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"C'mon Riya, your almost there!!" Inu-yasha encouraged the grinning toddler, "Come to daddy Riya!!"

Riya took a few more wobbly steps, then fell into her daddy's open arms.

"Good girl!!" Inu-yasha scooped up the giggling 10month old, "Did you see that Kagome? She walked to me!!!"

Kagome smiled at her baby, "She's sucha strong baby, walking at 10 months!"

Inu-yasha held her proudly, "Well, she is my baby."

Kagome chuckled, "Yes she is."

Riya had thick, shoulder length, black hair. Big, alert amber eyes, two fuzzy black ears sticking out of her little head, tiny claws and fangs. She had Inu-yasha's stare, they always said whenever she heard something and began looking around, she was giving 'the stare'. She had Kagome's laugh, even at 10months, you heard a rhythm to her little giggles. Kagome smiled at her Riya, snuggled up in her daddy's safe arms.

Kagome and Inu-yasha had been married about a year now, she was 20yrs.

"Get back here Syshi!" Miroku chased after the laughing toddler. He had escaped from his bath, and was covered in nothing but soapy suds, "Sango! Syshi got out again!" Miroku grabbed the slippery 2year old and headed back too the hut, where he would, once again, try to give him a bath.

Sango chuckled, "Todays your turn Miroku"

Miroku disappeared inside the hut, only run back out chasing a hysterical Syshi.

Sango rolled her eyes and grabbed the toddler, "Your hopeless Miroku."

"But you married me."Miroku smiled, kissing her lightly on the cheek as she walked by.

"That means I'm hopeless too."Sango teased, walking inside the hut with the squirming child in her arms.

"Hopelessly inlove!" Miroku followed her in.

Inu-yasha held Riya in his arms tightly, "You'd never see Riya doing that, she's too good to do that."

Kagome smiled and brushed the hair out of her sleeping baby's face, "She could never do wrong in your eyes Inu-yasha."

Inu-yasha wrapped his free arm around his wife, "I love you so much Kag-chan, thank you for my baby."

Kagome pressed close against his warm body and kissed Riya's little, pink cheek, "Thank you Inu-yasha for my baby."

Together they walked in thier little hut. Keade had let them use one of her huts for the past 10months for the baby.

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"Is it true Kikyou? Did Inu-yasha really marry that girl with him? Does he have a daughter now?" Shameri questioned calm but curiously.

"Yes."Kikyou answered stiffly, she had no desire to talk about this.

Shameri was a powerful demon. He looked like a gigantic leopard when he was in full demon form, but when he was in normal form he looked like a pale, crippled 23year old....but looks can be deciveing, he was anything but crippled. His face never smiled, never frowned, never showed any emotion, just stared.

"I thought he loved you...I guess I was wrong"Shameri wondered outloud.

"What do you want?" Kikyou demanded, tired of this conversation.

Shameri looked out a shadowy window of his gothic palace, "That child."

"Inu-yasha's daughter? Why?" Kikyou looked up at him.

"She is very powerful, the child of Inu-yasha and Kagome, both skilled and dangerous parents, she will be a great tool for me." Shameri continued gazing out his window.

Kikyou snorted, "True she'll be a good tool, but you could never get her outta Inu-yasha's grasp. Why do you want her as a tool? What will you use her for?"

"I want to be the most powerful demon in the world, I need a strong, loyal warrior by my side, no doubt she'll grow to be beautiful, then I'll make her my mate." He looked up, no emotion on his face, just two big, silverish red eyes.

"So why do you want me?" Kikyou had a feeling were this was going.

"I need you to go get her." He looked back out the window.

"Why should I? You have nothing of importance too me Shameri."Kikyou challenged.

"I knew you'd say that Kikyou, I have a Shikon Shard. Go get her and it's yours." His long, dark, red hair fell around his eyes, it was a little longer then his elbows.

"How do I know you'd give me the shard?" Kikyou pressed.

"Because I give you my word." He answered.

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Inu-yasha shot straight up...what was that noise?

Kagome stirred slightly then fluttered her big brown eyes, "Wh-what is it Inu-yasha?"

Inu-yasha stood up and walked towards the door to the hut, "I heard something."

Kagome, half asleep, mumbled, "Come back to bed, it was probably a cat or..."She fell back asleep.

He quietly walked over too Riya's tiny mat/basket. She was also awake, her little ears sensative to noise. "You woke up too?" He scooped her up, "Go back to sleep." He held her in his arms. She laid her head against his chest and closed her big, orange eyes. After he was sure she was asleep, he put her down and walked outside, what was that noise? His nose picked up on a familar scent, a cold, sad scent. What was she doing here? "Where are you Kikyou?"

Kikyou walked out of the dark woods, "I heard you have a daughter, Inu-yasha, let me see her."

Inu-yasha's eye's narrowed, he didn't trust her with his daughter, she was trying to take him too hell, "Why?"

"'Cuz I want to give her my GIFT!!!" She whipped out her bow and arrows and shot one at him. He leaped out of the way, just in time.

