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"So let me get this straight. There's always been this ghost-like girl watching us? Looking after my sword? Ever since I got it, she's always been there?"
"That would be the case, Inuyasha." Kaede sat making tea. "In fact, I would not be surprised if she was within a short distance of the Tetsusaiga right now."
Miroku, Shippou, and Kagome looked around warily.
"That's a little creepy," Shippou commented.
"Yeah, well. You can't blame her, can you? I think it's almost romantically tragic the way she won't abandon the sword. It's loyalty, full blown loyalty!" Kagome fantasized.
"Actually, I think it's more of a spell binding her to it. She has to follow it, or she'll waste away and die like a mortal," Miroku mused.
"Either way, Inuyasha has the sword back, and things can go on as they always have. And that is: peacefully," Shippou added as he curled up in Kagome's lap to go to sleep.
"Feh. Whether or not she's out there, I'm gonna use this sword to its full potential," Inuyasha stated, finishing the conversation for good.