Life continually goes on. People die and people are born. This is the circle of life. Destiny keeps this circle going. A person's fate is controlled by destiny. Their soul mate, their children, their best friend, even their neighbors are determined by destiny. Nothing can stop this ever-turning circle. For some people destiny is God; for others something that fate does is simply luck. Every person, from atheists to Jews to Muslims believes that there is some kind of force in the universe that controls everything, whether it's magic, a celestial being, or a prewritten story. As Inuyasha and Kagome shall soon discover, destiny controls all.

Act VI

Scene I "SHOPPING!"

"Two days till the premiere," Kagome sighed, "and I still don't have a dress."

Sango stuck her head around the corner of the dress rack. "I can't believe you don't like any of these dresses. And Yuma gave you her credit card! You can buy any dress in this whole store, or even every dress in this store."

Kagome shook her head. "I hate these dresses. They are all low cut at the top, too short, or just plain too ugly to wear. You know I don't like these kinds of clothes."

Sango was about to respond but she stopped. Walking past Kagome she pulled a dark purple dress off of the rack. It was a backless turtleneck halter with a long skirt. Her eyes glittered as bright as the sparkles on the dress. "I don't know about you, but I found my dress!" She ran up to the front to pay for it, leaving Kagome among the dresses.

Walking up and down the aisles she pulled dresses out but they were never quite right. Too low of a neckline, too tight to breathe, too high of a slit on the skirt; each one had a flaw. Finally, it seemed she had looked at every dress in the store.

Giving up, she walked out of the store to where Sango was sitting waiting for her. "Did you find a dress?" Kagome simply shook her head. "Good!"

Sango ran towards the store next door, dragging Kagome behind her. She ran straight to a rack right by the door. "I was staring at this the entire time I sat there."

She pulled a green dress from a markdown rack. It was rather simple, a long sleeved dress with a small v-neck. The only part of the dress that seemed slightly ornate was the skirt. Starting at the hips, the skirt had probably twenty layers.

Kagome stared at it as Sango showed her the skirt. Then she screamed. "OH MY GOSH! THANK YOU SANGO! THIS IS THE BEST DRESS EVER!"

Sango stuck her fingers in her ears. "You can thank me by not bursting my eardrums."

Kagome smiled sheepishly. "Sorry. This is a very pretty dress though. I can't wait to wear it!"

Sango's stomach growled. "That's great but can we please hurry this up. If I get any hungrier my stomach is going to eat itself."

At the other end of the mall Miroku was faced with a similar, yet totally different, problem.

Miroku tugged on Inuyasha's arm, trying to pull him into the store. "Come on! It's not going to hurt you to wear a tuxedo!"

Inuyasha shook his head and planted his feet into the ground. "I'm not going to go walking around looking like some penguin. I haven't worn a tuxedo to a movie premier since I was six."

Miroku sighed. "You haven't been to a movie premier since you were six. And what is Kagome going to think if you show up in regular clothing?"

Inuyasha saw Kagome's red, angry, screaming face in his imagination. "I think I'll get a tuxedo!"

"Good boy!" Miroku snickered, knowing exactly what had caused him to change his mind. "Besides, not all tuxedos make you like a penguin."

Inuyasha walked into the store and saw on the back wall a red tuxedo. Grabbing one of the men behind the counter he pointed at the tuxedo. "I want that tuxedo, NOW!" Letting go of him, Inuyasha turned to look at Miroku who was shaking his head in despair as the clerk ran to the back.

"You didn't have to scare the poor guy Inuyasha," Miroku said with a sigh. "What's with the RED tuxedo?"

"I like red," Inuyasha protested.

Miroku sighed once more. "Whatever. At least it's almost Christmas and you'll match the decorations."

Inuyasha stared at Miroku. "It's almost Christmas?"

Miroku stared at him. "Yeah, that's kind of why the mall is covered in decorations."

Inuyasha groaned. "I hope Kagome's not expecting a present. I haven't gotten her one yet."

