Chapter 33 (Wow! It's soo long!)

Kagome and Inuyasha both stared open mouthed, as the women turned in there direction, confirming it was indeed Kiesha. Her eyes widened in shock, and Dr. Young's hand went out to grab her forearm, as he hissed something in her ear, he said, "You can't run now, it's too late."

She sent him a fierce glare, before forcing a smile, and turning back to look at them. "Hello Inuyasha, Kagome."

Inuyasha stepped around Kagome's wheelchair, to stand in front of her. What the hell is going on? How did you get through the well?"

That was Shippou's clue to stride in the front door, clad in a black Armani suit, with a teal undershirt, and no tie. "Inuyasha! You look just as I remember you! Kagome, Steve, Kiesh-" He suddenly stopped, staring at the girl. Before he sighed.

"Shippou! What in all of hell is going on here? How did she get through the-" Inuyasha started, in a very loud voice that got most of the rooms attention. Shippou cut him off.

"Inuyasha! We are in a very public place, need I remind you, and I would rather we discuss this on the way back to the shrine." he said calmly. "The car's waiting outside."

Inuyasha glared at the kitsune, trying to decide whether to trust him or not. He had no idea what was going on, and he wasn't sure if he was willing to risk Kagome, just because Shippou was small, and innocent in the past.

When Inuyasha didn't make a move to leave, Kagome grew irritated. "Inuyasha!" She hissed. "Let's go. There my family, just as much as you are." She reminded him. He stood still for another moment, before Keh-ing, and walking back around to push Kagome's wheelchair out the door.

A black-hummer limo stood outside. And Kagome oooww'd and awww'd. The were relatively new, and she'd only seen one on TV before. They were huge.

When they were settled down inside, Inuyasha rounded on Kiesha. "What the fuck is going on?" he asked, Kiesha winced at the curse, causing Shippou to growl.

"Stop cursing baka. There's no need." he commented, before whispering something in Kiesha's ear, that not even Inuyasha could hear. She nodded her head. Before turning to the two mates.

"What I told you before was true. Naraku did kill my parents. But he did so when I was ten years old. After that, I wondered around for a while, before stumbling across the well, and falling in. I found myself in a new world. I ended up running into Shippou here, and he took me in. Raised me since then. I never did figure out why I could pass through the well." Kiesha said.

"But now that we know that Kagome is one-fourth youkai, in a way, just like Kiesha, maybe that could be why the well excepts them." Shippou added.

"But why did you come back to Sengoku jidia? And why the big fuss about helping to defeat Naraku, when you didn't even show for the final battle?" Kagome asked. Kiesha sent her surrogate Father a look. Shippou shook his head.

"I have my reason's. I had unfinished business there. I truly thought I'd be able to come back to help, but someone' She cast Kagome a pointed look, "was still home when I came to do so."

Kagome let it drop. But Inuyasha didn't, there was something fishy about that story. But he could ask about it later, for some reason, he didn't want Kagome to be present when he asked.

"So are you a nurse Kiesha?" She asked, gesturing to the scrubs. She laughed.

"Nope! Just helping out my big bro! They were short-handed, and they needed someone who knew the ropes." She said. As she leaned back in her seat.

Kagome frowned at the American lingo. But ignored it. "So Shippou's kind of like your dad right?" She asked.

"Not kind of. He is my dad, he raised me, doesn't mean I forgot my first dad, just that there both my dad's. You know?" she said.

Kagome shook her head in confusion. Kiesha giggled. "Never mind. Kinda hard to explain."

They arrived at the shrine then. And they all climbed out. Kiesha included. Dr. Young had stayed at the hospital.

Inuyasha insisted on jumping up the huge staircase, with Kagome. Arguing she couldn't do it without losing her breath. They made quite a spectacle, Kagome sitting him a couple times, but in the end, Inuyasha won.

The second Kagome came in the front door, her mother and father were all over her, asking how she felt, and if she was tired, and hugging her to death. Inuyasha sulked as he went to sit on the couch.

