I think this fic will be pretty short. I'm not sure. I have ideas for three more chapters. Then I don't what to write.

Then I had an idea! YOU, my dear readers, can give me ideas/subjects for a chapter, and I will write a chapter about it. I would be really happy if someone would give me a subject. Just contact me and I will see if my writers heart opens for the idea.

Again, Enjoy!

Chapter 2 – The Boys Days

"Good morning, children!" the kindergarten nurse greeted. The children sat in a sircle on the playrooms floor.
"Good mownin'!" the kids shouted back with smiles on their faces. This was the playroom of the smallest kids, age 1-3, and they were called the 'balloons'. The other group of a bit older kids, in the next playroom, aged 4-6, were called the 'bubbles'. And all kids from the balloons wanted to become a bubbles kid, because they thought bubbles were cooler than balloons. They did share the playground outside, but otherwise they didn't see each other.

"If you're happy and you know it, clap you'r hands!" the nurse sung and clapped her hands, like all the children. Inuyasha also clapped his hands and grinned. Next to him sat a small wolf youkai boy, his best friend here. His name was Koga, and was also 1 years old.

After the morning session, the kids were set free to play in the playroom, while the nurses were watching on their chairs next to the doors that led to the lunch room.
"You'we gonna die!" Koga shouted while he and Inuyasha had a battle with stuffed toys. Inuyasha had a white dog, Koga had a black wolf.
"Nooo way!" the hanyou grinned. Just when he was about to strike the wolf boy's toy, the nurses got up from their chairs, clapped their hands and said;
"All right, children! Now lets get dressed and go outside and play with the bubbles kids!"

So, the youngest kids were dressed up in their overalls with a little help from the nurses (Inuyasha and Koga, for example), and the oldest, 3-year-olds, could do it mostly by themselves. The door to the playground was opened.

It sure was a nice sight; slides, swings, sandboxes and monkeybars. But thing Inuyasha and Koga liked the best was that little 'forest' that stood right there, in the edge of the playgrounds fences. It was actually just a few birches, but it was enough for the demon boys to get excited and get to play real, strong demons, like their fathers, and, in Koga's case, mother, too. But Inuyasha was different. He was bullied sometimes for being a hanyou.

But Koga didn't mind. He was always there for Inuyasha if someone was being picked on. They were like brothers, and Inuyasha actually got along with him better than his real brother, Sesshoumaru.

The children were released to the fenced yard. Inuyasha and Koga ran (wobbly, baby steps) to the sand box. And there sat a same age as Inuyasha, in balloons too. She was making a sand castle with a plastic shovel and a bucket.
"Hiya, Kagome!" Koga greeted with a grin.
"Hi, Koga", Kagome answered with a tender smile. "And ya too, Inuyasha."
Inuyasha was a bit bashful and didn't say anything.
"Good mornin', Inuyasha!" someone from behind them, greeted. They all turned around and saw two bubbles kids: Miroku and Sango, both 4 years old. Now Inuyasha smiled.
"Lets go slidin', Kagome!" Sango suggested. Kagome nodded, and the girls got on their way to the slide.
"Well, we can go swingin'!" Miroku said and ran to the swings. He he swing next to him, and pointed at the next swing, baby swing.
"Nurse! Help Inuyasha and Koga get on their swings!" Miroku shouted out at a nurse. She walked at them and lift both canine boys in the swings, and pushed them. As they swung, Inuyasha and Koga howled like wolves, and Miroku grinned.

After about an hour of playing outside, the children were summoned back inside. The bubbles' kids walked in the different door than the balloons' children.
"One day I'm gonna be a bubblz kid!" Koga showed off.
"Me too!" Inuyasha puffed.
"You all will", a nurse smiled and pet the boys' heads while leading them inside. They took off their allovers and led the kids to the bathrooms, where they washed their hands. Every child knew what this meant; it was lunchtime!

Next they formed a line in front of the door. Soon the door was opened, and the children were let in. Every child had their own place to sit in the lunch room. Inuyasha and Koga next to each other. The nurses started giving everyone a tray of food with plastic cutlery, mugs of milk and plastic plates. Except the yougest ones, 1-year-olds, like Inuyasha and Koga, for example. They had their own baby bottles, and the nurses helped them to eat. Today the food was smashed potatoes and meat balls.

