A/N: I got this idea from something my school is doing right now. He-he! Just so that you know. Has everyone besides me and Dark Goddess received the bad news about Inuyasha-honey not coming on anymore until March? Kanashii mono yo ne? (It's so very sad right?) What will I do until then? I don't know! My life is meaningless without him. SOREDEMO I got my Inuyasha-plushies in the mail yesterday. Yay! Shiawase! They are chou kawaii. Anyhow, enough of the Japanese, on with the chapter.
Disclaimer: Inuyasha-honey belongs to Rumiko Takahashi, but I purchased the dolls! They cost $47.50 plus tax and shipping & handling.
Chapter 13: Exchanging Wedding vows and Babies
Miroku and Sango arrived at the Higurashi home at around 12 a.m. They hitchhiked the whole way.
The next morning
The next day was pretty much normal. They got up, prepared to get ready for school and rode the bus. It wasn't till they entered their Home Economics class that the day became exciting, "Students, today we are going to be doing a very favorite project of mine," the teacher was saying. "I will be pairing you up with another person, you will get married, and I'll give you your babies. Here are the groups: Megumi and Shinnosuke, Eiko and…" She continued on.
"What are we doing, Kagome?" Inuyasha asked.
"She's going to pair us up, and whoever she pairs together will be husband and wife."
"She can do that?" Miroku asked in awe. He was amazed that one teacher at school could wed the students in her class, why hadn't anyone informed him? Not that he was exactly jumping to get married, "Well, Sango-darling, I hope we're together."
It was at that moment, the teacher called out their names, "Miroku and Sango, Inuyasha and Kagome…"
"Me and Kagome?" Inuyasha asked in disbelief.
Kagome couldn't believe it herself, she had a tiny feeling though that the teacher just couldn't resist pairing them up.
"And those are all the groups. Now we shall begin the weddings. Who'd like to be first? How about you two?" She looked over at Inuyasha and Kagome.
"I guess so."
"All right, come with me and I'll get you two ready." She led them off into a little room and handed Kagome her white kimono and Inuyasha his black haori.
Is it me, or is Ms. Takada taking this a little too far? Kagome thought.
And so they had a mock ceremony mixed with American elements. But when it came time for the exchanging of the rings, Inuyasha started acting up.
"Excuse me," Ai interrupted. "Can I get on? Give her the ring."
"Uh… What ring?"
Ai took off the ring on her finger. "Use mine, but then I want it back."
"Here," Inuyasha shoved it on her finger.
"You may now hug the bride."
"Do we have to?" Inuyasha asked.
Lord, Inuyasha just had to ruin everything. It was no big deal, but he was kind of (to Kagome anyway) embarrassing her. "Then don't. It's fine by me," Kagome said.
The unhappy bride and groom took their seats.
A few weddings later
"You may now—"
SMACK! "Uh… Smack the groom."
"C'mon, Sango, we're married!" Miroku yelled.
"Now you will come up and chose a slip of paper. It will tell if your child is male or female, and whether or not you have twins. Got that? Who wants to go first?" Ms. Takada asked. She was just bursting with happiness, she'd always liked this project and usually her students did too.
"We would, Sensei Takada," Miroku said raising his hand.
"NO we wouldn't," Sango said slapping his hand down.
"Come on, darling," he said looking towards her with a smile on his face that annoyed Sango to no end, "Let's not be shy. We'd like to be first."
"Then why don't you come up here?" Ms. Takada asked.
"I'll let you select, darling," Miroku said.
Sango didn't feel comfortable with choosing because she didn't want to be responsible for something she didn't want. She swore she'd just die if she got twins or something and if she did. The only person she could blame was herself for choosing it, but if Miroku picked instead she could get mad at him all she wished.
Sango walked up to the front of the room and reached her hand inside the plastic container and felt around for a slip of paper. She got one and pulled it out. Her eye began to twitch.
"Ms. Hiraikotsu, would you like to share it with the class."
She'd gotten just what she prayed not to have. "I-I-I have twins." She fainted.
