*Hey peoples! You're correct! Kira Hinigeshi is truly Kojika! Man you're
all so smart! Anyways...here's the next chapter, and the ending for all you
peoples! I hope you like it! I think it's a bit long, but I had to include
everything I could remember from the story. This is my favorite chapter of
the entire set. Enjoy!*
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Epilogue
I couldn't help but smile at Kagome's antics. Yes...it had been years since I had seen her...five hundred to be exact...but now the promise that Inuyasha had made me accept was over...at least it was almost. I still had to wake him up for Kagome...so that they could live together...and tell them of their friends' progress...
How Inuyasha found me...I had no idea...
I had been in a village...a good distance from Kaede's village, walking with a straw hat on my head, and a new weapon on my back. My father's Dragon Eye was around my neck glittering it's beautiful green.
Then I found him...and it reminded me of the first time I saw him...only then the people of his village had been trying to kill him...
Now he walked amongst them...as if he was just like them...one of them...
There was no one with him...no one following him or leading him anywhere...
It was just him...
"I need your help..." he whispered...looking at me with his golden eyes.
"What kind of help?" I asked.
And he told me.
Now here I sit, talking with the woman he loved, Kikyo's reincarnation Kagome...and she asked who I was.
What was I to answer?
Would I say that I was this Kira Hinigeshi that everyone around me knew me as? No. I had lived another five hundred years...keeping Inuyasha's body with me...hiding it from the people around so that they wouldn't become scared by his appearance.
I made much money in the time, and now I was the owner of a great antique shop...or should I say many around the world.
I took in the expensive old antiques...and sold them for good prices...I auctioned them... and then bought new ones with the money.
I had bought various different homes...castles and things...and now I was once more the Demon of my lands...the Southern lands...
"It's me, Kojika." I told her sweetly.
She stared at me with disbelief, and I had to take my old shape again just to convince her of who I was.
"Kojika!" She replied, hugging me happily.
I was glad to see her again as well.
"You look just like you did when you disappeared. Then again...you are just as you were when you disappeared. It's only been a few days for you." I joked.
She laughed, wiping away new tears.
"Here...let me wake the sleepy head up." I said with a smile.
I spoke a low spell, one I had learned years ago, and at the end, clicked my fingers.
Inuyasha's eyes sprang open at the click and he sat up, rubbing his eyes like a child would.
"Where am I?" He asked looking.
He stopped when he saw Kagome.
Instantly he grabbed her and embraced her in a warm hug.
Then there were kisses and more hugging, and it took quite an effort to break them apart so I could tell them the information I was sure they really wanted to know.
"Hey guys...you'll have plenty of time for that later... I'm sure you want to know about you're friends right?"
"Yes!" They acknowledged together, separating to sit side by side, an arm around each other's waist.
"Okay then, ask me about any one of them...and I'll tell you."
"Shippo?" Kagome asked. Inuyasha nodded his agreement.
"About five hundred years ago, he was adopted by Sango and Miroku and he grew up as their child. Then, I think about a century ago, he met the beautiful Jani Ying, a human actress from China. They married, and now a days...Shippo is the demon lord of the Eastern lands I do believe."
"Demon lord of the eastern lands?" Inuyasha asked.
"Yep. His father was before him and Shippo never knew. Now he's taken over his father's title and owns the leading manufacturer of children's toys. He owns toy factories all over the world."
"Sounds like he hasn't lost his childish ways." Kagome laughed softly.
"Yes...and now he has about five children and many grand children with his demonic blood. His children are hanyou's like you Inuyasha, and his grandchildren are mostly a fourth of a demon."
"Well..." Kagome replied with a smile.
"What about Miroku and Sango?" Inuyasha asked curiously.
"Well...since they married and adopted Shippo, they took on his blood to where they became nearly hanyou's themselves. They're still alive, but they look rather old and withered and live in a special home on Shippo's money, where they're awaiting their long awaited deaths."
"Oh..." Kagome sighed soflty.
"Don't feel bad for them. They've had a happy life. Around five hundred years ago they had over twelve children, in which were taught both their tricks. Sango started a demon exterminating village and Miroku became a writer for many of the scripts of the old days that are being translated these days. We'll just say that not many of the children followed in the footsteps of their lecherous father."
All three of them laughed at that.
"How about Kouga?" Kagome asked curiously.
"Why you asking about him?" Inuyasha implied.
"I'm curious to if he ever found someone to love?" Kagome asked with a smile.
"Actually...he did..."
"Really!" Both of them shouted, not believing their ears.
I couldn't help but laugh at this myself...but Kouga really had gotten over Kagome.
"Strangely enough, he found Kagura and the two of them fell in love in strange ways. They ganged together and became top teachers of samurai in the feudal era. Nowadays, I believe they have a small school for the training of body guards. Some of their body guards have come to be excellent, many protecting the emperor of Japan right now. They had a few children, but not many."
"Well...I guess everyone should have love..." Kagome replied with a chuckle. "I just never expected that kind of pairing."
"Yeah...well...Kanna...Kagura's younger sister...no one ever heard of her again...I had trouble finding her...but I guess we should be happy that she isn't Naraku's servant any more...She became a fortune teller and nowadays she travels from place to place, showing people who they truly are through her mirror."