Inuyasha sure was enjoying his milk bottle, but he seemed a bit grumpy when a nurse came to him, and tried to start feeding him.
"Inuyasha, here come's a bunny! Open your mouth!"
"No", Inuyasha growled and carried on drinking from his bottle.
"Are you being a naughty boy?" the nurse asked while rising her brow. "You won't become a big boy if you don't eat!"
"But I AM a big boy!" Inuyasha sulked.
"Yes, of course you are!" the nurse smiled and stroke the boy's dog ear. "Bu if you want to grow REALLY big, and get to the bubbles, you must eat."
"Weally?" Inuyasha asked with big puppy eyes. And as the nurse nodded, Inuyasha started to eat with a good appetite.

At the moment, Sesshoumaru was also having his lunch break. He sat in a table where all his classmates always sat. They talked. And talked. This was so childish, Sesshoumaru thought. He didn't say a word during the lunch.

After the school's lunch break was the day's longest recess, and the boys decided to play soccer. Now it was the time they formed the two teams. And, like always, it wasn't easy, because...
"Sesshoumaru comes to our team!" one boy shouted out.
"No, he'll be in OUR team!" the other boy shouted.
"Sesshoumaru will decide himself", a boy said, and everyone nodded. But as Sesshoumaru didn't say anything and stood there like a statue, the kids started to whisper.
"Come to our team, Sessh!"
"Our team is better! Your team sucks!"
"Take that back!"
And that became a huge verbal fight. Sesshoumaru just faded away quietly. He sat at one swing, a place where he could be alone.

He closed his eyes and felt the wind on his face. Suddenly the wind got harder. He opened his eyes, and saw a girl standing in front of him. Her black hair was tied up, she had elf-like ears just like him and his father, and her eyes were red.
"Hi", the girl greeted. "Would you mind if I sit here?" she asked, pointing at the swing next to Sesshoumaru.
"Not at all", the boy nodded with his blank face. The girl sat down and started swinging slowly.
"Who are you?" Sesshoumaru asked after a short silece. "I haven't seen you here before."
"Call me Kagura", the girl introduced herself. "I just moved here a month ago from Hiroshima."
"I see..."
"You must be a youkai. What kind of?"
"Dog youkai. You?"
"A wind sorceress", Kagura said with a little smile. "Nice to know there is at least one kid here who doesn't act like a kindergarten brat!"

And, back to the kindergarten... All kids had their own matresses on the floor with a pillow and a blanket. Many kids had their own stuffed toys for this, but Inuyasha's own had been forgotten home. And that mistake was a huge shock for Inuyasha. He cried until the nurses emptied his backpack on the floor. They finally found his pacifier, and after getting it, Inuyasha went quiet. The nurse read a stroy, and the kids fell asleep one after one.

Inuyasha sure slept tight. It was already afternoon, when he started to wake up, feeling someone shaking him from his shoulder, gently. Inuyasha opened his eyes slowly, and saw his mother, sitting there beside his bed, smiling and stroking him.
"Mama!" Inuyasha cried out and hugged her.
"I told you I would be back", Izayoi smiled and picked up her son. "Thank you for the day. Has he been a good boy?"
"Well, Inuyasha, have you?" the nurse grinned.
"Yea!" Inuyasha nodded.
"Well, there was a little trouble with eating at first but we managed that after a ittle conversation."
"That's nice to hear. But now, lets get dressed up quickly. Daddy and big brother are waiting for us in the car."

So Izayoi walked out of the kindergarten doors with Inuyasha in her arms. Inuyasha hugged her his pacifier in his mouth and with his eyes closed. Nothing was better than being in his mother's arms.

"So, here we are!" Inutaisho smiled after Inuyasha was sat down in his baby seat and belts were closed. The journey towards home would start!

