Wait, What?

When Kagome had come back through the well, she'd been tired, sore and hungry from the big battle. Then she'd been distraught to find the well wouldn't let her through; she'd gone through a period of depression where she believed she'd never see her friends again.

Then, somehow, she put it all behind her and forged ahead, trying to figure out what programs and courses she wanted to focus on in high school.

Finally, things settled down, and Souta felt comfortable bringing up her adventures in the Sengoku Jidai.

"Kagome?"

"What, Souta?" she snapped. He stuck his tongue out at her back; he wasn't interrupting anything. She was hunched over a book but clearly staring out at the God Tree.

"I got a question about the jewel shards."

Kagome swiveled her chair around, looking confused. "They don't exist anymore. What's there to talk about?"

"I just wonder something."

"What?" she asked, exasperated.

"How did the jewel shard in the Noh mask end up lasting all this time through time if you took it through the well and made it disappear with the rest of the jewel?"

Kagome blinked.

"Wouldn't the jewel have been missing a shard?"

"Well, no," she said slowly, thinking it through. "Because I brought it back."

"So there were two of the same shard at the same time? Because you broke the jewel and it exploded all over and one got stuck in part of a tree that was eventually turned into a mask. So how was the shard in the jewel and in the tree at the same time?"

The two stared at each other silently, Kagome running through possibilities in her head and just as quickly discarding them. She finally snagged one and clutched to it.

"Magic."

"But-"

"Magic," she repeatedly firmly. "Now get out!"

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Disclaimers:

I have no legal rights to the InuYasha characters; that honor belongs to Rumiko Takahashi and a bunch of Japanese and English companies. I just abuse them for the giggles.