I don't own Inuyasha or anything having to do with this show. I also don't own anything else quirky that may show up. I only do this for entertainment purposes, (and an excuse to avoid my homework:). So don't sue and enjoy the fic!

This chapter is Dedicated to Princess Sapphire who has actually reviewed each and every story, and still caught up! Thank you so much.^^

The Feudal Fairy Tale Begins Again...

By: Msmelanie

Edited by: Okibi Chan

Chapter Thirty Eight: One Good Moment, Then SHE Shows Up.

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Miroku looked at Sango. Sango glanced at Miroku.

Then they glanced at the three young demons they were now in control of.

Not like they wanted to be.

////Miroku was rudely awoken by Inuyasha kicking him in the side. "Wake up lecher! You need to watch the little brats and my pup!"

Miroku blinked as he groggily woke up. "...huuh?"

"I'm sorry, Miroku." Kagome smiled. "But Inuyasha wants to talk, so could you and Sango watch the kids?"

Miroku stood up quickly. "All of them!?"

Sango fidgeted and looked up at Kagome. "Kagome, I just don't think we are right for this..."

"Yeah, yeah." Inuyasha answered for Kagome. "Whatever. Don't let Mutsuki follow. Or Shippou."

Miroku and Sango protested, saying they had no clue how to watch demons.

"They watch themselves." Inuyasha answered. "Just make sure they don't get into a lot of ****."

Miroku sighed "Inuyasha, as much of a thrill it would be to have some practice with children, I don't think-"

"Nope, you don't." Inuyasha replied. "That's your problem priest. Now, just tell Mutsuki-"

"Inuyasha!" Kagome scolded.

"-tell him that we'll be back soon." Inuyasha finished.

Miroku scratched his head absently. "Are you sure he will listen?"

Inuyasha crossed his arms. "Probably not, but you could threaten him with an ofuda or somethin' if he doesn't."

Miroku looked back at the hanyou surprised. "You want me to use an ofuda on him?"

Inuyasha immediately grabbed Miroku up by his collar. "No you will not, monk! I mean it! You lay so much as a hand on an ofuda and so help me I'll- "

Miroku tried to keep his vision straight on Inuyasha, which was hard since the hanyou was shaking him back and forth. "I-inu-I-wuh-sha. I-jusmean-"

"Inuyasha, stop shaking him." Kagome ordered.

"Inuyasha, I just wanted to reiterate what you said because YOU said to use the ofuda, not I." Miroku said as Inuyasha stopped shaking him.

"No, I said threaten him with one!" Inuyasha barked. "You go any further and I'll rip your he-"

"Thanks so much for doing this." Kagome replied as she gave Inuyasha a 'look'.

"Keh." Inuyasha dropped Miroku unceremoniously on the floor. "Let's go now. Come on, Kagome." Inuyasha growled as he pulled Kagome onto his back and sped off.////

Sly sluggishly opened his eyes and looked at his surroundings. "Where's momma and pops?"

Miroku slowly looked at Sango as Mizuko and Shippou also began to get up.

"Yeah, where is Kagome?" Shippou yawned.

Sango looked back at Miroku. "You explain."

Miroku sighed and stood up. "Listen dear young ones. Inuyasha and Lady Kagome have temporarily left, but will be back soon."

Shippou seemed to understand, along with Mizuko.

"What? What do you mean 'temporarily'?!" Sly shouted. "Why'd they leave without me?!"

"Uuuhhhh...perhaps they wanted to discuss a matter that doesn't concern you?" Miroku guessed.

"Not concern me my ***!" Sly shouted. "This isn't fair! Why did they leave me behind?!"

Sango shoved her elbow gently into Miroku, telling him to tell Sly now.

"Your father felt that if you should want to follow that I must use an ofuda on you." Miroku replied.

"Keh. That's original." Sly grumbled. "Fine then. But when they come back, I'm gonna make sure they tell me what's going on!"

