A/N: Hello everyone, I'm happy to hear how much you all love this story! In this chapter there is another time gap. Megumi is now a few months old and Kagome is all caught up with her school work. Hope you all like it!

Chapter 25

A scream of joy bursts out of Megumi's mouth once again as I push the swing for the thousandth time today. I can't help but smile each time. Her hair is starting to grow longer and is now being pulled into two tiny pig tails at the top of her head. She's wearing blue pants and a blue frilly tee shirt with a puppy in the center sticking its tongue out. She's also wearing white sneakers.

Now that she's crawling, we don't know when she's going to start trying to take her first steps. Also, I don't want her to get her foot stung by a bug or cut by something, so I always make sure she's wearing shoes. Megumi makes sure that I know she doesn't like wearing them though.

"Come on Kagome, it's time to eat. " I turn to look at Inuyasha as he spreads out our picnic on a blanket spread out on the grass.

"Alright, we're coming. Come on baby girl, ready for some lunch?" She smiles really big and I laugh. Walking over to Inuyasha, the smile on my face grows. I can't believe how close we've all grown. Inuyasha has taken Megumi and me out many times and we can tell each other anything. With everyone else, they really are like my extended family now. Sango, Miroku, Rin and even Sesshomaru to a point seem like my brothers and sisters.

I couldn't be happier, it wouldn't be possible. I have the best friends in the world. Megumi sees everyone as family now too and I love that.

We reach the blanket and I put her in a tiny portable chair and table for her to eat in. Inuyasha hands me the can of baby food. "Alright Megumi, it's time to eat your peas."

"Bleh, that stuff smells disgusting!" Inuyasha said while making a face.

"It probably tastes bad to most babies, but she needs the nutrients from vegetables. Besides, somehow she likes it." She'll eat anything though, which definitely makes things easier. Because she's not a picky eater, I can get her to eat all kinds of foods and make sure she's as healthy as she can be.

I open my mouth to show Megumi what to do so she'll open hers as well. When she does, I give her the next spoon full of peas. "So, what are we going to do during summer break? Do you all do anything special?"

I turn to see his eyes brighten up, "Actually yeah we do! We all go to my summer house on the beach. We've done it every year since middle school. Now that we're in high school, we don't need our parents to go with us anymore though, so we get it to ourselves."

I gasp and jump up and down in place, "That's so exciting! The whole gang goes? Even Kouga, Ayame, and Sesshomaru go?" He nods and I squeal in excitement. Living in a house with the beach as the backyard would be amazing. "The only down side is that my mom says I need to work on getting a job this summer. We're staying here for good and I need a way to pay for going out, food, and clothes and stuff. Not to mention things for Megumi here."

"Sounds like a good idea to me, maybe I'll join you on that. Do you have any idea where you want to work?" I turn to give Megumi another spoon and when I look back at Inuyasha, he's trying to do tricks on his skateboard. I roll my eyes, ever since I found out that he's a skater, he can't get off the thing. I actually love that he's a skater, he's really good at it, but I don't know why he didn't tell me before.

"No idea yet, but I haven't really started looking yet either. When did you start skateboarding?" He looks up at me and thinks to himself for a second. I let him wonder his mind for a minute since he's probably trying to remember the first time he picked up a board.

"I think when I was seven, I loved being able to do all these stunts and show off." I laugh, yeah that sounds like him alright. "So since neither of us knows where we want to work, do you want to search together? We can check out the mall first if you want." I nod and smile, that sounds awesome.

I still haven't told Inuyasha that I like him because as I got to know him I thought it would dull down and eventually I'd stop, but I keep growing to love him more and more. I wouldn't be able to tell him now at this point, besides there's another thing stopping me and that's…"Inuyasha, you-hoo!" Kikyo… I close my eyes and take a deep calming breath. When Megumi growls low at the unwanted guest I let out a low chuckle, that's my girl.

"Hey Kikyo, what's up?" Inuyasha gets off his board and holds it between his hand and his side. The two of them have been getting very friendly lately, most likely started when I was in a coma.

"Oh I was just wondering if you'd come to see my ballet recital tomorrow night. I'm dancing the lead and have a spotlight dance in the performance."

"Uh…sure…yeah I can come…it will be…uh…fun." He so obviously doesn't want to go, so why bother? Wait a minute…tomorrow night?

"Wait Inuyasha, you said you'd come over and watch a movie with Megumi and me tomorrow night. We just got her that new Veggie Tales movie, remember?"

His ears droop as he looks from Kikyo to me and here come the excuses, "Well Kagome, we can watch that anytime with her, we bought it for that reason anyway. Megumi won't know the difference; she doesn't even know we were going to watch it tomorrow anyway. Kikyo's performance has set times for these things, we can watch it another time right?"

"Oh…right…ok…"

"Kagome…I'm sorry…"

Kikyo cuts in and says, "Oh please who cares about her! Who would want to watch such a dumb baby thing anyways? It's not your fault that she's a fucking slut Inuyasha. You don't need to play nice for her just because she has a baby now. Come on, let's go do something fun. Oh, you won't need that where we're going." She takes Inuyasha's board and throws it in the grass as she drags him by the hand.

He turns with an apologetic face as he waves in an apologetic way. I wave back before looking down at the ground. "Well Megumi, looks like it's just you and me again tonight. You ready to watch that new movie Mommy got you today?" I pull out the DVD and she squeals in excitement while trying to grab it. I let out another low chuckle as I get up with her in my arms. I put everything else back in the diaper bag and put it over my shoulder. I look back and pick up Inuyasha's skateboard before walking home. He can come pick it up when he comes to apologize again like he usually does after he's done hanging out with Kikyo. I sigh, same as always.

So, what do you think? I think this is a good way to portray the situation in a modern way between the three, don't you? Let me know what you think in a review!