"oi, what is his problem." inuyasha said looking at the now fire wood of a tree.

"he cares for her more then he himself even knows." kikiyo stated.

no one spoke as they picked them selves up and slowly following the path sesshomaru had taken. a great many things happened that day, a great evil was defeated, a beloved sister and friend was lost, a promise of mating was upheld, a brother reunited with his sister, and a soul and life was restored.

days turned to weeks, and weeks into month. six months after the battle kouga and ayamie mated and found three months later that she was pregnant. a year after the battle songo and meroku married and moved to the abandon Slayer village to rebuild, nine months later and songo gave birth to a son and a year and a half later songo became pregnant with twins, girls.

inuyahsa and kikiyo stayed with sesshomaru for a few months before returning to keade and the village, a year or so later inuyasha asked kikiyo to court her. no one really seen hide nor hair of sesshomaru the first year and even after he was still rarely seen. soon though a messanger was sent to fetch inuyasha as maters at the palace in the west were pressing and he was not given a choice.