A/N: This isn't going to be anything epic by far, I just wanted to start somehting that I could write the chapters for easily in my spare time. Don't wprry, "Dreams" chapter 26 comming soon!
Shippo hadn't thought it would end like this. He thought that he would be a part of one large, if not slightly off-beat family. But now nothing was happening the way he had assumed it would. Really, they had all been traveling together for nearly five years. He was nearly a man, and he was going to have to say goodbye to those he had been raised by. It made no sense to him.
As he grew older and learned more about relationships, Shippo had become sure that Inuyasha and Kagome would one day wed, or at least mate. He had become sure that Sango and Miroku may wander off down their own path, but it would always be with one another and never too far away from where Inuyasha and Kagome ended up. He assumed that Kagome would live here and visit her time. He assumed that he would live in Kagome and Inuyasha's family. Maybe help raise some pups until he was ready to journey off to find his own mate. He thought that even if he didn't live with them, that they would all live in the same village—Kaede's.
But, no. None of that was happening. Five years. Five years of living together and caring for one another. That sounded like family to him. But, apparently it wasn't because family couldn't just leave. Kagome was going back to her own time to make up for lost college years, Sango was going back to her village to restore it and train new demon slayers, Kirara would go with her of course. Miroku, without his inevitable death growing on his right hand, had decided that he would return to traveling the land looking for women and loot. Never mind that even Shippo could now see that Sango had grown red at the thought of Miroku with other women. Never mind that he could see Inuyasha's older, pained expression when Kagome said she wanted to make up for lost time at college. Never mind that he had heard her angrily confide in Sango after a fight with Inuyasha: "I'm not waiting around for him anymore. If he isn't mature enough to admit how he feels about me, then he'll lose me. I'm not dependent on having a man in my life. I can do quite fine on my own thank you very much."
Never mind that he had no clue what he was going to do with his life.
Never mind that he had noticed that Inuyasha was the only one who seemed to feel the same as he did about the impending situation.
Never mind that the world had been spun up-side-down.