DISCLAIMER: I DON'T OWN ANY OF THE INUYASHA CHARACTERS EXCEPT FOR KOJI AND ANY OTHER OCs.

Chapter 3

Kagome was currently fixing Koji's hair while her daughter was touching the mirror before her in fascination. They had recently brought her home two days ago and the moment she stepped into their home she was completely ecstatic. Koji would point at something whenever Inuyasha or Kagome was tending to her, like when Inuyasha was giving her and Taji a bath she'd point at the shower head or the radio that was blaring music.

Whenever Kagome was helping her eat her food she'd point at the microwave, and this went on for the next two days until Koji had memorized everything in the house. Now that phase was over, Koji could get ready for her walking therapy. At first Kagome and Inuyasha had discussed that it would be best for her to start therapy after a week in their house, but Koji seemed to be healing fast as well as progressing.

Her reading level had gone up from kindergarten all the way to the eighth grade within those time intervals of two days. So today, Kagome and Inuyasha were going back to work, Taji would go back to preschool, and Koji would be spending the next seven hours learning how to walk again. Kagome was a bit worried though, Koji had been in the house most of the time and the only time she went outside was when she was coming back from the hospital.

She remembered her reaction towards the limo and the outside world, it made her both excited and frightened. That was a hint that she must have been in indoors isolation for as long as she can remember. Including she was quite attached to her parents and brother; whenever she slept it was either Taji taking naps with her in the living room or Kagome and Inuyasha making sure she fell asleep in her new room.

With a sigh of completion, Kagome looked at her work in the mirror. She had cut Koji's somewhat unruly hair perfectly and straightened it down a bit with the hair straighter. Now her daughter was a cute little...boy.

She really didn't like the idea of her daughter being a boy whenever she went outside, but she did notice that Koji didn't like the girl toys Rin had bought her. They were mostly dolls and makeup and all Koji did with them was completely cover them in makeup then tried to dye their hair with nail polish. Luckily, Inuyasha caught her and gave her a good talking to.

Koji had given them the puppy dog look, which helped seeming she was half dog demon, and decided that she only tell her aunt about what she did and was let off lightly in their terms. This was an example that Koji would most likely end up like Inuyasha if her attitude wasn't as mischievous as his. Seeing everything in order, Kagome looked over Koji's white long-sleeved, button-up, designer shirt and red cargo pants, all in order.

She picked up Koji from the chair she sat on and rested her on her wheelchair. After wheeling her out of the apartment, there Inuyasha and Taji were waiting by the car. Both looked somewhat impatient, though Taji seemed to be more under control.

"Took you a while…" Inuyasha said impatiently tapping his foot.

"I'm sorry I had to get Koji ready, after all it is her first day of walking therapy." She smiled brightly, Inuyasha smiled back sadly.

"You mean 'he,' Kagome, remember Koji's supposed to be incognito."

"I know, Koji doesn't mind, he's a good boy," Kagome smiled patting her 'son's' head while 'he' was smiling softly at Taji who was telling him how fun his school was. Koji nodded in understanding, for the past few days she was tutored by Miroku since he was a 7th grade teacher at Taji's school. So far she already mastered the basics of the Japanese language and reached up to the Geometrics of the Math level, which meant that she was already reaching high school level so quickly.

Already Kagome had so many hundred and A+ papers on the fridge there wasn't even enough room for Taji's drawing, so she put them in a special box for them so there was at least some parts of the fridge to look at. It was a bit of a shock to her about how Koji had all of that information stored up in her head. Inuyasha wasn't surprised, Koji was given the gift of photographic memory for military reasons, and though he was satisfied Koji was getting used to normal life he knew Koji was still having difficulty at night.

She'd have nightmares at times and Inuyasha was the only one who smelt them at night. At times she'd get up in her pajamas and limp to try and make it to her parents' room, but Inuyasha was always up and would come out of his door and rush to her room when she was a foot away from the door.

"Mama, can we go now? I want to see what Koji's therapy teacher looks like." Taji smiled from his spot on his big 'brother's' lap.

"Okay, sweetheart," Kagome smiled picking up her son.

