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Ichigo and Inuyasha returned to the house of Kagome and Inuyasha. Kaede was still there taking care of Kagome who had not wake up yet.

"I guess she would be better if I take her home, in her time." Said Inuyasha.

"Maybe, but it will be better if we don't move her yet."

Orihime came a little later and they spend the rest of the day in home.

Kagome awoke the next day somewhat disoriented and what she did immediately was call to Inuyasha loudly. However, he, who was sleeping next to her bed, got a little mad when Kagome yelled his name to his ears. Ichigo and Orihime got into that room hurried.

"Inuyashaaaaa! I'm so relieved you are fine!"

"Of course, silly. I wouldn't die by something like that." Joked Inuyasha with his nose up, while Ichigo and Orihime smiled to see that the things were normalizing now.

"Did your wounds hurt you?"

"You know they don't."

"And…"

Suddenly Kagome thrown herself into Inuyasha's arms who catch her in the air. Ichigo and Orihime leave them alone.

Inuyasha, Kagome, Ichigo, Orihime, Urahara, and the cat returned to the time of Kagome that day. Rin had just gave Tenseiga to Inuyasha and she did not apologize, but Inuyasha did not see it necessary since he could figure what the little girl was thinking.

Kaede and the others went to say goodbye to Inuyasha and the others to the well. Totosai was there too; with Tessaiga and Tenseiga on his care and promising to Inuyasha that he would had them ready to his return. After said goodbye to everyone, they jumped into the well.

They got out the pagoda, which was guarding the well in the actual times and in the courtyard of Kagome's house. They should decide what to do next then.

"Yoruichi-san and I will return to Karakura to set the device you will take with you, Inuyasha-san." Said Urahara covering his face with his fan with Yoruichi on his shoulder.

"Device for what?"

"Nothing big, I assure you. A device like this." Said Urahara showing to Inuyasha the twin cell he shared with Ichigo. "With this we can achieve communication."

"For what?"

"Don't discuss, Inuyasha." Intervened Kagome pulling and ear of Inuyasha.

"Well. Now we have to go to the Soul Society, don't we?" said Orihime happily after Urahara and the cat had left. Orihime had promised to herself to have the best time of her life with them before Ichigo and Inuyasha had to left, since she knew that Ichigo would go with Inuyasha even if he said no.

"Good. Let's go. But before that tell me who is Yoruichi." Asked Inuyasha.

"Yoruichi-san is a friend…"

"It's the talking cat which was with us!" said Ichigo before Orihime could tell to Inuyasha that he was touching the cat body of a beautiful woman all that time. Kagome would kill them all.

"That cat was called Yoruichi? I didn't asked him."

"You don't have manners Inuyasha. Even I asked his name!" scolded him Kagome.

"If I see him again I will ask him."

"How will we go to the Soul Society?" asked Kagome changing the matter.

That was a good question. Ichigo take a hand to his forefront when he remembered that they did not have asked to Urahara a way to go to the Soul Society.

"Shit. Wait here. I will catch that bastard and ask him to lend us something to…"

"Just don't sweat more on it, Ichigo." Said suddenly a voice of a woman.

Every one of them turned to see the origin of voice and saw one of those doors from which the Shinigami came out, and two of them got out from inside.

One of them was a tall man, with red and long hair ant tattoos on his forefront and a big smile of a shark. The other was a beautiful and petite girl with short and black hair with a strand of hair falling on her face.

"Rukia… Renji…" said Ichigo.

"Hi, Kuchiki-san! Abarai-kun!" greeted them Orihime happily. "These are Kagome-chan and Inuyasha!" exclaimed she, introducing Kagome and Inuyasha to them.

"Hoh. Lieutenant Matsumoto told us about you two." Said Rukia politely, looking at them and passing her gaze twice on Inuyasha's face.

"You are the guy who butchered Ikkaku-san?" asked Renji to Inuyasha. "The man came back to the Soul Society very quiet. You must have impressed him."

"Keh! That's how I am."

"He also told us that you are cocky."

"What?"

Everyone but Inuyasha laughed. The fact that Orihime and Ichigo considered those two their friends had been enough to Renji and Rukia, and they felt they could trust Inuyasha and Kagome already.

"And you must be the priestess who travels in time. Matsumoto-san told us that you can destroy our Kidou with your arrows. That's admirable." Said Rukia to Kagome kindly.

"Yeah!" replied Orihime before Kagome could even open her mouth. "Kagome-chan destroyed a barrier of Kidou back in the Sengoku era as if nothing!"

"I don't think it's a big deal." Smiled Kagome with modesty.

