InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ A Tale of Twos ❯ Part IV: Adventures in Babysitting ( Chapter 4 )

Disclaimers: I do not own InuYasha or any of the manga/anime characters. They belong to the wonderful genius Rumiko Takahashi.

 

 

A Tale of Twos

 

Part IV: Adventures in Babysitting

for dreaming_trees (brown_recluse)

Prompt: Miroku/Sango; stupid things kids do

Word count: 596

 

 

Part IV: Adventures in Baby Sitting

 

“NO!” Shippou shouted. He suddenly realized that bringing the twins to Kaede's may not have been such a spectacular idea.

 

InuYasha sat next to the wall and smirked. Shippou would have to clean up the mess they were making. He was just an innocent observer after all.

 

“Hats!” the girls shrieked when they saw the baskets that Kaede had carefully sorted her herbs into. Without any thought of the contents, they turned them upside down and placed them on their heads. “Wheeeeeee!” they squealed as the herbs floated around them. They had their arms out and were spinning in circles, much as if they were trying to catch snowflakes.

 

“You need hats, too!” they cried as they each went for another basket.

 

“No we don't!” Shippou wailed practically in despair as they grabbed the objects of their desire and upended them. Shaking them free of the herbs they contained, they each marched towards the hanyou and kitsune.

 

InuYasha just grinned and lowered his head to allow the basket to be placed on it. He figured if he was wearing that, they'd leave his ears alone. However… “HaCHOO! Hachoo! Hachoo!” He couldn't stop sneezing from the fine particles that he had managed to inhale.

 

“Ha! Ha! Ha!” Shippou started before he joined him, “Achoo! Achoo! Aw… man… Foxfire!” Shippou shouted. He thought that would be a good way to take care of the floating pieces of herb.

 

InuYasha was holding his hand over his nose, though he raised his arm up in front of his face to protect it with his firerat when the kitsune started playing with fire - literally. He smelled smoke and peeked over his forearm. “Uh… Shippou?”

 

The hanyou swooped over to grab the twins and hold them against his chest, protecting them in the folds of the firerat. “Shippou, you might want to put that fire out now.” He tried to remain as calm as possible so as not to frighten the girls.

 

“Wha' do you mean?” Shippou asked, confused.

 

“Your `hat'…” InuYasha nodded towards his head since his hands were full.

 

“Put it out! Put it out!” The kit panicked when he realized he'd set the basket on his head on fire.

 

Kaede walked in just in time to see him grab it and throw it into the fire, causing an extraordinary amount of smoke to fill the hut.

 

The old miko started coughing and waving her hands, trying to clear the air. “What in the world have you been up to? What have you done to my home? I spend most of the night delivering a baby, and I come back to this? Why aren't all of you asleep? It'll be dawn before long!”

 

“I'm going to let the runt explain this one,” InuYasha said, a girl tucked safely under each arm. “I'm taking these two home. It's long past their bed time, anyway. I'd say it would be fair to declare that you lost your bet since the night isn't over yet.” With that, the hanyou lowered his head so Kaede could remove the basket from it. Then he ducked through the covering over the door and headed towards Miroku and Sango's hut.

 

Kaede rounded on Shippou. “A BET? You destroyed my herbs and nearly burned down my hut on a BET???”

 

“I… I can explain… I was tricked…” Shippou feebly tried to justify the state of her house.

 

InuYasha couldn't help but to grin as he carried the now sleeping girls back to their parents. The twins may not have been entertained all evening, but he certainly had been.