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"Tonight you're going to be human, aren't you?" Kagome asked for what seemed like the millionth time.

"It is a new moon, isn't it?" InuYasha answered, for the millionth time as well. "We should go find a village. It would be safer." He held her closer, tighter.

"We'll be fine," she answered laughing a little. "Nothing's ever happened before." Kagome felt safe in InuYasha's lap, with his arms around her. She didn't want to move.

"You should go stay at a village. I'd hate myself if something happened to you."

"InuYasha, I'll be fine. Nothing will happen. I swear."

Kagome was 18. She graduated from high school and left her parent's house, though she did visit them sometimes. Instead of staying with them, she stayed with InuYasha. She couldn't imagine life without him. She couldn't remember how life without him was worth anything at all. She tried not to think of when he'd send her home to protect her. It always made Kagome flinch a little to think of the days that followed. How bored and lonely she was and how much she missed him.

The Shikon Jewel brought them together. If it hadn't been for Mistress Centipede dragging Kagome down the well, who knows she'd be with. Probably Hojo.

Hojo did eventually give up on Kagome and went off with some little hottie that he met at a bar. He didn't always go to bars, but he was gullible enough to believe a group of assholes when they told him that Kagome was throwing some huge party at a bar. When he met the new girl, he picked her over Kagome.

Last Kagome had heard, he had gotten the hottie pregnant. That was a year or two ago, so she wasn't sure what had happened to the now bad boy Hojo.

Shippo had come across a bunch of other kitsune and went with them. It was almost reluctantly, but he met a girl kitsune and fell in love with her.

Miroku and Sango, Kagome remembered, had gone off on a honeymoon, and Kirara had disappeared. She left often to do Lord knows what.

Myoga popped in and out from time to time, usually with Kirara.

Kaede had died shortly after all the jewel fragments were found. She had told Kagome and InuYasha shortly before that she was glad that they got along better now and that they had worked together to find the jewel shards.

InuYasha demanded that she would remove his prayer beads, but she refused. "Damn hag," he had called her when she died almost immediately afterwards. Kagome swore that she heard his voice break and that there was a tear in his eye, but she was too busy crying to be sure.

Kagome had almost asked what to do with the Shikon Jewel, but she couldn't get control of herself long enough.

Unsure of what else to do, she kept it around her neck.

Kagome held up the jewel and examined it. It flashed in the setting sunlight.

She was once told by Naraku that when the jewel was most beautiful when it was tainted with evil, but Kagome disagreed. Now that it was pure, completely pure, it was the most beautiful jewel that she had ever seen. "It's so pretty now."

"I think it's prettier when you're wearing it," InuYasha said quietly, kissing her neck.

At that instant, Kagome's heart jumped and all of her thoughts fled. She blushed.

InuYasha laughed once. "Better find some firewood to keep the human from being scared."

Kagome got off his lap and left to look for firewood. "I'm going. I'm going." She knew that InuYasha would be following close behind. She didn't mind him following her around at night. In fact, she almost liked it. The nighttime scared her a little and he made her feel safe; almost like a toddler's blankie.

The leaves rustled, an owl "hooed" somewhere not too far away, and Kagome could hear a wolf howling in the distance. It made her think of Kouga.

Kouga, the wolf demon, had once claimed her as "his woman." Kagome wasn't honestly sure if she had ever liked him as more than a friend, or even was mildly infatuated with him. It didn't really matter anymore, thought; Naraku had killed him.

Kagome looked up into the sky. The sun was almost completely set, and she was sure that she had enough wood to last the night. She hurried back to find InuYasha where she had left him. His hair was black and his claws were normal fingers with normal nails. There seem to be nothing different with him. Even his usually golden eyes were human.

Quickly, Kagome started a small fire, fearing the darkness that stayed stubbornly for hours at a time.

She climbed back into his lap, watching the flames dance. The fire warmed her. Kagome's eyelids grew heavy. Everything is perfect, Kagome thought as she gave into sleep, nestled comfortably in InuYasha's arms.

Unfortunately, everything was not perfect. Somewhere, something is going wrong at any minute. Sometimes, Lady Luck leaves a place for a short amount of time and in that short amount of time, everything that can go wrong, does. For InuYasha and Kagome, Lady Luck just left.