While the girls were talking, Renji approached to Ichigo and Inuyasha and said:

"We were ready to any emergency. Even when Aizen is not on this time nor in yours." Said Renji to Inuyasha. "We were always looking. Urahara-san called us minutes ago, and by a coincidence Rukia and I were in the Twelve Division barracks."

"That's why you came here so quickly?" wondered Ichigo. "It's not like you to be that diligent."

"You bastard. Since Captain Kurotsuchi told Urahara-san that Rukia and I were there, Urahara –san insisted that we could came here to pick you up. And they send us with this." Said Renji showing to Inuyasha and Ichigo a black pill. "It's a portable spiritual transforming pill." Explained Renji. "It's like the 'Reishihenkanki' but even more useful, and will let Higurashi-san to go to the Soul Society."

"Inuyasha will not have one?" asked Ichigo, while Inuyasha was looking the pill, with the size of a grape, on his fingers.

"To be a Youkai, we hope that the Reishi of the Soul Society will not purify him, even when that it's what the Reishi is supposed to do. Since his essence is evil in basic and mixed with human. Truth to be told I don't know what are thinking those two."

"Keh! Our lame defences won't stop me from entering your world." Said Inuyasha prideful.

"I like to hear you talking like that. Since the best thing that we are hoping it's you disappearing just by entering into the Dangai."

"Into what?"

"Inuyasha will disappear?" asked Kagome, who had joined them along Rukia and Orihime.

"Only if he is as stupid to not have one of these." Clarified Ichigo, taking the black pill from Inuyasha and showing it to Kagome.

"The issue is that they only order us to take two with us. One for Higurashi-san and the other for Inoue." Said Rukia.

"What?"

Ichigo could not believe that. What were Urahara and Mayuri doing? Did they want to exterminate Inuyasha?

"It doesn't matter. I will endure any barrier and if it is solid I will destroy it with Tessaiga." Declared Inuyasha taking his hand to his obi, but his sword was not there.

"Eh?"

"You left Tessaiga in the Sengoku era with Totosai-sama." Orihime reminded him.

"Shit. It doesn't matter. My claws are enough for me."

"Inuyasha, take it easy." Said Kagome. "It's not necessary to go so soon."

"Kagome" said Inuyasha, "the more I delay my journey the more I will delay my return."

Kagome bowed her head with sadness.

"Well, if you are that disposed to risk your own neck I will not oppose to it" said Renji to Inuyasha. Renji was genuinely curious about this brat that Rangiku-san had talked so good.

"Then…"

"No!"

"Kagome, I have to…"

"You won't!"

"I've got no choice! If we delay this matter more it will never end. I have to see by myself if can handle the Youki of the new Tessaiga" said Inuyasha looking at Kagome into her eyes. "We can't be postponing this more."

Kagome was looking at him with a sadness, which was trespassing him like burning nails. However, he could not avoid the despair, that was menacing to devour him to be separated from her again, take the best of him, nor the fear to disappear into the limbo of de Soul Society and show it to the others.

"Well, let's go then."

Ichigo still was not sure about that but he give the pill to Kagome anyway and also a reassuring look that she returned to him. Kagome ran into her house for two glasses of water since she did not believe she and Orihime could pass those enormous pills through their throats. When she came back, and after having the approval of Rukia, Kagome take that pill into her mouth and down her glass while Orihime was doing the same.

"Are you okay, Kagome?" asked Inuyasha.

"Yeah" said Kagome. "Do I look different?"

"Well, the pill it's not supposed to change your aspect, but the composition of your body" clarified Rukia looking at Kagome. "Now you can go to the Soul Society."

"Good" said Inuyasha. "How do we get there?"

"This way" replied Renji.

Above him and Rukia were two butterflies flying and, out of nowhere, two doors appeared and opened one behind the other.

"Let's go" said Ichigo to Orihime after use his Shinigami pass and left his body under the staircase of the pagoda, which contained the well and not let his body to call unwanted attention.

"Here we go" said Inuyasha to Kagome, taking her by her hand and walking into the doors.

Immediately he found himself gasping for air, and he looked at that big and long tunnel which looked like a cave. Kagome was at his side and she looked fine. Inuyasha did not make any comment of what he was feeling in that moment. So he started to run with the others through that tunnel.

"Well, this is the Dangai" said Renji to Inuyasha unnecessarily.

"I have figure that somehow."

"Just in case."

While they were running, Inuyasha could feel something on the walls of that place. They were like energy flowing and they were following him and the others. Nevertheless, the place stayed quiet and the only thing Inuyasha could say of running a while now for that place was how it cost him to breathe.

"I can't believe you are still alive," said Renji. "No one has been that stupid to come here without being a spiritual being."

