Kagome sat silently at the bottom of the well at her family shrine, silently begging for the well to send her to the feudal era and her friends which she missed so much. It was her 19th birthday and it had been months since she'd been forced to leave the feudal era for good. Wishing the shikon no tama away meant that she wouldn't be able to return to the feudal era once she returned to her time. After all of her friends had coupled off she had realized that she didn't belong to the feudal era. Kagome thought about the day she had told her friends goodbye.

Flashback*

Kagome stared down into the bone eater's well for a long moment before she turned to face her friends.

"Kagome, are you sure you have to go?" Shippo whined as he jumped up and hugged her around the neck.

"Let's face it Shippo I don't belong to this time. I need to go home and live my life the way I would have if I had never come here."

"We'll miss you terribly Kagome," Sango cried as she wrapped her arms around both Kagome and Shippo. "I'll always think of you as my sister." Miroku pried Sango's arms away from Kagome's neck and held his Fiancé's sobbing form as she held a sobbing Shippo.

"Who knows Kagome, maybe 700 years from now you'll meet our ancestors. We'll be sure to pass on stories of you." Miroku gave her a soft smile before he led a sobbing Sango and Shippo away back to Kaede's village. Kagome felt the tears start to slide down her face as she turned to face her dearest friend and the woman she had been reincarnated from. Kikiyo approached her first taking hold of both Kagome's hands in her own.

"Thank you Kagome, for giving me the gift of a life with the man I love. If it turns out that I continue to be undead I will be sure to find you in the future. I am forever in your debt for what you have done for me." Kikiyo gave her hands a tight squeeze before she released Kagome's hands. "I'll allow the two of you to be alone." Kikiyo gave Kagome a sad little smile before she turn and floated away in the way she always had. When Kagome looked to Inuyasha he was halfheartedly kicking the dirt and refusing to look at her.

"Are you going to say your goodbyes Inuyasha?"

"Peh, It's not goodbye. I have every intention of finding you in the future. Surely you don't think I'll be killed that easily." Kagome laughed bitterly at his words.

"No, of course not Inuyasha." He smirked before pulling the girl into a tight hug.

"You better take care, Kagome. I mean it. I will find you." When Inuyasha released her, Kagome slowly turned and sat on the edge of the well taking a deep breath before she left behind the feudal era for good.

End Flashback*

Kagome missed her friends terribly. She had quickly discovered that she no longer felt like she fit in the fast paced modern world. Her friends had abandoned her. Trying to interest herself in her college studies for her future career was becoming a more and more difficult battle.

"Kagome, There's someone here to see you!" The girls from my high school haven't spoken to me since graduation. I wonder who it could be?" Kagome thought as she climbed out of the well and dusted herself off. She looked back at the well for a second longer before she forced herself to run to the front gates of the shrine. When she saw the person standing there she stopped and found herself staring. The man standing before her had her head spinning in confusion. He had long silver hair and golden brown eyes and he was wearing a t-shirt and jeans. The longer Kagome stood and stared at him the more he resembled a much older, less boyish looking Inuyasha without ears.

"Told you I'd find you Kagome."

"I-inuyasha?" She couldn't believe her eyes was the man standing before her really Inuyasha?

"Peh, yeah, who else?" The tears started to slide down her face and she ran forward to throw her arms around his neck.

"Oh Inuyasha, Inuyasha, I've missed you so much!" She sobbed into Inuyasha's chest as he slowly wrapped his arms around her.

"Shh, It's alright Kagome. We're here now." Kagome pulled herself together and moved back to look up at him.

"We? Who else is still alive?"

"Well Kikiyo is still alive and with me. Aparently even though she's alive she doesn't age and she can't die. Shippo has grown up now. And Koga and Ayame are mated and also still alive." Kagome couldn't believe that so many of her friends had survived. She hadn't even been aware that demons still lived in her time period.

"I can't believe so many of you are still alive. Why didn't you contact me before now if you've been living in this time period all along?" Inuyasha chuckled quietly at her words.

"Couldn't risk screwing up what led to us being here in the first place now could I? We had to wait until your 19th birthday to be sure that nothing from the feudal era that you did would change. Now come on. I promised Shippo I'd bring you back with me for a nice birthday dinner." Kagome screamed as he yanked her up and spun her around so she was riding on his back piggy back style. He carried her down to the street and Kagome gasped when she noticed the car he was walking toward. It was a dark red convertible Maserati . "What?"

"How can you afford this car?"

"Easy I'm a demon who's had a lot of years to accumulate money." The possibilities suddenly became infinite in Kagome's mind as she realized just how long her friends had been alive. He dumped Kagome unceremoniously into his car before Inuyasha ran around to jump into the driver's seat. "You like the car? Wait until you see the house's." Kagome nearly fainted at the thought as Inuyasha laughed out loud and pulled his car off the curb.

