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Kagome:0_0 alrighty then......

InuYasha: ::sitting in a corner brooding::

Author: What's wrong with him?

Kagome: I think he's still brooding about the last chapter

Miroku: Yea he still cant believe that im right!

Kagome:........i guess........

Author: ^_~ I think he has other reasons

Kagome: huh?

Author: 'sheesh do I have to spell it out?!'

Alright IM BACK!!!! And I hope that all of my readers had an enjoyable an safe holiday and New Years! Welcome 2004 lmao. Alright ill stop my endless blabbering and go on with the story and I hope you are ready for FLUFFINESS!!!

Everyone: 0_0

Author: I also have a very late Christmas present for all of you at the end of the chapter which I think all of you will enjoy ^___________~

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*Katergator: that's alright trust me I may not be able to update when I have to take my school yearly tests so I totally understand and hats alright, this story isn't about to be deleted form fanfiction.net! Yes Kohaku's death is very important in Miroku's and Sango's relationship. Thanks for your review

*Darkrose2006: Thanks! I hope that your holidays were just as enjoyable!!!

*Just me 17: oh wow! Thank-you so much!!!

*c-dog: of course im going to continue this...im even thinking of a sequel but ill finish this first ^_~ and thank-you so much for you compliment!

*Aries Greymon: your welcome for the cookies.......but have some more lolz. Yes this is were InuYasha if finally pulling out of his depressed stage.......I hope and the bottom is....well....you'll see ^_~

*JoJo10: your welcome ^_^ have another lolz

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"=talking

'=thinking

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Kagome sunk into the relaxing steaming waters of the hot spring sighing with contentment before turning to her friend who was watching her hair flow with the current of the water.

"Sango........." Kagome started unsure of what to say.

"Kagome-Chan........I'll be ok........just give me time to heal a bit that's all" she said answering the question that was boggling Kagome's mind with worry. Kagome nodded and watched Shippo jump in the water with a floaty around his waist and his blue and yellow swim trunks, she laughed when he surfaced a good deal of his hair in front of his face.

"Kagome......what are you going to do now?" Sango asked in a monotone still watching the current.

Kagome sunk deeper into the water pondering, she knew she had to go to the present....but she felt her soul call to the feudal era....it was where her heart was even if it was HER time.

"I still don't know Sango......I belong in the present....but" Kagome smiled and Shippo swam around splashed her with his tail "my soul....and heart.....calls here"

Sango couldn't help but give Kagome a weak smile; she knew that Kagome was struggling to decide. "Why do you need to stay in one time after all of the months you spent here going home and coming back?" Sango asked leaning her head back and observed the canopy of leaves and hung over head.

"Because I can't spend the rest of my life going back and forth, I need to finish school, and....be normal" Kagome said staring that the forest wall across from the spring.

"Your not normal Kagome...no one is.....and if you leave.....you'll make some one very sad" Sango said with defiance with a tad of her old self in the declaration, she shivered slightly and got up while reaching for a towel. "Why don't we head back?".

Kagome nodded and got out to dress with Shippo tagging behind her doing the same.

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InuYasha jumped into the tree watching the direction of which Kagome, Sango, and Shippo went. He still had Miroku's words repeating itself over and over.....he felt like someone revealed something that was there all along. He knew that Kikyo was important but was it his fault that she died? If he was never there wouldn't Naraku still kill her? He felt that the answer was yes. Then he looked at all the times when kagome was there for him and listened to him, putting aside and even embracing the fact that he was a half-demon, she didn't care at all.....definitely different from Kikyo....but then.....how did kagome come to be her resurrection? Once he heard Kaede talking to Kagome going into more detail about resurrections and told her that resurrections are there for the purpose of fulfilling one soul's desire. A resurrection was how one soul can un-do the damage and fulfill fates plan. But for the fact that Kikyo now walked the earth was a problem, that Kikyo wasn't THE Kikyo of fifty years ago, that she was a shell filled with hatred and was technically a ghost that needed to depart back to the beyond.

InuYasha felt very stupid.....but he felt so bad for Kikyo's soul and for the fact that she had to relive in pain. He was blinded by the betrayal and never realized that Kagome was growing and winning his heart.

He still perched on the tree waiting anxiously fro kagome to come home......he needed to talk to her desperately.

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There ya go I hope that this chapter drew some 'awwwwwwwwwwwwwww's from you guys and ::good evil grin on face:: here's your present!!!!!

Author: 'muhahahaha' ::holds a sprig of mistletoe over InuYasha and Kagome's head as they are re-reading her chapter::

Miroku: what is that ::points to the mistletoe::

::InuYasha and Kagome both turn around at Miroku's voice and look up noticing my arm::

Kagome: ::blushing so red that she's starting to rival InuYasha's armor::

InuYasha: what's that?

Kagome: ::whispers something in his ear::

InuYasha: ::blushes then leans over and gives her a sweet semi-long kiss on the lips::

Author, Miroku, Sango: AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!

Kirara: mew!

Shippo: I was wondering how long till they would kiss again......