Chapter Thirty:

The Higurashi Family

Late in the night two silver dog demons flew through the night sky, their fur shining in the pale moonlight, until they came to a dry well on the outskirts of human village in Musashi.

Once they landed, the two giant dogs turned into two beautiful silver haired women.

Aiko looked into the well's dark depths curiously as her silver braid laid over her slim shoulders.

"So this is the Bone eater's well, the portal between this era and the future."

"Yes my daughter." Gobodō-sama said as she crossed her arms in her kimono sleeves. "On the other side of this dries well, that is said to devour demon corpses, his Kagome's family."

Aiko nodded. Her mother had come to her after InuYasha had returned to his rooms and informed her of the little priestess's desire to have her family with her. So without delay both females left the palace to retrieve their new pack sister's mortal family.

"So we jump in and we go to five hundred years into the future?" Aiko asked as her mother sat on the edge of the old looking, ivy covered structure.

"Yes child. It was one of my most creative ideas I think. I'm quite proud of it."

Aiko laughed as she sat on the well. "Of course you are. After you mother."

And with that the most powerful Inu Yokai leapt into the dried well and disappeared in a blue light followed closely by her youngest daughter.

InuYasha woke in the early morning; the light of the rising sun's light was softly dulled by the sliding door's decorative cloth. The hanyo yawned and stretched, careful to not disturb the sleeping beauty that rested her head on his chest.

InuYasha smiled at his wife lovingly. He couldn't remember the last time he had been so happy.

Even if those Taisho bastards don't like the decisions Sesshomaru and I made they can't do shit.

Before he got up, InuYasha kissed Kagome's temple then her belly where his baby rested. Then, leaving his mate to sleep covered by his momoko, InuYasha got up and began to dress until her heard a knock.

But before he could get to the door it opened and the hanyo was pleasantly surprised to find his young brother in law.

"Hey InuYasha!" Souta said as he threw his arms around his half demon brother.

"Hey runt." He said while ruffling the boy's hair. "Try to be quiet your sister is still sleeping."

The nine year old looked past his hanyo brother in law to his heavily pregnant sister fast asleep he then looked up and nodded as the half demon lead the boy from the room and followed him to where is mother and grandfather were staying just down the hall from his and Kagome's rooms.

"Oh InuYasha dear!" Mrs. Higurashi smiled as she hugged the half demon. InuYasha hugged his mate's mother back without a thought and then shook her grandfather's hand.

Both Kagome's mother and brother had been given feudal era clothes but the old Shinto priest had been adamant about wearing his own clothes.

"This is certainly impressive." Mrs. Higurashi told the hanyo s she gestured to the rooms they were in. "Kagome had said that your father was a Lord but I honestly didn't think about all this."

InuYasha blushed as he shrugged. "Yeah well until recently I had never really had much to do with either side of my family but obviously all that has changed." The half demon's eyes softened and he smiled gently. "I'm just glad that Izayoi will grow up safe and protected."

"And Izayoi is what you and Kagome are naming the baby?" Mrs. Higurashi asked.

InuYasha nodded. "Uh yeah, we're naming her after my mother."

"A fine name." Grandpa declared as he sipped tea that a servant had brought for the family.

"Yes it is a beautiful name." his mother in law nodded with a loving smile.

The hanyo gave a satisfied smiled, as he looked away faking indifference. They would never know how much their acceptance of him and his relationship with Kagome meant to him. Even if they had be against him mating Kagome he had no doubt that he would have acted much like his father had when he came to his grandfather's castle and taken his human mother from the mortals determined to keep her from her Lord mate.

Thankfully her family is a hell of a lot reasonable then the Setsuna clan was.

"Well we met your brother when we got here." Mrs. Higurashi said happily. InuYasha growled softly at the mention of his brother. He couldn't say he hated him but he could say Sesshomaru annoyed the hell out of him.

"Half brother." InuYasha answered. The human woman chuckled. "Either way he seemed very nice."

"You ain't related to him."

Souta looked up from his food a big grin. "He seemed cool InuYasha but not as cool as you. I don't think he'd play video games with me."

InuYasha proudly crossed his arms and put his nose in the air. "Feh of course I'm cooler then that ass."

InuYasha's ear flicked right before there was a knock at the door and the half demon stood to answer.

He slid the door open to see Emi with Kagome who was dressed in a simple yukata.

The hanyo smiled as he took his mate in his arms and kissed her.

"How are you feeling wench?" he asked with none of the usual gruffness and more concern then he had ever shown her. He knew yesterday had been hard on her, especially when it had been obvious that a few of the Taishos would have gladly killed both her and Izayoi.

