I'm sad to say that this chapter is the pathetic end to this story.

Chapter Seventeen – The End

"Tornado warning? But, it was so nice out just a few hours ago," Akane said upon reading the warning on the screen. She got up and walked over to a window, and pulled back the drapes, revealing a raging storm out side. The clouds were black and dangerously close to the ground and rain was falling in torrents, flooding the streets.

"Oh my god! When did that happen?" Kagome yelled disbelievingly. "How did we not hear that?"

"Maybe it was because the volume on the TV was cranked way up," Ranma said turning down the dial that controlled the volume of the TV.

"So, what do we do now?" Sango asked, "I've never really had experience with tornadoes before."

"No kidding. Demons are probably simple compared to something like that," Kagome commented. Sango shrugged; it was probably true.

The next few minutes were just a blur. Akane hurried them around trying to get them all downstairs to a room under the stairs. This, of course, did not include Happosai and Miroku who were still happily exploring Happosai's collection on the main floor.

Apparently nobody remembered…

"This sucks…" Inuyasha muttered from a cramped corner. They were all sitting around in a circle. The room wasn't actually all that small, and it fit most of them comfortably, but it appeared that they were one person over limit. Lucky Inuyasha was voted to sit in the tiny, damp corner (not without much arguing, but in the end, with the aid of a few "sits" from Kagome, he ended up the loser).

Kagome rolled her eyes and shook her head.

"Will you stop complaining if I give you some food?" Akane offered, holding up a bag of chips as a bribe. It seemed to work well enough, because Inuyasha snatched the bag away from her and started eating.

The group sat and listened to the storm outside, waiting for it to end. It took hours and hours for it to calm down, but even when it did, it was already midnight. In fact, Kagome was already sound asleep by that time; most of the others were just about to doze off.

It didn't seem like there was much of a point in going upstairs now. They didn't know if the tornado warning had been withdrawn yet, but they stayed downstairs, just in case.

The storm lasted long into the night, and by three o'clock in the morning they were all asleep (even Inuyasha, huddled in his corner, cuddling with his bag of potato chips).

When they woke up that morning and went up stairs, it appeared that the storm had cleared up and the sun was shining brightly. The streets were covered in a thick layer of water.

"Well, I guess we lived through that," Kagome said, yawning.

"At least you didn't have to sleep in the cramped corner!" Inuyasha pouted.

"Oh shush up."

"Hey, does anybody know where Miroku is?" Sango asked out of the blue. The group exchanged confused looks and, realizing that Happosai was missing as well, went to track the two down.

They were found sound asleep on a giant pile of women's underwear. Sango grabbed Miroku by the foot and dragged him out of the room.

(Insert sounds of Miroku being beaten here.)

"HEY! This is mine!" Akane shouted, taking a garment from the pile. She stomped over to Happosai, who was still asleep.

(Insert sounds of Happosai being hit, then cuddling Akane's chest and being hit again.)

"C'mon, c'mon!" Inuyasha hurried Kagome as he sat on the edge of the Bone Eater's Well. After the whole tornado fiasco, the feudal group decided to go back to their own time. Inuyasha was especially happy about this, because then he could get back to hunting for jewel shards. Miroku, Sango, and Kouga had already left through the well, and Kagome was just finishing saying goodbye to her family.

"Yeah, yeah," Kagome said. "I'm coming."

Inuyasha rolled his eyes and jumped down the well.

Kagome took one last look at her house. "Well, it was good while it lasted," she said before following Inuyasha.

Yes, I know that there was so much more that could have been done. So much more that was probably expected.

Although, I expect that most of my long-time readers have already long given up on this story, as has the author.

So, I extend my thanks to all those who reviewed (I love all my reviewers! Hugs for all!), all those who stayed with me through this story and my friends who inspired me when I was uninspired.

And finally, just one big…

THANK YOU!