Disclaimer: Question: why would I be on if I owned Inuyasha? Wouldn't I be better spending my time drawing the actual manga instead of ENDING it? I'm on the second last chapter of it and plenty peeved.

Note: I just had to write this fanfiction. This idea has been stuck in my head since forever!

Bundle of Joy

When the four had reached the school, Kikyo instantly headed off towards her friends Momoko and Hinagiku, leaving the three to join up with their friends. Kagoem looked for her three other friends (Eri, Yuka and Ayumi) but liuckily couldn't find them…not yet.

Bankotsu, Sango and Miroku where patiently waiting for their those three, talking up a storm. The notcied, Yuki was the last to arrive which was odd because he was driven to school.

"Why do you look so tired?" Bankotsu inquired.

Eriko looked thoughtful, her gold eyes glittering as her pink hair blew in the light breeze, "It couldn't have been homework, Inuyasha, you were at my house doing your homework so you could be lazy the rest of the day."

Inuyasha inwardly winced, she remembered.

"What're we talking about?" Yuki finally appeared, his short silver hair blowing ever so softly. The only full demon in the group but one of the three (IY, Eriko and himself) with dog demon blood.

"Well, Inuyasha was just about to tell us what he stayed up all night doing," Sango replied.

Inuyasha opened his mouth to speak when the school bell rang. Saved by the bell. He grinned, not even hiding his relief. Maybe I can keep her a secret after all.

When Inuyasha walked home that evening, he was grinning, until he saw Souta, Kohaku, Rin and Shippo waiting at his door. He had to babysit them today…and Mizuko. Inuyasha was filled with dread before he remembered something, they're children. Kohaku, the eldest, is thirteen. He could easily get them to keep Mizuko a secret. The boys, he'll merely tell them to keep her a pact between men and they'll never tell another living soul. And Rin, just tell her that she's their little secret and she'll swear on her life never to tell anyone. It would be too easy.

"You've got a baby?" Shippo inquired looking at him with disgust.

Inuyasha rolled his eyes, "Dumbass, I'm not the biological father. My aunt dumped this orphan on me okay. And as men, you three must promise to never tell another soul, dead or alive, got it?"

The boys nodded.

"Now you van play on me Wii," Inuyasha replied and the boys rushed to Inuyasha's room, "Mess with my stuff and you're all dead."

The boys all chorused, "Don't worry!"

Rin was playing Mommy to Mizuko. "What about me?"

Inuyash gave her a soft expression, "Mizuko can be a little secret, kay? Don't tell anyone."

Rin smiled, " 'Course not, she's a secret!" At seven, she was the cutest thing, much more cuter than her peer Shippo, at least to Inuyasha.

Inuyasha grinned as things were going just as planned, "Not even Fluffy."

"Not even Fluffy," she repeated, using their secret nickname for Sesshomaru.

Mizuko was probably going to be his best kept secret ever…

Inuyasha sat glancing at the clock, 6:15 pm. That meant the kids would be going home soon. Sango would pick up Kohaku, Sesshomaru would send Jaken for Rin and, despite living next door, Kagome would pick up Souta. Inuyasha had to walk Shippo home.

Inuyasha figured he could drop both Souta and Kohaku at the Higurashi home, walk Rin to the car so Jaken wouldn't have to come in and then walk Shippo home with Mizuko in his old stroller. Shippo lived in the opposite direction than any of his friends and therefore his area would be a safe place to have Mizuko in public, as about three kids at his school lived over there and worked from 6 to 7. How did he know? His connections.

Just after Inuyasha walked Rin to her ride home, his cell rang.

"Inuyasha!" A joyous Sango exclaimed, "Long time, no see! Where have you been? Oh, that's right, locked up in your home, doing god knows what!"

Inuyasha rolled his eyes, despite Sango not being able to see it. "Is there a real point to this call?"

"Yeah, actually there is," Sango answered, "I'm on way to pick up Kohaku, kay?"

Inuyasha smirked, he forsaw this, "No need, he's at Kag's house." He grinned a little bit at Sango's growl of frustration.

"Well then…bye!" She said stiffly, barely masking her rage.

Inuyasha grinned, he was not as dense as they all assumed…all the time.

Kagome felt so angry at Inuyasha's thinking ahead. He had completely ruined Sango's plot. If only Kagome didn't live right beside him, then he wouldn't be able to drop Kohaku and Souta off…Kohaku and Souta…

"Eureka!" Kagome grinned.

Sango scrutinzied Kagome, "Can you spell Eureka?"

Kagome rolled her eyes, "Not important…I have an idea! See, Sango, our little brothers were at his house! They were inside his home! Does that not mean that they know what's up with him?"