"Poor, Sango," Kagome said. "To have twins. That's going to be a lot of work."
"I'm ready for the responsibility of a father." Miroku walked up to the front of the room and carried Sango back to her seat.
A few other kids later
"Now, the last couple. Inuyasha and Kagome."
Kagome walked to the front and selected the last slip of paper. "It's a boy."
"Good," Inuyasha said.
"You are to care after these babies and take them wherever you go. NO exceptions. That also means not throwing your baby on the other partner. This will not be easy; your baby will actually cry and poop," Ms. Takada told them.
"This thing can poop?" Megumi stared at her baby and looked at its diaper.
"Yes, these babies are cyborgs. And you will have forms to answer to determine where you are in life and…"
"Watching a baby, how hard can it be?" Inuyasha asked. "It's like watching Shippo, in a big white thing!"
"I will be passing the birth certificates to you," Ms. Takada rose from her seat and passing little papers to them.
"So, Sango, what about we name our children this: Miroku Jr. and Sanku?"
"Does it have to be a mix of our names?"
"Well what would you prefer?"
"Something like Masami and Makoto."
He shrugged. "If that's what you want…"
Sango could tell that he really didn't care for the name and came up with a plan, "How about I name the girl and you name the boy? Deal?"
"Alright."
"What do you want, Inuyasha?" Kagome asked.
"I want him to be named uh… I don't care! It's just a doll."
"We should name him Aka-chan."
"What a plain name. Do the translation, Kagome."
"Then how about Inu-chan?"
"I really don't care; you could name it dumb if you wanted."
"You forget this is your child too," she pointed out.
"I'm not going to be watching him."
"Yes you are. You can't push this all on me."
"Who says? I'm coming home fighting off demons and stuff and the least you can do is stay home and watch it."
"We are not in your time, Inuyasha. We're going to find some way to decide the time."
"But what does it matter? It's not real."
"But this is a real grade."
"Well, I don't need it so…"
"C'mon, Inuyasha, I want to make a good
grade in Ms. Takada's Home Ec. class. I don't want to
flunk and have to take it again next semester."
He didn't understand what she was talking about, but he decided that it was
something important to her. "I'll try, Kagome."
"Thank you. Now let's get to work on those names."
"Our twins' names are Miroku Jr. and Yukari," Sango said with a smile. "Have you two named your child yet?"
"No, I don't know what to name it," Kagome said.
"How about you name it Lil' Inu?" asked Megumi.
Kagome, strangely, liked the name. "I guess that's his name. Lil' Inu. Let's just hope that the baby doesn't act like you, Inuyasha."
"Whatever. It's not mine anyway, so it shouldn't."
"Well he's your kid for this class."
"Yea, yea."
The bell had rung and the students were dismissed to lunch. That's where Inuyasha-tachi was heading anyway.
"Inuyasha, could you hold Lil' Inu for me?" Kagome asked struggling just to hold the baby and her many books. Inuyasha wasn't thinking and just assumed she didn't want to hold the baby and started to complain. Kagome sighed. Inuyasha didn't know anything. "I have everything in my hands! Carry something!"
"I'll carry your books, but not that." He snatched them away from her and glared at Lil' Inu.
"What do you have against the baby?"
"I just don't like it."
They walked into the lunchroom, the usual kids scattered around, and people placing their books on their seats in hopes that no one would take their seat. "Hey, Inuyasha, could you please go through the line and buy me lunch?"
"Why don't you buy your own?"
"I have money. Here." She handed him her money. With that, Inuyasha set off to the line. As if this was planned, Houjo approached the table the moment Inyasha left.
"Hello, Kagome."
"Oh. Hi Houjo."
He placed down his tray and sat down next to Kagome. "Whoa!" Houjo said noticing the baby cradled in her arms. "Who-who's child is that?"
"Me and Inuyasha's."
A hurt look came across his face. "Seriously? Great, I thought—man, what a fool I've been." He lowered his head as tears threatened to blur his vision. He didn't want Kagome to see him like this.
