Hey everyone! Again, thanks for the compliments (thus proving this is my only good story XD) Here's the final chapter. Enjoy!

Disclaimer: I do not own InuYasha, Takahashi-sama does. I only own Suteru in this story.

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Kagome held her eyes shut. "Is it over?"

"Ugh... unh... yeah." Suteru said weakly. Kagome opened her eyes and saw that Suteru was only feet in front of her, with the arrow in her chest.

"Suteru! What're you doing?!" Suteru pulled the arrow out and stabbed it into a near by tree. From there, she fell to her knees and looked over to her right as she watched Kikyo being sliced in the shoulder and Naraku making off with the jewel. "There... it's... too late now."

"No! I can still catch him!" Kagome didn't understand what was going on.

"No, Kagome. I realize it now. You... love him. Of coarse you do. More then my mother ever did." There was a long pause and they just looked at each other.

"Your... mother?" Kagome asked.

"Yes, Kikyo was my mother. I am here because InuYasha and Kikyo's love for each other. I am their daughter."

"But... how?" Kagome was lost in mixed thoughts.

"Like I said, you defied fate. I am what fate is. If things carried out like they should've, I'd live. But now..."

"So, you're going to die?"

"Yeah. But it's better this way." Suteru stood up and pulled out the jewel shards. "Take these. Jump down the well, and you'll end up in your time. Jump down the well again, and you'll only go 500 years in the past." She clutched her chest as the blood oozed through her fingers. Her kimono was drenched in the crimson liquid. She coughed up some more blood and turned to Kagome. "What're you waiting for?"

"But... you're..." Kagome paused. "Right. Thank you."

"No, thank you." Suteru smiled a little. Kagome turned to leave. "Wait!" Suteru called after her. "Can you... do me a favor?"

In the original Feudal Era, InuYasha waited patiently by the well, hoping for something to happen. He sighed and just about gave up hope, but he continued to wait there for Kagome. Only her and no one else.

Fifty years before that, Kagome was running through the forest, carrying Suteru on her back. "How are you feeling?"

Suteru looked at her bloody hand and saw that it was going transparent. "I'm... disappearing. It won't be long now though..." They came past a small clearing and Kagome was running short of breath. Despite this, she continued going all out towards the village. As they continued up a small hill, there was smoke and fire. Once at the top, the two of them witnessed as InuYasha destroyed the village. In his hand was the Shikon no Tama, the Jewel of Four Souls.

Kagome set Suteru down and leaned her against a tree. "There. How's that?"

"I... think I'm okay." She coughed and watched as her father destroyed everything in sight.

"I'm sorry Suteru. At first, I didn't want to go through with this and now..." Kagome sat next to her and looked over as she slowly disappeared.

"No, it's alright. Don't blame yourself." She mustered up a weak smile. "Maybe... I could be reborn someday." She looked upwards. "As the child of the love you share with InuYasha..."

Kagome turned red and nearly fell over. "I... isn't that a little, y'know, ahead of ourselves?!"

Suteru let out a small chuckle. "Just... don't name any child after me."

"Why?" Kagome asked curiously.

"'Suteru', it means... abandon." Tears filled Suteru's eyes. "My father, InuYasha, he... he died. My mother thought I was dead as well and left. I never understood why I was called Suteru until then."

Before Kagome could say anything, there was a loud shout from the top of the stairs that led into the now massacred village. "INUYASHA!!!" Kikyo called as she shot an arrow and hit him directly in the chest. Kagome turned her head, not able to look, but she would've much rather have seen that then watch Suteru's last bit of life.

"Kagome... I want to thank you." She smiled bleakly. "Even if I do not exist, I shall not forget you." She started to glow an eerie blue light and disappeared into sparkles.

"Suteru..." Kagome whispered. She smiled and stood up. I have to get back. I can't stay here any longer...

She ran off towards the well, avoiding any contact with people at all. After a few minutes of sprinting, there it was. The bone-eaters well. She placed one hand on the edge and held the shards in the other. Please work... she prayed to herself as she swung over and down into the warp.

She closed her eyes the entire time only to open them once again, in her time. She looked up to see the shrine roof above and was nearly to tears. Only after tucking the shards neatly away did she begin to climb up and out. The shrine doors were open and she poked her head out only to see her family through the window, enjoying dinner. "They must've thought that I was in the Feudal Era the whole time." She turned and looked back at the well. "I should go... just to be sure..."

In InuYasha's time, 500 years in the past, he stood up and walked away from the well. He'd lost all hope of seeing her anytime soon or again for that matter. Just about 20 feet away from the well however, he stopped. There was a sudden aura, a scent that he loved more then any other smell. There was also the familiar sound that the well made when someone just passed through. He turned around quickly to see Kagome falling over the edge of it to get out as quickly as possible.

"K...Kagome?" InuYasha was in awe.

She looked up and sat still for a time, silent. They just sort of looked at each other in disbelief that they were really there. Kagome stood up and could feel tears in her eyes. She took a step forward. Another. And then again and stopped. "I... InuYasha!" She ran towards him, almost tripping over herself and fell onto his chest crying.

"Kagome! Where the hell have you been!?" He put his arms around her and held her close. Instead of answering, she just sobbed onto him. "I... was really worried." He said. Above them, the night sky's stars shown brightly, and reflected off of Kagome's tears.

"When everything's over," She said through her tears, "I'll still be here... forever..."

"Forever..." InuYasha smiled and held her tighter.

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I hope you enjoyed it. :D Oh, and I'm sorry that Kikyo didn't win this one! XD