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Kenshin-gotenks: ::Blushes:: thank you so much!
Heather: Well, here ya go another chapter ::smiles::
Just Me17: Yea I would say he would be cute!! ::giggles::
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An angel's heart: ::laughs:: your right how are we supposed to know all the time?
Hapagirl21: yea, I just wish I could live there with them ::sighs::
Angel of light and darkness: ::laughs:: well maybe in my next story I'll have another lemon ::blinks:: actually it's kinda vital in my next story. oh and my trip was wonderful!! Too bad they said I had to leave. it was only a little fire!! I swear!!
Weirdo's Rule: I love your name btw! ^-^ and so sorry about the cliffie.
A: ummm I don't know what to tell you since I don't know who you are.
Nobody's Princess: lol I know how it is I am lazy too.
Simpson-Girl: ::hugs back:: thank you! Honestly I never expected people to like it this much but I have 128 reviews so far! I hope the next one does as well.
Lily Among the Thorns: thank you for telling me that. I still hate mm.org tho. and yes I love Kagome's mum, she's fun to write saying weird stuff. like me!!
Lei Xang: Yup! To hell with being normal. I'm gonna be as weird as I can!! I love Kagome's mom, seriously, only she would be ok with something like that!
Unfortunately everyone, this will be my last chapter for True Love. *dodges random thrown objects* I'm sorry but I have kinda lost my inspiration for this story. Which is why I haven't written anything in almost a month. I hope my last chapter doesn't disappoint anyone too much, but I honestly couldn't think of a way to end it other than this. I don't think it's too bad, but then again, I can't judge my own work like all of you can. I love all of you who have stuck with me through my entire story and I welcome any and all of you to continue to write emails and/ or IM me *waves at Morgan Hi!* at any time. My email is Inuyashaluver18@aol.com and if you wanna IM me just use the same screen name. Well, onto the story. *backs away with tears in eyes, stops and steps forward again* Oh! By the way, I am starting the plans for my next story, actually I have two stories I am thinking about starting, if anyone wants to know what their about please email me. Thank you! *bows and walks away*
Chapter 22: To School
Kagome groaned as her alarm clock went off the next morning. She heard Inuyasha's answering growl when it didn't turn off right away. Slowly, she sat up, reached over, and turned it off.
"Come on Inuyasha, we have to get up now." She stretched as she said this and climbed over Inuyasha's chest. He grunted as her knee jabbed him in the stomach. He watched her weave her way through her room to the bathroom, obviously still half asleep. He sighed and sat up, knowing that if his mate came back and he was still in the bed, she would not be happy.
Fortunately for the whole group, Kagome's mother had gotten school uniforms for them all to wear. Inuyasha dressed quickly and then followed his nose downstairs for breakfast. There was Keiko in the middle of making pancakes and sausages.
"Good morning, Mrs. Higarashi." Inuyasha sat down at the table, where Sota, Grampa, and Miroku already were. Keiko turned around and smiled at her son- in-law.
"Oh, Inuyasha, dear, please call me mama. After all you are part of the family now." She suddenly frowned. "Actually, that reminds me, we should probably have a wedding between all of you here in the future seeing as you are all mates now. Oh! And maybe I can adopt Sango." Keiko ignored the weird looks she was receiving from the males sitting at her kitchen table.
Kagome walked in and smiled at her mother, along with Sango. Both girls were dressed in the school uniforms. Sango had a bright blush on her cheeks and she ran up to hug Keiko. "I would be very pleased to be adopted by you, Mama." She pulled back slightly. "It's kind of weird, but I am gaining a family in just a few days. After my family was killed I thought I would be alone for the rest of my life."
Everyone sat down and started their breakfasts. Once everyone was finished, Kagome sat back. "Okay, everyone. Remember what we decided last night. We are going as humans. We tell our story and then we will answer any questions they may have. If we want to, depending on their reactions to our story, we can then, and only then," Kagome glared at Inuyasha, who didn't want to be human for too long, "can we change into our hanyou forms."