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When they arrived at the health center, it was quite a tranquil place with a forest backyard and a large one story building made of practically all windows. Inuyasha wheeled Koji through the automatic doors with Taji and Kagome behind them. Koji looked around while sniffing in the new scents, it smelled somewhat similar to the anesthetics at the labs though it wasn't really that heavy and she could smell the scent of sakura blossoms inside as well as the outside.

After pushing Koji up to the front desk, Kagome spoke for her child.

"How may I help you?" The front desk woman asked smiling at the couple.

"My son, Takahashi Koji is here for his physical therapy session." Kagome answered with a sweet smile.

"Oh yes, at 8:30, please come with me and I'll introduce your son's trainer." The woman stood and headed down a nearby hall. Inuyasha pushed Koji after the woman wondering how his son would feel about being left here without his parents and brother for six hours with complete strangers. The woman walked through an automatic door revealing a room with several people who patients with their own trainers.

Koji observed the room wondering if these people were going through the same problems she must have. Inuyasha rested a hand on Koji's head seeing her curiosity, she must see what's happening now.

"Let me go get, Ohana-san." The woman said trotting away from the group.

"I wonder who Koji's trainer is." Kagome wondered out loud, looking around at the physical therapy trainers, she was conscious that Koji was gripping her sleeve. She knew her child would be confused as to what was happening.

"Who knows…" Inuyasha shrugged, "hopefully it won't be a guy." The older Hanyou observed the male trainers and how they handled their patients, whether male or female, they touched them a lot. Last thing Koji needs is a man touching her all day and making her think its part of the training. Inuyasha's thoughts were interrupted by the woman who returned with a younger woman.

"This is Ohana Masaya, she will be Koji's trainer, Takahashi-san." The woman introduced with a smile. The woman was much taller than Kagome, and stronger built too. She wore a black pair of sweat pants and a white shirt. Her hair was as short as Koji's and had cold, electric blue eyes.

She thinned her lips whilst staring at the child in the wheelchair, observing him in a silent way. Koji blinked before remembering Miroku saying that you shake a person's hand when you meet them. Finding her manners she smiled lifting her hand out towards Ohana, the woman scoffed slapping Koji's hand away making her widen her eyes in shock.

That manner, was just how they treated her at the lab… Though her scent was covered in sakura and peppermint.

"Alright, everyone leave." Ohana ordered, ignoring Koji's expression towards her, and the front desk lady left without hesitating. Inuyasha on the other hand, didn't like Ohana's attitude. Kagome looked at the woman with a confused look as Taji hid behind his mother fearfully.

"You can't make us leave." Inuyasha argued and Ohana narrowed her blue orbs towards him.

"My patient, my responsibility now until 1. Leave now."

"Inuyasha, I think we should leave now-"

"No way I'm leaving our son!" He growled loosening the business tie he wore.

"Must I call security?" Masaya threatened with a glare.

"Do it, I'll make sure you regret to show my son disrespect." The protective father growled, lips curling back to a snarl. Ohana was not afraid, she simply pulled out a small radio about ready to call security. Inuyasha was about to move until he felt a strong grasp on his wrist.

Looking down he saw Koji looking at him with that same look she had when she woke up in the hospital. Inuyasha glared at Masaya but turned his gaze back to Koji, he softened his gaze and bent down to give Koji a hug and kissing his 'son's' cheek.

"Be good, okay, we'll be back by 1." He smiled patting Koji's head. 'Papa,' Koji mouthed reaching out towards her father as he grasped Kagome and Taji's hands.

"We'll come pick you up later, sweetie." Kagome smiled waving to her 'son' to try and make her smile and wave back. It made her happy that Koji did so and they finally left leaving Masaya to take care of Koji.

"Let me see…" Masaya pondered making Koji turn her attention to the woman, "you were hit by a car saving your new baby brother and suffered damage from it. You're mute too."

Koji nodded as Masaya walked around and behind her making her lift her guard up. She pushed her chair to a pair of parallel bars and tipped Koji's chair, throwing the child off the seat and onto the floor. Luckily, she had reached up to grasp one of the bars.