Shippou followed him, and came and whispered in his ear, "I need to talk to you."

Inuyasha followed the grown-kitsune out to the Goshinboku. He stopped before the trunk, and ran a finger over the hole in the bark. A far-away expression on his face. "What do you want runt?" Inuyasha asked.

He sighed. "I'm hardly a runt anymore baka." He said wistfully.

"What's gotten into you?" Inuyasha asked.

Shippou sent him a sad glance, "Do you want to know the truth Inuyasha? Why I really asked Kiesha to go back there that day?"

Inuyasha took a step back, the sorrow in the kitsune that he considered as good as his own son's voice, reached to him, called to him, gave him an ominous feeling that shook him to the core. He suddenly had the feeling he didn't want to know, that he was better off not knowing whatever Shippou wanted to tell him. But his curiosity burned inside him. Against his better judgment, he nodded his head.

Shippou sighed and jumped up onto Inuyasha favorite branch, leaning against the trunk of the tree, Inuyasha followed him. The youkai looked very odd sitting in a tree, in an Armani business suit. But Shippou looked like he was more comfortable here, then on the ground. "Are you sure? Once I tell you, I can't take it back, you'll have to live with it for the rest of your life."

Inuyasha slowly nodded. Shippou sighed again. "Alright. Do you remember when I called the hospital? Asking about Kagome's injury? I wasn't calling because I remember it happening, I called because I'd just got off the phone with Kyle. And he told me. The things I remember, you two don't, because they never happened for you. Because I changed the past."

Inuyasha looked at him, dumbstruck, and he had the sudden thought again, that he didn't want to know this, that whatever Shippou was going to say, was better of unsaid. He pushed the feeling aside, as he forced himself to ask, "H-how?"

Shippou looked down at his hands, folded together in his lap. "I sent Kiesha. On the key day, that I knew the change had to be made." he answered.

Inuyasha hesitated another moment, his whole being screaming at him that he didn't want to know this. "W-what needed to be changed?"

Shippou looked at him sadly, "Kagome's participation in the final battle."

Inuyasha's eye's widened, as the Youkai told his tale.

FLASHBACK

Shippou scrambled out of the way as one of Naraku's tentacles reached for him, he ran toward Kagome, who smelled different lately, but he didn't know why, and jumped into her arms

Kagome instantly started running herself, as Inuyasha ran forward, and cut off the offending tentacle. They were winning, but Naraku seemed to want to take at least someone down with him, and Kagome and Shippou were the weakest of the bunch, so he was going after them.

Inuyasha shot a Kaze No Kizu at him, and he howled in pain and rage. "Get the fuck out of here you two!" He yelled over his shoulder.

"Uh-huh!" Kagome agreed, as she sprinted towards the surrounding forest, but suddenly, she stopped, and Shippou couldn't see why, as he heard Inuyasha blood-curdling scream, the scream of sorrow, and rage, and pain, all wrapped into one, as he looked down.

Sticking through Kagome's stomach, was one of Naraku's tentacles. And it was covered in blood, and pieces of her flesh. There was already a puddle of blood surrounding Kagome's feet, and she was swaying. Shippou called out in anguish, as she feel to her knees.

Inuyasha barreled forward, and cut off the limb, and then shot another Kaze no Kizu at Naraku, and the monstrosity moved no more. Before he ran to Kagome, holding her upper body up in his lap, and started whispering to her that she'd be just fine.

Shippou stood to the side, as Inuyasha cried unabashedly, and not just a few tears, they were streaming down his face in rivers, as Kagome got colder, and her voice weaker, and her face paler, and her breath shallower. And he howled so loud, that it made Shippou's ears ring, when she said good-bye, and feel limp in his arms.

