The Passing Of Love Through Time (An InuYasha FanFiction)

Look Who's Here

Once InuYasha and Kagome made it to the bottom of the hill, they were thoroughly introduced to the red haired boy who was Ayame and Koga's almost two year old son by the name of Erikku. He had the skin and eyes of his father, along with the loyalty to the wolf demon tribe. But he had the hair and personality of his mother. He was a sweet and caring boy, but as Ayame told, could throw quite a tantrum when he wanted to.

Kagome also got to greet Sesshomaru and for the half-brothers to send a cold exchange between each other before Sesshomaru and Rin went for a walk. As the kids went off to play again with Shippou, Kagome and InuYasha joined the circle of adults with her sitting in InuYasha's lap with his arms wrapped around her waist protectively as they all joined in a friendly conversation.

"So Kagome, how ya been? Haven't seen you since Naraku got destroyed. Where'd ya go after that?" Koga started. Kagome was explained to that he and InuYasha had settled their differences after Koga came to visit to announce Ayame's pregnancy at the time. He and InuYasha weren't on the best of terms, but were past the whole "Mutt-Face" and "Mangy Wolf" thing. That was the last time Koga had visited, but it was over a couple years ago, and this time he came with Ayame and Erikku due to some Wolf Demon Tribe business not far from the village.

"I've been great, I just got stuck back in my time for a while. But now I'm back and I'm here to stay." Kagome answered with a smile.

"Say Koga, what's this Wolf Demon Tribe business you guys traveled all the way down here for?" Miroku asked adjusting the his position so he could hold the child better.

"Well, you see-" Koga started.

"One of the other Wolf Demon Tribes in this area have been having some strange encounters so they wanted us to come down and check it out. The rondevu point is about 5 miles upstream from here." Ayame finished for him.

"Yeah, what she said." Koga chuckled, kissing Ayame on the cheek.

"Speaking of which," Ayame continued, "Kagome could I ask a favor of you and InuYasha?"

"Sure Ayame." InuYasha answered. "What'd ya need?"

"Would it be too much to ask if you could watch Erikku for a few days while Koga and I are taking care of this business?"

"Sure!" Kagome quickly responded, "I'm expecting so I could use the practice with the children." Kagome was really looking forward to it.

"Kagome are you really?" Ginta asked.

"Oh congratulations Kagome!" Ayame said in a real cheerful voice

"That's great!" Hakkaku chimed in.

"Yeah Kagome, congratulations! Hey congrats to you too InuYasha you're gonna be a dad." Koga smiled at InuYasha who responded with his toothy grin and nodded back in thanks.

"Yeah, I'm excited about it, and I'm really proud of her." InuYasha said as he looked down at Kagome who started to blush shyly, only to make InuYasha hug her more closely in response.

"We all are InuYasha." Sango added, but soon after the twins started to cry. "Uh oh, looks like these two are hungry. Here let me take them." Sango said as she stood up and held her other hand out for the child in Miroku's hands.

"No Sango it's okay. Come and let me help you." With that, Miroku stood up as well with the crying child in his hands as the couple headed towards their hut.

"How many kids do they have now? Five?" Koga asked in a slightly joking tone as soon as they were out of ear shot.

"Yup, and they're still not done." InuYasha commented, making everyone chuckled. "I mean if that's how many kids they're gonna have in only three years, imagine how many they're gonna have by their tenth anniversary." Everyone fell quiet for five full seconds trying to imagine it, only to have everyone burst out laughing until their eyes started to tear up and cheeks started to hurt. Ginta and Hakkaku were literally falling over on each other laughing so hard, which only made everyone else laugh even harder.

Time flew by as the group continued to talk until InuYasha looked up at the sky and noted that it was about an hour before sunset. This was his favorite time of day to hunt, when he would be able to catch the last of the day animals as the night ones started to creep out of their holes. Good it's just about that time, and we're running out of meat anyway.

"Hey Kagome."

"Hm?" She responded looking up at him.

"I think I'm gonna go out hunting for a while, you gonna be okay on your own?"

"Yeah I'll be fine. And don't forget I can always contact you through your Omoi no kesshō, okay?"

"'Omoi no what'?" Ayame asked.

"Omoi no kesshō," Kagome corrected her pointing to the crystals that were hanging around her and InuYasha's necks. Both glowing a soft pink from the happy feeling from her and InuYasha. "They're special crystals we received that allow us to communicate with each other."

"Oh~" The four wolf demons said together as their attention caught to the glowing crystals around the couple's necks.

"Why don't you and Ayame come too Koga." InuYasha suggested breaking their attention away from the Omoi no kesshōs. "You guys are going on a couple days journey right? Well this ain't mountain life hunting, but its still pretty good. you could stock up."

"Sounds pretty good." Koga friendlily agreed. "Whad ya say babe, you up for it?" He asked Ayame.

"Nah, I think I'll stay behind with Kagome. But you two go have fun." She answered with a smile.

"Hey you two are also welcome to come." InuYasha said directing it to Ginta and Hakkaku.

"Nah, we won't go hunting. We'll stay here and help Shippou watch the kids."

"Okay if you say so." Kagome stood up so InuYasha could get up and give her a passionate kiss before running off towards the forest while yelling, "You comin' Koga?" behind him as he disappeared into the forest.

"Yeah yeah, I'm coming." Koga gave Ayame a peck on the cheek before getting up and running towards where InuYasha was last seen at top speed. Even though he lost the sacred jewel shards in his legs, he was still pretty fast.

I was still staring after InuYasha, when Ayame chimed in. "You really love him, don't you?"

"More than anything in the world." I said hazily, still staring after him. We all stayed that way and stayed in silence until Sango walked up to us and broke the silence.

"Hey, where'd InuYasha and Koga go?" Sango asked

"They went off hunting." Ayame answered for me, causing me to snap out of my daze.

"Oh, I just came back to get my kids. Miroku said he was going to take care of dinner and the kids."

"We can take the kids back to your hut." Hakkaku volunteered.

"Really?" Sango asked

"Yeah, we can take them back. And you girls can go talk and have a good time." Ginta assured.

"Okay~. Are you sure?" Sango asked one more time.

"Yup don't worry about a thing."

"Okay then, tell Miroku I went to Kagome's."

"Will do." Hakkaku called over his shoulder as he and Ginta headed over to the group of kids and helped Shippou get them herded and headed towards Sango's hut.

"Haha, I see they have become top notch babysitters." Kagome commented as the three women started their journey up the big hill that lead to her hut.

"Yeah, they were a real help with Erikku when he was younger." Ayame said as they made it to the hut.

"You guys make yourselves at home, I'm just gonna start dinner. Okay?" Kagome said as they walked into the hut through the flap.

The three girls went into the hut, and started talking and laughing while Kagome cut vegetables, and the rest of the meat, as she started to prepare the stew. All the kids, Miroku, Shippou, Hakkaku, and Ginta were all at Miroku's enjoying stew of their own as the kids laughed and giggled. All while InuYasha and Koga were out enjoying a nice, adrenaline pumping, hunting trip.