“Someone to protect,” Kagome said, with a wistful smile.
She glanced toward Inuyasha, whose back was still turned. His head was bowed, his ears slightly dipped. She opened her mouth again to call him back from his ruminations, when a girl’s high, bright voice beat her to it, calling out from the edge of the woods—
“All clear, Papa!”
As Shin phased back swiftly into his human form, Kaori emerged, a conquering taijiya warrior returned from battle. She glowed with pride as she strode toward them, carrying a dead centipede youkai slung over her small shoulders like some kind of ugly, armored boa that happened to drip green-black blood. Inuyasha’s nose wrinkled ahead of Kagome’s at the pungent, bug-juice smell. Despite all this, Kagome was struck once again by how very cute this fierce little girl was.
And she wasn’t the only one.
As Kaori stopped a few paces from them with her prize in tow, Shin swaggered toward her with his practice sword at the shoulder, flashing her a grin Kagome recognized all too well. Here we go again, she thought, sighing inwardly.
“Yo,” Shin said to Kaori, in his best ‘too cool for school’ voice.
Inuyasha’s eyes narrowed. Kagome sighed inwardly again.
“Konnichiwa,” Kaori replied offhand, turning away from Shin toward Inuyasha with her dead centipede upraised. “What do you think, Papa,” she said with a radiant smile, as Shin frowned, put-out, “can a set of armor be made from these plates?”
Inuyasha snorted, crossing his arms at the chest. “Armor for a squirt like you, maybe.”
Kaori beamed all the brighter, not fazed by his snark in the slightest. “I’ll take this kill back home to Mama, then. She’s the best smith in the village, so if anyone can make armor from it, she can.” Dreamily, Kaori murmured, “My first set of youkai armor, from my very own kill. I’ll stay top of the class for sure.”
Recovering from his bruised bravado, Shin said to her loftily, “That centipede’s small fry.” As she cut him a glance, he turned up his nose in a very Sesshoumaru-like fashion. “I’ve hunted ones around here twice as big and nasty as that one, easy.”
Kagome’s mouth twisted. The thought of her son crunching up ‘nasty’ monster centipedes for breakfast wasn’t exactly a pleasant one.
“I swept the woods behind the pasture, and this is the biggest one I found,” Kaori challenged back. “The nastiest one, too—apart from an imp I saw creeping around, but he seemed pretty harmless.”
“Yeah, that’s just Jakken,” Kagome and Shin said together.
Inuyasha chuckled. “So that dumbass toad of Sesshoumaru’s is following the two of you around now? Sheesh…”
Grinning gamely at Kaori, Shin said, “I’ll show you where the real bruiser centipedes are at—if you’re not too chicken, that is.”
“Of course not!” Kaori shot back, taking the bait hook, line and sinker. Turning to Inuyasha, she asked, “Can I go with him, Papa? Please?”
Casting another narrow-eyed glance at Shin, Inuyasha groused out, “I guess.”
Inuyasha © Rumiko Takahashi
Shin is already trying to work on Kaori 😂 The daughter of Sango and the son of Sesshoumaru getting older and ending up together would be diabolical lol
If my hunch is correct and Lady K from the side story is Karoi… they did 🥹💕
Boy really tried the steal-yo-gurl move right from under her daddy’s nose 🤣🤣
SHIN HAS NO FEAR
If my hunch is correct and Lady K from the side story is Karoi… they did 🥹💕
Hahahaha they’re so cute. I’m glad they ended up together!
Grinning gamely at Kaori, Shin said, “I’ll show you where the real bruiser centipedes are at—if you’re not too chicken, that is.”
“Of course not!” Kaori shot back, taking the bait hook, line and sinker. Turning to Inuyasha, she asked, “Can I go with him, Papa? Please?”
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Outright trying to lure her right out from under Inuyasha’s nose. Like father, like son 😭
Inuyasha’s gonna know how Sess felt when Kohaku eloped with Rin.
Oooh could it be? 🤣🩷 Kaori and Shin are going to be childhood friends(cousins cough cough) to lovers???
Inuyasha’s dad senses are tingling a great big warning. He doesn’t know how spot on they are haha.
Ahh centipedes. Once again bringing two people together.
Kaori and Shin are just SO KEWTTT. It’s sweet that Kaori checks in with Inuyasha before going off to do anything dangerous, she’s a model top student alright 😊
they’re being spied on by a mysterious entity and stalked by jakken.
as annoying and misguided as he is, it’s still pretty sweet of jakken to ~attempt~ to look out for his lord’s son (even if he does think shin’s mother is a harlot 😂)
Jakken is waiting for the moment Kagome screws up so he can file for custody 😂
Cute bebies ❤️
Shin’s tummy is a bottomless pit, munching on youkai apart from his regular meals with his mom. Maybe pups his age just need more energy.
I hope Inuyasha’s presence here doesn’t put the villagers on red alert. They seem to be a sensitive bunch, having run from a war and fearing kitsune and all.
Hehe, little Kaori thinks like a taijiya. She doesn’t have to do a physical sweep when she can read her surroundings with her spiritual senses. This is a great opportunity for Shin to learn from Inuyasha and for Kaori to learn from Kagome.
Well… Shin is such a lover boy!
This is cute as HECK and I feel like a fiend because my mind is perpetually stuck on
‘I can’t wait until Kagome gets knotted by her giant dog husband again’
The cutest 7/8 year olds in the world 💞
Why doesn’t Kagome bring cameras into the feudal era!!
How’s she gonna embarrass them at the wedding without their baby pictures!!! She’s gotta think these things through!! I’m sure Sess would also like to see them!!!
I have a feeling that Sesshoumaru might have went to a sorceress to try to prolong Rin’s life since Rin chose a human to settle down with. By him going to the sorceress something went wrong and she cursed him instead and now it’s up to his mate to come and find him. I can’t wait for the story to get back to Sesshoumaru’s wereabouts. >__< I'm kinda tired of the filler chapters since I'm a big sessh x kag fan. If I was kagome i would be pissed off that sango got my sloppy seconds, but she seems fine with it since she messed up in the first place.
Personally I feel that Inuyasha and Sango’s relationship had solid growth built on the basis of trust and friendship that was already there from the start. They both had their own period of heartbreak and mourning, then later healing and support, so it’s not like they were waiting to jump into an affair after Kagome left. Sango didn’t betray her bond with Kagome. They all just simply moved on.
By the way, I genuinely don’t understand this thinking of exes as ‘sloppy seconds’, as if one still has physical ‘dibs’ or claim over their bodies somehow. I’ve heard it many times than I care to, mostly from men, and it’s nothing but derogatory and objectifying.
And anyway, what right does Kagome have to be mad about their relationship? Sango and Inuyasha found happiness together after a lot of hurt – and so Kagome is happy for them. That’s all.