dislaimer-I don't own Inu-Yasha or any other characters in the Inu-Yasha
series.
Warning-adult content, adult language, angst, character death.
This is what happened after. After Sango buried Kohaku, after Kikyo was put to rest. After Naraku died and Miroku's wind tunnel closed. After the jewel was finished. This is what happened after I went to my own time. This is the epilogue.
Like most epilogues, this won't say what happened in the story. This leaves off at where we destroyed Naraku and all his incarnations and minions.
After Naraku was destroyed, no one knew what to do. Kouga discussed it with his new mate Ayame, and eventually gave me the two jewel shards in his legs. Sango buried Kohaku in a respectful silence, then handed over the last Jewel shard. And the jewel was finished. Kikyo had been killed by Naraku, and Inu-Yasha accepted this with little to no mourning. Miroku no longer even needed an heir, because he was no longer in danger of the wind tunnel. Kanna, Kagura, Hakudoshu, all dead. We no longer had something binding us all. The deaths I had witnessed, the tears my friends and I had shed, none saddened me more than that fact. The fact that we no longer could be together.
It took four weeks for all of us to heal from the wounds Naraku had inflicted. Miroku might never recover from the wounds on his spine that he had received from Kagura. Even more of Kouga's pack had been killed, making wolf demons extremely rare. I had broken a rib and Sango had fractured a tybea and would always wear the scar that Naraku had given her face. And Inu-Yasha....he had been almost killed, and would have been destroyed if not for Kanna stealing his soul before it left his body (A/N-that's from Miko's Tears, which you can read as a seperate story.) He was healed entirely when he awoke. He got quite a bit of medical experience helping Kaede heal us.
After everyone was healed to the best of our ability, it was time to split paths. Miroku and Sango had married and would remain peaceful in Kaede's village, trying to repopulate the blood of the Taijai. Shippou had been adopted as their son, but Kouga had volunteered to train him incase he 'wanted to be a demon and not a demon killer.' All that was left was Inu- Yasha and my fate.
I had told Shippou that I was going home for a little, and would come back, but from the glances that Miroku and Sango gave me, I realised they thought I was leaving them forever. After ardently good-byeing Shippou, I flung my now empty pack over my shoulders and moved into the forest to the bone eaters well.
Sango and Miroku had been right. I wasn't planning on coming back. I was planning on leaving, forever. I was going to give Inu-Yasha the jewel, and go back to my own time.
He was sitting in the Goshinki, starring down into the Bone Eaters well, when I arrived. At first, I thought he didn't notice me, till he jumped down and stared at me, with that heartbreaking expression on his face.
"You're leaving." he said, more of a declaration of sadness than a question. He looked away from my face, and I remember almost feeling his dejection.
"Yeah." I said, looking the other direction, blushing. "I have to go home for a little while. Here." I reached into the pockets of my jeans (my last school uniform had been torn) and held out the jewel. "Now you can become a full demon, like you always wanted." I didn't even look at him, waiting for his shout of victory as he lifted the marble sized jewel from my hands. Instead, I felt his clawed hand slowly close over mine.
"No." He said as his eyes caught mine. "Keep it." He jumped back up into the tree. "But I'm only lending it to you, ok? Now you have to come back, just so you can give that back to me." I saw a smile through the trees. A smile that no one had seen for the longest time. A smile that I would never see again.
series.
Warning-adult content, adult language, angst, character death.
This is what happened after. After Sango buried Kohaku, after Kikyo was put to rest. After Naraku died and Miroku's wind tunnel closed. After the jewel was finished. This is what happened after I went to my own time. This is the epilogue.
Like most epilogues, this won't say what happened in the story. This leaves off at where we destroyed Naraku and all his incarnations and minions.
After Naraku was destroyed, no one knew what to do. Kouga discussed it with his new mate Ayame, and eventually gave me the two jewel shards in his legs. Sango buried Kohaku in a respectful silence, then handed over the last Jewel shard. And the jewel was finished. Kikyo had been killed by Naraku, and Inu-Yasha accepted this with little to no mourning. Miroku no longer even needed an heir, because he was no longer in danger of the wind tunnel. Kanna, Kagura, Hakudoshu, all dead. We no longer had something binding us all. The deaths I had witnessed, the tears my friends and I had shed, none saddened me more than that fact. The fact that we no longer could be together.
It took four weeks for all of us to heal from the wounds Naraku had inflicted. Miroku might never recover from the wounds on his spine that he had received from Kagura. Even more of Kouga's pack had been killed, making wolf demons extremely rare. I had broken a rib and Sango had fractured a tybea and would always wear the scar that Naraku had given her face. And Inu-Yasha....he had been almost killed, and would have been destroyed if not for Kanna stealing his soul before it left his body (A/N-that's from Miko's Tears, which you can read as a seperate story.) He was healed entirely when he awoke. He got quite a bit of medical experience helping Kaede heal us.
After everyone was healed to the best of our ability, it was time to split paths. Miroku and Sango had married and would remain peaceful in Kaede's village, trying to repopulate the blood of the Taijai. Shippou had been adopted as their son, but Kouga had volunteered to train him incase he 'wanted to be a demon and not a demon killer.' All that was left was Inu- Yasha and my fate.
I had told Shippou that I was going home for a little, and would come back, but from the glances that Miroku and Sango gave me, I realised they thought I was leaving them forever. After ardently good-byeing Shippou, I flung my now empty pack over my shoulders and moved into the forest to the bone eaters well.
Sango and Miroku had been right. I wasn't planning on coming back. I was planning on leaving, forever. I was going to give Inu-Yasha the jewel, and go back to my own time.
He was sitting in the Goshinki, starring down into the Bone Eaters well, when I arrived. At first, I thought he didn't notice me, till he jumped down and stared at me, with that heartbreaking expression on his face.
"You're leaving." he said, more of a declaration of sadness than a question. He looked away from my face, and I remember almost feeling his dejection.
"Yeah." I said, looking the other direction, blushing. "I have to go home for a little while. Here." I reached into the pockets of my jeans (my last school uniform had been torn) and held out the jewel. "Now you can become a full demon, like you always wanted." I didn't even look at him, waiting for his shout of victory as he lifted the marble sized jewel from my hands. Instead, I felt his clawed hand slowly close over mine.
"No." He said as his eyes caught mine. "Keep it." He jumped back up into the tree. "But I'm only lending it to you, ok? Now you have to come back, just so you can give that back to me." I saw a smile through the trees. A smile that no one had seen for the longest time. A smile that I would never see again.