"I'm curious." Inuyasha asked.
"Yes?" I wondered.
"What ever happened to Kikyo? Where is she?"
"Oh Kikyo...she's no longer with the living. A good time ago she got caught up in Salem during the Salem Witch Trials and was tried as a witch. You know that little test they do on people to see if their witches. When they cut the persons arm to see if they bleed and if they don't their witches. They were quite surprised when they only found mud and leaves and souls coming from Kikyo, so they burned her alive. Strangely, she didn't fight it. She wanted to die. So she's gone now. Oh...and there was just one other person I thought you'd like to hear about." I smiled happily.
"Who?" Kagome asked with curiosity. Inuyasha's eyes asked me the same thing.
"Sesshomaru."
"Really...what's happened to him?" Inuyasha asked.
"Well..." I began with a smile. "Sesshomaru now is the largest manufacturer of Ramen ever known. You know that kind called Maru-chan?"
"Yeah...it's my favorite kind." Inuyasha replied, licking his lips as he thought about the delicious noodle delight.
"Well...that's Sesshomaru's brand. Think about it...Maru...Sesshomaru...Maru is a part of his name." I said with a laugh.
"Oh yeah!" Kagome laughed.
"What?! No kidding! Dang...I've been eating Sesshomaru's ramen the whole time I was in the feudal era. That's weird." Inuyasha nearly freaked out, but he regained his calm, and actually laughed about it.
"What about Jaken, and the girl that traveled with them...Rin?" Kagome asked.
"Well...Jaken is still Sesshomaru's servant, only now he's richer, better cared for, and is Sesshomaru's top adviser and secretary. He takes care of the money and balances, and watches over the factories doings. Rin on the other hand, was adopted as Sesshomaru's daughter, and is now a kindergarten teacher for a special school somewhere here in Japan. Her coworkers know about how long she's lived...but they keep it secret because they're her friends and she's such a successful teacher! She also met and married someone I'm sure you've been acquainted with."
"Who?" Kagome asked.
"Kohaku...Sango's brother. They came together, now a lot older, and got married. How Kohaku managed to survive these many years...I still don't know? But I have the impression that Naraku left some of his blood in him, in order to control him, and so gave him a longer life span."
"Wow..." Inuyasha mumbled in surprise. "I never thought of those two getting together either."
"A lot has changed in so little time!" Kagome exclaimed happily.
"You've got that right!" Inuyasha replied.
"Well...I believe that is all you requested Inuyasha...Am I correct?" I implied, watching him with my patient brown eyes.
"Well...there is one more thing." Inuyasha requested.
"Yes."
"How did you beat Mikoto?"
"Well...now that's a story in it's self. You see...around the beginning of the battle, he had stuck a jewel of Dragon Poison into my stomach...for I guess he thought I was too powerful for him to fight fairly or something or other. Anyways...During the fight, and around the end, I managed to take the poisonous ball out of my belly and stuck it into his chest. Then, I took the Dragon Eye from him and tried to use it to transform into my true form, of the ancient dragon. He was ready for this however, and took the stone back from me before I had enough energy. I tried to transform, but upon taking the form, I became too weak and de-transformed again. Isn't that heroic? Well, he took his form, and we fought, in which many of the little tremors I'm sure you felt originated from that..."
"We didn't get many tremors. In fact, there was only one when Midoriko was controlling Kagome's body. That sent us toward you." Inuyasha explained.
"Well... There were others...I guess you heard the one coming from when Mikoto fell from mid air. You see, the poison began to sap his energy away and he had been flying at the same time, so he fell from the sky and landed, crushing many of his bones."
"But aren't demons bones stronger than humans?" Kagome asked, a little confused. She had it in mind that a demon couldn't break his neck simply by falling from a distance.
"Anything can break when dropped from the distance he was flying." I continued. "But it wasn't only that. A number of things caused him to fall...my fathers Dragon Eye for instance. It refused Mikoto's evil deed and ended up killing him because of it, causing the poison to spread over his body far faster than even for a human. It helped the poison. Mikoto fell and was dead when he hit the ground."
"Oh yeah...there was something I wanted to ask you." Inuyasha spoke seriously now. I wondered what he wanted to say. "Was Midoriko really your mother?"
Kagome gasped at this, and stared at me, wondering in her thoughts about how that had come about. I smiled, and answered their wondering eyes.
"Yes...Midoriko is my mother. You recollect how I told you that my mother was a miko and my father was the greatest Dragon of my people?"
Miko and hanyou nodded.