Miroku sighed. "Sure. Yes, of course."

As time passed on (five minutes) Miroku and Sango did an excellent job of watching the small demons. Especially since all they did was talk and play with each other.

'This isn't so bad.' Sango smiled as she watched Shippou, Sly, and Mizuko playing a simple game Sly had known from his own time called 'I Spy.'

Miroku looked over at the small, content smile on Sango's face and couldn't help but smile himself. Then he turned away.

After watching the children some more, Sango turned to glance at Miroku. 'I wonder why he's smiling so much?' she wondered as she turned to watch the children again.

Then, Miroku glanced back at Sango as she watched the children again.

Sly groaned as he watched the two look and turn away, look and turn away...

"Is it red?" Mizuko asked Shippou who was now the person who picked the object they saw.

"Nope." Shippou replied.

"Is it blue?" Mizuko asked again.

"Nuh-uh!" Shippou laughed.

"Is it purple?" Sly asked.

"Uh-huh." Shippou replied.

"Does it grope anything it has contact with?" Sly asked again.

"Pretty much." Shippou grinned.

"Is it madly in love with a demon hunter?" Sly asked again, as he glanced knowingly at Miroku.

'Madly in love?! Madly in LOVE?! Madly want her or some other girl but NOT madly in LOVE!' Miroku frowned at the dog demon and turned his head away.

"I can't answer that because I might get an ofuda thrown on me." Shippou whispered.

"Oh! It's the perverted priest human!" Mizuko laughed.

Shippou shook his head up and down. "Yep!"

Miroku closed his eyes as he continued to look away from the children. Sango also began to look away from the children and Miroku...

Although Miroku had noticed before he started to turn away that Sly was grinning from ear to ear for some reason...

A few minutes later....

Miroku looked back at the children, as something VERY important had just been discussed. "No."

"But why?!" Shippou cried out.

"Because you could very well run off and create some type of havoc for the villagers." Sango replied.

"What? You don't trust us?" Mizuko grinned.

"It's just tag." Sly replied. "Go out, run around chasing each other, that's all."

"I know what the concept of 'running around' means to a demon." Sango frowned.

To Inuyasha and Kagome....

Inuyasha..." Kagome had began. "What is it you wanted to talk about?"

"Our pup, Kagome." he repeated as he started to scratch at a nearby tree. "You can't raise a demon pup the same as some human brat!"

Kagome blinked. "What do you mean?"

Inuyasha stopped scratching his claws against the tree and pushed his back against it. "Look, *****. It's hard to explain. Demon pups are...."

Kagome held her hands behind her back. "Are?" she pushed.

Inuyasha stared back at her for a moment. "They're extra sensitive."

Kagome just gave Inuyasha a weird look.

"Don't look at me like that!" Inuyasha barked. "Look...agh, humans! Okay, how about this! Do you notice how a lot of demons are evil and ****?"

"Yeah.Why?" Kagome asked.

"'Cause, Kagome, they were pushed in that direction!" he yelled as if it should have been quite obvious to her.

Kagome brought her hands back out and crossed them. "Inuyasha, don't you give me that tone...." she warned.

Inuyasha blinked at her. 'Damn! She sounded so...motherly...' He shook his head at the thought. 'Well ****, she has been raising my pup for the last four years.' he reasoned.

"Tell me what's going on with Kawayou right now, mister." she said with a calm, but demanding voice. She felt Inuyasha was skipping around on an important matter she should know about, and that didn't please her.

Inuyasha looked into the bright sky as he sat himself down on his haunches. "Look, during the first few years of a pup's life...about ten to fifty in your human terms..." he said as he looked at her. "They can be REALLY sensitive to a lot of things."

"How sensitive?" Kagome inquired.

"Real sensitive." he replied. "Most nice youkai's try not to yell at their pup too much if they can help it."

"Yelling is bad for him?" Kagome asked.

