A/N: I did this chapter all by myself! ME! BOB! AND I UPLOADED IT TOO! Okay, so if you don't review, I will hunt you down and shoot you with my bb gun while you're not looking. But please, be nice and review after you read it. I worked hard on it, and I would review your story if I read it.
Disclaimer: I don't own any of the Inuyasha characters, except Ai kinda.

"Kagome, what are we going to do!" Cried a frantic Houjou.

"I'm not quite sure right now," she replied. "I'm still stunned that you had the nerve to steal my sacred pickle!"

"Can we please not start with that right now. Our daughter is missing in what you claim to be 'Feudal Japan.' So right now, can we please get serious."

This is the first time that Kagome has ever seen her husband serious. For the first since Inuyahsa ruined Kagome's shoes, she was speechless. She motioned to Sango, hinting that she wanted to speak outside.

Just then, Houjou broke out in tears. "Why me!" He cried.

Miroku had never dealt with a situation like this. He was confused and didn't know what to do. And it wasn't like Shippou could help, he STILL doesn't have a girlfriend. Miroku decided to take things into his own hands to try cheer him up.

"So…You and Kagome, huh…" The uncomfortable Miroku started.

Meanwhile outside…

"Sango, I don't know what to do!"

"Kagome, I haven't seen you like this since that day," Sango started.

"Yes, I know. It's just that that isn't who I married. I was always the one to get worried and he was always there to cheer me up. What am I supposed to do now? I don't quite get it."

"Maybe we can get Shippou and Miroku to lighten the mood?" She suggested.

"I really don't know what to do."

After a short period of silence, Kagome started again. "I want to go see Inuyasha."

"I don't think that's the best idea," Sango stated. "But if that's how you feel, I'll go tell the boys that we're going for a short walk. Okay?"

"That sounds fine," Kagome replied. "Thank you so much Sango."

The two headed towards the forest where Kagome had repined Inuyasha to the tree.

Back in the forest

"Wanna try getting off of me dog boy!" Ai shouted.

"It'd be a lot easier if your hand wasn't on my ass!" Inuyasha shouted back. He had gotten pretty good at these shouting games from dealing with Kagome for so long.

"Ooops," Ai blushed.

Inuyasha got up off of Ai, careful not to touch her anywhere inappropriate, because he knew it'd result in some kind of beating since she's related to Kagome, and Ai just lay there on the ground, expecting Inuyasha to help her up.

"WANNA TRY HELPING A GIRL!" Ai screeched at him.

"You look perfectly capable of doing it yourself," Inuyasha insisted.

"Well, aren't you a gentleman," Ai said under her breath.

"I heard that," Inuyasha stated. "Remember, I'm 'Mr. Dog-Man' or 'Dog Boy'"

The two just stood there and stared at each other for a few minutes. Ai was inspecting him, thinking he'd make a good boyfriend. He's cute, he's almost nice. And mom knows him! So that means he doesn't have to go through "the test." Then Ai stopped thinking for a minute. Aah! He can't be my boyfriend! Him and mom were an item back in the day! Eeww! And she began to cry.

"What's wrong NOW?" Inuyasha asked.

"Oh, it's nothing," Ai insisted, wiping the tears forming in her eyes.

"Whatever you say," Inuyasha replied. He knew how human girls could get. He'd traveled with two of them for a long time. However, Sango wasn't nearly as bad as Kagome. He figured it was because she was a trained demon slayer and after all that she'd been through, she didn't need to be bitchy all the time, even though she had every right to be.

As Inuyasha was staring off into space, Ai snuck behind him and started rubbing his ears like everyone else does. Inuyasha began to slightly grin. He hadn't been rubbed like that in a really long time.

"That feels nice," Inuyasha started to say when he opened his eyes and saw Kagome and Sango standing right in front of him watching him get a massage from Ai.

"You can stop that now."

Ai recognized this voice. She wasn't looking up, she was just staring at Inuyasha's magnificent fur. "Mom?" Ai finally looked up to see her mother standing there watching her daughter, the masseuse, rubber her former lover's ears the way she used to. "Mom! Its not what you think! I swear! I would never go out with your old boyfriend! That's really nasty!"

"Ai! Come over here now!" Kagome demanded. "How did he get off the tree?"

"I saw him here, no, I heard his pants going 'kukuku.'"

"Naraku!" Sango snarled. "How'd he get my cell phone number!"

While Sango thought of all the possible ways that Naraku could find out her cell phone number after such a short time of having it, Kagome continued to scold her child.

"Answer my question," Kagome said sternly. "How'd Inuyasha get off the tree!"

"I-I saw him here," She stuttered. She'd never seen her mother this way before. "And I didn't know if he was hurt. I didn't even know who he was until I pulled out the arrow!"

"Well, at least we know you have a heart for saving him," She said.

"AHA! I'VE GOT IT!" Sango proclaimed. "There must've been saimyoushou flying overhead when you told me my cell phone number. Then they went back to Naraku really fast, because they fly, so it doesn't take nearly as long as it does by foot, and then they told him my number!"

"BUT WAIT!" Sango suddenly remembered something important. "Saimyoushou don't talk. Therefore they MUST have beeped it out to him. It's so obvious! I can't believe I didn't think of it before! I would image it isn't that hard…You see, when I walked passed Inuyasha before and through my cell phone at him, it must have slid down into his pants. And then Naraku tried to call me AGAIN and scare me. BUT HA! He didn't realize that I wouldn't answer. OH MY GOSH! WHAT IF HE LEFT ME ONE OF THOSE 'VOICE MAILS' YOU WERE TELLING ME ABOUT!"

The other three were staring in amazement. They couldn't understand how such a smart person could go crazy like that.

"Inuyasha," Kagome cried out.

"Kagome," Inuyasha said lovingly.

"Inuyasha."

"Kagome."

"Inuyasha."

During all of this calling each other by name, Sango tried to remember her phone number and beep it out like she imagined the saimyoushou would have.

"Kagome."

"Inuyasha."

"Kagome."

"Inuyasha."

"OOH MY GOD! MOM!" Ai shouted. "Get a hold of yourself! Even I was able to hold it in, and my hormones are raging! You're getting old, you don't have much left. I learned about menopause in health class."

"Ai, if you don't shut up, I will have to cut off your fingers."

At the threat, Ai quickly settled down and started to help Sango with her saimyoushou speak.

We return to Miroku, Shippou, and Houjou.

During the time that the girls went into the forest, Miroku was able to calm Houjou down with some alcohol, but he was unaware that Houjou was a recovering alcoholic.

Houjou drank so much that he passed out on the floor. Shippou felt bad for the poor guy and decided to flip him over nicely onto his back so he was facing up.

Miroku pulled out a deck of cards from somewhere under his layers of robes and started to shuffle them. "Shippou, you up for a game of poker?"

"Sounds like fun," he replied.

Miroku was sitting on the opposite side of the passed out drunkard and started to deal the cards out on him like he was a table.

"Are you sure this is okay?" Shippou asked wearily.

"No problem!" Miroku responded. "He's passed out! I doubt he'll even know what we're doing!"