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"Talking in English"

{ Talking in Japanese }

Chapter 1

It is all over with finally. We fought Naraku and won. After ten tear's of seeing that evil hanyou cause chaos for all living being's, with his schemes and plot's. All in his attempt to to gather the jewel fragment's first. All because of his jealousy and greed for more power. He was in the end still just a greedy evil thief at heart. Our group has seen and gone thru a lot of changes in the last ten year's. We have all grownup a lot, even Inuyasha has grown up a little.

Sesshoumaru joined our group about eight years ago, and with his help and training, I am no longer the defenseless school girl that I was when I first started to travel back and forth to the fuedal era. I look at Sesshoumaru as my friend and as an older brother as well. Over the last eight year's he's changed into a much more caring person, than what he was when I first met him. And unless you know him really well you can't see much if a difference in his expression's. I can alway's tell what he's thinking or feeling by looking into his eye's. I remember the first time he met Leah, his face and tone seemed like he was bored, but his eye's for one brief moment lit up like a christmas tree. I would have missed his expression except that I had been fortunately turned toward him. He of course denied being attracted to her. Right up until I caught them making out. I teased him mercilessly about it, and even still do at time's.

He and Leah are expecting there first child in a few month's. That was one thing that I learnt about inu youkai. They don't sleep with anyone until they take a mate, and they mate for life. Inuyasha's father only mated with his mother long after Sesshoumaru's mother had died in battle.

Plus I'm the only one who will argue with him when I think he's wrong. I think that is why he like's me enough to put up with it like he does, because I've not ever treated him any differently than I do anyone else in the group. Hell even Inuyasha will back down when Sesshoumaru get's mad. Which doesn't happen very often, but even then I don't back down from him, and he respect's me more because of it.

Shippou is a teenager now, and so is Rin. I think it's cute to watch the two of them flirt with each other. They both seem so grownup, and they are a lot more muture for there age than most kids there age. I truly believe that they will become mate's when the are both old enough, they behave as if they are in love.

Even Inuyasha is courting. She's one of Leah's cousin's who came to visit her after it was known that Leah was expecting the baby. Her name is Tawny, she's a beautiful inu youkai demoness, who is turned a lot like Leah, and they both have simalar coloring and feature's. They favor enough that I thought that they were sister's instead of cousin's. They are both taller than I am, they are very beautiful with red hair and green eye's. They are both slender with great curve's, well Leah was until she got pregnant, and she more than likely will be after she give's birth. I know that when I am compared to these two I fall short, quite literately. I don't reach either of there shoulder's. I feel like a plain jane next to these two with my black hair and dark blue eye's. I am very petite and slender, but I am kinda too full busted for my size. I have a hard time finding bra's that fit right. I wear a 32 C and those are hard to find. I have taken to the habit of binding my chest with a strip of clothe while I'm here. It minimize's there size, and when I'm wearing the fighting outfit's that Sesshoumaru had made for me I can pass for a boy most of the time. Even my voice doesn't give me away, because it has become very husky in the last ten year's. Probly from all the yelling that I've done since I've been here.

Sango and Miroku are married and planning on starting a family soon. And everyone agreed when we finished our quest that I should retain guardian ship of the Shikon No Tama. Since I am the only one who would be able to find it if it was taken or lost. So I have a huge responsibility in being the guardian. Everyone convinced me that I should live here in the fuedal era. That way I'll alway's have help in guarding the jewel. Beside's because of this quest I had to quit school because I had missed to many day's, and let's just say that with the grade's I had recieved I wouldn't have been able to go to clown collage much less to an university. I plan to visit my family as often as I can.

I know that with the quest done and over with that I'll start feeling all alone again. Everyone else is paired off with someone, everyone but me that is. And I'll be the first to admitt that I do feel envious of the other's at time's. They all have found something that I'm still looking for. They have all found there mate's or at least someone that they want to mate with.

I'm 25 year's old, and alone. Everyone tell's me to be patient, that I'll eventually find him. But for now I'm alone, and more than likely will alway's be. I don't think that I could stand being with a man who treat's a woman like she's inferior, like most men in this time period tend to do. I want someone who will treat me as an equal and as if I'm precious to him. I know that is unrealistic to want someone who'll treat me as both strong and fragile, but that is what I want. I want someone to treat me like Sesshoumaru treat's Leah, like Inuyasha treat's Tawny, and like Miroku treat's Sango. I yearn to have what they have, and I despair on ever finding it. I know that when I was a teenager I would have never believed it if someone had told me that I, Kagome Higaroushie would still be single at 25, to have never had a boyfriend. No I never would have believed them then, but that is how it is.

Oh well if I plan to go to Mom's in the morning I guess I shoud finish packing my bag and get some sleep.

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