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"Kagome? Kagome! Wake up, we're here!" Kagome shot up and blinked over at Inuyasha in confusion.

"What?" Inuyasha simply reached over and turned her head around so that she was looking to her right and she nearly fainted all over again. The mansion, for that was what it was, was huge. It had to be at least three stories high.

"Are you coming or what?" Kagome shook her head and leapt out of the car to run up the stairs after Inuyasha. As she got level with the building she realized there were actually several buildings. So it was technically a small community of mansions. "Come on Kagome, we're having dinner at this first house. The others are already waiting for you. By the way I should warn you over the years come people's personalities have changed a tad bit."

"Kagome!" She turned just in time to be plowed head first into the ground by a redheaded man that looked to be around her age. "Kagome I missed you so much, I never thought Inuyasha would give in and let me see you again." Kagome stared at the young man for a long time trying to figure out who this guy was and why he thought he was allowed to touch her like this. As Kagome took in the red hair, pointed ears, and bushy tail her mind came to the realization that this deeper voiced, older boy was Shippo.

"Wow Shippo you grew up." Shippo snorted and stood up before he pulled her up with him.

"Well yeah, did you think I would stay a kit for 500 years?" Kagome laughed at the obvious absurdity of her statement. Of course he had grown up, after all that's what happened to people with the passing of years.

"I guess I just didn't think about it." Shippo laughed brightly and wrapped his arms around her waist to spin her around.

"Kami, I missed you Kagome!"

"Try not to strangle the poor girl before the rest of us get to tell her how much we missed her!" When Shippo stopped spinning Kagome had to wrap her arms around his neck to keep from losing her balance. When she looked up at Shippo their noses touched and they both jumped away from each other blushing furiously. When Kagome looked up she was surprised to see that the laughing, happy girl she had heard was none other than the ice queen Kikiyo standing next to Ayame and Koga. The two girls bum rushed her and practically hugged her to death. Kagome's face was beginning to hurt from all the smiling. She hadn't been this happy since before she left the feudal era for the final time. She looked over at Koga expecting some sort of declaration about moving aside so he could tell his woman how much he missed her. To her surprise Koga scoffed and turned to walk back in the house without a single word.

"It's ok Kagome, don't feel bad. He's still sore about you not telling him goodbye," Ayame whispered into Kagome's ear. Kagome nodded slowly and the two girls linked their arms with Kagome's to lead her inside. "Oh Kagome you must tell us all about your life in this time. What do you do, where do you live, are you going to school?"

"Ayame let the poor woman get used to the fact that we're five hundred years older than the last time she saw us before you go off questioning her," Inuyasha barked as he and Shippo followed the girls inside. As soon as the doors to the mansion opened Kagome's jaw hit the floor. She'd never been in such an extravagant home. The whole place left no doubt whatsoever that whoever lived here had spent a ton of money designing the place. The group led her through another doorway straight forward under the stairway and Kagome stopped dead in her tracks as yet another surprise stood over a table in the study that they'd led her to. A man stood over the large cherry wood table studying some kind of charts. He was reasonably tall, wearing black slacks and a button-up long sleeved shirt with the top two buttons undone and a tie hanging untied around his neck. His long silver hair was tied back out of his way showing off pointed ears. When he lifted his head to assess his visitors the man's eyes instantly locked with hers. Dark brown eyes looked at her with no facial markings to me seen and Kagome was instantly confused.

"Hey Sessh, you bout ready for dinner?" Kagome took in Inuyasha's words and it took about thirty seconds before she started to have the meltdown of the century.

"Sessh? As in Sesshoumaru? As in demon that has golden eyes and facial markings that seem to have disappeared?" Kagome fell silent as the Sesshoumaru imposter scoffed and rose to his full height.

"Miko, trust me. I am the Sesshoumaru you knew in the feudal era. Now if you'll excuse me, I'd like to change before dinner." The girls let go of Kagome's arms and moved to either side of the doorway but Kagome stood frozen as Sesshoumaru walked directly to stand in front of her. "Move, Miko." Sesshoumaru's low growl had her jumping out of the way. Kagome watched as Sesshoumaru walked through the door and looked at Inuyasha incredulously.

"He lives with you?" Inuyasha scratched the back of his head awkwardly.

"Oh yeah, I guess I forgot to mention that. Sesshoumaru's still alive too. He's not the same guys he used to be. Loosing Rin and Jaken changed him a lot. He's kind of … lost in the new times I guess you could say. Anyway let's go settle ourselves in the dining hall. Now that I'm part of this time I'd love to hear what you do with yourself here."