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Well, on with Chapter 13!

# 13 'Happily Ever After'

"What do we do with the jewel now that it is formed?" Miroku asked.

He, Sango, Inuyasha, and Shippo sat in a semi-circle around the campfire outside Kaede's hut. Kirara sat in Sango's lap grooming herself. Kagome was inside fighting off a fever and the pain in her arm; Kaede tending to her. Emarine was in the forest sulking about.

"Obviously, Shippo or I am supposed to make a wish, or even Kagome, but if we don't humans and demons will still try to get a hold of it." Inuyasha figured. "The way I see it is the safest bet we have is to use it, be rid of it."

"Obviously," Sango retorted.

"Do you have a better plan?" He snapped.

Shippo became interested in a butterfly gliding by and left them to chase it. An uneasy silence settled over the remaining. The conversation was obviously finished.

The next few days Inuyasha spoke to none except Kaede, and that was only to see how Kagome was doing. By the second day her fever had gone down and she would wake at times, but it didn't break until the third day. Her arm had healed completely, leaving only a tiny scar only on her shoulder. She was strong enough to walk around by the fourth.

In the evening on the fourth day she went to re-familiarize herself with the forest. She passed the Bone Eater's Well and glanced inside. An old memory rushed to the front of her mind; her family, Sota, her mother, Gramps. Then the questions formed. How had they fared with her leaving? What were they doing now? Could she ever return to them? Then the memories of her old friends resurfaced. Again the questions came. How had Gramps told them she was sick, or why she was missing for so long? What if Gramps finally told them of her time traveling and where she really was all those times she was 'sick'? What would their reactions be if she showed up and they hadn't been told? What if they had? Questions buzzed in her head until she became dizzy. Started to fall, but someone caught her. Looking up she saw the familiar golden eyes that always shone with love, fear, pain, and hatred. Something she had never seen all of in anyone else.

"You always were a klutz," Inuyasha taunted.

"Inuyasha, I almost forgot all of them!" She sat on the edge of her former portal.

Inuyasha, not knowing what to do, took a seat beside her and tried to form words in his head to comfort her, but failed miserably. Instead he chose to change the subject.

"Kagome, when we were battling Naraku; I really did die didn't I?" She nodded her head. He decided he would tell her of what went. "I," he stopped not knowing what to say. "I remember you whispering things to me, half of which I can't remember, right before I, well, how to say this. After those words I felt nothing but I saw everything. It was as if I was hovering over the field, you were with my body, crying, and then you said some thing I remember perfectly. You said 'I love you.' I don't know why I'm telling you this, but- I guess I just wanted to know if you meant it." He looked at her, her head was turned away.

Slowly, almost reluctantly, she faced him, tears filled her eyes; a tiny, unsure smile was barely visible. She managed a single nod before the tears took over. She would have run from the clearing, but she wanted to know what he would say next. Dread filled her as he said nothing.

Before she decided to leave she took the globe that hung around her neck of and shoved the Shikon Jewel into Inuyasha hand.

"Use it as you wish." With that said and done, she turned and quickly headed off in a random direction.

She found herself in front of the sacred tree she and Inuyasha had first met. She jumped into the branches. She realized she was in the branch Inuyasha had most likely chosen the most. The bark was completely rubbed off in some of the areas, a claw mark here or there, and it hinted of his scent.

She remained there, crying, until she realized it was dark and returned to the village.

"Damn, why couldn't you have said something?" he had remained at the well, wondering how he could have been so stupid. "She tells you the words as if it was simple, and you can't return the favor, not even say oh or maybe even that you had hoped for as much. Then maybe she would have gotten some idea that you at least care for her!" He scolded himself and slammed his fist on the side of the well. At the realization that something was in his fist, he opened it and found she had left the jewel with him.

Once he had regained his mind from its previous state of lecturing he made the wish.

Kagome woke to the sound of a stifled gasp. She opened her eyes and felt everyone else's on her.

"What?" she asked through a yawn.

Sango, the one with the most sense raised her arms and pointed to the spot her ears would be if she was a canine hanyou.

Kagome did the same but she felt nothing on top of her head. She lowered her hands and looked at her nails, they weren't sharp, but were the same as they were before she had found herself as a hanyou. She gasped, she was human again. Running outside to find Inuyasha she almost ran straight into him. He grabbed her arms to evade the collision.

"I'm a human again!" she almost shouted with a grin splitting her face in two.

"Good, it worked," he murmured almost inaudible.

"What do you mean?" her face darkened as she tried to put the pieces together. The conversation they had had last night rushed back to her, then she realized what and how this had happened. "He must have used his wish for the jewel on me!" she looked into his face, but couldn't read what was going on in his head.

Without warning he picked her up bridal style and carried her off into the forest. Again she found herself in front of Inuyasha's tree.

She started to ask him why he had brought her here, but he cut her off mid-sentence when his lips covered hers. The kiss was brief, but the shortness of the kiss was replaced when he said the three little words she had confirmed her feelings with the previous night. She fainted.

I really can't believe it's finished! I know that was probably a lame and cheesy ending, but at 2:00 AM I really couldn't think of anything… Again thanks to all of you who I listed at the beginning, and I hope you will check in on the sequel to this story. It will be called Him Again? There won't be many chapters very often because I have been enslaved by my friends, and they are forcing me to write a non-anime related story… (How they convinced me to do it in the first place I'll never know.) REVIEWING IS OPEN TO ANYONE AND EVERYONE! PLEASE REVIEW! There are many more hits than reviews, so that tells me you people don't want to or can't review! Even un-logged in people can review so feel free to review!

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