lostmoonchild: Hey, everybody, thanks for the reviews! Okay, here's the comedy chapter that I promised and I'd like to say that I am not a real big Kouga fan since in my opinion he's just waaay too cocky for his own good. Anyway, I don't own Inuyasha, YYH, or anything else unless I say otherwise.

Chapter Forty

He was coming back.

Kagome sighed as she felt Kouga's energy getting closer and automatically looked at Hana who was excitedly telling everybody about the times she had to help Kurama get rid of a few girls. A plan started forming in her mind and Kagome smiled a little. "Hana…" Kagome said with a gentle voice.

Hana stopped talking and looked in Kagome's direction. "I didn't do anything, I swear!" Hana said automatically.

Kagome laughed a little and said, "You know, there's a man who'd love to take me away from you and your brother."

Hana's eyes flashed to a red color as she stared at Kagome. "I won't let him!" Hana said, a determined look settling itself in her eyes.

"That's why I need you to scare him off." Kagome answered. "Give him the idea that every kid in our family is "unmanageable" if you can handle that."

"Ka-Ka, you should know by now that if you looked up "hellion" in the dictionary my picture would be there."

"Don't I know that." Kagome muttered giving Shippo and Hana both some chocolate.

"Hello, my Kagome!" Kouga said when he stopped. "Are you ready to come back with me?"

Kagome pretended to look worried and she said, "Sorry, Kouga. I'm afraid I can't."

"Why not?"

"You see that kid right there?" Kagome questioned pointing to Hana.

"Yeah."
"Well, that's my daughter and she's been very upset lately."

"Why?"

Hana screamed and pretended to throw a tantrum. "I DON'T WANNA! I DON'T! YOU CANNA MAKE ME!" Hana screamed.

Kagome made a desperate look and tried getting Hana to quiet down. "As you can see, I've got my hands full with this little monster and can't go anywhere until she's calmed down." Kagome said with a sigh. "If somebody would be willing to take her for a while, I'd have a chance to relax a little before making any decisions." Come on, Kouga, just say you'll take her for a while..

"I could take her for a day or so." Kouga suggested.

YES! "Are you sure? She's a handful with people she doesn't really know."

Kouga looked proud and said, "She'll be no trouble at all. I'm great with kids."

"I'M NOT GOING!"

"I wouldn't exactly call her a kid if I were you, flea-bag, she's more like a little monster from hell." Inuyasha said catching onto Kagome's plan.

Kagome smiled a little and handed Kouga a bag. "Okay, there's a set of Hana's nightclothes in the bag along with something to wear tomorrow. Her hairbrush and toothbrush along with toothpaste is inside the bag too so make sure she brushes her hair and teeth really good." Kagome said mentally laughing. "Don't give her any candy before bed or else she won't sleep and no candy in the morning for breakfast or else you'll have to hunt her down. If her face is pale, then give her half of a chocolate bar but no more than that."

Kouga nodded and looked at the ten year old. "Hey, kid, you ready to have some fun?" Kouga asked.

"I wanna fight."

"No."

"I WANNA FIGHT!"

"Hana, no." Kagome said sternly. "I'll see you tomorrow, sweetheart, and be good for Kouga since he's being nice enough to take you in for a day."

"I liked uncle Sessho's house." Hana said innocently half an hour later. "What's your house like? Is it as big as uncle Sessho's house? Ka-ka says that our cousin's house in the Makai is huge but she doesn't like going there. Why are you trying to get Ka-ka to be your mate? Don't you know that every dumb ass who wants to mate Ka-ka has to get past the judge, jury, and executioner?"

Kouga sighed and said, "I think you'd better watch your mouth."

"Ka-ka lets me swear. She says that I'm not learning anything useful from my stupid uncles so I gotta get what I can take."

Kouga looked at the young girl and shook his head. Kagome wasn't kidding when she said that Hana was a monster. "Can you be quiet for a little while?" Kouga questioned.

"Maybe…"

"Quiet."

Hana waited a few minutes before saying, "I'm hungry."

"What do you want?"

"Candy."

"No."

"But I want candy! Ka-ka lets me have candy when I'm hungry!"