"I'm okay," she said then put a hand on her belly. "Izayoi thought I needed to get up." The half demon laughed as he growled softly toward the pup growing inside the woman he loved.

"You need to chill out in their young lady." At the sound of his gentle reprimand the pup ceased her moving and obeyed her father.

InuYasha then nodded to the room. "Come on mate I have a surprise for you."

Kagome smiled as she allowed her husband to lead her into the room then she heard a voice she was sure she wouldn't have heard for at least a few months to half a year from then.

"Man sis, you got huge!"

Kagome's face lit up in the biggest smile he had seen on her face in a while.

"Souta!" the pregnant teen ran, or whatever it was her condition allowed her to do, to her family.

Souta hugged his sister around her large waist as her mother and her mother and grandfather hugged her on either side.

"How did you guys get here?" Kagome asked as happy tears rolled down her cheeks.

"InuYasha's grandmother and aunt Aiko came through the well. I had no idea InuYasha's family was so powerful."

Kagome laughed as she imagined the odd sight of the noble Inu demoness and her warrior dressed, one dressed like the wife of a Lord and the other like ninja, standing in her family's mundane kitchen.

"Yeah everyone here is pretty impressive." Kagome then turned to her new friend and bodyguard.

"This is Emi, she's InuYasha's cousin and she's be watching over me."

Mrs. Higurashi smiled at the pretty young demon woman who looked no older then her daughter due to her demon blood and she smiled as she held out her arms.

"Its wonderful to meet you Emi, thank you for watching after my little girl."

Emi tentatively returned the human woman's hug as she looked to InuYasha for any kind of advice on how to handle the overly friendly human.

Then hanyo smirked and shrugged as he laughed at his cousin's confusion.

"Get use to it. These people ain't scared of much."

Once the older Higurashi woman released the demon she turned back to her daughter and looked to her belly.

"I see the baby has grown since the last time I saw you!" she said as she put her hands on the miko's stomach. The woman's actions caused Emi to growl warningly before InuYasha put a hand on her shoulder to silence her. It was instinctual for a Dog demon to become hostile when someone touched a pregnant pack sisters belly. Doing so was seen as a threat to the unborn pup inside. The only reason the hanyo did not have the urge to reprimand the woman was because his demon recognized her as his mate's mother and there for his pack.

"Yeah," Kagome smiled fondly down at the beach ball that her stomach had become. "She's growing pretty fast. Kimi said that there is a good chance that she'll come sometime next month since InuYasha had been born around the same time. Apparently full dog demons are only pregnant for three to four and a half months so with InuYasha and Izayoi being half demons the pregnancy is longer."

Deciding that his mate and her family had caught up enough then hanyo spoke up.

"Okay come on let get to the dinning hall." InuYasha said as he put his hands on Kagome's shoulders you need to eat woman, can't have you starving my pup."

Kagome laughed but nodded.

InuYasha gestured for her family follow them and they made their way to the dining hall.

Once the family made it to the dining hall InuYasha introduced the Higurashi to the remaining family members as well as Sango, Miroku, Kirara, and Shippo and Koga. Then everyone sat down to eat.

"So Mr. Koga?" Souta asked as he looked to the wolf demon sitting next to him. "How come you wear a skirt?"

Koga choked on his food as InuYasha, Shippo, Raiden, and Aiko howled with laugher. Miroku and Sango chuckled and Kagome face palmed.

"Souta!" Mrs. Higurashi scowled at her son as he shrugged. "What its just a question."

Once he was finally able to breath Koga growled.

"It's not a skirt! Is a fur kilt!"

Souta looked as if he wasn't so sure. "If you say so."

The whole time Dai glared from where he sat next to Raiden clearly unhappy at the humans that had invaded his pack's home.

A/N: Okay so first day of work starts tomorrow so I won't be able to start on the next chapter until I get back from my PaSaRyu class after seven-tomorrow night. I had been writing two chapters at a time and I will continue to try to do so but my updates my slow down as I try to get accustom to working again now that the summer is over. Please leave a review and let me know what you all think of the story thus far and if you have an questions I will do my hardest to answer them. Thanks for reading.

Disclaimer:

Me: I totally own InuYasha! He is allll mine!

(Glares from angry lawyers)

Me: Okay, Okay I do not own InuYasha or any recognizable characters form the series, which are the property of Rumiko Takahashi. I do own the Taisho Council, Gobodō-sama, the aunts, the uncles, as well as the plot.

(Lawyers go away.)