"Now you see… how great… the powerful Inuyasha… is…"

"You are running out of breath, powerful Inuyasha."

It was true. Kagome was looking at him worried, while Orihime and Ichigo looked at each other with fear. Only Rukia and Renji looked quiet.

Then a light appeared at the end of the tunnel. The light grow big and soon they were out jumping through a portal, like those, which were located on the Japanese shrines. They found themselves in a bright place illuminated by the sun with buildings all around and down their place.

"We came straight to the Seiretei?" asked Ichigo.

"And what were you waiting for?" replied Rukia smiling with arrogance.

"The first time I came here you didn't welcomed me like this!"

"Well, since you came here to break the law…"

Inuyasha could not stand it anymore and he kneeled on the ground and soon the environment got even more heavy, with the arrive of five individuals came out of nowhere.

"So? This little brat is Inuyasha?" asked a gravelly voice.

"He doesn't look a big deal" seconded him a woman voice.

"Just do what you were told."

"My. The boy is right."

"What did you say?"

Inuyasha recognized the last two voices. They belong to the boy with the white hair and the person with clown face. Inuyasha knew they were captains of something. Therefore, the other three presences must be captains too.

"What do you think, Kuchiki-Taicho?" asked Renji to someone.

"It's very remarkable," answered a cold and indifferent voice. "The fact that he could pass through the Dangai and now could stand the Reiatsu of five captains it's quite remarkable."

"But I don't think he is a big deal! I don't even have the will to cut him!" exclaimed the grave voice.

"Someone as barbaric and retrograde as you could not understand it" said Kuchiki, as Renji had called him.

"Want to say that to me on my face?"

"Stop now you two," said the woman's voice. "We will be over soon."

After a while it stopped. Inuyasha ended sit with his head bowed and his limbs hanging lazily of his body. He looked up and see Kagome grabbed by Rukia and Orihime and Ichigo was laying unconscious on the ground. Near to him were five persons: that boy with white hair; the man with face of a clown; a woman with two braids of hair falling on her back; a man with his eyes closed and an elegant hairstyle; and a big man with wild and long hair and a black eye patch on his right eye. All of them were wearing that white haori of captains of the Soul Society over their black outfits.

"Shit. What you have done?" barked Inuyasha, looking to Kagome still caught by Rukia and Ichigo laying to the ground.

"Be quiet" said Renji, while Inuyasha got up and got ready to cut everyone there with his claws. "It's not what you are thinking."

"Looks like this boy can do something after all. He still have the strength to move," said the man with wild hair. "You butchered Ikkaku, didn't you?" asked him to Inuyasha curious.

"And what if I did?"

"What about trying with me? I want to see you butchering me!"

"Now you will see…"

"Inuyasha!"

Rukia let go of Kagome and she had thrown herself into Inuyasha's arms. He catch her focused in case that big captain was about to attack them, but he looked at them bored.

"Better be done with your business and so you will give me a fight in conditions."

Orihime was kneeling next to Ichigo and was looking at him with sadness. Inuyasha saw that and barked to the others.

"Just what the hell did you do to us?"

"To them nothing. Just to you."

"Be clear, you weird."

"Look who say weird to who! The boy with dog ears" replied Mayuri.

"We attacked you with our Reiatsu just when you got into the Soul Society to see if you could endure its environment without being a soul. It was a recommendation by Urahara Kisuke. Was not that why you came here?" asked Toushiro.

"Crap. And why didn't you told me you will do that?"

"The surprise factor was essential. If we told you then you could got nervous or something could have failed within you to know to what you were facing. Without knowing it you fight to live and you make it."

"And why is Ichigo unconscious?"

"Because he wouldn't have consented what we were about to do. We just quickly told that to Inoue Orihime and she accepted. Your woman too. However, when she saw you with those eyes she got scared and wanted us to stop. But you recovered and here you are" said the woman with the braids.

"Of which eyes are you talking about?"

Before Toushiro could answer, Mayuri was checking those devices like those they brought with them to the old base of Urahara, and he whistled surprised.

"My. The moment you transformed your power grow exponentially. Just what the heck are you, you little guinea pig?" asked he to Inuyasha with interest.

"You keep talking and I will cut your head."

"My, my."

"Oi! Kurotsuchi! His power is that big?" asked that big man with wild hair.

"More of what you could imagine, Neanderthal."

"Just get the hell away from your little princess and fight me," said the big man to Inuyasha.

"Don't bother us anymore, Zaraki" said Toushiro. "Sorry about what had happened" apologized him to Kagome and Inuyasha. "But it was necessary to make Inuyasha strong enough to stand the power of his Youtou."