"Well...the reasoning for that, was that Midoriko, at first, had been a mere miko, born to protect her home and her people. She didn't have the extraordinary powers that she does now. The fact was, that when she was a teenager, she was gullible, and even a little clumsy. Midoriko tried to be friends with everything, and because she was betrayed so much, the Shikon no Tama formed. It's strange...A better explanation would be to say that her soul could no longer take the abuse her gullible mind placed on it, so it began to harden against everything else, and soon formed her soul into a tiny ball in her heart. Because her soul was so neatly squeezed together, it left room in her body to open up new powers and different techniques. It is similar with dragons, only age and experience does it for us, not so much the emotions felt. She opened up powers at a young age that even the elderly mikos hadn't been able to do in their prime. Soon, she had the power to purify demon's hearts, and was known to do so every time a demon tried to deceive her. She made up for gullibility with purification to put it shortly. This change in power is also similar to Kikyo. When she was revived, she only had hatred, so her soul too, or what was left of it, rolled into a ball in her body and she was able to call out little soul stealers from her own body. This is what makes mikos different from the regular human or demon. Well, she came upon a demon she could not purify, my father the Demon Lord of the Eastern Lands Hitoro Kazume. He already had a good heart, and so when she thought he was trying to deceive her, she couldn't purify him. They got close, and fell in love. My father Hitoro took her home and married her, even though the other dragons dispised mikos, and I was born. But there was a corruption at home, and they sentenced Midoriko to death. Apparently they thought she was after the Dragon Eye, and so they convicted her of deception, and in an attempt to save her life, my father snuck her out. I never really knew her, except for a few visits to where she was, but she was killed by a hoard of demons when I was five. My father remained to care for me until about two hundred sum years later, when Mikoto fooled me and killed my father, taking the throne and the Demon Eye, and outcasting me from my people. The dragons didn't mind. I was nothing but scum to them, born to be nothing but a nuiscance. Now I'm more powerful than any of them have ever been and I'm the Lady of their people."
"You haven't married yet right?" Inuyasha asked, curious.
"No...I haven't...and I don't believe I will. I'll probably adopt or something. Perhaps another girl perhaps. Oh! And I wanted you to see someone that's been waiting patiently to say hello. Come out...come on...it's okay...you remember them right?"
Inuyasha and Kagome's eyes fluttered towards the tiny little red dragon that floated out, with the beautiful rippling flame for a tail and hair style, and the precious blue eyes their little friend had always had.
"Kazu!" Kagome shouted gleefully, running out to pet the perky little dragon. Kazu responded with a happy chirp.
"How did you revive him?" Inuyasha asked, also patting the dragons head.
"Well, when Kikyo passed away, his soul came back to me. Come on, he is a part of me! I recreated his body and now they're all back."
"Oh...and where is the little black dragon. Moru I think his name was...where is he, and how come he survived when his brothers and sisters did not?" Kagome asked patiently.
"Well, Moru's off hiding in the walls around here. I doubt you'll see him. He doesn't even like visitors he knows, and he hates Kazu. As for the fact of why he survived when the others died, that comes from the fact that I created him from a soul I found wandering along the river. I don't know who's it was, but it was certainly vengeful to the world. Now it's Moru, although he's actually kind of sweet when it comes to a serious situation."
"Oh." Inuyasha replied, sniffing around. He couldn't find the little black dragon anywhere.
I smiled as I watched him.
Yes...he was just the way I had seen him so many years ago. Just as inquisitive of his environment as I remembered him.
"Hey Kojika...?" Inuyasha began.
"Yes."
"I wanted to become human using the shikon no tama. Is it possible for it to do that?"
"Very." I answered him. "Very possible. My mother's still trapped in there you remember, along with the demons she had to fight when her soul left her body. Once you use it for good, the souls will be released."
"How do I do that?" Kagome asked, after getting over her surprise of Inuyasha's inquiry.
"Well...you both have to touch it, and then you both simply wish for him to be human at the same time. But don't keep your eyes open...it ruins it." I told them, with a little smile. So Inuyasha had changed his ways...I knew he would. He said he had wanted to be a demon, but after experiencing it for himself, he knew how dangerous being that could be. Yes...I had been watching him for a while after he was freed from the God tree, and I knew about his little demon transformations. I was just thankful he hadn't been forced to take a full demon form in the entire process. Now...he could actually escape it.
"Okay!" Inuyasha and Kagome chorused. They stood opposite each other, and held the jewel, Kagome's keeping it up, and Inuyasha's covering it. They closed their eyes, and began to whisper under their breath.
I smiled as the silver locks on Inuyasha's head vanished and the ears shrunk into normal human ones. His golden eyes became darker, fuller, and violet in color, and his sharp talon like nails shrank into little human nails. Even his fangs shrank a little, but not too much, for he was a meat eater.
When they opened their eyes, Kagome dropped the empty jewel and ran into Inuyasha's arms, both of them happy at the fact that it had worked. I was sort of glad that they were so happy, but was also wishing that they would break it up...because the moment was becoming way to mushy.
In a minute, they would have started kissing.
I stopped paying attention to them however, when I heard the crash of the jewel, and the white essence that was Midoriko's soul floating up to the ceiling. It stopped though, before going through the wall, to call something to it. I was surprised when Moru jumped out of the wall and followed her. Kagome and Inuyasha didn't notice this, but I did. Being a dragon made one attentive...especially one that was over a millennia in age. I realized then, that even after Midoriko had died, my father still loved her, and she to him. Moru...believe it or not, had been my father, recreated by me into the body of a dragon. He winked at me and floated off, clicking to me happily, that he thanked me for reuniting him and his love. I smiled, and clicked back, that it wasn't me but the new miko before me.
