Chapter 1

"Roy, Roy, wake up." He opened one eye, then the other. Doing his best to avoid the inevitable. With a half-lidded gaze he turned what he could muster of his

attention toward the clock. The tiny red glowing numbers slowly but surely unblurred.

Twelve o'clock.

"What do you want Riza, honey?" His voice was surprisingly slurred with sleep, but he managed to listen to every single word she said.

"Go get me some ice cream please?" She asked.

He looked her in the face, watching her pleading eyes. Figures. Ice cream...

"Again...remind me, how far along are you?" He asked, maybe he was delaying again. He looked down at her stomach, waiting for her reply.

"6 months, Kagome is only 3 months pregnant."

"Oh, okay." She watched him now, as he turned to go back to sleep.

His eyes had only just closed, when the indignant expression spread across her face.

"Now get me some Butter Pecan from the store please." Her voice was a little more demanding this time. And with that tone, Roy found himself completely awake,

and bordering on the edge of sleeping on the sofa tomorrow, he realized.

"Okay, okay, I'm going, I'm going!" he replied, sitting and slinging his legs from the bed.

The next day Ed and Inuyasha had met up in the break room. They were both currently working at a construction site. Ed buying and checking the supplies and

Inuyasha carrying the beams. Watching the constructionists watch Inuyasha was one of the funniest things Ed had ever seen. Seeing their mouths drop as Inuyasha

rivetes the beams in himself. Of course, they had known each other for a while and so it didn't disturb Ed quite as much as he guessed it did the other constructionists.

Ed broke off from his reminiscing to discuss the matter at hand.

"So, is the date still on?" He asked.

"Yes, I will bring my brother if you bring your friend." Inuyasha smirked, bending his head and hiding the amusement in his eyes.

"Okay. It's on then. Good." Ed found himself smirking as well.

"Court, I'm Home." Charles called as he walked through the door. "and It's Friday, you know what that means right?"

She had her back to him. "Yes, Charles I do." She rolled her eyes, but smiled in spite of herself. "We do this every week. Where are we meeting this time?"

She turned and watched him intently for an answer.

"At the church I work at."

"Cool, lets go then." She moved past him and twisted the door knob as it swung open. Not all too seriously, she added, "But I'm driving, got it?"

"Okay little one." He said playingly.

She started to open her mouth but stopped, knowing full and well she'd just be walking strait into one of their 'little one/ woman' arguments. She rolled her eyes again

and stepped out to the car with him.

When they got to the church everyone had already seemed to form groups. The girls had selected a spot on the right side of the church and the boys were gathered

around the left. Charles and Courtney split up accordingly.

"Hey guys, what's up? Who's the new one?" Charles asked in surprise.

"Hey, nothing much, and this is my brother Sesshomaru." Inuyasha replied.

"He looks pretty cool." Ed commented, letting his eyes scan the long silver hair, demon marks, and gold eyes. The only thing odd was that he seemed to have a ball

off fluff hanging over his right shoulder.

"Yep. He does. But not as cool as me though." Miroku winked and smiled earning a good amount of amusement from the other men.

"Ha! You wish. I'm the coolest here." Roy spoke out, towering over a good bit of the gathered group.

"When am I going to meet this girl you were talking about, Inuyasha?" Sess asked.

"Soon. Real soon bro." Inuyasha smiled the trademark smile as they started toward the front of the church.

As soon as they had gotten inside the introductions began. They all looked at Sess, bowing as they said their names.

"I'm Kagome."

"I'm Sango."

"I'm Courtney."

"I'm Teresa."

"And I'm..."