Title: Forever Young
Author: landofthekwt
Rating: G
Universe: Canon(Post 558)
Word Count: 245
Warning: None At First Tweak Respect for the Aged Day Drabble
Summary: Inuyasha and Kagome return to the shrine in 2008.
They had been gone from Japan for so long that they might as well have gai-jin. They were "Strangers in a Strange Land" Their Japan had died long ago. Kagome might look like she was twenty, but she had actually seen four hundred seventy summers. Their progeny stretched twenty generations from the warring states era. They were like sand on the seashore impossible to count.
She was the mother to them all, yet most of them had died without knowing her Their age had always been a problem. Most friends and some of their descendants had died long before their blood. Sesshoumaru had always told them that there was no record of the longevity of hanyous since most died shortly after birth. So they lived for each other.
They had fled Japan in the 1870's to avoid the rise of militarism.. Only now were they able to return to Japan. Kagome had gone done the well on June 18,2008. To avoid temporal paradoxes they must arrive after that date.
As they mounted the steps at the shrine, they could see the familiar sights of the shrine. To her mother she would always be her daugther, to her brother the older sister, to Ji-chan, his beloved grandaughter. Despite the fact that she was the oldest living human being in the world, she would never receive the respect that Japan accorded the elderly on Respect-for the-Aged Day.
She would always be forever young..