"Guess what?" Miroku grinned. "You're in the mall. Anything you need can be found here. Have fun battling the crowds! I'll take care of the tuxedo for you."

"Now he lets me leave. Well, what should I get Kagome?" He walked out of the store, still not paying any attention to the decorations or hearing the Christmas music playing in the background.

Act VI

Scene II "The World Premier"

Inuyasha stood at the foot of the stairs in his house looking at his watch for the twentieth time in the past hour. "If you girls don't hurry up we're going to be late!" he shouted up the stairs.

"Oh, be quiet Inuyasha," his mother admonished him as she came down the stairs with Kagome's mother. "The girls are right behind me."

Inuyasha and Miroku's jaws both fell to the floor when they saw the girls. Kagome was wearing her long sleeved, layered skirt dress. She had customized it by changing the neckline to drape across her shoulders instead of a v-neck and she had trimmed the neckline with a red lace that perfectly accented the green of the dress. Her hair was swept up into a messy bun and the only makeup on her face was a light lip-gloss. Sango was wearing her sleeveless and backless dress with a silver shawl that looked dazzling against the deep purple fabric.

Inuyasha handed Kagome a red rose corsage and Miroku gave Sango a light purple one. Yuma and Sakura looked at Inuyasha and Kagome together and burst out laughing.

Sakura was the first to get her giggles to disappear. "Inuyasha, what were you thinking when you chose that tuxedo? With you in red and Kagome in green, you two could be an advertisement for Christmas."

They took one look at each other and burst out in laughter too. "I guess I should have told you what color my dress was, Inuyasha."

Luckily for Sango, Miroku had chosen to wear a black and white tuxedo, although, he had been tempted by a purple one. Later, when he told that to Sango, she remarked, "We could have told everyone we were a pair of grapes."

On the way to the premier they rode in a limo. Everyone was quiet, except for Souta and Kohaku who were once again discussing some game, and they were all nervous. Only Yuma had seen the finished movie, and only she knew which ending was going to be played that night.

Pulling up in front of the theater, Kagome stepped out of the limo and was almost blinded by the flash bulbs. Trying to keep a smile on her face, she waited for Inuyasha to get out and they proceeded to the door together. It seemed like a dream as she heard reporters say things like, "And here comes Kagome Higurashi, the newest and the brightest movie star around."

Other things weren't so nice. "That's Kagome Higurashi ladies and gentlemen, the latest starlet to be dated by Inuyasha, the famous playboy. We have heard she got this part because they were romantically involved."

Inside she leaned against Inuyasha for support. "Don't listen to anything they say. None of them have any evidence or official press releases." He smiled down at her and she grinned back, knowing Inuyasha would protect her from any reporters that tried to hurt her.

After the rest of them had made it inside, they headed to their seats. The movie was rated PG, and that was only because of violence and the hentai tendencies of Miroku, even though they had been tuned down for the movie; but it was expected to attract children, teens, and adults of all ages. Already almost every seat was filled. Most of them were other cast members but some were contest winners, famous people, and people that knew people who had been a part of the movie.

Kagome shuddered when she saw Kikyo. The woman was wearing a v-cut dress that was backless. It wouldn't have been that bad if the bottom of the v-neck hadn't gone all the way to her navel. A slit on the side of her dress also went almost all the way to her hip.

Kagome smiled at her but all she received in return was a glare. Kikyo grabbed Kouga's hand and practically stomped to their seats. Kagome shrugged and walked to her seat between Inuyasha and Sango.

Every person in the theater was enraptured for the entire movie. When Shippo arrived on the scene everyone cooed. Everyone held their breath as Kagome was about to be killed by the Thunder Brothers. Laughter echoed throughout the theater when Miroku showed his true perverted colors. The plight of Sango and Kohaku brought tears to their eyes. Kouga and his declaration of love made all of the women in the audience sigh.

