Chapter 6
"Asayake-chan, are you hungry?" Kagome asked.
Asayake squealed and drooled.
"Well, she certainly has your table manners, Inu-Yasha." She told her husband.
"That's not my fault, is it?"
"Of course it is. Everything is." Kagome stated matter-of-factly. She got the bottle of milk from one of the shelves in their small hut that Inu- Yasha made with the help of Miroku and a few other village men. She held her month-old baby in her arms and fed her.
~~
"Ryo-kun, what's wrong?" Sango asked her son gently.
"Waahh!!!!!!" Ryouga wailed.
"Honey, do you want to be fed?"
"Waahh!! -sniff sniff- Waahh!!"
"I guess that's a no... do you need to be burped?"
"Waahh!!"
"No? Ok, think Sango. Do you need to be changed?"
Ryouga sniffed and nodded his head.
"Oh!!" Sango promptly changed him with one of the many diapers Kagome gave her from her own time. Every week, Kagome would visit her family and restock on things that they needed in the Feudal Age. Afterwards, Sango rocked her baby in her arms. She started crying as well, out of frustration. 'I'm such a horrid mother. After two months, I still can't remember the difference between his 'hungry' cry and his 'diaper' cry.'
"Sango, what's wrong?" Kagome asked as she entered the small house.
"I'm a horrible mother!!!"
"What are you talking about? You're a wonderful mom!"
"I can't tell Ryo's 'I'm hungry' cry from his 'change my diaper' cry or his 'I have to be burped' cry!"
"Sango, it's ok! I can't tell either. We're first-time mothers. It's normal."
"I'm such a failure! Even Kaede and Miroku can tell, but not me! Not his own mother!"
"Don't worry! We'll get the hang of it."
"What if I don't? What if I'm incapable of being a good mother?"
"Sango, that's ridiculous. You're a perfectly fine mother. You're just not used to it. No one expects you to know everything Ryo wants or needs."
"I guess... Thanks, Kagome."
"Anytime."
~~(Three years later)
"Asayake?"
"Hai, okaasan?" Asa-chan asked cutely.
"I have to go out, so I'm going to drop you off at Ryo-kun's, ok?"
Asa-chan pouted slightly.
"But- but! He's mean! He's always poking me!"
"But you always hit him!"
"Mommy! I don't want to go!"
"Asayake Misora Higurashi! You're going and that's final!" Asa-chan's eyes welled up and she started bawling. "Asayake, don't think that's going to work on me!" Asa-chan huffed and Kagome led her by that hand to Sango's hut (which was only a few yards away.)
~~(Meanwhile)
"_She_ walked out on _me_? She thinks she can walk out on me? Kouga? She must think I'm _sooooo_ hurt. I was just playing with her the entire time."
Kouga was extremely bored with life. Now that there was no one to do 'it' with him, how was he going to spend his time? There was something lingering in the back of his mind, telling him to do what was right. And that was to raise his child. 'I should raise the kid! That dog wouldn't know anything about raising a child!' Kouga raced to the village where he last encountered Kagome, ignoring the fact that he was completely unwanted. It took him a while to get there (like a few days) since he almost forgot the way, and his mistress' house, where he was still staying after she left him, was quite far.
~~
"I smell something rotten... like a wolf..."
"You're kidding!"
"I can always tell."
"Alright, let me drop Asayake off at Sango's." Kagome held Asa-chan's hand and led her halfway to Sango's house when she heard it- his slimy, arrogant voice.
"Why are you here?" Kagome asked rudely and glared at him.
"I'm here to raise my child! And WHY does MY child have DOG-EARS???"
Kagome rolled her eyes, remembering how thickheaded Kouga could be. She bent down, so she could talk to Asa-chan eye to eye. "Asa-chan, go over to Ryo's house and play over there while Mommy talks to the baka ookami, ok?" She whispered, but purposely made it loud enough for Kouga to hear.
"BAKA OOKAMI??!!"
"Oh, you heard me?" Kagome asked sarcastically. She turned and faced Asa- chan again. "Go."