It wasn't really a long journey. It took maybe ten minutes, when they found themselves in the parking lot of their home apartment house. Again, Sesshoumaru hadn't said anything during this whole time. And that made Inutaisho worry.
"Darling, is everything okay?" Izayoi asked the man, with Inuyasha in her arms. Inutaisho didn't say anything, but pointed at Sesshoumaru, who just jumped out of the car. Izayoi understood what he meant and just nodded. She and Inuyasha went inside, so that Sesshoumaru and Inutaisho could talk men-to-men.
"Tell me, son, how was your first day at fifth grade of school?" Inutaisho asked, holding his arm on his son's shoulder.
"Nothing. Who cares."
"It isn't just nothing. And I care. Izayoi cares. Even Inuyasha cares. We all care about you. We are your family!"
"That woman and mutt are not my family!" Sesshoumaru shouted. This made even Inutaisho go quiet. Inside he felt angry because his yougest son was just been called 'a mutt', but he also felt very sad and understanding. This all had been so hard on Sesshoumaru. Of course he understood. So the man just sighed, pet his son's shoulder and opened the apartment house's door for him.
"Come on now. Let's make some spaghetti for dinner."
Sesshoumaru walked in from the door like a ghost. Inutaisho just sighed. Where would all this lead to? A psychiaric hospital ward? The psychiatrist they visited years ago said that it could possibly be only a matter of time when he would start become marginalized and start acting aggressively. What had he as a father done wrong? He had given anything he had for his both sons. Could the loss of his mother really do this severe damage to his son's mental health? What could he do to help him?

"Honey, could you please do the cooking, so I will bathe Inuyasha", Izayoi asked after the whole family had got into the apartment.
"Of course", Inutaisho nodded with a smile, and hugged the woman with his right hand.

While Inutaisho cooked the spaghetti and fried the ground meat in a frying pan. Sesshoumaru was behind him, sitting at the dining table, doing his homework.
"Did you get lots of homework?" the man asked without turning around to face his son.
"Not really."
"Did you have fun playing soccer?"
"Not really."
"Did you meet any new friends?" Inutaisho asked, even though he was sure the answer would be again one 'not realy'. But...
"Yes, actually..."
That made his father's eyes widen. Had he just heard right?
"Did you just say...?"
"Yes, I met this youkai girl... She at least didn't act like someone of Inuyasha's age."
"What was her name?" Inutaisho asked, excited..
"Kagura. She and her family have just moved here from Hiroshima. But she isn't in my class."
"That's too bad. But at least you don't have to sit alone on a swing all recesses anymore!"
"What if I WANT to sit alone?"
"Then... Do as you wish..." Inutaisho sighed.

While the men were talking in the kitchen, Inuyasha was enjoying his bubblebath in the bathroom. His hair wasn't very long yet, but enough so it had to me washed with shampoo and conditioner. The thing he most enjoyed was when his mother rubbed and massaged his dog ears.
"Your birthday is coming", Izayoi said smiling while Inuyasha played with floating gum toys. "You'll be 2 years old! My little puppy is growing up!"
"Mama..." Inuyasha said, grabbed his mother's arm and hugged it with his eyes closed. Izayoi smiled like the sun and carried on washing her son.

After the bath was over, Izayoi put Inuyasha on the floor on all fours, so he could do something he always did after getting wet... He shook himself dry like a dog. This sight made Izayoi chuckle. Next she put diapers and red pajamas on him, and before leaving the bathroom, Inuyasha's favorite pacifier. When Izayoi gave the pacifier to his son's tiny hands, he smiled, showing his little, two fangs. Izayois smile grew.
"That's my boy!"

"Dinner is served!" echoed Inutaisho's voice from the kitched.
"Did you hear that? Daddy's calling!" Izayoi asked as she opened the bathroom door, so Inuyasha could walk out by himself.
Inuyasha was put on his highchair, and the dinner begun. Inutaisho ate with a great appetite, Izayoi fed Inuyasha, and Sesshoumaru ate slowly, bite by bite.

The evening went by. Sesshoumaru read a book in his room, Inutaisho did some of his doctors' work on his computer, and Izayoi took care of Inuyasha. Now the little one had been asleep for almost two hours, and it was bedtime for Sesshoumaru, too, since clock was a bit over nine. The boy brushed his teeth and changed on his pajamas. Then, he just slid to his room and closed it's door quietly. But just as he had got to sit on his bed, his room door opened, and his fater stepped in.
"Son, I..." Inutaisho started, while rubbing his neck. "I want you to know you can always on me. You can tell me anything and everything that's bothering you. You see, as a father I-"
"Shut up. You didn't think twice before letting that human woman in our house!"
"That's not true! We had been seeing each other for almost half a year, and...!"
"...You...What? You told me you had to stay in hospital for extra work! And you were really dating a human woman!" Sesshoumaru shouted. Then he went quiet. He laid down on his bed and curled under his blanket. "Get out of my room."
"No, that's not...! W-well, I mean, yes, that's how it went, but...!" Inutaisho tried to explain, but sighed and went quiet. He turned at the door but before closing it, he said:
"I'm so sorry..." And thus the door was closed.