Kawayou IS Kagome's Son!
I don't own Inuyasha or anything having to do with this show. I also don't own anything else quirky that may show up. (Including the movie Little Nicky.) I only do this for entertainment purposes, (and an excuse to avoid my homework:). So don't sue and enjoy the fic!

The Feudal Fairy Tale Begins Again...

By: Msmelanie

Chapter Twenty One: Kawayou IS Kagome's Son!

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Inuyasha tickled Kawayou's foot with his left claw, causing his son to stir and look at him. "Let's go. I've got a long way to teach you pup."

Kagome looked back at Inuyasha. "Inuyasha, what do you mean teach?"

Inuyasha lifted Kawayou's foot again for Kagome to examine. "See the lack of dirt and roughness? Means my pup hasn't had experience on making it on it's own."

He was about to turn away when Kagome called back out to him.

He glanced back at her. "What?"

Kagome sighed. "Don't be too rough on him Inuyasha."

Inuyasha grunted his reply and started to head toward the door when he was stopped in his tracks from Kagome shouting back out at him. He turned back around, a look of annoyance on his face clear. "What now?"

Kagome looked at Kawayou who still stayed calmly on Inuyasha's shoulders. 'Wow, Kawayou sure has started to get a long better with his dad. But still...' "Can I come too?"

Inuyasha's eyes went wide. "No!" he barked.

Kagome frowned at him. "Why not?"

"Because!" Inuyasha barked. He looked up at Kawayou. "It's...uhh... tradition."

Kagome glared at him for a second, not quite catching on. "Tradition?" Could it be tradition? Or was Inuyasha going to do something she wouldn't approve of?

Sango decided to step in. She walked over to Kagome and smiled at her future friend. "Youkai training is not only a time to learn the roles, but a time for father/son to bond."

Kagome's mouth shaped into an almost silent "Oh."

Inuyasha looked at the unconscious monk on the ground. 'Geez, she didn't have to put it that way.' Kawayou seemed to be thinking the same thing as he played around with the strings on his Kimono.

Kagome smiled and looked back at her family. "Okay Inuyasha, you can go by yourself, but I want to know where you are taking him."

Inuyasha scratched his head. He didn't really have a destination in mind.

Kagome saw his clueless response. She sighed. Okay, she'd just have to trust that Inuyasha knew what he was doing. "Be back soon."

Inuyasha didn't reply, but instead ran out the door with Kawayou on his shoulders.

Kagome blinked. He didn't respond to her? She looked out the door to see they were long gone. Still, she ran to the door and shouted out. "I'm not kidding Inuyasha! You better come back soon!"

Currently running through the forest...

Kawayou looked down at Inuyasha. "So, what am I supposed to learn pops?"

Inuyasha looked back up at Kawayou after he stopped next to a pond. "First thing you should learn is NOT to call me POPS!"

Kawayou frowned. Hell, pops was the nicest name he'd ever called the hanyou! "Then what am I supposed to call you? Inuyasha? Hanyou?"

Inuyasha growled at the recommendations. "No, call me dad or father. That's it."

Kawayou wrinkled his nose in response. "Can I call you stinky instead? It seems to fit you."

Inuyasha frowned and smelled underneath his armpit. "No I don't."

Kawayou squeezed his nose to make his point. "Yeah, you do. You've smelt funky since the first time I've met ya. So has Shippou."

Inuyasha crossed his arms. "Well, we're youkai! You've been around the smell of humans all your life. You just need to get used to it. Now, speaking of smelly humans..." he walked over and smelled Kawayou. "We need to have a little talk about transformations."

Kawayou wrinkled his nose. "I don't really like Transformers. I'm not into robots and stuff. I like Hamtaro though, can we talk about that?"

Inuyasha just stood there. What was his pup talking about. "Kawayou. When do you transform?"

Kawayou just looked back at Inuyasha. "What do I look like, a sailor scout?"

Inuyasha closed his eyes in frustration. His kid was using weird future words he didn't know. "No kid!" He decided to try a different approach. "Change. When do you change?"

Kawayou cocked his head to one side. "Usually during the night and the morning."

Inuyasha's eyes went wide with shock. "You change everyday?!"

Kawayou frowned at him. "Duh. If mommy didn't change me, I'd probably smell more like you."