"You also spent a couple weeks in a hospital bed." Masaya added. Koji tightened her grip on the bar and tried to pull herself onto her feet. She could only get on her right foot. Her left leg had been fitted with different ammo calibers for her weaponry. She remembered it was designed like her right leg that was reconstructed as a laser and bazooka canon.

She furrowed her brows and gritted her teeth as she tried to take the one step forward she could never take for the past few years. She always said to herself, if I want to live, I have to walk on my own two feet. Masaya looked at the child with an impressed expression, he sure was determined, he had the face too.

"I can see now what you think I was doing," Masaya grinned darkly. By hearing that tone, Koji looked over her shoulder to reveal her determined blue eyes match Masaya's.

"I like that look kid, you've got guts. You knew right away I wanted to see how much will power you have to make you stand. I can see that we have at least a week and a half worth of work here." She grinned walking up to the boy and lifted his left hand on the opposite bar.

"Now, today I want to see how far you can travel with your feet, you start now," Masaya smiled before reaching for a chair and sat by the bars observing the boy with satisfaction, "you're goal here is to walk from there all the way to the end of the bar. If you can do it, I'll graduate you to the walker in two days."

And it started, when it reached the two hour mark Koji was covered in perspiration only having walked half way before collapsing onto the floor gasping for breath. Not walking for such a long time sure did a number on her legs. Her bangs clung to her forehead and the sides of her face, her body quivered from the strain she went through.

Masaya was still on the chair sipping a bottle of water to taunt Koji like they did to her at the lab, she ignored it not caring what happened to herself. "Finished?" Masaya asked throwing the discarded bottle behind her back. Koji didn't answer merely panting like the half dog demon she was.

"Seems like you have gained energy in your arms and you right leg to walk at least five steps, though I can see your left could use a helpful prosthetic. I'll have to request one for tomorrow and have you fitted." Masaya observed. Koji merely nodded trying to clear her vision a bit from the slight strain. The woman stood and walked over to Koji, squatting down to the child she lifted Koji's shirt to see various scars crisscrossing over and over her flat chest.

The cold air on Koji's stomach made her tense up a bit from the sudden action. "Hmm, I also heard you used to be abused, I wonder who did this to you." Masaya added turning her gaze to Koji who had finally slowed her breath down. Blinking, Masaya reached down and grabbed one of Koji's wrists and lifted it up only to have it fall limply. Strange, a Hanyou like him should still have power after a breather from that.

"I guess I'll work your muscles for you, you did better than my other patients anyway." Masaya compromised watching the boy nod his eyes now blank like before. Such a strange half-demon child, he wasn't like any of the other children she had ever seen. Also whoever abused him must have done worse than she could to him with training like this.

Masaya took on of Koji's legs and began to bend them, mostly by contracting and retracting the muscles. "I'll tell your parents to do this for you before you go to bed. This will help the muscles in your legs to get used to the movements and also so they won't get too stiff," She said receiving a yawn from the boy but at least a sufficient nod.

Masaya worked on Koji's limbs in silence, her eyes fixated on the boy's legs, her face in complete concentration. After half an hour, she looked at Koji's scar on his neck and the number thirty two tattooed on it. The boy wasn't paying attention to her at all, he merely letting her do her work.

"I wonder how you got mute kid, were being bad and they just slit your throat or what?" Masaya grinned smugly. Koji turned her gaze towards the woman for a bit before looking away and nodding slowly. It was just another scar and a reminder, one she wanted to forget, but couldn't no matter how hard she tried.

Hours passed and Inuyasha and Kagome came back to pick up Koji. When they saw their 'son' he was asleep in his wheelchair head lolled forward with Masaya behind his chair.

"Make sure to work his muscles before bed and make sure he tries to walk for a bit every few hours. Be back her same time tomorrow, I'll have a prosthetic left leg waiting for him too." Masaya ordered. The couple exchanged glances before nodding and left.

"Wow, that must have been some tough therapy for one day." Kagome commented as they wheeled Koji to the car.

"Yeah, it takes a lot of energy to exhaust Koji. After all she's still recovering and she might have to live with a prosthetic as well for most of her life now." Her husband replied as he picked up Koji. He looked down with a small frown, she was covered in a cold sweat and her youki was slowly increasing from the rest.

