Chapter 11: Time is standing still

Hakaku: Ginta you were a good buddy and tribe brother, I am glad to have had such a smart and good friend..

Koga: I saw you in your final moments.. I saw the look of pain in your eyes but I knew that you did it so that Naraku would be stopped.. We all know that only InuYasha and Kagome are truly capable of killing him.. But I wish you hadn't had to die in the process.. I saw you die, I saw you live.. You are truly a pure person.. I wish only that you could see your child and your wife.. And to say goodbye one last time..

Koji: Ginta... You were a good friend and tribe brother.. I wish only that I had seen you before the end.

Jinzosaku: I was left behind here to protect the village, I never saw you after you went to the future era..

That goodbye I thought would be the hardest thing I would ever do.. To tell my friends goodbye for what could've been the last time and was the last time for you.. If I had powers like you I would have done the same thing though....

Mikizu: Ginta, I pity your family.. I will miss you but now I know you are without pain.. It will be an honor to cremate you and help send you to the heavens back at the mountains..

The other wolf demons remained silent as Koga shed a tear for his lost friend and walked up to the wooden cart he had made all by himself using the tools Ginta had made when he was only a small demon.. There in the cart was Ginta's body dressed in his old outfit, Hakaku dressed Ginta and a healer from a nearby Village healed the wound in Ginta's chest.. Earlier that day the healer had said it was best to quickly cremate the body before what soul was left inside was used by the evil that lurks in the land.

They all waited for everyone to come through the well.. They had said that no one but wolf demons could come but it had later been changed because they did not want remember sending their friend's ashes into the world that often.....

Koga whispers to Ginta's body

Koga: Ginta please open your eyes and jump up.. Please say this is just a trick to make me look stupid...Please...

This isn't a joke.. I'm really dead Koga. But till my body is gone I'm here.. Even though you won't know..

Wolf Demon: The others are here! The others are here! I recognize the demon slayers, monk and hanyou.

Ginta looked up from his body and Koga.. He saw Kagome.. "Oh Kagome how I long to hold you".. The others got closer to where his body lay.. "That night.. I remember that night even though I shouldn't right now.."

InuYasha, Hikaru, Kagome, Miroku, Sango, Kohaku, Tia, Kyoto, Shippo, Sota, Terra, Katsuya, Sarieu, Sesshomaru, Sakaura, Rin, Sarah, Grandpa, Totosai, Jeanne (kag's mom) and a few villagers that Ginta helped a lot before he left came.. They all started on the journey to the mountain which didn't take long since almost everyone had something to ride on when they got tired. Shippo sat on Hikaru's head as Hikaru leapt along with his father and mother as Kohaku, Sango and Miroku rode Ki-ra-ra while the others switch dog demons every now and then.. When they reached the mountain Koga gently lifted up cart, making sure he wouldn't disturb Ginta's body and leapt up the cliffs, The jewel shard he realized was still in Ginta's leg.. "Best give it to kagome" he thought to himself.. Everyone found a way up the cliffs and eventually they were back on a decent part of what was left of the wolf tribe's home.

Koga put the cart down, took the jewel shard from Ginta's leg and gave it to Kagome who took it silently.. then he lifted Ginta's body from the cart and placed it on Concrete slab that the wolves had hauled over to the past.

Mikizu then took the staff of heads out from the ashes of a tree he had tested it on.. He had taken the staff when Jaken had turned on Sesshomaru because Naraku threatened him and offered better treatment. Everyone stood back as Totosai stepped forward, not a word came from him but his eyes said it all.. they showed that he missed Ginta as much as the others. He and Mikizu then cremated Ginta.. Ginta watched as his body burned...

So this is what my end is.. I was hoping that my premonition was lying but I guess I knew it wasn't lying. Ginta felt his ghost form become lighter, He watched as Shippo, Terra, Ki-ra-ra and Sarieu transformed into their demonic forms.. Shippo became a giant fan as Terra and Sarieu became full form dog demons and Ki-ra-ra just transformed.. Terra, Sarieu and Ki-ra-ra used their tails, Kagome shook and cried silently as Ginta's ashes scattered.. She felt hands on her shoulders but knew that no one was behind her..

She turned around and almost passed out when she saw Ginta with the same warm smile that he had left the world with... Ginta disappeared and went towards the gate.. he knew that this was it and there would be no more knowing his life.. He walked into the light and his mind separated from his soul as he went to a paradise.. The memories all flashed before him and then there was nothing.. And his soul then was blank and he was someone else.. A child somewhere cried with newborn life and energy... The same energy that had once belonged to a Wolf demon who gave his life so that one would live and others would too as a result.

Everyone heard a voice.. After his image disappeared..

Goodbye Everyone.. I love you all..

Ashes flew into the wind and the demons untransformed as nature did the rest. InuYasha wrapped his arms around Kagome and kissed the top of her head.. Oh how he longed to hold her.. he longed like Ginta to hold her.. And now he had gotten another thing Ginta had not gotten.. he had lived and Ginta hadn't... he held Kagome now and Ginta had wanted too..

The world would never be the same... Naraku would have to die soon which meant that Hikaru would either have to stay with Sota, Jeanne and Grandpa or come with them and quit school.. InuYasha decided he would talk to Kagome about this.. He wanted to train Hikaru and traveling would be the best way to do it.. "heh.." he thought, "this will be my traveling family..."

Next Chapter: The Future era.

(Author note: I will try to write as much as I can now, I have more time and will finish this story even if it goes for 20 chapters and I start complaining about killing, fighting, the romance, and music. Bwahaha evil toasters!!)