Chapter 2
'What is taking sis so long?' young Souta stood in the play-yard of his school, waiting for his sister to come get him.
"Souta sister sure is late coming to get him today." Ms. Luisa said to a coworker inside the school building watching as the young boy waited.
"I know, I hope nothing's happened to her." Ms. Hayes said, the teachers huddled in a corner keeping a look out for Souta and his sister to come get him.
"Souta, do you want to come back inside and play while you wait for your sister?" Ms. Luisa asked redirecting the boy to the classroom.
"Wait, there she is." He said seeing Kagome walk through the gate to come in the school.
"Sorry I'm late." She apologized bowing to the teacher before they left for the day.
Walking out of the school yard Souta followed his sister to a car that was parked at the corner of the street, confused because he was used to them walking.
"So what took you so long to come get me sis?" he asked then noticed a guy at the car.
"Sorry 'bout that Souta. Something came up and I lost track of time." She told him as she went to the passenger's side of the car.
'Who is this guy?' Souta wondered as the guy opened both the back and front passengers doors then going over to the driver's side.
"Anything happen while I went to get him?" she asked the guy as they climbed in to the seats.
Then looking into the back of the seat there was a baby's carrier strapped inside along with another empty car-seat next to it behind the driver seat.
"Get in already Souta." Kagome said told him. Obeying he climbed into the back seat closing the door, and inside the baby carrier he saw a baby asleep inside.
"Nothing happened. She's only been sleeping." The guy finally spoke.
"Souta put your seatbelt on." Kagome said to him looking through the rearview mirror.
So as Souta clicked the buckle to his seat, Inuyasha started his car again then pulle4d on to the street.
"We need to make another stop before I take you home. Okay" he informed them so they wouldn't think he was trying to kidnap them or anything of the sort.
"Where to?" Kagome asked
"I have to go pick up my little brother form daycare." he answered
A short ways away they made it to Little Tots Daycare to pick up Inuyasha's little brother.
"You're late Takahashi, I was just about to call Sesshomaru to come get him." the caregiver said scolding Inuyasha for being late to get the child. Shippo in the other room watching TV.
"Sorry I'm late Granny Kaede, but something had came up." Inuyasha tried to apologize.
"Uh-ha, something more important than your brother?" Kaede asked putting her hands on her hips.
"Come on Kaede don't do this to me. Something came up they had to be dealt with before I could come and get Shippo." he said not going into any details about the baby.
"Hm-mm" she grunted not believing him but called Shippo to let him know his ride was here.
"INUYASHA!" Shippo squealed loudly, happy to see his brother.
"Yeah, yeah, yeah lets go." Inuyasha said taking the child's hand and leading him out the front door.
"Bye Granny Kaede." the boy said following his brother to his car.
Being buckled into his car seat, Shippo wore a questionable look on his face. 'Who are these people in brother's car?'
With given directions from Kagome, Inuyasha drove them to her apartment. Helping Shippo out his seat and then grabbing the baby carrier Inuyasha followed Kagome and Souta to their apartment.
Inside the room Inuyasha placed his precious cargo onto the couch and uncovered baby Kiana form under the blanket.
Finally tired of holding in his questions Souta couldn't take it anymore.
"What's going on here? Who's this guy? Why's he here with you with a baby? What'd he do to you?" he asked, letting out a big sigh of relief that he had gotten it off his chest. Shippo stand near Inuyasha thinking the same questions also. The outburst surprising both teens.
"Calm down Souta. This is Inuyasha he goes to my school. We even have some classes toge-." Kagome started
"But what about the baby?" he asked cutting her off his brain over loading with questions with no answers for them.
"Souta, calm down let me explain." she said to her brother grabbing hold of his shoulder to calm him.
"Listen, okay, when I was on my way to come get you. I made a stop at our school shed to put something away for a friend. I found this baby in there along with a note. Some one had abandoned their baby, and whoever was first to find her would take care of her and that had happened to be me. So Inuyasha and I took her to the hospital and now she's staying with us. You can pretend she's your little sister." Kagome said as best she could, adding in a positive note to it.
"Somebody left their baby in ya'll school shed?" Souta asked
"What does a-bad-donned mean?" Shippo shy voice asked standing next to the couch looking in to the carrier at the baby who was just waking up.
"It means someone felt their baby by herself and was never coming back for her." Kagome explained in a way the boy would understand.
"But why would day do dat?" Shippo asked
"I don't know. There are many reasons to leave your child, good one and bad one. I believe this one was for good reasons." She said
"Why you say dat?"
"Because of the letter that was left with her."
In the carrier Kiana finally decided it was time to be up so she started to fuss. Telling everyone in the room she was awake probably wet and hungry. As the second went by her car got even louder till she was at an ear splitting cry. Figuring the baby would quiet itself down; Kagome picked Kiana up from the carrier and into her arms. With the feel of being held Kiana's cry lessened but didn't stop. Kagome immediately thought the baby was hungry so she instructed Inuyasha to warm up a bottle for the baby.
"My sister? So she's going to be staying with us for forever?" Souta asked watching his sister try to comfort the crying infant as she sat on the couch waiting for Inuyasha to return with a bottle.
"From what the letter says and I promised the doctors we are. But I think they'll try and find her mom." Kagome said
"Oh"
Finally Inuyasha returns, handing the warmed bottle to Kagome. Kagome cradled the baby, holding the tip of the bottle to her lips. Rather than latching on, Kiana seemed confused. Probably a sign that she was use to being breastfed. In an attempt to feed the baby, Kagome took her pinky and put to the baby's lips, she found that she'd suckle that. Then placing the nipple alongside her finger she'd trick the infant into thinking she was still with her mother. Luckily Kiana was hungry enough that the method worked. The wailing had stopped and was replaced by sucking noises form Kiana.
A short time later Kiana finished the bottle and went back to sleep. So Kagome placed her back in the carrier to rest. When Inuyasha thought Kagome was able to handle the baby without him he collected Shippo and was on his way out the door.
"Hey, wait, where are you going?" Kagome asked stopping Inuyasha before he could leave.
"What, I'm going home. Kiana's asleep now. There's nothing here for me to do. So why should I bother staying? Ain't it okay for us to go home?" he asked facing her at the doorway.
"Yeah, it's find, whatever, but you were just leaving without saying anything. And beside this child is not just my responsibility. I need to know you're going to be helping me with her, give me your number so I can call you if I need any help, but other than that you can go." she said
So they exchanged phone numbers, Inuyasha and Shippo were able to leave for evening. Inuyasha promising to be back the next morning.
Back in his car they drove to the other side of town to an apartment where he'd lived with Shippo for the past two years since their parents death, though they had an older brother Sesshomaru who ran their family's company.
Making it into the apartment, Shippo dashed to his room, doing whatever 3 year-old boys do in their rooms Inuyasha could care less as he went to the kitchen to find something to eat for dinner.
"Hey Inuyasha" Shippo shouted running out his room to find his brother.
"What"
"Why was we at that girls house wit dat baby?" he asked climbing onto a chair at the table.
"Kiana" Inuyasha said, saying the baby's name as he placed 2 bowels of noodles on the table.
"The baby? Cause she was a-bad-donned?" he asked slurping up a mouth full of noodles.
"Yeah, Kagome's going to be taking care of her now and I kinda promised that I would help take care of her." he answered finishing off his bowel.
"So is we going over her place again tomorrow?" Shippo questioned his brother then drinking the rest of the juice out the bowel in which he became messy and ended dinner with a much needed bath
1-15-09
another one finished please review