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 finished it and I'm a little depressed now…

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

Bundle of Joy

"Did she just call me Mommy?" Kagome managed in disbelief.

Inuyasha could do nothing but nod and smirk. "Now there's no way you can tell anyone!"

Kagome sighed in submission. "I guess you're right…but how could this of happened? She just met me today!" Kagome looked down at little Mizuko, her big, cobalt eyes boring into Kagome.

"She probably just assumed you were because of the way you were playing with her. It was probably something like the mothers on the TV channels she watches. You're probably a more likely mom to her than the only other woman she knows, Maria, her babysitter," Inuyasha explained, yawning.

Kagome looked down at Mizuko, tilting her head. Mizuko mirrored her motion. "She's a half demon like you, isn't she?"

Inuyasha nodded, "Yeah, she is…"

"Do you think that's why she's an orphan…?" Kagome asked without thinking.

Inuyasha looked up at the ceiling. "Who knows…"

Kagome picked her up, "Since I'm going to be her mommy, I might as well let her spend at least one night with me."

"Tomorrow," Inuyasha interrupted her without looking at her.

"Why is Daddy gonna miss his baby?" Kagome grinned.

Inuyasha turned to her suddenly. "No. They'll all be waiting to find out 'my secret', dumbass. If you have Mizuko with you, don't you think it'll be a little harder to cover it up?"

It took Kagome a while to figure out who 'they' were but she eventually got the gist of Inuyasha's reasoning. "Fine," she placed Mizuko on the ground and almost cried herself when she heard Mizuko whimpering. "Mizuko, don't be sad, okay? Mommy'll be here tomorrow, okay?"

Mizuko nodded but her eyes watered anyways.

"Aww, don't cry, Mommy's only going to be next door. Don't worry, Daddy can call me over whenever!" Kagome replied, hugging Mizuko.

Inuyasha rolled his eyes. "You are too quickly adjusted to this."

"Shut up," Kagome snapped, her nice tone gone. She smiled and wiped Mizuko's tears away then glared at Inuyasha coldly and left. "Jerk."

Inuyasha rolled his eyes and carried Mizuko to her crib. "Why on earth did you pick that girl to be your mommy? How could us two ever parent you? Together?"

Mizuko looked up at Inuyasha and smiled, "Love."

Inuyasha's eyes widened. "What…?"

"Cookies!" she grinned.

Inuyasha sighed, "Oh…I thought you meant…never mind." Mizuko had fallen asleep in the midst of his half sentence.

Meanwhile, Kagome had left Inuyasha's house to find the rest of the gang waiting on her doorsteps. "Huh?"

"You were taking a while and we were getting antsy," Eriko answered, "So…what's up with Inuyasha?"

Kagome swallowed, she needed an awesome lie so as to avert suspicion. A really good lie, one that would fool even Eriko. "His walls were completely plastered in Sailor Moon posters!" she announced in mock awe. "Something about passing a poster in a store and then having to buy it. It grew to an obsession. I was laughing my head off. But try not to let him know you know, I promised not to tell a soul, that was the only way he'd let me out of the house."

Sango smirked, "Sailor Moon posters?"

Kagome nodded, now all she had to do was memorize exactly what she said so as not to mess up.

"He's been avoiding us for Sailor Moon posters…?" Eriko sounded skeptical.

Kagome shook her head, "No, that was why weren't allowed in his house. He told me something about of getting tired of hanging around us…but I spotted some Sailor Moon DVDs in his room."

"Oh, I see, his Sailor Moon obsession grew from the posters," Eriko replied.

Miroku inquired, "Why would he suddenly just start buying posters and DVDs?"

"He used to be completely in love with the series when it was on," Eriko answered, "He cried for at least an hour and a half after they cancelled it. The poster must've rekindled his obsession with it."

Kagome inwardly grinned, that was definitely something she shouldn't have known beforehand. She was so glad that they had bumped into each other one day after both looking for the same Sailor Moon manga volume. "Who would've guessed?"

Sango smirked, "I sure wouldn't have."

"I can understand why he would hide that from us," Bankotsu remarked, smirking but sounding a little unsure.