Inuyasha grumbled a bit but didn't say anything about it. Actually, he didn't really care as long as he was with Kagome at the time. With that handled, the teenagers and Shippo stood and walked to the door. They stopped when they heard a slightly aggravated mew from behind them. Sango sweatdropped.
"Oh, there you are Kirara. Come on, it's time to go." Kirara sniffed once and then leaped onto Sango's shoulder. Keiko walked out the front door and watched the little group walk away. She waved to them when they stopped and called 'good-bye' before walking down the shrine steps. She sighed happily and walked back into the house. She had so much to plan for those children in the next few days!
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Kagome and Sango paused when they reached the school. Their eyes widened and they gasped. Standing outside the school was a large crowd, along with a few news camera vans.
"Oh, my god!" Kagome breathed. "Wha. what are they all doing here?"
What they didn't know was that someone had videotaped their encounter with Naraku that day and everyone in the world had seen it on the news. Suddenly, they heard Yuki, Eri, Aryumi call out to them.
"Kagome! Sango!"
The entire crowd turned as one and looked at them. Shippo jumped into Kagome's arms in fear and the crowd stared at them. Yuki, Eri, and Aryumi walked up to them.
"Hey, guys." Yuki stated quietly when they reached them. "Umm. there's a podium with a microphone up there with the principal. He told us to bring you up there when you arrived."
Kagome nodded at her friend and took Inuyasha's hand. The group walked through a silent crowd up to the podium. Whatever it was that Kagome had expected, it wasn't this. The principal walked up to the podium and spoke into the microphone.
"Ladies and gentlemen. We are here today to hear from these young men and women about what happened last week here at the school. As most of you know from the tape, we had a battle here involving these people. Now I will turn over the microphone to one of them for an explanation."
He turned around and Kagome stepped forward. All was still silent as she blew out a pent up breath. She looked around at the crowd.
"Hello, as most of you know I am Kagome Higarashi. I am a student at this school. Ummm. I think everyone should know the legend by now. But here is the actual version of it." Kagome giggled nervously. "Well, on my fifteenth birthday something very strange happened to me." Kagome spoke quietly and their story was told in an amazingly short amount of time. ". we have used the jewel, so it can harm no one ever again. And now here we are."
Kagome stopped talking and looked out over the crowd again. "Does anyone have any questions?"
Several hands flew up and Kagome pointed at one. "Yes, hi, I am from Tokyo Newspaper. So, you actually traveled through time to the feudal era?"
Kagome opened her mouth to respond when Inuyasha growled out, "Dammit, she just told you that she does! Why are you asking something you already know?"
Kagome glared at Inuyasha, but secretly she was thankful and he knew it. She didn't want to keep answering the same thing over and over. She turned back to the crowd. "Actually, he is right, I don't want to be asked things that I have already answered with my story. And please don't forget that you can ask anyone of us anything else."
Another newscaster raised her hand. "You said you used the jewel. What was your wish?"
"I wished that we would all be together forever and that changed us all. We can all change between being human as we are now to hanyou and even to being full demon."
"Can we see you change into a hanyou?" Kagome nodded and looked at her friends. They spoke the words and were soon in their hanyou forms.
There was a slight murmuring from the crowd. Several people backed away, but one student stepped forward. It was Tsuno, Hojo's friend. "You have been traveling together for a year, right? How is it that you all stayed together through everything?"
Sango spoke up. "After my family was killed by Naraku, I had no where else to turn. Kagome, Miroku, Shippo, and even Inuyasha all helped me through my healing. They became my family soon after. I would never leave them now."
Another person spoke up, a girl none of them knew. "I have a question for the monk! When you had your 'wind tunnel' thingy, you kept asking girls to bear your child, didn't it bother you that if you actually got someone to say yes, that you would be leaving her with your child after you died?"
Miroku smiled slightly. "Yes, it did bother me. If I had had a choice in all this I would never have even considered doing it, but I was afraid that my wind tunnel would consume me before Naraku was brought to justice. I didn't want that either."