"Come on, let's go pick up Taji, Izayoi-san wanted to see Koji after therapy." Kagome smiled after folding up the wheelchair and putting it in the trunk of the car.

"Though maybe we should let her sleep in the car." At that moment, Koji began to stir and slowly opened her eyes. She blinked a few times to clear her vision while she sniffed smelling the scent of her parents around her. She looked up curiously and smiled to see her father smiling down to her.

'Papa,' she mouthed as he chuckled helping her into the car.

"Yes, and mom's here too," He grinned helping her to put on her seat belt seeing that her limbs seemed to be so useless at the moment. The moment she was buckled up she fell back to sleep.

"She's just like me whenever I use too much energy, just drop to sleep right there." He grinned taking off his jacket and putting it over her like a blanket.

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After picking up Taji and having a happy, squealing Izayoi hugging a sleeping Koji, the family made it back to their condo where Kagome began dinner. After kicking off their shoes, Taji ran into the living room to watch T.V. while Inuyasha took Koji for her bath since she was always the one to sleep before everyone. Currently, she was awake and was sitting on the bathroom toilet while Inuyasha left to get his and Koji's clothes.

When he had everything ready, he took off Koji's clothes and set her in the already filled tub with warm water. He took off his clothes and got in with her while she was playing with a toy tug boat Taji had shown her during one of their bath times. Inuyasha smiled merely lounging there while watching her play.

"Hey Koji, did Masaya-san feed you yet?" He asked a soft smile. Koji turned abruptly towards him with that 'adorable face of curiosity' as Kagome would call it. She shook her vigorously then lifted the boat to him.

'Papa, want play.' She mouthed with a concentrated face.

"It's okay, right now I need to clean you down so we can eat mama's yummy food." He chuckled grabbing the nearby shampoo bottle and squeezing some of the substance onto his hands. He lathered it a bit before rubbing it into Koji's hair.

"You have the same hair as your mother, nice soft. Mine too, it's fluffy too." He chuckled as Koji reached up trying to catch the bubbles in the open air. He began to wonder if Koji was mature enough to even be at school after she finishes physical therapy. Then again she spent her childhood in an experiment ward where living life wasn't well influenced into her head yet.

"So Koji how was therapy today, I could see it was tiring." Inuyasha chuckled as he carefully washed out Koji's hair. He stopped when he saw her tense up. He waited a moment before he saw her shudder and her ears flopped down.

"K-Koji…" He called before he flinched when she began to shake uncontrollably. Inuyasha remembered seeing that from Taji when his demon classmate who was a girl declared he was her girlfriend, she was a scary one at that too. Now he could see it, she was scared of trainer.

"It's okay, Koji. Masaya-san is one of the best therapist in Japan… or at least that's what I read on the internet," He mumbled the last part as he gave Koji the shampoo bottle to do his hair. In this house family members always took turns cleaning the other. He was happy too, Koji was just as good as Kagome whenever they put shampoo on his head.

'Koji…' Koji mouthed as she concentrated on her father's hair, he made sure he was reading her lips. Miroku said that even though Koji was mute for a whole year she could start speaking by merely mouthing the words so it was much easier since Inuyasha could understand sign language. He was very unlike Kagome who took it during high school.

'Koji… want work hard… for momma… papa… and Taji…' She said as she carefully poured water onto Inuyasha's head while avoiding his ears. She remembered now why her mother always made sure no water got into her ears, it was annoying hearing swishing noises of water whenever you walked around and whenever you tilted your head the water would pour out. She disliked it greatly.

After cleaning each other, Inuyasha and Koji lounged around in the tub a bit longer since they had fifteen minutes left in the bath. Well Inuyasha was, Koji was playing with the toy boat again and figured out that the mechanism could make bubbles with bubble bath. The Hanyou father smiled with sincerity towards his daughter.

She was very smart and always found fun, though he was worried about Naraku. He made sure to have updates on what the Hanyou was doing and it turned out he was overseas at the moment suspecting that Koji was there and had to postpone his presentations of his weapons. Inuyasha was grateful for that. He was able to study Koji's body structure more.

