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

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CHAPTER SIX: A Walk on the Wild Side

Shirrow and the two boys continued walking down the dark alley still not noticing the mysterious person following behind them. Shirrow sniffed the air.

Dad's close by… he thought. Then he turned back to Toshi and Hiroshi.

"Hey guys... umm I think my Dad's lookin' for me so I gotta go."

"Oh, come on!"

"Like we'd fall for that!"

"Fall for what?" Shirrow asked, confused

"You just wanna go home 'cause you're scared!" Hiroshi said.

"I ain't scared!" Shirrow shouted. "My Dad just gets REALLY mad when I don't obey!"

"Heh... obey? What are you a dog or something?"

"Shut up! What do YOU know anyway? You're prolly the one that's scared!"

"Geeze, he acts like he really IS some dog! Heh heh!" Toshi laughed.

"Hey! Shut up! So what if I'm half dog demon?" Shirrow yelled.

Toshi and Hiroshi started laughing hysterically.

"Half dog demon? WAHAHAHAHAHAHAA! Dude! You're soo messed up!"

"HAHAHAA! Yeah, really!"

Ohhhh crap... Shirrow thought. I shouldn't have said that now Dad'll REALLY be pissed...

"Oh Man! HAHAHA! What'dya have little doggie ears under that hat?"

"HAHA! I bet he does! Besides, he IS half 'dog demon' ain't he?" Hiroshi said sarcastically and grabbed for Shirrow's hat.

"Cut it out!" Shirrow yelled as he dodged Hiroshi's hand.

"What's a matter? Scared that we'll be too rough with your ears? Don't worry we'll be gentle."

"I wouldn't be teasing him if I were you." A voice said from the shadows.

"Eh?" Shirrow said confused. "Keh... oh you're nothin' to worry about."

"Whad'ya talkin' about Shirrow?" Toshi asked. "That guy has a knife!"

"Keh…"

"You'll make great hostages... I could get lots of money for you guys…" The creepy guy said.

"Hostages?" Toshi and Hiroshi screamed. "HELP! SOMEONE HELP!"

The kidnapper covered their mouths with his arm. "If ya wanna live then shut up!"

Hiroshi and Toshi immediately shut up. Shirrow was being very calm during this entire thing and was just staring off to the side, bored.

"To scared to talk. kid?"

"No... I just don't wanna waste my time talking to you…" He answered.

With that said Shirrow elbowed the kidnapper in the gut, causing him to drop them and fall back out of the alley into the open. ((A/N: wow nice hit))

People screamed seeing the man practically fly out of the alley. Shirrow ran right after him. He jumped up to get one final hit in when a gust of wind came. It knocked his hat off and well... Shirrow freaked out.

"AHHHH! CRAP MY HAT!" he yelled as he watched it fly away in the wind. Shirrow watched it fly for a split second before running after it covering his ears with his hands.

"NO! Come back here you stupid hat!"

He ran on for a little bit more before he was grabbed by the back of his shirt, was carried over buildings, and was thrown up against a wall in an alley.

"What the hell were you thinking!"

"D-Dad?" Shirrow looked up into the angry face of his father.

"Heh heh... umm h-hey dad… what's up?" He asked sheepishly. ((A/N haha he too is also a sheep))

"Answer me, Shirrow! Why the hell did you run off?" InuYasha yelled.

"I dunno..." he said.

InuYasha sighed. "Shirrow come on why'd you go off on your own? Don't give me this 'I dunno' crap."

"I jus' wanted to see what some kids were doin…" Shirrow said, getting upset.

"Hey come on! You're a man, aren't you? Men don't cry!"

":sniffle: ok..."

":sigh: Come here" InuYasha picked Shirrow up and he tried to hide his ears. InuYasha sighed, took out a handkerchief that was conveniently in his pocket, and put it on Shirrow's head to cover his ears. "Come on" he said. "Let's get back to Grandma's house."

Later

"Alright guys, time for bed." Kagome said.

InuYasha and Kagome gathered up Shirrow, Noriko, and the already half-asleep Kotaro and brought them upstairs to Kagome's room where they had set up some cots. When they finished putting them to bed they walked back down the stairs.

