Kikyobellflower: Thanks! I wanted to put more Aki in chapter, that was all I could think of.


Inuyasha woke up in the middle of the night. Around two am. He walked to the kitchen, lazily and grabbed himself a cup and served himself juice.

"You can't sleep either?" Mrs. Kamura said, sipping a cup of tea.

Inuyasha jumped up at the sound of her voice. "I didn't notice you there."

"Hehe, scared you didn't I?" She stood up and stretched. "Would you mind if you accompanied me to the park?"

"Not at all," Inuyasha put his cup in the sink.


At the park . . .

They sat on the swings. Mrs. Kamura took a deep breath of air.

Inuyasha nervously rocked himself back and forth on the swing.

"I remember," Mrs. Kamura broke the silence.

Inuyasha focused his attention on her.

"You and Kikyo would take turns pushing each other on the swings. You two got along great. How are you two getting along now?"

"Okay . . . I guess . . ." Inuyasha looked at the ground.

"Would you be lonely without my daughter around?"

Inuyasha tensed up and got red in the face. He silently thanked the darkness.

"Would you?"

Inuyasha rubbed the chains on the swing. Still no answer.

"It'd be pretty sad if you were alone there, without your father, wouldn't i-"

"Don't take Kikyo away. . . can you let her stay for a little while longer?"

Mrs. Kamura smiled and stood up from the swing, "I knew it!"

Inuyasha looked up, nervously, "Kn-knew what?"

"Do you two have a secret special relationship. Are you two going out?"

"No. But," Inuyasha looked at the ground. "But uh . . ."

"You two would make the cutest couple. I wish your mother could see this. She adored you and Kikyo. Well, if you want more time with my daughter then-" She was cut off by her phone. She answered it. "Hello?"

"Where are you?!"

Mrs. Kamura pulled away from the phone a bit and then pressed her ear against it again. "Sorry, sir. I really wanted to visit my daughter." She nodded her head. "Fine, fine."

She hung up the phone. "I'm sorry, but can you say good bye to my daughter for me, I'm afraid I won't stop by to see her again for a while. I'm really running late. Good bye."

"Bye," Inuyasha saw her run to the bus at the end of the street.


With Haru and the others. . .

They all were asleep, drooling on the couch. Aki sucked his thumb and rolled to his side. Haru, Koga and Andi were kneeling on the floor and had their heads on the couch.

Aki whined in his sleep, "Mama. Papa."

A young woman with long black hair wrapped him in a blanket and stuck his baby bottle between his hands." She ran off into the night.

"Papppp-" Aki asked.

"Papa will come later . . ." She got to the park and looked both ways. "Mama will be back, soon, ok?" She left him there on the bench. "Maaa-"


Sry, short chapter. I've been pretty lazy.