"When the hat-man told you about that?"

"It doesn't matter, Inuyasha. Thank you Toushiro-kun. To all of you too. I know you did that with your best intention," said Kagome, looking especially to Orihime and Rukia, which smiled embarrassed.

Ichigo started to move. The only thing he remembered was have getting out of the Dangai to a bright place and how Orihime was talking with Rukia about something, and suddenly someone hit him and…

"Renji! Get ready to die!"

"Damn it."

Ichigo got up and search for Renji, then he noticed Byakuya, Kenpachi, Sui-Fëng, Toushiro and Mayuri there and how Inuyasha looked like he had just meet them… the wrong way…

"What happened?"

"Well, you see…"

Orihime told Ichigo what happened. He was frowning more and more with every word Orihime was saying, and when she finished talking, Ichigo exploded.

"Byakuya! Why did you did the things that way?!"

"I can't recall the duty to give you explanations, Kurosaki Ichigo," answered Byakuya with is eyes closed.

"But what you all did…"

"Enough Ichigo. Don't bother Nii-sama anymore," scolded him Rukia. "Besides, it was not his idea. Inoue told you it was Urahara who planned all of this."

"That bastard will hear of me."

"Good. Are we fighting or what?" urged Kenpachi to Inuyasha.

"Just wait and…"

"Today you are not doing anything of the sort" said Urahara suddenly. They searching for him everywhere and then they noticed that his voice was coming from the nearby screens of Mayuri. "I think we have proved our point. Moreover, Inuyasha-san had proved he could endure the Reiatsu of five captains. Now what is next is to see if he can endure the Youki of Tessaiga."

"Shit. We are like puppets on his hands" said Ichigo angrily, and Inuyasha was agreeing with him even if he was not saying it.

"Now what you have to do is return from where you came" said Toushiro to them. "Don't worry for when you arrive to your world, because your bodies will be fine when you get there" added he more for Kagome than for Inuyasha.

"Let's go, then" said Ichigo still irritated.

"Wait."

Inuyasha was looking around. They were on the top of some hill from where they could see that entire place. It was a huge place and a rounded wall, which was extending far away, surrounded the buildings. Behind that wall were more buildings and houses but due to the distance, he could not see a soul.

"This is… the afterlife?"

"Indeed."

Rukia had approached Inuyasha and was staring at him intently. The expression on the face of Inuyasha was of deep thought as he looked at that world, which was extending until the gaze could get. Rukia was felling genuinely interested to see him so thoughtful if he had been so wild a while ago. Now his hair was dancing with the south wind, which was squeezing the Soul Society.

"And this is all what we've got?"

"Well, there is the Seiretei. It's where we are now and it's surrounded by the wall which is surrounding us" explained Rukia patiently. "Beyond is the rest of the Soul Society, with the districts around the Seiretei."

"And ALL the dead ones have to come here?"

"Yes."

"I don't think so."

Everyone, even Kenpachi and Mayuri were looking at Inuyasha now. Even Byakuya opened his eyes to see the Youkai who did not believe the truth of his world.

But it was true. Inuyasha refused to believe that Kikyou had ended in a place like that. It was a little reward to someone who had did that much for others and in exchange she obtained just that for a life of pain. He did not wanted to believe that. The eternal rest was better.

"And what about, if this it's just a place for neutral souls?" ventured Inuyasha. "If the Hell exist, then the Heaven should exist too, doesn't it?"

"This is the Heaven."

"It's not."

All the Shinigami there, but Ichigo, felt threatened. By the sudden stance and the obsession of their powerful visitant and his belief that there was more there, in 'Heaven'. Something better. What else was supposed to be there? People in Soul Society were never hungry. And the conditions of their lives there were far better than their lives in the world of the living.

But Rukia was starting to think. In the Soul Society the people could still killing each other, robbing, lying and picking a wrong path for their lives. As well as they could choose to continue with their existences in plenitude without going to the evil. What was different then with the world of the living?

Rukia had no answers, and she had never stopped to think about that matter. Her faith in the Soul Society had been as strong as the faith of Byakuya, her brother. Why then just now she was seeing that malaises? The people of the Rukongai did not spend their lives better as the Shinigami told them when they were still in the world of the living. If it was like that, the death was not a liberation.

And as Inuyasha was looking at her he knew she was thinking the same than him. There must be something else for them.

"Let's go, Kagome."

Inuyasha turned and walk straight to that big door, which was showing a white glow inside. Kagome said goodbye to everyone there with a polite bow which some of them returned to her bowing their own heads. Inuyasha just raised his hand without looking at them, and when he passed by Orihime and Ichigo he nodded at them to return with him.