"Well, no. Yelling at a pup is usually okay, but it needs to know why it's being yelled at." Inuyasha explained. "Without it, the pup's brain triggers a strange reaction. He starts to believe that he's is evil, and there is nothing good he can do...if the parents are around, they can reinforce the feeling."

"But I've never told Kawayou that, and I know you wouldn't have." Kagome began.

"I know that. That's if the parents WANT to enforce it. Listen more, wench." he growled. "If a pup is yelled at for no reason, he will make up his OWN reasons. Then, if he isn't given an incentive, whether good or bad, from his parents, then..."

"...then?" Kagome asked softly.

"He'll become a loner." the hanyou simply replied. "...or worse."

Kagome gazed at Inuyasha. 'Like you?' she thought, but dared not say. She did not understand exactly how grave simply yelling at Kawayou without a reason would make him turn. 'Or worse. What did he mean by that?' she thought as she watched Inuyasha.

Back to Miroku, Sango, and the chibi-youkais...

Even though the small demons were bored, they didn't test Miroku. Although, Shippou kept assuring them that he could handle Miroku.

Miroku gazed at Sango briefly as she watched at the children until he suddenly heard...

"MIZUUUUKOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!"

The whole village started to scream as the ground literally shook under them. Miroku and Sango simultaneously jumped up and peered outside.

There were two angry dog demons. VERY angry dog demons.

"MIZUUUKOOOOOOO!!!!" The male demon repeated. "WHERE ARE YOU??!!!"

"MIZUKOOO!" The female shouted as she tossed a few humans out of their homes, searching for her little girl. "WHERE ARE YOU, HONEY?!"

"I SWEAR BY THE SEVEN HELLS, IF ANYONE HAS SO MUCH AS LAID A FINGER ON HER, I'M GONNA ****ING TEAR OUT THEIR-!"

"Daddy!" Mizuko shouted happily as she stood next to Miroku and Sango.

Mizuko's parents dropped the humans that they had currently been holding and bolted over to her.

"Mizuko?! Are you okay?!" Her mother exclaimed as she took the little she- demon into her arms.

"Uh-huh." Mizuko replied. "This mean wolf had kidnapped me, then some people have been taking care of me." she explained as she pointed to Miroku and Sango.

Miroku and Sango waved nervously.

Mizuko's father picked Miroku up by the throat. "Where's the wolf?!"

Mizuko's mother interrupted. "Put him down dear! He saved her, he didn't hurt her!"

Mizuko's father dropped Miroku to the ground. "How could YOU save her?! And why the **** did you bring her to your filthy village?"

Shippou watched Miroku and Sango talk calmly to Mizuko's parents as he slowly realized his quarter-demon friend was gone...

Back to Inuyasha and Kagome...

"Inuyasha?" Kagome inquired.

"Yeah, what?" he answered back.

"If that's true, then why do you..." Kagome tried to figure out how to phrase her question. "Why aren't you easier on Shippou and Mizuko?"

Inuyasha just looked back at her calmly. "You kidding? Nah, that's right. You humans can be pretty stupid sometimes. Shippou and that ***** are a couple years pass their 'sensitive' stage. So I can make fun of the little brats all I want."

Kagome frowned at Inuyasha. "What do you mean 'you humans can be pretty stupid'?!"

"Well, even stupider than stupid if you can't figure that comment out." he grinned at her smugly.

Kagome humphed and thought about resorting to a good old fashioned 'sit'. But, the more she thought about it, the less she wanted to. These days she could deal with the hanyou's misbehavior in other ways without resorting to physical violence.

She looked back at the grinning hanyou. 'Well, most of the time.' she thought devilishly. "Inuyasha, you know that if this was something you said a few years ago, I would probably sit-"

*Wham*

"-you. But, you see I am not a fifteen year old girl, depending on sit-"

"Bam*

"-anymore. I have matured and me sit-"

*Kerplunk* "*****!"