Inuyasha grabbed his head in frustration. Was his pup toying with him? "No pup!" he barked at Kawayou. "When do you TURN into a human, for how long, and when do you turn back?!"

Kawayou frowned and wiped his face off. "Geez, say it don't spray it pops."

Inuyasha didn't feel like going through the whole 'pop' ordeal yet again, so he stood and waited for Kawayou's answer. "Well?"

Kawayou looked at him strangely. "What do you mean human? I'm just me."

Inuyasha stared at him. "What? You mean you never turn human?"

Kawayou shook his head back and forth. "Duh. Why would I? Do you?"

Inuyasha shook off the question. "Fine, I'll ask Kagome later." He smiled down at Kawayou. "Now, let's see what you can do."

Five hours later...

Kawayou tried to shake the mud off of his claws on his left hand. Poor kid. Inuyasha put him through every trial he could think of. Fighting, running, jumping, gliding, hunting, fishing,clawing, biting, and barking. He was only successful in a small amount of trials, but he didn't seem to care at the moment. What he DID care about was how his mom would react to the way he currently looked.

There was mud on his left hand and dry mud on his right. His feet were completely filthy, not an ounce of skin shone through the bottom. He had so much mud in his hair, it looked more grey than silver-white. He even had mud all over his cheeks, and dried over on his right ear. Kawayou didn't even want to think about what his poor kimono must have looked like.

Inuyasha looked at his pup. The barking the pup accomplished along with the clawing. But Kawayou couldn't accomplish more than the basics in the other trials. 'Damn. This pup has a LONG way to go.'

Kawayou glared up at Inuyasha as he tried to shake some of the mud off of himself. "Can I go back YET?"

Inuyasha crossed his arms. He would take his pup back soon, but not yet. One more thing had to be said. "I'm not calling you Kawayou. You need a more suitable name."

Kawayou started to growl. Okay, before the training he had started to like his dad, he finally had admitted that to himself. But now? "You've got me caked in dirt going through all those stupid trials, you don't care about anything I have to say about my time, AND now you want to change my name?!"

Inuyasha frowned. This wasn't going well.

"Kawayou's my name you funky smelling weirdo! Mommy gave it to me, and it'll be a cold day in Hell before I'm letting you change it!"

Inuyasha growled. His pup wasn't supposed to talk back to him. "You ARE changing your name whether you like it or not!""No!" Kawayou barked. "I like my name!"

Inuyasha closed his eyes in frustration. The pup was so like him, it was downright irritating! He didn't have the strength or the desire to deal with his son anymore. "Then I'll talk to your mother and we'll BOTH decide on a proper name."

Kawayou crossed his arms. "Keh!"

Inuyasha blinked. Had his son just 'keh'd'? He couldn't help a small smile forming on his lips. His son was following in his footsteps...

He turned away from Kawayou and grinned. "Come on, let's go back." he said as he ran off with Kawayou following him from behind.

An hour later...

Kagome watched angrily as Inuyasha and Kawayou came back. She had half a mind to sit the older dog demon, but her mind quickly changed as she saw Kawayou.

Kagome ran over to Kawayou and kneeled next to him, shooting Inuyasha an angry look. "Inuyasha! What have you done to my son?! Look at him!"

Kawayou smiled. The mean old hanyou who'd been working him to the bone was getting into trouble. 'Heh! It's time for sweet, sweet revenge!'

Kawayou put on his biggest, saddest, puppy face for his mom. He reached out to her with his arms. "Moooommmmyyy! He was sooo mean! He made me fight him, and he made me hunt innocent creautures, and he got me all muuuuddy!" he cried out. Tears started to well in his eyes. "And he...*choke*...made me *sniffle* do all other *choke**sniffle* kinds of meeeaaann things!" Then, he broke down and started crying as he rubbed his left eye with his left hand. 'Now for the kill.' he thought. "And when I cried, he told me I was a wimp and he KICKED me!"

Inuyasha just stared dumbfounded at his pup. 'Dammit, of all the things he could've inherited from Kagome, why did he have to have her crying skills?!'

Inuyasha looked over at Kagome as she picked Kawayou up and held him gently to her. But by the look in Kagome's face, she had fallen for it. Hook, line and sinker.

The only thing Inuyasha could remember before he was sat into unconsciousness was the single thought...

'Damn, that pup is good.'

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