Then came the final scene. Every person who Naraku had hurt had come together to fight him. Both sides stood opposite from one another.

And that was when the movie became new to all of them.

Inuyasha's side took the first move but Naraku seemed to have the upper hand. All of the scenes had definitely been shot, but they were mixed up. Kikyo and Inuyasha were together, but Sango and Sesshoumaru were fighting Kohaku. Finally it came to the end of the battle scene. It appeared that everyone but Inuyasha and Kagome had died on Kagome's side. Only Naraku was left standing on the other side. They put together their powers and defeated Naraku. Then they saw Inuyasha make a wish and pink light was everywhere and not everybody was truly dead. Those that had only been wounded had been healed and everyone was human, although some still looked slightly demonic.

Then there was an epilogue type of scene with Sango and Miroku playing with a three-year-old girl and a five-year-old boy. Nearby, Kagome and Inuyasha were watching a four-year-old girl and a one-year old boy as the girl tried to help her brother walk.

The movie ended and everyone started clapping. Then came some bloopers, which caused everyone to quiet back down. There was one where Kagome fell asleep, one where Sango hit Miroku upside the head with her boomerang and it broke, and one where Inuyasha came onto the scene with ramen all over his face. These were the crowd's favorites.

After the movie, out in the lobby, Kagome and Inuyasha stood together, snacking on food from a buffet. "I can't believe how well your mom had the two endings edited together."

Inuyasha snickered. "You know, she probably did it like that so she can say there are two alternate endings on the DVD."

Yuma sauntered over. "Cut me some slack, I'm not all about promotions."

Inuyasha stared at her.

"All right I give up, this one was partially about the promotions." She smiled. "You do realize I was nice and edited all of those super gooey kissing scenes from the bloopers, right?"

Inuyasha looked extremely confused. "What kissing scenes?"

Kagome gasped. "You mean you caught us kissing on tape?"

Yuma giggled. "Yep, sure did. It's not like I did it on purpose though. You should know not to kiss in front of a movie camera." She snickered. "Or should I say, make out in front of a movie camera?" She sauntered away, laughing at the embarrassment and confusion on Kagome and Inuyasha's faces, respectively.

Inuyasha asked, "What was she talking about?"

Kagome's face turned red and she whispered in his ear, "Remember the time we made out on the Kouga set. The cameras must have been on."

Inuyasha realized what she was talking about, turned red, and then grinned. "I wonder whether anything Miroku did was caught on tape. It would be fun to put him making out with Sango in the bloopers."

Miroku appeared beside him with a glass of punch in his hand. Slinging his arm across Inuyasha's shoulder he said, "No, I'm not dumb enough to do something like that."

Inuyasha pulled as far away from him as he could. "Apparently you are dumb enough to drink the adults' punch though. Have a mint," he said, offering his pack of mints to Miroku.

Miroku took the entire thing and dumped it into his mouth. "Thanks bud." He handed the empty container back to Inuyasha and started wandering away. Sango ran over from where she had been standing as he fell down to the floor.

"You know," hiccup, "you are very beautiful Sango." He grinned at her.

Sango waved her hand in front of her nose. "No, I will not bear your child Miroku. You do realize your breath smells like a beer someone dropped an old candy cane in."

He hiccupped again. "Yep!"

Sango sighed and led him out of the door; careful to keep the reporters from noticing he was drunk. It was rather hard though when he walked up to ten different reporters and asked each of them to bear his child. He wouldn't have seemed drunk, except for the fact that eight of those ten reporters were guys.

Sango explained it away by saying he had recently been hit on the head and doctors though he had a mild concussion.

Back inside both Inuyasha and Kagome were beginning to yawn. They stopped at the coat check to pick up Inuyasha's red top hat.

Kagome stared at the thing. "I had forgotten how ugly that hat was. Why did you get a red top hat? Actually, why did you get a red tuxedo?"

Inuyasha shrugged. "Red's my favorite color. Something wrong with that?"

