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Chapter 129

"It's not funny InuYasha."

"It's kinda funny."

"How is it funny? Please. Tell me. I'm all ears."

"Just is."

"See and here I was hoping you'd actually have some advice but instead..."

Wait, what?

He wants me to give him advice.

Fuck, I don't even know what I'm doing.

"Why the hell do you want my advice?"

"Because you basically helped raise me and you have a ton of kids that you haven't managed to mess up yet. I thought you'd be able to tell me...Never mind. It was stupid anyway. You've always hated me. Don't know why..."

Oh no.

I have managed to scar a child.

"I don't hate you Shippo. I just found you annoying sometimes."

"Gee. Thanks."

"Yeah well kids are annoying. You don't sleep. They cry over the stupidest shit. They embarrass you. Humiliate you. Call you every name in the book. You don't understand half the stuff they like. Your life revolves around making sure they're safe. God forbid it's a girl because past a certain point all you feel is pretty much constant panic. Especially when they come home with a boy. You're going to be overwhelmed, exhausted and worried all the time. Worried they'll get hurt. Who'll take care of them if something happens to you. Whether you're fucking them up. Whether they're going to fuck up."

"This isn't advice."

"Let me finish dammit. But at the end of the day you love them. When they're happy you're happy. Do you know what Izayoi's first word was? She said me first. Me. It's the best feeling you'll ever feel to know that the little shit loves you. And all that worry and frustration and everything doesn't matter. What matters is that you try to be the person your brats think you are because no matter what you do, you're their hero. That's my advice."

"Oh."

"And try to sleep when they sleep. Otherwise you die."