"Hey… can we talk?" InuYasha asked.

"Sure... what about?"

"………"

"Well?"

"I dunno… it's just..." InuYasha looked back at the stairway. "How about we go outside and talk?"

"Alright..."

InuYasha and Kagome walked outside into the cool night air and decided to take a walk. So InuYasha, wearing his hat, walked hand-in-hand with Kagome on the sidewalk.

"Well?" Kagome asked. "What did you want to talk about?"

"I dunno... We just haven't had a lot of time to be alone since Shirrow was born… and then there was Noriko... and now Kotaro…"

Kagome gave InuYasha a puzzled look.

"What I mean is we haven't had anytime to ourselves… and 'sides it's nice jus' havin' it be me and you… ya know... for alone time..."

"…'alone time'..?"

"Yeah, that's what I said, Alone ti- HEY! Get those nasty thoughts outta your head! You KNOW I didn't mean it like that! …Geeze! Have you been hangin' around with Miroku?"

Kagome laughed and leaned against InuYasha.

"God... I meant alone time as in TALKING not… hmph… forget it…" InuYasha pouted and turned away with an annoyed expression on his face.

"Aww, come on! You know I was only teasing you…" Kagome sighed and looked at the now annoyed half-demon.

They continued walking for a couple of minutes before Kagome decided to break the silence.

"You're such a baby sometimes, you know that?"

"Am not."

Kagome laughed and poked InuYasha in the ribs. He flinched and a small smile appeared on his face.

"Oh? What's this? Does my big, strong, half-demon InuYasha have a ticklish spot?"

"No."

"I think you do!"

"No I don't! HAHAHAA! Kagome! Stop it! That's not funny!"

Kagome continued poking him for another minute or two, each time getting him to laugh.

"Alright, alright, I'll stop…" Kagome said with a laugh.

"Feh... Good…" InuYasha looked up at the darkening sky. "We better start heading back... it's getting' kindda late…"

"Alright."

InuYasha bent down and waited.

Kagome laughed. "InuYasha? What're you doing?"

"What else? Get on. We'll get back faster."

"Alright, but don't draw attention to yourself, ok?"

"Yeah yeah I know, just hurry up and get on my back... ain't exactly comfortable like this..."

With that said Kagome got on his back and InuYasha jumped high into the sky ((A/N: haha that rhymes!)) and landed on top of a building. Then he jumped along until they arrived back at the Higarashi Shrine. InuYasha landed by Kagome's window into her room and opened it silently. The room was dark, but he could see two sleeping figures sprawled out on cots, and another smaller figure curled up on the bed. Kagome went downstairs to tell her mother and grandpa they were back, and then came back upstairs to see InuYasha holding Kotaro in his arms watching him and his daughter and other son sleep.

"They look so innocent when they're asleep, don't they?" Kagome asked.

"Heh... Yeah, but when they're awake you know that they're anything BUT innocent..."

"InuYasha!" Kagome whispered fiercely

"Kidding! Kidding! They're innocent, ok?" InuYasha looked at an annoyed looking Kagome "…Don't hurt me…"

Kagome smirked. "You know I wouldn't hurt you… while you're holding Kotaro…"

InuYasha rolled his eyes and looked back at Shirrow. Kagome looked down at their first son also.

"He scared me today when he went off by himself…" Kagome said quietly.

"Shirrow can take care of himself. He's half demon, ain't he?"

"Well yeah... but he's still just a little kid…"

"He's eleven years old Kagome... Sango's brother was only eleven when we first met 'em, and he was old enough to fight in battles and crap like that… And he's a human... where as Shirrow's half demon… So there's no problem as far as I see it…"

Kagome sighed. Trust InuYasha to say something like that… "I know he can take care of himself, but he's still just a little boy in my eyes… I don't anything to happen to any of them..."

"Kagome... :sigh: ... How 'bout we get some sleep ok?"

"Sounds good to me."

Kagome changed into her Pajamas which was a t-shirt and pajama pants while InuYasha changed into his baggy red pants and took off his red shirt so that he was wearing the white t-shirt underneath. Then he lifted the covers on the bed and let Kagome get in. Then he laid Kotaro down next to her and he got under the covers and the three of them fell asleep.