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Bundle of Joy

"The beach?" Inuyasha exclaimed, "You gotta be kidding me!"

Eriko rolled her eyes. "C'mon, it's not just a beach, it's an island. An island filled with adventures and cave and potential for heart-pounding memories...like confessions."

Inuyasha glared at her. "An island or beach, whatever. It's lame."

"You're lame!" Eriko spouted indignantly, "This is Doki Doki Island, in case you didn't know!"

"Doki Doki?" Bankotsu replied incredulously, "As in the sound you heart makes? (A/N: in Japan!) You're not serious. This really is lame."

Eriko pouted, "No, it's awesome. You guys just can't appreciate it, especially you, Bankotsu. Find yourself a sweetheart and join the rest of us."

Bankotsu smirked and rose an eyebrow. "You have a sweetheart?"

Eriko blushed and looked away. "Err...well...um...n-n-never mind." She tried not to look shyly at Yuki.

Kagome cast a look at Inuyasha, who was smirking at Eriko as Mizuko squirmed in her arms. She bit her lip. I shouldn't have asked him that at hospital. That question and his answer had been bothering her ever since.

"Do you still love Kikyo?"

Inuyasha was quite for awhile, it seemed he was struggling with his answer. Kagome suddenly began to regret asking him. It became evident that this wasn't a smart thing to do. She should've figured that he wasn't over her.

"To be honest," Inuyasha cut through her thoughts, "I'm not really sure how to answer that. I actually haven't thought about my feelings for Kikyo in a long time." He had this far away look in his eyes.

Kagome suddenly found it impossible to look him in the eye.

"I guess I just don't know," Inuyasha answered with a sense of finality, "I just don't really know anymore. I've forgotten what it's like to be in love with Kikyo so I can't remember how I feel about her."

Kagome's eyes widened. She wasn't even sure what his answer meant. As she managed to look at Inuyasha, she began to wonder if he himself understood it.

Kagome sighed. I really shouldn't have asked. It seems I put him in an uncomfortable place.

Inuyasha caught Kagome looking at him with that depressed expression again. Maybe I should have rephrased myself. Inuyasha sighed but then again, his feelings in a way were probably matching her own. Since Kikyo's death, since Naraku's first attack on him, Inuyasha detached himself from his feelings for Kikyo so that he could properly protect Kagome. And he wasn't sure how to re-attach himself to them or if they were even there anymore. If they were there, what was even the point of feeling them again, he'd only feel that way again.

He hated those feelings. These feelings of unfairness, depression, anger...the urge to maybe take his own life...he didn't like it. He especially hated the loneliness that came with Kikyo's death and the feeling of nostalgia...how this was all just like when he's mother died.

He hated comparing Kikyo's death with that of his mother's. They were different. He was in a different place in his life. And he wasn't alone when Kikyo died, even he felt otherwise. It was just easier to take everything when he was detached from all of those feelings. That way, he could say her name without that acidic feeling in his heart, he could talk about Naraku without murderous intent, he could protect Kagome without the guilt of being unable to save Kikyo, that way he wouldn't say or do anything to put that face on Kagome. The one she has on right now...the one she had when he and Kikyo made up...the one that shows how blatantly she cares for -no- how blatantly she loves-

"Yash?" Sango snapped her fingers in front of Inuyasha's face, wrenching him from his thoughts, "We're going to the hotel now."

"Huh? Oh...kay," Inuyasha turned to where Kagome was only to find her ahead of him, her gaze forward. He looked down.

Sango sighed, "Just tell her how you feel and she wouldn't always look so sad."

Inuyasha looked at Sango with a taunting glint in his eyes. "Tell him how you feel and maybe he wouldn't be chasing so many skirts." He nodded his head in the direction of Miroku, who was trying to flirt with a redhead by a coconut tree.

Sango scowled, rolled up her sleeves and marched over to Miroku.

Inuyasha shook his head and followed the rest of the gang who was heading for the hotel.

"YOU WOMANIZING PERVERT! THE HOTEL IS THAT WAY!" Sango dragged Miroku away and gave an apologetic gaze to the redhead, who looked about ready to bash Miroku's head in.

"If we are staying in hotel room, why are we camping out?" Bankotsu wondered as the sat around campfire in the midst of a small clearing...in the midst of a rain forest.

Eriko beamed, "When it's so beautiful outside," she gestured to the night sky and the rain forest illuminated by the moonlight, "Why would you wanna be inside?"

"Because we paid for it," Inuyasha seethed.

Eriko rolled her eyes. "We can spend tomorrow night in the stupid hotel. Tonight, however, I think we should play a game of truth or dare." She smirked mischievously.

"No," Inuyasha got up as Bankotsu reached up and dragged him back down.

"What are you afraid of?" Bankotsu had on an evil grin practically matching that of everyone else in the circle, besides Kagome and little Mizuko, who had insisted upon staying up tonight.

"Daddy!" Mizuko cried, crawling over to him, she began her favourite game of tug on Daddy's forelocks.

"Nothing..." Inuyasha sighed resignedly. Except being dared to confess how I feel about Kagome or asked how I feel about Kagome etc. Isn't a confession something I should manage on my own? I'm sorry, if I'm just not ready yet. He cast a sly glance at Kagome who was already blushing despite the game having yet to start.

"Daddy!" Mizuko cried again and pulled rather roughly on his forelock.

"I'll go first, any objections?" Eriko cast a vicious glint directly at Inuyasha.

"Daddy!" Mizuko giggled and tried to climb up Inuyasha to his ears.

"Yes..." Inuyasha and Kagome replied in a low voice.

"Daddy?" Mizuko pouted as she begun to get the feeling she was being ignored.

"No? Okay!" Eriko smiled with an almost evil cheeriness, "Inuyasha, truth or dare?"

"Daddy!" Mizuko huffed.

Inuyasha growled, "I knew it." Inuyasha tried to weigh his options but either way the result would probably be the same. "Argh...dare."

"Hmph!" Mizuko cried defiantly.

"I dare you to," Eriko began then went to whisper in his ear, "Confess to Kagome." As she pulled away, Inuyasha noticed that despite it being whispered, everyone seem to know exactly what his dare was.

"What? That's not-" Inuyasha's eyes widened, "Mizuko?"

"What?" Eriko huffed, "Don't try to back out of this."

Kagome quickly caught onto Inuyasha's alarm. "Mizuko? Mizuko, where are you? Mizuko!" She looked about but couldn't see hide nor hair of little Mizuko.

"Mizuko!" Inuyasha got up. "Dammit, in this large forest, who knows where she could have gone?"

"Did any of you see where Mizuko went?" Kagome asked but they all shook their heads, it seemed no one wa spaying any attention to her.

Inuyasha sighed, "I guess, we have to split up and search for her."

"What?!" Eriko cried in defiance then she noticed everyone glaring at her like she was some heartless monster, "Fine, but we continue this game after we find her."

Inuyasha rolled his eye. "Kagome and I will go search to the west, Eriko and Yuki will go search the east, Sango and Miroku get the north and Bankotsu gets the south, any objections?"

Eriko blinked in surprise at Inuyasha and shook her head, "None here."

Yuki blushed as he shook his head.

"I'm better by myself anyways," Bankotsu replied indignantly.

Sango snapped, "I DO! I OBJECT! MAJOR OBJECTION HERE!" Her face was a deep crimson as Miroku grabbed her arm and smiled at mischievously.

"No? Okay!" Inuyasha smirked at Sango as they split up.

"DAMN YOU!" Sango cried.


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