"Hai, okaasan!" Asa-chan walked awkwardly to Ryo's house and knocked on the door. Sango let her in, and looked outside for Kagome, who usually took her. She gasped as she saw the sneering wolf.
"Sango, what is it?" Miroku asked. He poked his head out the door and stared, shocked. "I can't believe he would show his face after 3 years!"
The young girl was confused, and tugged on the end of Sango's kimono, asking what was going on. Ryo-kun told her that it was just boring adult business.
"How would you know?"
"I'm smarter than you!" he replied, poking her shoulder. She punched his arm and stuck her tongue at him. Ryouga smiled evilly and poked her again, harder this time. She glared at him and kicked him hard. His evil grin turned into a very fake frown. "Mommy, Asa-chan hit me!"
"He poked me!!!"
Miroku rolled his eyes and said, "Where have I heard this before?"
"Come on, you two. Every time you guys are in the same room, you pick on each other! I want you to apologize."
Asa-chan turned around, refusing to look at him, let alone apologize.
"Asa-chan, apologize." Sango pressed.
Asa-chan sighed and whispered, "I'm sorry." She sounded sincere, but her amber eyes showed that she was as angry as ever.
"I'm sorry, too." As soon as Sango and Miroku were satisfied, however, Ryouga started poking Asa-chan again.
"Baka."
~~
"Kouga, what do you want? You aren't welcome here."
"I'm not welcome to raise my own child?"
"Why, after 3 years, do you decide it's time to raise her? Did you get bored of that tramp and figure I'd welcome you with open arms? Or did she leave you for someone else giving you too much free time? You didn't want to take care of her when I was pregnant, so why now?"
"I'm trying to make up for it!!!"
"Too late!!! I love Inu-Yasha! And it's not even your child. It's Inu- Yasha's. I thought you had figured that when you noticed her ears."
"You didn't."
"I did. I made the wish the second you left, and you have no reason to be here!"
"I conceived her!"
"But it's not your blood running through her veins; it's mine and Inu- Yasha's alone! And it's not you who was with her everyday, loving her and taking care of her; it was Inu-Yasha and I!!! So don't think for a second that you can come back into her life and be her father, because she already has one!"
"Exactly." Inu-Yasha came out of the hut, thinking that Kouga had gotten enough of the verbal abuse, and now it was time to make sure he was 'taken care of' physically.
"Dog-face."
"I've had enough of this. You leave your pregnant wife for some tramp half your age and expect her to take you back? You jerk. You'll get what you deserve." He said as he unsheathed the transformed Tetsusaiga.
"If it's a fight you want..."
Inu-Yasha lunged at him, cutting the sword deeply into his arm. Kouga barely dodged as he swung again. Kagome watched emotionless, and for the first time, didn't really care if Kouga died or not. "Kill him." She whispered. Fresh tears trickled down her cheeks, knowing that no one deserved to have their life taken from them as much as her ex-husband.
"No problem." Inu-Yasha attacked again. He wasn't aiming to kill- yet. He wanted that dirty wolf to suffer as much as possible before dying. Finally, after Inu-Yasha had inflicted as much damage without actually killing him, he decided it was time for him to die. Kouga was in too much pain to even want to continue living. Just as Inu-Yasha was going to use the Kaze no Kizu, Kagome stopped him.
"Don't kill him. I can't let you. Killing him would put him out of his misery. Keep him alive, and out of our lives."
"Stay away from here, understand? Or I'll wait for you to heal, and then do this all over again."
"Fine, dog-face." He said, and slowly and painfully walked away.
Inu-Yasha walked over to Kagome and wiped her tears away.
"Even though I never loved him, it still hurts."
"He'll never hurt you again- I promise."
"I love you." Kagome told him, embracing the man that would do anything for her.
A/N: I hope you liked this chapter. You know what sux?? I can't read any of my chapter 5 reviews!!! NOO!!! I hate this!!! Well, please review... um, and if there's anyone who wants to know the meaning of any of the Japanese in this chapter, go to . It's a Japanese- English dictionary. Oh, and the next chapter will probably be set a really long time from now. (When Asayake and Ryouga are like... 13.) I haven't started the next chapter, though.... Well, ja! *Sarah*
"Asayake-chan, are you hungry?" Kagome asked.
