Chapter 20- Back to Class with You

Kagome pranced happily in the hut, making a fool of herself as she twirled in her skirt, she was happy to be wearing her own clothes again without having that stupid fake belly.

"I know it's great to have them off Kagome, but are you sure you haven't had too much sake," Sango asked weirded out by her dance.

Kagome sat down and smiled guiltily, but then sighed happily, "I'm glad that's over, I mean I want kids in the future, but for now, I'm happy with the way things are," she said and fell backwards on her sleeping bag happily.

Sango shook her head with a small laugh.

Kagome thought as she lay there, it was almost time for her to be getting back home so she could go to school the next day and turn in Ai, she turned her head in the direction of the doll in a sad smile, she was going to miss her.

Kagome let out another sigh and closed her eyes, 'Come on Kagome, it's just a doll, you can have the real thing someday, although sometime far way in the future, at least until school is over,' she looked over at Inuyasha and smiled again as he ate away on his late lunch, 'and perhaps Inuyasha will be there helping me through it,' she closed her eyes again at the thought, 'he would make a good dad.'

Another thought crossed Kagome's mind and she bolted in a sitting position, glad that the herbs were wearing off again for the last time since she sat up so quickly. She pulled her bag to her, ignoring everyone's curious expressions.

"What are you doing Kagome," Shippo asked curiously as he went over to her.

"I forgot my report I had to write about the week with Ai, but I think I have time before I go home," Kagome answered pulling out a pad of paper and pen.

Shippo still looked confused, "What's a report?"

Kagome smiled down at him, "It's basically a conclusion of what happened during when I took care of her."

"Oh, too bad you can't write about what really happened, you know the good parts," Shippo said, "Like me rescuing her from Naraku, or Inuyasha dropping her in the mud when he was supposed to be taking care of her and then washed her off and dried her without you knowing," Shippo quickly covered his mouth, "Oops."

Kagome quickly turned to Inuyasha with rage, "INUYASHA!"

"You are going to get it," Inuyasha said and began chasing Shippo around the room angrily.

"SIT!"

"Hey, it's not like I lost her, like those two over there," Inuyasha managed with a snarl from his squished form in the floor.

Miroku and Sango looked like deer caught in headlights, "Hey," Miroku said defensively, "That was like the second day, we weren't used to kids then." Sango gave him a look that said 'gee thanks, would have been better to come up with something else.'

Kagome sighed angrily as she got back to her work, she heard Inuyasha complain about them not getting in trouble, "I can't believe you did those things and tried covering them up from me," she said very disappointed in her friends.

Sango got up, went over to Kagome and put a hand on her shoulder, "We're sorry Kagome, we just didn't want you to get mad and think we weren't capable of taking care of Ai."

As Inuyasha got himself up in a sitting position Miroku added, "Sango's right and besides look how much we're better at it now, because of you," it sounded like he was trying to charm her into forgiveness, but he meant it.

Kagome glanced at Sango then Inuyasha and Miroku with a smile, but before she said anything Inuyasha glared at Shippo, "Hey you little rug rat, you didn't tell her what you did, make us look bad."

Shippo laughed nervously, "I think I hear Kaede calling me, gotta go," and with that Shippo went for the hut door, but something was pulling him back and soon he was upside down in the air staring at Inuyasha who had grabbed him by the tail, "Where you think you're going you little worm."

"Put me down," Shippo struggled, but Inuyasha pointed him at Kagome, "Tell her," he barked.

Kagome on the other hand was nice about the whole thing and spoke sweetly, "It's ok Shippo, I won't get mad, just tell me, please."

Just to be on the safe side Shippo's eyes got huge and watery in the most pitiful look he could muster, "Oh good grief," Inuyasha mumbled.

"I'm sorry Kagome, a few nights ago Ai was crying and I didn't want her to wake anyone up and I remembered you showed us the battery things and so I took them out and put them back in the morning after so you wouldn't get mad," Shippo explained guiltily.

Kagome smiled, "That's ok Shippo."

Inuyasha looked very annoyed, "What, how come he doesn't get yelled at?"

Kagome glared at him, "Unlike you Shippo was trying to do something nice, although, Shippo, Ai's supposed to cry like that, so that I can know when I'm supposed to take care of her, I was wondering what happened."

"I know, I'm sorry Kagome."

Inuyasha rolled his eyes and dropped the fox; it seemed he got away with everything because he was a kid.

Kagome put on a stern look before addressing her other friends, "Next time tell me if something like that happens, ok?"

Miroku and Sango nodded as Inuyasha grumbled to himself.

Kagome stood with her pen and pad in hand and marched off out of the hut on her mission to complete her paper, she wanted complete and total silence.

It took her a bit, but she managed to get the report finished in time for dinner.

Afterwards she grabbed her yellow bag and put it onto her back, bringing the straps through her arms.

Sango, who had Ai in her arms after she got to feed her one last time went over and kneeled next to her carrier to put her in it. Since Kagome had also shown them how to strap the doll into the pink thing in front of her, Sango began securing her into it with a smile; she secretly couldn't wait to be a mom, well she could, but it was exciting.

Kagome smiled at the couple and looked back at Inuyasha, "Are you coming Inuyasha?" she asked.

Inuyasha was still a little mad at Kagome, but took Ai's carrier and followed her, "Bye guys," Kagome said as the two left.

The others waved goodbye.

As they walked Ai started to cry and Inuyasha growled at this, "I'll be glad not to hear that anymore," he said annoyed as they stopped so Kagome could get her out.

As they started Kagome frowned, "You know it's something that babies normally do Inuyasha," she said getting annoyed with him, what was his problem?

"Yeah whatever," he said turning the other way.

Kagome looked at him confused then sighed as she bounced Ai up and down, she was finally starting to get quiet.

Inuyasha glanced over at her, one of those looks where he wanted to look at her, but not get caught looking.

He sighed, why was he always weak when he saw her taking care of that doll? "Kagome, look, I'm sorry I dropped Ai and tried to cover up for it," he told her looking away from her.

Kagome glanced over at him with a smile, "It's ok, just don't keep things from me, ok?"

"Sure," was all he said in return.

They finally got to the well and hoped in, returning to the present.

Inuyasha stayed a bit with Kagome and actually had dinner with her family; it was very enjoyable for Kagome, like one big happy family.

It was the first night Ai didn't cry through the whole night, giving Kagome plenty of sleep.

She woke up the next morning and hurried off to school, trying not to be late.

"Hey Kagome," Eri said as her and her other friends met up with her in the hall, "So are you feeling better, how was your time with the doll?"

Kagome nervously laughed, "I'm doing a lot better, and yeah it was ok."

She found out that her friends actually had worst times than her with their dolls, stories that were kind of funny.

In class it was Kagome's turn to get up in front of the class to tell her report, she had managed to leave out any weirdness.

"Ok, tell us about your time as a mother, Kagome," the teacher told her.

"Well, I named mine Ai, I learned a lot from having a doll to take care of, sometimes I wasn't sure if I could actually do it, but it turned out a lot better than I had expected and I actually taught some of my friends to be parents too, so that was awesome," Kagome finished her report and the class cheered.

"Very nice Kagome, that deserves an A," the teacher told her.

Kagome smiled, it was so good to have friends like hers, who she helped and in return, they helped her.

THE END

A/N: ok, I wanted to finish this quickly, I was being rushed, so yeah, hope you guys liked it and thank you for supporting the story and reviewing, it means a lot :)