Mr Takashido told them he couldn't join them for lunch, but dinner that night would be great. So, while Kagome napped, InuYasha and the rest of the family worked on making this simple dinner into a party. A "Cheer-up Kagome" party.

InuYasha was up in a tree trying to hang a streamer. Mrs. Higurashi was correction his mistakes from the ground. InuYasha looked down at the mother, "Did I act ok?" The question had been bothering him a lot.

"Your thinking that you should have hit him, huh?" she asked back.

He looked at her, "Yeah." Then he went back to his work.

She smiled, "Your thinking you should have protected the one you love."

He stopped tying the string. He didn't even need to look at her to know she was still smiling.

"I knew you did, love her I mean. But InuYasha, dear, you can never have her fully...well, it's done! So, go get changed and do what we talked about earlier," Mrs. Higurashi left him and went to the picnic tables to light the candles and bug repellant.

He jumped down and landed smoothly. Walking towards the house, his mind raced on what the woman had said, 'What did she mean by that?'

InuYasha changed his dirty clothes. His new shirt said, "Do I look like a F*@%ing people person to you?" His panted were blue jeans that fitted loosly around him.

He went quietly into Kagome's room and picked Dev up from his crib. Then walked out and down the stairs. Once out of the house he looked at the baby, "You get to come with me and leave her to sleep a while longer." He walked up to Mrs. Higurashi. She handed him a small baby pack.

"It has the things you'll need if he gets cranky while your looking for them. Be careful with him, we don't want Kagome mad," she smiled at him and kissed Dev's forhead. "Be home soon."

He nodded and started towards the well house. Once inside he jumped into the well, Dev still in his arms.

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InuYasha came out on the other side of the well. He looked around and sniffed the air. No demons. He then looked at the sun. He only had about two hours there, then he would have to be back.

He started to walk towards the village. 'Please let them all be there. If I have to go searching, I'll kill them when I find them.'

He walked into the village, getting a lot of stares. He growled at most of the people, and that caused them to go back to their own business. He walked right up to Kaede's hut and walked in.

"InuYasha! What a great surprise. What brings you back," Sango said. She was surprised...surprised that he even came back.

"Kagome's sleeping, but Mrs. Higurashi wanted you to meet her son. His name is Dev," InuYasha held the baby out to Sango. Sango stood up quickly and gently took the baby from him.

She looked at him with wondering eyes, "You didn't kill him yet?"

InuYasha scowled at her, "Why would I kill him?"

"He's not yours. I thought that all male demons kill the offspring of other males who take claim to their women," She played with Dev's hands.

"I wouldn't do that," He said. But he thought, 'I wanted to, but couldn't. Kagome's child.'

"Wow, he's so cute!" she cooed to the child.

"Where's the lech?" InuYasha asked. "And the kit?"

"Both are taking a bath," she said boredly to him. She didn't even care now that he was there. The baby was just too cute.

InuYasha rolled his eyes and started out of the hut, "Watch the brat, k?"

She nodded and sat down. She layed Dev on one of the fur skins on the floor. "Oh, I'm so glad your Kagome's." she said to Dev. Dev just looked up at her.

InuYasha made it to the hut to hear Shippo playing in the water instead of cleaning, and Miroku was relaxing. "Trying to clean your lechous self?" InuYasha asked.

"InuYasha! Where's Kagome?" Shippo asked.

"At her house. I was sent here to get you and bring you to her time," InuYasha sat on a boulder.

"Really? We get to see her time...uh, InuYasha, nice clothes," Miroku smirked.

"Look, there we have to dress like this," he said.

"What's it say?" Shippo asked. He started to climb out and dry himself.

"How should I know! She only picks the clothes her American friend says would look 'cool' on any guy. I think she knows what it says though," InuYasha referred to Kagome.

"Well, we shouldn't leave Kagome waiting for us!" Miroku said. He also got out and started placing his clothes on again.

InuYasha started back to the hut, "Hurry and meet me at the well."

"Yup!" They both chorused.

InuYasha walked back into the hut. Dev had fallen asleep again. Sango was going through the baby bag. "What do you think your doing?"

"Looking," she said.

