me:okies, well, this is the first chapy update since my vacation and Im sure you'll find it dissapointing...Im sorry, so I'll update the next chapy quickly.okies?good: )

InuYasha: Keh. You have no bribe for me this time, so Im not saying a single word having to do with your disclaimer.

me:you just did.

InuYasha: I did not!

me:you did too!

InuYasha: pathetic woman. Doesnt even know what I said.

me: pathetic guy. Doesnt even know what he said. Fine!I'll get...er...not Kagome...lets see...whos left alive...oh ya!sango!

Sango: suuuure...like Im gunna do something for you when your being so evil to me!

me:uuh...ya!pretty much!so will ya do it?

Sango:sure!she doent own InuYasha.

me:thanks...wow...this has been a very long authors note...to the story!

InuYasha: took long enough.

Chapter 21

"What do you mean, Sango? Who just died? How do you know? What was that pink light?" Shippo asked, sitting beside her on the floor.

"You'll find out soon enough." She replied, trying to hold back her tears but only making it worse. She bent over and cried heavily into her hands.

Miroku watched Sango cry, patting her back, not even thinking of doing anything lecherous. It would only make things worse. "Whoever this person is, she must love them very much." He thought to himself, starting to feel a tinge of jealousy.

There was a shadow across the floor made by someone standing in the doorway. Without looking up, Sango said, "Kagome's gone, isn't she?" thinking it must be InuYasha, come to tell them the bad news.

When there was silence, Sango looked up to see not InuYasha in the doorway, but Kaede. "Old Kaede; I thought you were InuYasha….I…" she began to say, but couldn't find a way to say what she had thought.

"What's this about Kagome being gone?" Kaede asked, followed by inquiring looks from Shippo and Miroku.

"I….I…." Sango started, but finally giving up and blurting out, "Kagome had told me earlier that tonight was her last. I thought you were InuYasha coming to tell us she was dead."

There was a gasp from the three of them, and a shuffle of feet, which was Kaede walking over to Sango and placing her hand on her shoulder. "Ye have carried a big message. Are ye sure Kagome had said that?"

"Yes. She says good bye to everyone, and that she'll miss us." Sango replied, tears still heavily streaming down her face.

They turned to see Shippo balling and curled up with his knees to his chest, his head laid in his lap. They all sat silently mourning for their departed friend, until Miroku spoke up, "Then what was that big pink light coming from the forest?"

Sango looked up at him and wiped her tears. "InuYasha's wish was to know how Kagome felt towards him, so when Kagome told him, the shikon's power that had been keeping her alive left because the wish had been granted. The light was the power leaving her." Sango remembered when Kagome had pulled her outside and told her she going to die that night, but before heading inside, she had explained why.

"So, where does the power go now?" Shippo asked shakily.

"I….I don't know." Sango answered hopelessly.

Kaede, finally understanding the situation, asked, "Where is InuYasha?"

Sango, also pondering this question, stood up and walked to the doorway. "I don't know, but I'll bet he as something to do with that red flash I'm seeing above the tree tops."

Everyone got up and walked outside. There was, in fact, a dull red streak above the tree tops every now and then. "If that's InuYasha's red haori, he's got to be running faster than I've ever seen him run before." Miroku said.

They all nodded and continued to gaze at the red streaks, going farther and farther away.

okies...well, that was very short, and I appologize, but thats the only place I could stop it, b/c the next thing happening is action pact and all...not really, but its a lot to be said. So, without further ado, I shall leave youall to review, thank me for finally updating, and potentially cause me bodily harm from youranger at meh!XD see ya nextchapy: )