A small girl walked forward. "Umm. Shippo? You lost your family, but it wasn't from Naraku, right? Why'd you stay with them? I mean technically your father was killed for the jewel shard that he got when she," the girl pointed at Kagome, "broke the jewel."
Kagome paled. She had never thought of it that way before. Shippo's voice rang out through her mind as he answered the little girl. "It wasn't Mama's fault. At the time she was trying to stop a bad crow demon that had tried to steal a little boy to eat. I lived in a battle filled world, at any time someone could have come along and killed them."
Kagome hugged the small kitsune to her. She looked at the crowd and she spoke quietly. "If it wasn't for me and my little family here, our world would be a very different place. You all saw Naraku when we fought, what you didn't see were the people he killed in the past."
One tall man pushed his way through the crowd. "Yes, he was evil! He was a demon, how couldn't he be evil? Every story you hear about a demon is one where that demon is killing humans. All demons are the same, evil!"
Kagome gasped. "Not all demons are evil. Inuyasha was never evil, we are not evil now."
The man was not listening to her though. He was waving his hands over his head and yelling at the crowd. "Do you want these. monsters to come after you? They will! They will come after you children! Everyone knows demons only like to eat human flesh!"
There was a snort from the back of the crowd. Everyone turned and stared at a young woman and the tall white haired gentleman next to her.
"Do you seriously believe that demons have nothing better to do than eat people?" The woman laughed. "Please! If demons wanted to prove their superiority, then they wouldn't have hidden themselves from humans all these years."
The expressionless man spoke. "It has been a very long time since us demons have wanted anything but a normal life. Ever since Naraku's death we have lived quietly, letting ourselves become myths."
Inuyasha and company walked through the crowd. Inuyasha stared at his brother. "Sesshomaru? What are you.?"
Sesshomaru smiled. "Hello, brother dear. You already know my mate, Rin."
Rin smiled. "So, are you mates yet? Did my little meddling that day prove something to you?" She giggled slightly.
Suddenly, the man pulled out a gun. "Disgusting creatures! I knew about you all along! Your kind killed my wife! And they'll only go after my child next!"
Everyone stilled and Kagome turned back to him. "I'm sorry for your loss, sir, but how can you blame an entire species on one bad person? If that was the case then the human race is very bad itself. As I said before not all of us are evil, but there are those who are evil." Kagome looked at the little girl standing behind the man. It was the same little girl who had asked Shippo a question earlier. What she saw now surprised her. On top of the little girl's head was now a pair of cat ears. The little girl walked up behind her father and touched his leg.
"Daddy, mama wouldn't want you to harm anyone. I know she never told you the truth about herself or me. but daddy? Do you think she was evil. am I?"
The man dropped down to his knees. He pulled his daughter into his arms. Suddenly, around them several people began to drop their disguises. About half the people in the crowd now were demons or hanyous.
Kagome touched the man's shoulder. "I know it's hard to lose a loved one, but look around you. there are so many of us that we could kill everyone in a heart beat. but we don't. There is no need, we can live together peacefully, just like we always have." Kagome wasn't about to mention to this man that she was as surprised as he that their were demons in this time. She had seriously thought that there were no more. The man looked at her and she could see the pain in his eyes. "Don't harm her memory looking to avenge her against her own people."
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It was later that night when the group was back home that Kagome expressed her surprise.
"I really didn't know demons still existed here anymore. Do you think we can all live together peacefully like I said?"
Inuyasha shrugged and held onto Kagome tighter. "I don't know but we can help people see that demons aren't all that bad."
And they did. For all their years together, Inuyasha, Kagome, Sango, Miroku, Shippo, Kirara, Rin, and even Sesshomaru all worked together to prove that demons and humans could live together in peace and harmony. After them, their children continued their teachings.
The End
I hope you enjoyed my story True Love. Please feel free to comment on anything you like. I know I ended it badly but please don't flame me to hard! I love you all! Ja ne!
Chronicles Bailey: Calm down!! ::smiles happily:: I am so glad you like it that much.
Kenshin-gotenks: ::Blushes:: thank you so much!
