Ok, so since I felt SO bad about the last chapter taking so long, I wanted to get this one up ASAP. So I hope you all like it, and as unbelievable as this is going to sound, this is THE LAST CHAPTER. This is it you guys.To tell you the truth I'm kind of sad. I've had this story going for such a long time now. I mean, I published this story Aug 1st of 2006. That's nearly a year and a half ago. I'm really sad.

Well I hope you all like the end. I realize it's not as long as some of the chapters, but I tried. Thank you to all of you who have stayed with me from the start and I hope you enjoyed the story. Thank you so much.

Summary: Inuyasha and Kagome have finally become mates, and have a son. When Naraku attacks, Kagome is separated from her son and husband. Kagome's stuck in her own time and Inuyasha thinks she's dead. They both give up. What happens when Kagome returns, with a daughter, after more than 16 years apart.

Chapter title: my 500 to your 20


Standing in the middle of her family living room was her mate and her son, dressed very modernly, then she remembered, 'mama must not have ever moved the clothes we used to have in the well house incase Inuyasha and I ever came over to visit'. But she didn't recognize the clothes as anything she had ever bought him before.

Inuyasha wore a pair of dark wash jeans, an army green wife beater and black suit jacket, around his neck hung a set of army dog tags, which Kagome could tell was a concealing necklace, she could feel the magic emanating from it, but she couldn't recall ever casting a spell on that particular necklace, to hide his true form. And Kagoya adorned an unfamiliar set of faded jeans and a simple navy blue t-shirt, but Kagome couldn't see a concealing necklace around his neck, but she could still feel the concealing magic coming from him.

"I can't let you go Kagome," Inuyasha stated, his intense golden eyes boring into her deep blues.

Kagome shifted slightly only to feel Kiseki's arm, which was wrapped protectively around her waist, tighten. He didn't want to let her go. Kagome didn't know what to do.

Everything was silent until Souta finally broke from his stupor, "Little man?" he asked, using the nickname he had given to Kagoya when he was just a child.

Kagoya laughed and moved towards his uncle and grandmother, "Not so little anymore Uncle Souta, I think I'm taller than you actually," he said as he and Souta embraced, he was, in fact, taller.

"My little baby…." Korari whispered, tears streaming down her face in disbelief.

"hi grandma," Kagoya smiled, as he wrapped his strong arms around the shaking frame of his sobbing grandmother.

Kagome tried to step forward now, towards Inuyasha, but still found herself restrained by Kiseki's arm. She turned to him, "please, I can't…….. I mean – I need……… please just……" she couldn't think of what to say. She looked back up at Inuyasha, whose eyes still had not left her.

Kiseki sighed, he studied the way Kagome and Inuyasha gazed at each other, and he could see the deeply formed bond that was held between the two. He let his grip on the woman he so loved loosen, allowing her to slip from his grasp. She took two hesitant steps forward, farther from him and closer to the man she had been with so many years before.

Finally having gotten a hold of herself, Mrs. Higurashi cleared her throat a little, catching the attention of everyone in the room except Inuyasha and Kagome, whose attention was so deeply focused on each other. "I think maybe these two need some time alone," she said quietly, directing the others out of the room and into the kitchen, leaving Inuyasha and Kagome alone. Kiseki hesitated at the door a moment longer than the others, before he also left the room.

"I can't use it Kagome," Inuyasha said cryptically, holding out the Shikon jewel towards her.

"What do you mean? Why not?" she asked as she took a step forward to take it from him.

"Because the only wish I want to make would be selfish, and that's not how the jewel is to be used," he replied.

Her heart broke at what he said, and at the same time her anger flared, "That's why you came here? Because you can't make the wish to become a full demon on your own? It's not enough that I have to leave you, you want me to make the wish so I have to watch the man I love become a monster?" she lashed out at him, trying to slap him for hurting her.

But as she brought her hand towards his face his arm shot up and he snatched her wrist before she could make contact. His eyes became icy as he looked at her, his dark gaze boring into her soul. He tightened his grip on her wrist and with a sharp tug, pulled her hard against his chest, his lips inches above hers. She struggled against his grip in vain, his strength was far greater then hers.

"No Kagome, that's the last thing I want. I want you." And with that he firmly pressed his lips hard onto hers, slipping his tongue into her mouth. Kagome was a little stunned at first, but as Inuyasha's mouth roamed over hers she gently, began to kiss him back. Kagome shuddered slightly as her body, against her will at first, relaxed against him. She closed her eyes as her hand settled over his heart and he continued to plunge his tongue in and out of her mouth. He encircled her waist with his free arm to hold her against him, and releasing her wrist he tangled his other hand into her dark raven tresses. With her hand now free Kagome was able to wrap it around his neck to pull herself up and closer to him, she needed to be as close to him as she could get.