"How about a nice tasty fish?" Kouga questioned in an attempt to get Hana to quiet down.

Hana pretended to look thoughtful and nodded a bit. "Okay!" She said excitedly. Hey, being a complete terror wasn't easy and required both energy along with a lot of skill. Besides, she could use the fish to her advantage.

Ten minutes later, a fish had been caught and was being cooked. Silently invoking her fire demon blood, Hana reached into the fire and pretended to start crying. Honestly, the fire tickled but she was supposed to make herself look like a pain so Kouga would leave Kagome alone.

Suddenly, Kouga grabbed Hana's hand and pulled it out of the fire. "What'd you do that for?" Kouga shouted inspecting the 'burn'.

He doesn't realize that I'm a hanyou. Hana realized suddenly through her fake tears. "I…I wanted the fish!" Hana 'wailed' miserably.

"Wait until it's cooked." Kouga scolded wrapping the burn.

Hana began pulling at the wrapping a while later before deciding to throw a bit of a tantrum. "I WANT THE FISH! I WANT THE FISH!" Hana screamed.

Kouga got the fish out of the fire and gave it to the small girl. "There, now shut up." Kouga said looking annoyed.

Hana smiled happily and began eating the fish and waited until Kouga's back was turned before throwing it at his head. "IT'S BURNED!" Hana screamed when the fish hit Kouga's head.

Kouga looked at the fish with annoyance and said, "It's not burned. Stop being picky."

"Or what?" Hana challenged.

"Or you're going to bed early."
"No I'm not. You're not my daddy. You can't make me do what you want me to do."

"Kagome put me in charge of you until tomorrow."

Hana glared in Kouga's direction and said, "I'm blind. You've gotta be nice to me."

"You're not blind."
"Yes I am! I purified my own eyes, just ask Ka-ka!"

Kouga silently glared at the ten year old before shaking his head. He had to take good care of Hana just to prove to Kagome that he would be an excellent father and playing into her games wouldn't help. "Just stop throwing your food around." Kouga said making himself comfortable.

Hana frowned slightly before shrugging. Kouga didn't want her to throw around her food, but that didn't mean she couldn't throw around other stuff. Moving her fingers along the ground she found some rocks and began throwing them. "HANA!" Kouga shouted when a rock hit him.

"They're just little pebbles."

"Bullshit."

"Don't swear in front of me or I'm telling Ka-ka."

What WAS this kid? There was no way a human kid could be so annoying! For a moment Kouga wondered how Inuyasha and the rest of Kagome's friends could handle such a little monster. "Come on." Kouga said grabbing Hana.

"LEMME GO! LEMME GO!" Hana screamed angrily, kicking at Kouga.

Kouga took off running and stopped when he came to the well, surprised that Inuyasha was waiting pateintly. "Couldn't handle the pup, flea-bag?" Inuyasha asked with an amused look.

"What is this kid?" Kouga asked putting Hana down and tossing the ten year old's bag to Inuyasha.

"She's what happens when two hanyous get together." Inuyasha said as Hana ran over to him and threw her arms around his waist.

"Inu-papa, I burned my hand! Kouga got me some fish and didn't take the fish out of the fire so I went to get the fish and I burned my hand really badly!" Hana "sobbed" as she held onto Inuyasha.

"Quit it." Inuyasha said, sounding as if he didn't believe Hana for a minute. "Your hand isn't burned."

"Kagome and her kid are all yours, dog-breath. I don't need to be dealing with THAT." Kouga said before running off.

Inuyasha smirked and looked down at Hana, laughing when he saw the pleased look on her face. "Come on. Let's go tell Kagome that flea-bag's gonna leave her alone now." Inuyasha said with a smile as Hana grabbed his hand.

"Yeah! Hey, Inu-papa?"

"Yeah?"

"Did I do a good job?"

"Better than any of us could have imagined, Hana."

Hana smiled a bit deciding that any compliment that came from Inuyasha was the best there was. If he said that you did a good job, then he meant it. "Thanks, Inu-papa." Hana said with a smile.

"No problem."

lostmoonchild: yeah... when the art of childcare gets tough, Kouga gets going. Thanks again for the reviews and I hope you all will leave me a review even if they are flames. Ja ne for now!!