"Houjo, what's wrong with you? This is for Home Ec. It's a fake baby."
A look of relief passed over Houjo's face. "It looks very realistic."
"Yeah. It's an android Ms. Takada said."
Houjo nodded. "Do you want something from the line?"
She shook her head. "Inuyasha's up there getting my tray."
"Well I can get you some dessert." Before Kagome could tell him it wasn't necessary, he'd left his tray on the table and ran off.
Meanwhile…
Miroku and Sango were walking down the hallway, the twins in strollers. Ms. Takada had been so kind as to lend it to them. They looked like a happy family and everyone kept commenting on how cute they looked together.
Just as soon as someone else commented on that, Miroku looked over towards Sango, "Someday, Sango, I want this to be us. Only with real children."
Did he really mean that or was it just another one of his little tricks? Sango didn't care; she was just going to ignore it for now.
They walked to the lunchroom.
"Hello, Kagome." Sango waved as they wheeled the kids over and had a seat.
"Hi. I see your babies have got a cute ride."
"They do, don't they?"
Sango and Miroku took a seat in front of Kagome. "And to think these are our children. Sango, how about we get started on our real children." His hand was itching towards that place.
SMACK! "I'm not having any children with you." She turned her attention to Kagome. "Where's Inuyasha?"
It was then that he walked up. "Here's your food," Inuyasha said placing her tray in front of her.
"Thanks." Inuyasha was headed straight for the seat that Houjo's food was sitting at. "Inuyasha, Houjo was supposed to sit there. That's his tray. Why don't you sit on the other side of me?"
"This is Houjo's stuff, huh?" He let out a laugh. "I don't want to sit over there. I like this seat."
"But…"
"I bet his ass won't say nothing." He took a bite out of his pizza. And by 'his', I mean Houjo's.
"Hi, Kagome, I got your—" Houjo stopped straight when he saw Inuyasha eating from his plate and sitting in his seat. "Excuse me, but that's my stuff and my seat."
"Hell yea. This used to be your shit, but now it's mine." He took another bite of his pizza and smirked.
"Inuyasha, don't do that. Stop being a bully," Kagome said.
"Why the hell are you protecting him?" Inuyasha asked angrily.
"I'm not protecting him. You just shouldn't do that to people. How would you like it if someone did that to you?"
"I really don't give a damn because it's not me this is happening to."
Kagome ignored him and turned to Houjo. "I'm sorry, you'll have to excuse Inuyasha. He has poor table manners."
"It's alright. I'll just eat my ice cream." He walked off to another table.
Inuyasha started laughing.
"Inuyasha, you're such a bully," Kagome said hitting him. "And all this time I was trying to be nice by not saying your favorite word, but I see I'm going to have to."
"What's that supposed to mean?"
"Sit, boy!" Inuyasha's face hit his food hard.
"Bitch! That was food!"
All of a sudden, Lil' Inu started crying. His wails became louder and louder until it seemed that they had sparked just about everyone's attention in the lunchroom. Kagome was embarrassed but she tried to calm him down by rocking him back and forth. It wasn't helping much though.
"What the--? Kagome, make it shut up," Inuyasha yelled. The cries were way louder to him than anyone else because of his sensitive ears.
"I'm trying."
"Let me take it from here, Kagome," Sango said. She rocked the baby gently back and forth and soon enough, the baby had stopped. "There you go," she said handing Lil' Inu back to her.
"Whoa! Where did you learn how to do that?"
"I remember rocking Kohaku like that when he was a baby…" She seemed to drift off into her own fantasy.
"It better not cry like that again or I'll break it," Inuyasha said.
"Calm down, Inuyasha. You wouldn't break your own child."
"It's NOT MINE!"
"Yes he is! And why do you keep calling Lil' Inu an 'it'?"
"That's what it is right?"
"You are impossible."
So how did you like that? It could have been better, but hopefully more excitement shall rise in the next episode, I mean chapter. Soshite, sayonara bye bye! Megu-chan.