He never replied.
I gave Kagome and Inuyasha a little more time for them, and turned to pet Kazu affectionately. He looked at me with glinting eyes, and then smiled the only way a dragon can.
"You knew the entire time who Moru was didn't you?" I told him in clicks in chirps.
He didn't reply, only chirped little laughs of happiness at Inuyasha and Kagome's closeness.
I shrugged and turned around, watching them myself. I only just barely caught the little wink that Kazu showed off, showing that he had indeed known that Moru was my father the entire time.
You see, I had never really gotten to talk with Moru, because he constantly left away from me, and denied my company. I figured now, that it was because I looked so much like my mother that he couldn't bare to see it.
Well...there wasn't too much happening here. Kagome and Inuyasha thanked me for all I had done, leaving out to visit with their old friends. I gave them addresses and money of course to find there friends, and received letters about what had happened when they couldn't visit me.
They told me that Shippo had nearly fainted with surprise when they showed up to say hello, and how his children had gotten close to them immediately. They said every child looked just like Shippo did when he was younger.
They found Miroku and Sango as well, and commented on how old they looked. But they were happy of course, and they even said that Miroku hadn't lost his lecherous touch...only now, the only person he ever patted with a perverted mind was Sango.
They said they had run into Kouga and Kagura while they were training and had actually had a discussion with them. Kouga laughed at how silly he had been when he was little, and Kagura remained the same cold hearted person...only now she was with Kouga.
Inuyasha even got to stay for a day of training, and nearly beat up on one of the students when they hit him too hard during combat practice. He insisted that it was an accident, and Kouga laughed and said that he still had the instinct of a warrior in him.
Sesshomaru was next, although they were a little reluctant to meet him. In fact, it was Sesshomaru that found them...saying that he was a totally different person now because of age...life...and ramen.
He gave Inuyasha a whole new wardrobe, and the both of them a mansion to live in when they married. Jaken still hadn't let his grudge go for all the times Inuyasha and Kagome had beaten him up during battle or any other time, but he was friendlier all the same. Sesshomaru also gave Inuyasha a job as a well paid Ramen taster, tasting the new brands of ramen that came out in the line. Go figure.
Rin came to visit also, with Kohaku at her side, and Kagome had actually been able to have an educated conversation with them. Then Kohaku and Inuyasha had sparred in the back yard, and Inuyasha had gotten his butt whooped by an older and more experienced Kohaku. He didn't hold a grudge over it though. Kanna they never saw...for she avoided them at all costs, and so they ended their quests then, marrying and settling down in the mansion they had been granted.
Kagome became a history teacher (go figure) and became well known for her expertise in the Feudal Era of Japan. She often talked as if she had been there, and the students liked to call her the History Higurashi. The students were very fond of her though, and often asked her questions and what it was like for men and women then when demons still roamed.
Inuyasha and Kagome had a few kids...not too many but Kagome didn't know if she could still handle a crowd, and they grew up to be powerful and smart people.
It's not really known how many there were, or what they did, but they became quite famous for what they knew
As for me, I remained in the antique shop business, and a few years after freeing Inuyasha from the spell, I adopted a small demon baby that I named Midoriko after my mother. When I passed away later, she became the leader of the Dragon people...what was left of them though. Many no longer became full demons after they were born.
So...you can say as a wanderer I tried to run away from my past, but found that I had to fight it in order to be free of my binds. As a Dragon, I became wise, and taught many towards the right direction, such as Inuyasha, even though it took him a little longer to conduct what I taught. And as a woman...I finally found my peace from my almost immortal life to die in happiness...a Dragon amongst her friends and family.
Okay...a little too mushy I know...but true... And now you know of how Inuyasha's quests came...and don't think the destruction of Naraku was the only one.
There were many others, even before that that I chose not to mention for they had no importance to this story.
But now you can see that over time many things happen, and even some wicked people can change. So don't think the world is eternally evil...
Everyone can have a good side...
Some a bad...
But don't narrow yourself down to just one person...
After all...
I am a mentor...
I am a miko...
I am...the Dragon Demon.
The End
*So, what do you think! I like the ending. And I'm sorry if Inuyasha seems to act a little weird in this chapter...but I just couldn't help it. It just seemed that maybe I should alter his character just a little in order to make him a little more aggressive to the questions. I even doubt that in the series he would ever forget Kikyo, but at least he wouldn't always be running to her side as long as he had Kagome. Oh well, review me on what you think...and I'll do my best to put up another good story when I've thought of one. There is one that I might finish, which is a Yu Yu Hakusho tournament thing, in which they have to team up with the Spirit Detective from America (so far it seems that Yusuke only defends Japan, so why can't there be a different detective in another place?). I've even got another in mind which follows similar tracks, only there is a new enemy on the rise and the Yu Yu Hakusho team get to group up with the Spirit Detectives from all around the world. There's one from Russia, India, Africa, Australia, China, America, Alaska, etc. Let's just say its supposed to be funny and the Yu Yu team learn a whole bunch of new tricks from their buddies around the world. I'm thinking of making the India girl fight a Snake youkai and charm or something, but that's only an idea. Oh well! Tell me what you think I should write! I need a few new ideas to work with! Thanks for reading the story! See yah later...! ^.~ *
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Epilogue
I couldn't help but smile at Kagome's antics. Yes...it had been years since I had seen her...five hundred to be exact...but now the promise that Inuyasha had made me accept was over...at least it was almost. I still had to wake him up for Kagome...so that they could live together...and tell them of their friends' progress...