Through his tears he looked up, and saw him with his upper-body bent over hers, as there friends stood in a circle around them. And when Inuyasha looked up again, he had transformed. And he howled again. Long, and sorrowful. And the heart of everyone in the circle, including Shesshoumaru's, broke a little at the sound. Then Inuyasha brought his hand up, and thrust it into his chest, ending his own life by drawing out his own heart.

END FLASHBACK

Inuyasha stared at Shippou in horror. There was no way, NO fucking way, that his and Kagome's life's had ended in that fashion, and he couldn't believe he would let that happen.

That was until images started flashing through his mind, Kagome running with Shippou, and him trying to defeat Naraku, when one of his tentacles went by his side, and out of his line of site, and he turned around, to see...

Inuyasha bent his head forward, trying to block it all out. Trying to forget. Now he knew that he hadn't needed to hear that. He could have gone his whole life without knowing, but he'd asked. And Shippou had told him.

"After it happened, I went with Sango, Miroku, and Kohaku to the exterminators village. And helped them re-build. But as soon as I was old enough to live on my own, I went back to the well. I tried jumping inside, hoping I could go back, and explain to Kagome's family. I didn't get through. For a couple years I stayed there in the village. Kaede was already gone, died from scarlet fever about a year after the battle. But I went back, so I would always remember, the time I spent with you two. My second parents. And to remember what you two went through to be together."

Inuyasha continued to stare at the branch he was sitting on. Mulling it over in his mind. There was no way he was telling Kagome. No way in hell.

"I found a mate, a human from Kaede's village that you probably remember. And then we went to travel the world. We always came back here, " He patted the trunk of the god-tree. "I made sure this shrine was always protected, so did Shesshoumaru. Because I knew one day, she would arrive. I told my children of our adventure's, and they loved the stories. But it was the day my son told me he had a daughter, named Kagome, who lived in this shrine, that my heart skipped a beat. And I suddenly knew, I could change things. I could make it, so that that never happened."

"How did Kiesha being there make a difference?" Inuyasha asked shakily. The first sound he'd made since Shippou had started his tale.

He laughed. "I hope Kagome's jealousy, and your desire to quell it, would make you slip about the baby. And if not, I would have had Kiesha tell her herself. I would do anything to stop Kagome from dieing. And you know what? I didn't even know she was pregnant, until Milousha became so with Steve. Because I never could recognize that scent that I smelled on Kagome, until I was up close to it again, and knew what it was."

Inuyasha was silent for a long while, before he heard Kagome calling for him. He turned to look her direction. "Cherish what you have Inuyasha."

He turned his head to look at the kitsune, who was staring at the roof to the well house. "Because you never know how much it means to you, till it's gone. Cherish her, and don't loss her. To neither, your ego, or death. Don't let it happen."

Inuyasha stood, and got ready t jump down. "Don't worry," He looked down, to see the mentioned miko, standing at the door to the shrine, looking more beautiful then ever, in the morning sunlight. "I won't."

DON'T KILL ME! (Throws arms over head to protect myself) I'm sorry! I know this chapter was really sad, I cried when I wrote it, and I know a lot of you will be mad at me for writing it, but it had to be done! This has also been in the plot line for some time. And I told you Kiesha would be back, and be important. She's Shippou's surrogate daughter, and Kagome and Inuyasha's savior. I hope you liked this chapter I think it is one of my better ones. It had more details on feelings, and I just liked it. But I cried when I wrote the sad part! Sooo sad! Don't kill me! Review!

I'm sooooooo close to 1000! But I can't do it without you people, review!

PS: Long chap huh?

PSS: Thank you so much, those of you who took the time to choose a letter for me. That doesn't have an effect in this chapter. But I think it will in the next, so there you go! I beilive A won, or was it B? I"m not sure, but I'll tell you in the next chapter, anyways, see yea!

This chapter is also dedicated to those who lost there lives in Katrina's fury. And to those who lost there homes, there whole lives in fact, in a matter of days. God bless, and good luck to all those who did survive. (Note: All my chapters, and even this whole story, is dedicated to the city of New Orleans, Louisiana. )

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