Time past, and the court date had to be pushed further back and back. They kept having problems with the date. According to Ashi, he had other court cases to work on, and couldn't attend the custody cases.

Kagome kept praying that maybe he would just give up. Mrs. Higurashi said that if his schedule was so busy how could he possibly take care of a child? InuYasha just kept thinking of ways to slowly kill the bastard.

And all through this time AvDevjyp started to grow bigger and bigger. He learned to crawl, to walk, and now he was almost two years old and barely talking. Infact the next court date, that hadn't changed yet, was on his second birthday.

Dev ran into the room screaming. Kagome was sleeping, well, trying to sleep. She had been sick for a while now. She had caught a really bad flu and was trying to get rid of the headache she had the moment.

And Dev, being only a baby, didn't know how sick his mom was. So, like all children, he did what he did best. Run around and scream. He pushed his toy onto Kagome's bed, "Mama!"

She groaned and looked over at him, "Dev, go play with uncle Sota."

"Ok!" and he ran out of the room, screaming.

She pushed herself back into her pillow. 'Why me?' she asked herself.

"Dev, stop!" she heard her brother yell. "That's mine and your gonna break it!"

"Mine!" Dev yelled and ran down the hall again towards the stairs.

"Dev, no running in the house. Sota no screaming, your sister has a headache," Mrs. Higurashi tried to calm the two boys down. But her screaming wasn't helping either.

Kagome pulled her pillow over her head, trying to block out the sounds. But that only suffercated her. So, she pulled her pillow down again. She breathed fresh air and rolled over.

The screaming continued until she heard Dev start to cry. She sat up, ready to go down and comfort her son. But she heard him stop crying. She shrugged and layed back down again.

"Kagome, you feeling better?" InuYasha asked from the doorway of her room.

She looked over at him. He was the one who had comforted Dev, and now had him in his arms. "I thought you went back to get some jewel hunting done." She sat up.

"I did, we got one back, but we can't find them without..." he stopped. Then he looked at Dev, who was playing with his white hair. "Quit."

Dev stopped and looked up at him. He smiled and grabbed another chunk of InuYasha's hair, "Mine."

InuYasha rolled his eyes. "Why does he claim that MY hair is his when ever I show up?"

"He likes white hair...InuYasha, without..." she urged him to continue his sentence.

"It's nothing," he said. Then he set down Dev. "Go play, quietly."

Dev nodded and started down the hall again. InuYasha turned to Kagome, "Without you. You always seem to be our goodluck charm, and you can sense them. We can't."

"I know, but it's too dangerous for Dev. And I can't leave him alone...I'll think of a solution," Kagome said. She layed back down and shut her eyes.

InuYasha didn't say anything. He just left the room, letting Kagome sleep. He grabbed the running Dev, before the toddler could try and run down the stairs. "You are so hyper."

Dev smiled and giggled. "YAY!!" Dev started to scream and cheer.

InuYasha started down the stairs wanting to shut the child up, but then, didn't want Dev's happiness to ever leave him.

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A few days later.

Kagome helped Dev into a yellow shirt. "Stay still honey."

"No," Dev said. He tried to wiggle his way away from her. "No."

"Dev behave, please?" Kagome tried again to get his arm into the sleeve. Then, when she finally finished with the tempermental shirt, she started on trying to get his socks on.

"No!" Dev kept complaining.

"Dev, behave!" Kagome was starting to get frustrated. Not only that, but she just got over being sick, and was still feeling the headache.

InuYasha came in and grabbed a hold of Dev's arm and held him still. Kagome looked up at him. He smiled, well in his own small smile way. She quickly finished dressing Dev. "Thanks."

"Yeah," InuYasha then picked up the toddler and started down the stairs. "Your going slow, and we're gonna be late." He called over his shoulder.

"You always say we're going to be late," Kagome said as she started down the stairs behind him.

He just kept going and when they reached the bottom they saw Mrs. Higurashi there waiting. Sota was saying good-bye to them, and getting a check list from his mother.

"And I want the garbage out in the front when we get back," Mrs. Higurashi said. "Well, that's it. Time to go."

They left out the door.

In the car ride over Kagome adjusted her dress. She then looked at her mother, "Mom, do you think maybe we could some how get them to change the date?"

"Why?" Mrs. Higurashi asked.

"Mr. Ashi does it and it's Dev's birthday," Kagome explained.

"Well we're not going to Ashi's level, and we'll celebrate Dev's birthday after court. It's not going to change anything. We made plans for a dinner party," Mrs. Higurashi then turned a sharp corner to make it onto the freeway.

"I think we should just kill the bastard," InuYasha put his two cents in from the backseat.

"InuYasha, watch your language. Dev doesn't need to be cussing yet," Kagome said.

InuYasha noticed no one complained about him commenting on the guys death. 'Maybe they changed their mind,' he thought.

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In the courtroom Kagome became nervous again. She knew that Ashi wouldn't do anything to her, but she still felt the need to throw up. 'Breath slowly,' she told herself.

InuYasha again knew she was scared. This time though he leaned forward and caught her attention, "Kagome, he can't hurt you. I'm here."

Kagome smiled at him, "Thanks." And she did feel a lot better now. InuYasha would never let Ashi hurt them. 'I've faced demons and monsters, but I get scared over a man?' she asked herself. 'I'm being stupid!'

