Hiya people! Sorry for the long break, but one of the plug in things on my computer actually fell inside the computer. It was the connection cable plug so I could not even turn on my computer, much less type. But here is the ending. It's kinda weird, but I wanted to make it like a story I read once. Not like I'm copywriter or anything, I just liked the form.
Sad news everyone. Kiki is lost. Again. I've looked everywhere for her, but I can't find her. Don't worry though, she's probably out getting drunk just to rub it in my face that I cant have that sort of thing. Again. ANYONE SEEN HER?
Sorry if anyone was looking forward to her cussing.
Oh! Before I forget,
CONGRATULATIONS PALIKANI! You were the only one to guess who was thinking in the beginning of the story correctly
Disclaimer: This place is called fanfiction for a reason.
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Modern Era, Twenty years ago:
In a room of a shrine a young child slept. She was a week old, with raven black hair and had only come home for the first time earlier that day.
Her room was upstairs, if you looked out her window you could see an unusually large tree the family believed protected their ancient shrine. Two figures stood on that tree; one had a large feline look to it, the other an oldish looking man of sorts, with silver hair and, most strangely, dog-ears.
The man gave a nod and the two jumped silently toward the window of the newborn. He unlocked the window with practiced ease, slowly slipped in with the large cat in tow, and silently walked toward the crib. When he reached it he picked up the young girl.
The feline just followed.
"Isn't she beautiful?" a tear escaped his eyes unnoticed, "Not as beautiful as she will become, but still . . . I've missed her so much . . . I'm glad I get to see her one more time . . . if nothing else, it's one of the few things to go right in my life . . ."
The feline gave a low whine.
"You're right. We don't have time for this. Give the stupid thing to her." He said gruffly.
"I would prefer it if she never had to even look at that thing, but we don't exactly have much of a choice do we?" he turned his head away in disgust.
The feline shook something off her neck and picked it up in her mouth. She walked to the infant and gently pressed it into her side, causing a large sharp glow to illuminate the room before the small round orb was sucked into the small body.
"Good job Kilala. I'll . . . miss you." The silver haired man said to Kilala.
She just nodded her head in acceptance as the last small jewels power seeped out and age crept in and as her body fell to the floor it turned to ash. An unfelt wind blew her ashes out of the window and onto the branches of the large tree, giving it a sparkle of a kind.
The man sighed and looked at the little girl he held, she was now wide-awake and looking at him. She squirmed lightly, as though she was saying she wanted a hug, not a cuddle.
He smiled at her, the first real smile he's had in almost five hundred years.
"You don't know how much I'd like to lie . . . and say now that I'm here I'm gonna stay with you forever. . . but I wont be able to carry that lie for even one more year, let alone fifteen. . . I missed you so much. . ." he broke off, not being able to find the apology he wanted.
The little girl gave a gurgled coo, as if saying it was all right and she understood.
The man gave a soft chuckle and laid her back down. He knelt down next to the crib so that she could turn her head and stare right at him. Oddly enough she did.
"Good-bye . . . Kagome . . . I never forgot you. I've kept my promise . . . I just wish I'd kept my other one. . .." he sighed, " but fate was always against me. I'm just sorry you're going to end up caught in it. Why will you ever love me? I was arrogant, I insulted you, I pushed you away . . . why didn't you end up hating me? I . . . I am sorry for pushing you away though. It's just . . . everyone always pushed me away when I was younger . . . and during those rare time I let someone stick around . . . they turned on me . . . but you . . . you never did. I never got to thank you for it. I always thought that . . . that sense we would always stick together, we'd never be separated, and it wouldn't matter if you knew about those things. . . If I'd of known you were going to leave I . . . probably . . . probably would have told you. I would have said at least once . . . that I love you . . .
"People always say that actions speak louder than words, so on the night we mated I tried to just show you . . . but I didn't realize it until you said it to me . . . that being told you're loved is just as important as being shown. . . but I guess . . . I guess I was afraid of telling you so. I had always been alone, I always depended on just myself . . . so when that all changed . . . I was too terrified to tell even myself. . . so I just never even told you," a soft keen escaped his throat.
"I probably seem real different than last time, huh? Not that you have the memories to compare or anything yet. But it's been almost five hundred years. I've had time to grow up . . . hard to believe I was ever capable of it thought isn't it?" the man stood and walked toward the window.