How Inuyasha found me...I had no idea...
I had been in a village...a good distance from Kaede's village, walking with a straw hat on my head, and a new weapon on my back. My father's Dragon Eye was around my neck glittering it's beautiful green.
Then I found him...and it reminded me of the first time I saw him...only then the people of his village had been trying to kill him...
Now he walked amongst them...as if he was just like them...one of them...
There was no one with him...no one following him or leading him anywhere...
It was just him...
"I need your help..." he whispered...looking at me with his golden eyes.
"What kind of help?" I asked.
And he told me.
Now here I sit, talking with the woman he loved, Kikyo's reincarnation Kagome...and she asked who I was.
What was I to answer?
Would I say that I was this Kira Hinigeshi that everyone around me knew me as? No. I had lived another five hundred years...keeping Inuyasha's body with me...hiding it from the people around so that they wouldn't become scared by his appearance.
I made much money in the time, and now I was the owner of a great antique shop...or should I say many around the world.
I took in the expensive old antiques...and sold them for good prices...I auctioned them... and then bought new ones with the money.
I had bought various different homes...castles and things...and now I was once more the Demon of my lands...the Southern lands...
"It's me, Kojika." I told her sweetly.
She stared at me with disbelief, and I had to take my old shape again just to convince her of who I was.
"Kojika!" She replied, hugging me happily.
I was glad to see her again as well.
"You look just like you did when you disappeared. Then again...you are just as you were when you disappeared. It's only been a few days for you." I joked.
She laughed, wiping away new tears.
"Here...let me wake the sleepy head up." I said with a smile.
I spoke a low spell, one I had learned years ago, and at the end, clicked my fingers.
Inuyasha's eyes sprang open at the click and he sat up, rubbing his eyes like a child would.
"Where am I?" He asked looking.
He stopped when he saw Kagome.
Instantly he grabbed her and embraced her in a warm hug.
Then there were kisses and more hugging, and it took quite an effort to break them apart so I could tell them the information I was sure they really wanted to know.
"Hey guys...you'll have plenty of time for that later... I'm sure you want to know about you're friends right?"
"Yes!" They acknowledged together, separating to sit side by side, an arm around each other's waist.
"Okay then, ask me about any one of them...and I'll tell you."
"Shippo?" Kagome asked. Inuyasha nodded his agreement.
"About five hundred years ago, he was adopted by Sango and Miroku and he grew up as their child. Then, I think about a century ago, he met the beautiful Jani Ying, a human actress from China. They married, and now a days...Shippo is the demon lord of the Eastern lands I do believe."
"Demon lord of the eastern lands?" Inuyasha asked.
"Yep. His father was before him and Shippo never knew. Now he's taken over his father's title and owns the leading manufacturer of children's toys. He owns toy factories all over the world."
"Sounds like he hasn't lost his childish ways." Kagome laughed softly.
"Yes...and now he has about five children and many grand children with his demonic blood. His children are hanyou's like you Inuyasha, and his grandchildren are mostly a fourth of a demon."
"Well..." Kagome replied with a smile.
"What about Miroku and Sango?" Inuyasha asked curiously.
"Well...since they married and adopted Shippo, they took on his blood to where they became nearly hanyou's themselves. They're still alive, but they look rather old and withered and live in a special home on Shippo's money, where they're awaiting their long awaited deaths."
"Oh..." Kagome sighed soflty.
"Don't feel bad for them. They've had a happy life. Around five hundred years ago they had over twelve children, in which were taught both their tricks. Sango started a demon exterminating village and Miroku became a writer for many of the scripts of the old days that are being translated these days. We'll just say that not many of the children followed in the footsteps of their lecherous father."
All three of them laughed at that.
"How about Kouga?" Kagome asked curiously.
"Why you asking about him?" Inuyasha implied.
"I'm curious to if he ever found someone to love?" Kagome asked with a smile.
"Actually...he did..."
"Really!" Both of them shouted, not believing their ears.
I couldn't help but laugh at this myself...but Kouga really had gotten over Kagome.
"Strangely enough, he found Kagura and the two of them fell in love in strange ways. They ganged together and became top teachers of samurai in the feudal era. Nowadays, I believe they have a small school for the training of body guards. Some of their body guards have come to be excellent, many protecting the emperor of Japan right now. They had a few children, but not many."
"Well...I guess everyone should have love..." Kagome replied with a chuckle. "I just never expected that kind of pairing."
"Yeah...well...Kanna...Kagura's younger sister...no one ever heard of her again...I had trouble finding her...but I guess we should be happy that she isn't Naraku's servant any more...She became a fortune teller and nowadays she travels from place to place, showing people who they truly are through her mirror."
"I'm curious." Inuyasha asked.
