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: Rumiko Takahashi, what is with the open endings? With Ranma ½ you never answered ANY questions! I'm almost wary to read Lum now, you know that? I'm afraid to have my heart further broken with another open ending! You know who knows how to write a good ending? The creator of MAR! The ending had so many twists it blew my MIND! And the guy who wrote Ichigo 100 was pretty good too.

Bundle of Joy

"No…not really…" Inuyasha answered carefully, "I didn't break up with Kikyo. I wouldn't break up with her because of Mizuko. That's not a reason, not a good one."

Eriko frowned, So you two are still together?"

Inuyasha and Kagome exchanged looks. They were both positive not to tell Eriko about what had almost happened earlier.

"Yes…" Inuyasha replied, "At least I hope so…" Then he gave them all the 'don't ask about it' look.

"What does 'At least I hope so' mean?" Bankotsu asked, smirking after having totally seen the 'don't ask about it' face.

"Bankotsu? What happened to your vast intelligence?" Inuyasha retorted.

Bankotsu rolled his eyes. "I know what it means. I wanna know what you meant by that."

"I mean what I say and I say what I mean," Inuyasha answered cryptically.

Bankotsu scowled.

"Mizuko did bad today and made Stepmommy sad," Mizuko announced.

Eriko looked at her with wide eyes. "Mizuko did bad?"

Mizuko nodded, apparently oblivious to Kagome's wildly gestures, signaling that Mizuko should stop or shut up. "Mizuko did very bad."

"What did Mizuko do?" Eriko figured she could get her answers from little Mizuko.

Mizuko shrugged, "Iunno, Mizuko just knows she did bad and now Stepmommy is sad. Mommy is funny!" She giggled, finally taking notice to Kagome.

Eriko turned just in time to see Kagome making a shushing noise with her finger to her lips.

"What're you hiding from me?" Eriko inquired with her hands on her hips.

"Well…I believe it's Mizuko and Kagome's precious Mommy and Me time!" Inuyasha declared suddenly, "So Mizuko and Kags have gotta go…no baby so I guess you have no reason to stay here!"

"Mommy and Me time, yay!" Mizuko squealed.

Eriko gave him an odd look. "You know we're your friends, too."

"Really?" Inuyasha retorted, "You guys don't act like it."

Sango scoffed, "Fine, let the baby have his wittle bottle. I'm going home, anyone wanna come with?" When Miroku opened his mouth, Sango interjected with, "Not you."

Miroku sighed, "Then I'm going to Yuki's right, Tsukihara?"

Yuki nodded.

"Sango, you still got that PS3?" Bankotsu asked.

Sango smirked, "You know it and I just got the goriest, most violent game know to man."

"Sweet," Bankotsu smiled before the two began to cackle maniacally, "Yash?"

Inuyasha rolled his eyes. "As much fun as that sounds, and I'm not being sarcastic, I wanna chill by myself for a few hours. I'll stop by later, save some bloody annihilation and senseless violence for me."

Sango and Bankotsu nodded then left. Miroku and Yuki soon followed, leaving Eriko and Inuyasha alone as Kagome and Mizuko left shortly after Inuyasha announced Mommy and me time had started.

"So…" Eriko began.

"Get out, now," Inuyasha ordered without batting a lash.

Eriko got up and headed for the door. "Fine, jerk."

"Bye, bitch," Inuyasha seethed, "The last time we will ever be alone was in fifth grade, got it?"

"Got it, grumpy pants!" Eriko called from behind the slowly closing door.

"Mommy?" Mizuko asked carefully form her perch on her Mommy's lap, "Daddy didn't like it when Auntie Eriko was saying stuff about Stepmommy…is it cuz of what Mizuko did?"

Kagome looked down at Mizuko (at this part picture Inuyasha in his house, leaning against the wall, looking up thinking about Kikyo), "Well…see, Daddy feels very sad because Stepmommy is mad at him."

Mizuko looked back up at her with wide, innocent cobalt eyes.

"Daddy really, really likes Mommy, right?" Kagome asked, trying this at a different angle, "But he loves Stepmommy, see? So at times like this when she's mad or sad because of Daddy, Daddy feels real bad."