"I better go . . . I stay any longer and I might try to kidnap you. . .,"
Inu-Yasha, the powerful hanyou who defeated Naraku, who never gave up, who was stubborn until it hurt others, who never left anywhere without getting what he wanted, jumped through the window; away from one of the two things he wanted the most in the world.
Three days later a man with silver hair and dog-ears was reported found dead in the tree across from the little girls room. Ash was found all over the tree.
The family insisted that he be buried under the tree when they couldn't find any relatives.
KAGOME:
Kagome Higurashi, mate of the powerful hanyou Inu-Yasha, at 20 years old gave birth to a healthy little hanyou girl she named Chi-Inu (chee-new. I'm not sure, but I think it means 'spirit of the dog.' That's what my friend said anyway, if any of you know tell me.) who looked like a young female version of her father. She had black forelocks (you know, those hair things that Inu-Yasha has hanging over his shoulder.) as the only real difference.
After Kagome gave birth she matured mentally as well as physically. She grew more patience, stopped yelling so much, and learned to co-op with stressful situations much better. Her new out fit was a pair of greenish black pants and a black tank top with a red jacket over it (If any of you have seen the Sailor Moon movie, 'Black Dream Hole,' think Ray's outfit when they go after the sleepwalking children before she transforms into her Sailor Scout uniform) with her hair always in a low ponytail.
Kagome grieved silently for the loss of her family in the feudal era until Chi was three years old and died after getting hit by a car while getting her ball. The funeral was a quiet one held under the Goshinboku.
A few days later Kagome died of 'natural causes,' on her 24th birthday sitting under the Goshinboku.
Ironic. It started on a birthday . . . and ended on a birthday.
INU-YASHA:
After Kagome disappeared Inu-Yasha retreated back into his forest and was almost never seen again. Rumors started of mysterious deaths that always resulted in black smoke coming from the forest, and so the forest was renamed Forest of the Black Death. The rumors claimed it was Inu-Yasha doing the killing, but whether they were started by Inu-Yasha to keep his isolation or real stories where never determined.
About one hundred or so years before Kagome was born he and Kilala joined up again.
After Kagome left Inu-Yasha started to mature a bit, although he became a lot more bitter toward people, and quit looking for fights - even though he still got into quite a few of them - as the determination to live until his mate was born seared his vains.
He died in the Goshinboku a week and three days after Kagome Higurashi was born in the modern era.
CHI:
Chi is the daughter of Inu-Yasha and Kagome. Her real name is Chi-Inu (Chee-new), meaning 'spirit of the dog,' but she has a nasty temper when she needs to, and will not hesitate to attack anyone who calls her this. She is a hanyou like her father, except on the new moon. On those nights, just like her father, she turns human. Also on these nights she is almost identical to her mother, and has proven to even have a few miko abilities on them as well.
Her normal look is a very short, barely taller than Shippo, female version of Inu-Yasha. She has small silver puppy ears almost hidden under her hair. Her hair is like Inu-Yasha's, a silvery white that has just a slight curl to it, she always wears it in pigtails low on the back of her head, until it's just barely beneath her waist. The bangs are amazingly unruly. The forelocks (The two pieces of hair that hang over Inu's shoulders) hang about to her belly button and are a raven black, held with three wooden beads each around the area her ears are on the new moon. The two hair colors switch on the new moon (Pigtail part is normally silvery, but on new moon changes to raven black; forelocks are normally raven black, but on new moon changes to silvery white and vice versa). Her normal outfit is a small red and black version of Inu-Yasha's. The pants are like Inu-Yasha's but don't hug the ankles and are black, and the top is a more blood red female version of Inu-Yasha's. She too runs around barefoot. She has the amber eyes of her father, only hers are a deeper color with a lot more depth to them, her mothers facial structure but with a slightly paler complexion, with large eyes, and naturally rosy lips (no really, her lips are a sort of ruby red color, I saw lips like that on a little kid once and it was just too frickin' cute). She has the beginning of claws as well.
Chi has an extremely short temper, one to rival her father's, but is normally the same sweet caring person her mother is. She is highly intelligent, (for those of you who watch Justice League, think Batman smart) and is very good at reading emotions and responding to them, unlike someone we know. Cough, Inu, cough, Yasha, cough cough. She loved to hear stories of her father very much, and would only accept a story with her father before bedtime. Even though she had never met her father it became very obvious early on in life that she loved him very dearly.
When she was three years old she died after getting hit by a car while trying to retrieve her favorite ball.
Chi was buried a few days before her mother's 24th birthday under the Goshinboku.
