A lot happened in the years since Inuyasha and Kagome saw each other last. Thou the moment in the well wasn't forgotten by either of the to.
Kikyo did come for Inuyasha but as promised he told her no. His mind and heart completely morning the loss of Kagome, his true love. Kikyo realized his intentions to stay right were he was and after a while she gave up. He missed her so badly he wanted to cry but of course he didn't.
His days since Kagome's departure consisted of slaying demons and protecting the village. Now that Naraku was gone there was no press to go anywhere so the group settled in the village. He would sit in the Goshinboku tree. He felt closer to her there, almost as if he could feel her presence like he used to when she came by. He was always alert of the well and checked it often, hoping that there was some mistake and fate would let the girl he loved so dearly come back to her.
It was a routine to him by now to check the well everyday, once before breakfast and once after dinner. Sometimes he would lean against it and let memories come back to him. He would remember her smile and her laugh. The way they'd kissed him that first time, how he felt when he held her close in his arms. Sometimes he would let the tears fall.
Shippo was growing and Inuyasha taught him to hunt and fend for himself. He was growing somewhat, it wouldn't be to many years before he would look Inuyasha in the eye. The kit never forgot Kagome and referred to her often. Not at first, the pain in Inuyasha's eyes were to much for him to take when he'd spoke her name a few weeks after she left. Inuyasha dealt better now thought, sometimes you could see the hanyou whisper just so he could hear and feel her name roll off his mouth.
Sango and Miroku were married and had children now. They were very much in love, thou it took a lot for Sango to keep Miroku in line when he was acting immature. They too never forgot the blue-eyed girl that had come so quickly into their lives as well as their hearts. It seamed that even thou she was gone from their sight her presence was still lingering.
Kagome's life wasn't the same. She couldn't travel from time to time anymore and she couldn't be with Inuyasha and her second family. How many times had she stopped to think about them. Nearly everyday she would think of them in some small way and wonder how they were doing.
It was just last week when she saw candy in the store and the first thing that popped into her head was 'Shippo would like that, maybe I should get him some.' It was only a second before she would remember that she wouldn't be able to give it to him.
In times like those when she felt like only Inuyasha embrace would comfort her she would run to the Goshinboku tress and hug it's base. That was were she felt the closet to her lover. Sometimes she swore she saw his red haori in the branches above her.
She to checked the well everyday making a point to jump in it everyday before she went about her day. She couldn't push the thought that maybe they really were meant to be together from her mind. What if there was a way to get back without breaking the shift in time. Maybe she could see him again and tell him to hold her like he used to. Maybe he could melt this all away, along with her heart like he used to.
She eventually did have to give up jumping in the well everyday and sitting near Goshinboku all the time. Once she graduated High School she went to a collage about a three hour drive from the shrine. But every weekend she would drive back crazy with the thought that the rift would have opened and she didn't get to go because she was in school.
The ring Inuyasha gave her helped a lot. She would look at it all the time, just to remind her self that it wasn't a dream that she really did live in the past for a while. That there lives were going on right now. She did keep the ring on her wedding finger, and even though boys would asks her out she would politely refuse. The passion in her heart never stopped burning or lessened in any small way of her love for Inuyasha.
She stood her now crying, thinking of all the times she had with him, with them. She would see happy couples and couldn't help but think how nice it would be to have someone to hold her. And then she would think of Inuyasha and how he held her, in such a way in witch she felt protected from the world.
She would walk though the baby section in the stores every once in a while and she couldn't help but think what her and Inuyasha's children would have looked like. Would they take after their father or mother? She always imagined they would have his Golden eyes and silver hair. They would be a family and build a house in the woods outside of the village. For some reason she always saw herself being in the past rather then her own time.
She looked up at the tree that held so many memories. In a flash she was standing on it's protruding roots, her arms wrapped around the large trunk and her cheek pressed against it's cool surface letting it create patterns in the side of her face.
Inuyasha ran to the Goshinboku tree, he felt a calling there like someone willed him to be near it. It scared and surprised him all in the same but he felt as though he could take a step out of the way for fear to miss anything. He came to a stop on the edge of the clearing near the tree.
Nothing seamed out of place so Inuyasha jumped into the his branch resting his back against the trunk. Then ever so slightly he felt it, he felt her.
She gasped and pulled away from the tree but without losing it's touch. She could fell his aura, it could only be him no other youki she ever knew had the same feeling as his aura did.
It hit them both. Fate was saying sorry, it was giving them a connection that they would never lose as long as this tree was here. She smiled and climbed into the branch she knew he was sitting in. That made his aura even stronger. She swore she felt his arms wrap around her and couldn't help but lean back imagining his chest was there. Tears fell from her face, so close but so far this is what she gets for loving a man 500 years in the past.
He felt her climb the tree and tried to reach for her hand to help her to his branch, for he knew that was were she was going. His hands grasped air and nothing more but he did feel Kagome as thou she was sitting in his lap. On instinct he put his hands out feeling for her but eventually came to rest in a circle the size of her waist. And every so slightly he felt pressure on his chest as thou she was leaning into him. Gods he loved this girl, so much that he could feel her though 500 years stood in there way.
And he would keep on loving her, and she him for forever.
Yes this story has come to an end. I found it very hard to come about this chapter because I was torn on how to end the whole thing, in the end I chose this version because I read to many stories were they are happily ever after and never have trouble that isn't resolved in the next sentence. I hope that you guys like this ending. Please review and let me know what you all thought.
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