Baby Mine [Songfic]

[Calla Lily]

Title: Baby Mine
Genre: General/some sweetness included
Rating: G
Summary: [Songfic] Inuyasha?s mother comforts her child through song after a long day?

Disclaimer: Inuyasha does not belong to me. ?Baby Mine? is featured in Disney?s motion picture, Dumbo. It?s one of the sweetest lullabies in the world, and this I swear. Bette Midler, I?m led to believe, actually owns this song. You learn something new every day.



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?Baby Mine?

She knew he was different, that much was obvious. His hair, his eyes, his face, all the way down to his tiny toes, she knew he was different.

But that didn?t stop her from loving him.

?Mama! Mama!? he called for her and the woman walked gracefully to where he was, ?Look at what I found.? He pointed to a small ball of feathers lying in the grass, ?It?s a bird.?

His mother nodded accordingly and shared his excitement when he found this new treasure. ?How did it get all the way down here, Mama??

She looked down at the bird and back up at the tree from whence it came. She spotted a nest high up in one of its branches and sighed.

?The baby bird fell from its home, Inu-Yasha.? The toddler looked puzzled for a moment and hesitated, ponder his mother?s saddened expression. Then he bent down to pick up the fledgling.

?No, Inu-Yasha, don?t!? she warned, anxious that the bird might have contracted some disease or illness that could pass onto her child.

?It?s okay, Mama. Look, it?s breathing.? And sure enough, it was. The little hanyou stroked its tiny beak with one of his own miniature claws and smiled in sheer delight when he was answered with a ?chirp.? He showed the object proudly to his mother, urging her to touch it as well.

She looked at the ruffled one?s beady fowl eyes before she extended her index finger and touched its head.

?It likes you.?

She was relieved.

Inu-Yasha continued to stroke the infant bird?s head and started to coo to it while the smaller one sang back, as if they shared a secret language that only children knew.

?He wants to go back home, Mama. He misses his Dad.?

The woman sighed yet again, but out of affection.

?Pray tell, how are we going to get him up that big tree? He?s too small to fly up there by himself.? She reasoned with a gentle voice. The silver-haired boy brought his two small brows together in intense concentration before speaking.

?I?ll climb the tree and bring him home!?

Inu-Yasha tucked the baby bird into one of the many folds of his haori, but the downy feathered-one chirped loudly to say it didn?t like it there. Next, he tried perching it onto his shoulder but that didn?t work either. Then an ingenious idea popped into his little head and he decided to put the hatchling on top of his head. Mini-me settled down in-between his soft, velvety ears and made a nest out of his silvery hair.

?Son, just what are you doing?? she inquired, seeing the yellow fluff strut atop her child?s head.

?Are you ready, Big Bird? ?Okay, let?s go!? Quick as a flash, the little hanyou turned around, took several strides and launched into the air.

?Aagh!?

?Inu-Yasha!? A woman screamed.

Her heart stopped.

?I?m alright, Mama. See, I made it to the branch.? He called down to her happily, his voice slightly breathless but his puppy-ears twitched in unsuppressed pride.

?Oh, my son.? She exhaled tiredly as her knees gave way and she sat down on the grass. Her baby had just jumped 30 ft. into the air, like a hot wire, and barely caught onto a branch. Either that or he would have fallen. Oh, the things he did.

Watching in worried anticipation, her eyes followed him as he slowly climbed, branch by branch, up the tree. Baby Bird?s chirping became considerably louder knowing that he would soon return home.

?One?last?branch?? The voice echoed among the trees, carrying it all the day down to his mother.

He didn?t want to look down.

It was a long fall.

R-e-a-l-l-y long.

?Here you go, little buddy.? Inu-Yasha used his left hand to scoop the bird off his tangled head and into the nest. He nodded a goodbye to the feathered-pom pom before he swung his legs back over the branch, getting ready for his descent down the aged trunk.

*Snap*

The piece of bark that he had been holding on to broke away from the branch. It fell apart in his small, clawed hands and the next thing he knew was that he was falling backwards?

Eyes wide in horror, his mother stood up from the ground and shrieked as she saw her baby fall from more than 50 ft. up.

?INU-YASHA!!?

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Did he dare to open his eyes?

They were screwed up tight, really tight.

Where was he?

* * *

He was unhurt.

Soft clothing surrounded him.

?Mama!? he cried, turning around to come face-to-face with his mother?s saddened eyes. Looking around, he saw that he had hurt her.

?Mama! I?m so sorry!? little crystalline tears welled up in his liquid golden eyes.

She had caught him in time.

?Shh, it?s alright my son. It?ll be alright.?

He buried his face into her dress and cried. She wrapped her arms around him protectively; a mother?s instinct was never wrong. And she started to sing...

Baby mine, don?t you cry.
Baby mine, dry your eyes.
Rest your head close to my heart,
Never to part, baby of mine?

Little one, when you play.
Pay no heed what they say.
Let your eyes sparkle and shine,
Never a tear, baby of mine.

If they knew all about you,
They?d end up loving you, too.
All those same people who scold you,
What they?d give just for the right to hold you.

From your head down to your toes,
You?re not much, goodness knows.
But you?re so precious to me,
Sweet as can be, baby of mine.

The words she just sang meant more than just a lulllaby. Never mind that he was a hanyou, a mixed-blood, a tainted child. He was hers, and always will be.

?Come, my little Inu-Yasha,? she spoke softly, noticing her son?s quiet breathing as she cradled him in her arms, ?it?s time for lunch.? He reached for her hand and she caught it, so tiny and delicate, as they walked away from the tree.

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[ice princess]

AWww!!! I totally loved this!!! I cannot agree with you more about that song. As a kid, I made my mom put the Dumbo VHS in every day after school, and I mean e-v-e-r-y-s-i-n-g-l-e-d-a-y for a year. I was obsessed, which would account for my tendencies towards anime now. My poor, poor mom, did she know what she was getting herself into? I guess she didn't care, because she would always sing me that song, and now I know my future babies will hear it, too. *sniff* Now that I'm all sad...GREAT STORY!!!

~ice princess

[Dark Ryu]

Aww how sweet. I liked it. Very good. I've always liked the relationship of Inuyasha and his mother and you captured it very nicely.

[sailorDH]

That was SOOO incredibly cute! short and sweet... with a slight sad tinge at the end... got the same feeling when I watched Dumbo.

i love this fic!