Eventually the two had to break for air, both breathing deeply trying to refill their lungs. Inuyasha kept his head leaned against the top of hers. Kagome's mind raced trying to grasp at something to say, anything coherent, she didn't know what to do, and then something clicked.

"How….?" He looked down at her, "I mean how did you get here? I sealed the well. How did you and Kagoya get here?"

"500 years is a long time Kagome," he whispered.

Kagome's eyes widened, "What?!"

"Your seal on the well held, I tried to get through, every day I tried, for 278 years, until the shrine was built. Then all I could do was wait, and that's what I did. I waited for you to be born, and I watched you grow up, I protected you from afar. I watched you fall through the well, and the hundreds of times you came back in tears because of me, and there was never a time when that happened that I didn't want to come to you, to tell you everything would be ok, and beat my younger self up. I watched you and my other self come back, and I had to hide myself so that the younger me couldn't sense me being around. I had to stand by when you fell back through the well after the fight with Naraku, I watched as you suffered alone, and then I watched as you raised our little girl, and found another man. It took all the self control I had to not go to you then, but I knew you had to go through the well again, you had to see me and come back to seal the well, because if you didn't do that I wouldn't be here now. I had to wait, and that in itself was a harder price to pay then waiting the first 500 years, because not only did I suffer having to watch you, but so did our son. So did Kagoya. But I knew, I knew in my heart that you were still mine," he said, bringing his hand up to brush his fingers along the small faded scar on her neck.

Kagome studied him carefully with her eyes, searching for something, anything that would let her know if it was real or not.

"I missed you," he murmured breathing in her scent deeply, a scent he had only been able to conjure in his dreams over the many years that had passed. "Kagome…" he breathed, pulling away to look in her eyes.

Kagome put her hand on his cheek, there was pain in his eyes that she couldn't possibly know, but she hurt as too. She kissed him softly on the lips, lingering for a moment before pulling away. She allowed her mind to wander for a moment, one thought lingering '…….. He couldn't be sure it was me when I came back. How can I be sure he's the same Inuyasha now that I loved?'

Inuyasha read the hard expression on her face. He shook his head, pleading with her. "Please Kagome, don't punish me. I've paid my price Kagome…please," he put his hand over hers, which still rested on his cheek.

She took a step back, slipping her hand from his grasp.

"Why?" Kagome whispered. Inuyasha turned his head away, not being able to face her.

"I never meant to hurt you Kagome. I had given up all hopes of you being alive, and I couldn't bear all those demons trying to deceive me, trying to make me believe that it was you, because there were times when I was so desperate for it to be you, that I would believe them for awhile, only to have to live through you being gone all over again." Inuyasha spoke with the air of someone who had a lot of time to plan and think out his words, 500 years worth of time that is. "I just…being with you, is all I care about, being able to have you by my side, to know that you're alive, and that, hopefully, you love me still, even after the way I treated you….."

He didn't have to finish the rest. She had been there; she knew what it was he was getting at, the way he had been so cruel towards her. So that was it? A mistake, poor choice of words, a simple matter of wrong place wrong time caused these two souls so much heart ache. What the hell did the higher powers have against them? Honestly. She must have done something seriously wrong in her last life, because the gods thought making her suffer was just too much fun. So not fair.

"I paid the price for my mistake. 500 years without you," Inuyasha told her before advancing on her, grabbing hold of her and kissing her again. Kagome molded against him, returning the kiss, matching Inuyasha's fever and desperation. He pinned her back against the wall, pressing his body up against hers, tasting her deeply before having to pulling away again.

As he looked down into her eyes, Kagome saw that they shone again and realized what had been missing in his eyes earlier. She was what had been missing, just like he had been the piece missing from her.

"Whatever you want me to do, I'll do it. Just tell me what to do to make this right." He pleaded. He touched her cheek with the back of his hand. Kagome grabbed his hand tightly.

"Do you remember the promise you made me?"

"It's been more then 500 years and I haven't forgotten."

"It's only been 20 years," Kagome responded, "If you remember your promise than you either can or cannot do this," Kagome placed a hand on his chest over his heart.

"'Kagome I love you! I'll always protect you and we'll always be together. Us and our pups,'" he repeated the promise he had made when they first Mated.