Kagome shook her head. "No. And I guess we really do match." She giggled. "We're very Christmassy."

Inuyasha swallowed. "Um. Yeah. About Christmas. Do you have anything to do that day?"

Kagome wrinkled her nose up as she thought. "No. Mom, Souta, and I always get together that morning for a little celebration but otherwise no."

Inuyasha grinned happily. "Good. Make sure you don't plan anything."

Kagome shrugged and followed him out to the limo, fighting off reporters and yawns at the same time.

Act VI

Scene III "'Twas The Night Before Christmas"

Yuma sat staring into the fireplace. She was sitting next to a large Christmas tree decorated in ornaments and garlands galore but her face was sad.

"Hey, mom," Inuyasha said as he sat down beside her, "It's Christmas Eve; you're supposed to be happy."

She smiled sadly as she continued to stare at the burning logs. "I was just thinking that your father isn't here to pick up the Christmas cake this year."

Inuyasha hugged her. "I miss him a lot, especially now at Christmastime. It was always his favorite time of year."

Yuma leaned her head into his shoulder. "I remember. He used to walk around humming Christmas carols or giving hints about what he had bought for presents." She laughed. "The man never could keep a secret. I knew what my engagement ring looked like six months before he gave it to me."

Inuyasha laughed. "He always used to read me ''Twas the Night Before Christmas' right before I fell asleep on Christmas Eve. And he'd act out all of the parts, even the mice." He sighed. "It's different, not having him here. I picked up the Christmas cake but I couldn't find one that was as nice as the ones he used to bring home."

Yuma smiled even though tears twinkled in her eyes. "He was the one who put the star on top of the tree every year." She glanced to where the star lay, nestled at the bottom over the tree among the presents. "I couldn't bring myself to do it."

Inuyasha hugged her tight. "I'll do it." Picking up the star he reached to the top of the tree and, standing on his tiptoes, put it on.

The tears finally escaped the barrier of Yuma's eyes. "You've grown up so much. I wish your father had been here for it."

Inuyasha felt a tear trickle down his cheek too. "You go on upstairs to bed. I'll take care of everything down here."

Yuma nodded and headed upstairs. When she was gone Inuyasha turned to the tree. Walking around to the back of it he hid a small box inside of the branches.

Banking the fire and turning off the lights, he left the room with a smile on his face. Like a little kid, he could hardly fall asleep; he was so full of excitement.

Act VI

Scene IV "Little Boxes Hold Big Surprises"

Around the Christmas tree sat Inuyasha and Kagome with their families. Piles of presents, some wrapped and others not, were clustered around the room. It was a smaller gathering than those that they had in the past; Sango, Kohaku, and Miroku were spending the holiday at Sango's house.

The past week had been tense, what with Sango schooling Miroku about what not to say in front of her parents, "If my dad hears 'Will you bear my child' even one time he will kick you out of the house," Kagome and Sakura decorating and cooking, and Inuyasha and Yuma reliving some happy, and some sad, memories. But now it was Christmas morning, which had started sharply at six in the morning thanks to Souta. The next present being unwrapped belonged to the human alarm clock himself.

"Whoa, cool! A game for my gameboy!" He said that while being seated in a pile of forty-three games.

The adults all shared a laugh and it was Yuma's turn. She picked up a box slightly larger than her fist from her pile. Opening it, she gasped.

"It's exactly what I asked my husband for!" Tears fell from her eyes so she could barely see the golden necklace and its sparkling diamond.

Inuyasha smiled from his place on the floor. "He bought that for you the day after you asked for it. He told me to hide it in my room till Christmas. I though you ought to have it."

Yuma sobbed quietly and waved the others to continue as she clutched the box to her chest.

Inuyasha was next. His box wasn't very large, about the size of a head. Reaching inside he pulled out a slightly dirty stuffed dog. Smiling gently at Kagome he said, "Thank you." No other words were needed; his eyes told all.