Heather: Well, here ya go another chapter ::smiles::
Just Me17: Yea I would say he would be cute!! ::giggles::
Cho Potter1: ::does crazy happy dance:: I own Inu's ears I own Inu's ears!! Thank you! Oh and btw- when you start your story tell me the name and I'll read it k?
Kago2350: thank you
Gansta-girl: thank you
An angel's heart: ::laughs:: your right how are we supposed to know all the time?
Hapagirl21: yea, I just wish I could live there with them ::sighs::
Angel of light and darkness: ::laughs:: well maybe in my next story I'll have another lemon ::blinks:: actually it's kinda vital in my next story. oh and my trip was wonderful!! Too bad they said I had to leave. it was only a little fire!! I swear!!
Weirdo's Rule: I love your name btw! ^-^ and so sorry about the cliffie.
A: ummm I don't know what to tell you since I don't know who you are.
Nobody's Princess: lol I know how it is I am lazy too.
Simpson-Girl: ::hugs back:: thank you! Honestly I never expected people to like it this much but I have 128 reviews so far! I hope the next one does as well.
Lily Among the Thorns: thank you for telling me that. I still hate mm.org tho. and yes I love Kagome's mum, she's fun to write saying weird stuff. like me!!
Lei Xang: Yup! To hell with being normal. I'm gonna be as weird as I can!! I love Kagome's mom, seriously, only she would be ok with something like that!
Unfortunately everyone, this will be my last chapter for True Love. *dodges random thrown objects* I'm sorry but I have kinda lost my inspiration for this story. Which is why I haven't written anything in almost a month. I hope my last chapter doesn't disappoint anyone too much, but I honestly couldn't think of a way to end it other than this. I don't think it's too bad, but then again, I can't judge my own work like all of you can. I love all of you who have stuck with me through my entire story and I welcome any and all of you to continue to write emails and/ or IM me *waves at Morgan Hi!* at any time. My email is Inuyashaluver18@aol.com and if you wanna IM me just use the same screen name. Well, onto the story. *backs away with tears in eyes, stops and steps forward again* Oh! By the way, I am starting the plans for my next story, actually I have two stories I am thinking about starting, if anyone wants to know what their about please email me. Thank you! *bows and walks away*
Chapter 22: To School
Kagome groaned as her alarm clock went off the next morning. She heard Inuyasha's answering growl when it didn't turn off right away. Slowly, she sat up, reached over, and turned it off.
"Come on Inuyasha, we have to get up now." She stretched as she said this and climbed over Inuyasha's chest. He grunted as her knee jabbed him in the stomach. He watched her weave her way through her room to the bathroom, obviously still half asleep. He sighed and sat up, knowing that if his mate came back and he was still in the bed, she would not be happy.
Fortunately for the whole group, Kagome's mother had gotten school uniforms for them all to wear. Inuyasha dressed quickly and then followed his nose downstairs for breakfast. There was Keiko in the middle of making pancakes and sausages.
"Good morning, Mrs. Higarashi." Inuyasha sat down at the table, where Sota, Grampa, and Miroku already were. Keiko turned around and smiled at her son- in-law.
"Oh, Inuyasha, dear, please call me mama. After all you are part of the family now." She suddenly frowned. "Actually, that reminds me, we should probably have a wedding between all of you here in the future seeing as you are all mates now. Oh! And maybe I can adopt Sango." Keiko ignored the weird looks she was receiving from the males sitting at her kitchen table.
Kagome walked in and smiled at her mother, along with Sango. Both girls were dressed in the school uniforms. Sango had a bright blush on her cheeks and she ran up to hug Keiko. "I would be very pleased to be adopted by you, Mama." She pulled back slightly. "It's kind of weird, but I am gaining a family in just a few days. After my family was killed I thought I would be alone for the rest of my life."
Everyone sat down and started their breakfasts. Once everyone was finished, Kagome sat back. "Okay, everyone. Remember what we decided last night. We are going as humans. We tell our story and then we will answer any questions they may have. If we want to, depending on their reactions to our story, we can then, and only then," Kagome glared at Inuyasha, who didn't want to be human for too long, "can we change into our hanyou forms."
