A/N: Hi, I'm back! Sorry it took so long to update. I was out of town for a while, and then I just got busy. Please forgive me for not updating.

Disclaimer: I don't own Inuyasha or any of the characters…but I do own plushies!

Chapter Two- Explaining the Unknown

As Kikyo walked away, Kagome couldn't help but wonder what she'd meant. It appeared that she hadn't been the one to mate with Inuyasha, otherwise she would have been with him, or she would have said so, because ever since he picked Kagome over Kikyo, Kikyo had been doing everything in her power to keep them apart so that she could have Inuyasha for herself. She looked at Shippo, curious. When he turned to her, she could tell by the look in his eyes that there had been a lot she had missed.

"Let's go somewhere where we can talk, Shippo. I must have missed a lot, but I don't know how…" Kagome trailed off. As they were walking, she found a nice place to sit by a nearby river so that they could talk.

As Shippo sat down on the ground, he had to think of how to tell her what had happened while she was gone, and to tell her that he loved her. When she sat down, he could tell that this would take a while to explain, so he made sure he was comfortable.

"Kagome," he began, "it's been seven years since we have heard from you, but you haven't changed… at all. You look exactly the same as you normally do when you come through the well. How…?" He couldn't imagine how everyone had aged in the past seven years, and she hadn't. Was there a time-stopping potion in her time that could make someone stay young?

"I don't know what happened, Shippo. I remember when that lizard attacked, and then I remember the hospital. As soon as I was better, I decided I would visit everyone and say that I was feeling better, but when I jumped in the well, time seemed to speed up around me. I noticed that the well looked older when the lights went down, but I also remember thinking that I was dead, and I couldn't move. But when I reasoned that I couldn't be thinking and arguing with myself if I was dead, and then I could move. That's when I crawled out of the well." Kagome didn't know how it had happened, but she thought that it may have had something to do with that demon. She soon noticed that Shippo was talking, and turned her attention to the words spilling from his mouth.

"When you didn't come back, we started to get worried. Kikyo was right; Inuyasha did leave three years ago, but we didn't know anything besides that. We just thought…" he trailed off. He couldn't bear to think of his rival and his crush together.

"Who's we?" Kagome asked politely, as she was confused. Does Shippo already have a family of his own? At that thought, Kagome's heart leapt into her throat as he replied.

"Me, Sango, Kirara, Miroku, and Kaede. Miroku and Sango have a family now. A little five year old girl named Tsuyu, and a little three year old boy named Nobunaga. Kaede is really old, and I think she's hanging on just to see you again."

At the mention of her best friends Sango and Miroku having a family, Kagome instantly perked up. She was so happy that Sango and Miroku finally admitted that they had feelings for each other.

"They have a family? That's great! Is Miroku still a pervert?" she asked, only half joking.

"Not really. I remember that at the wedding, Sango threatened him that if he even looked at another woman like he used to that she wouldn't bear him children and would feed him to a demon," he replied, laughing at the memory.

Kagome couldn't help but laugh when he said that. "That's… Sango… for you," she said between outbreaks of laughter.

Music to my ears, thought Shippo. When he asked if she wanted to visit them, and she responded happily, he started to walk towards the village. She couldn't wait to see the family Sango and Miroku have raised together.

A/N: Like it? Even if you don't, you could at least tell me. I know it's short, but until I get some serious ideas, it may take longer, as I tend to suffer from prolonged writer's block. So the chapters will be longer in the future, okay?

Next chapter: We finally see what Inuyasha has been up to. HMMMM……..but we may hear more from Kagome and Shippo before then. If you don't review, then I will be forced to make you wait to find out what happens with Inuyasha. MWAHAHAHA! I'm evil, I know! But, seriously, if I don't get some more reviews, you won't find out, or I may be forced to...kill them all off! (tear) I don't want to, but if the situation presents itself, I will. So, the moral of the story…no, more like the moral of the author's note, is REVIEW! Thankies!