Forty-Two.

She could not say she liked that sedentary life.

Perhaps she would have, if things had gone differently – if Inuyasha had finally proposed as she had often dreamt he would – but after a couple of weeks from her return, Kagome had astonishingly realized that nothing was going to change between them.

Inuyasha loved her, sure, but in the same way Miroku and Sango did; and that day her heart broke a little.

Surprisingly, her pain hadn't last long, perhaps because during the three years spent in her time she had grown out of her crush for him without even realizing.

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(100 words.)