Shiho was about to put the jewel down before she started to get lifted into the air, the jewel flew out of her mouth as it circled Hai.
Kagome and Yasha watched as Shiho seemed to be lifted up in a light as Hai too was lifted up. Kagome held her son close to her. "Mom what's going on?" Yasha whispered.
"I don't know." Kagome answered back.
"What's going on?" Hai asked as he was floating in the air. Just then a light came from the dog and entered Hai. "I remember now." Hai whispered. "My name, my old name." he whispered more to himself than to the others on the ground. "My old life, Kikyo, the betrayal, fifty years, meeting…Kagome, looking for the jewel shards…its all coming back to me." He whispered as his voice started to change to a voice Kagome hadn't heard in at least fourteen years.
"What's happening to Shiho?" Yasha cried out as the dog seemed to lose consciousness unlike Hai who seemed to still be alive.
"I don't know Yasha." Kagome whispered still holding her son back from the blinding light that started to envelope everything.
"Mom." Yasha yelled as he felt his mother start to be lifted away from him.
"Just stay still" Kagome ordered not knowing what was happening, she felt like something was changing but what could it be?
She heard a female voice that seemed to surround her, "You had to risk so much and give up your chance for a normal life to save me. You had to take care of a child alone after the father was killed because of me. You have proved that not all demons and half demons are bad. You have softened the hearts of numerous demons and have shown love in a way that I have never seen a human give. With that, I say thank you." She was gently placed back down.
"Your welcome." Kagome whispered.
Once the voice was done and her feet were on the ground, she quickly grabbed her son again.
When the light dissipated Kagome was the first to open her eyes. She saw someone she never expected to see again. He stood there looking himself over as he seemed to make sure everything was in place. He looked at his claws then hair, and then felt on the top of his head…yeah, everything was where it should be.
Yasha didn't see the person in front of him; he only had his eyes set on the unconscious dog. He ran toward the animal, "Shiho. Shiho wake up." Yasha yelled as he shook the dog. The dog wasn't breathing, it was obvious to Kagome what happened but Yasha had never heard of such a thing. "You can't die." He yelled as tears came to his eyes.
"Yasha." Kagome whispered coming up next to him, she bent down next to him, "Shiho isn't gone." She said soothingly.
"Yes she is, she isn't breathing, she is gone. She died trying to protect us." Yasha yelled as he started to cry. "She seemed to know me and what I was going through."
Kagome smiled as the man came closer to her, "Yasha, I want you to meet someone." Kagome whispered to her son.
Yasha turned around with tear filled eyes as he looked up at a man he had only seen pictures of. "How did you…?"
"Yasha", Kagome whispered picking up her son. "Shiho's spirit fused back with Hai's, both were your dad to begin with." Kagome walked to the man she missed with her son in her hands.
"Dad?" he asked as he put out a hand.
The man put out a hand to touch his son's, "Hello, my son." he whispered.
Yasha seemed at a loss for words as he looked at his father's big hand holding his two smaller hands.
"I thought I would never be able to talk to you in person." Inuyasha smiled to his son.
"So you really are my dad?" he asked confused.
"Yes Yasha, I am your dad." Inuyasha said.
Yasha took a minute to take in what he heard before his smile went wide and he jumped into Inuyasha's hands. "I wanted to talk to you for so long. I want to say so much to you!" Yasha yelled as he kept crying tears of joy and hugging his dad.
"I am glad to see you back." Kagome said smiling at the two as Inuyasha tried to calm his son down.
Once the child was quiet and beaming with happiness Inuyasha was able to hold his son with one hand, "Did you think I would leave you?" He asked Kagome, "You should have known everything would end up just fine at the end."
"And you knew all this was going to happen?" Kagome asked starting to raise her voice.
"No, but I wasn't worried this whole time like you." Inuyasha yelled back as Yasha watched from his father's arm.
"You never change, once a jerk always a jerk." Kagome said back.
