An Opportune Interruption

“Do you wish to talk about her?”

“Iie!” she said, closing her eyes, as they lapsed into silence. What’s to say about her now, except she’s probably happier in the afterworld? I’ll miss her as she was fun to argue with. Oddly enough, I feel the most badly for Keiichi-kun. He’s going to be lost without her. Inukouhi sighed and opened her eyes and looked away. The two women stood there feeling very awkward. Inukouhi had never once asked the human for help and both women were at a loss for words. Fortunately they were saved by a most opportune interruption.

“Kuro, is Gata-ma going to play wiff us?” Inuyasha smiled shyly at the dog queen. He walked over to her and held out his ball. “Frowd it for me! Pease? And I go ketch it!” he said.

“Hai…” She bent and took it from him, before throwing it. The ball landed a couple of feet away and Inuyasha happily ran after it. “He doesn’t catch very well, ne?” Inukouhi said as she turned to smile at the human. She shrugged slightly at Izayoi’s questioning look, silently pleading with her to drop the matter of Toukasa.

Izayoi, taking the hint, smiled. “Iie, he doesn’t, but he tries. You do know he’ll probably ask you to do this all afternoon,” she said somewhat apologetically.

The dog queen shrugged as she watched the little two year old hunt for the ball under the peonies where he had accidentally kicked it. “It doesn’t matter as it’s good to be around a pup at a time like this.” Even if it’s only a hanyou pup…

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Little snippit form the fic.
Fanart for Kirayasha's wonderful fic "Moonlight."
What you see above is how I thought this scene would play out. Inukouhi, is the Dog Queen of the West and Sesshomaru's mother. Izayoi, as we all know, is InuYasha's mother, and in "Moonlight" is The Lord InuTaisho's mate. So not only does InuPapa have his wife, but his mate as well, living under the same roof, at the same time........the player. Anyways this is one of my favorite parts of Chapter 12. I love how Kira portrays little InuYasha. A lot of my favorite scenes have baby Inu. He just wants to make everyone happy.
I'm very happy with how the Dog Queen came out. We know she exsisted at one point because, Sesshomaru exsists. This is how I see her. That robe around her arms was a dog!!

InuYasha (c) Rumiko Takahashi
Inukouhi (c) Kirayasha