.:sniffles:. Alas my friends. You have all stayed loyal to this story to the end. And this is the end. I won't make the opening author note very long, but please read the ending note which is the important part.

I hope you enjoy this chapter, it is the last of "You only realize you love it once you lose it".

You only realize you love it once you lose it

And once again he asked himself:

Kikyou… or Kagome?

How hard could it be to choose the person he loved the most?

VERY, he learned.

'This is a just a trick for me not to be with Kagome…that means I have to save Kagome! That way it'll be as if I was meant to be with her!...but will I really be happy then? Would KAGOME be happy? I want her to be happy…or is it me I want to be happy?' He thought all confused.

He snapped out of his thoughts once again when he heard Kagome's sweet voice call out to him, then Kikyou's cold one…and once again felt attracted towards Kikyou.

'Oh well…guess I wasn't meant to be with Kagome…at least I know she won't die…but I will…' he thought sadly and ran towards Kikyou before it was too late.

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'Please live happily Kagome…I'll always love you…' He said as he pulled Kikyou up.

He accepted death, whether it'd mean he'd be sad and dead, he wanted Kagome to be happy, and if his body in this test made him go to Kikyou…that meant he didn't love her enough…

He wasn't good enough…

'I'll always look after you Kagome…' he thought as he hugged Kikyou safely and jumped away from the breaking cliff…not bearing to look at Kagome falling and yelling.

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A white light engulfed the whole place again and Kagome and InuYasha found themselves at the sacred place they had been to earlier.

Midoriko appeared smiling slightly.

InuYasha looked at Kagome guiltily and looked down.

"Ye mustn't look down young one, ye should be happy." She said simply.

InuYasha looked at her.

"Happy for what? To know that I'm not good enough for Kagome? That someone is going to love her more then me?" he snapped.

Midoriko, however, stayed unfazed by his tone.

"Happy that ye has passed the test." She said.

Kagome smiled toothily.

"What do you mean you hag? I chose Kikyou instead of Kagome!" he yelled.

Midoriko shaked her head.

"You did? No you didn't! You saved me…" Kagome said confused.

InuYasha stayed silent.

"Ye may have chosen the one with Kikyou's appearance and smell, but ye chose Kagome." Midoriko said wisely.

"What do you mean?" InuYasha asked, a glint of hope in his eyes.

"I couldn't have just simply left you on a cliff with Kagome and Kikyou with all your memory. It would have been too easy. No. I had to do something harder.

I had exchanged in your view Kagome and Kikyou's scent, voice, and body, but not their aura nor their spirit.

Your soul, spirit and aura, InuYasha, is attracted to Kagome's soul spirit and aura.

Therefore, when I exchanged the bodies, your soul still recognized Kagome's soul even though she was in Kikyou's body and had Kikyou's smell and attracted you to her instead of the Kagome look-alike which contained Kikyou's aura." Midoriko said wisely.

The two stared at her confused.

"What I mean is, InuYasha's soul is attracted to Kagome's soul despite her appearance,so, you two are meant to be together." Midoriko said sighing at the younglings retard ness.

Kagome's eyes went wide and she smiled big.

InuYasha felt heat spread out to his cheeks and he looked away.

Kagome jumped onto him and glomped him.

"Did you hear that InuYasha? You're the one for me! We're meant to be! I knew it!" she squealed.

All InuYasha did was put his arm around her waist. But the smile on his face and the look in his eyes was enough to tell her how delighted he was.

Midoriko smiled at the affection demonstration and a white light engulfed them again.

"Good luck young ones, I will look after you two." She said and disappeared.

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As they came back it was morning and everyone was looking for them.

They met up with their friends and explained everything and they congratulated them.

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A few month passed by, it was Sango's and Miroku's wedding. The well hadn't closed and the jewel was full.

And surprisingly Sango, Miroku, Shippou, Kaede, Sesshoumaru, Hana and the kids could all pass through the well.

So they did the wedding in the modern era.

There were white rose petals flowing everywhere outside. It was beautiful. Sango was in a magnificent wedding dress designed just for her.

It was white and long, with a lot of diamonds, courtesy of InuYasha and his Tetsaiga, brooding all along the border of the dress. It came as a V neck in front and was tight all over the top to puff out at the bottom. Just like those traditional dress you'd see in fairytales.

They had decided to make it a catholic alike wedding despite the fact that they were Buddhist.

Sango walked down the aisle with Kagome's grandfather, who during the time grew attached to the young girl and considered her as his own granddaughter.

Kagome was Sango's maid of honor. She was dressed in a white slim dress that hugged her body perfectly. It was glittering white.

InuYasha smiled when he saw his Kagome come down in such a pretty dress.

When Miroku saw his angel, his heart skipped a beat. She was so..beautiful.

"You're so beautiful…" he whispered as Sango arrived next to him. And she whispered back the same.

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"I do…" Sango whispered and kissed Miroku.

They partied in the future then went back to the past to party with the villagers.

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Sesshoumaru and Hana returned to the Western Lands to take care of some business after all the partying and would be back in a week.

The kids were with them to let Sango and Miroku have some time to themselves.

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So from that day on…everyone lived peacefully. They eventually all married, had a lot of babies, and sure, there were the fights here and there, but nothing bad, everything always ended up well.

But before that day…

Somewhere deep in the forest…

Kagome and InuYasha found themselves at the Goshinboku, fireflies buzzing everywhere around them, the sky midnight blue with dazzling stars.

"InuYasha…" Kagome said as they looked in each other's eyes.

"Kagome…" He said before he took her lips and claimed them his.

Once the kiss ended InuYasha hugged Kagome close to him covering her petite body with his longue sleeves.

In the middle of the night, two young people in front of a thousand year old tree, hugging, kissing, loving each other.

'You only realize you love it once you lose it…I'm happy I didn't lose you completely… my Kagome…'

:) I told you guys it would be InuKag...

.:Sniff:. I don't know if i'm the only one, but i'm sad yet happy this story has ended. Sad because that means I can't spend time thinking of what I will concoct up else. Happy because that frees time for my other stories and because that means I have finally finished something. This is my first completed story.

I want to thank all those who stayed loyal to this story and reviewed. I'm very happy. I want to tell you guys to read my other stories and add me as your AUTHOR alert as I WILL be posting up the sequel to this story. I'm not sure what the title will be but it will be mentionned in the summary.

So please add me as your author alert :)

This story was my first one. Created 2 years ago, and finally finished now. I might edit it, not so sure now, I want this to stay here forever...as a memory of how I used to write.

I hope you guys all had fun with this story as I had writting it, and I hope we meet in another story.

Love you all

Miko

PS: Please review for the last chapter :P