Now this is the thing I've been planning since practically the first chapter of this entire little story. I also considered this to be a true ending but felt that something would be missing if I jumped to it. Hoped you enjoyed it all and if anything, I have one of my best friends to thank for the idea of this crack fic. Both this little snippet and the one before are just to say, again, thank you my readers for encouraging me to keep going with this story. It may be done but it's an accomplishment as you know I have many unfinished stories that I do promise to concentrate on now that I have one less story to worry about.

Babysitter On Demand

It was such a nice weekend and Toga was going to enjoy it.

The old inu did all his work for the next few days and so what was he to do other than relax and be lazy. He had been watching a few of his favorite shows and movies but felt his stomach growl for food so he stretched before getting out of his recliner to head for the kitchen. As he neared the stairs which were just before his destination, he thought he saw something move. He furrowed his brows a bit, he didn't hear anything. He lifted his nose and found that everything still smelled the same, there was nothing new there. He then tried to feel any misplaced auras only to feel that of his staff. Maybe he was seeing things, he may be a demon but he was quite old maybe his senses are starting to leave him… nah, as a great and powerful taiyoukai, he still had many long years to go.

He strolled past the stairs and right into the kitchen to grab his favorite snack: raspberry cheesecake cookies. It was Kagome that actually got him addicted to the treat she had to have them while she was pregnant. She even took to baking some because fresh cookies were always the best. Every once in a while, he would receive fresh baked cookies from her and so the old inu would store them for times like this.

Humming a light tune as he went to where the plate of cookies under a cake glass, he paused. All of his precious treats were gone including the plate that they were on. Who could have taken his cookies? Everyone in the house knew to steer clear of their master's special snacks. It was possible that it was his youngest. Although Inuyasha was now making progress of moving out to live with his girlfriend now, he still had a lot of his junk in his room and came home every once in a while to pick up a thing or two. But still, the kitchen and the house was void of his scent and aura and his youngest pup wasn't one to hide it with his brash and bold attitude, especially for a little something to eat.

So if it wasn't Inuyasha then who?

A giggle caught his attention and he hurried off to where he heard it. Out of the kitchen and back in front of the stairs, he saw a blur of something at the top going around the corner. Toga hurried up but saw nothing, growling as he saw something move back down stairs, he used his demon speed to catch up to it before it disappeared yet again.

"And gotcha!" The elder inu said triumphantly as he held on to a very small body.

Toga blinked as large blue eyes looked back at him. A childish laugh bubbled from the three-year-old dark-haired hanyou as she threw her hands in the air. "Grandpa caught Keiko, now Keiko it!"

The small hanyou tried to wiggle out of the old male's hands but he held her still. Well it was no wonder he couldn't sense the little girl. For some unknown reason, her aura was next to nonexistent. It could be that she was a perfect mix of her parents although she looked more like her mother then anything with the exception of tiny black triangular ears above her head and the single lavender stripes on her cheeks and wrist.

"Hold on little lady, where's your brothers?" Toga asked as he nuzzled her. His granddaughter was such an adorable pup.

"Aki and Kichi hiding, we play hide-n-seek with grandpa!"

Toga smiled at Keiko and set her down then held her small hand in his large one. Now it made sense where his cookies went. His grandchildren were notorious cookie snatchers especially his oldest grand-pup, Akihiko. That kid tries to play it off and be cool about it like his father would but it was obvious he inherited his mother's sweet tooth. He knew that the pup was hiding somewhere within the mansion, ready to enjoy his bounty.

"How about you help grandpa find your brothers, I promise you two cookies if you do." The old demon said with a smile. His eldest grandson couldn't have eaten them all yet, like his father, he loved to savor things he felt that he won. He was also sure that wherever the big brother was, the younger, Kichirou, would be there as well since the young pup looked up to older brother as if he was his hero. Toga knew what it was though as he seen it in his own sons before they grew up to hate each other and he hoped that they wouldn't follow in their footsteps. Then again, male dogs tended to always want to prove whose alpha so it might be inevitable.

He felt Keiko pull at his hand and he realized that he enlisted her help with his bribe since her eyes brightened at the prospect of getting a treat. "Keiko find Aki and Kichi with grandpa!"

The two of them went up the stairs and down the hall to a room that Toga haven't went into in a long time. The room where he once trapped his son and Kagome. The small hanyou's nose twitched then she tugged on Toga's arm to get him to lean down so that she could loudly whisper, "Keiko think that Aki went in here."

Toga sniffed the air as well, the scent was faint but was there. The pup was definitely getting better at hiding his scent and aura and at such a tender age of five too.

The two of them saw the blankets move under the bed and Toga signaled to Keiko with a finger to his lips to stay quiet. She nodded with a small giggle and the two of them went on side of the bed. The old demon then silently counted to three with his fingers and then the two of them dove under the bed. There was a startled snarl among giggles and snickers as a sliver haired hanyou hurried to get from under the bed. Toga caught the youngster in the same manner as he caught his granddaughter except the boy put up a good fight but gave up seeing as he was getting nowhere.

"Yay, Keiko helped grandpa find Aki!" The girl clapped as she jumped up and down. "Now Keiko get cookies."

Akihiko glared at his sister and felt betrayed. "Keiko! You weren't supposed to tell."

"Hush now pup, you know how I feel about thieves taking my snacks." Toga lightly growled at him as he shifted him to his side.

