Beautiful Curse AvDevjyp

Chapter 26

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Two days later they all sat in the Higurashi's livingroom. InuYasha sat on the floor across from Dev. They looked at eachother in silence.

Kagome talked to her mother, "If he's still alive, he has custody of him."

"He can have custody only if he comes and picks him up. No one knows where he is. We can slap abondonment on him, and the judge will have to see it as that," Mrs. Higurashi surprised herself.

"You're right, but what do we do in the meantime?" Kagome looked at her son who was staring intently at InuYasha. Then she turned her gaze to the hanyou. 'What are they doing?'

Dev then cracked a smile; InuYasha smirked. A second later they both started to laugh. Everyone jumped.

"InuYasha, grow up!" Sango yelled at him.

"I'm just having some fun," InuYasha yelled back.

"What's going on here?" Kagome asked them.

"He can hear me, mom," Dev laughed.

"Huh?" Kagome asked.

Miroku sighed, "Remember, I told you he would have some of InuYasha's blood in him for a while. That connected them. That means a lot of things, but mostly, things are going to be weird around her for a while."

I don't think they like us doing this, Dev thought to InuYasha.

They'll get used to it, but then it will be gone by then, InuYasha told the boy.

They both cracked a smile. Kagome sighed, "So this whole silence thing because you were 'talking' to eachother?"

"Uh-huh," Dev answered.

"Wow, Kagome, your smart," InuYasha told her. "You sure catch on quick."

"Is that a sarcastic remark, InuYasha?" she asked with a smile.

"Uhm, maybe," InuYasha didn't know where this was going.

She smiled even bigger and jumped up from her seat to surprise him with a hug, "Thank you so much!"

InuYasha froze. Then slowly put one of his arms around her. "You're welcome?" he said slowly and questionly.

She hugged him tighter then stood up and said, "Let's eat something. I'm starving."

They all watched her leave the room with Mrs. Higurashi.

"She's still in shock I think," Shippo said after they left.

"In shock over what?" Sota asked.

"InuYasha being awake and well," Dev told his uncle.

The older people all looked at the kids. "When did you guys get to be smart?" Miroku asked.

"I had to grow up sometime," Shippo answered.

"I go to school and get great grades," Sota proclaimed proudly.

"I have his blood in me," Dev answered smartly.

"That shouldn't make you smarter," Sango said.

"Hey!" InuYasha yelled at her.

"See, he couldn't come back with any wise remark," Miroku stepped in. They both smiled at the easily angered hanyou. Then walked out of the room.

"They're right you know," Shippo told him.

"Shippo, run!" Sota yelled as they both looked and saw InuYasha take a swing at the younger demon. They both laughed when he missed and they ran into the kitchen to get their food.

"I believe it's because I have your blood," Dev told him.

"Nah, they're right. You just were smart on your own," InuYasha looked down at the boy and smiled. Dev didn't smile back but rather bowed his head in shame. "What's wrong?" InuYasha asked.

"Nothing," Dev lied. Unaware that he did he let the thought, My dad doesn't think I'm smart.

InuYasha sighed. He still wasn't good at this no matter how much he tried. "Dev, come here."

Dev walked over to him and looked up. He had tears brimming his eyes, but he didn't let them fall. InuYasha sat down on the chair and reached to pick the boy up and sit him on his lap. He had seen Kagome, Sota, and Mrs. Higurashi comfort the boy before so he was going to do what he had seen. "You're dad didn't know what he was talking about if he called you dumb, believe me, I've seen some pretty dumb people."

"But, I got bad grades on my report card," Dev tried to explain.

Now InuYasha was stuck. He didn't know anything about this kind of thing. "Look, school and smart don't always have to be in the same sentence. Shippo never went to school, and he's smart. Miroku and Sango are really smart too. I know some things of my own too, and I'm learning without going to school. There are things that school doesn't teach. And you've been through a lot. Bad grades can reflect on that too. You're mother used to get them a lot because she was always with me in the fuedal times. You're always switching houses every weekend. Not only that, but you also travelled to the fuedal times a bit. Somethings can be reflected by that, don't take it personally. Just try a little harder when you study, and as long as you pass I'm sure your mom won't mind some bad grades."

Dev looked up at him and smiled, "Thanks...InuYasha."

'Why did he pause?' InuYasha thought without letting it get into Dev's head. He was a little better at the mind reading thing.

The little boy jumped down and ran into the kitchen. InuYasha sat there for a minute. "He told him he was dumb?" anger seethed through him.

"Thank you," he heard a minute later and looked up to see Kagome leaning against the frame.

"Huh?"

"I heard it all. Thank you for taking care of him," she walked into the room. "Come on, I know you don't want to miss food."

He smiled at her and walked next to her to the kitchen where everyone was already grabbing stuff to place on their plates. "Leave some for me," he told them.

They laughed. "No way, if we don't get what we want now, you'll eat it all!" Sota teased.

He sat down and said, "Well, better keep up my reputation then." He grabbed some food off of Shippo's plate and put it on his own.

"Hey!"

Kagome sighed and rolled her eyes as she went over to stop the boys from fighting.

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Ashi watched as Naraku held his hands up in the air. He yelled something that Ashi missed as the wind blew into his ears. He looked into the sky as it instantly became dark. Squinting his eyes a little he saw what could have been mistaken as bugs in the sky coming towards them. Then he saw what they really were. Demons, and a lot of them. This wouldn't have scared him much, except that they didn't go near Naraku but rather toward him. "No!" he screamed as they came and rammed into him. He blacked out.

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Zeroenna88: There's only going to be one uncut chapter. I can't give why it's going to have two versions, because that will give away the ending. But it was the reason this story was rated "R" in the first place. I changed the rating and so had to cut that chapter. I will tell you at the start of that chapter that it's the cut version. Then I will give the URL of the uncut version.

ilovesesshoumaru166: When I finish all my other stories I will place the sequel to this one up. Yes, I have one in writing now. ^_^

A/N: I have a new story running that is an original. I don't have many reviews on it so far. I was hoping that all of you would love my writing so much you would go and read it for yourself and review. It's in fictionpress. It's called "The Majick Kindred", id number for this story is: 1325593. I hope everyone loves me enough to read it! ^_^ Originals are usually my best type of writing anyway.

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