KILALA:
Kilala went with Sango and Miroku back to the Village of the Demon Slayers. She helped take care of their children until Sango and Miroku died. She wasn't seen again until she went to the Forest of the Black Death to find Inu-Yasha. The Shikon No Tama stayed with her the entire time.
Kilala's personality basically stayed the same, just a bit withdrawn after Sango died.
Because of her fire neko heritage, when Kilala died she turned almost immediately to ash. Her ashes were blown onto the Goshinboku.
MIROKU:
Miroku and Sango got married and Miroku got his dream of being a father. Or is it, his dream of fathering a child? Sango ended up not doing so well with baring children, so after the 15th he declared that he would gladly cut off his balls before he got her pregnant again. You can guess her response, but in the end they had five more. His hellhole disappeared, but his firstborn son had it until he turned thirty five and was sucked into the void. Miroku lived a long healthy life with lots of children, but he never forgot the past, which is what encouraged him to have lots of children in the first place. At 95 he died in his sleep, a long life in those times.
Miroku stopped groping women and became the mature person you would expect in a monk. He was an excellent father and his jokes stopped sicking people out.
Miroku was buried under the Goshinboku.
SANGO:
Sango and Miroku got married, look above for some detail. She bore him twenty children, though with a bit of difficulty, but died giving birth to her last child at 51. Sango was a very good mother but her children often found her crying when she thought no one else was around. All she would ever say is she missed her little 'sister' Kagome, older 'brother' Inu-Yasha, little brother Kohaku, and her 'baby brother' Shippo.
Sango at first became distant after the disappearance of her little 'sister,' and the rest of her newly found family, but soon came back to Miroku. She lost her shy personality and became bolder in things outside of fighting. She too, grew more mentally mature after having her first child.
She stopped whelping Miroku when she wasn't a lethally cranky pregnant lady at any rate.
She was buried under the Goshinboku next to her husband.
KEADE:
Keade died two years after Kagome disappeared. She often told stories of the modern woman to the children of the village before her death.
Keade almost never left her hut after everyone left her, only to heal the sick. If anyone wanted to talk to her or if the children wanted stories they had to go to her. A child who had hurt his wrist found her in her hut dead one morning.
She was buried under the Goshinboku at her own request.
SHIPPO:
Shippo . . . . . . We never really found out what happened to him . . . We only presume he died . . .
A kitsune that distantly resembled him was found 57 years before Kagome was born, dead under the Goshinboku.
Kagome and Chi were the only ones
to not die of old age.
Somewhere Uncharted, Now:
'Mama? Why are we at the twee? Why is it white everywhere else? There's no gwass or gwound or sky or 'nything. An' why did you leave Chi all alone for a forever?' a little silver haired girl asked her mother as she stared at the large tree that she had loved all of her short life. A life just recently ended.
But she was right. There was nothing but the Goshinboku. Everything else was a white light that engulfed them.
'I don't know baby. I just . . . don't know. . . Chi?'
'Yeah Mama?' little Chi clasped her hands behind her back as she leaned on one foot and stared at her mother with her head cocked cutely.
'Remember all those stories of your father I always told you?' the raven-haired woman asked.
The little girl beamed.
'Yup. Chi 'members. Chi loves those stories Mama.'
'Yes, I know Chi. Do you remember where they almost all took place?' The mother asked gently.
'umm. . .,' the little girl made a face, 'Chi is thinking Mama, don't tell Chi okay?'
'All right,' she laughed, 'Mama won't tell Chi,' the woman stared at the tree with something akin to adoration in her eyes.
Suddenly the place struck her daughter's young mind.
'the twee!'
'KAGOME!'
The two turned around. There stood Kagome's old family, none looking any older than they had the last time she saw them.
The Demon slayer Sango with her giant boomerang in a slayers attire. The lecherous monk Miroku in his usual garb. The wise old Keade in a miko's outfit. Little Shippo in his vest and all. Kilala, in her tiny form. But the one that caught the pairs eyes was the one in the gaudy red kimono. Just like the people in the stories Chi's mama told her.
'Guys? Inu. . . Inu-Yasha?' Kagome said softly. Her eyes where wide and out of focus. She forgot about the others, even Chi for a second, as she stared at man she never thought she would ever see again.
'Inu-Yasha? Chi's daddy?' Chi whispered softly as she stared at her mother in disbelief.
The little hanyou turned to stare at the elder of her kind. She saw the arrogant smirk and recognized it as her own.