Said pup lowered his ears to his scalp and looked away. "I-I didn't eat them all..."

Toga could hear the "yet" that he didn't say. It was clear to him now that this was a plot, have Keiko distract him while he munched down on the treats. The boy definitely had his deviousness. The old dog smiled and roughed up his hair then turned to his granddaughter who bought the plate of cookies from under the bed and was getting ready to eat them herself.

"Now, now Keiko, you have to help me find your other brother before you get them." Toga said as he took the plate from her after putting his grandson down. He was surprised that the tiny toddler wasn't with his brother and that was never a good sign for many reasons.

Keiko pouted but took her grandfather's hand as he led them out the room. He then looked over to Akihiko. "Where is your brother pup?"

"I made him hide somewhere else so that he wouldn't spoil where I was hiding. Kichirou is bad at playing hide-n-seek." He grumbled, most likely still upset at not having the cookies to himself.

Toga shook his head. "You know better than to let him go wondering off all alone. He may be hanyou but he is still an infant. It's your responsibility to take care of your siblings. Now tell me where is he?"

"In your office."

Toga stopped in his tracks, his eye twitching. He hoped that he didn't hear what he thought he heard. Being the youngest pup of the three at just over the age of one, Kichirou was very destructive when he wasn't watched over. Anything that he could get his claws on was either shredded by those claws or ripped apart with his teeth. He was still teething after all and demons growing fangs had the need to chew on and through many things and for some reason, this was the worst case he seen. Not even his own sons or the two elder grand-pups were as bad as he. There was many times where Toga spent a lot of time trying to regain any work, replace furniture and rugs, and fix walls and carpets that the little devil ruined. His office was also his most favorite playground just because there was so much paper within the walls.

He hurried to his office, his grandchildren following behind him and once he reached the door, he paused upon hearing a squeal and a crash. Opening the door, it looked as if it was an indoor blizzard went through with the amount of paper that littered the ground from books and random paper on and in his desk. His newest computer monitor laid face down on the ground in what he could bet was now broken. In the mist of all the chaos was a small white-haired hanyou pup that had sank his fangs in his leather chair. When the boy's blue eyes saw that he was no longer alone, he let out a giggle and climbed down from the chair to run to his brother. Toga's eyes just followed the little monster before eyeing his former sanctuary. He felt a tug at his hand and looked down at the large blue eyes of his granddaughter.

"Keiko help find Kichi, can Keiko have cookies now?"

Toga sighed and just handed her the plate of cookies. Akihiko then took it upon himself to get some as well seeing that he didn't have the chance to eat many and his little brother followed his example grabbing one as well. The elder demon just decided to close the door to his office, there was nothing that could be done now anyway. He would just have to redo any lost paperwork after the pups went back home. He turned back to the three as they munched happily on the treats and decided to get a cookie himself, he knew that he shouldn't let them have the cookies as it would spoil their appetite and cause them to become very hyper but he would let their parents deal with that. Speaking of...

"Say, where is your mother and father? I didn't know that they stopped by, why didn't they let me know that they're here?" Toga asked.

Akihiko chewed on a cookie then swallowed his bite before replying with, "That's because they're not here."

Toga knew damn well that Sesshomaru wouldn't leave his litter like this. The boy might still be stoic and sadistic, but he did become an overprotective dad. As for Kagome, she usually called him ahead of time to let him know that she needed him to babysit. So what the hell?

"How long will they be gone?"

Again Akihiko provided the answer. "Three weeks."

What. The. Fuck!

There was no way that the boy was telling him what he was hearing. It had to be a childish lie... but Aki tended to be very much like his father, blunt and truthful.

"It's Mama and papa's ani...annie... any-vir-sir-e." Keiko said trying her best to pronounce a word she wasn't too familiar with. Her father always told her to break them down as best as possible.

"Visry, Visry!" Kichirou repeated. It seemed like yesterday that the young pup was just starting to speak. He was definitely going to be a smart one at the speed he was picking up words.

Akihiko rolled his eyes, his younger siblings didn't know anything and it was up to him as the eldest and therefore more superior to correct them. "It's pronounced 'anniversary'. They were late for their flight so they just dropped us off."

Oh great, he loved his family but all three of them had some quality made to cause his downfall. Akihiko the mastermind, Keiko the distraction, and Kichirou as Aki's muscle man.

Then something occurred to him, he was now stuck with three young hanyous that had their fill of sugar for the day and it wasn't going to be long until...

THUD!

The old inu found himself on the floor with three children bodies on top of him.

"Since we're gonna stay here, let's spar in the dojo grandpa! I want to practice the technique father showed me and I can't with Keiko because she cries too much and Kichi's too little!" Ever since Sesshomaru started teaching the boy the art of the sword just last year, sparing is all he wanted to do. Akihiko was definitely his father's boy, wanting to live for the heat of the battle.

"No grandpa! Keiko wanna play at the park, Keiko wanna swing!" The young female of the trio always loved to go to the large park that he would take them to occasionally and once she hit the swings, it was hard to get her to leave.

"Play! Play! Papa!" The tiny pup just wanted attention and would do anything to get it. He would start trying to wrestle, claw, and bite him if he didn't give into his demands.

This is most likely what will happen every day till they finally go home which meant complete and utter chaos. In the back of his mind, he could see Sesshomaru's smug smirk as he stated, "Well this is what you wanted."

He smiled, and he wouldn't change it for the world.