"-ting you just doesn't seem like something I want to resort to anymore." Kagome finished. "Now, do you understand what I'm saying, or should I explain it again?"

Inuyasha just stayed mumbling something incoherent in the dirt.

A couple minutes later...

Inuyasha wobbled to his feet and dusted himself off. As he did this, a small leaf from a tree above him sbegan drifting to the ground...

Inuyasha's left ear twitched briefly as it fell on it.

Kagome tried not to laugh at him. 'But Inuyasha doesn't twitch his ears as much as Kawayou does...'

'and he has bigger ears to play with'. her inner voice tempted her.

'Stop Kagome, stop! Bad Kagome!' she scolded herself. 'You are not fifteen anymore...you SHOULD NOT have the urge to play with his ears.' Yet she couldn't help wondering if they felt the same as they had all those years ago...

Inuyasha glanced at her and realized immediately what she was thinking. He smirked as he watched her. "You want to play with my ears again, don't you?"

'Can I?' her inside voice asked, but her rational voice soon interrupted. "No, I do not. I am a grown woman now, Inuyasha. I do not have the urge to touch your ears."

"Yeah, you do." Inuyasha replied.

Kagome turned her head away. "No, I do not. Besides, I have been raising Kawayou his whole life, so I do not have the urge to rub demon's ears for fun anymore."

Inuyasha just smiled at her, the feelings of their previous conversation now gone for the moment. "Yeah, you do." he insisted.

"No, I do not." Kagome answered again as she stared pointedly at the hanyou. "Having Kawayou has taught me that dog demon ears are quite sensitive, so I do not have the urge to tweek them anymore."

Inuyasha looked at Kagome in a strange way, as he twitched his left ear.

'Oh, they're twitching!' her inside voice exclaimed happily. "So...you can twitch your ears, good for you."

Then Inuyasha began moving closer and twitched his right ear.

Kagome didn't know what to think. Inuyasha HATED people touching his ears! And here he was...

enticing her?

'No. He's just messing with you.' she assured herself. But she couldn't help but glance at him as he moved toward her...in a...VERY un-Inuyasha way...

"Come on Kagome." he grinned. "Touch da ears? Just once? For old times sake?"

Kagome's voice was nowhere to be found. Apparently, it had run away right after Inuyasha started to move toward her. She opened her mouth, hoping something would come out. In the end, she was rewarded with an "...f-for old times sake, but that's it."

Inuyasha grinned from ear to ear as he came up right next to her hand.

Kagome still couldn't make heads or tails of Inuyasha's odd attitude. 'I get to touch da ears!' her inner voice wailed happily like a school girl. She frowned at herself. She had kept that annoying inner voice away for years, but now Inuyasha was bringing it back out. 'Go on Kagome.' her inner happiness told her. 'Touch his ears.' Her rational side on the other hand, was becoming quite suspicious as she cautiously reached out to rub his left ear...

and he pulled it away.

'Noooo! That mean dog demon was just tricking me!' her inside voice cried out. 'I wanted to touch them...'

"Cute trick. Very juvenile, though." she responded as she kept her calm.

Instead of rolling around on the forest floor like she thought he would, he instead looked up at her with a smug grin. "Go through that ceremony thingy with me, and you can rub my ears anytime you like."

'Great.' Kagome thought sarcastically. 'A stupid trick to drag us back into the marriage problem.' she frowned.

He wiggled both his ears at the same time for her. "Come on, Kagome. It ain't hard. Just say 'Oh, Inuyasha! I'm so weak without you protecting me! I just can't stand the thought of not being able to watch your strong, hard chest when you fight demons for me! Let's do that Marriage thingy and-!'"

Inuyasha stopped mid-sentence when he realized Kagome was beginning to giggle, then outright started laughing.

"Yeah, right!" she laughed some more. "Come on! Like I would ever say anything like THAT?!"

Inuyasha frowned. "Fine. You can just say 'yes' then."