She nodded and grinned. "Look around his neck."

Instead of a collar, the dog wore a watch around his neck. Inuyasha pulled it of and was about to slip it on when Kagome stopped him. Flipping it over in his hands, she showed him the back was like a locket and inside was a picture of them. It was a picture of them eating lunch, Inuyasha covered in ramen as usual.

Yuma and Sakura started crying and Kagome and Inuyasha broke apart, both of them red in the face.

Finally, all the gifts had been unwrapped and all of the discarded wrapping paper tossed into a garbage bag. Each person gathered up their things to take them up to their rooms. Kagome was about to follow her mother out of the door when Inuyasha put his hand on her shoulder.

"You forgot a gift," he said. "Sit down and I'll bring it to you."

Kagome put her gifts down on the couch and sat beside them, anxious to see what Inuyasha was talking about. He disappeared and reappeared from behind the tree with a small box in his hand.

Dropping down on one knee in front of Kagome, he opened the box and asked her, "Will you marry me?"

Kagome shook her head. "No way. We're too young."

Inuyasha smiled. "You didn't let me finish. Will you marry me once we have both graduated from college?" He glanced at the ring to show Kagome to look at it too. "I bought this garnet ring, mine and your birthstone both, as a promise ring. This shows that we will get married someday, just not yet."

Instead of the typical diamond of an engagement ring, the ring inside of the box had a garnet in the middle that was surrounded by tiny pearls.

Kagome simply leaned forward and kissed Inuyasha.

He grinned. "I take it that means yes?"

She smiled sweetly and kissed him again. He pulled back and took her right hand in his. Removing the ring from the box, he slid it up the ring finger.

"Perfect fit."

Kagome was about to kiss him yet again, for she still couldn't find the words to express her feelings, when the door to the room burst open and two women fell flat on the floor.

Kagome found her voice. "Mom! You were eavesdropping!"

Sakura smiled sheepishly but Yuma jumped up off of the ground and enveloped Kagome in a tight hug. "I have a daughter now!"

Inuyasha turned bright red. "We aren't married yet Mom."

Yuma glared at her son. "This is my daughter now. If you don't marry her I will hurt you so bad you won't walk for a year."

Inuyasha backed away and didn't even try to pull Yuma away from Kagome as she squeezed the girl to death. All he could do was tell Yuma, "If you squeeze her any tighter you won't have a daughter anymore because her head will have burst."

Yuma backed away, a cringe on her face. "Guess I ought to leave you two lovebirds alone, after all 'tis the season for romance. Toodles!"

Kagome and Inuyasha sighed as their mothers left the room. Settling down together on the couch they talked for hours until Inuyasha's stomach rumbled and they went to eat Christmas turkey, or turkey flavored ramen in Inuyasha's case.

Act VI

Scene V "Happy Birthday"

A cake, presents, and guests. That's what makes a birthday party a birthday party, right?

Not in this case. While there were guests gathered together to celebrate both Kagome and Inuyasha's birthdays in a joint celebration, there wasn't a present or cake in sight. Rather there was a man in a mouse costume, seven short men wearing big floppy hats, and a mermaid all going down the street.

They were at… drum roll please… WALT DISNEY WORLD FLORIDA!

After the parade had gone past, Kagome, Inuyasha, Miroku, and Sango waved goodbye to their parents and brothers and took off like rockets. Dodging this way and that way, they quickly had their picture taken with every character they saw.

Kagome got a big kick out of a picture with Pluto comparing his dog ears to Inuyasha's. Sango had to yank Miroku away from Snow White by the ear when his hand came too close to her lower back.

A picture in front of the castle; one by Alice in Wonderland's Teacups, a ride where you sit in a giant teacup and spin yourself around by turning a wheel in the middle; and one in the "It's a Small World" ride, which was all about different cultures coming together in the modern world, and their cameras were full.

Miroku spotted a roll of film in a nearby store. Glancing at the price he quickly put it down and backed away. "Ten dollars for a roll of film! I definitely don't want to break that."