"Come on, we have to get back to the well," InuYasha picked up Dev. His mistake was picking Dev up too fast. The baby woke up and started to scream. He groaned. He sat down, "Sango, hand me that bag."

She gave him the blue bag and watched with interest. 'InuYasha, hanyou, taking care of a baby?!' She watched as he took out a bottle of formula and added the bottled water to it. Then he shook the bottle, took off the cap, and handed it to Dev. He slung the bag over his shoulders, and then held the bottle up for the baby.

"Come on, Miroku and Shippo are waiting," InuYasha stood up, still feeding the baby.

They walked to the well, and sure enough the monk and fox cub were waiting. InuYasha sighed as he thought of how to get them through the well. "We have to do this in a hurry." He looked at the setting sun. "Shippo, get on my shoulder. I'll come back for the two of you." And with that said he jumped through.

He came back a minute later, without Shippo and Dev. "Come on, I'll take both of you back at once." He grabbed both of them, Kirara jumping onto his shoulder like Shippo had. Then he leaped and went into the well.

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They came out on the other side. Shippo was sitting in the well house still, but Dev wasn't anywhere to be found. They looked at InuYasha curious, "I put him in his playpen." They nodded.

All of them started out of the well house and towards the party. Takashido hadn't arrived yet, and neither had the two friends Kagome's mom had invited. InuYasha steered all of the fuedal group towards the house, "Now be quiet! If you wake Kagome, Mrs. Higurashi will be mad." InuYasha took them to the living room. He saw the clothes that Mrs. Higurashi had for the new group. "Here, put these on."

They nodded and InuYasha told them where they could go and change.

Sango walked out of the bathroom. She had cleaned up and now wore a flowered dress. An under shirt with long sleeves, and wooden sandles. The sandles had flowers carved into them. She looked great with her hair was tied back and a clean face.

Miroku and Shippo walked out of Sota's room. Miroku's woredrobe consisted of a shirt that said "Pervert." and khaki pants. Shippo wore a Samarai X shirt that Sota had owned, and some cute jean pants. "Do I look human?" Shippo asked.

"Well, as human as you'll ever get. Maybe you should change your appearance," Miroku smiled.

"Ok," Shippo used his kitsune powers to change into a small boy. "Like this?" His eyes were brown and he had black hair. He still had on Sota's shirt and pants, but didn't have a tail.

"Yes, now you look human. How long can you stay in that shape?" the monk asked.

"As long as I want," Shippo smiled a cute little smile.

They all went down the stairs to see InuYasha sitting bored on the back of the couch. "Took long enough."

Right beside the hanyou was Kirara. She had a pink bow around her neck and looked very cute, and none demonish.

InuYasha looked out the window and saw the last of the sun dissapear. His hair started to change to black, his claws turned into human finger nails, and he no longer had fangs. He turned human.

"I wondered why you were in such a hurry," Shippo smiled at the now human.

"Shut up," InuYasha walked out the door and to the party. They walked behind him and gasped at the beautiful decorations. Streamer, banners, and different colored lanterns were everywhere. All of the things were lit up with candles and extension chords for the lights.

"Wow," Sango breathed. Her thoughts were interupted though when a hand reached for her. She turned around and slapped Miroku. "Behave!"

He smiled sheepishly and nodded. "I will."

InuYasha shook his head and started for the food. He walked up to Mrs. Higurashi, "Are her friends here yet?"

"They will be here any minute. And Takashido just called saying he was ten minutes away," she looked at the him. "We will wake Kagome when every one arrives." She smiled.

He nodded and walked back to the confused group. "Well, what are you standing there for. Go and get food, or look at the decorations or something. You look like codfish."

"You don't even know what a codfish is," Shippo said to him.

"There's a kid over there, go play!" InuYasha pointed to Sota who was playing with his YuGiOh cards. Shippo took the hint and went over to the other boy.

"Hi!" Shippo greeted him.

"Hey! You're Shippo right?" Sota stood up. He smiled at the younger boy. "I'm Sota. I'm Kagome's younger brother. What you wanna play?"

"I don't know. Uh, how about a game that's easy to learn?" Shippo asked. He smiled at the older boy. He liked the human. 'He's like Kagome.'

"How about I teach you how to play a card game. It's easy and we'll be out of the grown-ups way," Sota sat down and pulled a deck of cards from his pocket. "It's called 'Go Fish.' It's easy."