"What's going on!!!!"He shouted, anger gleaming in his eyes.

"You said you loved me!!! You said it!!"She shot another arrow at him, "But you got married too my REINCARNATION!!! And gave her the child that should've been MINE!!!"

Inu-yasha ducked the arrow, "Calm down Kikyou!! Once I did love you, but now I love Kagome." Another arrow flew by his head.

Kikyou's soul collecters surrounder her and she disappeared. Inu-yasha looked around, where did she go? That's when he heard it...the one sound that would haunt his nightmares for the rest of his life, Kagome's scream and Riya's cry. Inu-yasha felt his legs turn into jello, he ran as fast as could too his hut, riped open the door to find Kagome laying on the ground with a arrow sticking out of her stomach, in a pool of blood. "Kagome!!!!" He fell beside her.

"Inu...Inu-yasha?" She touched his lip with her bloody fingertips, "Inu-yasha...get....Riya!" She fainted.

"Kagome!!!" Inu-yasha cried, holding her close. Miroku and Sango appeared at the doorway, Sango gasped and raced to Kagomes side. "Take care of her."Inu-yasha stood up, "Keep her safe." He turned and ran out, "I've gotta find my baby!!"

Kikyou jumped on the horse waiting for her along the woods edge, holding the crying baby in her arms, "Shhh, be quiet little one." She smacked the horses side and it sprinted off through the woods.

Inu-yasha could smell Riya, she wasn't far away. He ran full speed, I hear a horse! Kikyou took one, I've got her now! He took one, giant leap, and landed nest to the running horse. He sprinted, keeping up with it's pace, "Give her to me!!!" He shouted.

"Noooo!!" Kikyou rammed into his side with the horse, he fell loosely behind. She hit the horses side, "Faster!"

Inu-yasha jumped on the horses back, "Riya!!" He saw her black hair over Kikyou's shoulder.

"Back off Inu-yasha!!!" The horse jumped, almost knocking him off. He grabbed onto her long, black hair, pulling her down with him, "Ahhhh!!!"

She fell on top of him, Riya on top of her while the horse darted away. She quickly stood up and began running.

Inu-yasha jumped up and chased her. He saw it ahead, there was no place for her to go, there was a cliff dead infront of her. She stopped right at the edge, "No" escaped her pale lips.

Inu-yasha advanced to her, "Give me Riya!!" Riya streched out her arms towards him, begging him to take her in his safe arms, her eyes puffy from crying. His heart melted as he walked up to her.

"Don't move or I drop her!"Kikyou warned, holding the baby over the cliffs edge.

"NOOO!!"He stopped dead in his tracks, "Why Kikyou???"

"This little one should've been mine to hold and protect...but because of you I'll never have that! Because of you I'm dead!!!"Kikyou cried, her mind clear now, "So she will be too." She dropped the baby.

"RIYA!!!!!!!!!" Inu-yasha tried to jump after her, but Kikyou leaped infront of him, preventing him from getting to her.

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"Oh Yoshimoto, I miss her so much."A old woman said , holding a basket filled with clothes she just washed said.

"I do too Shira." Yoshimoto put a comforting arm around his wife as they walked the mountain path, underneath a cliff.

"Our only child." The woman, tried not to cry. Her only child had died of a sickness.

Thats when a screaming baby fell into their basket. "What the!?!?!" The woman put the basket down and looked at the crying toddler laying in it.

The man picked her up, "A baby???" He looked up at the cliff, "She must've been sent by God, a gift from heaven!!!"

The woman looked up, "Or maybe her parents tried to kill her." She gazed at her, "She looks diffrent."

"She must be a hanyou." He cradled her in his arms, as her cries calmed down.

"She's so beautiful...let's keep her!" The woman said gleefully.

The man wrapped a arm around her, "Are you sure?"

"Yes, we lost our only child...now God has givin us a second chance!" She took the baby while Yoshimoto took the basket.

"Yes." They began jogging back too the village in joy, they had a daughter!

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He fell down on the ground, tears running down his face. Kill...kill Kikyou! He lashed out at her, with one swipe of his claws, she was dust. He jumped down the cliff, and landed like a cat at the bottem, where is she??? He sniffed around, please! Please don't let her die!!! He searched the land 20 times, trying to find her scent...she was gone. He raced home, praying that in some way she'd be there. Kagome shot up when she saw him

"Inu-yasha! Where's Riya!!" Sango forced her to lay back down, the wounds were to deep to be sitting up.

Inu-yasha's bangs hid his broken eyes.

"Inu-yasha?" She felt a lump rise in her throat, no....

He revealed his broken eyes, tears running down his cheek. Kagome felt her body go numb, "No!!!! She's not!!!" She stared at him, begging him to tell her Riya was okay. Salty tears combed her face, "Nooo!!!" She wailed, burying her face in her hands.

Inu-yasha collapsed next to her, grabbed her into a tight hug, his hair soaked with tears.

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