Inuyasha grumbled a bit but didn't say anything about it. Actually, he didn't really care as long as he was with Kagome at the time. With that handled, the teenagers and Shippo stood and walked to the door. They stopped when they heard a slightly aggravated mew from behind them. Sango sweatdropped.
"Oh, there you are Kirara. Come on, it's time to go." Kirara sniffed once and then leaped onto Sango's shoulder. Keiko walked out the front door and watched the little group walk away. She waved to them when they stopped and called 'good-bye' before walking down the shrine steps. She sighed happily and walked back into the house. She had so much to plan for those children in the next few days!
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Kagome and Sango paused when they reached the school. Their eyes widened and they gasped. Standing outside the school was a large crowd, along with a few news camera vans.
"Oh, my god!" Kagome breathed. "Wha. what are they all doing here?"
What they didn't know was that someone had videotaped their encounter with Naraku that day and everyone in the world had seen it on the news. Suddenly, they heard Yuki, Eri, Aryumi call out to them.
"Kagome! Sango!"
The entire crowd turned as one and looked at them. Shippo jumped into Kagome's arms in fear and the crowd stared at them. Yuki, Eri, and Aryumi walked up to them.
"Hey, guys." Yuki stated quietly when they reached them. "Umm. there's a podium with a microphone up there with the principal. He told us to bring you up there when you arrived."
Kagome nodded at her friend and took Inuyasha's hand. The group walked through a silent crowd up to the podium. Whatever it was that Kagome had expected, it wasn't this. The principal walked up to the podium and spoke into the microphone.
"Ladies and gentlemen. We are here today to hear from these young men and women about what happened last week here at the school. As most of you know from the tape, we had a battle here involving these people. Now I will turn over the microphone to one of them for an explanation."
He turned around and Kagome stepped forward. All was still silent as she blew out a pent up breath. She looked around at the crowd.
"Hello, as most of you know I am Kagome Higarashi. I am a student at this school. Ummm. I think everyone should know the legend by now. But here is the actual version of it." Kagome giggled nervously. "Well, on my fifteenth birthday something very strange happened to me." Kagome spoke quietly and their story was told in an amazingly short amount of time. ". we have used the jewel, so it can harm no one ever again. And now here we are."
Kagome stopped talking and looked out over the crowd again. "Does anyone have any questions?"
Several hands flew up and Kagome pointed at one. "Yes, hi, I am from Tokyo Newspaper. So, you actually traveled through time to the feudal era?"
Kagome opened her mouth to respond when Inuyasha growled out, "Dammit, she just told you that she does! Why are you asking something you already know?"
Kagome glared at Inuyasha, but secretly she was thankful and he knew it. She didn't want to keep answering the same thing over and over. She turned back to the crowd. "Actually, he is right, I don't want to be asked things that I have already answered with my story. And please don't forget that you can ask anyone of us anything else."
Another newscaster raised her hand. "You said you used the jewel. What was your wish?"
"I wished that we would all be together forever and that changed us all. We can all change between being human as we are now to hanyou and even to being full demon."
"Can we see you change into a hanyou?" Kagome nodded and looked at her friends. They spoke the words and were soon in their hanyou forms.
There was a slight murmuring from the crowd. Several people backed away, but one student stepped forward. It was Tsuno, Hojo's friend. "You have been traveling together for a year, right? How is it that you all stayed together through everything?"
Sango spoke up. "After my family was killed by Naraku, I had no where else to turn. Kagome, Miroku, Shippo, and even Inuyasha all helped me through my healing. They became my family soon after. I would never leave them now."
Another person spoke up, a girl none of them knew. "I have a question for the monk! When you had your 'wind tunnel' thingy, you kept asking girls to bear your child, didn't it bother you that if you actually got someone to say yes, that you would be leaving her with your child after you died?"