"Yes?" I wondered.
"What ever happened to Kikyo? Where is she?"
"Oh Kikyo...she's no longer with the living. A good time ago she got caught up in Salem during the Salem Witch Trials and was tried as a witch. You know that little test they do on people to see if their witches. When they cut the persons arm to see if they bleed and if they don't their witches. They were quite surprised when they only found mud and leaves and souls coming from Kikyo, so they burned her alive. Strangely, she didn't fight it. She wanted to die. So she's gone now. Oh...and there was just one other person I thought you'd like to hear about." I smiled happily.
"Who?" Kagome asked with curiosity. Inuyasha's eyes asked me the same thing.
"Sesshomaru."
"Really...what's happened to him?" Inuyasha asked.
"Well..." I began with a smile. "Sesshomaru now is the largest manufacturer of Ramen ever known. You know that kind called Maru-chan?"
"Yeah...it's my favorite kind." Inuyasha replied, licking his lips as he thought about the delicious noodle delight.
"Well...that's Sesshomaru's brand. Think about it...Maru...Sesshomaru...Maru is a part of his name." I said with a laugh.
"Oh yeah!" Kagome laughed.
"What?! No kidding! Dang...I've been eating Sesshomaru's ramen the whole time I was in the feudal era. That's weird." Inuyasha nearly freaked out, but he regained his calm, and actually laughed about it.
"What about Jaken, and the girl that traveled with them...Rin?" Kagome asked.
"Well...Jaken is still Sesshomaru's servant, only now he's richer, better cared for, and is Sesshomaru's top adviser and secretary. He takes care of the money and balances, and watches over the factories doings. Rin on the other hand, was adopted as Sesshomaru's daughter, and is now a kindergarten teacher for a special school somewhere here in Japan. Her coworkers know about how long she's lived...but they keep it secret because they're her friends and she's such a successful teacher! She also met and married someone I'm sure you've been acquainted with."
"Who?" Kagome asked.
"Kohaku...Sango's brother. They came together, now a lot older, and got married. How Kohaku managed to survive these many years...I still don't know? But I have the impression that Naraku left some of his blood in him, in order to control him, and so gave him a longer life span."
"Wow..." Inuyasha mumbled in surprise. "I never thought of those two getting together either."
"A lot has changed in so little time!" Kagome exclaimed happily.
"You've got that right!" Inuyasha replied.
"Well...I believe that is all you requested Inuyasha...Am I correct?" I implied, watching him with my patient brown eyes.
"Well...there is one more thing." Inuyasha requested.
"Yes."
"How did you beat Mikoto?"
"Well...now that's a story in it's self. You see...around the beginning of the battle, he had stuck a jewel of Dragon Poison into my stomach...for I guess he thought I was too powerful for him to fight fairly or something or other. Anyways...During the fight, and around the end, I managed to take the poisonous ball out of my belly and stuck it into his chest. Then, I took the Dragon Eye from him and tried to use it to transform into my true form, of the ancient dragon. He was ready for this however, and took the stone back from me before I had enough energy. I tried to transform, but upon taking the form, I became too weak and de-transformed again. Isn't that heroic? Well, he took his form, and we fought, in which many of the little tremors I'm sure you felt originated from that..."
"We didn't get many tremors. In fact, there was only one when Midoriko was controlling Kagome's body. That sent us toward you." Inuyasha explained.
"Well... There were others...I guess you heard the one coming from when Mikoto fell from mid air. You see, the poison began to sap his energy away and he had been flying at the same time, so he fell from the sky and landed, crushing many of his bones."
"But aren't demons bones stronger than humans?" Kagome asked, a little confused. She had it in mind that a demon couldn't break his neck simply by falling from a distance.
"Anything can break when dropped from the distance he was flying." I continued. "But it wasn't only that. A number of things caused him to fall...my fathers Dragon Eye for instance. It refused Mikoto's evil deed and ended up killing him because of it, causing the poison to spread over his body far faster than even for a human. It helped the poison. Mikoto fell and was dead when he hit the ground."
"Oh yeah...there was something I wanted to ask you." Inuyasha spoke seriously now. I wondered what he wanted to say. "Was Midoriko really your mother?"
Kagome gasped at this, and stared at me, wondering in her thoughts about how that had come about. I smiled, and answered their wondering eyes.
"Yes...Midoriko is my mother. You recollect how I told you that my mother was a miko and my father was the greatest Dragon of my people?"
Miko and hanyou nodded.