"Ok!" Shippo sat down too and started to learn how to play the easy game. At first he thought it had something to do with fishing, but soon learned it was just a name.

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Kagome woke up to see the sky dark. Her room had no light but the back yard was light enough. "What's going on?" she asked no one.

"Come and see," InuYasha said. He stood at the doorway of her room. He smiled sweetly.

She smiled too and stood up. She didn't have to change, she was in normal clothes anyway. She had changed when she had come home, and now she wore a flower dress almost identical to Sango's. She walked down the stairs and reached the door. She slipped on her black school shoes and walked out.

She looked at every detail of the back yard. She read every banner. "We love you Kagome!" and "Cheer-up Kagome!" She also looked at all the Japanese lanterns with candles flickering in them. She looked at the colorful Christmas Tree lights that hung from all the trees on the shrine. She turned around to InuYasha, "Thank you!" She hugged him. Then turned back around and started toward the crowd of people she saw around the picnic tables.

When she reached the tables she was shocked to see Sango, Miroku, Shippo, and Kirara all there. They turned to her and smiled, well, the people did. Shippo stood up and ran to her, "Kagome!" She hugged him.

"How did you guys get here?" She asked them.

They pointed behind her and Sango said, "InuYasha invited us."

She turned around. He was blushing slightly, but it was hard to see in the low light. "Yeah, I did."

"Thank you again!" She then went to her two friends from school. "And how did you guys get here?"

"Your mom called us and said you were having a party. So, surprise!" her American friend, Keri, said in broken Japanese.

Her other friend, Shizuka, smiled and said, "We thought you knew about this."

Kagome was so happy. She shook her head no, she hadn't known about this party.

"Surpise Kagome!" Mrs. Higurashi said from the grill. Grandpa was sitting on the bench tying some sort of charm together. Kagome also saw that Dev was sleeping peacefully in the playpen they had bought him. Takashido had stayed quiet. He didn't think he was fitting in too well.

"Mr. Takashido, thank you for what you did today," Kagome bowed politly to him.

"Just doing my job," he said.

"No, you did more then that. When other lawyers had found out who he was, they told us they could't defend us. Thank you, so much," Kagome smiled at him. She sat down next to him and they started a conversation on what was for dinner, and how great the party was.

Everyone else went back to their own conversations and the party turned out great. The fuedal people messed up every now and then on something, but no information on where they came from ever slipped out. Kagome helped them with things like what the food was, and where Keri was from. The party was a hit, and everyone loved Dev.

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Thanks To: Cutiepie99, Kazumi, Foxterr, and Fantasy Cat

simply-keri: It was a typo. I sent you an E-mail on it. I'm very sorry!! As an apology I have made Kagome's American friend have the name Keri. Please forgive me.

The Diety Of Happy Dinner: I have also read all anime and manga on InuYasha. And I didn't mean it as it sounds. They know there's feelings there, just Kagome has been through much and now InuYasha wonders if she could ever love again. I was going to get more into it later, but I wanted to clear it up for you. Hope you understand what I am saying.

Tessa-chan: It's me! And why shocked on my review status? I can't get many reviews now? And I couldn't forget you! ^_^ And on my site, did you capitalize the G in Gykoje? You have to, or it don't work.

And Thank You to my friend Justine for telling me those wonderful shirts with quotes on them. She has a book full of different sayings! ^_^ And thanks to Annie-san for the Samarai X shirt idea. Thanks to Cara-san for my last chapter's shirt of Gundam Wing on it. And thanks Lanora-chan for the idea of Japanese lanterns.

Thank you so much for all the reviews!! I am no where near the end, and I have another twist for the story to make it more fun!

Ad: I have a new InuYasha story coming soon! It's called Hanyou Meets Demi. It is about InuYasha and Kagome's son. He meets a girl from one of my original works. It's going to be fun to make, and yes it will have Inu/Kag love in it. PG13. COMING SOON! LOOK FOR IT!!

Disclaimer: I don't own InuYasha or the his cast. I don't own Samarai X or YuGiOh. And I don't know who invented Go Fish! I own Dev, Takashido, and Shizuk. Keri is mine too as an apology to a fan.