Yosei: HI people!!! We have a story here that we ARE going to finish!!

Ambereyes: AND its not ALL romance. Yosei insisted on putting in a bunch of hints, but nothing straight forward.

Yosei: I could help myself!

Ambereyes: you NEVER can help your self.

Jade: hey guys, whats up?

Ambereyes: just posting that story

Jade: oh good this is one of our more serious fics, its focuses on the relationships of kagome and her friends and her mother. With alittle bit of inu/kag thrown in. gotta love that!!

Ambereyes: I heard that at the end of the series in Japan Inuyasha admits his love for Kagome.

Yosei&jade: (stunned silence)

Ambereyes: (waves hand in front of their faces and gets no reaction)

Yosei&jade: …O.O O.O

Ambereyes: whatever, anyways, here is 'the ties that bind' we do not own inuyasha or any of the characters created by the wonderful mind Rumiko Takahashi. And on to the story.

Kagome stepped out of her home and slid the door shut. It was a early in the morning in late summer. She paused a moment and tapped her shoe on the ground to better position it on her foot. She shrugged the backpack so that it sat lower on her back. She ran her hand through her hair to make it look tamer and then she hurried over to the top of the steps. She stopped and looked out over the modern day Tokyo and sighed. This place had become so foreign to her. She was in her last year of high school, and the final exams were what awaited her at the white building.

For three years now she had been traveling with Inuyasha, Miroku, Sango, Shippou and Kirara. She had been coming back off and on for school, and kept up with it but that didn't change the fact that this place was becoming less and less her home and simply where her family lived. Kagome sighed and began to jog down the steps to school. She had nagged Inuyasha for three months straight so she could come to spend two weeks here in the future for her exams. In return she promised to take the rest of the year off from school and focus on shard hunts completely before starting college. Inuyasha had agreed. Kagome studied every chance she got, which happened to be a lot as of lately. Sesshomaru and Inuyasha had reached some sort of truce, and were no longer after each other so much. Sesshomaru had given up on the Tetsuaiga because he knew it was all the stood between his half-brother and a mental breakdown. Not to mention Rin had kinda grown on him and was begging in to show him not all emotions are weaknesses.

In the past three years, Kagome had become very good at her miko abilities, she could waste a medium level demon with her arrows and she was becoming a pretty good shot. Sango and Miroku had also gained many new tricks in the demon fighting department after three years of almost non-stop fighting. And Shippou, his fox fire was a great defensive maneuver and his tricks were very useful in a fight, they gave Inuyasha or Kagome or Sango, or Miroku openings to get hits in.

And finally, the shard hunt was coming to a close. Now most of the shards were either in their possession or Naraku's. Every now and then they would come across a single shard. But not often. Now their main objective was kicking a stupid psychotic baboon wearing son of a bitch's ass.

Anyways, Kagome luckily had gotten some good study time in, and she knew herself to be ready for the exams. She may not do as well as her friends but she knew she would pass.

"Hey Kagome!"

The raven haired girl turned to see her three friends waving and walking hurriedly towards her.

"Good morning Kagome!"

"Hey you guys, how are you?"

Eri, Yuka, and Ayumi all smile brightly to see their friend looking well.

"Great! You ready for exams? I still can't believe that we are going to graduate! Seems like yesterday we just started!"

Kagome smiled at Eri's thoughts. Knowing exactly what she meant, at least about the time flying part.

"Yeah, I know."

"So Kagome how's the chronic bronchitis?"

Kagome shrugged and smiled, finally she convinced her grandfather to go with a long term illness so they could keep using just one.

"It comes and it goes…lucky for me I could make exams."

Ayumi's jaw dropped.

"Lucky?! Geeze! I would love to be sick for exams! That way I could have more study time!"

All of the girls laughed, Kagome's noticed her's was a bit forced, but luckily her friends didn't notice. Although she loved her friends dearly, Kagome had begun to noticed that she had surpassed them in the maturity level. She dealt with life and death situations of herself and people she loved on a daily basis. They never had to experience that, and so they continued to fret over things like school and weather or not the new boy in class was cute and who was cool and who wasn't. Kagome smiled to herself. She hoped her friends would never have to experience any of the things she did from day to day.

Yosei: running around throwing confetti everywhere

Ambereyes: shes happy about the news I gave her earier. If you guys want information on the fouth movie and what is perhaps the end of the series go to google and type in 'inuyasha movie 4' you'll get several sites with information.

Yosei: too happy to talk

Ambereyes: till next update!