Inuyasha ain't mine. Which is sad, the dude is cute.
AUTHOR'S NOTE.
Yeah, this story was originally going to be quite a bit longer than it ended up, but I ran out of both enthusiasm and inspiration. BUT, true to my promise of never abandoning a fic past one chapter long, I'm at least finishing it. Sorry if I've let people down, and here ya go with the epilogue.
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Kagome stepped clumsily off an oxen-drawn cart. Struggling to regain her balance, she awkwardly waved her thanks to the cart's driver, heading down the long dirt lane to Elmsmagick. Black spots skittered through her patchy vision, making it so she wasn't really sure what she was seeing, where she was going. It was dark, so dark.
She bit her lip as her knee-caps became thoroughly numbed by exhaustion. Why, HOW, did this have to happen? Trees of light blurred and stiffened before her, shaking cold liquid to the corners of her eyes. A tree root collided with her foot, and she fell. Salty water fell to the ground directly under her face. She forced herself up, blundering further forth.
Just a little farther. Just a little farther, and she could be happy. One more time was all she wanted, just one.
Again she fell, this time at the mercy of a rock. Her sharp cry cut through the freezing air.
To the bare ground she crumbled, not caring anymore. At least it all wouldn't end in pain; she couldn't FEEL anything. And Kagura was gone, Kagura was gone. A smile, perhaps her last. Kagura was dead.
"Kagura. . . dead. Hah. . ."
The forest was silent.
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A time later -- not even Kaede or Kikyou could be exactly sure how long she had slept -- Kagome awoke, the crinkling of a bed of leaves sounding from beneath her as she jerked up. Funny, Kagome had never pictured heaven as having leaf beds. It was nice, she thought.
A pair of bright gold eyes were suddenly very close to hers, and she started.
"I-Inuyasha! What are YOU doing here?"
"I WORK here."
"W-work. . . heaven. . . what?"
"Heaven? Tch. Far from it, the way Kaede works us these days."
And she realized.
"Am I. . . home?"
"Where else?"
It felt good.
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Okay, that was the -real- end.
Peace out, y'all.
-Lilacs