Kagome's laughter died down. "All just to touch your ears? Aren't you giving them too much credit?"

Inuyasha wiggled his ears again. "Am I?"

Kagome stopped as she heard his voice become husky.

"My ears aren't like our pup's, Kagome." he pushed on. "His ears feel soft and fuzzy and cute..." he looked into her eyes deeply. "But mine have something else...don't they?"

Kagome couldn't turn away from his eyes, and saw him putting his head underneath her hand.

"Here." he grinned. "Free shot. Try it."

'Oooooh! I get to touch da ears!' her inside voice interrupted her again. Meanwhile, the rational side of Kagome tried to rub, but not to let it get to her.

His ears still felt soft. Furry and fuzzy, like Kawayou's. But he was right. The longer she rubbed, the longer she noticed something different about his ears...

she was longing for them....

more and more...

'What's going on?' she told herself as she went on rubbing his ears. 'They're the same but...I just can't quit rubbing them.'

Inuyasha grinned smugly. His plan was working! 'Yes! Oh Kami, I can't believe she fell for it!' He tried not to feel guilty about the fact he never told her what a dog demon's ears were for...'Well, she's figuring it out now, ain't she?'

Kagome began losing track of time. "Soft and furry.soft and fuzzy..." her inner voice cooed. Except now, she couldn't keep her inner voice from actually coming out for some reason. "Ooooh, Inu-chan! Your ears are so...so...something!"

Inuyasha's grin got wider. It was working...

"Puppy likes getting his ears rubbed!" Kagome giggled.

Inuyasha tried not to let that last statement get to him. After all, he almost had her right where he wanted her.

"You know Inu..." Kagome smiled. *SHF**SHF* "If you were a real doggie..." *SHF**SHF* "...you'd either be a poodle, a greyhound, a lassie, or a chihuahua."

Inuyasha growled at that. He tried to ignore it, but what had she just said? 'Maybe this is working too well...'

"Yep!" Kagome laughed.*SHF**SHF* "You would be a greyhound cause you run really fast, a poodle because you think you are handsome and all that. A lassie because we yell out your name when we're in trouble and a chihuahua because...."

Inuyasha toned down his growling, which was getting more out of control. 'Come on *****! Just a few more seconds!'

"Because you can act like a pathetic wittle doggy when you just whiiiine and bark at everyone all the time!" she laughed. *SHF**SHF* "I really LOVE your ears Inuyasha...I don't know why...I feel a little weird, though..."

Inuyasha grinned. 'Finally *****, say it!'

"You know what? You are Kawayou's father and I really think you're hot..."

Inuyasha started to blush when he recalled what 'hot' meant in her time.

*SHF**SHF* "And I guess if I-"

"INUYASHAAAAA!!"

Kagome stood up, although she waved a little bit on her balance...'W-what? Who's that?...'

"Kikyo." Inuyasha said as if awed. 'Awww ****! I was so busy with Kagome, I didn't even notice her!'

Kikyo frowned as she came up closer to him. Kagome backed away, as if still unable to grasp something...

'Uhhhh...' As Kagome began to come back to her senses, she blinked at Kikyo still in front of her. She couldn't believe what she was seeing. 'How?' was the only thing that came to her mind.

It wasn't real.

It COULDN'T be real.

No way.

A woman was sitting high in a tree, grinning seductively at Inuyasha. "I've missed you."

Kagome just gaped wide-eyed....'How can this be happening? How can she still...but she's not, she's supposed...'

"I...haven't seen you in a few weeks." Inuyasha finally replied.

'A few weeks?!' Kagome thought. 'But that can't be because she's not...'

Kikyo looked over toward Kagome. "I thought you gave up on Inuyasha. Go back to your own time, reincarnation."

Kagome frowned. She was starting to remember why she had hated Kikyo before...

"Inuyasha, I think we need to talk." Kagome whispered to him.

