A/U: Ok so, I checked my email…found like maybe 5 reviews for my chapter I felt very loved. so I decided to do this now because I was all yay cuz some of them were very amusing and the others were supportive. No one criticized! yay….lol I am very lame…oh well… I don't any of em.

A Child's Innocence- Chapter 3

He opened his eyes wearily and closed them quickly against the light not agreeing with them. Then his eyebrows furrowed and he cautiously opened one eye while his left ear twitched and let out a yelp of surprise.

There, not four inches in front of his face where a pair of yellow cat eyes. On him sat the fattest cat he had ever seen. Wondering where on earth this beastly thing came from he sat up and grabbed the creature's front paws before he could fall.

Starting to become amused, he kept messing with the cat realizing even though it hated his attempt at play it was far too lazy to do anything about it except yowl from time to time. This made him laugh.

He was too busy messing with the tortured animal to notice someone coming down the stairs, someone who owned the poor animal…

"What are you doing! Buyo!"

He looked up towards the fuming girl glaring at him and he looked back to 'Buyo' who had ended up with his front paws on the couch trying desperately to get away while he held his hind legs. What was wrong…?

"Let go of him! Can't you see your hurting him?" She was really not happy with him. Crap…

He continued as if she hadn't spoken. "Keh! I'm not hurting him, we're having fun." he grinned, one fang sticking out over his lip. "Right Buyo?" The cat yowled again with displeasure.

Making her way across the room she snatched the abused kitty out of his hands.

"Hey!" It was his turn to glare. "What's your problem?"

Keeping a protective hold on her pet she replied, "You where hurting my poor Buyo," she looked down at her kitty, "Isn't that right baby?" she spoke in a sugar sweet voice. He mewed in response.

Glaring jealously at the two, he countered with his infamous 'Keh' and crossed his arms over his chest sticking his nose in the air. Like it convinced anyone…

"Come on Buyo," she cooed happily, "Mamma made us omelets. You'd like that huh? Too bad, you get the kitty food but you'll like that anyways…" he could've sworn the cat groaned as she walked threw the door way a little ways away from the couch.

"Hey what about me!" he hollered.

She replied with, "If you want the cat food you can have that too."

He bounded threw the doorway hot on her heels. "Wench, I didn't mean that! I'm hungry too, I want some real food."

"Cat food is real food." She told him with a smile on her face.

"No it's not! And you know it." He was having second thoughts about this girl, she infuriated him to no end. Where was the sweet girl from last night…?

"Your so fun to mess with Inu Yasha." She said with a laugh.

They sat down at the dinner table with an infant barely one in a high chair and an elderly man to his right reading the newspaper.

"Keh!" She was so weird. Were all girls like this?

"Breakfast!" Her mother called out in a sing song voice. She placed a plate in front of each of them and they dug in. And, having already taken care of the cat and baby Souta she sat and began to eat as well.

Mrs.Higurashi spoke up. "Kagome what do you want to do about your birthday? Its only in a few weeks you know."

"I don't know," she said carelessly, "we have to invite Yuri, Ayami, and Eri though…and Sango-chan!" she smiled with delight.

"Your inviting Kikyo and not buts,'" she told her daughter before she could complain, "she's your cousin. You two should get along."

Kagome grimaced. "But she's so…weird…" "Kagome! Be nice, she's a very sweet girl." "More like cold as ice…" she pouted, she had never been very close to her elder cousin. She had tried, really she had, Kagome offered to play dolls with her last time she had visited. She had just scoffed and told her they were for children, she had been too 'mature'. Her mother gave her a warning glare, "That's enough young lady. Is there anyone else you would like to invite?" There was a pause, "Is Miroku-kun coming?" "If you want," her mother smiled with remembrance, "such a nice boy. A little charmer."

Finally looking up from his newspaper the eldest Higurashi looked at his surroundings and noticed the new house guest and stared at his ears in horror. Dropping his paper he stuttered, "You-you…a demon!"

Inu Yasha looked up from his plate, ears twitching and noticed the familiar signs. Looking apprehensive he waited to see what would happen next, they had been nice to him so far but if need be he would run for it.

"Grandpa, his name is Inu Yasha, be nice!" he looked to his left at Kagome, she looked at her grandfather in irritation.

"Bu-but-"

"Father, Inu Yasha came late last night and will be staying with us for a while," she smiled at him, "right Inu Yasha?"

He smiled slowly. Senior Higurashi's shoulder's slumped with defeat mumbling about destructive demons.