When Ashi did come into the courtroom, he didn't get the satisfication of putting fear into Kagome. She had calmed down, and he saw she wasn't scared anymore. 'Damn. I will just have to win this, and place a lot more fear into her.'

Everyone rose, the new judge came in, and everyone sat. This judge, a skinny old man, looked over the papers infront of him. He then called for the opening statments. The lawyers repeated everything they had said in the first trial. "Rape? Where is the evidence? The police report?" the judge asked.

Mr. Takashido looked around in his files. Then his face paled, and he checked again. "I can't find the report," he wispered to Mrs. Higurashi.

"What?" she wispered back.

"Well?" the impatient judge asked.

"The report, sir, has disapeared. But a police report was filed at the time of the incident," Takashido explained.

"No report, no evidence," Ashi's lawyer said. "You should have been more prepared."

The judge thought for a moment. Then he turned to his top officer. He wispered something and the officer left the courtroom. Everything seemed to stand still as everyone wondered what the judge had in mind. The officer came back a few minutes later with a couple papers in his hand. The judge looked them over carefully. "I have with me every report filed on rape in this city within two days of the alledged crime. I see no Higurashi here, or Ashi. The case on rape has been dismissed. Now onto custody."

Kagome felt her heart stop. Her rape report was missing? How?

"Ashi at the time of Ms. Higurashi becoming pregnant, she had just turned 18. She still lives with her mother. You on the other hand have a home all with your own money. You have a job; she doesn't. But there is the problem of the fact that she is the mother, and the law states that all children under two must be with their mothers, unless special cases ensue," then the judge went to take a breath.

When he paused for the breath Ashi's lawyer stood up and said, "Excuse me sir, but AvDevjyp is now two. Today is his birthday." Then she sat back down.

Kagome and InuYasha felt helpless. They knew what was coming now. InuYasha hugged Dev a little tighter, being very protective of the child. He wasn't going to give him to Ashi, not in a million years.

"That is so...I have come to a conclusion. AvDevjyp would be in better hands with Sato Ashi. Higurashi will have weekend custody," he then slammed the gavel, "Case dismissed."

Kagome ran past everyone to where InuYasha now was standing holding Dev. "I won't..."

"No," Kagome said. She didn't look at him. She kept her face down. "Give him to me."

InuYasha reluctently gave her her son. "Kagome I can..."

She shook her head. Then turned around and faced the waiting Ashi. "Can't you at least wait until I have his things packed and..."

"I have things for him. My house is ready for him," Ashi said surprisingly sweet.

"We were going to celebrate his birthday," Kagome said.

"You have his this weekend. You can do it then," Ashi held his hands out for Dev.

She nodded. Then hugged Dev, "Behave, ok?" Dev looked at his sad mother not understanding. Then she passed him over to Ashi. Dev looked at the new man, confusion still on his sweet kid face.

Kagome wouldn't cry. She promised that if this happened, she wouldn't cry infront of the man.

Ashi started to walk away. Dev looked over his shoulder at the last minute before Ashi carried him out the door, "Mommy!" he yelled.

That was all Kagome could stand. She fell to her knees and broke down. InuYasha, still confused himself, helped Takashido and Mrs. Higurashi with Kagome.

"I'll find where that report went," Takashido promised InuYasha and Mrs. Higurashi.

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Dev was carried into a huge house. A mansion. People were cleaning and just doing random stuff. He could smell food cooking. "They're baking a cake for you," Ashi told him.

Dev looked around and tried to find his mom out of the many servants. "Mama?" he asked.

"She isn't here AvDevjyp, she's gone. Forever. She didn't want you anymore, so she gave you to me," Ashi told him. "I'm your father."

Dev didn't understand. He wanted his mom. She was always able to make him understand. She used smaller words.

"Mary, take him upstairs and put him to bed. He needs a nap, he's had a stressful morning. He can eat at his party after he's all rested," and with that said Ashi left Dev with a nice looking young lady.

She smiled down at him, "C'mon." She picked him up and went up large spiral stairs to a huge door. The white door wasn't hard to open, and she did just that. Inside Dev saw every toy that any child would want. "This is your playroom."

Then she went into a smaller room that was covered with blue everything. "And this is your bedroom." She sat him down on the blue blanketed bed. "Let's get you into your night clothes."

She then dressed him in blue feety PJ's. He didn't fight her, like he had this morning with his mom. She then placed him in the bed. "Sweet dreams." And she left.

No tucking in. No song. No story. No kiss. Just him laying ontop of the blanket. He let a tear fall, but he knew that if he cried no one would hear. He pushed himself under the covers and pulled them tightly around himself. Then he started to sing, but it wasn't any tune and it was poorly done.

After he finished his song he said, "Night night." And closed his eyes, "Mommy..."

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Thanks to: The Deity Of Fun Dinner, DarKnight, Fantasy Cat, Code name: Anrui Yuy, KagomeWannabe, Tessa-Chan, Foxterr, snooptopian, simply-keri, VraiValea21, Cutiepie99, Christykay, Rin, and Nage Knight

I am sorry for the long wait. I was real sick. I promise that at least one more chapter will come out soon, but I'm going on vacation soon. America's Grand Canyon here I come!!

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