Been a while, ne? This took longer to write, I am trying to edit/fix my other chapters, so all you get write now is this short chapter, sorry. Thanks for reviewing though.

WARNING: None really...sad, yeah, that's about it.

DISCLAIMER: I do not own Inuyasha.

"Mama, where's Kira-chan?" Shippou asked as soon as Kagome got back from her search for Kira

"She's with Sesshoumaru-sama." Kagome answered him as she sat down next to Rin who was still eating, but this time slower

"I don't know how they are related, Kira-chan is nice and friendly, but Sesshoumaru is mean and evil." Shippou said rather loudly, making Rin look up from her plate and stare at him

"That's not very nice Shippou-chan. You shouldn't judge people that you don't know like that." Kagome scolded the kitsune child like her mother had often done to her

" But mama, he tried to kill Inu no baka lots of times, and you too!" Shippou tried to get his point across, but Kagome just shook her head

"I believe he had his reasons, though I don't completly forgive him for it, I still won't judge him." Kagome explained

"People, even demons, who have done bad things can change. It may take a long time, but if they really want to they can, and I believe that Sesshoumaru-sama is one of them." she finished as she picked Shippou up and sat him in her lap

"Do you understand?" she asked

"Hai. I won't judge people until I know them a lot better." Shippou said then smiled at Kagome

Kagome smiled back at him and then at Rin. Sitting there with the children who were now talking about some game or another was nice, but she couldn't help but miss how things were. She blew up at Inuyasha so quickly and so violently, but in her defense he did push her into it.

"How can he be so blind? Kikyou loved him, maybe even loves him, but she doesn't KNOW him." Kagome thought to herself as she began to space out

"She may have known him to some degree when she was alive, but he has changed, and she doesn't realize that." she thought to herself as she once again looked over at the children

Rin and Shippou had become fast friends, and she was thrilled when Kira said that she would talk to Sesshoumaru about the little girl staying.

"And when Shippou and I leave she can come with us." Kagome decided.

"That is, if we do go back to Inuyasha. I miss everyone, but I don't think I can take the hurt in knowing that he never loved me."

"I'm going to find Kira-chan, you two stay here and behave." Kagome said as she stood up and set Shippou on the floor.

"Hai." they both said before they went back to talking.

Kagome gave them one last smile before she left the room that Shippou and herself had been sharing. She walked down the hallway, but this time she was not looking for Kira like she said, she just wanted to be alone to think.

She walked for a while, her mind blank of thoughts, but full of memories from the past few years. She remembered all of the times (rather half of the times) that she had told Inuyasha to 'sit'. She remembered everytime he said something sweet, and would try and cover up to keep his 'asshole reputation' intact. And lastly, she remember all of the times that Inuyasha had called her Kikyou, or compared her to the clay pot, but most of all, when he would run to her like he was a puppy and she was his mistress.

"He will never learn, he will always run to her as long as she wants him to. Until he finally decides to go to hell with her." she whispered it out loud, not knowing that she had been heard by more than one person

The two youkai siblings watched as the young girl made her way out into the garden. She did not seem to know where she was going, but she made her way around just the same.

"I think being away from Inuyasha will be good for her." Kira commented to her twin as they stood watching the door that Kagome had just gone through.

"Of course it will. I do not know why she even bothers to travel with the idiot in the first place."Sesshoumaru all but snarled, he felt better about showing his emotions, but only to his sister.

"I know you hate Inuyasha, and humans for that matter. But I never want you to speak ill of my friend, or her race. I was raised by humans, and I loved everyone of them as much as they loved me." Kira said, her voice matching that of Sesshoumaru's.

She was not one to piss off, not with her magic abilities, however few she had.

"In your presence I will not speak ill of humans, but when you are not around I will speak how I please." he agreed, not looking into his sisters eyes as he spoke.

"I never said you couldn't, I just wish that you would learn to live peacefully with humans, and hanyous. You never know when you may be in debt of a either one." Kira spoke in almost a sing-song voice, like she knew something that her brother did not.

"I will never be in debt of such filth." Sesshoumaru said, glaring at his sister for even thinking such a thing.

"Wait did you just promise me? My family is made up of humans, and I do not like you saying such things about them when I am around. If you do, I will be forced to leave." Kira said with a sigh, she was not in the mood for this.

"I am your family, not a bunch of humans." he almost mumbled his response, but not quite.

"I-I...I'm not even going to answer that!" Kira shouted and then stormed off.

She thought that she and her brother had started back where they had left off, but now she knew that they could never be that close again.

Sesshoumaru did not get how his sister felt, and that pissed him off. He always knew what she was feeling when they were chidren, but ever since their father sent her away, their bond faded until he did not even know if she was alive.

"Father, it is all your fault that this has happened. You should have never left her in that village." he all but cursed his fathers name as he stared out into the garden

Kagome sat on the ground, but he was not watching her, not really. He seemed to be looking through her instead of at her. She sat so still as she looked into the sky, she was so serene, but if you looked closer you could see how she really felt. Hurt. She was in pain and not one person would seem to notice. She put on an act for everyone, she acted like she was happy, but she was not even close to it.

"She is rather interesting...for a human." he had to fight the last part of that sentence out.

He continued to stand there and watch his new house guest as she became an unknown soul, dead to the world.

Kagome could feel someone watching her, but she did not move. She was too deep in her thoughts to care. She knew that she should get over Inuyasha and how he hurt her, but it was hard to forget your first love.

"So hard." she thought to herself as she watched the stars

She had been out there for a while, all she wanted to do was have some time to work everything out, and if not everything, then at least something. She did not know what she was going to do with her life, after she fell into the well she did not know what was going to happen. All she knew was that she had a job, and a new family, but know she did not know what she had.

"Pain."

That's what she had, pain, and a lot of it. Inuyasha may not have meant to hurt her, and he may not have known that he was doing it, but the fact remains that he did.

"I-I'll get over this. No matter what, I will find my place, and I will find someone to love." Kagome swore.