Sango saw a large white spire above a nearby building. "What's that?" she asked Kagome, who had taken control of the map after Inuyasha ripped the first ten in half.

"I think it's 'Space Mountain,' a roller coaster."

Inuyasha was practically jumping up and down like a four-year-old. "Can we go on it, please?" A puppy dog pout and Kagome was down for the count.

"Alright, but we better hurry up. Everybody likes roller coasters. The line's probably a mile long." Running towards the tall spire in the distance they soon found that the line was nonexistent.

"Alright!" Miroku shouted as he and Inuyasha raced through the metal bars that were designed to keep visitors in the line. Kagome and Sango walked, but even they couldn't help jumping a few of the bars like the guys.

Finally they were strapped into the cars, which looked like really small spaceships. Sango sat in front of Miroku and Inuyasha was behind all of them with Kagome right in front of him. As they ricocheted along the roller coaster's path through the dark, they all screamed, except Inuyasha who had covered his ears and eyes with his hands.

Kagome stumbled off of the ride and glanced back to see Inuyasha still cowering in the car.

"It's okay, you can come out now." She pried the hand from his eyes to see they were sparkling. Is he crying?

"Let's do that again!"

She almost fell over. I guess not.

Kagome almost fell over again when her cell phone began to ring as they walked out of the ride.

"Hello?" she answered it.

"Hi, Kagome!" Yuma's voice blared out of the phone. "It's time for your birthday lunch! Meet us at the Land, a restaurant in Epcot, in an hour. Bye!" Yuma hung up before Kagome could say anything.

Turning to the others she said, "Well, guys, it looks like we are going to Epcot."

Inuyasha frowned. "I thought we were going to stay here at Disney the entire weekend."

They all laughed at him. "No," Kagome replied through her giggles, "Epcot is a part of Walt Disney World. We can take the monorail over to it."

"Monorail?" Inuyasha yanked the map out of Kagome's hands and opened it, ripping off the corner as he did so. He scanned the map and it didn't seem like he could find it so Kagome pointed to where the entrance to the park was.

"It's right there Inuyasha. We saw it when we came in, remember? It looks like a bullet train." Kagome sighed, knowing that they had spent fifteen minutes fighting over where or not it was a bullet train when the group had come in. How he had forgotten it in just four hours was beyond her.

"Oh yeah!"

Kagome sighed yet again and Sango and Miroku just laughed.

Miroku reached over and patted Kagome on the shoulder. "Have patience with him. I think he was dropped on the head about six times when he was a baby."

"Hey!" Inuyasha crossed his arms and glared at Miroku. "It was only two times."

Miroku held his hands up in a peace offering. "Sorry. My mistake."

Kagome and Sango shook their heads simultaneously, grabbed Inuyasha and Miroku, respectively, by the ears and dragged them aboard the much talked about monorail.

It was like a futuristic train. It was sleek and fast. The tracks were probably over fifty feet in the air and, looking out of the windows at the ground far below, the group felt like they were flying.

They quickly arrived at Epcot and saw the famous "giant golf ball" in front of the park. It was at least one hundred feet high and the parks signature, like the Statue of Liberty is a signature of New York.

Kagome entered into the park and grabbed a map before Inuyasha got to it. Looking over it she immediately saw the Land section where the restaurant Yuma had told them to meet at was located.

They soon came to the building that the map had indicated. A long and slightly steep ramp led the way to a whole line of doors through which many people where entering and exiting. Kagome led the way with Sango and Miroku right behind her. She was about to walk through the door that was directly in front of her when she realized that Inuyasha was missing. Glancing over her shoulder she saw him staring at a tree that they had passed to get up the ramp.

Walking over to him, she asked, "What are you doing?"

"Those things in the tree look like the exotic fruits that my mom buys and puts in her cereal that you have to peel to eat." He pointed to the top of the tree where the fruits were hanging.

