Disclaimer: Ok ya I don't own Inuyasha and I never will so let's get on with the story.

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TO THE READERS: Well people, this is it. The last chapter of 'A Funny Thing Called Love'. Thank you all so much for reading. It's been fun reading all of the reviews and I appreciate all the comments you had for me and my story. But don't worry, there's a sequel to this story entitled 'After 12 years'. And once I fix a couple of things in that story, I'll begin posting it on the site. Anyway, thanx again, and I'll see you when I post chapter one of 'After 12 Years'.

-Japanime625

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CHAPTER TWELVE: Yay For Babies!

Five and a half months later it was the beginning of spring and both Kagome and Sango had their babies. They both had a baby boy. Sango and Miroku named their 3-month old baby Mushin after the old monk that raised Miroku. Kagome and InuYasha named their 5-week old baby Shirrow.

Mushin was a very playful baby but Miroku and Sango were able to take good care of him. He already had some black hair growing on the top of his head. Miroku and Sango dressed him in dark green clothes. It was a Chinese style top with baggy pants. ((A/N: for those of you who watch DBZ his clothes look like what Gohan wears in the first couple of episodes))

Shirrow, however, was a handful for Inuyasha and Kagome. Shippo helped them take care of the baby too, but it was hard work for him. Shirrow was a very fussy baby and woke up a lot at night and would wake up early in the morning. He had fuzzy little silver ears with black tips and already had some poofy hair on his head. Kagome and InuYasha dressed Shirrow in clothes similar to InuYasha's only it was dark blue instead of red.

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InuYasha sleepily opened his eyes. He didn't want to wake up yet. It was very early in the morning. It was still dark out. But his tiny son's crying had woken him up yet again. He sighed and turned his head to see if Kagome had woken up too. She was still asleep so he sleepily rolled out of bed and stretched as he walked out the door. He walked down the hall and the crying became louder as he reached his son's room. He peeked into Shippo's room and the fox demon had his pillow over his head in attempt to block out the crying. InuYasha walked into Shirrows room and bent down next to the small crib that he had made. ((A/N: lol who knew that InuYasha was such a craftsmen?)) Shirrow stopped crying when he saw who was there. InuYasha picked him up and gently started to rock him back and forth.

"For such a little guy you sure are a lot of work…" InuYasha told him. "You need to stop waken' up so early in the morning… :yawn: So why're you up so early this time? Ya hungry?"

InuYasha stood up and walked out of the room holding Shirrow. He walked down the hall and into the main room. He wasn't really sure what he should give him considering it was usually Kagome that fed him. InuYasha sighed and sat down against a wall. He sat there with Shirrow in his arms for a while before eventually falling asleep.

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InuYasha woke up a couple of hours later. Kagome was cooking some food-stuffs for breakfast and Shippo was playing with Shirrow nearby. Kagome turned to look at InuYasha and smiled.

"Good morning, InuYasha" She said cheerfully. "Did you sleep well?"

"What'd you think? I was the one that had to get out of bed last night and ended up sleepin' here…"

InuYasha looked down at his knee. Shirrow had crawled over to him and was smiling up at him.

"What're you so happy about? You're the one that woke me up."

Shirrow tilted his head to one side and blinked his eyes. Then he crawled onto InuYasha's lap and looked up at him. InuYasha sighed and gently rubbed one of Shirrow's fuzzy ears.

It's hard to believe how far I've come… InuYasha thought. To think that I'm actually a father…

"InuYasha?" Kagome asked.

"Yeah?"

"I need to go to get some food and some other things… wanna come with?"

"Why? You're jus' goin' to Kaede's village right?" InuYasha asked.

"No I need to go to a different one. I need to get some cloth and Kaede said that they have better cloth at a village a little further away."

":sigh: alright I'll come with…."

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And so off they went after eating. Shippo said he was tired and decided to stay home while they were out. So, InuYasha, and Kagome, carrying Shirrow, walked through the forest for about an hour before getting to the village. They hadn't been to this village before. Not even when they were still searching for jewel shards over a year ago. When they arrived in the village people started acting very strangely. Whispers began to come from the crowd.

"It's a demon!"

"What are those demons doing here?"

"Don't worry so much, they're only half breeds…"

InuYasha frowned. He heard every word that the villagers said. Memories of his childhood were starting to come back to him. Whenever he was at a village with his mother all of the villagers would say things like that about him. He could tell that the others could also hear what they were saying.

Shirrow and I should've stayed home with Shippo… InuYasha thought to himself. If I had done that, Kagome wouldn't have to listen to them talk about us… Kagome shouldn't have to put up with this…

Kagome looked at Shirrow who stared back at her with big golden eyes. She ran her hand through his silky soft hair and he leaned his tiny head against her shoulder. I wish those villagers would stop saying those things… I guess InuYasha's kindda use to it since people have been talking about him like this his entire life…

InuYasha and Kagome stopped walking as a middle-aged man walked towards them. He was a little taller than InuYasha and had black hair tied into a little pigtail at the back of his head. He wore a black robe over a dark blue shirt with brown pants. The man stopped when he reached them and scowled. He looked like he wasn't pleased with the small family.

He turned to InuYasha. "I'm sorry but demons aren't welcome here. You'll have to leave immediately."

"Feh. Yeah? Says who?"

"I do. I'm the leader of this village. I don't want demons causing trouble here."

InuYasha smirked. "Heh, lucky for you we're not here to cause trouble. We're just here to buy food and a couple of other things. We'll leave when we're done."

With that said InuYasha began to walk off again. The village leader stepped in front of him and scowled more.