Asayake squealed and drooled.
"Well, she certainly has your table manners, Inu-Yasha." She told her husband.
"That's not my fault, is it?"
"Of course it is. Everything is." Kagome stated matter-of-factly. She got the bottle of milk from one of the shelves in their small hut that Inu- Yasha made with the help of Miroku and a few other village men. She held her month-old baby in her arms and fed her.
~~
"Ryo-kun, what's wrong?" Sango asked her son gently.
"Waahh!!!!!!" Ryouga wailed.
"Honey, do you want to be fed?"
"Waahh!! -sniff sniff- Waahh!!"
"I guess that's a no... do you need to be burped?"
"Waahh!!"
"No? Ok, think Sango. Do you need to be changed?"
Ryouga sniffed and nodded his head.
"Oh!!" Sango promptly changed him with one of the many diapers Kagome gave her from her own time. Every week, Kagome would visit her family and restock on things that they needed in the Feudal Age. Afterwards, Sango rocked her baby in her arms. She started crying as well, out of frustration. 'I'm such a horrid mother. After two months, I still can't remember the difference between his 'hungry' cry and his 'diaper' cry.'
"Sango, what's wrong?" Kagome asked as she entered the small house.
"I'm a horrible mother!!!"
"What are you talking about? You're a wonderful mom!"
"I can't tell Ryo's 'I'm hungry' cry from his 'change my diaper' cry or his 'I have to be burped' cry!"
"Sango, it's ok! I can't tell either. We're first-time mothers. It's normal."
"I'm such a failure! Even Kaede and Miroku can tell, but not me! Not his own mother!"
"Don't worry! We'll get the hang of it."
"What if I don't? What if I'm incapable of being a good mother?"
"Sango, that's ridiculous. You're a perfectly fine mother. You're just not used to it. No one expects you to know everything Ryo wants or needs."
"I guess... Thanks, Kagome."
"Anytime."
~~(Three years later)
"Asayake?"
"Hai, okaasan?" Asa-chan asked cutely.
"I have to go out, so I'm going to drop you off at Ryo-kun's, ok?"
Asa-chan pouted slightly.
"But- but! He's mean! He's always poking me!"
"But you always hit him!"
"Mommy! I don't want to go!"
"Asayake Misora Higurashi! You're going and that's final!" Asa-chan's eyes welled up and she started bawling. "Asayake, don't think that's going to work on me!" Asa-chan huffed and Kagome led her by that hand to Sango's hut (which was only a few yards away.)
~~(Meanwhile)
"_She_ walked out on _me_? She thinks she can walk out on me? Kouga? She must think I'm _sooooo_ hurt. I was just playing with her the entire time."
Kouga was extremely bored with life. Now that there was no one to do 'it' with him, how was he going to spend his time? There was something lingering in the back of his mind, telling him to do what was right. And that was to raise his child. 'I should raise the kid! That dog wouldn't know anything about raising a child!' Kouga raced to the village where he last encountered Kagome, ignoring the fact that he was completely unwanted. It took him a while to get there (like a few days) since he almost forgot the way, and his mistress' house, where he was still staying after she left him, was quite far.
~~
"I smell something rotten... like a wolf..."
"You're kidding!"
"I can always tell."
"Alright, let me drop Asayake off at Sango's." Kagome held Asa-chan's hand and led her halfway to Sango's house when she heard it- his slimy, arrogant voice.
"Why are you here?" Kagome asked rudely and glared at him.
"I'm here to raise my child! And WHY does MY child have DOG-EARS???"
Kagome rolled her eyes, remembering how thickheaded Kouga could be. She bent down, so she could talk to Asa-chan eye to eye. "Asa-chan, go over to Ryo's house and play over there while Mommy talks to the baka ookami, ok?" She whispered, but purposely made it loud enough for Kouga to hear.
"BAKA OOKAMI??!!"
"Oh, you heard me?" Kagome asked sarcastically. She turned and faced Asa- chan again. "Go."
