Sora: Ok just to warn you short chappy, but they will get longer!

Oh, and i-don't-own-Inuyasha-*sad face*

Kaede: I don't like this story.

Sora: Too bad.

The Length of a Life

Inuyasha's POV

"I want ye all to love each other, to care, never let the others go. Kagome, ye are the best thing that has ever happened to this group. Goodbye…" Kaede's last words rattled out of her chest, and the group watched as her body grew limp, and her eye stopped seeing.

With a sob Kagome covered her eyes with her hand, I pulled her into my arms and she cried;

"I can't believe that Kaede, can be…dead."

Miroku grabbed Sango's hand, and they shared comfort with each other, their hearts hurting. Shippo hid his eyes in Kirara's fur, while Kirara nuzzled Sango's leg.

I watched them all with hard eyes; death, it had followed me like the plague ever since I was young. And here I was, watching the death of another person I had cared for. I looked at Kagome, she was young and strong now, but in another 50 years, she would be old. Not that I could ever care what she looked like, but what would happen when she grew feeble; what would happen when she…died. I looked at Sango and Miroku, they too would grow old…I would be left, with an annoying kitsune and Kirara, who isn't even mine. And then, after years of loneliness, then I would die…and surely the gates of heaven would not open for me. Although to keep Kagome out, they would have to be smoking something, and for some strange reason I don't think God would approve of that.

Kagome's POV

I looked up at Inuyasha, he was lost in his thoughts; I guess that can happen since its uncharted territory for him. I started to smile, but then was appalled at myself; I was standing next to Kaede's dead body and I was cracking jokes! I felt more tears escape my eyes, and I could feel the terror coursing through me, the terror of the darkness, of the nothingness. I knew what it was like to be in complete darkness, the nothingness; and its not true what they tell you, that in the nothingness you feel no pain; the pain becomes one with you, tearing at your soul. And I was only there for a little while; Kaede would be there for eternity. But…but, there had to be a heaven, something later, it couldn't all be over in a hundred years. You couldn't just be, for a short blip of time, gracing the history books as a small supporting role.

And I only had about 70 years left.

They weren't enough.

Sora: Eh, eh? Like it?

THEN REVIEW DAMN IT!

Inuyasha: whoa, temper, temper…. Does someone need to go see Dr. Inuyasha?

Sora: AHHH! NO! I'll calm down!

Oh and btw, if you don't believe in, whatever, you know in an afterlife, I don't wanna shove any religion down your guy's throats, so really there is not like a bunch of stuff and I try and make it pretty relatable, so don't let that keep you from enjoying the SUPER COOL (heehee explora Dora) journey they are going to go on!

Well 2 reviews before I update :))))