A/N: Okay... First of all , I just want to say that I am NOT dead. Yes I know it is hard for all of you to believe but as a senior in high school, I had to disappear slightly as a fanfic writer.

And for that I apologize.

Anyways this is a rewrite of my old story, Forever By My Side. The plot is going to progress from Inu x San and somewhere in here it's gonna transition to ShippoXKanna. Please enjoy and tell me what you think.

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Chapter 1: My Conclusion

~Beginning Flashback~

It was a relaxing day for the members of the Demon Slayers' Village. The weather was wonderful; not a cloud in sight and a gentle breeze. No demons around. No distress calls. No nothing. Just peace.

You could see a girl with deep brown hair and equally brown eyes, looking to be the age of 13 or so, running all throughout the village with a boy who looked to be her younger brother if not her twin and a tiny champagne-colored twin tailed kitten chasing slightly after them.

"Kohaku, hurry or Granny will be mad at us!" she called beside her with a laugh in her voice. Though they were having fun, she remembered that they also had a task to fulfill.

Spending time with their grandmother for as much as possible.

"Sango-nee," he whined, "I don't see why we have to take care of her everyday! Can't Dad just do it?" he said, running out of breath slightly. His older sister sent a soft glare in his direction.

"Dad is too busy with managing the village. While we don't have work to do we might as well spend time with her; especially now that she's not moving around as much as she used to." she concluded. The young boy nodded as they hurried on in the direction of their elder's hut.

Once they reached the small dwelling, they caught their much needed breath and knocked before entering. They saw their grandmother seemingly asleep on her slightly elevated cot. The elderly woman opened her heavy eyes and gave them a quiet greeting.

"Hello, Granny." Sango said giving her a sad smile. She ushered for Kohoku to greet her and he did as he was told.

"Hey, Granny you feeling any better?" he said giving her a lop-sided grin. She gave a tired smile in return and gestured for them to come sit along her bedside.

"Hmmm. Kohaku, my child, you should understand that all things come to an end at one point no matter what form or shape they are in." she said in a low voice before coughing slightly. The young boy ran a hand through her light gray hair.

"You can't be leaving us yet, Granny. You look just fine." he voice cracking just barely at the end of his sentence. He was sad to have to part ways with his grandmother so soon, even if it wasn't going to be for a little while. He felt a gentle squeeze on his hand and looked up to find Sango not looking in his direction, but understood that she was feeling the same way.

"There are two ways to be fooled," she began as another wave of coughing came, "The first is believing something that is not true... the second is refusing to accept what is true." The old woman smiled at her grand children's confused gazes and assured that they would learn in time and probably well after she was gone from this world.

The twin-tailed cat, Kilala, mewled in sorrow at that.

~End Flashback~

'Damn Granny. In life, death and even in the afterlife, you're always right.' Sango thought as she witnessed for maybe the twentieth time today, her best friend who she deemed was like a sister, "sit" their leader into the harsh cold earth.

'Why must she treat him this way?' she thought recalling some of the stories from when Inuyasha and Kagome first met.

'That dog was an incompetent and impatient hanyou with no manners,' she would say.

'It's obvious that he can be-really-rough around the edges, but I know he's changed a little bit since we've all taken this long journey together.

Sango was broken from her thoughts when she saw her "sister" stomp over towards her speaking in the kindest voice she could muster while in a bad mood.

"Sango, may I please borrow Kilala? I'll be back in a few days I promise." she asked, smiling sheepishly.

The slayer had to resist the urge to roll her eyes.

'It's the same thing if not everyday then every week.' She kept her face looking curious as she called her companion.

Her raven-haired friend thanked her and quickly hopped on a transformed Kilala. Sango stared after their forms until they were a mere spec in the sky. She mentally put her guard up as she felt the shift in the monk's aura when he placed himself next to her battle-ready body.

"Well, my dear Sango, if only I had a flying companion of my own to take us wherever we wanted for as long as we wanted." he said wiggling his eyebrows in a sly manner. Just before his "cursed" hand could reach her backside, she socked him right in the nose, making him stagger a few feet back. He smiled his famous goofy grin and knew that it would make the slayer he's fallen for blush furiously. And she did.

Until she heard a noise to the left of her and realized that her leader and good friend still lied there face-first in the ground. She gasped and quickly walked over to his form, soon kneeling beside him.

'Should I...?' Her body was moving on its own before she could finish her thoughts. She was wrapping his arm round her shoulders while she supported his weight by wrapping a slender but lean arm around his torso. She slowly rose him to a standing position. The hanyou had a hard look on his face. When he directed his gaze to Sango, she nearly flinched from the intensity. She gave him a firm nod.

And he returned it. After their short moment, he shrugged away from her roughly shouting something about not needing to be taken care of.

"Keh! As if I need help from any of y'all. Let's go back to Kaede's and wait for Kagome to get her ass back here. They all nodded and went back to walking, except it was in the opposite direction. It was about an hour and a half into walking when the silence was broken.

"Inuyasha?" the monk inquired. He received a grunt as a sign to continue.

"Why is it hard for you to retrieve Kagome when we need her? Surely it cannot just be because of you're swelling pride, my good man." he asked in his cheerful charming voice. The hanyou payed that no mind as he continued walking and huffing in annoyance as he did so.

"There are two ways of being fooled: one is by believing something that isn't true, and the other is not accepting something that is." Miroku looked at her with slightly widened eyes.

"Inuyasha should not have to get Kagome because she is one of the two fools."

'And I was too for a while. But not anymore.'

Though the short-tempered hanyou looked as if he didn't care, those words stayed swimming in his mind throughout the day.

It was all he thought about.

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A/N: Alright that's the first chappie! Tell me what you think. I kinda rely on you people who I've never met before XD.. And as you can probably tell, my writing style has hanged up a bit.. I'm investing more in flashbacks and cliffhangers.. LOTS of cliffhangers.. Anyways REVIEW! :D 3