"Uhm." Yasha started up but stopped when Sango went next to him and put a hand on his shoulder. They were fighting like old times, only this time, Yasha was being held the whole time and he was in the middle of this.
The fight kept going at the hut; no one knew what it was about anymore. Yasha sat inside the hut with Miroku and Sango while his parents were outside.
Miroku looked out the door at the two before going back to sit down, "Everything is back to old times." He laughed.
"You mean they always fought?" Yasha asked.
"Oh yeah, sometimes it would get so bad, your dad would end up face down on the ground for quite a while." Miroku said to Yasha.
"My mom is that strong?" Yasha asked.
"Well kinda." Sango mentioned while holding her one year old child.
The two outside had calmed down as they walked to the sacred tree. "I can't believe our first conversation when I finally get to talk to you as you are is about you being a jerk." Kagome said as they stood in front of the place they first met."
Inuyasha put an arm around her waist. "Yeah."
"I was surprised when you came back as a dog."
"I was too." He whispered. They stood in silence for a while. "As soon as I realized what year it was in your time, I went to look for you. Every time I would leave that place that the people held me in though, they would find me and bring me back. I spent a year and a half trying to leave there then when you came by hearing that they had a dog that they were trying to get rid of for free, when I almost lost all hope that I would see you again there you were. I notice a recurring theme, when I lose hope you always come in." He smiled as he looked to the side of him at her side profile.
"Do you think that somewhere someone knew this would all happen? That even though you died, we would still end up back together?" Kagome asked looking at the tree.
Inuyasha scoffed looking back at the tree, "Don't be ridiculous."
Kagome laughed, "I almost didn't get you with how you were acting with me." Kagome said remembering that day.
"What? Me jumping on you? That's how the other dogs got picked so I assumed that's what people wanted." he said.
"How did you avoid getting taken by someone else for a year and a half?" Kagome asked.
Inuyasha laughed at the memories. "Well, they claimed they wanted to keep me. Shiho, as they named me, was a very intelligent dog. But when I started to try and run away, they couldn't take me anymore." Inuyasha laughed remembering how he would scare everyone. "Glad I don't have to relive that anymore."
Kagome laughed, "You acted way to much like a dog."
"I was a dog." He yelled. "I kept saying it every time you said that. I was a dog so therefore I am going to act like a dog."
Kagome laughed and smiled, "so that's what you said every time you barked after that.
Inuyasha grumbled as he folded his arms. Kagome just laughed.
Later that night once they returned back to the village, Yasha went out of the hut to see Inuyasha sitting in a tree watching the moon slowly rise. Yasha jumped up and landed in a branch next to him, "Hey." He whispered.
"Hey." Inuyasha smiled. "Come on, you can sit in my lap. You're never too big for your old man." He told his son as he picked him up and brought the kid right down in front of himself.
Yasha laughed "What are you doing?"
"Watching the moon rise." Inuyasha sighed watching it.
They were in silence for some time, "But it doesn't rise."
"How else would it get all the way up to the top of the sky?"
"But why don't we see it rise?" Yasha asked.
"It just goes by slow but if you don't keep watching it. If you make your eyes look away for just a few minutes, then you will never get to see it go all the way up into its sky. You will miss everything that just happened."
"I want to be like you when I grow up." Yasha said smiling.
"Well you know what? You are already a step ahead of me." Inuyasha said.
"What do you mean?" Yasha asked.
"Let's just say, by your age, I didn't know my father and I still don't know if I truly know him." Inuyasha said hugging his son.
"The whole time I was training, I kept wondering if I made you proud, if I was doing the right thing." Yasha whispered.
"Whenever you do what your heart tells you to do, you are doing the right thing. You make me proud when you do what makes you happy." Inuyasha said touching his son's nose making him giggle.
"One more question." Yasha said.
"Shoot."
Yasha laughed. "What was it like being a dog?" he asked quickly.
Inuyasha paused before asking, "So you can ask your old man, someone you wanted to see your entire life, anything at all and you ask me what it was like being a dog?"