Ichigo and Orihime smiled. They said goodbye to everyone and followed Inuyasha and Kagome to the entrance to the Dangai. Inuyasha and Ichigo looked at each other and after nodding again, they got into the door.

The journey back was very different to the first, since Inuyasha could breathe better now. However, he do not even notice that to be still thinking of that matter of the Soul Society. He do not even noticed when he made Kagome to climb on his back to ride her home and go faster. Ichigo and Orihime were going with them the same way.

Ichigo had heard the conversation between Inuyasha and Rukia and was dwelling on that matter too. All of he knew about death, before he meet Rukia the first time, was that thing if you were good you will go to heaven, and if you were bad then you will go to hell. If the Soul Society was Heaven, and some of their districts were a real hell, then the Soul Society itself was a living hell.

"Soul Society was a very interesting place" was saying Kagome.

"I thought the same the first time I got there" replied Orihime.

"Those guys in white were the captains?" asked Kagome.

"Yeah. Don't think bad of them. They were doing as they were told, you know."

"Of course I know. I am grateful to them."

"That's good to hear."

They were that distracted that they almost did not even noticed when they got out from the Dangai to the world of the living. Just to the place they had left since they appeared in the courtyard of Kagome's house.

"Good. Now we have solve that problem now we have to see if you can stand the new power of Tessaiga" reminded Ichigo letting Orihime off while Inuyasha was doing the same with Kagome.

"I know."

"Do you think Totosai-sama have it already?" asked Orihime fixing her hair and Kagome's.

"The only way to find that out is going there and see" said Inuyasha, getting into the pagoda with the well within. The others went in with him and Ichigo picked his body from under the staircase just where he had left it.

"And if someone would have found it?"

"This was the best place I could think to leave it" replied Ichigo getting into his body again.

After that, the four get into the well and again they got out to the clean air in the Sengoku era, where the afternoon was ending and the evening was coming in the horizon.

"I was waiting for you, Inuyasha" said Totosai who was sit near the well. "Now Tessaiga is forged with Tenseiga inside of it."

He handed Tessaiga to Inuyasha who took it with strong hands but insecure of what would happen next. He had the confidence that everything would be fine and at the same time the anxiety with that weapon which was his now and was about to test him again.

"I recall the last time Tessaiga broke. It took you longer to repair it than now."

"That time I was not feeling like doing it quickly. I was being lazy."

After Inuyasha hit Totosai on his head Kagome had took one of the hands with which Inuyasha was holding his new Tessaiga, and they looked how Ichigo and Orihime looked at them smiling. Inuyasha felt their reassurance and noticed the others, Miroku and Sango with their children in tow, Shippou, the old Kaede and Rin; they all had come there too. Myouga had appeared jumping and talking as always to climb on Totosai. All of them were looking at Inuyasha with a smile of reassurance and so he felt Inuyasha. Even Urahara and the cat were there somehow. The cat winked of an eye to him.

"This goes for you all."

Kagome had stepped away from Inuyasha to give him room, and he took the sheath of Tessaiga with strength and with his other hand he took the handgrip to unsheathe his sword in the middle of light and yellow sparks which surrounded him. Tessaiga was big as always and looked like if no change had been made to it.

He did not even finished thinking of that when Tessaiga got heavier than ever, but it was not only its weight on his hands what he could felt, it was another weight over all his body. It was suffocating and seemed to push him to the ground and was about to crush him. But Inuyasha noted that that weight was not as heavier that the those five captains had put over him that day. With a new strength, Inuyasha got up and waved Tessaiga against the heaven to where none of his comrades was close.

The Wind Scar flew fast through the sword and ascended higher than ever, creating a wild wind, which lifted the clothes of everyone there and even the skirts of the two girls of the future. The girls screamed and covered as good as they could, but Inuyasha once more did not notice it. He was looking at the new Tessaiga with growing admiration.

"Congratulations" said Ichigo honestly, hitting Inuyasha on his arm. "With this almost everything is ready."

"Yeah…"

The others congratulated Inuyasha while Kagome stayed a little away with Orihime and Rin. They knew what Kagome was feeling. With the new Tessaiga the journey of Inuyasha was imminent.

"So" said Inuyasha and putting Tessaiga on its sheath. "Now…"

Before anyone could say anything else, Inuyasha took Kagome on his arms and ran with her away from there. All of them knew they wanted to be alone.

"Inoue…" called Ichigo knowing what would happen next. Orihime opened her eyes wide by the shock, since the moment of the departure has never been so real as then.

"Yeah…"

And together they walked into the trees of the forest.

You see, next chapter it's the last.

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