Miroku smiled slightly. "Yes, it did bother me. If I had had a choice in all this I would never have even considered doing it, but I was afraid that my wind tunnel would consume me before Naraku was brought to justice. I didn't want that either."
A small girl walked forward. "Umm. Shippo? You lost your family, but it wasn't from Naraku, right? Why'd you stay with them? I mean technically your father was killed for the jewel shard that he got when she," the girl pointed at Kagome, "broke the jewel."
Kagome paled. She had never thought of it that way before. Shippo's voice rang out through her mind as he answered the little girl. "It wasn't Mama's fault. At the time she was trying to stop a bad crow demon that had tried to steal a little boy to eat. I lived in a battle filled world, at any time someone could have come along and killed them."
Kagome hugged the small kitsune to her. She looked at the crowd and she spoke quietly. "If it wasn't for me and my little family here, our world would be a very different place. You all saw Naraku when we fought, what you didn't see were the people he killed in the past."
One tall man pushed his way through the crowd. "Yes, he was evil! He was a demon, how couldn't he be evil? Every story you hear about a demon is one where that demon is killing humans. All demons are the same, evil!"
Kagome gasped. "Not all demons are evil. Inuyasha was never evil, we are not evil now."
The man was not listening to her though. He was waving his hands over his head and yelling at the crowd. "Do you want these. monsters to come after you? They will! They will come after you children! Everyone knows demons only like to eat human flesh!"
There was a snort from the back of the crowd. Everyone turned and stared at a young woman and the tall white haired gentleman next to her.
"Do you seriously believe that demons have nothing better to do than eat people?" The woman laughed. "Please! If demons wanted to prove their superiority, then they wouldn't have hidden themselves from humans all these years."
The expressionless man spoke. "It has been a very long time since us demons have wanted anything but a normal life. Ever since Naraku's death we have lived quietly, letting ourselves become myths."
Inuyasha and company walked through the crowd. Inuyasha stared at his brother. "Sesshomaru? What are you.?"
Sesshomaru smiled. "Hello, brother dear. You already know my mate, Rin."
Rin smiled. "So, are you mates yet? Did my little meddling that day prove something to you?" She giggled slightly.
Suddenly, the man pulled out a gun. "Disgusting creatures! I knew about you all along! Your kind killed my wife! And they'll only go after my child next!"
Everyone stilled and Kagome turned back to him. "I'm sorry for your loss, sir, but how can you blame an entire species on one bad person? If that was the case then the human race is very bad itself. As I said before not all of us are evil, but there are those who are evil." Kagome looked at the little girl standing behind the man. It was the same little girl who had asked Shippo a question earlier. What she saw now surprised her. On top of the little girl's head was now a pair of cat ears. The little girl walked up behind her father and touched his leg.
"Daddy, mama wouldn't want you to harm anyone. I know she never told you the truth about herself or me. but daddy? Do you think she was evil. am I?"
The man dropped down to his knees. He pulled his daughter into his arms. Suddenly, around them several people began to drop their disguises. About half the people in the crowd now were demons or hanyous.
Kagome touched the man's shoulder. "I know it's hard to lose a loved one, but look around you. there are so many of us that we could kill everyone in a heart beat. but we don't. There is no need, we can live together peacefully, just like we always have." Kagome wasn't about to mention to this man that she was as surprised as he that their were demons in this time. She had seriously thought that there were no more. The man looked at her and she could see the pain in his eyes. "Don't harm her memory looking to avenge her against her own people."
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It was later that night when the group was back home that Kagome expressed her surprise.
"I really didn't know demons still existed here anymore. Do you think we can all live together peacefully like I said?"
Inuyasha shrugged and held onto Kagome tighter. "I don't know but we can help people see that demons aren't all that bad."
And they did. For all their years together, Inuyasha, Kagome, Sango, Miroku, Shippo, Kirara, Rin, and even Sesshomaru all worked together to prove that demons and humans could live together in peace and harmony. After them, their children continued their teachings.
The End
I hope you enjoyed my story True Love. Please feel free to comment on anything you like. I know I ended it badly but please don't flame me to hard! I love you all! Ja ne!