Fire: Bwhahaha, updating! Actually updating! And Raven helped. She did the schoolwork while I phased out and typed. I mean sure she had it on her jump drive for a month and a half and never proofread…..

Raven: Yeah, damn slave labor. I may be Hispanic but I don't work for cheap labor.

Fire: Correct, apparently it is free.

Raven: ….

Fire: Switching back, I know we haven't updated lately and we have a perfectly good reason for that. Raven you tell them, you know what it is.

Raven: Of course I do! … yep yep, and so that concludes my explanation.

Fire: Seriously though, I know this is a short chapter but it is simply to let you know we still are alive, and I will update. I know I haven't updated, and I know I didn't even reread this but bare with me for awhile.

Like many times in the past Kagome had to once more gather the pieces of her heart up, tape them together, and get on with life. It still didn't mean she couldn't be mad though, and Kagome kept that in mind as she gathered the arrows carefully biting down on her lip.

"What are you waiting for?" InuYasha said using the same terminology he used to use when they were going to find the shards.

"I have other people I need to see InuYasha, you may never have thought about that but I do." She snapped back, and picked herself up from her kneeling position.

The moon gave off dim light that hardly pierced the trees, but it was enough to see the path in front of her. InuYasha stood out far more than her, his white silver hair acting like a glow stick. Yet Kagome knew no demon would attack him, not after he took out his anger that one time….

She herself blended in more so, her black hair fading into black quicker and that was something she hoped would help her. The well was in front of her. She could feel it, the shards of the Shikon that still rest with her children. Its strength pierced a five hundred year barrier and released its aura still.

She took to the path wincing slightly every time she lifted her left leg, the after affects of her fall.

InuYasha opened his mouth, but thought better of it and walked quietly behind Kagome studying her. She hadn't aged as badly as he would have expected a human to. Yet now she had a different look, the look of sadness and experience in her eyes. A frown now played on her face from bad memories, and she no longer beamed with the happiness as before.

He would have blamed himself for that, but he couldn't. If he did, he would no longer be able to go on. He didn't do it, Naraku did. Yet the voice in his head told him still that he gave Kagome to Naraku.

Titling his head like a confused dog would, he picked up the pace once Kagome was clear of the roots and was on a clean path. He knew she was heading to the well and thought nothing of it. In fact he wasn't sure what to feel at the moment. He knew what to feel about Kawayou, the fear, anger, and desperation. Yes, he felt that even though he hardly met the boy.

InuYasha paused. 'our son' Kagome had called him. Kawayou was here, and he would get him back.

What to feel about Kagome was something else. He knew of regret, but everything else was a mix of emotions he would let cloud his mind.

Kagome came to a halt, and InuYasha nearly crashed into the back of her.

"Make this quick." He told her reaching out to push her softly in but Kagome jumped with no words to him. A minute later he hesitated at the well's entrance. This was his chance. He finally got the thing he prayed for to every god he knew.

With nothing else done, he jumped in.

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Kagome climbed out of the well which seemed harder than usual, and it surprised her after all the workouts she involuntarily got chasing the kids around. The well door creaked open, but once outside she could actually taste the silence. There was no one around, all the lights off the house were off.

She hesitated a moment, but still felt the power of the shards and whispered a few words of reassurance to herself.

"Mom." She heard the quick whisper and darted her eyes over to the tree.

Zel had hid half behind the tree, her small frame peeking out to see her mother. Ko, and Mei held each others hands, and looked from the other side of the tree.

"Someone followed you here." The twins whispered again practically in unison.

Kagome glanced back at the well subconsciously, and kneeled down.

"Come here." She beckoned with a waving hand gesture. "Come on."

The twins hesitated, but Zel stepped out and walked quick pace over to her mother.

"You trust me right?" She asked her daughter giving her a quick hug. Zel didn't say anything but she didn't have to, Kagome already knew the answer.

"Then bare with me for awhile, things are going to get confusing." She looked up to Mei, and Ko and they both knew she was talking about Kawayou. There was some more noise in the well, and Mei and Ko disappeared behind the tree. Kagome stood up picking up Zel in her arms, and for the first time realized her legs were shaking.

"Maybe we could go… get something inside…." Kagome found herself rambling and made for the door. Zel didn't say anything, but gave her mother a puzzling expression. Ko and Mei watched from behind the tree, but glanced at the well and didn't move. If Kagome thought about it, it probably would have seemed like another spider to them. Part of her wished it was. Kagome walked over to sit on the couch, Zel sitting down next to her. She looked at the couch hearing InuYasha open the well door, she mused.

At least then if one of them would pass out they had somewhere to land.