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I Want Tomorrow
©2005 by Kei

Epilogue: Another New Beginning

Inuyasha and Kagome, together with the help of all the villagers, built their own hut in which to live with Kiyoshi and, of course, Shippou, much to Inuyasha's chagrin.

About two months after Kiyoshi's birth, the little family of four traveled back to Kagome's former home village. Her mother wept and wailed and reprimanded the two adults for not trying to contact them in any way. Souta and Kaede adored Kiyoshi, and Grandpa was anxious to discourse with Kagome about her experiences as the miko for the demon exterminators.

Naturally everyone was shocked to hear about Inuyasha and Kagome's bedeviled journey, the horrible encounter with Kikyou, and Kagome's transformation into a demon. Ultimately, her family didn't mind Kagome's change of species, as they could see that inside she was absolutely the same loving and lovable Kagome. Mama cried a little over the loss of her other baby, the one who grew into Kikyou, but she didn't mourn for long. She burned incense and said some prayers alone, after which she spoke no more about it.

On the journey back to the taijiya village, the foursome met a wandering Buddhist monk named Miroku. They soon discovered that he had wandering hands, which, when they wandered onto Kagome's bosom, were nearly chopped off by an enraged Inuyasha.

Kagome was more forgiving, though, and she invited Miroku to go back to the exterminators' village with them, where there were a number of young, pretty, unmarried girls.

Of that group, Miroku zeroed in on Sango, who was endlessly introducing her Hiraikotsu to the monk's skull when he touched her without permission. However, most people could see that she rather enjoyed his attentions, felt some affection for him.

Kiyoshi didn't speak a single word until he was five years old. His first word (well, it was really more of a phrase) was, "Stupid fuckin' demons!" which he yelled when he stubbed his toe against something. His language could only have come from one source, and Shippou looked on and laughed until it hurt as Kagome soundly trounced Inuyasha for inculcating their precious child with such foul language.

They had many other children after Kiyoshi, and those children had many children, and so on and so forth; and Kagome and Inuyasha were able to see them all because, as everyone knows, demons have very long life-spans. While they were sad to see their human friends pass on, those friends' progeny was always excellent company, and everyone lived mostly happily and well.

-finis-

NOTES:

Thanks to katty-kat (Thanks for stickin' with it!); Sakurascent (Glad it made sense for you, I know it was rather vague for a while.)

The Bloody Effin' End! I'm kinda glad I've gotten it over with. Multi-chaptered stories always wind up killing me. They start off okay, but then start dragging on and on, getting more and more meaningless, and driving me further and further to stark raving madness. So I am happy this is over. It ain't the best thing I've ever written, no, but it ain't the worst, either. I liked writing about Kagome's weird dreams and all the foreboding and ominous stuff and blood and whatnot. I think after Kikyou died, though, it started goin' downhill. Sigh. Oh well.

Probably ain't anyone readin' this. But I can live with that.

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Farewell, best wishes,
Kei