She had the structure of both a young girl and boy around the age of twelve. She had a somewhat broad back, even though her body was slim in shape. In boy terms she was handsome; in girl terms… she was flat chested. His thoughts were interrupted when he saw Koji in front of him looking down at the water in front of him. He blinked looking at confused.

"Koji, what's wrong?" Inuyasha asked. Reaching down, Koji grabbed between his legs and he immediately knew what she was looking at.

"KOJI!"

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"HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" Inutaisho and Sesshoumaru laughed at Inuyasha the next day at work. They were both on the floor laughing their guts out in Inuyasha's big office. It had a big red oak desk with the state of the art computer that could hold over hundreds of gigs and the large window had a nice sight of the city below.

Right now, Inuyasha wasn't fazed by the view towards his windows. Just the annoyance of his brother and father laughing at his face was enough to set him off. He swore to Kami he was close to turning demon and tearing their faces off during the process.

After Koji's little accident, Kagome was laughing the whole time while they were eating and she must have called Izayoi that night while Inuyasha was tucking in the kids. It pissed him off greatly though, he knew Koji didn't know better and couldn't tell the difference from a boy and a girl, but was it really in his wife's place to tell every embarrassing moment their kids have consisting of him in it.

It was surprising that day too. He got to see his older brother laugh for the first time in years. The reason for it was stupid.

"You know kids like her have curiosity and innocence, it's not my fault we didn't teach the differences of genders in life!" He growled at his father and brother who were trying to control their breathing.

"I wish I could see the look on your face when she did it! It would have been priceless to put up on the internet!" Sesshoumaru laughed holding his stomach. An angry pulse appeared on Inuyasha's head as he gritted his fangs to try and control his anger toward his older sibling. Damn bastards gettin' on my nerves, he growled thoughtfully.

"He's right, Sesshoumaru," Inutaisho panted, trying to catch his breath. "Koji's a growing girl and hasn't even started school yet. She has her curiosities in life, especially when it comes to your brother's family jewels."

"Shut up, Dad!" Inuyasha yelled just as Kagome came in with a folder in her arms. She was her husband's secretary after all and she was always there to give him lunch. She couldn't wish for a better job.

"Inuyasha, I just picked up Koji from therapy," She smiled, "she's taking a nap right now, would you like to see her."

"Huh?" Inuyasha looked up towards the clock on his wall and saw that it was already 2:30 pm. Why didn't his wife tell him it was time to pick her up?

"Um, okay…" he said hesitantly before walking towards his wife.

"Sesshoumaru, Inutaisho-sama, why don't you come as well?" Kagome smiled opening the door for them. The two blinked before nodding themselves. The four of them walked into the office area Sango and Kagome worked in to see Koji sleeping in a nearby couch with Sango sitting on it as well to put a thin blanket over her.

"Ah, Kagome-chan, I see you've brought them. Look at Koji's sketchbook." Sango smiled carefully taking out the book from Koji's grasp. Inuyasha raised a brow at them before looking down to his daughter to see that she had been fitted with a prosthetic on her left leg that seemed to be made of smooth steel. Reaching out he took the sketchbook from Sango and looked down at it with his brother and father looking over his shoulders.

It was already on the twentieth page with all kinds of people and things she saw so far. On this page was a chibi version of her giving her father a hug and on top in big red colors were 'Gomen Papa!' Inuyasha's face went completely red as the men looking over his shoulders tried to hold in their laughter.

"I thought it was so cute!" Sango squealed quietly as Sesshoumaru took out his phone took a picture of the adorable sketch.

"I know, right, she's so considerate of her father. She even made a family portrait the other day, it was so nice I framed it and put it up in mine and Inuyasha's room!" She squealed making Koji stir a bit. She scrunched her face up as she turned over onto her stomach and let her left arm fall to the floor. She continued sleeping not even hearing the conversation between the adults.

Her ears twitched a bit before drooping down as she slept. All she wanted right now was a nice long nap before bath time with her father and a great dinner with her little brother with her mother's great cooking. Life couldn't get any better, Koji smiled in her sleep.

Nya: by the moment you finish this I will have posted up a picture of Koji on my DeviantART page, just look up Kitsunekon or type down Koji Takahashi and it should be there. Anyway's there'll be a big surprise in the next chapter so don't miss out. X3