Chapter 7: Day Two continued

A/N: I know it's been a while since I updated so this chapter is going to be longer, hope you like.

InuYasha and the group saw the next village down from the hill they were on and by this time InuYasha was the one carrying the doll, giving Kagome a break, since it seemed Sango didn't want to jinx it again.

Kagome was smiling; it meant that she would get to have a nice steamy bath. She closed her eyes imagining it and she seemed to be humming happily. She defiantly needed a calming bath after last nights sleep depravation had stressed her out.

InuYasha looked at her like she had done lost her mind, one eyebrow raised.

Shippo's stomach growled, "I'm so hungry," he whined holding his stomach, hoping it would stop making noise.

"Me too," Sango commented as her stomach also growled.

"Well hopefully we can get a good meal and replenish our strength," Miroku said walking alongside Sango.

Kagome stopped smiling, "Hey, are you saying there's something wrong with my cooking," she frowned.

Miroku put his hands up in defense, "No, that's not what I meant, I'm just saying we can have a meal in a more comfortable surrounding," he said nervously.

"What's so bad about being outside," Inuyasha asked holding the baby in one arm.

Miroku sighed, but before he had to answer Kagome yelled, "INUYASHA, you're holding the baby wrong," she forced him to hold Ai in both his arms and Inuyasha grunted, "Feh, I'm not going to drop her," he shot back.

"Yeah, but Inuyasha if you don't she'll," too late Ai let out a loud obnoxious cry.

Kagome glared at him as he rolled his eyes. She took the doll from him and calmed her down letting out a loud sigh.

Sango watched from behind them as the two argued, but Ai kept silent in Kagome's arms, 'how come Kagome knows exactly what is going on with the baby, it's like she had a mother's instinct without having her own real baby,' Sango shook her head, she wished she had that instinct and the thought of never acquiring it scared her.

"Is something the matter," Miroku asked watching her expression change.

Sango slightly jumped surprised, "No, it's nothing," she lied before turning back to watch Kagome rock Ai up and down with a questioning face, 'how does she do it?'

They finally arrived to the village and after asking for an inn room and eating to their hearts content, they all separated to do their own thing.

Kagome, of course headed for the inn's bathing room to soak in a relaxing tub.

Miroku and Inuyasha split up to ask the villagers if they had noticed anything out of the ordinary around the village for clues on Naraku.

Shippo and Kirara had went outside into the nice enjoyable air to play.

Sango stayed inside the inn room and stared at Ai who Kagome had left their for her to watch. Sango sighed, not taking her eyes of the doll, she figured if she didn't move it, it wouldn't cry and she wouldn't be left all alone trying to calm it down.

'I left Ai with Sango so that she could get more confident that she doesn't need help when it comes to mothering a baby, if she ever became a mother I want her to know what she's in for,' Kagome thought as she lowered further into the water, 'besides, it's nice not having to worry about her for a while,' she smiled and closed her eyes.

Sango rolled her eyes, 'I'll be such a terrible mother, scared to touch my own baby,' she thought keeping her eyes on Ai.

Soon the too-well known cry sounded throughout the room and Sango shook her head, 'great, like ignoring it would have worked.'

She went over to Ai and picked her up, taking a deep breath. She rocked her up and down, nervously changed her and even fed her which made her cry more.

Sango was about to give up when she heard the inn door open. She looked up and saw Miroku coming in.

'Great, now Miroku can see what a lousy mom I would be,' she thought, but looked at him with pleading eyes.

She explained everything she had done to try and stop the crying and Miroku took Ai in his arms, "I think you might need to burp her," he told her placing her on his shoulder and lightly patting her back the way he had seen Kagome do.

Sango watched him as Ai began to quiet down and let out a small burp. She smiled and chuckled slightly, she knew it was just a burp, but it sounded so real and so cute. Then she looked somewhat shocked at Miroku's knowing.

Miroku placed her back into his arms on his lap and turned to Sango, frowning a little, "What is it," he asked confused by her surprise.

"How do you know," she asked looking at him with a small smile.

"I don't know I guess just by what Kagome has told me," he explained.

Sango's face fell, 'Kagome had taught her how to take care of Ai, why did it seem like the doll was rejecting her then?'

It was as if Miroku read her mind, "You're to tense, the baby can sense that, Kagome told me that the doll was designed like a real baby, you just need to relax," he told her offering her to take Ai.

Sango looked at Ai nervously, but then tried to relax and took the doll from Miroku.

Sango thought about every time she had tried holding Ai. The night before she hadn't been so nervous because she had seemed to bring out her instincts and imagined holding her own baby, making her more relaxed, but when she carried her own the way to the village she had tried to hard, wanting to prove she could handle things making her nervous.

Sango smiled, she figured she just had to imagine that she was taking care of her own child and she hoped that her motherly instincts would come to her more in time.

Miroku smiled at her proudly, Ai hadn't cried, but he knew she could do it.

"You weren't nervous," Sango asked taking her eyes off Ai, towards Miroku.

"Well maybe a little, but then I thought about you," Sango frowned confused and tilted her head to the side until he continued, "having our child and I guess I just thought about treating Ai the same way I would our baby, kept me focused," he explained hoping she would understand.

'So I'm not the only one,' Sango thought looking back at Ai, blushing at his words of 'our baby.'

That evening as everyone come together for dinner everyone took turns feeding Ai with the bottle.

"I want to try," Shippo told Kagome.

Kagome smiled at his enthusiasm and she placed Ai on his lap and showed him how it was done as a mother would show her son how to feed his little sister.

Inuyasha would normally have tried stealing Shippo's food while he was occupied, but for some reason he couldn't keep his eyes off of Kagome when she was acting all motherly, he just sat their eating and smiling a her, Kagome had even caught him looking and smiled back.

Miroku and Sango looked at each other smiling as well as they watched the scene.

That night Kagome didn't have to worry about waking up in the middle of the night because every time Ai had cried Sango got out of her bed and made it her priority that Ai was taken care of.

A/N: I know it was a little mushy at the end, but hope you enjoyed it anyway, please review :)