; I know that it took me a while to write the epilogue... Thanks for all of the reviews! Sorry about the stupid, lame, gay, crappy, etc. ending of "Mou Ichido Ai..." I really intended to post an epilogue (of some sort) and I didn't expect for it to take so long. Anyway, on with the epilogue... Please review!

Disclaimer: I don't own Inu-Yasha.

Time passes...

"SIT!" Kagome shouted to the hanyou, slamming his head into the ground in the middle of his chasing Shippou.

Shippou happily ran off, very relieved that Inu-Yasha was no longer at his heels. Inu-Yasha grumbled something as he heaved himself from the ground, glaring daggers at Kagome.

"That's no way to act towards your adopted son, now is it?" Kagome scolded half jokingly.

Inu-Yasha grumbled, "That little brat ate my ramen!"

Kagome laughed as Inu-Yasha was quickly bombarded by a horde of kids, all Miroku and Sango's children. Some pulled at Inu-Yasha's doggy ears, some at his hair, other at his kimono, and one even put his finger up Inu-Yasha's nose, though Inu-Yasha would have pushed them away, others were behind him, holding onto his arms and legs.

Sango grinned and called her children off of the miffed hanyou, "Hiromi- chan, Yukino-chan, Kyou-chan, Ai-chan, Keisuke-chan, Yumi-chan, Touru-chan, Sakura-chan, Akito-chan!"

Kohaku helped Sango round up all of the miniature people. After Inu-Yasha and the gang (and everyone who had a grudge against Naraku joined in) defeated Naraku and the Shikon no Tama was completed, Kagome had wished on to have them all live "happily ever after" for lack of better words... So, Kohaku could live, Miroku, Sango, and Shippou were now able to go down the well to Kagome's time, and they wouldn't have to worry about anyone dead being brought back to life. In fact, after Kikyou returning to her homeland, Hades, her poor soul- stealing demons (shimi dama chuu) were out of work, and feeling a bit responsible for their joblessness, Kaede allowed them to hang around her hut, carrying signs that read "Will work for souls."

Kouga sped over to Kagome for a visit, a bit slower than he was back when he had jewel shards.

"Who... who are you?" Kagome pretended not to remember the wolf.

"Cut the crap, Kagome, it's me, Kouga." Kouga replied with a smirk, but being the gullible wolf he is, he half believed that perhaps she had lost her memories or something.

"Let go of me; I don't know you... Don't make me call my mate over here to kill you..." Kagome warned, doing her best act of unfamiliarity.

"Kagome... you... you lost your memories?! Again?! Why me?! Why don't you remember me?! Look, I am the man you fell in love with..." Kouga took this to his advantage, "You said that you have always loved me, and you never loved that insolent puppy of yours... Perhaps a kiss would help you remember..."

Inu-Yasha heard this and swooped up Kagome in his arms, not allowing his "rival" to steal away his woman. Kagome laughed later after Kouga left, seeming dejected.

Later that night, after everyone had gone to bed, Kagome sat near the edge of the well, remembering vividly the horrid night when she lost her memories, then reminiscing upon the wonderful night when she regained them again... She sat for a while there, wondering what would have become of her life if Inu-Yasha had not come to her rescue when she had stood in the street that night, with intentions of being hit by another car. Would she have died? Would she have lost her memories once again? Or perhaps she would remember everyone, like she'd hoped, just with some injuries as a result... She shrugged the thoughts off.

She, even now, remembered how shocked she was to find out that the driver of the car, on that rainy, dreary night when she'd been hit by the red car, was someone that she had never expected... Tears began to pool in Kagome's eyes, knowing that it was her dad who had hit her with the red car.

Kagome, Souta, her mom, and her grandpa hadn't seen Kagome's dad since Kagome was eight years old, and Souta only one; her father, Kenichi, was a very good husband, son-in-law, and father, until one day when he mysteriously disappeared, which a subject is rarely brought up within the Higurashi family, since it is such a sore subject. Losing someone so close to them was very hard for the whole family, but they eventually all figured that he must have been dead after eight years without him, though each of them held a small hope that he'd come back one day, and everything would return to how it once was.

Apparently, Kenichi, (Kagome's father), had been having an affair with his assistant at work, one day, he ran off with her to live with her under a new name, Toshio Sato (taking her last name and acting as her brother in Kanazawa). That night that he'd hit Kagome with the car, he and his wife, Fuka Sato, had had a big fight which ended in them separating, him going to a bar, getting drunk, then him going on the roads again, not quite sure where he was driving. That's when, blinded by his drunkenness, he hit something (Kagome, his daughter), and continued to drive, thinking that he'd only hit a box or crate.

Kagome wiped the tears from her eyes with her sleeve and walked back to the hut, not wanting to linger on her terrible memories, but instead decided to remind herself of how everything turned out well in the end, at least for her family and friends it did. Her father was found and put in jail, having to pay the Higurashi family nearly all of his money. Miroku was no longer cursed with the Kazaana (Wind Tunnel) AND had the girl he loved for a wife with kids aplenty; Sango married Miroku and got to have Kohaku for a brother again; Inu-Yasha and Kagome married and had Shippou as an adopted son.

Well... Kagome thought that everyone had their happy ending, but how could she forget about Kikyou's shimi dama chuu (soul- stealing demons)? They've been out of work for years and remained nothing more than lifeless bums, occasionally appearing at the local kids' birthday celebrations as entertainers.

So, apart from the shimi dama chuu, Naraku, and Kikyou, everyone lived happily every after...

Keep an eye out for my upcoming fanfics! They'll be posted after June 6... Please review for them also! Oh, and while you wait for the new fanfics, you can read and review my other ones, the older ones!

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