I want both of you to rest. Inuyasha and I will take the twins for the night and let you get one last night of rest." She smiled as Taro raised an eyebrow. "You'll see what I'm talking about later." She said as Taro stood up with Katara in his arms and Kagome picked up Kenta.

"I'll walk them out with you before I come back." He said with a smile. "I'll be right back." He told Izayoi as she nodded and taro followed his mother in law out to the others who were waiting to hear about the twins. As soon as they walked out of the house, they were surrounded. Taro held Katara close to him as his mother and sister tried to get him to hand her over.

"She's adorable." Ayame said with a smile as she looked at her granddaughter.

"Her name is Katara. His name is Kenta." Taro smiled as his daughter started to look around at everyone. Ayame tried to take the girl again only to have Taro pull her closer. "Hey, you didn't like the idea of having a grandkid, you can hold her later." He said sticking his tongue out at her.

"She's a newborn I want to hold her." She told her son.

"And she's my daughter." He grinned liking the sound of that. Inuyasha and Koga walked over to see the girl as Kagome showed the little boy off. Inuyasha smirked looking at the girl as Koga took her from Taro.

"You let your father hold him but not me?" Taro only laughed.

"So how's it feel to be a dad?" Shippo asked making Taro smile.

"I like it."

"Taro…" Kagome said walking over to him making him smile. He smoothed a hand over each of the twins' heads before walking back into the house.