Inuyasha looked back at her. He read her apprehension wrong though, and smiled. 'Yes! I knew it! Of course, it's as clear as day now! She still loves me, and she is still jealous of Kikyo!' Inuyasha couldn't help but grin smugly to himself. Even if that well opened back up for Kagome and his pup, there was still a chance that he could keep them there with him...

Kagome saw the smug expression on Inuyasha and started to remember the bizarre events of the past.

'Oh Kami. Maybe I should have told him after all.' Kagome thought sadly to herself. 'But I wasn't supposed to. Oh no...what if he doesn't like it when he finds out about...?' ///Yes...I can't compete with Kikyou. After all, because I...///

"Uh oh." Kagome whispered softly to herself...

///I want to be together with you, Inuyasha. There's no way I can forget about you.///

Kagome bit her lip as she remembered when she had come back through the well. How she had felt she HAD to stay with Inuyasha, even if he wanted Kikyo instead...Oh dear...she had been so confused...oh great. 'Poor Inuyasha. I guess this is gonna hit him like a sledgehammer to a stack of bricks.' "Ummm...Inuyasha? Hey there?"

Inuyasha looked at Kagome. 'Well, she has my pup now, so the jealousy bit wouldn't work real well.' he sighed as he gave up on his strategy. 'But what a strange look on her face...' "Yeah?"

Kagome twirled her hair. "Ummm...nothing. No wait! Ummm..." Kagome began to sweat. She had promised...

Inuyasha's ears twitched as he heard something coming his way. 'Oh ****! No way, it better not be-!'

Inuyasha didn't know what to do. How would Kikyo react to his pup once she realized who he was?! 'I may continue to feel guilty for her, and stay by her side...but there is NO way she is gonna lay a finger on MY pup!'

He didn't continue his thought as he saw his pup running towards them. "Hey! How come you took my mom away?!"

Inuyasha got ready to pounce on his pup, so he could grab him and Kagome, and get the **** out.

Kikyo blinked in surprise at the new visitor. "Who are you?" she asked coldly.

Sly looked at her strangely. "Uhhh...what are you doing here in this time?"

But Inuyasha suddenly forgot his plans as he listened to his pup's strange comment...

Kagome began to fidget. "Sly, zip it!" she whispered harshly.

But both Kikyo and Inuyasha were looking at Sly as if he said something truly remarkable.

Inuyasha pointed at him. "How's Mutsuki know her?"

Kagome glared at Inuyasha. "Inuyasha, don't you start! Just because YOU start calling him something different, doesn't mean I'm gonna change his name again!"

She half hoped her scolding would direct Inuyasha away from her son's question...

It didn't.

Inuyasha pointed at his pup again. "How does he know KIKYO, Kagome!"

Sly looked confused. "Ki-?..." He caught his mom's look again. "Uhhh..." Sly looked away at the hard expression she was giving him. 'Great. Something else I don't ****ing understand! What's the big deal now?!'

Inuyasha saw the look Kagome was giving her son. 'Damn. He ain't gonna talk now.' "Kagome, what's going on?"

Kagome looked back at him and plastered a fake smile upon her face. "Why, whatever do you mean, Inuyasha?"

"'Why, whatever do you mean Inuyasha?'" Inuyasha repeated her in a mocking tone. "What do you think I mean, *****! How in the world is it that my pup knows Kikyo?!"

Then, Inuyasha realized his mistake.

"YOUR pup?!" Kikyo screeched above as she landed in front of Inuyasha. "Inuyasha! Is it true? Have you forsaken me? Do you not honor me anymore?"

Inuyasha fidgeted his hands. "Well, it's not like that, Kikyo."

Kagome sighed. 'Deja vu.'

Meanwhile, Sly had tiptoed over to his mom. "Mommy? What's going on here?"

Kagome smiled nervously down at her son. "Well, ya see honey...there's this.small...thing...."

'I've been keeping from the both of you....'

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