Kagome sighed and motioned to Sango and Miroku to go on ahead. "This might take a while," she told them.

As if she were talking to a three-year-old Kagome clearly enunciated as she spoke to Inuyasha. "They are called bananas Inuyasha. They grow on a banana tree. If you read the sign," she pointed to a nametag with the tree's name and species on it, "you would know that."

Inuyasha blushed as he followed Kagome's finger to the nametag. "I saw that! I… um… just wanted to make sure you saw it too!"

Kagome grinned. "For both of us being another year older I don't think either of us is another year wiser. Especially you."

Inuyasha nodded. "I agree."

"You are so out of the loop sometimes." She flung her arms around him and kissed him lightly on the lips. "And I love you for it."

Inuyasha had no idea what she was talking about, but he didn't mind the kiss at all. In fact, he leaned over and kissed her back. Neither ended the kiss until Kagome took a little breath and looked up to see a woman covering her children's eyes.

"Come on." She grabbed Inuyasha's hand and dragged him inside.

Inuyasha followed obediently, but on his face he wore a pout from having to end the kiss.

"Are we almost there yet? My feet hurt!" Inuyasha shook his head at the sound of the little kids voice as they neared the restaurant.

Glancing as Kagome he said, "If we ever have kids that spoiled and bratty I will lay absolutely no claim on them."

"K…k…kids…" Kagome face flamed and she could barely get the word out.

"You were ten times that bratty when you were a child, Inuyasha." Both Kagome and Inuyasha jumped, as Yuma seemed to have materialized out of nowhere. "With both your temper and Kagome's fiery spirit those kids will probably be impossible to get to behave."

"No way! Our kids will be as well behaved as Miroku is lecherous. And that will be very well behaved," Inuyasha said with a grin.

Kagome, meanwhile, was getting redder by the second. Yuma smiled brightly at her daughter-in-law. "I just can't wait till you have your first child. I'll be a grandma! You know what, I bet if you get married today I could have a grandchild by this time next year and maybe even another one on the way!"

Inuyasha grinned, while Kagome seemed to blush from her head down to her toes. "Come on Mom, you know we aren't getting married until we have finished college."

Yuma pouted. "Why not? You have enough money now from your acting that you could retire and you aren't even twenty yet. You don't need to go to college!"

Inuyasha felt sorry for Kagome who just kept getting redder and redder. "Whatever Mom. I think it's time for us to sit down though."

He motioned to where the rest of the group had taken a seat at a table. He guided Kagome to the table as she still couldn't seem to focus on anything besides what Yuma had said.

When Inuyasha sat her at the table Sakura glanced at her daughter in worry. "Why are you so red honey? Did you get sunburned? Are you sick? Do you have a fever?"

Yuma sat down beside her friend. "She's fine. I just embarrassed her when I started talking about her being pregnant."

Sakura's eyes flew open. "You're pregnant? But after all those talks we had about condoms and no sex before marriage and…"

Kagome turned the color of a tomato and began to sink underneath the table as other people started looking their way. A few parents were covering their children's ears as Sakura's speech became louder.

"What about that book I bought you? You read about all of those diseases you can get didn't you? And I even bought you those pills when you started going out with Inuyasha, just in case. But no, you probably got caught up in those teenage passions and lost all clear thinking. How could you…"

Kagome was halfway under the table when she heard a little kid a few tables over ask his mom, "What's sex?"

She replied with an ambiguous, "I'll tell you tonight when we get home."

Inuyasha saw her distress and reached across the table to stuff a paper towel in Sakura's mouth. "Sorry, but first of all she isn't pregnant and second of all she would never do anything like that before getting married because she respects your opinion." He pulled Kagome back up from underneath the table. "I'm sorry if you don't trust your own daughter."

Instead of Sakura getting angry with him for speaking back and stuffing a napkin in her mouth, she started crying. "That was so sweet!" She quickly returned to normal though. "Why were there pills missing from the bottle though?"