"He has secret sides you wouldn't believe," Eriko responded, seemingly convinced.

Bankotsu looked at her and began to believe Kagome a little more.

Kagome sighed in relief. Her lie had passed.

Eriko eyed Kagome then looked at Bankotsu, something was up…she didn't know what yet but something was up…

-the next day-

After school, Kagome and Inuyasha went straight to his house, evasively leaving questions unanswered. They merely used the excuse of the project.

Once the door swung open, Mizuko ran to embrace Kagome. "Mommy!" Kagome hoisted Mizuko into her arms and rubbed her nose into Mizuko's. Kagome smiled then noticed a rather plump, Mexican lady give her the evil eye. "What's up with her?" Kagome whispered to Inuyasha.

"That's Maria and frankly I think she's just mad because her husband left her ass because her womb was completely useless. We're two teens with a little girl she assumes is ours despite what we say because she's a bitch like that," Inuyasha muttered harshly in response.

"Then why did you hire her?" Kagome inquired quietly with wide eyes.

"Because she was inexpensive and experienced and too old for high school," Inuyasha answered nonchalantly, "Plus, she doesn't talk ever, at least not when I'm around."

Kagome nodded, still holding Mizuko. "I don't like her."

"Then find someone else to take of Mizuko during the day," Inuyasha retorted.

"My mom," Kagome replied.

"You have to tell her about Mizuko first," Inuyasha remarked.

Kagome blinked in surprise. "Scratch that…I'm pretty sure that that's not a good idea."

"Exactly," Inuyasha replied.

Once Maria was out of the house, Inuyasha and Kagome commence parenting Mizuko together which was weird and awkward...sort of boring too. They just stood there waiting for Mizuko to do something while Mizuko sat on the floor looking up at them confused.

"…" Inuyasha stood patiently, sweating like a pig, this was really weird.

Kagome shuffled uncomfortably. "…" What in the hell were they supposed to do?

Mizuko stared up at her 'parents'. What on earth was going on?

"…" The three were almost frozen in time for several moments.

"Did you say that Mizuko has never left the house since she got here?" Kagome asked, needing something to end the tension.

Inuyasha nodded.

"Then maybe we should take her outside…" Kagome suggested, hoping air would make the situation a whole lot more natural.

"No way," Inuyasha answered, "What if someone saw us?"

"So you're planning to keep her cooped her up in here without seeing the real world forever!" Kagome screamed, disgusted.

"Not forever just until the end of high school and she can see the real world on TV!" Inuyasha barked.

Kagome was shocked at him. "Really? How can you even think of something so terrible? So you're planning to let her grow up entirely on TV? What about school?"

"Well obviously she'll go to school, that's how she see the real world, at school!" Inuyasha answered.

"You're being inhuman!" Kagome cried.

"You're being foolish! Do you not realize that she is a SECRET as in no one can find out about her!" Inuyasha retorted.

"Do you not realize that she is a PERSON and needs to be treated like one!" Kagome screamed.

"I'm not suggesting caging her up and feeding her through a tube, just keeping her at home. You know people can live their life inside of the home, that's how hermits survive you know!" Inuyasha yelled.

"Hermits make a CHOICE to cope themselves up in a house. You're forcing her to!" Kagome screeched.

Inuyasha glared at Kagome and Kagome glared right back at her. Mizuko looked between her 'parents'. Her eyes began to water…they were mad, she didn't like it when they were mad.

"Waaah!" Mizuko's crying jolted Inuyasha and Kagome out of their foul mood.

Kagome picked up Mizuko. "Don't cry, please stop crying!"

Inuyasha sighed, "Fine, we'll go to the park near Shippo's house. No one from our school lives over there but if anyone finds out you'll pay."

Kagome grinned at Inuyasha. "Really?"

Inuyasha tried not to grin. Her smile was infectious. "I guess."

Mizuko looked between her 'parents' and saw that their glares had melted away. She grinned herself and stopped crying.

"Inuyasha, you won't regret this!" Kagome smirked.

Inuyasha sighed, "I hope you're right, Kagome."


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