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Happy birthday—everybody! Whenever it's your birthday, look here if nobody told you!

Scroll Seven Reunion

Inuyasha sat on the porch steps. The appearance of Kagome's grandfather much lightened him and his morale, with the hearsay that Kagome had slipped down the well a few hours ago. He jumped down.

At the moment of his advent, Kagome was riding Shippou towards the well. She had her miraculous powers still, and could feel his ascent to the land, and she wanted him to meet her as they usually would, but in the opposite roles.

When Inuyasha sneaked out, he saw Kikyo, deadly and beautiful miko, black hair in the wind, staring in front of him. "Kikyo-san...did you see Kagome?" Inuyasha asked. She smiled.

"Yes, I did...and Inuyasha? I...just wanted to say something...sorry...and um...be happy...for me...I...I mean..." A tear slithered down her cheek to land on the ground. "Just be happy..."

"Kikyo..." the hanyou whispered and he tugged her into his arms and felt the watery tears on his shoulder. 'Be happy? How can I be happy when you're the one who's making me sad?'

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Kagome whistled vaguely as she pedaled her bike down the rocky dirt path "Inuyasha! He's really here! Oh, Inuyasha! I hope you're not as thin as Sango-chan said you were! Well, I'll feed you up on a lot of ramen, that ought to get you as fat as you were before!" she cried out happily, and babbled on to herself for no apparent reason. She had reached Kaede's village, and the villagers looked at her strangely. Kagome smiled confidently. "Hello!"

"Lady...Kagome...Who are you looking for?" asked the offspring of one of the village farmers. When Kagome had been there last, she had been three. Now she was six. Her name was Sayo.

"Inuyasha, of course! Where is he, may I ask?" Kagome asked. The farmers shushed and indicated at the forest, near the Hone kui no Ido. "Thanks!" Kagome shouted as she rode her bike quickly.

Her heart thudded. Ba-bump. Ba-bump.

And with the blow went a word. Inuyasha. Ba-bump. Inuyasha. Ba-bump.

Inuyasha.

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Inuyasha held Kikyo in his arms for what seemed like a stretched time. Then he looked and studied her face, and kissed her. Kikyo sighed. "I...nu...ya...sha!" Inuyasha turned around, and froze.

Kagome was taken aback by the way he looked. He must be less than...less than ninety pounds! He...he looks so thin...he's all skin and bone, probably you can see his ribs sticking out...but Kikyo... "Kagome..."

He was traumatized by the way that Kagome looked, too. "I...hate...you...I...came all this way...just to see you...and you're out kissing that bitch?!" Kagome asked, screeching at him.

"But...Kagome...I..." Inuyasha was about to give details, when Kagome rudely interrupted him, not waiting for explanations, as was her usual custom. She glared at him ferociously with her blue eyes.

"I don't want any of your stupid explanations! I'm leaving, now!" Kagome hollered. And she stomped off.

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Kagome was not really leaving. She was with Sango and Miroku. "Sango, last time Inuyasha came, he looked so thin. What's wrong with him?" asked the miniature kitsune. He could tell that Kagome wanted to know.

"Shippou...Inuyasha couldn't eat anything for three years straight...don't you think he would have gotten really thin after that?" Sango asked. Kagome choked. Sango sighed. Inuyasha...

"Sango-chan..." Sango turned and saw Kagome, tears striping her cheeks, and her body palpitant with the magnitude of tears over spilling. "I...I was so horrible...Inuyasha..." Kagome closed her eyes. Sango took the head on her lap.

"It's okay, Kagome-chan. Everything's going to be okay," Sango murmured. Kagome sighed and fiddled with a strand of black hair that had fallen onto Sango's kneecap and touched it to her eye.

"My heart...feels like it's been pierced by a thousand arrows...like Inuyasha must have felt when Kikyo fired that arrow at him...hurt by the arrow itself, but also hurt because of her 'betrayal...'"

"It's going to be okay, Kagome-chan. Stop thinking about Inuyasha for a minute," said Sango. "Everything's going to turn out fine."

"I just wish...that it'd turn out that way..."

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