"Hai, okaasan!" Asa-chan walked awkwardly to Ryo's house and knocked on the door. Sango let her in, and looked outside for Kagome, who usually took her. She gasped as she saw the sneering wolf.
"Sango, what is it?" Miroku asked. He poked his head out the door and stared, shocked. "I can't believe he would show his face after 3 years!"
The young girl was confused, and tugged on the end of Sango's kimono, asking what was going on. Ryo-kun told her that it was just boring adult business.
"How would you know?"
"I'm smarter than you!" he replied, poking her shoulder. She punched his arm and stuck her tongue at him. Ryouga smiled evilly and poked her again, harder this time. She glared at him and kicked him hard. His evil grin turned into a very fake frown. "Mommy, Asa-chan hit me!"
"He poked me!!!"
Miroku rolled his eyes and said, "Where have I heard this before?"
"Come on, you two. Every time you guys are in the same room, you pick on each other! I want you to apologize."
Asa-chan turned around, refusing to look at him, let alone apologize.
"Asa-chan, apologize." Sango pressed.
Asa-chan sighed and whispered, "I'm sorry." She sounded sincere, but her amber eyes showed that she was as angry as ever.
"I'm sorry, too." As soon as Sango and Miroku were satisfied, however, Ryouga started poking Asa-chan again.
"Baka."
~~
"Kouga, what do you want? You aren't welcome here."
"I'm not welcome to raise my own child?"
"Why, after 3 years, do you decide it's time to raise her? Did you get bored of that tramp and figure I'd welcome you with open arms? Or did she leave you for someone else giving you too much free time? You didn't want to take care of her when I was pregnant, so why now?"
"I'm trying to make up for it!!!"
"Too late!!! I love Inu-Yasha! And it's not even your child. It's Inu- Yasha's. I thought you had figured that when you noticed her ears."
"You didn't."
"I did. I made the wish the second you left, and you have no reason to be here!"
"I conceived her!"
"But it's not your blood running through her veins; it's mine and Inu- Yasha's alone! And it's not you who was with her everyday, loving her and taking care of her; it was Inu-Yasha and I!!! So don't think for a second that you can come back into her life and be her father, because she already has one!"
"Exactly." Inu-Yasha came out of the hut, thinking that Kouga had gotten enough of the verbal abuse, and now it was time to make sure he was 'taken care of' physically.
"Dog-face."
"I've had enough of this. You leave your pregnant wife for some tramp half your age and expect her to take you back? You jerk. You'll get what you deserve." He said as he unsheathed the transformed Tetsusaiga.
"If it's a fight you want..."
Inu-Yasha lunged at him, cutting the sword deeply into his arm. Kouga barely dodged as he swung again. Kagome watched emotionless, and for the first time, didn't really care if Kouga died or not. "Kill him." She whispered. Fresh tears trickled down her cheeks, knowing that no one deserved to have their life taken from them as much as her ex-husband.
"No problem." Inu-Yasha attacked again. He wasn't aiming to kill- yet. He wanted that dirty wolf to suffer as much as possible before dying. Finally, after Inu-Yasha had inflicted as much damage without actually killing him, he decided it was time for him to die. Kouga was in too much pain to even want to continue living. Just as Inu-Yasha was going to use the Kaze no Kizu, Kagome stopped him.
"Don't kill him. I can't let you. Killing him would put him out of his misery. Keep him alive, and out of our lives."
"Stay away from here, understand? Or I'll wait for you to heal, and then do this all over again."
"Fine, dog-face." He said, and slowly and painfully walked away.
Inu-Yasha walked over to Kagome and wiped her tears away.
"Even though I never loved him, it still hurts."
"He'll never hurt you again- I promise."
"I love you." Kagome told him, embracing the man that would do anything for her.
A/N: I hope you liked this chapter. You know what sux?? I can't read any of my chapter 5 reviews!!! NOO!!! I hate this!!! Well, please review... um, and if there's anyone who wants to know the meaning of any of the Japanese in this chapter, go to . It's a Japanese- English dictionary. Oh, and the next chapter will probably be set a really long time from now. (When Asayake and Ryouga are like... 13.) I haven't started the next chapter, though.... Well, ja! *Sarah*