'What took ya so long Kagome? Well, I guess you always were slow like that. Just be glad ya didn't dedicate a day to die or you really would have taken a long time. It's been awhile. You look a little different, Motherhood seems to suite you I guess. We've probably been away from each other longer than any other mates have ever been. Me especially. I went almost five hundred years without ya. I'm not soft like you humans are. I survived' There was no anger in his voice. Just happiness.
'Ugh, the first time we see each other in years and the first thing out of your mouth is how slow I am? To die? Gee, I bet you really missed me. But just so you know, I haven't gone out with Hojo sense the last time I saw you,' Kagome hissed angrily.
Inu-Yasha started. He thought for sure she would blow up on him. Yell, stomp her feet, maybe 'sit' him a few times while crying. But here she was taking it . . . quite well. Guess Motherhood had taught her a few things on self-control as well as changed her appearance. Well, he could play the mature card just as well.
'Hey, hey, hey, I was just kidding. You know I love ya,' Inu-Yasha stated smartly.
Kagome's mouth dropped. Inu-Yasha had proven he loved her, but he had never even made an attempt to say that
'You . . . You just said . . . did you just . . .,'
'Yeah. I said I love ya. Ya got a problem with it? You gonna do somethin' about it?' his smirk grew, 'I sincerely hope you do,'
"Maybe that was a little too perverted. She might think Miroku's been teaching me stuff" he thought carefully.
'Inu-Yasha! What has Miroku been teaching you? In case you haven't noticed, our child is right in front of us! The last thing she needs is her daddy teaching her such hentai things! Honestly, I leave you alone for a few centuries and you come back a lecher. I have to say I'm almost afraid of what else you can hint at,' Kagome squealed.
"Yep. Went a little over board on that one. But for someone who's this mad she sure smells pretty damn aroused, I didn't know dead people even could smell aroused." Inu-Yasha thought to himself smugly.
'Daddy?' Chi whispered to the older hanyou (she ignored the funny new smell coming from her mother).
Inu-Yasha looked down at the little one and his smirk turned into a look of pride.
'And here I thought I knew how cute my pup would be. Oh well, this is much better than I'd hoped,' he whispered so only she could hear, his voice carrying the pride only a father could hold.
'DADDY!' lil' Chi squealed as she ran toward him. Inu-Yasha, the arrogant hanyou that claimed to need nor love anyone, bent down and hugged his pup for the first time, bringing her up and swinging her around to make up for all the time he had lost with his only child.
The others could do nothing but look on and smile.
But this time, they didn't mind their lack of use.
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Okay, people have been giving me a load of crap of how Kagome was too young to be pregnant (I erased those reviews though. He he). I wrote once in the last chapter it was five years later. So these are how old I think they would have been at the end of the last chapter and at the end of this one (not counting the five hundred years apart, just the four years Kagome lived without them, or if they lived less than three years like Keade):
Last ChapterThis Chapter
KAGOME: 20 years old--24 years old.
INU-YASHA (Minus fifty years):
22 years old.--26 years old.
MIROKU: 23 years old--27 years old.
SANGO: 21 years old--25 years old.
KEADE: 65 years old?--67 years old.
Not really sure on this one.Not really sure on this one.
SHIPPO: 10-13 years old?--13-17 years old.
Not really sure on this one.Not really sure on this one.
KILALA: 565 years old--569 years old.
If she was alive back when
Midoriko was then I think I'm close.
CHI: Kagome was still pregnant-3 years old.
at that time.
And to be frank, as far as I'm concerned, people need to stop giving teen mother's crap about getting pregnant at young ages. Everyone makes mistakes people, your not exactly Beacons of Truth either. We all have skeletons in our closets. Get over it and yourselves already.
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Well? Crappie, but yeah.
I like this ending. When they were alive it was hard for them. I guess what I'm trying to say is in life things are going to be hard, and they may end painfully, but as long as you don't forget the things or ones you love, you'll always have your own happy ending.
I ended it happy! Thanks to Palikani. I didn't think I could fit in a happy ending while they were alive, but when she mentioned the tree as a connection, I figured it could work for all of them. When they were dead of course. I just don't think the tree would really have worked without the well working. The well was actually in constant use because of the tree growing in it during the movie, so maybe it was a one-time thing. I don't know, I just know I got to write my successful conclusion.
Sorry for the long and interrupting authors notes, they probably bored you.
See ya!
Lil' Pup out.
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