If it is true that you are as old as you feel, then Ryan felt like he was 40 right now. And it wasn't because he was driving around in a van that most commonly thought of as being something soccer moms rode around in. No, far from it, he actually enjoyed his van. It helped him lug around big bulky items.

IT was the 6 bulky items that were currently sitting behind him and his fiancée that made him really feel his age.

It had started out simple. It would only take them an hour to get to the spot where Inuyasha, Sango and Miroku had first died 500 years ago. Of course, after waiting for the van to arrive, since Ryan didn't want to get a lot of questions from the driver, and then loading everyone into it, as well as Ian getting mad he wasn't sitting more towards the front, they had pulled out jus tot hit a traffic jam that left them deadlocked for 45 minutes.

It hadn't been too terrible though. They had a radio as well as a TV, so they had watched some cartoons, then enjoyed one of his CDs. It even made him feel a bit proud that Sandy at least knew his music…though her singing along to each one of them had bothered him slightly. Well…she had sung most of the time. When she wasn't, she was beating Mark's grabby hand away, which Ryan was now sure had at least regain IT'S memories back.

The problem had come just as they had finally broken free of the grid lock. Ian was complaining that he was hungry. Ryan had been shocked.

"You just had breakfast!" He had shouted, turning down a side street.

Ian grumbled. "Not a big one…isn't there some kind of restaurant we could go to? A drive in maybe…I'm not fussy, after all, I spent most of my young life begging for gruel."

Ryan then grumbled. "We can eat after we get your memories back."

"We could stop at WacDonalds." Mark had offered. Ryan had resisted the urge to slit the former monk's throat.

"Yea, that would be so great!" Sandy replied.

"I am a bit hungry." Kagome added.

Soon all of them were chatting about how they could go for some food. Ryan growled and gripped had gripped the wheel so hard his newly returned demon strength nearly had shattered it.

"We can wa…"

Growl.

Ryan slowly looked at Nicole, and she had blushed, placing her hand on her stomach and giving him big puppy…kitty eyes. He let out a sigh.

Now, he was handing out found he had just spent over 30 dollars on to the teens, and he could only think one thing:

'Oh gods, if I don't figure out a way to sort this whole mess, I am going to become their father for the rest of their lives!'

"Ok" Nicole said, sensing her love's distress. "I will be handing out food. If you miss out, me and Ryan get to eat it." She had already passed around the drinks and napkins and other items, and was now sorting through the 3 bags. "A salad and strawberry sundae for Kagome…chicken nuggets for Mark and Shippo…oh, the fish sandwich and fries for Sandy…and a fish sandwich for Kirara…and finally, a cheese burger and fries for Ian…and 4 double bacon cheeseburgers and fries for me and Ryan." She set the fries between Ryan's legs, as well as one of the burgers. Ryan drove with one hand, inhaling the burger with the other.

'Maybe I was hungry.' He thought as he turned onto the highway.

"That's…a lot of meat." Sandy said. She threw away the buns on one of the fish sandwiches and Kirara began to tear into it.

Ryan nodded. "It's our demon's blood. IT makes us not only have a higher metabolism…but also a hunger for any sort of meat we can get our hands on." He grabbed a handful of fries and woofed them down.

Nicole chuckled, finishing up her first burger. The teens were shocked that two people as fit as Ryan and Nicole could eat the way they did. "I remember when we got out of the well, after regaining our memories. We ended up buy 12 meat lovers pizzas and gorging ourselves for 3 hours." She sighed and licked her lips. "God that was a good night." Ryan suppressed a chuckle, instead choosing to finish off his first burger and attack his second.

The group merely nodded, trying to ignore the sounds of the two 20 year olds in front of them tearing into their giant burgers. Nicole let out a satisfied burp, and Kagome couldn't help but realize that she wasn't even done with HALF her salad. Something about that made her feel uneasy.

"Why does this fish sandwich remind me of something?" Sandy asked.

"You've had fish before." Mark pointed out, finishing off a nugget.

"Ya, I know that…but it tastes like…something I had a long time ago…something I really liked."

"Naraku." Nicole said, popping a fry in her mouth. "Me and Ryan spent 2 months thinking about that, till it finally hit us, it tastes like Naraku."