Finding now was a good moment as any, Souta tipped over his plate of mashed baby food onto the floor. He looked down at it then put those little lungs to good use. Inu Yasha's ears folded back at the noise, but he didn't comment. "Oh dear, Souta." Being the good mother that she was Mrs.Higurashi went to tend to her screaming child. Kagome, noticing Inu Yasha's discomfort, picked up her plate announcing she was done, and put it in the sink. She grabbed Inu Yasha's hand and dragged out of the room.

"Come on, I'll show you the god tree."

There stood the biggest tree Inu Yasha ever saw, which was big, because he was a tree climbing fanatic when he used to live with his mother. His father had a big estate, if he remembered correctly. He wondered why he never noticed it last night.

She showed him the front of the tree where there was a barren spot on the trunk.

She pointed at it. "You see that?"

"Yeah?"

"They say 500 years ago a hanyou was pinned to that spot by the miko who protected the Shikon no Tama. The miko had wanted him to use the Shikon no Tama to become human, to purify it and he loved her so that he had agreed." Her eyes dimmed, this story always made her sad. "They say they had been tricked thinking one had betrayed the other, when the time had come to use the jewel, by an evil demon."

"What happened then?" He was transfixed with the story.

The saddest part. "The miko had died after she pinned him. He remained pinned to the tree for hundreds of years before his body finally withered away. The arrow meant to keep him frozen forever but it's said it lost its power after so many centuries."

"Well that just proves it."

"Proves what?" she asked confused.

He gazed thoughtfully at the tree. "Humans can't be trusted. He was willing to become human for her, to give up a part of him to be with her until they died and the second danger came she shot him and tried to seal him there forever."

"That's not true! Humans can so be trusted." She cried, "She wanted to be rid of the jewel so she could focus on being with him, but she had to get rid of it in a way she didn't have to regret her choice of the wish. To make sure it had been a pure wish. It wasn't her fault that it happened; they were tricked by the demon. She loved him as much as he loved her."

"Feh!" He sulked, "Human's still can't be trusted. They only bring pain and weakness."

She looked at him sadly, "Why would you say that?"

He stayed quiet and wouldn't look at her.

"What made you come?" She asked. "Why are you here? ...Do you really hate humans that much?"

"I don't know" he responded quietly.

"It's ok. I understand."

He looked down at her.

"You don't have to tell me what made you come here. If you can't say…Mamma says it's better to tell someone what's bothering you. It makes you feel better and not so alone."

There was a pause.

"My Papa died little while ago," tears filled her eyes "I miss him and it hurts a lot. But, I have my momma and ojiisan…you don't really have anyone do you…?"

His eyes searched hers. He didn't know what to do, every being he had ever met (excluding his mother and the father he never met) had only hurt him and he had learned to not trust anyone. They would all betray him right?

But why was this girl being so nice to him then? He couldn't smell any lies on her and he desperately wanted to believe her. He had been without company for so long; he had never had a friend before as much as he had longed for one. She seemed like she could be trusted yet at the same time, too good to be true. He didn't know what to do.

They stared at each other in silence, then…

"…A year ago, social services took me away from my home when my mother died…"

They had only told her mother the facts about last night that she needed to know. Only about how his step-father treated him and what Inu Yasha had done to him. This made his guilt increase ten fold for telling a woman who reminded him of the only person he had ever loved in the world the horrible dirty secret of the night before. But, it had to be done.

To Inu Yasha's surprise and relief she wasn't horrified and didn't call the cops on him, (although she called his apartment and then the hospital, finding out his step-father had been in intensive care but would heal with time) in fact, she hugged him and told him it was all going to be ok when she heard the news. She then told him he would be staying with their family for as long as he wanted. He had liked the idea.

And ever since then he became an unofficial part of their family. He and Kagome spent every waking second together, playing, chasing each other around the shrine, watching TV together, etc. They had become inseparable, where ever she was he was sure to follow and visa versa. He had never been happier. He trusted her more than anyone else in the world.

For a few weeks afterwards they had planned Kagome's little birthday party, nothing too big, just a get together at the shrine with family and friends, presents and cake, everything that went with a basic birthday party.

Inu Yasha had never been to a birthday party, in fact, he never really had a birthday party. He vaguely remembered having cake with his mother a few times, but nothing like Kagome's. But he didn't mind, he was just worried what he would get her. He had no clue what to get her or how to get it.

A/U: Ok is it just me or did I make them…too mature sounding? Grrrrr! They don't sound 6 and 7 in my head I don't know, I probably should've made them 12 or something…and I should've made more…moments between them…crap…oh well. Hope you guys liked any ways.