"Well...the reasoning for that, was that Midoriko, at first, had been a mere miko, born to protect her home and her people. She didn't have the extraordinary powers that she does now. The fact was, that when she was a teenager, she was gullible, and even a little clumsy. Midoriko tried to be friends with everything, and because she was betrayed so much, the Shikon no Tama formed. It's strange...A better explanation would be to say that her soul could no longer take the abuse her gullible mind placed on it, so it began to harden against everything else, and soon formed her soul into a tiny ball in her heart. Because her soul was so neatly squeezed together, it left room in her body to open up new powers and different techniques. It is similar with dragons, only age and experience does it for us, not so much the emotions felt. She opened up powers at a young age that even the elderly mikos hadn't been able to do in their prime. Soon, she had the power to purify demon's hearts, and was known to do so every time a demon tried to deceive her. She made up for gullibility with purification to put it shortly. This change in power is also similar to Kikyo. When she was revived, she only had hatred, so her soul too, or what was left of it, rolled into a ball in her body and she was able to call out little soul stealers from her own body. This is what makes mikos different from the regular human or demon. Well, she came upon a demon she could not purify, my father the Demon Lord of the Eastern Lands Hitoro Kazume. He already had a good heart, and so when she thought he was trying to deceive her, she couldn't purify him. They got close, and fell in love. My father Hitoro took her home and married her, even though the other dragons dispised mikos, and I was born. But there was a corruption at home, and they sentenced Midoriko to death. Apparently they thought she was after the Dragon Eye, and so they convicted her of deception, and in an attempt to save her life, my father snuck her out. I never really knew her, except for a few visits to where she was, but she was killed by a hoard of demons when I was five. My father remained to care for me until about two hundred sum years later, when Mikoto fooled me and killed my father, taking the throne and the Demon Eye, and outcasting me from my people. The dragons didn't mind. I was nothing but scum to them, born to be nothing but a nuiscance. Now I'm more powerful than any of them have ever been and I'm the Lady of their people."
"You haven't married yet right?" Inuyasha asked, curious.
"No...I haven't...and I don't believe I will. I'll probably adopt or something. Perhaps another girl perhaps. Oh! And I wanted you to see someone that's been waiting patiently to say hello. Come out...come on...it's okay...you remember them right?"
Inuyasha and Kagome's eyes fluttered towards the tiny little red dragon that floated out, with the beautiful rippling flame for a tail and hair style, and the precious blue eyes their little friend had always had.
"Kazu!" Kagome shouted gleefully, running out to pet the perky little dragon. Kazu responded with a happy chirp.
"How did you revive him?" Inuyasha asked, also patting the dragons head.
"Well, when Kikyo passed away, his soul came back to me. Come on, he is a part of me! I recreated his body and now they're all back."
"Oh...and where is the little black dragon. Moru I think his name was...where is he, and how come he survived when his brothers and sisters did not?" Kagome asked patiently.
"Well, Moru's off hiding in the walls around here. I doubt you'll see him. He doesn't even like visitors he knows, and he hates Kazu. As for the fact of why he survived when the others died, that comes from the fact that I created him from a soul I found wandering along the river. I don't know who's it was, but it was certainly vengeful to the world. Now it's Moru, although he's actually kind of sweet when it comes to a serious situation."
"Oh." Inuyasha replied, sniffing around. He couldn't find the little black dragon anywhere.
I smiled as I watched him.
Yes...he was just the way I had seen him so many years ago. Just as inquisitive of his environment as I remembered him.
"Hey Kojika...?" Inuyasha began.
"Yes."
"I wanted to become human using the shikon no tama. Is it possible for it to do that?"
"Very." I answered him. "Very possible. My mother's still trapped in there you remember, along with the demons she had to fight when her soul left her body. Once you use it for good, the souls will be released."
"How do I do that?" Kagome asked, after getting over her surprise of Inuyasha's inquiry.
"Well...you both have to touch it, and then you both simply wish for him to be human at the same time. But don't keep your eyes open...it ruins it." I told them, with a little smile. So Inuyasha had changed his ways...I knew he would. He said he had wanted to be a demon, but after experiencing it for himself, he knew how dangerous being that could be. Yes...I had been watching him for a while after he was freed from the God tree, and I knew about his little demon transformations. I was just thankful he hadn't been forced to take a full demon form in the entire process. Now...he could actually escape it.
"Okay!" Inuyasha and Kagome chorused. They stood opposite each other, and held the jewel, Kagome's keeping it up, and Inuyasha's covering it. They closed their eyes, and began to whisper under their breath.
I smiled as the silver locks on Inuyasha's head vanished and the ears shrunk into normal human ones. His golden eyes became darker, fuller, and violet in color, and his sharp talon like nails shrank into little human nails. Even his fangs shrank a little, but not too much, for he was a meat eater.
When they opened their eyes, Kagome dropped the empty jewel and ran into Inuyasha's arms, both of them happy at the fact that it had worked. I was sort of glad that they were so happy, but was also wishing that they would break it up...because the moment was becoming way to mushy.
In a minute, they would have started kissing.
I stopped paying attention to them however, when I heard the crash of the jewel, and the white essence that was Midoriko's soul floating up to the ceiling. It stopped though, before going through the wall, to call something to it. I was surprised when Moru jumped out of the wall and followed her. Kagome and Inuyasha didn't notice this, but I did. Being a dragon made one attentive...especially one that was over a millennia in age. I realized then, that even after Midoriko had died, my father still loved her, and she to him. Moru...believe it or not, had been my father, recreated by me into the body of a dragon. He winked at me and floated off, clicking to me happily, that he thanked me for reuniting him and his love. I smiled, and clicked back, that it wasn't me but the new miko before me.
He never replied.
I gave Kagome and Inuyasha a little more time for them, and turned to pet Kazu affectionately. He looked at me with glinting eyes, and then smiled the only way a dragon can.