Kagome snapped out of her daze. "You actually counted them?"

"Yes, is there something wrong with that?" Sakura asked as if it were an everyday occurrence. "And what happened to them anyway?"

Sango spoke up from where she, Miroku, Kohaku, and Souta had been pretending they didn't have any idea who Sakura was. "Kagome let me have some."

Sakura turned on Sango. "Why in the world did you need them? I know that your parents would not approve that…"

Sango interrupted. "As much as I trust and love Miroku, when we went on our first date I was afraid he would get me drunk and do something."

Miroku put on a wounded air. "Sango, how could you think that of me? I will let you know that I would never do that to a girl who didn't want me to."

"So you would do it to one who did want you to?" Sango asked with a glare.

He maintained his wounded air as he said, "I am a virgin and will stay a virgin until I marry you."

"T.M.I.!" shouted everyone at the table.

"Unless of course you want to have some fun tonight," he murmured under his breath in Sango's ear while everybody was getting over the fact that the letch was still a virgin.

Sango turned as red as Kagome had been before. She turned like she was going to whisper in Miroku's ear and then she smacked him soundly upside the head. She didn't even look at him as she muttered, "Pervert," under her breath.

Yuma decided to clear up the misunderstanding she had caused. "When I said that I started talking to her about being pregnant I was actually saying that if she and Inuyasha got married now then by this time next year I could have a grandchild and maybe even another on the way."

Miroku stared at her. "Are they rabbits or something?"

Yuma shook her head. "You know that when you get married to Sango you'll have a child in at least ten months, probably only nine if you plan your honeymoon right."

Miroku and Sango both turned bright red and Souta finally spoke up. "You guys do realize that this restaurant is filled with young, impressionable children, don't you?"

Kohaku spoke up too. "Yeah, and there are two of those children sitting at this very table."

All of them looked up and realized that everyone that had been sitting near them had moved to where their children couldn't hear them.

They also noticed for the first time that they had been turning this entire time.

"What happened? When we first sat down we were at the front of the restaurant. Now there are trees out there!" Inuyasha screeched.

Kagome laughed and everyone but Inuyasha joined her.

"What's so funny?" he demanded.

Miroku spoke through his laughter. "The restaurant revolves. That would be why we reserved this one."

Inuyasha didn't even have time to pout when the platters of food appeared on the table in front of him, courtesy of the waitress. It was an all you can eat dinner where everyone shared everything, except the drinks of course.

Inuyasha ate the catfish that was served to him like there was no tomorrow. He hardly even noticed when a cake was set in front of him. Kagome poked him in his ribs to make him stop gobbling down the prime ribs slices.

"It's time for desert," she whispered. The cake that was set in front of them was covered with 32 candles, 16 for each of them.

The waitress lit the candles and everyone started singing, "Happy Birthday to You! Happy Birthday…" as Kagome and Inuyasha though about their wishes.

"…to You!" The song ended and Kagome and Inuyasha simultaneously blew out the candles. They all went out and Yuma cried, "Make a wish!"

Kagome and Inuyasha both wished in their heads, I wish for us to be together forever. They grinned at each other.

"Happy Birthday!" Kagome said with a smile.

"Happy Birthday to you too, Kagome."

A/N: Please take note that this is important information. The next chapter will be the conclusion. I also have notes on different parts in this chapter.

As to the Christmas scenes, in Japan Christmas is a lover's holiday. Their Christmas is truly more like Valentine's Day, with the emphasis on couples. However, there are certain familial traditions. The one I used was about the Christmas cake. On Christmas Eve in Japan the father of the household buys a decorated cake for the family to eat. I used a mix of Western traditions and Japanese so that you people who refuse to read the author's notes glares accusingly can still understand. That is why Inuyasha says the cake isn't as good as what his dad used to get.

As for the Disney World scene, check out Disney's website for information or email me at if you would like more information or an explanation of anything I talked about.