"What's a Naraku?"

"Don't!" Kagome shouted. Everyone looked at her and she drew her finger across her throat, telling Ryan and Nicole to kill the conversation. They nodded and quickly turned on some music.

"I love this song!" Sandy shouted, ignoring the whole, 'What is a Naraku' conversation. She closed her eyes and began to move with the beat.

"Yea, this song is great!" Inuyasha grinned. Mark nodded in agreement.

"Caroline! She's the reason for the word witch!" All three began to sing, rather loudly. Kagome looked at her friends, her face ashen. Ian, Marka nd Snady continued to sing the Outkast song, the young miko merely watching in disbelief at the scene playing out before her.

"This is just….too weird." Kagome said, her head in her hands.

Ryan and Nicole could only look on in agreement

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"Uh…we're here." Ryan said quietly. Everyone looked out the windows of the van, and felt their hearts fall into the pit of their stomachs. Kagome tried not the cry. She had had her hopes so high…hadn't let anyone know it. She hadn't slep at all the night before, thinking about being able to talk to Sango and Miroku again. And Inuyasha! The real Inuyasha, not Ian trying his best to be Inuyasha.

But more so, they would be blends of their old selves and new selves, meaning that maybe she would finally have a real shot with Inuyasha…a real relationship. It had made butterflies flutter in her stomach.

Now, those butterflies were lead weights.

The site was a construction site, the area ripped apart.

"Oh no." Mark said quietly.

"It's ok." Ryan said gently. "There is still a good chance. As long as they haven't removed the bodies, you can still get our memories back."

"But how will we get through?" Ian/Inuyasha said, felling suddenly a lot more like Ian. "They will never let us snoop around."

"And we can't break in!" Mark said, feeling very nervous.

"Leave that to us." Nicole said. She turned to Ryan and smirked. "Ryan…time to use your tongue."

Ryan frowned. "Nicole, there are children in the car."

"…not like that you pervert!" She scolded. "Use your tongue to get us in!"

He nodded and pulled up to the man blocking their way in, and rolled down his window. The construction worker frowned. "Sorry folks, we are putting in a mall."

"Ooh!" sandy said. Everyone glared at her and she shrank back. "Nevermind." She said quietly.

Ryan nodded and smiled as best he could. His words began to pour out, so smooth and so silky. "We are just going to look around…that's perfectly fine." The construction worker nodded silently. "We won't be a bother."

"Well…I guess you won't be a bother."

"Thanks." Ryan said. He paused…an evil glint in his eye. "You don't need to see our passports."

"I don't need to see your passports."

"These aren't the droids you are looking for."

"These aren't the droids I am looking for."

Ryan nodded. "We can go about our business."

"Go about your business."

"More along."

The worker frowned. "Move along mack!"

Ryan smiled and Nicole let out a groan, and pulled into the work site. "No more star wars for you!" She hissed. Ryan looked at her as if she had shot him and she let out a sigh of frustration.

"Alright, let's get going." Ryan said, all of them stepping out of the vehicle. "Are you sure this is the place?"

Kagome nodded. "I sense sadness…my own sadness in this place. This is where they fell."

Nicole looked over at the foremen. "I am going to work my eye on big and stupid over there, see if I can't get him tell me if they found any items or skulls or…" Mark gulped and she rolled her eyes. "Don't be a wuss."

Kagome began to walk around, sensing her way around the construction and pits, seeking out the exact spot. But it didn't make any sense…

"Ryan…you guys were pretty far away when you got your memories back, right?" Ryan nodded. "We are almost standing on top of their graves…yet they aren't going back." Kagome bit her lip, rapidly losing hope. "I don't think it's going to work."

"Maybe we are wrong?" Shippo offered, poking at a rock. "Maybe it's not the right spot…or the bodies were moved…"

"Hey guys?" Nicole said, walking up, her face soft and sad. "I convinced the foreman to tell me everything…they did find some bones, but pitched them…no love of history. the only thing they kept was this."

She held out some beads, fangs every once and a while appearing. Kagome reached out and gently touched them, feeling the tears form. They were in the right place…but her friends couldn't remember anything.

"The prayer beads." She said quietly, and broke down.