So I believe this will be the final piece for this story… I hope it was a joy to read and I hope that I can start moving on my other projects.

Reunion Anxiety

Kagome sucked air through her teeth, closing her eyes to focus on the task at hand. The limo came to a stop at the base of the stairs to the shrine, at the wheel her nephew announced their arrival. Kagome stops him from getting out, stalling as much as she can manage. Around the corner Souta and two friends approach.

"Wow a limo…" One boy points. "Do you guys have rich family or somethin' Souta?"

"No it's probably a visitor to the shrine… I should be getting home to see what the limo's about."

"Don't you have a pretty sister? Think you could get me the hook up?" Kagome giggles at the suggestion. Souta sighs, his shoulder slumping as he turns to look at his friends.

"She is in America with her husband… sorry guys." Kagome's eyes grow wide at the thought Souta had built into her story. 'I knew my choices were hard on him… but this hard?' She opens the door, ignoring the call from her nephew as she swings a heeled foot from the back. Stepping into the sunlight she smiles and opens her arms to her little brother. "Kagome!" He tosses his bag down, folding her in a powerful hug.

"Hey I came to visit, America is a bit busy right now." She winks adding to his story. The driver steps around to close the door for her. "Come on I haven't went in to see mom yet, want to announce me?" He nods turning to wave at his friends.

"See ya guys." He grabs his bag and they start up the stairs, her hips swaying in the tight dress as the boys watch. Before they notice the driver places hands on their shoulder, he chuckles looking at their object of affection.

"Her husband is a very protective man, and he is very strong…" He murmurs, within seconds the boys are halfway down the block, leaving Ichiro to laugh harder. Taking the first step he moves to follow his aunt into the shrine. At the top of the stairs Kagome turns to see her nephew joining them Souta gives him one look and tilts his head.

"InuYasha?" He tilts his head the other way. "Man you look weird with short hair… where are your ears?"

"Souta, this is Ichiro, InuYasha's son… my nephew." Kagome wraps an arm around her brother turning for the house. "I hope mom doesn't freak out… I haven't seen either of you in over five hundred years… but it has only been a year for you…"

"She lights incents for you every morning that burn at the well… she thinks you are living your life in the past… Why didn't you come back?"

"I didn't want to try after Naraku died I was pregnant and I didn't want to be taken away from the family I had growing there… I was going to come sooner, but our business needed my attention and I had another son only two months ago."

"You look great for just having a kid sis." He jokes moving to the door, stopping to call into the house for their mother. "Who knows how she will react." The door opens completely as their mother spots Kagome.

"Kagome?" She sobs grabbing her into a tight hug. "I thought you were dead… why are you dressed like a grown woman… who is that in the suit?" Kagome covers her mother's mouth to get an opening to answer her.

"What has been a year for you has been five hundred for me… we killed Naraku and I was pregnant… I know you are getting angry let me finish. I was going to come back but I couldn't leave my son without his mother… he is an inu, full blooded so he was attached to me from conception. I mated the father, which is marrying… it prolonged my life and I was going to come back sooner than now but I just had another son two months ago." Kagome gasps once she is finished.

"It that your mate?" The mother asks. Kagome glances over her shoulder at the young man in the suit.

"No…" She laughs. "That is my nephew Ichiro, InuYasha's son… he is the same age as my first." She motions him to her side. "They know your father…" He shakes their hands lightly. "He has human ears but the hearing that InuYasha has."

"Where is InuYasha, do I get to meet the guy you got with?" Souta smiles.

"That's why we came, I am having a party tonight to honor the healthy birth of my new son… I want you both there… hey, where is gramps?" Kagome watches her mother glance away, tears pooling in her eyes. "Mom?"

"It is easier to show you…" Souta grabs his mother's hand and sister's and pulls them toward the limo behind Ichiro.

Kagome cried sitting next to the bed, rubbing at the chilled hand of her grandfather as his chest rose and fell with the help of the machines beeping around him. Saying a quick prayer over him she stands and emerges from the room to stand with her brother and mother.

