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The Babysitter Problem

Chapter 1: Meet the Kids. Then Kiss Your Butt Goodbye.

"Whaddya mean youre going out tonight! Who's gonna stay home with us! An you better not say a baby sitter! I'm nine years old. I don't need a dumb babysitter!" Jackie shouted at her parents, who were currently getting dressed in their 'future-ish' clothing, as InuYasha had called it. He and his wife Kagome were getting ready to go out for a night out of the Sengoku Jidai and into the future time-zone. InuYasha let out a collective sigh, then countered by saying, "Well, Jackie, you might not need one, but Mage and Shale sure do."

"But, Dad, I can watch em!"

InuYasha turned around and asked with a stern look on his face, "Jackolyn Tenuri Higurashi,-" Jackie's dog ears twitched at the use of her full name "-do you honestly not remember what happened the last time your mother and I let you baby sit?"

Images of a burnt down house, a little silver haired girl with a matching colored tail around four bouncing off the walls and casting firaga all over the place, six-year-old brown haired girl 'ooh' and 'ahhh' –ing over all of the flames, and an eight-year-old Jackie holding a glass of water, gaping like a fish, then muttering "Whaaaaaaaaaat! But I was only gone for five seconds! Oh, crap, Mom n Dadre gonna kill me!"

"Erm," Jackie hung her head shamefully and muttered a quick 'Yes…'

"Well, that's your reason!" said the irritable hanyou.

"Well, who's gonna baby sit then?"

"Oh, yeah, InuYasha, I forgot, Sango and Miroku had to cancel at the last minute, so I had to find someone else," Kagome chirped in.

"Well, who is it?" Jackie and her dad demanded at the same time.

"It's this nice fellow who just opened a shop up near your Uncle Soutas house in Tokyo, I think his name's Dante. Oh, and I told him to bring some other people if he wanted, since he might need some help with Mage…"Kagome said while still applying make-up to her face.

"Dante?" questioned Jackie, letting it sink in for almost five seconds before gasping and saying, "No. Way. Dya mean Dante Sparda? The Dante Sparda? The one that single-handedly sealed the gate to Hell? And he's coming here? Oh my God he's my idol! Heeeeeeeeey, Mom, how'd ya get him to agree to baby sit? …He doesn't know he's baby-sitting, does he?"

Kagome gave them a sly smirk and said, "I just told him there were some demons to be taken care of. He just asked for the address."

Well, the truth of the matter was that it took more than a little convincing from Kagome to get Dante to take the job. In fact, here's what really happened:

Dante was minding his own business in his shop, Devil May Cry, when Kagome knocked on the door. Then he let her in. That was where he made his first mistake; he asked if he could do anything for her. Well, she asked if he could take care of some demons for her, so he asked where it was. She threw him off a little when she said it was in the Feudal Era, but, all things considered, it was one of the more jobs he'd accepted. She lost Dante completely when she told him to bring a sword because he may run into some unfriendly demons, though.

"What're you talking about? I thought you were hiring me to kill demons, so why would I not bring a weapon?"

"Because I'm hiring you to baby-sit my kids, not kill them! What did you think I wanted you to do to my girls?"

"Kill em! I kill demons, I don't baby-sit em!"

"But the ad in the paper said you took odd jobs, and technically, this is a sort of odd job…"

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"So, are you gonna take the job or what?"

"Ask Trish or Lady or Lucia, they'd be better at it."

Kagome got a mocking look on her face, and said,"Awww, don't tell me youre scared of three little girls-"

"I am not! Fine! I'll take the job!"

"Good," said Kagome."I expect you to be at our house at 5 o clock sharp, and bring your friends: they'll be able to help with my youngest daughter Mage. Here's the address," she handed Dante a piece of paper that said 'The other side of the Bone-Eater's well, Higurashi Shrine, Tokyo'." Now then, I think that's about it, so I'll see ya next weekend," and with that, she left. It took Dante a few minutes to understand that he'd just been duped into baby-sitting three kids.

As soon as he realized, he cussed so loud people in Feudal Japan could hear it. Yep, he was that loud.

A/N: Well, there's the first chapter…please, if you read it, at least review for it. Some constructive criticism (WTH?I spelled that right? Yay! does the happy dance …well, that was pointless…) would be nice…