"You knew the entire time who Moru was didn't you?" I told him in clicks in chirps.
He didn't reply, only chirped little laughs of happiness at Inuyasha and Kagome's closeness.
I shrugged and turned around, watching them myself. I only just barely caught the little wink that Kazu showed off, showing that he had indeed known that Moru was my father the entire time.
You see, I had never really gotten to talk with Moru, because he constantly left away from me, and denied my company. I figured now, that it was because I looked so much like my mother that he couldn't bare to see it.
Well...there wasn't too much happening here. Kagome and Inuyasha thanked me for all I had done, leaving out to visit with their old friends. I gave them addresses and money of course to find there friends, and received letters about what had happened when they couldn't visit me.
They told me that Shippo had nearly fainted with surprise when they showed up to say hello, and how his children had gotten close to them immediately. They said every child looked just like Shippo did when he was younger.
They found Miroku and Sango as well, and commented on how old they looked. But they were happy of course, and they even said that Miroku hadn't lost his lecherous touch...only now, the only person he ever patted with a perverted mind was Sango.
They said they had run into Kouga and Kagura while they were training and had actually had a discussion with them. Kouga laughed at how silly he had been when he was little, and Kagura remained the same cold hearted person...only now she was with Kouga.
Inuyasha even got to stay for a day of training, and nearly beat up on one of the students when they hit him too hard during combat practice. He insisted that it was an accident, and Kouga laughed and said that he still had the instinct of a warrior in him.
Sesshomaru was next, although they were a little reluctant to meet him. In fact, it was Sesshomaru that found them...saying that he was a totally different person now because of age...life...and ramen.
He gave Inuyasha a whole new wardrobe, and the both of them a mansion to live in when they married. Jaken still hadn't let his grudge go for all the times Inuyasha and Kagome had beaten him up during battle or any other time, but he was friendlier all the same. Sesshomaru also gave Inuyasha a job as a well paid Ramen taster, tasting the new brands of ramen that came out in the line. Go figure.
Rin came to visit also, with Kohaku at her side, and Kagome had actually been able to have an educated conversation with them. Then Kohaku and Inuyasha had sparred in the back yard, and Inuyasha had gotten his butt whooped by an older and more experienced Kohaku. He didn't hold a grudge over it though. Kanna they never saw...for she avoided them at all costs, and so they ended their quests then, marrying and settling down in the mansion they had been granted.
Kagome became a history teacher (go figure) and became well known for her expertise in the Feudal Era of Japan. She often talked as if she had been there, and the students liked to call her the History Higurashi. The students were very fond of her though, and often asked her questions and what it was like for men and women then when demons still roamed.
Inuyasha and Kagome had a few kids...not too many but Kagome didn't know if she could still handle a crowd, and they grew up to be powerful and smart people.
It's not really known how many there were, or what they did, but they became quite famous for what they knew
As for me, I remained in the antique shop business, and a few years after freeing Inuyasha from the spell, I adopted a small demon baby that I named Midoriko after my mother. When I passed away later, she became the leader of the Dragon people...what was left of them though. Many no longer became full demons after they were born.
So...you can say as a wanderer I tried to run away from my past, but found that I had to fight it in order to be free of my binds. As a Dragon, I became wise, and taught many towards the right direction, such as Inuyasha, even though it took him a little longer to conduct what I taught. And as a woman...I finally found my peace from my almost immortal life to die in happiness...a Dragon amongst her friends and family.
Okay...a little too mushy I know...but true... And now you know of how Inuyasha's quests came...and don't think the destruction of Naraku was the only one.
There were many others, even before that that I chose not to mention for they had no importance to this story.
But now you can see that over time many things happen, and even some wicked people can change. So don't think the world is eternally evil...
Everyone can have a good side...
Some a bad...
But don't narrow yourself down to just one person...
After all...
I am a mentor...
I am a miko...
I am...the Dragon Demon.
The End
*So, what do you think! I like the ending. And I'm sorry if Inuyasha seems to act a little weird in this chapter...but I just couldn't help it. It just seemed that maybe I should alter his character just a little in order to make him a little more aggressive to the questions. I even doubt that in the series he would ever forget Kikyo, but at least he wouldn't always be running to her side as long as he had Kagome. Oh well, review me on what you think...and I'll do my best to put up another good story when I've thought of one. There is one that I might finish, which is a Yu Yu Hakusho tournament thing, in which they have to team up with the Spirit Detective from America (so far it seems that Yusuke only defends Japan, so why can't there be a different detective in another place?). I've even got another in mind which follows similar tracks, only there is a new enemy on the rise and the Yu Yu Hakusho team get to group up with the Spirit Detectives from all around the world. There's one from Russia, India, Africa, Australia, China, America, Alaska, etc. Let's just say its supposed to be funny and the Yu Yu team learn a whole bunch of new tricks from their buddies around the world. I'm thinking of making the India girl fight a Snake youkai and charm or something, but that's only an idea. Oh well! Tell me what you think I should write! I need a few new ideas to work with! Thanks for reading the story! See yah later...! ^.~ *