Sango's eyes glittered with understanding, "Kagome, you're a genius!"

"Really?" Kagome had never been called a genius before.

"No, not really but you're on your way! That was your first brillant anything!" Sango mocked praise.

Kagome scowled, "You're just like Inuyasha sometimes."

"Yeah, that's because great minds think alike," Sango grinned.

"What does that have to do with you two?" Kagome retorted.

Sango growled and gave up, she might as well let Kagome win something...

-At Kagome's house-

The two older siblings were excited to finally reach home.

"Souta!" Kagome smiled nicely.

Souta looked less than amused, "What do you want this time?"

Kagome's smile fell, plan a: failure. "Fine, I'll get to the point. Inuyasha has been acting strange and we think that he's hiding something at home. So…do you know what's up with him?"

"Yes, yes I do," Souta grinned.

"But you won't tell me, will you?" Kagome replied, disheartened. Souta nodded in response.

Sango turned to her brother, she and Kohaku were closer and therefore, it would be easier to for her to weasel Inuyasha's secret out of him. "Kohaku, do you know?"

Kohaku grinned, "Of course, Sango."

"So…what is up with him?" Sango inquired.

"I can't tell you that," Kohaku replied.

"Well, why not!" Sango and Kagome screeched at the end of their ropes.

Souta and Kohaku answered, "Because it's a pact between men that's why. We swore on our manliness not to tell another soul."

That was the most ridiculous thing Kagome and Sango had ever heard come out of their brothers' mouths. But they weren't defeated yet, they had brought the lech for a reason.

Miroku approached the boys with a grin. "Well, if it's a promise between men, why don't you tell me?"

Souta and Kohaku looked at each other, then smirked, "Because it's a pact between men."

Miroku's grin fell right off his face. Those boys hang out with Inuyasha far too much.

Time passed and they got even more desperate to find out Inuyasha's secret. He had closed his blinds so Eriko couldn't spy into his home with her telescope and he had disconnected all her cameras. He had his walls soundproofed so Kagome couldn't hear a sound within his house. And when Eriko had asked his relatives they either didn't give a damn to actual find out (Sesshomaru) or just wouldn't tell them (Aunt Tsubasa, despite her similarities to Eriko, she never crossed the privacy line like Eriko always did.) The group was getting seriously antsy, not even the great Bankotsu could determine what was with their hanyou friend. And he is all-knowing! (this is a joke between me and my brother).

The group was beginning to fear that they'd never, ever find out what was hidden within the walls of Inuyasha's house…ever. But then an opportunity came that could not be passed up. Kagome had been paired up with Inuyasha for History and they had to complete a task everyday and today they would work at Inuyasha's house.

Souta was having a party at Kagome's house and would be a huge distraction for the pair. There would be no way that they'd be able to finish their mandatory task for today. Inuyasha had argued against it at first but Kagome was very persistent and persuasive…and finally got her way.

Inuyasha sighed with trepidation, how would he be able to cover Mizuko up now? Maybe, just maybe he can pull her off as a cousin or something…yeah…a cousin. Inuyasha thought as he walked home alone, he had been walking home alone everyday since Mizuko had arrived. He simply wormed his way out of walking with his friends by intentionally awarding himself triple detentions and such so that they wouldn't bother to wait. And it worked.

When he opened the door, little Mizuko, who could waddle and run, rushed towards Inuyasha and hugged him as tightly as her tiny body would allow.

"Daddy!" she exclaimed, throwing Inuyasha off guard, she had never spoken before. He was excited…in an odd way…he was her first word, technically…but if she called him that while Kagome was over his plan to hide her as a cousin would fail miserably. But, maybe this was a once in a blue moon thing. He prayed as he shooed his babysitter lady out the door, she shot him one evil eye before walking around the back to her car parked at a nearby convience store.

By the time it came for Kagome to come over, Inuyasha was having serious doubts that his plan 'she's my cousin' was going to work. Nonstop, since they moment he came home, all Mizuko had ever said was 'Daddy!' and it was beginning to wear his patience thin. He was screaming at his aunt on the phone with Mizuko in his arms, when the doorbell rang. Shit, it's Kagome. He quickly hoped that Mizuko would shut up and not say a single word, especially not the one she had been saying all day long.

"Hey," Inuyasha replied, phone on his face.

Kagome's eyes travelled down to the small child reaching for the phone in his hand. Before she said anything, a little voice peeped.

"Daddy!"

Kagome's jaw dropped. This is one hella secret!

Inuyasha inwardly groaned. Was her not saying that a little much to ask for? Was it really?


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