Teething

InuYasha is left alone with a teething, cranky Izayoi.

He was going insane! He swore that he'd never thought his mate a coward but he was starting to wonder. Why else would she decide to visit her family right when their baby's first tooth was coming in?

The day before Kagome and told her mate that she and Aiko would be going to the bone eater's well so she could pick up some supplies but the hanyo began to think Kagome had only wanted to get away from their daughter's constant screaming. Even Sesshomaru had locked himself in his office and demanded that InuYasha keep his 'screeching abomination' away from him until he could make her stop crying.

Of course InuYasha had contemplated beating his brother for calling his precious, perfect Izayoi an abomination, but then again he was beginning to think the same thing.

"Come Izayoi it can't be that bad pup!" InuYasha said as he began to beg his infant daughter to stop her crying, not only were his ears ringing but her face was starting to turn purple, his poor baby. "Please Izayoi stop crying for daddy, please!"

The young father felt horrible. He knew that teething was a normal part of a baby's life but he still wished that he could take his sweet baby girl's pain away. Just like he had wished he could have taken Kagome's pain away when she gave birth to the currently screaming banshee in his arms.

Shifting Izayoi so she was propped against his red clad shoulder InuYasha began to gently pat her back in an attempt to sooth the baby's suffering.

"Damn it if only there was a way to make the pain stop!" InuYasha moaned as he gently bounced the pup.

"Why do you think I went back to my time?" a voice asked as InuYasha turned to the doors of their suit to see Kagome walk in with her yellow back pack in her hands. "Kagome thanks Kami!" InuYasha hurried to his mate and Kagome bit her lip to keep from laughing at her mate's disheveled appearance.

"Please tell me you know how to make her stop!" Kagome did chuckle at her husband's desperate plea and reached into her bag.

"Turn her to face me." She ordered gently and InuYasha did as he was told.

Then pulled out a tube of what smelled like medicine. When Kagome put some on her finger and moved it toward the baby's mouth the overprotective father moved their daughter away as he eyed the clear gel suspiciously.

"What the hell is that shit?" he asked not wanting anything in Izayoi's mouth unless he knew what it and what it did even if the pup's mother is the one offering it.

Kagome sighed and shook her head. "It baby orajel. It'll numb her gums so they won't hurt. This is why I left the other day to pick this stuff up, as well as teething rings,"

InuYasha eyed the tube and then the gel on his mate's finger while his pup continued to scream in his ear. Finally, knowing full well Kagome would never hurt their child; he relented and allowed Kagome to massage Izayoi's aching gums with the medicine. Once that was done Kagome's handed her daughter a frozen teething ring that she had placed in a cooler to keep it cold.

InuYasha sighed once Izayoi's crying had stopped and she was happily gnawing the cold ring as it soothed her hurting mouth.

"Thank Kami!" InuYasha sighed in relief as he sat down and allowed his mate to take their daughter and rock her to sleep.

"She's given you guys a run for your money huh?" Kagome asked as her exhausted husband as he laid back on their futon.

"I didn't know that a tooth hurt that much!" Kagome laughed as her baby fell asleep in her arms.

"She's not use to pain InuYasha so of course it hurts her. Once she grows older this sort of thing won't be as bad."

InuYasha nodded.

"I'm kind of surprised that the tooth doesn't feel like a fang," Kagome said as she sat down in the rocking chair that Kagome's mother and brought for her daughter last they came to visit thanks to Gobodō-sama.

InuYasha grunted then explained.

"Fangs are the adult teeth wench, her baby teeth will be normal human like teeth so that if she's still nursing she hurt you." He said. Kagome nodded as understanding dawned on her. She had already started to wean Izayoi onto formula but the baby didn't seem to like it nearly as much as she had her mother's breast milk.

As the family settled down the doors to their apartments slid open and Sesshomaru marched in. he looked determined as he glared at his little brother and began to search for his infant niece and heir until his arms landed on his sister and her drowsy daughter.

"I see, you've returned. When I didn't hear the pup's wails I assumed InuYasha had gotten fed up and killed her already."

Kagome laughed as InuYasha leapt to his feet in anger.

"I would never hurt my daughter you bastard!" InuYasha growled. "You're the one who called her a screeching abomination!"

"Yes but I wasn't alone with her all day while she attempted to deafen the whole castle."

Kagome rolled her eyes and shushed the men.

"Take it outside boys, you'll wake her."

The two demons looked to mother and whelp and then back to each other. Sesshomaru then grabbed his brother's collar and dragged him from the rooms to spar and let loose some of their pent up energy by beating each other senseless.

Kagome giggled as she looked to her sleeping baby.

"I hope you don't grown up to be so wild and violent like your daddy and uncles." She whispered as she kissed the baby's head before putting her softly in her little basinet.

A/N: We all know InuYasha has sensitive ears, as well as most other demons, so Sensitive dog demon ears plus teething baby in pain equals InuYasha freaking out while everyone runs away and leaves him to deal with it. Review let me know what you all thought.

Disclaimer: I do not own InuYasha!