"But Mizuko did bad, not Daddy," Mizuko replied.

Kagome sighed, "But Stepmommy doesn't know that. Right now, she won't even let Daddy explain. And that makes Daddy hurt right here." Kagome pointed at her heart.

"Is it a really bad hurt?" Mizuko inquired.

Kagome gulped, "Yeah, it hurts Daddy a lot."

"Is it because he wuvs her?" Mizuko wondered, looking at her feet. Instead of an answer she heard soft sniffling. Mizuko looked up to find Kagome crying. "Mommy?"

Kagome tried fruitlessly to wipe her tears away. "I'm fine…"

"Why are you crying, Mommy?" Mizuko asked, worried.

Kagome sobbed softly, "I don't know…"

Mizuko swallowed, not sure whether to ask her next question. "Um…does Mommy ever get that bad hurting right here?" Mizuko mimed Kagome's gesture earlier of pointing at her heart.

Kagome blinked tears away. "Yeah, sometimes."

Mizuko was really scared to ask her next question but she fought back her trepidation. "Is…is it because of Daddy?"

-Next Day After School-

"What do you want?" Kikyo sniffed when she sensed Inuyasha's presence. "Are you gonna break up with me for Kagome?"

"Noo!" Inuyasha was shocked at Kikyo, "Quite the opposite." (I can tell a whole bunch of you guys are soooo mad at me right now. You're thinking 'Why PinkCatsy, why? Why does he still love her? Why are they going to get back together?' But, bare (bear?) with me, okay?)

Kikyo looked up at him, drying her tears. "What…?"

"I said it before and I still mean it, I love you Kikyo, you," Inuyasha responded, wiping a tear of her cheek, "What happened yesterday…that wasn't something either of us wanted to do…Mizuko…Mizuko asked us to. She doesn't know everything…so she made a mistake and I guess I did too…forgive us?"

Kikyo nodded.

"I mean, part of me kinda wishes she picked you to be the Mommy instead," Inuyasha admitted.

Kikyo's eyes narrowed, "Part of you, kinda wishes?"

"Well…Kagome's a good mother…not that you wouldn't be…and Mizuko loves her so much…not that she doesn't love you…it's just that since the whole Mizuko thing we've become better friends, we don't hate each other all the time. But I didn't come to talk about this…like I said before, I love you Kikyo with all my heart."

Kikyo smiled, "I love you, too, Inuyasha. More than you'll ever know."

With that they pulled into a passionate kiss.

"Ick!" Eriko scoffed behind a wall as she scowled at the scene before her. "I don't see why he likes that girl so much…"

Kagome sighed, her talk with Mizuko still in her mind. She couldn't answer that one question…she didn't answer that one question…she should've been able to… She turned to Eriko, "You heard him, he loves her. It doesn't matter what anyone else says or does. Or how anyone else feels, his feelings alone are all that matters."

"Kagome?" Eriko asked slyly, "Something on your mind, like a certain hanyou?"

Kagome rolled her eyes. "Don't flatter yourself Eriko."

Eriko scoffed, her pink hair fluttering behind her. "I meant Inuyasha."

"I don't see why everyone thinks I like him!" Kagome burst louder than intended, "Everyone! You! My mom! Mi- mizuko…you all seem to see this imaginary chemistry between me and him!"

Eriko smiled knowingly, "You know Kagome, maybe you need glasses."

"Huh?" Kagome replied.

"Because if even a baby can see then maybe you two are truly blind," Eriko explained.

Kagome scowled, "See! I don't see why everyone keeps saying that we like each other!"

" 'It doesn't matter what anyone else says or does. Or how anyone else feels.' " Eriko quoted, "Your feelings are all that matter. Isn't that something like what you said?"

Kagome frowned, "I said that because he loves her…"

"Exactly, why do you think I said it?" Eriko smirked and walked away.

Kagome slumped, "He loves Kikyo!"

"What about you, Kagome?" Eriko called, "How do you feel?"

Kagome looked down at her feet. Her talk with Mizuko still stuck in her mind. "I don't know anymore…I just don't know…"


Oooo! See, this is what happens when you bear (bare?) with me!

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