"I said that you aren't welcome here. Now I want you to take the infant and leave."

A large crowd began to form around them. A couple of the men had weapons with them. Kagome worriedly looked at the crowd of people. What if someone did something to hurt Shirrow?

"InuYasha…"

Some of the villagers began shouting. "Get out of our village, you demons!" A large group of the men in the crowd rushed at InuYasha suddenly and caught him off guard. They managed to grab him and started to drag him away from Kagome. Kagome watched in fear. "InuYasha!" She took a step forward but a couple villagers held her back.

The villagers who had taken InuYasha had started hitting him with things in attempt to get him out of the village. InuYasha growled at the humans. ((A/N: OW! My leg fell asleep! Don't you hate it when then happens?)) He refused to hurt them though so he just tried to push through them so he could get back to Kagome.

"Alright! Fine! I'll leave just Get offa me!" InuYasha shouted as he pushed another villager out of his way. ((A/N: ok my leg's better now)) I have to get Shirrow and Kagome out of here before they get hurt… He thought. He pushed another villager out of his way and walked over to Kagome and Shirrow. He glared at the villagers one last time before the three of them left. They never returned to that village. They continued to only shop in Kaede's village where they knew they would be accepted.

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Four years later, ((A/N: I'm running outta story ideas, can you tell?)) A new edition to the family was added. A baby girl named Noriko.

InuYasha held up his four-year-old son so he could see the tiny baby girl. She was sleeping peacefully in the same crib that Shirrow used to sleep in. InuYasha had made a new 'big boy' bed for him. Shirrow looked at his baby sister with wide eyes. He wasn't sure what to think of this new person he shared a home with.

"Well?" InuYasha asked. "What do you think of your baby sister, Shirrow?"

"She's tiny… When will she wake up? I want to play with her."

InuYasha smiled. "You can play with her later. She needs her sleep right now. How 'bout you go play with Shippo?"

"Ok Daddy." With that said InuYasha put Shirrow back down and the small boy ran out of the room to search for his playmate.

InuYasha smiled and looked down at the tiny baby. She had a lot of fuzzy black hair and on the top of her head were two fuzzy black dog ears with silver tips.

"Well, Nori-Chan…" he said quietly to the sleeping baby. "Welcome to the family. You get to have this room all to yourself since you're the only girl. Your big brother, Shirrow, will have to share rooms with Shippo now."

Noriko let out a tiny yawn and sleepily opened her little golden eyes. She gave a little smile at her daddy and waved her arms playfully. InuYasha bent down and picked up his daughter and gently rocked her back and forth. When she didn't show any signs of tiring again, he walked out of the room and went out onto the porch and sat with Noriko on his lap. The tiny baby looked around and gazed in wonder at the many things that the world held in store.

Shirrow and Shippo, who had been playing nearby, turned and saw that the baby was awake and rushed to see her. Shirrow, being more curious, got there first.

"Hi Noriko. I'm your big brother!" He took his little sister's hand in his and gently shook it up and down. "Daddy, can I play with her now?"

InuYasha looked down at his son. "She prob'ly wouldn't last thirty seconds with the way you play, kiddo. Tell you what. How about you sit right here and you can hold her? How's that?"

"Okay!" Shirrow excitedly climbed up onto the porch and held out his hands to hold his baby sister.

InuYasha gently placed Noriko in his arms and helped him get her into a comfortable position. He watched closely incase she started to wiggle and he lost his grip. Shippo smiled at the tiny girl and made funny faces to make her giggle.

Kagome came out and sat on the porch with her little family a little while later. She had been sleeping and had just woken up. She gently took Noriko from Shirrow's arms and held her daughter against her. Shirrow climbed onto InuYasha's lap and the little family continued to sit there until the sun began to set...

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Five years later after yet another edition to the family was added. ((A/N: bow chica wow wow)) This time a baby boy named Kotaro. The small family had to say good bye. Shippo was leaving for a while to live with a group of fox demons that had come through the area.

"But I don't wanna go, InuYasha!" Shippo protested.

"Shippo I can't teach you the things you need to know as a fox demon! You're going and that's final! You can come back once you know what you need to!"

":sigh: ok…"

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Shippo went around and hugged everyone before he left with the group of fox demons, saying that he would come back as soon as he learned everything and not a moment later. He waved and then ran after the other fox demons.

As he left Kagome grew tearful. "Oh Shippo…" She wiped a stray tear from her face and walked back inside.

Shirrow, whom was now nine, looked up at his father. "Why'd you make Shippo leave? Did he do something bad?"

"No, he just needs to live with fox demons for a while… that's all."

With that said InuYasha followed after Kagome back into the house. He found her in Shippo's room sitting on his bed. ((A/N: incase you people are keeping some kind of track on where everyone's sleeping for whatever reason… Shirrow now has his own room since Shippo's gone and Noriko has her own room and Kotaro's crib is in InuYasha and Kagome's room.)) He could tell that she was really upset. He walked over and put his arm around her as he sat down.

"Don't worry Kagome. He'll be fine."

"I know… I just miss him that's all…"

InuYasha looked at her quizzically. "Miss him? He just left! How could you miss him already?"

He sighed when she didn't answer and crossed his arms as he looked away. "I give 'im a week before he cracks and comes running back here… Just watch.. He'll be back by the end of the week…"

Kagome looked up at InuYasha and smiled. Oh InuYasha… you must miss him so much…

She leaned against him and gave him a hug. "You'll never leave me, right InuYasha?"

"Of course not…" He said as he turned around and returned her hug. "If I did I'd never find anyone else that's as special as you are…"

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