"do you still hold true to that promise Inuyasha? Are you willing to take me back after what I have done, after finding someone to keep me warm though the nights I suffered without you, someone to protect our daughter as if she was his own? Are you still willing to love me after I did that?" Kagome asked, her eyes searching his.

Inuyasha stepped back in surprise, clearly shocked before summoning up his resolve and placing his hands on her waist and bringing his lips onto hers.

His kiss was soft, yet unyielding as he sought to deepen the kiss, pulling Kagome against him. His body gave off immense heat, his warmth spread over her as his hand rubbed small circles into her lower back.

In his kiss, that was slow and sensual he showed her, showed Kagome the words she knew he wanted to say but couldn't find how. He pulled away from her lips, kissing her nose, eyelids, cheeks, chin and moving along her jaw line before pulling away to look into her eyes.

"I-…" he tried to say before he sighed. "You know I do."

Kagome nodded. "I know, but I need to hear it Inuyasha,"

Inuyasha looked her in the eye. "It's always been you," his eyes shimmered and Kagome's eyes met his. She leaned forward to kiss his cheek softly.

Inuyasha placed his other hand on the wall and rested his forehead on the crook of her neck. He kissed her collarbone. Slowly he made his way to the small scar on the point where her neck and shoulder met, licking it softly, sending shockwaves through her body in reaction to her mates touch. Tasting and kissing her soft skin as he made his way up to her ear slowly. He grinned against her skin as he felt goose bumps appear.

His breath was hot on her ear and made the hairs on the back of her neck stand up. She could feel his lips brush her ear as he breathed.

"I love you," he exhaled faintly, so softly it could not have been heard unless his lips were directly on her ear. "I do…500 years without you was the price I paid. 500 years alone, without you…my mate."

Kagome turned her cheek brushing Inuyasha's who pulled away to look at her.

"I love you, and I will always protect you and I do intend for us to be together now, us and our pups, like we had wanted before this happened. 500 years ago."

Kagome smiled, "you mean 20 years ago."

Inuyasha smirked, "and you still don't look a day over 22."

"Yes, well for being some odd 600 years old you don't look so bad yourself," she grinned back.

"Does this mean you'll have me still?" Inuyasha asked, finally becoming serious once more.

Kagome smiled at him, "Inuyasha you never lost me. I've always been yours, and I always will be. Always."

The two lightly pressed their lips together once more, it wasn't a passion filled kiss, it was simply, but it was all they needed to convey to each other how much they loved and cared for the other.

"Ahm" came a slight cough from the entryway of the room; both Kagome and Inuyasha looked up to find Souta, Mrs. Higurashi, Inume and Kagoya standing there. Kagome knew what those 4 being there meant.

Kagome looked at her mother, "he's waiting in the Kitchen."

Kagome nodded, and, although reluctantly, left the warm embrace of Inuyasha to make her way to the kitchen where Kiseki was waiting for her.

Slowly, cautiously, she entered the kitchen to find Kiseki looking out the window which was above the sink.

"Kiseki…….." she said quietly.

He kept his gaze out the window, not turning to look at her as he spoke, "you don't have to explain Kagome, your son explained everything. About the accident, about how you got separated, it makes sense I guess. I always knew that you and your husband had been in some sort of military accident but I never realized the extent of it really. But still, there's a part of me hoping that you'd still pick me over him. But I know there's no point in that. I get it, I really do. He's just like you, you know, your son, Kagoya."

Kagome took a few steps closer, bringing her over to his side, "Kiseki, I never meant to hurt you, I honestly didn't."

He looked at her now, "I know you didn't."

Kagome looked down, wringing her hands together, "I care about you Kiseki, I do, but Inuyasha is everything to me, and he has been since I was 15. He is the one who will always have my heart, and I have no right to give it to anyone else as long as it's in his possession. You will always be in my heart, for everything you've done for me, for Inume. You were there for me when I really needed someone, and that means the world to me." She sighed and looked up, taking one of his hands in hers she placed a small object into his hand and closed his fingers around it, "but you have to need to find the person who's truly right for you. Someone who can give you her whole heart, and not just fragmented pieces of it."

Kiseki opened his hand to find the ring he had given to her when he proposed. He closed his eyes and took a deep breath before looking at her once more, "so what are you going to do now?"

"I'm not sure, but whatever it is, I'll have Inuyasha and my children with me. I love my husband more than anything, and being with him is all I need for now. To be with my family, it's all I want," she replied.

"Then be happy Kagome, be happy and be safe," he whispered as he placed a soft kiss on her cheek and walked away from her, leaving the room, and leaving her life.