"Yeah, was it cool?" Yasha jumped a little.
"Yeah, it was awesome!" Inuyasha smiled.
"I hope we will be together forever times infinity." Yasha said hugging his father's chest.
Inuyasha laughed, his death experience proved that he won't live forever but until his day came…again, he would hug his son and be there whenever he needed him. "I promise I will be around as long as I can." Inuyasha whispered wrapping his arms around his son.
"Dinner." Kagome yelled from the hut as the two jumped down ready to eat.
Yasha ran into the hut, "Oh man, I am so hungry!" Yasha yelled as he got his bowl of food.
When Inuyasha came in, Kagome handed him a bowl of the kibble he was fed as a dog. "You see…this isn't funny." Inuyasha said with a disgusted voice.
Kagome smiled, "I thought it was pretty funny." Kagome smiled as they sat around the fire eating in silence.
Once Yasha was in bed, Kagome and Inuyasha walked outside.
"So, what are you going to do? You are a half demon again. You have a son who should go to school in my time. You have a wife who needs to go to work…so what are you going to do?"
"Well, first I was going to offer being able to have you guys just stay in the feudal era…but then I thought it over and since I do know a lot about your time since being a dog. I figured that maybe I could try living in your time and we can come back here when we want." Inuyasha said.
Kagome smiled, "But what about the well?"
Inuyasha nodded, "Well one of my wishes was that you could go through the well without the jewel. I guess we will see if it worked. Seeing as how both Yasha and I can, it only makes sense that you can. And then again, he can bring his friend over just by holding her hand, maybe if you go with him every time you will be fine." Inuyasha said grabbing her chin and making her look him in the eyes.
"And you have no problem with my world?" she asked staring back into his eyes.
"None at all." Inuyasha whispered giving her a loving kiss that she hadn't received in so long.
"What will we say about you? Were where you while I had Yasha? I told everyone you were dead. Everyone thinks that his father kidnapped me."
Inuyasha smiled, "That's easy, you tell them that Yasha's dog and Hai fused together and it turned out that both together made me." He said laughing.
Kagome broke from their hug to stare at him.
"Just kidding." He whispered. "We will say that you left for a month to go somewhere and we met. That's easy enough."
Kagome smiled as they hugged once more, "I missed you more than you could imagine."
"I can imagine." Inuyasha said hugging her back, "because I missed you five times the amount you missed me."
"I doubt that." Kagome told him.
"You weren't the one who had to wait five hundred years to see your love again."
Kagome nodded, still in his arms, "True. You beat me there. I was thinking." Kagome said. "I can fake Yasha's and my death and we can live here. Yasha wants to live here anyways."
Inuyasha was silent. "Live here?" he questioned more to himself.
Kagome nodded still hugging him.
"I don't want to ruin your life there though. I can live over there with you- it's alright."
"No Inuyasha, I ran away from here when you died. I need to come back; this has always been my home. This era even called Yasha to it. This is where our family needs to be."
Inuyasha sighed, "Do as you wish." He whispered knowing he couldn't change her mind. "How are you going to tell your mom?"
"Leave it to me." Kagome whispered.
The next day, Kagome went into the other side of the well with Yasha and Inuyasha to see her mother. Inuyasha was outside playing with his son to let Kagome and her mother talk about her decision alone.
"I decided mom." Kagome said as she helped her mother clean the dishes. "I am going to fake Yasha's and my death. I want to live with Inuyasha in the feudal era."'
Her mother sighed, putting a dish down, "I had a feeling that was coming. Are you sure hun?" Kagome's mother asked shocked. "Inuyasha can live here; I have no problem with that."
"No mom, Yasha wants to live over in the feudal era and I always feel more at home over there. I left all my friends over there for so many years and I would love to be back there."
"I understand, I will be behind you no mater what." Her mother hugged her.
"Thanks mom." Kagome whispered back, "How can I go about doing that?"
