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Chapter Twenty One

"I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream!" Hana sang a couple days later.

Kagome smiled a little and held onto her cousin's hand, waiting patiently for the light to say it was okay to cross. They had returned to modern day Japan the previous day having to attend a meeting in the Makai. Why Kagome had to go, she never truly understood. All she knew was that she was required to go because of her being a miko. She was certain being one of the last mikos had something to do with it but she wasn't sure where or even if it did fit in somehow with the explanation.

"Yes, Hana, we all scream for ice cream. Now lets hurry cause I've got to get ready for a meeting." Kagome said as they crossed the street.

"Can I come?" Hana asked.

"You might get bored. It'll just be a bunch of people talking about improving hanyou to demon to ningen relationships and forming agreements with rival territories." Kagome said softly. "Even I get bored at those meetings."

"I won't get bored! I wanna see who's going to be there."

"A bunch of demons, half demons, and some humans. Yusuke, Kurama, Kuwabara, and Hiei are going to be there along with a couple of the koorime, some fire demons, wind demons, shadow demons, dog demons… all sorts of people from all over."

"Even Koenma's coming?"

"Of course. King Enma's not going to be there but we're all pretty sure that he's okay with a gradual increase of the… Yusuke! What are you doing here?!"

Yusuke jumped and grinned a little at them. "Well, I was heading to your house to drop these papers off." Yusuke said with a grin before noticing Hana. "Hey, twerp, how you been?"

Hana grinned happily and jumped on Yusuke, hugging him tightly. "Ka-ka's going to a meeting!" Hana said making a pouting face. "But she won't let me go. She says you're going too, is that right?"

"yeah. I hate those damn meetings and… hold on a minute! When did you start talking?!"

"Not to long ago. She wanted to know where Inuyasha was since she relearned how to walk." Kagome said with a sigh. "We're just getting ice cream, Yusuke, you want some?"

Yusuke nodded and picked Hana up, placing the laughing girl on his shoulders. "Here's those papers you requested. Koenma wasn't exactly thrilled but I guess you said the right words." Yusuke said handing Kagome an envelope.

Kagome looked inside the envelope and screamed in excitement. "THANK YOU!" Kagome shouted with an excited smile as she hugged her cousin.

"What are those papers for anyway?" Yusuke questioned looking confused.

Kagome smiled secretly and said, "it's a surprise."

"You know I hate surprises."

"I know. I also know that this surprise just might result in playing an excellent prank on Kuwabaka." Kagome said with a smile.

"Now I'm liking this surprise, whatever it is."

"Thought you might. Just give me time to run it past some people and to get arrangements set up." Kagome said taking some money out of her pocket. "One vanilla and two chocolate cones please."

Yusuke looked at his cousin with a knowing look before saying, "You never liked vanilla. What's with the sudden changes?"

"Maybe I have a craving for vanilla today." Kagome said silently pondering why all of a sudden she was craving vanilla ice cream. She couldn't be… could she? She and Inuyasha were always careful! Okay, maybe she was but still! Great, now she had to go to Genkai and get checked out and if she was pregnant with Inuyasha's baby, she'd have to tell Inuyasha and there was a slim to none chance she'd be able to go around in their search for the Shikon shards.

But there was always a possibility her hormones were simply playing with her mind again. It wouldn't have been the first time she had a craving for a food or flavor she wasn't fond of. Not to mention it wasn't the first time that she and Inuyasha had actually considered having kids which about 75 of the time resulted in her having false alarms. The other 25 was always the beginning of her monthly cycle.

But what if this time, despite all of her careful attempts to not have kids right away, she actually was pregnant? Would her family approve of the second oldest child having a relationship with someone who was technically 700 years older than her, including the five hundred years time difference between modern day and Feudal Japan? What would her father say? Kagome knew that her father held no love for demons or half demons, she had learned that startling fact after her mother confessed that they had demon blood. Wait a minute, why was Kagome even caring WHAT her father thought about her having a relationship with Inuyasha? It wasn't like he was around to care about what his teenage daughter did.

Deciding to shove her concerns into her deep subconscious, Kagome paid for the ice cream and started eating her ice cream, watching as her cousins ate their cones. "Good!" Hana said starting to jump around.

"I'll take her." Yusuke said with a sigh.

"You sure? I mean, you know how she gets…"

"When she hits the brain freeze, I'll call."

Kagome smiled and kissed Yusuke on the cheek before hugging her little cousin. "Remember, one hour." Kagome said with a gentle smile. "Just drop Hana off at home and I mean it, don't leave her at the bottom of the stairs again and expect her to get up all them stairs without trouble."

"Aw, c'mon! Last time she made it up without too much trouble."

"Don't make me hurt you."

"Okay, okay. Geez, I'll take her up all them stairs and I'll fall back down them."

"I'll have some form of transportation ready for you." Kagome said unable to keep from grinning. "but if you really want to fall down all those stairs…"

"HELL NO!"

Laughing, Kagome hugged her cousins again before running out of the ice cream shop with full intentions of making sure that her body was just playing extremely stupid games with her mind again.

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