Kagome stood alone in the kitchen for what felt like an eternity, trying to figure out if everything was truly a dream, or if it was real.

"Mama?" the softly spoken word, which she barely heard, broke her from her revere, she turned to find Kagoya looking at her form the doorway. And without a word Kagome opened her arms to him, and he happily came to her embrace, finding the comfort in his mothers' warmth, something he had not felt since he was only 3 years old.

Kagome ran her fingers soothingly through her sons long black hair, finally knowing that this was real, she honestly had her family back. Thinking for a moment more Kagome laughed.

"Hmmm? What is it Mama?" Kagoya asked curiously pulling back to look into her eyes.

Smiling Kagome placed a hand on his cheek, "I never thought I would live to see the day where my son was older than I was."

Kagoya laughed too, "What about your best friends' daughter?"

Kagome looked at him confused, "Mina?"

"well you were the one who said I would make her happy, didn't you," he smiled mischievously.

"you mean……" Kagome trailed off.

"Don't worry, we'll have a second wedding for you," Kagome looked toward the direction of the new voice, to see that Inuyasha and the others had come back into the kitchen.

"My baby is married," Kagome couldn't believe it.

"Hmmm, don't worry love, they decided to wait until we had you back before they went and gave us any grandkids."

"well I should hope so, I still look like I'm in my 20's, I'm not sure I would make much of a grandmother!" she stated.

"You're going to look like you're in your 20's even when we have great great great grandkids. And I plan to be with you for far longer than that my mate, my Kagome. So much longer." Inuyasha whispered in her ear, encircling his arm around her waist and capturing her lips once again for a short, love filled kiss.

Kagome pulled back, cheeks flushed, "And I wouldn't have it any other way, my Inuyasha."

The End.


That's it. This is the end guys. The story is finally over. Thank you so much for everyone who has reviewed, you guys mean the world to me, and I hope that some of you will read some of my other stories; at least the ones already out and finished.

Now I have one bit of sad news everyone. This could very well be my last story. I believe I am going to retire from Fanfiction and stop writing. It's a thought that breaks my heart, but I feel it may be for the best.

And as always, for one last time.

To my Reviewers:

ShadowDragon: Updated:)

XxDarkAngelPrincessxX haha well I followed your orders, got myself onto my laptop and typed away madly, I hope you liked what I got for an ending.

trfan16: lol, don't worry I would never abandon a story, not ever, that's a promise. And oh no! I didn't mean to make anyone cry!! Oh no's, now I feel bad :(. I hope you liked this update, and I tried to get it out as fast as I could.

Kagome past and present: oh wowee, you had me scared there for a second. I hope you like this chapter better than the last one.

Nichelly: oh come on now, did you seriously think for one second that I would let you all get away without a cliffy? I mean come on, you know me better than that, haha. Well I threw my last twist in there, which wasn't much of a twist at all, but I still hope you liked it.

moonfan2012: oh do you think I would be so mean as to let her end up with someone other than Inuyasha, I know I'm a mean author with all the cliffies, but I'm not cruel.

Pearlless glad you like it, and I hope you liked the ending.

KakashiHatake4Ever sorry about all my grammar stuff, my Beta recently bailed on me and I just wanted to get the chapter up as fast as I could. Hope you don't mind too much.

XO-bunniehunnie-XO glad you like it, and I hope you liked the ending.

SamMorgan-Cassidine oh do you think I would be so mean as to let her end up with someone other than Inuyasha, I know I'm a mean author with all the cliffies, but I'm not that bad.

amkess09 glad you like it, and I hope you liked the ending.

kagomesdouble07 haha, surprisingly not too much drama actually, but enough. Lol. I hope you liked the way I actually did end it and I look forward to your review.

SailorInu1 well I'm happy you liked it so much, and I hope I got this chapter out fast enough to make up for it being such a long wait last time, I hope you liked it.

Tearless Soul: ok, so ire ally hope this was a fast enough update, I really typed like a mad woman tog et this one out. I hope you liked it as much as you did the last one. I look forward to your final review.

Tahitianbabe yes I did want a review, and your review inspired my to work madly on my next chapter while I was up till like 5 in the morning talking to someone else, lol. And I must disagree, I do not like my battle scene but you were always a little odd, KIDDING! It's just why I love you so much. Here's the update. That now makes 2 out from me before I got to see yours.

Alright, that's it guys. It's been good, and I have enjoyed writing this story as much as I hope you enjoyed reading it. Thank you so much for reviewing, and I look forward to reading your final reviews. I'm gonna miss you all.

With much love,

Aya-Chan.