"He was heart sick… that's what the doctors called it. He kept getting worse when you hadn't come back in six months. They put him on the machines almost three months ago." Their mother sighs moving to the door. "I am going to talk with him for a moment… then I need to get back to the house." She disappears into the room. Souta turns and motions Kagome closer.

"He thought you were dead… so maybe if you talk to him he will wake up and get better." He murmurs. Kagome clears her throat calling for Ichiro to join them. Once he was at her side she whispers something and he gives a curt nod before turning down the hall on his cell phone.

"InuYasha is on his way, Gramps will know I am back if he hears InuYasha." She rubs at her little brother's shoulder. "Don't worry we will have him up slapping sutras on backs in no time." By the time InuYasha came back Kagome had sent Ichiro to the shrine with Mrs. Higarashi and Souta. "Come talk to him with me…" They enter, going to a side with the least machines, taking a hand and rubbing at them.

"Hey, you crazy old man, you better wake up and talk to this girl before she drives me crazy." InuYasha snaps. His heart moniter bounces multiple times, before slowing to a normal pace. "Naranu is dead so we are never leaving again." His eyes flicker under their bruised lids, before coming open. Tears flow down his face as his grasps Kagome's hand tighter. "I'll get a doctor to take the tube out."

"Grandpa, I'm right here, and I am never leaving you again." She cries kissing his hand. "I'm so sorry I scared you for so long." The doctor came in being pulled by the half demon. "InuYasha be nice to that poor man."

"I can't take that tube out until we know he can breathe on his own." He whimpers. "Please release me."

"That is InuYasha for you…" Kagome mutters looking at the doctor. "Don't mind Yasha-sama he is used to getting what he wants. Sir, this is my grandfather… I want this tube removed as soon as possible."

"Oh, will you be paying the back bills for him, the other woman said she was unable to make the minimum payments."

"I will have it paid in one phone call, please remove the tube." She waves him from the room.

Kagome held her newborn to her chest as her mother met the older children. Starting from youngest to oldest her mother met the newborn, InuTashio named for his grandfather. Aiko, the youngest girl who resembled her mother in every feature other than her hair and ears. Arashi the second oldest who looked like his grandfather down to the stripes adorning his angled cheeks. Finally she stopped in front of Hironori, named to prosper in his rule, his eyes flowed over her quickly before he bows.

"Okaa-san mentioned you would be young… I am honored to meet you." He feels her hug him, knowing what the meaning is but not wishing to embrace her, looking to his mother he finds her nodding at him. Wrapping arms around her he feels her laugh.

"I didn't mean to make you feel uncomfortable."

"I was raised with your daughter, she is a very firm believer in hugging. My father has been grooming me to take over this month as the Lord of the West. They are going to retire and most likely reproduce many more times." He glances at his father coming through the crowd. "My father has come to meet you." Turning she finds the tall figure standing with them, his long hair tied back into a braid as his suit pulls over his broad chest.

"It has been a long time waiting to meet the mother of my mate. She has been desiring this for a long time. I am Sesshomaru-sama Lord of the West. I believe that you are going to have plenty of grandchildren to baby… Kagome always wants more."

"I do not…" Kagome slaps at him playfully handing him the baby. "Come on mom, I want to talk to you for a little bit." Kagome waves at her grandfather as he talks with InuYasha and Ichiro near the head table. Souta was immersed with the children of Sango and Miroku's legacy. Kagome couldn't have been happier.

She hugged her mother for the first time in five hundred years, knowing that she was never going far again. She moved them into the Moon Palace at the water's edge, where they could be together for a long time. Gramps lived another ten years before passing in his sleep. Souta and a descendant of Sango married after his senior year in college, they produced several children. Kagome and Sesshomaru retired into the palace having three more children, another boy and twin girls.

It was the dream Kagome had built through the years finally coming into life. Even InuYasha grew up and had more children. They lived well into the future… to a date when Kagome watched Souta pass in his lone bed to follow his wife into the afterlife.

It was a life that would never end…

I know strange ending… But I had to get her back to her family… and I had to make her have like seven kids! And no, they never told InuYasha that Kikyo used dark magic to have his son. It was a good run, so now it's over.

Pleasant Readings;

Addy Eli