Her mother smiled as they broke their hug. "Leave that to me." Her mother winked, "Just go get Yasha and everything you need from this time. Make sure you guys don't come back for a month."
"Month?"
"Yes, people will be coming up to the house sporadically throughout just trust me."
Kagome nodded, "Thanks mom."
"Nothing to it. OH, and one more thing."
"Yes mom?"
"I want a visit every once in a while and another grandchild."
Kagome laughed, "I will see what I can do."
Yasha walked in laughing with Inuyasha behind him, "Come on Yasha." Kagome said when he entered the room, "we are going to live in the feudal era."
"You mean live there as in only come here to visit?" Yasha asked excitedly.
Kagome nodded. "Your grandmother is going to fake our deaths so that here it seems that we are dead."
"Can Azami come with us?" His eyes got wide at the though.
Kagome paused. "No hun. She can't come, her life is here."
"But, what will she do without me?"
"I'm sorry Yasha but we can't bring her, her life is here in this time."
"But can I at least tell her that I am still going to be alive?"
"No, I am sorry but we have to make everyone think we are dead." Kagome whispered as Yasha sighed. "Now go get what you want to bring with you- we will go in an hour."
Yasha went upstairs in a hugh and slammed his door.
"Maybe we should stay here." Kagome whispered. She was worried about her son now, he seemed so upset with this decision now.
"He will come around." Inuyasha said to Kagome.
An hour later Kagome had several bags packed up and down stairs as Inuyasha had just picked up two of her bags to bring through the well. It was mainly food and some clothes.
Yasha walked down the stairs with one of his bows that he had hanging on the wall. At first he had four hanging on the wall, now he was down to one bow on his wall. The other two were his moms and this one was his and Azami's favorite.
"What do you have there?" Kagome asked.
"This was Azami's favorite bow out of my collection. Can I have grandma give it to her?" He asked playing with the bow's end. "I will even give her the string that goes with it."
Kagome smiled, "Alright, go tell grandma and then bring down what you want to bring."
"You know?" Inuyasha started, "Do you ever think that it is a bad idea to bring things from this time to the feudal era? What if in an archeological dig they find this stuff? It could mess up the whole time period."
Kagome stared at him, "I liked you better when you had no clue about anything in my time." She said laughing as she loaded him with another bag."
Yasha came down with nothing in his hands.
"Aren't you going to bring something?" Kagome asked.
"Nah, that was this life." Yasha said sighing. "The feudal era is another life."
Kagome nodded and turned to leave out of the house with Yasha following. He stopped and turned back at his house and stared at it as he put his ears back, he felt a tear come to his eyes as he tried to hold it back. Inuyasha put the bags next to the well house as he went back to his son and knelt down, "You are going to miss it huh?" he asked.
Yasha nodded.
"Don't worry about Azami. I am sure she will do fine through school. She is a smart girl."
"But I am the only one she truly trusts even after I turned away from her and accused her. She told me about her father not long ago. She said she never told anyone." Yasha started to cry, "I can't do anything for her in the other time. If I had known…"
"There is nothing you can do. She will miss you but trust me, life will go on. " Inuyasha said picking his son up. "Now come on, I will be able to help you with your lessons now." He said smiling. "And who knows, maybe you guys will meet up again one day." Inuyasha said as he tried to cheer his son up.
"Yeah, maybe." Yasha said, the last thing he saw of this time was the sacred tree. He and Azami would sit under that tree for hours just talking; it was the same tree he saw in the feudal era. He looked at his father's smile. He had an idea that was just crazy enough to work. "Don't forget me Azami." Yasha whispered as his parents closed the well house.
Sooooo, one more chapter! Thanks for putting up with me so far! So a lot of you guessed what was going to happen to Hai and Shiho…I guess I did make it pretty obvious though. I tried to make it not so obvious but I guess I failed at that.
Please review and let me know what you thought of this chapter! Thanks to those who review! I got up to 100 reviews which I didn't think was going to happen when I first started this story so thanks for proving that there are still a lot of people interested!!!
